Tyler Reks is still employed?

Haha didn't miss McCool at all. Missed Layla though :/

I wondered why they didn't push the fact that teammates Edge and Swagger have had a run in recently, as well as the fact that Mysterio (ugh, get him off my TV) and Del Rio have had a feud. I guess the plan is for the first week to have them look good and then tension will start to build next week. I too was surprised how quick the McIntyre - Kingston match was, it seemed like they timed it wrong. Big Show was on commentary too long, it got old quick, too much blah, blah, both guys are good, blah. I hate to see when they run out of grooming tips for Cody, they are one of the highlights. My guess is maybe a tag championship match at the PPV so that's why Rhodes and McIntyre lost. Vince is missing the boat, a healthy tag divison makes things much better. I'd much rather watch a 20 minute tag match than singles match.
What's the word on the 7th member of RAW's team? Do you think they will make it a surprise (order the PPV to find out type of surprise)?

So we go from Kane having cheesy "spooky" music during his promos to really bad "spooky" music to no music at all.

This is me not complaining.

Good show overall.

- "There really is no such thing as a Raw guy or a Smackdown guy (well, except for The Undertaker, who has been on Smackdown for seven years straight)."

But you have to admit that the situation this year is better than the "brand vs brand" concept than last year, where superstars were really only a few months in their respective brands!

- I have a feeling that Reks will be replaced next week by either Kaval or someone else...he's too new to be in such an important match up (supposedly important match up)

- Thank god LayCool was not on Smackdown this week.

I enjoyed this episode of Smackdown and I agree, although I wanted Kofi to beat McIntyre, it was a little too easy. The Edge vs Zigler match was was really good. I thought that DelRio was gonna interfere in the Mysterio vs. Cody Rhodes match and cost Rey the match and the spot on team Smackdown. When that didn't happen, I figured that DelRio and Kingston would win their respective matches. I also liked the reversal of power so to speak with Kane and the Undertaker.

Mrs. Undertaker wasn't on the show...I hardly noticed.

To me Kaval looked like an idiot for agreeing to Reks, especially because he got squashed.

If Kaval had been competitive and got a number of near falls, it would have looked more reasonable for him to agree because he had a legitimate shot at winning.

I didn't miss Michelle McCool, but man did I miss Layla.

"I’m always torn when Swagger and MVP wrestle because I’d like to see both guys get a push."

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Can you name two men whom you would like to see reduced to / confined to jobber status? One man's push is another man's burial. Even then, there are only so many hands in a deck of cards; I am highly skeptical that the upper midcard or fringe of the main event scene is big enough for both Swagger and MVP.

Keep the eagle, get rid of Michael Cole

Agreed, when you have to remind the audience who you are on the way down to the ring, that isn't good.

The worse part of that is Reks was clearly coached to tell everyone who he was. He could have went down unannounced, did his damaged, leaving people wondering who he was (if you didnt know who he was).

Regardless of all that, I like Reks' finisher, and he has the size that WWE seems to like. Hopefully we'll start seeing some of these new talents like him emerge.

I am a fan of the Del Rio Character but his finisher is weak. I was never a fan of the Crossface Crippler, and this sort of reminds me of that. I might have missed it but I am not sure if he has a name for it. But it looks like something that would be easy to get out of.

MVP has to turn heal quick. He is great on mic in that heal character,

Couldn't disagree more with your comments on the Kaval/Big Show match. It was made clear in the ring and on commentary that Show wasn't trying to put Kaval away so surviving the 5 mins meant nothing. Then he looked like a fool for accepting a match when he could barely stand, that would only be gutsy if he was an established guy who we know would beat Reks if he was at his best. He looked weak and stupid. Not good.

If Paul Bearer is reading off a teleprompter then he has a lot more in common with President Obama than I would have ever thought possible.

Big shocker of the night was when Edge and Show hugged after his win over Ziggler. If Edge is getting rid of everything stupid in WWE, does that mean that he plans to rid WWE of Vickie Guerrero and the whole Ziggler-Kaitlin-Guerrero love triangle? I agree with someone whose Facebook post the other night was "Tyler Reks is still alive?" For those who didn't know this, Reks was brought to ECW as a part of the new Superstar Initiative by the then-GM Tiffany. He debuted the same night as Sheamus and Yoshi Tatsu, but didn't last very long before he was sent back to FCW.

I agree all down the line... except I love the eagle mascot! It's the best thing Swagger's had going for him in ages.

Oh and I don't care about Tyler Reks, but I do like the idea of an unknown quality on the team.

Yea SmackDown was defiantly better than TNA Impact Bragging Rights qualifying matches were not bad and i am glad to see the vintage UnderTaker back as Cole would say TNA coold learn something from the WWE .

I really hope the Buried Alive match is good but one way or another by the end of the match Paul Bearer will be buried alive.

Another buried alive match in which the undertaker gets buried alive......he is 1-2 in those matches but he always ends up being buried. Its probably to keep him off screen until the Royal Rumble.
The smackdown team looks very powerful, just wondering which one of them will turn to team RAW.

I don´t know why but I kind of like Swagger´s mascot and I really hope he is beating the heck out of Hornswoggle (man, am I sick of this guy) at Bragging Rights even though they are on the same team. But of course I know if those two will meet it will turn out the other way with Horny getting the last laugh.
How could you like Tyler Reks beating Kaval? Maybe I´m wrong but Reks looks just like another one of those tall guys. Nothing special. At least Kaval looks different and he has a unique style.

“There are four guys in the Raw vs. Smackdown match (Big Show, Kingston, Swagger and R-Truth) who were on the opposite side in last year’s match. ...”
Really? Hmm, I´m trying to remember.