Monday, July 10th, 2006
Tyson Events Center
Sioux City, Iowa
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After a recap of Edge winning the WWE Championship, Edge and Lita are here to join the announce team.
John Cena vs. Shelton Benjamin
Edge will be taking on John Cena at Saturday Night's Main Event this weekend. Cena goes for the FU early, but Shelton gets out and slaps Cena in the face. After a boot to the face, Shelton gets aggressive with some right hands. Shelton locks in the sleeper hold and after a lengthy amount of time in the hold, Cena is able to hit the electric chair. Cena climbs up top, but up leaps Shelton and he hits him with an enzuigiri that knocks Cena to the floor. After the commercial break, Cena gets into a slugfest that he gets the better of and hits the Five Knuckle Shuffle. Shelton misses a splash in the corner, Cena hits the FU and slaps on the STFU for the victory. The commercial break kind of messed with the momentum, but this was more competitive than expected. After the match, Cena attacks Edge by leaping over the announce table. He throws him in the ring, but Lita holds onto his leg and Edge goes on offense. Edge hits the Spear and heads to the back. Edge says that they are going back to the hotel to watch the rest of the show.
Match Rating: **1/4
Oh great, a recap of DX and Vince from last week.
Eugene is backstage laughing and then Vince and Shane walk up behind him. They tell him that he is facing them in a handicap match to teach DX a lesson.
Melina vs. Trish Stratus
Nitro distracts Trish and Melina attacks her outside the ring. Back in the ring, Melina hits a dropkick to the back for a 2 count. Trish hits the handstand hurricanrana in the corner and hits some chops. Trish hits a spinebuster and almost gets the win. Melina then out of nowhere rolls her up, grabs the tights and steals the victory. This was too short to be anything memorable.
Match Rating: 3/4*
We go to Edge and Lita checking in at the hotel. Their room isn't ready yet, so Edge mocks them with a hillbilly accent.
Highlanders vs. Matt Striker & Rob Conway
The Highlanders are talking about corn and get interrupted by Striker's music. The Highlanders hit their "comedy" offense and get another easy victory. Nothing to see here.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Ric Flair is with Maria and he says that tonight is all business. He is going to tell the world the truth about Mick Foley. After the commercial break, Flair is out to the ring. Foley interrupts him on the Titan Tron. Foley talks about Flair not writing his own book like he did and how Flair was the boss when he lost his ear in a match. He goes on a passionate tirade about how Flair doesn't matter to him any more. Flair tells him to come out here now, but instead Paul Heyman comes out. He shows Flair the clip of Big Show winning the ECW Championship and then brings him out. Show rambles on forever and then finally challenges Flair to an ECW Championship match tomorrow night. Flair accepts and then gets distracted by Heyman, which allows Show to attack him.
Back to the McMahons and then Eugene knocks on the door and apologizes. They give him a present and it's a DX shirt. While he's talking about how much he likes it, they dump green paint on him and then attack him. Shane then gives him a swirly in the toilet.
They show Paul Heyman talking with Candice Michelle during the break and he invites her to dance against Kelly. She says she'd rather dance with Kelly.
Viscera vs. Charlie Haas
Haas doesn't even get an entrance here. I can't believe this story is still going on. Haas is able to slow down the big man by snapping his neck on the top rope. He hits a missile dropkick, but Vis fights back and gyrates in the direction of Lillian Garcia. He misses Haas in the corner, but then Garcia gets on the mic and pleads for them to both stop. She only wants to be friends with both of them. Haas attacks Vis in the eyes, but then Garcia gets in the way of him off the ropes. Vis, who is apparently blinded, hits the Samoan drop accidentally on Garcia. They both check on her and then look at each other and laugh. Thrilling television here. Meanwhile, we get a stretcher job. This match was nothing.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Edge and Lita are shown in the bar at the hotel.
The Miz is out for the Diva Search and he screws up massively here with how to vote. Ironically, the first woman to walk out is none other than future wife Maryse. All of the women get a chance to tell everyone why they're going to win. Maryse gets booed when she screws up as well. Miz announces that they will be doing it on SmackDown and then Miz screws up voting again.
Shane tells Coach to let him know as soon as DX shows up. In walks Jim Duggan to confront him and he tells him that he'll beat some respect into him. Vince hits him in the back with a chair and they mock him as he is laid out.
Randy Orton vs. Val Venis
They're in rush mode now, as Orton is already almost to the ring when we come back from commercial. He has a mic and talks about Hulk Hogan being at Saturday Night's Main Event. He says that he plans on introducing himself to Hogan. Orton hits the RKO and gets the win. He grabs the mic again and says that he also plans on introducing himself to Brooke Hogan too.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Back to Edge and Lita, this time in their room. They get their room service delivered and they then demand that the staff member bring them champagne since this is a celebration.
After they run through the SNME card, they show Cena busting in their hotel room and attacking Edge.
This new voice announcing the matches coming up next is just weird.
Handicap Match
Shane & Vince McMahon vs. Eugene
As Eugene is coming out, the Spirit Squad come out. The distraction allows Shane to attack him and we're underway. Vince is doing live commentary during the match. The Spirit Squad puts Eugene on a table and Shane is up top. Out comes DX to interrupt. Vince tries to get them to get them to go in a certain spot, but those clever DX boys are just too smart for that. The net drops and misses. Eugene comes in from behind and rolls up Vince for the victory. Half of the match was DX walking around the stage.
Match Rating: 1/2*
On the bright side, this was an improvement over last week. Unfortunately, just about everything would have been. There definitely was some good here. The Cena/Shelton match was solid and the Foley portion of the Flair segment was entertaining. Everything else was pretty much useless.
Overall Rating: 42%
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