Velocity
10/10 Velocity Review: Kevin Peel's Debut
By Kevin Peel
Oct 10, 2005, 16:02

WWE has a pretty neat concept going for Velocity, now a show that can be seen on WWE.com in streaming video form. It has the same kind of Velocity action you're used and comes now commercial free. The nice thing about the new format is they have it broken down into four segments and you can just watch the segments that interest you or avoid a segment that might not interest you. This way you're not stuck skipping to the good parts.

This week's edition of Velocity features Mr. Kennedy and MNM in action and also a cruiserweight battle royal that will determine the number one contender who will get a title shot against Nunzio tonight at No Mercy.

(1) MNM (w/ Melina) defeated Jared Steele and Jass Plisken

Segment number one opens with the Velocity intro and that familiar theme of MNM plays over the speakers as Josh Matthews and Steve Romero welcome us to Velocity. The Melina ring entrance never gets old. This week MNM take on Jared Steele and Jass Plisken (not sure if that name's right). Just seeing MNM reminds me how unbelievable it seems that Animal and Heidenreich have been champs this long. The announcers put over the six person tag team match at No Mercy where it will be Joey, Johnny and Melina taking on Heidenreich, Animal and Christy Hemme. Joey gives Steele a jawbreaker followed by the photograph sign and a dropkick. He crawls over to Melina for a kiss. Steele came back with some right hands, but that was cut short with a clothesline from Joey who drags him to the corner. Joey misses with the driving forearm off the top which enables Steele to make the tag. Announcers are confused how you say this jobber's name. Joey takes control and makes the blind tag before doing a Curt Hennig style neck whip followed by Johnny coming in with a legdrop. Nice. This was of course the setup for their finisher The Snapshot. 1-2-3 and that's it.

THE VERDICT:

Basic squash match. If you're a fan of MNM you'll enjoy it, if you aren't there really isn't much else here.

(2) Mr Kennedy defeated Russell Simpson

Segment two opens up with the slam of the week featuring Mr Kennedy hitting Hardcore Holly with a microphone last week. Tony Chimmel reluctantly introduces him and Kennedy informs him that he makes him absolutely sick. Kennedy tells him to get out of his ring, but before he leaves, Kennedy finds a jelly doughnut in his pocket and stuffs it in his mouth and calls him "fatty." Kennedy informs us that match is scheduled for one fall with a twenty minute time limit and he weighs in at "an absolutely astonishing 245 pounds." This guy's character is just fantastic. It's nice to see one of the new guys showing alot of personality. Not much to the match. A quick squash that Kennedy won with the Lambeau Leap. Afterwards, he announced himself the winner.

THE VERDICT:

This segment is definitely worth checking out. There wasn't much to the match, but Kennedy's whole prematch rountine is just fantastic and his verbal abuse of Chimmel is always great.

Segment three opened up with a recap of the 6-man match from Smackdown with the main focus being on Eddie Guerrero and Batista. They always do a good job with the video recaps. The build to Batista/Eddie still seems very strange. From this, we go to Simon Dean. He has a cast on his right arm selling injuries from Bobby Lashley. Simon tells us he has living proof that the simon system really works. He brings out a blonde girl named Natalie who Simon claimed was 350 pounds before using the simon system. She takes off her No Mercy shirt and shows her fitness look.

THE VERDICT:

Unless you want to see the Batista/Eddie recap video, this segment should be avoided. There was absolutely no point to the Simon Dean segment. It was just his usual routine. Nice looking girl, but unless they were introducing her as his valet, I didn't see much of a point.

(3) Juventud won a cruiserweight battle royal to earn the no mercy title shot

Fourth and final segment and its main event time. This is a seven man cruiserweight battle royal with a shot against Nunzio for the Cruiserweight title at No Mercy on the line. The match featured Scotty 2 Hotty, Funaki, Brian Kendrick, Paul London, as well as Super Crazy, Psychosis, and Juvy of the mexicools. Nunzio came out at the top of the ramp to watch. Brian Kendrick clothesline Psychosis out of the ring for the first elimination. Funaki threw Juvi over the top but he slip back under the bottom rope to stay in the match. Later, Funaki goes for a tornado ddt on Super Crazy, but Crazy countered by throwing his out over the top to eliminate him. Kendrick threw Scotty over the top, but he skinned the cat and came back in only to be met with a Super Crazy clothesline over the top to eliminate him. With Crazy against the ropes, London irish whipped Juvi who was backed dropped by Crazy over the top, but Juvi caught the rope and landed on the ring apron. Juvi and Crazy argued and London dropkicked Crazy into Juvi, but Juvi pulled down the top rope sending Crazy to the floor eliminated. With it down to three, Kendrick Jumped on the second rope while he had Juvi in the corner, but London snuck up from behind and eliminated Kendrick. This left only London and Juvi. London hit the mushroom stomp off the top then kept trying to eliminate Juvi, but Juvi kept escaping. London tried a springboard dropkick but was met with a dropkick from Juvi. London got Juvi in a fireman's carry and tried to eliminate Juvi going to each rope, but Juvi kept escaping. London turned it into a death valley driver. He threw Juvi out to the ring apron once again. Juvi brought London out to the ring apron on the other side of the ringpost. Juvi caught London in a powerbomb position but London fought his way out. After a leg sweep, both men lost their footing holding only the top rope. London tried climbing to the top but was kicked off by Juvi falling to the floor. Juvi was declared the winner.

THE VERDICT:

Great match. This is the one segment you should definitely check out. It started out as your basic battle royal stuff, but when it got down to Juvi and London it got really good. Just great back and forth action and I was kinda surprised that Juvi won in the end.

OVERALL

Overall a pretty good edition of Velocity. The final segment and the Kennedy segment are really worth checking out. The MNM match was what it was and I have no idea what the point of the Simon Dean segment was. I really do like this online concept for Velocity. It will be a good way to showcase some of the upcoming talent and with the smackdown roster you're always gonna get some cruiserweight action thrown in there.