May 20th, 2007Syxx vs. KidmanCruiserweight ChampionshipThe bout looked almost like an exhibition for Syxx, in the beginning. He baited Kidman to charge him, only to stick him with a spinning heel kick. The crowd ate up his cockiness, as it seemed like Kidman was getting what he had coming to him. Kidman then fired back with a poke to the eye, and took his turn being arrogant, but was showered with boos. He backed Syxx into the corner, but Syxx pulled a switch and delivered a kick combo. He then attempted the Bronco Buster, but Kidman pulled himself to ringside and Syxx put a foot on the bottom turnbuckle to block an unpleasant landing. Kidman took a breather outside as the ref counted. Billy shouted back at the trash talking the crowd was dishing to him. He reentere the ring at 8, only to leave again when Syxx approached him. Kidman again returned to backtalking the audience and didn't know that Syxx pursued him. Syxx grabbed him by the hair and tossed him back into the squared circle. Syxx then put on a clinic, hitting move after move that had the crowd erupting. Kidman staggered around the ring, as Syxx came in and hit a standing enzuguiri. Kidman fell back on the ropes, and Syxx sent him into an irish whip. Syxx bounced off the ropes as well and hit a flipping clothesline. He picked Kidman back up and tried a kick to the gut, but Kidman caught it and spun him around. Syxx went with the momentum and turned it into another spinning heel kick. Kidman's head bounced off the mat and he rose right back to his feet, though it looked like the lights were on with no one home. Syxx then hit the kick to the midsection and polished it off with the X-Factor. The official then came in for the pin... 1... 2..... 3! Syxx then celebrated with the belt, having finally put Kidman's "reign" to an end!
Winner: SyxxThe Mammoths vs. The Rowdy BoyzTag Team ChampionshipsRoad Dogg starts off the match with Viscera, who plows through Jesse James right off the bat. Big Vis does a number on one half of the Rowdy Boyz. Road Dogg flounders around the ring, doing whatever he can to escape the mits of Viscera. James ducks a swinging arm and tries a sleeper, but gets shrugged off. Henry gets tagged in and continues to pummel Road Dogg. Killings is itching to get in the entire time. The match carries on in the same way, as Road Dogg gets busted down quick. He's winded, and keeps taking punishment. Mark Henry hits a few power moves, attempting a pin in between each one, and Road Dogg kicks out at two and a half every time. Henry begins to show signs of frustration, as Jesse James tries to crawl to his corner. Henry put the boots to his grounded opponent with authority. Mark powers Road Dogg back into his corner and tags Viscera in once again. Vis dished out more pain to Road Dogg, who simply refused to stay down for the three count. Viscera eventually went for the big splash to finish him off, but Dogg dodged it and took the opportunity to try and tag out, but Vis stopped him just short. James gets brought back to the tag champs' corner and gets beat on again. Viscera then distracts the ref as Henry chokes Road Dogg on the ropes. At this, Killings rushes into the ring to end the injustice. He hits a diving elbow on Henry, then throws vicious punches repeatedly to Viscera. The official tries to get Killings to back to his corner, but Ron is infuriated at this point. The ref makes one last attempt to pry Killings off of Viscera in the corner, but gets shoved away. The referee then rings the bell and disqualifies the Rowdy Boyz. The Truth then goes apecrapand chases the ref out of the ring, only to turn back around the be on the receiving end of the World's Strongest Slam. Henry snatches his title belts, and heads to the back with a shaken Viscera. Mark barks trash talk at Killings, who is checking on Road Dogg.
Winners: The MammothsVal Venis vs. Chris MastersUnited States ChampionshipMasters entered, still looking frustrated from last Nitro. His anger came out in the early goings, delivering clubbing blows to Venis's back. The champ stumbled into the corner, and Masters gave a few thrusting knees. The match went on like this for a few minutes, and Venis seemed to be a little in over his head. The referee then got busy prying Chris off Venis, who he was choking on the ropes mercilessly. Masters posed for the crowd, proud of his physique and the display of strength. But that moment was all it took for Venis gain some wind back and throw a wild punch to the gut of Chris Masters. The Masterpiece gasped for air, and Venis, still on one knee, executed a desperate european uppercut that staggered his opponent. Val collapsed back to the mat, needing another second to regain composure. The crowd got strongly behind the U.S. Champion, who was now picking himself up off the mat. Masters, though, ran at him and connected with a knee to the skull. Val flopped back on the canvas. Masters then got in predatory position, awaiting Venis to drag himself back to his feet. Val got up and Masters locked in the Masterlock. In a deja vu moment from last Nitro, Venis again gyrates in fashion that only he can, and Masters freaks out and releases the hold. He goes into a rage and rushes Venis, who sidesteps into a drop toe hold. Masters neck lays on the ropes and Venis hits a stun gun. Chris springs off, clutching his throat. Venis comes in and connects with an orange crush bomb. He then ascends the turnbuckle to attempt the Money Shot, but Masters climbs to his feet. Val instead lands a cross body and gets a two count. Masters tries to recooperate, but Venis continues the momentum swing with a sleeper drop. Then after a DDT, Venis climbs the turnbuckle again. He hits the finisher and gets the academic pin for the successful title defense.
Winner: Val VenisSlamboree Match#1 Contendership to WCW TitleIt's finally time for one of the most highly anticipated matches in WCW's history. Twenty high profile superstars enter, and only will walk away having earned the opportunity to meet the WCW Champion with the belt on the line. As decided on the most recent Nitro, the match began with Matt Hardy and Batista in the ring. Batista overpowered Matt easily, tossing him around the ring like a rag doll. The Animal roared to the crowd, who responded with a massive pop. Batista took his time, methodically beating down Hardy...
...Charlie Haas comes down as #3. He hesitates to join in on the action, then just hangs back in the corner, watching Batista and Matt. Hardy throws a few winded punches, but only hits air. Batista then bounces off the ropes and comes back with the KO's Line. He then turns and spots Haas in his crosshairs. Charlie gets wide-eyed and begs him not to attack, but to no avail. He takes a big knee to the gut then gets irish whipped to the opposite corner and hits with such force that he falls to the ground...
...Elijah Burke is next to enter. He too lays in wait near a corner, not wanting to doom himself by getting grasped by Batista. Haas picks himself up off the ground just in time to be beheaded with another KO's Line. Burke immediately runs at Batista and tries to get the jump on him, but gets shrugged off. Batista then hits a shoulder block on him and follows up with a big back body drop. Meanwhile, Matt Hardy has recovered and delivered a dropkick to the back of Batista's head...
...#5 is Scott Steiner. He comes down and picks off Burke, as Batista staggers from the blow to his head. Hardy tries to capitalize, attempting to throw Batista over the ropes. The Animal hangs on and Matt can hardly get his feet off the ground. Batista then strikes a swift elbow and Matt backs off. Steiner suplexes Burke out of his boots, then does some push-ups while trash talking...
...Trevor Murdoch enters. He surveys the battlefield and picks off the weakest link, Haas. Murdoch tries a DDT, but it's countered into a northern lights suplex. Steiner is continuing his slow disection of Burke, who looks dazed. Matt Hardy is standing and being choked by Batista's boot in the corner until Haas intervenes and pushes Batista's leg over the ropes. Hardy and Haas then bounce the top rope, racking Batista...
...Shelton Benjamin is now in. Haas goes to finish the job with a clothesline, but Batista drops to the apron and pulls the ropes with him, sending Charlie to the floor, eliminated. His tag partner, Benjamin, looks as if he's trying to seek vengeance, stomping the hell out of Batista while he's crawling under the ropes to get back in the ring. Hardy joins in, and Steiner moves his focus from Burke to Murdoch...
...Next in is Brent Albright who is still receiving a mixed reaction from the crowd as no one knows if he's still aligned with Benoit or not. At any rate, Albright quickly goes after the man he beat to earn a spot in this match, Elijah Burke. He displays some technical ability with a chain of rest holds and counters before hitting a back suplex. Murdoch rakes Steiner eyes, turning the tables in his favor, then hits a running knee to the gut on Steiner, winding the big man...
...Lance Cade now enters, just in time to barely dodge Matt Hardy's body that was sent flying over the ropes by Batista, who had an adrenaline rush after beating stomped away at. Cade joins Murdoch in wearing down Scott Steiner. Shelton tries to kick Batista, but it's caught and the crowd anticipates what's next. Batista swings him around and Shelton goes for that dragon whip, but Batista catches the leg on his shoulder and hits a clutch powerbomb...
...It's Khali to enter next. The behemoth lumbers to the ring, taking his sweet time. Once he makes it to the apron, all the action in the ring comes to a screeching halt. All 7 men focus on Khali and prepare to attack him as soon as he enters. He does so, and begins fighting off the pack of wrestlers. They all fall away except for Batista, and the two monsters do battle. Steiner takes the opportunity to eliminate both Cade and Murdoch by surprise. Burke then delivers some clubbing blows to Steiner, while Benjamin recooperates in the corner, until Albright comes by...
...#11 is The Rock! The crowd goes wild, split between cheers and boos. The Great One gets in the ring and starts slinging punches at anything that moves. He's fired up, but is grounded after Khali delivers a brain chop. Albright hops on Khali's back, but is dropped into the turnbuckles. At this moment, Batista comes and begins throwing wild blows to Khali while he's trying to rise out of the corner...
...Vampiro comes out as #12. He joins Batista in attempting to beat Khali down, and Albright is squirming to get out from behind the huge man, and onto the apron. He gets between the ropes then walks to the middle of the apron to escape the action. The Rock sees this and quickly comes and hits a running elbow, sending Albright to the floor. And because of the rules of the match, Brent is in fact eliminated...
...Billy Gunn is #13. At this point, Khali and shoved away Batista and Vampiro, and set his sights back on The Rock. Gunn takes it upon himself to attack Steiner from behind, but is soon headed off by Batista. Burke and Benjamin team up on Big Poppa Pump now, and do a number on him. The Rock flounders around the ring, taking big blows from Khali...
...Sting enters. He uses up the whole 15 seconds on the outside before joining in on the action, analyzing what's happening. His picks Burke to attack. This allows Steiner to mount a comeback against Shelton, and turns into a suplex machine. He hits suplex after suplex, and the crowd is just eating it up. The Rock takes another brain chop from Khali and is planted hard on the mat. Khali then sets his sights on Vampiro...
...It's Kane! He quickly walks to ringside, but then stops short of the apron. His head cocks to the side and he begins raising his arms. They go over his head and then strike downward. Flames erupt from all 4 corners... he now has everyone's complete attention. The Big Red Machine enters the ring and begins beating down everybody with punches, throat thrusts, big boots, and shoulder blocks. After a minute, the only two still on their feet are Kane and Khali. They stare each other down for a while. Burke then tries to run at them, but takes a double big boot. At this, the two giants separate and go back to plowing through the rest of the superstars in the ring...
...Rob Van Dam enters at #16. He runs fullspeed and slides into the ring. His first plan of action is to kick away at Kane, but that doesn't last long as the Big Red Machine shoves him clear across the ring. Khali and Kane continue the wreckage...
...#17 is Rick Steiner, who tries to go after his brother, but Kane grabs him around the throat and tries a chokeslam, but is stopped with a kick to the back of the knee by Shelton Benjamin. Kane then turns around and gives him an echoing uppercut to the throat. Khali is then seen lifting Vampiro high over his head in military press fashion, then throwing him over the ropes entirely and landing hard on the floor. Rick Steiner tries to get back at Kane, but is back body dropped to ringside fairly easily. Khali grabs Burke by his braids and throws him hard to the floor. Kane clobbers RVD in the back of the head, causing him to curl up in pain. He then kick pushes him through the ropes and to the floor! The big men are cleaning house...
...Then, "Wellllllllllllllll!" echoes throughout the arena as tonight marks the return of the Big Show! Gunn, Batista, Benjamin, Sting, Steiner, & Rock all stay weary near the ropes as the 3 largest men in wrestling square off. It turns into a pier-six brawl between the 3 until eventually Big Show & Kane double team Khali. The other 6 wrestlers resume fighting as well, and Sting gets the upper hand on Billy Gunn. He then sidesteps a charging Shelton Benjamin and tosses him over the ropes to the floor...
...The other half of the Headliners now enters as Chris Jericho comes down at #19. It doesn't take him long to join The Rock in working over Batista. Sting and Gunn are still going at it. At one point, Gunn tries to run at Sting with a clothesline, but Sting ducks. Gunn then runs right into the big men battle. Big Show and Kane simultaneously grabbed him around the throat and deliver a double chokeslam. Khali then has a window to fight back and ends up actually knocking Kane off his feet with a thrust kick. Sting picks up Billy and almost effortlessly throws his lifeless body through the ropes to ringside. Big Show backs off of Khali and begins battling Sting. Khali stalks Kane, but takes a shot to the midsection. Kane then body slams him and heads to the top rope. As he awaits Khali to get back to his feet, The Rock runs by and shoves Kane from his perch, eliminating the Big Red Machine! Scott Steiner then catches Rock from behind and hits a thunderous german suplex...
...And as everybody, including Big Show, knew, Test is #20. Big Show just stops his assault on Sting and tells Test to bring it. Test gets in the ring and tries to bait Big Show toward him. Show takes the bait, and Test sidesteps. Big Show must have seen it coming, as he puts the brakes on, but still faces outward. He then turns around just in time to duck and send Test nearly into orbit, and out of the match faster than any other superstar. A wounded Animal, Batista, is staggering around the ring and is being pursued by Chris Jericho. Jericho tries to irish whip him, but Batista holds the ropes tight. Jericho then tries to clothesline him over, but Batista ducks and instead of capitalizing on Y2J, he hits Big Show with a KO's Line. Sting and Rock are exchanging blows, and Sting ducks a diving forearm, but it connects on Jericho, sending Y2J to the floor! The Rock looks on in horror as he just accidentally eliminated his own teammate. Jericho looks shocked and infuriated. Rock tries to explain, but is cut short when Sting bumps him out of the match as well. Steiner is next to be out in this rapid fire of eliminations as Khali blocks a belly-to-belly suplex and two handed chokeslams Steiner all the to the floor... and through the announcer's table! The crowd gasps at the carnage they just witnessed. But Khali got too proud of that violent accomplishment, he stood there staring at Steiner and raising his arms. It gave Batista the opening to run up behind him and dump Khali to ringside. Batista then caught Sting's attention and told him to team up and eliminate Big Show, who was still getting back to his feet. They came by and struggled to get the job done. Show batted them off, but Sting came back quick. Show dodged and Sting landed on the apron. Batista then charged Show and hit a diving shoulder block that staggered Big Show. It wouldn't normally have eliminated him, but Sting low-bridged the rope and Show was out!
Sting then moved quick to get back in the ring. Batista caught him halfway to his feet, and tried for a Batista Bomb, but Sting countered into a double leg takedown and then a Scorpion Death Lock! The crowd was going crazy, as Sting tried his hardest to get all the leverage he could. The Animal was stuck in the hold for about 15 seconds before he straightened his legs and slinged Sting off him. Sting then irish whipped Batista to the corner and went for a Stinger Splash, but Batista moved! Sting bounced off and came back right into a kick to the gut, followed by a Batista Bomb! It looked like it was all over, and Batista made a gesture that he was ending this. He picked up Sting by the hair and started pointing to sides of the ring, looking for the biggest crowd reaction. Sting stumbled around the ring as Batista still had him by the head. Batista finally decided on a rope to throw him over and went to do it. Just as he was going toss him, Sting grabbed the arm and spun under into a wristlock. Sting then let go and tried a dropkick, but Batista caught his legs and attempted a Scorpion Death Lock of his own. He had it half applied when Sting took his turn in slinging out of it. The momentum hurled Batista to the apron. And as he got up, Sting was coming off the ropes and connected with a "KO's Line"! Batista fell off the apron and Sting was declared the winner! Sting celebrated as Khali made his way back down to the ring. Khali had a mic, got right in Sting's face, and said that he gets what he wants, because no one can tell him otherwise. And what he wants is that title shot... and Sting will damn sure give it to him. Khali then drops the mic and backs away, leaving Sting in kind of a tarnished victory.
Winner: StingJeff Hardy vs. Monty Brown vs. Chris BenoitWCW ChampionshipMonty tried to stay out of the match in the early goings, hoping his opponents would wear each other out. Benoit got the upper hand, but knew what was going on and eventually went after the champ. Brown's power got him the advantage for a while, and he wasn't too pleased that Benoit wouldn't let him be. Jeff got back into it, hitting the compactor on Brown out of nowhere. A few roundabout 2-counts occurred, and then Jeff and Benoit doubled teamed The Alpha Male. They hit a tandem flapjack, but then Benoit turned around and tried the Crossface on Hardy. He locked it in, but Brown made the quick save. Then action spilled to ringside. Benoit and Brown battled up the ramp. Jeff hung back and begged the referee not to call a count-out, because Monty would walk away still the champ in that case. The Rabid Wolverine ended up german suplexing Brown on the stage, 4 times. Benoit returned to the ring and it looked like the champ had been put out of commission. Hardy tried staying aerial and evasive to keep on Benoit. It worked for a while, but once Chris caught him, the technical prowess became the big factor. Hardy though, escaped a hammerlock and began flying around again. He hit a whisper in the wind, then followed with an inverted Twist of Fate. He ascended the turnbuckle to go for the Swanton Bomb, but Benoit dodged and Jeff landed hard. The Rabid Wolverine stalked Jeff and tried to lock in another Crippler Crossface, but Hardy rolled out of it. Jeff jumped and went for a front dropkick, but Benoit hooked both legs and applied a Sharpshooter! Hardy writhed in pain and the crowd was anticipating a Benoit victory, but Monty Brown hastily made his way to ringside and snatched up the WCW title. He dove into the ring and tried to blast Benoit across the face with a title belt shot to keep his belt in a cheap fashion, but Chris ducked and delivered another german suplex! As the ref bent down to pick up the belt, Benoit gave Brown a drop toe hold that had Monty's face connect with the championship! Jeff then clotheslined Benoit to ringside and headed for the top turnbuckle. He hit the Swanton Bomb on Brown, and went for the pin... 1.... 2.... Benoit broke it up by pulling him off, and put Jeff right back into the Sharpshooter! Jeff screamed, and with no chance of getting to the ropes or Brown coming to his aid this time! Benoit reared back to apply even more pressure as Hardy flailed his arms, doing anything he possibly could to escape the hold. Benoit then leaned back more and released Hardy's legs, but he rolled right into the Crippler Crossface! Jeff's whole body was now in pain, but he was refusing to tap out! Brown finally got to his feet and went to drop an elbow on Benoit, but he moved and it hit Jeff! Monty, with rage in his eyes, then tried to give Benoit a Pounce, but The Rabid Wolverine gave him a dropkick to the knee. Brown went down hard as Benoit ascended to the top rope. He went for a Swandive Headbutt, but Brown dodged it! The champ then went for the Pounce again, but Benoit dropped backward and rolled Brown right into a boston crab, that he adjusted into a Sharpshooter! Monty pounded his fist to the mat in pain, and caught sight of Jeff still laying on the mat, licking his wounds. In a dramatic moment, an expression of hopelessness and defeat came across Brown's face as he tapped out. Benoit grabbed the title and celebrated in the crowd as the show went off the air.
Winner: Chris Benoit