[6.0] "Nice middle-of-the-card TV match with solid work from both guys and very fundamentally sound. Never really turned into something that truly captivated me in any way, but it's two good wrestlers having a very respectable SmackDown match."
[7.0] "Not only a very good TV match but moreover, a fascinating thing to land on an 07 SmackDown. This is a total throwback, returning things to the raw fundamentals and building gradually with mat work. It's a bold play call but one that's at home in this setting, with Hardy having the people behind him from start to finish. Admittedly, the finish is a touch puzzling but beforehand, this is a showcase of patience and selling, a comical outlier for the era. ***1/2"
[8.0] "Matt Hardy gets a big pop from his hometown crowd. Very headlocks heavy early on but what made it different from the usual headlock start was the smugness of the holds applied, from Finlay especially and the struggle to get out of them, even resorting to pulling the nose. The intensity of the match increased gradually with Finlay adding a few vicisous slams and strikes to the mix. The crowd, at first wasn't much into Finlay working over Hardy, started to really get invested for their hometown boy. Hardy really shows how good he is with his selling after Finlay works on his injured knee. Not only does his sell the holds, he sells the fatigue of being in pain for a prolonged period of time. Really compelling stuff on his part. The finish was iffy to say the least. Hornswoggle comes in (aw, he has lost his ? Little Bastard? name) and distracts Hardy and Finlay nails him in the injured knee with his shillelagh but Hardy gets up and nails for the Twist of Fate for the win. I mean, he sells it well too, but it kinda made the shillelagh shot pointless and the interference too. Great match (great performance yet again by Matt Hardy) but bad finish. ****"
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