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**M-A-G** · 09-25-2021, 12:50 PM

SmackDown!: September 28, 2040

It's the final stop before Unforgiven! Let's see how the roster does its best to not fuck things up for the PPV!

We open with Paul Andrews, the manager of the NEW WWE Unified Tag Team Champions, Adam Hail and Simon Bennett. He comes out alone and grabs a mic to address the crowd. He's saddened to report that the new champions are off on one hell of a media blitz after the bombshell of last night on Superstars. Bringing in Hail and Bennett was something that Andrews had been working on for the longest time. It was quite the blow to have to say goodbye to Bobby Whitlock and then later to Conner Buchanan this year. Andrews didn't think he'd be able to recover from that. But there is always opportunity and there are always ways to make an impact. The WWE parted ways with Adam Hail and Simon Bennett some time ago and there is something to be said about whether that was a wise decision. Regardless, Andrews knew that the two of them could become major players and shake things up right now. He's known the two of them for a long time and has always felt that there is so much more that they could offer before hanging things up for good. It's a whole new status quo now that Hail and Bennett are the tag team champions and any team that wants to try their hand at changing that, well the line starts right here.

Cue Vivian Merrick, the manager of the former champions, and she makes her way out to the stage. She looks quite miffed as she addresses Andrews. "Actually, the line starts here. You've got a lot of nerve walking out here and talking a big game when you know you pulled a fast one by sneaking in your guys at the last minute last night. It was a completely unfair situation. How were Hilton and Julian supposed to prepare when you and Lisa Benton are apparently in cahoots keeping secrets from everyone. All of these people here shouldn't be cheering. They should be outraged that they have a liar as their general manager and bunch of cheats as the tag team champions. Well enjoy it while you can, Paul, because I've been working on this ever since we went off the air last night. You better get Adam Hail and Simon Bennett back into business mode after all of their PR fluff because this Sunday at Unforgiven they're going to be giving The Future Foundation their rightful rematch for the Unified Tag Team Championship!"

"Oh, you really don't know Hail and Bennett all that well, do you, Vivian? They're always in business mode and they'll be more than happy to demonstrate it to you and the Future Foundation one more time. We'll see you Sunday." And thus Unforgiven gets even more packed!

Backstage, The Royal Effect want to express their grievances over the tag title situation and what they just witnessed. Forget the nonsense of the Future Foundation getting the rug pulled out from underneath them at the hands of Adam Hail and Simon Bennett. That's terrible in and of itself but the real issue is how the Royal Effect weren't the ones walking out with those belts and it's all because of having to deal with those damn Play Pals. If they were out of the way, the Royal Effect would be running the show in the tag team division, Hail and Bennett be damned.

This leads to the Play Pals coming into the scene to sling a little bit of verbal mud. They declare that they are proud to be in the way of the Royal Effect and they'll continue to do so because there's nothing they can do about it. The Play Pals owe their longevity to being better than the also-rans like the Royal Effect. In fact, McKay and Kavovit are better off just breaking up and going off to other pursuits because the Play Pals are here to stay.

McKay is intrigued with what the Play Pals are saying and it gives him an idea. Clearly, there's just too much stubborness going on here amongst the two teams for either side to just call it quits and back down. So here is the proposal: this Sunday at Unforgiven, the Play Pals vs. The Royal Effect, one more time and for the last time because here's the catch; the losing team MUST break up permanently.

Gavin and Michael look at each other warily and Kavovit chips in with his vote of confidence saying that he's got faith in the union between himself and McKay. Can the Play Pals say the same? Ultimately, the Play Pals nod at each other and Haywood agrees to the terms. Like he said before: the Play Pals are here to stay.

First Match: Ziggy Styles vs. Patrick Dean Quartermaine
I think it's high time I start making Ziggy a viable player. Ziggy points out that not all great movements started out at the time intended. Getting Ziggy With It is one of those movements. There was a rocky start, he'll admit, but all diamonds eventually make their way towards the surface. Well this is a good way to kick things off as far as the matches go. Ziggy makes the most of this showing to look good and it ends with Ziggy ducking a crossbody and hits the ThingamaZig for the pin. ****1/4, 90% overall.

Second Match: Orlando Kincaid vs. Eddy Clash
Bit of a leap in competition for Eddy Clash. Ozzy Mandias is on commentary in support of his teammate for this Sunday. Kincaid knows to make Eddy's stuff look good as the match goes on. Ultimately, Michael Hotbody sneaks up behind Ozzy from the crowd and rips his headset off. Naturally this leads to an altercation and that allows Zed Jones the chance to attack Eddy from behind and lay in some shots for the DQ while Ozzy is distracted. Ozzy pulls Hotbody over the railing so he can deliver some ass whooping of his own but Zed pushes Ozzy away and grabs Hotbody and bails. ****1/2, 90% overall.

In-Ring Super Special Talky Time, this time with the WWE Women's Tag Team Champions The Lonely Girls, Jenna Kyle and Faith Connors. Jenna tells the story of when she was younger watching her brother lead his rugby team to a championship win when they were in school. She recalls what happened when her brother and some of his teammates got busted for disorderly conduct when they were off in the town celebrating like lunatics. Her dad was miffed, obviously, but one of the biggest lessons he instilled in her brother, and consequently in herself, was how to handle victory. Do you enjoy it? Yes, but above all else, you defend it. You plant your flag and never rest on your laurels because down the road you've got who-knows-what coming after you to take it all away and if you're caught face down, drool leaving your mouth, and your ass in the air it will have been for nothing. So that's the approach that Jenna has taken in her career here in the WWE and she's extended that to her partnership with Faith. They made history at SummerSlam but that's only a page. Faith and Jenna want volume after volume after volume of history and the only way that's going to happen is to take wearing these titles seriously and being prepared for the worst. Faith brings up how this Sunday might not be the worst but it'll be a fight nonetheless. She understands that there is a lot of bitterness on the other side. It can drive someone to throw out all of their sensibilities. It can motivate them to be even more dangerous. She knows that she and Jenna are in for a long night because Naomi is the Women's Champion and it's still not enough for her and Eclypse has a huge chip on her shoulder that's begging for relief. Well the bad news is that Jenna and Faith aren't in the business of relief so Unforgiven is going to be another disappointment. The good news? Naomi and Eclypse won't really need to put up with each other anymore.

This brings out Naomi and Eclypse themselves and they address the comments from the Lonely Girls from the stage. Faith is wrong in her assessment because last week the alliance between Naomi and Eclypse has been reforged. There is an understanding. There is a connection. There is a union where the two of them think as one. Destroying the Lonely Girls is a worthwhile goal and it's a bonus to do it alongside family and get a hold of those belts in the process. Everyone is talking about how this is the last chance. Well Eclypse and Naomi aren't going to need another when it's all said and done. At Unforgiven, your page in history gets ripped out and burned.

Third Match: The Perfections and The Southern Belles vs. The Internet Darlings and The Glamour Brigade
Some tension on the heel side as they've been sniping at each other from afar these last few weeks. Both have made pretty good cases for being the next team to get a chance at the Women's Tag Team Titles. Well the bottom line here is that it's 8 lovely and talented women with a lot of time so you can expect some good shit here. Nathan Quinn trips up Lauren Franklyn for the benefit of Leah but Hannah tags herself in and goes up top and hits the Spotlight on a fallen Lauren to take the pin for herself. Both Nathan and Leah seem a tad peeved. ****1/2, 89% overall.

More interview time backstage, this time with the WWE Intercontinental Champion Seth Von Kamp, ahead of his Last Man Standing match against Brandon Reigns. He wants to talk about how Brandon seems to have this weird and warped view on the career of Seth Von Kamp. Seth has been out in that ring walking the walk and etching his name in so many memorable moments in the WWE that Reigns can only hope achieve. Seth just didn't do it with a championship around his waist. So if Brandon Reigns is looking at this Sunday with a gleam in his eye and a spring in his step because he thinks he's got the next best thing to a night off, he's in for a rude awakening. Seth's gone through cage matches, ladder matches, no DQ matches, and even the very best of Braden Walker. Brandon's going to have to pull out something major in order to surprise Seth and take back the Intercontinental Title. The sad thing being, Seth's got a much bigger sack than Reigns.

Fourth Match: Jordan Demiras vs. Freddie Galino
Neither man's respective partners are out here in order to keep things level. It's evenly matched, all things considered. Galino looks like he's in position for an Axe Kick from Demiras but he decides to roll out of the ring and bail, evidently having had enough for the night. He gets counted out as he yells threats to Demiras and Martyn LaSalle for this Sunday. ****1/2, 92% overall.

Even more interview time backstage as we join Xavier Cross. Cross is looking forward to making Jacobs his personal sidekick after demolishing that brash, wet behind the years child, Kyle Jacobs. Cross deserves more respect and this year everyone seemed to think that it was the perfect time to toss that ideal out the window. Cross headlined WrestleMania 50 for crying out loud! EVERY new punk that signs on to this roster should have one thing in mind as the first thing they should do. That one thing is finding Cross backstage and asking for the privilege to partake in the fountain of wisdom that is his experience. Has that been the case? NO! We've got beefed-up simpletons stealing briefcases, some wise ass going around asking people to get Ziggy with him, whatever the hell that means, and then you've got Kyle Jacobs who thinks he was born with a Masters in the business where Cross is the master. And now, after Unforgiven, Cross will the master over Kyle Jacobs.

Fifth Match: Clubber Harris vs. Quentin McDaniels
McDaniels announces that he'll be facing Kerry Cemenko one more time on the pre-show this Sunday. He proclaims that having a guy like Cemenko around is the reason why two chumps like Adam Hail and Simon Bennett feel justified in coming back and taking up valuable roster space. That Cemenko has been a Unified World Champion and the chances just keep getting yanked away from McDaniels is criminal and he's going to know full well how that makes McDaniels feel. This is a pretty boss match. I probably should have let it be the main even but we've got to have the champion do his segment and push that PPV main event. Harris tries to superplex Quentin off the top but Quentin counters by slamming Harris' head into the exposed turnbuckle, knocking Harris off. Quentin comes off the top with the Curb Stomp and that's enough for the pin and the victory. *****, 95% overall.

FINAL SEGMENT: We're joined by the WWE Unified World Champion Noah Carmichael in one more In-Ring Super Special Talky Time. Sanctioned or not sanctioned, Noah agrees with the assessment from Brooke in regards to this Sunday. Salvatore Scabbia does indeed deserve to partake in what is owed to him. That thing that he is owed, of course, is the most royal of ass kickings courtesy of yours truly, Noah Carmichael. Almost everyone in the WWE nowadays just seems to love tossing around that word: "deserve". Oh, this person deserves this. This other person also deserves this. You don't deserve that. It's almost lost all of its God damn meaning! In this business, you get what you put into it. It's as simple as that. Maybe those two years of winning did something to Scabbia's sense of entitlement but it's a whole different animal when you're dealing with Noah Carmichael. He knows he's not going into Unforgiven 100% and he's certainly not leaving 100%. There are only two major goals that need to get accomplised: keeping that Unified World Title and making sure Salvatore Scabbia learns that he got exactly what he deserved.

Cue the music of...Wrakk??? He joins Carmichael in the ring and mocks his words. Wrakk is the one person above all other who has the right to talk about who deserves what. Last he checked, before he had to go on his leave of absence, Wrakk was holding that same championship Carmichael is proudly prancing around here. Oh, Noah may have had to go through hell to win it, but he didn't go through Wrakk. In fact, the whole reason Wrakk was even champion to begin with was because HE went through Carmichael. So the "champion" has very little room to be throwing stones. Wrakk is out here because he wants to make it clear that despite the business he has with Haven and the important business he has this Sunday with Ryan Pattillo, Carmichael needs to understand that it's all groundwork for the inevitable. Defeat Scabbia if possible; then prepare for history to repeat itself.

Cue Ryan Pattillo who comes out to get in Wrakk's face. Wrakk doesn't have all of his ducks in a row just yet because Pattillo is one hell of a road block to get around. Between Wrakk and Butch Fleming, the understanding that the WWE has moved on has really been lost. Wrakk may be itching to get that title, but not before Pattillo because he's got a much better case as far as being overdue goes. Wrakk declares that the only case Pattillo has is a case of terminal stupidity. WE'VE GOT A BRAWL! Pattillo and Wrakk go at it as Noah looks on. SCABBIA SNEAKS IN BEHIND CARMICHAEL!!! He locks in the Omerta! We go off the air as both faces are at the mercy of their opponents!

Overall show rating: 89%

Next up: UNFORGIVEN!

09-25-2021, 12:50 PM	#3168
M-A-G Higher. Further. Faster. Posts: 20,876	SmackDown!: September 28, 2040 It's the final stop before Unforgiven! Let's see how the roster does its best to not fuck things up for the PPV! We open with Paul Andrews, the manager of the NEW WWE Unified Tag Team Champions, Adam Hail and Simon Bennett. He comes out alone and grabs a mic to address the crowd. He's saddened to report that the new champions are off on one hell of a media blitz after the bombshell of last night on Superstars. Bringing in Hail and Bennett was something that Andrews had been working on for the longest time. It was quite the blow to have to say goodbye to Bobby Whitlock and then later to Conner Buchanan this year. Andrews didn't think he'd be able to recover from that. But there is always opportunity and there are always ways to make an impact. The WWE parted ways with Adam Hail and Simon Bennett some time ago and there is something to be said about whether that was a wise decision. Regardless, Andrews knew that the two of them could become major players and shake things up right now. He's known the two of them for a long time and has always felt that there is so much more that they could offer before hanging things up for good. It's a whole new status quo now that Hail and Bennett are the tag team champions and any team that wants to try their hand at changing that, well the line starts right here. Cue Vivian Merrick, the manager of the former champions, and she makes her way out to the stage. She looks quite miffed as she addresses Andrews. "Actually, the line starts here. You've got a lot of nerve walking out here and talking a big game when you know you pulled a fast one by sneaking in your guys at the last minute last night. It was a completely unfair situation. How were Hilton and Julian supposed to prepare when you and Lisa Benton are apparently in cahoots keeping secrets from everyone. All of these people here shouldn't be cheering. They should be outraged that they have a liar as their general manager and bunch of cheats as the tag team champions. Well enjoy it while you can, Paul, because I've been working on this ever since we went off the air last night. You better get Adam Hail and Simon Bennett back into business mode after all of their PR fluff because this Sunday at Unforgiven they're going to be giving The Future Foundation their rightful rematch for the Unified Tag Team Championship!" "Oh, you really don't know Hail and Bennett all that well, do you, Vivian? They're always in business mode and they'll be more than happy to demonstrate it to you and the Future Foundation one more time. We'll see you Sunday." And thus Unforgiven gets even more packed! Backstage, The Royal Effect want to express their grievances over the tag title situation and what they just witnessed. Forget the nonsense of the Future Foundation getting the rug pulled out from underneath them at the hands of Adam Hail and Simon Bennett. That's terrible in and of itself but the real issue is how the Royal Effect weren't the ones walking out with those belts and it's all because of having to deal with those damn Play Pals. If they were out of the way, the Royal Effect would be running the show in the tag team division, Hail and Bennett be damned. This leads to the Play Pals coming into the scene to sling a little bit of verbal mud. They declare that they are proud to be in the way of the Royal Effect and they'll continue to do so because there's nothing they can do about it. The Play Pals owe their longevity to being better than the also-rans like the Royal Effect. In fact, McKay and Kavovit are better off just breaking up and going off to other pursuits because the Play Pals are here to stay. McKay is intrigued with what the Play Pals are saying and it gives him an idea. Clearly, there's just too much stubborness going on here amongst the two teams for either side to just call it quits and back down. So here is the proposal: this Sunday at Unforgiven, the Play Pals vs. The Royal Effect, one more time and for the last time because here's the catch; the losing team MUST break up permanently. Gavin and Michael look at each other warily and Kavovit chips in with his vote of confidence saying that he's got faith in the union between himself and McKay. Can the Play Pals say the same? Ultimately, the Play Pals nod at each other and Haywood agrees to the terms. Like he said before: the Play Pals are here to stay. First Match: Ziggy Styles vs. Patrick Dean Quartermaine I think it's high time I start making Ziggy a viable player. Ziggy points out that not all great movements started out at the time intended. Getting Ziggy With It is one of those movements. There was a rocky start, he'll admit, but all diamonds eventually make their way towards the surface. Well this is a good way to kick things off as far as the matches go. Ziggy makes the most of this showing to look good and it ends with Ziggy ducking a crossbody and hits the ThingamaZig for the pin. **1/4, 90% overall. Second Match: Orlando Kincaid vs. Eddy Clash Bit of a leap in competition for Eddy Clash. Ozzy Mandias is on commentary in support of his teammate for this Sunday. Kincaid knows to make Eddy's stuff look good as the match goes on. Ultimately, Michael Hotbody sneaks up behind Ozzy from the crowd and rips his headset off. Naturally this leads to an altercation and that allows Zed Jones the chance to attack Eddy from behind and lay in some shots for the DQ while Ozzy is distracted. Ozzy pulls Hotbody over the railing so he can deliver some ass whooping of his own but Zed pushes Ozzy away and grabs Hotbody and bails. 1/2, 90% overall. In-Ring Super Special Talky Time, this time with the WWE Women's Tag Team Champions The Lonely Girls, Jenna Kyle and Faith Connors. Jenna tells the story of when she was younger watching her brother lead his rugby team to a championship win when they were in school. She recalls what happened when her brother and some of his teammates got busted for disorderly conduct when they were off in the town celebrating like lunatics. Her dad was miffed, obviously, but one of the biggest lessons he instilled in her brother, and consequently in herself, was how to handle victory. Do you enjoy it? Yes, but above all else, you defend it. You plant your flag and never rest on your laurels because down the road you've got who-knows-what coming after you to take it all away and if you're caught face down, drool leaving your mouth, and your ass in the air it will have been for nothing. So that's the approach that Jenna has taken in her career here in the WWE and she's extended that to her partnership with Faith. They made history at SummerSlam but that's only a page. Faith and Jenna want volume after volume after volume of history and the only way that's going to happen is to take wearing these titles seriously and being prepared for the worst. Faith brings up how this Sunday might not be the worst but it'll be a fight nonetheless. She understands that there is a lot of bitterness on the other side. It can drive someone to throw out all of their sensibilities. It can motivate them to be even more dangerous. She knows that she and Jenna are in for a long night because Naomi is the Women's Champion and it's still not enough for her and Eclypse has a huge chip on her shoulder that's begging for relief. Well the bad news is that Jenna and Faith aren't in the business of relief so Unforgiven is going to be another disappointment. The good news? Naomi and Eclypse won't really need to put up with each other anymore. This brings out Naomi and Eclypse themselves and they address the comments from the Lonely Girls from the stage. Faith is wrong in her assessment because last week the alliance between Naomi and Eclypse has been reforged. There is an understanding. There is a connection. There is a union where the two of them think as one. Destroying the Lonely Girls is a worthwhile goal and it's a bonus to do it alongside family and get a hold of those belts in the process. Everyone is talking about how this is the last chance. Well Eclypse and Naomi aren't going to need another when it's all said and done. At Unforgiven, your page in history gets ripped out and burned. Third Match: The Perfections and The Southern Belles vs. The Internet Darlings and The Glamour Brigade Some tension on the heel side as they've been sniping at each other from afar these last few weeks. Both have made pretty good cases for being the next team to get a chance at the Women's Tag Team Titles. Well the bottom line here is that it's 8 lovely and talented women with a lot of time so you can expect some good shit here. Nathan Quinn trips up Lauren Franklyn for the benefit of Leah but Hannah tags herself in and goes up top and hits the Spotlight on a fallen Lauren to take the pin for herself. Both Nathan and Leah seem a tad peeved. 1/2, 89% overall. More interview time backstage, this time with the WWE Intercontinental Champion Seth Von Kamp, ahead of his Last Man Standing match against Brandon Reigns. He wants to talk about how Brandon seems to have this weird and warped view on the career of Seth Von Kamp. Seth has been out in that ring walking the walk and etching his name in so many memorable moments in the WWE that Reigns can only hope achieve. Seth just didn't do it with a championship around his waist. So if Brandon Reigns is looking at this Sunday with a gleam in his eye and a spring in his step because he thinks he's got the next best thing to a night off, he's in for a rude awakening. Seth's gone through cage matches, ladder matches, no DQ matches, and even the very best of Braden Walker. Brandon's going to have to pull out something major in order to surprise Seth and take back the Intercontinental Title. The sad thing being, Seth's got a much bigger sack than Reigns. Fourth Match: Jordan Demiras vs. Freddie Galino Neither man's respective partners are out here in order to keep things level. It's evenly matched, all things considered. Galino looks like he's in position for an Axe Kick from Demiras but he decides to roll out of the ring and bail, evidently having had enough for the night. He gets counted out as he yells threats to Demiras and Martyn LaSalle for this Sunday. 1/2, 92% overall. Even more interview time backstage as we join Xavier Cross. Cross is looking forward to making Jacobs his personal sidekick after demolishing that brash, wet behind the years child, Kyle Jacobs. Cross deserves more respect and this year everyone seemed to think that it was the perfect time to toss that ideal out the window. Cross headlined WrestleMania 50 for crying out loud! EVERY new punk that signs on to this roster should have one thing in mind as the first thing they should do. That one thing is finding Cross backstage and asking for the privilege to partake in the fountain of wisdom that is his experience. Has that been the case? NO! We've got beefed-up simpletons stealing briefcases, some wise ass going around asking people to get Ziggy with him, whatever the hell that means, and then you've got Kyle Jacobs who thinks he was born with a Masters in the business where Cross is the master. And now, after Unforgiven, Cross will the master over Kyle Jacobs. Fifth Match: Clubber Harris vs. Quentin McDaniels McDaniels announces that he'll be facing Kerry Cemenko one more time on the pre-show this Sunday. He proclaims that having a guy like Cemenko around is the reason why two chumps like Adam Hail and Simon Bennett feel justified in coming back and taking up valuable roster space. That Cemenko has been a Unified World Champion and the chances just keep getting yanked away from McDaniels is criminal and he's going to know full well how that makes McDaniels feel. This is a pretty boss match. I probably should have let it be the main even but we've got to have the champion do his segment and push that PPV main event. Harris tries to superplex Quentin off the top but Quentin counters by slamming Harris' head into the exposed turnbuckle, knocking Harris off. Quentin comes off the top with the Curb Stomp and that's enough for the pin and the victory. ***, 95% overall. FINAL SEGMENT: We're joined by the WWE Unified World Champion Noah Carmichael in one more In-Ring Super Special Talky Time. Sanctioned or not sanctioned, Noah agrees with the assessment from Brooke in regards to this Sunday. Salvatore Scabbia does indeed deserve to partake in what is owed to him. That thing that he is owed, of course, is the most royal of ass kickings courtesy of yours truly, Noah Carmichael. Almost everyone in the WWE nowadays just seems to love tossing around that word: "deserve". Oh, this person deserves this. This other person also deserves this. You don't deserve that. It's almost lost all of its God damn meaning! In this business, you get what you put into it. It's as simple as that. Maybe those two years of winning did something to Scabbia's sense of entitlement but it's a whole different animal when you're dealing with Noah Carmichael. He knows he's not going into Unforgiven 100% and he's certainly not leaving 100%. There are only two major goals that need to get accomplised: keeping that Unified World Title and making sure Salvatore Scabbia learns that he got exactly what he deserved. Cue the music of...Wrakk??? He joins Carmichael in the ring and mocks his words. Wrakk is the one person above all other who has the right to talk about who deserves what. Last he checked, before he had to go on his leave of absence, Wrakk was holding that same championship Carmichael is proudly prancing around here. Oh, Noah may have had to go through hell to win it, but he didn't go through Wrakk. In fact, the whole reason Wrakk was even champion to begin with was because HE went through Carmichael. So the "champion" has very little room to be throwing stones. Wrakk is out here because he wants to make it clear that despite the business he has with Haven and the important business he has this Sunday with Ryan Pattillo, Carmichael needs to understand that it's all groundwork for the inevitable. Defeat Scabbia if possible; then prepare for history to repeat itself. Cue Ryan Pattillo who comes out to get in Wrakk's face. Wrakk doesn't have all of his ducks in a row just yet because Pattillo is one hell of a road block to get around. Between Wrakk and Butch Fleming, the understanding that the WWE has moved on has really been lost. Wrakk may be itching to get that title, but not before Pattillo because he's got a much better case as far as being overdue goes. Wrakk declares that the only case Pattillo has is a case of terminal stupidity. WE'VE GOT A BRAWL! Pattillo and Wrakk go at it as Noah looks on. SCABBIA SNEAKS IN BEHIND CARMICHAEL!!! He locks in the Omerta! We go off the air as both faces are at the mercy of their opponents! Overall show rating: 89% Next up: UNFORGIVEN!