The online version of Heat is now online.
This weeks show features Shelton Benjamin taking on
Matt Striker as well as Gregory Helms and Kerwin White
in action. Yes, what a lineup this is. You can check
out the latest edition of Heat at http://www.wwe.com/shows/webshows/heat/
(1) Val Venis defeated Johnny
Parisi with the moneyshot.
Segment one opens up with Val Venis taking
on Johnny Parisi. Todd Grisham and Jonathan Coachman
are your announcers. Grisham takes a couple shots at
Coach who blames Goldust and Vader for his loss. The
two talk about Ric Flair's big win over Triple H in
the steel cage match this past Tuesday during the ring
intros. They tie up and Parisi goes to a side headlock.
Val shoves him to the ropes, but Johnny hits a shoulder
block to take down Val. He tries following with an elbowdrop,
but Val rolls out of the way. Val grabs an armdrag takedown
and begins to work on the arm. Parisi backs Val into
the corner and lands some kicks to the gut to wear him
down. He tries whipping Val to the ropes, but he reverses
it and follows with a knee to the gut. Val follows up
with a russian leg sweep and hits a series of punches
to the head. Parisi reverses an irish whip and charges
in but Val moves out of the way. Val hits a body slam
and climbs to the outside to go for the money shot,
but Parisi knocks him off the ring apron to the floor.
Parisi tries rolling him in for a quick pin, but only
gets a two count. He goes to work on the midsection
and hooks in an abdominal stretch. Eventually, Venis
fights his way out with a hiptoss and follows with a
series of clotheslines. He whips him to the corner and
does his clothesline series against the turnbuckle as
the crowd counts to ten. Val hits the half nelson slam
and follows up with the money shot off the top to score
the pin. They close out the segment with highlights
of Kane and Big Show winning the tag titles at Taboo
Tuesday and show an advertisement for the new Jake "The
Snake" Roberts DVD entitled Pick Your Poison.
THE VERDICT
This was an okay match. The problem is
that both guys are portrayed as jobbers so I can't imagine
too many people would be interested in this one. This
was basically like the first match you see at a house
show
(2) Gregory Helms defeated Kevin
Martinson with an armbar submission
Segment two starts out with our first
look at Gregory Helms since dropping the hurricane gimmick
and turning heel. He takes on Kevin Martinson. Martinson
offer a handshake, but Helms slaps him. Martinson charges
in but Helms counters with a fireman's carry and unloads
with some forearms before throwing Martinson to the
outside. Martinson eventually makes it back in and lands
a few punches before being reversed to the ropes for
a Helms dropkick. Helms then whips him to the ropes
for a back elbow and goes into a blatant choke. After
Helms misses a dropkick, Martinson lands some punches,
a forearm and whips him to the ropes for a backdrop.
He whips him to the corner and jumps up for a monkeyflip,
but Helms throws him off. Helms hits the move formerly
called the eye of the hurricane but pulls him up before
the three count. Helms puts on an armbar submission
hold and gets the submission win. Segment closes out
with a recap of the Triple H/Ric Flair feud with highlights
from the cage match at Taboo Tuesday.
THE VERDICT
While the match wasn't all that interesting,
it did establish Helms as more "serious" now.
This was a squash but you don't really get the feeling
that Helms will be any higher on the card after this
heel turn.
(3) Kerwin White defeated Mike
Wellington with a brainbuster
Segment three has Kerwin White in singles
action taking on Mike Wellington. Kerwin hits a series
of european uppercuts early and sets up Wellington for
a back suplex for a one count. He hits a shortarm clothesline
then gives Wellington the face wash in the corner. While
going for a suplex, Wellington counters with a surprise
small package for a two count. Wellington lands some
punches and a back elbow before Kerwin counters with
a dropkick. Kerwin hits a brainbuster and scores the
pin. Segment closes out with a recap video of the triple
threat WWE title match from Taboo Tuesday with John
Cena retaining against Kurt Angle and Shawn Michaels
and they played a advertisement for the Wrestlemania
Anthology DVD set.
THE VERDICT
Another squash match that really served
no purpose.
(4) Shelton Benjamin defeated
Matt Striker by countout
Segment four and its main event time with
Shelton Benjamin taking on Matt Striker. This all started
with Striker walking out on Shelton in a tag team match
two weeks ago against Kerwin White and Nick Nemeth.
This past week on the Heat preshow before Taboo Tuesday,
Striker got a cheap pin on Shelton in a tag match using
the tights and ropes. This week they finally go one
on one. Shelton knocks Striker out of the ring early
on and rams him back first into the barrier. He throws
him back in the ring and whips him to the ropes for
a back elbow. Striker tries to fight back with some
punches, but Shelton counters that with a knee. He whips
Striker to the ropes and charges in, but Striker moves
out of the way. Shelton jumps to the top but Striker
shoves him off to the floor. Striker works him over
with punches and kick and rams him head first into the
barrier. He rolls him in the ring and goes to a series
of chokeholds to wear Shelton down. Striker follows
up with a rear naked choke that looks more like a chinlock.
Shelton finally gets out by ramming Striker back first
into the corner to break it. Striker tries ramming Shelton
to the corner, but he reverses it and takes Striker
head first to the corner before following up with a
clothesline. He hits a couple more clotheslines and
whips Striker to the ropes before catching him in a
reverse atomic drop. He follows up with a samoan drop
and a top rope clothesline. Striker begs off in the
ropes, but Shelton knocks him to the floor with a big
boot. Striker starts walking up the ramp and keeps on
walking. Shelton wins by countout.
THE VERDICT
This was a decent match up until the lame
finish. It looks like this feud is going to continue
which is bad news for Shelton fans.
OVERALL
This was another pretty terrible edition
of heat. The only really good thing about heat these
days is that Shelton Benjamin seems to be on every week,
so you know you'll get a solid match out of him anyway.
Everything else was pretty skipable on here with guys
that no one really care about. Helms made a decent debut
switching to a more serious character, but didn't really
make a case for himself that he deserves any kind of
a push. The audio appeared to be out of synch for the
first two segments this week which should never happen.
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