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~Friday Night Smackdown took place last…Friday. Here’s what happened:
-Edge vowed to be the first man to beat the Undertaker at Wrestlemania, that is until the Undertaker came out and chased him away.
-Shelton Benjamin beat Jimmy Wang Yang for a spot in the Money in the Bank Ladder Match at Wrestlemania 24.
-Jesse & Festus defeated Deuce & Domino
-Big Daddy V defeated Shannon Moore
-Batista beats MVP
-Kane beats The Great Khali
-Chuck Palumbo beat up some guy named Matt Jackson
-Rey Mysterio announces that he is going to have surgery to repair his torn bicep and will miss Wrestlemania. He is then put into a match against ECW Champion, Chavo Guerrero. Rey goes on to win that match but is destroyed by The Big Show afterwards.
I’m really looking forward to the outcome of the Edge/Taker match at Wrestlemania. Edge just got the World Heavyweight Title in December and I think it would be a shame for him to lose the belt so quickly. However, Undertaker is 15-0 at the event and it would be a shame for him to lose that streak to Edge [although I like Edge, I just don’t think he should break Taker’s undefeated streak].
MVP is the WWE United States Champion, yet he constantly loses matches and holds on to the title. Hopefully he gets something to do with the belt soon.
Blonde hair and all, Shelton Benjamin being added to the Money in the Bank ladder match is a huge positive, since he’s been in the first two and provided tons of highlight reel material. The MITB match is usually one of the highlights of Wrestlemania and I think that trend will continue this year.
If Chavo Guerrero is the ECW Champion, keep him on ECW. Despite that, I thought the Chavo/Rey match was pretty good.
TNA Notes
~TNA held house shows (non-televised events) on Friday and Saturday in Westbury and Elmira, NY, respectively. The results from both shows were pretty identical so here’s what went down:
-Homicide & Hernandez (LAX) defeated Jimmy Rave & Lance Hoyt
-Jay Lethal beat Sonjay Dutt
-Team 3D defeated The Motor City Machine Guns
-Samoa Joe defeated AJ Styles
-Awesome Kong beat Gail Kim and Miss Jacqueline
-Kurt Angle beat Christian Cage
Results from ROH's Sixth Anniversary Weekend Shows
~ROH celebrated its 6th year in existence with two NYC shows. On 2/22 in Deer Park, NY, several ROH wrestlers missed the show due to a blizzard. As a result, the show centered around a one-night tournament where the winner would recieve an ROH World Title shot in the future. Here's the results:
2/22
-Bryan Danielson defeats Rocky Romero in a first round match.
-Kevin Steen defeats Delirious in first round tournament action.
-El Generico defeats Austin Aries in a first round match.
-Go Shiozaki defeats Necro Butcher in a tournament match
-Kevin Steen defeats Bryan Danielson in a tournament semi-final match
-Go Shiozaki defeats El Generico to reach the tournament final.
-Jason Blade wins a 4-corner survival over Pelle Primeau, Mitch Frankin and The Human Tornado
-Ruckus & Jigsaw defeat Zach Gowen & Jimmy Jacobs
-Kevin Steen defeats Go Shiozaki in the tournament final to win a future title shot.
2/23
-Delirious vs. Human Tornado went to a no contest due to interference from Jimmy Jacobs and Tyler Black.
-Jimmy Jacobs & Tyler Black defeated Human Tornado & Delirious.
-Brent Albright defeated El Generico.
-Kevin Steen defeated Joey Matthews.
-Sara Del Rey defeated Daizee Haze to retain the SHIMMER championship.
-Rocky Romero & Davey Richards defeated Ruckus & Jigsaw to retain the ROH World Tag Team Championship.
-Roderick Strong defeated Necro Butcher & Erick Stevens in a NO DQ match to retain the FIP World Championship.
-Nigel McGuinness defeated Bryan Danielson to retain the ROH World Championship.
There’s a bit of controversy stemming from the Saturday show. According to various reports, here’s what I've gathered as to what went down:
Larry Sweeney, who plays a heel sports agent gimmick, had a talk show segment during the event. He was in the ring with another wrestler named Bobby Dempsey, who is rather overweight and is constantly berated by Sweeney because of it. Sweeney’s talk-show guest was Allison Danger, a female wrestler on the ROH roster.
Sweeney allegedly calls Danger a “slut” and she goes to leave the ring. Before she leaves Sweeney knocks her out with a microphone from behind (remember kids wrestling is “fake”, so she isn’t really knocked out). He then reportedly tells Dempsey to have his way with the unconscious Allison Danger. When Dempsey refuses, Sweeney knocks him out as well and he falls on top of the woman.
I haven’t seen the angle so I don’t know how bad it actually came off, but from what I’ve reading it was pretty…bad. I’m sure it was only done to get Larry Sweeney over as a heel and wasn’t meant to be done as in poor taste as it ended up (not that I’m condoning it in any way). But, some ideas should just never leave your imagination.
ROH even mentioned the incident on their latest news wire:
“ROH officials are embarrassed and apologetic over the actions of Larry
Sweeney last Saturday at the Manhattan Center. We won't go into details here, but Sweeney proved to be an absolutely reprehensible and despicable individual. Sweeney has stated that he will lead Sweet & Sour Inc. to a "hostile takeover" of ROH. Sweeney was bragging to ROH officials that he will personally change the face of ROH. We have seen that there is nothing too disgusting for Larry Sweeney. ROH officials are definitely on edge with Sweeney's recent "hostile takeover" statement.”Source: rohwrestling.com
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