Match Ratings For 6/12/20 WWE Smackdown From Sean Ross Sapp

PEEGATE

• Sheamus wants a drug test for Jeff Hardy before he’ll even do a match with him.
• A doctor comes out with security guards and a privacy curtain.
• Sheamus makes jokes about just saying no.
• “IT’S BETTER TO GET PISSED OFF, THAN PISSED ON!” – Jeff Hardy. He throws the piss all over Sheamus.
• Jeff Hardy needs to drink more water with that yellow ass pee.
• Heavy edits on the audio for the “you got pissed on” chants.
• Sheamus is backstage cleaning up ang gargling mouthwash. He almost pukes when the doctor tells him that Hardy’s test came back negative.
• Backstage, we see Sheamus attack Jeff Hardy.

The Artists Collective defeated New Day
5/10

• Ah, WONDERFUL. The ol “champs lose, so they have a re-match two days later” gag.
• The match is good, but you know what’s happening. You can see it from a mile away.
• Kofi particulary seems up for this match. He hits a great stomp.
• I do love the finish of getting the knees up and going in for the pin, but I just despise the lazy booking associated with this.
• YOU KNOW we’re getting this match again on Sunday. No question.

Intercontinental Championship
AJ Styles defeated Daniel Bryan to win the vacant title
8/10

• We got a great Intercontinental Title video package.
• It’s time for the IC Title match. I would have had this as the main event, but it is what it is.
• Suicide dive hits for Bryan, a big dropkick hits for Styles.
• Bryan is switching to a ground attack, and really stretches out AJ.
• Styles goes after the knee of Bryan and works it over big time. There’s a great tree of woe here.
• Bryan battles back with kicks and a super huracanrana.
• Every offensive move, every movement in this matters.
• Styles catches Bryan on a suicide dive with a big kick.
• After working the leg forever, Styles puts Bryan in a Calf Crusher. Bryan stops a Styles Clash, though.
• Bryan hits a belly-to-back superplex.
• Styles back from a commercial goes into a brainbuster, but gets suplexed repeatedly by Bryan.
• Bryan goes for the running knee, but Styles turns it into a Styles Clash. He can’t make the pin.
• Styles wins with a Phenomenal Forearm.
• Styles says he’s the best champion WWE has ever had.
• This probably would have hit 9/10 if not for commercials.

BOSS N HUG

• There’s a celebration for Sasha Banks and Bayley.
• They says this will make them even stronger.
• Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross interrupt, as do The IIconics on the big screen.
• Alexa and Nikki beat down Sasha and Bayley

Heavy Machinery & Braun Strowman defeated Dolph Ziggler, Miz & John Morrison
4.75/10

• Braun Strowman gives a really scripted promo. This is not the guy that got over. Braun says Otis and Tucker better night try anything.
• Tucker is backstage reunited with Otis helping Otis sharpen his senses.
• Tucker catches Morrison midair with a powerslam.
• For some reason Tucker doesn’t finish a slam when Corbin comes up on the screen to talk trash to Mandy Rose.
• Otis attacks Baron Corbin. He hasn’t returned to the ring.
• Well, he finally does, and dances around.
• Braun throws the heels all around the ringside area into the plexiglass.
• Caterpillar on Dolph Ziggler, and the faces win.
• This was okay. The psychology took it down a notch for me.

Rating Guide
10- Perfect, 9- MOTY Territory, 8- Excellent, 7- Great, 6- Good, 5- Average to above average, 4- Slightly below average, 3 or below: Poor

Each match starts at a 5 and slides up and down based on entertainment, execution, time, environment, reaction and stakes. The ratings are in no way an indication of a “star rating,” which is a completely different system. A standard, non-offensive “TV match” lands at a 5. The gap between 5.75-6 is generally the largest, with anything reaching 6 being recommended viewing.
These are opinions, and incredibly inconsistent ones that may change upon a second viewing, or sitting on the match for a period of time. Don’t take them too seriously, and have (and share) your own!