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.

 

Ricky Ortiz vs. Finlay

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.

 

Rey Mysterio vs. Kane

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.

Mysterio recovers and gets a chance to hit the 619, but Kane catches him with a choke slam attempt. After Mysterio blocks the choke slam attempt, he gets leveled with a choke toss to the corner.

Back on SD, Kane delivers a big boot to the skull of Mysterio, but Mysterio continues to kick out. After a huge Irish whip, Mysterio rolls to the outside. Kane slips out on the other side to continue the punishment on the Intercontinental Champion before rolling back in to allow the ref to make the count.

After barely making the 10-Count, Mysterio returns to receive more punishment from the Big Red Monster. Kane continues to focus on the back of Mysterio with a backbreaker, but Mysterio starts to fight out with knees to the side of the head of Kane.

Mysterio starts fighting back with a springboard splash followed by a tornado DDT and a diving dropkick. But as he comes off the top rope, he gets dropped with a huge uppercut…only to kick out once again.

Mysterio ducks the choke slam and drops Kane on the rope to deliver the 619. But as he goes for the West Coast Pop, Kane catches him with a choke slam to pick up the win in his first official night on SmackDown.

After the bell, Kane picks Rey up again to deliver another choke slam, but Kane is interrupted by the arrival of The Great Khali. As Khali makes his way down, Kane runs away from the fight as a chair-wielding Punjabi Playboy charges towards him.

In the back, Chris Jericho and Edge are letting everyone know that they intend to prove that they are the dominant force in the WWE today.

Both take shots at the World Heavyweight Champion before making it clear that they will prove tonight that they are the dominant force in the business today. With that, both men walk away to prepare for the main event.

The Hart Dynasty vs. Cryme Tyme

JTG and Tyson Kidd start the match with Kidd getting control in the corner. But JTG hits the Payoff, but gets caught by David Hart Smith.

The Dynasty gets complete control of the match and JTG with a reverse submission in the middle of the ring. JTG gets a brief breather, but Kidd continues the punishment by reapplying the submission.

But JTG breaks the assault up with the Brooklyn Breaker to bring in his partner. Shad comes in and drops Kidd before taking down Smith with the Cash Money Elbow Drop.

Kidd comes in and breaks the pinfall, but thanks to JTG, Shad hits the CTC to get the victory and break the streak for the new kids on the block.

Layla & Michelle McCool vs. Maria & Melina

Following a distraction from the new Women’s Champion, Layla tries to get control. After the onslaught from both McCool and Layla, Maria finally does enough to get out of the match and get Melina in.

Melina comes in with some innovative moves to take down Layla. After a cheap shot on Michelle, Melina nails the Primal Scream to get the pinfall before staring down the Women’s Champion.

Michelle wastes no time in slipping out of the ring to avoid any more physicality with the former Women’s Champion.

Following a quick WWE Rewind of last week’s match between John Morrison and CM Punk, Morrison and Teddy are reliving their favorite Michael Jackson moments before the arrival of the Unified Tag Team Champions.

Edge-icho vs. CM Punk and Jeff Hardy

Punk opts to start the match along with Edge. Punk gets control with an arm wrench before tagging in his “partner” Jeff Hardy. Hardy comes in and drives Edge’s head into a corner before locking in an arm wrench and tagging Punk back in.

Following a series of tags between the two, Jericho comes in to get dropped with a Extreme Leg Drop. Jericho gets caught with a Poetic Leg Drop before Punk comes in and focuses on the left arm of Jericho.

Punk sets up and Hardy finishes the Poetry in Motion to send both of the Unified Tag Team Champions to the outside.

Back on SD, the Enigma is stuck fighting both men on his own as Punk once again claims that his eye is forcing him not to tag in. Thanks to a miscue, Edge is able to tag in Jericho, who comes in swinging for the fences.

On the outside, Edge gets in a cheap shot on the former World Heavyweight Champion before Jericho comes over to drag him back into the ring.

As Hardy goes for the tag again, Punk again whines about the injured eye and refuses to tag in. Jericho applies a modified sleeper hold, but Hardy manages to slip out before he gets tossed outside again.

Back in the ring, Hardy goes for the tag once more, but Punk is out of position once more. Hardy hits the Whisper in the Wind to stop the momentum of the Unified Tag Team Champions.

Following a Twist of Fate to Edge, Hardy tags in the World Champion. Punk comes in and drops Edge with the corner bulldog and knee lift. But Edge hits the Edgecution to slow down the momentum of the World Heavyweight Champion.

Jericho comes in and continues the assault on the ribcage of Punk. Punk starts to fight back as both men hit the canvas with a double clothesline.

As Punk goes for the tag, Hardy drops to the ground holding his eye and screaming in pain. On the inside, Punk nails the GTS on Jericho, but Edge (who gets the blind tag) delivers the Spear to get the win.

But after the bell, Hardy delivers the Twist of Fate once again to Edge. After the Tag Champs scamper, Hardy is holding his eye as he stands over Punk.

After Hardy tells him that he’s sorry, he walks out of the ring holding his right eye. As Hardy goes up to the top, he reveals that it was just a ploy to show what happened to him at The Bash.

Punk is in dismay, and Hardy is celebrating as SmackDown goes off the air.