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Opener is Miz & John Morrison vs. Fit Finlay & Hornswoggle vs. Curt Hawkins & Zack Ryder vs. Jesse & Festus for the Smackdown tag title.

Good opener.  Hawkins & Ryder won the belts as Miz & Morrison were knocked out of the ring by Festus.  Festus and Jesse were about to do a double-team on Hawkins, but Ryder tripped Festus and then Hawkins threw Jesse off the top rope and pinned him.

Matt Hardy vs. Shelton Benjamin for the U.S. title is up now.

In the 1,400th stop and start push for Benjamin, he won clean with the paydirt (another offshoot of a downward spiral, this time a jumping version) after Hardy missed a moonsault.  Another good match.  Crowd heat was real strong at the finish.  Crowd was loud although it was more girls cheering for Hardy and guys for Benjamin, with early on people not reacting at all to the match, just to each other.

C.M. Punk did a promo that really made you think he was no way losing the title tonight because he did the humble nobody thought I can win promo and said if he lost people would think of him as a fluke.

Mark Henry vs. Tommy Dreamer for the ECW title is next. 

Colin Delaney turned heel snapping Dreamer's left arm on the top rope and Henry hit the World's Strongest Slam.  Match had no heat and the turn and even less heat than the match.  At least it was short.

Chris Jericho vs. Shawn Michaels is next.  I pity who goes next.

Different match than you ever see in WWE.  Somewhat like Samoa Joe vs. Booker without the stupid finish.  Jericho bloodied Michaels' right eye up and for several minutes kept doing ground and pound on it while ref Marty Elias teased stopping it.  Finally he got a side mount and threw punches and palm blows to the eye and Elias stopped it.  Michaels was selling like he couldn't defend himself at all.  It was an interesting idea to try something new but it didn't get nearly the crowd reaction you'd expect from a match with these two.  Still, best match so far on the show. 

Michelle McCool vs. Natalya for the Divas title

McCool won clean with the Brazilian heel hook.  As she was celebrating with Eve Torres (who could barely stand because her heels were so high) and Cherry, Chris Jericho came out and said Michaels had a detatched retina and his career is over and that the good guys do sometimes win in the end and he wicked are punished. 

C.M. Punk vs. Batista for the World title is next.

They had a good match with a crap finish.  Batista gave Punk a spinebuster on the floor.  Kane came up and laid out both men so it was a no contest.  Kane was carrying around his bag and it sure seemed like the "alive or dead" is referring to the old masked Kane.  Kane also kicked a camera man who sold it like it was dead.  Batista then laid out Punk with a Batista bomb after the match.  Looked to be building a three-way at SummerSlam.  

John Cena vs. JBL in the New York City Parking Lot Brawl is next.  

They brawled in the parking lot, breaking some car windows.  At one point JBL set a car on fire that Cena was in.  But Cena came back from that and used a forklift on a car JBL was in and brought him into the arena.  They brawled in the arena and Cena used a back suplex.  Finally Cena had JBL up for an FU but JBL escaped, threw Cena off the stage onto the car windshield, which shattered.  JBL then pinned Cena on the windshield.  Cena was bleeding from the left arm.  They sold it like both were hurt bad from the brawl.  It should be noted that, in fact, coming off Raw, Cena showed up without a scratch on him.  

Main event saw HHH pin Edge after a pedigree.  Good match, but not great.  Alicia Fox came out to hand Edge the belt.  Of course Vickie Guerrero came out.  Guerrero came out as a babyface and got some cheers but more boos as she and Fox went at it.  For some reason Edge went to spear Fox and that made no sense.  Anyway, she moved so Edge speared Vickie.  And then HHH used the pedigree for the pin.