WWE Backlash Recap, Results, Reax

[Marciana - admin]

Here we go y'all. For real this time.

Opening Notes -- Carlito and Nitro went at it in a dark match, and Carlito won. Poor Nitro. What's happened to him since Melina won the Women's Championship?...Commentators from all 3 brands + the Spanish announcers are at ringside.

Match 1 -- Jeff and Matt Hardy (c) vs Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch - World Tag Team Title Match --- Like Cade and Murdoch are really going to win. The Hardy's win it in 16:00. It's the same formula they used with London and Kendrick when they were champions and they'd have a match at a PPV. They'd work matches in the shows leading up to the PPV where they'd lose, and then win at the PPV. Same banana.

McEvoL in the McLocker Room -- Shane tells an almost hyperventilating Umaga that it will all go well if Umaga does as the McMahons tell him to. Vince is kickin' it with da bitchez with a new doo-rag. Shane thinks about becoming ECW champion, and then recovers by saying Vince can become ECW champion. Vince walks away and again we get seeds of distrust between Vince and Shane. They do this EVERYTIME, when is Shane gonna turn on Vince already? Sheesh!

Match 2 -- Melina (c) vs Mickie James - Women's Championship match --- If I had booked Wrestlemania 23, this would have been my Divas match. We have 2 formidable Divas duking it out and actually giving back worth to the Women's Championship. Melina pins Mickie at 9:00 to retain. Oh snap.

Maria's Interview Segment -- Yes, it's happened, I couldn't think of an alliteration, or anything cute or funny to put here. Maria interviews Edge, who says he's happy that A) He didn't have to wrestle Orton Monday, and B) Cena and HBK tore each other apart in a match that went almost an hour last Monday. Maria then pulls out a cue card from her cleavage and gets Edge to retell the story of how he cashed in his Money In The Bank, which Edge is only too happy to do. He does wonder who asked the question though. Turns out it was Mr Kennedy, who tells that story from his perspective, and implies that he just might cash in his Money In The Bank tonight. Edge is NOT HAPPY.

Match 3 -- Chris Benoit (c) vs MVP - United States Championship match --- I may not like MVP much, but there's no denying he's a good athlete, and he's a worthy opponent for Benoit. Benoit wins with a small package in 14:00.

Dishing With Grisham -- Should be the title of a segment they should give the Grishmeister, lolz. Anyway. I just finished watching this interview segment for the 1234389035th time because it just makes my fangirl all giddy and crazyhorny, so you know I'm doing this detailed. (The bold parts are Orton.) Grish is about to interview John Cena, but before Grisham can finish his question, Ortz interrupts. He says that he and John-John have a lot in common ("young...incredibly handsome...extremely talented...leaves us all the more open for resentment...I won't take that lying down..."), so they should form an alliance tonight ("...we get together...") to take out HBK and Edge then they go at it and see who the better man is. John-John wonders exactly what Orton really wants, considering he thinks John is handsome ("Wait a minute, man, that's not exactly what I meant..."), and that he wants him and John to "get together" ("...Like, in the ring, man!"), and though Ortz said he won't take it "lying down", his eyes say differently (o.o). John-John says it's 2007, he's not judging anybody, but thinks it works for Ortz, and then mocks the Legend Killer pose ( \_o_/ <-- Legend Killer Pose), implying Ortz is batting for the home team (O.O). Sorry Ortz, it's not his thing. Ortz is NOT HAPPY, and says, and I swear to you he said this verbatim, "You think you're funny, Cena, huh?! The only pose you're gonna be doing tonight is laying on your back, in that ring, with ME ON TOP!!111!1!!" My ovaries go BOOM at that line as Ron Simmons steps into the picture. Ortz mouths to himself what he just said, realizes he didn't just walk right into that one, he ran, tripped, flailed, stumbled and fell flat on his face into that one. Ron looks at him all funny and says "DAMN!" and Ortz flinches. HEE. HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. Creative and John Cena are listening to the fangirls, lolz.

Match 4 -- Bobby Lashley (c) vs Vince, Shane and Umaga - ECW Title match --- You really think I'd talk about this when I'm so bored with it? All we really need to know is that it was ugly, it was brutal, it was carnage, and after the dust settled, Umaga hit a top rope splash on Lashley before reluctantly tagging out to Vince who covered for the 3-count and the pin, so Vince is the new ECW Champion, thanks largely to Umaga.

McCelebration -- Vince, Shane and Umaga are celebrating, and then Vince sends Umaga to the showers. The ECW Originals are standing off to the side, and Vince mocks each and every one of them, cuz you know, he's ECW Champion now. Joey Styles speaks for all long-time ECW fans when he tried to figure out how ECW went from its formation in 1993 to Vince becoming ECW champion.

Match 5 -- Undertaker (c) vs Batista - World Heavyweight Championship match, Last Man Standing --- Long match that I'm sure the fans appreciated very much, just from what I've read in the recap. Double count-out at 22:00. I think, technically, you can give one or two more re-matches to Taker and Batista and the fans would still like it, as long as they keep it interesting and technically sound like at Mania and tonight at Backlash.

Main Event recap in the reply below.

~ MARCIANA ~

[Marciana - admin]

Match 6 -- John Cena (c) vs HBK Shawn Michaels vs Edge vs Randy Orton - Fatal 4-Way WWE Championship match --- WWE Mobile said 50% of voters thought Cena would retain. A lot of people said Edge would win. A lot more people said Orton would. I am SHOCKED, but happy. Anyway, here's your recap of the main event.

HBK, Edge, Ortz and then John came out, and John, despite being booed in the opening seconds of his interview with The Grish Who Stole Maria's Interview Segments (XDDDDD), gets a monster pop. Once the bell rings everybody roars the roof off the damn place. Edge tries to ally himself with HBK, and Ortz tries to talk Cena into helping him tonight, and then Cena and HBK flatten Edge and Ortz with right hands then clear them to the outside. HBK then chops Cena hard enough a few times to knock his nipples numb, but Cena with a suplex and a nearfall in the first few opening minutes. Edge and RKO then come in and clear the house, and then they have their own moment in the ring. They exchange words for a while, and then Edge decks Ortz with a right hand.

Ortz and Edge exchange punches, and then Ortz with that beautiful dropkick of his sends Edge to the outside, but Cena shoves him right back in. Edge counters Orton's Irish Whip into a Whip of his own and HBK yanks Ortz out of the ring. They exchange blows and then Cena rams right into the both of them from out of nowhere. Awesome moment. Edge with a baseball slide to take John-John down. Edge sends Ortz to meet the ring steps the hard way. Edge scoopslams Cena, then tries to scoopslam HBK, but HBK is suddenly back, and he scoopslams Edge. As he goes up to the apron, the other 3 get up on to their feet, and HBK moonsaults right onto them. HBK shoves Edge into the ring to try and capitalize, and he tries to chop Edge's nipples off this time, but Edge, who had "that Krispy Kreme look - his eyes were glazed over..." gets a punch to HBK's face and then introduces HBK's face to the top turnbuckle. HBK and Edge take each other down with double clotheslines, and then John-John lands a leg drop across Edge and HBK's necks from up top as they're getting up. I love that he's doing the leg drop again, that's awesome. Ortz makes it back to the ring, practically beheads John and then clears everyone but John, and he gets a backbreaker for a 2-count, and when the backbreaker doesn't work, he tries to mash John-John's "handsome" face in with his knee. Over and over again. John gets some offense in, which is booed, but then he runs into the steel post shoulder first and is cheered. Fans are fickle tonight, lolz. HBK is back in, and Ortz gets his chest chopped raw, and then HBK pops up only to run into an enzuiguri from Edge. Edge tries to pin HBK, but Ortz breaks it up and pins HBK, which Edge breaks up, and they argue, and Edge says they need to work together tonight to close out the first 10 minutes of a so far hot main event.

RKO and Edge double-team HBK, then Edge sends John off the ring apron and into the announce table outside. More double-teaming on HBK, and then Edge and Ortz put HBK in a double Boston Crab, and how fun would it be to figure out who wins if HBK taps out to that? John-John then takes control again after re-entering the ring by hitting a double Throwback on both Edge and Ortz and then firing up the 5 Moves. At the 5 Knuckle Shuffle, HBK and RKO do some three-initialled double-teaming to take Cena to the outside and into the ringpost. HBK then turned on RKO and RKO ate SRP (steel ring post) courtesy of HBK. HBK then attempted to piledrive Ortz on the RAW announce table, but gets smashed in the back by Edge and His Chair. Orton gives Edge a thumbs up, "hey thanks". Edge smacks Ortz on the head with His Chair, "you're welcome, dude". Edge thinks John's feeling left out of all the Chair Lovin', so he tries to give John some, but he gets drop-toeheld into an STFU. Edge just barely makes it to the ropes. Ortz stumbles his way back inside the ring and John-John tells him to STFU as well (XDDDDD, Randy on his stomach on the mat and John on top XDDDDD). HBK makes it back in the ring and breaks it up before Ortz can tap, so Cena tries to make him STFU too, but HBK counters it into a small package for a 2-count. See, I knew there was a way to counter that hold...

At the 15:00 mark, Edge and Orton are out of the ring, and HBK chops his way into his own Moves of Doom on John. He starts tuning up the band, but Edge interrupts him by going for a Spear. HBK moves and Edge runs into the turnbuckle, and then he gets scoopslammed and HBK's elbow rammed into his chest. Orton goes for a ride and the Moves Of Doom courtesy of HBK, but before HBK can hit the elbow drop, John goes after him and goes for an FU up top (which has yet to actually happen, really), but Rated RKO grabs Cena's legs, and Cena and HBK get pulled down to the mat. (Very similar to a spot in Backlash 06, when John tried to FU Edge from up top, but HHH electric-chaired them both off.) All four men are down and recovering on the mat.

Big finish on its way. Cena and Edge get up and Cena tries to FU him 3 times. HBK runs in and we almost get a double FU but HBK gets off and starts tuning up the band. Ortz hits an RKO on HBK out of nowhere, stopping the music short. RKO goes for the P-I-N on HBK, but C-E-N-A breaks it up. Edge hits an Impaler DDT on Cena, who kicks out. Edge goes all Dev0Lish with that thing he does with his eyes just before a Spear, and he goes for the Spear, but John-John leapfrogs him. We then get this awesome finisher exchanging between all 4 men. This is gonna be quick now, see if you can catch up: Orton tries to RKO Edge, who pushes Orton to Cena who tries to FU Orton who tries to FU Cena who pushes him into a Spear from Edge who gets FU'ed by Cena who takes Sweet Chin Music from HBK the split second after he gets up from the FU on Edge. You think HBK's about to win this one, but the ref sees that Cena's fallen on top of Ortz, and Ortz's shoulders are down and they are NOT GETTING UP, so Cena gets the three count. HBK, btw, is half a second behind, and breaks up the three count just half a second after the ref's hand touches the mat. John Cena wins in 20:00 to retain the championship.

Post-Match Ponderings -- We get replays of the awesome finishes, and then we're left with HBK and Cena in the ring, and what happened to RKO and Edge, where'd they go?! (And am I the only who finds it amusing that HBK and Cena contain as many letters as RKO and Edge does?) We get some post-match drama going on between HBK, who is NOT HAPPY and tells John "You shouldn't have that!", and Cena, who, after recovering from Sweet Chin Music, has realized and is astounded he won at all.

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Well, that certainly built up very well. And I'm not just talking about the match, I'm talking about the entire PPV. On paper, it all sounds awesome, and I hope I get to actually see the entire thing someday earlier than NEXT YEAR. All in all, it really does sound awesome, and I'm glad to see WWE stepping its game up on a whole. I can't wait to see what happens on RAW.

~ MARCIANA ~

[ExtremeDiva]

admin said:

Match 6 -- John Cena (c) vs HBK Shawn Michaels vs Edge vs Randy Orton - Fatal 4-Way WWE Championship match --- Orton tries to RKO Edge, who pushes Orton to Cena who tries to FU Orton who tries to FU Cena who pushes him into a Spear from Edge who gets FU'ed by Cena who takes Sweet Chin Music from HBK the split second after he gets up from the FU on Edge. You think HBK's about to win this one, but the ref sees that Cena's fallen on top of Ortz, and Ortz's shoulders are down and they are NOT GETTING UP, so Cena gets the three count. HBK, btw, is half a second behind, and breaks up the three count just half a second after the ref's hand touches the mat. John Cena wins in 20:00 to retain the championship.

Post-Match Ponderings -- We get replays of the awesome finishes, and then we're left with HBK and Cena in the ring, and what happened to RKO and Edge, where'd they go?! (And am I the only who finds it amusing that HBK and Cena contain as many letters as RKO and Edge does?) We get some post-match drama going on between HBK, who is NOT HAPPY and tells John "You shouldn't have that!", and Cena, who, after recovering from Sweet Chin Music, has realized and is astounded he won at all.

~ MARCIANA ~

Here's the thing. I love all four guys. Like I said, I'm not upset Cenat won, but it was more the way he won it. Like they couldn't come up with a better ending? Come on folks. Unless they're really trying to keep this fued between the four going until Summerslam when HHH is supposed to come back. But then are they going to end the fued or just add HHH to the fued. Or are they going to reunite DX?
I just wish it had ended differently. Not like John was shocked he won. I don't know. It just seemed to ruin the pay-per-view for me. Over all, the event was great. But I just didn't like the ending of the main event.

[Marciana - admin]

I'm actually the same. It's awesome John won, but the way I would have ended it was that he landed on top of Ortz, but HBK landed on top of John, so he thinks he's won...I dunno, I would have added a little more excitement to it.

~ MARCIANA ~

[JOHN CENA]

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