BRM Reviews the 11/1/2013 Smackdown

[Big Red Machine]

SHIELD PROMO- good

THE USOS vs. THE SHIELD (w/Roman Reigns)- 6.5/10
A strong opener and a strong win for the Usos. After the match Ambrose attacks the Uso who rolled him up, but Big E. Langston (who had come out to counteract Roman Reigns) made the save. Langston went for the Big Ending on Ambrose but Rollins made the save and the Shield backed down from the babyfaces

JOHN CENA & HEELS SEGMENT- Cena's promo was exactly what it needed to be, which was just a short hello and a standard babyface promo. The Real Americans then came out and Zeb thanked Cena for taking the title from Del Rio and then tried to recruit Cena into their group. Cena refuted them with the standard semi-juvenile, lame insults... until he got to Zeb, whom he descirbed as looking like "Yosemite Sam had one too many Zimas one night and wandered into a soup kitchen with the dudes from Duck Dynasty." He then put over the First Amendment and put over the crowd was being real Americans and told the heels to leave Tampa or else.
Then Damien Sandow came out and said that Cena gets everything handed to him instead of making his own opportunities like a real American. Sandow then claims to still be the uncrowned World Heavyweight Champion and vows to end the Cena Era. The heels move in on Cena, but the Rhodes Brothers come out and make the save. Vickie Guerrero then cmae out and made a six man tag team main event.

THE PRIME TIME PLAYERS vs. THE WYATT FAMILY (w/Bray Wyatt)- 4/10
The Wyatt's have apparently decided to forgo their entrance in favor of Undertaker Transportation powers. I'm not a fan. I didn't realize quite how huge Titus is. Harper needs a better finisher than just a dinky clothesline.

MIZ TV WITH SPECIAL GUEST RANDY ORTON-
Umm... so apparently HBK isn't here, but Orton comes out instead and says that he would have won the belt with or without HBK's help. Orton says that HBK no-showed because Miz and his talk show aren't relevant. Orton then goes on and talks about a bunch of stuff before hitting Miz with an RKO.

THE BELLA TWINS & NATALYA vs. AJ LEE, TAMINA SNUKA, & ALICIA FOX- 3/10
Tamina looked like a powerhouse. AJ tapped out way too quickly.

JOHN CENA CODY RHODES, & GOLDUST vs. DAMIEN SANDOW & THE REAL AMERICANS (w/Zeb Coulter)- 7.5/10
A great match, but i think they made two major mistakes here. The most important was having the team of champions win the match, because it doesn't build to anything. These guys (especially the Real Americans) seem like they should be top contenders, so why would you have the champs beat them?
The second mistake I think they made was not having Cena be the babyface in peril. Cena has this arm injury, so you might as well play that up as much as possible. We get to see Goldust be the babyface in peril all the time in his tag matches. Having Cena be the babyface in peril would also just be something different.

Overall, a very good episode of Smackdown.

STUPID ANNOUNCER QUOTES:
1. JBL (about Otunga) "What does that bow-tie wearing Bozo know about law?"
Well, considering that he is a very successful trial lawyer, I'd say a lot.