WWE SmackDown Rebound: An Extreme Bird's-Eye View

SmackDown opens with the World Heavyweight Champion, CM Punk. Punk comes out and says that he is tired of the allegations that he cheated to keep the World Title.

After showing footage of the main event from The Bash, Punk makes it clear that his kick to the official on Sunday was an accident.

But Punk says that Hardy’s actions after the bell was inexcusable as he attacked the World Heavyweight Champion after the match was over.

Punk begins to focus on a rematch with Hardy, but in order to get the rematch, Hardy must first apologize. But instead of Hardy coming out, SmackDown GM Teddy Long comes out to the ring.

Long comes out and makes it clear that it doesn’t matter whether he was taking a cheap shot or not. He then decides that Punk will face Hardy for the World Heavyweight Championship at Night of Champions.

He then makes a huge main event for tonight: The WWE Unified Tag Team Champions Edge-icho will face the team of Jeff Hardy…and CM Punk.

With that, the Charismatic Enigma makes his entrance into the SmackDown Kingdom, much to the delight of the Fresno crowd.

Hardy comes down and confronts the World Champion. After a shoving match between the two, Punk begins to focus on tonight by giving Hardy some advice: Just Say No.

With that, Punk leaves the ring mouthing those same three words to Hardy before walking away smiling.

Before the bell, Ortiz tells Finlay to drop that shillelagh, lose the frown and rally up. Finlay responds by slapping the taste out of his mouth.

As the match begins, Finlay takes the fight to the outside, only to have Ricky regain control with a power slam on the outside. Back in the ring, Ortiz delivers a back suplex, but gets caught with the knees to the gut.

Finlay regains control with The Rolling Hills followed by the Irish Carbomb. As Finlay goes for the Celtic Cross, his back gives. But as Ortiz goes for the Rally Bomb, Finlay counters into the Celtic Cross to pick up the win on his first night back on SmackDown.

In the back, Dolph Ziggler is doing Yoga when Maria walks up and says that she had fun with him last night. Ziggler tries to play it cool and throws out his "whatever" attitude.

Dolph Ziggler vs. R-Truth

Ziggler starts off the physicality with a shot to the gut, but it doesn’t take long for R-Truth to recover and get control of the match. But thanks to a distraction, Ziggler regains control with a physical head smash.

Truth recovers and takes the fight to Dolph. After nailing the bicycle kick, Truth gets caught on the ropes, allowing Ziggler to hit The Intro to get a huge upset victory over R-Truth.

Back on the program, we are enjoyed by a live version of Word Up with Cryme Tyme with special guests Eve Torres, Layla El, Jimmy Wang Yang and Jesse The Wanksta.

Following a slaughtering of the Word Up Language, this week’s edition of Word Up is cut short…for the arrival of the new Intercontinental Champion.

Mysterio uses his speed to try to get control, but Kane derails him with a massive clothesline. Kane takes control in the corner with a series of shots.

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