wwe events WWE SmackDown! & RAW (Spoiler & Rumor Thread 23) - Page 7

In a select few markets. Also, in some major markets it's going through the usual baseball pre-emptions. It's not airing here in Washington even though the baseball game that was to air was postponed much earlier today.
Edit: Here are all the known pre-emptions (from Wrestling Observer):

quote

Smackdown will not be airing at its regular time tonight in these markets, with the time slot it is airing: New York (2 p.m. Saturday on the new CW station), Los Angeles (Saturday night at 12:30 a.m. on the new CW station), Chicago (Saturday night at 11:30 p.m. on WGN), San Francisco (Saturday at 4 p.m.), Washington, DC (Saturday night at 11 p.m. on the CW station) and Houston (Saturday at 11 a.m. on the new CW station). In most of those cities, they will only air a one hour edited version of Smackdown. It's going to be hell to figure out the ratings, but I'd suspect it will be near record lows just because of the preemptions. And because the show has zero momentum, because the ratings have been crap of late even in the cities without preemptions.

did batista purposely stuff up the first spinebuster, or waas it to add effect?

Around this time is when I remember why I hate UPN. They play High School Football instead of Smackdown, and Smackdown doesn't end until 12:00. Hopefully, CW will give SD some more respect cause this is a pain in the ass.

I'm pretty sure Batista messed up. The table only slightly broke the first time, but I'm surprised they didn't edit the first one out.

This SD was one of the best in quite a while, and not just because of Kennedy winning the title. The match itself was pretty good too. And as much as The Miss (that's what I'm gonna call him) sucked, it was really funny with all JBL's stuff. "The Miss could tie me to a tree and he still couldn't beat me in 3 weeks." Also the tag match was good and the Helms/Hardy match too. Only problem I found with this SD was the Contract Signing, but those always suck. BTW why did they need a contract for a match on Smackdown? Usually they'd do it for a PPV, but the match is next week. Whats up with that?

id rather see a Booker/Benoit feud as well!

Batista has gone from one of my faves, to one of my least faves! Hell, i may even like Miz more than Batista!

The Eddie Storyline is horrible, but it just keeps getting more...whats the word...like confusing! Vickie is actually an OK actress as a baddie!

Helms/Hardy was one of the best matches in ages.

Miz's debut was weird, seems like they're gonna have him as a mentally deranged heel or something. As much as I hate to say it, he'll probably do more than Burchill, Yang and so on with the gimmick's they're lumped with.

Boogeyman's coming back soon. Why?

There have been rumors for a little while now about Boogeyman going to ECW. In some ways, when you think about the nature of his gimmick it does make sense in some ways when you think about how it relates to Sci Fi outside of wrestling.

Somehow I think he will be better on Smackdown. I also want to see JBL shit his pants on his debut.