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Tuesday, July 17, 2007

WWE spoils Smackdown

details here

If you don't wish to know I suggest not clicking that link or watching ECW tonight.

I just hope that...



He gives a victory speech.

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Smackdown title situation

The world title is cursed. Short story, Edge has a torn peck and will be giving up the belt tonight. The person who receives the belt tonight may want to immediately think of retiring given the elt is cursed.

More behind the cut



It looks as though the new champ will be...Khali. Which I might note, I predicted in an MSN chat with Euan before it got out.

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Monday, July 16, 2007

LIVE SPOILERS from TNA Impact Tapings: Samoa Joe Decides About the Gold.

Please credit Alan J. Wojcik of http://alanwojcik.com if ued, thanks.

These are the 100% complete live spoilers from the TNA IMPACT Tapings. By the end of this evening we will know the fate of World X Division champion & new TNA World Tag Team champion Samoa Joe. Only during the first hour did we see any backstage interviews.



Hour one notes:



Jeremy Borash was sent by Jim Cornette to find World champion Kurt Angle. But he found Angle in a tanning bed and he refused to go see Cornette. Angle also accused Borash of “checking out his package.” Angle felt Samoa Joe was going to surrender the tag titles after was screwed over on Sunday.



(1) XXX (“PrimeTime” Elix Skipper, “Fallen Angel” Christopher Daniels & Senshi) defeated Serotonin (Raven, Havok & Martyr)

That’s right the multi-time former World Tag Team champions reunited last Sunday when Daniels became #1 contender to the World X Division title. XXX wasted no time in their trickery as Skipper went to lockup with Havok and Daniels jumped him from behind. The XXX advantage ended when raven hit Daniels in the back with the Singapore cane. That allowed Serotonin to take over Daniels in their corner of the ring. Martyr had Daniels in a front facelock when Skipper hit a slingshot move that let Daniels free so he could tag in Senshi. The end came for Havok who got hit with a Skipper legdrop, Daniels’ BME and Senshi’s Warrior’s Way.



After the match Frankie “the Future” Kazarian attacked Serotonin and left before he could suffer any real damage. Jeremy Borash came back to Angle’s tanning bed to find Angle tanning his buttocks. He told Angle that Cornette would fine him $10,000 if he didn’t come to the office. Angle got out of the tanning bed to find all of his clothes and two title belts missing. So he left the room in his bikini briefs. Mike Tenay & Don West were addressing the home audience when Team 3D crashed the party. They said they knew the Steiner Brothers were not in the building but were watching at home. Ray said they cost Team 3D their World Tag Team titles and wanted to repay them face to face next week. Devon didn’t like something Tenay said and he choked him as Ray grabbed the timekeeper’s hammer threatening to hit Tenay. Kurt Angle began his search for his clothing and he questioned the TNA locker room. He accused Shark Boy of smiling like it was a joke, so he attacked him. Maybe Angle wasn’t wearing his glasses broke by Serotonin last Sunday or he just didn’t realize Shark wears a mask.



(2) Voodoo Kin Mafia member Kip James (w/BG James & Roxxi Laveaux) defeated Lance Hoyt (w/Christy Hemme).

Both Kip and Hoyt fought a power match in the early moments until Kip sent Hoyt to the floor where he followed and laid in some punches. Hoyt tried to avoid the punches and Laveaux as best he could and the tide turned when Kip focused on Hemme instead of Hoyt. Hoyt attacked and took the match back to the ring. Kip fought back with a Thesz press and avoided a Hoyt boot to hit “the One and Only” to win. After the match Hemme tried to crotch shot Kip but got stopped and Laveaux came in to hit a Styles Clash-like move sending Hemme to the locker room in Hoyt’s arms.



Kurt Angle met with the TNA production crew trying to find his lost items. He told everyone he would count to ten and they could return his stuff. Poor David Sahadi had to endure Angle’s package being near his face as the countdown occurred. A cameraman decided to leave but Angle attacked him thinking he was the thief.



(3) “Instant Classic” Christian Cage & “Tennessee Cowboy” James Storm (w/Jacqueline Moore, a six pack of longnecks & Tomko) defeated “War Machine” Rhino & “Wildcat” Chris Harris.

These four men met in singles matches on Sunday night so Jim Cornette decided to let them settle their differences. Harris jumped Cage at the opening bell and went to work with the punches before tagging in Rhino. However Rhino took his focus off Cage for too long and looking for Storm cost him. Cage hit Rhino with a clothesline off the ring apron. Cage & Storm kept Rhino isolated from his corner for several minutes. Harris tried to aid Rhino but it only did harm as Cage kept the referee busy, Storm hit a running boot to the face. Somehow Cage ended up on Storm’s shoulders as Rhino was on the top buckle and Rhino raked Storm’s eyes. Rhino hit Cage with a clothesline and tagged into a fired up Harris. Rhino had Storm set for the GORE but Cage pulled him to the floor. Storm went for the Superkick but Harris blocked it and hit the Catatonic but Tomko pulled referee Rudy Charles to the floor. Harris looked for the referee and Dustin Rhodes hit him in the back with a chair. Storm crawled over and covered Harris to win. After the match the real fun began as Rhino attacked anyone that moved including Moore but Rhino picked her up for a powerslam. He made the mistake of losing sight of Tomko, who kicked Rhino in the face making Moore fall onto Rhino. When you thought things were done Abyss came looking for revenge on Cage. Cage hightailed it but backed into Sting and the baseball bat. Sting tossed Cage into Abyss for some retribution.



A nicely robed Kurt Angle came into the Impact Zone. Angle said he had a sense of humor and enjoyed being ribbed but the joking was over. He even accused the fans of stealing his stuff and putting it on E-Bay. That brought out Samoa Joe who came with his three title belts and Angle’s wardrobe plus the World title belt. Joe decided to make his announcement. He wanted to bury the hatchet with Angle so he gave Angle back his two title belts and clothing. Joe said like Angle he wants to find out who is the best in the world. Joe said at Hard Justice he wanted Angle one more time where the winner takes all the gold. Angle accepted and Joe headbutted him right in the forehead. Joe laid out Angle and then went for a table. But Angle escaped Joe’s clutches and drove Joe into the table, locking the Ankle Lock on Joe. Afterwards Jeremy Borash filmed some stuff for TNA Today.



Hour two notes:



(1) NO DQ match, Sting defeated Robert Roode (w/Ms. Brooks).

Not too sure what happened between these two to make it a no DQ match. Roode jumped Sting at the bell and the violence began. Sting fought back introducing Roode’s head to the top turnbuckles and followed him to the floor. Ting tossed Roode into the guardrails and the stairs as Brooks objected. Roode fought back but his piledriver but Sting backdropped Roode on the rampway. Brooks kept Sting busy as Roode got a chair and hit Sting in the back. Roode came back into the ring with a top rope clothesline for two as Eric Young came out painted like Sting. Roode ignored Young and hit Sting with a top rope knee for two before locking in a bear hug. Sting tried to escape so Roode backed him to a corner but his chest chops had zero effect. Sting was 100% fired up and took it out on Roode & Brooks. Roode avoided the Stinger Splash and fought off the Scorpion Deathlock, hitting Sting with a spinebuster for two. Brooks gave Roode a chair but Young took it and Sting won via the Scorpion Death Drop.



(2) Latin American Xchange (“Notorious 187” Homicide & Hotstuff Hernandez) defeated Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley & “the Future” Chris Sabin).

At the bell the Gun dropkicked Hernandez to the floor so they could double team Homicide for several minutes. The Notorious One fought back and tagged in Hernandez who tossed around the Guns. But the Guns fought back with a series of kicks to the head of Hernandez. LAX double teamed Shelley and sent him to the floor with a hurt back. Sabin escaped the Cop Killer but couldn’t avoid a LAX double team from the top rope.



The LAX celebration was interrupted by Team 3D who told them to hit the bricks; they only wanted the Steiner Brothers in the ring. LAX reluctantly stepped out of the ring as the show went to commercial. 3D egged on the fans waiting for the Steiner’s. The fans made fun of 3D member Devon who owns a smoothie shop in Florida. 3D got their wish and the Steiner Brothers hit the ring. Scott said no one calls out the Steiner’s they do the calling out. Scott said the Latin Nation were his favorite people after his injury during a TNA Event in Puerto Rico. Scott said he was upset he missed Slammiversary due to a trachea injury that nearly killed him. To the shock of everyone in the thank you to the PR medical team that saved him, Scott also thanked the fans for the well wishes he received. Ray said that Scott got injured by a second rate PR wrestler and Team 3D could take him out, even going as far as doubting the actuality of any injury. Scott showed off his scar on the right side of his chest. Ray said that injury was nothing compared to the ones in the ECW locker room. The arguing was not over as the Voodoo Kin Mafia came out to join the former World Tag Team reunion saying they were the best team in wrestling history. Scott said yeah the VKM was on top, on top of a heap of crap a everyone was watching WCW for 84 weeks in a row. Scott said he wasn’t medically cleared for a match but he could kick their asses with no permission needed. During the fighting Devon spit on a LAX flag and that brought out LAX to defend their flags and it looked liked the Steiner’s.



(3) No DQ match, “the Phenomenal” AJ Styles defeated Abyss.

This rivalry goes back to the weekly PPV days in Nashville where they tore down the Asylum even as they held the NWA World Tag Team championships. This was probably the bloodiest match in their rivalry. Styles hit a slingshot shoulder tackle and we were off and brawling. Abyss fought back with a running butt to the face in the corner. Abyss went to press slam Styles too the fans but Styles slid off only to be see Styles go over the ropes to the floor. Styles hit Abyss in the head wit ha chair and climbed into the fans, hitting a sort of springboard forearm from the seats. Abyss went back to the ring as Abyss tossed a chair in for some fun as he put the chair in between the buckles. Styles countered out of Shock Treatment but even after moves couldn’t avoid the chair in the corner. Abyss hit Shock Treatment for two and signaled for Doomsday. But Styles countered out of the Black Hole Slam and hit the Pele’. Styles went for a springboard move but Abyss caught him and hit the chokeslam for two as Tomko came out to ringside. Abyss hit the Black Hole Slam but Tomko broke up the pin. But the lights went down and up with Sting in the ring attacking Tomko. Abyss went under the ring and when he went for the bag of goodies he was dragged under ring. This left Sting alone to be attacked by Styles, Tomko and Robert Roode who joined the festivities. Abyss finally came out from under the ring a bloody mess. Christian Cage and his black shirt security appeared on the rampway and Cage grabbed the bag of broken glass, spreading it in the ring. But instead of Abyss, Tomko chokeslammed Sting into the glass. Styles got another bag from under the ring and it was thumb tacks spread on top of the glass. Tomko hit Abyss with the double chokeslam and Styles won via pinfall. Jeremy Borash came out to film more TNA Today stuff talking to Styles, Cage, Tomko and Roode. The TNA medical trainer had to come out and check on Sting & Abyss before he would let them go to the locker room for treatment.



Matches filmed for TNA Xplosion and TNA Today on the internet:



(1) Jerry Lynn defeated Basham via countout.



(2) Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley & “the Future” Chris Sabin) defeated “the Guru” Sonjay Dutt & Petey Williams when Sabin countered out of the Canadian Destroyer, allowing Shelley to hit a top rope boot to Williams’ head setting up the Cradle Shock.



(3) “Black Machismo” Jay Lethal & “Showtime” Eric Young defeated Serotonin members Havok & Martyr when Young hit both men with a DVD and Lethal hit his Macho Man elbow drop.



Guesses and Official Matches for Hard Justice 2007:

(official) In a “winner takes all” match, TNA World/IWGP Heavyweight champion vs. World X Division/World Tag Team champion Samoa Joe

(Guess) Team 3D (Ray & Devon) vs Rick & Scott Steiner vs. Voodoo Kin Mafia (Kip & BG James w/Roxxie Laveaux) vs. Latin American Xchange (“Notorious 187” Homicide & Hotstuff Hernandez) or an 8 man match of some kind

(Guess) “Wildcat” Chris Harris vs. Dustin Rhodes

(Guess) Abyss vs. “Instant Classic” Christian Cage

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Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Kurt Angle celebrates Kurt Angle appreciation day this Thursday

iMPACT preview here

I think Kurt Angle appreciation day needs to be celebrated because you never know how long he'll be around to celebrate with and sad part is I'm only partly joking.

Oh, and for you spoiler types we've got those here

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Smackdown and ECW Spoilers

here

ECW looks interesting and Smackdown looks like a show that will air Friday.

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Monday, July 02, 2007

Complete Live Spoilers From TNA Impact Tapings

Please credit Alan J. Wojcik of http://alanwojcik.com if used, thanks.


These are the LIVE SPOILERS leading into the TNA Wrestling Victory Road PPV. With the summer brings tourists who want to experience the live show and it was legit overflow today. So far locked into the main event of the PPV are World X Division champion Samoa Joe and TNA/IWGP Heavyweight champion Kurt Angle. Tonight we see if Team 3D can retain their World Tag Team titles to make the main event. No backstage promos or segments were shown to the live audience. We didn’t see Chris Sabin, Alex Shelley, Rhino, Basham, Damaja or “Wildcat” Chris Harris in action.



Hour one notes:



Mike Tenay and Don West spoke to the home fans probably about the three team match with the winner advancing to the PPV.



(1) World Tag Team champions Team 3D (Ray & Devon) defeated Latin American Xchange (“Notorious 187” Homicide & Hotstuff Hernandez) and “Phenomenal” AJ Styles/ “Fallen Angel” Christopher Daniels.

Yes it looks like Styles/Daniels reunited for this match, even though I seem to remember them saying they would never do it again. This was traditional tag as opposed to three men in the same time. The challengers attacked the champions at the bell but things went the other way as it became every team for themselves as 3D were sent to the floor and LAX got control of the match. Styles saved Daniels from the Border Toss but Homicide was not able to save Hernandez from a double team move. Ray missed a fat boy senton to Homicide but Homicide’s top rope move backfired as Ray got to his feet. Homicide recovered and took Ray to the mat with a chinlock. Some point during this match it looked like some ring boards broke from the impact of several 300 pounders. Hernandez tagged in to deliver more punishment as Styles/Daniels broke up any pin attempt. This went on for several minutes and probably through a commercial break. Daniels made a blind tag into the match and went to work on Ray. Somehow Ray got his ring awareness, hit Daniels with the Bubba Bomb and tagged out to Devon who took on 4 men at one time. All kinds of craziness ensued as 3D hit Homicide with the Wassup. Daniels went to the corner but got picked up by Ray as 3D hit the Road Warrior clothesline for two. Styles countered out of the Cop Killa and hit the Pele kick, followed by a frog splash/moonsault but got two. Hernandez hit Styles with the Border Toss but Devon pulled the referee to the floor. Hernandez and Ray hit top rope planchas onto the wrestlers below. Daniels fought off Devon’s power bomb and hit an STO but his attempted Angel’s Wings was blocked and he fell to the 3D.



Before the second match TNA Management’s Jim Cornette joined Tenay and West for commentary. Before anything else happened “Instant Classic” Christian Cage, Tomko and a old school megaphone interrupted the proceedings. Cage told Cornette a laundry list of things about his career before running down “Wildcat” Chris Harris’ track record. Cornette got a real microphone and told him who exactly Chris Harris is, the guy who is using Cage’s head to shatter the glass ceiling in TNA. Cornette also mentioned Abyss was still hunting for Cage and Tomko. Cage said he wasn’t afraid of Abyss, so of course Abyss’ ring music played which made Cage/Tomko run for the nearest exit sign.



(2) In a TNA Knockouts match, Gail Kim defeated Ms. Brooks and “the Pride of Tennessee” Jacqueline Moore.

There was enough hatred between these ladies to fill Madison Square Garden. Moore and Brooks fought over who was going to beat up Kim, so they beat each other up as Kim recovered. Brooks kneed Kim in the back and sent her to the floor but Kim grabbed Brooks’ legs and she came outside. Moore went to baseball slide both ladies but only got Brooks. Kim used this opening to hit both ladies with a top rope plancha. The action came back to the ring but Kim got hit with a double team move. Both ladies laid in the kicks to the head and chest as Kim tired to fight them off when they both grabbed a leg for a half Boston Crab. But Moore and Brooks began trading slaps to the face. Both let go of the hold and went up top but Kim stopped Brooks and hit a huricurana. Moore went to pin Kim but Brooks hit a clothesline. Kim recovered and hit both ladies with headlock/head scissor takeover. Brooks went to pin Kim but Kim countered and Brooks ended up on the floor. Moore snuck up from behind to roll up Kim but Kim used her momentum to roll through and get the pin. This immediately led to Brook and Moore jumping Kim. Eric Young came out to save his new friend but Robert Roode came out to jump Young.



TNA/IWGP Heavyweight champion Kurt Angle made his way into the Impact Zone dressed like a millionaire. Angle told the fans the Victory Road main event would be partnered up in an eight man match next week. He pronounced tonight “Kurt Angle Night” and called the promotion “Total Nonstop Angle.” Next he verbally ripped his Victory Road partner, his opponents and proclaimed he brought SexyBack when Team 3D interrupted his soliloquy. Ray said if Angle brought SexyBack then he was the next centerfold for Playgirl magazine. 3D tried to convince everyone was working to make TNA the best promotion in the world. Insults were traded and Devon leveled Angle as Ray called for some lumber. To the shock of all Samoa Joe came out and attacked Team 3D but when Team 3D were gone, Angle hit Joe with the Olympic Slam into the folding table 3D set up.



Hour two notes:



(1) Abyss defeated Lance Hoyt (w/Christy Hemme)

These two are not strangers and Hemme could be the deciding element since Father James Mitchell was not with Abyss. Hoyt went for a move but ran right into Abyss’ boot and the action went to the floor where Abyss tossed Hoyt into the guard rails. Abyss tossed Hoyt back to the ring and got a folding chair, but Hoyt attacked when Abyss came back in. Abyss fought back and hit the corner butt splash. However Abyss’ second rope splash only hit the canvas. Hoyt took over with right hand punches to the face and hit a second rope legdrop for two. Hoyt went for but missed a moonsault as Abyss got to his feet and hit several clotheslines followed by a choke slam for two. Hemme got the referee’s attention as Abyss went to hit Hoyt with the chair. Hoyt blocked it and went up top but Abyss got the chair and threw it right into Hoyt’s face. Hoyt recovered and went for the boot to the face but when he began to run at Abyss, Abyss saw it and hit the Black Hole Slam. Abyss wasn’t done as he found a bag of broken pieces of glass and dumped them in the ring as VKM came out to fight Hoyt to the locker room. Hemme was all alone with Abyss when Tomko and AJ Styles hit the ring. The lights went down and up with Sting coming out to aid Abyss. Sting handed Abyss the baseball bat. Sting said he and Abyss would face Tomko and Styles on Sunday. To the shock of everyone Abyss spoke on the mic. He said Sunday would be Doomsday!!



As the broken glass was cleaned up Tenay and West spoke to the home viewers about the main event of the show.



(2) Serotonin members Kaz vs. Martyr and Havok.

According to Penzer, the winner is the final qualifier to an Ultimate X match at Victory Road. Early on this was a handicap match with Kaz fighting for his life for several minutes. But nothing Martyr and Havok did led to a pin or submission. Kaz dumped Havok to the floor as Martyr went for the superkick but Kaz saw it and heel tripped Martyr and rolled over into a pin. Kaz may have won the match but Raven came out and with the help of Havok & Martyr, used their kendo sticks to beat Kaz into submission.



Before the main event Tenay and West talked to the home viewers again, possibly running down the PPV lineup.



(3) TNA/IWGP Heavyweight champion Kurt Angle, World X Division champion Samoa Joe and World Tag Team champions Team 3D (Ray and Devon) defeated “Instant Classic” Christian Cage, “Phenomenal” AJ Styles, Tomko and Robert Roode (w/Ms. Brooks)

According to announcer Dave Penzer this is the first time in TNA history the three championships were on the same side in a match. The title holders came out separate and argued the whole match while their opponents came out as a group. Roode and Devon started out with some brawling but worked their way into wrestling as Devon took over. Roode tagged out to Cage who was reluctant to enter so Devon pulled him in the ring before tagging out to Ray who held Cage for eternity before hitting a suplex. Joe tagged in and unleashed several moves on Cage but got two for his effort. Cage finally tagged out to Tomko who traded forearm shots with Joe but couldn’t avoid an enziguri. Roode tagged back in and Joe went back to work before slapping Devon into the match. While Ray, Joe and Angle argued, Roode hit Devon with a spinebuster and the tide went to the other side of the ring. Roode, Styles, Cage and Tomko took turns beating down Devon but didn’t get the pin. He survived long enough to tag out to Joe as Tomko tagged out. Joe hit Styles with a powerslam and locked in an STF but Styles friends jumped in. Angle remained on the floor as the fighting went all over. Ray countered out of the Unprettier and Cage got hit with the Road Warrior clothesline and then 3D hit Roode with the 3D. Joe grabbed Styles and sent him into Cage who was climbing the top rope. Joe went for the Muscle buster but Angle came in, tripped up Joe and pinned Styles. As Angle split, Team 3D faced off with Samoa Joe in the ring.



Matches taped for TNA Xplosion/TNA Today:



(1) “Tennessee Cowboy” James Storm (w/“the Pride of Tennessee” Jacqueline Moore) defeated Senshi. Moore slid the beer bottle in and the referee picked it up. Senshi saw this and when he turned around he got hit with a Superkick.



(2) “Black Machismo” Jay Lethal defeated Petey Williams with the top rope elbow drop. Before the match “the Guru” Sonjay Dutt came out and blessed the ring, the fans, Williams and the announce booth.



Announced Victory Road matches:

TNA/IWGP Heavyweight champion Kurt Angle & World X Division champion Samoa Joe vs. World Tag Team champions Team 3D (Ray and Devon)

“The Instant Classic” Christian Cage vs. “Wildcat” Chris Harris

“Tennessee Cowboy” James Storm vs. “War Machine” Rhino

Sting & Abyss vs. “Phenomenal” AJ Styles and Tomko

In an Ultimate X match to name a new #1 contender Kaz vs. I have no idea because TNA’s site has no information.





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Sunday, June 24, 2007

Roundtable Reminder 'Vengeance'

Predictions, here

We welcome Mark Danger to the fold.


I have news on Deuce and Dominos opponents who may have you racing to edit your picks. It is kind of a spoiler, so I'll put it behind the cut.

Everyone has until the show starts to make and or edit their predictions.



PwInsider.com reported that the opponents are Sgt. Slaughter and Superfly Jimmy Snuka.

Hey Mark, if you're still going to the Braves and Tigers game, could you boo Kyle Davys extra hard just for me?

He sucks!

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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

06/22 Smackdown Spoilers

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Tuesday, June 19, 2007

TNA rips off In Your House III for Victory Road Main Event

Spoiler warning...all the good stuff or in this case, lack thereof is behind the cut.



See if this sounds familiar:

The main event for the 7/15 TNA Victory Road PPV in Orlando, Florida will feature TNA champion Kurt Angle & X-Division champion Jay Lethal vs. TNA Tag Team
champions Team 3D in a bout where the winner of the fall will win the championship of the man he defeats.

If a TNA champion loses his title between now and the PPV, the new champion(s) will replace them in the PPV bout.


Diesel/Shawn Michaels Vs. Owen Hart and Yokozuna anyone?

Also, I suspect that this means that Macho Lethal's reign as X-champion is short as I'd say Samoa Joe will end up in this bout before it is all said and done.

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Thursday, June 14, 2007

TUF 5 Semifinals revealed by UFC.com

If you look at the details for the final episode of TUF 5, you'll see the semifinal fight listed and by process of elimination you'll know them both.

In case they change the description, I'll put the info behind the cut.



If you don't want to know stop reading now.

The semifinal fights are:
Manny Gambaryan Vs. Joe Lauzon
Gray Maynard Vs. Nate Diaz

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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Smackdown Spoilers

You can read the spoilers for the show that will air this friday, 6/2 by clicking here

The match that was added on this show involving Lumberjacks makes me glad I'm covering WEC.

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Monday, May 28, 2007

TNA iMPACT Spoilers, note on Christian Cage

You can get live spoilers from the iMPACT tapings in Orlando by clicking here

According to PwInsider.com's Mike Johnson, Christian Cage has reached an agreement on a new contract with TNA Wrestling believed to be either a 2 or 3 year deal. This will keep him in TNA for the foreseeable future, not that I thought there was a chance he'd leave.

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Live SNME Spoilers

Complete results behind the cut.



Welcome to the SNME spoilers from the Air Canada Centre. Doors said open 6:45 but 6:30 and doors open and half the arena is full. No tarped off areas.

Snme set is already out, basically a combination of the Raw set with SNME logo in the middle, bottom of the tron.

On the top of the stage is a motorcycle, and there are NBC logos all over the arena. There is only one announce table at ringside.

This crowd is really hot, and only half the arena is full, people are already clapping and the ric flair whoo chants are in full force...

Wwe opening voice over and snme logo lights up on the set.

Wrestlemania retro video of this year that showed at the end of the PPV is on the tron... Huge negative pop for Cena.

The snme logo and set is on and raw announcer john roberts is in the ring talking up the crowd. Ecw ref in the ring as chuck polumbo does his biker intro
Tyson duxx of boarder city wrestling is his opponent. Chuck looks way bigger than the last time he was on tv. Not as lean. Local fans are chanting for
duxx. Some boring chants. Polumbo hits a sequence of a over the head release german, followed by a running big boot and a dominator into a reverse stunner
for the win Chuck rides out on the bike. About 7 minute match. Michael cole comes out to smackdown music for snme announcing followed by the king...

A huge jerry chant in the arena as they setup the pyro. We see a HHH recovery video for his new quad injury...

about two thirds of the arena is full right now

No pyro yet as ashley comes down to ringside and takes a seat...

Crowd cheers for hhh video and snme is about to start so get signs up

Pyro goes off, set lights up, a bit differemt than normal and out comes cena to a major chores off boos. Cena looks a bit bothered. Worse reaction than
Unforgiven. Ashely is ring announcer. They show a package of cena kalhi history and kalhi comes out before his intro during the video by accident. So kalhi
goes to the back to redo his intro. The snme actually looks very neat lit up, better than I previously said. Crowd is split between cena and kalhi...

Crowd is super hot. And is filling in... So far, cena had a bit of earlu offence but kalhi powers out of the stfu and the fu at different times, Crowd turns
on kalhi as he conytols the match with a lot of power moves. Cena can't hold kalhi for the fu and kalhi hits chop to head and double chokeslam for The
win. Kalhi defeats cena. Ashley goes to the back, as kalhi cuts a promo that gets translated to say kalhi can beat cena anywhere and will at one night
stand Cena gets booed to the back, to a chants of you can't wrestle. Next is vince mcmahon vs lashley in an arm wrestling match

Krystal comes out to announce as they setup the ring.

Announced as the doctor of hardcore, ecw champ vince mcmahon out first. We see a vince:lashley video package dating back to head shaved at mania...

Out comes lashley to some pyro that explodes on him at the top of the ramp. Crowd about 95 percent full. Vince holds ecw belt up in front of lashley Vince
gets the you screwed bret chant and won't lock up with lashley, he keeps stalling. Vince keeps stopping locking up and has the mic but it won't work...
Vince gets a new mic and brings out mark henry to face lashley. They go for a bit, big lashley chant. As lashley gets advantage, henry slugs him, and they
brawl Henry bear hugs lashley into corner but lashley explodes out with the spear... Vince comes in and chair to back of lashley. Vince and henry celebrate
up ramp.

Lashley and kristial go to back. Edge promo with maria where he says he isn't the tallest, biggest or strangest, but he is the greatest. Biggest pop for
edge.

Crowd is full. Torrie willson out to ring announce. Out comes batista to mixed reaction... Tag match next... His partner, announced from atlanta georgia,
is chris benoit to a major pop. They bring out MVPs inflateable set... Out comes MVP. And they strike mvps inflateable set in less than 30 seconds... Biggest
pop and firework show of all time at the ACC for Edge who gets a major hometown reaction.... Just amazing how pro crowd edge is. Poeses on top of corner
Edge and mvp compare titles at ringside. Mvp and benoit start. Mvp gets to rope of crossface, tags in edhe too massive pop. Takes some benoit suplexs for
a 2 All offence benoit, so he tags in batista, edge tags out, batista dominats mvp with power moves for a 2. Tags in benoit. Benoit with chops to mvp.
3x suplex. Benoit miss flying headbut. Edge in with a reverce back breaker. Gets 2. In MVP who gets a 2 with some body slams. Edge back in and benoit now
in a headlock... Benoit powers out, hits ensurgi on edge, mvp comes in but benoit able to tag out. Batista power moves and running closeline on mvp and
as edge goes to make the Save, batista scares him off and edge grabs belt and goes up ramp. Spinebuster on mvp, followed by flying headbut by benoit for
the pin. Batista and benoit win

Candice comes out to announce, we see finlay and hornswoggle, as well as boogyman and little walk in the back. They both come out to their own intros...
Finlay and boogy start off, boogy has control all power moves. Crowd is split, lil boogy in and 2 bonzi drops on finlay. Lil boogy hits a ddt and eats
worms... Hornswoggle who is hiding under the ring tags in. Minis about to wrestle but finlay drop kicks lil boogy. Hornswoggle and finlay dance in ring.
Finish comes when boogyman goes after hornswoggle, and finlay gives big boot to lil boogyman for finlay to get the win. We now have a super long wwe 24/7
promo

They put a new mat on the ring for the next match, and out comes extreme expose to the ring... Half the crowd went for food as extreme expose dances...
During the dance we cut backdtage and boogymen are running after hoglesworth, finlay lays out boogy... Hogglesworth and lil boogy come to the ring... They
put expose on their shoulders and expose gives us a chicken fight. It is a draw, and lil boogy runs hogglesworth to the back. Mccool comes to ring announce

6 man tag, kane teams with eugene dressed as superman and doink the clown vs. Kevin thorn, viscera and umanga. Major pop for doink... Doink does the point
to face, get cheer point to heel boo move, ss doink and thorne start. Thorne beats down doink... Eugene and umanga in, umaga powers on eugene and tags
in vis, vis hits sidewalk slam on eugene. Vis beats down eugene in the corner... Thorne tags in... Umanga and thorne beat down eugene, controlling him
with power moves... Thorne gets a chinlock... Eugene gets umanga to outside, tags in kane who beats up vis and thorne. Kane top rope closeline on thorne,
umanga in destroys kane, doink and eugene... In comes vis to give the love train to kane but kane gets out of the way, hits the chokeslam on vis and gets
the pin, while umanga beats up eugene and doink. Kane, eugene and doink win. Now time to change ring and set for RAW. This is a major, major change. They
are building the Raw set and dismantling SNME set...

While they change the set, which is an amazing change, they show us a video that has never been on TV. It must be for corporate purposes. This video shows
every celeberty (including Leno in wcw) in wrestling history, every charity event, everything in an amazing 10minute video.

Robbie silverstein and lance malibu vs the highlanders in the raw ring, as they setup the Raw set. The Snme logo got raised to the top of the tron. May
be on tv Silverstein chokes rory in the corner and gets DQd when they run out of time in the match. Robby then hits a top rope spash on malibu after the
match.

We get a dusty rhodes dvd video, followed by jim ross and king coming out. We then get history of undertaker and mania video, saying batista rest in piece...

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Monday, May 14, 2007

TNA iMPACT spoilers for 05/17 and 05/24

click at your own parol

A couple of notes:

1. The King of the Mountain match, TNA's monument to complication will return for Slammiversary.
2. The new belts have been debuted.

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Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Complete Smackdown Spoilers from Pittsburgh

This for the show that will air on 5/11.

click here for full spoilers.

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Tuesday, May 08, 2007

WWE championship situation resolved

click here for the spoiler.

I'll say this much, if you think you figured it out after last night's happenings, well then you are probably a wise man.

One mor quick note, I'll be doing the ECW recap and I'll do it when I download a torrent of the show. If you object to this...tough.

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Tuesday, May 01, 2007

TNA iMPACT spoilers for 05/03 and 05/10

These are the LIVE SPOILERS for the final TNA TV taping before Sacrifice. Former WWE Tough Enough 2 competitor Hawk was in attendance along with Sean Waltman
and family. Let’s find out what happened tonight.



Hour one news and notes:

The show was opened by the arrival of the one and only Sting into the Impact Zone. He didn’t even get in the ring as Kurt angle attacked him with a chair.
TNA black shirt security hit the ring to break them up. Both were given microphones and they argued about the end of last week’s match between Sting and
NWA World Heavyweight champion “Instant Classic” Christian Cage who also came out to the Impact Zone or at least his music played. Instead Sting and Angle
brawled around the ring again and the black shirts hit the ring since the referee’s were no match for the two high strung former world champions. Finally
the champ hit the Impact Zone to a babyface pop. Cage wanted everyone to get along. He felt being the humanitarian he wanted Sting to team up with Angle
to face “the Instant Classic” and “the Phenomenal” AJ Styles. The person who scores the pin in the NO DQ match would get the title shot, but if their team
lost both of them lost their shot at Sacrifice. Sting said he already had the title shot and didn’t need the match. I think Angle asked Sting if he was
an icon or a pussy before they cut to the backstage area.

Leticia interviewed NWA World Tag Team champions Team 3D (Ray and Devon) about their match tonight with Samoa Joe and Rhino.

(1) The match up of NWA World Tag Team champions Team 3D (Ray and Devon) vs. Samoa Joe and “War Machine” Rhino ended in a no contest.

LAX didn’t join Mike Tenay and Don West for commentary this week but their fans chanted 3D sucks several times. Team 3D began by working over Rhino but
Joe tagged into face Ray and the two men had an excellent exchange of power moves where nothing was resolved. Things broke down as Joe hit Devon with a
Samoan Drop, Ray hit Joe with the Bubba Bomb. But when it looked like someone was going for a pin “Fallen Angel” Christopher Daniels hit the ring and the
competitors with a baseball bat. Too bad he didn’t hit Joe who locked him in the Kokina Clutch. All four men got in a shot and the fun ended when Rhino
hit the GORE into a folding table propped in a corner.

Jeremy Borash spoke to NWA World Heavyweight champion “Instant Classic” Christian Cage and “the Phenomenal” AJ Styles, who wasn’t too happy Cage volunteered
him for a NO DQ match. Cage tried to kiss Styles’ butt a little saying if they eliminate Sting and Angle Styles would be #1 contender.

Back from commercial Mike Tenay and Don West spoke to the home viewers. Robert Roode (carrying his RRI business plan) and Ms. Brooks (sporting a neck brace)
made their way into the Impact Zone with tons of egg on their face after last week’s announcement that Jeff Jarrett was Eric Young’s friend. Needless to
say Roode was not a happy joy-joy person. He called for Young to come out to the ring so he could be fired in front of everyone in the Impact Zone. But
instead of Eric Young, Roode got TNA Management’s Jim Cornette who told the fans Jeff Jarrett was not in attendance. He said the only people who deserved
to be fired were Roode and his “flotation floozy.” Cornette said when Eric Young signed the RRI deal he breached his TNA deal but Roode was guilty of tampering
(I feel like I am on an episode of Law and Order) so Cornette wanted the whole thing dropped. Roode said he was firing Young whether Cornette liked it
nor not and shoved Cornette down. This brought out Eric Young who cleaned Roode’s clock for a moment but when he went to get Jeff Jarrett’s guitar Roode
was waiting. Too bad for Roode, Young knew what was coming and he fought back. But when Young went to clock Roode and Brooks with the guitar, Roode hit
a chop block to Young’s knees (15 yard penalty in an NFL game.) Roode used the cuffs he stole from “Wildcat” Chris Harris to lock Young in a corner, where
he berated him on the mic before using the guitar on Young’s head. Cornette recovered enough to talk on the mic and said instead of firing Roode he was
going to have to face Jeff Jarrett at Sacrifice.

Tenay and West spoke to the home viewers once more.

(2) In a Lockdown rematch with Street Fight rules, Gail Kim defeated “the Pride of Tennessee” Jacqueline Moore (carrying a bullrope).

Kim wasted no time and leveled Moore with a cookie sheet to the head. The fight went to the floor where Kim’s ribs met the ringside guard rail and then
she was slammed to the rampway for a one count. Kim threw Moore back in the ring and went shopping under the ring for garbage can, kendo stick (possibly
borrowed from Kahagas) and the can ended up on Moore’s upper body as Kim swung it like Sammy Sosa. Kim must have been watching the best of AMW because
she tossed baby powder into Moore’s face. Next she choked out Moore with a bar but the last blow came when Moore’s attempted chair shot was kicked back
in her face for the pin. The fun really began when “Tennessee Cowboy” James Storm came out to help Moore exact some revenge on Kim. The bad part for Storm
was the fully healed “Wildcat” Chris Harris also came out to the ring to fight. After the match some officials needed a moment to search in the ring for
two of Moore’s front teeth which were knocked out during the match.

Tenay and West did another chat with the home viewers. Between commercials they were joined by Jim Cornette for commentary.

(3) In a NO DQ match, Sting and Kurt Angle defeated NWA World Heavyweight champion “Instant Classic” Christian Cage and “the Phenomenal” AJ Styles.

It may have been NO DQ but referee Rudy Charles made the match begin as a normal tag team match with angle squaring off with Angle and the two men traded
punches and forearms but Angle got a takeover slam before tagging in Sting. Sting promptly dropkicked Cage and press slammed him over his head, threatening
to toss him to the floor onto Styles. Styles and Cage got control by grabbing Sting’s legs and dragging him right into the ring post, making Sting’s lower
abdominal area not feel so well. Cage and Styles tagged several times working over Sting as Angle was forced to watch on even though NO DQ was the rules
for the bout. Sting fought off defeat several times and was finally able to get Angle into the match and he delivered several German suplexes. Sting hit
a double Stinger splash and then hit Cage with the Scorpion Death Drop but Angle stopped the pin. They hit Styles with a double Rock Bottom but Cage hit
both of them with chair shots. Styles got a chair but their chairscendo backfired as Angle moved and sent Cage to the floor. Both men got Styles to tap
out to an Ankle Lock. This caused Cornette to exit the broadcast table to ask Charles which man got the submission victory. Charles said both men got the
win so Cornette decreed at the PPV Cage would have to defend in a three way match.

In between shows Jeremy Borash introduced someone from the TV show Heroes (which airs on NBC and mentioned TNA Mobile was now fully active.

Hour two news and notes:

(1) LAX’s “Notorious 187” Homicide defeated Team 3D’s Devon and “Big Poppa Pump” Scott Steiner.

Everyone minus Steiner came to the ring with their partner or manager who remained at ringside. Homicide tried to talk Steiner into working together but
Steiner refused and kept trying to order Homicide around. They hit Devon with a suplex and chest chops as Ray could only watch on. Devon tried to fight
back but Steiner hit a belly to belly suplex for two. Steiner placed Devon in the Tree of Woe so more punishment could be inflicted. Homicide was hit by
a Steiner Tilt-A-Whirl slam for two as Devon recovered in a corner. Devon got back in the match hitting Steiner with a shot then hit Homicide with a Sky
High Slam for two as Steiner fought on the floor with Ray. Machete got the referee’s attention long enough for Hernandez to hit Devon with the Border Toss
help to win the match for Homicide. After the match Ray and Steiner traded chair shots and fought to the locker room.

Tenay and West talked on camera to the home viewers. Christy Hemme and the Voodoo Kin Mafia (Kip and BG James) came out the ring but the team formerly called
the Bashams hit the ring and attacked the VKM. Hemme introduced them as Basham and Damaja. Lance Hoyt came out and the trio hit the bricks. Tenay and West
spoke on camera possibly talking about what went down in the ring.

(2) World X Division champion “the Future” Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley defeated Sonjay Dutt and “Black Machismo” Jay Lethal.

As Dutt and Lethal came out you could see Dutt was still not amused by the transformation Lethal underwent courtesy of Kevin Nash. Shelley didn’t look amused
either as he faced off with Lethal to open the match where Lethal hit some “Macho Man” like moves. Dutt stood in his corner and watched as Lethal was hit
with several double team moves. Lethal survived and tagged out to Dutt who was energized, clearing the ring. Dutt hit Sabin Sliced Bread #2 and Lethal
went up top ready to hit the elbow drop but Dutt picked up Sabin. The referee put out Lethal out of the ring and it allowed Shelley to hit Dutt with Emeral
Frosion to win. After the match Bob Backland came out and attacked Sabin and Shelley possibly for the recent Paparazzi Productions video where Sabin and
Shelley attacked Backland, who walks from the TNA hotel to Universal Studios for the tapings. .

(3) In a NO DQ battle, “the Phenomenal” AJ Styles, “Fallen Angel” Christopher Daniels and “Tennessee Cowboy” James Storm (w/ “Pride of Tennessee” Jacqueline
Moore minus two teeth) defeated “Wildcat” Chris Harris (w/Gail Kim), “War Machine” Rhino and Samoa Joe

Storm wearing his hat squared off with Joe and quickly had it pulled over his eyes. Joe tagged in Harris and Storm quickly got out tagging in Styles who
got suplexed by Harris as Joe made a blind tag. Rhino tagged in to inflict a beating on Styles with great fury. That ended when Styles distracted the referee
and Daniels knocked Rhino off the top turnbuckle and down to the floor. Rhino got back in the ring where Daniels was waiting to attack .Daniels and teammates
tagged out to wear out Rhino as the crowd cheered him on. Storm made a mental error and it allowed Rhino to tag out to Harris. Tags didn’t matter anymore
as all six competitors got in the ring to fight. Storm and Harris remained in the ring where Moore tried to toss the beer bottle into Storm but landed
in Harris’ hand. Harris was ready to deck his old partner but Storm grabbed the referee and stopped the shot. In the end Storm won via rollup and a huge
hand full of tights. The fighting was not done as Harris chased Storm in the crowd behind the announcers. Their fighting ended as Harris backdropped Storm
off and down to the concrete floor below.

After that fight ended, Sting and Angle fought their way into the Impact Zone with Christian Cage watched on from a safe distance. Finally TNA referees
and black shirt security broke them up. Angle said on the house mic come Sacrifice Sting’s ass was his.

Matches taped for Xplosion:

(1) Robert Roode (w/Ms. Brooks) defeated Sonjay Dutt. After the match Roode took the mic to tell the fans he was going to make an example out of Dutt but
Eric Young and guitar came to the rescue.

(2) “Black Machismo” Jay Lethal defeated LAX’s “Notorious 187” Homicide (minus the rest of LAX).

Announced matches for Sacrifice PPV:

***NWA World Heavyweight champion “Instant Classic” Christian Cage vs. Sting vs. Kurt Angle

***NWA World Tag Team champions Team 3D (Ray and Devon) vs. Tomko and “Big Poppa Pump” Scott Steiner and Latin American Xchange (“Notorious 187” Homicide
and Hotstuff Hernandez w/Konnan & Machete)

***In a three way match, World X Division champion “the Future” Chris Sabin vs. Sonjay Dutt vs. “Black Machismo” Jay Lethal

***In a Texas Death match, “Tennessee Cowboy” James Storm vs. “Wildcat” Chris Harris

***Robert Roode (w/Ms. Brooks) vs. “King of the Mountain” Jeff Jarrett

I am guessing Voodoo Kin Mafia (Kip and BG James) vs. Basham and Damaja (w/Christy Hemme) is on the PPV based on what went down in hour two of Impact.

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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Smackdown Spoilers for 4/27

Euan posted the preview earlier but here are the spoilers.

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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

ECW spoilers for this evening 04/24

Credit: WWW.WrestleMag.com and PwInsider.com

Spoilers behind the cut.



- The set is the usual UK deal with a phone box, London bus etc.

- The Hardy Boyz beat Chavo Guerrero & Gregory Helms in a pre-TV dark match.

- ECW got started with CM Punk backstage with the New Breed. Punk gave one of those phony heel apologies and said to put it behind them as they’ve got the
8-man elimination match coming up tonight.

- Bobby Lashley beat Umaga via DQ in their WrestleMania 23 rematch. After the match, Lashley beat down Armando and Vince.

- Elijah Burke cut a promo saying tonight was the biggest night of the New Breed’s life.

- A video for The Condemned aired.

- Snitsky beat Balls Mahoney in a short match.

- CM Punk returned for another New Breed match ahead of tonight’s ECW main event.

- A video aired to plug the Dusty Rhodes DVD, which has been out for a year or so.

- The ECW Originals (RVD, Sabu, Sandman, Dreamer) took on The New Breed. Punk was made by Burke to sit at ringside to keep it 4 on 4 as The New Breed team
is Burke, Striker, Cor Von and Thorn. They eventually get down to Burke vs RVD. Punk laid out Burke with a kick, leading to Van Dam hitting him with the
frogsplash and getting the win.

Post-match, Punk hit Burke with the Go To Sleep to end the ECW taping.


I'm not going to say they completely fucked this up because it will depend on the follow-up next week, but this part of the angle came too soon.

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Monday, April 23, 2007

Raw Spoilers for 4/23 episode

Credit: James Erskine and PwInsider.com

Don't continue reading if you don't want to know.



WWE is at Earl's Court.

Heat:

Todd Grisham is doing his best to warm up a noisy and full arena. We have heard eleven and a half thousand fans (a sellout) in attendance.

Ric Flair does a promo, thanking us for our presence and says the WWE loves London.

Jeff Hardy defeats Kenny in a decent ten minute match with the Swanton bomb.

Mickie James defeats Victoria to not much reaction.

Next up is Chris Masters vs. Val Venis, who comes out to almost no reaction despite my best efforts. Masters wins in an OK bout. Venis asks for a rematch
right there and gets it, winning. Not sure how it will air on Heat.

Crime Tyme defeat Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin - much to my dismay. Crowd a little quiet after heat. Surely its time for Raw now!

In what seems like a dark match after a test start for the Raw opening, Johnny Nitro took on Eugene, who got a big reaction. Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler
have not come out to ringside yet.

Nitro beats Eugene. It's quite an ornery crowd . John Cena is probably going to be booed out the building!

Raw:

Raw starts with a Shane McMahon promo. He runs over last week and Lashley and the Intercontinental belt. He then - because its St. George's Day - offers
a No DQ match to anyone in the audience. From the back comes Robbie Brookside from Liverpool . Shane wrestles for a bit and does the trash can Van Terminator.
Shane then announces it is a handicap match and his tag team partner is Umaga, who continues beating Robbie (Robbie is from FWA, by the way.) Umaga goes
off the top rope with the splash. Shane then announces it is not a two-on-one handicap match after all. It is a three-on-one, and Vince McMahon comes
out to get the pin.

Tomorrow night on ECW is Lashley vs. Umaga.

From the video package they just showed, I think the audience may be 50/50 for Cena and Michaels.

Matt Hardy - big pop - vs. Trevor Murdoch. "Let's Go Hardy" chant! Hardy loses to Trevor after his power bomb. He and Cade celebrate outside the ring.

They just promo'd Randy Orton vs. Edge. Surely that ain't going to happen.

Melina out next. Now Todd Grisham introduces Maria. Non-title match. Maria loses in no more than three minutes.

Carlito and Flair in a short promo. They are next.

The Great Khali comes out, they won't even show his entrance on television. He is up against Carlito. Some small cheers for Khali. Big pop for Carlito.
Carlito loses in a few minutes. No major offense from him. Rumors in the row in front of us about Carlito being fired. Flair comes out to offer help, but
Carlito refuses, Flair leaves a little down.

Mick Foley promo. He is in the back and does a cheap pop, then Edge interrupts the promo and thanks Mick for the kid's choice of main event at Backlash.
Edge talks about how he is looking forward to Cena-Michaels. Seems weird that he is here for just a backstage bit. Also, no mention of the fight previously
plugged on the Titantron - Edge vs. Randy Orton.

Michaels and Cena promo backstage. Cena points out the crowd respects Shawn and so does he. Shawn comes out for a the main event and gets a few boos. Cena
gets loads of boos.

Obviously, the Randy-Edge graphic was an error, but they have not explained why Randy isn't on the show.

Crowd fifty-fifty in boos, Cena, it has to be said, is being cheered more. Very slow paced match. Almost losing an "up for it" crowd. Back and forth, real
long match. HBK in control for a long spell and throws Cena into the ring post. Cena missed an FU, Michaels missed a superkick. Cena finally hit the FU,
but Michaels kicked out. Cena then threw Michaels to the floor to loud boos. HBK kicked out of a leg drop from the top rope. Match has gone past a half
hour now, and is getting better all the time. Shawn goes for piledriver on the outside steps, but it gets reversed. Michaels pins Cena after a missed
FU and a super kick.

No run ins. Better part of an hour and the row behind us says it was better than the Wrestlemania match. Possibly the TV match of the year. Michaels picks
up the belt, holds it up to Cena's face and holds it in the air (note, this was a non-title match). Crotch chops and that's it. Raw is over.

After cameras stop, HBK leaves to cheers and Cena leaves after some time and gets more boos and some clapping.


Sounds like a heck of a main event.

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