Smack Down 13 / Jan / 2011  Thoughts By David Damage

Alberto / Cody / Mysterio / R-Truth / Teddy Long come to the ring to arrange the first match because god forbid someone actually arranges the matches on Smack Down before the event starts... I'm really bored of this format....

R-Truth & Mysterio Vs Cody & Alberto

All four guys worked well and had a good match to start the show.
Mysterio scored the pinfall on Cody Rhodes after the 610 / Top Rope Splash combo

Drew McIntyre Vs Trent Berretta

It's good to see Trent on Smack Down rather than Superstars... It's pretty much an enhancement match for Drew, until Trent gets the quick win after reversing a gorilla press into a surprise sunset flip pinfall.
I thought Drew looked good, but it was good to see Trent getting the pinfall.

Backstage, Drew attacks Trent but Kelly Kelly walks by and sees him, so he leaves Trent and apologises to Kelly. Kelly tells Drew to "Grow up"

Wade Barrett Vs Big Show
This is the fastest I've ever seen Wade move around the ring before... Tries to work on Big Show's left leg at the start of the match but Big Show fights him off and goes for a chokeslam... Heath Slater & Justin Gabriel enter the ring to attack Big Show, but he knocks them down. Ahmed Johnson 2.0 / Ezekiel Jackson stands on the apron which
distracts Show before they are all able to take him out. Ezekiel gets Big Show up for a slam. Gabriel hits the 450 plash and the New Nexus stand victorious in the ring.

Do we really need a Nexus on Raw and a different Nexus on Smack Down? Hopefully one of them come up with at least a new name for their group.

Michelle McCools music hits... Fast Forward.... Michelle Vs Beth

I feel bad for Beth, because I'm sure she could have great matches with Trish or Victoria if they were still in WWE or even Gail Kim or Nattie who are in WWE now, but they keep putting her in the ring with skinny dumb women who can't work, like Michelle, Layla, Kelly etc so we've never really been able to see just how good Beth can be.

Thankfully Beth won the 4 minute match... I hope WWE do something about their Women's "Diva" division. Maybe even call them women instead of Divas and start employing women who know how to work.

There are tons of very talented and tough women wrestlers on the Indies and it's pretty disrespectful that WWE build their whole division around 2 women who have no idea what they are doing and have 2 left feet - just because the skinny blonde one is Undertaker's ring rat / wife and the other one is her friend.... There is a good reason why they both failed the awful Diva Search - and they haven't improved at all since then. It's only a matter of time before they accidentally injure themselves, or more importantly - someone else.

Michelle used to be a kindergarten teacher, so she's qualified to teach children how to stick their palms in paint and made hand prints onto paper... Credit to her for sleeping her way to the top of the WWE, I guess....

Kofi Kingston Vs Jack Swagger
Great work as always be these two...Great moves, counters and everything made sense and looked good. Kofi won the match with an SOS.
Sure we've seen these guys work against eachother about 12 times in the last couple of months, but when it produces results like this, I don't really mind that at all. I'd be happy to see them work together more.

Generally, I still think the roster split is a bad thing because it means that we get the same matches over and over and over again.

Edge's Cutting Edge Segment with Dolph Ziggler & Vicky Guerrero

I think Edge & Ziggler can both have great promos and matches with eachother, but there is no need for Vicky to be the centre of attention. I wish she never came back.... How ropey is the "I've arranged a video to played on the Titan Tron" thing that WWE do all the time?
To me, this is a great example of WWE taking 2 great talents who I am a fan of and making me uninterested in what they are doing.
Vicky slaps Edge a few times and Edge considers hitting her with a Spear before Dolph pulls Edge outside the ring and hits a brutal Zig-Zag on Edge into the Steel steps...

Dolph kisses Vicky to end the show....