WWE Raw & ECW Results, Wednesday Wrestler Spotlight

4/7 WWE Raw Results

(Pics from WWE.com)

~This episode of Raw starts with the brand's General Manager, William Regal, already in the ring. He announces that Raw's main event for the next WWE PPV event, Backlash, will be WWE Champion, Randy Orton, defending his belt against JBL. Aww hell no.


-Both opponents come down to the ring and JBL tries to play nice.


-Triple H doesn't like Regal's announcement, he decides to come down to the ring and throws his name in the hat for a title shot. GM Regal tells HHH that if he wants to be in the main event at Bashlash, he'll have to beat JBL & Randy Orton in a 2-on-1 handicap match. So, if HHH wins the match, the WWE title match at Backlash will be Randy Orton vs. JBL vs. HHH.


-Umaga demolishes Val Venis.


-Mickie James (!) & Ashley beat Melina & Jillian.


-Brian Kendrick & Paul London continue to rack up wins. This week, they beat Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch.


-Triple H defeats Randy Orton & JBL and as a result is added to the WWE title match at Backlash.


-However, John Cena doesn't seem to happy with this and he comes down to the ring. Cena says he holds victories over HHH, Orton and JBL, so he also wants a title shot. GM Regal says Cena can be added to the match if he can beat JBL & Triple H in a 2-on-1 handicap match.


-Santino Marella & Carlito pick up a surprising win over the WWE Tag Team Champions, Hardcore Holly & Cody Rhodes in a non-title match. Damn, didn't they also lose last week?

-Cryme Tyme have a Wrestlemania clearance sale





-WWE Women's Champion, Beth Phoenix beats Maria in a non-title match.


-Chris Jericho's Highlight Reel segment takes place next and the guests will be Shawn Michaels and Batista. When the two come face to face, Batista once again whines about Michaels ending Ric Flair's career at Wrestlemania. Jericho plays the instigator. Eventually, Michaels punks out Batista and tells him if he really is mad about it, he needs to do something about it. Batista says he already did.

-GM Regal announces backstage that Batista will have a match with Shawn Michaels at Backlash.

-Randy Orton tells GM Regal that he needs to be treated with more respect. Regal gets mad, for some reason, and tells Orton that he will have a match with him next week. Ok.


-John Cena beats JBL & HHH and is added to the WWE title match at Backlash. So it's gonna be Randy Orton vs. JBL vs. Triple H vs. John Cena.


It's a week later and I still think the "Age of Orton" is a cool name.

Come on! Another multi-man WWE title match?

Umaga just killed Val Venis with his Samoan spike finisher. I've also been a fan of the whole unstable, unstoppable, wild monster gimmick and I think Umaga plays that role extremely well. Hopefully, he gets a bigger role soon.





It was good seeing Mickie James back on Raw. She's one of the better female wrestlers on the WWE roster but she's been kind of lost in the shuffle due to Bunnymania and Maria posing for Playboy.

I'm still bothered by how WWE really expects fans to forget that Brian Kendrick walked out on Paul London a few weeks back. Just who did Paul London piss off, because week after week, he just gets completely handled in the ring, then his partner looks like superman and picks up the win. Also, notice how Raw's ring announcer, Lillian Garcia, accidently announces Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch as the winners of the match.





The Batista/Shawn Michaels match will be interesting because Michaels is a great wrestler, Batista is so-so at best, so I guess their match would end up somewhere in between. Since Michaels made Ric Flair look good in their match, I'm expecting him to make Batista look like pure gold in their match.


4/8 ECW Results

(Pics from WWE.com)


~The show starts with CM Punk winning a really solid, back and forth match against WWE Tag Team Champion, The Miz.

-Colin Delaney, fresh off that April Fools joke last week, asks ECW General Manager, Armando Estrada for another chance to earn an ECW contract. Estrada says he'll get a contract if he can beat his friend, Tommy Dreamer, but if Dreamer loses, then Dreamer is fired.


-ECW Champion, Kane, and Chavo Guerrero have a contract signing for the ECW title match at Backlash. Chavo says at Backlash, he's gonna have someone watching his back.


-Out comes this dude in a suit and he starts beating on Kane. Chavo and the dude in the suit lay out Kane.


-Elijah Burke beats Nunzio.


-Kofi Kingston remains undefeated with a win over Domino.

-LAYLA EL makes an appearance and tells Eve Torres that if she sees her again, there are gonna be problems. That's right!


-Tommy Dreamer looks out for number one and keeps his job with a win over Colin Delaney. Delaney remains without an ECW contract.

WWE ran a commercial inviting Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton to have a wrestling match on Raw. Ha ha.





Kofi Kingston really isn't that bad and I find him to be solid in the ring, but he's just winning just to win and there seems to be no purpose. Hopefully he gets something significant to do soon.





Layla El sighting





It's ok Tommy Dreamer. If I were you, I also would have beat my friend senseless instead of losing my job.

The guy in the suit that attacked Kane is a guy named Justin LaRouche, he's supposedly been in the WWE developmental system for a while.

This is the first time I've ever heard of the guy.

Wednesday Wrestler Spotlight

~This week's Wednesday Wrestler Spotlight is on this guy:

TNA's Petey Williams

I'm gonna be honest. There's only one reason why I look forward to matches with Petey Williams in them and it's because of this:

And that reason is the Canadian Destroyer, the greatest wrestling move EVER~!



I never get tired of seeing it.


You know what? I think I might just fill my entire spotlight on Petey Williams with clips of the Canadian Destroyer.



That's not too bad of an idea, what else can I say about Petey Williams?


I know he's Canadian and he has a finishing move called the Canadian Destroyer.



The end.

3/31 WWE Raw Results

(pics from WWE.com)

~This episode of Raw is the first after Wrestlemania 24. I'm curious to see where WWE is going to go with some of the things set up from Wrestlemania, like Randy Orton retaining the WWE title, Ric Flair retiring and what's gonna happen to Big Show and Umaga after losing their matches to Floyd Mayweather and Batista, respectively.


-The show starts out with John Cena's music playing, but Cena doesn't come out. Then Triple H's music plays but after a while, you get the sense that he isn't coming out either. Finally, the music of the WWE Champion, Randy Orton, who survived a triple threat match against both HHH and Cena at WM24, plays and he comes out. Orton asks the crowd if they were "expecting someone else" [nice!]. He pretty much says he's the greatest champion ever and that everyone is witnessing the "Age of Orton".


-Then JBL, who defeated Finlay in a Belfast Brawl at Wrestlemania, comes down to the ring. JBL says that Orton's whole title reign has been built on luck. He goes on to say that Orton could never beat him, declares himself the new #1 contender to the WWE title and leaves the ring.


-Then Matt Hardy, who made his return at Wrestlemania during the Money in the Bank ladder match, comes into the ring from the crowd and attacks Orton. Hardy was put on the "injured list" a few months back after being attacked by Orton.

-Matt Hardy runs into Raw General Manager, William Regal, backstage and demands a match with Randy Orton. Regal says he'll think about it.


-CRYME TYME~! returns to Raw and pick up a win over Lance Cade & Trevor Murdoch


-Shawn Michaels, who ended Ric Flair's career at Wrestlemania, comes down to the ring and complains about "pulling the trigger" and being the one responsible for putting an end to the career of the Nature Boy.

-It's announced that Matt Hardy will face Randy Orton in a non-title match.

-Shawn Michaels is backstage and he runs into Batista, who saw Ric Flair as a mentor to him. Batista gives Michaels the evil eye.


-Brian Kendrick & Paul London (Huh? More on this near the end of my post) beat WWE World Tag Team Champions, Hardcore Holly & Cody Rhodes in a non-title match.


-WWE Intercontinental Champion, Chris Jericho, defeats CM Punk, who won the Money in the Bank Ladder match at Wrestlemania meaning he can get a WWE, World Heavyweight or ECW World Title Shot whenever he wants within the next year (although we all know no one would bother to waste that kind of opportunity on the ECW title). Boooooo, good match though.


-Big Show, fresh off getting knocked out by Floyd Mayweather at Wrestlemania, comes down to the ring. He starts talking but then The Great Khali comes down to the ring. It seems like they're about to fight but Khali punks out and leaves the ring.

-Santino Marella gets a slap from his ex-girlfriend, Maria, after making some sexist comments about the WWE's female wrestlers.


-WWE Champion, Randy Orton, beats Matt Hardy in a non-title match.


-Santino Marella gets beat down by all the female wrestlers in the WWE and as a result, ends up losing an inter-gender match to Maria.




-Ric Flair comes out and officially retires from professional wrestling. He then receives one of the greatest send-offs I, personally, have ever seen, to close out the show.


I think the "Age of Orton" is a cool name.

CRYME TYME CAME BACK!!! They were fired a while back and I was pretty bummed out about it because they were a really entertaining team plus the WWE tag team division is pretty non-existant. Maybe this means WWE is going to renew their focus on tag team wrestling, I doubt it but you never know.

Highlights of Ric Flair's career were shown throughout the night, which I thought were cool to watch.

WHAT?!? Didn't Brian Kendrick walk out on Paul London a few weeks back? Am I just supposed to forget that and pretend like it didn't happen? Well, I guess I'm just gonna have to because, thankfully, WWE seems to really want to re-establish their tag teams, once again I don't think anything will come of this but who knows. Kendrick and London are a good team though.

Hardcore Holly put down a huge whuppin' on Paul London in their match. London seems to be getting a lot of that lately.

It was a little disappointing to see CM Punk lose to Chris Jericho. Not because it's Chris Jericho, but because as "Mr. Money in th Bank", it shows that WWE wants to make Punk their next big star and I feel a lost puts all that on the wrong foot. However, you can't win them all and WWE has up to a year to build Punk into a legit WWE or World Heavyweight Title contender whenever he cashes in the "Money in the Bank".

A Big Show/Khali feud? Spare me now. The crowd dumped all over this segment but the "Show is gonna kill you" chants toward Khali were funny.

I'm not sure if I'm going to be all into a possible Randy Orton/JBL feud either.

Santino Marella was comedic gold again. However, I personally don't agree with his comments on the WWE Divas because they're not all terrible in the ring. Unfortunately, Santino's "views" are echoed by a lot of WWE fans.

That beatdown he got later was...interesting.

I think Matt Hardy and Randy Orton had, what I thought was, the match of the night. But, I hope Hardy will now go back to Smackdown and go back to feuding with WWE United States Champion, MVP, which was what he was doing before he got injured. By the way, I really dug the finish to that match.

I hope Flair meant it when he said he is never going to wrestle again, it would be a shame for him to tarnish such a great farewell by coming back two, three or eight more times. That entire moment was just...wow...my words just can't do it justice.


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