WWE Smackdown Coverage: The Best the B-Show Can Be

Away from the silly new year’s resolutions, the first Smackdown of 2014 proved to be a decent wrestling show thanks to a good card. Although their was very little in terms of story development (away from the snippet of the Paul Heyman interview on WWE.com), you may be able to make the argument that Smackdown had a better pace and better quality matches than this week’s Monday night RAW.

Matches:

Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns w/ United States Champion Dean Ambrose vs. Jimmy and Jey Uso: An awesome opener filled with high-flying maneuvers, counters and Ambrose on color commentary. Ambrose got the match thrown out after he interfered. After the bell, the three member of The Shield beat on the Usos until CM Punk hit the ring.

Fandango w/Summer Rae vs. R-Truth w/Xavier Woods: This match lasted about four minutes, until Woods summoned Naomi and Cameron, who danced on the entry ramp and distracted Fandango long enough for Truth to hit the What’s Up for the win.

WWE Tag Team Champions Cody Rhodes and Goldust vs. Luke Harper and Erik Rowan: Surprisingly, Bray Wyatt and Daniel Bryan were not ringside for the match. The Rhodes brother had another wonderful match, proving once again that they are deserving WWE Tag Team Champions. However, the awkward styles of Rowan and Harper made the match more interesting the Rhodes boys. After 10 or so minutes of back and forth action-in and out of the ring, Harper destroyed Rhodes with a sit-out Powerbomb and some strikes, but Rhodes was able to hit a Moonsault and tag in Goldust, who was able to get the win on the freshly tagged-in Rowan via Rollup.

Aksana vs. Nikki Bella: Nikki got in some early offense, but Aksana worked on Bella’s arm and continued to dominate throughout the match. Then, like a ball of fire, Bella worked Aksana over with clotheslines and a Bulldog before winning with a Torture Rack Buster.

WWE Intercontinental Champion Big E. Langston vs. Curtis Axel: The former champ held his own for a few minutes but Langston fought back with signature offense and finished off Axel with The Big Ending.

Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns and United States Champion Dean Ambrose vs. CM Punk, Jimmy and Jey Uso: A continuation of the action-packed opener, only this time, Punk and Ambrose got in on the action. Jimmy Uso spiced things up with a Corksrew Splash on Reigns and then the tagged in Punk kept the pace high with his signature offense. But thanks to better teamwork, The Shield kept the advantage.But after Ambrose and Reigns got their wires crossed, the Usos took out Reigns and Rollins, leaving Punk and Ambrose alone in the ring. Punk promptly finished off Ambrose with the GTS.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 14230 Articles
Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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