WWE Judgment Day PPV Results - 5/20/07 - St. Louis, MO
Results from Gerweck.net.
In a word… anticlimactic.
Ric Flair defeated Carlito. The match was a solid opener, but the finish was questionable. Carlito tapped out cleanly to Flair’s figure-four leglock. Dude must really be in the doghouse if they let the old man go over him.
Bobby Lashley defeated Shane McMahon, Umaga and ECW Champion Vince McMahon in a 3-on-1 Handicap Match. This was over quickly, but Vince announced after the match that he was still champion because he wasn’t pinned. After the match, Umaga took out Lashley with the Samoan Spike. Yawn.
This really reminds me of the DX vs. Spirit Squad feud last year, because it was built around everything that happened outside the ring, but what happened in the ring occurred in completely lopsided fashion and never got over anybody on the Spirit Squad. The result: one is jobbing on Raw, one got whacked, and the others are in OVW. Go figure. There is so much that is wrong with this feud. It’s annoying. It makes ECW look like a joke. It fails to make Bobby Lashley look good, as he is constantly portrayed as the stupid Negro manservant with the goo-goo-googly eyes while his white Massa McMahon is constantly getting over on him and tricking him out of the title. Why not just change their names to Jack Benny and Rochester while they’re at it? I think they really play up the racial component an awful lot, even though they don’t say it, and as they continue to string Lashley along with the bait on the hook, this storyline continues to bore me to tears.
CM Punk defeated Elijah Burke. Sweet match with *gasp* PSYCHOLOGY. (To be fair, there was a lot of that in the Flair/Carlito match also.) If only WWE would push ECW as an X-Division alternative to the other brands with guys and matches like these, it might actually get a real following. Instead, these two guys work a 6 to 8 minute undercard match that the crowd will forget (what crowd is left in the building after the Smackdown tapings), because they’ll be inundated with the Vince McMahon B.S. Parade on Tuesday night.
Randy Orton defeated Shawn Michaels. It’s nice that Orton got that reward after going rockstar on a hotel room on the last European tour. You think that Shawn Michaels claimed a knee injury just at the right time to help the kid just as he often as he has claimed injuriesat the right time in the past? Maybe a bunch of guys beat him and the British Bulldog up in a bar while they were at it. Anyway, earlier in the show, Orton attacked Michaels in the back, and some doctor told him he wasn’t cleared to wrestle. Before the match started, Orton wanted to be declared the winner by forfeit. They went a little bit, but Michaels dropped like a sack of golf balls because of his “concussion” and the referee stopped the match. After the match, Orton hit the RKO on Michaels, and then his wife WHISPER made a cameo appearance to cry over her fallen husband.
World Tag Team Champions Matt & Jeff Hardy retained over Lance Cade & Trevor Murdoch. Nothing outstanding here, but a decent match, although not really good enough for PPV. After the match, they all shook hands. IT’S A TRAP!!!!
World Heavyweight Champion Edge retained over Batista. The focus of the match was Edge working over Batista’s shoulder. More psychology?!? Are they tape-trading in the locker room or something? Short match again, and Edge wins with a roll-up. Very cheap finish. At least let the guy hit a finisher or something!
Montel Vontavious Porter defeated Chris Benoit to becme the new WWE U.S. Champion. Porter won in two straight falls. Not really as good as the other outings, and with the way some of these matches seemed truncated, this could have probably gone a half-hour as the semi-main and done both guys a lot of good. MVP worked over Benoit’s knee throughout, and now I think they’re just trying to make me cry. Porter got the first fall after Benoit’s knee gave out attempting an electric chair, and he got the second fall after getting out of the Crippler Crossface and rolling up Benoit. It seems like anybody can get out of the Crippler Crossface these days. Heck, I’m starting think even I could!
In the main event, WWE Champion John Cena retained over the Great Khali. As far as putting together the card, that probably wasn’t the most inspired choice on which to send people home. Khali pretty much played the monster throughout, although Cena got in a lot more offense than most. I think he even got more than Undertaker did! Cena won with the STFU (although Khali’s foot was outside the ring) and got his belt back after the match.
Ugh… what a pile of crap, as predicted. Avoid this.
Only 2 weeks until One Night Stand. Joy.
May 21st, 2007 at 2:59 pm
From the various reports I read it did indeed sound like a pile of rubbish.
-What does Flair winning achieve? Poor decision
-I tipped Lashley to win but then Vince took the belt back. It looks like this junk will roll on, sigh.
-Punk/Burke could have went either way but it sounds like it was a really good match
-I’m shocked Orton got the win. I know they are trying to sell HBK’s injury but they could have let him win by DQ at the very least. Rumours are that Michaels will be going for surgery soon which will be a big blow
-Hardy’s win, no surprise. Cade & Murdoch beating them up is a plain as day
-I agree, Edge should have got the win via finisher to put him over more
-MVP won at last, but it really should have finished up 2-1. Next objective is to lose the Power Ranger get-up. Seemed a surprise that this was on after the World Heavyweight match
-What an absoultly shit match to put as the main event. Cena won against all the odds yet again and he is now overtaken Bret Hart as 6th longest reigning WWE champion. And with that sentence, it is clear to see exactly why WWE is terrible at the present minute
So as you say Russ, it was crap. I can’t remember the last time there was a decent PPV.
May 22nd, 2007 at 7:25 am
I’m guessing that MVP’s Power Ranger get-up is to cover his tattoos, which may not fit his gimmick. According to Wikipedia: “Banks also has numerous tattoos: a portrait of Malcolm X on his upper left chest, King Tut on his left upper biceps, an Eye of Horus on the back of his left arm, and small writing with a small ring on on his right upper backside.”
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May 23rd, 2007 at 5:00 pm
MVP has shown his tats on screen before though, during the “Kane cooked me like a hot dog” angle. (How could he have suffered third degree burns when his tights weren’t even burned that bad?) I’m not sure they’re that worried about them fitting his character.
May 23rd, 2007 at 5:55 pm
That’s quite a collection of tattoos. I read somewhere that he wasn’t buff enough so they had to cover up his mid-section/body so that he didn’t look like a weakling. Apparently he better built now.