-Taker hits an avalanche in the corner on Rider. Edge pulls Rider out of the way when Taker goes for another avalanche. Rider goes to work on Taker now with boots. He pounds him with fists now and ends up getting a big boot. Rider comes back with a dropkick. He tags in Hawkins who drops an elbow. Now Rider back in who hits an elbow and with Taker wounded Edge wants the tag.

-Edge comes over to Taker who surprises Edge by grabbing his throat, and ends up hitting a DDT. Rider now comes in and gets hit with a clothesline. Taker goes old school and ends up hitting an arm drag out of it. Now the snake eyes and big boot. Edge makes a blind tag and now he gets a big boot. Taker goes for the inverted triangle choke and Rider breaks it up. He catches Rider and Hawkins with a double chokeslam now. Edge runs over and hits Taker with a spear and ends up getting the win.

***Edge & Hawkins & Rider get the win in 6:00. (1/2*)

-Edge and his lackeys head up the ramp while Taker looks on very angry.

-We get a promo package for Edge/Hawkins/Rider vs. Flair in a steel cage next week.

OVERALL: I hate to say it, I really do, but this was an awful show. Well over half of it had absolutely zero to do with ‘Mania.

Why hasn’t Regal sent “Umanga” to Smackdown to take out Batista? Why is Batista caught up in a feud with MVP still when the two won’t meet at ‘Mania? Is Matt Hardy really still not healthy enough to compete? He appeared at a house show recently, so what’s really going on here? This is a huge waste of time taking all the focus off of ‘Mania. Maybe Matt will come back and cost MVP the title in the no holds barred match against Batista? That would finally get us somewhere, but with only 2 weeks until Mania from there didn’t they waste a ton of time?

Any contest to crown the best Smackdown diva is a huge waste of time. Aren’t these kinds of things for house shows? It seems like this is all worked for McCool to win and get the bike to continue a storyline with Chuck. Maybe Chuck will be jealous of the diva bike and take it, which will resurrect his “Chuck” of “Billy & Chuck” character? I really hope not.

The Big Show/Mayweather build is a wreck. Having Tommy Hearns and Freddie Roach get in a sentence about it doesn’t do a whole lot. They need to get more in depth then that in the boxing world. Maybe some would disagree, but having Michael Buffer talk about it doesn’t lend a lot of credibility. Especially when he pulls out the David and Goliath cliché.