Friday Night Fallout: Downtown Edition

Lucky you, O-sters. This week you get a double-dose of "Downtown" Jeff Brown. It seems my boy D.J.B decided to take a trip to Wilkes-Barre, PA in search of any undisclosed clues in the VKM assassination. He told me that he would not rest until the person or persons involved in the demise of Mr. McMahon were served their due justice.

So, he asked the best damn columnist this side of the New River and the other side of Tobacco Road to fill in for him this week. So here's your "Friday Night Fallout".

It wasn't two months ago, we here at Tha O Show were hailing "SmackDown!" as the #1 WWE program on TV. Fast-forward the clock, add a few Mega-injuries and a rather crippling draft, they're down to the #3 spot. And it's rather evident by the opening match: Batista takes on Deuce.

Now, before I drop a "Deuce" all over this match, I will give credit to the opening comedy skit of the match. Batista flirting with Cherry was the most charisma I have seen from this guy, maybe ever. Sure after that, it became a Batisita match, but Deuce got some offense in so it wasn't a total squashaz.

On a sidenote, I took a trip down to Tampa last week and ran into Batista. We were going to pick up some cigars, for later that night, and bro just pulls up in this dope, sparkling white Bentley (VERY TIGHT!).

Don't worry, I didn't "mark-out" and go ask for a autograph or a picture, I've met bigger names and I find it rude to do that to people in public anyways. But, dude is humongous and apparently doing well for himself. So regardless of what we say about the guy, as well as he's living, I doubt he gives a shit. But we already knew that.

Back to "SmackDown!", and the newly regenerated Cruiserweight title. I think this COULD turn out to be a good thing for the title, and if not for the title, at least it could be good for Jamie Noble. Let's face it, you can't help but like Hornswoggle (at least I can't, I'm as fascinated with little people as Homer Simpson) and he's over with the crowd.

Noble's gonna fuck that midget up, and he's gonna get BIG heat for it (catch the pun?). Noble versus Finlay smells like quality, and a Noble/Jimmy Wang Yang program for the title could be interesting, mainly 'cause I love it when rednecks go to fightin' and a feudin'.

Props to the production team for their build to the Chavo match by showing the "Rey Returns" montage followed by the "history reminder" of Chavo and Rey's last meeting, then cutting to "OOOO CHAVO!!!", Bravo! Insta-Heat! If you don't like Chavo, solely on his in-ring work, YOU SUCK! Chavo goes over on Eugene looking very strong, even after playing along with the "Retard Rage" stunt, but that's what Eugene is there for.

With Rey returning, it's best they took the CW title off of Chavo, if only to help keep the credibility that Mysterio is a "Big Title" contender, and I think Chavito should be as well.

Onto the Main Event of the Night, that came awkwardly only halfway through the show. Two great workers take on a good worker and a guy that's slightly better than Lex Luger. The team of Ric Flair and Matt Hardy took on MVP and Chris Masters.

Good, long match (by TV standards) between these guys. Nice change of tone in this match, where the heel (MVP) was the wrestler in peril, as the Faces tagged in and out, wearing him down til he made the "hot-tag". I think that's my word of the week, but I love tag-team wrestling so much, and that's such a big element to a great tag match, I appreciate when workers put some thought into it and try something different.

MVP is so dope, such a great character, it's just so natural for the guy. I popped when he rolled out of the ring and called for the twenty-second timeout. It's those "little things" that make such a big difference between entertainers and merely workers.

Flair and Hardy went over, but after the match MVP and V1 had a little war of words. Here's the kicker, Hardy didn't bore me. He didn't say anything that profound, but he kept mine and the audience's attention. The promo seemed to be a setup for a nice LONG program between these two, HYPE! (Editor's note: Just as Dan-e-o predicted!)

After that match, the show pretty much went to shit so I'll go straight to Tha Breakdown:

-Batista def. Deuce
-Hornswoggle def. Jamie Noble by countout
-Chavo def. Eugene
-Flair/Hardy def. MVP/Masters
-Custom Chucky P loves to feel the vibration of a HOG between his legs
-Mark "Big, Dumb Silverback" Henry squashes Joey Blaylock
-Backstage segment with Teddy, Kristal, Vickie and Ron Simmons..."Damn!" (he's Teddy's best man)
-Kane def. Dave Taylor
-Jimmy Wang Yang & Torrie Wilson def. Kenny Dykstra & Victoria
-Khali throws a rediculous Punjabi Celebration with a few too many white people dancing in the mix, with Batista crashing the party to end the show

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