Smackdown Results - May 2, 2008

WWE Tag Team Championship Match
John Morrison & Miz vs Jimmy Wang Yang & Shannon Moore

Solid match as usual between these two tag teams. However, it's the same thing that we get just about 2-3 times a month from these guys. It would have been better if the writers made it where people actually believed a title change was possible.

Winners: John Morrison & Miz

Vladimir Kozlov vs Colin Delaney

This is the most relevant that Vladimir Kozlov has been since he was in the audience on Monday Night Raw several months back. The audience actually somewhat cares about Colin Delaney, so a couple more actually paid attention to Vladimir Kozlov this week than normal.

Winner: Vladimir Kozlov

Natalya & Victoria vs Cherry & Michelle

Another decent match, but just like the WWE Tag Team Championship match, it was hurt by the fact that the storyline between these two teams just hasn't been able to draw interest. WWE can only rely on Natayla's "newness" for so long.

Winners: Natalya & Victoria

Mark Henry vs Nunzio

Nothing really special about the match itself. This entire thing was done just to set up a feud between Big Show and Mark Henry.

Winner: Mark Henry

WWE United States Heavyweight Championship Match
Matt Hardy vs MVP

The match itself was good. These two guys have good chemistry.

It's just that everything else about the match that sucked.

MVP's rematch basically came without much fanfare. He basically gets his rematch and loses cleanly. That doesn't help him regain any of the momentum that he lost at Backlash.

What WWE should have done was give Matt Hardy a successful title defense against another heel that can afford a loss (ie Shelton Benjamin, Elijah Burke, etc).

MVP should have been given a victory over someone (ie Finlay, Tommy Dreamer, etc) to regain some of his momentum.

Winner: Matt Hardy

Batista Interview

Generic interview with Batista that didn't really explain all too much. Is he still feuding with Shawn Michaels or is it over? Hard to really know for sure.

Nice touch having Mick Foley conducting the interview so that they can remind fans that he's the new color commentator for Smackdown now.

Curt Hawkins & Zack Ryder vs Jesse & Festus

The match itself was average, but it gets a good rating because it does highlight two legitimate tag teams. It wouldn't really hurt for management to start a feud between these two teams to keep things interesting.

Winners: Curt Hawkins & Zack Ryder

Finlay vs Julio Dinero

Very solid match, but you usually can expect that from Finlay. However, it was painfully obvious that this was WWE's lazy attempt at giving Finlay some momentum. We still believe that he needs to be put into an actual feud with someone.

Winner: Finlay

World Heavyweight Championship Match
Undertaker vs Great Khali

The match doesn't really take place. Vickie Guerrero comes out and announces that the Undertaker was stripped of the belt. His submission move has also been banned. They should have kept Edge off of television this week to sell his injury from Backlash.

While the Undertaker brawled with the Great Khali, it gave Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder the perfect opportunity to slip in and steal the World Heavyweight Championship belt.

Undertaker also gives a severe beating to the Great Khali. In reality, though, this was done to explain his one month trip back to India.

Winner: None