1) Money in the Bank Ladder Match: The people involved are Jeff Hardy, King Booker, Finlay, CM Punk, Mr. Kennedy, Matt Hardy, Randy Orton and Edge. The match itself is a great one that gets the show off to a great start. Some of the big spots are with the main culprits (Edge, Matt and Jeff) and they are great. One of the best ones is when Jeff does a leg drop off of the top of the 20 ft ladder onto Edge, who is laying on top of a ladder. They are really talking up Mr. Kennedy as winning 7 matches against former heavyweight champions in the past 12 months. Randy is able to hit RKOs on everyone and Edge also goes and hits spears on everyone too. The match ends when everyone else is taken out of commission and Mr. Kennedy is left. He wins and cuts a promo after the match. The match was not as good as the one in 22 because they relied way too much on the signature moves of the people in the ring and not on their ability to be creative. The coolest thing about this match is that all of the commentators were talking and doing a great job of letting everyone say their share.

2) The Great Khali vs Kane: This was a total sleeper of a match that sucked the life out of the arena. Khali got the win but he is so bad it doesn’t matter.

3) MVP vs Chris Benoit (c) for the US Championship: This is really sad watching it now because Benoit was very close to the point where he killed his family and himself. The match itself was really good though and brought the crowd back into the event. There were a lot of counters as MVP knew what Benoit was trying to do. MVP hit a beautiful superplex and started to get the crowd back to his side. MVP pulled his move where he yells out Ballin’ and the crowd joined in with him. Benoit pulled out the win after the Diving Headbutt.

4)Undertaker vs Batista (c) for World Heavyweight Championship: The crowd is ready for this match. The match is worked really well and they work really well together. Batista is played up as a huge monster and they make it seem like he has an excellent chance to beat Taker. One of the best parts was when Taker does his Suicide Dive. He as always did it really well but Batista made it look terrific by doing a great job of catching Taker but making it look devastating. I’m not a huge fan of Dave’s, but he does a great job in this match. The match ends with Taker hitting the Tombstone. This is the best match of the night so far. JBL was on commentary and we got our first HEY MAGGLE’s of our lives tonight.

5) ECW Originals vs New Breed: This was a match I didn’t care about so I barely watched it. The main thing is that during the heel beatdown of the face it was Tommy Dreamer who was taking the brunt of the attacks. The other big thing is that Matt Striker was a great seller of moves, which he did well throughout the match. The Originals won after RVD hit a frog splash for the win.

6) Battle of the Billionaires- Lashley vs Umaga: This was a pretty good match. Stone Cold was the special ref and was the most over person. Lashley starts off as the hot person and destroys Umaga’s manager who tried to save him. Lashley did a suicide dive but failed so Umaga took over. There were a lot of interferences in the match but the best was when Shane came out. Austin was knocked down by Umaga and Shane came to the aid of his family. Shane went coast to coast on Lashley and it still looked really well done. Shane then took his shirt off and had a ref shirt on underneath. JR called it COLLUSION. Trump did a terrble clothesline on Vince and the fight ended with Austin hitting a Stunner on Umaga and then Vince, who tried to sneak away. Vince got caught by Lashley and had his head shaved.

7) Ashley Massaro vs Melina (c) for the Women’s Championship: This was a very sloppy match. The whole storyline was that Melina was upset that people were giving attention to Ashley because she was in Playboy but she was Champion. Melina won with a rollup and then a catfight broke out at the end. The catfight was when the people were most into the match.

8) HBK vs John Cena (c) for WWE Championship: The crowd was very hot and into the match. Shawn and Cena were excellent and killed it the entire time. Shawn was in control from the start but Cena eventually took over. Shawn and John both got busted up at different points of the match. Shawn hit a sitdown piledriver on the steps and it looked really great. Cena put on a great match while Shawn was his usual great self. Shawn and Cena both kicked out of each others finishers but Cena won after locking in the STFU for a second time.

This was a very good show which did a better job than 22. There were 3 matches on the card that seemed to kill the crowd but fortunately the match after each of those crowd killers was excellent and brought them back in. The show itself was paced really well and had an energy that ran throughout the show. This is the first of the shows that I would say watch the entire thing and just skip some of the matches that aren’t that great if you want to. Overall, this was a

4.5/5 Run GFBs