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Match#1
Tajiri with unnamed associates vs Shannon Moore
We are told that Shannon Moore has had a change in attitude since Matt Hardy has left. They trade arm bars, SM gets a snapmare and starts a USA chant. The associates don't like it one bit. Moore gets some forearm strikes, a corner floatover is followed by a back hand spring into an arm drag. A lot of work to do very little. Shannon hits a spinning heel kick. Tajiri bails and Moore planchas him. The associates yank Shannon Moore off the apron, baseball slide by Tajiri, rams into the apron. Tajiri focuses on Moore's midsection with a gut buster, knees and punches and an octopus stretch. Shannon fights out and misses a corner splash and eats some kicks to the ribs for his efforts. Moore does hit a drop kick, clothesline, and spinning neck breaker. He misses the halo from the top. Tajiri misses a buzzsaw kick and Shannon takes advantage with a buzzsaw kick. A sleeper slam by Shannon Moore for a 2 count. Tajiri misses a jumping back elbow. Shannon misses a clothesline. Tajiri lands a kick to the gut and a buzzsaw kick to get the win in 5:03 (**1/2)
Match #2
Orlando Jordon vs Kanyon
Kanyon backs Jordon into the corner, lands some strikes and a shoulder block. He asks Jordon "Who better?" Jordon leap frogs him and gets a hip toss and an arm drag. Jordon goes up and over in the corner for another arm drag. He missed a drop kick and Kanyon takes over. Kanyon with a Russian leg sweep and an elbow drop. Kanyon sets up an innovative falling corner bulldog for a 2 count. He locks in a neck stretch. Jordan works out with a back suplex and transitions into flying forearms, a drop kick, and a back body drop. Johnson shuffle as a shout out to his trainer gets a two count. Kanyon blocks a hip toss and gets a swinging neck breaker. Jordan hits his own spinning neck breaker to win in 4:10. (*3/4)
Match #3
Spanky & Paul London vs Pat Cusick & Murray Happer
Spanky eats strikes from Happer but gets a head scissors, dropkick, and a blind tag to Paul London. London hits a frog splash high crossbody. Pat Cusick pulls London down by the hair and then hits him with a short arm clothesline. London hits a dropsault but Happer hangs him on the top rope and Cusick/Happer hit a double suplex and an elbow drop. Happer chokes London in the corner illegally. Enziguri gets blocked and London gets laid out with a clothesline and squished with a standing frog splash. Spanky breaks up the fall. London gets hit with a spinning power slam. London reverses a suplex into something Josh Matthews calls a "waffle face" . Hot to "Sir Spank a-lot". Spanky comes flying in with elbows, jumping leg lariats and hits a big boot to Happer. Spanky misses a charge, but a double superkicks to Cusick and tornado DDT to Happer gives the faces the advantage. London launches off of Spanky's back to plancha Cusick on the outside. He scampers back in the ring to join in on a enziguri driving slam combo move to pick up the win in 5:31. (**1/2)
Match #4
Rhyno vs Kidman
Rhyno hits power strikes, but Kidman floats over in the corner for some quick strikes of his own. Kidman hits two arm drags and Rhyno bails to regroup. Rhyno gets hit with a baseball slide. An apron irish whip of Billy Kidman into the steel post. Rhyno stomps and hits a back breaker. Kidman nails a flying crossbody. Rhyno gets a DDT and then sits in a chinlock. A big dropkick by Kidman buys him some time to recover. He hits a flying forearm, a clothesline, and an enziguri. Kidman's hot streak is cut short by a big Rhyno clothesline. Kidman hits a springboard bulldog. Kidman does a baseball slide into Rhyno's crotch. Kidman heads up for a shooting star press but Rhyno catches him on the top and chucks him across the ring. Rhyno misses a gore and Kidman rolls him up for a nearfall. Rhyno gets a spine buster and this time nails the GORE! (6:45 **)
Sunday Night Heat
Match #1
Maven vs Steven Richards
Steven Richards jumps Maven as he is standing on the turnbuckles preening for the crowd. Maven fires back with a clothesline, back elbow, but Victoria grabs his foot. Maven reverses an irish whip into the corner and gets a back body drop, spinning back elbow, top rope drop kick but Victoria got the ref's attention on the pinfall. Maven goes to pull Victoria into the ring and she low blows him for his trouble. The ref has had enough and ejects Victoria. Richards hits 3 running middle rope gulllotine leg splashes. Richards locks in a camel clutch. Maven rolls up Richards on a suplex attempt. Maven hits a spin kick followed up with punches, elbows, and a drop kick. Stevie kicks out at 2. Richards gets a spike DDT for a 2 count of his own. Richards goes to find Victoria ringside, apparently unaware that she had been ejected. Richards admonsishes the ref on his way back into the ring and Maven catches him a top rope float over bulldog to get the victory in 4:37 (*1/4).
Match #2
Val Venis vs Sean Evans
They trade arm bars to start. Val Venis lands a shoulder block, hip toss, scoop slam, and tries for a reverse leg lock but Evans gets to the ropes. Val hits 3 leg kicks. Evans rakes Val's eyes and hits a reverse atomic drop for 2. Venis comes firing back with 2 clotheslines and scoop slam, he goes for the leg lock again and this time gets in locked in for the tap out in 2:34. (*)
Match #3
The Dudley Boys vs Murray Happer & Pat Cusick
Devon starts with Happer, which I knew from the previous Velocity not because Coach or Snow told us which local talent was which until the home stretch. Devon comes back quickly from a shoulder block with a high hip toss, a drop kick, an arm drag, and power slam for a 2 count. Devon gets backed into the corner for the tag. Devon takes Cusick out with a flying clothesline. Bubba gets tagged in for some cross face blows and a neck breaker. Tag back to Devon so they can do a double back body drop to both jobbers. Devon lowers his head for another back body drop but went to the well one too many times and eats a kick to the face. An irish whip allows Happer to pull the top rope down and Devon tumbles to the outside. Cusick hits Devon with some clubbing forearms and a clothesline to the back of the head. Tags to Happer and then do a double team suplex. Devon fights free from a head lock but gets cut off before he can tag. A sleeper is locked in but Devon breaks free with a back suplex. They both crawl for a tag. Bubba takes the hot tag and clears house ending in a double corner splash and sidewalk slam to Cusick. All four men are in for a brawl and Bubba does his Great Value Dusty punches. A 3D to Pat Cusick ends the match in 6:05. (*1/2).
Match #4
Molly Holly vs Ivory
Molly locks in a chinlock, an arm bar, and a drop kick to a seated Ivory. Frequent pin attempts during this arm work by Molly. Ivory punches out of an arm bar but gets whipped down by the injured arm. Molly rams the arm into the ring post twice, once from the apron and once from the floor. Molly tries a cocky pin laying on Ivory, but Ivory snatches her with a crucifix pin for 2. Molly whips Ivory down by the arm again. She lays in a few hard slaps to the face. Molly heads to the top for and hits Molly Go Round. Ivory kicks out at 2. Molly is beside herself. Snow can't believe it and says that this is the first time anyone has ever kicked out of the move. Ivory tries a rollup for a 2 count. Molly grabs her for a shoulder breaker and locks in an arm bar for the submission win in 4:02. (*3/4)
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