Original Airdate: Friday, June 1st, 2007
John Labatt Centre
London, Ontario, Canada
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MVP & Miz vs. Chris Benoit & Matt Hardy
Well, Matt Hardy is in the match, so you know it will get some time. We continue to get closer to the Miz actually meaning something in WWE with the draft coming up. Sometimes I don't really feel like recapping the action and this is one of those times. Sometimes it's just kind of nice to watch the match and take it in. They do a nice little ending segment that features a dive from Hardy onto MVP to the outside and Benoit putting on the Crossface on Miz. After losing cleanly to MVP at Judgment Day, it's only natural that they would give him a win here over the weak link of the match. This was solid tag team action.
Match Rating: **1/2
Hornswoggle is shown backstage with Finlay getting ready for his match against Little Boogeyman.
Jillian vs. Michelle McCool
What a treat. I am a big supporter of women's wrestling and it's good that they are giving the ladies television time here. However, McCool was not ready to be in the ring and this really served no purpose. They are basically being set up to fail here. Don't get me wrong, they have trotted out much worse than McCool is here, but why not have here train a little longer? Jillian hits a leg drop out of a cartwheel and loses it when she doesn't win. Out comes Ashley and that distracts her so that McCool can hit a spinning backbreaker for the victory.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Boogeyman is now with Little Boogeyman.
Little Boogeyman vs. Hornswoggle
Little Boogeyman puts a worm in Hornswoggle's hat and puts it on his head. This is what we're dealing with here. Boogeyman hands Little Boogeyman a huge handful of worms and throws them in Hornswoggle's face. Hornswoggle comes back with some green mist to the face. Hornswoggle then kicks Little Boogeyman out of the ring. Finlay then comes from under the ring and levels him with a right hand. He throws him back in the ring and Boogeyman comes to make the save. Hornswoggle then hits a leap off the apron onto Boogeyman. This allows Finlay to hit Little Boogeyman with the shillelagh and Hornswoggle hits the Tadpole Splash for the victory. I can't stand Boogeyman, but Finlay in this role is so good.
Match Rating: 1/2*
We get a Mark Henry hype video for his match with Kane. God help me.
More Randy Orton/Rob Van Dam hype. I guess that's what happens when you have two pay per views just two weeks apart.
Kane vs. Mark Henry
Kane is a moron. I don't know how else to convey how little I care about this match. Watching Kane wrestle just makes me miserable. Just to make this worse, they don't even let Mark Henry beat him clean. They have to do a countout victory. Henry caught Kane off the apron and then drove him into the ring post.
Match Rating: 0 Stars
Kristal is with Edge to ask about The Cutting Edge with Batista later on. He says that he's the champion and he's not intimidated by Batista.
Deuce, Domino and Cherry are with some random interview guy that I don't remember. He asks about the draft and I have to say I smiled when he made a joke about the draft for the war. They try to hype up that anyone can be split up with the draft.
Triple Threat Match For The WWE Tag Team Championships
London & Kendrick vs. William Regal & Dave Taylor vs. Deuce 'n Domino
We actually get a commercial break for this match, so that's a big win. I wonder if this match was cut from One Night Stand so they just threw it on here? This is a good combination of a mat wrestling team, a high flying team and a character team. They are slowly winning over the crowd because of it too. I honestly can't believe that Dave Taylor lasted this long. They naturally isolate London and Kendrick since they are your bumpers. London finally gets a hot tag, which is always fun. London goes up top, but Deuce distracts the referee and Cherry shoves him off the top rope for the victory. This was a nice little match that slowly built to that finish. I'm a little surprised that the champs retained here, but I honestly can't remember what happened to these titles after they won them.
Match Rating: **3/4
Great, they just announced Mark Henry vs. Kane in a lumberjack match at One Night Stand. I think I remember that one and it sucked. I may be half assuming. Have they even mentioned Saturday Night's Main Event tomorrow? Maybe I just didn't catch it. The card for One Night Stand sucks big time.
We go back to Teddy Long, Vickie Guerrero and Kristal. Kristal is all worried that she might be separated in the draft. Kristal asks if Teddy would be willing to leave his job as SmackDown GM in order to be with her? He says that he loves her so much that he would. Vickie then says that she would run the show to the best of her abilities and tells Teddy and Kristal to head out early tonight. They then show Edge heading to the ring for The Cutting Edge.
Edge brings out his guest, Batista and asks him to have a seat. Edge doubles down on not being intimidated since he beat Batista already. Batista takes off his jacket after Edge implies that he's intimidated of him. Things get pretty cheesy from there and then Edge shoves Batista. Batista then hits him with a right hand and tells him he should be afraid of him. And that's it...? That was a lame segment.
This show featured two matches worth your time and just about everything else was worthless. I mean, I guess that's par for the course, but it felt very apparent on this show. One Night Stand is one of the worst builds for a show that you will ever see and the card is trash to match. There isn't a whole lot to be excited about these days.
Overall Rating: 43%
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