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DWF - 02/07/07

91Posted on 10/23/04 at 18:32:58

Card Information:
Held in: CLEVELAND ARENA
Location: CLEVELAND, OHIO, UNITED STATES
Date/Time: 02/07/07 at 8:00pm
Matches/Interviews booked: 8
Arena Capacity: 10000
Attendance: 10000
A Sold Out Arena.
Ticket Buy Rate: 100%
TV ratings: 4.2%
Approximently Viewers: 12600000

Hunter Hearst-Helmsley pinned Edge with the Pedigree in 0:05:45.
Rating: ***

Tonight saw three King of the Ring qualifiers take place. With Chris Jericho
and John Cena qualifying this past weekend, six more men vied for spots. The
opener saw Edge taking on Hunter Hearst-Helmsley. Edge had the momentum on
the night, but Helmsley was either thinking quick or getting lucky. Edge went
for a devastating spear, only for Helmsley to stagger to one side. Edge
planted himself into the ring post and Helmsley hit the Pedigree to advance.

Psychoanalysis (Brian Pillman and Sean O'Haire) defeated
Pretty Perfect (Owen Hart and Curt Hennig) when Pillman pinned C. Hennig
with the DDT in 0:13:37.
Rating: *** 1/4
(Psychoanalysis retained the Tag Team Titles.)

Tag team titles were on the line as Psychoanalysis had their first ever
defense of the gold against the runners up of this past weekends Royal Rumble
match, Pretty Perfect. In their pre-match interview, Pretty Perfect claimed
that Sean O'Haire had done all the work during the Rumble and they intended to
single out Brian Pillman for punishment. That they did for most of the match
when they got control. The hot tag followed and O'Haire began cleaning house
but when he became victim of a double team, it was Pillman who came to the
rescue and began doing a number on both of the ex champs. Pillman shortly
tagged himself back in and took over on Curt Hennig, finishing him off with a
DDT. So much for being a weak link.

Psychoanalysis' night was to improve further when Commissioner Matt Hardy came
out to congratulate them on their winning (and defending) the tag team titles.
As a reward for their persistance paying off and tonights victory, Hardy gave
them an option. He had one slot left for the King of the Ring next week
against Dean Malenko, and he also wanted somebody to take on Steve Corino at
the King of the Ring for the television title, giving O'Haire and Pillman the
choice of who got what. O'Haire graciously handed the choice over to Brian,
citing that he'd be happy either way. Pillman said that whilst the King of the
Ring was extremely prestigious, he'd fought over six years for a singles title
as well as the tag belts, and this was his chance, and at the PPV, he'd force
Corino to choke on his own spleen.

La Parka Jr. pinned King Kanyon after a Victory Roll in 0:04:24.
Rating: ***

La Parka took on King Kanyon tonight. Kanyon was looking to regain some lost
momentum after his loss on Saturday while La Parka was out to... well, do
whatever it is that he does. On this occasion, it was to win as Kanyon got
to cocky and La Parka caught him by surprise. La Parka celebrated like he
always does, a little air guitar, a little dancing and a little strutting,
infuriating an angry Kanyon who stormed out, perhaps back to his kingdom. La
Parkas night was about to take a different turn however when Don Muraco came
out and squared up to La Parka. La Parka continued to dance and waggle his
knees, right in Muracos face, and the popular luchadore got destroyed for it.
Muraco took him apart and left him battered on the outside, while he got on
with the real reason why he'd come out.

Don Muraco now looks likely to have his hands full with Jerry Lynn and Raven
back and ready to take names. Muraco was out with Jeff Hardy to say that not
only was he not afraid of them, he'd take them both on at the same time if it
meant putting them out permanently and getting his shot at the world title.
After Jeff Hardy began reading out some haiku insults, Lynn and Raven entered
to end the pain. Raven stated that if Muraco wanted to prove himself against
the two of them, then maybe he fancied a little tag team match at King of the
Ring, no holds barred. Lynn meanwhile noted that ending Muracos dominating was
for the good of everyone, especially himself. None the less, we now know that
the match had been signed.

Joey Matthews defeated Mando Guerrero by countout in 0:04:08.
Rating: * 3/4

Our second King of the Ring match saw Joey Matthews taking on Mando Guerrero.
Earlier in the evening, Matt Hardy had told Los Guerreros that their team
could enter one man for the King of the Ring and only one. After a bit of
bickering, they agreed to draw lots. Mando, inevitably, stole the short straw
before hand and won that, to get himself a match with "Inspector" Joey
Matthews. After a back and forth match, Joey was sent to the outside, at
which Mando mounted the apron and lept off. Joey sidestepped the move and
Mando planted himself into the guardrail, to be counted out.

The Syndicate (Lance Storm and Ken Shamrock) defeated
The Mean Street Posse (Pete Gas and Rodney) when L. Storm made Gas submit to
the Maple Leaf in 0:04:04.
Rating: ** 1/2
(The Syndicate retained the Intercontinental Tag Team Titles.)

The Syndicate scored a relatively easy title defense today - somehow the Mean
Street Posse had got themselves a title shot, afterwards perhaps they'd wish
they hadn't bothered. The Syndicate wasted no time in taking them apart and
after having a little fun, Storm finished it off.

Chris Benoit made Dean Malenko submit to the Crippler Crossface in 0:11:03.
Rating: ****

The second third of the Triple Threat war continued as Benoit intended to plow
through the man who may be the the first ever two time King of the Ring, Dean
Malenko. Benoit and Malenko went toe to toe on the mat for a good ten minutes
before Benoit ended up showing off why he is a four time world champion, as he
hooked Malenko into the Crippler Crossface for a win. As Benoit celebrated the
win, Masato Tanaka ran in and jumped Benoit from behind and bustled him out
before laying the boots to Malenko. Tanaka, it would appear, wants to settle
this one once and for all, and who could blame him. Benoit, however, repaid
the favour and would jump Tanaka from behind now and stomp him down before
slapping on the Crippler Crossface, until officials ran down to break it up.

Larry Zbyszko pinned Rey Mysterio with the Shoulderbreaker in 0:04:10.
Larry Zbyszko injured his right knee. He will be out for approximately 2 weeks.
Rating: ***

The final King of the Ring qualifier saw Rey Mysterio Jr. taking on the man on
such a roll lately, Larry Zbyszko. Rey outpaced Larry for a large chunk of the
match and ran rings around him while Larry desperately tried to get in close
and grab a hold of Rey. All it took was one mistake. Rey, going for a high
flying move too many, missed a cross body off the top and Larry hit the
Shoulderbreaker for the win, before proclaiming that 2007 would be the year
of King Larry and not "King Bruno". *sigh*

Dynamite Kid (c) vs Billy Kidman (world heavyweight title)

The big match of the evening was the rematch between Dynamite Kid and Billy
Kidman for the heavyweight title of the world. Dynamite/Kidman II, as it was
quoted as, began where it all left off eight days ago at International
Incident. Dynamite wasted no time taking it right to Kidman after his promise
to not grant Kidman another shot as long as he was champion. After dominating
the first few minutes by using his combination of his strength advantage over
Kidman and his fast style, Dynamite found himself with a distinct disadvantage
as Steve Corino and Clarence Mason made their way to the ring. Proving an
instant distraction, Kidman was able to take control. Corino and Mason were
quickly ushered out and Kidman went to work. Dynamite soon came back, showing
his resiliency, only for Steve Corino to run out again, Masons briefcase in
hand. Dynamite meanwhile was drilling Kidman into the mat with his patented
top rope superplex and victory looked possible but Corino was onto the apron
to distract Dynamite. Dynamite caught Corino with a stiff punch that knocked
him straight into the guardrail but Corino had also placed the case in the
corner. Kidman crawled over to it, picked it up and while the ref ushered
Corino out for a second time, he caught Dynamite on the head with the case and
threw it from the ring. Up to the top he went to score the Shooting Star Press
and the referee slowly counted to three. Kidman had done it and stolen back
the world title. Corino and Kidman quickly hightailed it with the evidence
(and, of course, the belt) while Dynamite recovered and looked on in shock. **** 1/4


Card rating: *** 1/4


Match observations:

Dynamite Kids losing the world title will please one man in particular, one
Kurt Angle. Before the title match took place, Angle came out to berate not
the Dynamite Kid, but the United Kingdom, saying it was a country full of
degenerates and bums, and he was disgusted that the DWF should be represented
by a Limey. Before he could continue his spiel for too much longer, Chris
Jerichos countdown kicked in, and Angle stood waiting as the music kicked up.
As Angle waited, Jericho snuck in from the crowd and jumped Angle from
behind, clearly still out for revenge. Angle quickly made his exit while
Jericho beckoned for him to come back, but it's obvious that nothing here has
been settled yet.

Finally news concerning the King of the Ring have cropped up. La Resistance,
having made a surprise appearance this past weekend during the tag team Royal
Rumble, have officially signed with the DWF following their impressive
showing and will be at the KotR to take on one of the teams they eliminated,
Hayabusa & Tajiri. Also to be there will be Intercontinental Champion Brad
Armstrong who has a few words to say...
Snabbit888Posted on 10/25/04 at 11:57:05

Three KotR qualifiers, as Matthews, HHH, and Larry join Y2J and Cena.  Hrm... it's obviously too soon to tell, but I like Joey Matthews the most (in DWF anyway) so he gets the nod from me!

PPV is shaping up nicely.  Pillman gets a singles title shot... can he make it count?  I'm thinking so... maybe with him starting to become the strong link of the team.

Kidman regains the title!  That was a huge shock to me, especially how you preach of how you like long title reigns.  I haven't seen anything even closely resembling a long title reign from you since I've been reading DWF. :)  I like Kidman with the title better than Dynamite Kid anyway.
91Posted on 10/25/04 at 12:09:58

Kidman was originally going to retain the title at International Incident, but then I came over all sentimental and gave Dynamite the nod in his home country with the obvious plan of giving it back to Kidman right after (actually, it's exactly like the Austin/Angle title switch in 2001 now I think about it). Actually the world title has a little more bouncing around in it yet before it truly settles down in one place, but some of the other belts are set for the long term, so expect to see some long reigns yet.