2 Ups And 4 Downs From Last Night's WWE Smackdown (Oct 25)

by Scott Fried

1. Captain's Hook

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When Natalya told Daniel Bryan that she deserved to be named captain of the Smackdown women's team at the Survivor Series, Bryan agreed... if she could beat Nikki Bella in their upcoming bout. The winner would be named captain, but as there were only five slots for six women, the loser would sit the match out.

The bout itself was quite good. Natalya controlled most of the match and was great, while Bella's selling was strong. The ending was also really innovative - Natalya locked Bella in a surfboard, but Bella fought her way out, kept Natalya's leg hooked, and applied a quick STF for the submission win.

After the bout, Carmella attacked Bella, laying her out with a 'Mella Buster. While it's kind of silly that the Smackdown Women's Champion wasn't even in consideration for the position of team captain, it should be interesting to see how the women - and specifically Bella and Carmella - coexist.

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Scott Fried is a Slammy Award-winning* writer living and working in New York City. He has been following/writing about professional wrestling for many years and is a graduate of Lance Storm's Storm Wrestling Academy. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/scottfried. *Best Crowd of the Year, 2013