R U READY TO DOWN SOME SMACK??? Road to Raw

Matt and Adam take the brand extension very seriously. They each only identify with one brand and actively follow it. Matt bleeds Raw red and Adam has Smackdown blue coursing through his veins. Being soldiers in the ongoing war for brand supremacy has charged both of them up enough to provide handy recaps of the previous week's show. That way, no new viewers will feel lost. Thus, every Monday and Friday, we here at LOL, Wresslin' will offer you a refresher. Hey, it's the least we can do.

Yes, that's right. Smackdown was kind of about the three hour Raw from last Monday. I'm going to get to that because it's sort of relevant to tonight. Kind of like when we cover PPV's! Oh, and there's another one coming up like, next week or something! Jesus, there are way too many of those.


Anyway, a few notes from last week's Smackdown. We all know Michelle McCool is hot. That's a fact. Still, recently she's had a valet to the ring. I don't know why, but I'm digging it. Her valet is named Alicia Fox, and she wore an awesome shirt.

It'd look better on my floor

They won, or something.

There was also a pretty solid tag match. The World's Great Tag Team took on John Morrison and R-Truth!


The head Smackdown booker is Michael Hayes, a former wrestler who made his name in the 1970's Texas territory. He's also a well known racist. Seriously. So of course, this match was total black on black crime!

Dr. King must be rolling over in his grave

Once again, WWE.com interns caption brilliantly

But then, who get's the pin? The face WHITE man! Shenanigans! I call shenanigans!


Ok, so that should cover Smackdown. But what about the Smackdown bouts from Raw? Sure, Donald Trump may have gotten all the attention, but Smackdown clearly stole the show! First match of the night was another Rey/Jericho IC title classic!

Watching their matches feels like this (in a totally not gay way)

So once again, Jericho is going for Rey's mask. Hey, I can understand why he'd want to do that. And I can understand why Rey would want to keep it.


But you'd figure, if the mask is so important maybe he'd, I dunno, tie it i the back. Not just have Velcro chin strap. That makes it very easy to take off. There's a reason Batman doesn't have a chin strap for his cowl. It doesn't help. So at least put on some spirit gum.




And hey, check it out! Another World title match! CM Punk is here to prove he ain't a fluke, as he defends his newly won title in a three way match! Against the last two World champs! And they just gave it away for free on Raw! All to show off how much better Smackdown is! Awesome!

The joke is in the file name

Anyway, this match ruled. Everyone looked strong and really really really wanted to be the champ. Punk looked like a totally credible champion all night (dissing Matt Hardy before the match), but then banged his knee against the steel steps, essentially shattering any ability to walk again! At the very least he's out of the match. So naturally, Jeff Hardy and Edge start brawling one on one! We're going to have a new champion!

Wow! Another Swanton photo! Whoever is the WWE's main photographer could release a book just called "Swanton"

OMG!!! It's going to be Jeff Hardy! Wait! CM Punk just pulled Jeff out and rammed him into the same steel steps!

This pin makes me feel funny. I'm not sure if I like this CM Punk anymore...

He stole that pin! Jeff was going to be the champion again! Argh! I don't like where CM Punk's attitude is going...

Come hate CM Punk all over again tonight on Smackdown! 8/7 c (or whenever on hulu), MyNetwork TV (or hulu).