WWE SmackDown Results - Punk/HHH Contract Signing, Orton Vs. Christian... Sound Off
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An opening video hyping the Randy Orton vs. Christian and John Cena vs. Wade Barrett matches aired. Also hyped was tonight's contract signing between CM Punk and Triple H.
The SD! opening airs and we're off!
John Cena's music and he heads to the ring. He takes a mic and welcomes everyone to Super Smackdown. Cena makes a dig at the XFL being worse than the Shockmaster, and calls out Alberto Del Rio. Del Rio's music hits, but Ricardo Rodriguez comes out and enters the ring. He says he has a message for Cena, and that is that he will have to wait until Night of Champions for Del Rio. Rodriguez keeps yelling "Alberto Del Rio" until Cena tells him to "Shut up." Cena says he figured Del Rio wouldn't show up, but that he got him a gift, and proceeded to punch Rodriguez out of the ring. Wade Barrett's music hits and he comes to the stage.
Barrett jokes about how Cena just beat up a fat ring announcer and that Cena's trying to hijack the show. Barrett said that Del Rio might be running scared, but he requested the match with Cena and he plans to make Cena feel just as pathetic as he did when he was Barrett's personal slave. Cena told Barrett to not take his kindness for weakness and that he owes his some payback, and he's going to find out that payback's "a b—h." Barrett heads to the ring as we go to our first commercial.
John Cena vs. Wade Barrett
Cena pinned Barrett clean after hitting the AA in a short match.
Matt Striker interviewed Mark Henry backstage. Henry said that he doesn't care who wins the Christian – Orton match later tonight because either way, they will be a candidate for the "Hall of Pain." He sells how dangerous the cage match is, and says it's the same as facing him. He said that tonight's match is like flipping a coin — heads or tails, you lose.
Sin Cara's music hit and he made his way to the ring. He entered the ring and we're off to commercial.
Sin Cara vs. Daniel Bryan
Cara defeated Bryan clean after hitting the splash/lionsault combo. Good match. After the match, Cara and Bryan shook hands. After Bryan shook his hand, Cara kicked Bryan in the face, turning heel.
Matt Striker interviewed Air Boom backstage who talked about how happy they are being champs, and they plan to ride the wave for as long as they can. Kofi Kingston talked about how he trusted Bourne more than anyone and how they can become one of the great teams of all time.
A video package promoting Be A Star aired, which featured Sheamus.
A recap of the Orton – Christian feud is shown.
Christian is interviewed backstage, who says he will win because he always gets what he wants.
Aksana introduces the next match.
Alicia Fox and Kelly Kelly vs. Natalya and Beth Phoenix
Phoenix and Natalya dominated the match. Phoenix nailed Fox with the Glam Slam and pinned her to win the match clean.
Triple H is shown walking backstage with Teddy Long.
Teddy Long hits the ring and introduces Triple H. Triple H says the board allowed him to wrestle for one night, and he invited CM Punk to the ring to make their match official. Punk's music hits and he heads to the ring.
Punk takes the mic and says that this is unnecessary since Triple H is the COO and he made the match, so he wanted to know why they are here. Triple H said that he made the match because Punk disrespected him and his family. Punk tried to interrupt and HHH told him to shut up. HHH says that despite everything Punk has done, Triple H tried to work with him but it wasn't good enough and he had to push. Triple H takes responsibility for paying for Punk's theme music and pushing Punk's shirt through. Triple H said he's trying to be patient, but Punk insulted him as a man and now he deals with him as a man.
Punk says he wants the Cerebral Assassin and not the COO, since the new Triple H sucks. He said that Vince couldn't separate personal and business issues, and Triple H is the same. He said he didn't hate WWE, but loved WWE. He wants change, and he wants things to be better for everyone. Punk says he wants to be the catalyst and Triple H cuts him off, and says he's sick of hearing this and that a lot of fans like WWE. He says it can be better, and that's what his job is.
After more back and forth, Punk says he wants change and Triple H says he's going to get it. Triple H says that Vince would have taken a beating from Punk for business, but Triple H is going to kick his skinny fat a– at Night of Champions. Nash's music hits.
Nash hits the ring and Punk starts punching Nash. Triple H throws Punk to the ground and starts punching and kicking him. HHH then pushed Nash, which prompted Nash to shove Triple H to the ground. Nash left as Triple H looked on.
Back from break and Matt Striker tried to get Nash to comment backstage, but Nash refused.
The Great Khali makes his way to the ring to face Sheamus.
Sheamus vs. The Great Khali
Short match with Jinder Mahal interfering, causing Sheamus to win by DQ. After the match, Khali and Mahal put a beatdown on Sheamus. Khali missed a chop outside of the ring and hit the post, and Mahal continued the assault and took Sheamus in the ring. Sheamus nailed Mahal with a clothesline and followed up with the Celtic cross and celebrated in the ring.
A promo for Inside Out aired. The World title match is next.
World Heavyweight Championship Steel Cage Match
Randy Orton vs. Christian
Great match between these two, as you'd expect. Orton nailed Christian with an RKO from the top rope to get the clean pin.
After the match, Mark Henry's music hit and he head to the ring. He entered the cage and proceeded to ram Orton head first into the cage. Orton managed to turn the tide for a minute, but it was short lived and Henry continued his assault, again ramming Orton's head into the cage. He hit the World Strongest Slam and looked down on Orton and then took Orton's belt from the referee and posed with it. He then threw it on Orton and looked over him as the show went off the air.
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