Bray Wyatt invades The Miz’s home, The Revival, Shorty G and Ali have a great match, and Roman
Reigns dogpiles on King Corbin. Do you get it, I said dogpiles. Because he’s a dog.
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This is the Dec 13, 2019 episode of Friday Night SmackDown, in about 4 minutes.
The show opened with a video recap of Roman Reigns getting dog food put over his head
from last week, which lead into King Corbin making his entrance to the ring, with Ziggler
waiting there for him. They cut a promo about the “smelly, disgusting people” and they
said at the start of the promo it would be a quick one. They were liars. Roman Reigns
has been “unchained” this week, but Corbin and Ziggler have made sure he won’t make
into the arena, because they have every window and entrance covered. Yes I’m sure your
security guards will keep him out.
They eventually were interrupted by The New Day, who ran down Corbin, before Corbin called
out Kingston losing the WWE Championship in 7 seconds. Ah, finally, a chance for Kingston
to acknowledge what happened, get his feelings out and justify his motivations after the
match. “Actually, it was 8 seconds. I’m still a champion of the people”. Ugh. That
was lame. The main event was set up as King Corbin vs Kofi Kingston.
Ziggler and Corbin are then backstage with some guards knocked out, with them absolutely
clueless as to who could have possibly done this.
We get a quick video recap of Mandy Rose vs Alexa Bliss from last week, with everyone
reacting as if Mandy actually pulled out Alexa’s real eyelashes. While Alexa and Nikki are
being interviewed in Gorilla position, Sonya and Mandy attack them, but their subsequent
match goes about a minute, before Nikki wins with a neckbreaker.
Backstage, Otis and Tucker attempt to give Sami Zayn his secret santa gift, which is
a ham. Sami is a vegan and is disgusted by this, which sets up Heavy Machinery vs Cesaro
& Nakamura later in show. Otis is still great though.
Next was probably the best match on the show between the team of Shorty G & Mustafa Ali
vs The Revival. This was a short match, but had a bunch of fun spots and nearfalls, getting
a “this is awesome” chant from the crowd. The Revival picked up the win by countering
Ali’s Tornado DDT into a Shatter Machine.
Bayley is being interviewed backstage next before Elias cuts her off with a song. Dana
Brooke finds this hilarious, so Bayley challenges her to a match.
The match goes about two minutes before Bayley hits her new finisher for the win, which the
commentary team absolutely no-sold.
Sheamus is still in a dark, dark corridor, before we get an interview with Renee Young
at The Miz’s house. This was wonderfully shot, and made it feel entirely different
than any other kind of promo. The interview itself was quite interesting, before at one
point Maryse off camera starts shouting at The Miz. He rushes upstairs, and on their
baby monitor, suddenly it’s Bray Wyatt, but it cuts back to the feed of their baby
who now has an Abby The Witch next to her.
They rush upstairs and fetch her, and they find a creepy doll with The Fiend mask painted
on it, and they tell the camera crew to get out. This was a wonderful segment, capped
off with a Firefly Funhouse back in the arena in which Bray says he taught himself not to
feel pain, and he can teach Miz how to not love. Great stuff.
What was also great was Heavy Machinery vs Cesaro & Nakamura, with Otis being the most
over thing on the show. After a big Otis hot tag, Zayn ran interference, allowing Nakamura
to hit the Kinshasa on Tucker for the win.
Then it was time for the main event of Kingston vs Corbin, and after...a match, it looks like
Kingston is winding up for the Trouble in Paradise, before Ziggler grabs Kingston’s
ankle, in plain view of the ref, which should have been a DQ, instead the ref ejects Ziggler,
but he refuses to go and instead beats up Big E. Kingston then beats up Ziggler, Corbin
takes out Kingston, and that’s when the ref decides to throw out the match.
Big E then says they should have a tag match, and have a tag match they do, which was...just
as uneventful as the singles match that preceded it. The finish came when WHO AM I KIDDING
OF COURSE THERE WASN’T A FINISH. Ziggler got out some handcuffs and Corbin put them
on Kingston, so the ref threw out the match again. Kingston gets caught on the turnbuckle
like Roman last week, and The Revival come from out of nowhere to hit a Shatter Machine
on Big E.
But what’s this? Roman Reigns is here? But how did he get past all the security? He comes
down and beats up literally everyone, including The Revival and Ziggler. Everyone except Corbin
that is. He chokeslams Ziggler off a small ladder through the announce table to end the
show. For as bad as this story is, Reigns is getting some monster reactions from the
crowd.
This show had some really great stuff in the middle of the show, with the Bray Wyatt/Miz
angle, The Revival/Shorty G & Ali tag match, and the Heavy Machiney/Cesaro & Nakamura tag
match, but the rest of the show was bogged down by the Reigns and Corbin feud, mainly
Corbin though, and the frankly disrespectfully little time the women’s division is being
given. This show gets a Smack Bang in the Middle.
And now let’s get into some news, and something very interesting has transpired on Stone Cold
Steve Austin’s WWE Network show, Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Sessions. His guest was WWE Hall
of Famer Goldberg, and the pair decided to play a little game of word association.
Stone Cold said “Vince McMahon”, careful Austin, you’re not allowed to say his name,
remember?, Goldberg responded with “thank you”, Austin said “Sting”, Goldberg
said “mentor”. But interestingly when Austin said “Undertaker”, Goldberg responded
with “I owe him a receipt”.
This, of course, plays off their match they had at Super Showdown in Saudi Arabia in June,
where the pair had a...well let’s just got call it, a not great match. The intense heat
really hampered the match, with both competitors struggling to battle it and get in their spots.
Goldberg came out of that match with a bloody face, a concussion, and a loss to the Deadman,
courtesy of a botched Tombstone and a small chokeslam that was more like a gentle put-down.
Goldberg has said for a while that he didn’t want that match against Undertaker to be his
last, and he rectified that wrong at SummerSlam, with his match against Dolph Ziggler, which
was about 100x better.
So now, it seems Goldberg wants another go at The Phenom, hoping to right the wrong that
was their Super Showdown botch-fest. While it might be good to have the match that should
have been between the two icons of the industry, the time may also have passed on that, and
it may be better for both of their reputations to just leave it in the past.
It’s also worth noting that this took place on the WWE Network, and it’s come to light
in recent times that Vince McMahon doesn’t like matches being built if they’re not
going to pay off, so one would assume, there is either a very angry Vince McMahon right
now, or this was something that was pre-approved to say on the show as it’s something that
they plan on building to, maybe for their next Saudi Arabia show where they can do it
all over again.
The tease on Steve Austin’s show had a fair amount of reaction from the wrestling world,
including that one who always likes to include himself in anything related to Goldberg, Matt
Riddle. After the WrestleTalk Twitter account tweeted out the article relating to this story,
saying
“Goldberg has said he owes The Undertaker a receipt following their disastrous match
earlier this year”
WrestleTalk superfan Matt Riddle quote tweeted the tweet, saying:
“You spelled apology wrong, you owe Undertaker an apology bro”.
This is most certainly not the first time Riddle has tweeted something disparaging against
Goldberg, though to play Devil’s Advocate, it wasn’t entirely Goldberg’s fault their
Super Showdown match was that bad.
Would you like to see Goldberg face The Undertaker again? And where would you like to see that
happen? Reply in the comments because I’ll be responding to people, on my laptop, for
the first 30 minutes after this video goes live! Personally, I think it should take place
at the most important show of the year, Fastlane.
One of the more interesting talking points of the wrestling world right now is the Wednesday
Night War between NXT and AEW, especially since both show drew exactly the same number
in ratings this week of 778,000.
Considering everyone has decided to call it the Wednesday Night War, and with people often
voicing their biased opinions about each show every week, it’s quite the tribal atmosphere
on Wednesday nights.
However a certain Executive Vice President from All Elite Wrestling thinks it’s about
time everyone stopped being so bloody tribal.
Appearing on Busted Open Sirius Radio, Cody said:
“If you look at everything that is happening our fan base needs to make better efforts
to get along in a way. That starts at the top. I can go ahead and say that a lot of
things get screwed up with what was done with me in WWE. If I was to be in a room with Triple
H at this moment, I’d shake his hand and probably give him a hug. I’ve learned a
lot from him and he’s on the absolute opposite side of the fence in the same role I am with
AEW but has more experience with it. It’s fun but we can’t eat our own.”
He continued to say why he thinks it became so vitriolic in the first place.
“There’s a logic to both sides of this big deep divided argument. Whether there’s
a little bit of fear from longtime WWE fans or a dislike of the bold personalities because
we’ve done some really bold things like the breaking of the throne, or jabs like Jericho
did in his promo. On the other side, there are defenders of AEW that are overly protective
and sometimes are too generous to us. Obviously, we’re going to slip and make mistakes too.”
I don’t think AEW can make any mistakes at all. I’ll take my pay by cheque please
Tony Khan. In all fairness, I don’t think it’s necessarily been helped along with
certain jabs like Cody mentioned, like breaking the throne, or shots in the Jericho promo,
however it would behoove certain people to take those things as playful jabs rather than
an all-out war with anger behind them.
In all seriousness, I agree wholeheartedly with Cody. Hell, we on WrestleTalk have done
a video about this very thing, so let’s all just enjoy Wednesday Nights for the great
night of professional wrestling that it is.
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