by Daniel Manders
Smackdown spoilers from Moline, IL
Airdate August 22

- In a pre-taping dark match, Takeshi Morishima (with Tony Atlas) beat Jamie Noble. Short match, pretty stiff.

- Smackdown opened with Vickie Guerrero announcing another 5-way scramble match as the Smackdown title match at Unforgiven.

- Maria and Natalya went to a no contest after Maryse and Michelle McCool interfered.

- THE Brian Kendrick won a ten-man battle royal to qualify for the Scramble title match. Yep, Kendrick has a title shot and a main event spot on PPV. This was pretty cool at the end. Big Show thought he had won and left the ring, not realising that when he thought Kendrick was tossed out of the ring, he had been caught by Ezekiel and his feet hadn’t hit the floor. Show left the ring, eliminating himself and Kendrick is in a title match.

- Shelton Benjamin beat Finlay after interference from Mike Knox. Shelton qualifies for the scramble match.

- MVP beat Festus by countout. MVP also qualifies for the scramble match.

- Jeff Hardy beat Great Khali in a scramble qualifier. Triple H was doing commentary on this match. He gave Hardy the assist by nailing Khali with a chair.

- Triple H vs. MVP vs. Jeff Hardy vs. MVP vs. THE Brian Kendrick is the Smackdown main event for Unforgiven. Well, at least we can’t say WWE aren’t putting new guys near the top I suppose!

- The Hardy match was the final match of the night. The show ended with La Familia coming out to apologize to Undertaker. Taker comes out to a huge pop. Vickie gets on her knees to beg but Dead Man tells her he is here for her soul. He takes out Chavo, Neely and co then makes the throat slashing sign in Vickie’s direction to close the show.

- Post-match saw Triple H beat Khali after use of the trusty sledgehammer.