Post by H-Fist on Dec 27, 2010 16:32:24 GMT -5
12/26 Smackdown! World Tour House Show report - Allstate Arena - Rosemont, IL (suburban Chicago)
Tonight's ring announcer, Howard Finkel!
Teddy Long comes out to start the show off right. Tells us what some matches are. Announces that, as a special holiday present to the people of Chicago, a non-Smackdown superstar will be making an appearance...Chicago's own CM Punk! And he'll go one on one with the Big Show! But the show will start with a battle royal to determine the #1 contender to the IC Title, and the winner will face Dolph later on the show.
Opening contest:
Kofi Kingston defeats Drew McIntyre, Jack Swagger, Ezekiel Jackson, Chavo Guerrero, Cody Rhodes, Trent Baretta, JTG, Chris Masters and Percy Watson to earn a shot at Dolph Ziggler's IC Title. Spot of the match: Cody gets in Zeke's face and slaps him. Zeke turns back to look at him and Cody's jaw drops in fear. He turns tail, sprints and leaps over the top rope, and high tails it to the back.
Match 2:
Drew McIntyre defeats JTG with the Future Shock DDT. Plenty of Drew using the 10-count to get in JTG's head. Not much reaction for JTG, good heat for Drew. Definitely better in person.
Match 3:
Chris Masters defeats Jack Swagger by reversing the ankle lock into a roll-up pin. Pretty good reaction for the Masterpiece, but not much for his lame full nelson finisher. Time for a change. Good match for both guys.
Cody Rhodes is introduced and tries to give us tips on how to become dashing, but the crowd won't let him get a word in. Tons of heat in a solid 10 minutes of talking. Threatens to leave Chicago, which he hates, forever. Says it's funny that everyone was chanting "you suck," when no one's ever wanted to see us but every last one of us paid good money to see him. HUGE heat. Says he thought he was supposed to come to Chicago for a match, but he couldn't tell where he was because half the crowd was Mexicans anyway...and "I HATE MEXICANS!" Pure gold from the Dashing one. And as he continues on running down the crowd..."OOOHHH, CHAVOOO..." and enter babyface Chavo. Probably another 5-10 minutes between Chavo talking and messing with Cody's mirror jacket. Leading to...
Match 4:
Chavo Guerrero defeats Cody Rhodes via pinfall after a frog splash. Very good old-school match. Cody and Chavo are definitely two of my favorites. When people bitch about Chavo jobbing to Horny throughout 2009, I think they forget that his bread and butter is comedy and shenanigans. Early days in WCW with Pepe, the hair vs. hair match with Eddy at BatB...he's great in that capacity. And Cody is the Million Dollar Man, as far as our generation's talker is concerned. Over-the-top gimmick, can lose and stay over...he has that old school skill in his performance, and just has to grow/age into his persona.
Match 5:
Dolph Ziggler defeats Kofi Kingston with a zig zag after hitting Kofi's eyes with something he pulled from under the apron. No Vickie. Good match. Obviously working on a dirty finish/restart scenario for down the road.
Intermission.
Match 6:
Natalya and Beth versus Layla and Naomi is an overly long no contest when Hornswaggle interferes. Chasing of the heels, biting of Layla's ass, post-beatdown celebration. Beth showed off a gorilla press. all ladies dressed in slutty elf costumes. Layla does fine as comedy incompetent cowardly boob. problem with the match was waiting too long before the hot tag. but good to see them get a chance to work.
Match 7:
"whatcha gonna do when they come for you?" enter Rey Mysterio to insane crowd response. Then obviously came Alberto del Rio, who cut a good promo on the loser Mexican/Chicano crowd who are not like him - they are low class and ugly. Said something else in Spanish to much booing. Good match gets going, but Punk runs in and beats Rey down. Then..."WEEEEELLLLLL" Big Show comes out, leading to stalemate. Then the mad militant we know that he don't play like that, so let's do it Chicago style in a tag team match. Again, a pretty good match with MysteriShow going over to huge crowd response. Celebration in ring, and as that winds down, all can see Punk slowly crawling on all fours all the way from ringside through the curtain.
Main event:
Edge defeats Kane to remain WHC by escaping over the top of the 8-foot-tall, incredibly ROH-levels-of-unsturdy steel cage. Gotta love the house show budget. Decent match, but the crowd was done: the Latinos and the kids (80% of the crowd) had seen Rey and were ready to go home.
Overall, a really fun show with plenty of good wrestling from all involved. I was hoping for a Showtime upset win, but we can't get everything.
Match of the night: including the BS, Cody vs. Chavo; excluding BS, Dolph vs. Kofi
Pops of the night:
1) Mysterio
2) Kofi
3) Big Show
Heat of the night:
1) Cody Rhodes, by far
2) CM Punk
3) Alberto Del Rio
Crowd was 25 Kane/25 Edge/50 apathy for the main.
Well worth going. Definitely a mistake not putting Rey on last.
Tonight's ring announcer, Howard Finkel!
Teddy Long comes out to start the show off right. Tells us what some matches are. Announces that, as a special holiday present to the people of Chicago, a non-Smackdown superstar will be making an appearance...Chicago's own CM Punk! And he'll go one on one with the Big Show! But the show will start with a battle royal to determine the #1 contender to the IC Title, and the winner will face Dolph later on the show.
Opening contest:
Kofi Kingston defeats Drew McIntyre, Jack Swagger, Ezekiel Jackson, Chavo Guerrero, Cody Rhodes, Trent Baretta, JTG, Chris Masters and Percy Watson to earn a shot at Dolph Ziggler's IC Title. Spot of the match: Cody gets in Zeke's face and slaps him. Zeke turns back to look at him and Cody's jaw drops in fear. He turns tail, sprints and leaps over the top rope, and high tails it to the back.
Match 2:
Drew McIntyre defeats JTG with the Future Shock DDT. Plenty of Drew using the 10-count to get in JTG's head. Not much reaction for JTG, good heat for Drew. Definitely better in person.
Match 3:
Chris Masters defeats Jack Swagger by reversing the ankle lock into a roll-up pin. Pretty good reaction for the Masterpiece, but not much for his lame full nelson finisher. Time for a change. Good match for both guys.
Cody Rhodes is introduced and tries to give us tips on how to become dashing, but the crowd won't let him get a word in. Tons of heat in a solid 10 minutes of talking. Threatens to leave Chicago, which he hates, forever. Says it's funny that everyone was chanting "you suck," when no one's ever wanted to see us but every last one of us paid good money to see him. HUGE heat. Says he thought he was supposed to come to Chicago for a match, but he couldn't tell where he was because half the crowd was Mexicans anyway...and "I HATE MEXICANS!" Pure gold from the Dashing one. And as he continues on running down the crowd..."OOOHHH, CHAVOOO..." and enter babyface Chavo. Probably another 5-10 minutes between Chavo talking and messing with Cody's mirror jacket. Leading to...
Match 4:
Chavo Guerrero defeats Cody Rhodes via pinfall after a frog splash. Very good old-school match. Cody and Chavo are definitely two of my favorites. When people bitch about Chavo jobbing to Horny throughout 2009, I think they forget that his bread and butter is comedy and shenanigans. Early days in WCW with Pepe, the hair vs. hair match with Eddy at BatB...he's great in that capacity. And Cody is the Million Dollar Man, as far as our generation's talker is concerned. Over-the-top gimmick, can lose and stay over...he has that old school skill in his performance, and just has to grow/age into his persona.
Match 5:
Dolph Ziggler defeats Kofi Kingston with a zig zag after hitting Kofi's eyes with something he pulled from under the apron. No Vickie. Good match. Obviously working on a dirty finish/restart scenario for down the road.
Intermission.
Match 6:
Natalya and Beth versus Layla and Naomi is an overly long no contest when Hornswaggle interferes. Chasing of the heels, biting of Layla's ass, post-beatdown celebration. Beth showed off a gorilla press. all ladies dressed in slutty elf costumes. Layla does fine as comedy incompetent cowardly boob. problem with the match was waiting too long before the hot tag. but good to see them get a chance to work.
Match 7:
"whatcha gonna do when they come for you?" enter Rey Mysterio to insane crowd response. Then obviously came Alberto del Rio, who cut a good promo on the loser Mexican/Chicano crowd who are not like him - they are low class and ugly. Said something else in Spanish to much booing. Good match gets going, but Punk runs in and beats Rey down. Then..."WEEEEELLLLLL" Big Show comes out, leading to stalemate. Then the mad militant we know that he don't play like that, so let's do it Chicago style in a tag team match. Again, a pretty good match with MysteriShow going over to huge crowd response. Celebration in ring, and as that winds down, all can see Punk slowly crawling on all fours all the way from ringside through the curtain.
Main event:
Edge defeats Kane to remain WHC by escaping over the top of the 8-foot-tall, incredibly ROH-levels-of-unsturdy steel cage. Gotta love the house show budget. Decent match, but the crowd was done: the Latinos and the kids (80% of the crowd) had seen Rey and were ready to go home.
Overall, a really fun show with plenty of good wrestling from all involved. I was hoping for a Showtime upset win, but we can't get everything.
Match of the night: including the BS, Cody vs. Chavo; excluding BS, Dolph vs. Kofi
Pops of the night:
1) Mysterio
2) Kofi
3) Big Show
Heat of the night:
1) Cody Rhodes, by far
2) CM Punk
3) Alberto Del Rio
Crowd was 25 Kane/25 Edge/50 apathy for the main.
Well worth going. Definitely a mistake not putting Rey on last.
