Great American Bash Results

[Triple B]

A video package highlights the Edge/Vickie wedding, and how Triple H spoiled the party Friday night. The package also highlights the JBL/Cena rivalry, and CM Punk's rise and his altercation with Batista.

We are live from the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York. Our hosts are Michael Cole and Jerry "The King" Lawler for Raw, Jim Ross and Mick Foley for SmackDown and representing ECW, Mike Adamle and The Tazz.

Fatal Four-Way for the WWE Tag Team Championship: The Miz and John Morrison © vs. Finlay and Hornswoggle vs. Jesse and Festus vs. Curt Hawkins and Zach Ryder

Festus clears the ring early as they all run from him. Miz and Morrison throw Horny into Festus. Horny rolls his sleeves up, and dives out under the middle rope onto the tag champs. Jesses tosses Miz in and Festus hits him with a leg drop for 1. Two-handed tosses by Festus followed up with rights. Jesse comes in and hits a monkey flip and a leg sweep for 2. Festus back in and catches Miz with an uppercut. Finlay gets a blind tag but east a big boot from Festus. Morrison comes in and hits some mounted punches and kicks and clubbing blows and a European uppercut. Miz comes in now and hits some crossfaces and applies chinlock, and turns it into a Russian leg sweep for 1. Miz and Morrison hit their catapult/forearm/elbow drop combo on Finlay for 2. Morrison applies a chinlock now, but Finlay fights to his feet, but Morrison hits him with a neckbreaker. Finlay comes back on Miz with a flurry of punches, so Morrison comes back in and gets the same treatment. We get a collision of heads, and Ryder gets a blind tag and covers Finlay for 2. Chinlock now by Ryder, and Finlay agains rallies back, but Hawkins comes in and hits a forearm, knees and right hands in the corner. Finlay fights out of the corner and dumps Hawkins, but Hawkins gets back on top and fires off with right hands. Hawkins drives Finlay into Ryder's knee, but Finlay comes back with a Finlay roll. There's a shillelagh shopt somewhere, but Miz and Morrison break the pin, and Hawkins and Ryder regain the advantage over Finlay and Hawkins applies a chinlock. Finlay fights to his feet and telegraphs Hawkins, and Horny comes in and snaps off a head scissors. Jesse tags himself in and hits a Thesz Press on Hawkins, and a Fisherman driver for 2. Hawkins comes back with a jawbreaker, but Horny's distraction allows a hot tag to Festus. He cleans house with a flapjack and running shoulder tackle and the FLYING BISCUIT. The champs get whipped out and tossed. Festus goes up top, but Hawkins pulls him down and gets the win @ 9:03!

Winners: And NEW WWE Tag Team Champions, Hawkins and Ryder

WWE United States Championship Match: Matt Hardy © vs. Shelton Benjamin

They lock up and Shelton tries a roll up early and gets a couple of quick 1 counts, and finally grabs a side headlock and a shoulder knock down. Matt catches him with a small package for 2 before Shelton goes back to the headlock.Hardy comes back with a hip lock and a deep arm drag take down and then works the arm until Shelton works his way back to his feet and we get a clean break in the corner. Hardy reverses a whip, and blocks the Gold Rush and Shelton then counters the Twist of Fate. Hardy catches Shelton with a reverse elbow but gets tossed to over the top. He tries to skin the cat but Shelton dropkicks him to the floor. Shelton pulls him up to the apron and runs him into the ringpost, sending him to the floor. Shelton rolls him back in and gets a 1 count. Shelton hits back suplex for 2, and follows that up with a backbreaker. He then grabs a really sloppy chinlock/back breaker combo. He goes on the assault with forearms. Benjamin hits a really sloppy backbreaker and then works an abdominal stretch, with Hardy counters out of with a drop for 2. Shelton comes back but Matt counters a back suplex into a crossbody for 2. Hardy runs into a boot, and Shelton counters the Side Effect with a take down for 2. Shelton goes back to a dragon sleeper with the knee in the spine. Hardy fights out but Shelton hits his Dragon whip for 2. He hits a Stinger splash, but goes to it again and eats a pair of boots to the jaw. Hardy comes back and hits the clothesline/bulldog combo for 2. Hardy hits a slam and goes to the top and hits the leg drop for a 2 count. Hardy goes back to the second rope, but Shelton catches him and powerbombs him onto the top turnbuckle! They work through a bunch of pinning combinations, and Hardy hits a SIDE EFFECT for 2. He wants the Twist of Fate, but Shelton shoves him away and dumps him on the top rope. Shelton follows him up but gets elbow off. MOONSAULT! He lands face-first on a knee. GOLDRUSH! That gets the 3 @ 9:34!

Winner: And NEW United States Champion, Shelton Benjamin

In a mobile exclusive from after Raw last week, CM Punk says people have said he can't and won't make it his entire life. He was never meant to be the top guy and yet his name is engraved. He's not the biggest, strongest or smartest . But he's not a fluke. He is in the business of proving people wrong. He's not Batista, he's not John Cena, he's not Shawn Michaels, he's not Bret Hart. He's CM Punk.

We get clips of last Friday's wedding reception.

ECW Championship Match: Mark Henry © w/ Tony Atlas vs. Tommy Dreamer w/ Colin Delaney

They lock up and Henry overpowers Dreamer, shoving him to the mat. Dreamer tries a double leg takedown but gets tossed across the ring. Dreamer goes on the assault with rights and lefts but runs in a vertical splash. Henry kicks Dreamer around and stands on his head for a bit. He just stands on his chest now. He pulls him up and chokes him over the middle rope and mashes his face. Big head butt now by Henry. Henry applies a head vice now but the fans are reluctant to get behind Dreamer. He works his way to his feet but gets thrown down again. Henry works the arm and the boring chants begin. Henry twiss and rips and the hand and arm of Dreamer, but he comes back with rights and runs into that Henry brick wall again. Henry drills him with another right. Henry goes back to the arm twisting, and Dreamer comes back with more rights until Henry slams him down. Dreamer avoids a big splash and hits a low dropkick to the head, and fires off with rights and lefts. Henry charges into a reverse elbow and Dreamer avoids a charge and hits a neckbreaker for 2. DDT! Dreamer knocks Atlas off the apron. Tommy goes to the second rope, but Colin yanks him off across the top rope. Dreamer staggers into a World's Strongest Slam for the win @ 5:49!

Winner: Mark Henry

We get a video package highlighting the Jericho/Michaels feud.

Shawn Michaels vs. Chris Jericho

We get a long staredown and Jericho immediately attacks with forearms, rights and knees and he has Shawn winded early. HBK comes back with a big knife edge chop and a stiff forearm in the corner. Jericho runs into a boot and HBK goes low with a chopblock. Double leg by HBK and he locks in an inverted figure 4! Jericho crawls to the bottom rope quickly. HBK stomps on the knee a few times and hits another forearm. Shawn wraps the knee around the middle rope but Jericho fights it and pulls the referee in the way. Shawn goes back on the assault but gets whipped to the opposite corner. Jericho hits his sprinboard dropkick to send Shawn all the way to the floor. Jericho comes off the steps with a blow to the back and tolls Shawn back in. Jericho connects with a punt to the ribs and mockingly kicks Shawn around. Jericho hits a back suplex and turnbuckle thrusts. Jericho snap mares Shawn and applies a bow and arrow hold but Shawn won't submit. HBK fights back and gets to his feet but Jericho hits a step-up enzuigiri. Jericho hits a slam but then gets caught with an atomic drop. FLYING FOREARM! KIP UP! Jericho gets a rol up though and segues into the WALLS OF JERICHO! Michaels eventually reaches the ropes and Jericho reluctantly breaks. Jericho blocks the super kick and fires off with forearms. Michaels anticipates Jericho's bulldog with a stiff forearm for 2. Michaels heads up top, but Jericho shakes the ropes and Shawn gets crotched. Right by Jericho, Shawn shoves him down. Jericho goes back up but Shawn fights him off. Jericho finally tries for a superplex but Shawn kicks him down. ELBOW FROM THE TOP! Shawn tunes up the band, but has to take Lance Cade out first. Shawn blocks the Codebreaker into a jack-knife rol up for 2. Jericho gets a roll up now and he gets 2. They slug it out middle of the ring and Shawn hip tosses Jericho out onto Lance Cade! Shawn heads up and hits a MOONSAULT onto Cade and Jericho! Jericho strikes Michaels with an elbow as they go back in, and Michaels is busted above the eye. Jericho telegraphs Shawn and notices the eye and goes for it. The referee stops him but Shawn walks out to the middle and Jericho drills him with a right. Michaels is swinging wildly and missing as Jericho pummels him. Jericho hits a vicious kick to the face and a Jericho distraction allows Lance Cade to boot Shawn in the face. The referee wants to stop the match. Jericho hits a head butt to the eye as Shawn is losing blood and fading. Shawn counters into the CHRISTIAN CROSSFACE! Jericho powers out and sends HBK into the middle rope. Jericho goes on the assault again and the referee admonishes him. The ref checks on Shawn but Jericho goes after him with forarms. The ref checks again but Shawn wants to fights. Jericho kicks Shawn right in the head, and again. Jericho won't stop drilling him with rights to that wound. Jricho locks Shawn up and just pummels him with right after right after right hand. The referee pulls Jericho off and stops the match @ 18:18!

Winner: Chris Jericho

EMTs check on Shawn as Jericho celebrates. Shawn gets a nice ovation as he is helped to the back.

We get a movie-spoof commercial for Summerslam.

JR asks Edge how he feels. Edge says Triple H crossed lines. He asks what kind of a pervert puts a camera in another man's hotel room. Edge says his personal life is gone. He is now desperate, which makes him dangerous. Tonight, he will ruin Triple H's life by taking the WWE Championship.

WWE Diva's Championship Match: Natalya Neidhart vs. Michelle McCool

Michelle takes Natalya down with a waistlock, but Natalya reverses, but Michelle gets a near fall. Michelle hits some forearm uppercuts. McCool wheelbarrows but Natalya dumps her on the top rope. Mounted rights by Natalya. Neidhart follows up with a surfboard now but Michelle refuses to give up. Michelle counters beautifully into a heel hook, but Natalya is in the ropes. Natalya regains the advantage and bends Michelle around the ring post. Natalya gets a 1 count. Michelle comes back with forearms but gets taken down and Natalya tries for the Sharpshooter, and she gets it! Michelle won't quit and reaches the topes. Natalya pummels her with forearms and kicks to the head. She pulls her back to the middle and tries for the Sharpshooter again, but McCool counters into the BRAZILIAN HEEL HOOK! Natalya fights and tries to roll to the ropes, but can't get there. She tries to kick her way out but can't, and she taps @ 4:41!

Winner: And FIRST WWE Diva's Champion, Michele McCool

Eve and Cherry celebrate with Michelle. Chris Jericho comes out and tells the fans to keep their ticket stubs because they're significant. Shawn has wrestled his last match. He has been diagnosed with a detached retina. That means he's finished. Sometimes the good guys do win and the bad guys get what is coming to them. For Shawn, the worst has come.

The new Rc Flair DVD is out now.

We get a video package of CM Punk's rise, and the feud with Batista.

World Heavyweight Championship Match: CM Punk © vs. Batista

Lock up and Batista backs Punk to the corner and smirks. Punk grabs a side headlock but Batista pushes him off again. Punk goes behind but gets caught with an elbow and Batista is laughing now. Punk kicks the thigh and now Dave is upset. More kicks by Punk, he avoids a clothesline and hits more kicks and a forearms, slides off of a powerslam but runs into an elbow. Batista grounds Punk and hits a running kick to the head. Punk avoids a charge but Batista blocks a roll up. Punk sends Batista to the floor and hits a baseball slide, then hits a SUICIDE DIVE! Punk tosses him back in and covers for 2. Punk hits a dropkick to the back of the head for 2 more. Kick to the back by Punk. Kick to the rinbs now, and again. Batista reverses a whip and sends Punk crashing into the corner. Batista whips hard into the opposite corner now. Batista hits a suplex and gets a 2 count. Batista locks in the camel clutch now, but Punk tries to power out only for Batista to jump down on the back. Kidney shot now by Batista, and another one. He tries for another but Punk hits a forearm and a leg lariat sends Batista to the floor. Punk brings Batista back in, and knots up the thighs again. Punk hops up top and comes off with a crossbody for 2. Kick by Punk, running knee, countered, power bomb try, countered, POWERSLAM! Batista says thumbs down and gets booed. Punk grabs the top rope to block the Bomb, goes out to the apron, hits a roundhouse kick, slides in and hits the running knee in the corner, but Batista shoves him off the bulldog, but Punk comes back with a kick for 2. Punk gets him up for the GTS, Batista elbows out and hits a pair of corner clotheslines. Batista sets Punk up top and tries for a muscle buster, but Punk falls back and gets an arm bar around the ropes. SPRINGBOARD CLOTHESLINE! That gets 2. Punk grabs a submission and Batista counters to a roll up for 2. Batista grabs Punk's leg but Punk SLAPS him, only to be caught with a huge clothesline. Batista drives Punk to the corner and hits some thrusts, the ref pulls him back and Batista charges into the ring post! Punk dives off the apron and gets caught… SPINEBUSTER ON THE FLOOR! Batista rolls Punk inside and Kane attacks for the DQ @ 11:08!

Winner: Double DQ, Punk retains

Kane hits Punk with a CHOKESLAM in the ring. He has the bag and stares at it. "Is he alive? Or is he dead?" WHAM! KILLS ta camera man with a big boot!

Punk holds up the title in the ring, so Batista kills him with a Batista Bomb!

We get a video package of the Cena/JBL rivalry.

NYC Parking Lot Brawl: John Cena vs. John Bradshaw Layfield

JBL will wrestlie in his street clothes. They can't find Cena. A pipe drops somewhere and JBL is freaked. JBL gets on top of a car and Cena drives a car into it. Cena comes out and hammers JBL on the roof of the car and chokes him with some cables. He slams him on the hood and then slams the bonnet down on JBL's head a few times. Jumper cables on the testicles! Cena tosses JBL onto another car now. He has a ke and tosses it at JBL but he moves. JBL tries to drive away but Cena hammers him and smashes his head into the steering wheel and drags him out. JBL comes back with a couple of rights and whips Cena into an open car door, and it flies off. More rights by JBL, and he slams him into the car door. JBL lays Cena on top of a bonnet and hammers him with rights and slams him head-first into a car. JBL gets up on a car now and hits a swinging neckbreaker on the car for 2. More boots and rights by JBL , and he tosses Cena back first into a windshield and it very much smashes. DDT on the roof of the car! That gets 2 more. JBL slaps Cena across the back of the head. He has a tire iron but misses his shot and Cena comes back with rights until JBL boots him in the gut. JBL throws him face-first through a car window now. JBL puts Cena in the back of a car now and grabs gasoline from his own limo. The limo drives off. JBL douses the car in gasoline, and we see Cena still in there. JBL has a lighter and torches it! The car is very much burning. Security puts the car out with extinguishers and SUPER CENA LIVES! He whips JBL into a car a couple of times and then throws him in the front seat. Cena has a fork lift now and drives it into the side of the car. He then picks the car up and drives it. Cena takes it all the way out to the arena. Cena comes out and poses on the car as JBL crawls out of the car. Rights by Cena and they brawl on the entrance ramp now. They slug it out and Cena hits the PROTOPLEX on the stage! "You Can't See Me!" FIVE KNUCKLE SHUFFLE! Cena wants the FU, gets him up, rethinks it and walks to the side of the stage. JBL counters and tosses him off the stage and into the damn windshield! JBL crawls across and covers for the win @ 16:18!

Winner: JBL

Both men receive help from officials after the match. Cena's arms are all cut up but he refuses to be helped to the back. He gets a big standing ovation.

According to the text vote, 55% of fans sympathize with Edge.

We get another video package of last Friday's proceedings.

Eve asks Triple H if he has regrets. Nope.

WWE Championship Match: Triple H © vs. Edge

Edge launches himself at Triple H and fires off with rapid right hands. Triple side steps a charge though and sends him to the floor, then knocks him off the apron. Triple H goes out and whips Edge hard into the guardrail. Triple H drills him with some harsh elbows, then hangs him up over the top rope. In the ring, Triple H drops a couple of nasty knees right to the head, then drills Edge with a right hand and whips him to the corner and hits him with a clothesline to the back of the head. Triple H sends Edge to the floor but then gets caught with a flapjack into the guardrail. Back in and Edge beats The Game with tights and hits a spear in the corner. Edge punts him in the ribs and whips him hard into the corner. Edge brings The Game to the floor and whips him into the steel steps. Edge drives Triple H back into the ring apron then dumps him on to the announce table. Back in the ring, Edge locks in a body scissors. Triple H gains some separation with a series of right hands but runs right into a dropkick for 2. Edge tries to spear Trips off the apron but misses and goes falls to the floor! Back in and The Game gets a few kicks and fires off with a few rights but gets telegraphed only to come back with a clothesline. FACEBUSTER! That sends Edge all the way to the floor. The Game slams him into the steps, then tosses him into the ring post. Edge gets tossed back in but kicks The Game back out. Edge misses a baseball slide but ducks a clothesline and hits Triple H with an Impaler DDT on the floor! Edge rolls Triple H back into the ring and covers for a 2 count. Triple H catches Edge in mid air and catapults him into the turnbuckle and hits a DDT for a near fall. Triple H tries the Pedigree, but Edge counters into the Edge-O-Matic for 2. The Game side steps a spear and gets a roll up for 2. Edge hits him with a big boot though. Edge wants the spear, but gets caught with a SPINEBUSTER! Pedigree try, but Edge drives him back into the corner. Edge sets him up on the top turnbuckle and goes up to meet him. SUPERPLEX! Alicia Fox is out and grabs the WWE Championship. Vickie Guerrero is out and hits Alicia with a clothesline! Vickie gets in the ring with the title, but Alicia comes in and we get a CATFIGHT! Edge tries a spear to Alicia, but misses and EDGE SPEARS VICKIE! PEDIGREE! Gamer over @ 16:47!

Winner: Triple H

Triple H celebrates as we go off the air.

[Russ]

I stayed up 'til 4 am for this; it sucked... big time

Colin going heel was good, but Kane never put the mask on which sucked majorly; but Edge spearing Vickie was a mark out moment.

Might also want to add that Edge is back to the hardcore rated-r era; with black and red not purple and blue

[Dave Johnson]

Well the read sounded freaking awesome.

Edge spearing Vickie would have been gold, and Shawn being diagnosed with detached retina?
Ohwell, great read, thanks for the post.