WWE Smackdown 16th March 2012 Discussion Thread

[Heisenberg]

It was announced during this week's WWE Raw that Christian's "Peep Show" segment will return at the Smackdown television tapings on Tuesday night in Columbus, Ohio.

Guests on Christian's "Peep Show" on Tuesday night will be both of the Raw and Smackdown General Managers John Laurinaitis and Teddy Long.

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So it seems that Christian will be returning to weekly TV on Tuesday and probably eventually end up on Johnnys team, I've got no problem with it and it should be an entertaining segment.

The video was on WWEFanNation channel, sorry if blocked in your country.

 

[Kiffy Lube]

His guest should be Johnny Ace. That would be most see TV.

 

[Andrew]

This already is going to be awesome, I miss Christian. Glad to see him back!

 

[Heisenberg]

His guest should be Johnny Ace. That would be most see TV.

Guests on Christian's "Peep Show" on Tuesday night will be both of the Raw and Smackdown General Managers John Laurinaitis and Teddy Long.

 

[The New F'n Show]

Good idea, This can build the match and get Christian needed TV time.

 

[Troy]

Very happy that he will be back this week. It has been a long time since he was injured and we got a sneak appearance at Elimination Chamber but I want him back on television weekly. Good way to bring him back with the Peep Show as it allows them to push the GM storyline plus get Christian onto Johnny Ace's team as well.

 

[Andrew]

This should be interesting seeing that Christian did state he's on Team Johnny at Chamber. Really looking forward to reading whats happened.

 

[rcoot93]

Nice to see Christian back

 

[Prodigy]

I'd love a Peep show with all of Team Johnny being revealed. Would be kind of awesome, plus Team Long could come out to attack them.

 

[Big Red Jericho Punk]

Awesome this will probably be the highlight to Smackdown. Its about time to see Captain Charisma back in the center of things. I love that guy, well deserved spot on Mania for a great 2011.

 

[Dale]

Finally. It's been a long time coming has this return considering how long he's supposedly been healthy for.

It's a shame there isn't someone on the face team who could do a similar style talk show to reveal the rest of their team mates. Time to debut Kofi's Cabana? :

 

[Big Red Jericho Punk]

LOL Kofi's Cabana ahah. Watch out though Carlito has been ranting on twitter a lot lately, he might come out and get angry (I'm a big Carlito fan just saying)!

 

[Heisenberg]

**SPOILERS** Ongoing SmackDown Results (16th Mar Episode)

The show opened with the Peep Show segment involving Christian and guests John Laurinaitis and Teddy Long. Laurinaitis and David Otunga came out together to great heat. Long got a nice pop.

Christian asked Long and Laurinaitis to convince him which team he should be on. Laurinaitis said he'd give Christian a title shot if Team Laurinaitis wins, so Christian joined his team. Teddy tried to set up Christian in a match, but Johnny stopped it. Instead, they went with Kofi Kingston, now on Team Teddy, facing David Otunga, who wore his sweater vest.

1. Kofi Kingston defeated David Otunga
Otunga worked the match in his regular pants, which split halfway through the match. Christian was ejected from ringside for interfering during the match. Otunga nailed Santino but then gets caught by the Trouble In Paradise and Kofi wins via pinfall.

There was a Daniel Bryan and AJ segment. Bryan insults what she's wearing and said the dress AJ was wearing looked better on the mannequin. He eventually makes out with her and the crowd starts chanting "YES! YES! YES!"

2. A.J. (w/Daniel Bryan) defeated Brie Bella (w/Nikki)
"YES!" chants still going. If AJ wins she gets a title match. No one seems to know which Bella Twin wrestled the match. Does it matter? A.J. won with a rollup after Bryan distracted Brie whilst he was ringside. D Bry celebrates like he won the Superbowl. Average Diva match, except for a botched crossbody.

Chris Jericho vs. Sheamus was announced as the main event.

3. Cody Rhodes defeated The Great Khali
Rhodes cut a promo on Show before the match. He won clean against Khali with the Beautiful Disaster springboard kick. Afterwards he left the ring under obvious pain, still limping from leg injury. I don't think his injury is anything serious, just a nagging injury he's had for some time.

Randy Orton came out to a big pop and calls Kane out. Kane comes to the stage and shows a video of them wrestling and shaking hands last year. Kane says that made him sick and weak. Closure will come at WrestleMania. Orton calls Kane to the ring but he won't come. Orton vs. Kane match was made official for WrestleMania 28.

4. Big Show defeated Drew McIntyre
Squash match, Show wins with the WMD punch.

Here's Sheamus, talking about his aunt's goat cheese salad.

5. Mark Henry defeated Yoshi Tatsu
It's turned into squash city.

Chris Jericho cut a great promo before Sheamus was introduced for the main event. Spoke about Punk and alcohol again.

6. Chris Jericho defeated Sheamus via countout
Sheamus comes out to a big reaction and he has a huge welt on his back from his match on RAW. Sheamus is going really light on the back bumps which is no surprise, then out comes D Bry! Bryan is ringside and has himself a chair to sit in whilst AJ has to stand. Jericho protecting Sheamus great here throughout the match, true pro. Daniel Bryan eventually attacked Sheamus while he was on the floor outside the ring whilst the ref was distracted which led to Sheamus being counted out. It was a bit of a slow match but still entertaining.

Afterwards, Sheamus delivered a brogue kick to Chris Jericho to end the show. Not bad overall. Didn't exactly feel like we were quite 100% in Mania mode, but it was a fun show. (unsure if that part was televised)

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Sources: ProWrestling.net - WrestlingInc.com - 411mania.com - @BTuckerTorch​

 

[Heisenberg]

Not a bad episode by the looks of it.

The Christian Peep Show segment will be entertaining and I can't wait to see it, I have been interested in this Johnny Ace and Teddy Long GM storyline lately and it's been good so far. Shame that Otunga lost but it's cool since he has been looking dominant lately and getting some wins, Kofi had to get a win to even it out for their team considering Otunga/Ace/Henry had a very dominant display on RAW. Doesn't seem like it'd be a good match since he isn't in proper ring gear or anything, but it's probably just so they could build the storyline more and it's good that they got multiple superstars involved and built them around it for the Johnny Ace/Teddy Long teams.

Meh, not very interested in the divas match but I can't wait to see the Bryan/AJ backstage segment.

I've been loving Cody Rhodes promos on Big Show lately and their feud has been very entertaining even though Rhodes has done all the work which I love. The match between him and Khali is meh since Khali can't even walk, let alone wrestle. But good that he got a win and looked strong against a big guy.

Randy Orton and Kane segment will be good but the match has been left a bit late but nether the less it has had a nice build and I just hope Kane comes out the winner and at the end of this feud. Kane has been very entertaining since returning with the mask and a match between him and a guy like Orton at Mania will be pretty awesome.

Big Show vs Drew McIntye is meh, don't see the point of all this firing stuff if they are just going to have him be squashed again but isn't that what happens when a guy is about to get pushed usually? They focus on him and have him go on a losing streak.

Mark Henry vs Yoshi Tatsu is meh.

I can't wait to see the Jericho promo, loving his work lately and he has been great on the mic. His feud with CM Punk is great but I do want it to have a bit more 1 on 1 in the ring promo build on RAW. I can watch these two going at it on the mic for hours if needed.

Chris Jericho vs Sheamus will be a pretty nice match but slow paced as the report said since Sheamus is pretty sore from that welt on his back, I love that Jericho has worked both RAW and SmackDown. He is very entertaining and I never get sick of him, nice that the Bryan/Sheamus storyline got a bit of a build there to set up something good for next week.

 

[Andrew]

I heard reports that Jericho was extremely careful in the match and protected Sheamus in order so he wouldn't get injured.

Must say I'll give Jericho a lot of credit for doing that.