8 Ups & 5 Downs From Last Night's WWE SmackDown (10 Sept)
2. Re-Living The Dream
This segment - and the wood-smashing payoff - was always the one saving grace of the Kofi Kingston/Randy Orton feud continuing on past the dreadfully dull SummerSlam match.
Before The New Day changed the lives of all three members, Kingston's 2009 Madison Square Garden attack on 'The Viper' looked for many years like it would be the high point of his career. Orton's "the two things you've done in the last ten years" line was a killer set-up to his character assassination of Kingston that played on this. The WWE Champion heading out to face Orton head-on in an enjoyable retread of their famous former brawl was the only natural outcome.
Fair play to the pair for not panicking when the table appeared to break early in the pre-bump brawl, too. Using the second without worrying for the fallen first, the duo pulled off the planned spot perfectly as a last visual before their Clash Of Champions contest.