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SEPTEMBER 10, 2004 - SMACKDOWN!
SmackDown! kicks off with Bubba Ray Dudley taking on Carlito. Decent match that gets a good reaction, and the string of dud shows is mercifully over. Carlito eventually gets the win with an inverted figure four.
Bubba's half-brother D-Von has a singles match next against John Layfield, who has looked impressive in tag matches lately. He proves that he's still got it in singles as he puts D-Von away with the Clothesline From Hell.
Last week, Billy Gunn made a surprising return, helping his Metro Connection partner Chris Kanyon beat Aaron Stevens. Tonight, the Metros take on Stevens and his new partner Chavo Guerrero. Solid match all around that the Metros win when Gunn hits Stevens with the Fameasser.
The Rock is backstage, cutting a promo on his Unforgiven WWE Title match against Matt Hardy Version 2.0. It's the only match announced for the PPV, and honestly that's all you need. People will pay $30, $50, hell $150 to watch The Rock take back his title from Matt Hardy's candy ass. Matt's had a nice little run with the belt. 113 days isn't too shabby. But he'd better enjoy these last two weeks with it, because the People's Champion is going to once again be WWE Champion after Unforgiven, if you smell what The Rock is cookin'!
For the second week in a row, we get an exciting cruiserweight match featuring ECW alumni. Last week, Nova beat Spike Dudley and Christian York in a three-way dance. Tonight, he's got Nunzio in a hardcore match! For the most part, it's a clean match. At one point, Nunzio uses a Singapore cane, but eventually Nova puts him away with the Spin Doctor to continue his momentum into his Cruiserweight Title match next week against Tajiri.
For the second week in a row, Paul London puts on a tremendous match. Last week, it was a time-limit draw against Billy Kidman. Tonight, he takes on former Intercontinental Champion "Nature Boy" Dave Batista. London prepares to hit a clothesline on Batista, but he pulls the referee in the way, resulting in a DQ win for London. After the match, Bats blasts the referee with a big right hand. Officials hit the ring to pull him away before he can do any further damage.
The Rico-Christian feud that's been raging for months finally comes to a head tonight in a ladder match. It's a pretty brutal match, eventually ending with Christian taking a nasty bump off the ladder and to the floor. He looks hurt, but Rico is celebrating with the fans, who are going bonkers.
And now a huge six-man tag match pitting Eddie Guerrero, John Cena, and The Rock against Billy Kidman and the Hardy Boyz. It's an exciting match that lets all participants get in some high spots. Eventually, Eddie hits his frogsplash on Kidman to pick up the win.
Christian hobbles out onto the ramp to issue a challenge to Eddie. We're right there, Eddie. We're so close to being the guys headlining the pay-per-views. We're so close to being the faces of this company. The Rock and Triple H made each other legends five years ago by pushing each other to their limits. And now it's our turn. At Unforgiven, let's launch ourselves into that upper echelon. We're gonna be legends. Of course, I'm going to be the one that's main-eventing WrestleMania, but that's just how I roll!
Rey Mysterio and Tajiri have been beating the crap out of each other all summer long, and WWE officials have finally decided to end it once and for all inside a steel cage. Rey gets the advantage and appears to be going out the door of the cage until Brock Lesnar (?!?) shows up at ringside and slams the door in Rey's face. Tajiri takes the advantage to climb out the door. He shakes hands with his Dangerous Alliance mate Lesnar.
Lesnar grabs a microphone and challenges Rey for Unforgiven. Rey acceps. What is Brock's motivation for assaulting Mysterio?
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