On This Day: May 29, 2009 – Smackdown: Jeff Can’t Get High Enough
Smackdown
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May 29, 2009
Location: Staples Center, Los Angeles, California
Attendance: 7,000
Commentators: Jim Ross, Todd Grisham
Great Khali/R-Truth vs. Dolph Ziggler/Mike Knox
Melina vs. Alicia Fox
John Morrison thinks Umaga is stupid. Shelton Benjamin comes up and wants to fight Morrison again but John points out how little Benjamin has done in years.
Video on Edge vs. Hardy in their ladder match at Extreme Rules.
John Morrison vs. Umaga
Rating: C+. This was getting going by the end as they were doing the David vs. Goliath/power vs. speed formulas to a pretty effective degree. Both of these guys had good potential but never quite reached the highest point they could have, due to either drugs or drugs and Melina. Decent match here that would have been better with a good ending.
Eve Torres vs. Layla
Edge/Chris Jericho vs. Jeff Hardy/Rey Mysterio
Jeff quickly takes Jericho down and loads up the Swanton but has to dive on Edge instead. Edge is sent to the floor and taken out by a plancha but Jericho catches Jeff with a springboard dropkick to send him back to the floor. We finally get down to a regular match with the world champion coming in to take over on the beaten down Hardy. A clothesline gets two on Jeff and we hit the chinlock.
Post match Edge crushes Hardy in a ladder to end the show.
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