Post by Head Booker on Nov 14, 2007 15:26:30 GMT -6
Credit: Steve Baker & WrestlingObserver.com
Dark Match
Kevin Thorn beat Nunzio in the only dark match.
Smackdown
- Jeff Hardy beat Finlay by DQ when Finlay brought in the shillelagh. He didn't connect with it, though, and Jeff took it and scared Finlay away.
- Undertaker did a promo in the ring about his match with Batista. Got a huge reaction, loudest one I've heard in a while. He said the usual Undertaker stuff, the segment didn't last long.
- Victoria and Beth Phoenix beat Mickie James and Torrie Wilson. Beth pinned Torrie, I'm pretty sure, but she used another move as opposed to her fisherman's buster finisher.
- In a brief locker room segment, Jeff Hardy told Matt that he had things to do and had to leave.
- Matt was the guest in the VIP Lounge and challenged MVP to a United States title match right then and there. MVP backtracked, saying he and Matt were friends now. Matt refuted that point and MVP said his feelings were hurt. Matt again challenged him but MVP said he'd signed them up for a tag team title defense.
- John Morrison & The Miz beat Matt & MVP for the tag titles. What happened was MVP faked a leg injury and tagged Matt in. But Matt actually hurt his leg, selling it like a major injury, and Miz and Morrison worked him over pretty good. After a while he couldn't stand and they ended up pinning him to win the belts.
MVP said they had a rematch clause in their contract and he was exercising it, so an immediate rematch happened. MVP started and once again faked a leg injury. Even though Matt was barely standing up in the corner, MVP tagged him in. Matt couldn't fight back and eventually gave up to a submission move on his knee.
After the match was done, MVP helped Matt up and then attacked him. He worked over his knee real good, taking Matt's brace off and then banging his knee into the ringpost and dropping it on the ring stairs (which MVP had brought into the ring).
Don't know how they'll play it up on TV, but live at the show it sure came off like a major injury angle, as if Matt may be gone a while. And my guess is that this is why they didn't do ECW live, since Matt would have had to come back and wrestle after that like it never happened. Same with Morrison and Miz winning the belts, as the titles would have had to go back to Hardy and MVP for ECW.
- Rey Mysterio beat Mr. Kennedy in a pretty good match. The finish was great, Kennedy had Rey up on the second rope for the Green Bay Plunge or the Lambeau Leap or whatever he calls it, and Rey turned it into a hurricanrana and got the pin. There was a fairly large Hispanic contingent in the crowd and Rey was super over. Moreso than anyone but Taker, I'd say.
- Khali and Hornswoggle did a boxing weigh-in. Nothing of note happened, it was just a way to get them standing next to each other.
- Batista beat Mark Henry in a no DQ match. Short match, all Batista, he used a belt shot to the head to get the pin. Afterwards he laid Henry out with chairshots outside the ring and then speared him. He got back in the ring and the video screen showed nothing but Undertaker's eyes rolled back in his head. Cool visual.
- Afterwards, JBL got outta dodge before Batista could beat him up, and that was that. Fun show.
Dark Match
Kevin Thorn beat Nunzio in the only dark match.
Smackdown
- Jeff Hardy beat Finlay by DQ when Finlay brought in the shillelagh. He didn't connect with it, though, and Jeff took it and scared Finlay away.
- Undertaker did a promo in the ring about his match with Batista. Got a huge reaction, loudest one I've heard in a while. He said the usual Undertaker stuff, the segment didn't last long.
- Victoria and Beth Phoenix beat Mickie James and Torrie Wilson. Beth pinned Torrie, I'm pretty sure, but she used another move as opposed to her fisherman's buster finisher.
- In a brief locker room segment, Jeff Hardy told Matt that he had things to do and had to leave.
- Matt was the guest in the VIP Lounge and challenged MVP to a United States title match right then and there. MVP backtracked, saying he and Matt were friends now. Matt refuted that point and MVP said his feelings were hurt. Matt again challenged him but MVP said he'd signed them up for a tag team title defense.
- John Morrison & The Miz beat Matt & MVP for the tag titles. What happened was MVP faked a leg injury and tagged Matt in. But Matt actually hurt his leg, selling it like a major injury, and Miz and Morrison worked him over pretty good. After a while he couldn't stand and they ended up pinning him to win the belts.
MVP said they had a rematch clause in their contract and he was exercising it, so an immediate rematch happened. MVP started and once again faked a leg injury. Even though Matt was barely standing up in the corner, MVP tagged him in. Matt couldn't fight back and eventually gave up to a submission move on his knee.
After the match was done, MVP helped Matt up and then attacked him. He worked over his knee real good, taking Matt's brace off and then banging his knee into the ringpost and dropping it on the ring stairs (which MVP had brought into the ring).
Don't know how they'll play it up on TV, but live at the show it sure came off like a major injury angle, as if Matt may be gone a while. And my guess is that this is why they didn't do ECW live, since Matt would have had to come back and wrestle after that like it never happened. Same with Morrison and Miz winning the belts, as the titles would have had to go back to Hardy and MVP for ECW.
- Rey Mysterio beat Mr. Kennedy in a pretty good match. The finish was great, Kennedy had Rey up on the second rope for the Green Bay Plunge or the Lambeau Leap or whatever he calls it, and Rey turned it into a hurricanrana and got the pin. There was a fairly large Hispanic contingent in the crowd and Rey was super over. Moreso than anyone but Taker, I'd say.
- Khali and Hornswoggle did a boxing weigh-in. Nothing of note happened, it was just a way to get them standing next to each other.
- Batista beat Mark Henry in a no DQ match. Short match, all Batista, he used a belt shot to the head to get the pin. Afterwards he laid Henry out with chairshots outside the ring and then speared him. He got back in the ring and the video screen showed nothing but Undertaker's eyes rolled back in his head. Cool visual.
- Afterwards, JBL got outta dodge before Batista could beat him up, and that was that. Fun show.
