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SUNDAY~! WWE Vengeance: Night Of Champions - Sunday June 24, 2007 - Toyota Center, Houston TX
1. WWE Championship Challenge Match: John Cena vs. Randy Orton vs. Mick Foley vs. King Booker vs. Bobby Lashley
2. World Heavyweight Championship - Last Chance Match: Edge vs. Batista
3. United States Championship Match: Montel Vontavious Porter (MVP) vs. Ric Flair
4. Cruiserweight Championship Match: Chavo Guerrero vs. Jimmy Wang Yang
5. WWE Women's Championship Match: Melina vs. Candice Michelle
6. WWE Tag Team Title Match: Lance Cade & Trevor Murdoch vs. Matt & Jeff Hardy
7. WWE Intercontinental Championship Match: Santino Marella vs. Umaga
8. ECW Heavyweight Title: CM Punk vs. Chris Benoit
9. World Tag Team Championship Match: Deuce & Domino vs. TBA

- Big Dave is reporting that Chris Benoit is iffy in the ECW Title match due to a personal issue, but will probably be there. Mystery team for Deuce and Domino may end up being Jimmy Snuka (Deuce's real father) (seriously) and Sgt. Slaughter. It's not a fantastic card, but it has potential. Nothing on the card screams terrible match with the exception of the tag match. I don't know about the women's match or the Santino match in terms of quality, but everything else looks like it has potential to be good to very good. May be a sleeper show (which it would have to be as I don't think many people are buying it). Given the fact that all the belts are on the line it seems certain we'll get some title changes. Best options are probably the Cruiserweight and Women's belts. I can't see either World Title changing hands, and probably not either set of tag belts. IC belt is a possibility since the Santino experiment is a failure, but we'll see. I have a feeling they'll think that Umaga is above the IC Title. We will probably be doing running play-by-play of the show starting around 5:00 PM PST/8:00 PM EST on the front page.

- Vinny and I will also be back late tonight running down the PPV in a special audio show for members. We'll be joined by Admin Tony to discuss Strikeforce and the TUF V finale as well. We've already got a post-TUF round-table radio show up right now for members, which also includes some Vegas road stories.

- Also, if you're a member and want more pictures from the trip, they're up right now courtesy Biggsaxxy in the Pics area of the BOARD~!

- We'll have full TUF thoughts from a live perspective in the newsletter this week. It was a fun show, though not the best MMA show I have attended this year (and certainly not this month). There were some awesome moments, including the atmosphere for Penn/Pulver and the DDT~! in the Gray Maynard fight. We'll also have a full recap of the BJ Penn press conference afterwards. He wants to fight at 170 of all muscle (he was making fun of his former fat self all night), and wants Matt Hughes bad. Said he fought the last five years just to get Pulver again. I got a copy of his new book which I'll talk about as well. There is no immediate plan for this next match. He said he had trained harder for this fight than any other fight ever, and wants to continue that to see just how good he can get. He also put over Fedor huge.

- Kimbo Slice beat Ray Mercer in yet another PPV last night, for the Cage Fury Championships. Not much of a fight as Kimbo took him down and choked him out with a guillotine quickly. It got press though, as Mercer is a former boxing heavyweight champion.

- Bob Caudle suffered two heart attacks on June 14th and is currently recovering. He'd love get-well greetings, which you can send to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

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- Trinity was released.

- I believe the EliteXC main card will replay free on Showtime this coming Saturday night. I've only seen the main event and it was awesome. Frank Shamrock had a torn MCL and completely destroyed ACL going in, and Baroni was fighting on a groin injury, perhaps a tear. Admin Tony was at the show and raved about the entire card.

- Don't forget, Raw tomorrow night is three hours long. Apparently, the decision has been made to push the wacky aspect of the death hard, as opposed to what they were doing last week in trying to keep it somewhat serious. Tons more people will be appearing to make statements about Vince, including Bischoff. This should be quite the show.

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