Well. After Mania, things with Taker and Shawn hadn't cooled off yet, leading to a backlash rematch, it which HHH got involved, proclaiming to save his bff and restarting DX. Over in the impact zone at this time, Angle and Jarrett formed a tag team in order to take down the MEM for good, whilst Foley fought over the championship with Sting.
Cena was in the news over the fall, with his feud against CM Punk drawing big numbers, before they jumped the shark and pencilled in Edge vs Cena for Night Of Champions. One botched Scissors kick and Edge was out for 9 months, whilst Punk moved onto bigger fish, namely, Taker, who had reunited with Kane to form the BoD, with a quick tag team reign that was cut short, snip snip, by Cryme Tyme.
The summer opened and closed with the same picture, that being Homicide standing tall over the prone body of an X division champion, as his inital reign at lockdown, followed by his loss to Suicide at Hard Justice was all a part of Matt Morgans plan to intorduce a new "brood" type stable, where all the members were goliaths and giants. Morgan was hot to trot, capturing the TNA title numerous times off of numerous opponents, the most remarkable being Steiner in August, holding onto it until Against All Odds.
Back on Raw, guest hosts had been flooding in, the most interesting of which included Alex Trebek, who cited a 20 man over the top battle royal after Kofi was forced to resign as champion after The Miz had some unknown assailants take out his leg. Cena continued a losing streak against a newly drafted Christian, sent to avenge his brother, with the feud culminating in a large scale war, with both sides recieving attrition in the form of losses at Pay Per Views. However, as Autumn dawned, no one saw what impact the Cody Rhodes-Goldust tryst would bring to Smackdown. Least of which the World Heavyweight Champion, Batista.