May kiss it goodbye tonight

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1. World Heavyweight Championship: The Undertaker (c) vs. Edge
2. ECW Championship: Kane (c) vs. Chavo Guerrero
3. Fatal Four-Way Elimination match for the WWE Championship: Randy Orton (c) vs. John "Bradshaw" Layfield vs. Triple H vs. John Cena
4. Shawn Michaels vs. Batista (w/Chris Jericho as Special Guest Referee)
5. The Big Show vs. The Great Khali
6. WWE United States Championship: Montel Vontavious Porter (c) vs. Matt Hardy
7. 12-Diva Tag Team match: Mickie James, Maria, Ashley, Michelle McCool, Cherry & Kelly Kelly vs. Beth Phoenix, Melina, Jillian Hall, Layla, Victoria & Natalya

- Should be a good show. Undertaker and Edge had what I thought was the best match on the show at WrestleMania, so they should have no problem here. Little chance of Edge regaining the belt. Kane vs. Chavo will probably be boring. Four-way should be pretty good although it's been hit and miss with JBL lately. Probably very intricately booked. Hunter was supposed to win the title at WrestleMania but they changed the finish as a swerve, so he'll probably get it here. It's elimination-style and while they haven't done a great job hammering it home it would make sense in storyline for it to come down to Hunter and Orton with Hunter beating him clean to win the belt. HBK vs. Batista should be good, and Shawn costing Dave the win on Smackdown probably means Dave goes over here. Show vs. Khali was apparently horrible on the road, so I can't imagine it being that much better here. Might end up acceptable in front of a larger audience and with various tricks. Khali is going home for a month after this match so they may do an injury angle or something. MVP vs. Matt Hardy is hit-or-miss because they've had good matches and also matches I've found pretty boring. Matt was super hot for awhile until he got hurt, and the heat seems to be off this match. You'd think title change, but my gut tells me otherwise.

- Vinny and I will be back late tonight running down this show and Smackdown for members. We'll also be have running play-by-play on the front page with our buddy ANCHOR from the BOARD. If you missed it, our weekend Bryan & Vinny Show went up last night with a look at ECW, TUF, IRON RING~! and Impact. I also gave my concession speech after having been beaten by Larry Sweeney on Friday night for my ICW/ICWA Texarkana Television Title. A grand tragedy.

- Regal's coronation as King of the Ring takes place on Raw. Also, a look at the "new champion". Of course, the latter could change at the drop of a hat.

- In a surprise, Keiji Muto is the new IWGP Champion, beating Shinsuke Nakamura earlier today.

- Sad to report the death of Elevera Anoa'i Fatu, mother of Umaga, Fatu and Tonga Kid.

- Mark Cuban's HDNet will begin airing DREAM shows from Japan on May 2nd. First will be DREAM 1 at 10:30 PM Friday, and then on May 3rd they'll air the DREAM 2 show that takes place tomorrow at the Saitama Super Arena.

- Next three-hour Raw is June 23rd from San Antonio, TX.

- Eduardo Martinez writes: A local promotion (South Texas Fight League) is having some indy MMA in Edinburg, TX with a bunch of unknowns and they have been airing spots during the UFC shows on Spike. Anyways, I thought you might get a kick out of the prices, the tables at ringside are going for $600-$750! Those are honestly the most absurd ticket prices I've ever seen. More here.

- Sadly, it looks like Chyna will not be a part of the upcoming Celebrity Circus show after all.

- Douglas Nunnally writes: Don't know if either of you saw or heard about this, but Kayfabe Commentaries (the Guest Booker & YouShoot company) is doing a live event on the 10th of October in Monroe, NJ with Legends Of The Ring (?) called Ring Roasts. They're going to roast the Iron Sheik with people like Volkoff and Blair being there. Website is here

- Johnny B writes: Mick Foley plays the "antique store owner" in the recently released independent thriller, "Anamorph" starring Willem Dafoe. Foley has one short scene in the movie in which a woman walks by Foley's antique store and complains about a graphic painting Foley has in his front window. Detective Stan Aubrey (Willem Dafoe) soon walks by and notices that the painting is actually of his most recent crime scene. Detective Aubrey enters the antique store to see the woman from the street and Foley arguing about the painting. The woman said she doesn't want to look at the painting every time she leaves her apartment in which Foley replied, "buy it and burn it". Detective Aubrey soon purchases the painting for $50 and asks where Foley got the painting in which Foley replied, "an estate sale". Aubrey revealed that he was a cop which leads to Foley asking if the painting was stolen and changes his story to "he found it outside, right in front of his shop". "Anamorph" is available on Video on Demand.

- Three time Olympian dies

- Spike picks up the Michael Hayes story

- Interview with Fairplay

- The debate continues

- Irv Muchnick has new Benoit articles up here and here.

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