Welcome to the “that Eddie Guerrero tribute music video stole the show for the Smackdown X Year Annivesary Special” edition of The Wrestling List.
WWE held their Cell PPV last night and here are the results. The three Cell matches were spread out through the PPV. The World title match opened the show with CM Punk defending against The Undertaker in the Cell. The Undertaker hit the tombstone to win the World title. John Morrison hit the starship pain to retain the Intercontinental title against Dolph Ziggler. Mickie James retained the Divas title by defeating Alicia Fox following a nasty DDT. Chris Jericho and Big Show defeated Batista and Rey Mysterio to retain the Unified tag team titles. Rey hit Big Show with the 619 but then caught a Show punch on the springboard attempt and Big Show got the win. The next Cell match was John Cena defending the WWE title against Randy Orton. Cena and the referee made contact sending the ref crashing to the floor. Cena then hooked the STF and Orton tapped but the ref didn’t see it. As Cena returned to the ring after trying to get the ref, he got hit with a RKO. Orton then hooked a submission hold but the finish was Orton nailing the punt on Cena. The punt whiffed pretty badly but Orton did get the pinfall to win the WWE title. Drew McInytre defeated R Truth following a DDT. Kofi Kingston defeated The Miz and Jack Swagger to retain the US title. Swagger nailed Miz with the powerbomb but Kofi was able to hit Swagger with his kick and got the pin. The show finished with DX taking on Rhodes and Dibiase in the Cell. The fight ended up on the floor instead of inside the Cell. Dibiase and Rhodes ended up locking themselves inside the Cell alone with Shawn. Triple H could not get into the Cell. He left and came back with cutters to get the door open. Triple H got back in it and evened up the odds. The ref brought a new chain out to lock the door and Triple H used it on Dibiase. Triple H hit a pedigree on the floor on to Dibiase and then threw him out of the Cell and locked the door to keep him out. A chair was put on Cody’s throat and Shawn hit a top rope elbow on to Cody. Triple H then nailed Cody with the sledgehammer while Shawn nailed a superkick. Shawn then pinned Cody to win the match for DX.
Tonight’s Raw was guest hosted by Ben Roethlisberger. He opened the show with a football themed match with the Diva Bowl. Mickie, Melina, Kelly, Maria, Eve, and The Bellas defeated Beth, Michelle, Jillian, Rosa, Natalya, Alicia, and Layla. Mickie hit a big DDT on Michelle but then pinned Alicia with a forward roll. Gail Kim was the referee for the match. After the match, Orton arrived. He went ahead and called out Cena knowing that Cena would have something to say. Cena did walk out and have something to say but Orton would not do the rematch tonight. Cena talked about how they have THE rivalry going in WWE today and how there needs to be one more match to decide it. Cena challenged Orton to a 60 minute ironman match and then no more rematches. Orton said that there was nothing in it for him and wanted stipulations added. Orton made it no disqualification and no countout. Cena accepted but then Orton wanted another stipulation. If Cena loses, he leaves Raw. He can go anywhere else but he would be off Raw if he doesn’t win the title. Cena did accept and the match will take place at the next PPV, Bragging Rights. Roethlisberger was in the ring later in the night and was confronted by Jericho and Big Show. They talked of how it was a shame that he didn’t have his offensive line to protect him. Ben brought out his offensive line. They and Big Show lined up but then Show and Jericho bailed out. DX then arrived. DX and Jericho had a way too short mic exchange. I really wish that had went longer. DX laid down the challenge but Jericho and Show backed down from it. Ben however made the match for later in the night. DX and the Steelers all then posed together including doing the DX chop with the pyro. The match took place to end the show. DX looked to be about ready to finish the match but Big Show put a double suplex on to both of DX. Show ended up outside the ring where he was taken out. Jericho was then surrounded by Shawn and Triple H. Jericho took off to leave but was then stopped by Ben and the Steelers wearing DX gear. Jericho went back to the ring where he took a superkick from Shawn and was pinned by Triple H. DX, Ben, and the Steelers then all celebrated and posed together to end the show. In other action, Miz went to Ben wanting a match with Kofi. Ben granted him the US title match but said that if Miz lost, he would have to utter the phrase “I’m the Miz and I’m awful”. Miz agreed to the stipulation and the two had a solid match. Kofi hit the trouble in paradise but Miz landed outside the ring. Kofi went and got him but Miz was able to kick out. There were more near falls but Kofi eventually was tripped up on the turnbuckle. Miz hit the skull crushing finale to get the pin and won the US title. Jack Swagger did a promo promising to go undefeated for the rest of the year. His first win on this promise was against Primo as he beat him with the powerbomb. Chavo and Masters had a match with MVP and Henry. The finish had MVP pinning Chavo but Masters broke it up. However, the elbow to break it up by Masters caught Chavo. Henry took out Masters with a charge and then MVP pinned Chavo. Henry came up hobbling on his knee. Masters and Chavo argued over what happened and then Masters hooked the masterlock on to Chavo. Hornswoggle arrived and bit Masters to save Chavo. Chavo hit a DDT and then faced off with Hornswoggle. Hornswoggle smiled and did the DX chop and took off up the ramp.
Other thoughts from Raw. Yeah, that DX pose with the Steelers was pretty cool and you know that they’re going to use that for some publicity. I said this already but I really wished that DX and Jericho could have had more mic time back and forth. I thought the penalty flag throwing in the Diva Bowl was lame. I get why they did it cause of the gimmick of the match but it just goofy to me. Santino was funny with his backstage segments tonight including him taking two slaps, one from Alicia and the other from Hornswoggle. Did you get the vibe from the fans that they weren’t as excited about a Cena/Orton rematch as they were supposed to be? So, an ironman match with no rules. Well, that is at least different. That match will definitely be a challenge for both of them.
Next week’s guests hosts for Raw will be Access Hollywood’s Nancy O’Dell and Maria Menounos.
WWE is announcing the plans for the Bragging Rights PPV besides the 60 minute ironman match. There will be Raw vs. Smackdown matches with the winners of the matches facing each other in a big finale at the end of the night. It is very similar sounding to the 1990 Survivor Series grand finale match. The one and only year that they did that at Survivor Series.
The Smackdown Ten Year Anniversary show was on Friday night and was a fun show. There were two segments that obviously stood out over the others. One being The Rock’s pre-taped appearance but to me the segment that stole the show was the music video tribute to Eddie Guerrero. Wow, this was incredibly produced and set to the Boyce Avenue song called “Hear Me Now”. It covered his career and also the Eddie tribute shows. Just incredible!! That is really all that can be said. The Rock was a major highlight with his taped segment. He opened the segment trying different scripted openings and scrapped them all going with the normal, Finally the Rock has come back to Smackdown. He went right into full Rock character very easily and was great. Lots of good comedy including him pondering who Dolph Ziggler was. He went on to sing Smackdown hotel and then started mentioning World Champion, CM Punk calling him BM Punk cause every time that he talks, fans want to take a bowel movement. He started to talk trash on The Undertaker and then backed off asking if they could edit it. He was afraid of payback and called in the producer who wouldn’t do the edit. He then gave him a “it doesn’t matter” and it was classic Rock. Rock then gave the big tease saying that he had his time on Smackdown and that maybe it was time for him to try Raw and be a guest host. There is a tease that we’re going to be hoping for to happen!! Other action on the show had the 8 man tag team main event, DX, John Cena, and Undertaker against Legacy and CM Punk. I was really interested to see the interplay between Shawn Michaels and Undertaker since this was the first time that they were in the ring together since their epic encounter at WrestleMania. They did have some nice staredowns. Shawn offered a tag and got a stare from Taker. As Shawn bounced off the ropes, Taker tagged himself in and they had a stareoff. The finish of the match had Triple H feeding Punk to Taker but Punk ran and bailed. So, Taker grabbed Orton and brought him in the hard way. Taker hooked the submission on Orton but Cody broke it up. Dibiase was about to hit dreamstreet on Triple H when Shawn superkicked Dibiase. Cena dumped Punk over the ropes on to Priceless on the floor. Orton was then surrounded by all four faces in the ring. Undertaker hit the tombstone on Orton to get the pinfall. Undertaker then stared down with Punk who was laying in the aisle. Dolph Ziggler and The Miz defeated John Morrison and Kofi Kingston. Dolph countered Morrison’s springboard move and then hit his finisher for a clean win on Morrison. Michelle McCool defended the Women’s championship against Melina in a lumberJILL match. I just don’t understand the whole lumberjack thing for the women. The lumberjills ended up in a brawl on the floor. Beth ended up tripping Melina up as she was on the turnbuckle. Michelle then hooked the Styles Clash from there and pinned Melina with it. Batista defeated Kane with a Batista bomb for the pinfall. The rest of the show was backstage segments at the Smackdown party. Vickie Guerrero was there and announced that she was returning to Smackdown as a manager and had her new boyfriend and wrestler with her. The Iron Sheik and Sgt. Slaughter provided some comedy arguing over countries. Michael Cole was there and they had him saying “vintage (insert name here)” lines over and over. Jericho and Show walked in wanting more respect for being there on the very first Smackdown in 1999. R Truth and Drew McIntyre got into an altercation during the party. The show did start with a new open and theme song. The highlight segment of the history of the ten years was well produced as well. I would have liked to have seen more highlight clips throughout the show.
If you missed the incredible Eddie Guerrero tribute video on Smackdown, here is a link to check it out: http://www.wwe.com/content/media/video/vms/smackdown/2009/october1-7/11909428
I am halfway through the WWE Judgment Day 2009 PPV that is currently airing on WWE 24/7 Classics On Demand. That Rey Mysterio vs. Chris Jericho match was a LOT of fun!!! The counters to the 619 were fun and that crowd went nuts when Jericho countered it into the walls.
Dennis Miller is saying that he is going to be a guest host on Raw coming up soon.
Samoa Joe has been using his Twitter account asking for help for relief for the tsunami and earthquake that hit Samoa last week. Fox News even did an article on him: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,558000,00.html
That is it for this week. Wishing you all a great week!! Take care and God bless!!
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