Winner and NEW IC champion: Santino Marella via pinfall . Wow. The plant is Anthony Carelli who wrestled in OVW as Boris Alexiev btw. He was the guy that Jim Cornette slapped about for not doing his job as a plant but has since been given a shooter gimmick until being called up today of course. I've seen clips of him wrestle and he looks like a talent. He's sure over like clover in Milano.
POST MATCH Jerry jumps in the ring to interview Lashley. He says he's keeping his title after Backlash and doesn't explain how he got past customs. He introduces the new IC champ. He thanks Bobby and shouts "Forza Italia" to a nice pop. I really enjoyed that segment. It's been a while since the WWE just pushed a new guy differently and out of the gate made him something special. Now he's a story without doing hardly anything.
BACKSTAGE Carlito & Ric Flair prepare for tonight's match. Carlito thinks he let Flair down last week. Flair says they need to win to get back in title contention.
RIC FLAIR/CARLITO w/Torrie Wilson v WORLDS GREATEST TAG TEAM
Carlito starts by hip tossing Shelton a few times. Shelton misses in the corner and gets dropkicked. Carlito cleans the ring out and gets a big reaction. Nice to hear a different crowd reacting differently. Flair tags in and "Wooo" is universal. CHOPS! Haas gets his knee clipped. He goes for the Figure Four but Shelton clotheslines him. Haas takes over and the heels cut the ring off. The fans singing is tremendous. WGTT keep Flair isolated and work him over. Flair sneaks out and gets a hot tag. Carlito wails away on Shelton with intensity. High knee for Shelton. Springboard back elbow. Shelton bumped that a little early. Haas jumps in there and the ref gets distracted by Flair so Haas can trip Carlito. Shelton hits the Exploder slam on Carlito and gets it done at 4.14.
Winners: Worlds Greatest Tag Team via pinfall .
POST MATCH Carlito is even more frustrated than last week and storms off leaving Torrie with Flair.
CLIPS – We see Michael Pena making the main event for Backlash.
BACKSTAGE Maria has John Cena for an interview. HUGE heat for him just walking into shot. She wants to know his thoughts on tonight's match. He says there's only one champ when SHAWN MICHAELS walks in to interject. He pointed out that before Wrestlemania he always had Cena's back. Now he doesn't care what happens to him. Especially not next week when they have their one on one match. He'll leave him on his back and there's nothing he can do about it.
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