November 6, 2007 Observer Newsletter: WWE Cyber Sunday recap, UFC extends deal with Spike TV
WWE’s annual Cyber Sunday show has more intrigue than a normal PPV event, largely because fans vote for stipulations and matches. Usually they are predictable, and WWE heavily pushes viewers to vote a certain way. But that’s no guarantee they will.
The 10/28 show at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC, drew a nearly full house of about 14,000 fans, and while there were no huge angles, surprises or title changes, it was an overall good show paced by three strong matches that finished. Even though the strongest hype was for Randy Orton vs. Shawn Michaels and the Raw title match most often goes last, because the Smackdown match was having a clean finish, it was Batista pinning Undertaker clean after three Batista bombs. On Smackdown the past few weeks, they pushed the storyline that Batista had never pinned The Undertaker, and by doing so, giving him the clean win seemed to build a rematch.
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Dave Meltzer is the founder and lead writer on the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, the weekly constant when it comes to news and reviews in pro wrestling and mixed martial arts for more than 40 years. Dave also co-hosts Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and had had bylines for The National, Yahoo Sports, MMA Fighting and others.