This Week In Wrestltling Aug. 21-25
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.
Results From Summerslam 2005
U.S. Title: Chris Benoit def. Orlando Jordan (champ)
Edge def. Matt Hardy
Ladder Match: Rey Mysterio def. Eddie Guererro
Kurt Angle def. Eugene
Randy Orton def. The Undertaker
WWE Title: John Cena (champ) def. Chris Jericho
World Title No Holds Barred: Batista (champ) def. JBL
Hulk Hogan def. Shawn Michaels
This Week On Raw
This show was a tremendous follow up to Summerslam as they were starting all new fresh angles by the end of the night. Shelton Benjamin started up the show against Angle in an awesome match that was comparable to Michaels and Benjamin fighting each other in the Gold Rush tourney back in April or May but an awesome match no matter what. I thought that Benjamin would win that match and then Angle would be all mad and start up a feud with Benjamin but Angle won and after Cena beat Jericho in a You’re Fired match, Angle attacked Cena and is now Bischoff’s new fighter against Cena for the title. Ric Flair finally returned but not with HHH and is now looking to have a feud against Carlito and maybe it will go out as far as having Flair chase Carlito for 1 more accolade, the IC title. Now the results from Raw.
Results From Aug. 22 Raw
Kurt Angle def. Shelton Benjamin
Rob Conway def. Matt Hardy
Big Show def. Snitsky
You’re Fired Match WWE Title: John Cena (champ) def. Chris Jericho
This Week On Smackdown
This was not a good follow up to Summerslam. This week they announced when Smackdown was moving to Fridays and in my mind is a stupid move. Tazz said that nothing is ever on Frdays and they were going to dominate Fridays from now on. Why do you think there is nothing on Fridays? Because, for some, it is Varsity Football night, some people are on dates, and it is the end of the work week and everybody at least workers who had a long week, are at bars. Do you think any major network is going to run a program on a night like that, everybody is out having a good time. Their main event was good and it was also announced that the World Title would be defended on the first Friday night Smackdown with Batista defending the belt again against JBL. YAY! (not really). I am not saying the matches were bad, just the storline directions on the show following such a great PPV. Now on to Smackdowns results.
Results From Aug. 25 Smackdown
Super Crazy and Psicosis def. Booker T and Christian
Randy Orton def. Hardcore Holly
Heidenreich def. Johnny Nitro via DQ
Ken Kennedy def. Funaki
6 Man Tag: Batista, Chis Benoit, and Rey Mysterio def. Orlando Jordan, JBL, and Eddie Guererro
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