Monday, July 17th, 2006
AT&T Center
San Antonio, Texas
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DX is here for a PSA, which is just a bunch of "highlights" of the last few weeks. They then come out to the arena in Shawn Michael's hometown. The segment goes on forever and of course the McMahons come out. It all just leads to them announcing Shane vs. Shawn tonight.
They show some highlights of Umaga because he's up against John Cena tonight.
#1 Contender Match For The Intercontinental Championship
Carlito vs. Shelton Benjamin
Todd Grisham announces the match for the Cruiserweight Championship on accident. This is about the 361st time these two have wrestled. Carlito hits a springboard elbow in his comeback. They have a nice little spot of counters and it leads to Shelton to rolling up Carlito and Shelton failing to be able to grab the ropes. Carlito reverses that and he is able to grab the ropes to become the #1 contender. I'm not sure why this was so short, but that's WWE for you.
Match Rating: *1/2
Carlito and Trish interact backstage to show off their budding romance.
Trish Stratus & Torrie Wilson vs. Mickie James & Victoria
Candice Michelle is the special guest referee just because. Once Trish gets tagged in, we get some good action. Candice throws Mickie out of the ring and Trish is able to hit Stratusfaction on Victoria and pick up the victory. This was extremely short, like you would expect. However, I thought they maximized their minutes here.
Match Rating: *
Umaga and Armando Alejandro Estrada are backstage with Maria and it's the usual Umaga doesn't speak type interview.
Mick Foley is at WWE Studios and he declines Ric Flair's rematch request.
They show clips of why Lilian Garcia isn't here tonight. Maria interviews Viscera and Charlie Haas and they say nothing.
Highlanders vs. Steele & Simpson
The jobbers attack the Highlanders, but shockingly the Highlanders overcome the odds. They hit a Battering Ram for a 2 count. The crowd does not care about this at all. They hit the Scot Drop and that's all. After the match, they challenge the Spirit Squad for the titles. The tag division sure is heating up!
Match Rating: 1/4*
DX is backstage and the Highlanders run into them. They tell him to walk into Vince's office to get and know him. They tell him that he is losing his hearing and that he loves having his butt patted.
Matt Striker is in the ring with his chalkboard that says Edge>Cena. His guest today is John Cena. Cena basically insults him, takes off his shirt and says it's time to fight.
John Cena vs. Umaga
They start brawling as soon as Umaga gets to the ring, but there is no referee yet and the chalkboard is still in the ring. Umaga gets thrown right through the chalkboard and then a ref makes his way in the ring. Umaga continues the attack and hits a splash. Cena battles back with a DDT and goes for the STFU, but Umaga gets to the ropes. Edge makes his way out and Umaga hits a running thrust to Cena in the tree of woe. Cena avoids a charging Umaga and goes out to beat up Edge. Umaga grabs Cena and throws him into the steel steps. Cena fights back again and hits the spinning powerbomb suplex. It's Five Knuckle Shuffle time, but Armando gets on the apron. Edge comes in, but Cena puts him up for the FU. Before he can, Umaga hits the Samoan Spike and gets the victory. This was just about everything you would want out of a TV match with interference featuring top stars.
Match Rating: ***1/4
The Highlanders are in Vince's office eating his catering. Vince walks in and they start yelling in his ear, but Vince yells at them and they slap his butt. Hilarious.
Randy Orton vs. Eugene
We'll finally get a 10+ minute match on Raw here. RKO already? Man. Orton tells Eugene not to take advantage of the McMahons, just like he never would take advantage of Brooke. He shows a clip from Saturday Night's Main Event.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Mick Foley is back and said he was impressed by Ric Flair's match with Big Show on ECW. He tells him he should wear some flannel next time too.
Out comes Ric Flair to the ring. They show some clips of his match and Flair says he wants Foley in a Hardcore Rules match. He is interrupted by Johnny Nitro and Melina. Nitro informs Flair that he means nothing to Foley and he attacks him after Melina distracts him with a "Wooo". Flair battles back, but when he goes for the Figure Four, Nitro kicks him away and he knocks Melina off the apron. Nitro helps Melina to the back and Flair apologizes? This was a weird segment.
It's Diva Search time. They announce the first elimination and it's Amy. She looks like she is about to cry and then throws out thongs that she pulls out of her jean shorts. Miz tells them it will be a Diva Dance Off on SmackDown. Can't wait.
Shane and Vince are backstage. Vince says that DX will never make fools of them again and wouldn't you know it, Vince has a sign on his back that says "Vince loves cocks". Shane lets him know and then we see that he has one that says "Me too".
Shawn Michaels vs. Shane McMahon
Shane gets the early advantage and starts tuning up the band for Sweet Chin Music. Shawn catches the attempt and hits a right hand. He hits the flying forearm and inverted atomic drop. Michaels follows it up with a top rope elbow drop and now he tunes up the band. Vince grabs his leg and Triple H chases after him. The Spirit Squad runs into the ring and attacks Michaels. Triple H runs back to help, but the Squad has the numbers game. They try to do their five man move, but Michaels lands on his feet. They beat him down again and hit the move. Triple H was shown being thrown into the steps and Shane hits him with a chair. They set up some chairs in the ring, but in comes Triple H with the sledgehammer. They take out the Spirit Squad and the McMahons retreat to the back. We seriously have like 2 more months of this stuff. This was the same ol' same ol'. It wasn't much of a match either.
Match Rating: 3/4*
The Umaga/Cena match saved this from being a dud. That was a refreshing matchup and the right guy went over to help build Umaga as a top contender. The rest of the show though, woof. The DX stuff is getting really old, really quickly.
Overall Rating: 48%
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