Backstage ... that is.
"Hulk Hogan arrived with Brian Nobbs and B. Brian Blair at SmackDown! last night.
There is a ton of talk backstage that Hogan will be involved in WrestleMania 21 and this could just be the very beginning of negotiations.
The Torch reports there is talk of Hogan and Rock teaming together, or Hogan being honored with induction into the WWE Hall of Fame. "
Report by Richard Trionfo
Dark Match:
*The Shane Twins defeated Shannon Moore and Steve Madison
Velocity
*Scotty Too Hotty pinned ?
*Bob Holly defeated Spike Dudley
*Akio pinned Paul London
*Charlie Haas defeated Rene Dupree
Smackdown:
*The Basham Brothers won a Fatal Four Way match, defeating WWE Tag Team champions Rob Van Dam & Rey Misterio, Eddie Guerrero & Booker T, and Mark Jindrak & Luther Reigns as Rey was pinned by Danny. Van Dam didn't do anything in the match but was attacked and "injured" after the match. Van Dam was stretchered out. The Bashams are the new Tag Team champions.
*Backstage, The Big Show made Kurt Angle apologize to Joy Giovanni for last week.
*They aired a recap of the Four Way and Van Dam's injury.
*Backstage, JBL's crew walked into Big Show and Joy Giovanni. Amy Weber didn't want to apologize to Giovanni, setting up a match between the two women later tonight.
*In the Kurt Angle Classic, Kurt Angle forced Roderick Strong to tap out.
*WWE United States champion John Cena pinned Kenzo Suzuki.
*Amy Weber beat Joy Giovanni via forfeit when she didnt come out. There is a storyline of what happened to Giovanni with everyone in Teddy Long's office as she is "missing."
*WWE Cruiserweight champion Funaki defeated Nunzio
*Carlito Caribbean Cool and JBL both said they didn't know what happened to Joy when questioned by Teddy Long. Miss Jackie and Torrie Wilson said they saw Orlando Jordan following her.
*They did a "ceremony" where JBL, with his cabinet, was presented with "Man of the Year" from the Florida Agridculture Group (F.A.G, get it?). Kurt Angle confronts JBL and it turns out Joy is in the trunk of the limo, unconscious. She is taken off and given oxygen. Big Show hits the ring and chokeslams Orlando and everyone else.
*Kurt Angle, Mark Jindrak, and Luther Reigns talk backstage reveal they set everyone up and did it to Joy. Show stalks them as the show ends.
*In a dark match, The Undertaker defeated Orlando Jordan and WWE champion John Bradshaw Layfield in a casket match.
"Hulk Hogan arrived with Brian Nobbs and B. Brian Blair at SmackDown! last night.
There is a ton of talk backstage that Hogan will be involved in WrestleMania 21 and this could just be the very beginning of negotiations.
The Torch reports there is talk of Hogan and Rock teaming together, or Hogan being honored with induction into the WWE Hall of Fame. "
Report by Richard Trionfo
Dark Match:
*The Shane Twins defeated Shannon Moore and Steve Madison
Velocity
*Scotty Too Hotty pinned ?
*Bob Holly defeated Spike Dudley
*Akio pinned Paul London
*Charlie Haas defeated Rene Dupree
Smackdown:
*The Basham Brothers won a Fatal Four Way match, defeating WWE Tag Team champions Rob Van Dam & Rey Misterio, Eddie Guerrero & Booker T, and Mark Jindrak & Luther Reigns as Rey was pinned by Danny. Van Dam didn't do anything in the match but was attacked and "injured" after the match. Van Dam was stretchered out. The Bashams are the new Tag Team champions.
*Backstage, The Big Show made Kurt Angle apologize to Joy Giovanni for last week.
*They aired a recap of the Four Way and Van Dam's injury.
*Backstage, JBL's crew walked into Big Show and Joy Giovanni. Amy Weber didn't want to apologize to Giovanni, setting up a match between the two women later tonight.
*In the Kurt Angle Classic, Kurt Angle forced Roderick Strong to tap out.
*WWE United States champion John Cena pinned Kenzo Suzuki.
*Amy Weber beat Joy Giovanni via forfeit when she didnt come out. There is a storyline of what happened to Giovanni with everyone in Teddy Long's office as she is "missing."
*WWE Cruiserweight champion Funaki defeated Nunzio
*Carlito Caribbean Cool and JBL both said they didn't know what happened to Joy when questioned by Teddy Long. Miss Jackie and Torrie Wilson said they saw Orlando Jordan following her.
*They did a "ceremony" where JBL, with his cabinet, was presented with "Man of the Year" from the Florida Agridculture Group (F.A.G, get it?). Kurt Angle confronts JBL and it turns out Joy is in the trunk of the limo, unconscious. She is taken off and given oxygen. Big Show hits the ring and chokeslams Orlando and everyone else.
*Kurt Angle, Mark Jindrak, and Luther Reigns talk backstage reveal they set everyone up and did it to Joy. Show stalks them as the show ends.
*In a dark match, The Undertaker defeated Orlando Jordan and WWE champion John Bradshaw Layfield in a casket match.
