Mr. Kennedy Gets Title Shot

Mr. Kennedy was assured of a title shot against Batista at Royal Rumble after no other SmackDown wrestler was able to beat his time. So far Mr. Kennedy has beat 6 former champions during his wrestling career.

In the last Beat the Clock Sprint match of the night and of the challenge Undertaker took on the Miz. Undertaker was dominating the wrestling rookie and looked like he was going to beat Mr Kennedy’s time. That was until Kennedy pulled Miz out of the ring giving Undertaker just too little time to get the pin in less time than it took Kennedy. Ever since Kennedy has reached main-event status we had to expect he’d get a shot at the title and it appears that shot is just a few weeks away.

MVP was really selling his burns in his match with Vito which ended when neither could beat Mr. K’s time. Matt Hardy and Finlay too fought hard but neither got a decision in time. This was a bit better match than MVP and Vito but that is expected considering they are more renowned wrestlers. The match got interesting when Joey Mercury entered and attacked Hardy. Looks like WWE is going to keep the Hardys/MNM feud going after all.

Kennedy won his non-title match against Chris Benoit when Chavo got involved. Chavo and Benoit will face off next week on SmackDown in a no DQ match for the U.S. championship. London & Kendrick retained against Regal & Taylor. They have had the tag titles for 8 months now so I wouldn’t be suprised to see them switch hands soon, but then again SmackDown is really lacking on tag talent so maybe they should just keep them.

Worst match of this night goes to Tatanka vs. Jimmy Wang Yang. The match was just dull and the crowd was totally out of it. Tatanka got the victory but I just hope this rivalry doesn’t last too long.