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On August 19, the wrestling world and Combat Zone Wrestling lost an awesome athlete that being Chris “Cash” Bauman. He debuted in CZW in 2001 and was seemingly being praised by the CZW announcers very early in his career including the host of Pro Wrestling Radio Eric Gargiulo. It is said that he lived every day to the fullest whether he was being faced with adversity or not. Chris Cash passed away in a motorcycle accident including his cousin Jeremy Bauman. Chris was 23 and Jeremy was 27. During Chris Cash’s career, he held the CZW World Tag Team titles with a member of Team Cash, that being Nate Webb. They defeated The Blackout (Ruckus and Sabian) on December 11, 2004. They held the titles until Feburary 5, 2005, when they dropped the titles to the HB Club (Jusitice Pain and Nick Cage). It is also said that Chris gave everything he had in every single wrestling match whether he was in the 1st match, in the middle of the card, or in the main event he always gave everything he had. My heart goes out to Chris’s family and friends because I know what it is like losing a family member and a friend. On 9-1-98, I lost my biological dad in a boating accident and on 3-4-05, I lost a close friend when he tragically committed suicide and not a day goes by where I don’t think of either of those 2 men because they were both very close to me. So I know what it is like to lose someone very close to me. CZW is holding a tribute show to Chris Cash on September 10, 2005 called “Down With The Sickness 4-Ever and admission is $10. For more info on that event, you can visit www.czwrestling.com and they will give you the full info on the event. In conclusion, I will just like to say that this blog is dedicated to the family and friends of Chris Cash and I do know he has passed away a little over a week ago, but I just wanted all of the best info I could find on Chris Cashs’ life and career.

Again this week I will be covering Raw and Smackdown together and I will also be including Summerslam. Let’s start with Summerslam. What an incredible PPV. This was the best PPV I have seen since ECW One Night Stand. You might say that isn’t much but you must include the Raw and Smackdown PPVs and TNA’s PPVs. It started with a 25.5 second match with Benoit beating Orlando Jordan. Batista and JBL’s match was a good one despite of what I said JBL in recent blogs. Cena rightfully kept his title from Jericho. Then Hogan-Michaels was a good match. Hogan is not agile enough to hang with Michaels but if you saw that match, it sure looked like he was but that is because of Michaels being a common denominator. A common denominator is a guy that can wrestle anybody and can make guys that are not comparable to them look like they are. Now onto the results from a phenomanal PPV.

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I am sorry that I missed doing my Raw blog, I had to much stuff to do so this one will be a very extended one. Now on to Raw from this past week. You can tell no one in Montreal likes Shawn Michaels. He is the best charachter possible when it comes to being a heel. He knows how to draw heat from the fans like he knows how to draw love when he is a babyface. They are really hyping Micheals’ match against Hogan at Summerslam and what a match this shall be. This likely will be Hogan’s last match so he might win but I think they are going to involve Bret Hart into this feud at Summerslam by him getting revenge against Micheals or Hogan, 2 guys he can’t stand in his professional or personal life. Shawn he can’t stand for whta happened when Shawn screwed Bret at Survivor Series ‘97. Hogan he can’t stand because of a misunderstanding of who Hogan was going to drop the belt to at King of the Ring ‘93 when rumors circulated that Hogan said he would not drop the belt to Bret because Bret wasn’t in his league. If you don’t believe me, read Hogan’s autobiography, he tells the whole story himself. Anyway, Shawn has had an incredivle year in WWE from his feud with Edge to wrestling Angle at WMXX and Vengeance to now wrestling Hogan at Summerslam. You have to imagine what they have in store for Shawn at Survivor Series,. Maybe a match, even though very unlikely, Shawn vs. Bret, rematch from Survivor Series ‘97. Now on to the WWE title storyline quickly. Cena obviously has alot of momentum going into this match and I am not going to sit here again and crticize this feud and if you want to hear it, read my other blogs. Now on to the results.

TNA Sacrifice Results
Six Man Tag: Chris Sabin, Sonjay Dutt, and Shark Boy def. Elix Skipper, Simon Diamond, and David Young
Alex Shelley def. Shocker
Abyss def. Lance Hoyt
Konnan and Ron Killings def. Kip James and Monty Brown
Christopher Daniels def. Austin Aries
Jerry Lynn def. SEan Waltman
Team Canada def. The Naturals and AMW
Ultimate X Cup final: Samoa Joe def. AJ Styles
Jarret and Rhino def. Raven and Sabu
Just 1 quick note, TNA Impact will appear on Spike TV on October 1.

This week on Smackdown they are continuing to push the world title match pitting Batista against JBL at Summerslam in a No Holds Barred match. If they decide to give the belt back to JBL, it will be a huge mistake because JBL was a thrown up there type of guy for Smackdown when he got the belt. He was thrusted into the top spot and you just can’t do that with a low card singles wrestler and a mid card tag wrestler for the past 10 years and expect people to give a crap all of a sudden. He was thrusted up there because there were going to be big holes in the upper spots and WWE was not really prepared for that. You see, Brock Lesnar was leaving the company to join the NFL, The Rock was off making movies in Hollywood after his 1 match at WMXX, Goldberg was leaving the company, Stone Cold was going to leave the company in a couple of weeks, Kurt Angle was having neck problems and was appointed new GM of Smackdown after Heyman walked out, and the rest of the upper echelon wrestlers were on Raw so JBL was their last minute replacement because another replacement was already holding the belt that being Eddie Guerrero but Batista grew into his spot on Raw and won a world title quicker than JBL because people cared about Batista but not JBL during his first years with the company. Just 1 more thing before I give you the results from this past week, they now on national television are putting rey’s son supposedly Gurerro’s son into foster care on national television and resulting in a match at Summerslam for custody of Dominick. How sick.

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Before I start talking about what went down on Raw this past week, I would like to inform you that I will talk about Raw on Tuesdays or Wednesdays and Smackdown on Fridays Or Saturdays. You might say I am only focusing on WWE, but that is where I am going to tell you that I will try to cover as many wrestling promotions as I can on my Smackdown posts and any other major non-ring headlines as I can. With that said , let me start talking about Raw this past week.
This Week On Raw:
They elimanated Kristal from the Raw Diva Search and next week, they will crown a new Raw diva. For one thing, that is not true. They crowned Christy Hemme the new Raw diva last year but Carmela, the girl she beat in the finals, came back for a month feud with her. We still see Maria on Raw and Michelle McCool on smackdown and even Joy Giovanni (now released) and not to mention Amy Weber(I don’t know where she went to), girls that were elimanated but obviously had a job waiting for them when they got elimanated. It was announced this past week that Kurt Angle will meet Eugene at Summerslam in a No Time Limit match meaning it is not the Eugene Invitational at Summerslam. What I want to know what happened to Angle semmingly going into a feud with Ric Flair. We have not seen Ric Flair in a long time which might be hapening because HHH is not doing anything right now. I am not saying anything like saying Raw is built on these 2 people but Ric Flair’s career in WWE is not built on HHH. Ric Flair is still a part of the WWE roster and I think at least in my mind that Flair-Angle would be a better match for Summerslam on Raw’s behalf because I think with Ric Flair complimenting Angle in his book by saying he could be the best ever and pitting Angle against Flair would represent 2 very different generations of wrestling style going against one another would be a very good match. It could go really any way. If Flair won, he could say he still has it in him to go against any wrestler on any given night and if Angle won, he could say he is now the best ever because he beat the best ever that being a 16 time World Champion in Ric Flair and because he beat every single big name in the business at least once. They seem to be still pushing Raw’s main event for the WWE Title pitting John Cena against Chris Jericho and you already know my thoughts on that from last weeks blog ( if you have read it yet). That is it for this blog but before I am done, I am going to post the match results form Raw like I will do with my Smackdown blog and any other promotion’s results I find in my Smackdown blogs.
Match Results From Aug. 8 Raw:
Kristal elimanated from Raw Diva Search
Matt Hardy def. Gene Snitsky
Eugene def Kurt Angle by DQ Eugene Invitational
Chris Masters def. Shelton Benjamin
Rob Conway def. Viscera
Victoria and the Heart Throbs def. Hurricane, Rosey, and Stacy Keibler
Chris Jericho def. Chad Patton (referee)

They are continuing to build up Raw’s main event for Summerslam pitting John Cena against Chris Jericho with Cena’s WWE title on the line. Some people may be liking this feud but I find it stupid and the challenger is not worthy of this shot. I have no problem with Cena but Jericho, give me a break. This is a man that has said on many occasions he would like to retire soon and put full effrort into his band Fozzy. I have not seen him wrestle in at least a couple of weeks and when he does wrestle, he seems to lose or come close to it. We saw Cena defend his belt against Jericho in a 3 way also involving Christian at Vengeance and the only one who seemed to have a good match and hold up his end was Cena. Now, at one of the biggest PPVs of the year, Jericho is getting another chance at the gold and he doesn’t deserve it. One person who does is Shelton Benjamin. This kid was an amateur wrestler at the state of Minnesota and being an amateur wrestler myself in High School and seeing what I go through, it must be nothing compared to what Benjamin must have gone through. If this kid can survive amateur wrestling in college, he must be good. Don’t forget, when he first came to Raw in early 2004, he beat HHH twice, took Orton to the limit for his IC belt, and beat the legend Ric Flair. This guy back in October, beat the challenger for the WWE title that being Chris Jericho for Jericho’s IC belt at Taboo Tuesday and went on to hold it for 8 months and in that span, defended the belt against Jericho sucessfully. When Carlito first came over this year in the draft and challenged Benjamin for his IC belt, he got to beat him and successfully defend it against Benjamin at Vengeance. That whole incident seemed to downplay Benjamin and just last week, Carlito got a shot at Cena’s WWE title. Where is Benjamin’s title shot for the WWE title? He certainly deserves more than Carlito and way more than Jericho.

Match Results from Aug. 1 Raw:
Eugene Invitational: Eugene def. Tatanka by DQ
Shelton Benjamin and Big Show def. Chris Masters and Gene Snitsky
Rob Conway def. Val Venis
WWE Title: Joh Cena (champ) def. Carlito(IC champ)