Closing in on One Night Stand
Three days away from One Night Stand in Jacksonville, and from all indications, look for the talent to pull out all the stops in their extreme matches, as the company knows that this is going to be a down PPV with Judgement Day just two weeks ago. Problem is, in the past two years this has been the ECW brand PPV, and the company realized there was no way they could do just an ECW PPV this time around based on how bad the December PPV was.
The updated card for Sunday is as follows:
WWE Champion John Cena vs. The Great Khali (Pinfalls Count Anywhere Match)
ECW World Champion Mr. McMahon vs. Bobby Lashley (Street Fight)
World Heavyweight Champion Edge vs. Batista (Steel Cage Match)
Melina vs Candice Michelle (Pudding Match)
World Tag Team Champions The Hardys vs. The World's Greatest Tag Team (Ladder Match)
Tommy Dreamer and Sandman will team with Punk in a Six-Man Tag Team Tables Match against Elijah Burke, Marcus Cor Von, and their New Breed teammate Matt Striker.
Word is they were going to do a Chris Benoit vs MVP match, but reports say that has been scrapped in favor of Mark Henry vs Kane. From what I hear your looking at a last man standing match for these two, or a No-DQ match. I would expect this one to be short, as Henry is still working his way back to full-time wrestling after the knee injury he suffered last year on Saturday Night's Main Event in July in Dallas.
Speaking of which, SNME was taped on Monday night before RAW in Toronto, and will be shown at 11:30PM Saturday night on NBC. Based on what I have seen from the card (have not read the spoilers), this is going to be nothing more than matches to set up Sunday. The company realized that with the time slot and the date, they were not going to put much stock into this show as they knew that not many would watch.
With the PPV, I do expect the RVD vs Randy Orton match, which will be RVD's last WWE match, to totally steal the show. Orton is being groomed like the next heel HHH, as the top heel in the company, and you know that Rob wants to leave the company on an up note, with a strong match. Orton will win this stretcher match, but I think that Rob gives a great effort and makes this a good match that will come across great on TV.
