Backlash Live

We've had our share of coffee, we have a day off work tomorrow, there are 3 hours of wrestling ahead of us, it's dark, and we're wearing a dressing gown. Hit it!

Carlito vs. Chris Masters:

Carlito steals a win here, in a slightly longer and more interesting match than expected. Credit to both for that. Crowd seem loud and excited, and this didn't bore them. Cool.


Ric Flair vs. Umaga :

Flair still has one of the best entrances in the business. Shame everything else about this match sucked. Overlong squash, Umaga wins.


Trish Stratus vs. Mickie James (WWE Women's Title):

Tonight the part of Mickie James will be played by Mickie James, and the part of Trish by Trish Stratus. Trish took a real nasty bump off the top rope to the outside, and either did a great sell-job of an injury, or got injured. Gets strangled by Mickie for the mentalist DQ.

Shelton Benjamin vs. Rob Van Dam (WWE Intercontinental Title )

Solid match with a few great highspots, Shelton blocking rolling thunder with a samoan drop, and using the money in the bank case for a Van Terminator being my favs. Also I don't think we've seen the split-legged moonsault out of RVD for a while. RVD gets the pin, the title, a cut over the eye and to keep his title shot.

Big Show vs. Kane:

Oh man, I wish I had taken my toilet break during this, rather than when the ads were on. Nobody wins, least of all me. If you want to know what happens, you can read something written by someone who actually cares about these sort of matches.

Shawn Michaels & God vs. Vince McMahon & Shane McMahon:

Shawn did everything he could to make this, but just not there. The God stupidity saw to that. Spirit Squad help Vince win. Wooooo.

John Cena vs. Edge vs. Triple H (WWE Title)

Hard work, but again, lacking something. HHH did the major major blade job here, normally the Heartbreak Kid is the leader of the bleeders, but this was impressive. Cena gets the pin on HHH for the win, HHH gets to beat everyone up afterwards. I reckon he gets the title on Raw.

Oh and as I've finished this off later, we now know that Trish was proper hurt in that fall, has damaged her shoulder.