1/18 WWE Smackdown taping spoilers: A third report on the taping for Friday's television show (spoilers)


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1/18 WWE Smackdown taping spoilers: A third report on the taping for Friday's television show (spoilers)
Jan 18, 2012 - 12:05 PM


WWE Smackdown taping
Las Vegas, Nevada
Report by Dot Net reader Michael Keeton


The show opened with a video package of Daniel Bryan and Big Show. 

Bryan came out to a mixed crowd and did his rant on the Big Show hitting his girlfriend. (close to the same rant as Monday).

They cut to the back where Teddy Long was with Cody Rhodes and the famous Vegas roulette wheel. Cody spun the wheel it landed on "players choice". Cody said I choice him and pointed camera panned around till it found Hornswoggle. Hornswoggle said "me". I almost liked it more when he just squeaked.

Cody comes out and then Hornswoggle. Cody jumped out of the ring and attacked Hornswoggle. Then Justin Gabriel came out attacked Cody and told him to "pick on someone his own size" . Then agreed to fight Gabriel non title.

1. Cody Rhodes defeated Justin Gabriel in a non-title match. Decent opening match. With Rhodes getting the pin fall.

They cut back to back stage with Teddy Long. He has Mark Henry with him. Teddy wants Mark to spin, Mark tells him "it's his gimmick, you spin it." Teddy spun and it landed on Lumberjack match. I really wish they would stop the roulette gimmick...

2. Epico and Primo (w/Rosa) beat The Uso Brothers. Good back and forth match. The champions won the match, which made Epico and Primo look a little stronger. 

Next up on the roulette wheel Sheamus. He spun and it landed on tables match. 

Lillian Garcia announced the following match was a dance off. First out... Brodus Clay. Somebody call his momma! He did his dance to the ring. Wow, the red outfit he wears is really red. His music stopped... "excuse me!!!" 

Brodus's opponent was Vickie Guerrero, who came in and said "hit my music." She did some dance that I can't describe. She looked at Brodus and said, "Beat that." Brodus's music hit and his two girls started then he did his moves. The crowd voted and Brodus won.

William Regal then made his way to the ring while very subtly insulting Vickie along the way. She had no idea who he was. She left the ring and Regal tried to leave. Brodus called him back to say let's see what you got. Regal called for his music. That English guy can't dance. Brodus hit him with what seamed to be half of his finisher. "My Bad" "somebody call his momma" as Regal lays on his back. He helped him up to the ropes and did his shake as Regal rolled out of the ring. Brodus danced while they cut to commercial. He danced for awhile.

3. Wade Barrett defeated Sheamus in a tables match. Good back and forth match. Lot of potential with this feud. Wade Barrett won with help from Jinder Mahal. Mahal starts to attack Sheamus, who the better of him and puts Mahal through a table.

4. Ted DiBiase beat Hunico in a flag match. Teddy Long spun the wheel prior to the match. I don't know if it will show on air but one of the ring crew had trouble with the Mexican flag. It wouldn't stay on the pole. At one point, the ref rang the bell and the one ring crew guy was still on the top rope trying to get the flag to stay. So after trouble with the flag, the bell rang again. DiBiase won. Not a very good match and the crowd was out of it. 

The cut back to Teddy Long, who was with Drew McIntyre. Teddy told him he had been messing up and that he was fired. Santino walked up and said everyone was telling him his win over McIntyre was a lucky and he wanted to fight him again. Teddy agreed and McIntyre spun the wheel. Blindfold match.

5. Santino Marella defeated Drew McIntyre in a blindfold match. Santino won a pretty comical match with a blindfolded Cobra. The ref went to blindfold Santino. He told him to wait and pulled out a mini blind fold (hood) for his hand, so his Cobra was blind folded too.

6. Daniel Bryan fought Mark Henry to a no-contest in a lumberjack match. Mark Henry controlled the match for the most part. The lumberjacks got overly evolved and all hell broke lose. Bryan slipped out and headed back to back. Henry followed after a couple minutes. The match turned into a Rumble match (unofficially). Shamus cleared the ring and his music hit, so I guess it went to a no contest. 

Dark Match

1. Daniel Bryan defeated Big Show in a cage match to retain the World Hvt. Championship. Teddy Long's music hit and he announced the main event would be a cage match with Bryan and Show. The ring crew set up an old school cage. An okay cage match between the two. Barrett and McIntyre came out and attacked Big Show, allowing Bryan to slip out of the cage. Bryan won the match and retained the title. 

Bryan left and Barrett and McIntyre were beating up Show when Shamus came to the ring. Sheamus and Show cleaned house. Show and Shamus walked around the ring shaking hands. 

Notes: Good overall show. The Thomas and Mack was only about half full. They had the upper section curtained off. The crowd was in it for the most part. There were a couple of spots where the crowd was dead. 

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