Saturday News and Notes; One Night Stand, RAW 3-Hour Show
Couple of notes now that SmackDown is over and done with, and the company is in the final countdown for One Night Stand, which will be a week from Sunday in Jacksonvile, Florida.
* Right now we have three official matches for the ONS show, all of which are either rematches or involve the same wrestlers from the Judgement Day show just last week.
- John Cena vs Khali for the WWE Title in a Falls Count Anywhere match. This will be a repeat of last month, but with the Extreme Rules they can do some different things to get Cena over as a monster killer.
- Vince McMahon vs Bobby Lashley for the ECW Title in a Street Fight. Lashley should finally get his revenge vs "The Boss," but you can bet we'll see tons of Shane and Umaga involved before its all over. The Judgement Day 1-on-3 match was a huge letdown.
- Edge vs Batista for the World Heavyweight Title in a Cage match. Another rematch from JD, but in a cage. These two had an okay match two weeks ago, and I expect to see them both step it up in the cage.
Also for ONS, I can see a couple of tag matches, as both shows set up title matches this past week with multiple teams involved. On the RAW side, you have the Hardys, Cade and Murdoch, The World's Greatest Tag Team, and Kenny Dykstra and Nitro. Over on SmackDown, it's Deuce and Domino, London and Kendrick, and Regal and Taylor. If they go ahead with some sort of matches with all these teams, I can see these being the show stealers.
I hate to say it, but it looks as if we'll have another go-around with Chris Benoit vs MVP in some sort of extreme match as well. RVD vs Snitsky in what will be RVD's last WWE match will be on the card as well from all indications. On the RAW side, there is still plenty they can do, and I can see some sort of other ECW match with Punk and or Burke involved.
* WWE has cancelled it's SmackDown/ECW house show on 6/11 in Ocean City, MD. They did this becuase they are going to do a mega 3-hour show on that date for the RAW show on USA. They called that show in Maryland becaue they wanted the entire roster to be at the RAW show that night.
* Word this week is that Vinny Mac is not a happy camper when it comes to Vladimir Kozlov. Sources say that Kozlov was set to make the move from OVW to WWE, but officials say that he is just not ready. Vince threw a fit when he was told of the deal with Vlad. The company gave Vladimir a nice sized developmental deal due to the fact that Jerry Jarrett was looking to grab him first.
