Earlier this June, KJ Noons defended his EXC welterweight championship against Yves Edwards. Using his boxing, he knocked out Edwards in less than a minute. As he and his father were celebrating in the ring, Nick and Nate Diaz came into the cage and Nick uttered those words above and all hell broke loose.
But it was set. Finally, EXC had a grudge match, and one that people wanted to see. You had Nick and Nate Diaz, the ultimate jerks, facing off against KJ Noons, who needed to not only defend his championship, but the honor of his father who was disrespected in the cage.
I’ve always been a pretty “inside” wrestling fan. One of my early memories is my dad telling me that Hulk Hogan would beat Andre The Giant at Wrestlemania III because he heard that someone bet big money on Hogan. I’d pretty much always known that it was fake. That’s what happens when you have a dad who grew up watching Pepper Gomez and Ray Stevens. He schooled me early on.
Back in 1991, I was decently “in the know” because of a radio show out of LA (I think) hosted by a man named Dynamite D. He wrestled at a place called “Slammers”, which I think was a gym that trained people and also hosted some matches. I don’t remember too much about it, but do remember that the show didn’t broadcast on a radio station that my area would pick up. I was able to pick it up on my television via a cable channel. We had a channel that scrolled a bunch of information, but the background was blue. That’s the channel I would pick up the show on. I think I was able to listen to this show for at least 6 months. Even when I was on vacation, I taped the show and listened back when I got back. I didn’t actually stare at the blue screen. I did other things like read magazines or whatever, but I don’t think I missed a show.
Big D has you covered with the latest in Florida Championship Wrestling. He wrote the August 21 FCW taping report for the recently merged F4WOnline/Wrestling Observer site. Katie Lea showed up and worked the show and WWE bound Gail Kim made a quick appearance as well, until she was hurried to the back.
I was alerted yesterday by our own Big D that in addition to the Raw Heavyweight Championship Scramble match, according to the Smackdown spoilers (don’t worry, I won’t spoil the actual matches), we will have another scramble for the other championship belt. What?
You don’t have to look very far back to when WWE did something similarly. Let’s go back to February of this year. They had a great idea for a yearly stipulation that made sense. John Cena won the Royal Rumble and because of that win was scheduled for the Wrestlemania title shot. The question always becomes, “What happens with the other title?” They had an awesome solution. Put six of your top guys in the Elimination Chamber match, and the winner would get the other title shot. You could do that every year at No Way Out and you have two special pay per views back to back with the first being the Royal Rumble.
Of course, they screwed it up. Cena decided to take his title shot at No Way Out even though he said the only reason he came back to win the Royal Rumble was because he wanted to main event Wrestlemania. And thus, instead of only doing one Elimination Chamber match at No Way Out, they did two. Imagine if at last week’s pay per view, in addition to the Undertaker and Edge Hell In A Cell match, they decided that John Cena and Dave Batista would be decided in similar fashion. Stupid right?
We had coverage of last night’s WWE SummerSlam show. A few of our writers gave their thoughts about the show.
SummerSlam
GG
Show overall rating: Thumbs up
Best Match: John Cena vs. Batista
Worst Match: Matt Hardy vs. Mark Henry
I know, I know. I’m supposed to say that the Hell In A Cell match between the Undertaker and Edge was the best match of the night. I thought it was well done and very good. But I’d be lying if I didn’t say I had more fun watching the slobber knocker that was Cena/Batista I. It was hard hitting and fast paced and I loved the huge power spots. If not for the terrible submissions, I would’ve loved it even more. I think what ruined Edge/Undertaker for me were the chair shots to the face and head. I know they are doing them a lot safer now, but I still get an odd feeling when I see someone getting a chair shot to anywhere above the back.
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1. Jeff Hardy vs. MVP
MVP used a few submissions and Hardy sold for a lot of the match. Hardy made his comeback and hit the “Whisper In The Wind”. He went up top for the swanton, but saw Shelton Benjamin come out and jumped on him. He went back to the top and then missed the swanton. MVP hit the “Shining MVP” for the win. Pretty good opener.
Winner: MVP by pin fall
Santino and Beth Phoenix did an interview with Maria where the gist was that Maria couldn’t have Santino anymore because he was all Beth’s. Maria looks awesome.
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