WWE Smackdown Spoilers 22/11/11 – Daniel Bryan Wins World Title... For 3 Seconds
WWE SmackDown tapings spoilers from Wilkes Barre, PA. NXT Tapings; 1) Yoshi Tatsu def. Johnny Curtis 2) Jimmy Uso def. JTG. Uso did a promo talking about Rikishi, The Wild Samoans and Umaga. Said to be a good moment. 3) Tyler Reks & Darren Young def. Titus O'Neil & Percy Watson Superstars Tapings; Jinder Mahal def. Trent Baretta Ezekiel Jackson def. Tyson Kidd SmackDown Tapings; Mark Henry opens the show and says he is looking for people's respect for still being the World Heavyweight Champion and surviving two matches with Big Show. He says it was Show's fault he got kicked in the nuts at the Survivor Series. Big Show comes out and after a shouting match, knocks him out with the WMD. Out comes Daniel Bryan to cash in his Money in the Bank briefcase. He pins Henry to become the NEW World Heavyweight Champion and the crowd goes wild. But it doesn't last long, Teddy Long comes out and says Henry couldn't compete tonight due to injury so the title change is not valid and the briefcase is returned to Bryan. Henry is still the World Heavyweight Champion. Teddy Long announces that the main event tonight will be Daniel Bryan vs Randy Orton vs Cody Rhodes vs Wade Barrett in a fatal four-way match for the number 1 contendership to face Henry for the title on next week's SmackDown. Presumably if Bryan wins he gets the shot as an additional to his Money in the Bank briefcase still being safe. 1) Hunico def. Justin Gabriel 2) Beth Phoenix & Natalya def. Kaitlyn & AJ Lee in a squash. Alicia Fox was on commentary. Masked Kane return promo airs. Backstage segment involving Zack Ryder and Sheamus talking about being partners tonight in their upcoming match. Another backstage segment, this time with Aksana and Teddy Long. Mark Henry comes in and says he is shouldn't have to defend his World Title next week. Long decides to make it a steel cage match. 3) Sheamus & Zack Ryder def. Dolph Ziggler & Jack Swagger Daniel Bryan and AJ Lee are backstage. Wade Barrett interrupts their conversation and says he is going to win the four-way tonight. He walks off and it fires Bryan up to kiss AJ. 4) Ted DiBiase def. Heath Slater. Jinder Mahal appears on the big screen and drones on about DiBiase's DiBiase Posse parties. Matt Striker interviews Cody Rhodes backstage. The IC champion says he threw water on Booker T on RAW because he looked at Cody the wrong way (wait... I thought it was because he heard him disrespecting him on commentary?). Rhodes says he is going to win the four-way match tonight and mocks Booker T. 5) Daniel Bryan def. Cody Rhodes, Wade Barrett & Randy Orton to become the #1 contender to face Mark Henry in a steel cage match for the title next week. Next week's SmackDown is the live show so they are pulling out all the stops. Cody attacked Bryan after the match and was beating him down until Orton made the save with the RKO. Show ends.