Smackdown Continues a Role of Good Shows

I was actaully interested in watching Smackdown this week and it delivered. Smackdown has (nearly) always been the better show in terms of wrestling with Eddie, Benoit, Rey and Angle all been staples of the show and now with Finaly and Regal in the mix the wrestling can not be faulted.

Watching Chris Benoit pummel the shit out of Mr Kennedy was great.The finish wasn't too bad, Benoit couldn't beat Kennedy clean so this was the next big thing. The difference between Kennedy and Benoit on offence is world apart. One's awesome the other is pretty boring. I don't need to tell who you. Benoit winning the US title is only a good thing, the belt is wasted in the Taker feud so it makes sense to put it on Benoit who always makes it feel like a damn important belt.

Regal vs Vito was a decent match, mainly because William Regal is great. I don't think Regal ever wins but as long as he is on my TV every week I have no problem with this whatsoever and it doesn't take away from his credibility because he is that damn good.

MVP still sucks and putting him with Kane is hardly going to light the world on fire (pardon the pun) but they need something for both guys to do so they've stuck them together. I thought Kane was taking time off but obviously not.

Jamie Noble on TV in singles action is another great novelty. His match with Rey was a good little TV match, these guys can have awesome matches but the point was to put Rey over and they did that here. I thought the idea was for Rey to go off and have his surgery after No Mercy, they could be doing that angle next week with the 'I Quit' match. Rey is advertised for Survivor Series though so you never know.

Jimmy Wang Yang is the man. A decent little six-man here.

The main event was another good TV match. Booker T on commentary still rules. For a TV triple threat there wasn't anyhting else they could have done better or worse so this was a good little match. Batista going over makes sense as Finlay is a heel and Lashley isn't the number one guy at the moment (despite being better than Big Dave who looked a little rough tonight). Cena and Big Show are at Smackdown next week so I predict a no contest in the main event setting up the Cyber Sunday main event. Add the Rey/Chavo match to that and next week should be entertaining.