Spoilers: SmackDown Results For March 16, 2012 (new mania match)

Its the show you have been waiting for, and here are the spoilers!


The show opened with the Peep Show segment involving Christian and guests John Laurinaitis and Teddy Long. Laurinaitis and David Otunga came out together to great heat. Long got a nice pop.

Christian asked Long and Laurinaitis to convince him which team he should be on. Laurinaitis said he’d give Christian a title shot if Team Laurinaitis wins, so Christian joined his team. Teddy tried to set up Christian in a match, but Johnny stopped it. Instead, they went with Kofi Kingston, now on Team Teddy, facing David Otunga, who wore his sweater vest.

1. Kofi Kingston defeated David Otunga. Otunga worked the match in his regular pants, which split halfway through the match. Funny. Kofi won with Trouble in Paradise.

There was a Daniel Bryan and AJ segment. Bryan said the dress AJ was wearing looked better on the mannequin.

2. A.J. (w/Daniel Bryan) defeated Brie Bella (w/Nikki). No one seems to know which Bella Twin wrestled the match. Does it matter? A.J. won with a rollup.

Chris Jericho vs. Sheamus was announced as the main event.

3. Cody Rhodes defeated The Great Khali. Rhodes cut a promo before the match. He won with the Beautiful Disaster springboard kick.

Randy Orton came out to a big pop and the Orton vs. Kane match was made official for WrestleMania 28.

4. Big Show defeated Drew McIntyre. Show won a squash.

5. Mark Henry defeated Yoshi Tatsu. It’s turned into squash city.

Chris Jericho cut a great promo before Sheamus was introduced for the main event.

6. Chris Jericho defeated Sheamus via countout. Daniel Bryan’s interference led to Sheamus being counted out.

The Johnny v Long one is an interesting one because the WWE is so much more stacked with mid card heels that it is difficult to see them being able to build a credible face team for Teddy to manage. It almost is enough to make me think that they would go for the improbable face victory but that would seem bizarre given that Teddy Long's character is so stale and JL seems to have some real potential as a character this year...

I would think a good angle would be for someone from the face team to turn on Teddy and then Teddy to become a manager to someone like Kofi Kingston and let a good mid card feud develop from it.

Jericho on Smackdown!? What a treat.

Loving the comment Bryan makes to AJ. He is hysterical. My fave thing on SD (aside from Orton) is his entrance......."yes, yes, yes". I felt like doing it whilst at the match on Sunday.

Anyone notice that the only Raw review they showed was a clip of the Rocks concert which generally made Cena look bad

Which is strange given that they're trying to give Cena all the help he can get.

Good Smackdown.

Great to see Christian back and he will be on team Johnny. Im going for a Christan feud with Shaemus for the title after Mania all being well.

So now we have

Team Teddy
Santino (C)
R Truth
Kofi

Team Johnny
David Otunga (C)
Mark Henry
Christian

Cody Rhodes beating Kahli

Fantastic promo by Jericho. Shaemus d Bryan feud still isnt doing anything for me and time is running out fast for them to change my mind.