WWE Smackdown Results
February 18th, 2011
Edge is the first person to make his way to the ring for the 12-man tag. Edge is wearing the World Heavyweight Championship and Tony Chimel announces him as the champion. Michael Cole flips out and yells that he is no longer the champion.
12-Man Tag Team Match
Edge, Randy Orton, John Morrison, R-Truth, Rey Mysterio, & John Cena vs. CM Punk, King Sheamus, Wade Barrett, Drew McIntyre, Kane, & Dolph Ziggler
Edge will start the match out against the King of the Ring but he immediately tags out and lets Drew McIntyre in. They lock up in the center of the ring and McIntyre backs him to the corner. McIntyre kicks and punches him down before talking a little trash to Edge and the good guy side. Edge grabs him and viciously beats on him in the corner. Edge ducks a clothesline and hits a big boot. R-Truth is tagged in and he hits some right hands. R-Truth bounces him in the corner and sends him to the ropes but lowers his head and eats a kick.
Ziggler is tagged in and he runs into a hip toss. Randy Orton is tagged in and he kicks Ziggler a few times. Orton uppercuts and punches him in the corner. Orton has a whip reversed to the corner but he explodes out with a clothesline. Orton drops a knee and gets a two count. John Cena is tagged in and he’s met with a mix of cheers and boos. Cena hits some offense but eventually runs into a back elbow. Ziggler punches him in the corner but has a whip reversed and Cena hits a bulldog. John Morrison is tagged in and Ziggler immediately kicks him in the knee. Ziggler stomps on Morrison but eventually he comes back by sweeping the knees. Morrison goes for Starship Pain but Ziggler slams him off the top rope with an inverted body slam for a near fall.
We come back from the break to see Sheamus suplex Morrison for a two count. CM Punk tags in and he kicks Morrison. Punk hits a snapmare and kicks him in the back. Punk taunts him and drops a few knees for a near fall. Punk applies a head-scissors and the crowd is in a frenzy. Morrison knees out of it and just tags in Rey Mysterio. Mysterio comes off the top rope with a seated senton, goes into the ropes, ducks a clothesline, and hits a springboard cross-body for a near fall. Punk quickly kicks him and goes for a sunset flip but Mysterio rolls through and kicks him in the head for a near fall. Punk knees him in the midsection and goes for the GTS but Mysterio gets out and head-scissors him into position. Punk grabs him as he goes for a 619 and hits a backbreaker for a near fall.
Kane is tagged in and the Big Red Machine stomps Mysterio. Kane knees him in the corner a bunch of times before being backed up. Kane sends him to the corner and scoops him up in a bear hug. Mysterio eventually punches out and kicks him in the face. Kane pushes him into the heel corner but Mysterio fights them off. Kane goes for a Chokeslam but Mysterio gets out of it. Kane slides him out of the ring sternum first and right into CM Punk’s knee!
We come back from the break to see Wade Barrett deliver a backbreaker to Mysterio for a near fall. Barrett stomps him down in the corner and tags in Sheamus. Mysterio makes a break for his corner but Sheamus gets him. Sheamus hits a short-arm clothesline and gloats about it. Sheamus applies an arm bar submission. The crowd gets behind Mysterio and he punches out. Mysterio goes into the ropes and goes for his team but Sheamus grabs him. Mysterio kicks Sheamus in the face but runs into the Irish Curse for a near fall.
Barrett tags back in and he stomps him. Barrett drops a knee but he’s too close to the ropes for the referee to count. Barrett knees Mysterio in the face and head-butts him down for a near fall. Barrett sends Mysterio to the corner and runs into a drop-toe-hold, sending him face first into the turnbuckle. Mysterio then takes him out with a moonsault press.
Edge is tagged in and so is Ziggler. Edge ducks a clothesline and hits two of his own. Edge hits a flapjack and an impaler DDT. Edge backs up to the corner and sets up for the Spear. Ziggler slowly gets up and Sheamus gives him the Brogue Kick. Morrison takes Sheamus out with a Flying Chuck. Kane takes Morrison out with a Chokeslam so Cena runs in and takes Kane out with an Attitude Adjustment. Punk runs in and hits him with the GTS and he turns into an RKO! McIntyre runs in and gives Orton the Future Shock DDT. McIntyre then turns into Pay Dirt from R-Truth. Barrett takes him out with the Boss Man Slam. Mysterio then delivers a top rope hurricanrana, putting Barrett in position. Mysterio then dropkicks Ziggler into position as well and hits a Double 619 on both men! Ziggler then stumbles into a Spear!
Winners: Edge, Randy Orton, John Morrison, R-Truth, Rey Mysterio, & John Cena
Vickie Guerrero comes out to the stage and orders Edge to hand over the championship belt because he is no longer champion. Vickie then plays a replay from last Friday’s Smackdown. Vickie reminds Edge that the Spear was illegal. Vickie says Clay Matthews isn’t even a licensed official. Vickie says he’s no longer the World Heavyweight Champion but her boyfriend Dolph Ziggler is. Tonight on the 600th episode of Smackdown, we’ll all witness his championship coronation. Vickie welcomes him to watch from his hotel room because she knows he’s the one who assaulted Teddy Long. Since she’s known him she’s known about Edge’s rage and that rage assaulted Teddy Long. She may not see eye to eye with Long on many thing but she respects him. Vickie then informs Edge that HE’S FIRED! Edge can’t believe it and tands in the ring shocked.
Todd Grisham stands with “Dashing” Cody Rhodes, who stands in the shadows wearing a plastic mask. Rhodes says the world can’t see the anguish he’s gone through. Rhodes says his surgery was a success, but his opportunities for success have been destroyed. While superstars like Rey Mysterio are on the Road to WrestleMania, his journey was stalled before it could even start. Rhodes says he’s not going to bash Mysterio because he’s 10x the professional that he could ever be. Rhodes says his doctors have cleared him for travel so he’ll have an announcement for the WWE Universe on Smackdown next week.
Eve Torres & Beth Phoenix vs. Maryse & Layla w/ Michelle McCool
Michelle McCool is on commentary. She acknowledges her busted foot. Maryse slaps Beth to start the match. Beth grabs Maryse and throws her to the corner. Beth punches her in the corner and whips her across the ring. Beth clotheslines her in the corner and clotheslines her down for a two count. Layla is tagged in and she kicks Beth. Beth pushes her down and wrenches the arm. Beth picks her up by the arm and slams her down. Eve is tagged in and she dropkicks Layla a few times. Eve forearms her and sends her to the corner. Eve blocks a kick and hits a snap suplex for a two count.
Layla reverses a whip and rolls through a sunset flip. Eve ducks a roundhouse kick and knees her in the face. Eve hits a bicycle kick and knocks her down. McCool gets up from commentary and yells at Eve. Beth knocks McCool in her injured foot. The referee is distracted enough for Layla and Maryse to double kick Eve. Layla then picks up the win.
Winners: Maryse & Layla
The announcers talk about how Smackdown was actually a word invented by The Rock. Booker T says he took great offense to that back in the day because he felt it should have been called The Book Show.
Kofi Kingston vs. The Miz w/ Alex Riley
They lock up and Miz quickly gets a waist lock. Kingston turns into one of his own and Miz catches him with a side headlock. Kingston whips him off and gets shoulder blocked down. The Miz goes into the ropes but holds on. Miz runs into a hip toss and Kingston applies an arm bar. Kingston turns it to a hammerlock and Miz elbows him in the face. The Miz sends him to the ropes and Kingston gets a cross-body for a one count. Kingston hits another cross-body for another one count. Kingston goes into the ropes one more time and gets one more cross-body for a two count.
Kingston wrenches the arm and gets a hammerlock on. The Miz backs him to the corner and punches him down. The referee admonishes him and makes Alex Riley back away from the ring. Kingston comes back with some punches and sends him to the corner. Kingston charges but Miz moves so he jumps to the second rope. The Miz quickly kicks him in the knee before he can do anything. Kingston crumples down to the mat as we go to a break.
We come back from the break to see Miz kick Kingston in the ribs. The Miz hits a nice suplex and covers for a near fall. Alex Riley didn’t like the count and let Robinson know it. Miz pulls on Kingston’s hair and applies a surfboard stretch. Kingston fights up and tries to twist out of it but Miz keeps it locked in. Kingston fights up once again and gets a backslide pin for a near fall. Kingston kicks him a few times but Miz quickly stops the momentum. Kingston goes for a ranhei but Miz pushes him off. Kingston then hits a nice hurricanrana, sending him to the corner. Miz then walks into a dropkick for a near fall.
The Miz quickly drives him into the corner and hits a shoulder block. The Miz charges and Kingston counters him with a pendulum kick. Kingston takes him out with a top rope cross-body block for a near fall. Kingston goes for a superman punch but Miz counters into a backbreaker/neckbreaker combo for a near fall. Kingston comes back with a kick. Miz goes to throw him out of the ring but Kingston counters that. Kingston hits the superman punch and the Boom Drop. Kingston gets the crowd into it and all of a sudden…
Alberto Del Rio walks down to the ring laughing. The Miz quickly rolls Kingston up but Kingston rolls through and nearly picks up the win. Kingston kicks him in the face and goes into the ropes but is distracted by Del Rio slapping him with his scarf. The Miz then hits the Skull Crushing Finale for the win!
Winner: The Miz
Alberto Del Rio is happy with the result and walks away from the ring smiling. All of a sudden he gets back in the ring and stands over Kingston. Del Rio laughs and taunts the crowd. Del Rio’s music plays and he leaves the ring.
WWE Unified Tag Team Championships Match
Heath Slater & Justin Gabriel vs. Santino Marella & Vladimir Kozlov
Kozlov starts out against Gabriel. Kozlov quickly slams him down. Kozlov sends him to the ropes and catches a cross-body attempt. Kozlov hits a nice fall-away slam, sending him out of the ring. Kozlov taunts the crowd. Wade Barrett and Ezekiel Jackson then walk down to ringside. They distract Kozlov enough to get him off his feet. Slater is tagged in and he kicks away at Kozlov. Slater stomps him down and runs right into a big slam.
Santino is tagged in. Santino blocks a kick and punches away. Santino splits under a clothesline, hits a hip toss, and a diving head-butt for a near fall broken up by Slater. Santino gets to his feet and hits The Cobra. Barrett immediately attacks him, causing a disqualification.
Winners: Santino Marella & Vladimir Kozlov
Wade Barrett and Ezekiel Jackson work over Santino until Big Show runs down! Big Show takes out The Corre with punches and head-butts. Big Show then throws them out of the ring and calls Jackson into the ring. Jackson gets on the apron and teases getting in but his friends from The Corre talk him out of it. They back up the ramp as Big Show’s music plays.
Vickie Guerrero and Dolph Ziggler are standing in the ring with the World Heavyweight Championship on a podium. Vickie welcomes us to the World Heavyweight Championship coronation of Dolph Ziggler. Vickie says it is her great privilege to introduce the NEW World Heavyweight Champion Dolph Ziggler. Vickie hands the title over to Ziggler and he walks around the ring holding it up for the crowd to see.
All of a sudden Smackdown General Manager Teddy Long’s music hits! Teddy Long returns and he does not look happy at all. Long gets in the ring and says it looks like they’ve seen a ghost. Long says he can imagine that they’re surprised to see him. While this so-called investigation over his attack was going on, Long asks if her investigation led her to looking in the mirror. Vickie says that’s absurd. Long says she had the most to gain from his attack and she was said to be the first person on the scene. Vickie starts arguing so Long tells her to SHUT UP! Long says she’s been after his job for a long time but she doesn’t have to worry about his job or hers. Long says this is what will happen…
Vickie explodes and blames everything on Ziggler. Ziggler can’t believe it. Long says he’s glad this is all coming out now. Long says they can forget about the coronation. Long tells the crew to clear the ring. Long says he’s back in charge and we’ll have ourselves a World Heavyweight Title match right now! Long says Vickie had the power to fire people and he has the power to rehire them. That’ll be Dolph Ziggler’s opponent – the Rated R Superstar Edge!
World Heavyweight Championship Match
Dolph Ziggler w/ Vickie Guerrero vs. Edge
The bell rings and Edge immediately ducks a clothesline. Edge hits a pair of clotheslines and a modified face-buster. Edge sets up in the corner and is looking for the Spear. Ziggler leap frogs the Spear, sending Edge shoulder first into the ring post. Ziggler attacks Edge at ringside and stomps him down. Ziggler throws him into the ring and covers for a one count. Ziggler chokes Edge on the bottom rope and elbows him in the throat. Ziggler rolls him to the middle of the ring and gets a one count.
Ziggler applies a chin lock but Edge soon fights up and punches out. Ziggler sends him to the ropes and applies the Sleeper Hold, but Edge breaks the hold. Ziggler kicks and hits a leg drop bulldog. Ziggler goes for the Zig-Zag but Edge holds the ropes. Edge then ducks a clothesline and hits a Spear for the win!
Winner: Edge
Teddy Long’s music hits and he comes out to the stage. Long says there’s one more thing. Dolph Ziggler – YOU’RE FIRED! Vickie is in shock and Ziggler looks completely dejected. Vickie yells at Ziggler over his loss.
Edge grabs a microphone and excuses himself. Edge says tonight has been one long party. It’s the 600th episode of Smackdown. Edge was here for the first episode and now he’s on the 600th episode with the World Championship right where it belongs. Now Dolph Ziggler is fired. Just a few hours ago he was fired and it doesn’t feel very good. Edge says it makes a guy want to sing seeing Ziggler fired. Edge asks the crowd to sing along with him as confetti pours down from the rafters. Ziggler leaves the ring slowly as Vickie looks livid. Confetti continues to pour down as Edge raises the World Heavyweight Championship over his head.
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