All Hail King William
What a big surprise from the King of the Ring tonight. Let me say I actually like were this is going. Regal is such a great heel and giving him the crown should only allow him to spread more misery to the WWE lineup. I'm not sure what plans they have exactly fro his reign, but I really feel this story line should spice things up. As for the tournament itself it has some ups and downs. One side of the bracket featured top names while the other was a who's who of mid level talent. MVP and Jericho looked good once again and I would love to see these guys together in the future. Also CM Punk raised his stock with some good matches against Matt Hardy and Jericho, along with his elimination in the final to Regal. As for Matt Hardy he looked really good tonight, which helped settle my concern for his match at Backlash. As it looks right now we may have a strong match with MVP, instead of Hardy looking very rusty as he has for the past weeks. No much to report on the other participants as they really didn't show much. Khali was disqualified against Finaly, Hornswoggle was beaten badly by Regal. The Regal and Finaly match was decent, but Regal did not really show much until he faced Punk.
As for the rest of the night there wasn't really that many matches as the focus was on King of the Ring, but we did see the feud between tag champs Holly and Rhodes develop with Carlito and Marella. Carlito beat Hardcore Holly tonight in a singles match, but Santino could not keep his mouth shut. So Rhodes confronted him and beat him with the mic, prompting Holly to take out Carlito. It would be nice to see this one added to the Backlash card as it would be a good first match. Carlito always works well with whomever he is partnered with and Holly and Rhodes have some good chemistry also.
And since we are close to a pay per view we needed some variation of the main event in the form of a tag match. So tonight we saw ECW champ Kane along with his brother and Heavyweight champ Undertaker teamed with Triple H and Cena. They faced former champs Chavo and Edge along with JBL and WWE champ Randy Orton. Edge would get the win for his team but would be FUed by Cena. This would lead to a melee in the ring which featured Cena and Triple H facing off only to be taken out by JBL. Then Orton would go up against JBL before both were choke slammed by the Undertaker. This match did feature some goof action between Chavo and Kane that also put some concerns of mine that these two may not be able to work well together to bed. What was looking to be a bad pay per view, actually may shape up to be decent after all.
As for the rest of the night there wasn't really that many matches as the focus was on King of the Ring, but we did see the feud between tag champs Holly and Rhodes develop with Carlito and Marella. Carlito beat Hardcore Holly tonight in a singles match, but Santino could not keep his mouth shut. So Rhodes confronted him and beat him with the mic, prompting Holly to take out Carlito. It would be nice to see this one added to the Backlash card as it would be a good first match. Carlito always works well with whomever he is partnered with and Holly and Rhodes have some good chemistry also.
And since we are close to a pay per view we needed some variation of the main event in the form of a tag match. So tonight we saw ECW champ Kane along with his brother and Heavyweight champ Undertaker teamed with Triple H and Cena. They faced former champs Chavo and Edge along with JBL and WWE champ Randy Orton. Edge would get the win for his team but would be FUed by Cena. This would lead to a melee in the ring which featured Cena and Triple H facing off only to be taken out by JBL. Then Orton would go up against JBL before both were choke slammed by the Undertaker. This match did feature some goof action between Chavo and Kane that also put some concerns of mine that these two may not be able to work well together to bed. What was looking to be a bad pay per view, actually may shape up to be decent after all.
