*SPOILERS* ECW & Smackdown Taping Results from Cincinnati, Ohio (9/4 & 9/7)
Submitted by Calvin Martin on Sunday, September 2, 2007 at 1:36 AM EST





Report sent in by Bryan Gray

Well first off I would like to say that I got my first real great seat out of about 12 tries. Floor, 4 rows back, center. Oh yeah!

Opening Contest

Jesse and Festus vs. two guys I didn't catch their names. A Spanish tag team.

The match started off with Jesse taking on one of the guys and exchanging several arm drags which seemed to last forever until Jesse sat on it. The match went pretty well no botched moves or anything. Jesse was in control doing the same stuff arm drags and a drop kick or two. Nothing special. Then came the heels turn. They got Jesse and pulled him into their corner and worked him over for several moments until the big man Festus got the tag. He didn't get in the ring right away and the guy on the other team punched him for it. It only angered the man and he dragged him along the ring and made his face meet mr. turnbuckle. Festus gets in the ring and they try to double team him, but to no use. Festus ends up grabbing the smaller of the two and uses his legs to kick his partner out of the ring and then slamming the other guy down. Jesse gets the tag and jumps off the top rope with a big cross body to get the win.

Good match, I really like the team of Jesse and Festus. I just wish they would get on Smackdown already.

Out comes Tazz and Joey Styles who got a pretty nice pop. It must be time for ECW

ECW!

The show kicks off with Boogeyman vs. Matt Striker w/ Big Daddy V

Boogey got a decent pop, but honestly I think people cheered more for Big Daddy V. Several Mable chants going around tonight. This match was boring to say the least. Boogey dominates the match until Striker goes to the outside. Boogey chases him around the ring until Big Daddy V catches him with a clothesline. BDV beats him down on the outside and the ref calls for the DQ. BDV stands over Boogey and holds up the Vader time symbol...er...I mean the Big Daddy V symbol for Victory.

Segment time!

CM Punk and Armando Estrada are shown together. Estrada says that CM Punk has had opportunity after opportunity after opportunity to beat Morrison for the title and has failed each time. Punk comes back with the true story that he earned every opportunity at the Morrison’s title. Estrada then tells Punk that this is his last opportunity at the title and walks away. Punk just stands there acknowledging him.

Balls Mahoney is in action next against The Miz!

No one except myself and five other people knew who Balls Mahoney was and that’s damn sad. Everyone booed Miz when he first came out until they heard the words “from Cleveland Ohio” then everyone cheered like crazy. Balls and Miz put on a ok match as the Extreme Expose sat and watched. Kelly Kelly of course flirting with Balls…he he dirty mind…ahem..sorry about that. Miz ends up picking up the victory in a boring match-up. Kelly Kelly gets in the ring and checks on Balls and when Miz sees this he gets in the ring and pulls her out and walks away from the ring with Extreme Expose….anyone else find it odd that Layla turned Miz down several times on Smackdown, but as soon as he jumps to ECW she wants him badly.

John Morrison Segment!

Morrison does his normal crap. He is in the back doing a traditional hype job for himself. Tuesday night delight..blah blah blah shut the hell up. He has like 6 catch phrases and that’s all he says. BORING! This is punks last chance is the only other thing he said.

Next match for ECW is Tommy Dreamer and Stevie Richards vs. Elijah Burke and Kevin Thorn.

The biggest pop goes to Dreamer by far. Thorn got second place and I have to admit that Thorn looks badass in person. Burke and Dreamer started it off and people were really behind Burke for some reason. The pop high for Dreamer and then root for Burke. Gotta love Cincinnati fans…anyway, I can’t honestly say I remember exactly what happened. All I know is that there was a hot chick sitting next to me and talking to me. I heard the bell ring and Thorn and Burke had won. Sorry I am a guy and she had boobs.

The Main Event of the evening.

They changed the mat for some reason during the “commercial” break. Oh well.

CM Punk got the biggest pop from the crowd so far in the night for ECW. Morrison got a few boos a couple “OMG he’s so hott!” from the ladies and that’s it. A few roid chants broke out and I yelled at him several times asking him where his needle was. He shot me a dirty look and it was funny. Lets take a look at the match.

CM Punk vs. John Morrison for the ECW Championship

Solid match starts out with a good exchange from both men. A little stand off that gets no reaction from the crowd and then they continue. Punk owned the match for the most part. Morrison got in some offense, but not to much. Punk went for the GTS, but Morrison managed to get out of it and put up some offense, but it was to no avail. CM Punk hit his running knee in the corner, followed up by a bulldog and moments later hit the GTS for the three and the title! The crowd was really behind this match and it was a really good match as well. When the three hit the mat the arena went berserk. CM Punk went a little crazy to. Tazz and Joey Styles both got up from their seats and hugged and shook the hand of the New ECW World Champion. Punk went around and celebrated with the fans and with my luck I couldn’t get to the corner to get to him. Oh well Congrats Punk you deserved the title at Summerslam anyway.

ECW is over and several videos are being shown to distract us from the guys changing the ring around. Every time Cena was shown the arena went nuts…. Cincinnati fans suck. Don’t they know you are supposed to boo Cena? Anyway while this is going on I caught a conversation by some little girls in front of me. They saw HBK on the video and began talking about how he died. Their dad didn’t know he “died” and asked about it and they said that HBK and RVD both died and they were dead serious about it. I guess kids don’t get the whole “Legend Killer” thing and really think that people die when they lose to Randy Orton….kids are dumb…I’m never having any. JBL and Cole are then announced and they come down and strangely JBL is chasing Cole around the ring in some sort of tag, and eventually turns from Cole to Chimmel and he can’t catch him either.

Well the set up is complete and WTF? There is a chair and a love seat in the ring with a wine chiller and all kinds of nifty stuff. And at the end of the entrance aisle going into the ring there is a red rope and a “bouncer” type guy standing there with a chart. MVP’s music plays and he comes out with his US Title and just one of the tag titles. He gets in the ring and sits in the chair putting his titles on the little table in front of the love seat. The arena goes dark and it looks like they are about to start the SmackDown taping.

The fireworks go off and scare the kids in front of me, which was funny as hell to see. Anyway They kick off the show with MVP on the mic introducing us to another spectacular edition of MVP’s talk show. He goes on and on about how he is the real MVP and that is why he is in the VIP, which explains the red rope and the bouncer like guy. Well MVP announces that since he is now half of the tag champs, half man and half amazing and the only man with three halves the he belongs in the VIP. Then he wants to bring someone into the VIP with him and why not bring your new tag team partner. MVP announces Matt Hardy and he comes down the aisle way and gets to the red rope and the bouncer guy checks his clipboard and lets him in. Matt is toting the other tag title with him and gets in the ring and sits on the love seat. MVP talks a lot of crap about he is better than everyone and that if it weren’t for MVP then Matt wouldn’t be an 8 time tag champ. MVP then shows us why and a clip from last weeks SmackDown show where he pins Deuce for the win. Matt says that he liked what happened after the show went off the air much better and played a clip of his own.

Matt walks into MVP’s locker room after their tag title win and MVP talks his game about if Matt just follows him then they will become the greatest tag team ever, but Matt has heard enough and knocks MVP out cold and takes one of the tag titles and leaves.

We come back to MVP and Matt sitting in the “VIP”. Matt says he looked like Evander Holyfield there. Matt says to MVP that all he wants is one more shot at MVP for the US Title at Unforgiven and MVP turns him down saying that he isn’t going to fight his partner. Plus MVP accepted a re-match for the tag titles at Unforgiven against D&D. Matt doesn’t like that MVP accepted a match for him, but MVP said he will make it up to him as he got him a match right now. He will be taking on Deuce in one on one competition. Cue the crappy 50’s music! Out come D&D and Cherry who is really looking hotter than I could have imagined her to look in person. Her skirt couldn’t get any shorter and be legal. Anyway I think they went to a commercial break then and they cleared the ring of all the crap and set up for the match. Matt was in street clothes and not wrestling gear. He takes his shirt off and gets a good pop, and Deuce seems to be ready to go. They start the match and Matt and Deuce switch positions a lot during this. No one really has the upperhand for long. Matt started to get the advantage with a side effect, but that came crashing down. Deuce stopped all momentum and it looked like Matt was about to get the Crack em in the mouth when MVP got Domino to distract the ref and when Deuce hit the ropes MVP tripped him up and MVP landed a twist of fate for the three count.

MVP and Matt celebrated…well MVP did and Matt reluctantly did. MVP hands him his tag title and gets out of the ring and tries to be all buddy buddy with Matt. Matt is weary of his game though and doesn’t walk down the aisle with him.

After everyone has exited, out comes Kenny Dykstra and Victoria. There was supposed to be a match and Chuck Palumbo was announced as his opponent but he never came out. Victoria got on the mic and said that everyone was afraid to get in the ring with a future hall of famer and hyped up her man and then they left with out a match.

They then go to Main Event for the first hour. Yea not much has happened, but its time for the first Main Event.

Khali and Finlay vs. Batista and Kane.

Khali got the worst reaction ever. Seriously no one cares about this giant dumb ass get rid of him please. I would rather give the world title to Hornswoggle than him. At least he can take bumps and not botch everything imaginable…anyway onto the match. Batista and Finlay start it off. Finlay shows off his ruthlessness, but Batista counters it with his strength. A simple back and forth match between the two until Batista grabs Finlay and throws him head first into the Champs groin area. Khali no sells it at first, but seconds later keels over in pain, but only for a half a second and he starts yelling at Batista. The ref calls it a tag and tells Khali to get in the ring, but the big dumb ape doesn’t understand English and wont get in the ring. Finlay finally makes a real tag at Khali and the idiot steps in the ring to put people to sleep. He was kicked in the stomach and sold the move 5 seconds to late. Batista fought him off with a few punches and sometime later I woke
up and Kane was in the ring with Khali. Kane was up top and did his top rope clothesline on Khali, but Khali didn’t go down. Kane hit him a for more times with clotheslines and on the last one Finlay pulled the rope down making Kane fall out of the ring. Batista tries to go help Kane, but the ref stops him letting Finlay get the jump on him. I couldn’t see what was going on so sorry about that. Kane ends up back in the ring with Khali and Kane manages to grab Khali by the throat and it looks like its time for a Chokeslam, but here comes Finlay and Kane grabs him by the throat as well. Kane just throws Finlay down and tries a chokeslam on Khali, but he throws some elbows at Kane’s head. I fell asleep again being forced to watch Khali wrestle and I woke up to the bell ringing and Batista and Kane had won. I think they clotheslined Khali out of the ring and Kane Chokeslammed Finlay for the win, but not sure.

Segment number 1 of the evening.

Jamie Noble has a crate that says “AKME” on it and a 2x4 holding it propped open. Shannon Moore comes by and asks what he is doing and Noble explains to him. He has the cereal Lucky Charms and he sprinkles some on the ground making a trail to the inside of the crate where he places the entire box. Hornswoggle is supposed to come by and grab the box and Noble is to pull a string to pull the 2x4 and trap the little guy. Moore says he just has to see this and Noble and Moore hide behind a wall and wait for the little guy to appear.

Kenny Dykstra and Victoria are out in the ring again and they announce that his opponent will be Chuck Palumbo. Wait a minute didn’t we already see this? Looks like there was a problem backstage and they are re-shooting the match. Chuck comes out with McCool on his Motorcycle and they actually get the match underway. Palumbo being a lot bigger than Dykstra dominates the match. Victoria eventually attempts to get on his motorcycle and McCool goes after her. The two divas fight it out and while I was paying attention to McCool kicking the head off of Victoria, Palumbo was pinning Dykstra. Palumbo and McCool celebrate in the ring for awhile and she even blew me a kiss…oh god I love her.

Hornswoggle is shown checking out the lucky charms and actually eats a few off the ground and is shown going in after the box. Noble looks behind him at Moore and says that he has him now and yanks on the rope, but it breaks. Noble rushes to his feet to see that Hornswoggle is gone, but he left the CW title in the box. Noble goes after the title, but its pulled away and Hornswoggle knocks the 2x4 out of the way trapping noble in the box. The segment ends with Hornswoggle laughing it up.

The lights go out and The Undertakers little video comes on. Everyone is paying attention to the video, but I’m looking for signs of something to happen. There it was, casually just walking down the aisle way is a druid. He slides in the ring and just stands in the center of the ring. The lights come back on after the video is over to make it seem like he just appeared out of nowhere. Then Henry’s music plays and out he comes. He gets in the ring quick. He looks at the druid several times and is very weary of it. Soon he is fed up and he grabs the druid, but the lights go out and the gong is heard. The man that was in the cloak slides out of the cloak and gets under the ring. When the lights come back on Mark Henry is strangling nothing but a cloak. The druid has “disappeared”. Henry drops the cloak and backs away and then Henry leaves the ring looking a little spooked.

Well its commercial time, but it must have been a short one as in no time the little wedding invitation is shown on the titan tron and then we cut to the back with Vickie and Kristal talking. Teddy comes in and gives a present to Kristal, but wants a kiss in exchange and she gives it to him. He got the new Daddy Yankee CD for her, but then her phone rings. Teddy knows that ringtone and says its her mother calling. She answers the phone a little funny and she says “hi mom, I know I miss you to and I love you” but its not what she said or how she said it, but the look on her face that got people thinking. She is definitely cheating on him no doubt about it and that was the man that she was cheating on him with…or woman. Well Vickie is talking to Teddy and says that he should get a copy for Mr. McMahon. Teddy doesn’t understand and Vickie explains in one sentence. “Well the name of the CD is called Baby Makin Project”. I thought it was pretty funny.

Jesse and Festus show up backstage at SmackDown and they cant believe that they are finally at SmackDown. They run into the box that says AKME on it and Jesse says “Hey look Festus they got them fancy talking boxes” Jesse then proceeds to ask what the boxes name it. Noble who is trapped inside says his name and Jesse replies to Festus “with a face like that, one day they will name these fancy boxes after you” and then they walk away.

The whole time that was going on the arena darkened and about 8 or so guys come down the aisle way and just walk around the ring and stop at the back end of it by the commentators. They stay for a few seconds and walk away again….did I just witness a switch? The man playing the druid just left with the rest of the crew, but who did they put under the ring..hmmm

They announce that the next match will be for the Cruiserweight Championship. Hornswoggle is announced first and it becomes apparent that he was the second part of the switch as he comes out from under the ring and gets in the ring. His opponent is Jamie Noble, but he is trapped under the box. He is announced two times and then the referee states that Noble has ten seconds to get in the ring or he will be counted out. The ref gets to 10 just as Noble gets to the ring. Hornswoggle celebrates his win as Noble throws a fit.

Next is the Main Event of the Evening. Rey Mysterio vs. Chavo Guerrero in an I Quit match.

The match is very simple. They do normal wrestling for a little bit, but a spill to the outside gets some chairs involved. Chavo puts Reys head in the chair and throws him into the ring post. Rey doesn’t quit though. Some more chair shots and back in the ring they go. Rey tries to set up a chair on the ropes for something and ends up having to put a different chair there as the other didn’t work out. Rey ended up hitting a 619 on Chavo with a chair against his face. Chavo lays on the mat with a chair on his chest and when Rey goes for a big splash Chavo throws the chair up and his Rey in the face. Chavo sets Rey up for the Gory Bomb and connects with it on a chair. Rey still doesn’t quit. Chavo puts the chair on the chest of Rey and goes up top for a frog splash, but Rey knocks the legs out from under him and he straddles the top. Rey hits him with a chair and Chavo ends up getting his leg stuck much like Rey got his leg stuck at No Mercy last year. Rey does what Chavo
did to him and beats the hell out of his leg and knee with a chair until Chavo quits.

After the match Khali comes out and grabs Rey’s skull and crushes it. Rey is bleeding from the mouth now, but here comes Batista to stop it. Batista hits Khali with the world title and then a spear to send Khali out of the ring. T-Lo comes out and announces that he is adding another key element to Unforgiven. Khali will defend his title in a triple threat match against Rey Mysterio and Batista! Everyone marked out for Batista and cheered.

In a really bizarre scene Rey took his mask off as he laid on the mat. Anyone that saw WCW back in the day has seen him with out his mask before, but this is WWE and no one has ever seen him with out his mask here. They bring out a towel to put over his face and a trainer comes out and checks on him. I’m not sure if this was part of the story to give people an idea of how powerful Khali is or what, but I have never seen Rey take off his mask after a match like this. The only other time was when Eddie died and he just took it off, but didn’t show his face. You could make out what he looked like completely this time though. He covered himself up decently as he went to the back though. The towel provided decent coverage. Batista had Rey’s mask and everyone was yelling for him to throw it to them and Batista laughed and said now, but being a good sport he took off his elbow pad and threw it in the crowed….not towards me though because he sucks.

Well that’s that. Biggest pop goes to Cena and he wasn’t even there.








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