Heat spoilers

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Dark Match:

Travis Tomko d Lenny Lane

 

Sunday Night Heat:

Garrison Cade d Val Venis

Lita d Jazz

The Hurricane d Joey Matthews

Matt Hardy Version 1.0 d Lance Storm

Matt Fact ~ "Matt hates things that are dull and boring like Lance Storm."

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Does Lenny Lane still look like every other blond on Raw?

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Hurricane wrestling alone...maybe Rosey gets traded!

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Thats one of the greatest Matt Facts ever.

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Hardy / Storm should be good, I'll tune in for that one.

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Hardy / Storm should be good, I'll tune in for that one.

Ditto.

 

I wonder who works as the heel?

[Guest Deviant]

That's great, Hardy gets a win and not only is it on the secondary show, but we get to kill Lance a little more too.

[cbacon 0]

They should have sent Lance to SD! instead of Cade

[ChrisMWaters 0]

They should have sent Lance to SD! instead of Cade

They sent Jindrak to Smackdown, not Cade.

 

Cade is still on Raw...unless the trades help that.

[Lil' Bitch 0]

I wonder who works as the heel?

 

I'm guessing Hardy. Aren't Venis and Storm still faces?

[The Amazing Rando 0]

Hardy will play the heel...cause he IS a heel...

 

Lance is a face with Val Venis.

 

EDIT: Damn you...

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I wonder who works as the heel?

 

I'm guessing Hardy. Aren't Venis and Storm still faces?

True...though Storm has been heelish lately, like this past Sunday's match.

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But really, can you blame Cbacon for mistaking the two? It's like mistaking French Vanilla for Light Vanilla.

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From PWI...

 

Off-Air Raw Report from Detroit, Michigan:

 

Dark Match

 

Travis Tomko defeated Lenny Lane - Lane didn't do the gay gimmick, and was actually announced as being from Detroit, and most people seemed to actually buy it, as Lenny was way over. Guess that shows how many people who watched WCW are still watching wrestling.

 

Al Snow and Coach are introduced to start Heat, they both come out to Coach's music. Al did the funny thing where he points to Coach, and everyone boos, then raises his arms and everyone cheers.

 

Heat Matches:

 

Garrison Cade defeated Val Venis - crowd seemed to die whenever Cade was on offense, but they were into Val. I did find Jindrak's absence conspicuous, and speculated that he was going to be drafted, which turned out to be the case.

 

Lita defeated Jazz with a DDT - also conspicuous by his absence in this match was Teddy Long, which got me thinking draft again. I guess only the smart fan picks up on things like this, but I'm still surprised that they gave us 2 possible draft spoilers on Heat, and both of them turned out to be right on the money.

 

The Hurricane defeated Joey Matthews - I like Joey but you know he's not going any to win any match where he enters the ring while Lita's music is still playing (not that he was going to win on Heat anyway, but it still doesn't make him look good). Also not making Joey look good was the "You're a Jobber" chant that he got after Lita's music stopped and before Hurricane's started. Good match actually, Hurricane won with the Shining Wizard (which is really more of a Shining Enzuguri, but I guess I'm nitpicking).

 

Matt Hardy Version 1.0 defeated Lance Storm - Matt was over. Prior to the match, Matt grabs the mic and gives us all an extra Matt Fact: "Matt hates things that are dull and boring, like Lance Storm". Please don't tell me we're going back to THAT gimmick. Nice match that Matt takes with the Twist of Fate.

 

Lilian Garcia delivers a beautiful rendition of the Star Spangled Banner, as always, and then introduces our announce teams. First JR comes out to Boomer Sooner, then the King comes out to his music, followed by Tazz and Cole coming out together to Tazz's music.

 

Off Camera stuff from the broadcast:

 

Mark Jindrak came out to the podium and made a speech with Paul Heyman during the commercial break after he was selected. Nothing of importance was said, basically just him talking about how great and how under appreciated he is, and how he is looking forward to going to Smackdown. He also made sure to rip Detroit while he was at it.

 

During the commercial break before World title match, a vignette was aired to the live crowd with Rhyno running into the Bashams backstage. The Bashams talked about how excited he must be not only to be going to Raw, but to be getting a World title shot right here in his hometown. Rhyno said he was excited about the title shot, but could care less about being in Detroit. Rhyno ran down the local teams "The Lions haven't won a game in like, ten years... The Red Wings got swept in the first round of the playoffs... and don't even get me started on the Tigers". He then said how Detroit sports fans have no respect. These people have no respect for him, and he has no respect for them.

 

This was all done, obviously, to get people to boo Rhyno in his hometown, where he usually gets pops. And it worked, though an unfortunate side effect of the vignette were some "Let's Go Red Wings" chants directed at Rhyno during the match, which is usually reserved for matches the audience doesn't care for. Don't know if any of those were audible over the broadcast or not, as they weren't THAT loud, but just in case I wanted to make it clear that the chants weren't because people were bored.

 

The "A--hole" chant during the main event was directed at the moron who tried to jump in the ring.

 

After the show went off the air:

 

There was a long fun bit after the show. The ring slowly clears, as wrestlers begin to fight their way back up the ramp. The last two men remaining in the ring are Big Show and Kane. They do the thing where the ring clears, then the two back up and bump into each other. They tease a confrontation, and each man grabs the other's throat attempting the choke slam. Then Austin hits the ring and stuns them both. Austin drinks some beer, and then HHH and Chris Benoit fight their way back into the ring. Benoit gets HHH in the crossface. Austin pours beer on HHH while he is in the crossface, and HHH taps. Austin helps HHH up, then stuns him. Austin and Benoit proceed to drink beers in the ring for the next several minutes. Benoit drops more than half of the beers that Austin tosses him, much to Austin and the crowd's amusement. After a while of that, Austin hops on the ATV and drives up the ramp, only to knock over both tumblers with it, before driving back down to the ring. Austin drinks some more beer, and tosses more beer to Benoit, who is 3/4 of the way up the ramp. Benoit continues to drop most of the beer. The two have several more beers in this fashion, before Benoit leaves, then Austin goes over and shares a beer with Lilian Garcia, who looked like she was actually drinking it for a while and not spilling it everywhere like everyone else does... but then her mouth started overflowing, and of course it ran all down her shirt, much to the crowd's enjoyment. Austin then saluted the crowd, and drove back up the ramp and exited for real this time. Lilian thanked us all for coming. All in all a fun show to be at live, as we got to see both rosters and lots of extracurricular stuff.

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The Hurricane d Joey Matthews

Whoo hoo! Matthews!

 

3PW! 3PW! 3PW!

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Dark Match:

Travis Tomko d Lenny Lane

 

Fertig getting a solo push?

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

For the record, Lance worked the as the heel, regularly cheating towards the end of the match. Matt got the pop when he won.

 

I don't know what Matt's actual fact was, since that's not shown on the Titantron, but the one about Storm was spoken to us on the mic as a Very Special Matt Fact. Perhaps they do this so we know that the one in the chyron is going to be, then cut it out, I don't know.

[Guest Moses The Monkey]

So did Val Venis work as a heel as well, with Garrison Cade a face, or can we expect the end of the Canadian Swingers?

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Val was the face. He even got the "You lost be you're a face so let's applaud you as you exit" pop.

 

At the time, obviously, we didn't know Jindrak and Cade were split up, but it was very suspicious that one was on Heat without the other. Equally suspicious when Teddy Long didn't come out with Jaz.

[Guest Man Of 1,004 Modes]

Chris Benoit = Butterfingers.

 

 

At least Austin didn't stun him.

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The ring slowly clears, as wrestlers begin to fight their way back up the ramp. The last two men remaining in the ring are Big Show and Kane. They do the thing where the ring clears, then the two back up and bump into each other. They tease a confrontation, and each man grabs the other's throat attempting the choke slam. Then Austin hits the ring and stuns them both.

 

I'm shocked that didn't get on the show.

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

Then Austin hits the ring and stuns them both.

 

I'm shocked that didn't get on the show.

This happened after 11:15pm. The segment ran very long. The way it was going down, it seemed like it was all being shot for TV, but once I looked at my watch to see how late it was, I realized it must have been cut off at some point.

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"The two have several more beers in this fashion, before Benoit leaves, then Austin goes over and shares a beer with Lilian Garcia, who looked like she was actually drinking it for a while and not spilling it everywhere like everyone else does... but then her mouth started overflowing, and of course it ran all down her shirt, much to the crowd's enjoyment. "

 

Austin: THAT'S a good woman!