Smackdown 3-16-12

Matches:

1. Kofi Kingston v. David Otunga - 3 out of 5
2. AJ v. Nikki Bella - 4 out of 5
3. Cody Rhodes v. The Great Khali - 3 out of 5
4. Big Show v. Drew McIntyre - 1 out of 5
5. Mark Henry v. Yoshi Tatsu - 2 out of 5
6. Chris Jericho v. Sheamus - 4 out of 5


The road to WrestleMania has been heating up in recent weeks. The GM teams are beginning to flush out now, and on Friday night Christian basically put himself in Johnny Ace's team. Not that Mr. Ace was exactly trying to stop him. Teddy tried to put him in a match, but Laurinaitis told him Christian wasn't cleared, and that led to our first match. The best part here was during the match, with both GMs joining commentary, when Johnny explained that Christian HAD been cleared, but then he got an ingrown toenail. Let's hope there's none of those come April 1. I am very much looking forward to watching Christian kick some ass in the next couple of weeks.

Three, count them THREE big men were in action on this program, and only one of them managed to serve any kind of purpose, and that was the guy we least wanted to see on our television. Big Show and Mark Henry both squashed jobbers, which proves once again that they can beat up guys smaller than them. A special double-this-accomplished-nothing goes to Big Show for beating up Drew McIntyre who has won a single match in the last two months, and that was against a little person. Meanwhile, Khali fell to Cody's disaster kick, which helps begin the resurgence of Cody's quest to make his title mean something. Because it does.

And then there was Daniel Bryan, who has embraced his full-on asshole heel persona. He's such a pig, it's a wonder he lets AJ come out to the ring at all. This week, he bought her a dress that looked better on the mannequin, helped her win her match (and afterwards asserted that if she'd listened to him, it would have gone more smoothly), and then celebrated as though he'd just won at WrestleMania. At the end of the night, he sat ringside for Sheamus' match with Jericho, while AJ stood--STOOD--quietly behind him. Daniel Bryan is the kind of heel who pays special attention to the little details, and that's what makes him so good at what he does.