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We start this week WWE SmackDown Review with the confirmation of the 8 participants for the Smackdown MITB Ladder Match.

The Smackdown MITB Participants are being interviewed in the ring by Josh Matthews.

We see Kane, Sin Cara, Daniel Bryan, Wade Barrett, Justin Gabriel, Health Slater and Cody Rhodes all in the ring but Sheamus is missing.

This would start off as just a standard interview segment where each of the participants in the MITB ladder match would give their views on why they would win the MITB ladder match at the upcoming WWE Money In The Bank 2011 PPV.

The standard interview segment wasn’t to last for long however as the notoriously missing Sheamus would come out and interupt the interview segment bringing a chair along with him.

Sheamus would proceed to clear out the ring before telling everyone that he would not only win the MITB ladder match but would also go onto win the World Heavyweight Championship on the same night. Christian would then go onto interrupt Sheamus in the middle of his tyraid, and would actually thank him for tearing up the contract last week.

Christian explained that he now had a clause in the contract that stated if Randy Orton got disqualified or if there was bad officiating Christian would automatically win the world title. Following this Teddy Long would go onto setup the main event of the night Randy Orton vs Sheamus.

WWE SmackDown Review Segment Rating: 3.5 out of 5

WWE SmackDown Review Final Thoughts: All in all not a bad way to start off an episode of SmackDown to be honest this was one of my favorite starts to SmackDown in recent history.

Cody Rhodes & Ted DiBiase vs Daniel Bryan & Ezekiel Jackson
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I for one am glad to see Cody and Ted teaming together again, these are two superstars that regardless of how much they try to break out on there own just can’t do it with any kind of success. The bottom line is that these two need each other to be successful.

You also had the tag team of Daniel Bryan and Ezekiel Jackson in this match, which to me is an odd yet effective combo, you have the technical wrestler in Bryan and the straight up powerhouse in Jackson.

This match was very physical and very much grounded throughout much of the match. The match favored Rhodes and DiBiase early on but Zeke and Bryan would temporarily turn things around until Ted managed to hit dream street on Ezekiel Jackson for the win.

Match Rating: 3.8 out of 5

Final Thoughts: This was a really really good tag match, I went into this match honestly not knowing what to expect. I didn’t know whether it would be a quick match due to the antics of Rhodes and DiBiase or the power of Zeke. Thankfully I was in for a treat as this was one hell of a tag team match between a veteran Tag Team and the surprisingly fluidity of Bryan and Jackson.

Trent Baretta vs Jinder Mahal
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This match was exactly what I expected it to be, a squash match to promote Jinder as even more of a power house than we had seen in recent week. Baretta did actually had more offence than  I thought he would have. However ultimately Mahal would win the match as he has been doing quite often recently. After the match Mahal would order Khali into the ring to apply the vice grip to Barretta.

Match Rating: 1.5 out of 5.

Final Thoughts: Right now all we are seeing out of mahal is his ability to squash smaller opponets in completely one sided matches. However I would like to see what he can do on his own in a more fair fight before judging his ability.

Tamina vs AJ
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AJ is one of the newest divas in WWE, and she is improving slowly every week. This week she would go up against another of WWE’s newest divas in Tamina. Tamina would dominate much of the early part of the match AJ would turn it around toward the end before rolling Tamina up for the win.

WWE SmackDown Review Match Rating: 2 out of 5.

WWE SmackDown Review Final Thoughts: This match what about what I expect out of a divas match anymore 5 mins where each of the divas get there time to be dominant then the match ends by some extravagant move or by getting the quick craddle for the  win.

Kane vs Mark Henry

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If ever there was a clash of the titans this truley was a clash of two very huge titans.

Throughout the early parts of the match Mark Henry would underestimate Kane and Kane would take the opporutinty to dominate Mark throughout the early part of the match.

At on point it looked as though Kane would win after the chokeslam however Henry would manage to get his foot on the bottom rope keeping the match going.

Kane would attempt to take the match outside the ring and put Mark Henry throught the table, however this would ultimately be Kane’s undoing.

As Kane was about to chokeslam Mark through the table, Mark Henry would overpower and slam Kane into the apron and then the ring post before rolling him back into the ring. Once back in the ring Mark would end the match via the world’s strongest slam.

WWE SmackDown Review Match rating: 3.5 out of 5.

WWE SmackDown Review Final Thoughts: This was a good match between two of the titans in the industry, and I for one feel that if Kane had kept the action in the ring he would have won.

Tyson Kidd vs Sin Cara
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Some people felt that Sin Cara had something to prove after his loss to Christian last week, and in some ways he may have had something to prove at least to himself. This match would be a battle between two of the most talented high flyers in WWE right now.

This match as expected had many counters moves with momentum shifting frequently between Kidd and Sin Cara. Ultimatelu Sin Cara would manage to outmove Kidd and pickup the win against him.

Match Rating: 3.8 out of 5.

Final Thoughts: First off where the hell did they drag Tyson Kidd up from? Aside from that this really was one of the better matches of the night. I am personally always excited by the high flying matches.

There’s nothing wrong with straight out wrestling matches but the high flying matches are always the one that keep your attention and amaze you and this match was no exception.

Heath Slater & Justin Gabriel vs The Uso’s
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I’d like to think that WWE has seen the error of its ways and has began to put the focus back onto tag teams properly. I can’t say for sure whether this is the case or not but judging by the quality of the tag matches they have had lately I would say they’re trying at the very least.

This was a very exciting tag match between two very talented teams on the one hand you have the brother team of Jimmy and Jey Uso, then on the other hand you have Heath Slater and Justin Gabriel these two have been tagging together for at least a year on Raw and SmackDown and likely were tagging long before that in FCW.

This was one of the best tag matches I have seen in a long time and I was glad to see this match did not end via BS finish like DQ. Ultimately it would be a miscommunication between Slater and Gabriel that would cost them the match.

Match Rating: 3.8 out of 5.

Final Thoughts: This shows what WWE can do with tag teams if they really want to, and I for one hope they keep this kind of tag team action going regularly in the WWE.

Randy Orton vs Sheamus
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This was Sheamus first match back after being temporarily put on the shelf from a punt from Orton a few weeks ago.

Sheamus would dominate much of the match while attempting to put Orton in as much pain as possible. Orton would start to bring the match back in his favor toward the end of the match.

However Christian would interfere by kicking Orton in the head thus giving him the DQ victory. While Christian was attacking Orton, Sheamus would attack Christian and get him off of Orton, however this allow Orton to nail Sheamus with the RKO.

Match Rating: 4 out of 5.

Final Thoughts: I have always enjoyed the matches between Orton and Sheamus and tonight was no exception. I only wish this match would have been allowed to finish itself without interference.

That wrapped up this week WWE SmackDown Review, for this week Mark Henry vs Big Show and the Smackdown MITB Ladder Match was added to the WWE Money In The Bank 2011 Card.

WWE SmackDown Review 07/08/11 By: MarioMan9112

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