Report by: pwinsider.com
I just got back from the Smackdown taping in Albany, New York. Decent size crowd tonight; Max 10000 people. 65% of the upper deck was tapered off. Though most of the matches were your regular Smackdown and Velocity quality matches, the crowd was pretty lively and almost every wrestler got a reaction. Here's a quick run of the velocity and Smackdown tapings.
Dark Match:
Joey Matthews and Johnny Nitro (with their extremely hot manager Melina) beat Scotty 2 Hotty and Shannon Moore. Shannon Moore did a beautiful somersault plancha to the outside. Nitro and Matthews use a 3D/DDT type finisher.
Velocity:
The Bashams beat Hardcore Holly and Charlie Haas
Nunzio beat Spike Dudley
Paul London and Funaki beat Chavo Guererro and Akio with London hitting an amazing dropsault on Chavo and Akio (Akio got the moonsault portion) followed by a picture perfect 450 Splash to end the match.
Before Smackdown, a long Wrestlemania promo was showed with many wrestlers like Mick Foley, The Rock and Steve Austin talking about how "Wrestlemania changes careers".
