[Evil Vito]

Monday Night Raw – May 23, 2011
The show opens up in typical post-PPV fashion, with Cena celebrating his title win. It is announced that a brand new number one contender will be announced tonight in a match between longtime rivals Rey Mysterio and Alberto Del Rio.

CM Punk leads a Nexus promo before formally reintroducing Michael Tarver to the group. Tarver says a few menacing words of his own. The Raw GM announces that Big Show and Kane will invoke their rematch clause next week. Until then, they have other opponents – Santino and Kozlov!

The Nexus win the match, with Tarver laying out Santino with a huge right hand. That’s two knockout punches in two nights for Tarver.

United States champion Kofi Kingston and Zack Ryder have a great non-title match. Curt Hawkins interferes, which leads to an enormous upset win for Ryder. The Ryder Revolution truly has begun, as in a matter of weeks he’s built himself into a title contender.

The Miz promo. He promises he’ll be making an impact soon and that he’ll be back in the title contender before long, etc.

8-diva tag action. Kelly, Gail, Beth, and Eve vs. The Bellas, Melina, and Maryse. The face team wins after a Glam Slam on Melina.

Kharma comes out after the bout as all 8 divas stand in the ring. Kharma DOESN’T break down and cry. Instead, she teases getting in the ring before jumping back off the apron and laughing maniacally. The divas appear to be unnerved.

John Morrison and Drew McIntyre have a fantastic, nearly 4 star match. Morrison nearly has it won but R-Truth runs out for the DQ ending. Despite winning last night, Truth still continues to make Morrison’s life a living hell.

Michael Cole is in the ring. He criticizes Jack Swagger for turning on him and accuses him of being pathetic and unloyal.

Swagger shrugs off the insults before destroying Primo in a squash match. Primo taps to the Ankle Lock. Swagger points at Cole and celebrates, and when he turns around, Dolph Ziggler is charging at him. Swagger dugs and sends Ziggler flying over the top. What is the meaning of that?

Alberto Del Rio and Rey Mysterio tear the house down with an excellent main event. Miz inexplicably runs out and trips up Rey, which leads to Del Rio capitalizing for the win to become the brand new number one contender. Miz and Del Rio continue the beat down on Rey before Cena runs out for the save. Miz and Del Rio smugly back their way up the ramp as Raw goes off the air.


NXT: Redemption – May 24, 2011
Titus O’Neil and Conor O’Brian have a really terrible match to open the show. 52% Overall Rating. Yikes. Titus not selling didn’t help matters. Conor gets the big win following a full nelson slam.

Backstage, Lucky Cannon and Maryse are plotting – clearly up to no good!

Cannon had a huge task ahead of him with a bout against WWE Pro Vladimir Kozlov. Lucky did quite well for himself, controlling the pace most of the way. Eventually Vlad’s sambo expertise came to the forefront, causing Maryse to save her man with a well-placed shot to Vlad’s nuts for the DQ ending. Lucky then added on his finisher as the happy couple laughed at the damage they caused.

Backstage, Chavo Guerrero and Darren Young were talking. Normally these two are friends – but tonight they are enemies in a Pros vs. Rookies tag team bout!

The tag team match was anything but, as Chavo jumped off the apron from the get go – leaving Yoshi Tatsu to face Darren Young and Byron Saxton on his own. Yoshi got beaten down for much of the match before eventually making the face rally. Saxton went to tag in Young and Young jumped off the apron and angrily walked off, to the surprise of everybody including his pro Chavo Guerrero. Saxton eats a Buzzsaw Kick for the loss.

Before the elimination is announced, Matt Striker asks Darren Young to explain his actions moments ago. Young trashes NXT, saying he was a Raw superstar and never should have been brought back. He said he received a phone call recently – and because of that call, he no longer needs to tolerate this crap. So don’t bother eliminating anybody – because he quits! Young storms off to the shock of everybody. What does next week have in store when yet another elimination will take place?


WWE Superstars – May 26, 2011
Re-match of last week’s main event between Chavo Guerrero and Trent Barreta. After another good match, Chavo gets the better of the exchange this time and wins after a roll-up while hooking the tights.

SmackDown Rebound.

JTG pins Tyler Reks with whatever the fuck his finisher is.

Raw Rebound.

Dolph Ziggler is out to cut a promo before his main event match.

Dolph Ziggler and Evan Bourne’s main event was disappointing. It was decent but I guess I expected it to be really good just based on who was involved. Ah well, guess their styles didn’t gel. Regardless, after the lengthy bout Ziggler grabs the win after a Zig Zag.


Friday Night SmackDown – May 27, 2011
World Heavyweight champion Christian kicks off the show by discussing his triumph over Sheamus at Over the Limit. He says he looks forward to seeing who his next challenger will be.

Theodore Long comes out and informs Christian that tonight there will be a rematch from Sunday – Orton vs. Henry, the winner will be the new number one contender.

A battle of the big men up next as Kane faces off against Brodus Clay. Kane eventually takes control, leading to Alex Riley jumping in and causing a DQ. Kane eventually fights them off and bodypresses Riley over the top rope onto Clay. Kane looks ready for his tag title re-match on Monday!

Backstage, Jinder Mahal is seen screaming at The Great Khali. Khali seems to take the abuse as he has in the past. The two will meet in the ring tonight.

6-diva tag team action. Natalya, Layla, and Kaitlyn defeat Alicia Fox, Rosa Mendes, and Tamina after a Sharpshooter on Fox. Kharma comes out and much like on Raw, the divas unite and Kharma backs off while laughing maniacally again.

Christian is walking in the hallway and he encounters Sheamus. Sheamus promises Christian that it’s not over between the two of them.

Jinder Mahal vs. The Great Khali was hardly a match. Mahal slapped Khali a few times and seemingly ordered Khali to lay on his back. Khali obliged, and Mahal had the easiest first win ever. What is this power that Mahal possess over Khali?

Wade Barrett leads The Corre to the ring, and he officially welcomes Skip Sheffield into the group. Sheffield reminds everybody that he was a loyal member of Nexus back in the day and Wade never actually kicked him out. Now that his ankle has healed, the SmackDown roster is in for a world of hurt – especially his former WWE Pro, William Regal.

Sheffield and Regal had a pretty good match, with a lot of stiff shots I imagine. The Corre cause trouble and distractions, which leads to Sheffield landing a huge lariat for the win over his former Pro. Daniel Bryan and Ezekiel Jackson run out, but the man advantage The Corre has proves to be too great.

With Cody Rhodes watching from ringside, Sin Cara and Chavo Guerrero put on a fantastic 4-star clinic, probably better than the ones they had in real life. Cara stays undefeated following the Moonsault Slam. As he celebrates, Cody Rhodes jumps him from behind and plants him with the Cross Rhodes. Perhaps Cody would like a rematch from last week.

Much like their match at Over the Limit, the Orton/Henry bout was nothing to write home about – but the crowd was into it so whatever. Sheamus runs out towards the end and attacks not just Orton, but Henry as well. This causes a no contest. What does this mean for the number one contendership? I don’t know! Tune in next week to find out!

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And now for this week’s elimination!

Number drawn: 77

Justin Gabriel has been released


Release Tally
Week 1: Chris Masters
Week 2: Stone Cold Steve Austin
Week 3: Jimmy Uso
Week 4: Justin Gabriel

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FUCK. Not happy about that at all. His stats made him one of the best all-around workers on the roster. Moreover, it's a huge dent in the Corre/Anti-Corre feud I had going. I had Darren Young "quit" NXT with the idea of having him join the Nexus and get them back to 7 members - but now I may add him to The Corre just so I can try to continue the storyline along the same path I was going.