Mr. Ziggles takes the IC Title!

Last nights SmackDown! Saw Dolph Ziggler hit a milestone in his Carrere as he took the Intercontinental Championship from Kofi Kingston in a good match. Unfortunately in storyline he won the title on unfair terms. During the match Vicki jumped in the ring causing the distraction to the Ref, and for Dolph to take advantage and pick up the win.
During Dolph’s celebrations we saw the Dark side of Kofi as he viciously attacked Dolph smashing him into the announcers table and repeatedly banging his head on the steel steps before leaving him in a heap on the floor.
I am guessing we will see the rematch at SummerSlam next Sunday.

We also saw a turn in the road for the Kane storyline.
At the beginning of the night Rey came out to plead his case, he also said he knew who the real attacker was, but before he could revile that person Drew McIntyre came out for his say on the subject.
The two spoke which lead to a match being scheduled for the end of the night between the two.
The two fought in the last match of the night in a very good contest. Drew seemed to have most control dominating over the smaller man and his “injury”.
It made me wonder why he isn’t in a World Title position if he can dominate the former champ? Well my question was soon answered as Rey was able to nab a roll up for the win.
As Rey was about to revile the real attacker yet again he was interrupted by the Big Red Machine Kane. Kane came to the ring pushing a casket, as Rey looked on he was thumped from behind by the Scotsman who then made his exit to avoid the World Champion as he climbed in the ring.
Rey was able to escape Kane but almost jumped in the casket in the process before leaping out and running up the ramp. It was then when he finally was able to tell us who the real attacker is.
Now we could all guess who was going to say, we had all figured out weeks ago who it would end up being.
Rey announced that the real attacker was the man who was trying to get the revenge, Kane.
The interesting thing now is where is the story going to go? How will they bring Taker back in? And if it is Kane why (in storyline) did Taker say Rey Mysterio when he opened his eyes? I just hope we do get the answers to these questions.

Another match was added to the SummerSlam card last night, as the S.E.S will take on The Big Show in a 3 on 1 handicap match.
To get us ready for this we had a promo from the S.E.S as CM Punk showed his authority over the other members of the team, this of cores may lead to his demise as the team may eventually turn on Punk in a future story to be built up.
After that moment we had the S.E.S go against MVP, JTG, and Chris Masters. The S.E.S won after a short match building the team up for SummerSlam, this was obvious to happen because what team can beat the Big Show 3 on 1, if they cant beat 3 normal guys.

We saw one of the worst backstage moments from LayCool last night, as they had to decide who is going to be champ, backstage they argued in front of Teddy Long until Michelle finally gave in her title. Then they started to argue about who is the champ pulling the remaining belt between them till it broke down the middle.
It was then that all the people watching should of said “Bull S**t!” as there is no way that gold and leather would just break like that. They then ran off with the split belt.

The other match of the night was the rising star “Dashing” Cody Rhodes vs. Matt Hardy.
Good match that got the show started, the match ended in a Cross Rhodes as Cody took the win.

Overall a pretty solid show, glad to see Dolph with a belt regardless of how he won it, good to see Kofi continuing to evolve but I don’t want WWE to drop the ball like they have before, and I wish that the Kane story had another twist in it that wasn’t so obvious, and maybe change up the ending of it so its not just a Taker vs. Kane match to bring it to close.

That’s all for now, see you Tuesday for the Raw review.

Matty.D Signing off.