Match 1: Domino (w/Deuce & Cherry) vs. Batista Squashola! Two weeks ago, Batista routed Deuce and flirted with Cherry. This time, it's Domino's turn, but he fares even worse, if that's possible. Cherry's token attempt at distracting ref Jim Corderas fails badly, and Batista destroys the tag champs on the floor with consecutive clotheslines. A higher-than-normal spear, then the Batista Bomb, finishes Domino. Winner: Batista.

Post-match, Deuce tries a sneak attack, but is annihilated, and Cherry skates away. Great Khali & Runjin Singh appear via video and a tape of Khali destroying Ric Flair last week is shown. Singh & Khali promise more of the same at Summerslam. Khali faces Flair in tonight's main event.

Tony Chimel introduces Rey Mysterio, but one close look tells us all we need to know. It's really Chavo Guerrero, wearing one of Rey's masks. Chavo does a poor impersonation of his nemesis, leading to our next match....

Match 2: Chavo Guerrero vs. Eugene The savant is understandably confused as he enters, and Chavo takes full advantage, using as many of Rey's moves on Eugene. However, after botching the 619, Chavo unmasks, and starts talking to it as if he's talking to Rey. Eugene recovers, and uses some of Chavo's moves against him, including the GoryBomb, and the 3 Amigos. However, Eugene misfires on the frogsplash, so Chavo shows him how it's done. Winner: Chavo Guerrero.

Victoria is having her hair & makeup done backstage with Kenny Dykstra keeping her company as the newest romantic couple on Smackdown (in real life, Kenny's engaged to Vic's old rival Mickie James). Michelle McCool is back and tells the new lovebirds to get a room. Vic confronts her, but Michelle has the last word, saying one man wouldn't be enough for her. Hmmmmmm. Good way to start their program.

Raw Rebound is encored from ECW.

Match 3: Mark Henry vs. Sterling Keenan Squashola #2. Enough said. Even Henry admitted in a post-match promo that this is getting redundant. Winner: Mark Henry.

They replayed the same video as last week of Henry beating up Undertaker. After that, a faceless druid appeared, followed by a video featuring those same girls that heralded Taker's return 7 years ago. The druid then left, leaving a trail of dust behind him. Henry is trying to keep his intensity and his composure, showing no fear, but you know, this is only the beginning......

Match 4: Torrie Wilson (w/Jimmy Wang Yang) vs. Victoria (w/Kenny Dykstra) It never gets old between these old pals. Unfortunately, it's not quite as good as we've seen. The best part? Yang coming to the aid of his new friend when Dykstra got a little too close. Ref Jim Corderas ejected both Yang & Dykstra. Victoria took it from there and finished Torrie with the Widow's Peak. Yes, it's the same move as the GoryBomb. Winner: Victoria.

Post-match, Vic pressed the attack needlessly as Corderas tried to get her off Torrie. Michelle McCool made the save. It's worth noting that Michelle removed her shoes before running down the ramp. Probably a new pair that needed to be broken in without getting broken.

Before the match, we were treated to another Jesse & Festus video. These two will probably debut after Summerslam.

Last week's MVP-Matt Hardy match(es) is recapped. MVP is at the studio, where he reveals he has Wolfe-Parkinson-White Syndrome, which causes irregular heartbeats up to 250 beats per minute. That much is true, but Porter worked it into his angle, in order to make excuses for losing last week. Hardy's in action next.

Match 5: Matt Hardy vs. Finlay This was your match of the night. These two went tooth and nail from the go, but unfortunately, the ending was not satisfying enough. Finlay got heat on Hardy by ramming his shoulder into the post, and then the ring steps, then worked on the shoulder for the balance of the match. A Side Effect turned things back in Hardy's favor, but the turning point came when the cruiser champion, Hornswoggle, suddenly appeared, cheering on Finlay. The former US champ decided to bring 'Swoggle into the ring. However, this brought out Jamie Noble, who pulled 'Swoggle out of the ring, and ultimately chased the leprechaun out. Finlay dodged the Twist of Fate and allowed himself to be counted out while he went to help his sidekick. Winner: Matt Hardy via countout.

Backstage, Noble has lost track of Hornswoggle, and tries to get help from Funaki & Shannon Moore. Finlay catches up and confronts Noble, swatting Moore's drink from his hand. That drink hits Kane, who promptly throttles Finlay.

Match 6: Kane vs. Sylvan Welcome back, Sylvan. Don't ya wish ya stayed away just a wee bit longer? Protracted squash. The bleached blond hair didn't help the former tag titlist at all. He got limited offense before Kane finished him with the chokeslam. Au revoir! Winner: Kane.

Post-match, after the pyro went off, Finlay returned and beat down Kane with the shillelagh to start their program.

Vicki Guerrero has a gift for Teddy Long: A "blue diamond". You know, like Viagra.

Chris Masters has brought his Masterlock Challenge to Smackdown. In other words, the Bum of the Week Club has moved back to Friday nights. At first, a burly man claiming to be a 3-time all-state all-star in football, captain of his high school wrestling team, and newly released ex-con, is brought in, but, in a cheap, indirect reference to a certain recent tragedy, Masters sends him away, claiming he doesn't want to embarass the guy in front of his family. A 2nd, slightly smaller fellow, John from Youngstown, is squashed in nothing flat.

Roughly translated, Vince just gave the media another virtual FU regarding the Benoit case. As for John, he's lucky he wasn't from Cincinnati. JBL might've had time for a couple of HBO jokes.

Michael Cole & JBL run down the Summerslam card.

Ric Flair is joined by Batista backstage and cuts a promo on the Great Khali. He's had the claw applied to him by the Von Erichs, the Blackjacks, and Baron Von Raschke. Khali's tops them all. But no one humiliates the Nature Boy and gets away with it. Or so Ric thinks....

Match 7: Great Khali (w/Runjin Singh) vs. Ric Flair (non-title) Going into the match, they put over the claw as Khali's new finisher very strongly. Flair only managed a few harmless chops that Khali no-sold before applying a trapezis claw. Flair forced two rope breaks. Runjin Singh made the mistake of distracting ref Mickey Henson, allowing Flair to use a low blow on the champion. Flair got Khali to his knees, but that's as far as that offense went. Khali recovered, and after a chop to the head and a boot to the same area, Khali applied the brain claw and finished off the Nature Boy. Winner: Great Khali.

Post-match, Khali refused to release the hold, and Singh was in no hurry to do anything. Batista came out and forced the issue, only to be taken down with the brain claw himself. If he was so inclined, Henson could've called for a reverse-decision-DQ since Khali didn't release the claw in a timely manner. He didn't, and this show ends on a downer.

the crowd) when he should be trying to finish the match. This proved costly, as Flair ultimately made the hot tag to Batista. Batista doesn't have the spinning sideslam completely down, but then again, he's been studying Big Daddy V's more compact version from ECW. Sets up Domino for the Batista Bomb, but that's when Great Khali returns. The distraction helps the champs, but Deuce gets caught in the ring by ref Jim Corderas, who ends up calling for the bell. Deuce hits the Crack 'Em in the Mouth, but by then it's too late. He & Domino have been DQd. Winners: Ric Flair & Batista via DQ.

With Batista incapacitated, Khali takes out Flair with a brain claw and leaves him lying. Granted, Khali now has a more effective finisher than the tree slam, but they'd be nuts to have him be a long-term champion.

As Flair was introduced, they ran a "breaking news" crawl to plug the return of "Mr. McMahon" on Raw on Monday.