SmackDown Review: Thursday Night Raw

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The Ascension pre-taped promo

Viktor said that they destroyed The New Age Outlaws at Royal Rumble, and that they are going to do the same to Goldust and his cosmic freak brother.

The Ascension vs. Gold and Stardust

Stardust tried to fight in the early going, but really struggled until he made a hot tag to Goldust.

Goldust looked pretty good, until Stardust tagged himself in, completely shocking Goldust.

Stardust went for his version of a Disaster Kick, but Konnor hopped on the apron and knocked him off the ropes, then The Ascension hit Fall of Man.

The Ascension defeat Gold and Stardust via pinfall.

2 out of 5 stars – Good to see that Gold and Stardust turned face without telling anybody.

The Miz, Damien Mizdow, Zack Ryder, Summer Rae, Alicia Fox, R-Truth and a magician backstage

A magician was showing Zack Ryder, Summer Rae, Alicia Fox, and R-Truth (I know, what a group) some magic tricks, when Miz walked up and gave him a sarcastic applause. The magician complimented Mizdow’s work, angering Miz.

He showed Miz a trick with hiding a handkerchief in a fake egg, a trick Miz saw right through, but he then turned the fake egg into a real egg, but Miz didn’t buy it, until the magician broke it over his head, which drew a laugh from Mizdow.

This was a promo for some magician contest show on SyFy, but they got the right guy to do it, as the magician was pretty entertaining. Plus, this was some of Mizdow’s best backstage work.