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That match is completely unfair to criticize because Sabu was working with an incredibly messed up arm. He shouldn't have even been wrestling most likely.

More detailed spoilers from Meltzer: Dark Match; Sylverster Turkay d. Scotty 2 Hotty with some awful looking front chokeslam. Scotty was mad over. Velocity 1) Tatanka d. John Williams with a spinning side slam. Ohhhh boy T-T-T-T-T-Tatanka was ovvvvvver. He's new music is god-awful, that and the fact that he can't do the war dance anymore really hurt my markout experience. 2) Gunner Scott d. Simon Dean with a overhead belly to belly. Don't quite know what to make of Gunner they kind of need to give him some sort of personality because everyone was like 'hmmmm' 3) Mexicools d. London/Kendrick (non-title) when Psicosis rolled up Kendrick, grabbed the tights and held the rope. Super Crazy is a great performer he kept the crowd into it and turned the 50/50 toward the Mexicools. It was all handshakes. Crazy and Kendrick had a great opening but the match kind of went south when London and Psicosis got in. 4) Gregory Helms d. Some jobber with a red mohawk and his last name was star. Baaaaaaad match. Then Tony Chimel tells us the MIZZZZZZZ is our new host of SmackDown, basically he just introduces main events and stuff. I guess. He announced that Kurt Angle would be facing Rey Mysterio in his 'farewell match', that Lashley would face King Booker in a non title match and Piper's Pit with Khali SMACKDOWN SMACKDOWN SMACKDOWN Pyro, no ramp, Paul Heyman guest announces the first match... 1) Kurt Angle d. Rey Mysterio by countout in about 18 minutes. Angle got a huge pop coming out with mad 'YOU SUCK' treatment. Rey was mad over too. The match was pretty good, I can't give out star ratings but both were over. Angle played the heel and the crowd agreed. There was a great sequence toward the end where Rey went for the 619 but Angle caught him, dragged him to the middle of the ring to lock in the Ankle Lock but Rey rolled through and rolled him up. Angle kicked out at 2 but the crowd thought it was for sure over. Me included. Angle then hit Rey with a overhead belly to belly from the ring to the floor and Rey didn't make the count. Ew finish. They shook hands. BATISTA IS COMING BACK.....in 38 days Backstage segment with Nunzio, his match with Matt Hardy is next. But he can't find Vito. OH NO! He wonders if the rumors have gotten to his head because he needs him in his corner for his big match. 2) Matt Hardy d. Nunzio via Twist of Fate. Pretty good ovation for Hardy but the crowd just kind of sat on this match. Seemed to be burned out. Matt f'd up pretty bad, he went to do is second rope YELLLLLL but he fell backwards and tried to catch himself but just kinda fell to the apron. It will be edited but it was weird. Hardy wins, then VITO comes out in a black dress and massages Nunzio's back. Nunzio turns around and FREAKS the F OUT. Vito walked pretty good in heels. What is Vince McMahon's fetish with having dudes in drag in Portland. Unforgiven 04 it was Stevie Richards now this. Dang. Next was Piper's Pit. Piper got a great ovation and the crowd was alllllllllll over everything he said. Khali is a BIG MOTHER. I was like damn. Piper tried to tell him that the Undertaker was tough, Khali got mad went to choke him, Daivari stopped him, he got slapped and then Khali hit THE CHOP OF DOOM on Piper. For the second straight year the RAW DIVA SEARCH winner goes to SMACKDOWN. Yep Ashley's on SmackDown. That led to 3) Jillian Hall (whose fake pecs are MASSIVE) d. Kristal Marshall in a nice little match. For them. Jillian blocked Kristal's victory roll attempt for the win. And then Torrie Wilson's old "You're Not Enough For Me" theme hit and everyone popped cause they thought it was her. Not. It was Michelle McCool doing her best Miss Hancock impression. She said everything is going to get HOTTER. Hmmm SOMEBODY GON' GET THEY ASS KICKED. Mizzzzark Henry came out and I stood up and cheered. My section was not happy. 4) Henry destroyed Paul Burchill, pinned him after two World's Strongest Slams. And then gave him the Benoit Beatdown. Guess Burchill finally is getting that surgery. 5) Finlay beat a jobber named Caden Matthews pretty easily. It made his friends mad. Then he got the MIDGET which got a POP and was actually pretty funny. He used him as a weapon yadda yadda yadda. But the best part was after the beatdown...he PUT HIM BACK UNDER THE RING! They did the "show the arena get everyone to yell" but it was interrupted by an ECW One Night Stand thing. Thennnn a graphic showed that at ONS it will be Rey vs. Sabu for the World Heavyweight Championship. That was followed by a Sabu video. And then...King Booker. William Regal, bless his heart came out and said "All Hail King Booker". Then King Booker came out (minus old music, insert royal music, minus King Mable remix) and was so in the role it was great. The whole entrance Regal was saying "All Hail King Booker". Booker than sat on this throne and gave a little speech. Afterwards Regal continued with "All Hail King Booker" before Lashley came out to a great pop. He's gonna be huge. 6) Lashley d. Booker T with a running powerslam. Not very long match, even for the most part. Booker went for the side kick, Lashley caught him, put him up for the powerslam and hit it. Lashley was getting up when Regal came from behind and attacked him. Booker was cheering when all of a sudden Lashley started to come back. Enter Finlay. The three beat Lashley down (a good one where Lashley kept trying to fight back) and then Booker demanded they put the throne in the ring. He sat on the throne and told Finlay and Regal to make Lashley bow to him (of course unconscious). He did. Then Booker told them to "make that sucka kiss my foot". He did. Finally the music hits and Finlay and Regal leave. Booker is in the ring doing these kinda fruity twirls and Queen Sharmell is going "All Hail King Booker" non stop. Half way to the back, Regal comes BACK out and takes over. His mannerisms were classic. And Booker and Sharmell went through the curtain but Regal stayed and continued with the All Hail King Booker. Then he left. And did it one more time. It was great. Then people starting leaving, I wanted to tell them not to go but hey that's their perogative. Theodore Long came out to a big pop and was 'thuggin and buggin' in the ring before he grabbed the mic and announced the main event. A handicap match. Hmmmm went the crowd. First was Mizzzark. He was followed by the Great Khali. I thought to myself "wow they are gonna kill Rey." Thankfully it was the Undertaker Dark Main Event Undertaker d. Mark Henry/Great Khali when Khali got caught in the ropes and Taker chokeslammed Henry. The funniest part was the interaction between Henry and Khali. Henry wanted in first but Khali was like 'NUH UH" and just did his chop motion. Ref bump, Daivari goes to interfere, Piper stops him. Then the finish. All in all pretty entertaining.

PWInsider has reported that Rey Mysterio vs. Sabu for the World Heavyweight Championship was announced for One Night Stand at the Smackdown tapings. According to PWI, this will be the first time these two have ever wrestled each other.

We went through this song and dance when I posted the WON. a) The entire newsletter wasn't posted. Just the WWE sections. b) It's not like this is Meltzer's copyrighted intellectual property. All his newsletter contains is stuff he's put together from people he knows.

The DVD extras seem more focused on the HBK/HHH era of DX, so I doubt anything after WM14 will make it.

Starting on June 11, 2006 with ECW One Night Stand, WWE pay-per-views will see a price bump from $34.95 to $39.95. With the current 60/40 split, that would mean WWE would get another two dollars per PPV. They were making $14 a show and that number will jump to $16 under the new pricing. So, a Wrestlemania that does 930,000 buys will clear them an extra $1.8 million dollars. 250,000 buys under the old pricing generated $3.5 million. Now, WWE will make that on 218,750 buys so even if they lose some customers, they probably won't lose any revenue and if customers stay even, they make more money.

These are the bonus matches on the DVD from Meltzer: Monday Night Raw -- 8/11/1997 Shawn Michaels vs. Mankind (Rick Rude's return) Monday Night Raw -- 8/18/1997 Shawn Michaels & Triple H vs. The Undertaker & Mankind (HBK & HHH's first televised tag match) Monday Night Raw -- 10/6/1997 Triple H vs. Bret Hart (HBK picks his nose with the Canadian flag) Monday Night Raw -- 12/22/1997 Shawn Michaels vs. Triple H for the European Championship (HBK lays down for HHH) Royal Rumble 1998 -- 1/18/1998 Shawn Michaels vs. The Undertaker in a Casket Match for the WWE Championship (match that put HBK out of action for over 4 years; shown without Kane burning the casket) No Way Out 1998 -- 2/15/1998 Triple H, The New Age Outlaws, & Savio Vega vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin, Owen Hart, Cactus Jack, & Chainsaw Charlie (HBK announced on the PPV preshow as not able to compete, Savio takes his place; Austin stuns Chyna for the first time) Monday Night Raw -- 3/17/1998 Triple H vs. Owen Hart for the European Championship (HHH challenges Owen for the title 2 weeks before their WrestleMania 14 match and wins the title)

Tacoma crowds have never been the same since the Booker T vs. Buff Bagwell disaster.

The hair they used for fake Kane's mask looks like the hair Psicosis used on his masks. They should have at least wet it down. And I thought it was funny they used Kane's old ass titantron video, looping a red cloud pattern with shitty lightning overlays.

The fake Kane was Freakin Deacon of Deep South Wrestling.

I remember Meltzer saying back in fall 2004 when WWE unloaded a bunch of the female wrestlers so they could hire the DivaSearch losers that Victoria was next on the chopping block. I guess they changed their mind on that.

In the build to last year's One Night Stand, they showed Angle in ECW 1996.

Awesome. Did you find one of those OCR programs like I used when I did the WON posts or did you type all that out?

I'd be down for Rey vs. Dean at One Night Stand, as long as Rey remembers not to bring WWE Rey to an ECW show like he stupidly did last year.

That's pretty awesome though that OJ's friend that they signed for the angle got paid by WWE since January for doing absolutely nothing.

I've always thought they should release the Raw and Smackdown tribute shows on DVD, with ALL proceeds going to Vickie Guerrero and the kids.

I have to say, it was pretty revolutionary seeing unblurred tits and the word "fuck" in a WWF home video in 1998.

I bet smarks would have cum in their pants if Samoa Joe squashed Ric Flair at Backlash in 4 minutes.

Homecoming is being released as its own DVD.

It's feasible that they can get Rhino, since Rhino only signed a 1-year deal with TNA that expires in June '06. However, the Dudleys and Spike Dudley are locked up long-term in TNA.

It's feasible that they can get Rhino, since Rhino only signed a 1-year deal with TNA that expires in June '06. However, the Dudleys and Spike Dudley are locked up long-term in TNA.

The promo was pulled once PWInsider reported on it. PWI always spoils the fun.

No offense, but that's ridiculous. Kenny would look as out of place as a member of DX next to HBK & HHH as Jim Neidhart did.

I'd rather see Princess Leena's goodies. There, I said it.

Why would Batista injure himself.