Friday Night SmackDown! 9/1/2006: For and Against

FOR: This wasn't going to actually air until Saturday here but the Phillies got rained out.

AGAINST: There's gotta be a better way to cut somebody off than blindsiding them (literally) with a steel chair.

AGAINST: "Business manager"?

AGAINST: Shouldn't there have been some dialogue over the contract signing graphic?

FOR: "The longest-reigning champion in sports entertainment" getting into Helms' intro.

FOR: This match.

FOR: The Kennedy-Finlay exchange. I'm liking this.

FOR: JBL: "The wrestling gods must hate me."

AGAINST: Miz's goofy strut.

FOR: Miz doing the Robot.

FOR: JBL: "Wasn't Miz in the Diva Search?"

FOR: That wasn't good by any means, but it could have been far worse.

FOR: This is Lashley, right?

FOR: Yep.

FOR: Kennedy trying to form an alliance with Lashley.

FOR: Lashley not buying it.

FOR: Now Kennedy's trying to strike a deal with Finlay.

FOR: JBL bringing the strategy.

FOR: Finlay punking Kennedy.

FOR: AGAIN.

FOR: The finish.

KENNEDY!

FOR: The look on Regal's face but I don't have to tell you that.

FOR: JBL: "Most knights don't have to fight queens."

AGAINST: JBL: "Do we not have an outside view of Reading, Pennsylvania?" There's not all that much to see, sir.

FOR: Jimmy Wayne Yang decided to enunciate this week.

FOR: MVP playing his character to perfection here.

AGAINST: That "...'cause I'm a redneck!" at the end. Too forced.

FOR: Kash's release suplex.

FOR: The throne already being in the ring.

AGAINST: I had forgotten that these entrances will take about two hours.

AGAINST: We start the show with an interview and end it with a contract signing? What is this, Raw?

AGAINST: "Thaddeus?"

FOR: It's about time we had some violence at a contract signing again.

AGAINST: The table no-selling Batista's spinebuster.