WWE Smackdown brand house show report
March 13, 2010
Stockton, Calif.
Report by DaJoel, Torch reader

The show started at 7:30 p.m. and the line was packed all the way around to the arena. We saw a few wrestlers arrive, including Serena. She arrived with Mike Knox and his girlfriend (I believe). She was busy getting her bags out of the trunk out of her car, but she took time to talk to us. She was personable and very nice. Mike Knox also signed a few autographs as well. C.M. Punk and Beth Phoenix arrived together with someone driving them. Luke Gallows looked upset or maybe that's how his face is like, I'm not sure. We met John Morrison earlier in the day at a signing. He was very cool. Anyways, onto the show: the place was jam-packed and the crowd was hot all night for most of the matches.

(1) R-Truth & John Morrison beat Hart Dynasty (Tyson Kidd & D.H. Smith w/Natalya). This match got the crowd heavily excited. The babyfaces got the crowd rolling on their feet, especially R-Truth. While Hart Dynasty were making their entrance, Natalya got into the face of R-Truth and mocked his dance moves for a while. It was hilarious to see in person, as she never does that on TV. Tyson Kidd and D.H. Smith were toying with the crowd while Natalya was busy getting the crowd to boo her at every moment. R-Truth won with the Lie Detector to start off a really good tag match.

Tony Chimel introduced Tiffany as tonight's hostess and she came out to Torrie Wilson's old theme song. She riled up the crowd and asked Stockton if they are ready tonight. She looked for a special timekeeper for this next match and chose a little boy sitting in the front row. He had a "Today is my Birthday" sign held up, so you could already guess he was going to get chosen.

(2) Goldust beat Dolph Ziggler. Ziggler was playing to the crowd doing his little hair flick or whatever it's called. Goldust won with a Frankensteiner type of move, which looked really good in person.

After the match, Ezekiel Jackson came out and attacked Goldust for no apparent reason, unless stated otherwise. Matt Hardy ran out and chased off Ezekiel, which began the next match-up.

(3) Ezekiel Jackson beat Matt Hardy. Jackson is crazy big in person. He basically dominated part of the match until Matt made a comeback, but he fell to defeat with the uranage/Rock Bottom-type finisher to win the match.

(4) Tyler Reks beat Jimmy Wang Yang. The crowd sort of died down for this match. Tyler got a bunch of "who is that?" remarks from the crowd. Jimmy Wang Yang tried his hardest to get the crowd going and it worked. Tyler was toying with the crowd for a bit, and that somewhat worked for him a little. Tyler won the match, but I forgot by what.

(5) Intercontinental champion Drew McIntyre vs. Kane went to a Double count-out. Before the match, Drew ripped apart Stockton, saying we were the #2 Worst City in the world and continued to bombard the fans in order to get great heat from the crowd. The crowd absolutely hated him at this point. Kane came out and we were all cheering for him to kick Drew's ass. The match ended in a Double Disqualification when both wrestlers were brawling outside to the 10-count. Post-match saw Kane chokeslam Drew. Kane picked up the Intercontinental title belt to get an ovation from the fans.

[Intermission]

(6) Shad Gaspard (w/JTG) beat Mike Knox. During the match, Mike Knox big-booted JTG to the floor. JTG got back up while the referee was distracted and slapped Mike Knox in the back just in time for Shad to hit the big boot for the pinfall.

Tiffany came back out to throw some WWE t-shirts to the crowd when Michelle McCool interrupted her. Michelle got good heat since she was on the mic spoiling all the fun. She said that no one came here to see Tiffany. She told Tiffany to do everyone a favor and close her mouth. At this point, my area started a "fight" chant and Michelle pointed at the outside barriers to tell Tiffany that she belongs on the other side of the barrier. Michelle took a dig at Tiffany's outfit, saying to the fans they could go to any street corner to find someone like Tiffany out there. Michelle continued to insult Tiffany and said that she is Flawless, Simply Flawless. Michelle then pushed Tiffany down and beat her down before Beth Phoenix came out for the save, which led to this match...

(7) Women's champion Michelle McCool beat Beth Phoenix to retain the Women's Title. Pretty good action early on. Beth Phoenix dominated most of the match for the most part. At one point, Michelle left the match to run to the back and Beth chased her down. Beth did a stalling suplex and bounced Michelle's legs to the ropes to send her to the canvas. Beth then Irish-whipped Michelle to the corner and Beth butt-crushed her onto that corner. Beth went to chase her and Michelle delivered a viscous kick that pretty much knocked Beth out for the pinfall. Michelle won the match and Beth sold the kick in a short three-minute match.

Tony Chimmel thanked all of us for coming out tonight and hoped to come back in the near future. This brought out the Straight Edge Society, who came out to heavy boos, mainly for C.M. Punk. Punk couldn't get much of a word in, as he was booed so much. Luke Gallows and Serena both got on the mic and told the crowd to Shut Up and be respectful. Punk directed a few insults to the crowd and did the usual routine just to get more boos. This brought out World Heavyweight champion Chris Jericho, who got a mixed reaction. Edge came out to loud cheers, then Rey came out to an INSANE pop, as there were a ton of Rey fans. Undertaker came out maybe to an even amount of cheers as Rey.

(8) The Undertaker & Rey Mysterio & Edge beat World Hvt. champion Chris Jericho & C.M. Punk & Luke Gallows (w/Serena) in a six-man tag match. The crowd was heavily pumped up for this main event. Jericho and Punk got good heat for beating up on the fan favorite Rey Mysterio, even stepping on him at consecutive times. Undertaker seemed genuinely happy to be there, as he got a water bottle and started pouring it all over his face, which got the crowd to cheer even more. He cleaned house and all three faces did their finishers to end the match and to send the fans home happy.

Biggest Pops:

(1) The Undertaker
(2) Rey Mysterio
(3) Edge
(4) Kane
(5) R-Truth & John Morrison

Biggest Heat:

(1) C.M. Punk
(2) Chris Jericho
(3) Drew McIntyre
(4) Hart Dynasty

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