Smackdown Report 12/01/06
We’re in Buffalo, New York. Hosts are Michael Cole & JBL.
PROMO TIME – Teddy Long is out here to remind us that Survivor Series was "off the chain". Your opinion, not mine. He says Armageddon will be even hotter. He starts booking matches. Kane v MVP in an Inferno match, Undertaker v Mr Kennedy in a Last Ride match and he finishes things off by bringing out THE MIGHTY DAVE~! He’s the new world champ. JBL calls him a cheater and rags on Cole for being biased towards the new champ. Cole brings up JBL’s cheating during his 10 month reign as champion, which JBL denies. Dave says that "all is right in the world". He reminds us of his promise back in January that he’d reclaim the title he never lost. Dave says it’s only the beginning but he’s interrupted by KING BOOKER with QUEEN SHARMELL. "All hail King Booker!" The Book compares Dave to all the peasants in the crowd. Booker calls Dave a thief and Teddy Long his accomplice. Booker points out the stipulations changed right before the match, which is unheard of and Booker didn’t have time to prepare. But that’s besides the point because Dave cheated to beat him anyway. Booker invokes his royal rematch clause right here tonight. DAVE~! is happy to go right now but out comes FIT FINLAY. He tells Booker he doesn’t deserve a rematch because he never beat Finlay while he was champ. Finlay threatens to smack Booker around if he steps up to him. Teddy decides to make his decision and books a triple threat match for the title. TONIGHT!
World title – THE MIGHTY DAVE~! (C) v KING BOOKER w/Queen Sharmell v FIT FINLAY
Sharmell has started to get quite aggressive with her "all hail King Booker". Finlay has his shillelagh. Dave finds himself fending off both heels to start and then bouncing them off each other. Finlay begs off so Dave elbows at him in the corner. Dave with the rolling Fireman’s carry slam. Where did that come from? The heels try to double up but Dave cuts them both down with clotheslines. Finlay gets elbowed clean out of the ring and Booker gets clotheslined out the other side. Inserted in the USA would be a commercial break, I don’t have one so my match time will be screwy. We see that during the break Dave got laid out. Now Finlay has the upper hand and he stomps on the fallen Dave. Finlay stops off to bash Booker’s head off the ring steps. Finlay pops around to Dave and posts his arm. Dave tries to come back in through the ropes but Finlay DDT’s him as he does so for 2. Finlay works a chinlock only breaking it to boot Booker off the apron. Dave powers his way back up to an equal standing before driving some shoulders into the gut. He smacks Finlay around some more then lifts a weak version of the Muscle Buster for 2. JBL calls it a fisherman suplex but he had both legs. Dave gets clocked with a scissors kick from King Booker but that only gets 2. Booker uses the bottom rope to clothesline Dave. That gets 2. Finlay tries to steal a pin. Now Booker and Finlay have issues. Booker tries to argue it’s his match so Finlay headbutts him. Booker boots him down though and lays in the size 14′s. Meanwhile Sharmell is choking Dave to make sure he can’t get back into this. Booker hits Dave with a jumping sidekick for 2. Booker ties Dave up in the ropes and hauls away at the neck. Finlay puts the boots in as well. Booker suggests an accord with Finlay and they put the boots into the champ. Booker tries to sneak a pin in but Finlay reminds him what they’re doing here. Finlay hooks up a slightly more vicious chinlock than usual. Dave is in no mood to tap out though. He IS mighty after all. He just hauls Finlay up into a Samoan drop for 2. Finlay grabs his shillelagh but impartial referee Nick Patrick orders him to put it down. Dave and Booker end up duking it out. Here comes LITTLE BASTARD. He runs off as soon as he sees the size of Dave but its enough distraction for Finlay to bash Dave in the knee with the shillelagh for 2. Finlay kicks away at that now injured body part but Booker kicks him in the face for his troubles. Dave ducks the scissors kick and hits a spinebuster though. He seems particularly upset with Finlay and goes for the Demonbomb but Finlay shoves him off. Dave spears him and hits the DEMONBOMB for the pin at 17.32.
Winner and still champion: The Mighty DAVE~! via pinfall after a Demonbomb on Finlay. ***1/4 and probably the best TV match I’ve seen all year. Although I’ve not been watching Smackdown. Maybe I should have been.
BACKSTAGE Dave is on the phone to his partner at Armageddon. He doesn’t name him as yet.
BACKSTAGE Dave chats to Teddy Long and lets him know that his partner at Armageddon is WWE champion JOHN CENA.
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