WWE Sunday Night Heat: 5/2/05

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WWE Sunday Night Heat Report 6/2/05

Hey, welcome to my OTHER show. I do Bottomline Saturdays, and now Heat on Sundays!

WWE! We’re number1!

Look, the animal of evolution won the royal rumble! Heat shows a few stills of Dave Batista looking sweaty and cocky, and now we’re ready for the opening of HEAT!!!

Welcome to this special edition of heat! Todd Grisham and the Coach! There’s a match going on in the backround! Who cares? We’re talking about batista here people. Coach tells us that Batista shook by 29 other guys and will get his shot at a Champion at Wrestlemania April 3rd, and it’s sold out! It’s the fastest sellout at the Staples center in WWE history!

We get that same video sequence they showed on Raw of people getting a bunch of Wrestlemania tickets and how great it’ll be. It is a nice looking building and it looks a bit warmer than the Skydome. That ended sort of abruptly.

Drowning Pool’s Step Up was the WWE theme song for Wrestlemania 20 and we get a kick ass video sequence of Wrestlemania 20. It all began again, you see. You know, I’m not sure they’ve done this before, since they usually like to revise history in at least four parts of any particular Wrestlemania. Look, Randy’s part of Evolution there! Trish is with Christian! Ultimo Dragon, Goldberg and Brock Lesner! It used to be that revisionist history would have made it that none of those things ever existed. Either WWE is getting mature about their history or just being particularly lazy about it.

Later on, we’re going to take a look at Bret/Michaels from Wrestlemania 12! And also, Big Show’s handprint.

Tomorrow night, Edge will challenge HHH for the World Heavyweight Championship in Tokyo, Japan.

Commercials.

We’re back, and there’s still ignorable wrestling going on in the back round of Coach and Todd Grishom talking about the Eugene commercial. I looks like the Hurricane and Maven back there, but I can’t tell. Instead of watching it, lets cut to a video of the Wrestlemania 21 tour, which is really the WWE Fan Access thing on the road. Great concept, I think. They run through the list of dates, but it goes much quicker than the dates where the wrestlers go to wrestle, so I couldn’t get them down.

Wrestlemania recall: It’s the Russian national anthem fiasco from Wrestlemania V. Revisionist history has renamed this one the ‘skit’ wrestlemania, since there has never been any wrestling recalled from this one.

Commercials.

Welcome back. Tonight is brought to you by Juicy Drop Pop…no, no I don’t want to know exactly WHAT that product is.

And now we get a video of the WWE Hall of fame induction ceremony, slightly altered and lengthened from the WM20 version…..okay, much, much longer. I’m beginning to feel like they’re showing me the DVD here. Seriously, they give it longer than they give most Raw matches. Not that this isn’t much more deserving of time than you’re average Raw match, but I was under the impression that original wrestling happened on this show. There was more of that on Bottomline yesterday.

Okay, finally we’re back to original material, and Todd Grishom gives us a clip of new inductees: Mr. Wonderful Paul Orndorff, The Iron Sheik, Nikolai Volkoff, ‘Cowboy’ Bob Orton, and Jimmy Hart. The ceremony takes place at the Universal Amphitheatre the night before Wrestlemania.

Clearasil highlight of the week is Shawn Michaels entering the arena at Wrestlemania 12. You know, the one that took place last week.

Coach and Todd Grishom gab about the ironman match, the match that WWE superstars voted last year as the greatest in the 20 year history. So naturally we get a long and nostalgically rendered clip of the match, making it look much better than it was, and it was pretty damn good to begin with. I bought the Shawn Michaels DVD just so I could watch it clear whenever I felt I needed a good match. Fun Fact: This is the same video segment of the match as the one on the Wrestlemania DVD that came with the coffee table book that came out 5 years ago, back before they knew how to properly put together a DVD.

Later, highlights from last Mondays Raw!
Commercials.
Seriously, those juicy drop pops are way, way too weird.

56 days until Wrestlemania! And that cuts to Bischoff’s announcement of Japan’s show tomorrow night. They are, if you don’t know, Jericho vs Benoit in a Submission match, William Regel & Tajiri vs La Resistance for the tag championships, and HHH vs Edge for the World Heavyweight championship.

Coach loves the Japanese honeys, and with a face like his, he doesn’t have to say a word. Yeah, that was the extent of that segment.

Up next, JBL challenges Batista for Wrestlemania.
Commercials.
BraveHHHeart commercial. That’s damn good stuff.

Oh my God, Coach finally mentions the people that have been wrestling in the ring all freaking night! He also forgives Batista for spinebustering him during the rumble. It’s HHH, Ric Flair, Randy Orton and someone else wrestling down there too, and they’re ignoring that? Weird.

Video package of what happened last Monday night of HHH congratulating Batista, and JBL interrupting and giving out an open challenge, and then the following mystery behind who played the tape. Naturally, HHH goes to talk to the guy who drove the hummer. It would be great if he asked the guy who lifted the breifcase; and if Teddy Long did it, then man, that would be ridiculously awesome continuity.

Todd Grishom says that ‘this is Todd Grishom, and this is the Coach, who beat 23 other superstars at the Royal Rumble, signing off!’

K Sawyer Paul is the author of This is Sports Entertainment: The Secret Diary of Vince McMahon, co-editor of Fair to Flair, and curator at Aggressive Art.