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Velocity!
Match #1
World's Greatest Tag Team (Shelton Benjamin & Charlie Haas) vs Ultimo Dragon & Funaki
Funaki teams with Kidman last week on Velocity to take on WGTT. Kidman was injured during the match.
Haas and Funaki start out. Haas gets a knee to the face, but Funaki battles back. All four men enter the ring. Dragon gets a head scissors to Shelton Benjamin. WGTT bail to the outside. Funaki hits a baseball slide while Dragon hits a plancha. Back in the ring, Haas blocks a top rope tornado DDT attempt from Funaki. Benjamin sneaks in and sweeps Funaki's leg. Haas removes Funaki's knee pad. World's Greatest Tag Team tags in and out quickly while working over Funaki's knees. Benjamin hooks in a single leg crab. Benjamin has Funaki up for a Samoan drop but Funaki counters into a reverse DDT. Funaki gets the hot tag to Dragon, who gets a leg sweep, quick kicks, tilt-a-whirl head scissors. An assai DDT attempt by Dragon, kicks Haas and transitions into a backslide of Benjamin. Haas sets Dragon up on the top rope for Benjamin to leapfrog splash him, but Funaki intercepts him with a drop kick. Springboard moonsault by Dragon for 2. Funaki gets caught and chucked over the top. Benjamin sneaks in for a super kick which Dragon sells like he is unconscious. Haas locks in the Haas of Pain for the submission in 5:07. (***)
Match #2
Rhyno vs Kanyon
Rhyno back Kanyon into the corner and strikes are exchanged. Crossbody by Kanyon followed by a Russian leg sweep, give him the advantage. Kanyon heads to the top only to met with a kick to the stomach on the way down. Rhyno hits a swinging diamond cutter. He chokes Kanyon in the ropes until hitting a short arm clothesline and locking in a neck vise. Kanyon fights out and gets a swinging neck breaker, drop kick, and a few clotheslines. He follows that up with a mounted corner bulldog for a 2 count. He tries a school boy for 2, but Rhyno beats him to his feet and crushes Kanyon with a clothesline. He sets up in the corner and GORES Kanyon into oblivion for the win in 4:50. (*3/4)
Match #3
Spanky & Paul London vs Bryan Danielson & John Walters
Bryan Danielson starts with Spanky. They try to gain the advantage in a collar and elbow tie up both standing and on the mat. Spanky gets an armbar roll through and Danielson sweeps the leg. Spanky tries a rollup. Danielson quickly turns a hammerlock into a forearm to the face. He tags in John Walters. Hammerlock by Walters until Spanky runs him into the turnbuckles. Spanky gets the tag to London, who takes out both opponents with clotheslines, spinning heel kicks. A German suplex by Walters is thwarted as London lands on his feet. Dropsault to John Walters. Danielson breaks up the pinfall. Walters and Danielson try a double suplex but Spanky pulls London to safety. London and Walters both try some rollup attempts. London and Spanky hit Get Well Soon (reverse STO and jumping Enzuigiri combo on Walters to get the win in 3:03 (**)
Match #4
Scotty 2 Hotty, Rikishi, and Orlando Jordan vs The Full Blooded Italians (Nunzio, Chuck Palumbo, and Johnny The Bull Stamboli)
Chuck Palumbo and Orlando Jordon start. OJ gets some hip tosses and locks in an armbar, Palumbo clotheslines out. He backs into the corner, for the tag to Johnny The Bull. OJ out quicks the Bull and hits a sky high drop kick til a clothesline ends his run. Nunzio and Scotty 2 Hotty in. Nunzio runs into the face corner for some cheap shots, but gets punched by OJ instead and then cowers to avoid a Rikishi punch. He turns around into a flap jack. Nunzio tries to get to the corner, but Scotty 2 Hotty takes out all 3 of the FBI, and gets a back body drop on Nunzio. Palumbo gets a cheap shot, and all three FBI tag in and out for corner based strikes. Chuck Palumbo eventually gets a Samoan drop and Jordon breaks up the fall. Palumbo sends Scotty into the corner on a hard irish whip. While the ref is distracted, the FBI wishbones, Scotty on the ring post while Palumbo stomps him. Scotty wiggles out of a second Samoan drop attempt from Palumbo. Palumbo misses a corner charge and slams his shoulder into the ring post. Hot tag to Rikishi. He clears out The Bull with strikes, chokeslam to Nunzio, super kick to Palumbo, and DDT to the Bull for 2. Nunzio gets an eye rake. Palumbo misses the Whack kick has to eat an Samoan drop from an actual Samoan. Jordan gets a top rope crossbody to the 2 larger FBI members, goes on a flurry of drop kicks, flying forearms, and Johnson shuffle to Johnny the Bull. Nunzio breaks up the fall gets caught by Scotty 2 Hotty a bulldog. W-O-R-M! Johnny the Bull chucks Scotty 2 Hotty out of the ring, but gets squashed in the corner by Rikishi. During the stink face attempt, the Bull gets a low blow. In the chaos, Chuck Palumbo gets Jordan with the Whack kick, and the Bull covers for the win in 9:27 (**3/4). Post match, the FBI threatens a 3 on 1 beating on Scotty. Rikishi takes out Stamboli and Palumbo. Nunzio continues to run his mouth to Scotty until he backs into Rikishi. Nunzio gets crushed and gets stink faced in the corner. Palumbo pulls Nunzio to safety. The faces hug, Mathews and Demott sell on us on Survivor Series tomorrow.
Match #1
Only footage of this match bumped from the PPV card was poor quality so everything looked blocky like it was made in Minecraft.
Cruiserweight Championship
Tajiri vs Jamie Noble
Noble attacks Tajiri in the aisle. Once in the ring, Tajiri lays in strikes. Tajiri misses a hand spring elbow but gets him in the ribs with a kick followed by a series of muy thai knees and top rope gut buster. He locks in an abdominal stretch. Noble escapes with a hip toss but another devastating kick brings Noble down until he gets a swinging neck breaker. Noble unloads with quick strikes, running knee, a back elbow, and short powerslam. Akio & Sakoda try to get involved but Noble quickly sends them out. Tajiri attempts to mist Noble but Jamie blocks it by covering his face. He gets a Tiger Driver power bomb for a near fall. Noble thwarts a tarantula attempt. He goes for a top rope tornado DDT which is spoiled by Tajiri, but Noble is able to turn it into his own tarantula. Tajiri's minions attack again as Noble is on the top rope, delaying his dive which gives Tajiri time to strike with a mid air kick to the stomach, and immediately hit the kill kick to the head to pick up the win. Tajiri retains his title.
