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OCTOBER 22, 2004 - SMACKDOWN!

Tonight promises to be a huge episode of the Friday night mainstay. In a triple-threat tag match, Eddie Guerrero and John Cena take on Vitamin C (Chris Jericho and Christian) and Brock Lesnar and Tajiri in a battle of the Elite. Also, the Hardy Boyz defend the World Tag Team Titles against the Dudley Boyz who earned their shot last week with a win over the Metro Connection. Plus, in another huge encounter, Chris Benoit defends the United States Title against Rico. Winner gets the gold... loser has to leave the Elite!

The ring is full of SmackDown! superstars as the show goes on the air as we prepare for a 20-man battle royal! Once the bell rings, all twenty men throw themselves into it, though it's unclear what the reward is for the winner. Nova is the first man out, dumped by Colt Cabana. Shortly thereafter, Chavo Guerrero takes out Generalin Intikami. In one of the more shocking moments to possibly ever occur in a battle royal Zach Gowan eliminates Mark Henry! Matt Stryker is the next one out, eliminated by Funaki, and Chavo follows up with his second elimination as he takes out Jamie Noble. Test eliminates Christian York next, and Chavo gets bundled over by The Hurricane. Colt manages to avoid being tossed out by Vito Thomaselli, but Funaki hits a spinning back kick to take him out. Nunzio's gone next, courtesy of Hurricane. Funaki continues his improbable run as he eliminates Jay Briscoe to drop it down to a top ten. Trent Acid makes his presence known as he eliminates Akio. Speaking of surprising runs, Zach Gowan picks up another elimination as he takes out Johnny Jeter. Test joins the two-elim club when he takes out BJ Whitmer. Funaki's run comes to an end as Carlito takes him out. Gowan's the next one out courtesy of Acid, and apparently the "both feet must hit the floor" rule doesn't apply to him. Vito Thomaselli, who many seem to have forgotten is even in this thing, is the next one out courtesy of Test. And then there were four - Carlito, Test, The Hurricane, and Trent Acid. It turns into a solid fatal fourway with everybody getting in some solid offense. Acid is the next to go as Test dumps him out. Hurricane takes out Carlito next to set up him versus Test at the end. After a little brawling, Hurricane eliminates Test to win the battle royal!

"If ya smeeeeeeeeeeeeelll..." The crowd goes nuts as The Rock makes his way to the ring. He cuts a brief promo about Survivor Series and how he's been selected to captain the team that's going up against the Natural Born Ministry. He then introduces The Great Ones, which is made up of Rock's frequent tag partner John Cena and three men with a long-standing issue with the Ministry - A-Train, Big Show, and Payne! The five men pose for the crowd, and Payne looks like he's getting a hell of a rub being surrounded by four former champions.

Two men who seem to be wandering aimlessly through the midcard lately go toe-to-toe next, hoping to regain some direction. It's Aaron Stevens versus John Layfield. Unfortunately, this winds up being a disappointment, as neither looks very good. Layfield whips Stevens off the ropes, where he's laid out by a Dave Batista chairshot! Stevens staggers into a roll-up for the cheap three-count. After the match, Layfield and Batista pound the living crap out of Stevens, basically leaving him for dead.

John Cena is backstage, and he puts over The Great Ones Survivor Series team, but then goes off on Tajiri. He mentions that he beat him on RAW, but that he knows it's not over. But before Survivor Series, it's going to be. One way or the other, it will be.

Up next is a tag match featuring former champions the Metro Connection taking on the red-hot Paul London and another exciting up-and-comer Brian Kendrick! Great quick tags and double-team offense with several near-falls. Eventually, it comes down to London and Kanyon, who winds up taking London Calling for the loss. Big win for the youngsters!

The Hardy Boyz come to the ring for their World Tag Team Title defense against the Dudley Boyz, but first Matt has something to say to The Rock. Next week, Eric Bischoff has set up one last title match between the two of them... inside Hell In A Cell! And he's going to walk out of SmackDown! once again the WWE Champion, and that is a certifiable Matt FACT!

The Dudleyz are out next for their title shot, and it's a good one. These teams always have tremendous chemistry, and tonight is no exception. Unfortunately, the Dudleyz haven't quite elevated themselves to the same degree that the Hardyz have, and the Hardyz have definitely learned to win the big matches. Eventually, Matt spears D-Von to set up Jeff hitting the Swanton Bomb for the win and the successful title defense.

Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio are backstage talking about Christian and Brock Lesnar and their ongoing feuds. Eddie's part of a huge triple-threat tag main event tonight, and both those guys will be involved. Rey just asks him to save him a piece of Lesnar.

Rico and Chris Benoit's United States Title match is up next, and it's solid. Benoit doesn't put in much effort... again. But Rico again proves that there's really not anybody he can't put on a good match with, but he falls victim to the Crippler Crossface. Benoit remains the champion, and Rico's out of the Elite!

Benoit grabs a microphone after his match and cuts a brief promo on RVD. He likes what Cena said earlier about wrapping things up with Tajiri, and he's ready to do the same with RVD, and he's going to do it on RAW in a Ladder Match. And if RVD thinks he's going to take away the U.S. Title, he's going to prove. him. wrong!

And now for our main event. It's a pretty thrilling, albeit brief match. Lesnar, Cena, Tajiri, and Guerrero do most of the work, with Vitamin C picking their spots. Eventually, Christian picks up another win over his rival Guerrero with the Unprettier. Not exactly sending the fans home happy, but it was a fun match.

Next week on SmackDown!, we know that The Rock will defend the WWE Title against Matt Hardy Version 2.0 inside Hell In A Cell, The Hurricane looks for revenge against John Layfield for putting his friend Aaron Stevens out of WWE possibly forever, Mark Henry looks for revenge on Zach Gowan for his embarassment earlier, and another Survivor Series team will be announced, plus much much more! You don't want to miss SmackDown! next week!
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