Welcome to the “doesn’t a DQ take place if you get hit BY the person trying to interfere and not the other way around?” edition of The Wrestling List.
The WWE Night Of Champions PPV was last night and here are the results and happenings. Who would be Chris Jericho's partner? It wouldn't take long for us to find out as the tag team title match opened the show. Jericho announced his new partner, The Big Show. Jericho and Show defeated Cody Rhodes and Ted Dibiase to retain the titles when Show got the submission win on Dibiase. CM Punk was interviewed and ended up walking out into the arena ripping on the parents in attendance for letting their kids look up to Jeff Hardy. The ECW title match was next with Christian defeating Tommy Dreamer to win the belt when Christian reversed a DDT to hit the killswitch for the win. With Big Show as a tag team champion, he was replaced in the US title match by Primo. So, it was Kofi defending against Primo, Carlito, Swagger, Miz, and MVP. Kofi retained the title by hitting Carlito with the trouble in paradise for the win. Michelle McCool retained the Women's title by defeating Melina. Next was the triple threat for the WWE title with Randy Orton defending against Triple H and John Cena. Orton was put in a sharpshooter by Triple H while Cena had the STF on him. Orton was tapping but the ref didn't know what to do since both guys had a submission on him. Rhodes and Dibiase got involved attacking both Triple H and Cena. This was a no DQ match so the match went on. Triple H and Dibiase battled out to the floor while Cena picked up Rhodes for the adjustment. Orton then hit Cena with a RKO to get the pinfall and retained the title. Mickie James defeated Maryse to win the Divas champion when she hit a DDT for the win. Very happy with this win as a Mickie fan. She becomes the second woman to have held both the Women's and Divas titles. Rey Mysterio defeated Dolph Ziggler to retain the Intercontinental title after he hit the 619 and splash for t he win. The main event was CM Punk defending the World title against Jeff Hardy. The finish was Hardy going for the twist of fate but it was countered into a GTS. Hardy was able to kick out. As Punk continued to try and get pins, Hardy kept kicking out. Punk then got up and took the belt walking away from the ring. Hardy ran after him and brought him back to the ring. Hardy hammered on him and then hit the twist of fate. The swanton followed and Hardy got the pin. Jeff Hardy is once again the World champion.
Raw opened with Jerry Lawler introducing tonight’s “guest host”, Shaquille O’Neal. He got a good ovation but also did get some boos as well considering that Washington DC is a NBA town. Plus, he is going to be playing for a rival of Washington’s and that is Cleveland. Lawler and Shaq discussed the plans for the night including the beat the clock challenge to determine the opponent for Orton at SummerSlam. Jericho interrupted and said that when he heard that the most dominant player in NBA history was going to be the “guest host” that he was expecting Kobe Bryant. Shaq then called him “Christina” and gave him a kiss on the forehead. Jericho’s reaction was priceless. It almost looked like he was trying to keep from laughing. Jericho demanded to be catered to by everyone and said that if Shaq didn’t cater to him, there would be problems. If he didn’t agree, he’d have to introduce his tag team partner which he did, The Big Show. Show arrives and he and Shaq stare off nose to nose. Show told him that he had a better chance of hitting two free throws in a row than intimidating him. Shaq called him fat boy and challenged him to a match right then. Show backed down saying that he’d cripple and hurt him so then the NBA would breathing down his neck over taking out their superstar. Shaq said that he knew that would be the response so he had hired two people to take them on. He brought out Cryme Tyme adding that the match would take place tonight and that Shaq would be the special enforcer. The show closed with that very match. The match was stopped by a DQ when Big Show came in the ring without a tag and started hammering Cryme Tyme. He nailed the double chokeslam on them and then stared off with Shaq. Shaq took off his ref shirt and jumped in the ring. The two faced off and shoved each other. Show hooked a choke and then Shaq did the same. They choked each other and Cryme Tyme attacked Show. Shaq then hit a football tackle to knock Show from the ring. The Beat The Clock Challenge took place. Participants were John Cena, Triple H, Mark Henry, Jack Swagger, and MVP. The first match had Mark Henry taking on Carlito. Carlito stalled for time for a while but got in quite a bit of offense. Henry finally won with the slam at 6:49. I thought that was way too long for that win to take. Next was MVP taking on the back on TV, Chris Masters. They signed him a while back but he hasn’t been back on TV yet. Masters is still doing the Masterlock gimmick. The fight ended up on the floor. Masters wouldn’t let him back in the ring and hooked the masterlock. The result was a double countout with the story being that Masters had played spoiler to MVP’s chances. Triple H was shown walking through the back and was attacked by Dibiase with a club to the leg. The match was next and Triple H was favoring the leg in the match. Triple H took on Cody Rhodes. Cody worked on the leg a lot. Dibiase showed up jumping on the apron with about 30 seconds to go. Triple H went to punch him but it was played up that he was afraid to do it and get DQ’d. Cody runs and Triple H moves. The shot knocks Dibiase off the apron. Triple H then hits the pedigree on Cody with one second left but can’t make the pinfall in time. So, Triple H is out and Henry still holds the top time. Jack Swagger lost his match when he lost to Evan Bourne with a little over three minutes left in the match. Swagger went for the gut wrench but it was countered into a small package for the win. The last match was Cena vs. The Miz. Randy Orton was at ringside watching the match. Cena won with the STF with 2:22 left on the clock meaning that he will face Orton at SummerSlam for the belt. Orton walked in the ring after the match and the two faced off with Orton holding the belt for Cena to see. Mickie James, Kelly Kelly, and Gail Kim defeated the team of Beth Phoenix, Alicia Fox, and Rosa Mendes. Gail tagged herself in on Mickie and then got the pin on Alicia. I could not tell if Mickie was upset with Gail over it or not. The ending of the match was just very scrambled directing wise. The pin didn’t get shown cause the camera was focused on the Kelly clothesline to stop the pin from being broken up. Mickie gave a look at Gail but the announcers didn’t play it up. I couldn’t tell if they were setting up a Mickie/Gail rivalry or not. Here comes the odd booking moments of the night. Well, a couple of them anyway. LOL. Kendrick was ready for his match with Kofi and mouthed at Lawler that he would be destroying him after the match. Kofi nailed Kendrick with the trouble in paradise and the quick win. Then, Hornswoggle wrestled Chavo AGAIN!! This time, Chavo was blindfolded. He went for the frog splash but Hornswoggle was long gone at that point watching him miss the move from the apron. Hornswoggle hit the tadpole splash for the win.
Other notes from Raw. Was anyone else wanting to hear a song off of the Shaq Diesel CD for Shaq’s entrance? Maybe to “I’m Outstanding”. Did you hear Lawler call Shaq a 15 time MVP? Umm, no. LOL. That would be quite the accomplishment though!! I think he was going for 15 time All Star. Ok, since when can you get DQ’d for knocking the interfering person off the apron? How often does that happen? Plus, if he hits you, you win by DQ. Rarely is there a DQ for hitting someone that tries to get involved unless they punch back. Just a weird booking thing that got on my nerves a bit tonight. Who is the person that continues to punish us with Hornswoggle vs. Chavo matches every week? Make it stop. Wow, they didn’t even repackage Masters. I thought for sure that they would. Well, Big Show’s new gear is going to take some getting used to. It reminds me of a combination of Andre The Giant’s old Colossal Connection gear and Earthquake’s early 90’s gear. Lots of Shaq segments including him playing scrabble with Santino which included all the words that included the word Shaq in it. He played b-ball with Hornswoggle on a mini goal saying that they went to high school together. Hornswoggle bricked the dunk. Speaking of that segment, they had Cole leave the announce booth just so he could go and say Shaqalicious and offer a fist bump??!! LOL. Who was playing NBA Jam backstage and fed the boomshackalaka line to Michael Cole when Shaq knocked Show down from the ring??!!
Jeremy Piven will be the guest host next week on Raw.
The advertising is out for SummerSlam and Shawn Michaels is being advertsied so take that for what you will.
Ring Of Honor will be moving their HD Net show to Monday nights beginning August 17. The show will air at 7pm central time with them looking to get a viewer boost from fans waiting for WWE Raw to go on the air. I say sure, give it a shot. Sounds like a plan to me.
The 1988 Great American Bash PPV was the fan vote winner for July and is currently airing on WWE 24/7 Classics On Demand. I always remember this being a great show. This was the one of the many Lex Luger was that close to beating Ric Flair for the title moments. If they black and white over the finish of this match, I will be annoyed since it is crucial to the finish of it.
I watched the Patriotism themed episode of The Legends Of Wrestling roundtable show over the weekend. Really fun show. The subject was talking about wrestlers and angles centered around patriotism over the years. Some more good Iron Sheik stories. Interesting that Michael Hayes put the blame of a lot of heel angles not working now on the talent saying that they are afraid to get major heat. They all talked about how back in the day if you caused a riot, that was a good night. Sgt. Slaughter told a couple of really good stories talking about meeting two presidents. One was President Reagan while he was in office and being invited to a function. The other was Nixon who was out of office when he met him on an airplane. They were really great stories!!
Here is the preview for August programming on WWE 24/7 Classics On Demand. I am really liking the lineup for this upcoming month. The theme for the month is "Heatwave". Big Ones airing include WCW Beach Blast 1992, WWF Saturday Night's Main Event (January 4, 1986), WWF The Big Event (Hogan vs. Orndorff), and WWE Backlash 2009. Old School house shows include: Los Angeles (July 15, 1988) and St. Louis (August 10, 1984). TV classics: NWA (December 1986-January 1987), ECW (November 1996), World Class (May 1985), Prime Time Wrestling (April 1988), Monday Night Wars (Raw and Nitro - January 1998), Monday Night Wars: The Beginning (Raw and Nitro from November 1995), Mid-Atlantic (December 1981). The Hall Of Fame will focus on The Blackjacks. Shorties will all be matches from SummerSlam over the years. The Viva Las Divas special will be airing which was a WWE DVD release years ago. The fan voting for August will be between SummerSlam 1988, 1990, and 1995. I would vote for either SummerSlam 1988 or 1990. 1995 was a one match show with Shawn and Razor in their ladder rematch. I'm going to vote for 1988 as I haven't seen a complete version of that show since the night that it aired live on PPV. The Coliseum Video release was cut down to 2 hours of course.
That is it for this week. Have a great week!! Take care and God bless!!
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