Post by adamclark52 on Jun 3, 2019 15:27:42 GMT -5
WWE “Judgment Day”
May 17th, 2009
From the Allstate Arena in Chicago, Illinois
Commentators: Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler (Raw), Jim Ross and Todd Grisham (Smackdown), Josh Mathews and Matt Striker (ECW)
Theme Song: Rescue Me by Buckcherry
CM Punk vs. Umaga
Umaga really just dominated Punk in this match. The only person I’ve ever seen dominate Punk like this was Mickey Gall. It was strange.
Winner: Umaga
Chavo Guerrero informs Vickie Guerrero that John Cena has been cleared to wrestle the Big Show tonight. The Big Show says it’s probably not good for business that Cena wrestle him. Edge comes in and doesn’t say anything.
For the ECW Championship
Jack Swagger vs. Christian (champion)
This was a bland as bland can be then *boom* it was over.
Winner: Christian
Edge leaves Vickie Guerrero’s dressing room and tells Chavo off.
Shelton Benjamin w/Charlie Haas vs. John Morrison
This was a good match but it just wasn’t the right time for it to happen. In any other promotion it would’ve gone over much better.
Winner: John Morrison
The Miz (possibly at his most annoying) comes out and calls John Cena out. Cena doesn’t answer so he insults local sports teams and calls out a substitute: some baseball player sitting in the front row. The baseball player doesn’t come to the ring so the Miz declares himself the winner of whatever the hell this was. Santino Marella comes out and does his shtick, which was way more entertaining than the Miz. In the end it doesn’t go so well for poor Santino. After the Miz leaves Chavo Guerrero comes out and Frog Splashes Santino.
Josh Mathews is with Chris Jericho, who feels there is a controversy against him.
For the WWE Intercontinental Championship
Rey Mysterio (champion) vs. Chris Jericho
This was a good match.
Winner: Rey Mysterio
For the WWE Championship
Randy Orton (champion) vs. Batista
This was okay but I find Orton in 2009 really earns the name “Borton”.
Winner: Batista via disqualification
Afterwards the rest Legacy attack Batista but Ric Flair comes to his rescue.
“Please Don’t Try This at Home”
The Big Show vs. John Cena
It’s incredible how in every show I watch from this era John Cenas matches are more eye rolling. This may have been the most face-palm worthy yet. He got pummelled for almost the entire match only to overcome the odds at the very end with an Attitude Adjustment. The only positive to this one was he at least wasn’t in the championship match.
Winner: John Cena
For the World Heavyweight Championship
Edge (champion) vs. Jeff Harvey
I was done with the show by this point. It was a decent match.
Winner: Edge
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This show was crap. It didn’t even feel like a “b show”. So much was filler and even the main matches felt like they were just there to give everyone something to do. I checked the time during the Intercontinental Championship Match thinking it was well passed the halfway point of the show and it had only been an hour and fifteen minutes. It seems like they saved all the exciting stuff for the following months Extreme Rules pay per view (both titles changed hands and CM Punk cashed in his Money in the Bank briefcase). By the end of its run Judgment Day had a bad habit of being a really boring pay per view. I remember 2008’s was really boring too.
I will say the roster was especially stacked at this time. They had a full card with zero tag teams, only one lower card match and no Triple H, Shawn Michaels and Undertaker.
So the whole story with Edge and Vickie Guerrero was they were “married” at the time and were having marital problems.
I don’t know what happened but the WWE Network in Canada (which is notoriously crap) must be changing its content this week because we have a grand total of six pay per views to choose from right now: three Judgment Days, Wrestlemanias 35 and 25 and one Fastlane. We had maybe thirty last week. This unemployment I’m currently suffering from better end soon.
I’m still standing by my beliefs that John Cena was worse than Roman Reigns.
