Drew is Back.

So this is not a run down of SmackDown! This is just a few of my thoughts from the show.

To start off lets talk about the way SmackDown! Got started with the Intercontinental Title match.
Now Kofi and Christian really did put on a good match here, I thoroughly enjoyed it, I though it was a great contest between the two and kept the fans interested and glued to the action. The crowd this week seemed to be a lot more into it and that really showed in this match, compared to last weeks crowd which was as if everyone had taken sleeping pills, this was a great improvement.
The match had its close calls and even a bit of blood from Christian, a bloody mouth and a small cut on his eyebrow. Now I know that is next to nothing compared to WWE’s past and the current TNA but its still a shock as recently the smallest amount of blood would cause the referee to attack the bleeding superstar with latex gloves and a towel.
The match did end with Kofi winning and Christian shaking his hand as a show of respect before leaving. After Teddy awarded Kofi with the belt Drew came down and handed a letter to Teddy, which stated that Vince is reversing last weeks decision and Drew is still a member of the SmackDown! Roster and is still recognized as the Intercontinental Champion. This caused Teddy to take the belt off of Kofi and give it back to Drew. This Left Kofi angry in the ring as Drew walked away.
Later Drew was told he would be facing Big Show next week.

Earlier in the week I read that Kofi or MVP may be making a Heel turn soon. So the recent event with Kofi may be the trigger to the turn for him to turn on some face superstars in anger.

Also in the show we saw Shad beat down an unknown superstar to further push him up the ranks. MVP and JTG tagged against the Dude guys, people, whoever they are, and won.
Jack Swagger had all his awards bought to the ring so he could gloat more, Big Show interrupted this and it ended up with all of Jacks Awards being smashed.
The last match was Rey vs. Punk. I thought this was a bit un needed as the match at Over The Limit was to be a decider as its technically set at one all.
The match was good though both Rey and Punk work great together in the ring, the match ended with Gallows, Serena and the masked man from the land under the ring getting involved resulting in DQ. This part was good for symbolism and to move the story along. Once Rey was beaten down, Gallows and the mystery man lifted Rey onto Punks shoulders and a GTS was planted on him. Then Punk held Rey’s lifeless body and put one of Rey’s hands on his chest and made him raise the other. The rest of the group did the same pose, a sign of a possible future.

A good show overall and I think that this should defiantly have higher ratings this week. The crowd seemed a lot more active but from what I can tell there was allot of Canned Heat used to control chants, cheers and boo’s to avoid a dull crowd.

Moving on to NXT from during the week we saw 3 of the NXT rookies eliminated. First off was Michael Tarver followed by Daniel Bryan, the reason for these two leaving is because they did not believe in them selves. Later in the night we had a small interview with Tarver and Daniel. The Tarver interview really didn’t matter, it was the Daniel Bryan one that did.
Matt Stryker asked if Daniel regretted leaving the independent circuit where he was a Big Fish in a small pound to then drown in the Sea that is WWE, Daniel came back by saying that Daniel Bryan never did wrestle on the independent circuit. He moved on to describe another person, and that if you search Daniel Bryan on YouTube you will only find NXT videos. He continues to put down his current character saying how he can’t beat rookies. Matt then asked what’s next for this guy pointing at Daniel, and Daniel said that he didn’t know what was next for Daniel Bryan, he may never come back but, Bryan Danielson you never what the future holds for him.
I am not sure if this is something the WWE wanted him saying as it is completely out of character, and Matt did try to divert him from saying his other name and the camera shook furiously as he went on. I believe that Daniel is being released from WWE and my now be heading back to R.O.H.

The third elimination was Skip Sheffield decided by the Pro’s poll at the end of the night. He seemed quite upset by it.
I must say I am not sure weather or not the rookies knew the poll results before hand and who would be eliminated as there seemed to be looks of actually emotion and concern from them all, and we all know what there acting is like, so telling real feeling and emoticon from acting should be easy. Also when asked who they thought should be eliminated it seemed like actual answers and not scripted and most of them said David Otunga. If it is scripted it would be to push David as big heel character, if not then he is really not liked in the locker room.
Overall a very interesting NXT and leaves me wondering where the show will go now that there top rookie has been eliminated. I am also wondering how NXT will work when all the rookies have been eliminated and there is only one left? Does it mean the show will just end? Will we have a fresh batch of rookies and start again? Or will we just have a new rookie added every so often?

That’s all that’s on my mind for now Matty.D signing off.