Here we are with the second part of this review. The first disc was a mixed bag of good and average, will this one be better? Let's find out.
We start off on February 5th, with the winner of the Rumble, Edge who is hosting the Cutting Edge for the first time in a while. He talks about overcoming his injury, how he's happy to be back, and his plan to win a World Title at Wrestlemania. He mentions that the WWE Champion, Sheamus, attacked him on Raw, and that brings out his future Mania oppenent, Chris Jericho. They trade some insults and for some reason that brings out the Straight Edge Saviour, CM Punk. Punk says he's better than everyone and is the only man to make the Undertaker submit. The lights go out and Taker's here to kick some ass. Everyone is left lying except for Edge, who stares the Deadman down and makes the belt gesture. Not a bad segment but I don't know what it's doing on a Best Of release.
John Morrison vs R-Truth vs Dolph Ziggler
From February 26th. The winner of this match earns a spot in the Money in the Bank match at Mania. R-Truth is accompanied by David Otunga who was an NXT rookie at the time. Thank god NXT has taken the new direction of being more like an indie show, as it's now the best wrestling show on TV. Anyway back to the match. Truth looked like he injured himself coming off the crossbody outside the ring. This was a good triple threat match, and Dolph Ziggler came out of it looking pretty damn good. ***
Edge vs The Miz
Still on February 26th. Don't know why Miz came over from Raw for this one. Maybe they had some sort of mini-feud going on. It's not explained. Miz is one half of the Tag Champs and also the US Champ. This was great while it was going, but for me it was a bit too short. They showed their chemistry and had an entertaining back and forth match, with Miz showing his potential. Edge hits the spear to win. **3/4
We head to March 12th, as Rey Mysterio brings out his family. It's his daughter's birthday and sings Happy Birthday to her which is kind of awkward, but I don't think anyone knew how awesome this segment was going to become. The Straight Edge Society interrupts proceedings as Punk is pissed off that Rey cost him a chance in MITB. Punk already looked like a huge dick for interrupting the segment, but he took it to the extreme by slapping Rey in front of his family and singing the creepiest version of Happy Birthday that you will ever hear. If not for the Summer of Punk a year later, this might have been Punk's best mic segment ever. This deserves to be on the DVD.
Undertaker vs Drew McIntyre
From March 19th. I love the Undertaker, but by my countrie's law, I have to root for the Scottish guy. Drew looked pretty confident going against the Deadman, but that didn't seem to do him any good in the long run. This was just a squash match as Drew barely got any offense and it was over in two minutes. Way to make the IC Champ and an up-and-coming star look good. I suppose Taker needed it more going into Mania. 1/2*. Afterwards HBK appears and gives Taker a superkick. That's probably why it's on the DVD.
Kane / Dolph Ziggler / Matt Hardy / Shelton Benjamin / Drew McIntyre vs Christian / MVP / Jack Swagger / Evan Bourne / Kofi Kingston
From March 26th. This is a Raw versus Smackdown match featuring every guy competing in the MITB match. Out of all those guys, does Swagger really look like the guy that will win the thing? This was obviously to build up the MITB, but I don't think it needs a build up. It kinda sells itself. A solid tag match that descended into chaos like most tag matches do. Drew gets the win for Smackdown. **1/2
Now it's time for the Swagger era. Good god that sounds stupid.
It's April 2nd and Jericho is out in his suit to tell us that he's still the World Champ. Not for long. He's pissed at how cowardly Edge was after their match, as he speared him off the announce table and through the barricade. Jericho insults the fans and that brings out the Rated R Superstar. Edge wants a rematch tonight. Jericho tells him to leave the ring, but that just makes Edge attack him. One spear later and Jack Swagger comes out to cash in his contract. He hits the gutwrench powerbomb and we have a new World Champ. I think we can all agree that Swagger was the worst MITB winner ever. Fun moment though.
Jack Swagger vs Edge vs Chris Jericho
From April 16th. The World Heavyweight Title is on the line. When your World Champion doesn't look like he belongs in there with his challengers, then you have a problem. They did try to make him look good by having him win this and by having him beat Randy Orton at Extreme Rules, but it just didn't work out for the guy. This was a good triple threat match, but for some reason the crowd was pretty quiet. Maybe because they were in London? Who knows. Anyway this was a very good match and Swagger looked pretty smart with his victory. ***1/2
We arrive on April 30th, as Edge arrives. Edge had just been drafted to Raw, so this was his goodbye to Smackdown. Edge says he's sad to leave Smackdown because he felt like it was his show. Christian comes out and we see E&C in the same ring for the first time in a while. Christian surprises everyone and says that Edge is talking crap and just using the WWE Universe to get what he wants. Surprisingly Edge says that's exactly what he did. Guess the face turn is over quite quickly then. He says he enjoyed making the fans dance around and cheer for him. This ends in a fist fight between the two. Good segment, even if the crowd seemed confused by it.
That's all for disc two, disc three coming soon! And I also realised that I have Batista's DVD in my collection, so I'll probably do that in time for his return. Thanks for reading!
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