WWE Smackdown TV taping results
May 25, 2010
Cleveland, Ohio
Report by David Jeffers, PWTorch reader

Before the pre-show dark match, Dos Caras came to the ring and cut a promo. He said he was from Mexico, so he cut a brief promo in Spanish. He responded to some "learn English" jeers by telling people to go to Mexico and learn Spanish. Good heat for him.

Dark Match: Chris Masters beat Dos Caras via submission with the Masterlock. Pretty boring match.

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(1) Cody Rhodes beat JTG. Rhodes won a pretty good back-and-forth match. The crowd was split pretty evenly. I heard plenty of "Cody" chants and some boos for JTG when he played to the crowd.

After NXT was taped, the Smackdown taping began.

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Teddy Long opened the show by announcing Smackdown's qualifying matches for the Fatal Four-Way PPV. Big Show qualifies automatically due to his DQ win at the Over the Limit PPV on Sunday. C.M. Punk faces Kane and Rey Mysterio faces Undertaker in qualifying matches.

Long was interrupted by Drew McIntyre, who presented him with another letter from Mr. McMahon informing him that Matt Hardy had been suspended without pay due to his "reckless actions" on Sunday. Pretty good heat for Mac in this segment.

World Hvt. champion Jack Swagger then came out as Mac's partner for a tag team match. On the way, Swagger repeated a few times what Chimel said: "And still World Heavyweight Champion...Jack Swagger." It was a good heat line, as the crowd was hating him. Kofi Kingston and Big Show came out as their opponents.

(1) Big Show & Intercontinental champion Kofi Kingston beat World Hvt. champion Jack Swagger & Drew McIntyre. It was a pretty formula match; nothing outstanding. Kofi and Show won via Show's KO punch on Drew. Show was very over and the crowd was eating up his antics.

C.M. Punk was shown backstage with the SES and he had had a towel over his head. He said he was going to throw off the towel and show everyone that he was still better than them. Punk and the SES came out, but his head was still covered. He took it off to reveal a Mysterio-style mask with a star on each side and "SES" spelled down the front. He taunted the crowd, at one point yelling "See? I'm not bald, stupid!" So great.

(2) C.M. Punk beat Kane in a Fatal Four-Way PPV qualifying match. Punk got in a lot of offense on Kane before beating him with a (badly botched) GTS. I'm not sure who screwed up there, but it looked bad. Kane tried to pull the mask off a few times but it didn't work. During the match, a chant of "take it off" laughably broke out.

(3) Christian & Hornswoggle beat Dolph Ziggler & Chavo Guerrero. There was a slight beat down by the heels on 'Swoggle before he was able to hot tag Christian, who cleaned house and got the victory. Afterwards, Ziggler took him out with his sleeper hold.

(4) Luke Gallows beat MVP in a pretty weak match. WWE hasn't done much to get Gallows over, and the crowd basically didn't care. They popped for some of MVP's offense, but they mostly sat on their hands.

(5) The Undertaker beat Rey Mysterio in a Fatal Four-Way PPV qualifying match. Decent match, which Taker won with via Tombstone. The crowd was happy.

Swagger vs. Taker for the World Title was advertised as the post-show dark match. Swagger came out and kicked Rey Mysterio a few times, though. JTG then came out to beat Swagger up and hit his finisher. R-Truth followed, and hit some more offense on Swagger. Then came MVP, Christian, and Matt Hardy, each of whom got some moves in on Swagger. Swagger ate a finisher from each of them, and the faces played to the crowd by doing each other's signature poses and moves. Pretty funny. After they all left, Chimel announced, "And still World Heavyweight champion, Jack Swagger." Swagger then staggered out to his music while receiving really good heat.

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