WWE Smackdown live event
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Report by Dot Net reader Gary Graham

1. Ted DiBiase Jr. won a 12 man Battle Royal for a IC title shot w/Ezekiel Jackson later in the show. He eliminted Daniel Bryan for the win. Others in the match were the Usos, Tyson Kidd, Heath Slater, Justin Gabriel, Trent Barretta, Mark Henry, Sheamus, Wade Barrett, and Jinder Mahal.
 
2. Natalya and AJ beat Rosa Mendes and Tamina. Tamina and Natalya not surprisingly carried the workload for their teams in this match. Nattie did a great delayed suplex on Rosa. Not a bad match actually. Natalya forced Rosa to submit to The Sharpshooter for the win.
 
3. Jinder Mahal beat Tyson Kidd (who I guess is a face  again) with the full nelson slam. Poor Tyson. Jinder isnt ready at all. Khali was ringside but did  nothing. After the match Barrett came down and hit Kidd with Wasteland and challenged Sheamus to a match right then and there which led to...
 
4. Sheamus beat Barrett with The Brogue Kick. Shockingly, Sheamus was over HUGE as a face here. The crowd loved him. Really good and hard hitting match. Second best match of the show.
 
5. Rey Mysterio defeated The Miz. This was a special Raw match to make up for the previously scheduled Sin Cara and Big Show not being there. Rey was over with the kids(and there was tons of them-I thought this one kid (about six) was gonna die on the spot when he saw Rey coming to the ring).

Miz cut a much too long pre match cheap heat promo on The Steelers (since he's from Cleveland where the rival Browns are) and then spent five minutes playing with the crowd by raising the mic up and down each time he put it to his mouth to do the 'Im Awesome" catchphrase. Rey had his working shoes on but Miz seemed bored and worked like he didn't want to be there.
 
6. Mark Henry beat Daniel Bryan clean with the WSS. Okay match but nothing special. Bryan was over.
 
7. Ezekiel Jackson beat Ted DiBiase Jr. with the Torture Rack to retain the Intercontinental Title. Ted tried. Zeke did do a sidewalk slam in the match making his moveset total number to three. He's catching up to Cena!!
 
8. Randy Orton beat Christain by DQ in a World Hvt. Championship match with Bret Hart as ringside enforcer. Bret was listed as the ringside enforcer even though he did nothing. Great match as always with these two. Fifteen minutes of nonstop wrestling (except for a one minute chinlock by Christian). Orton kicked out of a Killswitch. Christian did a great second rope dropkick and also a Hangman neckbreaker, the reverse DDT, and spinebuster. Randy did  the 2nd rope DDT, a huge backdrop, a superplex, and chinlock backbreaker.
 
The end came when Christian punched ref Scott Armstrong and was DQ'd. He went after Bret and Bret held him for Randy to hit. However, Randy told Bret to 'throw his ass in the ring" and Randy went all psycho again and grabbed a chair and bashed Christian with it a few times and then searched under the ring for something which was a kendo stick.

Orton went nuts while bashing Christian with that too and finished it with an RKO to huge cheers. Psycho Orton is getting over huge I can tell you that. Message to WWE, don't screw this up with Randy, you have something big going here. Orton and Bret shook hands and signed autographs with the ringside fans after it was all over. Orton even went to the mid level seats and signed and talked to the fans there. Great show.
 
Top face pops.
1. Orton.
2. Sheamus(yes,Sheamus)
3. Rey
 
 
Top heel heat
1. Christian
2. Henry
3. Miz

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