Big Show reportedly suffers back injury at Smackdown tapings in Las Vegas
by Geno Mrosko on Jan 18, 2012 11:44 PM EST
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Bad news for Smackdown. According to The Wrestling Observer, Big Show suffered a back injury during tapings last night in Las Vegas.
Big Show suffered a back injury last night. We're not sure of the severity but we're told he landed wrong and hurt (himself) in the dark match against Daniel Bryan.
If this is even kind of serious it would deal another crushing blow to Smackdown, considering the fact that they're already stretched thin in the main event with Mark Henry still nursing a groin injury. "The World's Strongest Man" has been booked about as easy going as it can get to protect him and if they have to start doing the same for Show, I'm not sure Daniel Bryan is ever going to get a clean win.
Then again, it's a good thing his current character is taking the turn it's taking, which is to say it's acceptable for him to be booked to retain his title without ever actually having to cleanly defeat anyone.
This could also mean we'll start seeing some triple threat matches involving both Show and Henry with Bryan tasked with doing all the heavy lifting. Not an easy task but he's a talented performer capable of pulling it off. We'll pass along whatever information comes out regarding the severity of Show's injury. Let's hope it doesn't affect his potential match with Shaquille O'Neal at WrestleMania.
In the meantime, you can read complete spoilers for the Smackdown show that will air this Friday by clicking here.
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Hope he is fit before Mania.
On a side note, i was going through the archives and i stumbled upon a section called the ‘Move of the Day’. I really liked it but i don’t think you guys do it anymore. Is it because there were not enough moves left. Would really love to see that section back again.
This is really going to cut the Bryan heel turn off badly
It’s already a problem that Bryan has had to work primarily with two guys that are a stretch for his size. It’s hard both from a working sense and a kayfabe sense to get a good match out of Henry or Show, so the interest in those matches would have to involve the heat on those wrestlers. As mentioned, Mark Henry has now lost all the awesome heat he had when he was the World Champion, and Big Show has “veteran” babyface heat, which is not really transferable.
The story with Show just began to get better, so it was looking like at least there would some sympathy for Show and heat on Bryan, but if this injury limits him any further in the ring or outright takes him out of the picture, Smackdown may be in trouble. Luckily, they can just graduate Sheamus from the eternal midcard squash role to the main event in a pinch, but the situation is still not ideal.
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It could just help Bryan's heel turn out more
His whole schtick so far has been about how much he celebrates over every win. The only problem with this is that they basically did this with Ryder/Swagger on Raw. With Show’s legitimate injury, they could say he’s hurt, but he still wants the match. Then he ends up getting beat because he’s hurt, Bryan celebrates like he’s just won the lottery, and it would probably lead to some great heel heat for Bryan. But I don’t know that the story works out so well after the similar injury angle on Raw.
Or
Bryan gets real heat by hitting the Big Show with a car, knocking him out for a few weeks. When The Big Show comes back looking for revenge, Bryan hired Shaq as his body guard, leading to the Show/Shaq match at Wrestlemania.
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