DETAILED REPORT: WWE SmackDown! Tapings
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SmackDown Spoilers
Triple H comes out to promote his match for Unforgiven and is interrupted by Shelton Benjamin and MVP. The Brian Kendrick and Ezekial Jackson come out to attack and Benjamin and MVP join in until Jeff Hardy comes to the rescue and clears the ring.
The first match is R-Truth vs. Bam Neely (w/Chavo Guerrero). The Truth gets plenty of offense in and wins with the Scissors Kick.
The Undertaker comes out to cut a promo that he wants Vickie Guerrero's soul and that he's going to send her to HELL to be rejoined with her husband...EDGE!
Maria bumps into Maryse and Maryse tries to talk bad about her ring attire and how she has her ring attire specially made in Paris. And Maria responds that just wants to wrestle Maryse in the ring later.
Maria vs. Maryse have a short match and Maryse wins with a DDT. Michelle McCool stands behind Maryse as she walks up the ramp and gloats over her victory. They trash talk and Maryse leaves.
MVP vs. Shelton Benjamin have a fairly short match and Benjamin gets the clean victory with the Paydirt finisher.
Jeff Hardy and The Brian Kendrick have the next match. Ezekial Jackson grabs Hardy by the pants and throws him against the guardrail while the referee has his back turned. He rolls Hardy back in the ring and Kendrick hits "the Kendrick" for the victory.
Vickie Guerrero steps out of a limousine that pulls up to the auditorium. She then chews out one of the backstage workers who offers her a wheelchair and she tells him to get it out of her sight and walks off.
Newcomer Ryan Braddock vs. Super Crazy in another short, yet missable match. Super Crazy wins with a moonsault. Vladmir Kozlov comes out and knocks Crazy out of the ring with a kick. Koslov demands better competition when the Big Show music hits. Big Show suggests that he fights him if he wants a better challenge and they drop their microphones and begin to square off when Vickie interrupts and orders Koslov out of the ring. She then focuses her attention to Big Show and threatens to fine and suspend him indefinitely if he interrupts anymore matches on her show. And she orders him out of the ring and Show reluctantly leaves. Vickie begins to speak but the crowd drowns out of her speech with a chorus of boos throughout. I finally managed to hear her say that she has tried to reason and apologize to the Taker, but now come Unforgiven, the Undertaker will have to apologize to her and leaves.
Victoria wrestles this new Diva with the name Bella. She lost to her last week and this is a return match. The catch is that last week Victoria got easily pinned after she grabbed Bella from under the ring (not knowing she was tricked by her twin sister who hid under the ring). The similar outcome occurred again and Victoria starts going through her old psycho twitching motions like she use to do a long time ago and starts having temper tantrums on the way out of the ring.
During a backstage interview, Triple H encounters Jeff Hardy and he tells him that HHH should be more worried about him when they have the match on Sunday at Unforgiven. Triple H shoots on Hardy and tells him that he already has 2 strikes against him and pretends to make a phone call with his hand and says that Dr. Black wants him to drop by for his next wellness test or else he won't make it to the match on Sunday and walks away.
Finally, we see the Main Event Lumberjack Match featuring the Game Triple H against the slow, lumbering Punjabi Nightmare known as the Not-So-Great Khali. Everytime Triple H gets knocked out of the ring all the heels stomped him to death until Jeff Hardy makes the save and dives to the outside and landing on all the lumberjacks. A match that lasted about 8 minutes finally ended with a well-deserved Pedigree from Triple H on to Khali. Afterwards, Hardy comes back to the ring to celebrate with HHH, but fools him by hitting the Twist of Fate and leaving The Game on the mat to end the show.