Cyber Sunday is tonight. Fortunately I'm not watching and instead opting for the free football game on. But here's how I voted:

ECW Title on the line. No idea why. I couldn't care less.

Eric Bischoff as referee, although all the choices were pretty shitty. Bischoff seemed like the "freshest" choice because the DX/McMahon crap is old and no one wants to see Coach's ass anymore. How sad is that when Eric Bischoff is the freshest choice for a ref?

Shelton Benjamin to face Jeff Hardy. Carlito will win, though.

Piper as Flair's partner. Just because.

Benoit to face Umaga, just because it'd be kickass, even if Benoit loses. Headbutt exchanges would rule. Sandman wouldn't be bad either, but Benoit would be a better match. I'm fearing Kane will win this though, even though he just finished a program with Umaga...

Submission match for the women's title. Because a women's No DQ match would only involve trash can lids and a lumberjack match would suck. At least a submission match could be decent.

Texas Tornado for the 4-team tag. Just because it'd be out of control and I'm sick of tag team turmoil.

According to 411mania...


Umaga beat Kane

Cryme Tyme won the four-way tag

Lita beat Mickie

Jeff Hardy beat Carlito

Randy Orton and Edge beat DX (Bischoff was the referee)

Ric Flair and Roddy Piper beat the Spirit Squad

Booker T retained the World Heavyweight Championship

That looks like a bad Raw.

So now that Booker is the Champion of Champions......WTF does that mean?

It means that Smackdown is the number one brand, yo B)


Yeah, the show does sound rather lackluster, but hey, I didn't order it so I'm happy.

Wow, so it's just like I thought. Totally irrelevant.

Exactly! Every six months or so the WWE does something to sort of prop Smackdown up and make it look a little less pathetic before going back to ignoring it and celebrating the glory of Raw.

Cyber Sunday does not look like a show I'll ever want to see.

First match announced for Survivor Series:

Triple H, Shawn Michaels, CM Punk, Matt and Jeff Hardy vs. Randy Orton, Edge, Johnny Nitro, Gregory Helms, and Mike Knox.


And no, I'm not making this up.

That sounds pretty badass, actually.

Personally, I think that match sounds a bit strange if you ask me.

At least Helms gets to hang out with some main-eventers for a few minutes.

I find it strange that they are putting so many mid carders in the match. But I guess they'll be getting the push until SS to make them feel more important on TV.

How dare you call Matt Hardy a midcarder...oh wait...

I wish I could call him unemployed. He's fucking terrible.

Yes, yes he is.

WWE.com announced that WWE champion John Cena will team with Kane, Lashley, Sabu, and Rob Van Dam in a traditional Survivor Series match at the PPV. ECW champion Big Show will team with M.V.P., Umaga, Finlay, and Test to face Cena's team.

Ok, I'm interested in Survivor Series now.

Definately. Umaga and Finlay on the same team rules.

Now THAT's a fucking SS elimination match.

Surprisingly this is shaping up to be a pretty good show.

Looks good so far. Sucks that the Sandman won't be in the match against Big Show's team.

Who the hell is MVP ? And what happened to MNM ?

Wow. That should definitely be a match to watch.

MVP is a new heel on Smackdown, his entire gimmick is that he thinks he's bigger than wrestling and he's all arrogant, etc. So far he's been pure shit.


MNM were broken up back at Judgment Day when they lost the tag titles to London and Kendrick. Nitro and Melina got moved to Raw, and Nitro just won his second Intercontinental title. Mercury got sent to rehab.

Wow. CM Punk and HHH doing the opening DX "Are You Ready" thing just now was one of the most surreal things I've seen in ages...

Hilarious

It was funny at first, but took wayyyy too long. They should have left after conning JBL out of a hundred.

Fuck that, Cryme Tyme's Ho-sale was fucking great.

Overall the PPV wasn't too bad, although there really weren't any great matches to note. The main event was sloppy as fuck with Batista winning with a fucking belt shot.

Team D-X pulling the clean sweep was pretty weird booking as well. Punk coming off like a star was great, especially when Trips had no choice but to acknowledge it.

Not one other Survivor Series style match really stood out as anything special. Cena's team vs. Show's team was pretty bad overall too. Umaga gets DQ'd almost immediately, and actually the only thing solid about it was when it came down to Show/Finlay vs. Lashley/Cena when the heels worked the southern style tag and worked over Cena good. The match pretty much went to hell though when Finlay was pinned off of a botched spear by Lashley (Finlay was suppost to get speared with the little bastard, but it was timed horribly) and Big show caught the spear into and F-U for the pin.


I also found it hilarious that the ECW PPV is NEXT FUCKING WEEK. I'm predicting lowest buyrate EVER.

Oh yes, the ECW ppv next week is completely fucked. They through most of their big names into one match, and so far that is the ONLY match announced. Added to it being one week after Survivor Series, and it is doomed. Doomed, I say.

What the hell else could they even do on the PPV outside of the main?

Stryker vs. Sandman?

uh.........yeah.

Apparently the Hardyz have issued an open challenge for the ECW show too.

So Hardyz v MNM on the ECW PPV -- none of which are ECW wrestlers.

Of course, Mercury was -- but I seriously doubt there is any chance of them bothering to mention it.

It's good to see MNM back together, and it should make for a great match, though it does feel strange having it on an ECW ppv. It's like Raw/Smackdown vs. Raw/Smackdown, on ECW! Or should I assume that Mercury is officially on Raw now? Bah, I'm confused.

So that's TWO matches on the show now. Otherwise, I agree that Striker vs. Sandman will probably be added, but what else can they do? Dreamer vs. Thorn? Mahoney vs. someone?

I'm sure that for no reason they'll setup another random match that will be added on Smackdown this week too.

Seriously, why even do an ECW PPV? They had a long time to build up for this and they just got lazy, did whatever the fuck they thought of randomly, and the PPV looks like shit. I'm sorry, but it takes a hell of a lot more than an Elimination Chamber for me to blow $40 on a fucking PPV.

I agree with DK. They had six months to build this ppv. Are there any feuds being blown off? Not really, the only things resembling long term feuds have been Punk/Knox (so far Knox isn't on the card and got buried at Survivor Series) and RVD vs. Heyman.

There were a few things they could have done to add to this ppv. They could have begged and pleaded and thrown money at Masato Tanaka, Lance Storm, and other ECW alumni to come in and patch up the card. They could even have used the same strategy they did for Survivor Series, and announce matches online (easy way to get Sandman/Striker added). But no, the ppv is in less than one week, there are only two matches advertised, and the brand itself is dying a slow and pathetic death.

Hell yeah Rowe. I don't understand why they did the one thing with ECW that it had already built into itself.

They turned something that was distinctively different into the same old blah stuff that they already had. There has been nothing of interest in ECW since it started unless you actually tune in to see what Punk's doing. Which by the way is feuding with a guy over his girlfriend. Not one thing ECW has done (outside of RVD beating Cena at ONS II) that has gotten one ounce of heat either.

Although it'll probably be around for awhile, it IS dying a slow, painful, and pathetic death.

Damn right. I'll probably end up watching ECW tonight, if only because I'm curious to see if they do anything to try and salvage it.

I thought they were doing good with establishing Hardcore Holly as a strong face, but his re-turn kind of killed that.

Honestly, that turn kind of killed a lot of any heat they had going.

Is this "ECW" or a WCW PPV circa '98? 2 matches announced, and only one of them looks interesting.

For the record, it's not the "Extreme Lackluster PPV Pusher."

I was surprised that all they did last night was push the "Extreme Elimination Chamber" and the Hardys vs. MNM. Really odd.

Honestly, they would have done better not to put Punk in the Chamber, then they could have used him and Knox as a third match.

Yeah, I would have personally put Knox and Punk in the chamber, and have maybe done an "extreme rules" Test vs. Dreamer match.

That's just me.