TAKE PWTORCH
WITH YOU! Get our iPhone App (FREE!): Click Here Or enter "PWTorch.com" on your Blackberry or other Smart Phone browser for mobile-version of PWTorch.
Torch Feedback
WWE Smackdown Reax #1: "Vickie but for once came across as comfortable in her performance." Oct 13, 2007 - 3:41:00 PM
Seth Berger of Hammond, Ind. (6.0): Best Match: Kane/Undertaker vs. Matt Hardy/MVP. Worst Match: Anything else within the first hour. This show wasn't entirely bad, given the rating I bestowed upon it. I just couldn't fathom three post-match beat downs (Masters on Palumbo, Yang by the '50s Boys, and whatever that mess was after Rey and Finlay) being anything positive. (Plus, I was flipping between this show, the Red Sox-Indians game and the Blackhawks-Red Wings.) It's like the writers got a bit lazy and figured it was the theme of the night. The huge tag match was very good. The main event was not bad, and that accounted for about 98 percent of my score. Rey playing us with that bold-faced lie about how he never faced Finlay until last Sunday bugged me. You met in a championship contenders tournament just over a month ago, my friend. So, who's the number one contender now? Can't we just have Finlay get a shot at the World Title, "the one title he never wrestled for". (Lie #2: It was just at last year's No Mercy PPV; thank you Michael Cole.)
Terrie Neilson of Las Vegas, Nev. (7.0): Best: Kane/Undertaker vs. MVP/Hardy Worst: lame finish of Rey vs. Finlay; Khali vs. Noble. An "eh" show coming out of the PPV. The matches were okay, but nothing spectaular. I'm not sure why the Big Daddy V segment keeps playing, except for the fact that the Smackdown interview set is used. The Big Boot usually a lame move to show the size of the large person using it, but Festus's actually looked like it could hurt someone. And while they're not the best, Jesse & Festus are better than Deuce & Domino, though I'm not looking forward to a match between them. Hearing William Regal's theme was surreal when seeing Dave Taylor coming out. I was hoping to see the return of Paul Burchill, but this Drew McIntyre isn't too bad. Rey's interview was intruguing. My Spanish is all but non existent, but what little I can get, he talked about Finlay in English and Batista in Spanish (maybe). I'm still not sold on Vickie, but for once she came across as comfortable in her performance. I felt ripped off by the Finlay-Rey match. The match got off to a good start, then became a brawl that didn't look believable, then a stupid double DQ finish. I'm thinking "Okay, a triple threat with a guest referee. I can still live with it." Then Undertaker appears, and already it seems assumed that Finlay and Rey are out and Undertaker is in as no. 1 contender. Huh? This, after I felt that the best storyline on Smackdown has lost traction due to no fault of Matt Hardy and MVP. Those two are doing the best they can with what they have, but what they've had lately is a lot less than what they had when they started. I was even hoping for the possibility of a six-man match of Yang/Jesse/Festus vs. Noble/Deuce/Domino. Not expecting that now.
Want your voice to be heard inside of WWE headquarters tomorrow morning? Or in TNA headquarters? This is the independent site many people in both groups read to gauge fan feedback. We still welcome your 1-10 score and comments. To contribute your thoughts on Smackdown, click here. Please keep your thoughts to around 10-15 lines if possible to increase your odds of being published.
PWTORCH FORMAT CONVENTIONS
For the sake of clarity to our readers (and to save us time editing these same things over and over), please follow these simple conventions when writing Torch Reax:
-Wrestlers teaming together should be connected with "&" symbol (e.g. Hunter & Michaels, Devon & Ray) or with a "/" (e.g. Animal/Hawk, Harris/Storm), but not dashes and not the word "and."
-To designate wrestlers who are fighting, feuding, or wrestling each other, put a dash (-) between them (e.g. Michaels-McMahon, Jarrett-Sting, Hogan-Andre) or use "vs."
-The word versus should always be abbreviated this way: "vs." with a period afterward (not "v." or "v/s" or "VS" or "VS." or any other way).
-Plus, it's just our policy, but we don't indulge wrestling promotions' strange spelling fetishes where they spell Raw, Smackdown, Heat, Impact, etc. with the haphazard capitalization of various leTTeRz. It seems very "junior high," so no Raw (it's Raw), no iMPACT (it's Impact), etc.
-Please try to avoid overuse of dot-dot-dots. If you have a thought that's "trailing off," you can use for effect, but otherwise, just use periods, commas, and our personal favorite, semicolons if you dare. We have always had a policy of only one exclamation point and no ALL CAPS. Let your words convey the meaning of your point. There's many to choose from out there.
Send feedback on this article to pwtorch@gmail.com and we'll regularly publish reader feedback in the "Torch Feedback" category on the Main Listing.
INCREDIBLE BENEFITS! Over 50 full-length audio updates per month (iPod compatible)... New weekly award-winning Pro Wrestling Torch Newsletter (text and printable pdf versions) with latest exclusive insider news, new Torch Talks, great columns, Keller's cover story, much more... Hundreds of full-length back issues of PWTorch Newsletter from late-'80s to today... Ad-free access to PWTorch.com's Main Listing... VIP Forum with interaction with other subscribers and Torch staff... Torch Talk Library with text and audio of hundreds of interview installments from last 20 years... Great layout... Deepest archives on pro wrestling history anywhere... Keller's PWTorch Today PDF Bulletins with email alerts... VIP Email reports on major PPVs and TV shows... Staff Roundtable Reviews (text and audio) followiing major events... The best staff of writers and world class reporting since 1987... We'd love for you to join us and experience the most entertaining, authoritative, experienced staff of professional reporters and commentators in the business...
Compare the value of four or five months of PWTorch VIP content to the price of just one PPV. Can you cut 25 cents a day from your budget to make room for PWTorch VIP?
AND NEW FOR 2009! Monthly "Vintage Audio Torch Talks." We are releasing for the first time ever audio versions of our text Torch Talk updates, the historical first series of insider interviews ever. Wade Keller's newsmaking in-depth interviews with wrestling's biggest names are now being made available exclusively to VIP members. But you must be a member each month, as these are not archived, so they are replaced with a new one each month! This debuted in January 2009 with a 68 minute interview with the late "British Bulldog" Davey Boy Smith. Who's next? Hulk Hogan? Eric Bischoff? The Rock? Goldberg? Jeff Hardy?
