Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
Manchester Evening News Arena
Manchester, England
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They show the highlights of last week's big Hardcore Holly turn on RVD. Tazz had knee surgery last week, so Elijah Burke is Joey Style's guest announcer.
Paul Heyman and Big Show are out to kick off the show. Heyman announces that Rob Van Dam will not be here tonight. Heyman says that we will now find out the sixth entrant in the Extreme Elimination Chamber. Hardcore Holly is shown backstage walking to the ring and then out of nowhere, Bobby Lashley attacks him. Heyman had said it could be anyone on the WWE roster and now Lashley is out to the ring. He Spears Big Show and signals for the title.
When we come back from commercial and Test, Hardcore Holly and Big Show wonder why Heyman would even do this? It's a legitimate question. He claims it was to make it look legit. Tonight it will be Hardcore Holly against Lashley.
CM Punk vs. Mike Knox
Punk gets a solid pop from the British crowd. Kelly goes to check on Punk and Knox blocks her. Punk hits Knox with a kick and it knocks over Kelly. This allows Knox to gain control as Kelly sells her back injury. Knox hits a catapult into the corner and gets a 2 count. Knox slaps on a Boston Crab in the middle of the ring, but Punk is able to grab the ropes. Knox goes for a vertical suplex, but Punk gets a knee to the head to break out of it. He follows it up with a dropkick, but runs into an elbow from Knox. He's still able to hit a springboard dropkick and Knox is out of the ring. Punk hits a suicide dive back when this wasn't something you saw in every other match. Punk throws Knox back in the ring and hits an elbow off the top rope for a nearfall. Punk hits the running knee/bulldog combo and again gets a 2 count. Knox catches Punk with a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker and he gets a 2 count. Punk hits his finishing combo into the Anaconda Vice for the victory. This wasn't quite as good as last week, but another solid match between these two. Kelly Kelly is happy with the result on the outside of the ring.
Match Rating: **1/2
Matt Striker is backstage to cut a promo on how dangerous the Elimination Chamber is. They show clips from past Chamber matches.
CM Punk welcomes Lashley to ECW and lets us know how excited he is that the Elimination Chamber is every man for himself.
They show the Ford Field WrestleMania ticket vignette again.
Daivari vs. Tommy Dreamer
Dreamer walks right up to Great Khali when he walks in and Daivari clips him to start the match. Daivari hits a dropkick to the knee and then drives it into the mat. He puts on a half crab before slamming on the ring apron. Dreamer is able to kick Daivari into the barricade. Daivari goes up top and misses a crossbody. Dreamer fights back, but Daivari again hits his knee. Dreamer comes back again, but Great Khali trips him up and crotches him on the ring post. The ref calls for the bell. Khali then hits his double chokeslam before they head to the back.
Match Rating: 1/2*
Bobby Lashley vs. Hardcore Holly
Test, Big Show, Paul Heyman and the goons are at ringside. Lashley hits a delayed vertical suplex, but when the action spills out of the ring, Holly drops Lashley on the steps. Holly slows things down but eventually goes up to the top rope and eats a boot from Lashley on the way down. Lashley gets Holly up in a Torture Rack and then drops to his knees for a variation of a backbreaker. Lashley goes to the top rope, but Holly crotches him by running into the top rope. Holly then hits a superplex, but Lashley kicks out at 2. Lashley then catches Holly off the top rope and hits a suplex. Maybe they should just stop going to the top rope? Lashley hits the running powerslam and then Big Show grabs the referee out of the ring before he can count to 3 for the DQ finish. All of the goons start attacking Lashley until Sabu and CM Punk make the save. Sabu hits a dive to the outside as Rob Van Dam makes his way in. Lashley double Spears the goons and the crowd is happy to see RVD. RVD and Lashley both express their interest in the ECW Championship as Big Show walks to the back. The match was nothing special, but had a good enough finish for a TV main event.
Match Rating: **
This was actually a pretty halfway decent show, especially compared to Raw the night before. RVD was very over with the live crowd and the whole Lashley thing felt out of left field in kind of a good way. However, that kind of leaves SmackDown in a bit of a hole since they are already down Rey Mysterio. Anyway, this was good enough for late 2006.
Overall Rating: 50%
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