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Professor Wrestling: The 'Judgment Day' Recap

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POSTED: 8:34 pm MDT May 19, 2005
UPDATED: 10:26 pm MDT May 26, 2005

Listen up!

Class is in session. Time to recap the big matches from "Judgment Day," the WWE pay-per-view which featured the "Smackdown!" crew Sunday night. Let's hit it!

U.S. Title Match: Heidenreich vs. Orlando Jordan
What Should Happen: Heidenreich, the poet-monster, is now a babyface. Still can't wrestle, but he has wowed the crowd with his Frankenstein act. Jordan, JBL's "Chief of Staff," took the title off John Cena before 'WrestleMania 21." This could be an entertaining feud, and it wouldn't be horrible if Heidenreich won. Wait a second. He can't wrestle. Forget I said that. Go Orlando!

What Will Happen: Orlando figures out a way to get the job done.

What Did Happen: Orlando wins, but Heidenreich won the popularity contest. He is one hot commodity right now.

Challenge Match: Big Show vs. Carlito Cool
What Should Happen: I was really hoping Big Show would turn heel and be Carlito's enforcer, but that job went to the stuttering Matt Morgan instead. That being the case, let's give Carlito the win. He seems to be going somewhere. The Show is still stuck in oblivion.

What Will Happen: Carlito prevails, with some help from his new mimbo, Morgan.

What Did Happen: Morgan interfered -- and in the slam of the night -- lifted up Show and threw him to the ground. Very impressive. Carlito wins.

Cruiserweight Title Match: Chavo Guerrero vs. Paul London
What Should Happen: With both performers being tremendous workers, this has the potential to steal the show. London, the current champ, deserves to hold the belt a little while longer before dropping it.

What Will Happen: There's no compelling storyline reason for Chavo to win. London keeps the strap.

What Did Happen: London and Chavo put on a nice match, with London winning cleanly. The crowd didn't seem to care.

WWE Tag Team Championship: Bob Holly and Charlie Haas vs. MNM
What Should Happen:MNM, a hot tag team that won the titles almost immediately upon entering WWE, face two mid-carders who have been drifting in obscurity for months. What should happen is that Vince McMahon should take this division more seriously and not make me pay for this match. MNM should win, unless they're actually going somewhere with this dynamic Holly/Haas pairing. I shake my head at this one.

What Will Happen: MNM will prevail, and keep the belts. Holly and Haas will again be forgotten as soon as they walk to the back. But you know what? I'd really like to be surprised.

What Will Happen: MNM keep the belts. Who did they wrestle again?

Challenge Match: Booker T vs. Kurt Angle
What Should Happen: Angle, in his super-sleazy promo a week ago on "Smackdown!," professed his desire to know Booker T's real-life wife in the biblical sense. It was an all-time low for TV wrestling. Angle did a good job with the material, but why write that junk for him? It was as bad as bad gets, and I'm glad no one in my house saw it. As for this match, you should probably have Booker's wife get a bit of revenge.

What Will Happen: Booker wins, as his wife interferes on his behalf.

What Did Happen: Booker wins cleanly. Afterwards, his wife slaps and kicks Angle -- who was handcuffed to the ropes by then.

Challenge Match: Eddie Guerrero vs. Rey Mysterio
What Should Happen: I'm hoping this one will go at least 30 to 40 minutes, as two of the best grapplers in the world put on a clinic. As for the outcome, it makes more sense to me to have Mysterio get the clean pin. That would drive Eddie crazier, since he also lost clean to Rey at WM21.

What Will Happen: This is a hot, money-making pairing. I see Rey winning, hopefully in a classic.

WhatDid Happen: Rey wins, but only by disqualification. Eddie smacked him with a chair -- and continued beating him with that chair afterwards.

WWE Championship Match: JBL vs. John Cena
What Should Happen: This is an "I Quit" match, in which the loser must utter those words. I'm not too crazy about Cena as champion right now. I'm not saying he does a bad job, it's just that I don't think he has what it takes to draw money in big matches. To me, Eddie vs. Rey is the highlight of this PPV, not this match. If I were booking this show, JBL would get his belt back. He's tremendous on the mic, and has done a fantastic job playing the chicken heel.

What Will Happen: Cena just released a rap CD. Ugh. That, class, means he'll win. Can't have a new product plugged by a loser. In this one, I quit.

What Did Happen: Cena and JBL both bleed heavily. JBL quits. Cena wins to keep his strap.

That's it ... another perfect prediction column from your grappling scholar. As I mentioned Friday, you just have to marvel at how accurate I am at these things. But, hey, I am the Professor.

Now get out of here. Class dismissed!

(Professor Wrestling is a masked employee of Internet Broadcasting Systems. Doubt him, and lose.)


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