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If you don't give Big Show / Angle 5/5 I'll kill you. I also seem to remember not liking Jericho/Benoit as I think he just drops the title like 48 hours later so it's all a bit  TV around this time was great. Rock was a great title chaser. Especially as all you had to do was have Rock go "I'm going to win the title, I guaren-drat-te it. If ya smeeeeell etc etc etc" (Which he did two times a week for four weeks) and then have a guest enforcer who was super over which told the fans they were going to see a title change. As a result, he fans knew they were going to see Hunter beat, they WANTED to see Hunter beat, and they WANTED to see Stone Cold come out. So they all went "My money, take it!". Back in the day they didn't care that you knew what the result would be, they just made you want to see it. edit: Also, I think it's still a record for a non Invasion/Big 4 PPV. edit: and have we had Jericho's burial and the end of his run as a possible super-star? That's around this time anyway. I guess that's what you get for being "too short". 
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THE 2000 STEVE BLACKMAN UNSUNG HERO AWARDS: FIRST QUARTER Through various stages of my live I've believed myself to have various favourite wrestlers. When I first started watching wrestling it was Triple H. All the other kids at school cheered for The Rock and I just HAD to be different. Eventually when I stopped being so facetious I warmed to Austin (because he's badass) and Kane (because his mask was cool as hell). Eventually Austin left and Kane's mask became a sissy, chinless version, so I had to find new heroes. Jericho and RVD appealed to me in the brand extension days, before I tricked myself into thinking workers such as Edge and CM Punk were my favourites in the latter part of the decade. I say "tricked" because all along, deep down in my psyche, I've known that there has always only been one. That man is "The Lethal Weapon" Steve Blackman, a tour de force of charisma, workrate, and storytelling the likes of which the business has never seen since. The fact that he never held a major championship is criminal, which is why I'm dedicating this thread's quarterly unsung hero awards to him. These awards will be given out after every three shows (roughly) to the wrestlers I believe have gone unnoticed in their efforts. So without further ado let's take a look at the... quote:Royal Rumble 2000 Unsung Hero Nominees quote:No Way Out 2000 Unsung Hero Nominees quote:WrestleMania 2000 Unsung Hero Nominees Just a short break before I continue with Backlash. I'll be doing these after every few shows to highlight some stuff I found particularly hilarious, impressive, or weird.
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Backlash - April 30th 2000 PART 2 The Hardy Boyz are backstage talking about their upcoming match. If it comes down to them squaring off against one another, Matt says he isn't going to hold anything back. Jeff pretty much returns the sentiments, but his acting is far worse. Far, far worse. Elsewhere, Crash (hey, he's the Hardcore Champ again!) proposes an alliance with cousin Bob before going 1-on-1 once all the challengers are dealt with. Hardcore smacks him around the head and stalks off. Crash looks sad. JR and King hype the upcoming return of Stone Cold (who is in The Rock's corner in the main event, remember). 4. WWF Hardcore Championship: Crash Holly (c) vs Tazz vs Matt Hardy vs Jeff Hardy vs Hardcore Holly vs Perry Saturn I'm not sure why Blackman isn't in this match, but Saturn's presence cheers me up. Judging by the pops received upon entrance, the Hardys are clearly the most over by a mile. They're obviously above the Hardcore division. Saturn is the last to enter and immediately jumps Crash - who was backing down the ramp for some reason - and everything immediately breaks down. Everybody takes turns hitting a move on the champ and breaking up each other's pinfall attempts, the best being Tazz's bridging suplex. Crash steals Funaki's tactic from WrestleMania and simply runs up the ramp. Jeff overtakes him and stands in his way, but a simple right hand takes care of that. Crash reaches the top of the ramp...and begins to climb the Backlash set!? Uh oh! He displays some impressive climbing skills and Matt is up after him. The Hardy manages to knock the champ down, but he only falls a disappointingly short distance onto the four other men waiting below. My bloodlust is far from satisfied. THAT'S BETTER! Matt flies from the structure onto everybody else. Everybody makes their way back to their feet, and Perry slams Crash clean through a piece of the set! It dawns on me now (well, JR tells me) that the title can only change hands if Crash is pinned. Ohhhh! That explains why everybody is largely focusing upon him. Jeff swings on a piece of the set like a monkey, vaulting off and dragging Saturn into a hurricanrana. Meanwhile, Matt has proved himself the more intelligent brother by deciding not to gently caress around at the top of the stage any longer, instead grabbing the champ and dragging him to the ring. Jeff joins his brother and they hit a double guillotine legdrop on the champ, but Tazz prevents them from pressing the advantage with a couple of trashcan lid shots. Some awful camerawork prevents me from seeing exactly what happens next, but the gist of it is that all the other competitors have returned to the ring and are beating one another around with various weapons. Hardcore Holly clocks his cousin with a 2x4, while Tazz avoids a Jeff Hardy chairshot by simply clotheslining him onto his rear end. Perry Saturn further cements his place in my heart by attempting a submission manoeuvre in a Hardcore match, in a ring full of other superstars who could easily break it up. It's some kind of terrible standing surfboard / abdominal stretch and it just disrupts the entire flow of the match. Good work, Perry. Tazz breaks it up and everybody continues to brawl in the ring some more, except Jeff Hardy who seems to have disappeared. I fully expect a Swanton from the ceiling of the arena any second now. Everybody continues to beat down on Crash as he tries to catch a breather on the outside (really this match is just an extended gang-beating of the champ), and there's Jeff. I'm not sure why he disappeared for a short while, but he's back to join in with this lynching of Crash. SATURN'S ON THE APRON! FLY, PERRY, FLY! Jumping right hand to the champion. Awe-inspiring. Back in the ring Crash manages to get an offensive move in of his own, dropkicking Tazz and covering him for one. Tazz kicking out early seems to be a recurring theme. If I was another worker I'd be pissed off; he seems to love putting himself over more than necessary. Hardcore Holly does that move where he stands on the other dude's back as he's draped over the middle rope, but Saturn comes in from behind and breaks it up with a big German suplex! That was nice. Unfortunately this match is dragging on way too long for me to be properly enthused. Matt enters the ring with a pair of baking trays and tosses one to Jeff. They clear the ring, but Tazz comes back with an extension wire and begins to choke out the older Hardy brother. Jeff and Saturn take turns launching themselves onto the champ, but STILL he kicks out of everything. BRAINBUSTAHHHH on Crash from Saturn, but Tazz breaks up the pinfall. The big moves are coming out now, as Bob drills his cousin with some kind of huge slam onto a chair, but this time Matt breaks it up. Suddenly the crowd goes apeshit, because Jeff has just introduced a ladder to the ring. That TLC match at 'Mania really got ladders over, didn't it? Twist of Fate to the champ, and the crowd are molten for the brothers as Jeff flies from the ladder with a Swanton Bomb. They can't decide on who makes the pinfall, however, and Tazz comes back to end the party with a double clothesline. Tazz clamps on the Tazzmission on Crash and it all looks to be over, but Saturn takes exception to this (he's the only one allowed to use submissions in this match, dammit!) and smashes the former ECW champ with a HUGE stop sign. He covers the champ...1...2...AGHHH NOOO! Hardcore Holly breaks my heart by dragging Saturn out of the ring, and the Hardys fly from the top onto the outside, creating a pile of bodies on the floor. The only men left in the ring are Crash and Tazz, and the champ wearily drapes an arm across his opponent to retain. Winner and STILL WWF Hardcore Champion: Crash Holly 0.5/5 - Half a point for the good work put in by the Hardy Boyz, but the rest was unsurprisingly garbage. Now we get a video package detailing the feud between T&A and the Dudley Boyz, most notably between Bubba and the heels' manager Trish. First we see a compilation of all the women Bubba has driven through tables, followed by his sinister choosing of Stratus as his next victim. Rather than being terrified, however, Trish acts in an enticing manner towards the Dudley, confusing him. Bubba twice has the opportunity to put her through a table, but is left stupefied when she kisses him. Only in the WWF would a man desiring to slam a woman through a table be regarded as the unquestionable babyface. Backstage, D-Von gives Bubba a frustrated pep talk. His partner doesn't look focused at all. The commentators wonder weather he is smitten with Trish. 5. The Dudley Boyz vs T&A T&A help Stratus into the ring but the Dudleys immediately jump their opponents, forcing Trish to slide to safety. Bubba follows her straight out and begins a chase around the ring, but Test cuts him off with a HUGE clothesline! JR muses why Stone Cold has not yet arrived as Bubba and Albert go through a slow exchange in the ring, and he sounds just like a pining lover. Bubba drops Albert with a clothesline before shouting "I'm gonna get you, you little bitch!" at Stratus. It gets a pop, of course. King explains that he talked to D-Von earlier and that the Dudley is worried about his partner being on the same page as him. JR questions whether they're even in the same book. King brilliantly comes back with "Don't talk to Bubba about books. He'll put you through the table of contents!". The Dudleys hit the wassup headbutt on Albert, but D-Von is decapitated with a jumping big boot after trying to press the advantage further. Test is in now and hits a massive big boot of his own. T&A are coming across as legitimately scary. D-Von blocks a right from Albert on the apron, dropping the illegal man's head into the top rope, but Test surprises him as he turns with a big gutwrench powerbomb. Bubba is really selling D-Von as the face in peril here, frequently urging him to "KICK OUT!" or "FIGHT BACK, D-VON!". More tag teams should do this, I think. Test tags himself in and Albert gorilla presses his partner right onto D-Von. Impressive strength. Albert prevents a hot tag by distracting the ref, before tagging back in himself and catapulting D-Von's throat up into the middle rope. I love that spot. D-Von gets a near fall with a sunset flip from the middle turnbuckle, but Albert emphatically regains control with a huge sitout powerbomb. D-Von kicks out (is that not Albert's finisher!? Such heart from the Dudley) and the crowd chant for tables. Finally the hot tag is made to Bubba, and he decimates Test with a few elbows and slams, culminating in a Samoan drop for two. D-Von heaves Albert over the top rope and the Dudleys hit - the slightly less exciting back-suplex version of - the 3D on Test! He kicks out at two, however, and Albert is back in to spike Bubba with a big sitout powerbomb. Test misses with an elbow from the top, and D-Von gets Albert out of the ring AGAIN. He's like an incredibly persistent teenager trying to get into a nightclub. Bubba signals for the 3D (the full version this time) and they set Test up...but Trish hops up on the apron and distracts Bubba from completing his half of the move! D-Von pauses with Test aloft for a second, allowing the big man to reverse into a DDT. Bubba turns around...straight into a big boot! Trish counts gleefully along from the apron. 1...2...3! Winners: T&A 1/5 - Sloppy and slow, but got the point of the angle across. I'm expecting fireworks now though... Bubba immediately pops back up and drops the celebrating Test with a Bubba Cutter! He grabs Trish by the hair, but lets her go because D-Von is setting up Albert for the 3D! Albert goes down and Stratus' bodyguards are incapacitated. Bubba grabs her again and signals for D-Von to get the tables. He's picked up a gash on the forehead from somewhere, which just makes him look all the more psychotic. D-Von sets up the table but Trish kisses Bubba and he lets her go! She begins to strut triumphantly from the ring...but he snaps out of it and grabs her again! He heads for the top rope and, to the rather hypocritical delight of JR and King, smashes Stratus through the table. Yay, a happy ending! EMTs are placing a neck brace on the unmoving Trish while the crowd goes wild. JR and King joke about Lawler wanting to give her mouth-to-mouth. Am I the only one who finds this incredibly disturbing? Finally JR brings out the Owen Hart voice as Stratus does a stretcher job out of the arena. Jesus! The cameras follow Trish all the way to the back where Test and Albert silently accompany her into a waiting ambulance, while a gaggle of concerned refs watch anxiously on. This is like that scene in Austin Powers where the random henchman dies and it goes into ludicrous depth about the consequences on his family. We transition incredibly smoothly to Eddie Guerrero and Chyna sitting in a car in the same parking lot. It looks as though they've just been on an incredibly classy date; Eddie is in a full tux. The ref informs him that he's going to be late for his European Title match (huh, looks like he won the European Title) and will forfeit if he doesn't get to the ring right now. There's not even time to get dressed. Eddie shrugs and drives the car right into the arena as his theme music blares. Halfway down the ramp he stops and gets his title belt (plus a pair of elbow pads) out of the trunk. It looks like Eddie has picked up a healthy dose of overness since 'Mania, as the crowd are very happy to see him. We cut to a brief hype video about how Eddie won Chyna. Apparently she "couldn't resist his Latino heat" and turned on Jericho, allowing Eddie to win the title. We see Eddie and Chyna teaming with Esse Rios and Lita (so THAT'S what she was up to pre-Hardys), and Lita accidentally costing them the match. Chyna is livid and throws Lita to the Dudleys, who then slam her through a table. I like how all these midcard stories are slightly connected. 6. WWF European Championship: Eddie Guerrero (c) vs Essa Rios Eddie has managed to get partially changed. He's lost a shirt and gained some elbow pads, but still has his black bow-tie and lovely trousers on. Very dashing. Esse Rioa and Lita come out to absolute silence. Tough crowd. Eddie and Essa exchange a few lucha-style tilt-a-whirl moves and so on, while Lawler calls Eddie out for wearing white socks with a tuxedo. Rightly so, King. Good work. Eddie tries to insult the crowd who clearly favour him over Rios, before we miss some (probably impressive) lucha poo poo because the cameraman instead wanted a close-up of Chyna's expressionless face. Great. JR reminds us that Eddie is the European champion, prompting Lawler to say "they love him over in Liechtenstein!". Hahaaa! He's actually on top form tonight. Eddie slides out for a breather and Rios decides to vault out after him...but Guerrero steps out of the way and the challenger SMACKS onto the floor. Ouch. Eddie slams Essa into the ring steps (pitiful, barely moved them) before rolling him back inside and launching over the top rope into a senton. Essa gets sent to the outside again where he eats an uppercut from Chyna, wile JR and Lawler muse again over Austin's lateness. JR is confused. "I don't get it! He's always very punctual! I talked to Steve yesterday and he was very excited about tonight." Essa hits a dropkick and a second (of the missile variety) which earns him a two count. Eddie hits a snappy jawbreaker but Essa counters the subsequent powerbomb into a lovely armdrag. The pair race around the ring before Essa monkey-flips Guerrero quite a distance into the opposite pair of ropes! These two know how to wrestle. Eddie yanks Rios out of the ring where Chyna deals another blow. It should be noted that Lita has kept her distance from Chyna all match, perhaps still scared after the Ninth Wonder threw her to the Dudleys. It's weird to see Lita so passive, in hindsight. Eddie hits a crisp crossbody to the outside before setting up Essa Rios for a powerbomb, potentially into the announce table. This spurs Lita into action, and she climbs the top rope...only for Chyna to shove her off and send her face-first into the edge of the table! Rios is able to backdrop out, however, and climbs to the apron. He FLIES with a springboard moonsault onto Eddie, and the pair fall across the announce table almost into JR and King's laps. Not the most perfectly executed spot, but he got serious height on that, and Eddie did well to catch him. Back in the ring now, and Rios missile dropkicks Guerrero hard enough to send him out under the opposite bottom rope. There's no recovery time for the champ, as Esse hits a very impressive plancha over the turnbuckle! He even threw a front flip in there! Back in the ring once more, and now Rios heads to the top, only for Chyna to yank his foot away from the outside. Eddie scoots up and nails a perfect superplex. Eddie is shakily back to his feet (he's managed to keep that bow tie on all match. Impressive) and heads up top. He adjusts an elbow pad, which gives Rios just enough time to dash up after him and hit a big armdrag from the top rope! The challenger heads up for a moonsault and it is BEAUTIFUL, but Eddie gets the knees up! Guerrero peels Rios off the canvas and hits some kind of airplane-spin bomb (JR calls it as an airplane spin neckbreaker) and it convincingly gets the three! Winner and STILL WWF European Champion: Eddie Guerrero 3/5 - A fantastically fluid match, especially good considering the relatively small time slot they were given. Nothing botched, no pointless spots. It all came together to create a great contest. Eddie and Chyna embrace but Essa Rios is back up and dropkicks the champ in the back! He inadvertently falls into Chyna, allowing Lita to dash in and strip her of her red dress! Rios and Lita get the hell out of there before Chyna can get revenge, but Eddie doesn't really seem to mind this turn of events. Chyna is momentarily angry but decides to just go with it, and celebrates Eddie's win with him in her underwear. Ah, young love. JGKing fucked around with this message at 01:55 on Apr 10, 2014 |
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Essa Rios' moonsault brings a tear to my eye. It's just so CLEAN. Also, pointless fact: Essa Rios, as Aguila, wrestled at WM14 against TAKA when he was only 18 years old. It's a loving great match too, if you've never seen it you should look it up. It's a crazy spotfest but it works.
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If I recall, Taka actually broke his face from that Rumble spot. At least a concussion, if not a dislocation. He was out for a little while after that. [edit]\/\/\/I thought I remembered a fractured cheekbone, but that might have been something else because all I can find on it is a concussion. sticklefifer fucked around with this message at 06:05 on Sep 8, 2013 |
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sticklefifer posted:If I recall, Taka actually broke his face from that Rumble spot. At least a concussion, if not a dislocation. He was out for a little while after that. Yeah, I recall it being a REALLY serious (like, almost retired him) concussion.
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Backlash - April 30th 2000 PART 3 It dawns on me that the version of Backlash I'm watching (which promises itself to be the "FULL SHOW") is missing the eagerly anticipated Big Show vs Kurt Angle match alluded to by LordPants. A quick check of the card informs me that this match SHOULD have taken place after Crash Holly's Hardcore Title defence, but is entirely cut from the video I'm using. The show must go on, however, and I've hunted it out for all our pleasure. A hype video shows Big Show pulling off the mother of all face turns after WrestleMania, going a complete 180 from his monster heel gimmick and adopting a new, fun-loving persona. It seems to revolve around impersonating other wrestlers (we see him dressed as The Godfather, Rowdy Roddy Piper, and a rather too convincing Val Venis) and generally not taking anything seriously. Angle, meanwhile, is granted a tag title match by the McMahon-Helmsley regime, with Big Show as his hand-picked partner. Big Show spends the title match dancing around and "having fun", which Kurt grows impatient with. He slaps the giant, which leads to him receiving an almighty beatdown. I'm on Kurt's side here. If I had a tag title match and my partner was more interested in acting like a buffoon, I'd be pissed off. Go Kurt! 7.(actually match 5.)Kurt Angle vs Big Show Angle cuts a promo running down the hometown (Washington D.C.) and his opponent. He's just really good at being a heel. Suddenly "Real American" hits!? It's Show, in an - admittedly hilarious - Hulk Hogan outfit, complete with mannerisms down to a tee. I guess this is why the match is cut from the version I'm watching, huh. Can't have people googling what the Hulkster is up to these days. Show grabs a mic and launches into a Hogan impersonation, and my god it is REALLY GOOD. "Well ya know something Kurt Angle dude!" slayed me, and that's just the first line. He finishes and turns to put the mic down, and Angle jumps him, starting the match! He begins to pepper Show with rights, but that just causes him to Hulk up! Show does the big point and comes back with some huge rights of his own. An irish whip follows into the big boot, and there's only one move that can follow. Show hits the iconic Legdrop! 1...2...Angle kicks out! He battles back to his feet and takes Show down with a headfirst tackle. Kurt works the leg for a while, drawing "Hogan, Hogan, Hogan" chants from the crowd. Show fights back and he's pissed off now. He rips off the wig and tosses Angle into the corner, hitting a huuuuge chop to the chest. He hits a few big strikes followed by the Chokeslam, and it's over. Winner: Big Show 1/5 - Too short and comedic to actually mean anything as a wrestling match, but rating aside, this was hilarious. Show's Hogan impersonation was dead-on, and this is a (perhaps rare) example of the WWF doing comedy right. Coach is in the McMahon-Helmsley locker room and interviews Triple H ahead of his title defence. He's confident, as always. Vince is there too, and explains that his "sources" tell him that Austin may have ran into traffic difficulties on the way to the venue. It looks like The Rock's corner may be empty. The heels don't seem too disappointed at this news. 8. WWF Intercontinental Championship: Chris Benoit (c) vs Chris Jericho Jericho cuts one of his standard promos, throwing in an extra dash of name calling - Benoit is "Senator Roboto" - before the champion's entrance. The pair circle one another at the bell before locking up. They tussle with one another into the corner but neither is willing to break the hold, and eventually they spill out of the ring onto the floor. They both stand and exchange hard slaps before the referee ushers them back inside. I can feel the tension. The pair exchange takedowns before getting in each other's grill. This is a WRESTLING contest, ladies and gentlemen. Jericho stiffs the champ with an elbow, but Benoit is able to take him down. They go into a sequence of pinfall exchanges but neither gets more than a two count. Back to their feet again, and this time it's CHOPS. The crowd are eating it up, but Benoit prevents the exchange from going on too long with a rake to the eyes. He's the heel, you see? They brawl for a while before Benoit whips Jericho face-first into the corner, catching him on the rebound with two German suplexes. Jericho avoids the third by clinging onto the ropes, so the champ settles for simply lifting him out of the ring. Benoit tires of waiting for Y2J to recover and flies between the ropes...OH MAN! Jericho dives out of the way and Benoit falls HARD and headfirst into the floor! drat. That looked really nasty. Jericho is unsympathetic and looks to whip the champ into the ring steps. Benoit reverses, but Y2J skips over the top of them. He turns...and Benoit dropkicks the steps into his legs! Jericho goes head over heels, and that was a great little sequence. Back in the ring Benoit begins to dominate, but Jericho battles out of the corner with a few rights. He whips the champ into the ropes and goes for a dropkick, but Benoit hooks himself and the challenger hits nothing but air. I'm always a fan of that spot. For a second it looks as though Benoit is looking to steal the Walls of Jericho, but he instead slingshots the challenger into the turnbuckles. Jericho then gets suplexed and hung out to dry over the top rope, and the champ is firmly in control. Y2J gets caught in an abdominal stretch but slowly powers out, before the pair whip into opposite ropes and come back FAST at one another! Bam! Benoit catches a couple of fists in the mush and goes down, leading to the Lionsault. Benoit may have got the knees up though, as Jericho is certainly too hurt to make a cover. Weird, I didn't actually see him bring them up. A replay confirms that. Maybe he was meant to and forgot... Jericho finally crawls into a cover on the ref's count of nine, but only gets a near fall. Benoit is done loving around and drags Jericho to the corner for another round of incredibly stiff chops. Poor Y2J. Jericho fights back and whips him into the opposite corner, but eats a stiff boot to the face from his follow-up charge. Benoit staggers out of the corner...right into a beautiful spinning heel kick! The pair are both down, but Benoit is eager to go back to the chops when they return to their feet. Man those are stiff. Jericho agrees, and puts a stop to them with a bulldog. He lifts Benoit onto the apron and goes for his jumping-dropkick thing off the turnbuckle, but the champ slaps him down. Benoit how heads for the top rope but finds himself crotched as Jericho shoves him in desperation. The challenger goes for a back superplex, but Benoit counters in mid-air and lands right on the challenger. Both men are back up before long, and Jericho hooks Benoit for a big powerbomb...and lifts him again for a huge second! He goes for the pin...1...2...CROSSFACE! Benoit flips on top like a crab and slaps on his finisher! Jericho wants to tap, but manages to drag his body across the ring and drape a boot over the bottom rope. He goes for it straight away again, but Y2J keeps him at bay with elbows and rolls out to safety. Benoit is up...and Jericho trips him into the Walls! They're fairly close to the ropes however, and the champ reaches safety without too much trouble. Jericho's dishing out the chops now and goes for a running crossbody, but Benoit ducks and the ref eats the bump! The champ is straight out of the ring looking for his belt, and he utterly DECIMATES Jericho with it in the center of the ring! 1...2...PPV resiliency! Benoit hits a snap suplex and heads up top, looking for the diving headbutt. He flies...but Jericho moves and Benoit's head crashes into the title belt! The ref calls for the bell!? Lillian announces that Benoit is the winner by DQ. BULLSHIT! Winner and STILL WWF Intercontinental Champion: Chris Benoit 2/5 - Let me explain. This was a real slow-burner of a match, but once it picked up steam it looked to be heading for a great finish. Unfortunately that DQ ending utterly hamstrung the contest, which explains its low score. I took a whole point off for the ending (seriously, that's TV booking on a PPV) as well half a point for perhaps a touch of sloppiness from Benoit throughout. He didn't look quite as fluid as Jericho here and seemed less sharp than usual, botching the back superplex, the Lionsault reversal, and generally not being as crisp as I'd expect. I was about to forgive this because the ending sequence looked to be excellent, but the baffling ref's decision puts an underwhelming cap on a disappointing match - at least relative to the high standard we expect from these two. Sorry guys.  Jericho is as baffled as I am as Benoit escapes to the back with his belt, but his confusion soon turns to anger. He slaps the referee in the Walls of Jericho (it's Tim White, I believe), and more refs dash from the back to break it up. He holds the submission for a while but eventually gets bored and leaves. This feud certainly isn't over. JGKing fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Apr 10, 2014 |
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Yeah, and then he wins the belt on Raw or Smackdown or something. So stupid. And let's be fair, WWF were probably as well booked then as they've been since but they still hosed that up.
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JGKing posted:WRESTLEMANIA 2000 SCORE: 5/10 Injuries crippled this Wrestlemania. Two of their top 3 wrestlers were injured. It was definitely not the time book something so poorly. Instead of booking clusterfuck after clusterfuck, just sacrifice a few jobber and midcard paydays to put a couple of great workers together for a couple of long matches... If they say, scrapped the Hardcore battle royale, or the horrible tag match and put, I dunno, Guerrero vs Owen, or Taz vs Shamrock for the HC Title, it would of been a way better Wrestlemania. With a Triple Threat, a Four Way elimination, a TLC match and a Hardcore Battle Royal, it was just way too clustered. Too much spectacle, not enough content. God Of Paradise fucked around with this message at 09:10 on Sep 14, 2013 |
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Guerrero v Owen would of made the card way better, for sure. And I'm not sure that Taz and Shamrock would be much better than Eddie wrestling someone who'd been dead for six months either.
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God Of Paradise posted:If they say, scrapped the Hardcore battle royale, or the horrible tag match and put, I dunno, Guerrero vs Owen, or Taz vs Shamrock for the HC Title, it would of been a way better Wrestlemania. Wait, are we talking about the Owen that had been dead for almost a year by the time WM2000 happened? e:fb, by a long shot. But I will point out Ken Shamrock had been gone since Summerslam 1999. Castomira fucked around with this message at 09:28 on Sep 14, 2013 |
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Hey, yeah, you guys are right. Long time ago. Specifics are hazy. I was playing Wrestlemania 2000 on my old N64 just last night and didn't look up the actual rosters. So, switch up that idea for booking, and say Guerrero vs Malenko and Taz vs. Al Snow. The point is they seemed to focus on getting everybody on the card, and relied too heavily on clusterfucks, rather than booking a card of guys who could have good matches together. God Of Paradise fucked around with this message at 10:12 on Sep 14, 2013 |
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Backlash - April 30th 2000 PART 4 Main event time. Remember, Austin his been held up with "traffic problems" on the way to the arena. Gee, I wonder if he'll make it in time. A hype video replays the final moments of the WrestleMania main event, but the WWF production team actually make it look good. The Rock gains a measure of revenge on Vince the following Smackdown!, nailing him with a steel chair on the ramp. He then wins a handicap cage match against Big Boss Man and Bull Buchanan on Raw, granting him this upcoming title shot. Vince stacks the deck against Rocky, placing himself in Triple H's corner and Shane as the guest referee. Linda decides to even the odds by announcing that Austin will be in The Rock's corner come Backlash, a decision which doesn't go down well with the rest of the McMahon clan. Jesus, Linda is bad at acting. Vince, Shane and Stephanie are all good, but Linda is just appalling. The last Smackdown before Backlash involves the McMahons hunting around the backstage area for Austin, whom Rock promised was in the building. They stumble across various cardboard cutouts and traps; Austin is clearly taking a leaf out of the Undertaker's big book of mind games. It turns out that he's in the parking lot, in a crane. He drops a huge weight right onto Triple H's tour bus, or "DX Express". Austin's various vehicular exploits remind me of that Family Guy episode where Peter accidentally causes havoc with a helicopter and air balloon with his face emblazoned on them, and Joe screams at him "HOW CAN YOU AFFORD THESE THINGS!?". Austin claims that he won't be on either side come Backlash. He'll be on the side he's always been on: his own. Ominous. 9. WWF Championship: Triple H (c) vs The Rock (Special Guest Referee: Shane McMahon) Vince cuts a wonderful heel promo before The Rock makes his entrance, informing everybody that the small print of their programme reads "card subject to change". He regrets to inform us that Austin will not be present for the main event, and the subsequent heat from the crowd is nuclear. Rocky is out and is of course the most over man in the building. Not out of the building though, as the fans break into a "WE WANT AUSTIN!" chant. Rock and Triple H exchange right hands to start, with the challenger getting the better of the Game. He hits a nice back elbow, but Triple H gains momentum and goes for an early Pedigree! Rocky easily backdrops out though, and the crowd breathes a collective sigh of relief. The Rock begins a beatdown in the corner but Shane drags him off. Rocky looks pissed, and is just distracted enough for the Game to drop him with a neckbreaker. Rocky hits a back suplex and charges, but finds himself hoisted clean over the top rope to the floor. There is a wonderful tension in waiting for when exactly Austin will show up. Simple but effective booking from the WWF here. Triple H bounces Rock's head off the ring steps and announce table, and JR calls for a DQ. Um, Jim, that'll result in Triple H retaining. The Game slides back into the ring leaving Vince to get a cheap shot in on Rocky, ramming his head into a nearby ringpost. Triple H ducks several clothesline attempts and grounds Rock with that lovely high knee of his, but a vertical suplex only gets 2. The Game goes for several pinfalls but Rocky kicks out of all of them, and Shane isn't even hiding his frustration. Count quicker? Triple H locks Rock into a verrryyyyy long sleeper hold. Jesus Christ. There's methodical and then there's boring. The Rock finally struggles to his feet and fires off some rights, but the champ drops him immediately with a clothesline. Another near fall, and Vince audibly yells at Shane to count faster, dammit. Rock battles back again and they do the double clothesline spot. Both men are down but the challenger is the first to his feet, and Vince clocks him with the title belt from the apron! The fans sound their disapproval and this seems to spur Rock on, as he lays the smackdown on Triple H before tossing him to the floor. It's always great when a man of the Game's size flies over the top rope like that. Triple H sells the shoulder hard after landing, and continues to do so after The Rock slams him into the edge of the announce table. Back in the ring the champ hits a knee drop, but his shoulder still seems to be bothering him. Rocky hits his snappy DDT and makes a cover...and Shane just refuses to count. Doesn't even pretend to be distracted or anything, just straight up refuses to count. Rock is mad and backs Shane into the ropes. Remember when he beheaded you with a chair at No Way Out, Rock? Be careful. Oh...nevermind. Rock sends Shane tumbling over the top with a single right hand and he lands in between the announce tables. The Game blindsides Rocky, however, and sends him straight out after Shane with a clothesline to the back. Trips whips Rock HARD into the steps and strips the Spanish announce table of its covering. The pair get up onto the table and Triple H looks to slam Rock through...but Rocky low blows him! I'm not sure why Shane doesn't just call for the DQ there and then, but ah well. Wrestling logic. Triple H gets set up for the Rock Bottom, and Shane proves himself to be an IDIOT by getting up on the table to stop the move! Rock pulls him in as well and delivers a huge double Rock Bottom through the table! Back in the ring the challenger looks to finish the champ off, but Vince is in to cheap shot Rocky in the back of the head. The Rock no sells and begins to retaliate...but Triple H takes advantage of the distraction with a low blow. He scoops him up and hits the Pedigree, to Vince's relish. Shane is unable to make the pinfall however, which is understandable since he's still lying unconscious in the wreckage of the Spanish announce table. Vince gestures to the back, and Stunner Victims #1 and #2...um, I mean Patterson and Brisco jog slowly out in referee shirts. Patterson counts two but Rocky kicks out! The two gophers start laying boots into the challenger, and SURELY it's Austin time. No? Triple H joins in on the assault now and the crowd are despairing. Steph passes a chair into the ring and Vince uses it to lay out The Rock. It's nowhere near as good a chairshot as Shane's from No Way Out, but it leaves the Rock starfished out in the middle of the ring. Triple H drags him slowly into position for the Pedigree, but Rocky is dead weight. SMASHHHHHHH The crowd comes unstuck as (a rather chubby) Steve Austin stalks down the ramp. Man he's...not as explosive as usual. He has a chair in hand, which he cracks over Triple H's spine as he charges down the ramp to meet him. Patterson and Brisco eat chair as well, and it's that ridiculously fluid one-two shot I've seen in gif form a million times. So THIS is where that's from! Austin is in the ring now and drops Shane (who'd only just made it back into the ring after being slammed through the announce table, poor guy). Down goes Vince too, but Triple H is back with a chair of his own. It doesn't matter, as Stone Cold knocks it away and smashes the Game over the skull. JR is on the verge of orgasm as Austin leaves the ring and strides nonchalantly to the back as only he can. Linda is out now with Earl Hebner in tow, both looking on from ringside. Stephanie marches over to confront her...and Linda pushes her to the floor (VERY unconvincingly). The two actual competitors in this match (oh yeah, the match is still on) stagger slowly back to their feet. Triple H goes for a chairshot...but Rock hits the spinebuster! The People's Elbow connects and Linda orders Hebner into the ring! 1...2...NEW CHAMPION! Winner and NEW WWF Champion: The Rock 2.5/5 - A very run-of-the-mill match which peaked around the table spot, and then descended into an almighty clusterfuck. Even so, one can't help but enjoy this as a main event. Austin returned and kicks rear end, the crowd were electric, and Triple H's reign of terror finally came to an end. It seems a very significant moment. Rocky celebrates with his title for a few minutes before the glass shatters a second time, and the new champ doesn't look happy at the interruption. Austin drives down the ramp in his pickup, dragging the carcass of the DX Express behind him. Perhaps this signifies the destruction of the McMahon-Helmsley era, hmmmm? Stone Cold calls for a couple of beers and offers one to The Rock. Uh oh. Rocky proves he's never watched any footage of Austin before EVER, and takes it. UH OH. They both clash their beers against the WWF Title and Austin leaves the new champ to celebrate. Oh. How lovely of him.  Event summary to follow. JGKing fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Apr 10, 2014 |
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BACKLASH 2000 SUMMARY Match Of The Night Edge and Christian vs Degeneration X - The hottest of hot openers. The two tag teams delivered a sleeper hit here, pipping Guerrero/Rios, Malenko/Scotty, and even the main event to match of the night honours. This was crisp, dramatic, and even brutal (as X Pac's post-match bladejob will testify), and further solidified E&C as bonafide stars in the making. Wrestler Of The Night 1. Edge - The slightly more eye-catching of the tag champs, but really neither man put a foot wrong all night. 2. Christian - Even without the benefit of hindsight, it's clear that these two were always something special. 3. Eddie Guerrero - A performance equally impressive from both a technical and charismatic standpoint. 4. Scotty 2 Hotty - Blossomed in his rare chance at singles action here despite losing to Malenko. Who'da thunk it? 5. Esse Rios - He and Eddie delivered a little slice of perfection in their very limited time slot. Perhaps the closest top five so far; so many other men could have potentially made it in. X Pac and Road Dogg for their part in the MotN, Malenko for his technical contest with Scotty, and even Jericho for carrying an uncharacteristically average Benoit in their bout. The Rock misses out by the narrowest margin here, however, being the standout performer in that absolute clusterfuck of a main event. Wrestler Of The Year Standings 1. Triple H - 10 2. Mick Foley - 9 3. Jeff Hardy - 8 4. Kurt Angle - 6 Christian - 6 5. Edge - 5 6. Bubba Ray Dudley - 4 7.Eddie Guerrero - 3 8. The Rock - 2 Matt Hardy - 2 Scotty 2 Hotty - 2 9. Rikishi - 1 Kane - 1 Esse Rios - 1 BACKLASH 2000 SCORE: 7/10 A pretty good show here, especially in the aftermath of the disappointment that was WrestleMania 2000. This card seemed underwhelming, but was dragged to a respectable score by several of its undercard matches (the Tag, European, and Light Heavyweight title matches all delivered in spades). The awful booking of the Benoit/Jericho match and a couple of near-duds in T&A vs the Dudleys and the Hardcore match threatened to drop Backlash to a 6, but the uppercard was redeemed by a couple of matches which - although perhaps not best from a pure wrestling standpoint - certainly provided good entertainment: the Big Show comedy match, and the triumphant conclusion of a main event which initially threatened to fall into car-crash territory.
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Yeah Austin was fresh of surgery and shouldn't have even been in the ring. But, people wanted to see the title change hands and they had to guarantee it so... Also, did the promos with the little girls start? They may have started at the next raw, I can't remember.
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LordPants posted:Yeah Austin was fresh of surgery and shouldn't have even been in the ring. But, people wanted to see the title change hands and they had to guarantee it so... Nothing like that in the PPV but I'm pretty sure I know what they allude to...
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Sep 15, 2013 02:52
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Just checking, I think they start on the next RAW. So just pretend you're intrigued instead of knowing it'll mean a run in to a on hour main event giving it a screwy finish.
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Insurrextion - May 6th 2000 - London, England PART 1 Oh god. Insurrextion. I hate Insurrextion. And Rebellion. I should love them, being English, but they just seem like events in which nothing substantial happens. The real storyline changes are saved for the American PPVs, and it'll take quite a show here to convince me otherwise. The main event tonight is a triple threat match for the WWF Title between The Rock, Triple H, and Shane McMahon. I'd put a LOT of money on The Rock retaining, but it should be an entertaining match regardless. I've always been quite a fan of Shane as a worker; his matches are usually fun, against all odds. 1. Too Cool vs The Radicalz The Radicalz are here represented by everybody's favourite member, Perry Saturn, as well as the ever-serious Dean Malenko. Sexay is returning from injury and Scotty is returning from getting his rear end kicked by Malenko at Backlash. The heels jump the faces at the bell but Sexay hits a BIG powerslam on Saturn, and suddenly I realise a factor which might save Insurrextion (and Rebellion) in my eyes: the incredibly loud nature of English crowds. The pop on that powerslam alone was huge. Too Cool dance around a little and hit Perry with a double clothesline, but Saturn regains control by hitting Scotty with a no-nonsense thrust to the chest. All of Saturn's moves are no-nonsense. He is a very efficient man. Malenko and Mr 2 Hotty go through a slightly ragged exchange which ends with a Russian legsweep on the Too Cool man. JR discusses the possibility of friction between Saturn and the other Radicalz, since he's the only one yet to taste WWF gold. Aww . Saturn and Malenko double team Scotty, knocking Sexay off the apron and into the (worryingly flimsy looking) crowd barrier. Saturn covers Scotty who kicks out at 2. "WHAT!?" screams Perry. Ahahaha. He's in such disbelief. Scotty backflips out of a Malenko suplex attempt and rolls him him, but Saturn yanks the referee out of the ring! Sexay has had enough and jumps Perry with right after right. The ref pulls him away and tells him off. Um, the other dude just PULLED YOU OUT OF THE RING! Saturn and Malenko have an argument for NO REASON. Seriously, I couldn't work out what that was for at all. They get into a shoving match and Malenko gets pushed into a roll up from Scotty, which Saturn has to break up at 2. Scotty and Malenko have a nice exchange reminiscent of their singles match last PPV, except Scotty gets the better of Malenko here with a nice superplex. Both men are down and crawl to make the tags. Sexay's tag is hot (because hes the face, of course) and he cleans house on the Radicalz. Malenko is getting sharper as this match goes on, I've noticed. It all breaks down and Too Cool get the upper hand. Scotty hits a bulldog on Saturn (sold horribly) and the crowd is MOLTEN for the Worm. Oh it's a DOUBLE worm, Sexay rolled Malenko into position too. The faces whip the heels toward one another and Saturn accidentally clotheslines Malenko down. Malenko is then whipped into Saturn in the corner, before the former collapses comically headfirst into the groin of the latter. Such japes! Scotty dropkicks Saturn to the outside while Sexay goes up top and hits the Hip Hop Drop on Malenko for the win. Winners: Too Cool 1/5 - Mehhhh. The crowd were hot for this but it was substandard, really. It served its purpose, but could have been better. Malenko looks on disapprovingly as Saturn recovers. He nudges Perry with a boot and Saturn loses it! He springs to his feet and shoves Dean over, and they brawl messily until a gaggle of referees rush out to separate them. Well, my earlier theory might be wrong. We have a storyline development! Mae Young is in the back hyping up The Kat for her upcoming match. Great. If I was Kat, I'd never let Mae Young manage me again. She proved to be pretty much the worst manager ever at WrestleMania. Vince is out, as always, to "No Chance In Hell", a song I can't imagine him liking in real life. He cuts a promo on the stage and explains that without Austin's interference, in a "fair one-on-one encouner", Triple H would have retained his title. He swears by this as sure as he stands before us, "breathing the foul air of London". Nobody really boos this, they just accept it. I'm not a huge fan of London either, to be fair to him. He runs down Linda, Hebner, and Austin's involvement, each getting a louder pop than the last. Vince claims that The Rock actually wouldn't mind losing the title here of all places, because nothing consequential or newsworthy ever happens in England. SEE! HE'S VERIFYING MY "ENGLISH PPVS DON'T MATTER" THEORY! Anyway, Vince guarantees that there will be a new WWF Champion tonight, and that it WILL be a member of the McMahon family. He doesn't specify whether he means Triple H or Shane. Oooh. Vince goes to the back and out of loving NOWHERE, MY BOY BULL BUCHANAN STRIDES INTO VIEW! YAY! We get a recap video as he makes his way down the ramp. Apparently Buchanan and his tag partner Big Boss Man have been at odds with Kane recently, and we see footage of them handcuffing him to the ring ropes on a previous Raw, allowing Bull to shatter his hand with a chair. Nasty. Kane's music gets a monster pop. We haven't seen him for a while, so I'm pretty excited too. 2. Bull Buchanan vs Kane Bearer is out with Kane, and the Big Red Machine's hand is in a cast. Bull jumps Kane before the bell but immediately gets rocked with a few of those lovely uppercuts. I'll throw it out there; despite Undertaker forcing the whole "best pure striker" thing into his gimmick, I much prefer Kane's strikes. He's really going for it in the early stages of this one, clotheslining Buchanan to the canvas and throwing in a few stomps as well. "Kane is angry" is the point here, I think. Bull has had enough already and makes his way to the foot of the ramp, but Kane's after him and hits another lovely uppercut. Squash incoming? Back in the ring now and there's ANOTHER uppercut. I should have done a tally. He's easily into double figures already. Back body drop...and Bull flips over! But he only JUST lands on his feet, and has to use his hands to steady himself. I'd be impressed usually with a man of his size doing that, but after seeing his wonderful grace demonstrated at last month's show, that was actually below par for him. MESSY DDT to Kane, who clearly doesn't approve either and does his demonic sit-up. Whip into the corner and Buchanan springs one-footed to the top turnbuckle, turning 180 and falling into Kane. Lovely. Axe kick now (no spineroonie though), but it only gets 2. Punches in the corner now but Kane no-sells them and walks slowly towards Bull. The heel gets desperate and fires off a few more rights, but the Big Red Machine keeps advancing. He throws Buchanan into the corner and fires off rights of his own. When Bull and Boss Man broke his hand, they really should have broken the right one. He never does anything with his left anyway. Bull drops Kane to his knees with some kind of dirty heel move (the camera missed it, focusing instead on Bearer at just the wrong moment). He heads to the top and comes off with a flying nothing, that most lethal of moves. Kane catches him by the throat and hooks him up for a biiiig Chokeslam! 1...2...3! Winner: Kane 1/5 - Squash city, bitch. Kane looked pretty fluid though. Top performer of the card by default so far. Kane ignites the pyro. Everyone's happy. Triple H and Stephanie are backstage. Hey, they shipped that heel dressing room over to England! There's the same black leather sofas and potted plant. Trips talks about how pleased he is that Vince referred to him as a McMahon family member. Steph is slightly concerned. She THINKS her dad was referring to The Game, but she doesn't look certain. The DX theme hits and Road Dogg is out with the lovely Tori. No X-Pac. Maybe he missed his flight. Road Dogg very courteously holds the ropes open for Tori as she enters, but it's entirely friendly. I don't think Pac should worry about losing his girlfriend. They're bros. Road Dogg wouldn't do that. Jesus, I'm just writing and writing without thinking. I'm on some stream of consciousness poo poo. Road Dogg does his standard intro. And now...oh. It's the Acolytes. This is not going to be a good wrestling match. 3. Road Dogg vs Bradshaw Bradshaw jumps Road Dogg before the bell (I think all three matches have started this way so far) and Tori proves herself better than pretty much every other valet by NOT immediately running for cover, and actually laying into Bradshaw from behind. He no-sells it of course, but the effort was there! He backs her down into a corner, but Road Dogg is there to make the save and the match officially gets underway. Faarooq is joining JR and King on commentary! Hooray! This could genuinely be very funny. "This won't take long" he states. I do hope not, Ron. Bradshaw and Road Dogg brawl to the outside and the latter finds his head bounced off the ring steps. Bradshaw continues to stalk Tori around the ring (man, he knows how to hold a grudge) and Faarooq immediately abandons his commentary post to cut off her escape route. The referee - of all people - escorts her to safety while Faarooq beats on Road Dogg. The APA double team Road Dogg (surely a DQ) and Faarooq LAYS INTO HIM with a really hard right hand. Wow. The ref orders him to the back, and that certainly didn't last long. Worst guest commentary stint ever. Hahaha, he's protesting his innocence for some reason. That was blatant, dude. Finally the action returns to the ring and Bradshaw hits a clubbing blow to the back of Road Dogg. He beats him down with very Bradshaw-like offence. There's an elbow drop, a hard whip to the turnbuckle, and a sloppy neckbreaker. I'm not sure why the Acolytes are so popular. They really are quite boring. Woah, out of nowhere Bradshaw decides to lift Road Dogg into a Torture Rack!? Road Dogg fights out and charges...but gets decapitated with a big boot. He gets back into it with a DDT and now both men are down. This is very poor. They get back up and Bradshaw sets up for a powerbomb, but it's reversed into a back body drop. A nice dropkick sends the APA man to the outside, where hopefully he'll just walk to the back and end this contest. He doesn't, instead rushing back in and hitting a spear. A rather slow spear. Road Dogg battles back with his two moves of doom: the dancing punches and the crazy knee drop thing. The end of the match must be near. Yup, here we go. Road Dogg gets whipped into the ropes and DROPPED with the Clothesline From Hell. 1...2...Tori is kicking at Bradshaw's legs through the apron! She's so badass. Bradshaw gets up to confront her and she winds up for a slap...blocked! Road Dogg rolls Bradshaw up! 1...2..ohh I thought that was the finish! Both men are back up and... ...oh my god... ROAD DOGG ACTUALLY HIS HIS FINISHER! The pumphandle connects! 1...2...3!!!!! Winner: Road Dogg 1/5 - I was going to give this a 0.5 but I'm so psyched about that finish! It gets an extra half point for free (and the ending sequence was pretty well thought out, to be fair)! Road Dogg finally hit his finisher! Hooray for everything! Terri is backstage with Moolah and Michael Cole. Cole asks how she's been preparing for her...oh good lord...for her "Arm Wrestling Challenge" with The Kat. Terri replies that she's been focusing on nutrition, before eating a banana very seductively. Subtle. Moolah hypes Terri's chances. 4. Arm Wrestling Challenge: The Kat vs Terri Lawler's in the ring because OF COURSE he's the host of this. Mae is out in a crown for some reason. Terri's breasts look like they're soldered on. Moolah looks eerily like Heath Ledger. And The Kat...looks quite lovely actually. There's an arm wrestling table set up in the middle of the ring and the two lock up. Terri doesn't let the contest begin, claiming that Kat has oil on her hands. Lawler checks and disagrees. Moolah ain't happy. They lock up again...and again Terri calls it off. She wants a drink of water first. Again they lock up, and AGAIN Terri stops. Now she's doing stretches. Oh...out of nowhere she takes her skirt off, revealing that her shirt is actually an incredibly revealing one-piece. King is obviously ecstatic, JR less so. They lock up again...OH JESUS CHRIST. Now Kat stops and Mae helps massage her arm. It's like they structured this segment purely to annoy everybody. Why would they have this on the card!? FINALLY they lock up and get started. They go back and forth and Kat looks to have it...but Terri spits water into her face! Mae empties the rest of the water bottle over Terri's head and it allows Kat to win. It's over everybody! Winner: The Kat DUD/5 - Mhm. The Kat is ecstatic. Yeahhhh! You lost at WrestleMania but at least you've evened the score in an arm wrestling match at an English PPV! Vindication! Terri plays sore loser and loosens Kat's bra string from behind. Kat covers her tits and just stands there disapprovingly as Terri celebrates for some reason. King asks if Kat's embarrassed and she shrugs and uncovers her breasts (the camera immediately cuts away), causing Lawler to scream like a banshee. Terri and Moolah are defeated for some reason now, and Kat leaves triumphantly with Mae. The logic behind diva posturing is complex indeed. Worst opening to a PPV...EVER.
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Insurrextion - May 6th 2000 PART 2 So part one was pretty terrible, but we open this part with a view of Rikishi and Big Show in matching thongs. Great. They stride around backstage and Crash Holly laughs at them (Hardcore belt in hand). The Rock is WALKING. 5. The Dudley Boyz vs Rikishi and Big Show Bubba takes a "WE WANT TABLES" sign from the crowd and holds it aloft during the Dudleys' entrance. Big Show is announced as "Showkishi". D-Von jumps Big Show before the bell, continuing the theme of the night it seems. Show beats him around for a while with big boots and elbows. Rikishi and Bubba are in now, and immediately Rikishi goes for the charge in the corner. Bubba gets his boot in the way and goes on a charge of his own, but eats a big Samoan drop. Both Dudleys are in now to double team him, but Rikishi simply clonks their heads together. D-Von regains control with a drop toe hold and Bubba hits an elbow drop. They drag Rikishi over to their corner and it looks like he'll be face in peril for a while. Bubba smacks a hard chop into his ample bosom while the crowd chant for tables. He hits a DDT which Rimishi immediately pops up from (Samoan = hard head), toppling the Dudley with a nice superkick. Bubba soon regains control, however, and Big Show's fury from the apron distracts the ref long enough for the Dudleys to hit the Wassup headbutt. I'll be honest, this match is really slow. I don't want to suggest that these guys are phoning it in, but... Rikishi ends the Dudley dominance with a double clothesline (although he wasn't really in THAT much peril anyway) and makes the hot tag to Show. Headbutts for everyone! Clothesline to D-Von. Bubba gets scooped up like a child for a big sidewalk slam. The Dudleys get whipped around (into each other, into the same corner, etc) until eventually they end up in opposite corners. Big Show sits D-Von down with a headbutt, while Rikishi does the same to Bubba with a charge. Synchronized stinkfaces, but Bubba is quickly up to toss Rikishi out of the ring. NEVER trust a man who can shake off a stinkface so quickly. Bubba begins to get a table out from under the ring, but abandons it to save D-Von from Show inside the ring. The ref takes a bump and this could well be table time. NO, EVEN BETTER! EDGE AND CHRISTIAN MAKE A RUN-IN! Christian distracts the recovering ref while Edge is in, and delivers a SPEAR to Bubba! The champs get out of dodge while Big Show measures Bubba...Chokeslam! That's the three. Winners: Big Show and Rikishi 1/5 - Very slow and uninspiring. I got excited when the champs arrived on the scene, but they departed before long. Hopefully they'll crop up later on the card. Too Cool are out to help celebrate. They try to get the Dudleys to stay and join in. I'm not sure that's wise, boys. Bubba puts his glasses on Scotty, and Too Cool give the Dudleys their yellow shades in return. This is...adorable? There's a momentary tense stand-off between Bubba and Rikishi, but it only serves as a dramatic pause before the Dudley busts out some crazy moves. I'm a little bit let down. I wanted to see some fools go through tables. Kurt Angle is out and about in London, introducing himself to random people on the street as "Kurt Angle: Olympic Hero". I love Kurt. A recap video shows Benoit losing his Intercontinental title on the previous Smackdown to Jericho, who cheap-shotted him with the belt when the ref was incapacitated (in fairness to Y2J, it was Benoit who shoved the referee out of the ring in the first place). The Wolverine faces Angle next. 6. Kurt Angle vs Chris Benoit Angle cuts a promo during his entrance about the children of England being frail, weak, unhealthy, and uneducated. Some children in the crowd point gleefully to themselves. British crowds don't respond to heel promos as predictably as Americans, it seems. He gets some proper heat by claiming that the States saved England in WWII. It's the classics that are the best. Benoit is out with an ugly black eye. I wonder how he got that (they claim it's from Jericho's belt shot). Crash Holly scampers out with his Hardcore title and makes his way to commentary. JR and King are puzzled. Apparently he's looking for a fight and can't find one anywhere. Slightly random, but okay. Meanwhile, Benoit bucks the trend by waiting for the bell before attacking Angle, lighting him up with a few chops and a shoulder block. They run the ropes for a little bit before Angle backdrops Benoit's head onto the top rope and sets about him with a few stomps. He ducks a wild chop from Benoit and shoves him into the corner by his hair. Brutal. Already this is the best match of the night. Crash is still jabbering inanely on commentary, by the way. Kurt beats Chris around ringside, bouncing his head into this and that. Crash hypes the 24/7 rules of the Hardcore belt. I hope somebody jumps him soon just so he'll shut up. They make it back into the ring and Angle hits a fantastic belly-to-belly suplex. I'm in shock to actually see some good wrestling! Long may it continue. Angle continues to beat the hell out of Benoit, and this is looking almost like a squash! Ah there we go; Benoit whips Kurt chest-first into the turnbuckle and catches him on the rebound with a German suplex. And a second. Aaaaand a third, bridged, for 1...2...and Angle kicks out. Both men stagger to their feet...lightning fast inside cradle by Benoit gets another two count. Angle charges with a clothesline and gets caught in the Crippler Crossface! Kurt, in desperation, shoves the ref away and thumbs the Rabid Wolverine right in the eye. Sneaky. He scrambles up but Benoit takes him right back down with a back suplex, and he heads up top for the Diving Headbutt...but Angle rolls clear! Kurt ducks a couple of wild punches and hooks up Benoit for the Olympic Slam! JR isn't quite sure of the name yet though, so this must be fairly early in its existence. Anyway, it's enough for the pinfall. Winner: Kurt Angle 2/5 - Perfectly fine, certainly better than anything else on the show so far, but too short to get a higher score. It felt like a TV match. The crowd seemed quite dead for this one too, which is a shame because it's easily the performance most deserving of a loud reaction. I guess they preferred The Kat and Terri wasting fifteen minutes of everybody's life instead. I DIGRESS. Angle looked sharp here in particular. Kurt celebrates in his typically over the top fashion, dropping to his knees in triumph. Michael Cole is backstage with Shane and asks who he thinks Vince was referring to when he said "a McMahon family member" will walk out of London as champion. Shane believes his father was referring to him and gets rather full of himself. Cole looks at him as though he's deluded, which is probably accurate. I've just realised that Crash Holly's appearance on commentary for the last match went literally nowhere. Strange. I hope there's at least a point to him being in the building later on. JUST as I say that we cut back to the arena, and Holly is still sat with JR and King. An unfamiliar theme plays and The British Bulldog charges out with a ref in tow to a big pop! He makes a beeline for Crash, who leaps over a crowd barrier and tries to escape. Looks like this one's for the Hardcore Title folks. 7. WWF Hardcore Championship: Crash Holly (c) vs The British Bulldog Davey Boy drags Holly back over the barrier and beats him around ringside. The fans are going pretty crazy, it has to be said. Crash scuttles up the ramp but Bulldog catches up and hits a big vertical suplex. He takes the champ all the way back down to ringside and bounces his head off the apron, but Crash gains the upper hand with a whip into the ring steps. Somebody use a weapon! Holly obliges, rolling an assortment of poo poo into the ring that Raven would be proud of. He wraps some sort of cable or collar around Bulldog's neck and chokes him for a little while, before picking up a kendo stick and ramming it into his gut. Boooo, I don't want that. Smack him in the head with it; I'm craving the sound it makes. Crash fetches a chair from the timekeeper's area and sets it up in the ring, but it backfires as Bulldog hits a drop toe hold onto it. I'm not really enjoying this so far. I want Blackman to turn up and show them how it's done. OH poo poo! Davey Boy kicks it up a notch, picking up the chair and not even bothering to fold it before swinging it hard onto Holly's legs. A kendo stick shot to the ribs follows (booo, go for the head, always the head) before the weapon gets broken over Holly's back (not actually as badass a spot as it sounds. He held it by either end and drove it down two-handed). He places the two pieces on the canvas, scoops up Crash, and hits a running powerslam into the wreckage. That's enough for the three and a huge pop for the Brit. Winner and NEW Hardcore Champion: The British Bulldog 0.5/5 - Garbage. This was actually better BEFORE the weapons got introduced, and that just makes me sad. In fairness, I winced at the chairshot to Holly's legs. That one seemed to have feeling behind it. The rest of this match was uninspiring, however. Not even Angle vs Benoit could drag this show from the mire. Maybe part three will be better, right guys. Guys? 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That was the last PPV match Davey Boy ever had.  He didn't even have any storylines by this point, because of his drug problems. You'd never even have thought he used to be kind of a big deal.
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Insurrextion - May 6th 2000 PART 3 Edge and Christian are outside the venue charging a small boy money for an autograph. They then take a picture with another fan but cut him directly out of the shot. Michael Cole - of all people - asks what the hell is going on, and they reply that their behavior is justified because there have never been WWF superstars like them. Looks like the boys have gone full heel. 8. WWF Tag Team Championship Match: Edge and Christian (c) vs The Hardy Boyz JR angrily mentions that the champs used to come out of the crowd, but feel that they're "too big" for it now. We cut with perfect timing to the pair striding down the entrance ramp with huge grins on their faces. I've said it before in this thread, but I loving love these guys. Christian delays the start of the match by having a prolonged team talk with Edge in their corner. Matt gets impatient and slaps him across the chops. They do the whip/slide/leapfrog thang before Christian hits a dropkick. He takes Hardy down and applies an ARMBAR~! Matt battles back with a powerslam and tags in his bro, and the pair work together to stomp a mudhole in Christian. Not one of Austin quality, but good enough. Jeff is wearing a ludicrously tight, see-through, long-sleeved t-shirt that doesn't even come down to his naval. It is offensively bad. Edge agrees, immediately snapping him down with a neckbreaker after receiving the tag from Christian. He falls victim to a headscissors which sends him between the ropes to the outside, and Jeff comes off the ropes looking for a plancha...but stops himself at the last second as Edge dashes for safety. All four men end up back in the ring and Christian gets beaten down in the corner (again). The Hardys whip Edge into him and his knees clatter into Christian's face. Roll up on Edge, 1...2...but he kicks out. Matt and Christian become the legal men, and a chop battle turns into an exchange of heavy right hands. Matt wins and shakes his fist in pain before tagging Jeff in. The pair hit a double legdrop on Christian before whipping both champs into the same corner and hitting a big Poetry in Motion. Christian and Jeff brawl on the outside, a battle won by the champ who whips the Hardy heavily into the guardrail. In the ring he continues the beatdown with a high-angle powerslam and a snapmare takeover. I think Jeff is in full face-in-peril mode, as he reaches out desperately for his brother. Christian clamps on a CHINLOCK, BAH GAWD, but Jeff struggles to his feet. He runs for the ropes but gets yanked down by his hair. Matt gets frustrated and unwittingly distracts the ref, allowing Edge to pull the old "slap hands behind the ref's back" fake-tag trick. I wonder why the refs always believe the heels when this happens, but never trust the faces when they miss a legitimate tag being made. Don't they know who the good and bad guys are!? Jeff and Edge enter into a LOVELY sequence of moves, the Hardy flipping into a pinfall attempt only for Edge to bridge his body upwards. The champ hooks Jeff's arms as if setting up for an Unprettier, but flips him over his back and fluidly into a powerbomb attempt, only for Hardy to wriggle all the way over into a sunset flip. It gets two, and that whole exchange was fantastic. Jeff struggles over to his corner and Christian resorts to distracting the ref, who does JUST what I said before and misses the clear tag between the Hardys, before rushing over to usher Matt back onto the apron. Edge and Jeff both attempt crossbodies and clatter into one another, both ending up down and out in the center of the ring. Jeff almost makes the tag again, but Christian dashes in and puts the boots to him. Matt has loving HAD ENOUGH, and flies with an elbow drop onto the already-prone Edge, before sending Christian to the floor with a single right hand. He dashes back to his own corner and Jeff FINALLY makes the tag! Matt clears house very slowly on both champs before heading to the top, but Christian intercepts him and stands on Edge's shoulders for a BIG superplex. Jeff is back in to help, however, and takes Edge out of the equation with a clothesline over the top rope. The brothers hit a double-suplex on Christian and Matt makes the cover, but Edge pulls him out of the ring at the very last second! Jeff is pissed and PLANCHAS beautifully over the top rope onto Edge. Christian is sent back in the ring to eat a Twist of Fate, and Jeff follows up with the Swanton Bomb! The titles seem about to change hands, but Edge crashes the party with ring bell shots for everybody. It's a DQ, folks. Winners: The Hardy Boyz 1.5/5 - A fairly lackluster effort from four guys who can certainly do better. There was no real fluidity to the bout, with the exception of Edge and Jeff's exchange and the finish. The rest of the match trundled from spot to spot, and the DQ finish further sapped its quality. A shame. No bell rings to signify the end of the match (because Edge just used it to brain the Hardys) but the challengers are announced as winners. E&C don't seem to care and beat them down until...THE DUDLEYS COME STORMING DOWN THE RAMP TO A BIG POP, and seem to be looking for revenge for earlier in the night. 3D to Christian, and Bubba heads under the ring to grab a table! Edge is propped on Bubba's shoulders atop the turnbuckles and driven through the wood, which is actually a far lighter shade of brown in England it seems. Fun little factoid, there. Feud recap video now detailing Chyna's switch of allegiance from Jericho to Eddie Guerrero. She also costs him his European Title in the process (which we then saw Eddie go on to defend against Essa Rios at Backlash). JR explains that a coin toss will determine which championship will be put on the line here, Eddie's European Title, or Jericho's Intercontinental strap. Chyna cuts a promo in Spanish which nobody understands. Eddie explains that she said none of YOU PEOPLE deserve a champion as great as him, and that nobody can take his Latino heat. Jericho enters next with his new belt, won recently from Benoit in between the PPVs. He has a mic now, and welcomes everybody to "LONDON...IS...JERICHO!". He wishes those two jackasses would "bloody well piss off". Good English there. The crowd are eating this up. He oooover. 9. WWF European Championship Match: Eddie Guerrero (c) vs Chris Jericho Eddie loses the coin-toss, much to the delight of the crowd. The pair brawl wildly to start, before Jericho hits a lovely monkey flip on a charging Guerrero. A clothesline sends him to the outside where he decides enough is enough, and begins to head for the back. Chyna tries to persuade Eddie to stay and fight, to no avail, so she simply grabs him and shoves him back towards the ring. He manages to gain the upper hand with a snappy powerslam, but Jericho battles back with a clothesline and a few chops. Inside cradle out of nowhere by Eddie! It only gets two but man that was fast. Y2J hits a vertical suplex and does his cocky pin (has that ever pinned anyone) without success. A spinning heel kick sends Guerrero out of the ring but Jericho misses with the subsequent baseball slide. He chases the Mexican around but runs right into a clothesline from Chyna. Back in the ring Eddie heads up top, but Jericho battles up after him. They exchange a few punches before Jericho manages to hit a gorgeous superplex. Good work by these two so far. They fight into another corner and Eddie hits an equally lovely headscissors from the top rope. Very crisp. A quick exchange of pinfall attempts results in a stalemate, but Eddie is a shade quicker with his follow-up clothesline. They go at it pretty equally until Jericho tries to bust out his powerbomb, but Guerrero flips over the back with ludicrous speed into a sunset flip. Jericho kicks out and decks him with a single right. Eddie fights back and puts Jericho in about the third abdominal submission so far this match. He's been using them intermittently throughout. This one involves holding Y2J in the Vertebreaker position and bending forwards to stretch him out. Jericho flips down onto his feet and lifts Eddie onto HIS back, reversing the move entirely. Eddie sits up onto Jericho's shoulders and roars in triumph, but Y2J slams him down face first into the canvas. A very unique exchange there. Jericho hooks Eddie up into the powerbomb position and charges with him towards the ropes, but Guerrero manages to hook the top rope and hit a headscissors, sending both men spilling to the outside. Eddie pretends to have hurt his back, keeping the referee outside the ring as Jericho crawls back in. This allows Chyna to scoot in and plant Y2J with a DDT. 1...2...and Jericho kicks out to a pop from the crowd. Eddie goes for a back suplex but Jericho lands on his feet, before spinning Guerrero around and nailing him with a powerbomb. He keeps hold of the waist and scoops him up for a second, before yelling to the crowd and hitting the Lionsault. But Chyna pops up on the apron to distract the referee from making a pinfall! Jericho is furious and hits his springboard dropkick to knock her off the apron. He turns back to Eddie...who NAILS him with the European title! 1...2...3! Winner and STILL WWF European Champion: Eddie Guerrero 2.5/5 - Easily the best match of the night so far, and one full of interesting spots. It was perhaps a little low-octane at times, and also suffered from a tired crowd and the second cheap ending in a row, but the talent of these two still managed to shine through. Eddie and Chyna celebrate on the ramp while Jericho lies out cold in the ring.
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Insurrextion - May 6th 2000 PART 4 Shane, Stephanie, and Triple H are backstage. Shane and Trips argue over who's going to pin The Rock to become the new champion. Steph puts forward the idea that it doesn't matter, as long as the belt comes back to the family. Triple H and Shane both claim "it matters to ME!" before stalking off in opposite directions. Uh oh. A hype video covers The Rock's triumphing over Triple H at Backlash. The next night on Raw, Vince puts him in a steel cage match against Shane. I'm not sure if that's a smart move. Unsurprisingly, Rocky wins (despite interference from Vince and The Game) and takes the title to Insurrextion. 8. WWF Championship Match: The Rock (c) vs Shane McMahon vs Triple H Shane is out with Vince in tow. Triple H is out with Steph. The Rock is all by his lonesome, and gets a thunderous pop from the London crowd. Trips and Shane have a team talk in the corner and Hunter suggests that the McMahon stay out of the way. He and Rock tee off on one another to start, and Rocky beats him into a corner. Shane makes the save, only to eat a few right hands himself. The numbers advantage begins to pay off as the heels get the upper hand, but Rocky comes off the ropes with a boot to Shane, before laying the smackdown on The Game and knocking him out of the ring. Shane gets the same treatment and the heels recover on the outside for a moment. Rock is out after them and clotheslines Triple H, before stealing Lawler's crown and placing it on a groggy Shane's head. The McMahon takes a big right hand and the champ seems to be rolling until Triple H drops him chest-first into the security railing. They all return to the ring and Shane can't catch a break, getting knocked down again from a Rock clothesline. Triple H hits a neckbreaker to down the champ, and the heels have fun dancing around and taking turns to jab at the champ. Shane takes the dancing slightly too far and The Rock explodes off his feet with a big clothesline. Clothesline to Triple H too, before both challengers are knocked down with...Bubba Ray's elbow move? Alright then... Triple H manages to reverse the momentum with a facebuster, before Vince gets involved too while the ref's back is turned, choking Rocky against the bottom rope. The crowd break into an "rear end in a top hat" chant (surely it should be "arsehole" over here) and Triple H tells them to suck it. Rocky finds himself in a sleeper hold which lasts quite a loooong time, but he manages to get his arm up on the third referee check. He battles to his feet and pulls Shane into a sleeper, while still locked in the Game's chokehold as well. The three struggle briefly, until Shane drops to the canvas and snaps Rocky and Triple H's heads back. The Rock builds up some momentum running the ropes, but Triple H stops him dead with a brutal high knee! 1...2...Shane breaks it up! Uh oh. He tries to apologize but Hunter shoves him away. Shane seems to accept this, but sucker punches The Game as he turns away! He heads up top and comes off with...I think a moonsault attempt, but Triple H rolls quickly out of the way and Shane is able to land on his feet! Nice. The Rock rejoins the action with ANOTHER clothesline to Shane (he's taken several of those) before dishing out DDTs for everyone. Steph is up on the apron to distract the ref from the ensuing pinfall, and The Rock angrily tries to whip Shane into a corner of the ring. The McMahon reverses it and catches Rocky (sloppily) on the rebound with a Pedigree attempt...but he can't lift the champ! Rock trips Shane's legs from under him and slingshots him into the corner, and the ref gets caught as well. Oh no. Heeling is sure to follow. Vince grabs Rocky's foot as he runs the ropes, and The Rock reaches down and grabs him by the hair in retaliation. He unwisely takes his eyes off The Game however, who snatches the title belt and KOs the champ with it! There's no ref to count the fall, but Vince gestures furiously to the back and Brisco comes out to act as a replacement. 1...2...Rocky kicks out! Shane is back in with a chair now, and measures the champ as Triple H holds him up...but of course he manages to slip away, and The Game takes the chairshot full in the face. Rocky begins to beat Triple H down in the corner, but Vince slides in and snatches up the chair. He measures the champ, who turns and backs him down, but this allows Trips to hit the low blow and a big Pedigree! JR despairs, but The Rock draws on his reserves of PPV RESILIENCY (as well as his power of "no-big-title-changes-on-English-PPVs") to kick out. Triple H is really pissed now, and knocks out Brisco with a single punch. The Rock gets hooked up for a second Pedigree...and I'm expecting a reversal, but Triple H just goes ahead and hits it. Wow. He makes another cover and Vince begins to strip the unconscious Brisco of his referee shirt...but THE CROWD GOES MILD as Early Hebner jogs awkwardly to the ring. (I'm not sure where Shane has got to during all of this. Perhaps he realised wrestling wasn't really for him, and quietly left.) Hebner drags Vince out of the ring as he counts 2, and the boss is livid. He grabs Earl by the collar and winds up to drop him, but Hebner ducks and Vince punches the ringpost. Triple H goes to the top (why? What's he gonna do, a 450 splash?) and Shane makes his return at the WORST possible time, inadvertently shaking the ropes and crotching the Game atop the turnbuckles. Vince chases Earl into the ring where Rocky is finally back to his feet, and manages to hit a groggy Rock Bottom on the boss. He turns and punches Trips off the top rope to the outside, before levelling Shane with a spinebuster! The People's Elbow follows, as does an ecstatically received 3 count. Winner and STILL WWF Champion: The Rock 1.5/5 - This seemed like a lovely re-hash of the Backlash main event, except without Austin to inject some excitement. An ungodly clusterfuck, which prevented the action from ever really picking up momentum. The Rock looked sharp here, to be fair to him, and Triple H made the best of some pretty difficult booking to work around. Shane tried, bless him, he tried. The Rock celebrates, as do I, because this loving PPV is finally over. I had a glimmer of hope that perhaps Insurrextion would see the wrestlers cut loose and maybe even try out some new stuff, but this was the very definition of a filler show. No real changes aside from Crash dropping the Hardcore belt to the British Bulldog, and most of the workers looked unmotivated and sluggish. Summary to follow. It won't be a happy one.
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INSURREXTION 2000 SUMMARY Match Of The Night Eddie Guerrero vs Chris Jericho - The only above-average match on the card (Angle vs Benoit would have been too, but they had a really short time slot, presumably to leave room for that loving arm wrestling segment). Eddie and Jericho looked really crisp and motivated here, something which seemed even more apparent on a night in which most of the card never got out of second gear. Wrestler Of The Night 1. Chris Jericho - Worked his rear end off alongside Eddie to deliver the match of the night. Sold well consistently, too. 2. Eddie Guerrero - The other half of a consistently fluid and impressive match. 3. Kurt Angle - Looked sharp in his match with Benoit, but robbed by an unfairly short time slot. 4. Jeff Hardy - Delivered a couple of great spots in the tag match, and put in a lot of effort as the face-in-peril. 5. Chris Benoit - Didn't stand out as much as Angle in their match, but still played a vital role in its success. A collection of average-to-good performances form the top five of a very unimpressive card. The only other person close to getting on was The Rock, for being the only real spark in a swamp of a main event. Triple H looked alright too. Wrestler Of The Year Standings 1. Triple H - 10 Jeff Hardy - 10 2. Mick Foley - 9 Kurt Angle - 9 3. Eddie Guerrero - 7 4. Christian - 6 5. Edge - 5 Chris Jericho - 5 6. Bubba Ray Dudley - 4 7. The Rock - 2 Matt Hardy - 2 Scotty 2 Hotty - 2 8. Rikishi - 1 Kane - 1 Esse Rios - 1 Chris Benoit - 1 So Jeff Hardy joins The Game in joint-first place (who'da thunk it!?) while Jericho finally gets on the board with five points. Angle continues to move the chains with a string of consistently good showings, and I'd say he looks the most likely to move into first place soon. INSURREXTION SCORE: 3/10 It was between a score of 3 and 4 here, and I felt Insurrextion deserved the lower of the two for simply not trying. The WWF were clearly phoning it in here on an English PPV (just as I feared) and all but two of the matches were very uninspiring. Credit to Jericho, Eddie, Angle and Benoit for treating this like a real PPV - is it any surprise that these four would go on to be regarded as workrate kings? - but the rest of the matches on the card were dragged down by a string of unenthusiastic performances. Jeff Hardy, The Rock, and Triple H perhaps can't be counted in that same boat as the rest of the card, as they put in some good work too, but they couldn't save this show from being an utter chore to watch. Terrible. JGKing fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Sep 20, 2013 |
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Did a single thing of note ever happen on the English PPVs, outside of the Michaels/Bulldog match that was only noteworthy because of the ~backstage drama~?
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Twin Cinema posted:Did a single thing of note ever happen on the English PPVs, outside of the Michaels/Bulldog match that was only noteworthy because of the ~backstage drama~? Bret Hart's last great match was at One Night Only against Undertaker, but no one saw it because WWE cut it out of the home video release after Montreal. You can see it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QeF2j3sVB8
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Similarly Angle/Benoit defended the tag titles against Eddie and Chavo in 2002, which was not an amazing match, but really well worked with great selling, bumping, a clear story, some fun spots and classic a Heyman finish (oodles of shenanigans leading to a clean pin). edit: The only problem with the match is it's a bit slow for the first part (even if they're setting up the story for the end), but once they get to the planned part of the match (the back half) it's really great.
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Judgement Day - May 21st 2000 - Louisville, Kentucky PART 1 It's JUDGEMENT DAY, the creepiest of all WWF PPVs. And the main event of this one features (guess who) Triple H and The Rock. But this won't be any Triple H vs The Rock match. It'll be a one hour iron man extravaganza! I'm immediately pessimistic for a number of reasons - although fine wrestlers, neither man is really renowned as the kind of workhorse capable of pulling off a one hour classic, this feud has grown quite stale, and (perhaps most importantly) we're likely to get sixty minutes of Vince-related shenanigans. This has the potential the be the mother of all clusterfucks. Also on the card tonight is a singles match between Big Show and his former manager Shane McMahon, as well as the culmination of a growing feud between DX and those drat Dudleys. Looks like Tori is Bubba's latest table-target. I'm not too concerned for her. Already in this thread she's walked off a Tombstone and gotten the better of Bradshaw. JR and King SCREAM THEIR WELCOMES but we go almost immediately backstage to the HEEL LOCKER ROOM. The black leather sofas are there, as are Vince, Triple H, Steph, DX and Shane. Packed house. Brisco rushes along (wearing the Hardcore Title. Looks like he's the current champ) and takes orders for coffee. Way to make the belt look good. Vince hypes up the heels for their respective matches but gets interrupted by a commotion outside. The Headbangers are beating on Brisco but the Hardcore Champ manages to escape. Looks like that 24/7 rule is still in effect. Shawn Michaels is WALKING backstage to a huge pop. He's in ref gear and will apparently be in charge of the Iron Man match. That could spice things up nicely. He's slightly eager though, already fully dressed for his duties. Calm down Shawn. Angle is out to open the show. He cuts a promo explaining that he has teamed up with Edge and Christian (HOORAYYYY!) and has since been receiving a lot of attention from teenage girls. He brilliantly urges them to be clean, pure, and abstinent, before welcoming E&C to the ring. The tag champs are out with a couple of mysterious sacks. Christian explains that they are about to unveil a brand new five second photo opportunity, this one called the "Kentucky Jug Band". They bring a set of Southern hillbilly-esque costumes out of the sacks and Edge even includes some horrible false teeth. I guess I'd be offended if I was from Kentucky. I dunno. 1. Kurt Angle, Edge, and Christian vs Too Cool and Rikishi The face team are solidifying themselves as PPV monsters in this thread. A quick check informs me that Sexay and Rikishi are undefeated (barring the Royal Rumble match itself), and Scotty only has one loss (to Dean Malenko). Beasts. The heels jump the faces before the bell, but Rikishi is quick to assert his dominance, whipping all three men into the same corner. Scotty delivers a running rump-shot to the trio followed by Sexay, but the heels wisely bail before Rikishi can charge in. Sexay and Sexton (gettit?) go at it in the ring, with Edge eating a snappy enziguri. Both guys tag out, allowing Christian and Scotty to take the stage. The latter wins the ensuing battle with a vertical suplex, but his celebratory moonwalk allows Christian an opportunity to blindside him (although it does delight the hot crowd as well). Edge and Sexay interfere and the faces again win out, squashing both tag champs in the same corner before hitting Edge with a drop-toe hold into the groin of his partner. Sexay clears the ring and there are loud "Rikishi" chants from the crowd. Grandmaster busts some moves in the middle of the ring, but his pants fall down. SLAPSTICK. Scotty and Rikishi laugh while Sexay sorts himself out, but all mirth is forgotten as Christian sucker punches the Too Cool man from behind. Christian does a mock Too Cool dance, which allows Sexay to make a sneaky tag to Rikishi. The Samoan is in to a big pop and hurls the tag champs around the ring, before grabbing Angle by the neck and launching him in over the top rope. Angle is up and dives into a sunset flip over Rikishi, who is able to stay on his feet. The Samoan looks down, preparing to squash the Olympian...but Angle JUST scoots out of the way in time! Lovely sequence. The heels try some heeling as Angle distracts the ref, allowing Edge and Christian to choke him in their corner. This only angers the Samoan, however, and he drops the champs off the apron with a couple of rights before giving Angle the same treatment. It all breaks down as Christian rushes the ring, only for Rikishi to tag Scotty in to catch the oncoming champ with a bulldog! The crowd comes unstuck for the impending Worm, but Angle stops the party with an immediate clothesline. He clearly loves the fact that he's ruined everybody's fun, too. The crowd begin an "Angle sucks" chant, and he very angrily hits a vertical suplex in response. Christian receives the tag and charges the cornered Scotty, but the face is able to get both feet up to slam into his face. Christian goes for a powerbomb but Scotty flips out, before hooking up Christian for one of his own...and driving him backwards onto the top rope! Nice! The hot tag is made to Rikishi who clears house with rights and headbutts, before whipping all three opponents into the same corner and squashing them with a big charge. Edge and Christian stumble out into clotheslines, but Angle flops down into the worst position possible...and is hit with the Stink Face! He sets up Edge for the Rikishi Driver now, but Christian makes the save. Angle and Christian hit a double DDT and give one another an adorable high five, but Rikishi no-sells that and drops both with a double clothesline. SPEAR! Edge hits Rikishi out of nowhere! He mimics Scotty's Worm setup, but the man himself dashes into the ring and hits the bulldog on the dancing champ! It's time for the real Worm! It connects, but Angle is up now and charges Sexay. He ducks and SUPERKICKS the Olympic hero! Bang! Scotty hits his fist drop on Sexay as well, while Rikishi sets up Edge for the Rikishi Driver. Christian has had enough and saves his partner (again) with a ring bell shot! The ref misses it, but is too busy breaking up a fight elsewhere to count the resultant pinfall! Karma. Sexay flies with the Hip Hop Drop onto Edge as he covers Rikishi! 1...2...Kurt dashes into the ring and dives onto them...but he's too late! Too Cool extend their streak of PPV dominance! Winners: Too Cool and Rikishi 3/5 - A refreshingly crisp, exciting match, especially after the half-assed nature of Insurrextion. An entertaining contest from top to bottom, with everybody looking sharp (Angle in particular). A case could be made to suggest that the wrong team won, but I don't think it takes away from the match quality too much. The heels leave and the faces are about to follow suit, but Sexay urges his partners back into the ring to don their yellow sunglasses and dance for the crowd. OF COURSE they can't resist. Michael Cole is backstage with Shawn Michaels, and asks him where his allegiances lie in the main event. Michaels acknowledges that Triple H is an old friend of his, but vows to call it right down the middle. Cole asks him to address the rumours swirling on the internet that HBK is jealous of The Rock's fame and success, to which Michaels rolls his eyes. INTERNET NERDS, amirite? He says he's had enough of Cole's asinine questions and gives him a cocky slap on the cheek. Eddie and Chyna loudly arrive in the parking lot and are confronted by Dean Malenko. He warns Chyna to stay out of the Radicalz' business, explaining that what's about to go down is between himself, Eddie, and Perry. Speak of the devil, Saturn shows up in the worst/best shirt I've ever seen. He and Dean do some ACTING (both are horrible) and Perry says something along the lines of "If you're gonna kiss someone's rear end, kiss the rear end of the guy who's gonna win. ME.". It didn't seem as though Malenko was kissing anybody's rear end at all, but who am I to question the wisdom of Perry Saturn? The three are in a triple threat for Eddie's belt next. Looks like the Radicalz are continuing to fall apart. 2. WWF European Title: Eddie Guerrero (c) vs Perry Saturn vs Dean Malenko JR mentions during Saturn's entrance that he's the only Radical not to win any gold since arriving in the WWF. That's mean, Jim. You mentioned that a lot at the last PPV too. Malenko is out with his Light Heavyweight belt, but only Eddie's gold is on the line. Eddie is immediately double teamed at the bell, and Malenko holds him in place while Saturn comes off the top with a big knee. The pair share a smug handshake. Malenko gives Perry a hand with a hard whip into the cornered Eddie, but Saturn immediately breaks off the deal with a clothesline to his stablemate. Shortest deal ever. Malenko is pissed and hits a few right hands, before decapitating Saturn with a SICK heel kick! Very nice. It's worth noting that Eddie is way more over than either of the other men involved, judging by the pop for entrances alone. They're pretty much silent during this stage of the match too, with Guerrero resting in the corner. Saturn remembers that he's the biggest dude in the match, and starts chucking fools around. Eddie manages to low-blow both men with a single kick, before going old school on Malenko (almost. He hops up to the top rope before coming off with a hurricanrana). Saturn looks to powerbomb Eddie but he hits ANOTHER hurricanrana, before trying to nail a third on Malenko...who slams him down with a nice powerslam! Saturn tries to take control but Eddie stops him with a tornado DDT, before running into a double underhook powerbomb from the impressive Malenko. Dean tries to apply the Texas Cloverleaf to the champ, but is forced to abandon with his attempt to counter Saturn's charge with a clothesline. Eddie and Malenko scrap for a while and end up on the top turnbuckle, but Saturn scoots under Guerrero and carries him away on his shoulders. He throws the Latino onto the top rope (crotching Malenko in the process), before hurling the champ across the ring with a surprisingly nice belly-to-belly! Perry goes up after Malenko now, but finds himself thrown to the canvas. Eddie has a go, but Malenko lifts him onto his shoulders and hits a super gutbuster from the top! Ouch! Perry is on the scene now to steal Dean's thunder and heads up top. He comes off with a really ugly Frogsplash (stolen finisher! Hooray) but Malenko is there to break it up at 2. Now Saturn trips Malenko's legs and applies the Texas Cloverleaf! He's on a stealing spree! Eddie breaks it up, however, and spikes Perry with a BRAINBUSTAAAAA~! Saturn ends up on the outside as the other two scrap for dominance. Dean hooks Guerrero for a back suplex, but Saturn is in now and hooks Malenko! Double back suplex! Perry rolls to the outside to recover for a second...and Chyna KOs him with the roses Eddie gave to her during their entrance! Either they were loaded or Saturn has some allergy problems to address. Back in the ring Eddie dives into a sunset flip, but Malenko grabs the ropes. Chyna is up on the apron now and swings the roses at Dean, but he grabs them out of her hand! She drops down and trips the Light Heavyweight champ, sending his face crashing into the flowers! Eddie rolls him into a cradle...1...2...3! Winner and STILL WWF European Champion: Eddie Guerrero 2.5/5 - This developed into a great little match after a slightly underwhelming start. All three men looked good (even Saturn!), and told a decent story throughout. Bravo. Eddie rolls out of the ring and victoriously pulls a lead pipe out of the bunch of flowers. That sneaky devil! We see a recap of Gerald Brisco winning the Hardcore belt on Smackdown in a hilarious segment. He convinces a ref to quietly count the pinfall on former champ Crash Holly while he is sleeping, before silently celebrating. On the way out of the room the ref trips over a chair and Crash wakes up. Brisco takes off. We catch up with Brisco now, currently hiding in a toilet cubicle. He gets scared by his own reflection in the mirror as he sneaks out of the room. Fantastic. A hype video is shown for the feud between Shane McMahon and Big Show. It begins with Shane angry at Big Show for his new fun-loving attitude, reminding him that he was the first man eliminated in the WrestleMania main event. He tells him he's worthless and will never amount to anything in the ring. Big Show is furious and chases Shane around backstage on Raw. The following Smackdown, Shane pounces on a fallen Show after he is driven through a table by the Dudleys. The next Raw, Show gains a measure of revenge by throwing Shane into the WWF logo just above the arena entrance. The young McMahon books a revenge match, pitting Show in a 6-on-1 handicap against Test, Albert, Boss Man, Bull Buchanan, X-Pac, and Road Dogg. Not content with these odds, Shane interferes with a chairshot to the back. He then delivers a (hilariously assisted) chokeslam to Show, leaping off a chair with the other six men helping to support him. 3. No Disqualification Falls Count Anywhere Match: Shane McMahon vs Big Show Show looks mean as he enters, while Shane is hilariously composed inside the ring. As Big Show nears the bottom of the ramp Shane flies over the top rope onto him! Big mistake. Show catches him and runs into the ringpost. Shane goes for a hard ride into the steps before taking a powerslam right onto them. The McMahon gets clotheslined into the crowd, before being lifted out and gorilla pressed back into the ring. Show kicks him around the ring for a while before calling for the Chokeslam early. Suddenly Boss Man is out, nightstick in hand! He aims a few swings at Big Show's leg, occasionally pausing to twirl the weapon (almost dropping it at one point, which would have been hilarious). Boss Man winds up for a big shot to the head, but Show blocks it and drops the henchman with a couple of huge headbutts. Test and Albert are out now with chairs. Test swings WILDLY and misses, and Big Show is able to punch both chairs back in their faces. Test was awesome there for that brief little segment. He does the BEST failed run-ins, it seems. Trish is in the ring now and low blows Show from behind. Idiot. The last time we saw Trish, remember, she was being carted off in an ambulance for messing with Bubba Ray Dudley. She just doesn't learn. Show snatches her up and throws her over the top onto T&A. Show leaves the ring and runs through the recovering T&A with a double clothesline, setting his sights on Shane crawling to safety up the ramp. He hurls the McMahon HIGH into a part of the set, before ripping out a section of scaffolding. Shane recovers in time to leap up, grab the roof of the entrance tunnel, and swing his feet into the advancing Show. He's got hopssss. T&A are back on the scene to beat down Show for a while, although I have no idea where Big Boss Man is. Poor henchmanning. Show is back up and swipes the pair away. Test races back in with a loving CINDERBLOCK and misses horribly. It shatters on the floor. He is trying SO HARD to be a good henchman. The pair get thrown around for a while as Shane climbs to safety up the scaffolding. Heh, "safety". We'll see how that works out for him. Big Show grabs Shane by the heel but Bull Buchanan is out from the back with a nighstick and beats the giant down. Shane wisely clambers down from his lofty perch and pushes a HUGE amplifier right onto Big Show's leg, trapping him. Sparks are going off. This looks ugly (in an effective way). Bull sits atop the amp and pushes down on Show's leg while Shane fetches a cinderblock...and SMASHES it over Show's head! That's more than enough for the three. Winner: Shane McMahon 1/5 - A fairly ugly clusterfuck, but one executed pretty well. Can't really be considered a good match by any stretch of the imagination, but the amplifier and cinderblock were excellent choices of weapons. I'm actually surprised cinderblocks haven't been used more in wrestling. They look fairly easy to make safe, yet still seem dangerous as hell if the wrestlers sell the weight of them properly. Bull helps Shane victoriously to the back while a host of refs and backstage oddbods come out to free Show from the amplifier. Is that a Sgt. Slaughter sighting? JGKing fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Dec 18, 2013 |
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Judgement Day - May 21st 2000 PART 2 Big Show gets loaded into an ambulance in the aftermath of his loss. We cut to Brisco, still sneaking around backstage with his Hardcore belt. He asks a couple of referees if he can sit and relax with them for a second, and they give up a chair for him. Brisco dozes off and the refs begin to sneak up on him, but he jolts awake in a paranoid fury. The refs say they were only joking but he doesn't look convinced, and rushes out of the room. Triple H and HBK are catching up backstage. They seem to be getting on really well. Ominous for The Rock. The last we saw of the Intercontinental Championship it was in the hands of Jericho, but now it seems as though Benoit has won it back at some stage. A hype video rolls showing the growing feud between the pair. Benoit grants Jericho a title shot on the condition that it's fought under the stipulation of a submission match. We see a montage of the Walls and the Crossface, while JR and King muse over which is the better finisher. Finally we see a vicious beatdown of Chris Benoit by temporary tag partner Hardcore Holly on the latest Smackdown. Nobody really explains why, but I'm guessing it's because they lost their match and Holly is an angry bastard. Anyway, he goes to town on Benoit's leg with a steel chair. 4. WWF Intercontinental Championship Submission Match: Chris Benoit (c) vs Chris Jericho Jericho comes out to a huge ovation. Benoit comes out to near silence. The champ wins the opening brawl and fires off some loud chops in the corner, but Y2J reverses the momentum with a bulldog and some chops of his own. He whips Benoit into the ropes and applies his true finisher, the ARMBAR! The crowd pops momentarily, thinking he's going for the Crossface, but they settle down once they realise. Benoit wriggles free and goes for...a Tombstone Piledriver!? JR sounds just as confused, but Jericho leans back and reverses the move, landing on his feet. Benoit does the same and has Y2J in position again, but settles for a shoulder breaker. Should have just dropped him with the Tombstone. Would have been brutal. The Rabid Wolverine heads up top and connects with the Diving Headbutt, before slapping on some kind of arm triangle. Jericho struggles to his feet and trips Benoit's legs, but the champ kicks him away before the Walls can be applied. Good match so far. Benoit tries to catch a breather on the apron but Jericho hits his springboard dropkick, and the champ drops heavily! Ouch. We cut very suddenly to Val Venis watching in the back. Apparently he's facing the winner on the next Raw. Um, good luck Val. Jericho smacks Benoit with a chop on the outside, but the Wolverine retorts with a hard whip into the steps, sending them flying. Oh wowww, Benoit sets one half of the steps vertically and looks to ram Jericho into it, but Y2J lifts him up and drops him knee-first onto them! Back in the ring, Jericho hits a double-underhook backbreaker but goes for the pin! Sillyyy. The ref has to remind him, before the pair resume their favourite pastime: a chop battle in the corner. Mannn it is brutal! Jericho wisely ends it with a punch to the head and whips Benoit to the opposite side. The Wolverine moves, however, and Jericho goes all the way through the turnbuckles to the ring post. I should note that Jericho's shoulder has been taking a beating as this has gone on, as has Benoit's leg. Foreshadowing, you guys. Benoit stiffens up his work, wrenching on Jericho's shoulder for a while before hitting a few more chops and a nasty clothesline. Y2J is getting his rear end kicked out there. He applies an armbar (the MMA kind, not the Jericho kind) but Jericho is able to drape a foot over the bottom rope. We cut now to Hardcore Holly, also watching the match. In his dressing room, alone, shirtless, and sitting far too close to the TV. Slightly creepy. JR mentions that he too would love a title shot. They're doing a good job of making the belt seem valuable here; imagine that happening in today's WWE. It would be great. Back in the ring, Jericho takes Benoit down and scrabbles at his leg. He pulls the champ's knee brace off and whips him with it. Benoit gets up and Y2J clocks him in the head with the brace, before attempting to lock in a figure four. Benoit gets him off with a few hard boots to the head, but Jericho comes back with a low dropkick to the knee. BEAUTIFUL Lionsault out of nowhere, and Jericho drapes Benoit over the top rope. He applies the Walls of Jericho over the top rope! It kind of looks like a reverse Tarantula. Awesome! Benoit screams in pain, but manages to haul himself up and fight Y2J off with rights. Jericho tries to apply the Walls again but Benoit rolls smartly away. He hits two Germans, but Y2J fights out of the third and trips him again! Benoit doesn't allow Jericho to turn into the Walls, instead flopping across the ring and grabbing the discarded knee brace from earlier, using it to clock Y2J in the forehad. Jericho is reeling and Benoit drags him into the Crossface! Jericho inches towards the ropes, so Benoit releases the hold and drags him further away before re-applying! I'll note here that the crowd are dead whenever Benoit has the upper hand, and electric when its Jericho. Y2J lifts Benoit's hands off his face, but the Wolverine simply beats him down again before slapping the finisher back on. Jericho this time pulls his opponent's hands down, but they get trapped around his neck. Benoit wrenches back and chokes out Y2J, and the referee calls for the bell. The crowd is silent. Winner and STILL Intercontinental Champion: Chris Benoit 2.5/5 - A fantastic match deserving of a higher score, but one severely hamstrung by its ending. What's the point of a submission match if the finish isn't a submission? Great work by these two, however, particularly Benoit. Just slightly baffling booking. Benoit keeps the Crossface locked on as referees struggle to break it up. He finally lets go and Jericho is well and truly out cold. As unhappy I am with this booking, its one saving grace is that it makes Benoit look like a monster without Jericho tapping out. Brisco is backstage being interviewed by Michael Cole. He talks about the constant fear that comes with defending the Hardcore Championship. As he talks, a couple of backstage workers carrying trays of food and coffee wander into a view and notice him. They strike up a plan and usher over a referee, but just as they're about to attack, Brisco notices them and breaks off his interview. He kicks rear end, leaving both men drenched in coffee and popcorn before storming off. A true champion. The Rock is backstage talking angrily to Shawn Michaels. He warns HBK to call the match right down the midddle. If not, then he'll deal with Michaels himself, and it certainly won't take sixty minutes. Rocky strides away and HBK doesn't seem too intimidated, rolling his eyes. We see a replay of Tori confirming her status as biggest badass in the WWF last Monday on Raw, splashing Bubba Ray Dudley through a table from the top turnbuckle to the outside. Bubba is desperate for revenge, it seems. 5. Table Match: Degeneration X vs The Dudley Boyz D-Von wins the opening exchange with Road Dogg, but the DX man is able to stop him leaving the ring to get a table, and tags X Pac in. Pac squares off with Bubba and eats a couple of rights, but he stops the Dudley's charge with a spinning heel kick. Pac goes for a table now, but Bubba is out to drag him back into the ring. He decapitates X Pac with a jumping clothesline from the second rope (that man knows his limits), before holding his opponent's legs apart for the Wassup headbutt. Road Dogg enters the ring to help out, but suffers a powerslam from Bubba and a second Wassup headbutt for his troubles. DX bail and seem to have had enough, walking up the ramp in tandem. The Dudleys are not amused and chase them down, dragging them back down the ramp as Tori keeps her distance. Bubba channels his inner action hero, prefacing his punch to X Pac with an earnest "EAT THIS!". DX make it back to the ring and double team D-Von, because Bubba is too busy staring at Tori on the outside. Focus, Ray! X Pac kicks D-Von down in the corner and hits the Bronco Buster. Road Dogg tells Bubba to "suck it", which causes the Dudley to charge the ring and be intercepted by the ref. This of course allows DX to double-team D-Von some more. If I was D-Von my patience would have worn very thin over the years. X Pac takes D-Von's head off with a big spinning heel kick, but the Dudley fights back with a double clothesline on both DX members. Bubba gets the tag and is in like a house on fire, whipping X Pac into the ropes and managing to scream "SUCK IT!" (complete with the hand motion) before Pac reaches him on the rebound. BIG sidewalk slam follows, before Road Dogg gets drilled with the Bubba Bomb. X Pac gets dropped again, this time with a Samoan drop, and the Dudleys bring a trio of tables into the ring to the crowd's delight. FUCKK! Road Dogg whips D-Von into the ring steps headfirst, and it's maybe the most brutal spot of that kind I can remember seeing. Road Dogg sets up a table on the outside and climbs atop what remains of the steps. He hooks up D-Von and... ... HITS HIS FINISHER (for the second PPV in a row) THROUGH THE TABLE! D-Von is out, and Road Dogg is a badass all of a sudden. X Pac sets up D-Von against a table in the corner of the ring, looking for the Bronco Buster (although I'm not sure why; Bubba's the man yet to be eliminated). He sets off running, but Bubba drags him down by the hair from behind. The two scuffle back and forth in the ring, and Pac whips Ray into the ropes....and solidifies himself as the stupidest man in the WWF, attempting a hurricanrana on a charging Bubba Ray with a table RIGHT BEHIND HIM. Powerbomb. SPLAT! X Pac is outta there. Gerald Brisco makes his way down to the ring, Hardcore belt around his waist. Meanwhile, Bubba and Road Dogg exchange right hands in the ring, but the ref tries to break it up for some unknown reason. The pair look at him...and deliver a double hiptoss into the table in the corner! #AttitudeEra. Road Dogg goes for a high five, but Bubba responds with a slightly less friendly DDT. The Dudleys use Road Dogg to demolish a third table, courtesy of the 3D, but the ref is too dead to see it. Tori very stupidly gets in the ring with both Dudleys and tries to slap Bubba. He catches her arm and clambers with her up turnbuckles while D-Von fetches another table. Tori is about to be driven through...when Brisco darts into the ring and pulls her down! X Pac scoots up and hits a top rope X Factor on Bubba, driving him face first through the table! DX wins! Winners: Degeneration X 2/5 - A very silly, chaotic, but ultimately enjoyable matchup. Brisco's involvement is a little baffling. I'm assuming it's because he, like DX, is affiliated with the McMahon-Helmsley faction, but we'll see if anything else is revealed in the aftermath of the match. DX and Tori clear out of the ring and head to the back, while Brisco stays in the ring and taunts the downed Bubba Ray with multiple "suck it"s. D-Von hits him from behind and the Dudleys deliver yet another 3D, this time to the Hardcore champion. Um, one of them might as well cover Brisco and take his belt, but neither really seem eager to. A mysterious video airs in which three little girls recite "Now I lay me down to sleep", before Kid Rock's "American Badass" kicks in, and the words "His Judgement Day is coming" float across the screen. Well, I wonder which inactive superstar that could herald the return of. I haven't seen Steve Blackman for a while...
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These reviews are great! I tried watching some Attitude Era PPVs but couldn't sit through three hours of them so this is a much better way of looking back on them. Keep it up!
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Judgement Day - May 21st 2000 PART 3 Hello, I'm back. Sorry about the extensive delay - here are two excuses. Choose your favourite. 1. I took a hiatus from this thread when real life interfered, but now it's the Christmas holidays and I have a lot of spare time to work with. 2. It has taken me several months (and an extensive training regime) to work up the courage to wade through the upcoming contest. Either way, I'm afraid it's almost time for that most gruelling of mistresses, the iron man match. The only order of business left to get out of the way is the obligatory HYPE PACKAGE~! We get a recap of The Rock winning the title at Backlash, although Austin's considerable assist is left out. Shawn Michaels' inclusion is shown, but his loyalties remain ambiguous. We see him shove Vince to the canvas on a recent Smackdown, but we also see a flashback to him costing Rocky the belt back during A TV match during Triple H's previous reign. Rock demands that he call this one right down the middle. Triple H warns HBK that if he doesn't call the match "the way it should be", he will ensure that his old stablemate has "no future". Hmm. That doesn't really fit well with their buddy act back in part 1 of this review. The video closes on Trips reminding everybody of the conditions of the match, interspersed with The Rock shouting "BRING IT!". It's unintentionally hilarious. "One hour." "BRING IT." "The one with the most falls at the end wins." "BRING IT." "Pinfalls." "BRING IT." "Submissions." "BRING IT." "Countouts." "BRING IT." "Disqualifications." "BRING IT." "One hour." Well I don't know about you, but I am exhausted and the match hasn't even begun. 6. WWF Championship 60 Minute Iron Man Match: The Rock (c) vs Triple H (Special Guest Referee - Shawn Michaels) Michaels is the first out, and JR brings up some interesting history. This is only the second Iron Man of the modern era, the first being HBK's 1-0 overtime win against Bret Hart. Aww, Shawn shakes hands with the Fink. Lovely. And now... "One two. Is this on?" It's HIS TIIIIIME. The challenger is out with Steph, Shane, and Vince in tow. They're really stacking the deck here. Shane hasn't even tried to hide his intention to get involved, wearing elbow pads and gym attire. King says "For lack of a better term, you can't go out and shoot your wad in the first ten minutes of this match." Thanks for that, Jerry. Triple H grabs a mic and asks the McMahons to go to the back, claiming that he wants to do this himself, one on one. That's surprisingly noble of him. Michaels lurks nearby though, serving as a reminder of potential shenanigans. The Rock's theme kicks in to a rapturous ovation, and the champ himself comes stalking down to the ring. The two men go forehead to forehead as the clock starts. The pair lock up and grapple into a corner. They fight for position for a long time before shoving one another hard in the chest. Stalling for time already, boys? Rocky slaps on a headlock which Trips slowly reverses, bending the champ backwards until his head touches the canvas. King doubts the Rock's chances here, revealing that his longest match to date was only thirty minutes long in 1998. Lawler's research game is on point tonight. Rocky strains all the way back to a vertical base and reapplies the headlock. HHH is whipped into the ropes and floored with a couple of shoulder blocks, each only getting a two count. An inside cradle also gets a near fall, and the challenger rolls to the outside for a break. It's smart, but the crowd hate it. He's back in now, and a short rope-running sequence ends with the champ SMACKING Trips with a big right hand - perhaps the first true strike of the bout so far. The challenger is back out to regroup again, but returns to the apron to berate HBK for counting too quickly. Shawn shrugs and continues his count, much to his buddy's frustration. Back in the ring now and JR contrasts the "strategic" style of the Game with the "instinctive" style of the Rock. I miss the days of good commentary like this. Rocky slaps on that headlock again before hitting the ropes and charging at the Game. Triple H goes for a leapfrog but the champ simply comes to a standstill, rocking his opponent with an immediate right hand once his feet hit the canvas. The Game seizes control by countering another charge with an elbow, before drilling Rocky with a clothesline. Although I admire these guys for taking part in such a gruelling match, it's all been incredibly slow and basic so far. Triple H applies an ARMBAR but the Rock battles out of it and...is taken down again by the Game, who rolls into a two count pinfall attempt. Trips applies another resthold, while I muse about which current WWE wrestlers I'd like to see in a 60 minute Iron Man. The Rock slowly, slowly, SLOWLY fights out just as I've narrowed my choices down to CM Punk and Dean Ambrose. He lights up the challenger with a few rights before whipping him into the ropes, but FOOLISHLY goes for a back body drop, allowing Triple H to simply boot him in the face. Rock staggers back, Triple H hits another set of ropes and charges...ROCK BOTTOM! The crowd erupts as something of note finally happens! 1...2...3! 1-0 to The Rock with just over ten minutes gone, and the Game wisely rolls out to the floor to avoid further punishment. Rock is straight out after him, however, and slams his head into the crowd barrier. JR informs us that there is no rest period between falls (wrestlers were real men back in 2000) as the pair fight up the ramp, whipping one another into the guardrail as they go. This section of the arena seems to be populated exclusively by screaming girls, which is strange because there only appear to be goons as far as the eye can see - not even a stunt granny in sight. Triple H seems to have won this particular exchange, and drags The Rock back down towards the ring. He lines him up against the railing and tries a running knee, but Rocky dives out of the way and Trips' leg crashes painfully into the crowd barrier. The Rock rolls inside the ring and catches a slowly following Triple H on the apron, lifting him with a big vertical suplex back into the ring. JR and King reveal that there is no overtime in this match; the Rock will retain in the event of a tie. Effectively he has a two fall lead. They head back outside the ring and Rocky begins to work over the legs of Triple H, smashing them into the steps, going after them with stomps, and so on. Very tactical, sir. OH WOW, here's something different. Rocky drags HHH back into the ring and applies a figure four leglock! And it's NOT TERRIBLE! Certainly not Miz territory. Triple H grabs at Shawn for leverage, but the guest referee very fairly moves out of the way. JR muses whether it might be prudent for the challenger to submit, saving his legs in the long run at the expense of a two fall deficit. King disagrees, but doesn't really explain why. JR smacks him down further. Yeah. Sit down, King. Slowly, excruciatingly, Triple H manages to reverse the hold by rolling onto his stomach. The pair roll further and end up tangled in the ropes, forcing HBK to break it off. Rocky drags his opponent over to the announce table area and the Game can barely stand, but he does manage to clothesline the champ over the barrier into a section of the crowd. He goes in after him (followed by a hilariously flustered HBK) and the pair brawl among the sea of humanity. A lifesize cutout of The Rock is waved very close to the man himself, which makes for quite an interesting visual. More interesting than this crowd spot, anyway. They make it back to the ring finally, just as the twenty minute mark passes. Triple H nails a vertical suplex followed by an elbow drop, but can't make the pinfall count. I don't want to say the Game has looked sloppy in this match - he hasn't exactly botched anything - but his movements have been slightly more ragged than usual. The Rock is about the same as always, albeit at an occasionally slower pace due to the nature of the stipulation. Rock gets hurled right over the top rope, his back crashing into the announce table as he rolls on the floor. Triple H follows him out and lines up a whip into the ring steps...which is reversed! Ughhhhh, knees first. Not quite Foley-levels of painful step bumps, but still not a pleasant looking experience. Rocky slaps on a leglock back in the ring, and King praises him for defying expectations and actually pacing himself, as well as wearing down the (usually more cerebral) Game. Triple H muscles out of the leglock, but Rocky tries to apply another figure four instead. The Game kicks him away and scrambles to his feet, before catching him with the PEDIGREE! That gets the three count and we're tied at 1-1! Triple H doesn't go for another immediate pinfall, instead opting to blatantly choke the Rock on the ground. Michaels drags him off, and Rock is able to whip HHH into the ropes...only for the game to come back with a (really slow, lovely) inside cradle for a three count! 2-1 to the Game, and Louisville is stunned into silence. They know wrestling is fake, right? Rock is looking pretty exhausted now, only able to fend off a further assault from Trips with a few instinctive rights. They end up back on the outside where the Game re-establishes control, sending the Rock staggering back up the ramp. This time they make it all the way up to the stage where Rock is able to reverse an Irish whip, sending the Game clanging into a part of the set before DRILLING him with a big clothesline on the rebound. HHH is able to deliver a counter of his own, reversing a suplex and sending the Rock crashing back-first onto the hard floor. They stagger back down towards ringside and...yeesh...Rocky hits an awful back suplex on the Game. I'm not sure whose fault that was, but these guys are looking tired now. The clock signals that half of the match has passed, and I think that's a good time to break off before the final part of this Judgement Day review. Well. It hasn't been awful so far, but it's hardly been compelling stuff either. Poor to average, I'd say. 2-1 to Triple H. I WONDER WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN!
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Nice, it's cool to see this isn't dead. As someone who was too young to be watching at the time, I really enjoy reading this.
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The TV was good around this time still. I kinda enjoyed it more than the PPVs because the angles and such were fun, even if every main event was Rock v Someone w/ HHH in a steel cage. I agree with getting the belt of Rock, he was a better chaser than champion as a face, but I don't like having to go an hour leading to a screwy finish. edit: And I'm 99% sure Jericho had been buried on RAW by now thus ending his chance at being the next whomever.
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That Jericho/Benoit finish pissed me off on my re-watching of WWF last year. Jericho comes out on Raw the next night, makes fun of Benoit for only making him pass out and not making him tap out, and says he never really lost the match. Benoit beat you up so bad you passed out in his hold, Jericho! In a world where we are familiar with MMA, this whole thing is so dumb.
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Judgement Day - May 21st 2000 PART 4 6. WWF Championship 60 Minute Iron Man Match: The Rock (c) vs Triple H (Special Guest Referee - Shawn Michaels) - CONTD We rejoin the match with both men crumpled towards the bottom of the entrance ramp, following The Rock's AWFUL back suplex on Triple H. The challenger is currently 2-1 ahead, with half an hour left to go. Michaels has called it down the middle so far. Triple H manages to get back to his feet and unwisely charges at Rocky, who drops his head and backdrops the Game right onto the ramp. "How much more can his chiselled anatomy take?" muses JR. They fight back into the ring where the Game manages to hit his trademark facebuster. Usually I'd take this as a sign that the match is nearing its closing stages, but we still have just under thirty minutes to go. The Rock is groggy, and Triple H sets him up for the Pedig...no...for a PILEDRIVER!? Nice! 1...2...3! 3-1 to the challenger now, as Lawler admires the effectiveness of the move. Of course he does. HHH sits Rocky in a corner and stomps away like a bastard, but the people's champ explodes out with a clothesline. Triple H regains control with a shoulder block, before heading to the top rope? That's very out of a character, and we immediately see why he rarely goes there, as the Rock strides over and yanks him to the canvas by one arm. Rocky attempts to battle his way back into the match the way any good babyface should - by repeatedly levelling his opponent with right hands - but Triple H runs the ropes and smashes a big high knee into the champ's face. A sleeper hold follows, and the Rock fades fairly quickly. Gee, I wonder whether he'll manage to keep his arm up when Shawn checks on him. He does, but Triple H gets his legs on the ropes to apply further pressure. HBK is furious and begins the five count, but breaks it off at three to simply boot the Game's legs away. Jesus, ref, he had until FIVE. Triple H gets right in Shawn's face (I'm on his side here. He did have until five.), which is just enough distraction for the Rock to regain control with a few rights and a belly-to-belly suplex. It only gets two, however, but Rocky wastes no time in hauling Triple H back up and whipping him into the ropes. He catches him on the return with a thundering DDT, but like all DDTs in the post-Jake era, it only gets tw...oh it gets a three count! 3-2! Back to the outside now, and Rocky lifts Triple H, dropping him headfirst into what initially looks like the ring bell. I say this because it's actually not just the ring bell, but actually a general table of what seems to be the timekeeper's stuff. There's a water bottle on there and some pens or something. I'd be sad if I was him. Trips grabs a chair and lifts it, but Shawn is there to rip it from his grasp! The Rock jumps back into the fray and whips Triple H into the ring steps as earlier...except UGHHHH. This time it's a vicious, vicious bump, low and shoulder-first. Man that looked nasty. Rock capitalizes with a neckbreaker on the outside, while Lawler theorises that Rocky needs to hit "about four or five People's Elbows in a row". Would be continue to remove clothing after both elbow pads were gone? That could get uncomfortable for everybody. Meanwhile, Triple H has had enough of this bullshit, and smashes Rocky with a chairshot. HBK calls for the bell, and it's now 3-3! That's not very cerebral of you, Hunter! OR IS IT! Triple H proves himself far smarter than mere mortals like I, immediately diving into a pinfall on the Rock and gaining an three count (with his legs on the ropes for leverage, mind.) 4-3 now. Rocky is now busted open, and Triple H goes for the sleeper hold again. That's silly, Trips. Never go for a sleeper on a babyface. Surely you know this. Sure enough, Rock gets his arm up at the third time of asking, and battles out of the hold. Oh! But Triple H immediately slaps it on again! Surely the Rock's powers of babyface can't be fading! OH MY WORD, THEY ARE! This match continues to defy my expectations as the champ passes out, granting Triple H a 5-3 lead! HHH refuses to break the hold, forcing Shawn to drag him off by the hair. The pair get into a shoving match and almost come to blows, but the Game thinks better of it and apologises. Suddenly the Rock is on him with rights! He whips Triple H hard, sending him entirely over the top turnbuckle and out of the ring (landing on an incredibly unfortunate cameraman). Shawn seems excited by this. He has always hated cameramen, in fairness. I think he beat up one (kayfabe) during his Hell in a Cell match with 'Taker, and then assaulted one (non-kayfabe) for just being in his way one time, or something? Does anyone know anything about that? Anyway, HBK hates cameramen, and the Rock is still down two falls. He drags Triple H back into the ring, but the Game plants him with a DDT of his own. It only gets two, and HHH decides again to just hand momentum to Rocky by heading up top. The Rock crotches him atop the turnbuckles, but is headbutted down when he attempts to join the challenger up there. He heads up again, undeterred, and manages to HIT A BIG SUPERPLEX! That was thunderous! They head back outside now, and are looking very tired. Rock trips, erm, Trips, and slingshots him into the ringpost, but the Game gains a measure of revenge by whipping Rocky into a pair of steps. He doesn't take the bump as viciously as HHH did. Pussy. Triple H, perhaps angry at this, strips down the announce table and drags the Rock up onto it. He sets him up for the Rock bottom - such hubris! - but the champ elbows his way out...and DRILLS TRIPLE H WITH A PEDIGREE RIGHT ONTO THE TABLE! And it barely moves an inch! Disgustingly painful! The Rock staggers back into the ring, while the Game is unsurprisingly counted out. 5-4, and Trips also shows everybody how to do a proper bladejob, his forehead spewing a lot more crimson than Rocky mustered before. Both men stumble to their feet, Rock inside the ring, Triple H behind the announce table, just as the McMahons make their way cautiously down to the ring. Remember that Trips sent them backstage prior to the start of the match. OH WOW, THERE ARE ONLY THREE MINUTES LEFT! Rejoice! (Seriously though, I appreciate the effort put in by both guys in this match, and there have been some great spots, but the hour long time limit makes for an awful lot of filler and rest periods). Triple H almost gets counted out a second time, but just about makes it back into the ring just before the stroke of ten. The Rock realises that, holy poo poo everybody, there are just over two minutes left, and decides it's probably time to pick up a few falls. He kicks into a higher gear, whipping Triple H around and planting him with a nice DDT. SHANE'S ON THE APRON TO DISTRACT THE CHAMP! Rocky smacks him down, before doing the same to Vince who has hopped up on another side of the ring. Triple H stumbles after the Rock, but gets caught...SPINEBUSTER! The crowd come unstuck as Rocky launches into the most electrifying move in sports entertainment, delivering a People's Elbow big enough to get another pinfall! 5-5, and the champ is set to retain at this rate. Rock stays in the cover, wanting a second pinfall, but Shane drags HBK out of the ring. Uh oh...Shawn looks pissed. Right hand to Shane! Right hand to Vince! Rocky measures Triple H in the ring...but suddenly my boy Road Dogg is on the scene! And is immediately dealt with with a single right hand. Triple H whips Rock into HBK, who had pulled himself up onto the apron. Down goes the ref, leaving him unable to count the pinfall when Rock delivers a big Rock Bottom to the challenger! X-Pac is in now, and he and Road Dogg put boots to the champ. Suddenly the McMahons are swarming the ring...and THAT CREEPY VIDEO MONTAGE PLAYS ON THE TITANTRON! Wow, this is eerie. The little girls drone on about evil and judgement while DX, Vince and Shane take apart the Rock. Shane smashes the champ with that beautiful chairshot of his, but everybody is pretty distracted by the tron. Suddenly...HERE COMES THE UNDERTAKER! What the gently caress!? I was so sure those videos were for Blackman. All the clues were there! Anyway, much to my crushing disappointment, it's not the Lethal Weapon roaring down the ramp on a motorcycle, but the returning Deadman. Except he's not the Deadman now, he's the highly controversial "American Badass" version of 'Taker (Feel free to post your opinions on this gimmick below. I'm sure you all have one). Needless to say, the crowd are going absolutely apeshit as Undertaker clambers off his bike and enters the ring. Right hand to X-Pac, big boot to Road Dogg! Trips is hurled over the top rope! Oh, I feel I should mention. While everybody lost their poo poo as Undertaker made his entrance, Trips DID manage to sneak in an extra Pedigree on the Rock. He'd want you to know. Shane eats a MASSIVE chokeslam, and Vince decides it's time to put a stop to this nonsense. He grabs 'Taker...before immediately realising what the gently caress he's doing, and attempts to run away. No dice. DOWN goes Vince to a big right. THERE'S ONLY HALF A MINUTE LEFT! I'm not sure if Rocky is conscious to appreciate this, but 'Taker appears to be running this match down to a draw, thereby saving his title. A second big chokeslam is dished out, this time to X-Pac, and Road Dogg is just knocked the gently caress out as he attempts a charge. Stephanie's in now, and seems to have forgotten the rule where you don't approach the Undertaker because he will kick your rear end. GOOZLE! Oh! A bloodied, somewhat heroic looking Triple H is on the scene to save his wife, and 'Taker rounds on him in anger. He and Triple H square up - and Trips seems to have forgotten that he LITERALLY HAS SEVEN SECONDS LEFT TO PIN THE ROCK! He charges at 'Taker and eats a huge chokeslam as time runs out. HBK staggers back into the ring (drat he was out for a long time. Maybe special guest refs get affected by ref bumps all the same) and sees Undertaker plant his best buddy with a massive Tombstone. Uh oh. I see where this is going. But surely not... The bell rings...and Finkel announces that the winner of the fall, due to disqualification for outside interference, and NEW...agh. You know the drill. 6-5 Winner and NEW WWF Champion: Triple H 1.5/5 (revised from 0.5) - This deserved better. It really did. For all the flaws of the match (often sloppy, incredibly drawn out, packed with filler) both men put in a massive effort, and delivered some memorable spots - particularly that Pedigree onto the announce table. UNFORTUNATELY, what the gently caress was that booking!? Not only did time run out long before Shawn called for the disqualification, they actually tried to hide this by removing the clock from the screen about five seconds before it expired. To top it all off, Undertaker's return is an absolute belly flop, and he comes across as an utter idiot for costing the Rock his title. Dreadful. Dreadful dreadful. To shove that sort of finish at the end of such a long, patience-testing match is quite frankly an insult to the audience, and that explains the extremely low mark I've awarded it here. Credit to Triple H and The Rock for their efforts, but god drat. That booking. Undertaker looks baffled as Shawn drapes the title over a prone Triple H and bails. He looks like he wants to get the gently caress out of there, especially with 'Taker pursuing him down the ramp. Um, 'Taker, it's kind of your fault too buddy. You big show-stealer, you. If you want to see a run-in done right, take lessons from Austin at Backlash. He got in, saved the day, and got the gently caress out of there. The PPV ends as the triumphant DX and Vince help Triple H back up the entrance ramp, and the Game looks like he has absolutely no idea what has happened. I know how he feels. JGKing fucked around with this message at 03:27 on Dec 20, 2013 |
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Dec 17, 2013 05:48
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You are tough, man. Dave have that match ****, and I would agree. Your criticisms aren't wrong, because there are botches, and it's overbooked and they botched the admittedly bad ending, but .5/5 is pretty cold.
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Dec 17, 2013 06:00
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mkay0 posted:You are tough, man. Dave have that match ****, and I would agree. Your criticisms aren't wrong, because there are botches, and it's overbooked and they botched the admittedly bad ending, but .5/5 is pretty cold. You're right, it is a harsh score, although I'm not at all in the mood to revise it right now. Maybe in the morning after I've slept away the frustration of that ending It's perhaps not 0.5/5, but much of my decision was based on just how terrible the ending was (an effect which I think was worsened greatly by the sheer length of the match). And although the severity of the match rating isn't really based on Trips' and Rock's efforts, I certainly disagree with Meltzer's four stars. It was a very gruelling, often snail-paced match to watch. I appreciate that the wrestling world in 2000 was yet to witness some absolute iron man machines like CM Punk or Samoa Joe, and that standards would have been overall lower, but there was really nothing about this match that made it anywhere near the quality of the great matches I've covered so far (both HHH vs Foley matches and the triangle ladder match, for example). It was really quite a plodder, punctuated by the occasional fantastic spot, but also by its fair share of sloppy moments. Neither man was on his a-game here, particularly Triple H. For now my decision stands, although I may throw a few extra points in its direction once I feel less bitter. As always, thanks for your feedback and thoughts, and of course for reading (that goes for everybody, too).
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Dec 17, 2013 06:19
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I think the problem with this match is it is a huge waste of time if you know the result. Unlike say the Steamboat/Flair matches which are still great matches to watch if you know what happens, this one is like "Yeah, meaninglessly trade falls for 55 minutes then Undertaker comes in and costs the finish" and I know that you could do a better match only going 30 minutes, or just a standard match or a different gimmick. I think it gets three and a half stars for effort, and not being a complete poo poo show, and probably gets that extra half star just because of it being a good spectacle (like everything from this period). I mean, at the end of the day, you're saying it's not as good as Shane v Show and I think that is probably incorrect, but that's my point of view. I will admit that Show v Shane didn't waste my time so much.
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Dec 17, 2013 09:54
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LordPants posted:I think the problem with this match is it is a huge waste of time if you know the result. This is the issue with Ironman matches in general for me. It's not like watching a hockey game or something, I know nothing matters in an Ironman match until the last 10 minutes or so.
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Dec 17, 2013 16:29
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steamboat and rude did a 30 minute iron man match at beach blast that was absolutely perfect
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Is the consensus among PSPers that the Brock-Angle Ironman was better than the HHH-Rock one?
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