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"Hawk is obligated to say that a women's match involving Mickie was the highlight of the show." Hawk is right, though, he's not being a smartass. The women's match was the co-best match on the show. It was decent-good, with weak "punches" but great transitions, false finishes, and execution. I give that and the U.S. Title match both ** 1/2. Best matches on the show. Dunno about Cole, but Jim Ross, VERY quickly during the DX match, mentioned that Orton had survived the past three years.

Everything's up to date for Survivor Series '06. Got rid of a lot of dead weight. Check it out.

Oh, and anyone who actually saw the show... How AWESOME was Taker's chairshot post-match on Kennedy!!?? Wow, Kennedy took it full on, and the flat part of the seat actually folded and Kennedy's head pushed through it. Taker swung it so hard, too.

MVP in with a chair. Ref fights with him over it. JBL and Cole claim MVP has the chair to hit Kennedy. Ref gets bumped to the ground, MVP turns around swinging the chair and hits Taker. MVP hit an okay chairshot, with Taker having both hands up way in advance, and the chair clearly hitting the hands. Taker gushed blood. Ref sees it. Match over. WHAT A FINISH...awful as it sounds. I have no idea why they'd even tease MVP v. Kennedy, as Cole said "I'm not sure Undertaker was MVP's target there!" MVP is nowhere near over enough to help Kennedy get face heat and sustain it.

CM Punk held down the heel team tonight.

X-Factor has been my favorite comic this year. Booze, cool third-rate mutants, sex, and great writing.

When Chavo and Lita are involved in the co-matches of the night on a "Big 4" PPV, there is a problem. Where to begin? The most anticipated main event type match is a SQUASH. A SQUASH. They should have named Survivor Series "Babyfaces on Parade". Lita/Mickie was actually pretty good, eons better than their Cyber Sunday match with some nice false finishes. Stick a fork in RVD. Chavo actually worked harder and looked good, decent little match with Benoit. Lashley and Batista are this decade's Diesel and Ahmed. Welcome to the new generation all over again of big powerhouses who blow. Why didn't they just book MVP Vs. Undertaker and save Kennedy from his accidental involvement in the match and subsequent destruction? Hey JHawk, so much for tradition. Would they go your route and do 12 min. and 25-30 min. SS matches? Would they go my route and give two long matches? Somewhere in the middle? Nope. They gave both the fun, good workers and lumbering oafs very short, unentertaining matches. Like bad Raw main events, they were. So much for Orton's cool little streak. The Cryme Tyme thing was neat but dragged. Survivor Series gets an "F", November was a huge trainwreck for WWE PPVs coming off a nice No Mercy show. Aero said: "Couldn't sit through SummerSlam, Unforgiven, or Cyber Sunday." You missed two **** matches at No Mercy and Regal stealing the show.

The Hellfire Club were psychic images created by Cassandra Nova.

We'll see. But keep this in mind: In 2003 and 2004, the shorter matches featured the "B-Show" main eventers. '03 featured Smackdown w/ guys like Morgan, Jones, Holly, Bradshaw, A-Train, who were all fodder and quickly eliminated. '04 featured Smackdown again, and was very one-sided. Totally different dynamic this year, with a good mix of strong workers and/or uppercarders from each show mixed together. I feel that both of the "big" SS matches will be given 20-30 minutes, plus entrances.

If Rutgers beats West Virginia by say 3-7 points, could you tell me what you think their ranking would be heading into the Bowl Games and what Bowl they'd likely be in?

"Cena/Show: 12 minutes" No chance in hell.

Oh yeah, if you like "THEY WERE ALL A DREAM!" endings to previously good stories, then you'll love this arc... To be honest, I really liked the first 5 parts of the story, especially Kitty's involvement and Beast chasing Wolverine around. But wow. Way to have a good story end like crap because your superstar writer is basically castrated from the rest of the Marvel Universe.

(Boogeyman's entrance) "And it is the main event. And it is from Smackdown!. World Championship on the line..." - Michael Cole. (Earlier match) "Smackdown! has the main event at the Survivor Series for two reasons: King Booker and Batista." -JBL It's the main event. I know my semantics. "And tonight, it's a special MAIN EVENT MATCH as The Demon faces..."

Because Angle picked a fight with LAX by getting involved in their business and they're evil and hurt people. Rhyno was out there to celebrate because he was happy Daniels and Styles fixed their problems unlike Rhyno and Christian. See the Genesis PPV when Rhyno plays Dr. Phil.

By the way... Batista Vs. King Booker is the MAIN EVENT for the Survivor Series, as announced on Smackdown!. So change those predictions. Wow, in a span of 11 months, Philadelphia got: Batista vacating the World Heavyweight Title Angle winning the World Heavyweight Title Edge winning the WWE Title Big Show winning the ECW Title Batista winning the World Heavyweight Title? Bet that never happens again in one town. 10 bucks says the scroll that Batista and Long signed says "Batista never gets a title shot" or "Non-Title Match".

Kendrick/Regal, Yang/Helms, Benoit/Finley, and hell, even Kane/MVP were four AWESOME matches. I nominate this for free TV show (Raw/Smackdown/ECW/TNA) of the year.

They definately edited the Joe/Angle promo. When Angle is talking they do a BLIP camera switch and he begins a new sentence.

I advise you go to PWTorrents, where sign-ups are/were open.

"I'm suprised I haven't seen that much bitching about the fact that the champ is no way involved in the main event. Speaking of Cena..." It's Survivor Series. Same thing happened in 1989, 1991, 1994, and 2000. Weakest of the "Big 5/Big 4" PPVs so no one really cares, I suppose. I hope SS pops a huge buyrate somehow (not bloody likely with two PPVs already in November and another one, brand-exclusive, just around the corner) and WWE makes next year have like 5-6 elim. matches. Predictions: Dusty Rhodes wishes Batista good luck backstage. Batista PINS BOOKER to win the title. Then the original referee reverses the decision and awards the match to Booker by DQ b/c of Batista using a chair, etc. This year's "screw job". Benoit over Chavo, hopefully. Team RKO over Team DX. Team Cena over Team Show. Lashley pins Show to win it. Umaga and Cena get DQ'd. Mickie over Lita. "Na na na na..." chant for Lita. Ross calls Philly an "edgy EXTREME city". Legends over Squad, no Legends are eliminated. Kennedy over Taker.

Does anyone think that "Sports Entertainment XTreme" could make a return? I ask this, because on the Genesis PPV, Mike Tenay, in both Sabin and Styles' matches keeps subtlely saying that "something is CAUSING (either name) to act this way...". Could the something be Russo, looking to bring back his two most successful SEX members to the heel side? Stranger things have happened. Note that Low-Ki tonight looked very disgruntled as well...

I hate TNA. It's booking is beyond the awfulness that was WCW 2000-01. But guess what? For the most part, I liked this week's show! - Angle/Joe: Done Well. - Naturals: Deservedly lose. I can't think of what calls for them to be pushed, perhaps naked Borash pictures. - Daniels/Styles: Look good as a team, nice tandem offense. - Styles: Interesting heel turn that makes sense. Fuck off Rhyno, stop bothering me. (Note: This must end, Russo-wise, in a Styles/Rhyno team, of course, as heels.) - Cornette on Commentary: Relaxes my ears from the worst duo in announcing history. - Sting/Christian: Decent quickie TV match. However, giving this away FREE on a HOLIDAY? Meh. - Voodoo Kin Mafia: Actually, as poor of workers they are, and washed up, I don't hate their skits as much as I hate DX's. Don't know what the point is, but whatever. Needs better lighting. If they were to get 2 hours, things would be better. I'm not going to do the usual "OMG, LONG TERM STORYLINES ARE HURT BY RUSSO BLOWING HIS WAD! OMG, STRIP LAX OF TITLES? JOE/ANGLE GOES 11 MINUTES?" rant that most so-called TNA "fans" do. I could care less about TNA's future. I want good wrestling every month on PPV. And good TV storylines. TNA did that this week. Styles/Christian was a good match. Christian/Rhyno cage match was a good match. Joe/Angle was a good match. Sabin/Daniels was a good match. I don't care that they're screwed long-term and that the production is "C Level" (Raven using a purple kendo stick to give Devine "welts" was the most insulting thing ever...), they're giving away good matches so I tolerate TNA. Good Impact show.

Orton always crushes HHH and HBK in Survivor Series Elimination matches and I'd love nothing more for Philly, a once smart town now filled with DX-loving marks and Cena fans, to wisen up for one night and boo DX unmercifully. I like how they use Simmons' 2000-01 photo. I've got club box seats for this, the team matches will be fun, but the Women's Title, Legends Match, and Smackdown! matches BLOW. Benoit/Chavo? Batista/Booker? Ugh. I loathe both challengers. Mickie and Lita, "Lumberjack" stuff aside, tried to have an important, serious, near-fall wrestling classic at Taboo Tuesday and really stunk up the joint. And the legends aren't people I am fond of, at all.

This will be updated tomorrow, sorry for the lack of updates for those who follow the thread, I've been really busy.

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UPDATE ECW and SmackDown to invade RAW? By Craig Tello November 20, 2006 Just hours before Raw goes live, reports are that all members from all Survivor Series teams will be present in Baltimore tonight. This includes competitors from both ECW and SmackDown. If the rumors are true, it could be a very volatile situation just six days before Survivor Series. Suspicions were amplified as WWE.com witnessed CM Punk – a member of Team DX – step into a taxi at a downtown Baltimore hotel, and the spotting of the Extreme Giant Big Show at a local restaurant earlier. Could the ECW World Champion and Survivor Series team captain be in town for tonight’s edition of Raw? What does this mean for the Raw roster on hand at the First Mariner Arena in Baltimore?