The 10th Day News Report for 4.11.07

Posted by Leonard Hayhurst on 04.11.2007

Disco Inferno news…current and relevant…I’m serious

MAILBAG

Hey man, quick question...didn't Vince make it a fatal four way for the ECW Title? Then why is WWE.com reporting that it's going to be a 3 on 1? I'd much rather see the fatal four way, just to see Shane screw his father once again!
-William

I missed RAW because I was out watching Grindhouse. It seems from reports that McMahon did make it a four way, but WWE.com is listing it as a three on one match. The handicap match makes more sense with storylines, especially with a fatal fourway for the WWE title on the same card. With RAW being live booking is often changed at the last minute. After seeing the replay of the footage on ECW last night, I think that McMahon just didn't make himself clear on the booking.

what part of Ohio are you? Columbus area here, I was at the raw show and i was shocked with people leaving early, I saw Bruce Pritchard come out to watch the match, and he looked upset that people were leaving that or I kept yelling brother love so he would come over and sign something for me. I did meet Shaniqua she was awesome she was there for raw and to see her old friends. She is super awesome, really great with the fans, and Marty Elias is absolutely fantastic really really nice guy.
-Chase

I'm in Zanesville, halfway to everywhere but in and of itself nowhere. I've been wanting to catch a WWE event in Columbus, but haven't. Interesting on your experience meeting people.

"It looks better for someone to do something, than just stand there. If someone swings a chair at you and misses, your natural inclination is not to do anything because nothing happened. However, if you roll with the flow and just fake the chair shot I think that works better and does show that your head is in the match. "

hmmm.......i still say it looks like crap if someone blatantly misses by a mile and you act as if it connected. think of trish and Miss Jackie. you cant possibly defend that.

"In the best case scenario, when that chair shot misses you don't fake the shot or just stand there, but improvise some other spot that fits the situation. "

Agreed. and in the case of MCV, he couldve believably just stood there. after rvd kicks you in the head, youre gonna be dazed.

"And with your Hogan example, I don't see that being a blown spot because Hogan couldn't go over the top rope. He didn't try and fail or just stand there, he did something else that fits. "

Not sure I follow. Hogan did try to go over the top rope, and did fail. And by "try", I dont mean the character wanted to go over the rope but couldnt do it, I mean the proper thing for the wrestler to do in that situation was propel their body over the top rope as if the rock's punch was that devastating that it propelled them all the way over the top.

"Also, most fans in the arena and watching at home (especially with editing) aren't going to notice or care. "

Well, I notice, and I care. cant speak for anyone else. oh, my roommate, and my friend dev, also notice and care. 3 of us :)

"On your analogy of winning the Money in the Bank ladder match twice is like winning the King of the Ring twice, I would say it's more like winning the Royal Rumble twice. Hogan and Michaels have won it twice and Austin won three times. "

Okay, maybe comparing MitB to KotR wasnt 100% accurate, but neither is comparing MitB to RR. I mean, winning the royal rumble guarantees that you will semi-main event wrestlemania!!!! sure, in theory, the MitB title shot could be used that way, or even in the _actual_ main event, but no one's done it yet, and I'm thinking we're a couple years away from someone doing it (this is gonna be the year that the MitB winner doesn't win the title, sadly....just a guess, to mix things up). I'd say MitB is somewhere between KotR and RR - fair? Winning the rumble means youre the best, winning the MitB means you're not in any of the title matches that year, and you're fighting for an opportunity, which is why I likened it to KotR - a chance for non-main event guys to shine.

"What I meant that most people in the fantasy manager game were not taking MVP or they were taking Benoit over him. Most smarts were picking MVP and they turned out to be wrong. "

Ya know, I looked at the rosters for the teams in 1st and 2nd last week, and it baffles my mind who they picked. one guy's roster had a bunch of divas, and not many WM participants......and yet, he won. he had: ashley, lashley, candice, burke, hornswoggle, jillian, striker, melina, hbk, khali, torrie, and undertaker. thats...okay, thats 6 of the 8 matches, but still, surprising picks, considering he was in first. looking at the team that came in 1st for week 10 is even more mindboggling - Ashley, punk, finlay, hornswoggle, jeff and matt hardy, mr kennedy, sharmell, orton, and taker. thats 3 WM matches. wow. this explains why I usually average in the mid-200s. im a clueless f' apparently. although I moved my rank up to 1309 this season, better than 1700, which ive been the last two seasons.

so, that interview with matt and jeff after they won the titles.....were they about to make out?

"As announced at Wrestlemania, the attendance at the event was 80,103 people. "

in this day and age, thats pretty freakin awesome. good for them.

random question - what do you think about cm punk? near as i can tell, he's over, but, having seen his ecw work, I can't figure out why he was the IWC's sweetheart. Dont get me wrong, i like him. ive been swept up in the CM Punk love as well. it happens to the best of us. but so far, I think samoa joe is MUCH better than CM Punk. I saw some of his RoH stuff, but he was a heel in the matches i saw, and they were mostly hardcore, so im guessing thats not an ideal match to watch. do you know why everyone says he's so great?

congrats on coming in 204th. thats a lot better than ive ever done.
-Manu Bumb

I think we're just of two minds on the blown spot thing, so let's rest it. From your description of the Hogan spot I thought you meant he took the punch and then went under the bottom rope. Not took the punch, tried to go over the top, couldn't and then went under the bottom rope. I don't remember the spot specifically. And my main thinking on comparing the Royal Rumble to Money in the Bank is that both give you a guaranteed title shot.

I like CM Punk. I think he hasn't been allowed to showcase his ware in WWE yet, but that could be said for a lot of the young guys like Elijah Burke and MVP. Doing five minute TV matches is a lot different than doing longer form bouts at house shows for indy feds. Those in the know are high on Punk because they've seen what he can do or at least have faith in the potential he's shown.

In the fantasy manager all the divas and all the Money in the Bank ladder guys pulled in major points for the week. This was mostly due to them participating in a lot of segments and matches heading up to the pay per view. It really boggles my mind too sometimes who is on top and how they got there. Maybe next season I should just close my eyes and pick people. I'll probably win.

NEWS AND NOTES

-In your online Heat report Daniel Rodimer took out Super Crazy to anger all you Super Crazy marks. Cryme Time went over Ace Stevens and Adam Bennett, since they can't beat anyone on the actual roster. Kenny Dykstra jobbed Val Venis. Chris Masters actually used the Masterlock to win a match against Mike Edwards. Eugene was beaten senseless (well, more so) by the Great Khali while working the T-shirt cannon bit. Credit: PWInsider.com

-After RAW went off the air on Monday the McMahons and Umaga continued to beat on Bobby Lashley until Vince put on the ECW World Title and went to the back. This footage has been posted to WWE.com Vince McMahon as the ECW champion would be the biggest F-you to the original ECW fan base. So expect him to do it. Credit: PWInsider.com

-Smackdown last week scored a 2.7 rating. That's down a good bit, but expected after the pre-Wrestlemania spike. RAW did a 3.9 rating on Monday. Credit: PWInsider.com

-Steve Austin will be putting in an appearance on the Country Music Awards on CMT this coming Monday starting at 8 pm. He's going to stunner Vince Gill. Austin is also set to appear on "The Tom Green Show" on April 20th. He still has a show? Austin will also be the grand marshal of the NASCAR race this Sunday. Credit: PWInsider.com

-Paul Burchill and Milena Roucka were both backstage last night at the ECW and Smackdown tapings. Burcill has been working lately as the Ripper, having dropped the pirate gimmick. Credit: PWInsider.com

-Ric Flair and the Four Horsemen DVD box set from WWE went on sale yesterday. Pretend it's my birthday and buy it for me. I can only hope there is a bonus disc of all Paul Roma matches. Credit: PWInsider.com

-Booker T and Sharmell will be signing autographs along with workers from Booker's new independent wrestling organization this Saturday from 1-3 pm at the San Jacinto Mall in Baytown, Tx. Credit: PWInsider.com

-A WWE RAW themed Socko energy drink will hit the market on 5.15. What does a gym sock Mick Foley keeps next to his balls have to do with high energy workout fuel? I'm seriously asking. Credit: PWInsider.com

-Mick Foley will be a special speaker at MIT this Thursday for a speech entitled "The Real World's Faker than Wrestling." It's the truth. Credit: PWInsider.com

-WWE.com reports that they had a record 67.6 million page views the night after Wrestlemania and 120 million page views with 5 million unique visitors the weekend of the event. That's about what my column gets in a week. Credit: WWE.com

-The Hulk Hogan vs. Jerry Lawler match reported last week will be moved to the FedEx Forum in Memphis due to bomb threats…no, wait, that was Wrestlemania VII. It's theorized that they couldn't get permission to open and use the old Mid South Coliseum. Tickets for the event go on sale this Saturday. A press conference will be held Thursday with Hogan and Lawler to announce the match and Hogan will be on Memphis Wrestling TV this weekend to promote the bout. Credit: PWInsider.com

-Chris Kanyon is set to appear on the Howard Stern Show today. Kanyon announced his retirement from wrestling last week on his MySpace page, fifteen years to the day of his professional debut. Kanyon is expected to make an official announcement on that and his post retirement plans today on Stern. Credit: twnpnews.com

-Mark Briscoe suffered a concussion over the weekend and will not wrestle for Ring of Honor at their shows this coming weekend in Long Island and Edison , New Jersey . Credit: ROHWrestling.com

-Wrestler, Glen Gilbretti, known as Disco Inferno in WCW and TNA, was arrested Monday evening in connection to a gambling sting in Roswell Georgia. Police had been investigating a suspected basement casino in a private residence for six months based on complaints of neighbors of numerous people coming in and out of the home at all hours. 27 people total were arrested. A no limit Texas hold'em game with a $10,000 buy in was going on at the time of the bust. Where does Disco get that kind of money? Bring him back and give him the Kamel Gamble gimmick from our EWR game. Credit: PWInsider.com

ECW THOUGHTS

-Vince McMahon opens the show in the ring. I'm really digging the fedoras on him. He should form a group of goons that dress like him and they can call them the Rat Pack. McMahon shows footage from last night's RAW of the beat down on Lashley. Vince then declares victory at Backlash for himself already. Let me boil down that ten minutes for you: buy Backlash!

-Rob Van Dam and Elijah Burke fight over CM Punk. He's going to give his answer later on which side he will join. My guess is that he turns into Switzerland and stays neutral. Or he says he's going with the Originals and swerves them, which is Dusty Rhodes booking 101. They need to book some sort of Originals vs. New Breed match for Backlash with Punk as the special guest referee.

-Tommy Dreamer limps out to face Kevin Thorne. Is there officially an ‘e' on that or not? I've seen it both ways. Dreamer is so physically messed up he should be John Wayne's deputy in a Howard Hawks movie. Thorne wins cleanly with the Dark Kiss.

-The slunts dance in front of the mirror putting on their makeup until Snitsky shows up. If you're going to make Snitsky a super badass psycho killing machine, don't put him in segments with the female dance troop after his foot fetish history. I was waiting for some sort of Grindhouse reference in that segment.

-CM Punk and Stevie Richards have a rematch from last week, because Richards is about the only unaffiliated low carder on the roster Punk can face. Striker and Sandman come out to monitor the action. Styles automatically assumes they are there to scout Punk. Why not Richards? Oh yeah, he's Stevie Richards. Punk wins the match, although Sandman almost drunkenly botched the match for him when he took a pot shot at Striker. Punk and Sandman talk matters out. Punk is straight edge, he's not going to want to hang with a drunk.

-To justify the earlier getting ready segment, the slunts dance before the main event. Snitsky eventually enters the ring and goes after Brooke. Balls Mahoney tries to save with a chair, but Snitsky no sells it and gives Balls the big boot. Every time Mahoney shows up I'm like "yeah, I forgot about Balls." Mahoney, Richards and Little Guido should form a stable called the New Originals.

-RVD and Marcus Cor Von hook up for the main event. Cor Von's theme song I believe is done by Randy Watson and Sexual Chocolate. Sabu and Burke are on the outside. Sabu plays Sharmell to Burke's Matt Hardy, which turns RVD into King Booker. This allows Cor Von to steal the win. Punk runs out to check on the faces and then challenges the New Breed guys…SWERVE! Punk joins the New Breed. I guess that makes sense with Punk being a newer guy, but logic has never stopped any booking plans.

EWR ON 411

Smackdown for 4.12.07

Raven sets up for the Evenflow on Carlito. Booker T comes in and breaks with a thrust kick. The referee forces Booker T out. Sabin comes off the top with a double axe handle on Carlito while Raven holds him. Carlito moves and he decks Raven. Backcracker to Sabin. Carlito's Way pins Raven. Raven and Sabin grab the title belts from ringside and knock out the faces with them after the match.
Match Rating: 75%

Cheerleader Melissa is waiting for CM Punk outside his locker room. Chris Jericho comes along and tells her to bring her pom-poms over to his place and he'll give her a C-O-C…Punk comes out. He tells Jericho to get lost. Look junior, I was telling punks like you to get lost when you were still eating cheeseburgers and sneaking smokes in the high school bathroom. You're not straight edge, you don't have an edge. You're just a punk. Jericho leaves. CM says he's right. He is a punk, CM Punk.
Segment Rating: 78%

Jay Briscoe blocks the Acid Drop and gets a front slam. Side effect gets two. Bulldog gets two. Briscoe sets up a slingshot suplex. Chris Cage grabs his foot from the floor. Acid collapses on top of Jay and pins him. They work the beat down post match until Steve Austin runs out for the save.
Match Rating: 89%

After the break Austin is being forced from ringside by officials, because Cage has a match to wrestle. Austin wades through the suits and rushes the ring. The referee gets in his way, so he stunners him. This allows Cage to super kick Austin to the floor. The officials drag Austin off, but he's not happy.
Segment Rating: 80%

Tajiri gets the Tarantula on Cage. He lets go and tries to buzzsaw kick him from the apron, but Cage ducks and then pushes Tajiri to the floor. He slingshot body presses out onto him. Tajiri is whipped into the steps. Cagebreaker finishes in the ring.
Match Rating: 78%

Jake Roberts locks Shannon Moore in a room filled with snakes. Moore pounds on the glass in the door and wrestles with the knob. He respects Roberts, he respects snakes, he respects the room. He wants out of it. Roberts tells Moore he doesn't respect anyone or anything, because he doesn't respect himself. He's consumed by fear. When you're afraid of something you have to face it head on. And since Moore is afraid of everything, he just decided to choose snakes as their vehicle to fight the fear. Oh, watch out for that one with the green diamond shapes on it. Moore screams and runs around the room.
Segment Rating: 64%

Mark Briscoe goes up top on Johnny Kashmere. Jamie Satain shakes the ropes so he crotches himself. Kashmere goes up for a superplex, but Briscoe turns it into a front suplex. Swinging neckbreaker finishes.
Match Rating: 78%

Gene Okerlund has Stacy Keibler and Paul Burchill. Burchill hopes Mysterio and Jericho win tonight. No slight to Punk, but he wants Mysterio to pick the stipulation for their rematch. He wants everything to be just how Mysterio wants it and then he'll beat him anyway. Gene says behind every great man is a great woman and Buchill has that with Stacy. Burchill says the two best days in his life was meeting Stacy and winning the Smackdown title and it's because of her he won it.
Segment Rating: 93%

Triple H gets his knees up on the frog splash by Chavo Guerrero (from Mathew). Pedigree gets the win. Post match, Triple H calls out Austin but he doesn't show. Oh yeah, that's right. He got tossed out of the damn building after Cage tossed him out of the ring. Hunter laughs.
Match Rating: 70%

Okerlund goes to Mysterio for a rebuttal. Mysterio tells Burchill to be careful what he asks for. He just might get it. Mysterio knows he didn't tap out at Wrestlemania. He knows he should still be champion. If he can control the stipulations, he will win out. He'll control his destiny, not some referee with a grudge against him because he's so great. He's going to take out Burchill and all he loves. That includes his woman and Mysterio's belt.
Segment Rating: 76%

Mysterio drop toeholds Punk on the ropes and goes for the 619. Punk grabs his legs and whips Mysterio back into the ring. Springboard moonsault for two. Jericho makes the save. Medusa Micelli jumps to Smackdown and attacks Stacy Keibler. Burchill goes out to help her and is maced in the eyes. Punk is alone and takes a double team brainbuster. Lionsault wins. Medusa raises Jericho and Mysterio's arms in victory.
Match Rating: 91%

Show Rating: 78%

Velocity for 4.14.07

Shannon Moore is timid, but hangs a little bit with Norman Smiley. Smiley does the Big Wiggle on Moore. Moore goes to say he respects Smiley, but catches himself and just submits to it. Moore runs off after the match (from Mathew)
Match Rating: 63%

Jake Roberts storms into Moore's locker room and grabs him by the scruff of the neck. He says it's back to the snake room. Moore asks to go to the bathroom fir…never mind.
Segment Rating: 76%

Chad Wicks goes for the Burning Wick on Billy Kidman. Kidman rolls to the ropes and bucks him out of the ring. Kidman does a shooting star press to the outside on Wicks. Both men are counted out. They eventually recover and brawl to the back. (from Mathew)
Match Rating: 70%

EZ and DC Money go to see Roddy Piper. EZ thanks Piper for hiring his brother and in thanks they have something big for him. At In Your House they are going to deliver their cousin Eddie Money for a special musical performance. Piper is nonplussed. He says Money's last hit was back when…DC says when Piper had two good hips and was a legitimate main eventer. Piper glares at him. Ok, Eddie's on the show. Like Piper he's a classic.
Segment Rating: 68%

London and Jeter have a pretty even match up until Kidman and Wicks brawl back into the ring. Everyone mixes it up and the referee throws the match out. (from Mathew) The heels go to whip the Jesters into each other. They do-si-do to switch up and then Stinger splash the Stars.
Match Rating: 76%

Stephanie McMahon calls Eddie Money performing at In Your House a joke. It's almost as big a joke as Michelle Money herself. You want a real announcement for In Your House. Steph will give you one. She challenges Show Me the Money to a match at the ppv pre-show for her men.
Segment Rating: 77%

Wolfie D gets the Silver Bullet on DC. He tags to JC Ice who covers for two. He works DC over. Ice telegraphs a backdrop. DC hops over him and kicks him with both feet in the back of the head. Hot tag to EZ. He cleans house. Cashing In (double brainbuster, from Mathew) finishes. The Blue Bloods run out and attack the Money Brothers. Stephanie directs her men, but is grabbed by her hair from behind by Michelle. She goes ground and pound until the Blue Bloods pull her off.
Match Rating: 69%

Medusa is in the ring. She knows Smackdown has a pathetic women's division, but she didn't come here to easily dominate it. Stacy Keibler humiliated and embarrassed her. She wants to mess that pretty bitch up and Rey Mysterio is willing to help her if she helps him. Keibler comes out. She says if Medusa wants a match with her, she's got it. But she'll only agree if it's a bra and panties match. The Smackdown women might be pathetic in the ring to her, but to them Medusa is an old, ugly hag. They catfight.
Segment Rating: 79%

AJ Styles flips out of the Decommissioned. He nails an inverted DDT to the knee. He pulls Taylor up and pays homage to Austin with a springboard stunner (from Mathew).
Match Rating: 73%

Randy Orton walks to the ring and meets Styles coming back. Orton congratulates him on the win and doing so with a new move for him. Styles has moves Orton has never seen before and he won't until Judgment Day. Good, Orton wants to be as impressive as possible when he beats Styles to prove he deserves a title shot.
Segment Rating: 80%

Orton mockingly plays tribute to Austin with a Stun Gun on Shane Helms Helms grabs his skeleton spine. Orton catches him with an RKO and Helms busts his face by landing on it. (from Mathew) Orton wins.
Match Rating: 85%

Show Rating: 75%

Backlash for 4.15.07

Molly Holly and Stevie Richards have some communication errors as a new team. However they pull it together (from Mathew). Stevie-Kick to Harry Smith spins him around to take the Molly-Go-Round. Nattie slides Harry his half of the tag titles and then distracts the referee and Richards. Smith blasts Molly with the belt and pins her while Nattie rides around on Stevie's back and claws at his eyes.
Match Rating: 47%

Brent Albright and Chris Hero team up to take on Nick Dinsmore. Dinsmore sneak attacks where he can and blames the other guy. This gets Hero and Albright at odds. Albright makes his feet as Chris goes for the Hero Worship and turns it into a backslide. Dinsmore swoops in and flips Albright over to pin them both before they can shake loose.
Match Rating: 79%

Christopher Nowinski lets Big Vito do the heavy work against Kane. Vito is pinned with a choke slam. Kane takes the briefcase from Nowinski and opens it, but takes a face full of powder. It was a rigged case. Nowinski brings the real case out from under the ring and runs off with it. (parts from Mathew)
Match Rating: 67%

David Flair beats on the mystery man and tries to take his mask off. He takes him down into a figure four. He won't submit. Daffney screams, but it winds up affecting David. EW flips the figure four over and Flair submits. He removes his mask to reveal himself as Erik Watts. He then takes out his earplugs. Daffney tends to David. Erik gropes her from behind and kisses her. He then walks off. (I wanted Crowbar, but he was under written contract to another fed. Watts was about all we could get with a connection to Flair.) (twist of a Mathew idea)
Match Rating: 64%

The Rock beats on Terry Funk while he sells like a mad man. Rock pins him several times, but he keeps stumbling up right before the ten count. Finally John Cena comes out in his king of the ring cape and crown. He brains Rock with the scepter. Funk piledrives him on the entrance ramp. Rock is counted out. Styles on commentary reminds that Cena beat Rock to become the king of the ring last year under the new brand vs. brand format.
Match Rating: 75%

Matt Hardy twists through the Rock Over Rio for the Twist of Fate. He goes up top for the yodeling leg drop. Jeff Hardy runs out and shoves him off the top rope to the floor. The referee counts Matt out and awards Brazil the belt, as under South American rules a belt can change hands on a count out. Chapman celebrates to a huge ovation from the hometown crowd.
Match Rating: 62%

Matt Morgan helps his stable mates Lashley and Big Show in the ladder match. Colt Cabana runs out and swings a ladder at Morgan. Morgan dodges. Cabana seems to pull up, then follows through and nails Lesnar. Batista is choke slammed on the ladder by Big Show. Lashley takes out EMF with a clothesline while wearing a ladder around his middle. Lashley then climbs to claim the titles.
Match Rating: 78%

Edge spears Undertaker for two. Edge lines up a second. He's caught for a choke slam that gets two for UT. Tombstone piledriver is reversed to the Edgeomatic for two. Edge tries his own Tombstone, that Undertaker reverses to a Tombstone for real and the win. UT gets a RAW brand title shot. (from Mathew)
Match Rating: 65%

Ron Killings crawls for the cage door. Kurt Angle catches his foot and drags him into the ring. Angle works the ankle lock with grapevine. Killing gets to a standing position on his free leg. Angle in his single minded obsession for the tap out doesn't realize his shoulders are down and he gets counted for the pin. Angle doesn't know what happened for a second, then he flips out on the referee and throws him into the cage. Killings stops his rampage with a Clockstopper. He climbs the cage and plays to the crowd with the title belt. (mostly from Mathew)
Match Rating: 81%

Show Rating: 72%

In Your House: Hostile Response for 4.16.07

Colt Cabana gets his foot on the ropes after the Sex Drive from Matt Cappotelli. Matt thinks he won. This allows Colt to collar him from behind for the Cabana Hammock for the submission (torture rack).
Match Rating: 76%

Roddy Piper surprises by taking the ring. He has come to RAW at the end of the free agent period tonight to sign Brock Lesnar. Lesnar comes out and asks what is going on. Piper says he received a call last night after Backlash from Lesnar saying he was disgraced by losing the tag title match and letting down Batista, so he wanted to move to Smackdown. Lesnar has no idea what he's talking about. Batista comes out. He tells Brock he didn't let him down and if he goes to Smackdown he'll go with him. They talk about it and then Triple H comes out. He doesn't want Batista, but he offers Brock a spot in Evolution. He'll give him double the contract from Piper. The glass shatters. Steve Austin says that Triple H doesn't have any money, because he's still under that $200 a month contract that Randy Orton screwed him with. He'll give Brock and Batista four times Piper's offer to join the Million Dollar Corporation. Mick Foley comes out. He understands the free agent period, but he'll be damned if he'll let Piper and guys from Smackdown come on his show and do Smackdown business. Piper says he'll make it up to Foley by allowing him to have a huge main event for tonight. He knows Triple H has Acid and Kashmere in the back, so he'll book them with Triple H against Lesnar, Bastista and Austin. The crowd pops, so Foley agrees.
Segment Rating: 74%

Gangrel taps out to the Haas of Pain, then whimpers like a hurt animal in the ring.
Match Rating: 60%

Colt Cabana comes out of the shower and finds Batista. It's a shame about Lesnar going to Smackdown, but that just means they can start teaming again. Batista says he's going with Lesnar. Cabana is shocked. Bastista can't leave him…er, RAW. Batista asks how Cabana knew Brock was leaving, but not him if he was in the shower when all the events went down in the ring. Colt stammers and runs out.
Segment Rating: 60%

Dupree Driver on Kamel Gamble. However, Rob Vegas is the legal man and hits the Stacked Deck for the pin. All eight men brawl to the back. (from Mathew)
Match Rating: 71%

Jeff Hardy goes to the top rope for the Swanton Bomb. Matt runs out and shoves him off. Dragon kips up and delivers a Shining Wizard knee as Jeff comes down for the win. Dragon gets an IC Title shot.
Match Rating: 75%

The Islanders show a video of them running the Irish Warrior's car off the road earlier that day and beating him with tire irons. Abyss comes out. Foley appears on the Titantron. He is not happy with the Islanders, because they didn't take out the Rock a few weeks ago. So he's going to let Abyss have as his partner the latest pick up from Smackdown. Mr. Monday Night himself Rob Van Dam! Abyss gets the Black Hole Slam on Rosey and tags RVD for the frog splash for the win.
Match Rating: 75%

Eric Angle baseball slides under the Turret from Tank Toland and upends him by the ankle. He taps to the ankle lock in three minutes flat. (from Mathew)
Match Rating: 73%

Shelley hits Trish with a chair for the DQ. Shelton yells at her and takes the chair away. As he pulls it back he nails Christian with it. Shelley looks lovingly at Shelton.
Match Rating: 61%

The final three in the women's battle royal is Alexis Laree, So Cal Val and Victoria. Laree and Val are fighting on the ropes, so Victoria upends them both to retain.
Match Rating: 61%

The six man tag breaks down. Colt Cabana runs out with a chair. Austin stunners everything moving, including Cabana as he comes into the ring. Batista tells Austin he stunnered the wrong guy. Austin shrugs and when Colt stands he stunners him again. Brock pins Triple H with the F5.
Match Rating: 70%

Show Rating: 68%

Smackdown card for next week, choose all winners

Chris Jericho and Rey Mysterio choose stipulations for their matches at Judgment Day

Evolution (Triple H, the Backseat Boys and Cage) vs. Million Dollar Corporation (Briscoe Brothers, Chavo, Tajiri) in an elimination eight man tag

Paul Buchill vs. Randy Orton, non-title

CM Punk vs. AJ Styles

Booker T vs. Chris Sabin

Carlito vs. Raven, non-title, in a hardcore match

Batista and Brock Lesnar vs. the Blue Bloods (Regal and Taylor)

Show Me the Money (EZ and DC) vs. The Shooting Stars (London and Kidman)

Wickets Jesters (Jeter and Wicks) vs. Doug Basham and Scott Taylor

Medusa vs. Dawn Marie

Jamie Satin vs. Stacy Keibler in a lingerie contest

Fred Curry vs. Jamie Noble (Curry asked for it)

Shannon Moore vs. Maven

Jimmy Snuka, Jr. vs. El Gran Luchadore

RAW card for next week, choose all winners

Ron Killings vs. Undertaker for the RAW Brand Title

Brazil Chapman and Jeff Hardy vs. Matt Hardy and Ulitmo Dragon

Kane vs. Erik Watts

Abyss vs. Kurt Angle

Edge vs. Rob Van Dam

Stevie Richards vs. Harry Smith

Molly Holly vs. Nattie Neidhart

Brent Albright vs. Chris Hero

Dangerous Alliance (Morgan, Show and Lashley) vs. EMF (O'Haire and Conway) and David Flair

Eric Angle vs. Tank Toland in a super stopwatch challenge where he must win in under three minutes

Alexis Laree vs. So Cal Val

2 Hot 2 Handle vs. Sanders and Dupree

John Cena appears on the Tennis Court with Jim Cornette

Judgment Day card, do not vote yet

Paul Burchill vs. Rey Mysterio for the Smackdown Brand Title

Chris Jericho vs. CM Punk for the US Title

The Backseat Boys vs. the Briscoe Brothers for the Smackdown Brand Tag Team Titles

Steve Austin vs. Chris Cage

Triple H vs. Brock Lesnar

Carlito vs. Chris Sabin for the Cruiserweight Title

Booker T vs. Raven for the Hardcore Title

Randy Orton vs. AJ Styles for a Smackdown brand title shot

Wicked Jesters (Wicks and Jeter) vs. Shooting Stars (London and Kidman) in a tornado tag

In Your House: 2 Tickets 2 Paradise, do not vote yet

Special concert performance by Eddie Money (cousin of EZ and DC)

Show Me the Money (EZ and DC) with Michelle Money vs. The Blue Bloods (Regal and Taylor) with Stephanie McMahon

Stacy Keibler vs. Medusa Micelli in a bra and panties match