By Chris Shore

WWE Smackdown Hits

Kane and The Undertaker: I’m going to have a blog on this Sunday, so I won’t spend a lot of time on this. It was the best part of the show, by far, and this continues to be the most compelling angle each and every week. Kane is delivering the promos of his life, and Taker is playing the part perfectly. I’m fairly sure this has another month left in it, and I can’t wait to see what happens next.

Alberto del Rio: This guy gets better and better every week. He set the standard for the rest of the show—which the rest of the show promptly failed to meet until the end—and I thought del Rio looked better than Christian on the mic. Christian seemed all over the map, though del Rio did ham it up a little with the coat. He is going to be a big draw within two years. You heard it here first.

Christian vs. Drew McIntyre: This was the best match of the night, though that is certainly no compliment. The match, much like the show it was on, wasn’t so much bad as it was simply boring. These two have faced each other a lot over the past few weeks and it just seemed stale. I’m afraid this entire month is going to be weak as they head into the big premier on SyFy. I can’t believe how far Drew has fallen in just a few weeks. I really hope this isn’t punishment for Tiffany. I mean, she was the one hauled off to jail.

WWE Smackdown Misses

Hornswoggle: This was necessary? Seriously? Somebody pointed out in the forum that the Smackdown roster is very small and they have to fill the time. Christian and McIntyre went four minutes, Ziggler and Masters went two and a half. There were other ways to fill this time. This was god awful, and whoever wrote this should never be allowed to write for television again.

Dolph Ziggler vs. Chris Masters: WWE has done something remarkable. They have managed to push Dolph Ziggler to a title run while simultaneously making him look cheap and pathetic. Vickie has sucked all of the charisma right off of him—It’s called a double entendre, look it up—and he has become the most generic and boring character right now. Vickie is the act, not Dolph. And that’s a problem.

Jack Swagger and MVP: Two of the hottest characters to have been on Smackdown have been reduced to this? Really? Just a couple of months ago I was digging all over Swagger. And I had never really liked the guy. And just about two years ago we were talking about MVP as the next world champion. This segment was stupid and lame from start to finish, and even though it’s been some time since these two guys feuded, it still felt stale and boring.

Big Show vs. The Straight Edge Society: First and foremost, let me thank Dot Net reader Ryan Kester for reminding me Big Show’s move is called the alley-oop. And Ryan, the idea of anybody calling me Mr. Shore is hysterical. Just ask my wife. Thanks for the heads up!

I can’t believe this match got the most time. It was like Bizarro Smackdown. Part of me is sad to see the SES split up. But part of me is saying, “They never used these guys right anyway, so who cares.” Don’t get me wrong, Punk was amazing during this run. But Gallows has been misused from day one, Mercury has been a letdown both with his reveal and the injury, and Serena is drunk is a Mexican bar somewhere in Tijuana. Breaking them up may even help CM Punk, though I’m not entirely sure how. And it’s time for Big Show to step down to a part time gig where they can trot him out for the fans as needed. Watching him wrestle every week is making me consider cutting myself again.

Overall Show: Anytime the misses outnumber the hits it’s not a good sign. Like most of the misses, this was more bout boring and less about bad. Though the Divas and Hornswoggle did bring some serious bad to the show. I hope my prediction is wrong about this continuing. If not, the next four weeks are going to be dreadful.

Michelle McCool vs. Kelly Kelly: I finally found a way to compliment the ladies: at least it wasn’t Hornswoggle again.

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