WWE House Show Report – Tyler, Texas: 3.15.08

Thanks to 411 reader James Cook for sending in the following report!

WWE World Tag Team Champions Hardcore Holly & Cody Rhodes b. Lance Cade & Trevor Murdoch
Opening match took waaaay too long to start because Cade and Murdoch kept yelling at the fans and Holly won the match with the Alabama Slam)

Paul Burchill b. Brian Kendrick
Katie Looked really good in her outfit tonight, telling us there no good looking gents in the crowd tonight. Back and forth evenly match with Burchill getting the duke and Katie staring down at Kendrick while he was a bit shaken up. The crowd calling Brian’s name he rolled out with the ref helping him to the back.

Super Crazy b. Charlie Haas
Sign guy had a sign that said “Charlie Hass is a Hass Hole”, Hass griped at the beginning about the sign and the crowd was super hot for Crazy. Half way thru the match Hass exited the ring and got his mask on and it was mostly back and forth between the two, with Super Crazy with the win outta nowhere.

Santino Marella & Carlito b. DH Smith & Val Venis
Not much to report here, Santino and Carlito where trying to see who got the better response from the crowd and it seemed like a pro Carlito crowd. To end the match, Val seemed to get shaken up by the back-stabber that Carlito did and DH helped him out the ring.

WWE Women’s Champion Beth Phoenix b. Mickie James
Glamazon did her flip off the top rope, looks amazing in person. It was mostly Mickie James from beginning to 2/3 of the match and the last two mins was all Beth with the win, As the Glamazon started to leave, she decided to give Mickie a few more foot stomps and Candice Michelle came down to make the save, and Candice pointed to Mickie and raised her hand and they both exited together with Candice music playing.

Finlay b. JBL(fans text voted the fight stips with 70% for street fight)
Usual JBL moaning about the being the best thing from east Texas and telling us how good it was to slap Hornswoggle around. Finley used just about every lids, trashcan, chair, kendo stick against JBL. They even went out the ring to where the WWE shop zone was and eventually came back to the ring and where Finley finally got the win.

DeGeneration X b. WWE Champion Randy Orton & Snitsky
Shawn came into the ring doing his running around HHH routine. HHH picked on the people who ran the Oil Palace about no A/C in the building in normal DX intro. This match never seemed to wanted to start, fans chanting “brush your teeth” like for 10 mins. DX did the rock scissors, paper to who goes first, Shawn lost 2-0. Shawn still didn’t want to start kept pulling HHH back in, later when HHH got on the mike, told Snitsky for the love of god, please brush your teeth. One fan ran up and gave HHH some gum, where he threw into Snisky and even told Orton you’re going to have to tag him, might as well let him have some. Snitsky hesistated eating the gum and eventually threw the gum down, told everyone he would leave if they didn’t shut up. Even the ref was chewing gum. Randy Orton couldn’t keep from laughing about people making fun of Snitsky. Later in the match, Shawn and HHH actually pulled down both Orton and Snitsky trunks and, let’s just say you saw more than I wanted to . One superkick by Shawn to Orton and where he rolled out of the ring and then superkick to Snitsky, who wobbled over to HHH for the pedigree 1-2-3. DX pointed and bowed to the fans of Tyler after the match.

Overall the show was great, with a full house. It was too hot in this small convention hall/rodeo/auction place in Tyler, with horrible lighting, and what seemed like a very small ring with two towering light structures on opposite corners to light the ring. Sign Guy was in attendance and was signing just about anything people brought to him. He had some really good signs for each of the heels and was active just about all night long. Had two people visit from out of town, they told me they saw the same show in Waco with this show being longer overall. (about few mins short of 3 hours with an intermission.

Pops:
1. DX (tie – when the trunks got pulled and for the win)
2. Finlay (1st when it was announced a street fight, 2nd when he beat JBL)
3. Cody and Holly (fans chanted Cody 3 separate times during the match)
4. Super Crazy (crowd just went nuts when he slid into the ring)
5. Mickie James (looking hot as usual)

Boos:
1. JBL (knocking east Texas)
2. Snisky (telling the fans to shut up about his teeth)
3. Cade and Murdoch (talking trash to the fans by the ring)
4. Haas (wiping his face and nose on the Mexican flag when he had his mask on)
5. Katie (for saying there was no good looking chaps in the crowd)