BACKLASH! Results

 

 

Thursday 17.05.2007 

The first PPV event Backlash! kicked off with an old-fashioned bar-brawl between John Cena and Randy Orton. The winner would face the WWE Champ Edge later on that night in the Hell in a Cell main event! Both competitors destroyed the interior and in the end it was Orton knocking Cena out cold.

In a triple threat match Gregory Helms became the NEW WWE Cruiserweight Champion after pinning the former champion Chavo Guerrero, while Rey Mysterio was a second too late to interrupt the 1-2-3 count! WWE Tag Team champions The Great Khali & Snitsky succesfully defended the WWE Tag Team title against the team of Kurt Angle and Umaga! The Great Khali manhandled both challengers and made a clear statement to the competition he is a monster!

Batista and The Rock faced each other in a gruesome First Blood match! The match endured past the 15-minute mark and went back and forth in favour of both competitors. Batista finished off The Rock with several devastating steelchair-shots to the head. Rowdy Roddy Piper returned to the squared circle first time in years to referee the Smackdown Tag Team Championship Match between the champions Mr. Kennedy & Matt Hardy against Benoit & RVD! Both teams weared each other down and the match errupted into an all out brawl where RVD provoked Piper resulting in disqualification of the challengers. Mr. Kennedy & Matt Hardy succesfully retained the Smackdown championship!

For the WWE Intercontinental title champion Shawn Michaels took on Ric Flair and the former Smackdown competitor Mr.Perfect in a Triple Threat TLC match! All kind of weapons were brought into the match to destroy the opponents. From chairs to tables, to sledgehammers and barb-wired bats. In the end it was Mr.Perfect getting the pinfall over the champ to become the new WWE Intercontinental Champion!

The Big Show became the new and largest US Champion ever by defeating the champ Booker T! Backlash! was also the setting of the reunion of one of the worlds most succesfull tag teams ever : The Hart Foundation : Bret The Hitman Hart & Jim The Anvil Neidhart. Together with Bobby Lashley, The Hart Foundation entered the ring to face the team of Triple H, Stone Cold Steve Austin & Mankind. Neidhart was quickly eliminated after receiving a StoneCold-stunner. Although Lashley managed to fight off his opponents, eventually he was worn down and pedigreed by Triple H. In the end Triple H pinned Bret Hart 1-2-3. Triple H, Stone Cold Steve Austin & Mankind were victorious!

The World Heavyweight Champion JBL met the phenom, The Undertaker in a Last Man Standing match. Hard blows were exchanged and the fight went to the outside, where both competitors clashed. JBL decimated The Undertaker with the Clothesline from Hell and succesfully retained the World Heavyweight title.

Last but not least, the WWE Champ Edge succesfully defended his championshipgold in the Hell of a Cell-structure against Randy Orton, who became the nr.1 contender after defeating John Cena earlier that night. Edge made short work of Orton by pulling off a devastating spear early in the match. The fight continued outside the ring, where both competitors were thrown and knocked into the unforgiving steel of the cell. Edge finished off Orton in a short but brutal match!