Match Results from 3/02/08 to 3/08/08

RAW 3/3/08

• Big Show defeated Brandon Hill
• Ric Flair & Shawn Michaels defeated Lance Cade & Trevor Murdoch
• Umaga defeated Super Crazy
• John Cena defeated Mr. Kennedy
• Carlito defeated Cody Rhodes (Money In The Bank Qualifing Match)
• Triple H defeated Randy Orton (DQ)
  

ECW 3/4/08

• John Morrison & The Miz defeated Tommy Dreamer & Colin Delaney (DQ)
• Shelton Benjamin defeated Stevie Richards
• Kane defeated James Curtis
• Chavo Guerrero defeated CM Punk
  

TNA impact! 3/6/08

• Kevin Nash defeated AJ Styles (Street Fight)
• Curry Man won a 16-man Battle Royal, by stipulation he and Shark Boy get to choose the stipultion for their match against Team 3D at Destination X.
• Tomko defeated Somoa Joe (First Blood Match)
• Rhyno defeated Judas Mesias
• Awesome Kong defeated Salinas
• Christian Cage defeated Kurt Angle (Six Sides Of Steel Match)
  
  
  

Smackdown 3/7/08

• CM Punk, Jesse, & Festus defeated Chavo Guerrero, The Miz, & John Morrison
• MVP defeated Batista (Countout)
• Kane defeated Chuck Polumbo
• Big Show defeated Jamie Noble
• Edge, Curt Hawkins, & Zack Ryder defeated Undertaker (3-on-1 Handicap Match)
  

OVW 3/8/08

• Sweet Stevie & Soul Cat defeated Dewey & Ted McNailer
• Melody defeated Josie
• Dirty Money defeated J.D. Micheals
• Matt Capotelli accepted an OVW Lifetime Acheivement Award (Joey Matthews interrupted and stole Cappotelli's award plaque. Jamin Olivencia came to Cappotelli's rescue but got smashed in the head with the award by Joey Matthews)
• Rob Conway defeated Pat Buck
• Jamin Olivencia defeated Rudy Switchblade
• Los Locos defeated Erik Doom & Karn Alexander
• Chris Cage defeated Damian Adams
• Von Lilas defeated Seth Skyfire
• Nick Dinsmore defeated Scott Cardinal (OVW Championship)

Johnny Weaver's Ten-Bell Salute!

Johnny Weaver (The Grappler,Ultimate Assassin)

Passed away on February 15, 2008 at the age of 72. It is listed as Natural Causes .

Championships include :

4 time NWA Florida Southern Heavyweight Champion, NWA Florida Southern Tag Team Champion, NWA Florida Tag Team Champion, 6 time NWA Atlantic Coast Tag Team Champion, 2 time NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Champion, 6 time NWA Southern Tag Team Champion, NWA Television Champion, NWA International Heavyweight Champion

A tag team specialist who wrestled mostly in the Mid-Atlantic territory for Jim Crockett Promotions. In 1960, Weaver was called "the current 'rage' of the teenagers," and the "Rage" nickname stuck with him in his early years. He was initially paired with Sonny Myers as Sonny and Johnny Weaver. He won his first title, the NWA Southern Tag Team titles, with partner Cowboy Bob Ellis in December 1963. George Becker would become Weaver’s most familiar partner over the years. Becker was a big name in the San Francisco territory before settling in the Mid-Atlantic area in the mid-1960s. The two would capture the NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team titles five times. Weaver would also win the Mid-Atlantic Tag Team titles with partners Art Nielson (on two occasions), Dewey Robertson (who later became The Missing Link) and Jay Youngblood.

A deputy sheriff with Mecklenburg County in Charlotte, North Carolina since 1989 until his death. In his 50s, Weaver became one of the oldest people to take the basic law enforcement test and ultimately joined the sheriff's office. He spent most of his nineteen-year career transporting prisoners on the same back roads he'd traveled as a wrestler and promoter.

Considered the inventor of the Sleeper Hold, which he called the "Weaverlock" when he used it.

Johnny Weaver was once married to female wrestler Penny Banner.

CWF Mid-Atlantic out of Burlington, North Carolina promotes the Johnny Weaver Cup tournament every August with Weaver in attendance to present the winner with the Weaver Cup trophy. Past tournament winners have been "Dangerous E" Corey Edsel (2004), Jesse Ortega (2005), Gemini Kid (2006) and "Handsome" Mitch Connor (2007).

He began his broadcasting career in 1979 as color commentator with World Wide Wrestling host Rich Landrum. He became Landrum's permanent sidekick for the early 1980s, where he became famous for singing "Turn Out The Lights, The Party's Over" at the end of matches (a tip of the hat to Don Meredith, who did the same thing on Monday Night Football). When Landrum left the company in 1983, Weaver then worked briefly with David Crockett, before becoming paired with the longtime voice of Mid-Atlantic Wrestling Bob Caudle, whom he worked with until leaving the company in 1988.

He made a brief in-ring return in the Fall of 1987 in the corner of the "American Dream" Dusty Rhodes who was using sleeper hold, calling it the "Weaver Lock," and chasing down Lex Luger and the N.W.A. United States Title. During this angle, Weaver was placed in a Japanese version of the sleeper by Hiro Matsuda, causing him to bleed from the mouth. Weaver was in Rhodes' corner at Starrcade '87: Chi-Town Heat, when Rhodes defeated Luger in a steel cage after DDTing Luger onto a steel chair.

Match Results 2/24/08 t0 3/01/08

RAW 2/25/08

• Cody Rhodes & Hardcore Holly defeated Santino Marella & CarlitoChris
• Jericho defeated Jeff Hardy (Money In The Bank Qualifing Match)
• Umaga defeated DH Smith
• Shawn Michaels defeated Lance Cade
• John Cena & Triple H defeated Randy Orton & Mr. Kennedy
  
  

ECW 2/26/08

• Kelly Kelly & Kofi Kingston defeated Layla & Santino Marella
• Stevie Richards defeated Mike Knox
• Tommy Dreamer & Collin Delaney defeated The Miz & John Morrison
• CM Punk defeated Shelton Benjamin & Elijah Burke (#1 contenders match)
  

TNA impact!

• Scott Steiner & Petey Williams defeated Sonjay Dutt & Jay Lethal
• Shark Boy & Curry Man defeated Rellik & Black Reign
• James Storm defeated Eric Young (Ladder Match)
• Awesome Kong defeated Angelina Love
• Kurt Angle defeated Kevin Nash
  

Smackdown 2/29/08

• Big Show defeated Garlins & Ryans (Handicap Match)
• Shannon Moore & Jimmy Wang Yang defeated Deuce & Domino
• Chuck Polumbo defeated Jamie Noble
• Batista & Kane defeated MVP & The Great Kahli
• Jesse & Festus defeated The Miz & John Morrison
• Big Daddy V defeated Balls Mahoney by DQ
• The Undertaker defeated Zach Ryder
  
  

OVW 3/1/08

• Josie defeated Katie Lea (OVW Woman's Championship)
• Chris Cage defeated Jaden Jeter
• J.D. Micheals defeated Lupe Viscara
• Erik Doom defeated Armando Estrada
• Jamin Olivencia defeated James Curtis and Elijah Burke (OVW TV Championship Triple Threat)
• "Soul Cat" Dre Blitz defeated Andrew Vaine
• C.M. Punk & Colt Cabana defeated Domino & Seth Skyfire
• Johnny Punch defeated Drew McIntyre
• Los Locos defeated Paul Birchall & Stu Sanders ,The Mobile Homers ,& The Insurgency (OVW Southern Tag Team Championship 4-Corners Match)
• Anthony Bravado defeated Justin "The Ox" LaRoche
• Charles Evans & Matt Sydal defeated Vladimir Kozlov & Mike Kruel
• Colt Cabana defeated Shawn Spears (Loser Retires match)
• Nick Dinsmore defeated Jay Bradley (OVW Heavyweight Championship)
  
  
  

Match Results 2/17/08 to 2/23/08

WWE NO Way Out 2/17/08

• Triple H defeated Jeff Hardy, Umaga, JBL, HBK, & Y2J (RAW Elimination Chamber)
• John Cena defeated Randy Orton by DQ (Orton retains Championship)
• Edge defeated Rey Mysterio (World Heavyweight Championship)
• Undertaker defeated Batista, Finley, Kahli, MVP, & Big Daddy V (Smackdown/ECW Elimination Chamber)
• Chavo Guerrero defeated CM Punk (ECW Championship)
• Ric Flair defeated Mr. Kennedy (Carreer Threatening Match)
  

RAW 2/18/08

• Jeff Hardy defeated Snitsky (Money In The Bank Qualifing Match)
• Paul Burchill defeated Super Crazy
• Vince McMahon vs. Hornswaggle (No Contest)
• Maria defeated Beth Phoenix
• John Cena defeated Randy Orton (Triple H guest Refferee)

ECW 2/19/08

• The Miz defeated Collin Delaney
• Kofi Kingston defeated Jason Riggs
• Stevie Richards defeated James Curtis
• C.M. Punk & "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair defeated Shelton Benjamin & Elijah Burke
  

TNA 2/21/08

• Tomko & AJ Styles defeated Kip James & Bullet Bob
• Kaz defeated Rellik
• Petey Williams defeated Sonjay Dutt & Johnny Devine (Triple Threat)
• Brother Ray defeated Sharkboy & Curryman (Handicap Match)
• Roxxi & Jackie Moore defeated Gail Kim & ODB (Knockouts Tag Team Match)
• Kurt Angle defeated Booker T
  

Smackdown 2/22/08

• Shelton Benjamin defeated Jimmy Wang Yang
• Jesse and Festus defeated Deuce and Domino
• Big Daddy V defeated Shannon Moore
• Batista defeated MVP
• Kane defeated The Great Kahli
• Chuck Polumbo defeated Matt Jackson
• Rey Mysterio defeated Chavo Guerrero
  

OVW 2/23/08

• Colt Cabana defeated Egotistico Fantastico
• Rudy Switchblade defeated Electrico
• Seth Skyfire defeated Lupe Viscara
• Los Locos defeated J.D. Micheals & Andrew Vain
• Shawn Spears defeated Drew McIntyre
• Nick Dinsmore defeated Erik Doom
• Justin "The Ox" LaRoche defeated Anthony Bravado
• Katie Lea defeated Milena Roucka (OVW Women's Championship)
• Jamin Olivencia defeated James Curtis (OVW TV Championship)
• The Insurgency vs. The Mobile Homers (No Contest)
• Nick Dinsmore defeated Jay Bradley (OVW Heavyweight Championship)

The End Of An Era!

On Feb. 7, 2008 , WWE announced that they had ended their relationship with OVW as a developmental territory, moving all contracted talent to Florida Championship Wrestling.
For the past 10 years "Nightmare" Danny Davis has been making superstar after superstar for the WWE. It truly is the end of an era, and one that a lot of wrestling fans are sad about. Years from now they will be inducting a lot of his students in the Hall of Fame, I am sure. Here is a list of his students that are still working in the WWE.

Beth Phoenix, "The Big Show" Paul Wight, Carlito Colón, Charlie Haas, Cody Rhodes, D.H. Smith, Drew McIntyre, Jillian Hall, John Cena, Katie Lea Burchill, Lance Cade, Maria Kanellis, Malina Perez, Mickie James, Mr. Kennedy, Paul Burchill, Paul London, Randy Orton, "Highlander" Robbie McAllister, "Highlander" Rory McAllister, Santino Marella, Gene Snitsky, Dave Batista, Cherry, Curt Hawkins, Deuce, Domino, Eve Torres, Festus, Jesse, Kenny Dykstra, Mark Henry, Maryse Ouellet, Michelle McCool, Victoria, Zack Ryder, Armando Estrada, "The Boogeyman" Marty Wright, CM Punk, Elijah Burke, John Morrison, Kelly Kelly, Kofi Kingston, Shelton Benjamin, "The Miz" Mike Mizanin.

I am not going to say WWE would not be what it is today without OVW and Danny Davis. Full credit would still have to be given to the McMahon's for that, but OVW gave them the building blocks in which to do so. The list above is just the currently active OVW Alumni, I could not even begin to list the ones that have already left the WWE.

By the looks of things, it would seem that OVW is planning on continuing with business as usual. They definitely have the talent to do so. Also it seems that the talent have a little more freedom now to do a little more with their gimmicks. I don't believe Vince is totally going to turn off the tap either. He knows Danny Davis is a maker of superstars and will be grabbing a couple of talents here and there from the ranks of OVW. It is still sad to see the relationship ended though.

Since I live in the OVW area I will be posting from time to time a short profile of some of the current OVW talent and reasons why I think they are ready to be called up to one of the major shows. Weather it be WWE or TNA. So be looking for these posts in the future!
I would like to congratulate "The Fabulous One" Steve Keirn and FCW on being the new developmental contract they have with the WWE. I have always been a big fan of his and I wish him and his school the best of luck. You have mighty big boots to fill!

Match Results 2/10/08 to 2/16/08

Sorry for the delay and lack of posts this week! I have been busy with remodeling and such!

TNA Against All Odds!

• AJ Styles and Tomko defeated BG James and Bullet Bob Armstrong (Tag Team Championship)
• Traci Brooks defeated Payton Banks
• Scott Steiner defeated Petey Williams (Case vs. Case match)
• Eric Young defeated James Storm (Drinking Championship)
• Awesome Kong defeated ODB (Women's Championship)
• Abyss defeated Judas Mesias (Barbed Wire Massacre 2)
• Booker T vs. Robert Roode ended in a double-countout
• Black Machismo and The Motor City Machineguns defeated Team 3D and Johnny Devine (to save the X Division. Machismo also regained the X Division Championship)
• Kurt Angle defeated Christian Cage (World Heavyweight Championship)
  

RAW

• Hornswoggle defeated Vince McMahon
• Chris Jericho defeated JBL
• Paul Burchill defeated Brian Kendrick
• John Cena defeated Mark Henry
• Melina defeated Maria
• Jeff Hardy defeated Shawn Michaels
  

impact!

• Brother Devon defeated Shark Boy & Curry Man (Handicap Maych)
• Scott Steiner defeated Petey Williams
• A.J. Styles & Tomko defeated Samoa Joe & Kevin Nash
• Rellik defeated Eric Young
• Homicide defeated Chris Sabin and Jimmy Rave
• Awesome Kong defeated ODB
  
  

ECW

• Stevie Richards defeated Local
• Kelly Kelly defeated Layla
• Kofi Kingston defeated Mike Knox
• Tommy Dreamer defeated John Morrison
• CM Punk defeated Mark Henry (Disqualification)
  

SD

• Batista defeated MVP
• Undertaker defeated Big Daddy V
• Finley defeated Kahli
• Punk & Kane defeated Chavo & Shelton
• Victoria defeated Michelle McCool
• Yang & Moore defeated Jesse & Festus, Duece & Domino, Ryder & Hawkins
  

OVW

• Seth Skyfire defeated Electrico
• Damian Adams defeated Johnny Punch
• Chris Cage defeated ?????
• Los Locos defeated Eric Doom & Scott Cardinal
• Josie defeated Serena Deeb
• Drew McIntyre defeated Vladimir Kozlov
• Colt Cabana defeated Stu Sanders
• Jamin Olivencia defeated J.D. Micheals
• Mike Kruel defeated Lupe Viscara
• Justin "The Ox" LaRoche vs. Anthony Bravado ended in a No Contest
• Shawn Spears defeated Dirty Money
• Nick Dinsmore defeated Andrew Vain
• Jay Bradley defeated Matt Sydal (OVW Heavyweight Championship)
  

No Way Out Predictions!

I did pretty good with the matches at the Royal Rumble PPV. So here are my predictions for No Way Out!


Career Threatening Match

Again if "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair loses his career is over! This should be a more interesting match up then when MVP tried at the Rumble, but for the same reason I picked Flair to win over MVP, I also have to go with Flair over Kennedy. Flair is such an important icon of this industry, I do not think they will waste his retirement match on Kennedy. It is going to be someone a little more important than Mr. Kennedy. Flair will win by submission.


ECW Championship

Somewhat interesting rivilry has developed in the land of extreme. Former champ CM Punk lost the title not long ago to Chavo Guerrero, and finally the "Stright Edge Extremist" gets his rematch this Sunday. Sorry Punk fans, but I don't see CM Punk getting the title back any time soon. Chavo will find some way to cheat and win and Punk will be forced to work his way back through the ranks of ECW. A new number one contender will make himself known in the coming weeks. Possibly Shelton or the returning Big Show! Chavo will win by a pinfall.


World Heavyweight Championship

Vicki just cannot stop getting hurt can she! LOL! Good storyline with the Edge & Vicki love affair, but I really don't see it lasting much longer. Edge will cheat a win out of this match somehow, and the Edge & Mysterio fued will be over for now. Edge will win by pinfall.


WWE Championship

We all know who the WWE believes is their meal ticket at the moment, and of course they will want him with the belt come Wrestlemania! I really hate to say this but John Cena will win by submission. Regaining his championship!


Smackdown/ECW Elimination Chamber

Six men will enter; The Undertaker, Finley, The Great Khali, Batista, MVP, & Big Daddy V, but only the Deadman will walk out! Everyone wants to see Undertaker and Edge at Wrestlemania, and I believe the WWE has decided to give it to us. Undertaker for the win.


Raw Elimination Chamber

Six men will enter; Triple H, Jeff Hardy, Shawn Michaels, Umaga, JBL, & Chris Jericho, but only the Rainbow Haired Warrior will walk out! Jeff Hardy for the win. Hardy & Cena will make a huge main event at Wrestlemania!