BACKLASH!: Payback’s a B*tch!

 

 Thursday 17.05.2007 

All matches for WWE Backlash: Payback’s a B!tch are final and announced on our special Backlash section. Have a peek over there and see what will thrill you the must this thursday!

There’s something for everyone this thursday, in fact, with a card this big we might have surpassed the grandest stage of them all: Wrestlemania.

Rowdy Roddy Piper returns!

Rowdy Roddy Piper returns to the WWE at BACKLASH this upcoming Thursday to referee Smackdowns Tag Team Championship match between the champs Mr. Kennedy & Matt Hardy versus Chris Benoit & RVD.

With recent happenings around the performance and violation of rules by Benoit and RVD the special guest referee Rowdy Piper will see upon strict following of rules within the first title defense by Smackdown’s Tag Team Champions.

Piper says : ” I have seen how RVD and Benoit exploits the shortcomings of Smackdown referees and I have witnessed how RVD and Benoit violates rule by rule over and over again, hurting the action Smackdown’s Tag Team division delivers. ” ” But not on my watch RVD! Not when I am around calling the shots in that title match Benoit! Thou are warned!!! “

The Rowdy One is back in business! But will he be able to keep things under control during the upcoming tag team clash!?

NIGHT of the CHAMPIONS!

Last Sunday 13.05.2007 both RAW and Smackdown shows presented several championshipmatches in which competitors battled to get a hold on championshipgold.

Edge became the WWE champion after defeating John Cena in a gruesome match. Although John Cena gave his best effort, Edge came out on top after spearing John Cena 2 times in a row, leaving him motionless on the canvas.

On Smackdown JBL was awarded with the World Heavyweight Championship title when he pinned The Undertaker 1-2-3. A devastating clothesline from hell finished off the phenom.

Shawn Michaels overcame all odds in a Fatal Four bout competing with Bret the Hitman Hart, Nature Boy Ric Flair and the Masterpiece Chris Masters. HBK made Chris Masters tap out to the sharpshooter, winning the WWE Intercontinental Championship belt.

Booker T took on William Regall for the U.S. Championship. Regall was pinned by Booker after taking a viscious Book End, resulting in Booker T becoming the U.S. Champion.

In Tag Team action it was the tag team of Mr. Kennedy and Matt Hardy winning the Smackdown World Tag Team Championship fighting off the teams of Benoit & RVD and Kane & Finlay. Mr. Kennedy pinned R.V.D., while all hell broke loose outside the ring when Benoit manhandled Kane.

On the RAW show the grotesque team of The Great Khali & Snitsky cleared the house battling the tag teams of Stone Cold Steve Austin & Mankind and Kurt Angle & Umaga. The Great Khali & Snitsky became the WWE Tag Team Champions by pinfall.

Last but not least, the Smackdown brand introduced the WWE Cruiserweight Championship division with a 6-man elimination Battle Royal. Chavo Guerrero came out on top – winning the title – when Daivari, Psycosis, Kid Kash, Gregory Helmms and Rey Mysterio were eliminated.