SMACKDOWN! PREVIEW: 03/12/10

Friday nights have become a pretty sweet night for wrestling lately. With Smackdown! usually being top drawer (although it can most definitely fluctuate in quality), Dragon Gate USA has swooped in by delivering exhaustingly good PPVs that air on Fridays as well.

Those PPVs may come several months apart (I'm almost certain there's one for every season) but hey, it's still bolstered Friday nights if you're a fan of wrestling.

I caught last week's event not on the Friday, but on the Monday morning at 11. Watching a wrestling PPV replay at 11 in the morning on a Monday gives me two feelings:

1) When they would have school dances in elementary school but they would have to hold them between like 2:30 and 3:30 in the afternoon. So you felt all weird because it was dark and people were dancing like it was a club (but not really because clubs are somehow more lame).

2) That I have lost the will to live.

Seriously, a wrestling PPV REPLAY at 11:00 in the morning on a Monday?! What has my life become. Good god.

In spite of all of this self-hate, the PPV was pretty awesome (no surprise there), even for 11 in the morning. Davey/Mochizuki was my favourite from the show, and the Elimination Tag with the Bucks, Shingo/YAMATO & Doi/Yoshino was essentially at full-tilt from bell to bell. I started wheezing halfway through it.

Anyway, no DGUSA tonight. Just Smackdown:

SPOILER-FREE SMACKDOWN! PREVIEW

THE HIGHLIGHT REEL RETURNS

World Heavyweight Champion Chris Jericho welcomes his guest, Edge

SINGLES MATCH

R-Truth (with David Otunga) vs. WWE United States & Unified Tag Team Champion The Miz (with Daniel Bryan(!))

SINGLES MATCH

John Morrison vs. Unified Tag Team Champion Big Show

SQUASH SINGLES MATCH

WWE Intercontinental Champion Drew McIntyre vs. Aaron Bolo

DIVAS MATCH

WWE Women's Champion Michelle McCool vs. Tiffany

TAG TEAM MATCH

Cryme Tyme vs. The Hart Dynasty

SINGLES MATCH

Kane vs. Luke Gallows