[2000-08-31-WWF-Smackdown] Matt & Jeff Hardy & Lita vs Edge & Christian & Jacqueline

[soup23]

E&C do have the Hardys beat quite a bit in the promo department even though them going to the little person well as an insult feels way overdone. Jackie is the tag partner here for E&C which feels really shoe horned in. Jacqueline does give a brutal sidewalk slam to Lita. The Hardys get a measure of revenge winning here in convincing fashion. Match was brief but used to keep Matt/Jeff in the tag title scene and to get a nice hometown pop. *

[Migs]

Jackie is just crazy sloppy here, which derails a good chunk of the match. The Hardyz-E&C section is their normal, fairly entertaining, work. Nothing much to see here.

[GSR]

We get a brief clip from Raw when Edge & Christian had some midgets dressed up as the Hardyz and Dudleys to recreate what went down at ‘TLC’.  What is it with Vince’s fascination in dressing up midgets to look like miniature versions of talent as a way to make fun of them?  E&C get in some knocks in at the Hardy’s expense, saying how they always seem to come up a little short and that they don’t measure up.  Yawn…  Matt’s running rough shot over Christian, so Edge with a knee to the back as he bounds off the ropes.  That has no effect and Matt responds by slugging him, however when he turns back around he walks right into a dropkick.  Jacqueline tags herself in and gets a two count after a flying crossbody off the top.  She misses an elbow drop and there’ll be no man on woman violence from Matt as he tags out to Lita (who receives a huge pop).  Jacqueline reverses the Irish whip and dumps Lita with a side slam, although she spins her way past the horizontal with Lita practically taking the bump on the back of her neck.  Float over DDT is countered with a sort of Northern Light suplex for a two count.  Flapjack by Jacqueline and again she doesn’t take care of Lita who face plants to the mat.  Tag to Edge, but Lita avoids the spear and he charges shoulder first into the ring post.  Moonsault bodyblock by Matt for a two.  Edge with a neckbreaker and Christian follows that up with a scoop powerslam.  He runs into a back elbow and Matt then levels him with a clothesline.  Jeff gets his first involvement (to an even louder pop than what Lita got) and takes it to E&C.  A stiff missile dropkick to the back of the head by Jacqueline and that brings Lita back in.  Reverse DDT by Christian on Jeff and Matt breaks up the pin with a leg drop off the middle.  ‘Lita-rana’ on Edge, ‘Twist of Fate’ to Christian and Jeff with the ‘Swanton Bomb’ as the Hardyz pick up the win for their team, but more importantly get a clean pin on the tag team champions.

Jacqueline is a random choice of partner for E&C.  Stephanie would’ve been perfect considering their history over the past few weeks although guessing she’s tied up in the HHH/Angle storyline now, even Trish would’ve been a better fit thinking about it.  I don’t know if she got excited that she was back on Smackdown or because she was getting to wrestle someone other than Ivory, but Jacqueline was super careless on pretty much everything she did.  The side slam and flapjack could’ve easily injured Lita and there was no need for her to be as stiff as she was on the missile dropkick to the back of Jeff’s head.