Spoilers for this Friday’s SmackDown are in. Click ‘show’ to read:

Spoiler
* Teddy Long is shown backstage. He says he will take action against Shawn Michaels for super kicking him on RAW. Mickie James comes in and Vickie Guerrero announces it will be Mickie vs. Michelle McCool next week with Vickie as the referee.

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* Maria, Matt Hardy and The Great Khali vs. The Hart Dynasty is up next. The Dynasty gets the win when Natalya pins Maria. Maria walks up the ramp pissed off with Matt right behind her apologizing.

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* Maria is shown backstage arguing with Matt Hardy about him letting their team down. Michelle McCool and Layla come in and make fun of them. (Source: ImpactWrestling.com)

Thoughts after the cut:

Erin’s Thoughts
I wonder how much Maria and Natalya worked in the match, and how they did together. I’m not expecting anything fantastic, but I’ll take any excuse for Natayla to get some ring time.

It looks like Michelle and Layla are extending their Mean Girls act to Maria, if only for the night. I’m not thrilled to see that we’re retreading familiar territory with Michelle and Mickie facing off again next week, but maybe they’ll actually get to wrestle. By the way, where in the hell is Beth?

 

29 Comments

  1. Smackdown looks good , Im glad Natalya got the pin.

    BTW where the hell is Beth ?. Maybe she had an important matter or something or whatever but then again she did beat Michelle at a house show recently. I kan beth with return next week trust me.

  2. So the Beth angle has been dropped in order to add the Vickie angle. Interesting.

  3. Im gonna need the more detailed spoilers because how is MARIA gonna get mad at MATT when she got pinned??? And i think beth is gonna get more involved after michelle gets her rematch for the title.

  4. I’m getting worried as to were this might lead too since its becoming apparent they are setting up a feud between Mickie & Vickie, Maybe it will conclude at WrestleMania?

  5. Very odd stuff. No Beth again, Mickie and Michelle don’t appear on camera with each other even though they have a title match next week, and they seem to want Maria involved in three different storylines at once (off-and-on feud with Laycool, possible feud with Natalya, dating Hardy).

  6. no Beth for the second weeek in a row….weird,very weird…..
    they really don´t know what to do with her,why they putted her winning agaisnt McCool in those house shows recently?

  7. Call me crazy but I think Mickie is gonna lose the title soon. With her singing career starting off now WWE are not gona like that she is doing other things. Its gonna be difficult to see what is going to happen next week with Vickie as the ref.

  8. Mickie is totally going to lose that title very soon. Her last two title reigns have been brutally short. When she beat Beth in 08, she held that for what? A couple weeks? Then her Diva’s reign only lasted about 3 months and ended really awkwardly.

    I’m glad they’re adding more people into the storyline. They didn’t really have anywhere new to go with just LayCool and Mickie. GO MARIA!

  9. lol and all of you say Raw sucks, smackdown isn’t any better. At least the Raw divas get a match on superstars, smackdown didn’t do anything note worthy when it comes to the divas

  10. Seriously, the whole fan wars shit is getting really old. If you like one show more than another, good for you but does the world need to hear about it at every chance? If you have nothing to say about the actual show there’s no need for you to comment.

  11. Maria has always said she admired Lita, but is she now becoming her?
    Rocky style, bright red hair, Matt Hardy?

  12. Thank You Melanie! I totally agree its always that ONE person who bashes smackdown and favors Raw and bashes SD if you dont like it then dont comment .

    I mean i like Raw & SD I comment on Both.

    @ Rkoyou just so you know that pme person is you srrry Kid! :)

  13. Thank You Melanie! I totally agree its always that ONE person who bashes smackdown and favors Raw and bashes SD if you dont like it then dont comment .

    I mean i like Raw & SD I comment on Both.

    @ Rkoyou just so you know that one person is you srrry Kid! :)

  14. i knew Vickie was going to get involved in this story UGH! i hate stories where a GM puts a Diva or guy through hell, it seems so fake after all management would fire they’re ass if it was real,

    why is maria mad at Matt she’s the one that didn’t kick out lol

  15. although i dislike stories like this, i think it will be more interesting then others, i just hope Michelle doesn’t take the title back next week, usually if a bias guest referee is there the face lose

  16. im glad that SD! still making the strline worthy and hopefully beth will return soon

  17. Let serena the bald chick wrestle and smackdown will be on top!

  18. The house shows showed that Beth can win the crowd over.Working as a face on tour was a good idea.Michelle won the first oneAfter that Beth took the rest of them.This Michelle and Mickie with Vickie as the referee is kinda of suspicious in that Vickie is a heel character.They’ve got to move the title back to Michelle so that Beth can stay a face and take the title of of Michelle.This week-end SD really has no shows so Beth gets some nice rest.By the way did anyone catch Beth last night on wwe universe.It was great.Beth last week not on SD that’s already been covered..
    So I don’t think Mickie’s title reign is gonna be that long.I myself would rather see Beth take it off of Michelle and stay a face.Then come the Draft either Michelle or Layla can be moved to Raw.And Maria can come back as maybe a Heel I think that would be nice.Mickie could work some matches then with Beth before she does other stuff.That Mickie vs Michelle with Vickie as the Ref. is mighty funny.Could at the last moment say this is for the Women’s title and Mickie has no choice.But to defend it.With Vickie as the ref.Is not in Mickie’s favor.

  19. i’m a bit worried that vickie being referee is just a way for mccool to get the title back without actually wrestling (something she’s not been doing properly for a while). tbh, i’m not keen on either mccool regaining the belt or mickie keeping it. we need beth!

    my dream scenario right now in smackdown would be for them to focus more on natalya/beth/serena and layla. michelle can go heal up as i do hate seeing her barely getting by (as always, assuming her knee is still giving her issues), maria can stick to the valet role, frequently wrestling in tags. and mickie.. i’m just bored of mickie at this stage, to be honest – which sucks as i used to love watching her.

  20. Hmm, I’m getting confused by this. Could they say Beth went AWOL and disappeared for 2 weeks and then she returns next week to attack Mickie and Michelle? And where does Vickie fit into this? Let’s hope WWE have an idea where this is going because I don’t have a clue. =P

  21. since when is it a title match next week? o.O

  22. This week sounds sucky, though its good Natalya gets in ring action.

  23. If Mickie does loose the title next week! I woudnt mind her taking a vacation an working on her album an return to S in like 2 months. She nees a LONG break WWE has been working her for al long while. They need to build more ivas an stop depending on the same top faces. Jeez They need some time off to you know.!

    Gail , Natalya , Jillian etc can all work top faces if given the chance 2

  24. “i’m not keen on either mccool regaining the belt or mickie keeping it. we need beth!”

    It’s only like 6 weeks till the draft, so they are probably just passing time. Most likely they will stretch out the Mickie-Michelle feud out until after Wrestlemania, thats probably why they added Vickie to it, that gives them an excuse to continue the same stuff with a fresh new element.

  25. Im so happy for Natalya. Even if she pinned Maria, it is a victory.

  26. Didn’t Savannah interfere in a special ref match at a house show? Maybe this can bring her in, only Vickie is the ref not Beth.

  27. Goodnightddtmn- Why are you saying sorry, i know that person is me but just because i like Raw and don’t like smackdown and everyone else loves smackdown and hates Raw, doesn’t make me the bad guy. Think about that and don’t call me kid cause I’m probably older than you. All Melanie said was that people should stop repeating the same thing over and over again cause it gets annoying. She didn’t say I was wrong for hating smackdown but I should just keep it to myself and stop saying it on every smackdown post

  28. I’m sure Beth is off recording her show with Santino.

  29. I can’t wait for that draft seriously, I mean the stakes were pretty even between the Raw and SD Divas but now Raw has a whole bus load it doesn’t even use and if reports that Rosa and Zack are heading to Raw is true, then there’ll be another one of the pile then. SmackDown has a good sized Diva division, yet seems to use the same three or four, I mean I’m not Maria’s biggest fan but now the Piggie James angle has moved into bullying authority, it just seems like they’re really pushing Mickie too much as a sympathy case.

    I liked the PJ storyline because it put us in a dynamic where for once she wasn’t playing to the crowd via trash talking sessions, she was actively being taken down, but now it just seems its back to trash talking and now Vickie using her power to make Mickie the victim again, its repetitive enough as it is with Michelle and Layla involved. Maria was also going on about how much she liked Mickie and they were ‘such good friends’ yet she’s barely there. Mind you, I’m glad they’re using her to put Natalya over its about time she got her groove back even if it is another clapped out Hart Dynasty vs Maria and random tag team combo match.

    I’d like to see a decent Divas Battle Royal or something go on between Natalya, Beth, Serena, Michelle, Maria and possibly adding Savannah and Tiffany for a Womens title contenders shot, then a storyline generate from it rather than another Michelle/Mickie feud. I mean what this is the third in a row right?

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