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Spike isn't Spike TV, they're the Japanese development house that makes the Fire Pro Wrestling and King of Colosseum games (amongst others) which are excellent. I'd love to see them use the KOC engine and put out a game. They'd probably need EA or someone to distribute it in the states though.

I wish they'd fully unleash Doug Basham, but at least they're letting him show some personality. Maybe he'll get to work in some of his other moves if he gets a decent push. I suspect Damaja will get entirely new, generic crappy music if he ever shows up again. Given that he's basically a white trash toned down New Jack, he may just get released.

Sydal's an IWA-MS guy for one. I believe the reason he hasn't been brought in full-time is he's still in college and just works limited indy dates.

Kennedy has a lot more going for him than the announce gimmick, so don't worry. he can cut a killer promo or be very funny. He'll do fine. Not a great wrestler but he's solid enough and has a flashy move or three he can bust out.

8/20 Last Week on OVW, Cappotellit got owned, Dean Hill was even bloodier up. Matt gets an IV. LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOOOOR. This is the whole dang song now. Tonight Ken Doane v.s. Nick Nemth. Update from Matt on his injury. Jeter is out for a promo. Jeter says the attention is still on Matt. He's a cripple. Snow is j ust glaring at him in the background. Jeter says Matt will never wrestle again. When he doesn't hear about Matt, he's hearing about Albright. This is drawing huge heat. Jeter says there will be no rematch... Here comes Brent Albright, and he is PISSED. Staredown. The only reason you're standing out here in one piece is because I'd never get a title shot. Albright says Jeter isn't a real man. Jeter slaps Albright, and we have a big brawl. Jeter taunts Albright on the mic. Elijah Burke starts yelling at Jeter and grabs the mic. Burke says last week it was bull. You've crossed the line, you've broken the code you stupid bastard. I believe in the good book. I believe in loving thy neighbor. Jeter, what you did, I dod not forgive. I hate your guts. Burke sayus I'jm gonna take your OVW title. Jeter looks scared. Burke is really fired up. , this is some of the vest TV ever. We get a recap of the last segment and some sepia highlights of Jeter's wrath. Here comes Aaron Stevens (w/ Phoenix and Shelly). Aaron Stevens (w/ Phoenix & Shelly) v.s. “The Giantkiller” Mike Mondo (w/ Da Beast) Mondo says Beast is a legendary lover and it's not fair that Stevens has two women. OMG! Mondo has a foot fetish too like his “baby brother” Snitsky. Mondo does a lot of sex talk and gets decked. I smell a squash. No PBP cause I'm lazy. Mondo makes humping motions on the mat in front of the girls in a funny moment. This is a solid, unspectactular match so far. Shelly distracts Mondo with a kiss. Idolizer swinging neckbreaker gets 3. Your Winner: Aaron “The Idol” Stevens. Mondo throws a fit in the ring. Backstage Maria is with Nick Nemeth. Nemeth says this is the biggest night of his life. He finally gets his hand on Ken Donne. Nick says he's the one who caused the disension between Lasheley and Donne. We get highlights from last week in black and white, as usual in Heyman OVW, as Nemeth talks about what happened last week. Backstage, it's Ken Anderson. Welcome to Mr. Anderson's neighborhood. He says Puder will stomp the living daylights out of his opponent. He carries on a conversation with himself. He does his introduction of Puder from backstage! And here comes Puder! Dan Puder v.s. Robert Fury \ Fury tries to come with strikes, but they're dodged. Takedown by Puder into a waistlock, Puder passes guard and punches him like crazy. Ref stands them up, Puder takes him down into a keylock, Fury taps out. Your Winner Dan Puder! We cut backstage to Anderson, where he's excited that Puder did it all by himself. Anderson announces Puder the winner. Here comes Ken Donne with all of Bolin Services (sans Mondo and Da Beast). I'm too lazy to write out all their names. Maria says we'll have an update on Elijah Burke shortly. Maria grabs Chris Kay. Kay says Burke is going to the hospital with a concussion. Maria grabs Eric Langeley. Langeley says Jeter's actions have been ridiclous. OVW TV Champion Ken Donne (w/ Bolin Services) v.s. Nick Nemeth Donne holds the TV title trophy in the corner. Kinda dull match with two green guys, but not that bad. RKO by Donne after several minutes gets 2.999. Abrupt cut to an OVW TV taping commerical with CORNETTE's voice and we take a break. Donne chokes Nemeth with both sets of wrist tape. Headlock. Crappy dropkick by Nemeth. Rocker Dropper gets 2. Big spinebuster by Donne. Okay, this is getting slightly better. Stunner by Nemeth. 2.9. Dean calls it a “RKO”. Donne with the STYLES CLASH!! 2.99! Donne throws a fit. Donne and Lasheley arguing. Implant DDT by Nemeth! 2.999!!! Holy crap, Donne sold that like a billion dollars. The Bolin Services head of security (Dean Vis??) pushes Nemeth off the top rope. Chris Cage runs down to take him out but Bobby Lasheley owns him with a clothesline. Nemeth tries to plancha onto Lasheley but he gets caught and tossed into the ring post for his troubles. Donne gets a 3 count. Your Winner: Ken Donne Lasheley has saved Donne's TV title again. Staredown. We're on the phone with Matt Cappotelli. He says he's in the hospital. He says his game is to stay positive. Matt says there's no place he'd rather be than the Davis Arena. All I can think about is what happened last week. Matt says Jeter didn't think twice about laying out his partner for the past 10 months. Matt says he will be back and he will find Jeter, I swear to god. Jeter comes out and rips the phone off the announce desk! Jeter says Matt Cappotelli is a cripple thanks to me. Cripple... champion. Hill says fuck you which gets bleeped out. He yells asshole like crazy. He says he's sick of Jeter's shit. He's spent 25 years on the police department taking care of assholes like you. Hill stands up and of course he's like a foot taller than Jeter since he's probably a legit 6'6” or so. We don't need this shit around here. He says fuck you and walks off and gives Jeter the finger. Jeter takes out a cameraman and starts stomping the hell out of him. Snow crosses his arms and gets ready to take Jeter out. Albright is trying to come out and the whole locker room is holding him back. Big brawl. Jeter hits Albright with a chair while the guys are holding him back!! The whole face locker room comes out and they're PISSED. They surround the ring! Danny Davis hits the ring and tells everyone to go to the back. He's reaming the shit out of him and slapping him like crazy, stiff as hell. He punches him several times after he says he's going to “beat your ass”. Crowd is going crazy as hell. Jeter hits HIM with the title belt. He starts whipping him with the belt. Davis's wife, I think come out and starts screaming and crying. And we're off the air... --- 8/27 We take you to highlights of Jeter's havoc from last week. Al Snow starts the show by himself. Al Snow introduces Dean Hill. “DEAN” chants. Dean appreciates the letters and e-mails he's received. Hill says he isn't sorry for what he said to Johnny Jeter. Dean felt he crossed the line and let everyone down though since it wasn't something his granddaughter should watch. Dean said he met with Danny Davis before the show and tendered his resignation (“NOOOOOO” from the crowd) and this will be his last show. Here comes Dan Puder with Ken Kennedy and TEAM PUDER (~!). Nice, he has a couple jobbers with him acting like UFC lackeys. Kennedy has out faking crying in a real high-pitched voice. This is hilarious. He says he killed me last week and makes fun of Hill screaming “A-HOOOOLE, I'VE GOT KIDS I'VE GOT 27 THOUSAND YEARS IN THIS BUSINESS 97 ON THE POLICE FORCE, A CURLY MUSTACHE FU, and then he stabs himself in the heart and passes out on the announce desk!!!”. Kennedy says he's all blown up now. On a more serious note, he just came back from a tour of WWE Smackdown. He was hanging out with his boy Vince, or Vinnie. He does a Vince impression, he says “Anderson, that's like an ancent name, you need something new and modren”. He says he chose Vince's middle name in his honor and he is now MISTER KENNEEEEEDY! He introduces Charles (from “Somewhere in South Carolina” which makes the jobber pissed). Dan Puder (w/ Ken Kennedy and TEAM PUDER) v.s. Charles Evans Puder ducks Charles' shots and punches and kicks him, armbar to the keylock, tap out. That was fast. Your Winner: Dan Puder. Kennedy starts to announce Puder the winner, but Danny Davis from the OMNIPRESENT AND OMNIPOWERFUL CONTROL ROOM says everyone in the ring needs to stay out and everyone in the back needs to go out to the ring because we're going to have a TEAM MEETING. LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR (recut again!) Kennedy says he assumes this meeting is about Jeter. Kennedy says he doesn't even know the guy, and he'd like to skip out of the meeting. Davis says Mr. Puder and Mr. Kennedy may leave. Kennedy says it looks like a political thing and he knows Kennedys don't get involved in politics. Hill is getting teary eyed. Davis says Dean has been his friend for 20 years and has worked for OVW since 1994. It pains me to have to accept Dean Hill's resignation. Davis says if you quit, I quit. Davis says he will not accept Dean's resignation and everyone in this building will not accept this resignation. “Hell NO” chant from the crowd. Hill and Davis shake hands. Davis says he, and fat-old greyhaired bastard crossed the line last week, and he's man enough to admit Jeter whipped his ass last week. Davis says he know Jeter is shaking in his boots since he's afraid of Jeter firing. Davis says he thought about firing him but then OVW wouldn't have a champion. Davis says he's going to make Jeter's life a living NIGHTMARE. The winner of the upcoming Battle Royal will face Johnny Jeter, tonight for the OVW title!! That battle royale starts... RIGHT NOW!! Lasheley is reluctant to get in the ring. Lasheley is out of the battle royal. Albright is in the center of the ring calling out everyone. Crowbar on Tank Toland, ankle lock on Chad Toland, crowbar on the Beast! Everyone tapping out. Everyone gains up on Albright and throws him out of the ring! Burchill is in the battle royal! Aaron Stevens gets tossed. Robert Fury is out. Stevens' girls attack Robert Fury, who throw Stevens out. Beast and Donne make an alliance in the middle of the ring. Big press slam by Da Beast, throwing Donne over the top... but Lasheley catches him!! He's not yet eliminated, but Lasheley puts him down outside the ring and eliminates him! Donne is PISSED. Cliff Thompson is out. Ring has thinned out a lot over the break. Tolands take out Russell Simpson. Toland eliminate Danny Inferno. Robbie Dauber is out. Chris Cage superkicks Nemeth who is now eliminated. The Tolands toss Chris Cage. The Tolands, Deuce Shade, Elijah Burke, and Da Beast are the only 5 left. Da Beast takes out Shade/Burke. The Tolands talk Beast into making an alliance with them. Beast tries to toss out Elijah Burke, but Deuce Shade saves him. Double clothesline by Shade/Burke eliminates the Beast! Shade gets thrown out by the Tolands, but he hangs on. Shade gets knocked into the ringpost but he barely hangs on by the bottom rope. The Tolands doubleteam Burke. About 40 elbow drops in a row. They try to throw Burke over the tope but he blocks it. Burke goes for a double clothesline but misses and he almost goes over the top. He backdrops both Tolands over the top rope!! But they hold on. Burke gets double hiptossed over the top. Tank turns on Chad Toland as they think they're the only two left, but Deuce Shade throws both of them out!! Your Winner: Deuce Shade We are backstage with Maria. Jeter is backstage talking with Kennedy and Puder!! Kennedy says we hang out, drink beers and smoke cigars. Kennedy says he and “Mimi” need to get together and have a little interpromotional action. Kennedy goes crazy promoting Jeter. He says he made Elijah Burke forget about Jesus and a bunch of funny stuff. Jeter says he deserves an introduction like that. There's nothing I can't do and no one I can't go through. I made Dean Hill quit, make Matt a cripple. This place in a uproar because of me. There's someone yelling backstage loudly. Dean “The Cooler” Visk? is going crazy need to Donne in the locker room next door. Deano says Donne was robbed. I know why you didn't win. Mondo says I am so angry. Bobby says “don't you ever stop screaming” in his Michael Jackson voice and he says Deano won't debut this week after Lasheley demands his match. Donne says he doesn't have a problem with it. Lasheley says he's going to do this one by himself to a pop. Osama v.s. Bobby Lasheley Lasheley takes off his street clothes. Lasheley is beyond pissed. Kick to the gut, shoulders to the gut, zzzz. Clothesline and Lasheley is breathing hard already. Suplex, rollthrough, gutwrench into a Dominator!! 1-2-3!! Winner: Bobby Lasheley Another phone update from Matt Cappotelli. He says the stitches are out. Six and a half weeks before Matt is back! Jeter is out now and says Matt could ride the short bus with those 3 tards in the audience. Matt says he's coming back for you, you prick.. YOU SUCK!! (You suck chants from the crowd). Dean refuses to introduce Johnny Jeter since he's a disgrace to the company. Snow refuses, and finally introduces him. OVW Heavyweight Champion Johnny Jeter v.s. Deuce Shade Decent action to start, with Shade blowing a couple spots. Jeter takes a powder but Elijah Burke stops him at the doorway and gets him back to the ring. Snow is just terrible on commentary. Solid match, nothing real special. Probably goes about 10 min or so. Average OVW main event. Jeter has a chair. Shade ducks. Deuces' Wild. Jeter's foot on the ropes. The ref gets a break between Shade and Jeter, while frees Jeter for a Superkick! 1-2-3! Your Winner: Johnny Jeter Jeter takes the mic and says I don't suck. Matt Capotelli is apparently on the phone again. Jeter says just tell me where you are and I'll drive there and kick your ass. Matt says... you don't have very far to go because I'm out in the parking lot! Jeter runs off to the parking lot where Matt is standing on top of a car pointing his crutch at Jeter. A big crowd of wrestlers come out around them. Elijah Burke takes a shot at Jeter and all hell breaks loose. Cappotelli does a fucking plancha off the top of the car with his leg in a cast onto Jeter!!! He and Jeter brawl a bit before the wrestlers get between him. Cappotelli yells in the camera that Jeter is a dead man. Just when you think Heyman couldn't come up with a cliffhanger as good as last week... wow. This show is absolutely on fire angle-wise.

The standing SSP is used by Johnny Nitro, so even if Vince lets them use the SSP variant on the ground (the top rope one is banned after Juvy's screwups), Burchill won't get to use it. Most guys shouldn't have a problem taking the C4... it's just a basic flip ---> back bump that everyone learns for their part of it.

Kennedy (aka Ken Anderson) has been Paul Heyman's pet project in OVW since he took over, which should explain a lot. He also uses the Swanton Bomb as a finisher.

She'd be good with CM Punk once he comes in (if you don't want to use Alexis Laree for whatever reason), or as Matt Hardy's new whore to get back at Lita. I think she will learn how to be a decent worker in time, her family is all in the business.

It was causing heat in the locker room, more or less, and HHH didn't like it so he squashed it.

Orton could cut a promo and could always wrestle a bit. Jordan can do neither. I've never seen anything in him.

Some kids being in the crowd is a very good thing. That means the business isn't going to die out. Those kids marking for Cena now hopefully will become the smarks of tommorrow. If Vince starts exclusively catering to kids (which he won't do) or the arenas get overran with them, then it'll be a problem.

Your OVW TV Report for 8/13/05! We start with footage from last week, which is in black and white so we know it's from last week. I like how when Heyman uses cinematic and movie-style techniques wrestlers call him a “genius” but when Russo did the same thing he's just a virgin video store owner. Actually there's a little bar at the bottom of the screen that says “LAST WEEK ON OVW” which looks all EXTREME and not goofy like Cornette's video graphics. Anyway, Albright has the Crowbar on Jeter! Dan Puder and Ken Anderson yank the ref out of the ring! Jeter taps like crazy! No ref! (cut). Jeter hits Albright with the superkick... 1-2-3! We have a new OVW Heavyweight Champion Johnny Jeter! Snow calls it a huge upset. We cut to Johnny Jeter and the injured Matt Cappotelli on crutches outside the ring. Matt is super excited. “I told you I can do it!” “You did it baby!” “This is the greatest moment of my life... you know what... I don't think I need you anymore”. Oh my god, Jeter clocks him with the Heavyweight belt! Crowd is in complete shock. We cut to Jeter yelling in the camera that he's Johnny Jeter, OVW Heavyweight Champion, for LYFE! LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR! Heyman has recut this in a really lazy, crappy way with a lot of scenes not fitting the music. Old scenes of Cornette decking Mark Magnus and even Chris Kanyon (!) survive the cut. There's even part of MNM's titantron for no reason. The end with Daniel Puder punching out some jobber looks real cool though. Please recut this. Our Hosts are Dean Hill and the “Living Legend” Al Snow, which gets a chuckle from Al. Loud O-V-DUB chants. Double Main Events tonight, Bolin Services, Ken Doane and Bobby Lasheley versus Nick Nemeth and Chris Cage. We also get Brent Albright v.s. Johnny Jeter in a rematch from last week. Anyway, there's black and white letterboxed footage of the particpants as Hill and Snow talk about them from behind the desk, which is pretty neat. I think some of it is actually from later in the show, which shows Heyman's been watching Kill Bill too much. Aaron “The Idol” Stevens (w/ Beth Phoenix & Shelly) v.s. Robbie Dauber In the neverending quest to top MNM's entrance, the two women arch their backs over the middle rope as they get in the ring into a bridge and then unbridge and hop over the middle rope. They then rip Steven's shirt (which looks like one of Christian or Gangrel's old ones off. Stevens does the Dreamer “I'll take em both, I'm HARDCORE” pose. Snow and Dean Hill have Lawlergasms over the girls of course. Let us cut backstage to Maria who reminds us that she's Maria. She's backstage with Brent Albright who isn't answering Maria since he's just staring, back facing the camera at a door. Brent says Jeter is going to walk through the door tonight and he'll be waiting. He says he'll have a conservation with Jeter, when he gets done talking, he's going to hunt down Dan Puder and Ken Anderson, and then he's going to talk with them. He's not going to talk with his mouth, he's going to let his hands do the talking (cut Benoit in ECW hand rubbing from Albright). Back in the ring, the bell rings and Stevens rams his shoulder into Dauber in the corner. Again. Punch, forearm to the back. Elbow on the apron. Snow says the girls get turned on when Stevens beats up Dauber. Shelly beats on Dauber while the ref is distracted, whip, clothesline, kneelift into the corner. Snow calls these “running Japanese ___”. Dauber gets beat up, but comes back with punch punch kick. Dropkick by Stevens catches him. Reverse swinging neckbreaker! 1-2-3. Your Winner: Aaron “The Idol” Stevens. It's orgy time in the ring! Shelly forearms Dauber on the mat for kicks. OVW in Shelbyville KY... it won't be EXTREEEEME! OVW at the Derby Park Expo 5. Steal Summerslam with OVW, ya bum~! Ken Anderson and Dan Puder are out. They both have their luggage. Anderson says you know everyone wanted to see us tonight. Anderson says it's with a heavy heart that I announce to you, the people of OVW.... that Daniel Puder and I will be leaving the building (says the last part really fast and tries to run off). Snow asks him what he's doing. Anderson says “Allen”, I do not feel like I am in a safe working environment. Puder says we're not leaving. Anderson says we are leaving. Anderson says he's out of his mind... HELLOOOOOO. Anderson says Albright is all crazy and looks like a rabid dog. Anderson says everyone in the crowd ought to follow him out the door because Albright is liable to snap and lock the crowbar on a fan. They start to leave and then Anderson runs back and says “Enjoy the veal, have fun, and when you go home, buckle up, remember, click it or ticket!” Anderson is GOLD on the mic! The two run off. The camera tries to follow them back but it's too dark to see jack. We see, according to Dean Hill them stopping to talk to Danny Inferno. Hill has night-vision glasses or something as he sees a confrontation. Puder and Inferno are jawing, which we can't see since the idiots are wearing all black. I barely see Anderson. Inferno comes out and tapes his fists up. Daniel Puder (w/ Ken Anderson) v.s. Danny Inferno Anderson says this contest is schedule for one fall with a 20-minute time limit. Anderson says Inferno has the hardest right hand in the business but does a straight introduction which is AWESOME. Replace Lillian Garcia with Ken Anderson NOW! Snow says it's Striker v.s. Wrestler. Puder uses the stiff kicks. Inferno throws back really bad punches. Puder takes him down and fires away with UFC-style punches but Inferno has full guard. Puder goes to a side mount and punches away some more, but Inferno slips out. Snow says “on his feet, Inferno has an advantage”. Puder goes for a takedown but Inferno uses weak worked-looking punches to knock him down. Puder hooks the left leg and works up to a waistlock. Inferno throws more bad looking punches and some elbows to the back that look better. Puder grabs him and rolls him into the keylock. Inferno tries to fight out. He taps out! Anderson says “Puder is still your Million Dollar Tough Enough Champiooooooon!” Albright comes out. Staredown. Albright takes Puder down! Anderson pulls Puder out of the ring before anything can happen, which Puder is a little mad about. Anderson holds him back. OVW in E-Town! OVW in Hodgenville! Backstage, Maria talks to Johnny Jeter, who has arrived backstage while Albright was in the ring. Maria asks him if he came through a back door. Jeter says he's the champ. Jeter says Maria couldn't wait to rub her body against him. Albright appears and says excuse us for a second. Albright says right now, Jeter is the safest man in the history of OVW. Albright says it's because of him. He says he'll be his bodyguard, his Guardian Angel until their match tonight. He's going to stretch him and put the crowbar on, and you're going to tap like everyone else... and like you did last week. Albright says not a single person is going to lay a finger on Jeter tonight until then because he wants him at 100%. Albright wants to see the look on Jeter's face when he's holding his shoulder in pain and Albright is holding the OVW championship. Oh my god... it's Matt Cappotelli who tosses his crutches into the frame! He's really pissed. Albright has to hold him back as he hops on one leg. Back in the ring... it's Bobby Lashley & OVW TV Champion “The Golden Boy” Ken Doane (w/ Sosay) v.s. Nick Nemeth and Chris Cage. Big pop for Cage and Nemeth. What's the logic in using the name “Bobby” for a monster heel again? This is our first main event of the evening. Kenny Bolin and some new member of BS from last week are outside the ring. Doane and Nemeth start. The new guy is Bolin's “Head of Security”. I miss Mr. Black. Nemeth hits the headlock on Doane. Shoulderblock. Hiptoss, blocked, hiptoss, armdrag. WWE style in full effect! Armdrag by Doane reversed into and arm bar. Doane up, Nemeth tags in Cage, off the top with an axhandle. Cage cranks on the arm and hits the armdrag. Doane to his feet. Shoulderblocks in the corner. Whip to the buckle, Doane runs in after Cage and Cage leapfrogs over him and his another armdrag. I think we have no doubt what Danny Davis's favorite move was at this point. Doane up and clubbers him. Cage ducks, elbow, armdrag, armbar. Nemeth back in. Double whip, double hiptoss, double elbow. 2 count. Big headlock. Whip to the rope, Doane ducks down and Nemeth grabs him when he stands up and puts the headlock back on. RKO chants. Whip to the ropes, clothesline ducked, yet another armdrag. Are they trying to break a world record or something? Doane reaches for Bobby, but Nemth tags in Cage. Bulldog. 2 count. Whip to the ropes, hiptoss blocked, Cage spins around and hits a nice modified Russian Leg Sweep where he sweeps the guy and turns around and clotheslines him on the way down. Lasheley breaks up the pin. Punch, Whip to the corner. Big back bodydrop. Cage off the ropes, Doane uses the ref as a shield to get Cage to slow down and kicks him in the stomach. Lasheley in. It's HOSS TIME. Clubbering by Lasheley. Head to the buckle. Elbows. Bobby is gassed already. Punch, kick, stomp, choke on the ropes. WE WANT NICK chants. Backbreaker. Whip to the corner. Doane in. Doane with Steve Austin elbow drops and the Ric Flair knee drop. 2 count. Doane can't believe that his DEADLY KNEEDROP didn't get the pin and jaws with the ref. Scooop slam. Austin elbow off the ropes. 2 count. Randy Orton side headlock now. Cage works his way up a few seconds after Dean Hill says “he's working his way back up”. Elbows out. Whip to the corner, Doane runs in after him and eats ringpost, Nemeth in. Punches, atomic drop, spinning elbow. Kick to the face, big dropkick, nip-up. Doane tries to bail and misses the superkick. Whip to the ropes, reversed, knee in the back by Lasheley! RKO by Doane!! Both men down for a bit before Doane makes the cover... 1-2....2.8! Doane can't believe it. Lasheley tagged in. Nemeth is completely limp. Big snap-suplex... Lasheley holds on and then flips up and over into a headlock... takes Nemeth up for another suplex, this time holding him in the air forever... JACKHAMMER! Nice combo of moves there. This gasses Lasheley so Doane tags back in. Doane slaps him around a big. Nemeth rolls Doane up. 3-count! Your Winners: Chris Cage and Nick Nemeth. Doane can't believe it. Doane and Lasheley stare down. Lasheley is pissed. OVW IS LIVE IN VARIOUS PLACES! LET US TAKE YOU BACK TO MOMENTS AGO IN BLACK AND WHITE AND LETTERBOXED. Nemeth pins Doane. Live in the ring. Johnny Jeter is out. He and Snow stare down. Man, Jeter is a great heel. Snow asks him if he had anything to do with Anderson and Puder coming out. Snow says even if he asked Jeter, Jeter probably wouldn't give him a straight answer. Jeter says congrats to himself. Good job Johnny, because nobody who matters has told him congrats this week. Oh wow... he sounds very, very much like Jericho doing this promo. The fact of the matter is he was the number one contender because Matt broke his leg. YOU TAPPED OUT CHANTS. Jeter says he was the legal man in the MNM match. Let's face facts, I'm the OVW Heavyweight Champion. He's tired of being Matt Cappotelli's BITCH. He's the OVW Champion, it's his turn to shine, his turn to be looked at. When you're the OVW Champion, you're in the limelight. That spotlight is on Jeter. YOU TAPPED OUT CHANTS. Jeter says he doesn't remember tapping, just winning the OVW title. As far as Jeter is concerned, the light is on him. Jeter would like to address Vincent Kennedy McMahon who he knows is watching, please call up Jeter to Raw or Smackdown. The only thing worse than having a partner who's selfish is living here with these people in “Looneyville”. YOU SUCK chants. Jeter walks to the ring. OVW Heavyweight Champion Johnny Jeter v.s. “The Shooter” Brent Albright Big pop for Albright. Chris Kay your referee. The OVW title is on the line. Matt Cappotelli's music hits and he hops out on crutches, Albright has to hold him back and talk him down. He finally gets Matt to sit down at ringside. We gotta take our last break! OVW Heavyweight Title Match: OVW Heavyweight Champion Johnny Jeter v.s. “The Shooter” Brent Albright As we come back from break, Albright gets a quick rollup. Headlock, takedown. Ref checks Jeter's shoulders, headscissors by Jeter, reversed back to the headlock. A near fall or two. Jeter works his way back up. Whip, Albright holds on to the headlock. Jeter up, whips Albright out, shoulderblock by Albright. Camelclutch rollup gets 2 for Albright, Jeter comes back with a crucifix for two! Chop by Jeter. Another. Whip to the corner, Albright jumps over the charging, Jeter. T-Bone Suplex by Albright! 2-count. Albright goes for the armbreaker but Jeter counters. Spinning Wheel Kick by Jeter is ducked by Albright! Albright goes for the crowbar but Jeter makes it to the ropes before he can lock it in. Real nice sequence there. Jeter backdrops Albright off the top rope, but Albright holds on and rams Jeter's head in the buckle, no, blocked by Jeter! Jeter sends Albright into the buckle and then dropkicks him off the ring apron! Albright works his way back up. Jeter tries to baseball slide him but Albright moves... Belly-to-Belly suplex on the floor by Albright! Better than last week's match so far. 2 count back in the ring. Snapmare, armbreaker to Jeter. Albright ties Jeter up in the ropes, hammerlock in the ropes, dropkick to the shoulder! 2 count. Nobody in US wrestling is better at working the arm than Albright. Hammerlock belly-to-back suplex gets two. Hammerlock into a slam but Jeter slips out and punches Albright outside of the ring. Jeter poses in the ring, then... ASAI MOONSAULT ONTO Albright!! Matt makes a kick in the direction of Jeter. Punch, punch, back in the ring. 2 count. 2 count. 2 count. Armbar, european uppercut to the arm. Head to the buckle. Hammerlock on Albright's arm now in the ropes. Chop by Albright, another. Jeter comes back with some of his own. Man, Jeter really looks like Jericho now since he has his hair made up the exact same way and black tape around his wrists. Whip to the ropes, polish hammer! 2 count. Jeter unties a turnbuckle. Albright rolls up him for 2! Jeter pummels Albright on the mat. Jeter tries to ram Albright's head into the exposed steel a couple times but it is blocked. Albright elbows out of the corner, whips Jeter into the ropes, reversed, beautiful jumping spin kick hits this time on Albright. 2.99! Dean Hill cheers “YES”. Knee to the back of Albright's head. Cravate into a snapmare into a chinlock. Fastforward time. Albright elbows out. Sunsetflip blocked by Jeter who tries to hook Albright in the 1992 Bret Hart/Bulldog finish but Albright blocks that as well. Anyway, Jeter stomps the arm and the head and stuff. 2 count. Jericho, er, Jeter back to the headlock. Go Brent Go chants. Jeter yanks Albright down by the hair. Jeter goes up top. Missile dropkick MISSES for the first time in the history of wrestling! Albright rolls him up for 2.9. MAKE HIM TAP Chants. Albright chops him in the corner, whip to the buckle, runs into a Jeter elbow, but Jeter runs into a overhead belly to belly suplex by Albright!! 2.99! Albright goes for a vertical suplex, no a SUPERPLEX. Here it comes off the rop rope, no Jeter slams him off. SPINKICK OFF THE TOP ROPE!! 2.999! Man, he stiffed him with that one. Jeter warms up the band for the superkick. Albright ducks the kick! Double leg takedown into a slingshot into the exposed turnbuckle... but Jeter lands on the second rope and stops himself! Crossbody by Jeter, Albright rolls through for 2.99!! Excellent match. Jeter punches Albright. Belly to back attempt by Jeter, Albright lands on his feet and pushes Jeter into the exposed turnbuckle!! Jeter's shoulder hits the steel!! CROWBAR, but Jeter makes the ropes somehow immediately. Jeter rolls out of the ring. Jeter looks under the ring for some plunder. Jeter kicks Cappotelli's crutch away at ringside and then superkicks his ass!! Oh man, how dickish (watches spot again). Jeter grabs the chair Cappotelli was sitting in. He clocks Albright right in the head, then nails Cappotelli who is just getting up outside the ring. The Ref calls for the DQ and Albright is the winner. *** ½ or so. Dean Hill yells “LORD LORD LORD”. Another chair shot, another, another! Another, another, another! The crowd is screaming, a ref tries to pull Jeter away. The whole locker room empties out to hold Jeter back. Hill and Snow are having a heart attack. The wrestlers are in shot. Jeter has asssaulted his former partner. We get a brief shot of Matt and his shoulder and half his face are completely soaked with blood. His white shirt is red and a couple guys who are working on him have their hands covered in blood. Sick sick, 1.0 Muta bladejob (if all of it is real). Don't think I've seen anything like this. We quickly go to a break. There is a crowd of people around Matt and we can't get a clear shot of him. There's blood everywhere. His entire shirt is all bloody. Back at the announce desk, Hill has his hands covered in blood and blood on his white shirt. Hill says he's been doing this for a long time and this is one of the most horrific moments I've ever seen in pro wrestling. What Johnny Jeter has done here tonight is unforgivable. Hill walks off and tends to Jeter as we fade out. Wow, now that's an angle.

HHH is surely going in at some point just because he has the only big company in the US as his playground. I agree that it's too soon for him to go in, but that's not how the marks see it who vote.

That's from early July. I think the pic allegedly from late July above is a lot older.

Bischoff's fine. He doesn't come off like a Vince McMahon imitation like everyone else. It's the writing, and the overuse of the authority figure the past eight fricking years in wrestling that sucks. Oh, and the rehash of Vince/Austin with Bischoff/Cena.

Very positive reviews from everywhere else. Lot of people calling it the best TNA PPV ever and even the TNA Haters who ordered it for Joe/Styles and Daniels/Aries liked half the matches.

You can get tapes from OVWrestling.com and ROHwrestling.com sells them too. As far as the bladejob goes, I've never seen the Jericho bladejob to compare it and they didn't show a clear frontal shot of Jeter. All I know is *everyone* working on him had their hands soaked with blood. I'll see if I can't cap a photo or two of it in the next few days.

What really made it is Matt did a sick, sick bladejob. I think there were about 10-15 people "attending" to Matt who had their hands soaked with blood. Probably was around 1.0 Muta or better. Dean Hill looked like he was doing an organ transplant or something.

Mark Magnus in OVW looked *NOTHING* like Hassan, so there's hope for him. He definitely looks very Italian without the beard and Muslim garb. I hope he gets another shot because he's a great talker who the WWE called up before he was ready wrestling-wise.

It's Burchill per the OVW spelling. Burchill working House Shows doesn't indicate him being called up. Burchill also isn't a hoss compared to the WWE guys. I'd say he's about 6'2" at the most. He doesn't look like a monster in OVW and that's full of tiny guys. He also hasn't done any of his highspots in OVW, so he'll probably just be a generic British wrestling who's slightly bigger than average.

Ken Anderson is currently Paul Heyman's pet project in OVW. He's about 6'1" or 6'2" and a real good talker and an okay wrestler. Looks kind of like a smaller Heidenreich. Kind of hard to describe his OVW gimmick but it's a nice, complex one like Raven or Tommy Dreamer in ECW. Recently he talked about how he was a bad guy who would cheat in his matches, but he wasn't scum like Ken Puder who would attack people from behind (which of course, led to him attacking Brent Albright from behind). He's currently doing a schtick where he acts as ring announcer for his own matches (and he has a great voice for it) and gives funny weights and nicknames to his opponents. He'll probably say Funaki weighs 95 lbs or something if his match makes Velocity. See my OVW reports for more info http://forums.thesmartmarks.com/index.php?showtopic=71292

Damn, someone's trying real hard to bury Hogan.

Tenay on WOL said it would be "3-4 of the top Indy stars from other promotions that Internet fans watch". He specifically mentioned ROH. It's also a non-title match with Daniels.

I think face champs usually make their money on the first title chase and then the first 3-4 months of their run in the modern era. It's a lot different than the old territory days. Batista's a guy who has to be booked strong since he's nothing if he isn't a monster. With Cena you have a little more flexibility since he can get over by talking.

Cornette made a ton of teams like that in OVW, unfortunately we've seen only about 3 OVW teams survive the callup, and two of them were completely neutered by bad booking (Heart Throbs and the Bashams). Teams like the Troubleshooters, Minnesota Stretching Crew, Disciples of Synn, Jersey Shore Crew, Adrenaline, the Lords of the Ring and several others never saw the light of day in the WWE. Out of all those guys, WWE was only right to break up the Stretching Crew (Lesnar and Benjamin). Other teams like the Tolands or the Thrillseekers are still stuck in OVW hell.