Monday, May 28th, 2007
Air Canada Centre
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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We get a Memorial Day tribute before we start our show that is starting in Toronto, which makes sense.
Memorial Day Bikini Beach Blast Battle Royal
Your contestants here are Candice Michelle, Mickie James, Maria, Jillian, Kelly Kelly, Brooke, Layla, Michelle McCool, Kristal and Melina. There are squirt guns, water balloons and noodles in the ring. So obviously this is really good. For some reason Layla is wearing high heels. Kelly Kelly gets thrown out between the first and second rope and I guess that doesn't matter. Melina and Michelle McCool are the last two remaining. McCool wins. I couldn't have cared any less about this if I tried.
Match Rating: 0 Stars
Shane McMahon is on his way to the ring and Jerry Lawler hypes up a major announcement.
Shane is out after the commercial break and in 2 weeks we are going to have the first ever tri-branded draft. He also says that he's going to pin Lashley in the main event tonight.
The Hardy's, Lance Cade & Trevor Murdoch vs. The World's Greatest Tag Team, Johnny Nitro & Kenny Dykstra
We get pretty standard action to start and we get a random top rope dive to the floor from...Trevor Murdoch. That naturally leads us to our commercial break. Didn't expect that though. When we come back, the heels take control. Nitro hits his nice double team move when Jeff is on Dykstra's knees and Nitro hits an slingshot elbow. Shelton hits a nice kid to the head, but it's not enough to get Jeff out. After a heel beatdown segment, the Hardy's do their thing and hit the Twist Of Fate/Swanton combo for the victory. They celebrate together until Shelton grabs a mic and tells everyone not to go anywhere. He says that they won, but they didn't beat them. He challenges the Hardy's for the titles at One Night Stand. Matt says they'll give them a match, but it will be a ladder match. This made no sense back in 2007 other than to have Shelton and Jeff in the same ladder match. Since they don't really care about the tag team division (although they have been putting in a better effort lately), this is kind of a why not? moment. This match was not bad and got more time than I expected.
Match Rating: **1/4
We get a WrestleMania 24 is coming to Orlando commercial.
John Cena is with Todd Grisham and is asked if he is scared of Great Khali. He then mocks Khali's speaking and says that it translates to that he isn't afraid.
Maria is with Santino Marella. We get a lame joke about his accent and then Randy Orton comes out to interrupt. He has no respect for Rob Van Dam and he will truly enjoy what he does to him tonight.
Rob Van Dam vs. Randy Orton
We get a little bit of a slow start, which means they are likely getting some time. RVD starts to get the best of Orton, but Orton is able to roll out of the ring when he goes for Rolling Thunder. Orton is able to turn that into some offense of his own. RVD leaps up on the top rope and Orton is able to dropkick him to the floor and into the commercial break. It then turns into your usual slow paced Orton match. Orton misses with a dropkick and RVD hits Rolling Thunder. RVD gets a nearfall and then tries to leap up top and slips a little bit. He shows some signs of a head injury, but then hits Orton with a single leg kick off the top and to the floor. Orton comes back with the DDT on the ropes, but RVD kicks out at 2. The ref checks in on RVD and he's selling a concussion. The referee stops the match and calls for help. Orton hits an RKO on him while he's doing so. I get they were going for drama, but this was so dull. They had a big arena full of people and they went with the slow kill here and it just didn't work for me.
Match Rating: 3/4*
Ric Flair & Torrie Wilson vs. Carlito & Victoria
This is an intergender tag match, so the men can wrestle the women. Pretty quickly into the match, you have Victoria giving Flair chops and then him putting on the Figure Four. She reverses it and tags in Carlito. Torrie gets a hot tag and hits a series of clotheslines on Victoria. Carlito hits Flair with a chop block outside the ring. Torrie hits a facebuster, but Carlito breaks up the pin attempt. Carlito gets tagged in and kisses Torrie. She hits him with a slap, but then he hits the Backstabber for the victory. Obviously this was an intergender match for a reason. This was short and only existed to get Carlito over as a heel.
Match Rating: 1/2*
Umaga and Great Khali are yelling nonsense to each other. Shane comes in and talks strategy before more yelling.
We come back and Maria is still doing the Kiss Cam. Obviously that means an angle is going to happen and it's Chris Masters coming down. Yes, he still works here. He took notice of Maria flirting with Santino. He calls out Santino and wants to see if he can get out of the Master Lock. He doesn't show, but then Masters hints at putting it on Maria instead and out comes Santino. They start brawling and it leads to the Master Lock being put on. The crowd actually starts chanting for Santino, but Masters throws him to the mat and Santino sells the effects.
Umaga, Great Khali & Shane McMahon vs. John Cena & Bobby Lashley
Apparently there is a Saturday Night's Main Event this week. They taped it at this show, so that kind of explains the smaller pop than usual for these guys. We get a quick heat segment on Cena, so I guess Lashley gets to be the hero tonight. It's probably going to happen soon, since we are under 5 minutes left in the show. Cena is able to get his chance with Shane and then tags in Lashley. The match breaks down and the heels once again regain control. Khali hits his double handed chokeslam. Shane tags in and hits a top rope elbow for the victory over Lashley. That was decisive. Vince then comes out to congratulate Shane and team when we go off the air. This was nothing other than to remind you that Khali is a beast.
Match Rating: 3/4*
This wasn't particularly good, but I guess it wasn't terrible either. That's a win for this era. There isn't anything that really stood out for me on this episode, but I've seen much worse than this. I do think they missed an opportunity for Orton and RVD to have a really good match before the angle, but that's me.
Overall Rating: 44%
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