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WWE Smackdown Recap - 5/16/2008
The News - Wrestling  |   Written by Adam Wilcox   |   Saturday, 17 May 2008
WWE presented their Smackdown go-home show last night forty-eight hours before Sunday's Judgment Day PPV. The broadcast featured U.S. Champion Matt Hardy taking on Shelton Benjamin and the official in-ring debut of Vicki Guerrero.

The program kicked off with Assistant GM Theodore Long informing Vicki Guerrero that the WWE Board of Directors had decided to remove her as Smackdown General Manager if she did not compete in a match later in the evening. Vicki responded by firing Long as her second-in-command, but Teddy opted to quit instead. As he made his way up the ramp, Long stopped to announce that Vicki’s opponent would be The Undertaker. However, Edge’s love later used her power to change the bout into a six-on-one handicap match against she and each member of La Familia (I admit I‘m not exactly Mr. Corporate, but shouldn’t a Board decision remain unaffected by a GM ruling?). However, Bam Neely and Chavo Guerrero - who had expressed his displeasure at being left out of the loop regarding Vicki and Edge’s Championship Chase plan last week - walked away from the contest during their ring introductions. This left the happy couple along with Zack Ryder and Curt Hawkins to do battle against ‘Taker. As The Dead Man prepared to chokeslam Vicki, Edge saved his fiancee by spearing Undertaker and retreating up the entranceway with his “family.”

In other news, Michelle McCool defeated Layla by debuting a new rolling ankle hook submission hold into her arsenal and Batista warned Shawn Michaels that he may appear at Judgment Day.

Match Results: CM Punk over Chuck Palumbo via pinfall … Michelle McCool over Layla via submission … The Big Show and Finlay over MVP and Mark Henry via Show’s pinfall on MVP … Vladimir Kozlov over Funaki via pinfall … Cherry over Maryse via pinfall … U.S. Champion Matt Hardy over Shelton Benjamin in a non-title match … The Undertaker wrestled Vicki Guerrero, Edge, Curt Hawkins, and Zack Ryder to a no-contest in a handicap match.
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Comments (7)
Posted by: Joe Gr at 05-17-2008 19:07
I'm still not sold ! on just about every Smackdown angle

Posted by: Phil Felice at 05-18-2008 02:34
dumb dumb dumb. that racist pig hayes cant write for crap 
 
ps can you say crap

Posted by: Joe gr at 05-18-2008 04:03
^^^^^^^^^ I don\'t think hayes is doing the writing now, considering he\'s suspended...

Posted by: Carl Sinclair at 05-18-2008 06:27
Seriously its time to get rid of Vicki, Edge v Taker is fine, but do it right already! 
 
And why can't Vladimir be the DOUBLE DOUBLE E loving freak again! 
 
I don't even bother watching SD anymore, not because I think its gonna be bad, just because who cares? In the grand scheme of WWE its so obvious that SD is just there to get someone over enough to promote them to RAW.

Posted by: Carl Sinclair at 05-18-2008 06:30
and one other thing...if the board of directors decided to fire Vicki because she was helping Edge annoy Taker on their B SHOW. 
 
Then why the hell are they letting Regal turn out the lights and do all this other crap on the show that is actually watched? AND Vince has come out and approved it.. surely if your going to use this is a story then they would go after Regal as well? STUPID writing if you ask me.

Posted by: Simon Lewis at 05-18-2008 10:01
@Carl Sinclair 
 
We're just fans mate, we're not supposed to look that deep into things.

Posted by: Adam Wilcox at 05-18-2008 12:52
That's a great point, Carl. Perhaps the idea is that it's the Board dictating this matter and not Vince, but I still agree that it is inconsistent writing. 
 
It may also promote the idea that Vince doesn't care about Smackdown as much as Raw (I mean the on- camera idea - everyone knows he doesn't in real life). Definitely not the message the company should be sending to fans.

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