WWE Backlash Results

~Last night, WWE's April PPV event, Backlash, took place in Baltimore, Maryland. Here's what went down.

-The show starts off on the right foot with Mick Foley being announced as the new Smackdown color commentator. He replaces Jonathan Coachman. Woo-hoo.




-Matt Hardy defeats MVP to become the new WWE United States Champion.


-Kane leaves Chavo Guerrero for dead and retains the ECW Championship.

-WWE Champion, Randy Orton, reminds everyone that they are living in the "Age of Orton" and that the WWE Title is going to stay with him after Backlash.


-Big Show beats The Great Khali.


-Shawn Michaels fakes a knee injury during his match with Batista. Then, Batista gets suckered into Sweet Chin Music and loses the match to Michaels.


-Beth Phoenix pins Ashley to get the win for her team in the 12-Diva tag match.



-The Undertaker kills Edge to retain the World Heavyweight Title.


-Triple H is the last man standing and beats JBL, John Cena and Randy Orton to become the new WWE champion.


-Randy Orton is put on suicide watch.


Foley was AWESOME on commentary! No dead air. No awkward pauses. Insightful analysis. Mick Foley, where have you been these last few months for Smackdown?

Speaking of commentary, Mike Adamle wasn't bad tonight. However, he did mess up the name of the referee in the only match he called that night (Kane vs. Chavo), which I thought was kind of funny.




I really liked the finish to the Matt Hardy/MVP match. It really was a solid opener and a big win for Hardy.


The finish to the Michaels/Batista match was pretty sweet as well. Michaels is such a good seller, I can never tell when he's really hurt and when he isn't. Batista = Silly Rabbit.

My girl, Layla El, was looking good, as usual, in the 12 Diva tag match.


They are selling the new gogoplata finisher The Undertaker does as certain death for anyone who happens to get caught in it. I prefer 'Taker's old finisher, the Tombstone Piledriver, but I can respect the fact that Undertaker wants to upgrade his moveset every once in a while.

Ha ha ha. Khali chop?


Overall, I thought Backlash was a solid show. I enjoyed all the matches, some way more than others, but I enjoyed all the matches. Plus, the addition of Mick Foley to the Smackdown commentary team was great. My only beef was the fact that loads of people were cut from the show like CM Punk (minus a three second cameo), Shelton Benjamin, John Morrison & The Miz, Santino Marella, Umaga, Finlay, Carlito, Festus, Jonathan Coachman (just kidding with that one) and that's all I can think of at the moment, but that was my only minor problem with the show.

Weekend Update

4/25 Smackdown Results

(Pics from WWE.com)

~Last week on Smackdown, The Undertaker and Batista fought to a no-contest, Big Show got laid out by The Great Khali, Cherry upset Victoria and MVP beat Tommy Dreamer. This week's episode is headlined by The Undertaker vs. Batista rematch for the World Heavyweight Title.


-The show starts with "La Familia" (Edge, Chavo Guerrero, Smackdown General Manager, Vickie Guerrero, Bam Neely, Zach Ryder, Curt Hawkins and Teddy Long). Edge says he'll be the new World Heavyweight Champion after he wins his match at Backlash and he says Chavo Guerrero will beat Kane to be the new ECW Champion.


-Randomly, CM Punk comes out and reminds everyone that he holds the Money in the Bank briefcase, meaning he can receive a world title shot whenever he wants within the next year. GM Guerrero announces that it'll be Edge vs. CM Punk later that night.


-Shannon Moore picks up a win over The Miz.


-Natalya runs through Cherry.


-Matt Hardy and WWE US Champion, MVP, have a confrontation before their match at Backlash. Hardy says he's gonna win the belt and MVP doesn't like that.


-So, MVP hits Hardy in the face with the belt. Take That!


-Edge defeats CM Punk.


-Vladimir Kozlov beats on some chump.


-Shawn Michaels, who has a match against Batista at Backlash, interferes in his match against The Undertaker.


-This leads to The Undertaker winning the match and retaining the World Heavyweight Title.


John Morrison was on commentary during the Miz/Shannon Moore match and he had some pretty funny lines. They should replace Coach and put Morrison in instead.

Cherry still has horrible theme music.


Speaking of Cherry, she got completely handled by Natalya this week. In my opinion, Natalya had a solid in-ring debut and I'm excited to see more matches featuring her.

Although the Big Show/Great Khali match at Backlash will probably be pure garbage, there was a pretty good highlight video of the Show/Khali feud shown. I think this is going to be way better than the actual match.

That was a solid segment with MVP and Matt Hardy! I know Hardy's gonna take that title though.

Vladimir Kozlov is the man!.


The last 5 minutes of the Edge/CM Punk match was just awesome. The crowd was so into it. I think it was the match of the night.

WWE Backlash Preview

~WWE's latest PPV event, Backlash, is gonna take place later tonight. Here's the announced card:

WWE Title Fatal Four Way Match
Randy Orton (champion) vs. Triple H vs. John Cena vs. JBL


World Heavyweight Championship Match
The Undertaker (champion) vs. Edge


ECW Championship Match
Kane (champion) vs. Chavo Guerrero

Batista vs. Shawn Michaels
Special Guest Referee: Chris Jericho


Big Show vs. The Great Khali

WWE United States Championship Match
MVP (champion) vs. Matt Hardy

12-Diva Tag Team Match
WWE Women's Champion Mickie James, Maria, Ashley, Michelle McCool, Cherry & Kelly Kelly vs. Beth Phoenix, Melina, Jillian, Layla, Victoria & Natalya

Right off the bat, I'm looking forward to the Michaels/Batista match because Shawn Michaels can make anyone look good in a match and because I wanna see what Chris Jericho is going to do.

Of all the title matches going on, the only title switch I see is in the US Title match between MVP and Matt Hardy. I don't think MVP really even needs the belt anymore, because I think he's still a strong performer and has enough credibility without the gold around his waist. At this point, I think Hardy needs it more, especially since he is just coming back from an injury.

I'm interested to see how Randy Orton retains the WWE title this time. I know that it's possible that he could lose, but I'm digging the "Age of Orton" and I think he'll get a decent run with the title, maybe at least until August.

I'm also interested to see just how bad Big Show vs. Great Khali is going to be.

More Screwups with Mike Adamle

~Once again I would like to point out that I am optimistic about Mike Adamle improving as a play-by-play "analyst" on ECW, but these videos highlighting all his mistakes are just too funny to me. Here's all his screwups from the latest episode of ECW.