EXCLUSIVE REPORT: WWE TV main-event NEVER happened!
Aired Smackdown Mysterio-Finlay bout actually two matches edited together to appear as one!
By Mr. Mal Occhio
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Mr. Mal has to come clean gang — revealing the downside to these current days of script-writing pro wrestling matches, and forgoing the traditional booking-style, with wrestlers reading crowds and such — the WWE Smackdown match you saw on television tonight was actually a pastiche of TWO matches, made to look like one. I know it, because I was there to see it with my own eyes. Fit Finlay and Rey Mysterio came out and fought twice at the Joe Louis Arena, with one match ending with the Undertaker chokeslamming both men and pointing to WWE Champion Batista at ringside. The other match — filmed after the initial Smackdown taping and subsequent ECW program, with the road crew quickly forced to do yet-another tear-down of the ECW ring apron/ropes and reset the Smackdown materials — ended with Finlay and Myterio brawling their way to a double DQ.
Notice the bright lights on Mysterio and Finlay for the first match
Apparently, the original ending (where Finlay threw a bunch of chairs in the ring, prior to Undertaker appearing) was too vague as to relay that both men were getting disqualified? Or, was it perhaps that the Undertaker appeared on the scene too early? Whatever the reason, keen eyes will see the differences when viewing this bout: watch for a change in crowd illumination, for one — evidently, the lights weren’t adjusted back to “Smackdown” levels from ECW levels — as well as a shifting crowd at ringside.
See pic below of Finlay, enraging a weary crowd following almost four hours of pro wrestling, as the ring crew (including many WWE referees) were frantically changing the ring apron/ropes — notice the darker lighting? Plus, the Mysterio-Finlay in-ring action from second contest, again, with harsher, ECW lighting. Strange days indeed. The final product went as follows: first match in natural order, up to the near-end; then, second match ending of the double DQ edited in; followed by another edit of the original Undertaker double take out of both men (also pictured below, with the initial brighter Smackdown lighting). Got it?
Now notice the obviously different color tones and harsher shadows?
Having been in attendance with the Legendary PizzaSteve, The Troublemaker and Pimp Sugar, we were at a loss as to explain the reasoning. Now we know. And so do you. Pro wrestling is officially a television program, gang, as if you needed any other convincing. Mr. Mal, for one, thinks this blows. A match is a match. Quit overbooking the endings and let things happen as is. Editing in part of another match and trying to pass it off as one is completley ridiculous. You’re not filming movies, guys, you’re running a pro wrestling league. What a joke. I’ve heard of things being “re-shot” before in the WWE, usually involving botched women’s matches and the like — but I’ve never experienced it first-hand like I did this past Tuesday. That’s sports entertainment for ya . . .
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