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Rebellion – December 2nd 2000 PART 4 SAVE_US.MAINEVENT JR reminds us of the no-DQ stipulation inherent within multi-man matches. Tazz bets that the title is about to change hands right here in England. Somehow I doubt it. Rikishi is out in a lovely white robe to kick us off. 9. WWF Championship: Kurt Angle (c) vs Rikishi vs The Rock vs Stone Cold Steve Austin Rikishi looks bored. Angle looks terrified. The Rock looks intense. Austin is last out, and he loving looks like Austin. He stomps down the ramp and makes a signal to the Rock...and they both charge the heels! Rocky and Rikishi spill to the outside, while Austin drills the champ with a clumsy spinebuster in the ring. 1...2...NEAR FALL! I don't even think the crowd would have complained had Stone Cold won the title in that manner. Rikishi drags Austin to the outside, somehow forgetting the golden rule that you never EVER brawl with Stone Cold. He nearly killed Triple H last month, remember? Rock storms into the ring and scores a near fall of his own on the champ, hitting a big Samoan drop for two. Kurt goes for a ride over the top rope, while Austin and Rikishi slide back in. The two faces play heel-tennis with 'Kish and stick the boots in together. Angle, meanwhile, has collected his belt and is getting the gently caress out of there. Rocky chases him down while Austin hits the Lou Thesz press on Rikishi! Punches and punches and punches and punches and punches. Angle's back in the ring...Thesz press to Angle! More punches and punches. Rock tees off on Rikishi and drops him with a flying clothesline. We cut briefly to Austin merrily choking out Kurt with a cable from the announce table, then back to the ring where Rikishi squashes the People's champion in the corner. The Rock slumps down into prime Stink Face territory, but he avoids the move with a shameless low blow. Spinebuster! The crowd come unstuck. Off comes the elbow pad...People's Elbow connects! 1...2...Angle's in to save his title! The heels briefly take control and slow the match down, but the faces soon fight back and dump both opponents out of the ring. Rock and Austin meet in the centre of the ring and the crowd are engrossed. They exchange a few words and look to be reaching an agreement...but snap into action with right hands! Austin gets the upper hand but Rocky ducks a wild haymaker and begins to lay the smackdown. Now it's Stone Cold who ducks a huge right...boot to the gut! STUNNER! (I hate the way The Rock sells that move, but we'll ignore that for now). 1...2...Angle is in to save his title again! Everybody exchanges near falls and the heels regain control of the match once more. They whip Austin into the corner, but he barrels out with consecutive clotheslines to both men (Rikishi even does his outrageous flipping sell)! Stone Cold drags the champ into the corner by the scruff of the neck and proceeds to stomp a mudhole. He backs up...STRAIGHT INTO THE ROCK BOTTOM! 1...2...Rikishi pulls Hebner out of the ring! Rock glares over the top rope in fury...and Angle sneaks up behind with the Olympic Slam! He makes the cover but Hebner is still arguing with Rikishi outside! He slides in after a few seconds...but The Rock kicks out at two and a half! Schoolboy rollup by Austin on the champ! 1...2...another near fall! The crowd erupt in outrage as Edge and Christian scamper down the ramp. They hop up onto the apron but Stone Cold knocks them off with a couple of stinging rights. He slides out to kick their asses, leaving Rocky and Rikishi alone. The Rock grabs his fellow Samoan by the wrist and yanks him fluidly into another Rock Bottom! 1...2...Edge slides in and drags him off! He and Christian take the Rock over to the announce table and begin to beat him down. Meanwhile, Austin has rejoined Rikishi in the ring. STUNNER! Before he can even make the cover, Saturn and Guerrero race down the ramp and jump on him! They drag him to the outside and hold him against the crowd barrier. Here comes Kurt! Rikishi staggers to his feet...Olympic Slam on the big man! 1...2...3! Winner and STILL WWF Champion: Kurt Angle 3.5/5 - Maybe it's just relative to the lacklustre undercard, but this match was entertaining as hell. Really quite short for a title match, and suffering from a really cheap finish, but I still deem it worthy of 3.5 stars due to its neckbreaking speed. This was 100mph from the off; Austin and The Rock were absolutely tireless. Angle and Rikishi were willing to grab onto their coattails and hang along for the ride, selling admirably. Angle grabs his title and celebrates up the ramp to the back while the heel henchmen continue their beatdown, joined by Malenko and Benoit. Edge and Christian may have gotten out of dodge, which would be wise on their part. STUNNER to Malenko! ROCK BOTTOM to Saturn! Austin snatches Eddie and hurls him into the Rock's clutches for a second Rock Bottom! Benoit helps drag his soldiers to the back as the two faces stand tall in the middle of the ring...but foolishly decides to charge in himself! He's met with right hands from Rocky and one final Stunner from the Rattlesnake! Surely that's the end. NO! Here comes Guerrero now...and he eats yet another Rock Bottom! Finally the heels realise they're not going to win, and limp to the back. Rocky goes to leave the ring but Austin yanks him back in. The pair do that over-the-top wrestling mime-speak, where they have a very animated conversation to let everybody know what's on their mind. They mime one another's finishers, as if to say "What the hell man!? You hit your finisher on me!?". Again The Rock goes to leave, but Austin calls for beers and demands that he share one with him. He tosses a can to Rocky, who eyes him cautiously from across the ring. FINALLY Stone Cold calls for a mic and says "If you wanna see Stone Cold drink a beer with the Great One, gimme a hell yeah". The response is predictably loud, but I'd rather see them fight to be honest. Never mind. It's a happy ending to close Rebellion.  Summary to follow.
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REBELLION 2000 SUMMARY Match Of The Night Kurt Angle vs Rikishi vs The Rock vs Stone Cold - Easily the most entertaining match on the card, with no other match coming close other than the chaotic Hardcore title match. Everything else was pretty average or poor, sadly. Wrestler Of The Night 1. The Rock - It was as if Rock and Austin had stood backstage and made a pact to save the show. As intense and tireless as I've seen the Brahma Bull. 2. "Stone Cold" Steve Austin - Rocky's second-in-command on this occasion. Slightly less sharp, but equally as explosive. 3. Steve Blackman - The driving force behind an entertaining as hell Hardcore Championship match. 4. Perry Saturn - Performed beyond himself immeasurably. Sold Blackman's poo poo well, and got in some great shots of his own. 5. Chris Benoit - Salvaged an average match from an encounter with a clunky Undertaker. Angle and Rikishi bumped like madmen for Rocky and Austin, and came close to pipping Benoit to fifth place. Elsewhere, Jeff Hardy shone with a few spots in the tag title match, while Jericho looked to be making steps to return to his fantastic self. Wrestler Of The Year Standings 1. Kurt Angle - 26 2. Chris Jericho - 22 3. Triple H - 21 4. The Rock - 20 5. Chris Benoit - 19 6. Jeff Hardy - 14 7. Eddie Guerrero - 10 8. Mick Foley - 9 "Stone Cold" Steve Austin - 9 9. Christian - 6 Bubba Ray Dudley - 6 10. Edge - 5 Rikishi - 5 11. Kane - 4 12. Test - 3 X-Pac - 3 Steve Blackman - 3 13. Matt Hardy - 2 Scotty 2 Hotty - 2 Dean Malenko - 2 Perry Saturn - 2 14. Esse Rios - 1 The Undertaker - 1 REJOICE! Steve Blackman and Perry Saturn, the thread's heart and soul (respectively?) finally make it onto the list! It's genuinely deserved to, as they delivered the second best match of the card. Meanwhile, Rocky bounces into 4th place and Austin continues his sudden surge up the standings. With only one show left as 2000 creeps to a close, Kurt Angle is the clear favourite to win our inaugural Wrestler of the Year championship. However, should Angle have a shocker at Armageddon (and Jericho or Triple H put in great performances), we could see a Y2J win or even a tie! I loving hope not because I haven't thought of a tie-breaker yet. REBELLION 2000 SCORE: 5/10 Rebellion almost sneaked a 6/10, but I had to keep it stuck on 5 due to the lacklustre nature of much of the roster - a similar phenomenon to the awful Insurrextion. On the other hand, the main event was great and the Hardcore bout a lot of fun, while there were enough "okay" matches on the card to drag the show from the mire. Benoit vs Undertaker and Jericho vs Kane were passable, as were the tag title and tables matches. Everything else was disappointing, but the show beat Insurrextion cleary. So we at least have that to be thankful for. I'm pretty sure that means that the north of England is conclusively better than the south, since Rebellion was held in Sheffield and Insurrextion in London. That's surely the case. No questions asked.
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JGKing posted:They return to their feet and Billy is just TOWERING over Eddie. I never realised there was such as size difference there. Is Billy deceptively tall or Eddie deceptively short? Both. Eddie was like 5 foot 8 or so and I think Billy is a legit 6 foot 3 or 4. Billy Gunn is Jack Swagger levels of "this is a pretty big guy."
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Armageddon – December 10th 2000 – Birmingham, Alabama PART 1 We've finally made it, guys! The last show of the year, Armageddon 2000. Our main event is fittingly grand: a six-man Hell in a Cell match for the WWF Championship, pitting our glorious champ Kurt Angle against Stone Cold, The Rock, The Undertaker, Triple H, and Rikishi. I distinctly remember being very excited for this match at school, and really wanting Triple H to win. Sadly, I never got to see the show. Well, 9 year old JGKing buddy, this is for you. Also announced is the blow-off of our distinctly average Jericho vs Kane feud - a Last Man Standing match. We are welcomed by a typically excited JR and an awful RnB version of Sweet Home Alabama in the background. There are several ominous shots of the Cell hanging above the ring, because you can't have a HiaC main event without constantly reminding everybody of it throughout the undercard. Thankfully Lawler is back after Tazz's disastrous PPV début at Rebellion; he and Jim muse about the possibility of multiple careers ending tonight at the hands of the Cell. We flash briefly back to the pre-show Heat, in which Mick Foley promised to resign as commissioner should somebody receive a serious injury tonight. Patterson and Brisco welcome McMahon to the arena as he emerges from his limo. He seems determined to put a stop to the Hell in a Cell match, and limps off into the arena with the help of a cane. I hope we find out the source of that injury. A video package details the beginning of a feud between Team Xtreme and Dean Malenko. Lita faces Malenko for the Light Heavyweight title under the condition that, if he wins, they'll go on a date together. Lita duly loses and we cut to footage of the pair at dinner together. Malenko looks incredibly creepy here, slicked back hair and a douchebag scarf. He urges Lita to confess her feelings for him and she admits that she's incredibly attracted - so much so that she wants him now! Malenko calls for the cheque with hilarious urgency and we now see the pair in a bedroom. Both have changed into incredibly seedy nightwear for some reason. Lita has just one question before they get down to business: "How does your wife feel?". She grabs Malenko's left hand and reveals a wedding ring. Dean tells Lita not to concern herself with that and turns off the lights. She reveals that she actually prefers to do it with the lights on and Malenko duly obliges...AND THE HARDYS ARE IN THE ROOM! Matt smashes a bottle of champagne over his head and Jeff does the same with a lamp. They flip the bed over and pin Dean against the wall before high-tailing it out of there with Lita. 1. Six-Person Elimination Tag Team Match: The Hardy Boyz and Lita vs Dean Malenko, Eddie Guerrero, and Perry Saturn Dean wears a vengeful expression as he stomps to the ring, while Lita looks worried. The Radicalz charge the ring and begin brawling. Dean backs Lita against the ropes but Matt leaps to her rescue after discus-punching Guerrero out of the ring. Back suplex to Malenko! Double-vertical suplex to Saturn, and the Hardys are in control of the opening stages instantly! Lita climbs up top and looks to dive onto Malenko, but Eddie drags his partner out of the ring to safety. Jeff planchas onto both while Saturn goes after Matt in the ring. Haha, oh Perry. Our constant source of amusement throughout this thread delivers again, looking for the tag to Eddie who is too distracted by "Eddie sucks" chants to respond. Fantastic. He finally enters and taunts the crowd, but Matt hits a back suplex while his attention is elsewhere. Guerrero looks to have regained his level of heat from earlier in the thread, which I'm very happy about. He battles back and sets Jeff up on the top rope, looking for a frankensteiner...but Hardy holds on and Guerrero crashes face-first! Lita is in and hits a Twist of Fate! Spectacular Swanton from Jeff, and Eddie is out of there! Jeff Hardy eliminates Eddie Guerrero Saturn whips Hardy into the corner but Jeff flies right back at him with an elaborate corkscrew. Sadly he only brushes Perry, otherwise that would have been a great move. Saturn duly sells it anyway, and Malenko comes in for the save...only to be set up for a Poetry in Motion. The Hardys look quite ragged here. They're flying around as usual, but there have been a few little miscommunications so far. With Eddie gone I fear for the quality of this match going forward. Saturn gets set up for a second Poetry in Motion, but Jeff goes for a splash rather than a heel kick, and he smartly catches the Hardy on his shoulders. Rings of Saturn! 1...2...3! Perry Saturn eliminates Jeff Hardy Perry whips Matt into the ropes where Terri catches his leg on the outside. Yes, she's STILL with Saturn! Matt turns around to yell at her, and turns back RIGHT into a tidy superkick from the Radical! Perry's doing alright here, carrying over his good form from Rebellion. He hooks Matt up for the Rings, but Hardy slips down to his feet and looks for the Twist of Fate...but Saturn counters again and busts out a bridging dragon suplex!? I didn't know he had that in his arsenal. It only gets two, and Matt hits a headscissors before heading up top. Guillotine legdrop from the middle rope only gets two, as Malenko dashes in to break it up with a dropkick to the head. He charges at Matt but gets backdropped to the outside. Twist of Fate to Saturn! Bye bye. Matt Hardy eliminates Perry Saturn Terri isn't too happy about this. She slides into the ring and slaps Matt. SPEAR by Lita ends her participation in the match! She and Matt wave Terri goodbye as she rolls out of the ring, but here comes Malenko from behind! He shoves Matt, sending Lita out through the middle ropes, and rolls up the last remaining Hardy for a quick pinfall. Dean Malenko eliminates Matt Hardy Malenko is seething (relatively. He doesn't have the most expressive face) and aims a boot at Lita. She catches it and sets off to the ropes. NICE headscissors takedown! She hops up on Dean's shoulders and looks for the victory roll, but it only gets two! Malenko charges and eats a boot to the face. Lita heads up top...Moonsault on the standing Malenko! 1...2...oh he kicks out! She's all over him! Back up onto his shoulders but he shakes her off...big DDT from Lita! She heads up top but Dean is up with her. HUGE superplex from Malenko! 1...2...oh he does an Undertaker, pulling her up before the three count. See THIS is where that sort of trick works, Mark. He yells at Lita and pulls her up by the hair. Short-arm clothesline. He drags her up by the hair again - this is brutal. Another short-arm clothesline, followed by a nasty back elbow. He scoops up Lita and hits a backbreaker, followed by another deliberately broken two count. The Texas Cloverleaf is applied, and Lita weakly taps out. Man, that was nasty. Winners: Dean Malenko, Eddie Guerrero, and Perry Saturn 2.5/5 - Fairly sloppy at the start, but each pinfall was the result of an entertaining sequence. That final matchup between Lita and Malenko was really good. He seems like such a heel after that. Malenko keeps the Cloverleaf on slightly too long after the bell. The ref urges him to break it off which he does, but follows it up by tossing Lita casually out of the ring. He celebrates until the Hardys run down and send him scurrying to the back. WOW! Michael Cole moves in on the injured Lita as she writhes in pain against the ring apron. This is the least appropriate time for an interview ever. He asks how she feels and she responds that she knows she can beat Malenko. The Hardys scoop her up and carry her to the back. Lillian Garcia is in the back with Kurt Angle, who is anxiously stretching in preparation for his title defence. She asks if he's ready for potentially the defining moment of his career. He asks if she is Bulgarian, or knows any Bulgarians. She replies that she doesn't. Kurt says that he does, because he beat Bulgarians, Czechoslovakians, Turks, and every other nationality in winning his Olympic gold medal. He's not worried about an eyebrow, a nose, a badass, a fatass, or a redneck. He knows that Foley's career was made and ended by Hell in a Cell, but he's not interested in injuring himself to become famous, because he already IS famous. When he wins tonight, he vows to go back to his room, drink a nice glass of 99% fat free milk, and hop on the next plane out of Alabama. Great promo. We flash back to No Way Out for a brief moment. They replay Triple H backdropping Cactus Jack through the top of the cell into the ring. It looks even more brutal having not seen it for a while. William Regal is out to boos. JR informs us that, having lost the European title in his home country at Rebellion, he subsequently won it back the following night on Raw. Good job Crash. Regal grabs a mic and greets everybody in Birmingham. He knows they'll cheer for his upcoming opponent, as he too is from Alabama. Regal claims, however, that he cares about them more, and is about to impart some wisdom which will enrich their lives forever. He introduces them to the concept of a handkerchief, and suggests they learn to use one. He also says that it's fine to wear overalls, but wash them at least once a week. Finally, he suggests that it's fine to love your farm animals, but [i]loving[i/] your farm animals is completely disgusting and shouldn't be attempted. Hardcore is out to cut him off, to perhaps the biggest pop he'll ever receive. 2. WWF European Championship: William Regal (c) vs Hardcore Holly Holly storms the ring and smashes a running elbow into Regal, who bails. William grabs Hardcore's legs and drags him out of the ring for a messy brawl. Holly goes for a ride into the ringpost, but regains control once they return to the ring with a back suplex. He climbs up top...and goes for a flying nothing on a PRONE opponent!? New levels of foolishness there, as he eats a boot to the chin. Regal clamps on a bow and arrow for a while, which may well be the first I've seen in this thread. He grabs Holly with double underhooks, but the hometown boy slowwwwwwly lifts him up into a suplex counter. They return to their feet and Hardcore does that Hardcore thing, simply punching the other guy for real until he falls down. It works, and he follows up with a surprisingly beautiful dropkick. He hits a hurricanrana, goes for a second, but Regal says "gently caress that" and bombs him to the canvas. The ref has a word with Regal for pretty much no reason...allowing RAVEN TO SLIDE INTO THE RING! RAVEN'S BACK! EVENFLOW DDT TO HOLLY! I'm not sure why. REGAL COVERS! 1...2...3! Winner and STILL WWF European Champion: William Regal 1/5 - Short, slow, and boring. YAY RAVEN though. Hooray. We flash back to Smackdown and see the aftermath of some sort of main event. The heels of tonight's Hell in a Cell (Angle, Triple H, and Rikishi) stand triumphant over the three faces. Suddenly Angle blasts Rikishi with the WWF title, breaking an alliance between the bad guys. Rikishi is being interviewed in the back, and is asked whether Angle's betrayal now makes him concerned over the loyalty of Triple H as well. Rikishi states that whatever happens happens. Should Triple H or any of the other competitors try to prevent him from becoming champion, they'll find out what he's willing to sacrifice: the well-being each and every other man in there. We cut to last Raw, where Ivory is saved from Chyna by her stablemate Val Venis. He clotheslines her right over the announce table, where Ivory dives upon her with right hand after right hand. Booo, those dastardly heels. Booo. 3. Chyna vs Val Venis Chyna slides out of the ring to jump Val as he stomps down the ramp, while Ivory runs for cover. Venis goes for a ride into the ring steps before being shoved into the ring. Chyna drags him into the corner and stomps a Stone Cold-sized mudhole; she's looking intense. A DDT gets two, but Val fights back with a hard Russian legsweep. Chyna goes outside the ring and takes some stomps from Ivory, before getting planted with a double-underhook suplex in the ring. Forgive me if my commentary is boring here; this match is completely uninspiring. Chyna hits a backdrop and a "nice" neckbreaker according to JR. I don't know what match he's watching. Chyna hits a clothesline. Venis hits a powerslam. This is a Pay Per View match, ladies and gentlemen. Val heads up top for the Money Shot, but Chyna rolls out of the way. She hits the ropes where Ivory yanks her feet out from underneath. Chyna climbs out of the ring and Winner: Val Venis 0.5/5 - Not just a TV match, but a really poor TV match. What on earth this was doing on PPV I have no idea. Also, three heel wins in a row has the crowd utterly deflated. Val rolls out of the ring where Ivory tends to him. I don't think he's hurt or exhausted. I think he's just buckled under the emotional weight of how poo poo his match was. Chyna grabs Ivory by the hair and pulls her back into the ring. She sets her up for a powerbomb...but Venis is in to break it up. He hits a powerbomb of his own on Chyna and the heels leave victoriously. Well this is a cheerful PPV. Resistance is futile. The heels will always win. Resistance is futile. The heels will always win.
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Armageddon – December 10th 2000 PART 2 We get another flashback to No Way Out, this time of Cactus Jack hitting Triple H with a flaming 2x4 atop the Cell structure. I get that it was a crazy and recent match, but you'd think they'd delve further into the history of HiaC bouts. Maybe they'll show some HBK vs Taker or Mankind vs Taker later on. Vince and Stephanie are backstage. Steph expresses her concerns over her husband in tonight's main event. She remembers Hunter's last Hell in a Cell against Foley, claiming that he could barely walk afterwards. Vince vows to put a stop the match right now, and storms off in search of the commissioner. We cut to an interview with The Undertaker earlier today, in the middle of the empty arena itself. Surrounded by the Cell structure, 'Taker is asked to give his thoughts. "My thoughts? What do you THINK my thoughts are?". Why do wrestlers take such offence to interview questions? I think each guy in the main event so far has opened his promo by expressing outrage or disgust at the question posed to them. Undertaker claims that he still has visions to this day of the things he's done to men in this cell. He says it brought out a side of him which even scares himself; a side that's almost more animal than it is human. He craves the feeling of taking another man and ripping his face off, grinding it against the steel until the flesh is gone, and all that's left is blood. He reminisces over making Shawn Michaels bleed in the first Hell in a Cell. A brief flashback, in black and white, to Undertaker ramming HBK against the cell wall at Badd Blood 1997. We're back with 'Taker, who now speaks of Shawn dangling from the edge of the cell roof, and wanting to break every finger in his hand to see him fall. Another flashback. Now we see Michaels fall from the cell through the announce table. It's replayed several times Undertaker claims that this was the worst beating anybody had taken in the WWF up until that moment, until he came across Mick Foley at King of the Ring 1998. He points at the ceiling above him, detailing the exact spot where he chokeslammed Mick through. We cut to footage of that event and see Mankind's plummet. It looks as sickening as ever. Back to 'Taker, who claims that they returned to the top of the cell again. Um, I'm pretty certain that the chokeslam was the SECOND bump. Right? Anyway, we see THAT bump. You know the one. Although I'm still sure that came first. One final cut back to the Undertaker who claims that this side of him is what made Mick Foley famous, and made Shawn Michaels even more famous than he already was. The only question is: who is he going to make famous tonight? Jesus Christ that was a long promo. I get that Undertaker has a long history with the Hell in a Cell match, but was such an elaborate segment really necessary? I enjoyed the callbacks to those infamous matches, but I'd much rather they were shown in their own video package than as part of a 'Taker wankfest. "No Chance" hits and Vince struts to the ring, Patterson and Brisco in tow. Turns out he wasn't looking for Foley at all; he's headed out here to do this directly. He apparently made some remarks on the last episode of Smackdown, because he claims that he meant every word. Handily, he goes over them again. He meant it when he said he'd given his life to the WWF fans. He meant it when he looked at Linda and demanded a divorce. He meant it when he told his wife she wasn't good enough for him and never would be (he's a heel guys, did you realise?). He meant it when he expressed genuine concern for the six superstars forced to compete in tonight's main event. Vince is angry at Foley's ignoring of such concern. Therefore tonight - after a pause for the piped in "rear end in a top hat" chants to die down - he comes to us not as owner of the WWF, or as a certified billionaire. He comes to us simply as Vince McMahon: concerned humanitarian. He asks us to join him in preventing Mick Foley from going forward with this Hell in a Cell match. He asks us to contemplate the consequences of the match, and urges those who agree with him to stand up. Not many do (although I totally would if I was in attendance. I find heelish demands directed at the crowd hilarious). One guy stands up and brandishes a sign that simply reads "rear end". I'm not sure who he's branding an rear end. Himself? Vince? Is he simply proclaiming his support of rear end, and all it stands for? Vince gets angry at the lack of support. He calms down and declares that the carnage of tonight's match will not only be on Foley's conscience, but on the conscience of each and every person in attendance as well. Great heeling, especially the phrase "when you see your favourite WWF superstar mired in the afterbirth of this match". Tonight has probably been a high in terms of promos so far in the thread, and we're not even halfway through the event yet. It feels like an age since we last saw some wrestling - and that was Chyna vs Val Venis - but finally we have a video package to lead us into the next match. It's nothing we haven't seen before. Jericho spills coffee on Kane by accident, Kane loses his poo poo, he beats up Y2J at every turn, Y2J beats him up at every turn. Kane wins their first two encounters; can Jericho win the big Last Man Standing match? 4. Last Man Standing Match: Kane vs Chris Jericho Kane is immediately up the ramp to brawl with Jericho as he enters. They brawl back through the curtain and...nothing. There's no camera back there apparently, so nothing happens for a while. We just get a silent crowd waiting for the wrestling to start. Finally we get the action from backstage, as Kane launches a box at Y2J, who narrowly ducks under it. The Big Red Machine slams Jericho into the tailgate of a huge truck, while two construction workers slowly move out of the way. That was fantastic. They just slowly shuffled aside as if the wrestlers had rudely interrupted their lunch break. Kane misses with a shovel shot, and they battle towards some backstage workers. Kane clatters into a huge biker roadie dude (I actually thought it was Undertaker at first), but he's not part of the roster so one uppercut is enough to finish him. They head back through the curtain and down the ramp, finally taking the action into the ring. Jericho goes up top and connects with a nice diving elbow. He clotheslines Kane over the top to the floor and leaps...but Kane catches him and rams him into the ringpost. He keeps hold of Y2J and flips him around, before nailing a nice powerslam on the floor. The referee (it's Teddy Long!) begins the 10 count and Jericho is up at 4. Kane slowly beats Jericho around the ring for a while and this is not as exciting as I thought it would be. He chokes Y2J out and the ref drops his arm three times before ordering the Big Red Machine to drop his opponent. Now he begins the ten count. Interesting. I wonder if that's good refereeing or bad. I've certainly never seen it before in a Last Man Standing match. Jericho regains consciousness at around 6 or 7, but Kane is right back on the attack before he can even reach his feet. Y2J gets whipped into a corner but manages to get a boot up to stop the oncoming charge. He flies into a spinning heel kick...but Kane plucks him out of mid air and hits a suplex! Man he's strong. Jericho's momentum made that a really tough catch, and he still managed to hoist him into the air. Kane misses with an elbow drop and Y2J hits the ropes, this time connecting with that spinning heel kick. The ref looks to begin his count but gets shoved out of the way to make room for a Lionsault...and Kane gets the knees up. This match is finally starting to pick up. The Big Red Machine heads up top and hits his leaping right hand. Jericho is up at 6 and gets dropped instantly with a straight-up punch to the face. He's up at 5 and tells Kane to screw himself, which leads to a HUGE Chokeslam! JR mentions that Kane has moved to a neutral corner to respect this count, which is nice to know. He looks really calm as well, as though the match is won. Does he not know that Jericho has #Heart and #Resiliency? Sure enough he drags himself up at 9, and Kane is angry. He grabs a chair from the outside and hits a gutshot, followed by a smash to the spine. Jericho gets set up for a Tombstone on the chair, but slides out the back and hits a DDT (not on the chair, but it still had impact). Both men stagger to their feet at 6 and Jericho WAFFLES Kane with a chairshot to the head! The Big Red Machine gets up at 6, but gets sat right back down with a missile dropkick. Jericho drags Kane right back up and hits a bulldog, before placing a chair across his ribs and nailing the Lionsault. Both men are down. Y2J is up at 8 and looks to have it won...but KANE DOES HIS SIT-UP AT 9! Jericho charges...and EATS a big boot! Kane takes him outside and beats him back up the ramp. Several cars are flanking the stage area as part of the Armageddon set, and I'm praying somebody gets slammed through a roof or a windshield. Instead Kane stands on a small box or amp or something, and looks to Chokeslam Jericho through a nearby table. Y2J fights, instead leaping off and slamming Kane thr...okay that looked edited as gently caress. What the hell!? Jericho jumped off on the right hand side of Kane, but we immediately cut to their landing with their positions switched. Kane still bore the brunt of the move either way, but I'm not quite sure what that was all about. Jericho's up at 3 and Kane is still down at 7. Teddy breaks off his count however, and tries to stop Jericho pushing a huge stack of barrels onto the Big Red Machine. He fails. Down go the barrels "right onto Kane" according to JR, but there's clearly space underneath the angle created by the barrels and the arena wall for him to avoid the hit. The ref resumes his count from the beginning and this time gets all the way up to 9. Kane's arm comes snaking out from between two barrels trying to grab at Jericho, but he boots the hand away and raises his arm in triumph as the 10 count is made. Winner: Chris Jericho 2/5 - A decent effort by these two, but unfortunately not the compelling of match it could have been. The overwhelming dominance of Kane in the buildup made a Jericho win seem obvious, and although both men performed acceptably, they did little to counteract the natural stop-start nature of the Last Man Standing format. I'm glad the feud is over to be honest Coach is backstage looking for Foley. Debra warns him that Mick is in a very bad mood, but if he wants to try and interview him he can go ahead. We find Foley in his office looking pissed off. Coach asks that after that "sick, brutal Last Man Standing match" (what was he watching?) are there any second thoughts about the upcoming Hell in a Cell. Mick angrily states that yes, the sight of Kane trapped beneath tonnes of barrels doesn't exactly represent a good omen for the main event, but that he feels personally responsible for each of the six men competing in it. He promises that the match will go ahead because the PEOPLE want to see it. This match better be loving good after all this build up. Shawn Michaels is onstage at WWF New York and conducts an interview with JR. He says that nobody can predict how a Cell match is going to go; with one man you can get a rhythm going, but with six guys it's far more difficult. Is this kayfabe or is he talking about match quality!? It sounds about right either way. JR asks what he feels when he thinks about the first Hell in a Cell against 'Taker. HBK speaks of fear, and agrees with Undertaker's earlier sentiments that he becomes a different person in there, "so you've gotta watch him boys and girls". A short clip airs of Undertaker chokeslamming Mankind into the thumbtacks during their Cell match. Can anybody explain to me this whole "let's call the match off" angle they're going with here? I know Vince is a bad guy, but he never seemed overly concerned the wrestlers' safety. Why this sudden change in character?
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Vince's character for a while was essentially "Oh I want these guys to work for me, as my corporate suits" Like he liked Austin, he just wished so much that he would stop fighting him and just go corporate. He, in character, saw the wrestlers as horses that he worked to death and then put out of their misery when he had milked them for everything. So... if he's still that character or got that part of him, then yeah he wouldn't want 6 guys who make him money to die.
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Armageddon – December 10th 2000 PART 3 A flashback to Smackdown shows the Dudleys fooling Right To Censor into believing they're willing to join the stable. Dressed in a shirt and tie, Bubba claims "If putting people through tables is wrong...then I don't want to be right". The Boyz jump RTC and beat them down, culminating in a powerbomb which sends Steven Richards through a table. 5. WWF Tag Team Championship Four Corners Match: Right To Censor (c) vs Edge and Christian vs Road Dogg and K-Kwik vs The Dudley Boyz Woooo, Road Dogg and K-Kwik are back! They perform their terrible entrance music all the way down to the ring and I'm legitimately happy to see them. We get hilarious reaction shots of Goodfather and Christian screwing their faces up in disgust. Here's the theme in case anybody's interested. It'll brighten your day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LusxWv6fptE The tag champs are Goodfather and Bull Buchanan, and they're accompanied by good ol' Stevie Richards. He's not happy to see the Dudleys after their assault a few days ago. RTC jump the Dudleys at the bell and beat them down while everybody else just watches on. Come on Road Dogg and K-Kwik! Don't just stand there, get rowdy! Bull eats a great spinning elbow from D-Von but gets revenge with a big boot. Goodfather gets the tag and hits D-Von with the Ho Train. Bubba interferes and gets set up for a second Train, but explodes out of the corner and DEMOLISHES Goodfather with a clothesline! Road Dogg blind-tags himself in off D-Von, and shoves the Dudley out of the way. Edge similarly tags himself in via Goodfather and sets to work on the former DX man. He fires off some mounted punches before taunting the Dudleys' corner. Bubba doesn't like that, and storms the ring. Christian comes in to even the odds and E&C whip Bubba and Road Dogg into the ropes. The faces simultaneously duck a clothesline each, and perform their dancing punches side by side! That's something I've never thought about, but suddenly I'm glad I've seen it happen. They dance in sync, but turn and try to blast one another at the same time, resulting in a double KO. E&C dive on for a double pinfall, but both manage to kick out at two. K-Kwik gets the tag now and hits a double jumping elbow on Edge with the help of Road Dogg. It's way less badass than it sounds. They grabbed each other's hand and skipped merrily into the elbow drop. Kwik evades Edge because he's so loving agile, flipping away from a charge in the corner and nailing a huge jumping heel kick. E&C slow his roll with some flagrant cheating until Goodfather blind tags in and just slows everything the gently caress down with a horrible resthold-armlock. K-Kwik seems to have picked up a busted lip from somewhere. Bull Buchanan comes in and slams Kwik down on his arm - everybody seems to be working his arm for some reason; did they have a heel meeting backstage? Edge immediately tags himeslf in and Bull is outraged. Every single victim of a blind tag so far has been incredibly offended. Kwik buys some space with a neckbreaker on Edge, and Road Dogg is screaming for the tag. Christian yanks him down off the apron, so Kwik changes direction and dives for the hot tag to Bubba! He clears house in spectacular fashion on E&C, flapjacking Edge HARD into the top rope, and giving a ridiculously huge backdrop to Christian. RTC get involved and suddenly everyone is in the ring. Road Dogg shoves both tag champs to the outside and kneels down, Poetry in Motion style. Kwik uses his back as a platform to fly with a crossbody to the outside, but Buchanan and Goodfather catch him! Big shoulder-breaker from Goodfather! Road Dogg evens the odds with a double clothesline from the apron, and suddenly the match is exciting at last. OH BIG SUPERKICK out of nowhere from Steven Richards, knocking Road Dogg's lights completely out! The Dudleys have E&C alone in the ring, and Edge gets set up for the Wassup diving headbutt. "D-VON! GET THE TABLES!". They do indeed fetch the tables, but instead use them to ram into RTC who are recovering on the entrance ramp. The crowd go completely silent with disappointment. The Dudleys head back into the ring and do that move they stole from the Road Warriors, but Christian yanks Bubba out of the ring as he makes the cover on Edge. Bubba fights him off and slides back in just as Bull Buchanan looks to get involved...and the RTC man eats one of the worst 3Ds you'll ever see, landing directly on Bubba. Goodfather is in now, and takes a far better version of the move. The Dudleys' roll CONTINUES, as they hit a second Wassup headbutt on Christian this time. D-Von heads out of the ring to retrieve the table they left on the ramp...but Richards scoots over and hits a really lovely DDT to intercept him. SPEAR BY EDGE TO BUBBA, who's suddenly isolated in the ring! 1...2...the nearest of near falls! Christian runs over and is tired of loving around. Unprettier! He gets out of there and Edge makes the cover. New champions! Yes! Winners and NEW WWF Tag Team Champions: Edge and Christian 1.5/5 - My boys are champs again! Hooray! It wasn't exactly the prettiest of matches though. Far too many men involved, really chaotic and sloppy, and the crowd were dead for that finish. I don't think the Unprettier is well established enough as a finisher, and even the Spear was greeted with a very muted response (had Edge even used the Spear much by this stage?). Another thing that pissed me off was JR's outrage that Christian wasn't the legal man when he hit his finisher on Bubba. We'd just seen the Dudleys use a weapon, hit multiple diving headbutts to opponents' crotches, and generally bend the rules whenever the ref's back was turned. Excuses excuses, Jim. Edge and Christian celebrate wildly up the ramp, signalling that it's their fourth reign as tag champions. JR is sulking like hell on commentary. He's having a bad day; that's four heel wins out of five. Triple H is backstage in the #HeelLockerRoom with Steph. She's expressing her concern over the danger of the Hell in a Cell match, and mentions how lucky he is to have survived Austin's forklift assault at Survivor Series. I think that's a bad point to bring up - surely it just proves that Triple H is invincible. He might as well go out there and take huge Mankind bumps off the top of the cage onto his opponents as they pass, a sledgehammer in either hand. Trips looks his wife in the eye and tells her that the WWF Championship is the most important thing in his life. He acknowledges that the match with Cactus Jack at No Way Out almost killed him, caused him to spit up blood for a week, and Steph points out that he's been spitting up blood for the past three weeks as a result of Austin's assault. "STEPH IT DOESN'T MATTER!" yells the Game. He vows that he will be the champ again, even if it takes his last breath. The Cell isn't going to stop him, nor Austin, nor any of his opponents. He storms out of the room and Steph is on the verge of tears. We see another clip from No Way Out, this time of Triple H kicking Foley's hand away, causing him to fall directly onto the Spanish announce table. Next up we have an Intercontinental Title match. The champ is out first looking happy and cheerful. I wonder who his opponent i-OH poo poo IT'S BENOIT 6. WWF Intercontinental Championship: Billy Gunn (c) vs Chris Benoit The pair lock up while JR claims that Gunn has the highest vertical leap in the WWF. If that's true he should really utilize it more. We only really see it when he hits the Fame Asser. They run through a fast exchange which has Billy struggling to keep up, but he does admirably and hits a couple of arm drags and a nice drop toe hold. A hiptoss gets two, before Benoit is launched over the top rope to the floor. They brawl on the outside and the challenger gets sent into the ringpost. Gunn charges at him and OH poo poo! Benoit steps aside and shoves him into the steps, and Billy tumbles over headfirst at some speed. Nasty bump, but taken well. They return to the ring and Benoit works the leg for a while, but Gunn slips out of a suplex into a nice sunset flip for two. Billy's doing well here. King and JR are rather fixated by his earrings. JR says that if he was wearing earrings, his daddy would return from wherever he is and kick his butt. King asks if he'd try to rip an opponent's earring off in the ring. JR replies that he might well think about it. This is the same JR who was in fits of rage before at Christian being the illegal man in the ring, freely admitting that he'd be willing to rip a man's ear off to win a wrestling match. A nice dragon screw further hurts Gunn's knee, and Benoit slaps on a figure four leglock. Billy rolls over and reverses the pressure, but Benoit is too near the ropes and breaks the hold. Gunn charges with an attempted splash, but Benoit evades him and hits three big German suplexes. He heads up top for the Diving Headbutt, and Billy rolls out of the way JUST in time. That may have been the closest near-miss I've ever seen from such a spot. Very impressive. Gunn hits a big powerslam and an even bigger military press. He sets Benoit up for the jackhammer and hits it, but it's weaker than usual due to his injured leg. The Fame Asser connects, but again it's soft, and Benoit is able to kick out on the stroke of three. Very good psychology here. Billy looks for the Cobra Clutch...but BENOIT SLIPS HIM DOWN INTO THE CROSSFACE! Gunn struggles and makes the ropes with an outstretched leg. They rise to their feet and Benoit charges...and Billy botches a tilt-a-whirl. I am devastated. He was having such a good match up until that point! They stumble through a few near falls and Billy swings with a wild right hand...only to be taken down into a second Crossface. That's all she wrote. Winner and NEW WWF Intercontinental Champion: Chris Benoit 2/5 - This was good until the last few sequences, which is a shame because these two worked really hard. Still a passable match. Benoit was his usual reliable self, while Billy really stepped up his game to hang with a more talented opponent. Benoit keeps the Crossface on for a few seconds too long, before grabbing his belt and celebrating. We get a clip from earlier today of an intimate interview between Austin and JR. Jim claims that he woke up at 4am thinking about how the Hell in a Cell match ended Mick Foley's career, and drat sure shortened Shawn Michaels' (we'll see about that). How on earth does Austin prepare for such a match. Stone Cold replies that he doesn't think you can prepare. He says he didn't even sleep last night, has spent all day drinking coffee, and just wants to get the drat match started. Jim reminds Austin that both the man who orchestrated last year's assault and the man driving the car will be in the Cell with him tonight, and wonders if it serves as a distraction or a motivation. Austin says it's motivation all the way, but he won't allow himself to be distracted from the ultimate prize: the WWF Championship. 7. WWF Women's Championship Triple Threat Match: Ivory (c) vs Molly Holly vs Trish Stratus Molly goes straight for Trish and throws her around by the hair. CHOP TO THE TITS. Trish fights back and hits a monkey flip out of the corner, but Molly lands on her feet...and Ivory smashes her down with a clothesline! A very well-executed spot there. Ivory and Trish whip Molly into the ropes but she lands a nice double-dropkick on both! Molly for best diva on the roster? It's probably between her and Lita. Just as I say that she hits Ivory with the slowest, ugliest backslide in the world for two. Molly gets hit with a double vertical suplex and the two heels high-five...only for Ivory to turn around and sucker punch Trish in the back of the head! Boooo! The pair squabble and push one another...only for Molly to come off the top and nail both with a flying crossbody for two. Ivory gets thrown out of the ring and Trish looks for a hurricanrana on Molly...but it's reversed into a HARD sitout powerbomb! Ivory's back in and she tosses out Molly, stealing the pinfall on Trish to retain. Winner and STILL WWF Women's Champion: Ivory 1/5 - This wasn't half bad compared to other women's matches in the thread. Molly is clearly a cut above the other two, hitting some pretty nice spots and dictating the flow of the match. While it was far too short to be anything special, the bout didn't really feel like a waste of time on the card. I'm looking at you Kat and Terri. You awful women. Ivory celebrates with her belt, and that's SIX heel victories from seven tonight. Test and Albert come down the ramp and grab Molly, looking for revenge. Crash sprints out and jumps them from behind, before scrambling into the ring and daring them to fight him. Test roars with laughter and the pair step menacingly into the ring...AND THE ACOLYTES MUSIC HITS! The returning pair march down the ramp and into the ring while Crash gets the hell out of there. SPINEBUSTER to Test! Clothesline from Hell to Albert! The heels scuttle to the back while the APA, Crash and Molly stand triumphant. We see another clip of Foley's infamous plummet through the announce table at King of the Ring. The Rock is backstage for an interview. I think this is the one where he imitates all of the other guys in the match. Rocky is sure of three things tonight; he'll sweat, he'll bleed, and he'll whip AAAAAALL his opponents' candy asses. He says that he'll walk into hell and walk out as WWF Champion. If you smell what the Rock is cookin'. He spoke that last line quietly; it was very effective. I'm not sure where that other promo is from. Maybe on a Raw or Smackdown leading up to this event or something. Main event to follow.
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Armageddon – December 10th 2000 PART 4 Main event time. Not quite yet though; first we have a fairly long hype package. Foley describes the hellish scenes we've witnessed in the past year or so. We've seen a conspiracy and vehicular assault. We've seen a man dropped forty feet in a car from a forklift truck. We've even seen our own WWF champion chokeslammed clean off the stage (by Undertaker, whose burial of Angle continues). Foley claims this madness will all come to an end at Armageddon. Vince calls Mick a sadist for booking the match. We see him trying to individually persuade Rock, Undertaker, and Austin to back out of the match, claiming that their injuries would be "a lousy investment" on his part. The faces come to Foley's defence however, giving McMahon a consecutive Stunner, Rock Bottom, and Last Ride on an episode of Raw. Back at ringside the Cell begins to descend... Everybody gets full entrances. Triple H is out first and looks to compose himself before entering the structure, as if remembering his vicious match with Foley at No Way Out. Rikishi is next to almost no reception. Just what is he doing in the main event scene!? Angle looks terrified - no arm-raise for his fireworks - and is extremely hesitant to get inside the cell, especially with Rikishi and Triple H beckoning him forward. Undertaker is debuting his new theme music: Limp Bizkit's "Rollin'". It really takes away from the severity of the situation. Kurt still hasn't entered the cell door. Rock is out to a predictably raucous reception, as is Austin. 8. WWF Championship Hell in a Cell Match: Kurt Angle (c) vs Triple H vs Rikishi vs The Undertaker vs The Rock vs Stone Cold Steve Austin Austin feints entering the cell door, but instead scoots around the side and lays into a cowering Angle! He throws the champion into the fray and everybody begins brawling with one another. They all pair off into Austin vs HHH, Angle vs Taker, and Rock vs Rikishi. Angle and Taker get into the ring, where the champ just gets beaten down with ease. On the outside, Austin hurls Triple H into the cage wall. Expect to see a lot more of those bumps, as well as the obligatory "grind your opponent's face into the mesh" spot. It's Rikishi and Rock's turn in the ring now. The Great One tries to lay the smackdown, but Rikishi fires back with a big right of his own. Rocky hits the ropes and FLIES with a huge leaping clothesline. Austin and Triple H in now, and the latter hits a facebuster. Austin staggers, but instinctively hits a Thesz press on the Game. Elbow drop gets 2, imagine if it had just ended there. Triple H drives a knee into Austin's head and drags him off to the corner to wrap his leg around the ringpost. Meanwhile, Rock lays into the champ and drives him into the canvas with a huge Samoan drop. Nice vertical suplex on the outside by Triple H, slamming Austin into the floor with limited space to work with. Stone Cold does the grindy face on Triple H a lot, cutting him open. He does a grindy face lap of the cell, ending it with a head smash into the steel. Trips is looking worse for wear. Austin tries to roll into the ring but Rikishi drops a leg right over his back as he does so. The Samoan helps Triple H to his feet and they hug it out their alliance seemingly intanct...only for the Game to boot him in the gut and hit the Pedigree! 1...2...The Rock comes out of nowhere to drag him off! Big DDT to Triple H! The Rock looks to capitalise, but here comes Kurt from behind with the Olympic Slam! Austin breaks up the pinfall attempt and nails the champ with a Stunner! Here comes Undertaker to round off the sequence with a (lovely) chokeslam on Stone Cold. Triple H drags 'Taker out of the ring, but the American Badass is pissed and launches the Game into several sections of the cell wall. Back in the ring Rikishi tries to squash Austin in the corner, but the Rattlesnake moves aside and decks him with a clothesline. Thesz press on Rikishi, and a tired series of punches. Suddenly we cut to the entrance ramp. Vince, Patterson, and Brisco appear, standing on the bed of a pickup truck backing down the ramp. Eagle-eyed viewers will notice that this is the same truck that Jericho and Kane battled near to at the beginning of their earlier match. A stooge attaches a cable to the cell door and the truck rips it clean off. Vince demands that they tear the whole cage down, and a cable is attached to the cell wall itself. Foley's music hits and down he comes. By the way, there's a match going on inside the ring. At least I think there is. The cameras are all pointing at the ramp. Foley remonstrates with McMahon who ignores him, so he decks Patterson and Brisco and storms down to ringside. Vince pulls a crowbar and is about to attack Foley when...a horde of police officers come from the back and drag him away. What on earth is going on!? McMahon is dragged through the curtain screaming "I OWN THIS drat PLACE" and other dastardly things. Triple H crawls out of the door and makes his way past the truck, still parked on the entrance ramp. Austin chases after him and knocks him down with a clothesline to the back of the head. They brawl into the mess of cars making up part of the Armageddon set, and Stone Cold blasts the Game with a mounted camera. Triple H is bumping all over the place here. They battle back down the ramp and the Game puts Austin's head through one of the truck's side windows. The rest of the competitors soon join them, and the Rock and Triple H end up brawling on the roof of a car. Rocky looks for the Rock Bottom, but the Game drops down and hits a low blow. PEDIGREE on the car roof! These spots have all been interspersed with the occasional clip of 'Taker beating up Kurt Angle. Of course. The Rock's busted open now, and JR cries out for the match to end. Not two minutes ago he was scolding McMahon for coming out here and trying to stop the match. The most hypocritical man in the WWF, ladies and gentlemen. Undertaker powerslams Angle on the hood of a car, while Austin slingshots Triple H into a different one. Stone Cold picks up a barrel and looks to crush the Game with it, but his target moves out of the way, so the Rattlesnake simply grabs his head and smashes it into the object instead. Undertaker and Kurt have found themselves over by the timekeeper's table in the meantime. 'Taker wraps a wire around Angle's neck and chokes the life out of him. Kurt fights free, grabs a chair, and smashes it over the head of the American Badass. Back at the truck area, Triple H climbs to the roof of the cell to get away from a rampant Austin. Stone Cold marches around the other side of the ring and climbs the opposite wall. The Game peers over the edge of his side, unaware that Austin is right behind him! He notices just in time, and they meet with right hands high above the ring. Stone Cold gets the upper hand and backs Triple H towards the edge of the cell. He pauses, flips him off, and readies one last right hand...but Triple H blocks it and fires back, saving himself from a huge fall! Austin hits the Stunner in the centre of the roof as Angle and Undertaker begin to climb as well, the champ trying to get away from the American Badass. Triple H, incredibly wisely, climbs back down, pursued by Austin. This leaves Angle and 'Taker alone atop the cell, and Undertaker threatens the timekeeper, ordering him to throw a chair up there. He does so in one attempt (bravo), an 'Taker snatches it up eagerly. SMASH! He brains Angle with a huge chairshot, leaving the champ flat out on the roof of the cell. Meanwhile Rock and Rikishi have reappeared on the scene after a lengthy brawl with one another, and Rikishi climbs up the cage hoping to ambush an unsuspecting Undertaker. He smacks the champ and 'Taker about with the chair, and Kurt desperately tries to get away. He begins to clamber down the cell wall with Rikishi looking to follow him down, but Undertaker grabs him from behind. They battle towards the edge of the cage overlooking the pickup truck, and Rikishi teeters. He headbutts Undertaker off his feet, but it barely slows the veteran's roll as he clambers back to a vertical base, grabs the Samoan by the throat...AND SHOVES HIM OFF THE CAGE INTO THE BED OF THE TRUCK! There's a shitload of straw and stuff in there, but it's still a huge bump. He looks to have landed it perfectly though, exactly in the middle of the target. The rest of the competitors have all made their way back inside the cell in the meantime, and now Rock and Austin square off in the middle of the ring. They explode with right hands and Rock looks to lay the smackdown...but Austin ducks and goes for the Stunner! Rock shoves him off just in time and hits a sloppy spinebuster out of desperation. He staggers to his feet for the People's Elbow (throwing the elbow pad even though he's inside a cell?) but Triple H is on the scene to floor him before it can connect. Rocky fights back and lays the smackdown on Trips, knocking him over the top rope to the floor. Angle slides into the ring and charges...RIGHT INTO A ROCK BOTTOM! IS THIS IT? 1...2...Austin breaks it up! Rock swings at Stone Cold who ducks...STUNNER! Rock does his idiotic sell and Austin looks for the cover, but Triple H is back in. He's set up for Stunner as well, but smartly reverses into a neckbreaker. Kurt places a hand on Rocky's chest with everybody else down. 1...2...3!? Winner and STILL WWF Champion: Kurt Angle 2/5 - The most baffling of matches to try and rate. Some parts were good. The opening was frantic, Rikishi's bump was ridiculous, and the final few minutes were good at keeping us guessing. But so much of this match dragged, held back by slow brawling to kill time and set up the occasional big spot. Austin and Triple H absolutely busted their asses here to try and make it work, and the Rock was good for an occasional burst of energy, but the match really often did limp along despite their best efforts. In hindsight, there were far too many people in this match. I think if you pick 2-4 of these guys (maybe not including Rikishi) you have a potential classic, but this was a poor addition to the HiaC canon in truth. Angle's music hits as the four men left in the ring lay battered and beaten. Hey, why didn't Undertaker come back down from the top of the cage to try and win!? We didn't see him again for the rest of the match. Was he just chilling up there? Anyway, Angle struggles to his feet and is presented with the championship...and Austin hits him with the Stunner! Bearing in mind that JR is usually livid when a heel attacks a face post-match, he really does his best to paint Stone Cold in a heroic light here, proclaiming "Austin had one more Stunner left in him!". The final PPV of the year goes off the air with Angle and Triple H lying motionless in the ring, while Austin and Rock lie dazed and contemplate what could have been.
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As always, nice writeups 
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ARMAGEDDON 2000 SUMMARY Match Of The Night The Hardy Boyz and Lita vs Dean Malenko, Eddie Guerrero, and Perry Saturn - The most enjoyable match on the card. The main event was clearly more a spectacle, but also felt like a slog to watch. This was crisp, fast, enjoyable fun, and the ending with Malenko and Lita was superb. Wrestler Of The Night 1. "Stone Cold" Steve Austin - Did his absolute utmost to keep the main event ticking over. Seemed to be everywhere when needed, and constantly high in energy and intensity. 2. Triple H - Bumped like a madman, not just for Austin, but for everybody. Great timing throughout. Was everywhere when he needed to be. 3. Chris Benoit - The best pure wrestling performance of the night in his match with Billy Gunn. Unspectacular but solid, no mistakes. 4. The Rock - At the centre of things in the main event's ending sequence. Started and finished the match with a bang, but was missing for a long while in between. 5. Dean Malenko - Played a very limited role in the opener, but his ending sequence with Lita was fantastic. Everything was executed perfectly. Lita is incredibly unlucky to miss out here, losing out to Malenko by only the narrowest of margins due to him taking the lead slightly for most of their encounter. A great shame, as I'd have loved to have had Lita on the list. She's easily been the best diva of the year, with Molly Holly a fairly distant second. Billy Gunn would also have made it were it not for his incredibly ill-timed botch in the match with Benoit, causing the finish to feel disjointed and rushed. Very unfortunate, as it was a better-than-average performance from Mr rear end. Wrestler Of The Year Standings 1. Kurt Angle - 26 2. Triple H - 25 3. Chris Jericho - 22 Chris Benoit - 22 The Rock - 22 4. Jeff Hardy - 14 "Stone Cold" Steve Austin - 14 5. Eddie Guerrero - 10 6. Mick Foley - 9 7. Christian - 6 Bubba Ray Dudley - 6 8. Edge - 5 Rikishi - 5 9. Kane - 4 10. Test - 3 X-Pac - 3 Steve Blackman - 3 Dean Malenko - 3 11. Matt Hardy - 2 Scotty 2 Hotty - 2 Perry Saturn - 2 12. Esse Rios - 1 The Undertaker - 1 Well there you have it. Despite not picking up any points in the last event, Kurt Angle holds on to become our first ever Wrestler of the Year! A late slump for Jericho allows Triple H to steal second place, while Rock and Benoit complete a frantic tie for third. Malenko achieves his dream just in time, finishing level on points with our hero Steve Blackman. ARMAGEDDON 2000 SCORE: 5/10 Very poor considering the huge build-up given to the main event. This was perhaps the best PPV of the year in terms of promo-work. Unfortunately the actual wrestling was below par. While the opener was sufficiently entertaining, the rest of the undercard was either poor or disappointingly average (I'm looking at YOU, tag title match). The main event really needed to be amazing to save the show, and while it delivered in terms of intensity and spectacle, it dragged far too much to propel Armageddon to a higher score. A deflating end to the year for sure.
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THE 2000 STEVE BLACKMAN UNSUNG HERO AWARDS: FIFTH...ERM...QUARTER quote:Rebellion 2000 Unsung Hero Nominees quote:Armageddon 2000 Unsung Hero Nominees
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 I'd like to thank all of you guys for following along with my review of the WWF in 2000, and hope you all look forward to a continuation of these write-ups for the 2001 PPVs. I know my updates have been a little slow and sporadic (to say the least), but I appreciate everybody sticking with me and giving feedback - both positive and constructive. I particularly enjoy the discussions these reviews have spawned when casting an eye back over the year, and with that in mind, I invite you all to vote on... quote:THE 2000 WWF END OF YEAR AWARDS
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THE 2000 WWF END OF YEAR AWARDS Match of the Year - Matches I awarded 4/5 or more Triple H (c) vs Mick Foley – WWF Championship Street Fight – Royal Rumble One of my favourite matches of all time Worst Match of the Year - Matches I awarded DUD/5 Terri vs The Kat – Cat Fight – WrestleMania Terrible match, it being at WrestleMania makes it even worse. Feud of the Year Triple H vs Mick Foley Spot of the Year Steve Blackman knocks Shane McMahon off the side of the TitanTron with a kendo stick – SummerSlam Unsung Hero Write in Vote: X-Pac Pay Per View of the Year Fully Loaded
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THE 2000 WWF END OF YEAR AWARDS Match of the Year - Matches I awarded 4/5 or more Triple H (c) vs Cactus Jack – WWF Championship vs Career Hell in a Cell Match – No Way Out Worst Match of the Year - Matches I awarded DUD/5 Terri vs The Kat – Cat Fight – WrestleMania Feud of the Year Edge and Christian vs The Hardy Boyz vs The Dudley Boyz Spot of the Year Steve Blackman knocks Shane McMahon off the side of the TitanTron with a kendo stick – SummerSlam Unsung Hero Perry Saturn Pay Per View of the Year Fully Loaded
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I love* that they ran Terri vs. the Kat on three PPVs. *do not love at all
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Hey man. Love the thread. Wanted to show my support by voting. Doing this from a mix of memory and your recaps... Match of the Year Triple H vs. Cactus Jack - Royal Rumble Worst Match Terri vs. Kat - Wrestlemania Feud of the Year E&C vs. Dudleyz vs. Hardyz Spot of the Year Thumbtack Pedigree Unsung Hero Test PPV Fully Loaded
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THE 2000 WWF END OF YEAR AWARDS Match of the Year - Matches I awarded 4/5 or more Edge and Christian (c) vs The Dudley Boyz vs The Hardy Boyz – WWF Tag Team Championship TLC Match – SummerSlam Worst Match of the Year - Matches I awarded DUD/5 Terry vs The Kat – Thong Stinkface Match – SummerSlam Feud of the Year Chris Jericho vs Chris Benoit Spot of the Year Triple H Pedigrees Mick Foley face-first into thumbtacks – Royal Rumble Unsung Hero Taka Michinoku Pay Per View of the Year No Way Out
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THE 2000 WWF END OF YEAR AWARDS Match of the Year - Matches I awarded 4/5 or more Triple H (c) vs Mick Foley – WWF Championship Street Fight – Royal Rumble One of my favourite matches of all time Worst Match of the Year - Matches I awarded DUD/5 Terri vs The Kat – Cat Fight – WrestleMania Feud of the Year Triple H vs Mick Foley Spot of the Year Steve Blackman knocks Shane McMahon off the side of the TitanTron with a kendo stick – SummerSlam Unsung Hero Michael Cole (rolled a die) Pay Per View of the Year SummerSlam
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Last call for votes before we move on to the End of Year Awards. There are ties to be settled! Thanks to the guys who've voted so far.
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Match of the Year - Matches I awarded 4/5 or more The Rock (c) vs Chris Benoit – WWF Championship Match – Fully Loaded I just remember being massively invested in this for some reason and I was gutted when Benoit won, but so so happy when Foley came out. Jericho/Benoit is a very close second, I enjoyed the hell out of that. Worst Match of the Year - Matches I awarded DUD/5 Terri vs The Kat – Cat Fight – WrestleMania Feud of the Year The Rock vs Triple H My personal favourite wrestling moment of all time was when Austin came back to help The Rock. I marked so hard. Spot of the Year Steve Blackman knocks Shane McMahon off the side of the TitanTron with a kendo stick – SummerSlam Unsung Hero Shane McMahon Pay Per View of the Year SummerSlam
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Frankston posted:Match of the Year - Matches I awarded 4/5 or more It's funny because I was the complete opposite. I really got annoyed with Foley restarting the match like that.
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triplexpac posted:It's funny because I was the complete opposite. I really got annoyed with Foley restarting the match like that. Yeah well I was a 12-year old massive Rock fanboy so 
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Frankston posted:Yeah well I was a 12-year old massive Rock fanboy so And I was a 15-year old huge HHH fan 
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JGKing posted:THE 2000 WWF END OF YEAR AWARDS The Dudley Boyz (c) vs Edge and Christian vs The Hardy Boyz – WWF Tag Team Championship Triangle Ladder Match – WrestleMania 2000 Worst Match of the Year Terri vs The Kat – Arm Wrestling Challenge – Insurrextion Feud of the Year Triple H vs Mick Foley Spot of the Year Jeff Hardy hits the Swanton Bomb off a ladder onto Bubba Ray Dudley and a table – WrestleMania 2000 Unsung Hero Jim Ross Pay Per View of the Year ???
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THE 2000 WWF END OF YEAR AWARDSquote:MATCH OF THE YEAR quote:WORST MATCH OF THE YEAR quote:FEUD OF THE YEAR quote:SPOT OF THE YEAR quote:UNSUNG HERO quote:PAY PER VIEW OF THE YEAR JGKing fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Apr 5, 2014 |
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WWF WRESTLER OF THE YEAR 2000quote:5th – EDDIE GUERRERO – 10 Points quote:JOINT 4TH – “STONE COLD” STEVE AUSTIN – 14 POINTS quote:JOINT 4TH – JEFF HARDY – 14 POINTS
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quote:JOINT 3RD – 22 POINTS – THE ROCK quote:JOINT 3RD – 22 POINTS – CHRIS BENOIT quote:JOINT 3RD – CHRIS JERICHO – 22 POINTS JGKing fucked around with this message at 21:09 on Apr 5, 2014 |
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quote:2ND – TRIPLE H – 25 POINTS quote:1ST – KURT ANGLE – 26 POINTS JGKing fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Apr 5, 2014 |
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Royal Rumble - January 21st 2001 - New Orleans, Louisiana PART 1 MY BODY IS READY! It's time to kick start our second year in review, which of course means we have the best match in all of pro wrestling to look forward to. First we have to get this pesky undercard out of the way though, with the following two matches mentioned in the build-up. 1. Triple H has managed to worm his sordid way back into the main event scene (despite confessing last year to literally attempting to kill Stone Cold), and will take on Kurt Angle for his WWF Championship. This seems like a heel vs heel match to me, so it could be interesting to see what sort of dynamic plays out. Or it could be shite. 2. Jericho is taking on Benoit in a The other two matches are a mystery to me (although they were probably advertised), and then of course we have the Royal Rumble. Jim Ross and King SCREAM THEIR loving WELCOMES. BweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeBANG. It's the Dudley Boyz to open the show, taking on my boys for their tag titles. The champs have been jumping the Dudleys on the past couple of Raws and Smackdowns, and the challengers are hungry for revenge. 1. WWF Tag Team Championship: Edge and Christian (c) vs The Dudley Boyz We cut back from the hype video to find the Dudleys already beating down the champs. Good work lads. E&C slide out and decide that they've had enough already. It's the first match of the year guys! The Dudleys agree and drag them back to the ring, where D-Von starts the match proper with a neckbreaker to Edge. Bubba beats Christian around for a while but keeps stopping to sell his head, feeling the effects of a recent con-chair-to from the champs. Very good. D-Von and Edge tags in, and the former hits the latter with a powerslam. D-Von hits the ropes but Christian bops him from the apron, and the Dudley Boy goes down like a sack of poo poo. Apparently he's concussed too. He plays face in peril for a while and there's a lot of trash talk flying around. Edge tells Bubba that he's breaking his partner like a twig. King says he loves it when E&C talk trash, to which JR replies "does it keep you aroused?". Subtle humour there from good ol' Jim Ross. Edge signals for the piledriver - maybe his new year's resolution was to expand his moveset - and Bubba is horrified at the thought of the concussed D-Von being dropped on his head. Fortunately he trips Edge and slingshots him into Christian, who is scaling the turnbuckles and crotches himself on the top rope. Rollup by D-Von! 1...2...and a kick out. Bubba finally gets the hot tag to a raucous reception, but the ref didn't see it and cuts him off! Meanwhile, E&C sneak a couple of chairs into the ring...but D-Von ducks the conchairto and hits a big double clothesline! Backdrop to Christian! Hotshot to Edge! A Bubba Bomb sends Christian bouncing off the canvas, and D-Von follows up with the Wassup headbutt on Edge. "D-VON! GET THE TABLES!". Christian scoots out of the ring to cut him off, while Edge slides in with a title belt. He misses a big swing at Bubba, who rolls him up for the NEAREST of two counts! Christian is in and tries for the Unprettier on Bubba, but D-Von kicks him off. They go for the 3D....but Edge spears Bubba out of the way, and Christian hits a DDT counter to D-Von! Really nice double spot there. Cover on Bubba. 1...2...he kicks out! Christian lifts D-Von's legs for a mock Wassup headbutt, but he rolls through into a pinfall. Bubba pushes Edge off the top and he dives unwittingly into Christian's crotch, but D-Von's pinfall is therefore broken. Accidental or intentional? Either way it was close. Edge gets up and he's groggy....3D! 1...2...new champions! Winners and NEW WWF Tag Team Champions: The Dudley Boyz 2.5/5 - A very hot ending to an initially slow opener. The middle of this match dragged quite a lot, but it's finishing sequences got the crowd excited. All four guys did well here, especially Edge and Christian who bumped like champs the whole way through. Props to the Dudleys for remembering to sell their concussions as well. Bubba celebrates by screaming...and screaming and screaming. He's particularly intense tonight, isn't he? We flashback to earlier tonight, where a limo pulls up and...Drew Carey gets out. Of all people. And it's the first appearance in 2001 of the #HeelLockerRoom, containing (as always) Triple H and Stephanie. Trips tells his wife that he knows she hates Trish Stratus - he doesn't like her very much himself - but he wants her word that things won't get out of hand with both of them at ringside tonight. Why on earth is Trish at ringside as well!? We have missed out on some serious developments here. I'm guessing she's in Kurt's corner, because Steph quite confidently promises that Stratus won't be a factor. They're interrupted by Drew Carey. He and Triple H greet each other like old pals - I can't see them getting along at school somehow - and Hunter introduces him to Steph. "Oh you married the boss' daughter huh? When did that happen?". loving fantastic! Steph gets a great idea and decides to take Carey to meet Trish. Triple H puts on the best "uh oh, she's up to something" expression as she and Drew leave to find her. Shady. The APA are playing cards in the back and show one another their Rumble entrance numbers (facing away from the camera). Crash stops by and says that, although their all buddies, if they get in his way during the Rumble he'll have to toss them both. He strides away. Bradshaw quips "and they call us drunks", which Faarooq follows up with his trademark "drat!". It's not as loud as it'll become later, sadly. A quick vidya package recaps the Jericho/Benoit rivalry of last year. Y2J demands a title shot, and Benoit is so confident that he grants Jericho any stipulation he chooses. He wisely goes for a ladder match, potentially giving him a slight edge. 2. WWF Intercontinental Championship Ladder Match: Chris Benoit (c) vs Chris Jericho Jericho goes for the classic meaningful stare at the ladder as he passes it on the entrance ramp. They start brightly and Y2J hits a few chops in the corner. Luckily for him Benoit doesn't chop back, but instead almost latches on an immediate Crossface! Jericho counters and almost secures the Walls, but Benoit beats him away. AAAGHHH there's a revenge chop from the Wolverine, followed by a nice shoulder breaker. Benoit gets knocked to the apron and Y2J goes for his springboard dropkick...OH AND BENOIT PULLS DOWN THE ROPES! Massive bump taken by Y2J to the outside! Jesus. Benoit grabs the ladder and tempts Jericho into a baseball slide before yanking it out of the way. HARD whip into the steps and Y2J must be hurting already; he's taken some nasty shots early on. Benoit sets up the ladder and climbs, but Jericho's back in with a nice electric chair drop to put a stop to that. He folds up the ladder and hits a shot to the head of Benoit, who's pretty incapacitated. Climb Y2J, climb! (Don't really. This match is shaping up to be awesome and I want it to last longer). Fuckkk. Benoit drags himself up in the corner, but Jericho simply drills him with another ladder shot, this time right to the ribs. WOAH! Okay they're just one-upping each other in the bumping stakes here. Y2J balances the ladder on top of the turnbuckles, but Benoit reverses his Irish whip attempt, and Jericho goes FLYING headfirst into the ladder and over the top rope. CHRIST! Benoit goes for a dive through the middle ropes and gets brained with a chairshot out of nowhere (it's uncomfortable viewing in hindsight). Both men are down on the outside and the crowd roars their appreciation. Benoit gets draped over the crowd barrier and Jericho rides a ladder from the apron to crush him, but the Wolverine backs out of the way into the crowd and Y2J jars himself into the guardrail. The Crippler snatches up the ladder now and smashes the challenger in the head. They return to the ring and the ladder is set up in the corner, and of course Jericho goes for a headfirst ride into it. He's getting picked apart in this one. They climb the ladder up beyond the top turnbuckle and Y2J manages to wedge Benoit's leg through one of the rungs. Ohhhhh no. They topple backwards and...holy poo poo. The Wolverine's leg is crushed into the canvas, and I'm wondering if this match can get any more brutal. Benoit dropkicks the ladder as Jericho carries it, right back into the challenger's teeth. UGHHH. Y2J does the Joey Mercury spot on Benoit, yanking one end of the ladder over the top rope and sending the other half up into the champ's face. The ladder gets set up and Y2J climbs...but Benoit recovers and just loving backdrops him over the top rope to the floor! This match is insane; have I reiterated that enough? The Wolverine slowly climbs but Jericho's back in the ring. He grabs the champ's legs and climbs after him. WALLS OF JERICHO ON TOP OF THE LADDER, and the crowd are going loving nuts! He shoves Benoit off and climbs up. Surely he's got the belt. NO! Benoit kicks the ladder away in desperation and Y2J's head rebounds off the top rope! They slowly recover and Jericho climbs again, but the champ is up to. Y2J decides to jump with an axe handle...and Benoit transitions so smoothly into the Crippler Crossface! Unreal. Jericho is tapping, but of course that doesn't matter. Benoit releases and goes do dish out further punishment, but Y2J desperately hoists him backwards, knocking over the ladder. He snatches up the ladder and yells at the champ to get up, squashing him in the corner. They each climb a side of the ladder but Benoit wins the exchange at the top, knocking Jericho down into the centre of the ring. DIVING HEADBUTT FROM THE LADDER...MISSES, as Jericho rolls out of the way just in time! Y2J places the ladder directly over Benoit's body and climbs. The Wolverine looks to be trapped, but as Jericho nears the top he lifts the ladder, tipping the challenger head over heels! BAM! Y2J's head slams into the top rope AGAIN, and he rolls to the outside, definitely definitely dead. Benoit slowly climbs, but gives Jericho enough time to retrieve a chair and crack it into his spine. He kicks Y2J away, but Jericho hits the ropes and comes back, shoving the ladder over once again! Benoit hits the ropes ribs first and rolls over the top to the floor. Jericho climbs, and the champ doesn't have the strength to get back into the ring! Y2J reaches the belt and yanks it down to end an outrageously good match Winner and NEW WWF Intercontinental Champion: Chris Jericho 5/5 - The best match I've seen since starting this thread, probably one of the best I've seen ever. I made a promise to myself before the thread to only award full marks if a match was excellent in terms of workrate, AND captured an epic sort of feel. Although I initially hesitated because this is only a micard feud, I have to admit that it fully deserves a 5/5 score. They CREATED an epic feel for themselves, making their feud look like the most important thing in the world for 20 minutes or so. They ripped the poo poo out of one another too. Some of those bumps were outrageous. I can't really praise this highly enough, so I'll stop waffling now. I pity whatever has to follow that. We'll find out in part 2. JGKing fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Apr 10, 2014 |
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Royal Rumble - January 21st 2001 PART 2 Drew Carey has found Trish backstage and is unsuccessfully trying to flirt with her. She tells him that she's kind of involved with somebody, but he asks if she's considering making a step-up to a guy like him. They're interrupted by the arrival of Vince, who doesn't look too happy to see them talking together (is THAT who she's with!? I forgot this storyline, Jesus!). McMahon offers him the chance to compete in the Royal Rumble match, claiming that it would be a great way to drive up his own fans, while impressing the WWF crowd as well. Trish seductively agrees that it would be very impressive. Carey says he doesn't wrestle, but Vince says that's no problem; he himself once won the Royal Rumble. Drew agrees and seems excited, the idiot. Vince and Trish leave together. Backstage Chyna is gearing up for her match. Billy Gunn is worried about her competing, citing the advice of the doctor that she shouldn't wrestle tonight. Chyna doesn't care; she's too focused on putting a beating on Ivory. She claims that once she's finished with the Women's Champion, RTC will have a Right To take her to a medical facility. She suggests that Billy focus on the 29 other guys he has to worry about beating tonight, and stop worrying about her. An exhausted Jericho is with Michael Cole who asks how he feels? Y2J says that Benoit is one of the toughest bastards he's ever faced in his life, but that he proved the Crippler wrong in front of all the Jerichoholics. Video package now for the Ivory/Chyna matchup. Val Venis severely injures Chyna's neck with a piledriver, causing her to require surgery. Ivory mocks the Ninth Wonder, saying that she's scared to get in the ring with her, and that she's willing to place her belt on the line at Royal Rumble to prove it. Chyna makes a storming return on an episode of Raw, costing Ivory a match with Lita and vowing to take her "precious little Women's Championship". Um. Way to get the belt over. 3. WWF Women's Championship: Ivory (c) vs Chyna JR mentions that this is the first time Chyna has attempted to win the Women's Championship. Ivory is accompanied by my favourite RTC member, Steven Richards. Chyna batters Ivory at the bell while Lawler hopes that the champ feels worse after this than Benoit did after the last match. Somehow I doubt it. Chyna sits Ivory on the top rope and slaps her all the way to the floor. The champ runs away into the crowd, but the Ninth Wonder followers her and hits a gorilla press back over to the ringside area. They return to the ring and Chyna drags in Steven Richards for a little punishment, before depositing him over the top rope. Ivory gets set up in the corner for that stupid flippy finisher, but Chyna crumples as she hits it. Both fall to the floor and the champ drapes an arm over for three... Winner and STILL WWF Women's Champion: Ivory 0.5/5 - Not sure if that injury is real or kayfabe, but it's surely a work after that earlier segment with Billy. Richards drags Ivory out of the ring and they leave. Chyna's still motionless in the ring and Lawler leaves his commentary post to check on her. Billy Gunn's out from backstage too. They do a full stretcher job and JR puts on his serious voice, but surely this is kayfabe right!? They're doing a convincing job if so. We cut outside where Chyna's loaded into a waiting ambulance. Well I'm pretty sure it's a work after they showed that. Stephanie and Trish have a confrontation backstage. Steph warns Stratus that she'll have no problem taking care of her if she interferes in Triple H's match tonight. Trish retorts that she's not worried about Stephanie's affairs; she has her own AFFAIRS to think about. Pretty sure that's a jibe at Vince and Linda. Drew Carey is in the locker room and receives a set of wrestling gear for the Rumble tonight. He seems very casual about all of this and cheerfully introduces himself to a passing Kane. Kane ignores his handshake and glowers before leaving. We cut to Tiger Ali Singh, talking with his two charges D'Lo Brown and Chaz (formerly Headbanger Mosh). How far you've fallen, D'Lo. . The trio have only been allotted one slot in the Rumble, and the two wrestlers are trying to make their case to Singh. The manager claims that whoever he picks will be the best choice for all of them, but they're quickly interrupted by Vince. He says that their slot has been taken. They ask which great superstar is more worthy. Vince replies "Drew Carey" and Singh has never heard of him.Various socially inept fans at WWF New York predict who's going to win the upcoming WWF Championship match. It's uncomfortable viewing. We cut backstage to Triple H breathing heavily as he stares himself out in the mirror. It's uncomfortable viewing. Hype video! Kurt claims that he's just completed the most dominant year in WWF history. Triple H replies that he's only still the champion because the Game has allowed it. So you weren't really trying at Armageddon, Hunter? Kurt says he has no problems going up against Triple H, but does fear interference from the McMahon family. Since he doesn't have a McMahon in his corner, he's found the next best thing. It's Trish Stratus. We cut to Vince berating Trish for volunteering her services to Angle, but she seduces him to get him onside. It's implied that they get freaky, baby. Steph flips out when she hears about this, and calls out Trish on Smackdown. They argue until Triple H comes down to break it up. He tells his wife that she's above this sort of thing, and shouldn't concern herself with the likes of Stratus. Kurt gets involved to defend his new business advisor, so Trips and Steph beat them out of the ring. Lawler finds time to steal Joey Styles' "CAT FIGHT!" line. Blatantly. 4. WWF Championship: Kurt Angle (c) vs Triple H Brilliantly, JR ponders who bought Trish her new fur coat. Trips and Kurt start off by actually wrestling, rather than the wild brawls we've seen to kickstart several intense feuds throughout the thread. Angle gets the better of the exchange with a quick hiptoss and a clothesline to the floor. They exchange armlocks and the like, before Kurt hits a trio of vertical suplexes for a near fall. Very technical exchange so far, but the crowd aren't exactly electrified. Triple H slides out for a breather and the champ makes the mistake of following him, taking an Irish whip into the crowd barrier for his troubles. They return to the ring as JR states his belief that there was nobody better in the business in 2000 than the Game. I'd disagree; it was Kurt. Triple H hits a drop toe hold and turns it into his signature Indian deathlock. "Break his knee!" yells Steph, but Angle struggles to his feet and hits an enziguri. The Game gets whipped clean over the top turnbuckle to the outside (I always love when he does that bump) and takes a ride into the steel steps. He regains the upper hand by smasking Angle's leg into the ringpost...and Steph distracts the referee...chairshot to the knee! They return to the ring and the Game works the knee for a long, long time. They finally mix it up as the challenger hits a facebuster for two. Ahhh gently caress he goes back to the leg. This is dragging. Triple H goes for a figure four leglock and it's...not as good as you might imagine from such a technically accomplished wrestler. Hebner checks on Angle and the Game uses the distraction to grab the ropes for leverage. Trish slides in to get Hebner's attention and Steph drags her out. SLAP TO STEPHANIE! Uh oh. SLAP TO TRISH, and she throws Stratus onto the Spanish announce table! They brawl into Carlos and Hugo's laps, and the announcers wisely vacate. Vince is out now to break this up, but neither woman will listen to him. He resorts to hoisting Trish over his shoulder and carrying her away, but Steph follows and they all scuffle to the back. We finally return to the ring where Triple H's attention has been fully focused on the brawl outside, allowing Kurt plenty of time to recover. Inside cradle by the champ! 1...2...Triple H kicks out. They brawl tiredly...DDT by Angle! It only gets two. An inverted atomic drop leaves Trips open for a bridging German suplex, and now Angle's doing his thing. He heads up top (still selling the leg) for his gorgeous moonsault, which we haven't seen it far too long, but Triple H breaks all our hearts by cutting him off with a low blow. It's right in front of the referee and he does gently caress all, which is weird. RAZOR'S EDGE OUT OF THE CORNER BY TRIPLE H! That was really cool. 1...2...NO! The narrowest of near falls. He sets up for the Pedigree but Angle trips his legs. Triple H kicks the champ into the corner and Kurt rebounds...right into the Game's crotch. Nasty. Angle's first to his feet...AND HE HITS HIS BEAUTEOUS MOONSAULT! HOLY poo poo HE HIT IT! AUTOMATIC THREE COUNT!? Sadly not, as Angle's sore leg prevents him from making a quick cover, and Triple H kicks out at two and a half. The Game goes for an axe handle but accidentally blasts Hebner. They brawl to the outside and Angle goes for a hard ride into the ringpost. They return to the ring and now Triple H heads up top!? His inexperience shows as he hesitates, allowing Kurt to sprint over and hit a nice armdrag all the way to the canvas. He makes the cover but Hebner is still recovering on the outside. The champ heads out to find him, but here comes Triple H. WHAM! Angle gets shoved headfirst into the steps, inadvertently kneeing Earl in the head in the process. Trips shoves Angle in the ring and grabs the WWF title belt. He measures Kurt...belly to belly suplex! Angle has the belt now and charges...but takes a kick to the gut and a PEDIGREE! Another cover is made, but Earl's still hurt. The Game slides out to check on him...OH poo poo IT'S AUSTIN! Stone Cold rushes down the ramp and swings at the challenger. They get in the ring and Austin busts Triple H wide open with a belt shot. He drags Hebner in and gets the gently caress out of there...but changes his mind? He returns to the ring...STUNNER TO TRIPLE H! The crowd roar their approval as Stone Cold strides to the back. Angle rolls into a cover as Earl makes the slowest of counts. 1......2........3. Winner and STILL WWF Champion: Kurt Angle 2/5 - Man this dragged. I wasn't a fan of this match at all due to its ludicrously slow pace, but it was saved by a couple of factors. Angle was great, constantly trying to make things exciting despite the clusterfucky shenanigans going on all around him, and Austin's interference finally injected some excitement into the crowd. Despite this, it wasn't a great title match by any stretch of the imagination. Oh well. Rumble's up next! Angle gets up and waves his belt around to pretty much no reception. Heel vs heel doesn't lead to a good crowd response. Who'd have known? Triple H staggers to his feet after Kurt's departure, and he is livid. He shoves poor Hebner to the floor on his way to the back. We see the number 30 entrant Rikishi warming up backstage. Lawler names him his odds-on favourite. The Rock does an interview in which he ponders whether Kane and Undertaker are working on the same page. If so, he says that every other man in the Rumble is in trouble. But he says he's sick and tired of speculating; Undertaker can tickle Kane's big red nipple if that's what he wants to do. He says the brothers drat sure WILL be together tonight - together getting thrown over the top rope by The Rock. He says the Royal Rumble could come down to The Rock and Bull Buchanan, The Rock and Perry Saturn (did I write this!?), or even The Rock vs Stone Cold Steve Austin. He promises that no matter the final two, the outcome will be the same. IF YOU SMELLLLLLLL....and so on. Rumble next Rumble next Rumble next! JGKing fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Apr 10, 2014 |
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Great to see this continuing! Oddly enough I struggled to recall if I had watched this one (I started uni around those times and had 9a.m. Monday morning lectures to attend and no VCR), couldn't quite work it out from part 1, as although Dudleyz vs Edge and Christian, and the battle of the Canadian Chrises are both pretty enjoyable matches, they've been done so many times they don't stand out. The second part though, I remember that well- mostly for the Chyna stretcher job (with the fake crossed arms gesture) and Drew Carey of all people. Don't remember who won the Rumble though, but I sure as hell wouldn't bet on Lawler's favourite!
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Royal Rumble - January 21st 2001 PART 3 It's time. I'm setting this Rumble a target to beat last year's, which shouldn't be difficult. The 2000 match was a pretty lacklustre affair, and this time we have Austin and Undertaker to provide that extra star factor. 5. 30 Man Royal Rumble Match They go for the plucky babyface option at number one, as Jeff Hardy dances his way out onto the stage. "He looks like he's having a seizure" according to Lawler. The Right To Censor siren hits and Bull Buchanan jogs down the ramp to get this thing right underway. A slight step up from 2000's openers D'Lo Brown and Grandmaster Sexay? I'd say so, but not by a lot. Bull almost immediately flicks Jeff over onto the apron and almost flattens him with a right hand, but the Hardy ducks and sticks a headbutt into his gut. He heads up top and nails a headscissors, but Buchanan almost sends him out with a gorilla press. Jeff slips out the back and they brawl into the corner. Bull starts to get the upper hand but Jeff must have saved a few babies on the way to the arena, because karma strikes and Matt Hardy sprints out to save his bro. Buchanan misses a charge into the corner and eats a Poetry in Motion. The Hardys link hands and clothesline Bull over the top to the floor! Elimination #1: Bull Buchanan (by The Hardy Boyz) It gets the obligatory first elimination pop of excitement, one of my personal favourite types of pop. Matt and Jeff exchange a fist bump before squaring off against one another. I was praying they'd team up there. Where's the fun in being good little babyfaces? Matt gains the upper hand and backs Jeff into the corner, but the younger brother responds with an eye gouge!? Jesus Christ. Save your heeling for your brother, I suppose. Merciless. As the older of two brothers myself, I am naturally rooting for Matt here. In fact I shouldn't be surprised that the younger sibling is fighting dirty. Jeff hits his nice sitout jawbreaker thing and they scrap into a corner of the ring, but stop when the next countdown appears. Looks like they're going to team up on the next opponent. So WHAT WAS THE POINT OF WEARING ONE ANOTHER DOWN!? It's Faarooq, and he smashes the brothers with a double clothesline. The boys fight back but Jeff botches a poetry in motion (I imagine Matt's like "get it together Jeff"). Matt gets hooked up for the Dominator, but Jeff pulls him to safety and they nail the Twist of Fate/Swanton Bomb combo. Faarooq's gone.Elimination #2: Faarooq (by The Hardy Boyz) I would kill for one of them to bust out CM Punk's "WE'RE GOING TO WRESTLEMANIA", but that's not for another decade. Jesus Christ that's a long time. Anyway, the Boyz are happy...but Matt sneakily tries to eliminate Jeff when his back's turned! Screams from the girls in the crowd! Jeff manages to roll back in safely and they rip their shirts off, because this is now a strip Royal Rumble. OH SNAP! Jeff gets a little bit of attitude and shoves his bro, who responds with a loving punch in the face! They tee off on one another and Jeff hits his corkscrew legdrop thing as Drew Carey makes his promised entrance. If he gets an elimination I'll be furious. He waits it out at the foot of the ramp as Matt and Jeff continue to scrap. They drag one another to the apron and Drew gets in the ring to a loud ovation. Don't you dare push them out. Lawler: "Take your glasses off, you're not a Dudley!". Matt tries to superplex Jeff to the outside, but the younger brother shoves him off! Elimination #3: Matt Hardy (by Jeff Hardy) As Matt falls he snags Jeff's arm and yanks him down with him! Elimination #4: Jeff Hardy (by Matt Hardy) Drew's alone in the ring and taunts the Hardys over the ropes. The cocky prick. AHAHAHA, oh poo poo! The countdown reaches zero and out strides Kane to make amends. Carey urges for the referees to enter the ring and protect him but they refuse. He calls for the Hardys as they walk back up the ramp, but they want no part of this. Kane circles the ring menacingly before entering, and ignites the turnbuckles. Carey extends a hand but gets nothing. He goes in his pocket and brings out a wad of bills, but Kane slaps them away and grabs Drew by the throat. Raven is our next entrant and rushes in with kendo stick in hand. Kane no-sells a few shots to the back and Carey takes the opportunity to get the gently caress out of there. Elimination #5: Drew Carey (self-elimination) Raven is getting the poo poo kicked out of him as Drew jumps out, but the Whose Line host shouts a few words of encouragement to his saviour as he leaves. That's nice. Future tag team? Raven and Kane horribly botch a sidewalk slam and the ECW alumnus rolls out of the ring to grab a fire extinguisher. He sprays Co2 into Kane's face and chucks a couple of trashcans into the ring for good measure. Suddenly he's jumped by Al Snow at the foot of the ramp, but Snow doesn't appear to be an official entrant. Maybe they're feuding. Raven escapes Al by rolling back into the ring, where he starts smacking Kane about with weapons. This Rumble is so messy, but I'm really enjoying it for some reason. Snow dives in and cracks his rival with a trashcan lid - Kane gets a shot as well for good measure - before the buzzer hits and...nobody comes out. I guess Al Snow made his entrance early, because he seems to be officially a member of the match now. He continues to decimate the other two with weapons and it dawns on me that AL SNOW IS DOMINATING THE ROYAL RUMBLE. He dives out of the ring to fetch more weapons, hurling a garbage can (complete with garbage) into the ring, and swinging a bowling ball case into Kane's midsection. Out comes the ball...and he hurls it into Raven's crotch! loving ouch! A big boot by Kane restores some sort of order, but the two smaller men decide to put their differences aside and team up on the Big Red Machine. They take turns smashing him with trashcan shots until Perry Saturn comes down to save us all. Saturn immediately goes after Kane and works his leg. Yes, after a whole year of matches, Saturn finally decides to get technical...in the Royal Rumble match. All three team up on Kane, finally dragging him to his knees after a few stop-sign shots to the face from Al Snow. Raven clamps on a sleeper hold and the others stomp away. Steve Blackman is the next entrant, to a decidedly bigger pop than last year! For those of you who don't remember, my heart was broken at the 2000 Rumble by "Blackman sucks" chants. It was a dark day. He has his little sticks with him and hits a few signature spots, but Kane puts a stop to that like a strict parent halting a toddler's tantrum. Grandmaster Sexay comes barrelling into the ring and achieves very little, and the ring's really starting to fill up now. Kane, quite awesomely, slides out of the ring and grabs a trashcan as if to say "it's time to put a stop to this bullshit". He slides back in and ends Sexay's night with a massive shot to the head. Elimination #6: Grandmaster Sexay (by Kane) Kane clears everybody out with trashcan shots and spikes the weapon into the canvas. Blackman goes for a ride over the top rope but hangs on and tries to skin the cat...until Kane cracks the trashcan lid onto the top of his head. Farewell sweet prince. Elimination #7: Steve Blackman (by Kane) Snow and Raven are still scrapping pathetically, but Kane simply pulls them apart and heaves Al over the top. Elimination #8: Al Snow (by Kane) Raven eats a big boot, and we're up to four eliminations for the Big Red Machine already. Elimination #9: Raven (by Kane) Saturn's the only man left in there with the monster, who snatches up one of Blackman's little sticks and uses it to cave in Perry's skull. Saturn goes for a ride just as our next entrant is about to come out... Elimination #10: Perry Saturn (by Kane) ...and it's The Honky Tonk Man! Lawler marks out for the greatest Intercontinental Champion of all time as he dances into view. I doubt his guitar's lasting the night. He grabs a mic and tells Kane to stand aside - he has some business to attend to. He demands that they play his music again so that everybody can hear him sing along. They do, and he does. It's wonderful. Kane is motionless until the "cool, cocky, bad" line, upon which he grabs the guitar and decimates it over Honky's head. See you later. Elimination #11: The Honky Tonk Man (by Kane) Kane's alone in the ring and stars kicking out the considerable debris under the bottom rope. That's nice of him. A very familiar set of music plays and the crowd pops huge as The Rock reveals himself to be our thirteenth entrant. He's fired up. Lots and lots of right hands to Kane. A BIG clothesline. Rocky grabs Kane's head and looks to throw him out...but the Big Red Machine puts on the breaks and flings him to the canvas! A big boot swings the momentum firmly in Kane's favour as the coutdown hits zero once again, heralding the arrival of The Goodfather. He's out of his depth. The Rock lays the smackdown and sends him over the top to the floor. Good. He's poo poo. Elimination #12: The Goodfather (by The Rock) Rock tries to get a foothold over Kane, but the big man keeps pressing his advantage with a sidewalk slam. Here comes...oh no. It's Tazz. He gets pyro!? Tazz sprints down to the ring and into the waiting arms of Kane, who sits him on the top rope and punches him to the floor. I'm marking out! Kane's the best wrestler ever for doing that! Elimination #13: Tazz (by Kane) The Rock and Kane tease eliminations but both hang on. They brawl messily for a while until Rocky hits a Samoan drop as Bradshaw trots down to the ring. He and The Rock team up on Kane, whipping him into the corner. The Brahma Bull knocks Kane down with a clothesline...CLOTHESLINE FROM HELL TO THE ROCK! What on earth!? Calm down Bradshaw, your push isn't for another five years! Kane gets beaten down for a while until The Rock gets back to his feet. Spinebuster to the APA man! Rock thinks about the People's Elbow, but Kane clotheslines him out of his boots. Albert is in next to minimal fanfare, and justifies this reaction with some uuuuugly offence. Nothing really happens (aside from Bradshaw almost accidentally falling out of the ring) until Hardcore Holly appears on the scene. He eliminates Rock! And Kane! Holly is cleaning house! Not really. He thumps Kane in the back and eats a massive right hand in retaliation. Albert Bomb on Bradshaw out of nowhere! Rocky almost gets eliminated by a coalition of superstars, but he hangs on as Albert destroys Kane with a jumping big boot. Kane's wobbling and Rocky almost tips him over, but he dangles from the ropes and survives as K-Kwik makes his entrance. Everybody Val eats a Clothesline From Hell just as Test comes in, and he only goes and eliminates somebody! William Regal gets grabbed by the back of the head and chucked over the top. Elimination #14: William Regal (by Test) Test now tees off...on Albert!? King stresses that they are FORMER partners now, so something nasty must have happened since their last appearance together. Test stomps an Austin-level mudhole in the corner and beheads Venis with a huge boot to the head. Val has been like a midcard punching bag in this one. Holly, meanwhile, has been on the verge of eliminating The Rock for about five minutes now. Lawler quips that for all Rocky's talk, he really hasn't been taking this match by storm. He's right. The countdown appears again, signifying the entrance of....Big Show! He's making his return to this thread for the first time since Judgement Day! Wikipedia informs me that shortly after his Falls Count Anywhere loss to Shane McMahon, he left for two months, returned, turned heel, and then left again. The kayfabe reason for this was because the Undertaker threw him off the stage, but in reality he was sent to OVW to lose weight and improve his cardio. He looks much better now as he enters the ring and headbutts Test into oblivion. BAM! A big clothesline sends blondie over the top and out. Elimination #15: Test (by Big Show) That's half the eliminations done. Let's take a break and find out the winner in part 4. (I was torn between using a picture of Honky Tonk Man or Drew Carey at the top of this post, but Kane's cocked head sealed it for me). 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Squalitude posted:Great to see this continuing! Oddly enough I struggled to recall if I had watched this one (I started uni around those times and had 9a.m. Monday morning lectures to attend and no VCR), couldn't quite work it out from part 1, as although Dudleyz vs Edge and Christian, and the battle of the Canadian Chrises are both pretty enjoyable matches, they've been done so many times they don't stand out. The second part though, I remember that well- mostly for the Chyna stretcher job (with the fake crossed arms gesture) and Drew Carey of all people. Don't remember who won the Rumble though, but I sure as hell wouldn't bet on Lawler's favourite! I think being Lawler's pick pretty much dooms you to an elimination after five minutes or so.
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Royal Rumble - January 21st 2001 PART 4 5. 30 Man Royal Rumble Match - CONTD. Big Show picks up right where we left off, pressing K-Kwik high above his head and launching him to the outside. Elimination #16: K-Kwik (by Big Show) Chokeslams for everybody! Albert and Bradshaw go down, as does Val Venis. "It's like a man playing with children!" shouts JR. I'd have that man arrested if that simile were a real situation. Hardcore Holly eats a huge chokeslam as well, before Big Show storms over to Kane. BIG chokeslam to Kane, wow! The Rock's next...but he escapes with a simple kick to the groin. Rocky lays the smackdown, spits and swings...but Big Show doesn't quite teeter over the top! Rock turns, sees this, and ends his night with a clothesline! Well that comeback burnt out quickly. Elimination #17: Big Show (by The Rock) Crash Holly is up next, but nobody's paying attention as Big Show strips the announce table and drags Rock out from under the bottom rope. SMASH! The Brahma Bull goes for a ride right through the announce table as JR and Lawler freak out. The remaining competitors in the ring all gang up on Kane as Lawler clears some of the debris from around the Rock. They drag the Big Red Machine over to the ropes and look to dump him over collectively, but an ominous gong sounds. The crowd pop as The Undertaker rides down to the ring, and I can't help but think how much more awesome this would be if he was in his Deadman gimmick . He pulls all the men off his brother and begins to clean house. The two share a glance before 'Taker hurls Bradshaw to the floor.Elimination #18: Bradshaw (by The Undertaker) The brothers continue to eliminate fools, several men falling in only a few seconds. Elimination #19: Crash Holly (by Kane) Elimination #20: Albert (by Kane) Elimination #21: Hardcore Holly (by The Undertaker) Suddenly Val is the only one left to face the brothers (apart from Rock, but he's still unconscious in the wreckage of the announce table), and he's grabbed by the throat and chucked by 'Taker. Elimination #22: Val Venis (by The Undertaker) The brothers stare one another down and look to be about to trade blows, but they're cut off by the ill-timed arrival of Scotty 2 Hotty. I believe in you Scotty! He doesn't dance his way down to the ring as normal, instead looking incredibly nervous. He slides in and gets immediately beaten down. A double chokeslam connects before he's mercifully eliminated. Elimination #23: Scotty 2 Hotty (by Kane and The Undertaker) The brothers seem to be on the same page now, but continue to eye one another uneasily as the next countdown begins. Rock is meanwhile trying to drag himself back to the ring. SMASHHHHH! The crowd go wild as Stone Cold Steve Austin stomps down the ramp. He doesn't quite make the ring however, as Triple H charges down and jumps him from behind. The pair brawl on the ramp as we see Scotty hilariously hobbling to the back in the distance. Triple H beats him all over the place and busts him open (blood pouring from both the face and the back of the head), while Rock initiates a 2-on-1 brawl in the ring. Billy Gunn sprints to the ring. Isn't there a rule in place that states if you don't make the ring before the next entrant does, you're out? If so, Austin's in trouble. Billy takes on both Kane and The Undertaker, and seems to be doing alright. Meanwhile a team of referees finally drag the Game away from Stone Cold, who is bleeding A LOT. The Rock looks to kickstart his comeback, pounding the Undertaker with right hands, but it's cut short by a running DDT. All of a sudden we're down to our 29th entrant, and it's Haku, making his first appearance in the WWF since 1992! He spent a lot of the 90s in WCW wrestling under the name of Meng, which I actually remember. One of my first memories of wrestling is a Goldberg vs Meng match on Thunder. Guess who won. Haku goes right for the Undertaker and seems to be his kryptonite, pounding the American Badass with strikes and headbutts. Kane receives similar treatment, but the brothers are able to subdue Haku with a double chokehold as an "Austin" chant breaks out. Number 30 enters and it's Rikishi, as promised. He strolls down the ramp and decides to take a few shots at a bloodied Austin as he passes...but STONE COLD FIGHTS BACK WITH RIGHTS! Did I mention that he's bleeding a lot? loving hell. He slides in and stomps a mudhole in Billy Gunn, before taking Haku over the top with a few big rights. Elimination #24: Haku (by Stone Cold Steve Austin) That's weird. I was just picturing Haku in the main even at 'Mania. Nevermind. Rikishi eats an Undertaker chokeslam while it dawns on me that Billy Gunn looks really out of place. 'Taker hurls the Rock over the top but he hangs on as the crowd scream in fear. Undertaker didn't see Rocky survive however, having already turned his back. He goes instead for Rikishi, but forgets that he's Samoan and hurts himself with a headbutt attempt. Ludicrously, he goes for it again, and AGAIN it hurts him. Obviously. Now Rikishi shows him what a real headbutt feels like, before hitting a nice left-footed superkick...which SENDS UNDERTAKER OVER THE TOP ROPE! Wow! Elimination #25: The Undertaker (by Rikishi) Rikishi's understandably fired up, squashing the Rock in the corner and pounding his chest in triumph. I think the biggest surprise so far is that Undertaker hasn't charged the ring to get his heat back. Rikishi goes up top for the Banzai Drop, but Rock springs up and hits him with a low blow! CLUBBING BLOW to the back, and the Samoan's gone! Elimination #26: Rikishi (by The Rock) That leaves us with a final four of The Rock, Stone Cold, Kane, and...Billy Gunn. Billy tries to prove he belongs in such company, teeing off on Austin. Boot to the gut from Stone Cold and he's looking for the Stunner...but Gunn pushes him off! FAME-ASSER, and Billy flips Austin off! poo poo, this is awesome! He scoops up the Rattlesnake and tries to throw him over the top, but Austin reverses and sends Billy to the floor instead! Elimination #27: Billy Gunn (by Stone Cold Steve Austin) The Rock drills Kane with a DDT and collapses in a corner. Austin's in the opposite corner and they stare at one another. Stone Cold definitely looks more badass. Rock's eyes are wide and intense, but Austin seems calm behind a mask of blood. They stand and walk towards each other, and Stone Cold looks loving terrifying. They trade right hands, and Rock eventually lays the smackdown to knock Austin to the canvas. Lawler with an awesome piece of commentary: "I don't think Rock can quite believe he won that exchange". Rock stalks him for the Rock Bottom...but Austin elbows out! Boot to the gut! STONE COLD STUNNER! Kane tries to stop Austin's momentum but falls victim to a Thesz press. Rocky's back on his feet and hits a couple of desperate punches, but Stone Cold rakes him cruelly in the eyes. He swings but the Rock ducks...ROCK BOTTOM! The People's Champ grabs Kane and hurls him out of the ring, but only between the middle ropes. Austin and Rock slug it out once more, and this time the Brahma Bull resorts to a rake in the eyes to stop Stone Cold from tipping him out. They battle over to the ropes and Rock tries to throw Austin...but here comes Kane to try and eliminate both! Only Austin hangs on! Elimination #28: The Rock (by Kane) Kane wheels away in celebration but Stone Cold's still in the ring. He beats Kane against the ropes and backs up for one final charge...KANE GRABS HIM BY THE THROAT! Chokeslam! Kane does the throat-slit motion and signals for the end, but Austin hits a desperation low blow. JR utterly ruins the moment by describing it as "an XFL like punt", although it was probably Vince in his ear. Kane grabs a chair from ringside and looks to swing, but Stone Cold boots him in the gut and fights back with right hands. Boot to the gut, STUNNER! Austin crawls and grabs the chair, while Kane staggers back up. BAM! One chairshot. A second! And a third! Kane is teetering on the ropes. Austin throws the chair down and charges with a clothesline! Elimination #29: Kane (by Stone Cold Steve Austin) Winner: Stone Cold Steve Austin 3.5/5 - Messy for the vast majority of the match, but the final third unquestionably saved it. An incredibly dramatic final few minutes, with Kane brilliant throughout - setting a record of 11 eliminations in the process. There were a lot of cool little pieces of booking in here as well: Carey's cameo, the Honky Tonk Man, the Hardys eliminating one another, the returns of Haku and Big Show, Scotty being thrown to the lions, and Rikishi's shocking elimination of The Undertaker. Austin is exhausted, but finds the energy to celebrate with a few beers, even with blood pouring down his face. The crowd are elated, as is JR, and it brings an end to an excellent Pay Per View. Austin's going to WrestleMania! Summary to follow. After WrestleMania 30. JGKing fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Apr 10, 2014 |
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ROYAL RUMBLE 2001 SUMMARY Match Of The Night Chris Benoit vs Chris Jericho - Utterly fantastic. Hard-hitting, fluid, intense, and brutal. This was a huge statement match from a pair stuck in a position below their considerable talents for much of 2000. Wrestler Of The Night 1. Chris Jericho - It was incredibly hard to split the two Canadians, but Jericho edges it for his unbelievable versatility. 2. Chris Benoit - The other half of an unbelievably good match. Brought quality and intensity to the table, and that suicide dive spot was sickening. 3. Kane - The Big Red Machine was the most dominant and entertaining force in the Rumble, dragging it through messy stages and delivering at the end. 4. Stone Cold Steve Austin - The catalyst for the electrifying nature of that Rumble ending sequence. Incredibly charismatic. 5. The Rock - Played a good face in peril for much of the Rumble before turning it on towards the end, playing his part in an exciting finale. I really wanted to include Kurt Angle on here. He tried his best to make the WWF Championship match exciting, but a mixture of overbooking and the awkward heel vs heel dynamic prevented him from succeeding. Christian and Edge impressed in the opener, and would have stormed onto the top five had the upper-card matches not been as high quality. Wrestler Of The Year Standings 1. Chris Jericho 2. Chris Benoit 3. Kane 4. "Stone Cold" Steve Austin 5. The Rock ROYAL RUMBLE 2001 SCORE: 8/10 A great start to the year. The first half of the Rumble match was scrappy and chaotic, but still managed to be entertaining, and the final third delivered in terms of excitement. Not the best RR match I've ever seen, but certainly not a disappointment by any stretch of the imagination. Jericho and Benoit decided to put on a classic, while the opener was great fun. Sadly the WWF Championship match dragged a lot - especially considering it contained our top two superstars of 2000 - and the Women's title match suffered from poor in-ring action and a non-finish. The good heavily outweighed the bad though, resulting in a very good PPV overall. JGKing fucked around with this message at 15:19 on Apr 7, 2014 |
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No Way Out - February 25th 2001 - Las Vegas, Nevada PART 1 It's No Way Out time. Last year in this event we saw Triple H retire Mick Foley in a stunning Hell in a Cell match, and this instalment has the potential to be just as extreme. We have a Three Stages of Hell match between Austin and The Game. It's basically a two out of three falls match with a different stipulation for each. In this case, fall one is a straight up wrestling bout, the second fall is a street fight, and the third a cage match. I foresee this being either excellent or overly-long and masturbatory. In the title picture, Angle squares off against The Rock in singles action. I'm not sure whether Rocky really deserves to be back in the title picture so soon, having spent much of the second half of last year dicking around in a lovely feud with Rikishi. If anyone deserves a shot, purely in kayfabe terms, surely it's Kane. He put on a record-breaking performance at the Rumble and looked like an utter monster. Ah well. JR and King are excited as always, but are cut off by a "caw caw"ing from the speakers. Raven is opening the show!? 1. WWF Hardcore Championship: Raven (c) vs Big Show We last saw Raven feuding with Al Snow during the Rumble match, but apparently he got the better of him (and somehow captured Steve Blackman's title as well. Blasphemy). A simple build up to this one. Raven has the title and Big Show really really wants it. The champ is out first (boo, champ should always come out last) wheeling a shopping cart loaded with weapons. This match isn't going to be pretty. Big Show strides into view but gets immediately grabbed by a shadowy figure. He bats them away, giving Raven enough time to sprint up the ramp and attack. That was creepy. BAM! Show grabs a stop sign and smashes it into Raven's skull. The ambush didn't really go as planned, did it champ? Raven gets battered down the ramp and they brawl slowly around the ring while we see a replay of that mystery assailant. It's actually a woman! Nobody knows who she is, but Lawler refers to her as "that shapely ninja". She ran to the back after a few seconds though, so we probably won't get a second look. Raven sprays a fire extinguisher at Show and gets in the ring. He hits the laziest baseball slide I think I've ever seen...when a POPCORN VENDOR JUMPS THE GUARD RAIL!? The vendor smashes a box of popcorn over Raven's head and hits a turnbuckle-assisted bulldog (Spike Dudley?), but Big Show pulls him off before a three count can be made. JR reminds us that 24/7 rules are in effect at the moment, so that would have counted and we'd have a new champion. The vendor's wig falls off thanks to a slam from Big Show, revealing short blonde hair. King thinks it's Crash Holly, but he ducks down behind the apron before we can get a good look. Show grabs Raven and hits the Final Cut (does anybody else remember this move? Google it. Or don't. It's poo poo). Before he can capitalize OUR HERO AND SAVIOUR SLIDES INTO THE RING! IT'S BLACKMAN! He hits a spinning kick to Show's leg, and here's Hardcore Holly now. Stereo trashcan shots to the head. Blackman heads up top with a kendo stick and hits a jumping strike into Big Show's skull. The giant is down, but while everybody's distracted Billy Gunn dashes into the ring and hits the Fame-Asser on Raven! 1...2...3! Winner and NEW WWF Hardcore Champion: Billy Gunn Hold on. This one's still going on... The popcorn vendor - who we can now see clearly, and it definitely is Crash - slides into the ring and attempts a schoolboy rollup on Gunn. He kicks out at 1 and jumps to his feet, firing off right hands at anybody who comes close. Why doesn't he just run!? Blackman and Hardcore Holly team up, Steve holding Gunn in position for Holly's guillotine legdrop. They argue over who should make the pinfall, giving Big Show a chance to hurl both out of the ring. As he does so, Raven covers Gunn for a three count! Winner and NEW WWF Hardcore Champion: Raven Crash again goes for a rollup on the new champ, but Big Show drags him off and hits a huge press slam. Raven's ninja assistant runs out to the ring with a 2x4, but Molly Holly is right behind her and smashes a trashcan lid into her skull. What on earth is this match? Raven starts wailing on Big Show with a trashcan, but he can't topple the big man. Show grabs him by the throat and hits a chokeslam right onto a second trashcan, and that's enough for another three count. Winner and NEW WWF Hardcore Champion: Big Show DUD/5 - I loved the 24/7 rule as a kid, but this has completely tainted my memory of it. What an absolute clusterfuck, and one with little explanation. It was almost like watching some sort of post-modern avant garde version of wrestling - just so bizarre and directionless. Also, if the 24/7 rule is in place, what's the point of having title matches? Surely the very nature of the rule renders matches redundant. Anyway, it was messy and poo poo. Big Show's music hits but...oh god, it's not over!? Billy Gunn wants to keep going and charges at Show, and they horribly botch a backdrop over the top rope. Gunn flops to the floor, thankfully unhurt, and Show's music stops. He leaves the ring and pauses to dish out a little extra punishment to Billy, and finally grabs the Hardcore title from a nearby referee. His music hits AGAIN, and at last he walks to the back. Kurt Angle arrives backstage and is interviewed by Kevin Kelly. He asks how Angle is feeling for his match later. Kurt says he's absolutely fine, but wonders how The Rock is feeling after the beating he gave him last Smackdown. Oh Angle. Don't you know the rules of wrestling? Never have the upper hand on the go-home show before a PPV. It'll just end in tears. Next up we have a potential barnstormer, as Jericho defends his newly won Intercontinental Championship in a fatal four way match. Lillian is backstage with Benoit and Guerrero, both contenders in the upcoming match. She asks how they'll co-exist, but Eddie doesn't seem worried about that. He instead talks of his personal vendetta with Y2J, who put him out of action for two months. I hate to burst Eddie's bubble here, but surely the Benoit/Jericho rivalry is far more intense. The Wolverine just lost his title to him last month in a fantastic and brutal ladder match. I can't even remember if Eddie and Jericho had a singles match in the whole of last year. To his credit, Benoit doesn't bring this up at all. He confidently states that both he and Guerrero will co-exist easily, and guarantees that one of them will walk out as the new champion. The bump fists and leave. 2. WWF Intercontinental Championship: Chris Jericho (c) vs X-Pac vs Eddie Guerrero vs Chris Benoit The Radicalz storm the ring and Eddie goes straight for Jericho, who gains the upper hand with a high flapjack. Y2J begins to beat Guerrero down, but Benoit puts a stop to that before too much of an advantage can be gained. X-Pac's already beaten down on the outside, by the way. Benoit his some stinging chops in the corner and they stomp a double mudhole. The Wolverine whips Eddie towards Jericho, who moves and leaves Guerrero to crash and burn in the corner. Clothesline to Benoit! Spinning heel kick to Eddie! X-Pac skulks back into the ring and hits his even better spinning heel kick on Y2J, but ruins the cool moment by doing some stupid karate poses. The Radicalz beat him down for his troubles and Benoit orders Eddie up to the top rope for the Frogsplash. Eddie pauses on the apron to jaw at the crowd, and therefore misses X-Pac trying to hit his finisher on Benoit! The Wolverine instinctively reverses into the Crippler Crossface and Eddie heads up top with a "what the gently caress, man!?" expression of betrayal on his face. He's deciding whether to hit the splash onto both men, when Jericho punishes his hesitation by crotching him on the top. Finally Y2J slides in and breaks up the Crossface, which X-Pac survived in for an admirably long time by the way. The Miz would have submitted about ten times by now. Jericho hurls Benoit out of the ring and follows him, looking to brawl on the outside. Meanwhile X-Pac heads up to the top turnbuckle to superplex Eddie, but Guerrero shoves him off and hits a beautiful Frogsplash! 1...2...and Jericho scrambles in out of nowhere to save his title! Benoit hits a left-handed short-arm clothesline (oooh) to drop Y2J and covers him. Eddie sneaks outside of the ring and pulls Jericho's foot onto the bottom rope to break the count, which makes no sense. That clothesline would have kept Jericho down!? Eddie plays it off brilliantly though, sauntering innocently away while Benoit doesn't suspect a thing. The Wolverine and X-Pac end up alone in the ring, and Pac DECAPITATES Benoit with another gorgeous spinning heel kick, this time to a running opponent. Fantastic. He looks for the Bronco Buster but Y2J puts a stop to that with a missile dropkick from the top. Benoit hits a perfect bridging German on the champ. 1...2...Guerrero kicks him off! The pair square up and trade right hands! THE MEGA POWERS EXPLODE, PART II! Benoit whips Eddie into the ropes, but Guerrero hits a fantastic hurricanrana and pounds away with mounted right hands upon landing it. Ooooh nasty. He grinds a heel into Benoit's face, and I am loving pretty much everything he does in this match. We haven't seen nearly enough of Eddie in this thread. He hits a lovely suplex (I'm not sure of its name; it's like a back suplex but the opponent lands on the side of his head rather than his back) and it gets a very near two count. Meanwhile, X-Pac forces Jericho to take a hellacious bump after whipping him hard into the steps. The Radicalz battle up to the top rope and Benoit hits a huge superplex. Both men are out, allowing Jericho and X-Pac to attempt a pinfall on each. The ref counts both falls simultaneously, but both Radicalz kick out at two anyway. Y2J enters into a chop battle with Benoit (idiot!) and loses, before diving into a beautiful rollup attempt after running the ropes. That was slick. Jericho hits the ropes and attempts the bulldog, which Benoit has scouted and steps away from. Bridging German suplex...aaaghh only gets a one count, as he can't quite maintain the bridge. The Wolverine goes for another German but Y2J rolls through and snags a leg. Walls of Jericho! Eddie dashes in to break it up, but the champ releases his hold on Benoit and trips Guerrero into the Walls instead! X-Pac tries to break it up now, but again Jericho switches men. Pac looks doomed, but JUSTIN CREDIBLE MAKES HIS DEBUT IN THE THREAD, running down to the apron. Y2J releases the hold and punches him down, but Benoit slithers up behind to drill a perfect full-nelson suplex into a bridge for two. Credible and Pac trip the Wolverine's feet and pull him out of the ring, dropping him with stereo superkicks. Justin's was better, for the record. I think Pac's tiring. Jericho takes down Eddie in the ring and hits a Lionsault! 1...2...Pac breaks it up! X-Factor to Jericho! 1...2...now Benoit breaks it up! Who's winning this? Credible's back on the apron again but the Wolverine knocks him down, before turning right into a waiting X-Pac...who falls victim to the Crippler Crossface! He's about to tap...but here comes Eddie with an outrageous flipping neckbreaker type thing on Benoit! How did he stay so low!? All four men are down now, but the Radicalz are first to their feet. Benoit's back suplex on Guerrero connects, as does the Diving Headbutt from the top. SPINNING HEEL KICK FROM X-PAC! His entire moveset should just consist of those, because he's loving amazing at them. He seems to agree, celebrating for the crowd...but this gives Jericho a chance to roll him up for the three! Winner and STILL WWF Intercontinental Champion: Chris Jericho 3.5/5 - Despite that wall of text (sorry) this match wasn't actually THAT long. They packed so much action into a moderate amount of time and the majority of it was crisp and fluid, while the few mistakes made were minor and quickly dealt with. Jericho had the most to do here and was his brilliant self, but Eddie shone too despite his slightly lesser role. I'm tempted to declare him the most naturally gifted wrestler we've seen in the thread so far - or at least the one whose style I enjoy most. Benoit and X-Pac were great too, and I was even happy to see Justin Credible. Jericho gets the gently caress out of there and we get anguished reaction shots of the three failed competitors. Justin provides a literal shoulder for Pac to lean on, but it doesn't seem to calm him down much as he yells "you son of a bitch!" at the departing champion. Quick shot of Triple H getting his wrists taped up and looking intense. Alright then. Vince McMahon is backstage with William Regal. They might even be in the #HeelLockerRoom. Apparently the upcoming Stephanie vs Trish match was Regal's idea (is he the commissioner yet? We haven't seen Foley around so far, so he might well be), so McMahon is confident he'll know what to do "when the time comes". Vince builds up his relationship with both: Stephanie is his precious little girl, and Trish is his....very close friend. He doesn't give Regal any clues as to which he should favour, simply repeating that he's sure William will know what to do. Regal feigns confidence as McMahon leaves, but begins to fret once he's left alone. He doesn't have a clue who Vince wants to win, and neither do I. Video package for the Steph/Trish feud now. Stephanie and Vince work together to get Linda out of the picture - she's also in a vegetative state for some reason!? It's barely mentioned though. Bizarre. Anyway, Trish becomes increasingly close with Vinnie Mac, infuriating Stephanie. She continually reasserts her claim as the dominant female in the WWF, while Stratus innocently claims that there's nothing untoward going on between her and Vince (although there clearly is). Stephanie says it's well known that Trish is a bitch, but at No Way out...she'll be her bitch. JR throws us over to WWF New York where we have Test on stand-by. Hey, he's the current European Champion! That's good. JR says that Test knows both these women very well and asks for predictions. Bit of an understatement there Jim. He almost loving married one of them! Any sour grapes Test? Yes, apparently. He says he hopes they beat the living hell out of one another, and says that we're about to find out who the biggest trashbag ho in the WWF is. Lawler is outraged.Trish is on her way to the ring but is held up by Regal, who's still trying to work out which woman he should tip the match in favour of. She says she doesn't have time for this; she has a bitch to slap. Stratus strides off and poor William is perplexed. Stephanie is pacing to the ring and looks loving intense. 3. Trish Stratus vs Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley Stratus strides to the ring, and for the first time in this thread I get a sense of her as the woman who probably started about 70% of my childhood friends on the road to puberty. She's utter eye-candy, although I was always more of a Torrie Wilson fan. Stephanie comes out to "My Time", but there's no water spit sadly. That would have been amazing. Steph immediately takes down Trish and slaps away, but Stratus kicks her off and tries to escape under the bottom rope. Mrs Triple H grabs her and slings her back into the centre of the ring by the hair, before chucking her to the outside. Will this be a squash? Steph heads outside too, but Stratus grabs her and throws her into the first row! She recovers and Trish goes for a slap over the crowd barrier, which Steph blocks. RIGHT HAND TO THE FACE! I'm marking out for McMahon! Holy poo poo, Steph's up on the crowd barrier! She leaps...oh it's just a poo poo clothesline. Well, at least she tried. This is already better than the average divas match (not including Lita). Stephanie gets on the apron and sets up Trish for a vertical suplex to the outside!? Sadly it's blocked, and Stratus drops Steph's head hard into the top rope. Nice spot. Trish backs Steph into a corner and goes crazy with slaps. They're less than accurate, but again the effort is there. Bulldog! 1...2..Stephanie kicks out. When's she going to pull out the sledgehammer? Trish keeps getting in the ref's face but it's quite unconvincing. Hahaha, Steph just slugs her in the gut. So great. A DDT by Trish gets another near fall, but again Mrs Game gets a shoulder up. Stratus gets up on the turnbuckles and does a hangman's choke! I don't think we've seen that spot yet! This match is amazing. Stephanie counters by grabbing Trish's hair and launching her overhead. JR and Lawler are really selling this as a more brutal match than they could have possibly imagined, and I'm inclined to agree as Steph smashes Stratus' head into the announce table a few times. What I'd give for her to prepare the table for a spot right now... Aw nevermind . Instead Steph grabs a jug of water from next to JR and throws it over Trish. Pop for wet boobies. Stratus isn't happy and kicks Stephanie to the floor before stomping away. They return to the ring and Trish goes for the hurricanrana but it's reversed into a POWERBOMB! Maybe it didn't deserve the capital letters, but they still execute it better than I'd have imagined. She kicks out at two by the way! This is a blood feud. Steph yanks down Trish's tights for a few spanks before tearing at. I think she's going to rip it off for the cheap pop but instead she uses it to choke Stratus! loving amazing! The pair stand in opposite corners and charge. DOUBLE HAIR PULL SLAM! Both are down! This is awesome. Clap clap clapclapclap. Oh no! Here comes Regal to spoil the fun. He seems to have figured out which girl Vince wants to win, as he incapacitates the ref and drags Trish into a pinfall. The ref recovers and counts 1...2...but Regal changes his mind and yanks Steph's foot onto the ropes! He gets in the ring and sneakily bumps the ref again! Hahahaha. I think this has already secured comedy match of the year standing. Trish is furious at Regal for breaking up the three count and slaps him. He apologises and goes to kiss her hand...but wraps her arm around her neck and hits a modified neckbreaker to a huge pop! He leaves and Stephanie makes the cover. 1...2...3. "IT'S MY TIIIIIME!" Winner: Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley 1/5 - Yes this was way longer than it had any right to be, and yes it was awful in terms of sheer quality, but man was I entertained from start to finish. Both women actually bumped a lot for each other and hit some inventive spots. I can't quite put my finger on why, but I found this match absolutely hilarious. It was amazing. Both of them were just going for it. Regal is a comedy genius as well. Bravo to everybody involved. Stephanie stands over an unconscious Stratus and talks trash while Regal heads to the back. We cut immediately to William being accosted by Vince backstage. He's not happy at all. Turns out he wanted Trish to win the match. Regal is speechless as McMahon angrily books himself and Stratus vs Regal and Stephanie tomorrow night on Raw. Dammit, I really want to see that! Let's go Regal, let's go! We cut back to the announce table just in time to catch Lawler with the best "oh snap!" look on his face in reaction to Vince's booking. Just the best end to one of the best segments I think I've seen in this whole thread. I need a lie down. JGKing fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Apr 11, 2014 |
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The "Vince puts Linda in a coma" storyline is one of the worst things WWE has done, but at least it has a good payoff at Mania.
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I read the review of Benoit/Jericho and went to re-watch it on the Network and oops it's not there.
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Ty1990 posted:I read the review of Benoit/Jericho and went to re-watch it on the Network and oops it's not there. It is there, it's just that none of Benoit's matches are marked on the seek bar. Just skip to the end of the previous match.
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