Smackdown! Spoilers 8/23/13

[Booger Red]

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Dark Match

Sin Cara defeated Damien Sandow. Sandow cut a promo before his match with Sin Cara saying a bunch of crap and receiving a ton of heat.

WWE Smackdown

- A cage is hanging above the ring.

- The Smackdown opened with a recap of the main event at SummerSlam and the live crowd exploded with yes chants but booing when Randy Orton cashing was shown. They also recapped the events from Raw as well with the McMahons.

- Vickie Guerrero opened the show to a crapload of heat and introduced Randy Orton. He spoke about giving us what we want. It was hard to hear he got a lot of heat. He said that he told us the truth about cashing in his briefcase at SummerSlam. He said he was surprised by what Triple H did, and that he didn't need his help to win. He asked for our support and No! chants broke out. He said he is the face of the WWE.

Daniel Byran interrupted Orton and thanked John Cena for the opportunity at SummerSlam. Bryan said it's time for the face of the WWE to change. Bryan insulted how Orton looks and said he looks pretty. He also called Orton arrogant. Bryan said he had to scratch and suffer while Orton was handed every opportunity.

Bryan challenged Orton for the title by saying I can beat you for that pointing to the title. He challenged Orton for the title tonight, but Orton said it has to wait until Night Of Champions. Orton and Bryan stood face to face and Orton held up the title. Bryan hit and kicked Orton from the ring.

- Vickie was show talking and yelling about What Bryan did backstage, and Wade Barrett interrupted. A steel cage match was announced for later in the show

- Intercontinental Champion Curtis Axel (w/Paul Heyman) beat Cody Rhodes. A pretty well wrestled match from both men, but there is a reason this match was on Smackdown. The crowd was pretty quiet for this match. The guy next to me caught me taking notes and told me to pay attention. WWE fans are crazy. A CM Punk chant broke out.

- Heyman cut a promo afterward and received a ton of heat. He said he is in pain because of Punk. He moaned about Punk and trashed him, which caused a lot of heat. Heyman said Punk is lost without him. Axel said Punk doesn't deserve a title shot for his title, but he challenged him for the title for this coming Monday on Raw.

- Dolph Ziggler beat Big E Langston (w/A.J. Lee). Ziggler won by pinfall after a Zig Zag.

- World Hvt. Champion Alberto Del Rio defeated Christian. Del Rio defeated Christian via submission the arm bar. After the match, Del Rio said something about Latinos, which led to cheers, but he called all of us peasants and said that he wants us to follow the great Alberto Del Rio. Ricardo Rodriguiez came out and trashed Del Rio, and introduced Rob Van Dam. Christian dropkicked Del Rio off the top rope and RVD did a frog splash to end the segment.

- Big Show and Mark Henry defeated Heath Slater, Drew McIntyre, and Jinder Mahal in a handicap match. Show and Henry won by pinfall after Show hit the WMD.

- Darren Young defeated Antonio Cesaro.

- Daniel Bryan defeated Wade Barrett in a cage match. A really good, competitive match with several near falls. And because of Bryan's involvement, this match would have been an awesome pay-per-view match.

[Lk™]

the way theyre pushing darren young is pathetic

[Wato Stan Account]

I like how there was a Wyatt promo for Smackdown during Raw and then there's no Wyatt Family.

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Told you all it's gonna be Christian vs. RVD vs. Del Rio at NOC

[JHTB®]

Yes! More cage matches Sin Cara still wrestling after that messed up botched finger?

[King Silva]

I'm looking forward to it all really but especially Axel/Rhodes and the main event.

[LtD73]

Aug 21, 2013 0:16:01 GMT -5 Lk™ said:

the way theyre pushing darren young is pathetic

I agree. He shouldn't be getting a push because he came out.

[Chip]

you know, ive got zero issues with Darren Young. but it's pretty sad that he & Titus were legitimate JOBBERS....who literally were used for nothing more than filler, despite being loaded with talent & charisma

then Young tells the world that he is gay, and all of a sudden PTP are a face tag team and look like they are going to start winning all over the place. it's incredibly shallow and pathetic on the WWE's booking part. Because they make 'em face by default, and most people are only going to cheer Young BECAUSE he came out and not because PTP are an excellent tag team.

And the burial of Cesaro continues. What a WASTE of talent.
I guess Christian isn't going anywhere fast nor Mark Henry
In a weird way, I'd like to see Punk get the IC title, maybe they could finally do something with it by giving it to an established guy instead of just throwing it on a "new" guy to try and make him seem important.

[Lorenzo Alcazar]

Watch Zack Ryder pretend to be gay to try and get his push back....lol

[Thick Justice]

Aug 21, 2013 8:25:58 GMT -5 Chip said:

you know, ive got zero issues with Darren Young. but it's pretty sad that he & Titus were legitimate JOBBERS....who literally were used for nothing more than filler, despite being loaded with talent & charisma

then Young tells the world that he is gay, and all of a sudden PTP are a face tag team and look like they are going to start winning all over the place. it's incredibly shallow and pathetic on the WWE's booking part. Because they make 'em face by default, and most people are only going to cheer Young BECAUSE he came out and not because PTP are an excellent tag team.

And the burial of Cesaro continues. What a WASTE of talent.
I guess Christian isn't going anywhere fast nor Mark Henry
In a weird way, I'd like to see Punk get the IC title, maybe they could finally do something with it by giving it to an established guy instead of just throwing it on a "new" guy to try and make him seem important.

I agree with everything you said accept the Prime Time Players/Darren Young stuff. If WWE doesn't have Darren Young on, they will get bad press. If they have him on and losing, they will get worse press. Darren Young coming out was a good business move on his part whether wwe knew about it before hand or not. Whether it was WWE's idea or Darrens.

Also I am fine with it because Darren Young and Titus both deserved this for a long time. I think I'd bring up Xavier Woods and have the three take on the shield with Xavier Woods taking on Ambrose. They need a 3 man face group to take on the shield. The gimmicks fit sort of. With Titus O'Neil and Darren Young being buds who are into there looks and just hanging out dancing and listening to music. I think the three could be massive over.

[jacobdude1357]

I let PTP's win on Monday slide, but a 1 on 1 win for Darren over Cesaro? I have no problem with PTP getting a push since I'm a big fan of theirs, but they shouldn't be getting a push just because Darren came out.

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Cesaro by himself > PTP together. It looked like the WWE was going to start respecting Cesaro after having TWO match of the year candidates within two weeks of one another but here we go, job him out to the flavor of the week. Look, I respect Young for what he did but it insults our intelligence if WWE thinks that Young can just start being a fan favorite without a turn or any explanation whatsoever. C'mon now!

[Rule 30]

I don't get having Axel going over Cody when Cody is in the middle of a feud with Damien Sandow. Well, I assume that is still going on. Anyway, Cody has actually been gaining momentum and he gets beat by Axel, someone who's not over in the least. It's awful that the WWE can just have Axel get his ass kicked by Punk every week, but say he's credible because the Intercontinental Championship is around his waist. A title that I don't think he's defended since Money in the Bank.

Oh, almost forgot. The WWE Championship feud advancing on SmackDown is a nice change of pace from the norm.

[ASR (therockisback)]

Barrett main events SD for the second week in a row, not bad.