(Pics from WWE.com)
~The show starts with WWE World Champion, Edge, and Smackdown GM Vickie Guerrero, in the ring inviting Ric Flair down for an interview segment. Ric Flair starts talking reckless and says he’s gonna beat Shawn Michaels at Wrestlemania. It is then announced that next week it’ll be Ric Flair vs. Edge and his two associates, Zack Ryder & Kurt Hawkins in a 3-on-1 steel cage handicap match.
-CM Punk, Jesse & Festus beat WWE Tag Team Champions, The Miz & John Morrison and ECW Champion, Chavo Guerrero.
-Jaime Noble breaks up with Michelle McCool.
-After getting completely handled throughout the match, MVP finally picks up a win over Batista via countout.
-Jamie Noble demands a match with Chuck Palumbo, who beat him in a match last week, for later that night. However, Noble must have not been watching ECW last Tuesday where it was announced that Palumbo would be facing Kane on this episode of Smackdown. Instead of facing Palumbo, Vickie Guerrero puts Noble in a match against The Big Show.
-A swimsuit contest is then held between Eve Torres, Cherry, Maryse, Victoria and Michelle McCool for no reason, but who’s complaining. The fans are supposed to vote for who they think the winner is by texting. If I had the money to waste, because standard texting messaging rates do apply, I’d vote for Eve Torres.
-Kane beats Chuck Palumbo.
-Big Show wins his match after Jaime Noble kicks Show low and gets himself disqualified. Big Show then beats Noble up and talks more trash about Floyd Mayweather.
-Edge and friends beat The Undertaker in a 3-on-1 handicap match.
Edge is a really good heel (which means he plays a really good a-hole) and I found his segment with Ric Flair at the beginning of the show to be very entertaining.
Way to bury your champions, WWE. The Miz & John Morrison have lost for the second time in two weeks in non-title matches on Smackdown. Like I said last week, if everyone can beat your champions, why, oh why, are they title holders?
The segment with Noble and McCool was hilarious. I thought they were going to let their relationship last a little longer but, oh well.
Finally MVP gets a win but I bet he loses to Batista next week.
ROH Rising Above PPV Results
(Pics by Scott Finkelstein)
~Ring of Honor's sixth Pay-Per-View event, Rising Above, premiered last night. Overall, it was a pretty solid show, here's what went down:
-The show starts with Adam Pearce, Brent Albright, BJ Whitmer and Shane Hagadorn (together known as the Hangmen Three, and yes, it is very apparent that there are four people.) calling out Delirious to have a match with Albright.
-Delirious defeats Brent Albright.
-After the match, the Hangmen Three beat down Delirious. El Generico and Kevin Steen come out to help Delirious out and brawl with the Hangmen Three. While the two groups brawl, the Age of the Fall come out and demand a shot at the ROH Tag Team Titles, currently held by The Briscoes. They are then interrupted by the Vulture Squad (Jack Evans, Ruckus, Jigsaw and Julius Smokes) who come down to the ring. They challenge the other three teams (Hangmen Three, Steen & Generico and the AOTF) to an impromptu tag match.
-Kevin Steen & El Generico beat Tyler Black & Jimmy Jacobs (AOTF), Jack Evans & Ruckus (Vulture Squad) and Adam Pearce & BJ Whitmer (Hangmen Three)
-Daizee Haze beats Lacey and Sara Del Ray in a three way match.
-Davey Richards defeats Erick Stevens
-Claudio Castagnoli beats Chris Hero
-Bryan Danielson beats Takeshi Morishima by disqualification after Morishima knocks down the referee. They start trying to kill each other after the match.
-The Briscoes retain the ROH Tag Team Titles against Roderick Strong & Rocky Romero.
-Nigel McGuinness successfully defends the ROH World Title against Austin Aries.
Notes:
The transition between the Delirious/Albright match to the 4 team tag match was just crazy. I can’t remember ever seeing a match start off like that.
As a matter of fact, that whole tag match as a whole was just crazy. I don’t think there was a dull moment throughout the whole thing.
Seeing someone get hit in the groin should never be a funny thing, but I couldn’t help but laugh out loud when it happened in the Davey Richards/Erick Stevens match.
The crowd was all over Nigel McGuinness during his match, no wonder he recently turned on them.
Speaking of the match, there were parts where I thought one of them had killed the other person.
Despite all the stellar in-ring action, anything else ROH produces continues to seem very amateurish.
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