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Superstars opens with World Heavyweight Champion Edge hosting his Judgment Day opponent Jeff Hardy on his interview segment “The Cutting Edge.” The two men bring up their long-standing history before the inevitable brawl erupts. Jeff gains the upper hand in the brawl, leaving Edge lying with a Twist of Fate and a Swanton Bomb.

In the RAW match of the night, “Santina” Marella & Kelly Kelly beat Rosa Mendes & Beth Phoenix.

In the ECW match of the night, Finlay beat the newly reinvented Zack Ryder with the Celtic Cross. Ryder’s new metrosexual gimmick looks as if it may have some legs, but I question jobbing him out in the first match under the new gimmick.

In the SmackDown match of the night, Chris Jericho beat John Morrison in a pretty good match thanks to interference from Shelton Benjamin.

In SmackDown’s match of the night, Michelle McCool & Alicia Fox beat Gail Kim & Maria when McCool pinned Kim.

In ECW’s match of the night, Evan Bourne pinned Paul Burchill with a Shooting Star Press in another fantastic match between these two men.

Backstage, Josh Matthews interviews Ted DiBiase and Cody Rhodes about DiBiase’s upcoming match with Carlito.

In SmackDown’s match of the night, Ted DiBiase pinned one half of the WWE Unified Tag Team Champions Carlito with Dream Street.

Superstars has already filled into a nice little niche of giving mid-carders valuable television time that they probably wouldn’t be able to get on one of the big shows like RAW or SmackDown.

Kane and The Big Show pinned CM Punk and WWE Intercontinental Champion Rey Mysterio when Kane pinned Punk with a chokeslam.

Finlay & Hornswoggle beat Tyson Kidd & Natalya Neidhart when Hornswoggle pinned Kidd. After the match Finlay said goodbye officially to Hornswoggle, who got transferred to RAW and sang him a version of “Irish Eyes are Smiling.”

Backstage, Todd Grisham interviewed John Cena about his Last Man Standing match against Edge at Backlash. Cena cut a great promo highlighting his and Edge’s storied rivalry and anticipated this would be their last match…for the time being anyways.

Edge pinned Kofi Kingston in the main event.

This was the debut of Superstars on WGN America, WWE’s fourth show full of original programming. The premise of the show is that each brand will present a match each week with their respective commentary team calling the match.

In the opening match, The Undertaker beat Matt Hardy by count out. After the match Jeff Hardy ran out to throw his brother Matt back into the ring, where he received a chokeslam from Undertaker.

Christian beat Finlay to become the number contender for the ECW Championship.

Cody Rhodes beat Shane McMahon by disqualification when McMahon hit Rhodes with a chair.