This week’s Smackdown was from the Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa.
Smackdown starts off with General Manager Vickie Guerrero and her lover Edge coming out. At first the crowd is so loud that she can’t get a word in but eventually the heat dies down and she is able to talk. She announces that Edge and Undertaker will go face to face at No Way Out in a Tables, Ladder and Chairs match. One could say this is Edge’s type of match as there has only been two single TLC matches in history; being Edge Vs Cena and Edge Vs Ric Flair. Just as Vickie and Edge are about to leave she turns around and announces that if the Undertaker loses he will be fired.
Deuce, Domino and new partner Maryse defeated Jesse, Fetus and Cherry – all four guys battle on the outside, meanwhile the two girls battle in the ring. While Cherry is down Maryse comes in and delivers a swift kick to Cherry, Maryse pins her for the 1, 2 and 3.
In the back Chavo goes up to Edge and Vickie and apologises for backing out last week. In retaliation Vickie announces a match between Chavo and Undertaker for the main event tonight, perhaps to toughen him up for the PPV match; she also tells him “la famiglia” will be in his corner so he has nothing to worry about.
MVP comes out and announces Theodore Long to be his VIP lounge member for the night. Batista comes out and completely trashes the enter stage representing disrespect to MVP by putting his microphone through the little window shadings, MVP walks away.
Finlay defeated Chuck Palumbo
Vladimir Kozlov defeated Nunzio – It was a complete whitewash Nunzio got a few punches in my Kozlov dominated, would be nice to see how he would go against a real opponent.
Kofi Kingston and Matt Hardy defeated Elijah Burke and Shelton Benjamin
Undertaker defeated Chavo in a pretty good match. After Undertaker fell to the outside of the ring and Edge, Ryder and Hawkins began beating him, the referee turned around and sent the three out. After numerous counters, Chavo went up top and Undertaker caught him in mid air spinning him round and delivering the tombstone.
