So the internet was full of spoiler alerts after Tuesday's Smackdown taping, and most message boards were raging about what they heard had happened, but was there a reason for this? Was there potential for a story here? Was Christian injured from the ladder match at Extreme Rules and needed time off? We wouldn't know until Smackdown had aired.
I'll admit that once I had heard that Christian had dropped the belt to Randy Orton, I was wondering why this had happened, straight away you can't help but think that the only reason that Christian won at Extreme Rules was to keep the World Heavyweight Title on Smackdown, and that this was the ultimate slap in the face to Christian, basically saying that WWE has no faith in you to main event PPV's and bring any money into the company, so WWE took the decision to make Randy the face of Friday night's.
Then we watched Smackdown, a very emotional Christian opens up the show saying that he was going to enjoy every single moment as World Heavyweight Champion, almost in tears, then cue the cavalry, Mark Henry, The Great Khali, Randy Orton and finally Teddy Long, the first 3 guys come out to put the view across to Captain Charisma as they would be a viable challenger to the World Heavyweight Champion. Teddy Long's idea to settle this situation?? A popularity contest with the Orlando crowd, not exactly rocket science to know who won this one, and Randy Orton was duly selected and the match was made for that night.
Fast forward to the main event and this was one of the better Smackdown main events in a long time, many people have said, and I agree, that Randy Orton is wrestling some of his best matches since the Evolution days, or quite possibly his best matches in his career. If he can keep this form up then he is rightly in the position that he is in right now, but also in this match, Christian was made to look, well, like a World Champion, he hung with Orton the entire way through the match, there was many near falls which had many of the live audience on the edge of their seats and when it came to the finish, much like WrestleMania, it was a springboard attack that was counted by Randy into an RKO to get the Viper the win and the World Heavyweight Title in Christian's first title defence
What we saw after the match, to me, was the probable start of the story until Over The Limit, as Orton is celebrating his victory up the ramp, Christian is seemingly in disbelief that the title he had worked 13 years for, was out of his hand's just like that, asking himself how did that happen, stunned and confused. The seeds have seemingly been planted for Christian to seemingly go crazy and become obsessed with regaining the World Heavyweight Title, and can do anything to get it back, so expect Christian to turn heel soon. In many ways, Christian may go the same way as Edge, as he was obsessed with the title when John Cena was champion, and if the standard of matches are like what we had on Smackdown, it will make the probably rematch at Over The Limit look very good, and there would be every chance to see Christian regain the title once again. Christian, in my view, will be World Heavyweight Champion again this year.
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