The 10th Day News Report for 11.21.07

MAILBAG
I don’t watch ECW a whole lot, and since Punk missed the Reality Check at the PPV, I was just wondering, what is the Reality Check?
-Chris

The Reality Check is Miz’s finisher. It’s a knee lift to the side of the head to a kneeling opponent that sets up a neckbreaker slam. His other finisher is the Mizard of Oz, which is a wristlock swinging reverse DDT. Since he’s a chick magnet, maybe he should call himself the Mizard of Ahhs.

NEWS AND NOTES

-In your online Heat report Valdimir Koslow jobbed out Norman Smiley. What was he doing there? London and Kendrick beat the Highlanders in a battle of the depushed. Jim Duggan beat Mai Tai Anoai (is that Rosey?). Cade and Murdoch defeated the World’s Greatest Tag Team in what I’m sure was a crowd favorite. In the dark main event DX whipped up on Kennedy and Umaga. Credit: PWInsider.com

-The torchbearer on RAW was 18 year old high school student Jon Palmer. He is in training to be a wrestler. It would be so awesome if he sprang up like eight years from now to get revenge on Jericho as a Black Scorpion type character. Chris Jericho and WWE were said to be very happy about the way his segment came off. Credit: PWInsider.com

-WWE did photo and video shoots over the weekend in Naples, Florida with several WWE superstars. It is thought this was for the Royal Rumble. It is known that some of the footage shot was in HD and might serve as special opening segments for future HD programming. WWE has been looking into format for some time. Credit: PWInsider.com

-RAW Monday scored a 3.5 rating. Smackdown Thursday nabbed a 2.7. Credit: PWInsider.com

-The dark main event for Smackdown on November 27th is being advertised as Batista and Rey Mysterio vs. Great Khali and Finlay. Credit: PWInsider.com

-Ric Flair is officially endorsing Michael Huckabee for President. He will be making an appearance with the candidate this Saturday at the football game between South Carolina and Clemson. I officially support Elizabeth Kucinich. Credit: PWInsider.com

-Kristal Marshall on her official website has posted a statement revealing that she was released from WWE for not wanting to take part in a “morally degrading” storyline. She did not go into detail, but compared it to Lita being a “slutty vamp” and felt that she went out on a bad note and she did not want to go down that similar path. She also thanked Finlay, Booker T and Sharmell for their support and training of her. Credit: kristal-marshall.net

-WWE released a press statement Monday on the 15th anniversary episode of RAW for December 10th. It said little, but looked flashy like most recent episodes of the program. Credit: WWE press release

-Wrestlemania 23 reportedly pulled in 29.7 million to the Detroit area. Or what Dennis Rodman used to drop nightly in strip clubs when he played for the Pistons. The event also supported the equivalent of 334 full year jobs. That’s a lot of bootleg Rey Mysterio shirts. An additional $4.7 million was generated in taxes for the government. Oh yeah, let’s celebrate that. Cheer up my friends in Orlando. Economic salvation is on its way. Credit: WWE press release

-A full cast list for NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice” has been released and John Cena’s name did not appear on it. It was originally circulated that he was part of the program. No word at this time on what the deal is. Tito Ortiz of the UFC is still listed. Credit: TVGuide.com

-WWE has officially announced the expansion of Florida Championship Wrestling as a developmental territory with a full training facility and televisions studio, much like what OVW has. The new construction should be finished by the end of the month. Steve Keirn will run the territory with Tom Prichard overseeing the training. The new facility will house a 300 seat arena to host weekly TV tapings. Credit: WWE press release

-Nick Hogan has had his license suspended for two years. One year for an unpaid ticket and the other for drinking and driving under the age of 21. To compound matters, TMZ.com has a video up of Linda Hogan in 2005 extolling the virtues of illegal racing. She now denies these comments, despite video evidence otherwise. Hogan knows crap. Credit: TMZ.com, PWInsider.com

-The match between Austin Aries and Roderick Strong on November 30th at the Manhattan Center for Ring of Honor will be a 30 minute iron man match. In a comedy EWR fed I once booked a 6 minute iron man match. Credit: ROHWrestling.com

-Dr. Phil Astin has made a motion to be allowed to leave his house during work hours. He claims that he needs to work in order to make ends meet. I’m sure his lawyers will agree with that so they can get paid. It is not said what Astin would be doing as he has turned over his medical license to the courts. There are a lot of places I could go here, but it’s a grave matter still and I’ll try to stay clean. Credit: AP Reports

-Sylvan Grenier has replaced Pierre Oulette as the French commentator for TNA Impact in Canada. That’s really like trading in Joe Theisman for Ron Jaworski. Take that how you will, but I wouldn’t take it good. Credit: PWInsider.com

-Several TNA stars will take part in the Tokyo Dome event for New Japan this January. Abyss will battle Manabu Nakanishi, The Steiners will battle Tomko and Bernard for the IWGP Tag Titles and Yugi Nagata will challenge Kurt Angle for the IWGP 3rd Generation Title, which Angle holds but is not recognized in Japan. On November 11th Ron Killings was supposed to work a date for the company, but missed his flight. They were reportedly very upset and Jeff Jarrett had to smooth matters over with them. Credit: PWInsider.com

-Christy Hemme takes after Lita by starting her own band. Their first album is due in January and their first live performance will be January 5th at the Pomona Fairgrounds. A MySpace page for the band is in the works. Someone must fill the void of Fozzy. Credit: PWInsider.com

-TNA Knockouts Talia Madison and Angel Williams will be changing their names this week on Impact. This is so TNA can own the rights to their names and they can retain the rights to their other names for Indy appearances and such. Madison will be Velvet Sky and Williams will be Angelina Love. Apparently Kevin Nash left his porn star naming guide lying around backstage. Credit: PWInsider.com

-Sabu was not backstage at the Impact taping last week as some reported. Rebecca Bayless of Ring of Honor was. Maybe people got them mixed up? Nah. Credit: PWInsider.com

EWR ON 411

-A Thanksgiving fest is set up by the entranceway. You know that won’t survive the night.

-CM Punk vs. Kenny Dykstra. Let’s have the champion be the curtain jerker. Brilliant idea. Let’s put him up against Chuck Palumbo’s personal bitch who hasn’t won a match since the Nixon administration. Double brilliant. Kenndy surprisingly gets a lot offense early and Punk actually makes him look like a threat. Kenny goes up top, but is kicked by Punk so he crotches himself. Punk carries him off the turnbuckles and nails the G2S for the win.

-Elijah Burke is already in the middle of a promo as we come back from commercial. Burke has convinced Shelton Benjamin to join ECW. Better to be a big fish in a little pond, than a little fish in a big pond. Those who wish to book Charlie Haas for indy appearances should start lining up now. If Burke and Benjamin become a tag team I will dub them Chocolate Reign.

-Tommy Dreamer vs. Shelton Benjamin. What, did they give Nunzio the night off? Styles says that Tazz has often called Burke the Knute Rockne of ECW. I don’t remember that, but would that make Benjamin the Gipper. Shelly wins with a swinging DDT.

-Deuce ‘n Domino vs. Jesse and Festus. Miz and John Morrison sit in on commentary. I think we all can tell where this is heading and I’m not totally against it. Miz on Festus, “he plows through people with a comb over.” They do much better on commentary this week as they actually focus on the match and sound like they popped a couple zanacs before coming out. They do admire Cherry’s cherry bottom. Morrison comes up with the idea that we all did to just ring a bell before the end of the match to neutralize Festus. Festus and Jesse win. THEY DON’T SERVE BISCUITS AND GRAVY AT THE PALACE OF WISDOM!

-Matt Striker cuts a promo with Big Daddy V to hype the main event. Nothing you haven’t already heard

-Kevin Thorn vs. Nunzio. It’s the ninth level of jobber hell. At least I have my Nunzio question answered. Thorn has his hair cut like Doug E. Fresh and is wearing a singlet out of Kevin Sullivan’s closet. Being a vampire is much better than just being some dude.

-We get exclusive footage from after the show last week of Kelly Kelly and Layla getting into a fight at the craft’s service table. I eat at the Y myself.

-Seether is in the audience. Styles calls them JR’s favorite band. I always thought that was funny when he said that to hype them. Layla comes out to give thanks. She says Thanksgiving is next Thursday. It’s this Thursday you dumb slunt. Kelly comes out and dumps a pie on her. Oh yeah, food fight. I still miss the gravy bowl match. Tazz is pissed that there aren’t any yams on the table. THEY DON’T SERVE YAMS AT THE PALACE OF WISDOM! The girls will wrestle again next week.

-Big Dadddy V and Matt Striker vs. Kane. Striker basically acts as interference so V can jump Kane. A funny bit sees Striker getting in Kane’s face while he’s on the mat under V and Kane is still able to choke him. V levels Kane and allows Striker to pin him, but he kicks out. Kane comes back. He hits the flying clothesline for two on V. V breaks up a pin on Striker after a side slam. Kane boots down V and choke slams Striker for the win. V gets revenge post match. Is this going anywhere?

Smackdown for 11.22.07

Shark Boy bites Chris Jericho on the rear. He sells it big time. He then composes himself, looks at Shark Boy and bitch slaps him. Standing dropkick. Slingshot kneedrop. Sharky taps out to the walls.
Match Rating: 87%

Gene Okerlund is with Black Machismo Jay Lethal. “Let me tell you something Mean Gene. The Black Machismo has come to WWE to eat Slim Jim and kick ass and I’m all out of Slim Jims.” Lethal does all of the standard Savage mannerisms and sounds just like him.
Segment Rating: 54%

Lethal teams with Fred Curry vs. Styles and Shannon Moore. The Lethal and Moore portions are like an old Roberts and Savage match. Moore gets the DDT and makes with the arrogant cover. Lethal brings his legs up to hook the shoulders and flips Moore over to his back for the pin. Styles jumps Lethal post match, but Curry drags him out of the ring and they celebrate up the ramp.
Match Rating: 68%

Triple H catches up with Teddy Long. What does he want now? He still thinks he’s getting screwed in the Survivor Series match with Paul Burchill. If he gets DQ’ed or counted out he loses the title, but nothing happens to Burchill. He thinks if Burchill is disqualified or counted out then he should never get another title shot against him. Long doesn’t know if he can do that. He goes find Burchill and tells him what Hunter said. Burchill agrees. He’s only going to need one match to get the belt back.
Segment Rating: 84%

Shane Helms hits the Vertebreaker on Austin Aries. Chris Sabin jumps him for the DQ. Colt Cabana runs out to make the save.
Match Rating: 74%

During the break, an impromptu tag match broke out. Cabana has Sabin in the Cabana Hammock. Aries dives in and clips the knee. Helms spears Aries and they go to the floor. Hail Sabin DDT is blocked and turned into a muscle buster. Cabana wins. Batista then comes out and directs a post match beat down.
Match Rating: 74%

Chris Cage meets with Paul London. He has a match with Paul Burchill tonight. It’s important that he destroys Burchill. What about winning the match? It doesn’t matter. Just hurt him, hurt him bad or he’ll get hurt real bad by Evolution.
Segment Rating: 77%

Rey Mysterio tries a Thesz Press on Ken Kenndy, but he catches him for a choke bomb. Kenton misses. Mysterio drapes Kennedy on the top rope and kicks him square in the jaw. He falls to the middle rope and Mysterio gives him a reverses 619 to the floor. Drop the Dime misses. Double count out.
Match Rating: 85%

Stacy Keibler finds Medusa. She wants to talk, but Medusa won’t hear of it. Stacy wants to see what’s in the briefcase. NEVER! She hits Stacy with it and strips her. The other Divas show up and pull Medusa off.
Segment Rating: 76%

Roddy Piper invites Mick Foley out to Piper’s Pit. Piper wants Foley’s word that they will have a good clean match at Survivor Series and let the best team win. He offers his hand for a shake. Foley takes it, then applies the mandible claw with the other. Piper goes to his knees, then low blows Foley. He locks in a sleeper. Foley is out. Terry Funk runs out. Kevin Von Erich follows to back up Piper. Funk carries Foley off.
Segment Rating: 84%

London and Burchill have a nice technical match. Cage comes out and encourages London to get dirty and take Burchill out. Cage gets on the apron. London grabs a chair and swings. Burchill ducks and he nails Cage. C4 on the chair. Burchill wins.
Match Rating: 86%

Show Rating: 76%

Saturday Night’s Main Event for 11.24.07

EZ Money and DC Money use a heart attack clothesline to pin JC Ice. EZ gets the Money shot on Wolfie D. Scott Taylor gets the Decommissioned on DC Money and gloats about it to Doug Basham on the apron. He gets rolled up by El Grand Lucadore, but Basham saves. Taylor tags out. Turkey Creek Johnson comes in. Turkey Stuffer to Basham. Taylor doesn’t break up the pin. Basham argues with Taylor about it. Basham slingshots Taylor into the ring by jerking the ropes. The faces gang pin him.
Survivors: EZ Money, El Gran Luchadore and Turkey Creek Johnson
Match Rating: 63%

Brazil Chapman taps out to a surfboard by Surf Machine. Nunzio submits to the Scorpion Deathlock by Turf Machine. Brazil Chapman loses to a springboard clothesline from Heat Machine. Erik Watts wants to take a walk, but the Machines catch him and throw him into the ring to Hero Machine. Big boot, leg drop. He does the Hogan poses. Top rope sit down splash pins Watts.
Survivors: The Machines entire team
Match Rating: 66%

AJ Styles takes Black Machismo lightly. Lethal backdrops out of the Styles Clash as AJ sets it up. An atomic drops leads to a short arm clothesline. Savage punches sets up a body slam. Lethal goes to the top rope. Styles scoots out of the way of the elbow smash and runs off with his belt.
Match Rating: 70%

Cathy Finkel is pinned by Jillian Hall. Hall gets pinned by Trish Stratus. Litasult gets rid of Dawn Marie. Stacy defeats Traci Brooks with a super kick. Stephanie McMahon and So Cal Val trade bitch slaps. Steph has enough of that and DDT’s her for the elimination. Stratusfaction send Cheerleader Melissa packing. Steph tackles Trish to the floor and they brawl to a double count out. This leaves Lita and Stacy. Stacy rolls out of the way of the Litasult. She locks in the Nitroglycerin. Medusa runs in with her briefcase and knocks out both women. She then decks the referee. She is disgusted by these women fighting over the right to some trashy magazine shoot and doesn’t want any of them to have it. (from Mathew)
No Survivors
Match Rating: 59%

Shark Boy bites Shannon Moore. He tags to Norman Smiley for the Big Wiggle. Norman Conquest ousts Moore. Smiley walks into a missile dropkick by Aries. Hail Sabin DDT for Shark Boy. Shane Helms gets the Vertebreaker on Sabin. Aries breaks up the pin. Colt Cabana attacks him. Batista goes after Cabana. Nightmare on Helms Street pins Sabin. Batista locks Colt in his version of the Cabana Hammock, but he’s not the legal man. Helms is and he school boys Batista from behind. Batista goes nuts and lays out Helms. Aries steals the pin on him. Cabana and Aries go at it. The referee intercepts the bottle of ice, so Sister Grace slides Aries the loaded bible. Colt is cold cocked.
Survivor: Austin Aries
Match Rating: 65%

Teddy Long presides over the official contract signing of The Rock and Ron Killings. Rock saw the videotape and he knows now that he took the Angle Slam on Killings’ belt last week after he dropped it. It’s all good though. They shake. Rock pulls him in close and teases a Rock Bottom through the contract table. Nah, he’s just messing around. Killings smiles, then goes for the Clockstopper through the table. Nah, he’s just messing too. But he’ll be all serious tomorrow night.
Segment Rating: 90%

Bethany Sanchez uses a fisherwoman’s suplex for two, called the Dirty Sanchez (from Mathew, but I was thinking the same thing). Victoria gets spooked and grabs her belt. Sanchez splits to avoid the belt shot. She does a leg sweep to send Victoria down on her face on the belt. (from Mathew) Brainbuster on the belt. The ref calls for the DQ. Bethany licks Victoria full up the face and then walks off with the women’s title anyway.
Match Rating: 55%

Slyk Wagner Brown is nowhere to be seen for his match. Abyss and Irish Warrior and the High Rollers brawl off for the double eliminations. The Riders double team David Flair. Brown’s music plays and he struts to the ring. He takes the apron. David flips out of the Una-Mewes-ed for a neckbreaker. He makes the hot tag. Brown delivers an elbow to the top of Mewes’ head, then tags back out. Flair is all ‘what the hell.’ They argue. Brown sucker punches Flair and takes a walk. Nobody talks to him that way. Eric Young scrambles to make the cover and goes nuts over scoring the victory.
Survivors: The Riders
Match Rating: 62%

Acid Drop by Trent pins Carlito. Snuka splash by Jimmy pins Acid. Kashmere Sweater by Johnny gets Snuka. Jaeger Bomb from Maven defeats Kashmere. Cage-Breaker by Chris on Maven. London is eager to tag in. Cage chooses to work on Rey Mysterio alone. Mysterio baseball slides under the super kick and comes up with a spinning heel kick. London runs in and grabs Mysterio from behind. Rey flips over London and shoves him into Cage. A backslide pins a disoriented Cage. Rey ranas London for two. London rolls out of it to his feet…and right into a super kick by Cage. He’s pissed. Mysterio wins.
Survivor: Rey Mysterio
Match Rating: 64%

Alexis Laree and Molly Holly use stereo sunset flips to get double pins on Sonya Blackhawk and Nattie Neidhart. Teddy Hart is choked up by Ultimo Dragon’s smoke as he goes up top and crashes to the floor for the count out. Smoke and Mirrors takes out Michael. Harry Smith is alone. He surprises Ultimo Dragon with a lariat out of the smoke for the win. Super Smith Slam on La Parka’s chair eliminates him while the referee is still blinded by the smoke. Richards takes it to Smith. Smith catches Richards foot on the Stevie Kick and takes him down into a single leg crab. Richards taps. Laree runs in and eats a power bomb. Smith gloats, forgetting about Molly. He turns around into a Molly-Go-Round. One…two…three! (mostly from Mathew, finish from Pete) Harry Smith goes batshit. He delivers two Super Smith Slams to Molly on La Parka’s chair.
Survivor: Molly Holly
Match Rating: 59%

At the three minute mark, Three Minute Warning brawl off with 911 and Sabu. Evenflow DDT by Raven dispatches Al Snow. Randy Orton folds Raven up in a shopping cart with a power bomb and pushes it into Rhyno. It tips over and Raven spills out. Orton comes off the top with a stop sign to brain Raven. He pins him. Rhyno gores Orton out of his boots through a table and pins him. (from Mathew)
Survivor: Rhyno
Match Rating: 63%

Show Rating: 64%

Survivor Series for 11.25.07

The Mountie is pinned with a Rocker Dropper by Marty Jannety. Honk Tonk Man attacks Jannety from behind. Marty gets a tag to Scott Steiner while Honky isn’t looking. He goes for a facebuster on Jannetty, but eats a Steiner Line. Steiner Screwdriver puts him away. Steiner and Haku trade chops. Steiner dodges a charge and gets a full nelson suplex to pin Haku. Terry Funk blitzes Steiner with punches, but takes a Frankensteiner. Flying fist drop from Jannety. Flying bulldog by Rick. Von Erick locks in the claw and Funk submits.
Survivor: Von Erich, Jannetty, The Steiner Brothers
Match Rating: 61%

Chris Jericho knocks CM Punk down with an enzuigiri and wins the first fall with a lionsault. He then tries to lock on the Walls, but can’t turn Punk and he small packages him. Punk makes a comeback and catches Jericho as he goes for his one handed bulldog. He takes him to the mat in the Anaconda Vice. He taps immediately. Tazz points out how that is smart strategy to give himself a better chance on the final fall. Punk blocks the Breakdown and throws him into the turnbuckle face first. Jericho stumbles back into the Welcome to Chicago and loses. (from Pete)
Match Rating: 74%

Johnny Nitro goads Disco Fury into dancing with him. Fury ducks under the short arm clothesline and comes back with a spinning kick. Nitro shoves out of the Chartbuster and gets the List for the elimination. Nick Dinsmore goes for crossbody and slams into the Turret from Tank Toland. Tank Buster wins. Toland catches Jeff Hardy on a twisting senton and hits a snap power slam to get rid of him. Cena dispatches Toland with the FU. Nitro blocks the Unprettier from Christian before he can turn it and turns it into Splash Mountain. Christian is gone. Nitro works over Hardy. He hits the List on him Cena then blindsides him with the Flashback. He allows Hardy to crawl on him for the pin. The strategy being for Cena to take on the weakened Hardy. So we have the first champ and the last champ of this cycle (from Mathew). Hardy dives at Cean to get a drop toehold. He works a kneebar to recoup. Cena makes the ropes. He smashes Hardy in the mush with a back elbow. Thesz press with punches. Hardy rolls him over and makes a short skip off the match to nail him in the gut with his knees. Cena lifts Matt up out of the Twist of Fate for an inverted FU. Matt slips out of that in front of Cena for a Side Effect. Yodeling leg drop wins.
Survivor and new IC champ: Matt Hardy
Match Rating: 79%

Tajiri eliminates Dave Taylor with a buzz saw kick. Regal provides distraction so Nathans can nail him with the mace. Straightjacket neckbreaker pins him. Windsor and Noble wipe out each other to land on the floor. Regal distracts the referee again so McGuiness can roll his partner into the ring. Noble is counted out. Chavo tries the old gambit of acting like he got hit with a chair, but Regal has learned that too and goes down as well. The ref says to hell with it and makes it a double DQ. Brisc-O dispatches Nathans. They try it on Windsor, but McGuiness saves with a knee clip. Windsor rolls Mark up with a handful of tights for the elimination. Tower of London on Jay. The Million Dollar Corporation has to dissolve.
Survivors: Adam Windsor and Nigel McGuiness
Match Rating: 73%

Rated RVD target Charlie Haas. Edge spears him off a ladder through two stacked tables. Benjamin tries to give Edge an Exploder off the ladder, but Edge shoves him off through another table. Edge claims the belts. (from Mathew)
Match Rating: 95%

Kurt Angle Slams Brock Lesnar. He gloats to his brother. Brock kips up behind him, takes his head off with a clothesline and beats him with a spinebuster. Kennedy misses the Kenton and Conway beats him with My F*cking Finisher. Sylvan and Booker T have a battle of kicks. Sylvan hits a leg lariat. Booker kicks out at two. He spinaroonies up and gets a short distanced scissors kick. Book End eliminates Sylvan. Booker telegraphs a backdrop and Eric Angle catches him for a swinging neckbreaker. Angle-Plex beats him. Austin stunners everything moving and pins Conway. Foley catches him with Mr. Socko. Austin bails and takes Foley with him for the double count out. Eric swings through the FU into a DDT. Angle Slam leads to the Eric Driver. Piper jumps on Eric for a sleeper. Angle throws him out of it. Piper holds on as long as he can in the ankle lock, but he taps.
Survivor: Eric Angle for Team RAW (parts from Mathew)
Match Rating: 76%

Burchill kicks out of the Pedigree. Triple H kicks out of the C4. Triple H whiffs on a facebreaker and Burchill dropkicks him in the throat. Triple H rolls to the floor. Paul London runs out and attacks Triple H. Evolution runs out and beats him down. It’s a DQ. Teddy Long comes out. Triple H begs with Teddy. Long admits that the disqualification was not intentional on behalf of Triple H. Hunter gets to keep the belt. And Burchill can never have another title shot. It begrudges Long, but yes. That’s official. It’s official. Can’t change it now. No. Triple H then goes over to London like he’s going to hit him, but instead they hug. Triple H announces London as the newest member of Evolution. (from Mathew)
Match Rating: 86%

Brent Albright and Big Vito starts Wargames. The heels win the coin toss. Matt Morgan comes in next. They double team Albright and bust him open on the cage. Chris Masters is a house of fire. He wins a slugfest with Morgan and locks him in the Masterlock. Lashley saves as he enters. He hits the Dominator on Albright and Masters. Kane is in. Choke slams to everybody. On the outside, Heyman tries to get at Katie Vick. Undertaker chases him off and right into a big boot by Big Show. Show enters. This leaves Katie alone with Heyman. Heyman slaps her. She goes down and then gets a testicular claw. Undertaker is supposed to go in next, but he’s out. This forces Vick to enter. Kane is backed into the corner and valiantly fights off all the heels to protect her. Heyman comes in with a taser and shocks Kane. Lashley spears Vick. Heyman wants Show to splash her. Undertaker rushes in. Flying clotheslines, big boots, soup bone right hands. Only Heyman is left standing. Kane is back around. Double team choke slam. Katie Vick uses the taser on Heyman’s balls and he submits. (parts from Pete)
Survivors: Team Deadman
Match Rating: 71%

The Rock shoves out of the Clockstopper and catches Killings bouncing off the ropes for a Rock Bottom. Killings elbows out of that. Rock back drops out of Truth or Consequences. Killings moves out of the way of the People’s Elbow. Standing moonsault. He goes up top. Rock slams him off. Rock comes off the second rope with an elbow, but lands on an outstretched foot. Killings hits the old Consequence (elevated cradle neckbreaker for two). He goes back up top and misses a 450 splash. Rock locks in a sharpshooter. Killings…is…almost…to…the…ropes…he taps out. Rock is the new champion. Killings gets the belt and looks like he’s going to hit the Rock with it. He then hands it to him. Rock offers his hand. Killings shakes his head. That’s a bit too much. He walks off. Rock is offended. (parts from Mathew)
Match Rating: 82%

Show Rating: 81%

RAW for 11.26.07

Harry Smith slips on the ropes as he tries for the Super Smith Slam. Brent Albright hits the flux capacitor for the win. Shawn Michaels on commentary hypothesizes that losing to a girl has shaken Harry’s confidence.
Match Rating: 80%

A limo pulls up outside. Mick Foley greets it. It’s Roddy Piper. Foley wants Piper present when he announces who he is stealing from Smackdown. Piper says to tell him who. No, it has to be in the ring at the end of the night.
Segment Rating: 73%

Kurt Angle finds his brother Eric. He knows they haven’t gotten along lately. However, Kurt is really impressed by how Eric performed last night. He knows he can be a champion, but he has to get out from under his shadow. So for Eric, Kurt has used his favor from Foley to send Eric to Smackdown. Eric doesn’t know what to say. Kurt suggests that since he used his favor to help him, he could use his to help him. Since he won’t be around on RAW anymore he can use his favor to give Kurt a title shot.
Segment Rating: 82%

Slyk Wagner Brown makes his RAW debut by going over Danny Inferno with the Haterbreaker (spinning powerbomb)
Match Rating: 63%

All of the Divas meet with Hugh Hefner. He tells them to stop squawking. He has decided to let all of the WWE divas take part in the Playboy lingerie shoot (from Mathew). Stacy doesn’t know why Medusa is so against them and Playboy. Hef says he knows why and he knows what is in the case. He gives Stacy a card. This is an old photographer that worked for him in the eighties. He might be able to shed some light on things.
Segment Rating: 62%

Kane and Undertaker win a four way elimination bout over Abyss and Irish Warrior, Bobby Lashly and Big Show and the World’s Greatest Tag Team to get a title shot at Rated RVD.
Match Rating: 81%

Cathy Finkel is in the back with EMF. Rob and Sylvan play paper, rock, scissors. Paper covers rock. Rob wins. He uses his favor for a title match with the Rock. Sylvan will save his for a tag title shot at a later date.
Segment Rating: 76%

The Rock takes the ring to celebrate his title win. He calls Ron Killings out to join him. Killings doesn’t show. Rock calls him out a bit madder this time. Rock goes to the back to look for him.
Segment Rating: 89%

John Cena demands a title shot with Matt Hardy. He obliges. Hardy stops the revolving door of IC champions as he wins with the Twist of Fate.
Match Rating: 78%

Rock finds Kurt Angle and asks if he’s seen Killings. Angle tells him that nobody since last night has seen him. He went to go get drunk. It’s hell to lose the title. Kurt remembers his first big title loss. He drank a gallon of milk, ate a bag of Oreos and then didn’t exercise at all to work them off. Rock tells him to shut the hell up. Eric then comes out of Foley’s office. So, Kurt has his title shot? Eric thought the best way he could give back to his brother and the fans of RAW is to have his last match be on RAW next week. It will be Kurt vs. Eric for the first time ever. Kurt is not feeling that.
Segment Rating: 90%

Mick Foley demands that Roddy Piper meets him in the ring. This is his own hosting segment called Foley’s Fjord. It’s a mock of Piper’s Pit. Foley has considered it long and hard, but in the end there was only one man he could take from Smackdown. Foley is stealing from Smackdown…Piper himself! Foley then fires Piper and tells him he’s got five minutes to get the hell out of WWE. Piper punches Foley and works him over. Terry Funk leads out security to the make the save. Piper wades through all of them. He stands alone. He plays to the crowd as he exits for the last time.
Segment Rating: 76%

Show Rating: 77%

Jake Roberts, who we still have on the roster, insulted some of our guys in a radio interview so I suspended him for the month

Trent Acid has a bad attitude backstage. He was suspended for the month.

Believe it or not, but CZW just went global.

Teddy Long will be interviewing candidates for the Smackdown GM job. Possible candidates are:
Kevin Von Erich
Terry Funk
Tazz
William Regal
Dave Finlay
Stephanie McMahon
Dave Taylor
Jake Roberts
Steve Austin
Bill Alfonso
Paul Heyman
Honky Tonk Man
Chavo Guerrero, Sr.
Diamond Dallas Page
Don Callis
Hillbilly Jim
Jerry Lawler
Johnny Fairplay
Larry Zbysko
Reverend Slick
Vince Russo
Giant Gozalez (he’s in the game, I kid you not)

Smackdown card for next week, choose all winners

Battle Royal of Survivor Series survivors for a Smackdown Title shot
El Gran Luchadore vs. Turkey Creek Johnson vs. EZ Money vs. Austin Aries vs. Rey Mysterio vs. Rhyno vs. Nigel McGuiness vs. Adam Windsor vs. TBA vs. TBA

Winner of below two matches gets in the above battle royal
Chris Jericho vs. Brock Lesnar
Booker T vs. Tajiri

Paul Burchill vs. Paul London

CM Punk vs. Ken Kennedy for the US Title

Jay and Mark Briscoe vs. William Regal and Aidan Nathans for the Smackdown Tag Team Titles

Randy Orton vs. Raven for the Hardcore title in a casket match

Black Machismo Jay Lethal vs. Shannon Moore

AJ Styles vs. Marty Jannetty for the Cruiserweight Title

Colt Cabana vs. Chris Sabin

911 and Sabu vs. Rosey and Jamal

Scott Taylor vs. Doug Basham vs. Chavo Guerrero vs. Jamie Noble for a Cruiserweight title shot

RAW card for next week, choose all winners

The Rock vs. Rob Conway for the RAW Title

Kurt Angle vs. Eric Angle

Rated RVD (Edge and RVD) vs. The Brothers of Destruction (Kane and Undertaker) for the RAW Tag Team Titles

Matt Hardy vs. Bobby Lashley for the IC Title (Lashley asked for it)

Abyss, Irish Warrior and Krystal Frost vs. The High Rollers (Gamble and Vegas) and Traci Brooks

David Flair and Slyk Wagner Brown vs. The Riders (Mewes and Young)

Harry Smith and Sonya Blackhawk vs. Stevie Richards and Molly Holly for the Mixed Tag Team Titles

Big Show vs. Sylvan Grenier

Christian vs. Johnny Nitro

The Troubleshooters (Albright and Masters) vs. Nick Dinsmore and Jeff Hardy

Erik Watts vs. The Masked Superstar

Bethany Sanchez vs. So Cal Val