The 10th Day News Report for 5.16.07
Posted by Leonard Hayhurst on 05.16.2007
Impact, Smackdown and Ring of Honor taping rundowns, ECW overview, EWR on 411, Antonio Inoki in TNA, what NWA will do after TNA, WWE releases two big names (ok, one just has big in his name) and earth shattering Kamala booking news (I'm being kinda of sarcastic on that last one)
MAILBAG
On Punk's loss. So he lost, big deal, they are making a feud. The man he is feuding with helped make him lose, and he lost to Monty Brown, not a complete jobber. Get off Punk's nuts, every time he loses doesn't mean someone is mad at him, let wrestling play out for christ's sake.
How can you take a jacknife powerbomb on your face, and how the heck is that impressive, it sounds stupid and botched.
-Chris
Maybe there is a proper name for the move as executed, but I didn't know it off the top of my head. To me it looked like Kevin Nash's old jackknife powerbomb, but when Lexi Lane was picked up she was face down instead of face up and therefore when released took the bump on her face and not her back. For a young, attractive woman about five feet tall and a 110 pounds to take such a bump at a small indy fed show was impressive to me. Maybe it wouldn't be as impressive to you or as impressive to me, if say, Mickie James took a similar bump on RAW given the circumstances.
You might remember toward the end of last year between the end of the Mike Knox feud and him being put into the Money in the Bank ladder match at Wrestlemania that CM Punk seemed to have been depushed a little bit. He wasn't getting a lot of face time and lost some matches pretty cleanly. The joke going around was that he must have made somebody mad, which often happens in WWE when someone's push goes cold. Johnny Nitro can be a recent example if gossip is to be believed. I said in the column a few weeks ago when asked about Punk that I really liked him and just felt that he hasn't been able to fully live up to his potential yet in WWE. A high profile match between Punk and Burke at the next ppv I hope will be good for both to break out. Personally, I would want both men to look strong going into the match and Cor Von losing to Punk would have continued the storyline from last week of the New Breed falling apart and Thorn losing to Punk after Burke threw him into a match with him.
NEWS AND NOTES
-Smackdown taping results. Non-spoiler edition, because I don't need more nasty letters.
Chuck Palumbo vs. Daivari in a dark match
MVP vs. Matt Hardy
Paul London, Brian Kendrick and Jimmy Wang Yang vs. Deuce, Domino and Chavo Guerrero
Mark Henry vs. Funaki
Chris Benoit vs. Finlay
Performance by Ozzy Osbourne
The Miz vs. Christian York
Teddy Long interviews Vickie Guerrero with Kristal Marshall
Kane vs. William Regal
Edge and Batista confrontation in the ring
Credit: PWInsider.com
-WWE released Sabu and Big Vito yesterday. Last week Rob Conway and Too Cold Scorpio were let go. It will not be long before I see all these guys in a middle school gym in West Lafayette and I'm thrilled. Credit: WWE.com
-In your online Heat report Chuck Palumbo defeated Kenny Dykstra. That will main event Wrestlemania next year, guaranteed. Viscera ate Eugene. This left Jim Duggan free to tag with Cryme Tyme against Johnny Nitro and the World's Greatest Tag Team. That's a weird team up on the face side and they actually won. The Highlanders beat Damian Wayne and Phil Brown. After RAW went off the air, Cena went to the ring and wrestled Orton. However, Edge interfered and took the pin. That's very Flair like in having to job in a match he's not even in. Cena checked on Michaels and they shook hands. Credit: PWInsider.com
-A slight change to the taping schedule for WWE has occurred as they will tape Saturday Night's Main Event and RAW in Toronto on May 28th and then do Smackdown and ECW the next night in London, Ontario. Credit: WWE.com
-Smackdown finished with a 2.6 rating last week. Edge over Undertaker=about the same in the ratings. RAW on Monday scored a 3.6. Edge does equal bad ratings. It's proven. Credit: PWInsider.com
-Wrestlemania 23 DVD will be out this coming Tuesday 5/22. Backlash will hit on 5/29. Credit: PWInsider.com
-FHM magazine's website has a new blog section called WWE Locker Room. It currently features articles by Carlito, Ken Kennedy and Marcus Cor Von. Where are the hot chicks? Credit: PWInsider.com
-As of yesterday, the WWE Socko Energy drink could be found in most Wal-Mart locations. You can't find it today, because they sold it all. Hah, they wish. I've said it before, if it doesn't give you YJ Stinger Triple H powers to control bees and teleport like ZZ Top I'm not interested. Credit: PWInsider.com
-The Condemned fell another 80% at the theaters last weekend only pulling in about $280,000. Vince McMahon has that money stuck between the cushions of his couch. Go now if you want to see the movie, because it will most likely be shelved by most theaters this coming week. Credit: Variety
-Vince McMahon was given an honorary doctorate from Sacred Heart University following a recent speech he gave there. He's not pleased, because he was actually bucking for honorary sainthood. Credit: WWE.com
-Trish Stratus will host "The Second City's Next Comedy Legend" reality show starting July 10th in Canada. The reality series will find the next member of the Second City comedy troupe. I thought you just had to audition and be talented and they drew from local stand-ups anyway? Credit: PWInsider.com
-98% spoiler free Impact taping results:
Impact for 5/17
Christian, Kurt Angle and Sting confrontation in the ring
Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley vs. Jerry Lynn and Tiger Mask IV
Christopher Daniels vs. Raven in a first blood match
Eric Young and Robert Roode in ring confrontation
Kurt Angle vs. Rhino
Impact for 5/24
Steiner Brothers talk with Jim Cornette then meet with Team 3D in the ring
Basham Brothers vs. Lance Hoyt and Kip James
Christian Cage and Tomko vs. LAX
Samoa Joe vs. Sting
Xplosion
Senshei vs. Homicide
Eric Young and Petey Williams vs. Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley
Credit: PWInsider.com
-Following the Impact tapings the following matches were set or seem likely for Slammiversary
Kurt Angle vs. Samoa Joe vs. TBA in a King of the Mountain Match for the TNA World Title
Sting vs. Christopher Daniels
Team 3D vs. the Steiner Brothers for the TNA Tag Team Titles
Credit: PWInsider.com
-Antonio Inoki was backstage at the Impact tapings. He is looking to start a new fed in Japan and will likely use some TNA talent. Kurt Angle is expected to work the 6/29 show. Credit: WrestlingObserver.com
-Seratonin was backstage at Sacrifice, but not used. Raven was not at the show. It was considered to have Larry Zbsysko strip TNA of the rights to the NWA titles, but it was decided against. Probably because no one really cares. Zbsysko was not at the show. Put him and Cornette in a tuxedo cage match for control of TNA. Jeff Jarrett left immediately after his match with Robert Roode in order to be with his family in Nashville due to family health issues. Jarrett is the Roger Clemens of wrestling. Credit: PWInsider.com
-TNA is putting together a documentary for DVD release on the company's first year in existence. It has been proven that Americans can be nostalgic over things that happened five years ago. Credit: PWInsider.com
-You can get your first look at the new TNA World Title on TNA Today from yesterday (TNA Yesterday?). The new X Division belt will be awarded to Chris Sabin on the web program today and the tag team title Thursday to Team 3D. Credit: TNAWrestling.com
-TNA has released Chase Stevens. On his blog he said he wouldn't bury TNA, but did say they held him back. Credit: MySpace.com
-Ring of Honor will have their second pay per view taping on June 23rd in Chicago Ridge, Illinois. Confirmed at this time for the taping is KENTA vs. Bryan Danielson and the Briscoe Brothers vs. Kevin Steen and El Generico. Credit: PWInsider.com
-Morale is said to be high in the Ring of Honor locker room right now following a successful first ppv taping. The card for the show was:
Takeshi Morishima vs. BJ Whitmer for the ROH Title
Naomichi Marufi vs. Rocky Romero
Roderick Strong vs. Delirious
The Briscoe Brothers vs. Matt Sydal and Claudio Castagnoli for the ROH tag team titles
Takeshi Morishima and Bryan Danielson vs. Nigel McGuiness and KENTA
Credit: ROHWrestling.com
-Kamala will be wrestling for Wrestling Superstars Unleashed this Friday in Queens, New York. Come to Ohio and wrestle. Credit: PWInsider.com
-Too Cold Scorpio will be running a training seminar on May 19th before the Pro Wrestling Unplugged show in Philadelphia . The session will run from 3 pm to 5 pm and cost $25. Come to Ohio and wrestle, but only as Flash Funk. Credit: twnpnews.com
-NWA has partnered with Big Vision to release DVD titles now that their deal with TNA has ended. The first will be a two disc set centered around the upcoming NWA World Heavyweight Title tournament to crown a new champion. Big Vision produced Wrestling Society X and hopes to possibly bring the federation back with NWA help. That has not going to work ever written all over it. Credit: PWInsider.com
NEWS AND NOTES
-Vince McMahon opens the show. He first pimps the head wrap and then asks Lashley if he thinks he likes wearing it. Actually, I think he does. Vince books Lashley in a three on one match tonight as a primer for Sunday. Vince calls himself the judge, Shane the jury and Umaga is executioner in a pretty good line.
-Rob Van Dam kicks off the show with Snitsky. They should have made Sabu job to Snitsky on his way out the door to put him over more. Snitsky is disqualified after hitting RVD with a chair on the outside. DQ finishes in ECW still doesn't sit well with me. If you're not going to put Snitsky over Van Dam cleanly to keep his storyline and character going, then book him against someone else.
-CM Punk with his ribs taped squares off with Stevie Richards for about the sixtieth time. The crowd is pretty quiet, because they don't know who to cheer for. Well, maybe they just don't want to cheer for Richards. Punk is playing plucky face in peril, but I think the sudden turns have killed his heat. Punk's motivations haven't been explored, nor his personality shift. I like the twist of having Punk joining the New Breed and then tearing them apart from the inside, but the execution leaves the fans scratching their heads. Richards goes to sleep for the loss. It looked sloppy, but I think Punk was trying to sell the ribs.
-Burke checks with Striker and Cor Von to see if they are ready for the match with Lashley. He then works in a promo for his ppv match with Punk.
-Kevin Thorn seems to be back where he started from. He jobs out Nunzio for the sake of jobbing him out. Guido and Richards on the same program and yet Sabu is out of a job.
-The slunts grind to "Sexyback." I can't believe it took them this long to get to that one. The only time suspenders are sexy are when they are on a hot girl with fake breasts. What happened to Snitsky wanting to get freaky with their feet from a few weeks back? Don't tell me they realized that wasn't the best way to go with him.
-Lashley cuts a backstage promo that gets a what chant from the crowd. That's not a good sign for the guy you want as the next Hogan.
-Lashley takes on Cor Von, Striker and Burke in the main event. Lashley vs. Cor Von could be a hot program. Lashley spears Striker for the win.
EWR ON 411
Cathereine and Elvis Foley sent some good feedback this week and I haven't heard from them in awhile, so I wanted to give a shout out.
In a very WCW move I realized that I gave out my potential booking for Bad Blood last week when we had a RAW title match and number one contenders match booked. I often make notes to myself on potential booking for the next pay per view so I can properly build to it. Of course, booking can change depending on reader votes. However, let's see if we can't spin things.
Smackdown for 5.17.07
Colt Cabana sits in on commentary as Brock Lesnar and Batista face the Shooting Stars. He talks up Batista as a great wrestler. Michael Cole asks him about Brock Lesnar. He's ok. Kidman takes down Batista with a rana out of the Demon Bomb. He goes up top for the Shooting Star Press. Lesnar runs in and catches him for the F5. London runs in and takes an F5. Batista then pins Kidman. (parts from Mathew)
Match Rating: 68%
Cabana isn't too happy with the outcome to the match. Brock gets a microphone. He's been pretty quiet through this whole thing. He's let Cabana and Batista work out their own issues. However, Cabana has drug his name into it. If Cabana has a beef with him, then come to him. Don't talk about him behind his back. Cabana gets up from the table. Brock plays hero tonight in the tag match and thinks that counts for something. He's always been there for Batista and he's going to prove himself the better partner this week on Velocity. That will be his statement to Brock.
Segment Rating: 65%
Rey Mysterio and Mark Briscoe collide in mid air as they both go for a crossbody. Briscoe crawls up the turnbuckles to the top rope for a moonsault. He misses and Rey pins him quick with the Oklahoma roll (from Mathew).
Match Rating: 79%
Triple H fronts Evolution in the back with Gene Okerlund. Tonight, The Backseat Boys are going to prove that they are the greatest tag team in WWE today and possibly ever by going against the World Champion Paul Burchill and the US Champion CM Punk. Kahsmere and Acid are going to knock them down and bring them to earth. From there it will be a mere formality to take those titles. Triple H was interviewed for the recently out Four Horsemen DVD. They had all the titles and they dominated. Today, the Four Horsemen have undergone Evolution.
Segment Rating: 85%
Chris Jericho is a bit off his game after losing the US Title. Fred Curry is a bit banged up, but hangs in there. Jericho lands the Lionsault, but breaks his cover at two. He applies the Walls of Jericho and wants the tap out. Curry pushes himself up, reaches back to grab Jericho and slings him over his back and into a roll up for a pin. They break off and get up. Curry comes off the ropes with a flying dropkick. Jericho ducks and Curry flies out of the ring. He injures his ribs again and can't get up. Jericho thinks to go get him, but decides it's better to just take the count out. (from Mathew)
Match Rating: 77%
Punk and Burchill with their women are with Gene Okerlund. Punk heard Triple H talking big, but they have the gold and the girls. They bring it in and out of the ring. If anyone today is like the Horsemen. It's them. They're good enough for four guys. Burchill doesn't want to toot his own horn, but he was trained by a former Horsemen in Chris Benoit. One thing he taught him is that you can talk all you want, but you have to bring it in the ring to back it up. So let's see if Evolution can do that tonight.
Segment Rating: 73%
Al Snow misses a shot with Head on Raven as he sidesteps. Rhyno gores him through a previous set up table. Raven nails Rhyno from behind with a chair. Evenflow on the chair. Al Snow sprays a fire extinguisher. He takes Raven down into the Beast Choker in the chaos. Raven swings back to nail him with a chair. Second Evenflow wins. (parts from Mathew)
Match Rating: 77%
AJ Styles takes the ring. He heard what Rey Mysterio said about him a few weeks ago and it got him thinking. Styles used to be World Champion and since he lost the belt and joined the Million Dollar Corporation it all went downhill. Rey has adapted the right attitude. He needs to refocus and take that belt back. And when he refocused he realized that the biggest wart on his life right now was Steve Austin. Austin is a fat, washed up drunk who most disgustingly of all seems happy to be so. Watch tonight Austin and remember what you were fifteen years ago.
Segment Rating: 73%
Styles suplexes Randy Orton and makes the cocky cover by sitting on him. Orton brings his legs up and reverses the pin. Styles comes up with a low blow that the referee misses. Styles Clash. Styles then mocks Orton and waits for him to stand so he can hit the RKO. Styles covers. (from Mathew)
Match Rating: 70%
Steve Austin runs out post match and tries to stunner Styles. Styles drops to the mat and rolls to the floor. He backs up the ramp and tells Austin he'll get his. He helps Orton up and shares a beer with him.
Segment Rating: 85%
Punk and Burchill don't have a lot of tag experience between them. This allows the Backseat Boys to isolate and work over Punk. Punk ducks a clothesline from Acid and nails a flying forearm. He crawls for the tag. Acid tags Kashmere first. He runs in and grabs Punk by the leg as he's inches from making the tag. Punk comes off his other foot with an enzuigiri. Hot tag to Burchill. He cleans house. Chris Cage runs in and takes a C4. Triple H gets on the apron, but Buchill glowers at him and he backs down. Mysterio and Jericho then finally run in for the DQ. Everyone brawls. (from Mathew)
Match Rating: 92%
Show Rating: 76%
Velocity for 5.19.07
Shark Boy comes off the top with the fin swanton. Chris Sabin was playing opossum. He rolls out of the way. He hits a springboard elbow drop for the pin.
Match Rating: 83%
Stephanie McMahon got Turkey Creek Johnson a WWE contract on a trial basis. He needs to prove himself in the ring. William Regal is going to help him. Ah, screw that. He knows all about scufflin' and rastlin'. Regal gives him that "oh deal lord" Regal look. Just watch him in the ring Willie and he'll show him how it's done.
Segment Rating: 62%
Johnson controls early on DC Money with brawling. DC hits a basement dropkick to the knee and goes to town on it. Johnson reaches the ropes to break. He comes up with his washboard from the corner and nails Money with it for the DQ. Regal shakes his head in disgust. EZ Money runs out to chase them off. (from Mathew)
Match Rating: 53%
Colt Cabana tells Batista that he can't believe the nerve of Brock Lesnar on Friday. Batista can't believe Colt's nerve. He's about ready to say to hell with both of them. Cabana tells him that he needs a partner. Batista never needed anyone before and he doesn't need anybody now. He believes that a little more each day and he's going to have to work hard to change his mind.
Segment Rating: 66%
Cabana is focused and does well against Maven and Jimmy Snuka. He tries to show off by going for a Demon Bomb on Maven, but he flips out of it into a face jam and small packages Cabana for the win (from Mathew). Cabana throws a fit and encourages Batista to join him in a beat down. Batista shakes hands with the winners and leaves.
Match Rating: 65%
Shannon Moore is in with the Shannon Moore midget. Moore fights for once, but the midget is game. Jake Roberts' music hits and a midget Jake comes out of the back. Moore is surprised. The midget gets into the ring and jumps off the back of midget Moore so he can collar the real Moore and DDT him. The midget Moore covers. The real Jake makes the ref count the pin. Midget Jake puts a garter snake on him. Jake gets in Moore's face. He's tired of trying to coach him. He's long gone. The only thing he can do now is thoroughly destroy him and build him back up as a real man. The humiliations will continue until there is nothing left. (thanks to Elvis Foley for giving me an actual direction with this angle)
Segment Rating: 66%
Johnson watches William Regal at ringside as he wrestles EZ Money. Regal has the match in hand, but Money pulls the Cha-Ching out of nowhere and gets the quick pin. Johnson slides Regal the washboard post match. Regal hesitates to use it, but he seethes with anger. He clocks Money with it. (from Mathew)
Match Rating: 65%
Tajiri, Chavo Guerrero and Jamie Noble go to see AJ Styles. Styles doesn't have a damn thing to say to them. They never had his back. They never had his interests at heart. They only joined the corporation to save themselves from curtain jerker hell. Tajiri gets in his face and spews some Japanese at him. Styles has no idea what he said. Chavo tells Styles that if he would have paid attention and hung around with them a bit he would have learned some Japanese by now. Tajiri challenged him to a match next week. He's on.
Segment Rating: 72%
Jay Briscoe gets a tornado DDT and goes up top. Helms meets him up top and they slug it out. Helms gets a Vertebreaker off the top. Jay is out cold. Helms wins. (from Mathew)
Match Rating: 87%
Gene Okerlund has Fred Curry in the back. That was an impressive win by Shane Helms just now. However, Helms claims he's a great wrestler when he's just out to hurt people. He learned from his father that a real wrestler combines heart with scientific skill to be the best he can be. Helms comes to the back. Curry's father is a never was has been. You have to be willing to do whatever you have to win in this business and that's why Curry Sr. didn't amount to jack squat and why his son will be right there with him.
Segment Rating: 76%
All the girls brawl to start with and rip off clothes. Stephanie McMahon is stripped first thing and tossed to the floor. (just about everyone wanted Steph out fast. Interesting.) Hall and Dawn Marie are topless already. Hall pants Dawn Marie, but then Stacy sneaks in behind and pants her. Jamie Satin runs in on Stacy. She still has a thing for her and starts rubbing and grinding on her. Stacy acts like she's into it and Jamie actually winds up stripping herself. She fights with the referee when he tries to push her out. Medusa clocks Stacy from behind and rips her shirt off. She goes for the pants, but Stacy manages to wiggle free and tag Michelle Money. Money is rocked by the rolling Germans and easily stripped. Cheerleader Melissa comes in. She does a split and punches Medusa in the stomach. Melissa takes off Medusa's shirt, but Medusa uses it to blind Melissa. She is stripped of her one piece cheerleader outfit. Keibler is back in and has a similar match with Medusa as the week before. Medusa pushes out of the corner on the leg choke and does a knee breaker. She slams Stacy viciously into the mat several times and then takes her bottoms off. Medusa chokes her with them until the ref can pull her off. (parts from Mathew)
Match Rating: 65%
Show Rating: 68%
Heat for 5.20.07
Erik Watts pulls the referee in the way of the Q-Bert by Brent Albright. Watts goes to the floor for a chair. However, David Flair runs out and cuts him off. He chairs him. He throws him into the ring and Albright recovers for the Flux Capacitor for the win.
Match Rating: 72%
Watts throws a fit in the ring. Flair backs up the ramp. He says Flair is a loser, now Watts knows what it's like to be a loser. And later tonight he's going to know what it's like to be a champion when he takes the IC title off of Brazil Chapman. Watts shoots back that he hopes Flair wins so he can take the belt off of him at Bad Blood and he's going to finally take his woman too.
Segment Rating: 58%
In a reverse, the faces isolate Nattie Neidhart and work her over. Gail Kim has her down in a leg submission. Sonya Blackhawk comes in and drives her stiletto into her gut. The referee backs her out of the ring. Victoria runs out and jerks Molly off the apron. She bangs her chin on the apron and is out. Victoria pounds on her. Nattie Neidhart gets a swinging neckbreaker on Gail. The ref sees Victoria attacking Molly on the outside and disqualifies the heels for her interference.
Match Rating: 61%
Nattie and Sonya argue with Victoria in the back. Harry Smith breaks them up. Victoria proposes a team up next week. A mixed eight man with them against Richards, Molly, Gail and Alexis Laree. Harry's game. Sonya asks about him still being in the King of the Ring tournament next week. Two matches in consecutive nights. No problem for him. He's undefeated and always will be.
Segment Rating: 74%
Smith is cocky and Richards is fired up. Richards hits the Stevie-T and lines up the Stevie Kick. Smith grabs the ref and tries to work his way up. While distracted, Terry Funk runs in and nails Richards in the head with a cookie sheet. Super Smith Slam wins.
Match Rating: 73%
A busted open Richards gets in Funk's face. Smith was a member of RAW Force. He owes him one and he owes Richards nothing. When they were in ECW together, Funk was main eventing and Richards was fetching coffee. A lot has changed since then. He's nobody's boy anymore and Funk is older, fatter and dumber than he was back then. He might not be as good as he once was, but once he's as good as he ever was and he's feeling a good night for Bad Blood.
Segment Rating: 79%
Charlie Haas has Christopher Nowinski in the Haas of Pain. Vito comes in with the briefcase. Shelton Benjamin stops Vito and brawls with him. Nowinski gets the case and nails Haas. Sustained Motion with feet on the ropes for the win. (from Mathew)
Match Rating: 75%
The heels back up the ramp and are cut off by Kane. Benjamin and Haas come out. They're pinned. Nowinski thinks fast and says if they want the case they can win it in a ladder match at Bad Blood. Kane nods yes to the World's Greatest Tag Team and they accept.
Segment Rating: 73%
Eric Angle beats on Hero and makes him tap out in about two minutes.
Match Rating: 74%
Marissa Mazzolla asks about Tank Toland to Angle in the back. Eric just set his own personal best time and all she wants to talk about is Tank Toland. He's tired of Tank Toland. Toland this. Toland that. Eric decks Marissa in frustration and puts the ankle lock on her. Toland runs in for the save.
Segment Rating: 72%
Brazil Chapman wears the IC belt upside down so South America is on top and North America on the bottom (from Mathew). Erik Watts watches the match from the entrance stage. David Flair locks in the figure four. Chapman reverses. David reverses and they go into the ropes. As they come up Chapman hits the Rock over Rio and small packages with a handful of tights for the win.
Match Rating: 63%
Show Rating: 68%
RAW for 5.21.07
Traci Brooks cuts a prematch promo on how Trish used to be a good wrestler and a hot babe and now she's a frumpy housewife with a messed up kid and husband. Trish says she likes being a housewife through gritted teeth and pounds on Brooks. She takes out her frustration and wins with the Stratusfaction. (parts from Mathew)
Match Rating: 68%
Trish is a little happier when she gets backstage. She runs into her locker room and yells if Christian saw her win. He's passed out drunk. A note from Nikki Fuller says she can't handle it anymore and quits being Shelly's nanny. Trish breaks down and cries.
Segment Rating: 74%
Matt Hardy flips and flops through the Black Hole Slam by Abyss into the Side Effect. He goes up top for the yodeling leg drop. However, he's watched recent tape of Abyss and waits for him to get up off the chanting from Krystal Frost. He goes for a crossbody instead. He hooks the leg as they go down and gets the quick pin. Krystal declares Matt a true warrior and commends the win. Abyss shakes his hand at Krystal's urging. (parts from Mathew)
Match Rating: 69%
Marissa asks Paul Heyman what he did with Lita last week. Show and Lashley bring her in tied up and gagged. Heyman says she loves it and laughs. Tonight they have to focus though on going after Rob Van Dam to have Morgan advance in the King of the Ring tourney. If anyone knows RVD, it's him.
Segment Rating: 80%
Rob Van Dam goes up for the frog splash. Heyman shakes the ropes so he crotches himself. Morgan meets up top for a superplex. RVD shoves him off and gets the frog splash to win to Heyman's chagrin.
Match Rating: 69%
Kurt Angle and Undertaker protest to Mick Foley how WWE.com had Edge vs. Ron Killings and the two of them against each other at Bad Blood last week. Foley said an overzealous web assistant just got ahead of things. Angle gets irate and says he hoped Foley fired his ass. They leave. Angle tells UT they need to team up and take out Edge. Then let the best win between them. Angle extends his hand. Undertaker walks off.
Segment Rating: 83%
Ultimo Dragon and La Parka look way different. Heyman protests that its O'Haire and Conway in disguise. Smoke appears. The real Dragon and Parka come out of it to attack the tag champs. EMF then saves Lita. Chicanery doesn't help as La Parka is choke slammed for the loss.
Match Rating: 62%
Heyman swears that EMF will never get another title match ever. Lita says he'll give Heyman what he wants for one more match. A night with her if Lashley and Show retain. If EMF wins she gets five minutes alone with Heyman in a cage. Hell, that could be fun too. He agrees.
Segment Rating: 81%
Undertaker and Angle team up on Edge. Undertaker then turns on Angle before he can turn on him and gives him the Last Ride. Edge spears Undertaker. Edge spears Angle. Edge wins.
Match Rating: 79%
Edge admits he paid off the tech to post that announcement on WWE.com because he knew it would get to Undertaker and Angle. He was right and now he's going to be the RAW champion at Bad Blood.
Segment Rating: 82%
Killings works on Johnny Nitro's arm that had the dart thrown in it last week (from Elvis). Nitro taps to a fujiawra armbar.
Match Rating: 78%
Show Rating: 75%
Smackdown card for next week, choose all winners
Paul Burchill vs. Johnny Kashmere for the Smackdown Brand title
CM Punk vs. Trent Acid for the US Title
Chris Jericho and Rey Mysterio vs. the Briscoe Brothers
AJ Styles vs. Tajiri
Chris Cage vs. Carlito
Chris Sabin vs. Jamie Noble for the Cruiserweight Title
Chavo Guerrero vs. Triple H
EZ Money vs. Shane Helms (Money asked for it)
Fred Curry vs. William Regal
Batista, Maven and Jimmy Snuka, Jr. vs. Doug Basham, Scott Taylor and El Gran Luchadore
Randy Orton vs. Rhyno
Medusa Micelli vs. Stacy Keibler vs. Jamie Satin vs. Dawn Marie in a fatal fourway giant chocolate fondue fountain match
RAW card for next week, choose all winners
John Cena vs. Ron Killings, non-title
Bobby Lashley vs. The Rock
The Undertaker and Kurt Angle vs. La Parka and Ultimo Dragon
Edge vs. Matt Hardy
Christian vs. Jeff Hardy
Big Show vs. Kane (they both asked for it)
David Flair vs. Matt Morgan (Flair asked for it)
Nick Dinsmore and Brazil Chapman vs. The Wild Stallions (Williams and MacLean)
Tank Toland vs. Matt Cappotelli
Stevie Richards, Molly Holly, Gail Kim and Alexis Laree vs. Harry Smith, Sonya Blackhawk, Nattie Neidhart and Victoria in a mixed eight man tag
RAW King of the Ring tournament third round
Rob Van Dam vs. Matt Hardy
Harry Smith vs. Brent Albright
Bad Blood at this time, do not vote
Ron Killings vs. Edge for the RAW Brand Title
The Undertaker vs. Kurt Angle
The Rock vs. John Cena, king of the ring semi-final
Stevie Richards vs. Terry Funk, hardcore match
Big Show and Bobby Lashley vs. Sean O'Haire and Rob Conway in a steel cage for the RAW Brand tag team titles. Dangerous Alliance wins and Heyman gets Lita for the night. EMF wins and Lita gets five minutes in the locked cage with Heyman and a barbed wire wrapped baseball bat
Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas vs. Christopher Nowinski and Big Vito in a ladder match for the briefcase
Erik Watts vs. David Flair in a strip iron man match. For every pinfall or submission Watts gets over Flair Daffney has to take off an article of clothing. If Daffney is naked before the time limit expires, Watts wins. A DQ or count out of Watts allows her to put clothes back on. Pinfalls or submissions by Flair do not count. Daffney will be held in a glass case on the entrance stage during the match. She will be wearing eight items: a barrette in her hair, a jacket tied around her waist, a shirt, pants, bra, panties, pair of shoes and pair of socks (the pairs count as one item).
