The World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) recently Concluded their 10th Major PPV, on Sunday the 7th of September 2008. While the WWE Championship didn't change hands, as HHH successfully defended it in the scramble, the ECW championship and the World Heavy Weight Championship did change hands. While Matt Hardy emerged victorious in the Land of Extreme, it was Chris Jericho who went out of the ring from the RAW segment as the champion. Earlier Shawn Michaels dished out some serious beating to Chris Jericho and Lance Cade. For the World Heavyweight Championship, which was supposed to defended by the reigning champion C.M.Punk, but Randy Orton seemed to had other plans for the night. The Legend killer along with team priceless and Manu, the second generation superstar brutalized the straight edge superstar in the locker room area, the new Raw General Manger had to announce a replacement for Punk it was revealed to be Jericho, who successfully pinned Kane to win the championship. The team of Priceless successfully defended their tag team against Cryme time. Divas Champion Michelle McCool was also victorious in defending her divas championship against Marysee. The biggest surprise came in the form of the Big Show who was complaining of being deprived of a championship match. Earlier the Undertaker demanded that he would punish Vickie Gurreiro for her actions at Unforgiven. Vickie Gurreiro instead demanded an apology from the Deadman. While in the ring when the Big Show was asking for an explanation as to why he was left out of the championship scramble, the Undertaker appeared to punish Vickie Gurreiro for her deeds. It was here that the Big Show changed sides and sided with the GM and proceeded to decimate the Undertaker and leave him unconscious. With Randy Orton all scheduled to return to raw and a new story line beginning in SmackDown, we wrestling fans should be in for a some excellent matches and better PPV'S (Pay per views) to follow.
The thread died fairly quick but I did start a dedicated thread for this here. Anyway, Jericho as champion is a surprise. It hurts Punk to see him lose the title without even being in the match. I love the idea of this new Second Generation stable. Of the four of them, only Dibiase's father, The Million Dollar Man Ted Dibiase, is not a WWE Hall of Famer. He is, however, a member of the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and I imagine it won't be too long before he joins the WWE Hall of Fame. Coming out of this, I expect Orton vs Punk, Jericho vs Batista, Kane vs Rey Mysterio, Triple H vs Jeff Hardy and Big Show vs Undertaker to be the main feuds going forwards. Candace Michelle vs Beth Phoenix has been added to No Mercy next month.
Well the main events at No Mercy will be HHH vs Jeff Hardy for the WWE Championship, Matt Hardy will have to defend the ECW title against Mark Henry, Beth Phoenix will defend her women's championship against Candice Michelle and the most important match will be a ladder match between Shawn Michaels and Chris Jericho for the World Heavy weight Championship.
They might add the Colons vs Hawkins and Ryder for the WWE Tag Team Titles (or they might add Jesse and Festus to that) and obviously Big Show vs Undertaker. As it stands CM Punk does not have healthy competition. I suppose they could make Priceless and Manu vs him and Cryme Time. Otherwise he's going from being World Champion at the start of one pay per view, to being booted (literally) out of the main event to not having a match at all at the next one.