WWE Smackdown/ECW house show
June 12, 2008
Vector Arena, Auckland, New Zealand
Report by Neeraj Kashyap, PWTorch reader

Shane McMahon came out to tell us that the McMahon family and Vickie Guerrero have come to a special agreement on letting the Undertaker wrestle tonight. This will be his farewell tour.

(1) U.S. champion Matt Hardy beat Chuck Palumbo with the twist of fate.

MVP came out and introduced "future hall of famers", New Zealand's own Butch Miller (one-half of the Bushwhackers) and Tony Garcia. MVP was beaten up after he made fun of the local and the national rugby teams. Butch and Tony did the Bushwhackers hand dance routine and left.

(2) Michelle McCool beat Victoria. Nothing to write about here.

(3) WWE tag team champions John Morrison & The Miz beat Finlay & Hornswoggle. Fun match with a lot of focus on comedy. Some good in-ring action.

(4) C.M. Punk beat Chavo Guerrero with the Go to Sleep. Routine match we've been seeing all this time on ECW and the pay-per-views.

[Intermission]

(5) Kofi Kingston beat Shelton Benjamin. Started off slow, but built up as they went along. They gave this one a good amount of time.

(6) The Undertaker & Kane beat Mark Henry & Great Khali. Taker and Kane won after double chokeslamming both Henry and Khali. Huge crowd involvement in this due to Taker. Taker and Kane raised their hands together just before leaving.

(7) Vladimir Koslov beat Shannon Moore. Shortest match of the night. Crowd was not into this.

(8) World Hvt. champion Edge beat Batista with the help of La Familia. Good main event with Edge playing an excellent heel here. After the match, they had a beat down on Batista, but Taker came back from inside to make the save to huge pop, as it would be expected.

Biggest pops:
1. The Undertaker
2. Batista
3. Kane
4. Matt Hardy

Biggest heel heat:
1. Edge
2. Chuck Palumbo
3. Chavo Guerrero

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