The chaos that was caused by the 2008 draft only got worse during the
PPV "Night Of Champions" RAW was in the unique position of getting all three World titles on one show, but only if
Cena , Batista , & Kane would have won their matches. As most of you already now that is not how it went down. Night of Champions turned out to be a Night of Disaster!
Triple H for the first time in his career pinned the "Doctor of
Thuganomics" John
Cena. Taking the prized
WWE Championship to
Smackdown with him.
Cena was confident knowing it was he that beat Triple H at
Wrestlemania XXIII when "The Game" tapped out under the pressure of the
STFU. This time however was a different story. After trading several impressive moves and holds, The King of Kings capitalized with a Pedigree to earn the victory!
Edge was also successful in keeping his World Championship out of the hands of his opponent, Batista. Ending the nearly year long rivalry and marking Batista last chance at the title now that he will be going to RAW.
Every time the gold had been on the line Batista just could not seem to get his hand raised against The Rated R Superstar. Even though he gave his all to win his fourth World title, and after a
devastating spine buster the reign of Edge looked about to be over. Then GM Vicki Guerrero stopped the referee's count and called out
Chavo to finish the match as a special guest referee. Batista
hoping to offer a little pay back for months of torture,
grabbed Vicki and tossed her over the top rope. Leaving his back open for edge to smash the gold into the back of his head to steal the win!
Finally Mark Henry is a World Champion! I have said for a long time that The World Strongest man needed a title run. Out of everyone in the
WWE that has never held one of the top belts, he deserved it the most. Pretty good for someone that was a late edition to the
ECW championship match. GM Theodore Long decided to give him the opportunity after pinning Kane on
ECW this past Tuesday. Kane and Big Show’s rivalry has been heating up for months, but it has always been overshadowed by Henry, who forced his way into the picture with numerous attacks on the Big Red Machine. Kane put everything he had left into throwing Big Show off the top turnbuckle. After which both giants where lying on the mat gasping for breath. Henry came in with a big splash and a three count on Kane to become the
ECW World Champion!
Ted
DiBiase Jr. has been taunting World Tag Team Champions, Cody Rhodes and Hardcore Holly, for the past few weeks
stating that he will win the titles in his first ever wrestling match in the
WWE. Never once revealing who his tag team partner would be. When bell time had arrived there was no sign of
DeBiase's partner, saying that his partner was on the way and to go ahead and start the match asking for Holly first. As Holly began to face him Cody attacked him from behind revealing that he himself was
DiBiase's partner. I myself think this was a great move on the part of the
WWE writers. Let's face it the team of Rhodes and Holly had grown a little
boring. Can the crowd accept the turn of Cody? I think eventually they will. At least this way we add a little more excitement in Cody's career and the possibility of Holly getting revenge would be a good idea for a story line.
With expert teamwork, the team of John Morrison and The
Miz was able to ward off the advances of the Irish father and son, Finlay and
Hornswaggle. For a second it looked as if
Hornswaggle had turned the tables when he set up for the tadpole splash, but Morrison put a stop to it by ripping
Hornswaggle from the top rope and picked up the
pin fall.
In a
surprise turn of events, the rookie newcomer
Kofi Kingston is now the Intercontinental Champion! I think everyone was expecting Shawn
Michaels to face Chris Jericho for the title, but due to his recent eye injury he was unable to do so. While in the ring condemning the fans for cheering on
HBK, Jericho was cut off by the sound of
Kofi Kingston's music. The Jamaican Superstar would be the one to challenge Jericho. After an impressive show against an in-ring veteran, it seemed
Kofi’s luck had run out with Y2J having him locked in the Walls of Jericho in the center of the ring. Much to the surprise of everyone, Shawn
Michaels came through the audience and laid out Lance
Cade at ringside with Sweet Chin Music.
HBK then distracted Jericho just long enough for
Kofi to regain his composure and pick up the win to become the new Intercontinental Champion.
Throughout the match,
Chavo tried to take Hardy's left knee apart. But each time, Hardy fought through the pain and found a way to continue. It wasn't long
before Hardy was able to hit The Twist Of Fate and retained his U.S. Championship!
Of course it is no
surprise to me that Mickie James is still our women's champion! Katie Lea might have a future in this business but she still needs to work on her in ring ability some. Beside Mickie James is still sexier! After suffering a devastating shoulder injury, which the ruthless Katie Lea exploited beyond the limits, Mickie found the inner strength inside herself and sealed the smug challenger’s fate with a climatic DDT.
