-Match: Taker v. Miz
A very intense match. A bit too intense for the Miz, who eventually decides to quit while he's ahead and counts himself out. Taker is none too thrilled with Miz's bailing mid-match.
Rating: 87
Josh Matthews poor announcing. Can't recall getting dinged for that before, must've been a really good match :\
-FINALLY! The Rock! Has come back! To SMACKDOWN! The Rock has been watching the past few weeks and getting ready to whoop Cena's candy ass all over Miami...but what does he see? These two jabronis are trying to take over the show! Over the Rock's show! The Rock thinks it's time that Awesome Truth shut their mouth and know their role before he takes Mr. Laurinitis, shines him up real nice, and proceeds in a predictable and PG-13 fashion!
Rating: 99
-Match: Rock v. Truth
A solid match, with both men getting near-falls. Miz comes out to ringside to support his buddy, and grabs Rock's foot when he goes for the People's Elbow! The distraction allows Truth to recover, and he's able to pick up the win as a result!
Rating: 83
Another one dinged for announcing :\
-Truth doesn't stop to celebrate, as he and Miz launch into a beatdown on Rocky! It goes on for a few minutes before DONNNNNNGGGGG. Taker ports into the ring and makes the save, but the damage is done.
Rating: 85
Post-show: Taker cuts a promo (100 lulz); Bryan/DH Smith d. Chavo/Christian (62)
Overall: 85 SUCCESS
FROM THE BOOKER
-Usually, I find myself having to pad shows out to fill the time. This was one of those rare instances where I couldn't advance all the storylines as much as I wanted to, and actually wound up having to CUT things. :\ I wanted Haas and Barrett promos in there, and maybe some sorta Bryan/Chavo match.
-I maybe should look into rotating Matthews off the SD team, but....ehhhh. My options for PBP are JR (who I want on Raw with KANG), Cole (who...is Cole, and also only has two points on Matthews), and Stanford (who is not too great). Matthews has good chem with Book, too, so I guess he can stay for now...but I am not enjoying taking hits on my ME's.
-The old guys can GO. I am quite pleased. Rock doesn't appear to have rust at all, and Taker's still Taker. Is it cheesing to have them appearing every week and wrestling more often than not? Certainly. Is that going to stop me? Apparently not!
-Really hoping that I can get Chavo AND Bryan over with this program.
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~Tommeri Uranius Bombaldi the Fourth, esq.
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