WWE One Night Stand - 6/3/07 - Jacksonville, FL
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Sorry there was no PPV preview last week, but I was on vacation, and I forgot to delegate it before I left. Anyway, I can’t imagine there are many out there that were waiting on pins and needles to see this show that was pretty irrelevant considering there was another PPV two week ago. Of course, I’m sure that the half a million that watched Saturday Night’s Main Event burned up the phone lines afterwards calling their cable company, but whatever…
Rob Van Dam defeated Randy Orton in a Stretcher Match. Maybe I missed some news while down visiting Smokey the Bear, but I thought RVD was on the way out? Anyway, I guess Van Dam is to be Orton’s next legend to “kill” after dispatching Shawn Michaels. Reading the results, this sounded like a pretty dreadful match for involving Van Dam. Basically, it was a race to see who would get pushed across the finish line first. After the match, Orton took out RVD, and the paramedics had to come out and put a neckbrace on Van Dam. I wouldn’t have expected Van Dam to go over on his way out, but I also wasn’t expecting Orton to get any sort of win over Shawn Michaels at Judgment Day. They kept selling the concussion throughout the show, which is a weird way to get people to forget about RVD as he’s leaving.
CM Punk, Tommy Dreamer & The Sandman defeated Elijah Burke, Matt Striker & Marcus Cor Von in a 6-Man Tables Match. I hate it when the rules say you don’t have to put all three guys through tables to win. I think my favorite strictly-tables match was the one at Royal Rumble 2000. Anyway, a decent match, but nothing to pay money to see. Dreamer piledrove Burke and put him on a table, and then Punk superplexed Striker through Burke and the table for the win.
World Tag Team Champions The Hardy Boys retained over The World’s Greatest Tag Team in a Ladder Match. There were a lot of nice spots in this match, and this might be a nice tag team rivalry throughout the summer that could spark interest in the division again. Right now, the Hardys are still a nostalgia act, but with Haas and Benjamin to work with, I could handle that. Jeff hit Haas with a Swanton Bomb, while Matt climbed the ladder to get them the win. Later on in the show, the two teams were getting treatment in the back and started fighting again. I would pay to see the rematch.
Mark Henry defeated Kane in a Lumberjack Match. Apparently the heels were afraid to beat up Kane, and the babyfaces too incompetent to beat up Henry. Well, then what’s the point of the gimmick match, then? Another boring, snoozefest big man match. Kane needs a guy to push him in a match, and the only thing Mark Henry’s pushing right now is away from the table, and he’s not even doing that so often. After Kane chokeslammed Henry, Chavo Guerrero and Kenny Dykstra tried to jump him from behind. They got squashed, but Mark Henry got Kane into a bear hug and won the match.
Bobby Lashley defeated Mr. McMahon to become the new ECW Champion. About freaking time. Time to send Vince back to the mothballs… oh, no… wait, Rey Mysterio is coming back soon, and we’ll probably see 6 months of predictable “wetback” humor at his expense. Anyway, Lashley kept getting distracted by Ooga-Booga and Shane-O-Mac, who pounded on him mercilessly early on, and it was probably about time to have the referee send them to the back at some point, but I guess Lashley was finally due to beat all three at once when he has failed to do so previously. After Lashley got almost no offense throughout the match, he hulked up and speared Shane and Vince to get the win. After the match, Vince got another spear for fun.
Candice Michelle defeated WWE Women’s Champion Melina in a non-title Pudding Match. Melina wore goggles for the match, which was actually a humorous touch. Candice won by submission after she repeatedly shoved Melina’s face into the pudding. After the match, Maria came out to interview Candice (who she made out with before the match), Melina threw pudding at Maria, and Maria jumped in the pudding to go after her. I’m gonna say it again… if you want porn, you know where to find it… if you want to put on a wrestling match, then put on a wrestling match and leave the porn out of it. It’s just embarrassomg/
World Heavyweight Champion Edge retained his title over Batista in a Steel Cage Match. Edge tried to escape at the opening bell, which was a nice, heelish thought. Big men do not belong in a cage, and this match was no exception. Edge tried to make it work by working Batista’s knee, but the days of “pick a body part and work it over” are long gone. The finish had Edge hitting Batista at the top of the cage with a low blow. They tried to beat each other to the floor (Edge over the top and Batista through the door). After the match, Edge bailed out at ringside and left his title belt behind.
World Heavyweight Champion Edge retained his title over Batista in a Steel Cage Match. Edge tried to escape at the opening bell, which was a nice, heelish thought. Big men do not belong in a cage, and this match was no exception. Edge tried to make it work by working Batista’s knee, but the days of “pick a body part and work it over” are long gone. The finish had Edge hitting Batista at the top of the cage with a low blow. They tried to beat each other to the floor (Edge over the top and Batista through the door). After the match, Edge bailed out at ringside and left his title belt behind.
In the main event, WWE Champion John Cena retained over The Great Khali in a Falls Count Anywhere Match. Before the match, Khali promised to take the title back to India after he wins. Heck, then just vacate the title and buy him his plane tickets already! This was more of Cena selling all night long to the cardboard giant and then getting the comeback with a couple of minutes to go. Cena hit an F-U off of the bed of a crane to win the match.
Avoid this. There are a couple of good matches on the show, but hopefully they’ll make it to the compilation DVDs in the future…
June 5th, 2007 at 9:52 am
Ha, I like the opening paragraph and hope you had a nice holiday.
This was actually one of the few PPVs that we get for free in the UK but I wasn’t home to see it. I can’t quite remember where I was at the time, probably lying in a gutter or in some doll’s bedroom celebrating the end of my exams. My drunkenness aside, err yeah this card looked fairly predictable.
-Bit of a surprise RVD won but he got done then and it looks like he has made his last appearance. Blimey, this is some “punishment” Orton is getting for trashing the hotel with wins over HBK & RVD as well as destroying them after.
-The New Breed needed the win more I felt more than Punk and two jobbers. I agree that it was a bit cheap that not all of them had to be put through the tables. I read they done the old Dudley Boys “get the tables” routine, dig at TNA perhaps?
-I read this was a very excellent match, but you knew Hardys would win.
-Kane jobbing was also expected, it’s a pity he has been relegated to this status. But Henry is completly useless.
-Again, predictable. Hopefully Vince will stay off TV but that is very unlikely given events on RAW.
-Vince: “Lets make the Divas more classy, so we will have a pudding match”. Sigh, easy to pick a winner given it was non-title but this division is, like the match was, a joke.
-Edge winning was a given, I read he is slated for a long run which I think is pretty good news.
-How many more opponets can they stack the odds against Cena? As if there would be any other outcome but Khali gets a firemans carry off a really tall crane and is fine to wrestle the next night. Yeah that sounds about right.
Where is the value in buying something when you can predict 3/4 or so of the matches. Hopefully the upcoming draft lottery will inject some life into the WWE as things have been really stale over the past few months.
June 5th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
“Where is the value in buying something when you can predict 3/4 or so of the matches?”
I think that sums up the entire state of WWE wrestling..