BRM Reviews the 12/23/2011 Smackdown

[Big Red Machine]

OPENING SEGMENT WITH BIG SHOW, MARK HENRY, & DANIEL BRYAN- Very good

CODY RHODES vs. ZACK RYDER- 4.75/10. I guess Cody vs. Booker is continuing.

TEDDY LONG, SANTINO, & AKSANA- This Aksana sh*t is going nowhere. DO SOMETHING WITH IT ALREADY!

TEDDY WITH VICKIE & ZIGGLER- why are they allowed to be here. They are on Raw. This segment was dumb.

WINNER BECOMES #1 CONTENDER TO THE WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE: The Big Show vs. Mark Henry- Dumb. You would think that, if Henry wasn’t cleared to wrestle tonight, it is the sort of thing that someone would tell Smackdown GM Teddy Long, and that Teddy would know not to put Henry in a match. Also, you would think that Henry would know, and would have complained that he wasn’t ready for tonight’s big match.

TEDDY LONG & THE MIZ- dumb.

MIZ IN-RING PROMO- very good

SHEAMUS vs. THE MIZ- 4.5/10. Sorry everyone. Dragon is not the most over man on the Smackdown roster. Neither is Orton. Nor Cody. Nor Big Show. It is Sheamus. If doesn’t win the Royal Rumble this year, it will be a travesty.

WADE BARRETT PROMO & BRAWL WITH ORTON- Good

KOFI KINGSTON (w/Evan Bourne) vs. PRIMO (w/Rosa Mendes & Epico)- 4.5/10. Can we please give these guys some time?

DANIEL BRYAN vs. DOLPH ZIGGLER (w/Jack Swagger & Vickie Guerrero)- 7/10… OH COME ON! Swagger and Show didn’t even touch the guys in the ring. Teddy jumps the gun on this one, turning a great singles match into a tag team match with not enough time left. I don’t understand why WWE does this sort of crap. You had Swagger interfere, then have Show punch him out, thus adding to their burgeoning feud while letting the awesome main event continue! This also leaves them with Show & Dragon vs. Swagger & Ziggler for next week, with more build to it!

DANIEL BRYAN & THE BIG SHOW vs. JACK SWAGGER & DOLPH ZIGGLER (w/Vickie Guerrero)- 6/10. They should have just left this as Dragon vs. Ziggler

Overall, not such a good episode of Smackdown.