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As I had referenced in an article that it seems like I only wrote yesterday, I've been Smackdown free (except for one show back in February) since 2004. Tonight was supposed to be the beginning of my regular Smackdown viewing once again. Well, I got a phone call right after Booker's promo right at the top of the show, and that distracted me until the end of the first match (Batista & Lashley vs Finlay & Regal). It went to commercial, and a storm rolled in, blocking my satellite signal. Wow, no Smackdown for me after all! Just when all hope seemed lost, the signal began jittering, and eventually came back, just in time to see Matt Hardy standing on the ramp after he completed a match against God knows who. Then The Miz comes onto my TV screen cutting a promo and I begin wishing the signal would go away again. I got to watch some commercials, and a Jimmy Wang Yang promo, before having to watch the Miz make his ring entrance. Once again, I wondered to myself why the signal came back just so I would have to see this chucklehead. Oddly enough, as soon as Funaki's music hit, my signal dropped out again, leaving me wondering who hates me upstairs enough to simply subject me to Miz's promo and entrance before taking away my signal once again. The signal finally came back in the middle of even more commercials, right before the Tag Team Title match, and it held throughout the rest of the show. So, I missed a Matt Hardy match, the Eddie exploitation, and the Miz-Funaki match (losing the signal isn't all bad I guess), and God knows what else. I've gotten somewhat off topic though. |
| Why did they promote this show the way they did? Why did they bait and switch the main event like that? How many people were actually going to tune in for a Vito match that wouldn't have tuned in to see the Undertaker instead? Then, the converse: how many more people could you have gotten to tune in if they would have actually advertised the Undertaker as being part of the match? Why didn't they advertise Cena's presence on the show beforehand? They really did a poor job of selling what they had. Of course, if you were a casual fan that had not been keeping up with storylines as of late, you could have looked at the guide and seen that it would actually be Booker-Taker and Cena would make an appearance. Stupid me, I figured they would have promoted something like that, and I therefore assumed the guide was wrong when I wrote yesterday's article. |
| The reason they gave at the top of the show for Undertaker taking Vito's place was that Vito had given his title shot to the Undertaker. Why in the blue holy hell would Vito do something as foolish as that? Aren't these guys all supposed to be vying for the titles in WWE-Land? How many World Heavyweight Title opportunities does an average wrestler in a dress get? Doesn't he realize that the Undertaker never wins title matches anymore? I'm trying to stay in kayfabe here, but seriously, there is a gaping logic hole there. They have either booked Vito as the most giving and gullible Taker mark on the face of the Earth, or as a complete blithering idiot. |
| Cole mentioned that Lashley was the number one contender when he ran down after the main event. If he is the number one contender, wouldn't he be pissed that Vito would hand off his title shot to Undertaker, essentially letting Taker cut in line? Does being the number one contender mean anything anymore? It seems that everyone and their dog gets a title shot before the number one contender does these days. I need to stop thinking about this. I'm going to injure my brain. |
| I just can't imagine why WWE didn't do a better job promoting what they had on this show. They lost a lot of viewers by underselling the main event. I'm used to the logic holes by now, but that doesn't mean that they don't still make me scratch my head. Hopefully, I'll be able to watch an entire episode next week. If I've learned any lesson from this, it is that I should never write an article regarding a taped show the day before it airs without reading the spoiler reports online. But hey, where's the fun in that? |
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