Original Airdate: Friday, July 7th, 2006
Wachovia Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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World Heavyweight Championship #1 Contender Battle Royal
Notable contestants here include Finlay, Matt Hardy, King Booker and Mr. Kennedy. Super Crazy and Psicosis are eliminated first and then start brawling outside the ring. The jobbers start to get eliminated to clear out the ring. Finlay throws Kennedy to London, Kendrick and Hardy and they are able to eliminate him. We're down to the aforementioned three and Finlay, William Regal and Booker. So much for suspense here. London goes for a springboard move after almost being eliminated and eats a forearm that knocks him to the floor. Kendrick is eliminated quickly after. Hardy is able to dump Finlay out, but Booker quickly attacks him. Hardy hits a Side Effect on Booker and he then tries to dump him out. Regal makes the save but then gets hit with a flying forearm. Hardy hits the bulldog on Booker, but gets hit with a sucker punch by Booker. Hardy is able to hit a double clothesline, but still can't eliminate Booker. Regal again saves him. Regal and Hardy are battling on the ropes and Booker eliminates both to become the #1 contender. This was every battle royal you've ever seen. Regal then reminds us to "All hail, King Booker".
Match Rating: *
Rey Mysterio says that Mark Henry disrespected his friend, Chavo Guerrero and the Guerrero name. They show the attack of Henry and Mysterio apologizes for not being able to help Chavo out. He shifts over to his match with Booker and tells him that he's just one move away from a 619.
Sylvan is here to try to talk people into spending their summer in Quebec. We then go to Miz in the crowd to tell us Batista is here.
Mr. Kennedy vs. Super Crazy
Super Crazy interrupts Kennedy's ring introduction and Kennedy makes him pay for it. Crazy tries to get something going, but Kennedy hits him with a rear elbow and takes him to the mat. Super Crazy makes another comeback attempt, but Psicosis comes out and throws his sunglasses at him and Kennedy takes him off the top rope. He hits the Kenton Bomb for the victory. This was more dull than you would expect from these two. After the match, Kennedy gets his mic time.
Match Rating: *3/4
Kristal is supposed to be with Tatanka, but she's complaining about Ashley instead. She realizes the camera is rolling and goes to interview Tatanka. Tatanka says he will take down the Great Khali tonight. I'm sure he will.
Daivari is backstage with a casket before the commercial break.
They show clips of the WWE in the Caribbean and Central America.
Daivari is in the ring with the casket at ringside and brings out Khali. Daivari talks about the first ever Punjabi Prison Match at Great American Bash. Tatanka comes out and he attacks him on the way in the ring. I guess this isn't a match because he hits a double handed chokeslam and they play his music. He goes to put Tatanka in the casket and smoke comes out of it. Undertaker comes on the speaker and tells him he will rest in peace. I didn't care in 2006 and I certainly don't care now.
Vito vs. Psicosis
I'm surprised this wasn't saved for WrestleMania. We get shenanigans to start off, until Psicosis makes Vito mad. Vito does the Macarena, but gets hit by a boot and a clothesline. This match goes on for way too long until Super Crazy predictably comes out to distract Psicosis. Vito puts on his submission hold and that's all. This was pretty terrible.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Pitbulls vs. Funaki & Scotty 2 Hotty
Kid Kash's trunks here are really ugly. The Pitbulls show off their physicality, but Scotty gets a hot tag and gets in a little bit of offense. It doesn't last long and the Pitbulls hit a clothesline/spear combination for the quick victory. JBL tries his best to make it seem impressive that they beat two former champions. The Pitbulls did look good though.
Match Rating: *
They run down the Great American Bash card so far and announce that Lashley will defend his United States Championship against William Regal and Finlay. They then go back to Finlay telling Regal that it's every man for himself and Hornswoggle starts humping Regal's leg.
Gregory Helms vs. Bobby Lashley
They hype up the length of Helms' title reign. Meanwhile, Lashley does the British Bulldog vertical suplex. Lashley hits the gorilla press into a powerslam and that is all. That sure made Helms look like a nobody, so congrats on that.
Match Rating: 1/2*
They interview Mark Henry backstage and that he's sick and tired of Batista. He says that if Batista calls him out, he will have the shortest comeback in history.
We go to Miz in the crowd and yells that he has confirmation that Batista is out next.
Batista comes out to a big pop and calls out Henry right away. Henry comes out and before he gets into the ring, he says he's going to go back, but out comes Rey Mysterio from behind. Henry chucks him out of the way, but Batista throws him into the steps. He picks up the steps and nails him in the face and Henry is bleeding. I'm not sure if I can remember another time that Henry bled. Batista grabs a chair and hits him multiple times in the back. Batista stands tall as they go off the air.
Well, I'm not sure how they did it, but they did it. They delivered three really bad shows in one arena. I know it's a holiday week and all, but this was just not a good show. The saddest part of it all is that it was better than both Raw and ECW. Other than Batista coming back, there was nothing on this show worth watching.
Overall Rating: 39%
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