This was Mickie's rematch for the title. It was a falls count anywhere match. Oddly enough the special guest announcer (first time I ever heard of one of those) was Ashley.
Due to the type of match this was, and the fact there was a commercial break, and the interference, I didn’t bother to mark down the fight score as I normally would. The match lasted about 7.20 minutes if you include the commercial break time.
The fight between Melina and Mickie began with Mickie doing a running baseball slide through the ropes into Melina while she was posing with the championship belt. Mickie got a few shots in and Melina ran to the back with Mickie in pursuit.
A typical back stage fight scene took place, which means lots of goofy stuff and slamming your opponent into things and through doorways etc.
They made their way to the women’s locker room, Melina still trying to put some distance between her and Mickie. In the dressing room Maria slapped Melina, then
Candice comes out in a towel and says "What the hell's going on?" and then yells for Melina to get out. Melina yanks Candice's towel off, and suddenly the lights go out, or the camera messes up (which ever way they tried to play it). When the lights came back on Candice was covering her boobs with her hands and wearing pink panties... instead of actually being nude.
The camera has some more technical difficulties and then a commercial break. After the commercial break we see the entrance way, the audience seems to be booing and is a bit upset that they are missing the action due to the technical difficulties. But then only a few seconds after commercial break they come rolling through the entrance way- the crowd cheers now that they can see some action again.
Melina and Mickie are on the floor grappling each other and rolling and rolling and rolling down the ramp. I thought they were actually going to roll alllll the way back to the ring.
They do make their way back to the ring. Melina is still trying to get away from the more fierce and dominating Mickie. In an effort to get away she tries to climb the ropes to climb away from Mickie... if that makes sense.
At any rate, Mickie gets Melina on the top rope, slams her head/face into the top of the steel post. Then attempts a Hurricanranna (the type that was called the Frankensteiner in N64's WWF No Mercy), but Melina holds on to the ropes so that Mickie falls on her face and stomach. Unfortunately, that is what was supposed to happen. What actually did happen was Mickie going for the Hurricanranna, attempting to jump up on Melina's shoulders, but Melina bowed her head down for some reason, and Mickie ended up jumping up onto Melina’s head with nothing to hold on to, and no where to go but falling backward at a helpless angle.
Mickie landed on her head in a very sick way. And when I say she landed on her head, I mean the very top of her head, with her neck bending to the side, the way a persons neck bends right before it breaks.
Melina hops down and rolls her up for a pin. Then she hops up off of Mickie, and she's holding her nose, and staggers a few steps, the ref raises her hand, and Melina is still holding her nose. I didn't see where Melina got her nose hit. So that didn't make sense, but whatever. The important thing is our goddess Mickie actually got hurt.
Ashley announces Melina as the winner. Melina marches over to Ashley and yanks the belt from her. Ashley and Melina get up in each others face and start yappin. Ashley shoves Melina down. And then gets in the ring and helps Mickie up, while Melina walks angrily up the entrance ramp.
When I first watched all of this I didn’t think Mickie was hurt. I thought it was a really sick spot that Mickie performed. And so when Ashley got into the ring and helped Mickie up and made sure she was alright, I swear I thought right then and there the other was going to do a heel turn and attack the other. I just didn’t know which one it was.
You gotta keep in mind that Ashley and Mickie were enemies with no reason to have made up. Mickie kidnapped Ashley, tied and gagged her in an effort to teach Trish Stratus a lesson.
So what we get is yet another story/character inconsistency,
In the world of wrestling, we are supposed to forget everything that happened three months ago.
An example is Linda McMahan kicking JR in the nuts and telling him he’s fired. I can’t wait for Linda to make yet another return, only to have JR pretend the incident never happened, and go on to sing her praise.
But all that’s really important is that Mickie is doing just fine, and escaped with nothing more than a sore neck that is all better today. Though the image still bothers me of just how close Mickie came to breaking her neck. I mean she landed right on the top of her head nearly completely vertical. Her body came crashing down on top of herself with her neck twisting to the side, causing her ear and shoulder to meet. A very close call to a serious career/life ending situation.
This only reconfirms my proclamation that Mickie isn’t just a girl; she is an indestructible goddess.
The reason we won’t be seeing her for a little while is that she has been scheduled for a little down time, a sweet little vacation. She may or may not be back by the time Wrestlemania rolls around.
There is still some speculation that the Ashley and Melina match at Wrestlemania could end up being a triple threat match between the three, or with Mickie as a special guest referee, which would provide the opportunity for a heal turn and all sorts of cool things. So there is still hope for Mickie to be a part of Wrestlemania.
