WWE Smackdown live event
White Plains, N.Y.
Report by Dot Net reader John Siino

1. Heath Slater won a 12-man battle royal to earn a shot at the Intercontinental Title. The match also included Mark Henry, Sheamus, Jinder Mahal, The Usos, Daniel Bryan, Tyson Kidd, Ted DiBiase, Trent Baretta, Wade Barrett and Justin Gabriel. A great way to start the show as it got the whole crowd involved, highlights include Henry tossing out both Usos then throwing Baretta on top of them.

Sheamus and Barrett eliminated themselves then fought all the way to the back. Last three were Henry, Bryan and Slater. Bryan ducked and Henry was eliminated, Slater took advantage and tossed out Bryan when he wasn't look. Slater earned a Intercontinental Title shot for later in the night. He received lots of boos for that win. After the battle royal Mark Henry started to smash a chair on a pole and received plenty of boos.

A.J. then came out as the guest host and was about to invite four people to come in the ring and dance but was interrupted by Tamina and Rosa Mendes who were about to attack A.J. until Natalya and Kaitlyn came out for the save. Natalya cut a promo asking them to pick on someone their own size and asked the crowd if they wanted to see a divas tag team match to a big pop.

2. Natalya and Kaitlyn beat Tamina and Rosa Mendes. Pretty good and long divas match compared to their short and lacklusted TV matches, Mendes tapped out to the sharpshooter to give the face divas the win.

3. Jinder Mahal (w/The Great Khali) beat Tyson Kidd. Tyson Kidd came out to a face reaction, even high-fiving all the fans and received numerous "Let's go Tyson" and Tyson Kidd chants throughout the match. Mahal won with his finishing move. Kidd showed lots of great moves and got a great reaction from the crowd. Got a nice ovation after his loss. Plenty boos after that, Khali did nothing.

After the match Wade Barrett came out and attacked Tyson Kidd and cut a promo about how he took out people such as Big Show, Edge and Cena. He challenged Sheamus to come out.

4. Sheamus beat Wade Barrett. Sheamus received a huge pop in his entrance and the crowd was very behind him. Great match with these two big men with Sheamus coming out on top with the Brough Kick. Sheamus received a great reaction.

5. Ezekiel Jackson beat Heath Slater to retain the Intercontinental Championship. Big Zeke got a great reaction, but the crowd wasn't into this slow match.. After a bunch of bodyslams, Zeke won with his torture rack. Zeke was sporting new black trunks in this match.

Before intermission, A.J. came out to finally do the dance-off. She picked four fans - one small child, one funny looking doofus guy and two girls, (the hot one in the pink dress being my friend Rosi). The guy did the worm, but after the little kid said "I don't know how to dance" and tried, he won the crowd over, therefore winning the contest. My friend who works security said he chose to meet Christian, to Christian's surprise about being asked to come out to say hi. The non-winners of the dance-off all received WWE Tour shirts.

6. Justin Gabriel beat Ted DiBiase. DiBiase cut a promo before the match saying how he's better looking and richer than the crowd and received lots of boos. Gabriel came out to a decent reaction with a new hairstyle as well. After showing some great moves the crowd got behind him. And his 450 splash really got the crowd on the feet. He won with that maneuver. During this match is when they starting have problems with the lights going off and on in different sections, this seemed to throw off Gabriel.

7. Mark Henry beat Daniel Bryan. Bryan came out with his MITB briefcase and got lots of cheers, Henry ripped up a sign that said "Mark Henry's gonna get his ass kicked". Great matched that showed Bryan almost coming out on top until he received the world's strongest slam for the loss.

8. Randy Orton defeated Christian by DQ, so Christian retained the World Heavyweight Championship with Bret Hart as special enforcer. Bret Hart came out as the special ringside enforcer to a huge reaction, but Orton definitely got the biggest pop of the night. Before the match Christian cut a nice promo saying "finally there's a legit official in the match" referring to the fact that a fellow Canadian was at ringside.

After numerous attempts from Christian to cheat and leave and with Bret throwing him in the ring, Christian got disqualified for tossing the ref down. This made Orton go ballistic and him and Bret punched Christian back and forth until Christian received the RKO. Great way to end the show and send the crowd home happy, Orton gave autographs and high fives to the crowd. During this match Orton was very visibly pissed off at the light problems and mouthed "WTF" at them.

Notes: Great show in White Plains as always, as WWE has been coming to the Westchester County Center since forever, and even had WWF Raw shows back in the day here before the huge sets. Interesting altercations happened after the show by Orton's bus. Some fan was being a wise ass with Orton, who seemed really pissed off and according to my friend it resulted in some meeting with Orton, his people, Ted DiBiase, and the staff security of the arena. It was very odd and something seemed really wrong with Orton, something definitely rubbed him the wrong way. A similar altercation happened before the show with the security not recognizing Ezekiel Jackson and him being very upset for not being let in at first.

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