Good times whoever wants a heel Bryan, it looks like they are suddenly going that way. Either that or they forgot that a face who is solidly over working against a face who isnt equals a face vs a heel. But the manipulation of Henry to attack Bryan into attacking him so that he can get a DQ win whilst also having deniability was genius booking on a level i can only assume was pitched by Bryan himself.

As for the match itself they booked it about right. Against Show they cant really show Bryan looking overly dominant or anything, but he is the champ so showing him locking in a couple submissions to make it clear that on another day and time he may actually beat him clean then having a none ending to presumably set up either Show vs Bryan 3.0 or Show vs Bryan vs Henry is fine.

If they turn him as a smart manipulative heel where he takes on guys like (the face version of) Cody straight up but stacks the deck against guys like Show and not just the standard cowardly opportunist heel i could get behind that for sure.

Henry is ****ing awesome on commentary. He just completely nailed his points, had huge presence there and the way he completely shut down Cole when he asked who would win in a match between Bryan and Hornswoggle was perfect.

Bryan and AJ scene was great, from the "why are you even friends with her?" about AJ talking to Alicia Fox when he walks in on them to the "dont sweat it, when im done winning tonight im gonna bang you silly" ending.

The Booker Cody match continued their feud well and was just right, a match good enough that it could go on a minor PPV and most wouldnt mind too much but also clearly not important enough to deserve to be on a PPV and so give it away on TV and put something better on the PPV.

Rest of the show was pretty meh all in all but its worth it just for the continuation of the only story worth paying attention to with a good match to open the show and book end it with the main event.

Just finished watching, it does indeed look like they are turning Bryan heel. The way he antagonized Big Show during the interview and provoked Henry into the disqualification did not look face like. I was stuck with the German presenting but from the little I could tell Henry seemed like an awesome gast commentator.

Cody vs Booker was booked well. Kicking out after the scissor kick and continuing to win the match made Cody look strong. Looks like he's having a feud with his brother next.

I hope they let Hunico and Camacho enter the tag team scene soon, I think they would be a big help to build a stronger tag team division.

smackdown main event heels: barrett, bryan, henry, rhodes, christian

smackdown main event faces: big show*, orton, sheamus

*really he isn't credible, but for reasons completely unknown to me he'll be there

i guess i don't hate it. you have 7 guys who on any given week can carry the WHC (f big show), but the imbalance will lead to stale feuds in a hurry. tbh i'm not really sure how to solve this, although i would like to see orton drafted to raw and punk drafted to smackdown. yea, it would be a step back for punk, but he'll be allowed to step away from the super-punk bull**** we've been watching, and a punk feud with 4 of those 5 heels (f henry) could be awesome


raw main event heels: miz, adr, y2j (apparently won't be around past summerfest tho), ziggler
raw main event faces: cena, punk (whatever's left or RMJ i guess)

i didn't realize til i typed it out but seriously, that's it. it's out of this world bad how bad wwe is getting faces over as headliners (i attribute this 100% to PG). i guess u could count ryder and truth on the face side, but really, they're not. truth will be annoying as hell again, and the longer ryder goes without having cena/punk/ziggler to carry him, the quicker fans will realize he really brings nothing to the table but a catchphrase

4 legitimate main event faces to 9 heels and they think they have enough depth to justify a brand extension. i guess, really, supercena the champ is here dabba doo isn't cena's fault.

of the 9 heels the only one i think can actually be over as a face is miz. jericho probably could but u really can't count on him for very long

lol wow, that is pretty damn bad

So turning Bryan leads me to believe they are going to do Orton/Bryan at Wrestlemania. I guess the rumors of Orton winning the Royal Rumble are true. He'll probably be a surprise entrance and win the RR in his home town. I actually think a Bryan/Orton fued could be very good. Orton has proven this year that he's willing to put people over clean, and even if he doesn't, just having a match with Orton at Mania will do wonders for Bryan. I'm actually pretty happy about this.

Santino ldo. Ziggler selling the Cobra as a serious move would be the most hilarious thing on TV.