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The big one missing is Randy Savage.

They totally nailed that finisher.. pretty incredible. Shelton's athletism is pretty unreal.

They need to shoot an angle, promo, or match every weekend at a house show for one of the A-Shows... it's not going to break the bank for them to send a camera on tour with the rest of the equipment. Seriously, their house show business would go up a lot of people thought what they saw mattered as far as TV storylines go, or maybe they saw a title change.

How is he digging his own grave? Matt is more over than he's ever been. Edge is actually drawing big heel heat for once. There's huge money to be made on this.

The Monday night time slot for WGN is open except for a couple Cubs games between now and October... it's not going to be a huge problem. There are no White Sox games on Monday nights. Upon doing some research, there was one Bulls game on a Monday night in the past year. Here's the Paintball League they're showing... if they'll show this they'll give TNA a good slot. http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/tvstation...t_id=1000853219

OVW TV Report for 4/23/05 Taped from 4/20/05 from the Davis Arena in Louisville, KY Your hosts are Jim Cornette and “The Man, the Myth, the Mustache” Dean Hill LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR OOOOOOOOOOHAHAHAA!!! Welcome to OVW, where tonight we'll see the return of one of the OVW originals Flash, Danny Inferno in action, and an update on MNM's Smackdown debut. Steve Lewington v.s. Blaster Lasheley w/ (“The Giant Killer” Mike Mondo & Kenny “Starmaker” Bolin) Lewington (“Danger Zone” - Kenny Loggins, aka Top Gun Theme) is out. He uses the Top Gun theme because apparently he couldn't cut it in the Royal Air Force so he's outta there. Lasheley (“God of Thunder” - KISS) is out with Mondo doing the Fonzie whistle gimmick and Bolin being the Bobby Heenan of Kentuckiana. Both guys look like they've been working out with Barry Bonds lately. I mean, seriously, which doctor in Louisville is prescribing all this shit? Isn't there a Walgreens across the street from the Davis Arena that has to keep about fifty times the usual number of steroids in stock? Doesn't that raise a red flag? Anyway, Cornette hypes up Lasheley's amateur credentials a whole bunch. Seriously, Lasheley looks like Scott Steiner practically now and the formerly skinny Lewington looks like Ken Shamrock. Crowd starts a “Porky” chant at Bolin. They circle, tieup, blaster in control. Punch misses, Lewington fires back. Lashely blocks 2 two punches, shoves back Lewington, then gives him a running elbow. Kick, whip, ... Lewington slides to stop and runs and goes for a wasitlock on Blaster.. bad move. Take down. Steve gets trapped in the corner and tries to fight out. Blaster unloads with some eblow smashes. Nice and stiff. Kick, punch, whip to the ropes... big kneelift is partially blown. 2Count. Football kick into the ribs. Another one. Hammerlock and a big punch to the chest. Another. Bearhug. Steve breaks out, but collapses. Big kick. Signals for a powerslam, but Steve flips out. Neckbreaker by Steve! Big splash to the corner misses. 2nd rope back elbow by Lewington. Chop. Another, a third. Whip to the ropes, reversed, big shoulderblock, 2 count. Blaster throws him off. Bolin on the apron. Steve clocks him. Mondo in with the briefcase and Mondo gets superkicked. Another powerslam attempted, reversed into a powerslam by Lewington, and reversed again into a powerslam by Blaster which hits. Blaster sets up and hits him with a spear. 3 count Winner: Blaster Lasheley. Next Matt Morgon LIVE O VW in London KY. OVW Derby Park Expo, see OVW and then steal the Backlash PPV from WWE on the big screen. Back in the ring, Lewington is being attended to by the OVW trainer. He's hurt in the ring. Cornette says he may have cracked ribs. Let us take you back to last week... I remember it like I wrote about it last week... -- A dropkick to the face, and finally a flying forearm brings Morgan down again for a 2 count. Burke goes up top. Sunset flip off the top and Morgan kicks out. Elijah signals for the facebuster, kick to the gut, facebuster, 2.9999 count. Burke is shocked. He signals for another facebuster, but when he runs back to Morgan, he walks into a BLACK HOLE SLAM for a close 2 count. Morgan signals for a chokeslam and hits it. 2.9999 count. Morgan is really pissed at this point and complains to the ref. Burke crawls up and hits a schoolboy for another real long 2 count. Kick to the gut by Morgan... here it comes... Vertical suplex and drops him down into a STO... that's his finisher! 1-2-3. We have a new OVW Champion. Winner: Matt Morgan The ringrats pop big for this. Burke tries to get up, still trying to fight Morgan. -- Here comes your OVW champion (“Down With The Sickness” - Disturbed). Morgan does a little fargo strut and a modified Angle hop. He's dressed like the rock this week, which is pretty funny. Cornette says Morgan had a point to prove last week, but Morgan put up and showed it. Morgan says shut up rednecks. Cornette says you said what you you were going to win the title, and whether we like it or not he did it. Damn stragith, I said,I was going to take a ride on the Elijah Express. I believed every word of it and it happened. Cornette says Burke kicked out of a lot of moves. Morgan says he is impressed with Burke and mentions how Kane, John Cena, and Randy Orton couldn't kick out of his chokeslam, but Burke did. Burke is not a blueprint. He says his strangle hold is going to continue. This is the Blueprint's belt. He says Six Flags is right around the corner. Matt Morgan is going to walk into the Six Flag shows your walking blueprint, walking main eventer, the walking headliner, Matt Morgan. Cornette says just like last year. Morgan says Corenette tried to sabotaged Morgan by lining up WWE guys to try and take Morgan's title away. He's the best and the proof is in the pudding. Morgan says you will never get this title back. Cornette says he's going to be bringing in a lot of WWE stars in and that Morgan is going to have a real tough road. An update on MNM Six Flags Ad Poker Ad number on... Holy shit... a MAKEUP ad during a wrestling show... hell just froze over. One of OVW's top tag teams was on Smackdown last week. Let us take you back to Smackdown where MNM beat up Rey Misterio. The crowd sounds like an airplane taken off because this was obviously taped on a crappy VCR. This is literally the whole segment starting with MNM's entrance. Rey fights back... Snapshot. Corntette says MNM is making waves in the WWE. And next week we'll have another report. I wonder if they'll win the tag team titles? Up next: Danny Inferno. Here's Inferno's music (“Voices” - Disturbed). It's Aaron “The Idol” Stevens and Beth Phoenix coming out instead! Finally, (“Jesus Christ Superstar” - Andrew Lloyd Webber, I believe from the movie soundtrack) fires up. Beth Phoenix looks, um, “enhanced” since last time we saw her. Must have had a trip to the Barbie factory. Danny Inferno, two weeks ago you proved what a low life piece of scum you when you chased us out of this building and tried to mug us in the parking lot. You know, they say what goes around comes around. Ans for Mr. Inferno, There couldn't be a truer statement. About a half hour ago, some good Samaritan told Mr Inferno that his house got broken into, all his windows were smashed, and his dog got stolen. So as of this moment. Inferno is on his way home to fill out a police report. Most people when you get your house broken into, it's a bad thing, well this is a good thing. He says Inferno is lucky tonight. If Inferno was here he'd make make him swallow the straw he's always chewing on. Beth says “tell me more idol” . I would take that greasy head of yours and bash it against the mat until you shattered every bone in your face . Beth gets turned on by this. I would take that kendo stick of his and beat him like the greasy Italian pinata that he is. Ooo idol tell me more, yeah. Then I would pick him straight up and piledrive him straight on his neck like that little skank girlfriend on his. You know what I want, yeah. Hill says “get a room”. Well Danny, it's a good thing you're not here. Rodney Dauber is ready for a fight. What don't you say we have a little fun with Mr. Dauber (it would be my pleasure). Aaron “The Idol” Stevens v.s. Rodney Dauber Kick to the gut, whip to the buckle, Stevens runs into a kick, sunsetlfip off the top gets two. Punch Punch, shouderblock in the corner. Tree of woe. Kick kick kick kick kick . Punch . Dauber fights back with fists. Rollup for 2. Kick, whip to the ropes, face to the knee by Stevens breaks it up. Head to the buckle. Kick to the gut. Suplex. Floatover, 2 count. Dauber fights back. , face to the knee again. Stevens back in control. Punch. {punch, kick, kick kick kick kick, Choke ala Kevin Nash. Here's Danny Inferno to break it up. Punches, clothesline clears the ring. Inferno gives him some vicious punches. Phoenix rakes him in the eye. Stevens and Phoenix bail. Pantene Pro-V commercial. who the heck green lighted that to run during a wrestling show? Cornette introduces one of the old stars of OVW. One of the OVW originals. Let's have a famous match with Flash. 1999. Trailer Park trash v.s. Flash. Exhanges punches. Whip to the buckle. Big backdrop. Trash breaks a beer over Flash's head. Cut to later. Suplex on the stage. Back in the ring. Backdrop on a truck hood laying in the ring! Flash looks like Dusty back in this old clip. My gawd, Flash whips him like a dog. Big plancha. Flash thrown over the top rope through a table. Flash up on the top... legdrop through a table outside the ring, Trash went through a table. Ah, the Attitude era by gawd! Trashcan shot. The pin 3 count. Big time clipping here Flash (“All Your Weight” - Collective Soul) is out with a kendo stick. Cornette says says Flash is a former OVW champ8ion, and he's been down in Puerto Rico wrestling for the past couple years. He says he is the current IWA Hardcore champion on the island of Puerto Rico. He says he and Flash haven't always seen eye to eye, but he knew that since Flash was back in the states, he had to offer him to be on OVW tv. I'd like to say that I'm glad to be be back. He says there's a lot of things that have happened in the past. Flash says. There's a guy in OVW who claims to be the best in OVW, but Flash will always be the best in OVW. Flash says he belongs in WWE. Flash says he can have a match for anyone he wants. Flash challenges Brent Albright. I'm the best that's ever stepped in the OVW ring and the best that ever will. He says he's leaving with a grand. Oo, this should be great. Here comes Brent Albright (“Faint” - Linkin Park) Cornette tells Brent he doesn't have to do this. Brent says, first off. I want to introduce myself, the best damn wrestler on OVW TV today. Flash says I kind of disagree. Flash says he's the best on OVW TV today. Brent says if you're coming out here looking for a fight, that's one thing I don't back of. He says you're not going to take food out of my pocket and off my table. Flash slaps Albright. They got after each other. Cornette calls for some refs. Cornette says to hold on. God damnit if you want the match just hold on. We're going to take a break and you can have your damn match. Break “The Shooter” Brent Albright v.s. Flash (n. “A-ah Savior of the OVW Universe, Flash He save everyone of us”) Okay, this is the match that made me hold off a week on writing this. Ok, we're back. Lockup, waistlock, punch, spear by Albright, brawling and rolls on the mat. Albright overpowers and outwrestles Albright. Flash goes outside the ring. And they change punches outside, flash with an eye poke. Chop. Chop by Albright. Back in the ring, Flash cuts him off. Head to the buckle. Flash chops wooooo. Chop woooo. Albright now with a few chops. Eye poke by Flash again. Flash chokes him on the ropes. Whip to the ropes, big clotheline. Two count. Punch, Punch by Albright. Another,. Trading punches here. Whip to the buckle, elbow. Two count. Armbar by Albright. Cornette says it's a mistake to stay on the mat with Albright. Flash goes out of it, trips the leg and gets a one count. Headlock on Albright, which Albright breaks by taking out the legs and gets a one-count. Punch. Punch, clotheslines Flash over the top rope. Albright back outside the ring. Clubbering blow, punch,. Flash back with punches and chops. Cornette said Flash wrestled in front of 10,000 people last Friday night. Whip to the ropes, reversed, Flash floats over Albright's backdrop attempt and hits a superkick. Stomp. Head to the knee. Pace has really slowed down. Trade of punches, Flash racks Albright over the top rope. Stiff chop in the corner. Snapmare, chinlock. Tries a belly-to-back to counter but blocked. Whip to the ropes, shoulderblock, 1-count, Chinlock. Ref asks Albright if he wants to give up. Crowd gets behind Albright. Brent breaks by whipping into the ropes. He goes for a slam but Flash reverses into a kick to the gut and a DDT. Flash stomps away on Albright... we'll be right back! More chinlock laziness from Flash. It probably wouldn't be a good idea to show a highlight reel of a bunch of highspots when the guy wrestling has no intention of doing any of them. Elbow, elbow. Flash back in control. Whip to the ropes, flash pin rollup by Albright for 2. Backslide for two. Flash back in control with a clothesline. Dang, this match would be good if Albright was calling it. Clothesline gets two. Albright is thrown through the ropes to the floor. Flash snake eyes Albright on the steel guardrail. Albright clothleslines Flash. Both men back in. Flash gets some knees. Suplex, drops him over the top rope. Big dropkick to the head and Albright flies off the apron to the floor. Flash breaks the ref's count. Outside the ring, chops on Albright. Both men back in. Two count. Forearm, Whip to the buckle, reversed, Albright runs into a boot. Flash out of the corner with a clothesline but it's ducked. Belly to belly overhead suplex. Both men down and the ref is counting. Flash up first. Albright fights back with punches. Big backdrop. Clothesline, another. T-bone suplex. Two count. Whip to the buckle, reversed, Albright eats turnbuckle. Flash goes for a clothesline off the rebound, Albright ducks and the ref gets taken out. German suplex. Albright covers for about a 10 count. Albright tries to revive the ref. Flash puts Albright in the tree of woe. Flash gets the kendo stick. Whacks him in the head a couple times. Flash climbs up top and does the Super Dragon dick double stomp off the top onto Albright in the tree of woe! Dean says Christ and Cornette says oh my god. Slow 2.999 count. Flash decks the ref. Crowbar! No ref. Flash rolls out of the Crowbar. Legsweep, elbow misses, Albright leaps over Flash and grabs his arm in midair and locks in the crowbar. Chris Kay is in and Flash taps out. Your Winner: Brent Albright Okay, that match was a little better the second time around but it still was majorly disappointing. Brisko has the check, and he agrees with the decision. Cornette says Albright is the man. “Flash, you TAPPED OUT, don't be ashamed, you just tapped out to the best damn wrestle... blah blah blah”. Matt Morgan is out. Cornette says we're running out of time. Matt says Albright used to have his back, but he's not the best wrestler. Morgan runs this TV show and he runs OVW because he is the Heavyweight Champion, the blueprint. The little TV thing you got going is cute, you're good, but you're second best. Keep working, you're gonna get it. Albright grabs Morgan. Me saying I'm the best, as far as I'm concerned, you can take my TV title and put it next to your OVW title, turn em sideways and stick em up straight up your ass. Morgan “You're not in my league”. Albright slaps on the crowbar, by Gawd, Morgan's tapping. We're outta time!

WGN is available in over 65 million homes (which is more than TNT had when Nitro started or TNN had when they picked up ECW). 75% of those homes have WGN on channel 1-24, so the station is easy to find. It's a real sleeping giant of a network, and the Cubs still do great ratings for them. If they're getting a primetime slot (or even a good slot as opposed to the afternoon crap), it'd be a great move. Not to mention Chicago is the natural place to center a promotion to compete with WWE. There are also some very strong crossover opportunities with the Tribune newspapers (LA Times, Chicago Tribune and dozens of others) and the Tribune also owns TV stations all over the country (and part of the WB network). They're the fourth-largest media company in the US and produce quite a few TV shows as well. The other thing is since WGN has little original programming, they run ads like crazy for what original programming they have. I saw a lot for some "Extreme Paintball" show that's starting in the *Fall* that airs on Saturday Mornings. They'll have a lot more support than they did at FSN. I think the 8-10 EST slot on Mondays is open when they currently show movies and it would have minimal interference with sports.

I guess one of these guys was an ex-Kickboxing world champ and Batista pretty much owned him. http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005191443,00.html You have to be pretty dumb to try to pick on Benjamin... those guys are lucky Angle wasn't there and that Lesnar is gone from the company.

Ask Brock Lesnar. Brock Lesnar would actually make an impact in Japan. I cant see Matt doing that... I wouldn't see Jamal or Bull Buchanan making an impact in Japan, but they are. Very strange times over there. Jamal beat Kobashi in a match.

Rumors right now are that Heyman definitely won't be renewed from his WWE contract which is up either late 2005 or early 2006. Some people in TNA are expecting him to come in and save the company.

I don't know how much longer they can keep throwing money away, but it's pretty clear even Meltzer (while being right about how TV negotiations are going) has no idea how much longer Panda is willing to back TNA.

The big one missing here is the Lennox Lewis v.s. Brock Lesnar MMA match (and Kurt Angle v.s. Riddick Bowe on the undercard in a MMA match).

Wasn't as bad as I thought... at least they're letting him talk. At least people can see he has mic skills.

I want to see JBL and Angle have a run as a team/stable... that segment was gold.

I would think he would come in with the gimmick he wanted to return to WWE with. That's where the money will be.

More like the Ric Flair crap with Bischoff in WCW when there were huge "WE WANT FLAIR" chants everywhere they went.

http://www.liveaudiowrestling.com/star/sto...t.asp?aID=14613 There's Storm's column on meeting wrestlers... pretty essential reading. I'd have to second the "using real names" bit... it just makes you look like a tool because of how the business is. Obviously, anyone who goes by their real name (or has wrestled under their real name) is an exception. Would you go up to get Woody Allen's autograph and call him Mr. Konigsberg? Call Bob Dylan "Mr. Zimmerman"? Wrestlers' names are stage names, not just character names.

The fans didn't care when they tried the "ass-kicking monster" gimick for Morgan back in 2003. why should they care now. while stupid, this "studdering" gimick could probably make Morgan A BIT more entertaining. They didn't care because Morgan was part of "Team Lesnar" which was full of 6-foot-10 guys. Not to mention Morgan was the designated job guy for the team. Not to mention he didn't get to say a damn word. Not to mention he was too green at the time to be called up. The guy looks much scarier and is a much better power wrestler now with some interesting moves.

Seriously, how stupid is WWE? Morgan with a stuttering gimmick? The guy is money in the bank if you give him a big push and he can cut good enough promos to get people interested without some shit gimmick. The guy is bigger than anyone on either roster besides Big Show (and he's certainly more cut and muscular than Big Show) and that's the best you can do with him? I imagine they'll get it right after making a joke out of Morgan for a few months like they did with Batista. BTW, I like Melina, but Joey Matthews is a lot better promo than she is and it'll be a real shame if he and Nitro are mutes. Props to WWE as they haven't screwed a great thing up yet with them.

Okay, here goes, haha... "The Shooter" Brent Albright is basically doing a Benoit type gimmick. Good charisma and a very good worker. He wrestles a bit more like Malenko or Tazz than Benoit at this point. Really focuses on one body part and attacks it relentlessly. OVW TV Champ. Was heel but he got turned face by the crowd. Finisher is the crowbar, a UFC-style armbar. No idea This is Bamm Bamm Parsons Hasn't appeared on TV yet. Tank Toland's "cousin". Turned Tank on his former partner Chris Cage. Used to wrestle for New Japan so he's really good, although he's small. Looks exactly like a smaller Ric Flair and even does a lot of the mannerisms (and has a pair of tights with "CT" interlocked like Flair does). He's sort of a whimp and cowardly. Member of Bolin Services... moderate sized african-american hoss. Kenny "Starmaker" Bolin is the world's sleaziest manager. Very good on the mic but looks like trash and is a way overweight so WWE won't touch him. His gimmick is that he's a super-cheap con artist who promotes wrestlers and tries to place them in WWE. Runs a stable called "Bolin Services". The closest comparision I'd make would be to Bobby Heenan. Senior OVW official Was OVW Champion until last week. Firery african-american babyface which I'd compare to Booker T with more in-ring charisma but less on the mic (although he's getting a lot better). Lots of underdog babyface offense. Finisher is a facebuster and a top-rope sunset flip. Formerly known as "Hitman" Chris Cage. Wrestles like Bret. Used to team with Tank Toland. Currently banned from OVW due to a "lawsuit" from Tank Toland. Tough Enough 3 winner. Uses a shaky legdrop and a corkscrew crossbody. Half of a tag team with Johnny Jeter called the Thrillseekers, who use a double superkick as their finisher. Muscular bodybuilder who was Jillian's Hall's bodyguard, although that angle appears to have been dropped. Nothing special, tags in and does a gorilla press. Not really big like a Chyna. Bolin Services' accountant. A skinny guy who basically just gets beat up. Hasn't been seen in a while. Robbie Dawber Inferno's main squeeze from New Jersey OVW's top female heel. Was chunky before but had quite a bit of work done and now is close to a dead ringer for Tammy Sytch. Uses a somersault legdrop, handstand splash, and a missle dropkick as finishers. Cornette has her managing The Toland cousins (aka the Blonde Bombers). She's pretty good in the ring and is probably the top female wrestler prospect they have. OVW Ring Announcer and Color Commentator with Cornette. Is a freaking huge (I'd say about 6'6"), former cop with a big handlebar mustache. Formerly the Inferno Kid on the Indies for years. Was a member of the Jersey Shore Crew with Nova, Aaron "The Idol" Stevens. When Nova left to WWE, the Crew went their seperate ways. Inferno is from the "jersey streets" and is a babyface feuding with the stuckup Stevens. Wirery African American babyface (maybe mixed ethnicity?) who teams with Seth Skyfire, runs in, and hits some dropkicks. Gets pretty good high up there. Bulking up a bit now. One half of the Thrillseekers with Matt Cappotelli, Jeter reminds everyone of a young Chris Jericho. This babyface was one of OVW's top workers but seems to have hit a wall recently and is blowing some spots. Signature moves are a jumping side kick and a top rope spin kick. HBK Trainee who is going by "Lance Cade" again in OVW. Same basic gimmick as in WWE. Mac Johnson OVW referee who does some WWE work as well. Guy in a Hannibal Lector mask and a straitjacket who wrestled an unorthodox style and was unstoppable, unless you blew a whistle. He'd then stop fighting and get beat up. He had crazy hair like Eugene does and did stuff like airplane spins, etc. I still think this was Nick Dinsmore doing double-duty most of the time and an inspiration for the Eugene gimmick. Babyface. Dressing like an annoying ska girl at this time. Good wrestler. Feuds with Jillian Hall a lot. British wrestler, wanted to be a fighter pilot in the RAF but his eyesight wasn't good enough. Sort of wrestles like a mix between Davey and Dynamite, although he's not nearly as good as either yet. Goose Mahoney Doing a biker-type gimmick right now. Seems to have improved in the ring a bit. Now "Mean" Mo Greene, very short guy dressed up like the Godfather. Great talker and would be a star if he was taller. Managing the Heartbreakers in OVW. Looks exactly like Snitsky (Snitsky was brought in as Mike Mondo's "little" brother Mean Gene Mondo in OVW). Is a heel who beat Matt Morgan when he was face, so he's done the "Giant-Killer" gimmick since then. Is Blaster Lasheley's "drill sargeant". Member of Bolin Services. Great wrestler but is too small for WWE. Tough Enough 2 competitor. Giant hoss... super roided, 6'10". Good on the mic and getting better in the ring. Does a vertical suplex into an STO, a Black Hole Slam, and some other neat moves as finishers these days. Has black hair and a goatee these days and has ditched the masked "Blueprint" gimmick. Says he's the "Blueprint" of what a wrestler should be. Aaron Steven's storyline girlfriend. Blonde, decent technical wrestler. The other OVW referee Chris Masters squashed him on Raw last week. Former skateboarding champion does a lot of high-flying moves. Half of a tag team with Mac Johnson. A little small. Probably OVW's best cruiserweight sized guy, Cornette sent him to work a ROH show. Part of the Jersey Shore Crew with Nova formerly, now he is out on his own playing a spoiled rich kid from Jersey. Cornette's girlfriend. Overweight with red hair. Good talker. Managed a stable called the "Disciples of Synn" which has included various hosses... at one time she had Leviathan (Batista), Seven (Mordecai), and Tyson Tomko in the stable. Still manages Seven sometimes. "Cousin" of Chad Toland. Tank is about 5'5" but super roided up. Used to team with Chris Cage but turned on him. Despite being vertically small, does quite a few power moves. Finisher is a spinning polish hammer. This heel is very good on the mic and in the ring but is unlikely to get a shot in WWE due to his size. Jillian Hall recently started managing he and Chad as the "Blonde Bombers".

You must not be a Chicago Cubs fan. Nah I'm a Cubbies fan but the channel is still worthless in terms of penetration into the cable market. While I think alot of companies have WGN more than some others, I still dont think this is a great backup plan v. Spike TV. A station like FX as an upgrade from FSN would be much more better. WGN has huge pentration... if they could get a solid timeslot it's practically like being on TBS in the Midwest and Southeast. They'd need the Tribune owned NYC station on board to flesh the rest of the country out. They reach well over 100 million homes. Considering they're hyping up "Extreme Paintball" for the fall season, I'm sure they'll take TNA for the right price in a good timeslot. And they draw big ratings for Cubs games.... maybe they're under a different category in the ratings since they're a "superstation" and not a cable network.

It says on the WWE Schedule area that the show starts at 6:45. So, it may be a minor tape delay. Sounds like they'll tape Smackdown before Raw to me.

OVW TV report for 4/16/05 Taped from the Davis Arena in Louisville, KY 4/13/05 Our Hosts are Jim Cornette and Dean "The Prince of Pronunciation" Hill In a shocking swerve, let us take you back to last week before the titles even roll. Some confused people are going to think this is part of the Twilight Zone episode that was on earlier. We pick up the end of BRENT ALBRIGHT vs. SEVEN in progress. Albright is clubbing away on Seven's arm. He finally locks in the crowbar, Seven quickly taps out! A winner is Albright Albright says you tapped out. He says don't be ashamed, since you just tapped out to the best damn wrestler on OVW TV today, “The Shooter” Brent Albright. LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR!!!! Hello and welcome to Ohio Valley Wrestling. This show is the WWE tryout edition if Internet rumors are true. Tonight Matt Morgan vs. Elijah Burke, M-N-M vs. Skyfire/Johnson, we talk to the new Southern Tag Champions, the Blonde Bombers... but first... "Beat the Champ" TV Title Match "The Shooter" BRENT ALBRIGHT v.s. KEN ANDERSON Someone asked me a couple weeks if Anderson was in OVW yet... well here he is wrestling for your entertainment. Like all of Albright's matches lately, this should be pretty good. Albright is announced as "The Shooter" Brent Albright, but his graphic says Brent "Shooter" Albright. Even OVW can't escape logic holes. Anderson gets no entrance or music. Anderson does a little hoppy thing back and forth. Dean Hill does his “Ray Ramsey your referee, kickin things off on the WB. Circle around, lockup, waistlock takeover. Albright rolls him around on the mat, and there's some mat work. Anderson gets up, another waistlock. Overhead Tazzzzplex on Anderson and Anderson decides it's time to leave the ring.. Inaudible chant from the crowd. Anderson decides to head for the exits but Albright punches him to stop him from leaving. Back on the apron, into the ring. Crowd chants “Make him tap!”.. Anderson throws him through the ring ropes. but Albright holds on and clocks Anderson. He pounds Anderson on the apron, and shove him back in the ring. Punch, whip to the buckle, runs in, caught with an elbow, Albright comes back with an elbow. Whip to the ropes and a belly-to-belly overhead suplex! Clubbing forearm to the back of the neck, whipped into the corner. Spear in the corner misses. Anderson hops around and catches him in the gut with a stiff kick and stomp. Forearm, forearm. Albright comes back with the forearm. punch, kick to the gut. Backdrop suplex by Anderson gets a 2. Punch to the head. Albright and Anderson trade shots, Anderson stomps Albright in the gut Austin style as Dean Hill puts him over. Whip into the corner. Albright blocks, catches w/ elbow, clothesline, clothesline, whip into the ropes, big back bodydrop. goes for a German suplex. Anderson blocks, bounces off the ropes, but Albright catches him with a release German for 2. Armbreaker by Albright. Albright locks in the crowbar, and Anderson kicks out. Your Winner: "The Shooter" Brent Albright. Albright collects another thousand dollar check which he won't report to the IRS. Fans chant you TAPPED OUT. Albright says “KEN ANDERSON YOU TAPPED OUT, DON'T BE ASHAMED. You just tapped out to the best damn wrestler on OVW TV today, the Shooter' Brent Albright”. Decent match, but Anderson really showed nothing here. We'll be back with the Blonde Bombers -- OVW in London... KENTUCKY. April 30 and 7:30 pm. The Thrillseekers, Elijah Burke, Matt Morgan, SEVEN big MATCHES OVW ! LIVE! LIVE LIVE! OVW in E-Town, Friday April 22 and 8 PM. 7 Live matches. The above plus the Heartbreakers and Brent Albright, plus Hollywood Dale Duncan. This will be about 3 times shorter than any IWA:MS card and not booked by Cornette so why bother. -- We have new Southern Tag Team Champions, The Blonde Bombers (The Tolands)... before we talk to them in the ring, let us take you back to last week. -- Chad has Matt in a crossface (n. Crippler). Matt hulks up punch, punch and whip to the ropes. Matt makes the tag to Jeter. I'm amazed on how there's rarely a proper race to tag in tag team wrestling anymore. Dropkick, whip, reversed, flying forearm, backdrop. Sleeper neckbreaker. 2 count. Whip into the ropes... spinning kick gets TWO before being broken up by Tank. Matt in, and accidentally knocks Tank into the ref. They set up for a double superkick on Tank... wait a minute it's Jillian hall... she breaks it up by tripping Matt. Tank hit the Tank Turret (spinning Polish Hammer) on Jeter. Ref recovers, Chad Covers, 1-2-3 and Cornette is all "OH NO MY GAWD DAMNEST THING I'VE EVERSEEN FOR GAWD'S SAKES" etc as the Bombers have won the Tag Titles. -- Cornette is in the ring with his scummy E-Town promoter, “Hollywood” Dale Duncan, who's so lame he won't even get CAPS. They $hill the rematch for the tag team titles between the Bombers and the Thrillseekers, which will be live Friday Night in E-Town. Cornie asks how you can get tickets. You can't even tell what this Duncan clown is saying between the 5-packs of cigs and the accent. It's the BLONDE BOMBERS (Tank and Chad Tolland) out to interrupt. Apparently they "aren't scheduled for this time".Tank goes “Whoa... are you kidding, Hollywood Dale Duncan, nobody wants to see him.” “Hollyweird Dale” says Chad. Tank says you're talking to the new Southern Tag Team champs. Hollywood, really. If you're worried about selling out E-Town on Friday, he doesn't have to worry. The Bombers will be dropping the bomb on the Thrillseekers. Cornette asks them about Jillian Hall. The Bombers decided they needed a bombshell with fine natural blonde hair, a chiseled body, and a natural smile. Tank says all the women here in Kentuckiana are fat skanks. Cornette says you can't talk that way. I have to agree with Tank. Tank says they needed a "real women" to fight all the Kentuckian skanks off... so without further ado, let him introduce the Bombers new Bombshell... It's... Holy TAMMY SYTCH Batman. Well upon further examination it's JILLIAN HALL and we know that she's toxic (Britney Spears - "Toxic"). This is too weird as she's not far way from being a dead ringer for Sunny the way she's dressed up. Cornette gushes about how she's "about ready to pop out of her shirt" and wonders if OVW will be liable. She hugs both Tolands and then raises their hands and does the Sunny head bob thing, and everything clicks. Everyone watching has a huge Bodydonnas flashback. The Tolands being short with dyed blonde hair doesn't help either. Well Cornette's finally done it. He beams like Scottie Ferguson looking at Judy Barton for a second. I smell money, anyway. Jillian rocks the mic. “I have got to be the like the luckiest woman ever to have been ringside on the legendary night when the Blonde Bombers win the tag team titles... I am SO proud of you guys. I know it was my beauty (more Sunny mannerisms here) that inspired them to work harder... after all I am the bombshell (yet more mannerisms). Who is the greasy, disgusting (loud "Blond Bimbo" chant) sorry excuse for a man in my ring?” Cornette apologizes to Duncan. Duncan says I hope you get your ass beat on Friday. Tank roughs him up, which brings in THE THRILLSEEKERS who clear the ring. Matt says nobody puts their hands on Hollywood Dale Duncan.. next week, Jeter and I have a surprise for you and I got a feeling you midgets ain't gonna like it. Next: Elijah Burke vs. Morgan. -- 4th Annual Six Flags Super Summer Sizzler Series with Six Big Events and Sally Selling Sea Shells by the Seashore. Ad BREAK ONLINE POKER AD... PERSONAL LINES AD... Yoplait Yogurt ad... Online poker ad.... one of these things is not like the others... -- Let us take you to the crowd where ALEXIS LAREE and SOME JOBBER TRAINEE are begging for money for the WHAS Children's Crusade. Hey, it didn't work in 1212 so let's not be trying that stuff again. Ah... I remember the segment with Matt Morgan and Elijah Burke like it was last week... MATT MORGAN is dressed up like he's going to be in Evolution and ELIJAH BURKE is dressed up like he's Booker T. Morgan says when he beats Elijah Burke.. Burke says “Don't stand there and run your trap like I'm not standing here. All this talk about how when you beat me, take my title, the question should be if you beat me.”. Dang, Burke is showing tons of charisma here unlike his backstage promo a couple weeks ago. Morgan takes his jacket off. “Granted, you may be one big locomotive, last time you when head to head with the Eiljah express, you got ran over”. Morgan says he's in with the Bluerpint of the industry. Burke says he beat Morgan 3 times. “All of a sudden, you think you're going to walk in here take my title, destroy my dream. Don't home in hear like a cabbage, all head no ass. The Elijah Experience will be in full effect next week”. Many refs are in the ring now. Morgan says he's sick and tired of hearing about your dream, and “it's about time someone woke you up”. Morgan kicks Burke in the gut and gives him a powerbomb. “Burke, you can dream all you want, but next week you're going to feel my wrath.” OVW Heavyweight Title "The Blueprint" MATT MORGAN vs. ELIJAH BURKE It's time to get down with the hossness (Disturbed - “Down with the Sickness”) as Matt Morgan comes out. He's now got black hair and a goatee and no mask. He's definitely going into Evolution at some point soon. Burke slaps everyone's hands in the front and comes out to a huge pop. Robert Briscoe is your referee. Cornette says the gold is on the line in one minute. next! -- OVW at the Derby Park Expo for Five Big Matches, then STEAL WWE Backlash along with OVW. Online Poker Ad!!! (Count: 3). Well, the scam artists have to stick together Another ad for the Louisville Singles line... Cornette lies again as the ad break goes to about 1:21 -- Back in the ring, it's match time. Can't you tell the tag teams are the main eventers of this promotion? They circle around a bit to start. Dueling chants between the fans and the ring rats. Burke kisses up to the crowd. Lockup, but Matt is too roided and pushes him back and poses like hogan. “YOU STILL SUCK” chant. Waistlock by Burke, elbow by Morgan breaks it. Whip into the corner. Burke moves out of the way, Morgan hits turnbuckle. Burke goes for a rollup and Morgan attempts a stomp to stop it but Burke moves out of the way, and goes after the knee. Whip, reversed, Elijah slides under the legs and punches Morgan, but Morgan regains control. Whipped into the buckle again, Morgan runs into a boot, shoulderblock by Burke to Morgan has little effect. Burke ducks a Morgan clothesline, another shoulderblock to little effect.. Burke goes upstairs and a shoulderblock off the top rope finally brings Morgan down for a 1 count. That was a boss little/big man sequence. Burke up top again. Morgan crotches him on the ropes and sets up for a superplex. Burke blocks it and shoves Morgan off the top. He goes for a big elbowdrop which misses by a mile. Big lariat turns Burke upside down. Morgan rubs Burke into the mat. “Go Matt go” chant from the ring rats. Morgan whips Burke into the buckle and Elijah collapses from the impact. Morgan stands on him near the ropes. He goes for the pin and gets 2. Stomp, goes outside and does the a legdrop on the apron. 2 count. He gets frustrated and chokes Burke, then he locks in a dragon sleeper (~!). Burke tries to punch out, reverses into a DDT! Both men down. ELIJAH chant. Burke hits some punches and dodges several of Morgan's shots. Morgan goes for a clothesline but Burke ducks, dropkick to the leg, dropkick to the face, and finally a flying forearm brings Morgan down again for a 2 count. Burke goes up top. Sunset flip off the top and Morgan kicks out. Elijah signals for the facebuster, kick to the gut, facebuster, 2.9999 count. Burke is shocked. He signals for another facebuster, but when he runs back to Morgan, he walks into a BLACK HOLE SLAM for a close 2 count. Morgan signals for a chokeslam and hits it. 2.9999 count. Morgan is really pissed at this point and complains to the ref. Burke crawls up and hits a schoolboy for another real long 2 count. Kick to the gut by Morgan... here it comes... Vertical suplex and drops him down into a STO... that's his finisher! 1-2-3. We have a new OVW Champion. Winner: Matt Morgan The ringrats pop big for this. Burke tries to get up, still trying to fight Morgan. Up next, Danny Inferno... -- Ad Break - Let us take you back to last week when this trainee/wrestler is getting coached on cutting ad advertisement to watch OVW in London Kentucky. Suddenly there's a commotion and the camera pans over to see Beth Phoenix and Aaron "The Idol" Stevens running by in the hallway (“let's get the hell outta here”), followed a few seconds later by Danny Inferno (“come back you son of a btich”). The cameraman follows down the hallway and outside. Hilarity ensues when Inferno has trouble getting one of the doors open. We see Inferno chasing a SUV out of the parking lot There's how you book a backstage segment that makes logical sense. Back to live action (which is really taped a few days ago), here comes DANNY INFERNO to the ring. Cornette says there must be some bad feelings and bad blood over what happened to Trudi. Inferno says Stevens is a women-beater and a coward. He ran away like a scalded dog and didn't show up here tonight. Stevens is a self-centered spoiled brat. He had to go after his girlfriend with a piledriver and crack her neck. Inferno says he doesn't know if she ever ever will wrestle again. Inferno says Phoenix better keep her nose out of Inferno's business or he's going to start treating her like a man... because he knows Phoenix has a bigger set than Stevens. And he's not talking about breasts. Inferno doesn't care if it's in the parking lot, the locker room, or Denny's. There will be a fight and a fight Inferno is gonna win. He's going to kick his ass, not for himself or for Trudi, he's going to kick his ass for every person who hates Stevens' guts... by the sound of that he says, he's going to be kicking his ass for all of us. Here's hoping they book a Denny's Jersey Shore Streetfight with yet another set of rules in the next few weeks. -- Ad break OVW Fundraiser SCAM... call 502-473-0660 and do your best Ian Rotten or Vince Russo imitation and see how long you keep them on the phone. -- MNM (JOEY MATTHEWS and JOHNNY NITRO w/ MELINA) v.s. SETH SKYFIRE AND MAC JOHNSON. MNM totally do their Smackdown entrance note for note, which means some of their stuff has been cut by the WWE. The fur jackets this week are the boss ones from Smackdown. We get a perfect splits shot this week that the PTC would complain about if they knew about it. Skyfire and Johnson run out and start fighting immediately. They clear the ring. This should rock. Chris Kay is your referee. MNM stall outside the ring, talking their time in taking their jackets off. Cornette says they're now in the WWE. Matthews is blowing invisible blood out of his nose Matthews in the ring, slaps Mac Johnson with a cheap shot and then rolls out of the ring. Johnson chases Matthews around the ring. Matthews back in and cuts him off. Head to the buckle. Punches to Johnson. Johnson fights out of the corner. Whip, reversed, spear to Matthews. Nitro in, fits a fury on Nitro. atomic drop to Matthews. Fist, 2 count. Skyfire tagged in. Double whip, double elbow. 2 count. Matthews fights out with punches. Head to the buckle, rakes eyes over the ropes. Nitro in, punch to the gut. punch. Skyfire comes back with multiple punches, goes for a monkeyflip which he hits.. Dropsault sort of now. 2 count. Johnson in.. punches to the gut. kick to the gut on Matthews... double noggin knocker. Nitro/Johnson legal men. Whip to the corner. shoulder tackle in the corner. Johnson hits a field goal kick on Nitro. Skyfire tagged in. Nitro hops over Johnson but gets hit with a kick by Skyifre. Skyfire is now face in peril as Nitro/Matthews doubleteam Skyfire. Punch by Matthews to Seth Skyfire. He throws Skyfire outside of the ring. Matthews poses but Skyfire pops back up and climbs the top rope. Crossbody off the top for 2! Punch, punch, punch, whip, reversed, slide underneath the legs, rana by Skyfire, punches. Matthew comes back with an uppercut. Whip to the corner, Matthews runs in with a STIFF clothesline... nice. Punch, whip to the buckle, Skyfire ducks over the rope so Matthews eats turnbuckle. Skyfire fights Nitro on the apron, then Matthews in the ring, then Nitro on the apron again until Matthews comes running over and knocks Skyfire into the guardrail! Nitro grabs him and knocks his head on the apron. rolls him back in the ring for Joey. 2 count. We have one more timeout... we'll be back. Nitro tags in -- OVW in London OVW in E-town -- Skyfire hits a sunsest flip on Nitro, but Nitro makes a blind tag to Matthews before it happens. Matthews breaks it up. gets a 1.5 count on Skyfire. Matthews hits a half-hour, delayed vertical suplex. 2 count and Johnson breaks it up. Joey goes for another suplex, but Seth blocks it, reversed into a rollup but Nitro distracts the ref... finally a 2 count. Neckbreaker on Skyfire. 2 countt after the cocky cover. Nitro in, frames him and hits a boot to the gut. Breakdancing into a spinning legdrop on Skyfire... VERY nice!! This gets 2 count. European uppercut, kick, Grabs Seth Skyfire by the hair and hits another uppercut. Melina slaps Skyfire. Stomp to the head, 2 count. Grabs in a headlock, holds him and tags in Matthews. Short-arm clotheline, shades of Jake Roberts. 2 count. Cravate, correctly called by Cornette. Skyfire punches out. Elbow on Skyfire. Matthews calls for the snapshot and tags in Nitro. Matthews picks up Skyfire, Nitro goes for the DDT but gets punched off. Skyfire slides off and hits a shining enziguri on Matthews (~!) He goes to tag in Johnson, Nitro grabs his ankle but Skyfire gets over to the corner anyway. Johnson is a house of fire, punches, clotheslines... big dropkick. Gets two. Matthews eats a flying forearm... Nitro in and he telegraphs a backdrop, Johnson tries to reverse into a backslide but Nitro flips over.... Johnson turns it into a fisherman's suplex! Matthews breaks it up at the last second. Skyfire back up, punches Matthews. Kicks Matthews in the corner. Johnson to the top, missile dropkick on Nitro but the ref is distracted... Melina sprays something in Johnson's eyes. Skyfire thrown out of the ring. Snapshot on Johnson and Nitro gets the pin! Winners: MNM Melina stands on Johnson's throat with her boot. They knock Skyfire off the apron again and take out the ref. They're going after Johnson's injured gut Kick, knee to the gut... double gutbuster. Johnson sells the injured gut... we'll see you next week. Good show this week... nice to know we haven't seen the last of MNM. Both interview segments were good and the matches were all solid, although nothing grabbed me enough to bother giving it a star rating to any of it, although the last two matches were pretty fun.

Johnny Ace is in charge of talent relations now, so I assume that's why JR's title changed.

Um, no. As someone who watches OVWMasters had (and has) lots of potential but he was brought up way too early. Carlito is actually better in WWE than in OVW (I was never excited for him). I was a little excited for Nova (who was great in OVW), but he was given a JTTS gimmick and wasn't allowed to use his moveset. The difference with MNM is 1) They're keeping their OVW gimmick, and 2) They're already excellent, not just a team with the potential to be good.