WWE Smackdown TV taping report
April 17, 2012
London, England at the O2 Arena
Report by Paul Stone, PWTorch reader

Dark Match: Antonio Cesaro (Claudio Castagnoli) beat the U.K. Kid.

NXT SPOILERS 4/18

Home country favorite William Regal and Josh Mathews came out on commentary for NXT.

(1) Percy Watson beat Johnny Curtis (w/Maxine). Maxine came out to join commentary. There were a couple of "William Regal" and "We Want Regal" chants. Watson won via Fireman's Carry into Flapjack move. The crowd was into this one by the end.

Regal got on the mic at the end and invited Curtis over for commentary on the next match, featuring Maxine.

(2) Maxine beat Kaitlyn via Dragon Sleeper. At the end of the match, Regal called over both Maxine and Curtis. He said he knew both of them were in on kidnapping Matt Striker, and they would both have to sign a waiver agreeing to stick together until the end of NXT as punishment. He then handcuffed them as they signed the papers, with both of them unknowing as he cuffed them.

Hawkins and Reks were backstage freaking out that regal knew they were in on it, too. Chants of "We Want Smackdown" at this point. Curtis and maxine came by and they all blamed each other.

Striker was shown backstage rotating Hawkins's walking cane around.

Titus O'Neil and Darren Young were backstage. Young lambasted O'Neil for screwing him over with Tamina. O'Neil then presented contracts for Smackdown from John Laurinaitis, and Young forgot all about Tamina.

Hawkins and Reks came out to the ring to protest their innocence, then Striker followed out and cut a passionate promo about Hawkins and Reks stopping him from feeding his kids. He swung the cane at both men, but Regal intervened, saying he had had enough. He then made Reks vs. Hawkins, loser gets fired. Striker convienently had a referees shirt on.

(3) Tyler Reks beat Curt Hawkins via roll-up after a decent back-and-forth match. After the match, Regal fired both of them.

Superstars SPOILERS 4/19

Next was the Smackdown portion of this week's Superstars taping.

(1) Jinder Mahal beat Yoshi Tatsu via submission with the Camel Clutch.

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