Smackdown – June 21, 2013: Get Some Butter Because Smackdown Is On A Roll
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June 21, 2013
Location: Nutter Center, Dayton, Ohio
Commentators: Michael Cole, John Bradshaw Layfield
Sheamus vs. Cody Rhodes
Sandow jumps Sheamus post match.
Wyatt Family promo.
Intercontinental Title: Curtis Axel vs. Wade Barrett
The title looks good on Axel. Miz is on commentary for this rare heel vs. heel match. Axel grabs a headlock to start but Wade forearms him down for two. Curtis comes back with a good looking dropkick to take over and drops some elbows to the chest for two. Wade grabs a quick suplex for two of his own as the announcers debate if Barrett should have gotten his rematch on Monday. Barrett hits his big boot to send Axel out to the floor and another big boot hits for two back inside. Axel avoids a middle rope elbow and hits a Hennig necksnap followed by the McGillicutter to retain at 4:40.
Post match Miz gets in the ring to stare down Axel but Heyman gets the champion out of the way.
AJ Lee vs. Natalya
Layla and Kaitlyn are watching in the back when Aksana comes up and calls Katilyn trash. Kaitlyn snaps and beats Aksana up before pouring trash on her.
Chris Jericho vs. Alberto Del Rio
Non-title again. Jericho takes him into the corner to start and chokes Del Rio on the middle rope before getting two off a knee to the back. Del Rio gets a boot up in the corner to drop Jericho but misses a running kick and falls out to the floor. Jericho hits the springboard dropkick to drop Alberto again. A Ricardo distraction lets the champion get in a cheap shot to take over as we take a break.
Back with Del Rio sending Chris back to the floor and whipping him into the barricade. They head back inside and Alberto misses a charge into the post to shift momentum again. The top rope ax handle looks to set up the Walls but Alberto spins out and kicks Jericho in the head for two. The corner enziguri misses though and Jericho hits the running bulldog and Lionsault. Jericho loads up the Walls but Del Rio counters into the cross armbreaker which is countered into the Walls but Chris has to go after Ricardo. Jericho puts Rodriguez in the Liontamer but Ziggler runs in for the DQ at 5:34 shown of 8:04.
Drew McIntyre vs. Christian
Christian sends him to the floor and hits a baseball slide to take Drew down. Back in and Christian tags him with an uppercut but dives into a spinning sitout Rock Bottom from McIntyre for two. Not that it matters much as Christian takes out the other Band members and hits the Killswitch for the pin at 1:50.
Post match Christian says it feels great to be back here for one more match. Cue Shield to lay Christian out with the TripleBomb.
Video on Brock Lesnar.
We recap the events of Raw with Punk splitting with Heyman and fighting Del Rio in the main event. Alberto walked out on the match and was jumped by Ziggler, only to have Lesnar come out and attack Punk.
Randy Orton vs. Daniel Bryan
Orton drapes Bryan ribs first onto the top rope and suplexes him over the top and out to the floor as we take a break. Back with Bryan fighting out of a superplex and dropping Orton with a missile dropkick. Daniel fires off the kicks in the corner and hits a running dropkick for two. Bryan moonsaults over Orton out of the corner but walks into the snap powerslam for two. Orton gets caught in a backslide for two and Bryan fires off the kicks to the chest and head for a two count.
Bryan goes up again but gets crotched and superplexed down for a very close two. The Elevated DDT connects but Bryan rolls to the floor to avoid the RKO. Orton drops Bryan back first onto the barricade but Bryan shoves him into the barricade. The flying knee off the apron sets up the FLYING GOAT and Bryan beats the count back in at 10:36 shown of 13:06.
Rating: B-. This was a nice back and forth match and they did a good job of making Bryan look strong after last week’s big win over the Shield. The idea of Bryan being able to get back in at the alst second kept both guys look strong which is a good idea for Orton going forward.
Bryan wants the match restarted but Orton just stares at him as the show ends.
Results
Sheamus b. Cody Rhodes – Cloverleaf
Curtis Axel b. Wade Barrett – McGillicutter
AJ Lee b. Natalya – Black Widow
Alberto Del Rio b. Chris Jericho via DQ when Dolph Ziggler interefered
Christian b. Drew McIntyre – Killswitch
Daniel Bryan b. Randy Orton via countout
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