Smackdown – May 10, 2013: Careful Ryback. You Might Be Getting Interesting.
Smackdown
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May 10, 2013
Location: PNC Arena, Raleigh, North Carolina
Commentators: Michael Cole, John Bradshaw Layfield, Josh Mathews
Mark Henry is going to try to pull two tractor trailers tonight to break a world record.
Kofi Kingston vs. Cody Rhodes
Colter talks about how Swagger is going to climb the ladder like an AMERICAN, one step at a time.
Big E. Langston vs. Jack Swagger
Dean Ambrose vs. Daniel Bryan
Shield is cleared out post match.
Clip from Raw of Sheamus getting taken down by Henry and whipped with a belt. The photos of the welts on his body are rather disturbing. The match at Extreme Rules is a strap match, where you have to touch all four buckles.
The Raw ReBound recounts all of the Ryback/Cena stuff from Raw.
Randy Orton looks at a clip of Big Show knocking him out on Monday. He says that vouching for Big Show got him knocked out twice, which has only made him more venomous.
Big Show vs. Tensai
Tensai pounds away at Big Show and knocks him into the corner with right hands. Not that it matters as Show hits a single right hand and wins in 50 seconds.
Brodus gets speared down by Big Show but before Show can load up the WMD, Orton runs in with an RKO for the giant.
Chris Jericho vs. Ryback
Ryback shoves him into the corner to start but gets caught by a dropkick to put him down. Jericho is thrown to the floor as Ryback shrugs off whatever Chris throws at him. Back in and Ryback pounds Jericho down as the fans chant for the Canadian. Off to a chinlock by Ryback but Jericho fights up and elbows Ryback to the apron for the springboard dropkick. Ryback starts getting fired up but that might be too interesting for a heel so he stops to think instead as we take a break.
Rating: C+. Not bad here but the ending was kind of lame. I guess the idea was to show that Ryback will be able to do whatever he wants to do at the PPV, but it really fell flat here. Instead the ending could have been beating Jericho down and counting to ten, but again that might make Ryback look too intense and he might be effective as a heel. Also what was with Josh being a Ryback fanboy here?
Post match Ryback knocks Jericho over the announce table to end the show.
Results
Kofi Kingston b. Cody Rhodes – Trouble in Paradise
Dean Ambrose b. Daniel Bryan via DQ when Kofi Kingston interfered
Big Show b. Tensai – WMD
Chris Jericho b. Ryback via DQ when Ryback sent Jericho into the post
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