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Goldust (Hollywood, CA, 260 pounds) vs Trevor Murdoch (Waxahachie, TX, 245 pounds) - Todd is still flying solo. I guess this is the new status quo? (At least till Velocity folds, I guess. They couldn't bring Stevie in for one hour a week?) He's all over Cena vs HHH on RAW. Mickie Jay barely allows time for Trevor to take off his hat before he rings the bell. Lockup - no, Trevor doesn't want to. This time, yea, headlock, shot off, over, Trevor stops short at the ropes, but still turns into an armdrags. Goldust scoops Trevor up, Trevor yells "NO NO NO", but he gets slammed anyway. Goldust freaks out, so Trevor pokes him in the eye. Whip, reversed by Goldust into an inverted atomic drop and a clothesline, one tow no.  Goldust puts Trevor in an armbar. Dragging him down, dropping the leg on Trevor's left arm. Trevor back up, Goldust charges, and Trevor flapjacks him onto the top rope. Axhandle drop tot eh arm, and Goldust shoves him in the corner to work him over there. Whip, back elbow. Highly technical arm yank by Murdoch. Elbow to the neck.  4 people start a Goldust chant and it actually takes. Crossface forearm. Kneeling chinlock is probably at a bad time, since people are chanting for Goldust, but Goldust recovers quick to try and take advantage of it. Off the ropes, into a Trevor clothesline. One two no. Trevor with punches, Goldust with punches, Trevor stops him with a knee. Eye rake on the ropes. Whip, reversed, Trevor charges into a back elbow, and Trevor hits the blockbuster again. One two no. Todd is amazed every week. Trevor tries again - one two no. How about this time? One two no! Trevor throws a fit in Mickie Jay's general direction, and turns into a Goldust powerslam. Both men down. Both slow up, up at five and Goldust dominates with punches. Whip, reversed, Trevor puts his head down too soon so Goldust can get in the uppercut. Atomic drop, clothesline, one more clothesline, and it's into the corner for punches. One two three four five six seven eight nine - Goldust feels himself up like usual, but Trevor shoves him down unusually. Corner pin with feet on the ropes, one two three! (4:16) Trevor is pretty pleased with himself.

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Eugene (Louisville, KY, 242 pounds) vs Tony Drake (265 pounds, already in the ring) - Todd: "You can leave your IQ at the door! (and I mean it in a good way.)" Your ref is Chad. Tony Drake's strategy is two fold: attack Eugene as he's posing in the corner, and don't wear anything that Eugene can steal and walk around the right like a goof. Drake pulls of Eugene's jacket, politely hands it to Chad, and then chokes him while the ref is passing it off. Cerebral! He's got a five count, ref. Tony with measured stomps in the corner, at least until he's told to get out.  Eugene up, Eugene punched down. Whip, jumping clothesline? That was odd, one two no. Tony would appreciate both a faster count, and for the people in the front row to shut up. And then he loses me by using a nerve pinch. AT least he's trash talking thru it. Eugene trying to draw from the crowd, but the crowd takes a while to get coming. Eugene gets up and gets a forearm to the back. Oh no, turnbuckle smash. And again. Don't do it a third time - he did! YOU. Punch blocked, Eugene right left right left windup punch. Airplane spin and everyone's dizzy. Kick, Stunner one two three. (2:30) Eugene carries Chad around to celebrate.   

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Rob Conway & Victoria vs Viscera & Torrie Wilson - Despite Todd's claim, I don't Rob's quite as 98% Fat Free as he was a few months ago, but that's just me. (You may be able to say the same thing about Victoria, but I wouldn't think such a thing.) Viscera sure does like the blonds. Torrie does Vis' strut. Todd mentions that Vis is a former King of the Ring! I don't think Josh is going to do that this month. Torrie and Victoria have a pointing contest. Are they going to start? Sure, why not. Your ref is not letting me get a good look at him. Victoria and Torrie take turns tossing each other down by the hair. Torrie with a corner whip, breast shake (?), corner clothesline. Torrie raises the roof like it's 1999. Oh, Stinkface. Conway tags and rushes in so he can have one. Conway turns and yells to the crowd that he wants it, and meanwhile Vis and Torrie are making the switch. This works out bad for Conway. Victoria tries clothesline Vis, but uh no. Her slap is blocked, and Vis gets in a big sloppy kiss. Torrie in without a tag, split legged faceslam for Victoria and leaves, much to the ref (Chad, I later figure)'s annoyance. Victoria's left in a position and Vis teases doings something would probably be a felony in many states, but thankfully Conway's back to stop it before it gets going with lots of punches. Vis just blocks one and headbutts him down. Vis puts his head down too soon, Conway kicks him, Conway off the ropes again, and into a sidewalk slam. Conway tags out to Victoria, Vis takes out to Torrie. Victoria misses a clothesline, Torrie hits hers - hers aren't so good. Dropkick. Swinging neckbreaker, one two no. Conway was into break it up, and Vis chases him out of the ring. Chad escorts Vis out of the ring while Torrie has Victoria in a headlock. Victoria shots TOrrie out, Conway trips Torrie up, Victoria picks her up - Widow's Peak! One two three. (3:20) Victoria and Conway flee the ring before Vis can eat them. Conway is way too pumped, but then again, he never wins these matches. Conway: "WE SHOULD BE IN MAIN EVENTS!" Good luck on that one.  

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5 v 2. Personally, I was hoping Too Cool and Rikishi would help out, but I guess they're too busy being fired/on SmackDown. They cut out the part where JR says "DX chop", so if you could ignore the obvious a little longer, that'd be great. (2:18)

Lance Cade (Nashville, TN, 283 pounds) vs Snitsky (Nesquehoning, PA, 300 pounds) - flash back to Trevor beating Goldust. Yes, they are running the same bit they ran a month ago and never followed up, but last time it was Cade/Goldust and Snitsky/Trevor, so this is completely different. Your ref is Mike. Lockup, Cade with a headlock, back into a hammerlock, Snitsky with a reversal, Cade with a reversal, Snitsky with a reversal, Cade tries to get to the ropes but can't quite make it, so he back elbows free. Snitsky returns the back elbow with a harder one. Cade decides to take a break in the corner. Circle. Lockup, into the ropes, Choida has to force a break, and Cade gets in the cheap right. Turnbuckle smash, but Snitsky isn't powering up. Cade works him over in the corner, but Snitsky comes back with punches of his own. Whip, back elbow, and Lance is going to take a break outside this time. Lance is apparently knocking Todd into the wall every time he sees him backstage. These things happen. Snitsky comes out after him, and gets his shoulder posted. Cade throws him back in to wok over, though Snitsky keeps away from a moment with punches. Cade comes back with shoulders to the midsection, kicks, and a elbow to the back shoulder. Shoulder to the shoulder. Armbar takedown, one two no. Kneeling armbar. It's a bad thing I already took a nap, because Cade working over Snitsky's arm could've got me to sleep quick. Snitsky trying to get some crowd support to rally, but the crowd doesn't really care that much. They do get into a little bit when he escapes the armbar with right hands, but Cade stops that with a knee. More punches form Cade, but Snitsky blocks those and comes back with his own. Whip, reversed, Cade misses the clothesline, Snitsky lands his. Snitsky fires up and slams Cade. Another clothesline. Corner whip, Cade rebounds out into a backdrop. Snitsky tries to get the crowd going, and they do - but that's because Trevor Murdoch is out for some reason. Trevor decides the best strategy is to climb up to the corner and punch Snitsky in full view of the ref (DQ 4:41), allowing himself to be easily tossed into the ring. If that's your plan, you might as well stay in the back. Cade works in a clothesline to take down Snitsky, and then we've got a double team stompdown. Goldust back out to make the save, and clean house, but the the numbers go against him and he's beat down. He lasted long enough for Snitsky to recover, and he clotheslines Cade out. Goldust does the same to Trevor, and Goldust and Snitsky hold the ring. Todd is SURE this is leading to a tag match we'll actually see at that some point. Trevor puts his arm around Cade's shoulder and Lance yells "WE'RE BACK!", so I guess they're partners again, at least until this show is over.

Unfortunately, the show's over now. That's it.