By: Richard C., rajah.com reader
The HSBC Arena was packed for the house show. By house show standards the crowd was amazing, this could easily have gone over as a Smackdown taping.
NOTE: CONTAINS SPOILER IF READ BEFORE SMACKDOWN THIS WEEK
Match #1
Aaron "The Idol" Stevens w/ Beth & Shelly vs. The Boogeyman
Boogey man appears in the ring during his entrance with worms and his mouth. Throws worms at the girls and hits the pumphandle slam for the easy squash victory.
Winner: The Boogeyman
Match #2
WWE Cruiserweight Championship
Kid Kash (c) vs. Funaki vs. Jamie Noble
Lots of high flying and high spots in this one. A good part was when Noble did a suicide dive through the ropes onto Kash. Then Funaki climbed the top rope and hit a double crossbody. Match ends with Kash delivering a brainbuster to Funaki.
Winner and still Cruiserweight Champion: Kid Kash
Kash takes the mic and starts ripping on the crowd and proclaiming he is the best cruiserweight ever. Then takes Noble and delivers a brainbuster. Once Funaki and Noble are up Funaki extends his hand but Noble slaps it away to a chorus of boos.
Match #3
Road Warrior Animal & Heidenreich vs. The Dicks
Heidenreich reads a poem. Dicks take mic and say something against Buffalo and they get attacked. Dicks had some offense until Heidenreich taged in Animal who dominated and they eventually hit the doomsday device on a Dick.
Winners: Road Warrior Animal & Heidenreich
Match #4
Matt Hardy vs. Sylvan
Sylvan comes out and and talks about how being a model he went all over the world and now he's stuck in Buffalo. Gets interrupted by Hardy. Hardy takes like 5 minutes to decide where to throw his shirt as Sylvan sits on the ropes out of boredom. It was an ok match, going a little longer then it should've with Hardy hitting the Twist of Fate for the win.
Winner: Matt Hardy
Match #5
Chris Benoit vs. Orlando Jordan
Benoit comes out to a huge pop. OJ takes the mic and says that Buffalo sucks and doesn't want to wrestle and the Bills suck and stuff. He starts walking to the back but gets attacked by Benoit. OJ dominates a lot of the match. Benoit ends up hitting the 3 amigos and then a flying headbutt to a 2 count which was almost a 3, half the crowd started cheering because they thought it was over. Crossface and it's over.
Winner: Chris Benoit
INTERMISSION
Match #6
Handicap Match
Lashley vs. Nunzio & Vito
Lashley says something about how he loves to feed off of our energy. Nunzio & Vito get some offense but Lashley wins with a Dominator on Nunzio.
Winner: Lashley
Match #7
William Regal & Paul Burchill vs. Psychosis & Super Crazy
Burchill and Regal really work over Psychosis until he gets the hot tag to Crazy who hits like 6 dropkicks in a row on Regal and Burchill. He starts working Burchill over as Regal sends Psychosis over the top rope. Regal hits crazy and Burchill promptly hits his finisher. I heard it's the C4 or something, it looks cool.
Winners: William Regal & Paul Burchill
Match #8
Undertaker vs. Randy Orton
Mixed response for Orton. Undertaker's pop was immense. Loudest pop I have ever heard live. I thought the roof would blow off. Orton wouldn't get in the ring for like 10 minutes. My section started a chicken chant twice but the other sections never caught on. Finally Orton and taker start fighting. Orton works over Taker's left leg the entire match with all sorts of submissions. and moves.
The finish comes when Orton is doing the 10 punches near the turnbuckle. Taker lifts him up for the Last Ride but Orton falls over. Taker goes to punch him but he moves and Taker knocks out the ref. Orton hits the RKO and another ref comes down but only a 2 count. Orton is beating up Taker in the corner and gets mad at the ref who wants him out of the corner so he RKO's the ref. He turns around into a Taker chokeslam, Taker wakes the first ref but only gets a 2 count. Then Orton gets up before Taker and goes for the tombstone, Taker reverses and hits it for the 1 2 3.
Winner: Undertaker
Match #9
WWE Tag Team Championships
MNM (c) vs. Batista & Rey Mysterio
I was suprised the WWE let us know the spoiler for the Smackdown episode by saying MNM are the tag team champs. Good move on there part. Melina was hot. Anyway Batista started up a "You are gay" chant directed towards MNM. Batista then sends Mercury's head into Nitro's crotch ( Nitro was in the bronco buster position). Rey gets the tag and then hits a double bronco buster. After this MNM takes control until Batista gets the hot tag. Melina smacks Rey on the outside and hands Mercury a chair. Mercury heads into the ring and rams the chair into the head of Batista.
Winners by DQ: Batista & Rey Mysterio
Afterwords all 3 members of MNM are in 619 position so Rey delivers a triple 619. Then Batist delivers a Batista Bomb onto Mercury as Rey hits West Coast Pop on Nitro. Then Batista & Rey leave to Eddie's music (huge Eddie chants during the match).
Great show and hopefully WWE comes back to Buffalo real soon. We love them here.
