WWE Smackdown Spoilers for 26th Sept 2014

Lord TSC

Source: Wrestlezone

Source: ProWrestling.net

Dark Matches

1. Tyler Breeze defeated a “local” jobber. Breeze won with the Beauty Shot in a match held prior to the Main Event show.

2. Adrian Neville defeated Sami Zayn

WWE Smackdown TV Taping

The Miz came out to start the show and tripped over the first ring step like a dork. Miz called out Dean Ambrose over what happened on Miz TV on WWE Main Event. Ambrose cames out to accept the challenge wearing his karate action jeans. Ambrose was really over with this crowd and Miz had a ton of heat.

1. Dean Ambrose defeated The Miz. There were some good spots throughout including Damien Mizdow teasing involvement multiple times. At one point, Damien starting shadowing Miz’s holds at ringside, which was great. There was a really good tornado DDT spot by Ambrose late in the match. Ambrose won via the Dirty Deeds headlock driver in a pretty decent opening match, but not before Seth Rollins and Kane came out to distract him a bit. After the match, Kane and Rollins attacked Ambrose. Ambrose stole the Money in the Bank briefcase. His escape into the crowd brought him right by me and my buddy. I am the nerd in the Groot t-shirt…

2. Cesaro won a Battle Royal to become No. 1 contender to the Intercontinental Title. Big E, Kofi, and Xavier Woods were all wearing similar color schemes on their tights and acting like a team. Los Matadores, Justin Gabriel, Mizdow, Heath Slater Gator, Bo Dallas, Zack Ryder, Cesaro, and Jack Swagger were the other entrants. There was a really nasty elimination of Big E by Cesaro. He gorilla pressed him over the top rope. There was also a good square off spot where Kofi, Swagger, Ceasro, and Bo all ganged up on Mizdow. The final three were Kofi, Swagger, and Swagger with Cesaro winning by gorilla press tossing Kofi into Swagger and knocking them both over the top rope in a really impressive spot…

There was a backstage segment with Renee Young interviewing The Usos about their tag title match with Goldust and Stardust. The Usos said they have a checklist with only one item missing and that is the tag team titles, but that check is coming soon…

3. The Uso Brothers defeated Goldust and Stardust by DQ. The Usos were out first to a decent reaction, but I was live for Night of Champions and Raw where they were more over. The double dive got everyone fired up and always looks good. Good heel tactics by HeelDust early on, but nothing out of the ordinary for them. Great comeback rally for the Usos after a long stretch of offense by HeelDust. Goldust went for his front flip from the apron and was caught by the Usos for a nice spot. A little bit later the Usos hit a really nasty Doomsday Device on Stardust followed by the splash but the pin was broken up by Goldust with a title shot to the covering Uso for some great heat to end the match…

In a backstage segment, Seth Rollins complained to Kane about Ambrose taking the MITB briefcase. Rollins said that if Ambrose doesn’t return the briefcase in its exact condition then the cinderblock spot will look like child’s play…

4. Layla and Summer Rae beat Natalya and Rosa Mendes. There was a funny spot with Summer begging Nattie to stop hitting her. Rosa might be the worst women’s wrestler of all time and it showed here for sure. Layla won with a rollup of Rosa and a handful of tights, but the ref botched the three count and he had to do the count again…

There was a backstage interview with Big Show where he rambled about what Rusev and Henry have said to each other. He finished with “I’m the Big Show and I’m gonna knock your ass out”…

A Roman Reigns injury update teased for the next segment…

5. Dolph Ziggler beat Cesaro to retain the Intercontinental Title. We didn’t get the advertised injury update, but we got Cesaro entering for the IC title match he won earlier in the taping. Ziggler got a great pop. Cesaro used the ropes during an abdominal stretch spot which garnered almost zero heat. This crowd is either dead or terrible. Cesaro did his spot where he uses the middle rope as a trapeze into an elbow drop which was cool. Cesaro countered a Fameasser attempt into a powerbomb attempt only to have Ziggler sunset flip him for the win which was really weak. I like Ziggler a lot, but that was weaksauce…

Backstage, Lana and Rusev were interviewed. Lana said anything in Rusev’s way he crushes…

6. Big Show defeated Rusev by DQ. Rusev and Lana out next for the main event followed by Big Show with the pop of the night. He is always really over in Little Rock. Big Show controlled the action early and really manhandled Rusev for a huge chunk of the match. I think I was the only Rusev fan in the building. Rusev finally hit a chop block and went on the offensive with lots of leg based attacks. Big Show hit a sidewalk slam to balance things out and set up for the KO punch. Rusev ducked and hit the jump kick.

Big Show hit a chokeslam out of nowhere and set up for the KO punch again but Lana grabbed his leg and was dragged into the ring. Rusev grabbed the Russian flag and hit Big Show for the DQ finish. Big Show caught a kick after the match and finally did connect with the KO punch to end the taping with Rusev flat out…


Gonna take a guess there's a tapped segment to be added to cover the Ambrose story ressolution....

grames_bond

So Rusev's streak is over.....on SmackDown.......to the Big Show.....

O_o

rovert

grames_bond wrote: »

So Rusev's streak is over.....on SmackDown.......to the Big Show.....

O_o

Rusev has lost by DQ and other means more than once, his streak has meant nothing for ages.

grames_bond

has he really? wow shows I should pay attention more! :pac:

CSF

rovert wrote: »

Rusev has lost by DQ and other means more than once, his streak has meant nothing for ages.

Things only mean anything in WWE world when their commentators acknowledge them as such, and they won't do that until he is pinned/made tap out

Moneymaker

So Ambrose vs Rollins HIAC for the case?

Excellent.

CSF

Moneymaker wrote: »

So Ambrose vs Rollins HIAC for the case?

Excellent.

Oh my god the potential for epic moments in that match!!!

JP Liz V1

Can we expect Reigns Anatomy every show until he returns

Omackeral

More like RNN

Moneymaker

Well above average Smackdown this week imo.

Even Big Show put in a good effort.

rovert

Some of the finishes were as cheap as chips and the feuds coming out of the show are of the wait and see variety but yeah really enjoyed Smackdown.

Don't let the quality of Raw completely colour your perception of WWE or Wrestling in general.

brianregan09

Bring Reigns back as a Heel like they did with Orton when he got injured early on in his career

CastorTroy

The Swagger/Kofi turnbuckle bit looked painful