Smackdown Scrambles for WWE Title

Both Raw and Smackdown will see Championship Scrambles for their respective titles at Unforgiven. We've seen this before, with both shows having their own Elimination Chamber matchups last year to decide the title contenders. Now the titles themselves will be up for grabs in 20 minute matches involving the champions against 4 other competitors from their show. Smackdown held several qualifying matches to determine the competitors for Triple H's WWE title. In a surprising turn of events, "The Brian Kendrick" was the winner after Big Show cleared the ring. Show tossed every man outside, but Kendrick was caught by his bodyguard Ezekiel, so his feet never hit the floor. Vladimir Kozlov seemed like the likely winner when you saw the 10 men, but WWE is known for the surprises lately. Kozlov would have made a better contender with the win streak he's put together, because Kendrick just doesn't fit into this equation.

In other qualifying matches, Shelton Benjamin defeated Finlay when Mike Knox came down to distract. MVP defeated Festus, using some outside ring tricks to force a countout. MVP and Festus were both on the outside near a 10 count, but MVP kicked Jesse down, causing Festus to stay out to see if he was ok. MVP rolled in to beat the count, earning his spot in the match. The final spot was won by Jeff Hardy, who defeated Triple H's most recent title contender, Great Khali. Of course, Triple H was ringside and aided in the victory, bashing a chair over Khali's skull which allowed Hardy to hit a Swanton.

So now Triple H has The Brian Kendrick, Jeff Hardy, MVP and Shelton Benjamin at Unforgiven. Whoever has scored the last pinfall as the 20 minute time limit ends, is the WWE champ. Looking at that field, with no disrespect to Jeff Hardy, Triple H should be keeping the belt. As soon as Kendrick qualified, it became obvious this was a match to hold the title around HHH's waist. Shelton's got a title already, and MVP and Jeff have been feuding. They seem to effectively cancel each other out. It becomes more and more apparent that Triple H and Undertaker are headed towards a collision as Smackdown makes its October 3 debut on MyNetworkTV. The question will be who has the belt then. As for Undertaker, he made it apparent he's going for Vickie Guerrero's soul, so expect him to be occupied with La Familia for a few weeks before laying claim to the title.

And as for Edge, who was sent down to Hell, and is MIA from Smackdown, for now...does it seem like he's coming back as a Face or Heel? With the way La Familia was attacking Undertaker, it's starting to make it seem as if maybe Edge will make a triumphant return to go face. However, he's been an effective heel for some time now. He really needed to switch over to Raw, because he never had a real rematch with CM Punk for his World Heavyweight title. Don't expect Edge to just fade away, as he is definitely one of the top characters in the company.