Del Rio applies a double knee backbreaker to Ziggler in their terrific bout. Photo credit: WWE.com
Zeb Colter, who'd accompanied Jack Swagger, claimed that secretly every American in attendance held the same values as them that they're tired of all the immigrants coming into their country and taking what's theirs. The World Champion Alberto Del Rio then joined them and presented quite an amusing VT of himself and Ricardo Rodriguez mocking the two in a parody of one of their YouTube videos. Del Rio's character and interest have risen so much since turning face.
Team Hell No (Daniel Bryan & Kane) defeated 3MB (Drew McIntyre & Heath Slater) in a fair tag bout. The action was solid enough for the most part, but a few slightly sloppy moments and lack of real excitement let it down a bit. Are we still going to maybe get that Kane versus Bryan match at WrestleMania? Here's hoping so.
Ryback pinned Damien Sandow in an average contest. There was nothing exceptional or that engaging to be found here unfortunately. That may sound a bit harsh considering neither man was bad by any means, they just failed to produce anything memorable.
Alberto Del Rio beat Dolph Ziggler in an exciting back and fourth encounter. Both men gave terrific efforts here, with an especially entertaining final few minutes to the bout. What a contrast to the previous match up this was, with refreshing wrestling that stood out.
Mark Henry beat Yoshi Tatsu in a brief squash match. Afterwards we were shown Henry and Ryback have a face off backstage, hopefully their match won't be too long at 'Mania, I can see it dragging a bit.
Tamina pinned Kaitlyn in a short and forgettable affair. During the match Layla (who'd said she'd accompany Kaitlyn to give her tips, which Josh Matthews rightly called a bit daft considering she's the Divas Champion) was struck by Tamina so she attempted to get some payback, but as the referee held her back this allowed Tamina to gain the upper hand and finish off Kaitlyn for the one-two-three. Seems a Triple Threat for the Divas strap is on the cards for WrestleMania I guess.
Once again Fandango refused to compete due to his name being announced poorly to his standards, this time by Lilian Garcia. Oh Lilian, you have to breathe in the A's, honestly...
Big Show versus Sheamus ended in a No Contest after The Shield (Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns) ran down. While it was a decent bout on the whole, admittedly it started off a bit slow and drab, but as with their World Title series they began to gel and worked well together, building up some excitement and fun sequences. While their encounters are never technically amazing, I can't help but get drawn in and just have fun watching them.
As The Shield began beating on Sheamus (Show was KO'd after receiving a Brogue Kick on the apron) Randy Orton ran down and tried to help out but fell victim to the numbers, that was until Show woke up and helped chase off the trio after they took him out on this week's Raw. Show then took advantage of the distraction and KO'd Sheamus with a punch, in turn Orton then RKO'd the giant.
Overall it was a fair, if unremarkable show. The highlights were the great Del Rio versus Ziggler match, main event, Del Rio and Rodriguez's parody video and best of all (for me personally) Brad Maddox on guest commentary, the guy has plenty of charisma and genuinely makes me chuckle, which is more than I can say for most commentators in WWE today. Unfortunately the rest of SmackDown you could skip and not really miss much, which is pretty poor for a show heading into WrestleMania.
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