Smackdown
*Rey Mysterio defeated Danny Basham. They announced Rey and a mystery partner would challenge the Basham Brothers at No Way Out. Rey then revealed his partner would be Eddie Guerrero.
*Backstage, WWE champion John Bradshaw Layfield complained to Teddy Long about Batista coming to Smackdown. Long told Bradshaw that he made his own bed and now he’d have to lie in it.
*WWE Cruiserweight champion Funaki & Paul London & Shannon Moore defeated Spike Dudley & Akio & Chavo Guerrero when Funaki pinned Spike. The match was stopped for several minutes when several of the newer Divas came out to ringside and marched around the ring with signs advertising their name and the No Way Out PPV this Sunday. Torrie Wilson was the special guest ring announcer.
*Wrestlemania 21 Pulp Fiction spoof with Eddie Guerrero and Booker T.
*Kurt Angle defeated someone billed from Cleveland in the Olympic Challenge. Angle said he was going to beat whoever he had to face at No Way Out and faced off with John Cena as they passed.
*John Cena pinned Booker T to make it into the finals of the Wrestlemania 21 title shot tournament. Cena will face Kurt Angle this Sunday at No Way Out.
*Backstage, Heidenreich made fun of Booker T for losing.
*Backstage, The Big Show did an interview promoting the barbed wire Steel Cage match. They had barbed wire on the background of the interview set.
*In his locker room, John Bradshaw Layfield spoke to The Bashams and Orlando Jordan about the Barbed Wire Cage Match. He said he wasn’t afraid of Batista and if he showed up, Batista was in for a fight.
*Luther Reigns pinned Nunzio. He cut an interview about The Undertaker. Taker came out and brawled with Reigns and Mark Jindrak, leading to….
*The Undertaker pinned Mark Jindrak. Reigns beat up a cameraman and then hit Taker from behind with the camera. Jindrak and Reigns walked out but as they were in the aisle, the Undertaker’s gong was heard and he sat up.
*They played the trailer for “Be Cool.”
*Carlito Caribbean Cool approached Teddy Long and said that next week, Long was going to feel Cool’s wrath.
*John Bradshaw Layfield, Orlando Jordan, and The Bashams came to the ring. Batista showed up in a convertible, and takes a baseball bat out of his car and destroy’s Bradshaw’s limo. Bradshaw’s cabinet run to the limo. The Big Show comes to the ring and confronts Bradshaw when he’s alone. The Cabinet attacked Show. Batista ran in for the save and had a face off with Show as the show went off the air.
Dark Match:
*Undertaker & John Cena & Big Show defeated Kurt Angle & Heidenreich & WWE champion John Bradshaw Layfield.
Other Smackdown Taping Notes: Tazz was plugging new toy WWE cars….It appeared a six man Cruiser bout would be added to No Way Out this Sunday.
Credit- Chris Bryan & PWInsider.com
