The 10th Day News Report for 10.11.06
Posted by Leonard Hayhurst on 10.11.2006
WWE serves up another bait and switch as strip poker becomes strip high card, but they do deliver on the nudity
MAILBAG
I don't know if you've been watching smackdown, at all, ever, or just in the last few weeks, but because in any case you are clearly very stupid, let me explain a couple of things to you.
1) At no stage has it been said that Mr. Kennedy will be defending his US title against the Undertaker
2)Ditto for Helms and his Cruiserweight belt versus Matt Hardy.
Its one thing to not pay attention to a show which you are meant to be giving an opinion about (it would be unprofessional if you were getting paid), but to present a supposedly factual preview of a future event which has two such high profile errors is just sloppy, lazy and shows a complete disregard for your work.
Basically I'm saying do it right (or at least try) or don't do it at all. My advise is to do the latter.
-Gareth
My advise to you would be to do more research than simply watching Smackdown. WWE.com and various other outlets had both those matches listed as title matches at one point. After double checking it seems like there was some confusion on that in some outlets, but neither match was for the belts. I'll admit that maybe I had those elements wrong, but I do not see where incorrectly identifying those matches as being title bouts voids the validity of the entire article, the opinions expressed or the other factual information presented. Although in the outcome section for those matches in my pay per view preview I did consider the title as part of my view on the booking, but it was not an overwhelming factor. I thank you for the correction, but would suggest that the negativity and over zealousness of your comments were not called for and not appreciated.
NEWS AND NOTES
-Jimmy Garvin has been hired by WWE as part of the creative team on Smackdown. He takes the role of Michael Hayes who was promoted to head writer last week. Garvin teamed with the Hayes in the Freebirds. With Brad Armstrong who played Bad Street joining ECW it's a freakin' Freebird reunion.
Credit: PWInsider.com
-Local advertising has revealed the main event for Survivor Series to be a three team six man tag match. RAW will be represented by John Cena, Shawn Michaels and Triple H, ECW by Sabu, RVD and Big Show and Smackdown by Batista, Booker T and Rey Mysterio. Credit: local advertising, read the first sentence
-During an appearance on ESPN's "Cold Pizza" yesterday morning John Cena was confronted by baseball player AJ Perzinski with the TNA X-Division title. AJ had made appearances for TNA in the past. Cena said he saw the X-Division title in the gumball machine out front before coming in. This from a man whose title belt spins. I wonder what Vince thought of that. Expect a contract hit on the Perzinski family soon. Credit: watching the show
-Steve Spurrier was shown in the audience on RAW Monday. WWE.com has an interview with the ball coach up where he admits to watching RAW every Monday and being a big fan of Ric Flair. I'd almost buy that, because I know he's not watching Monday Night Football because the NFL is dead to him. Credit: WWE.com
-Even though RAW ran three hours there was still a dark match as Eugene and Jim Duggan defeated Viscera and Charlie Haas. Credit: PWInsider.com
-Plans at this time are for Kane to join the Smackdown brand after having lost to Umaga on RAW. I smell a Kane vs. Undertaker rematch for Wrestlemania. Or maybe that's just old cheese. Credit: PWInsider.com
-Smackdown last weekend finished with a 2.4 rating. Finlay wrestling twice=ratings. The RAW reunion special drew an overall 3.8, but the regular timeslot of 9 pm to 10 pm scored better than it has done in the past few weeks. Credit: PWInsider.com
-Victoria has opened her own MySpace page at http://myspace.com/victoria_lisamarievaron.
Now you can be her friend, but it will still only be in your deluded little mind. Credit: Ashish posted it originally I don't go to MySpace
-Bret Hart has finished a rough draft of his autobiography at 1026 pages. Even Bill Clinton thinks that is too much. He says editors will work with him to get it down to around 500 pages and it should be published late next year. Credit: slam.canoe.ca
-WWE released an official apology for the rear nudity of William Regal on the No Mercy pay per view last Sunday. I know I'm kicking myself for missing that. Of course, they did not apologize for it being part of a vague homosexual angle or the implications that Big Vito has a thick Italian sausage in his pants. Credit: WWE.com
-WWE's upcoming tour of Italy will now include the Smackdown and ECW brands. Cards are posted below and they almost make me want to travel abroad.
11.09.06 Torino
World Heavyweight Title Match: Lashley vs. King Booker
Undertaker vs. Mr. Kennedy
Extreme Rules Match: Rob Van Dam vs. Hardcore Holly
2 on 1 Handicap Match: Batista vs. Finlay & William Regal
Chris Benoit vs. MVP
WWE Tag Team Title Match: Paul London & Brian Kendrick vs. KC James & Idol Stevens
CM Punk vs. Mike Knoxx
Matt Hardy vs. Chavo Guerrero
Vito vs. Gregory Helms
Smackdown Diva Best Body Contest: Kristal - Layla - Ashley - Michelle McCool
11.10.06 Pesaro
World Heavyweight Title Match: Lashley vs.King Booker
Undertaker vs. Mr. Kennedy
Extreme Rules Match: Rob Van Dam vs. Hardcore Holly
2 on 1 Handicap Match: Batista vs. Finlay & William Regal
Chris Benoit vs. MVP
WWE Tag Team Title Match: Paul London & Brian Kendrick vs. KC James & Idol Stevens
CM Punk vs. Mike Knoxx
Matt Hardy vs. Chavo Guerrero
Vito vs. Gregory Helms
Smackdown Diva Best Body Contest: Kristal - Layla - Ashley - Michelle McCool
11.11.06 Trieste
World Heavyweight Title Match: Batista vs. King Booker
Undertaker vs. Mr. Kennedy
Smackdown Six Man Tag Team Match: Lashley & Chris Benoit & Matt Hardy vs. Finlay (with Lil -Bastard) & Chavo Guerrero & Gregory Helms
WWE Tag Team Title Match: Paul London & Brian Kendrick vs. KC James & Idol Stevens
Rob Van Dam vs. Mike Knox
Vito vs. William Regal
CM Punk vs. Hardcore Holly
Smackdown Diva Best Body Contest: Kristal - Layla - Ashley - Michelle McCool
Dueling Cane Match: The Sandman vs. Matt Striker
Credit: PWInsider.com
-WWE 24/7 has started airing a new roundtable discussion series. Panelists for the first episodes will be Jim Ross, Dusty Rhodes, Michael Hayes, Pat Patterson and Mike Graham. They will be discussing the careers of Roddy Piper and Terry Funk. I'm expecting empty cans of Old Milwaukee's Best and empty Funyons bags lying around the set.
Credit: WWE.com
-Afa, Jr., Nattie Neidhart and TJ Wilson have all been signed to Deep South Wrestling for further WWE consideration. Maybe we should steal from WWE for once and sign TJ Wilson for the EWR since they stole two picks from us. Credit: PWInsider.com
-The moon is full and the land is bright, that means it's time for Impact non-spoiler taping rundowns for the next few weeks.
Impact for 10/12
Samoa Joe in ring promo
LAX confronts Styles and Daniels
Chris Sabin, Sonjay Dutt, Jay Lethal and Shark Boy vs. Petey Williams, Johnny Devine, Alex Shelley and Senshei
Ron Killings and Lance Hoyt vs. the Diamonds in the Rough
Samoa Joe vs. Christian Cage in a ladder brawl
Impact for 10/19
Abyss, Raven and Brother Runt confrontation
Christian Cage vs. Norman Smiley
Senshei vs. Jay Lethal with pre match backstage segment
AJ Styles, Christopher Daniels and the James Gang vs. LAX and America's Most Wanted
Samoa Joe is given an ultimatum to return the NWA Title (and maybe some bald Olympian gets involved, maybe, just guessing)
Xplosion
Ron Killings and Lance Hoyt vs. Frankie Kazarian and Matt Bentley
The Naturals vs. Petey Williams and A-1
-TNA.com has a video up of Kurt Angle being picked up at his hotel by Terry Taylor and meeting with various wrestlers prior to the Impact tapings. He also eats a sandwich, clips his toenails and picks his nose and it's all captured on tape! Credit: TNAWrestling.com
-Delirious won the Ring of Honor Survival of the Fittest Tournament last weekend in Cleveland over Matt Sydal. He will receive a World Title shot against Bryan Danielson in November in Boston on November 3rd. Credit: RoHWrestling.com
-Shingo Takagi will start appearing for Ring of Honor at the end of the month. He will face Jimmy Rave on 10/27 in Dayton and Roderick Strong the next night in Chicago. Credit: RoHWrestling.com
-Matt Cross, known as M-Dogg 20, was given a tryout by Ring of Honor officials in Detroit and is expected to sign a contract in the near future. Credit: RoHWrestling.com
-Pro Wrestling Xplosion will have their second live event in Long Island at the Deer Park Community Center on 11/15. The show starts at 5 pm, with the doors opening at 3 pm and a meet and greet with fans at 4 pm. Confirmed talent at this time are Teddy Hart, Steve Corino, Ian Rotten, Mana, Jigsaw, Azerial, the SAT's and Alter Boy Luke. Their first show is now available on DVD at pwxplostion.com Credit: PWInsider.com
-Tom Rumsby, known as the Executioner, and promoter Mark Spencer will be putting on two shows the weekend of 10/21 under the World Wrestling Coalition banner. Saturday's show will be at 1 pm at the Garden Drive In in Hunlock Creek, Pa and the show the next day will be at the Mountain Speedway in Hazelton. The show is being touted as ‘old school' with no swearing, vulgarity or salacious characters. Then where is the fun? Rumsby has been operating his own training school and is looking at venues in the Northeastern Pennsylvania area to start running regular shows. Credit: Timesleader.com
ECW THOUGHTS
-I wonder if there is any deep Freudian meaning to a guy named Balls being the dealer for Diva strip poker. Balls looks like the dealer you'd get at a seedy casino Laughlin, Nevada. They're not even playing poker, they're play high card. Let's just demean these gals further. How about strip crazy eights? I wonder if WWE rigged this or they are actually going to let the chips fall where they may. If I were playing strip poker I would be wearing six layers of clothes and an oversized parka. These girls are going from wearing next to nothing to practically nothing. It leaves nothing to the imagination. I do have to say that Ashley's thigh high argyle socks are mondo sexy. Oh yeah, remember what I said last week nobody is getting naked. In an effort to do a more detailed ECW recap I'll inform you that Ashley lost the first round with a two of spades and took off her shirt.
-Our first match of the night is CM Punk vs. Rene Dupree. The Spirit Squad just needs to look at what the former La Resistance is doing for a peak into their future. We get a strip poker update where Kelly has lost her shoes. Joey Styles beats me to the Snitsky reference. Dupree was supposed to be the hardest core wrestler of all time, but he's not hardcore nor a parody of hardcore. He's just a guy in a pair of tights. I think he could get over in a Rick Model like gimmick, oh wait they tried that with Rob Conway. Trinity loses her shirt. Literally. And that's one of the few times you will read the work literally used correctly. Dupree and Punk are actually having a pretty decent match but you wouldn't know it from the split screens with the not poker game. Punk gets the submission victory with the Anaconda Vice. After the match Maria and Candice tie with threes. Maria takes off her stockings and Candice drops her skirt. Who did Balls Mahoney blow to draw dealer duty? That would be the irony of earning the gig right. I always wondered why Vince never tried a gambler character, he would be a natural for this angle. Since we have a gambling trio in our EWR game I'm sure Vince will steal that in due time.
-After commercial Balls declares the next hand dealer's choice. That means he gets to pick the article of clothing lost. Balls shows his true colors by calling for Kristal's bottoms after she gets a four. Panties or bra never apparently crossed his mind. Styles impresses by reeling off what ever diva has lost so far like he was recapping a box score, as Tazz points out. Kevin Thorne then takes on Tommy Dreamer. Ariel is with him and not getting naked with the bimbos in the back. They should bring Gangrel back to team with Thorne. During the match Ashley loses her heels and Candice does the Go-Daddy dance upon ditching her top. Dreamer and Thorne actually match up pretty well, but what happened to Thorne feuding with Balls. I guess him dealing the not poker game means he won the feud. Being this is on Sci-Fi maybe Dreamer should have some sort of precognitive dream powers. And then the Sandman can carry around a little bag of sand and put guys away with a sleeper. Dreamer wins cleanly with the DDT to demonstrate that Thorne needs to go back to the bat cave as he falls down the jobber ladder. After the match Kristal draws a two and off comes her shoes. Shouldn't each shoe count as one item.
-The girls in the poker game get wet talking about John Cena. WWE even works a plug for his new movie into the poker game. Maria reveals that she likes ponies. I'm not saying a word. Balls feels his Balls shrinking in the girl talk and forces them to play another hand of not poker. Kelly draws a two and honors it by losing her skirt and top, then her undershirt. We got to commercial and I'm guessing Mike Knox runs in and brawls with Balls to set up a new feud. It doesn't happen. Did Knox have a free biscuits coupon for Popeye's or something? Where is he?
-In the main event Sandman, RVD and Sabu team up to face Big Show, Matt Striker and Test. Back at the not poker game Ashley drops her skirt and we don't see what happened with Kelly. Krystal loses her shirt. Why doesn't she take off the hat? Maria loses her skirt. There's a match going on I guess, but you can't take it seriously with half naked chicks running around. Trinity loses her skirt and we see that Kelly is holding her breasts so not to be exposed. If she were an exhibitionist, why would she care if her boobs were hanging out? I didn't think WWE would go that far, but you still haven't seen anything good yet. Maria then takes off her corset. The corset is a fashion statement I want to see come back. Sandman pinned Striker to win the match, not that I was really paying attention. After the match Candice goes to lose her bra, but then challenges Balls to why she got a two. She accuses Maria of cheating. The two brawl and strip each other as we get blurred nudity. The other girls pull them off of each other. Balls chants ECW, even though the two girls naked and fighting are from RAW. I don't think Balls Mahoney would be high on the list of people I would want to see me naked.
WWE FANTASY MANAGER
The first week of the new season is very interesting. We have the huge three hour family reunion RAW. We know the ECW results because it was taped last week, unless WWE pulls a fast one. And we're coming off of a Smackdown pay per view.
Week 1 Team
Rob Van Dam ($4 million): We knew before the deadline that he led a six man tag team to victory on ECW. He was also scheduled to appear on RAW and I figured him a good bet for a match there too.
CM Punk ($2.5 million): He is known to have beaten Rene Dupree on ECW and should be good for a backstage segment with Mike Knox.
Umaga ($3.5 million): He was scheduled to face Kane in a loser leaves RAW match. Conventional wisdom has Kane going to Smackdown, which seems to have been right.
Jeff Hardy ($3 million): I was betting the IC title would be on the line and Hardy has been getting some backstage segments lately too. I was wrong there, but he did work the show.
John Cena ($5 million): He's the WWE Champion with his new movie coming out, so he should be all over RAW and he was.
Finlay ($4 million): You might remember my saying from last season. I will take Finlay until I'm given a reason not to.
Batista ($4 million): Any of the Smackdown guys slated for RAW are good picks, because they will probably appear twice and could wrestle twice on the week. And you know Batista is going to factor in heavy, he's Batista.
MVP ($2 million): He's the new guy on Smackdown and due for a push. He's also cheap for the points potential he has.
Kelly and Kristal ($1 million): The strip poker match was decided by the fantasy manager board to be scored as a specialty match. Ashley and Maria were more expensive and I'd rather have two horses in a race than one.
EWR ON 411
In Your House: Cheat to Win for 10.12.06
Austin Lee gets his head nearly taken off with the double big boot and is pinned by Matt Morgan. Nunzio is caught by Snitsky coming off the top rope with a cross body for the save and is given a rolling fall away slam to the floor. The Power Brokers beat down the Family until Jillian Hall calls them off.
Match Rating: 74%
Ted Dibiase is with Chavo Guerrero in the back. The Million Dollar Man knows what it means to cheat to win and it's Chavo's family motto. Johnny Kashmere might make everything else look good, but they are going to make him look bad tonight. And you can take that to the bank.
Segment Rating: 73%
To prove himself Jeff Hardy asks for his gauntlet opponents in reverse order, meaning Jamie Noble goes first. Hardy hits the Whisper in the Wind and goes up top for the Swanton Bomb. He misses and Noble locks in the Trailer Hitch. Jeff taps out. Noble leaves and Hardy throws a temper tantrum in disgust. (from Mathew with a tweak)
Match Rating: 77%
After the break Norman Smiley and Shark Boy are in the ring. They were promised a match tonight. The Spine Buster walks out and takes on the two in a handicap match. Shark Boy takes the Buster off his feet with a rolling leg attack and tags Smiley. Smiley does the Big Wiggle. Buster spins around and catches Smiley around the shoulders for a Rock Bottom suplex. Vertebuster on Smiley. Buster yanks Shark Boy into the ring and gives him a Vertebuster on top of Smiley and pins them both.
Match Rating: 75%
Kevin Von Erich informs Paul Burchill that Roddy Piper has banned Burchill and Cena from ringside for the bra and panties match. Stacy says she'll be ok, kisses Paul on the cheek and runs off. Burchill turns around into Triple H. Triple H says the lost last week to Burchill is very hard for a man like him to take. While he's stuck in the hell hole of Smackdown he's going to be top dog and he won't lose to some punk kid fresh off the streets. Burchill reminds Triple H that he has a cheap win over him too. Hunter then says they should have the rubber match next week, no matter what happens at No Mercy. Buchill agrees. (from Mathew)
Segment Rating: 65%
Stephanie McMahon uses a sunset flip to get Stacy's short skirt off. Stacy's long legs can really be seen as she does the corner foot choke. Stacy pulls Steph's shirt up over her head then jumps on the top rope and ranas Steph over also removing her shirt. Steph crosses her arms over her chest and backs into the corner begging off. Stacy stands over her and gets low blowed. Steph bulldogs Stacy and wrestles her shirt off. Stephanie basks in triumph, but Stacy just shrugs and starts dancing. Since she's not humiliated Steph is pissed. Steph jumps Stacy, but she deftly unhooks her bra and Steph runs off covering herself.
Match Rating: 66%
Sabu sets Tank Toland up on a table on the outside. Toland rolls out of the way of the Arabian Facebuster. Toland picks Sabu up for a powerbomb on the ring stairs, but Sabu kicks out and gets a face jam to the stairs. Sabu pulls barbed wire out from under the ring and wraps himself in it. However, this gives Toland time to recover and they brawl. Sabu slides into the ring and Toland follows to have a chair thrown at him. Sabu uses another chair for the triple jump moonsault, but Toland kicks it and Sabu slips to crotch himself on the chair top. Toland wraps his arms in some of the barbed wire and uses that to nail the Turrent. Tank Buster on the chair finishes. Sabu goes insane post match, throttling Toland with the chair. He wraps Toland in the barbed wire, piles chairs on top of him and then hits a leg drop off the top rope. Kevin Von Erich runs out with security. Sabu fights them all until Von Erich gets the claw and Sabu continues to struggle until he passes out. (tweak of a Mathew idea)
Match Rating: 62% (This match was seen as a let down by the fans because of the last match, just wanted to mention. Boobies trump hardcore.)
AJ Styles comes out along for his official contract signing with Rey Mysterio for their title match. Mysterio has Rhyno with him. Styles says he doesn't fear Mysterio and he will beat him on his own Sunday. Rey swears that Styles will never beat him and no one will ever take the title from him. Rhyno launches for a Gore, but Styles upends the table and he goes through it. Styles wants to fight Mysterio, but he runs off.
Segment Rating: 71%
Maven flips out of the Decommissioned by Scott Taylor and hits the White Russian leg sweep. Doug Basham runs in, but is wiped out by Jimmy Snuka coming off the top. Snuka spikes the Jaegerbomb on Taylor and they win. The Power Brokers then run out and lay out the faces for their stable mates.
Match Rating: 75%
Jamie Satin and Johnny Kashmere are backstage. Johnny makes cheating look good. Chavo may have cheated his whole life, but he's only so smart. Kashmere's got the brains, the brawn and the sexy good looks. Chavo's lost and is too stupid to know it yet.
Segment Rating: 83%
Johnny gets the Kashmere sweater to take the first fall with his feet on the ropes in the cheat to win match. The referee backs them off to start the next fall, but Chavo isn't getting up. Johnny leans over to check on him and is rolled up with a handful of tights for a fall. Chavo pulls a foreign object out of his tights and hits Kashmere with it for a second fall. Kashmere accuses Chavo of having a foreign object so the referee checks him. While the ref is bent over padding him, Chavo pokes Kashmere in the eye. Johnny leans over holding his eye and eats a swinging neckbreaker for a pin. Chavo goes up for the frog splash, but Jamie Satin pushes the ref in the way and he is knocked out. Ted Dibiase stalks Jamie Satin around ringside. She pretends to slip and hurt her leg. Dibiase stops to check on her and Satin nails him with her high heel shoe. Satin takes Ted's cane and tests it to make sure it's rubber again this week. She slides it into the ring. Kashmere goes down like a ton of bricks. The referee comes around and accuses Chavo of hitting Kashmere with the cane and DQ's him. That's a DQ for Chavo and a cheating fall won by Kashmere, so that's two and he pulls even. A fan then jumps the ring wall and tells the referee what Satin did. Kashmere argues with the man. The man swings, Kashmere ducks and he blasts Chavo. Kashmere covers as time expires. The referee in the back says that was unintentional interference, but then Johnny reveals that the man is his old tag team partner Trent Acid and it was his plan all along. So that's a cheat and Kashmere retains. (Everyone had Acid interfering)
Match Rating: 82%
Show Rating: 72%
RAW Velocity for 10.14.06
David Flair locks in the figure four, but Edge reverses. Lillith slips to the outside and tries to bite David's nose off. Daffney runs into the ring and screams, but the Brood magic gives it no effect (from Mathew). She gets speared for the loss. Abyss lumbers out post match to pick at the remains, but Ric Flair surprises him from behind with a steel chair. Abyss drops to one knee, but is not out. Ric gets David and Daffney out of the ring before he recovers though.
Match Rating: 60%
Marissa Mazzolla is with new security chief Jim Neidhart and his security force. He introduces his daughter Nattie. She's as rough and tough as any man. Nattie says she was specifically brought in to watch the Divas, so they better be watching out for her. Marissa asks the Midnight Express why they joined up with Foley. Foley was the only one who called them while in the hospital. Long wouldn't give Stan Lane a manager's license after he was deemed unfit to wrestle, but Foley offered them both security jobs (from Mathew). Jim Neidhart tells everyone on the brand to watch out or they will have to deal with RAW Force. (from Mathew)
Segment Rating: 53%
Eric Angle gets the ankle lock on Kane. He makes his feet and hits an enzuigiri (from Mathew). He goes up top for the flying clothesline. Eric meets him up there for a super Angle-Plex for two. Eric goes for the ankle lock again. Kane rolls through it to his feet and locks his hand around Eric's throat for a choke slam. Kane wins. Kurt Angle blindsides Kane with a belt shot post match and leads a beat down by Team Angle (from Mathew). Kane recovers and takes everyone out. Kurt yells at Kane while he backs up the ramp. Kane stares at him.
Match Rating: 68%
Traci Brooks is backstage with Kamel Gamble and Rob Vegas. Tonight Gamble is going all in against Ron Killings for the IC title. He's got a full house backing him up and Killings has nothing in the hole.
Segment Rating: 58%
Gamble pushes Killings out of the Clockstopper and slides to the floor. He regroups with Vegas. Killings planchas out onto the pair of them. Brooks them tries to wow Killings with her breasts, but he's not distracted. She then turns around and shows her rear as we discover that Killings is an ass man. Gamble tries to attack him from behind, but Killings sidesteps and he runs into Traci. Killings gets the Clockstopper and rolls Gamble back into the ring for the pin. (from Mathew)
Match Rating: 73%
The Undertaker appears to Kurt Angle in his locker room again. Angle made a good try earlier of going after Kane, but Undertaker does not reward try. A man with fear cannot be an ally of his. Angle has no fear of any man. Undertaker corrects him that he and Kane are not men, they are much more. Time is running out for them all, but especially for Kurt.
Segment Rating: 81%
Brent Albright hits the Q-Bert and Gangrel starts spitting up blood, but he likes it. It seems to give Gangrel a second wind. Gangrel lines up the Nail in the Coffin, but Albright counters into the Flux Capacitor for the win. Eric Angle runs out post match and blinds Albright with the blood from Gangrel's chalice. Eric and Gangrel look at each other, then unite in stomping a mud hole in Albright.
Match Rating: 71%
Molly Holly confronts Alexis Laree. She knows that Laree will be at ringside tonight as Ultimo Dragon faces Chris Sabin. Laree better keep her eyes, hands and any other parts off of him. Laree says that Molly sounds like a jealous woman for someone who didn't want anything to do with Sabin. Molly says she just wants Sabin in perfect condition when she finally takes him out and she doesn't want him to have any other women either, just out of spite.
Segment Rating: 75%
Gail Kim is with Sabin. Molly comes out and argues with her. Laree comes over and they all three yell and start mauling and ripping clothes. Sabin watches with a smirk, which allows Dragon to roll him up, but Sabin reverses and gets the win. Sabin backs up the ramp and just lets the girls go. (from Mathew)
Match Rating: 65%
Lita is with Rob Conway and Sean O'Haire in the back. They lose her after RAW on Monday. Lita says in all that's gone down, the two of them haven't had sex with her. Well, she supposes she can give them one out of good faith since the month wasn't so bad. They can even both go at the same time if they want. As touching in a slutty way as that is, they have a f*cking match to wrestle.
Segment Rating: 70%
Rob Conway drops back to his feet on the Sustained Motion and reverses it. He sets up the Bleep This Piledriver. Garrison Cade is behind Conway and comes off the top rope with a double axe handle, but Conway turns around and Cade winds up spiking the piledriver on his own partner. The tag champs retains. Ivory revives Nowinski and tells him what happened. Nowinski yells at Cade and shoves him before walking off.
Match Rating: 75%
Show Rating: 68%
No Mercy for 10.15.06
Carlito twists out of the Nightmare on Helms Street and nails Carlito's Way. The Spine Buster jumps to the apron. Carlito blows apple in his face and then drops him throat first over the top rope. Carlito turns around into a kick in the gut and a double underhook DDT. That sets up the Vertebreaker for the win. (from Mathew)
Match Rating: 80%
Williams Regal's new super knuckles are on the pole. Regal ducks the scissors kick, but Booker lands on the top turnbuckle and starts climbing the pole. Regal catches him for an electric chair drop. Regal climbs. Booker T catches him by the trunks and shows his rear. Regal is embarrassed and tries to cover up. He falls into Booker for the Book End. Booker T climbs. He takes the knux down. Regal is up and pulls a spare pair of knuckles out of his tights and nails Booker in the calf. Booker lets the super knux fly and Regal catches them. Booker falls to the mat holding his leg and Regal blasts him in the face with the platinum knuckles. Booker falls into a pile not moving. Regal pins him easily.
Match Rating: 68%
Ted Dibiase blocks a Gore on Tajiri from Rhyno by stepping in to take it himself. Rhyno stands and takes the Buzz Saw kick. Pin falls still have to happen in the ring and Tajiri can't get Rhyno up and in. Rhyno recovers and clubs Tajiri around ringside. Tajiri spins and spits, but Rhyno ducks the mist for a short distance Gore. He throws Tajiri into the ring and cockily covers by sitting on Tajiri's shoulders. However, Tajiri had more mist and sprays Rhyno's in the eyes. He flips him over with his feet around his shoulders and gets the quick pin. Rhyno swings blindly, but Tajiri grabs Ted and heads off.
Match Rating: 69%
Steven Richards shows that he watched the Piper and Valentine dog collar match by tying Raven up in the ropes and using the chain as a pulley to pull him forward, punch him and pulls him back before he can respond. Raven finally does a header over the ropes to the floor. That pulls Richards forward and he gets hung over the ropes. Raven slides back into the ring, but Richards manages to skin the cat behind him. Raven whips Richards with a length of chain. Raven goes for the Evenflow, but Richards picks him up and dumps him over the ropes. Raven is hung out to dry and passes out for Richards to win.
Match Rating: 78%
Matt Hardy rams Danny Doring into the corner to break the Doring sleeper. Matt snap mares Doring over, kicks him in the back of the head and gets the yodeling leg drop for the win. Fred Curry rushes in and surprises Hardy with a dropkick. Curry works Hardy over. Matt drops down out of a crucifix power bomb and gets a backslide for the pin. Curry and Doring beat Matt down until they are driven from the ring by security. Shannon Moore sashays out and beats on Matt, yelling at him about him no longer being a follower and how Hardy can't hold him down. Moore comes off for the X'ed Out (Mooregasm), but Hardy catches him and gets a makeshift Twist of Fate. Both men are out. Hardy climbs the turnbuckles. Moore comes up behind him for a backcracker from the top rope. Moore goes up for the Floorpunch fist drop. Hardy moves and Moore jams his hand into the mat. Hardy stomps on the hand. He locks in a fujiawara armbar and cranks on the hand until Moore submits like a bitch. Hardy trips away with his belt while Moore throws a fit in the ring.
Match Rating: 74%
Paul Burchill drops out of the FU and goes for the C4, but Cena elbows out. He goes into the ropes for a flying forearm, but the referee gets in the way and is bumped. Cena gets Burchill up for the FU again. Stacy Keibler runs in and superkicks Cena. Stephanie pulls Stacy from the ring and nails her with the scepter. Cena asks for the scepter. He swings, but Burchill ducks and comes up for the C4. Nitro-Glyciene (full nelson camel clutch, from Mathew) gets the submission as the ref comes around.
Match Rating: 70%
JC Ice eats the Brisc-O off of three ladders through a table. Money takes the Silver Bullet off of a ladder by Wolfie D. London and Kidman take out the Briscoes with chairs. Orlando Jordan flies in with a cross body onto the Shooting Stars across their chairs to put them down. Jordan climbs the ladder, but London and Kidman kick it so Jordan does the Nestea plunge to the outside through a table. Wolfie climbs, but Kidman races up the ladder to knock him off and hits a Shooting Star Press off the ladder on top of him. London claims the titles to retain. (parts from Mathew) (The Briscoes actually won, but EZ Money vetoed it, so I let the champs retain)
Match Rating: 77%
Jericho hits the Breakdown and follows for the Lionsault for two. He locks in the Walls of Jericho too close to the ropes and Triple H makes them to break. Jericho kicks Hunter in the ropes. Triple H grabs his foot and pushes him off. Jericho flips over to land on his feet and charges. Triple H pulls the ropes down for him to go over to the floor. Triple H baseball slides out. They brawl on the outside. Triple H gets into the ring first and catches Jericho as he comes in. Jericho backdrops out of the Pedigree. Jericho drops an elbow for two. Another Lionsault gets two. Jericho points up top. He goes up. Triple H meets him up there. Triple H tries to superplex him off, but Jericho reverses. They splat to the outside and the match ends in a double count out.
Match Rating: 63%
Rey Mysterio chides AJ for being alone since his stable mates were taken out. He still has Rhyno with him. Ted Dibiase runs out and nails Rhyno with his cane and beats him to the back. Styles blocks a rana and gets a power bomb for two. He nails a moonsault leg drop from the top for two. They do a crisscross and Styles is dropped on the second rope. He takes the 619 and Rey Drops the Dime. It gets two. Rey not knowing what to do gets his belt. Styles super kicks the belt into Rey's face. Mysterio turns the Styles Clash into a rana and holds the ropes to steal the pin (from Mathew). Rey hits the floor, grabs his belt and runs off. AJ chases.
Match Rating: 78%
Show Rating: 72%
RAW for 10.16.06
Teddy Long is blocked from his office by Jim Neidhart and his security team. He demands they move and Jim refuses. Mick Foley then comes out of the office and announces that he's taking over tonight by RAW Force, whether Long likes it or not. Long says he's had about all he's going to take from him, playa. Foley says he doesn't have to take anymore and orders Neidhart to throw him out of the building. Long yells and struggles until he's tossed out into the street.
Segment Rating: 78%
FBG jump the Irish Warrior while he's posing for the fans. Warrior fights back. He hits the double noggin knocker. Gorilla slam on Vito. Gorilla slam on Stambolli on top of Vito. He splashes the pile and pins them both.
Match Rating: 66%
Mick Foley appears on the Titantron and golf claps. He'd like to say he's impressed by the Irish Warrior, but then he'd be lying. Warrior was brought in by Long and Foley wants him out. Foley would come kick his ass himself, but he's retired. The audience laughs and he tells them to shut up. So he wants Warrior to face later tonight the only man on RAW Foley admits is tougher than him, the Undertaker.
Segment Rating: 75%
Shelton Benjamin confronts Charlie Haas in the back. They have the antidote to the Brood virus, but haven't been able to test it on anyone. Haas is not going to be the guinea pig. He likes being in the Brood and Benjamin needs to leave him alone. Benjamin wants to save him. He doesn't need saving and Shelton only wants to save himself. If he wants to really be his friend, his family, he'll give in to the Brood.
Segment Rating: 80%
Charlie Haas gets a release full nelson slam. He locks in the Dark Haas of Pain. Benjamin makes the ropes to break. He holds the ropes and Haas yanks his feet to bring him back in the ring. He goes to lock it in again, but Benjamin grabs him and rolls him up for three. Haas is mad post match and goes to attack Benjamin, but is almost impaled by Shelton's sword. A bloodied Haas runs off. Shelton collects some of the blood. Joey Styles theorizes it's for more tests.
Match Rating: 85%
Kane walks through the back when Kurt Angle appears. He says he's not afraid of Kane. He doesn't care what Undertaker wants him to do. If Kane wants to stay safe he'll stay away from Angle. Kane lumbers after Angle as he runs. Kane rounds a corner to take chair shot to the face. Kurt directs Johnny Jeter and Chad Wicks in a beat down. Maybe that will get UT off his back.
Segment Rating: 79%
Randy Orton gets the RKO and taunts the Rock. He mocks the People's Elbow and goes for one himself. As he runs up to the Rock to drop the elbow, Rock kips up and catches Orton for the Rock Bottom. Rock doesn't waste time getting the pin. (from Mathew)
Match Rating: 67%
Randy Orton visits Mick Foley. He's been held down by Teddy Long. He knows that Foley will be sympathetic to Orton and give him a title shot. There is no love loss between Foley and Orton. And Foley wants one thing made straight. He's not a friend to anyone on RAW. He's going to rule with an iron fist. If Orton wants a title shot, he'll book him another match. Let's get ironic and make it against the man Orton turfed from Evolution, Batista.
Segment Rating: 69%
Irish Warrior and Undertaker totally no sell each other. Undertaker gets fed up and bashes Warrior with the ring stairs for the DQ. UT Tombstones Warrior on the ring stairs. He walks off. He turns around on the entrance ramp and stares at the ring. Warrior sits up like Undertaker does and makes his feet. Undertaker takes off in a cloud of smoke while the Irish Warrior tells him to come back to the ring. (from Mathew)
Match Rating: 65%
Mick Foley hears something outside in the hall and opens his office door. There is a wild brawl going on between RAW Force and the old RAW security team. Teddy Long says it's on now, beeyotch and hits Foley with a chair. Foley trips into Greg Valentine for a massive clubbing blow on his chest. The Midnight Express double goozle him. Nattie Neidhart uses a fire extinguisher to calm things down. Foley tells Jim to get their people out of there and they run off.
Segment Rating: 80%
Kurt Angle has Big Show in the ankle lock. Show fights for the ropes, but can't make it. He keeps struggling and slips out of his boot. Angle is shocked and drops the boot. Show is up and grabs Angle by the throat for the choke slam. Show mocks Angle by screaming and taking his straps down. He locks in a Cobra Clutch to really work Kurt over. The lights go out, a gong sounds, Undertaker is in the ring and blasts Show for the blatant DQ. UT tells Kurt it's a sign of good faith for his attack on Kane that night. The Irish Warrior then runs out to make the save. (from Mathew)
Match Rating: 76%
Show Rating: 74%
The recent behavior of Orlando Jordan has annoyed several in the locker room, but since he had a match I ignored it.
Gail Kim has checked into rehab.
Smackdown card for next week, choose all winners
Rey Mysterio vs. Matt Hardy for the Smackdown Title
Stevie Richards vs. Sabu for the Hardcore Title
William Regal, John Cena and Johnny Kashmere vs. Booker T, Chris Jericho and Carlito Caribbean Cool
Triple H vs. Paul Burchill
The Briscoe Brothers vs. The Shooting Stars (Kidman and London) for the Smackdown tag team titles
Maven and Jimmy Snuka, Jr. vs. The Power Brokers (Morgan and Snitsky) in a hardcore match
Chavo Guerrero vs. Trent Acid
Jeff Hardy vs. Jamie Noble in a submission match
The Family (Lee and Nunzio) vs. Scott Taylor and Doug Basham
The Spine Buster vs. The Unknown
AJ Styles vs. Fred Curry (Styles asked for it)
Tajiri vs. Shane Helms (Tajiri asked for it)
RAW card for next week, choose all winners
The Rock vs. Kurt Angle for the RAW Title
Undertaker and the Dark Warrior vs. the Irish Warrior and Big Show
Molly Holly vs. Alexis Laree
Ron Killings vs. Rob Vegas for the IC Title
Eric Angle vs. Rene Dupree (Angle asked for it)
The Breakfast Club (Albright, Williams and MacLean) vs. The Graduates (Nowinski, Cade and Cappotelli)
Randy Orton vs. Batista for a RAW Title shot
Brock Lesnar vs. Edge (because I forgot to book it this week)
Christian vs. Charlie Haas
Sean O'Haire vs. Rosey
Medusa vs. Lady Shini for the WWE Women's Title
Brent Albright vs. Johnny Jeter for the Great Lakes Title
