*SPOILERS* WWE Velocity & Smackdown Taping Results from Richmond, Virginia
Submitted by Daniel Pena on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 at 2:13 AM EST





Thanks to Scoop Madison for the report.

Velocity and SmackDown! Spoiler Report by Scoop Madison.

First off the Richmond Coliseum looked to be very close to sold out.
There were people walking up and buying tickets so it wasn’t totally
sold out but it had to be about 95% full.

Velocity and or Dark Matches:

Orlando Jordan vs. Johnny Depp, no it’s Keith Richards, no wait, it’s
Paul Burchill. O.J. is out to insult us before Burchill makes his
entrance. You see, O.J. is from Richmond and he’s not too proud of that
fact. He goes on to insult one of Richmond’s own, the late Arthur Ashe.
O.J. gets a loud ‘You Suck” chant for that one. Anyway, Burchill takes
care of the hometown boy in about 6 minutes.

Velocity announcers Josh Mathews and Steve Romero make their way to the
announce table to call the action.

Simon Dean & Gymini vs. Paul London, Brian Kendrick and Funaki was
next. Decent match that sees Gymini catch Kendrick while he is trying to
hit a top rope bulldog. Gymini finishes off Kendrick with their
finisher.

Next is exciting Junior Division action. Didn’t catch their names but
the one wearing white beat the one wearing blue. Played as a comedy
match (and I use the word comedy loosely).

Next was a guy who didn’t get an entrance vs. Sylvan. Sylvan told us
we all suck and then proceeded to beat the no entrance guy in a short
match.

Velocity main event saw Super Crazy (w/ Juan Deer) vs. Vito (w/o
Nunzio). Nice, loud “Super Crazy” chant for this match. Crazy hit a
standing moonsault to pick up the 1…2…3.


Change over to SmackDown! Bring out Tazz and Michael Cole!

Cold open as we go right to the theme music for Randy Orton. Randy
goes on about winning the WrestleMania 22 title shot from Rey Mysterio at
No Way Out. He is getting massive heel heat in this promo, probably
the loudest of the night. He says destiny is on his side and then he
proceeds to run down Rey, and Eddie Guerrero and everyone who doubted him.
As everyone is waiting for someone to run down the ramp to attack,
Chavo Guerrero comes from the crowd and starts beating the tar out of
Orton. The 3 Amigos lay out Randy and sets him up for the frog splash.
Chavo hits it and then has to be forcibly removed from the premises by
about 8 security guards.

During the break they showed a promo for Kane’s new movie See No Evil.
No one really seemed to care.

Next segment sees MNM defending their WWE Tag Team Titles against Matt
Hardy and Tatanka. Can someone explain to me why they put a non-title
match on a PPV and then have the same match but make it for the title
on free TV? I didn’t think so. This was a very good match with a lot
of fast paced action and double teams. Tatanka looked very strong and
agile for a guy who was away from the ring for so long. Matt Hardy had
a nice move where he hit a sort of Closeline / Side Effect combo on
both Nitro and Mercury. The move was to no avail though as some Melina
interference and a handful of tights saw Mercury pin Matt Hardy after
about an 8 minute match.

Next we go backstage where William Regal makes an appearance. He is
reading a letter to Paul Burchill written by a fan asking him how he can
let Burchill embarrasses himself and his former tag team partner by
allowing him to dress up like a pirate. Regal tells Burchill that he’s a
"bloody hooligan, not a pirate". Burchill is non-plused as he hands a
fake bomb to Regal and leaves the room only to come back and say “Boom”
when the fuse burns out. Very strange indeed but Regal did get to work
the word “besmirched” into his diatribe.

Next is the Hall of Fame update where they show the same Eddie video
they showed on Raw. Still hard to watch that footage.

For some reason, they had to change the top rope all around the ring.
So to pass the time they showed us a Diva photo shoot video. Needless
to say, no one in the arena seemed to mind the delay.

Booker T came out with his wife Sharmell to sit-in with Tazz and Cole
for the announcing on the next match.

The Dicks make their entrance. They were expecting to be in a tag team
match. They were delighted to hear Tony Chimel announce that instead
of a tag team match they wiould be in a handicap match. Their moods
quickly change however when they find out that they will be facing The
Boogieman. The match doesn’t last long as Boogieman pinned one of the
Dicks with a chokeout - powerbomb. Afterwards, Boogieman comes over to
Booker T’s end of the announce table. Booker and Sharmell get out of
there in a hurry and exit through the crowd. Boogieman decides to move
over to Tazz and Cole. Boogieman then grabs his bucket o’ worms and
pours it all over the announce table. Tazz is over the wall and Michael
Cole looks like he’s about to puke. One thing I will say about The
Boogieman is that he gets a reaction from the crowd. Not sure it’s the
reaction they want him to get, but it is a reaction none the less.

The “Big Time” WrestleMania moment tonight is the Swanton Bomb off the
ladder into Bubba Rey Dudley by Jeff Hardy from WrestleMania 2000.

Rey Mysterio is out next to say that he is very happy that Eddie will
be a member of the Hall of Fame Class of 2006. He is also out to
apologize to everyone for letting them down at NWO and loosing his
WrestleMania 22 title shot. Theodore Long comes out to console Rey. He tells
him that even though Randy Orton cheated his way to the win at NWO (and
Teddy has the video evidence to prove it) he can’t reverse a referee’s
decision. So while he can’t take Randy Orton out of the match at
WrestleMania, he can add Rey to it. So he makes it a triple threat at
WrestleMania between whoever the champion is vs. Randy Orton vs. Rey
Mysterio. Needless to say, Rey (and the crowd) like this announcement.

Next out is Kristal with a copy of the 2006 Diva’s Magazine. She is
all set to give everyone a preview (by removing the robe she is wearing)
when Jillian interrupts her. Jillian tells her that no one wants to
see Kristal out of the robe so Kristal winds up slapping Jillian, ripping
her shirt off and then dropping her own robe.

Gregory Helms cuts a promo which I am guessing was for our eyes only to
try and drum up some heel heat. He said that while he had heard that
the Virginia state slogan was “Virginia is for Lovers” he didn’t realize
that that meant brother and sister love. I don’t know it seemed funny
at the time.

Next match is for the Cruiserweight title and it’s Gregory Helms vs.
Psicosis. Match never really gets in sync as these 2 don’t seem to mesh
well for some reason. They both seemed a beat or two off. Helms does
however manage to retain the Cruiserweight title.

They then show us extensive footage of the Undertaker / Kurt Angle
match from NWO. After that Theodore Long comes out to announce that next
week at the Raw / Smackdown Supershow from Washington DC it will be a
rematch for the World Heavyweight Championship between Undertaker and
Kurt Angle.

After the break Randy Orton is backstage complaining to Teddy Long
about the Taker / Angle match next week and also putting Rey Rey in the
WrestleMania match.

What I think is the SmackDown! main event is next and its Randy Orton /
JBL / and Finlay vs. Rey Mysterio / Bobby Lashley / and Chris Benoit.
Really good match with everyone getting involved and hitting various
finishers. Bobby Lashley is very impressive live. He is extremely quick
and explosive. He and Finlay seemed to mesh really well. There were
several Eddie chants as would be expected. Benoit must have hit close
to 10 Germans spread out pretty evenly among his 3 opponents. Finish
saw Rey Rey pinning JBL after Chris Benoit soften him up a bit. Benoit
and Rey are posing in the ring, joined eventually by Bobby Lashley. I
think that’s where the show will end.

After the end of that match, they announce our main event which is a
fatal 4-way for the World Heavyweight Championship with Kurt Angle vs.
Mark Henry vs. Randy Orton vs. The Undertaker. Biggest pops of the night
were for Kurt Angle (2nd loudest) and Undertaker (loudest with ease).
Match only lasted about 5 minutes. Undertaker Chokeslamed Mark Henry
to hell but before he could get the pin, Kurt Angle snuck in gave
Undertaker an Angle Slam. With Taker incapacitated briefly, Kurt Angle
pinned Mark Henry. Seemed way too short to be the main event for SmackDown!
so I’m pretty sure it was a dark match. Only reason I am doubting that
is this match was Kurt Angle’s only appearance on the show. Seems kind
of strange to not have him on the show but who knows. This also was
Undertaker's only appearance of the night but he dosen't show up on
SmackDown! too often anyway.

All in all it was a really good show that should come off well on TV.








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