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I’M BACK…AGAIN!!! Thursday, January 29 2004 - 10:03 PM by: Boucher

Hosts are Michael Cole & Tazz

Paul Heyman Interview: Before Heyman can start; Vince McMahon comes down to the ring. McMahon yells at Heyman for allowing Chris Benoit to jump to Raw via a legal loophole, saying this could have been a historic night for Smackdown. Heyman tries sucking up to McMahon by saying Screw Benoit, and he uses Bret Hart, Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, & Scott Hall as examples of how you can survive while losing stars. Heyman then goes on to announce a chance for a superstar top face Brock Lesner for the title at No Way Out. Heyman comes up with the idea of having a Royal Rumble on Smackdown. Hardcore Holly would replace Matt Morgan, and Eddy Guerrero would replace Chris Benoit. First Holly injures Morgan, now he gets his spot. Why does Vinnie like Sparky so much??

Tag Title Match: Bashams vs. Paul London & Billy Kidman: Who’s Paul London???? Over/Under for Shaniqua saying “ Come On” is 4 London & Kidman start fast hitting a couple hurricaranas, but Basham get the advantage when London falls through the ropes while one of the Bashams pulls up the ropes. Which Basham is which?? Bashams work on the ribs of London, but London makes the tag after one of the Basham misses a charge. Kidman hits a sweet looking spinebuster, and tries for a SSP, but Danny Basham pulls Kidman’s legs from under him, and makes the switch with his brother. Basham hits a sick looking DDT off the top rope, and gets the win. Shaniqua only said, “come On” Twice.

Meanwhile, Kurt Angle picks his number for the Rumble.

Chavo Guerrero is in the back with his father Chavo Guerrero, saying that the bruises will heal, but the Scars won’t. He vows to get his revenge on his Uncle and prove that Chavo Guerrero will be a back star.

Elsewhere, it’s Eddy Guerrero’s turn to choose his number. He asks Dawn Marie to blow his ball for good luck. Guerrero seems happy with his number, so I guess Dawn Marie does a good job.

They show highlight of John Cena’s elimination from the Rumble where it looked like Cena ripped his knee back. Cena picks his number, but is confronted by Rhyno who asks how Cena’s knee, and it would be too bad if someone targeted that knee.

Cruiserweight Title Match: Rey Misterio vs. Jamie Noble: This is a rematch from the huge three and a half minute match from the rumble. Sweet Wrestling sequence to start, but Misterio wins with a hurricarana. Noble goes for this nice looking tilt-a- world into a torture rack, and Misterio is able to hit a arm drag to get out of it. Misterio is able to hit another Hurricarana after Noble got distracted by Nidia grabbing his foot again. Misterio misses a charge and Noble spends the next portion of the match working on Misterio’s back hitting a superplex. Noble tries for an Alabama Slam but Misterio somehow reverses it into a powerbomb. Awesome!! Misterio hits the 619 and misses the west coast pop and Noble sends him to the outside. Noble goes up top, but Nidia blocks him from hitting Misterio. Noble gets pissed and throws her into the ring. He goes to clothesline Nidia but she ducks it, and Misterio hits the west coast pop for the win. After the match, Nidia takes off her glasses and reveals she isn’t blind.

Brock Lesner interview: Josh Matthews shows Goldberg’s comments from Raw, and asks Lesner if he is scared of Goldberg. Lesner says Goldberg is a Lesner wannabee. Crowd starts chanting “Goldberg”. Lesner issues an open challenge to any Smackdown wrestler for a non – title match. Smart move considering all the top guys are in the rumble. Guys like Billy Gunn & Rikishi

Haas & Benjamin pick their numbers for the Rumble, but Heyman gets called away to find that Eddy Guerrero has been taken out in the washroom. The Chavos show up to find out what happened. Misterio tries to attack them but refs get in the way. I’m guessing it was Angle that attacks Guerrero, which will set up awesome match for WM.

During the break, they load Guerrero into ambulance.

Brock Lesner vs. Orlando Jordan: Oh Yeah!! Orlando Jordan!! Lesner wins with the Brock Lock. Enough said.

Royal Rumble Match: I know Kurt Angle is #1, and Rikishi is #15. Kurt Angle is #1, and my guess for #2 is A-Train. # 2 is Rhino. Rhino hits a gore right off the bat. The action is too fast so I’m just going to announce the guys coming in, and the eliminations. My guess for #3 is Nuziuo. # 3 is Charlie Haas, and he goes after Angle. My guess for #4 is Bradshaw. #4 is Shelton Benjamin. They do the jumping double team move on Rhyno. My guess for #5 is Hardcore Holly. #5 is Bradshaw. He cleans house on everyone, and we take a break. My guess for #6 is Tajiri, #7 is The Cat. Shit!! Cat was #6, and Tajiri was #7 Cat cleaned house on everyone and started dancing but gets eliminated by Angle. My Guess for # 8 is Billy Gunn. #8 is Billy Gunn!! My guess for #9 is Nuziuo. #9 is the Big Show. Everyone attacks Big Show to start, but he throws everyone away, and eliminates Tajiri. My guess for #10 is John Cena. Show eliminates Bradshaw. #10 is John Cena wearing a knee brace. He confronts Show in the middle of the ring, they exchange punches, and Cena almost tosses him as we take another break. My pick for #11 is A-Train, and #12 will be Holly. #11 was A-Train and #12 was Nuziuo and he got eliminated by Cena who seemed to re-injure his knee again. My Guess for #13 is Holly. #13 is Guerrero who eliminates A-Train right away. M Guess for #14 is Holly since I know Rikishi is #15. Weird, Rikishi is #14. The spoilers lied to me!! Rikishi gives Show & Gunn the stinkface. Holly is # 15. Show eliminates Cena but makes the mistake of putting his leg over the top rope to do it, and the rest of the guys eliminate the big show. Guerrero eliminates Haas. Rhyno got eliminated during the break, so I missed it. Benjamin gets eliminated. Angle eliminates Holly while Holly was trying to get rid of Billy Gunn. Holly slaps Angle in the face, and the crowd starts doing the “Goodbye” chant. This guy is a world title contender??? Final Four is Angle, Guerrero and filler (Gunn & Rikishi) Guerrero gets rid of Gunn, and both Guerrero & Angle get rid of Rikishi. Final two are Guerrero & Angle. Guerrero almost eliminates Angle after Angle charges at him, but Angle survives. Angle tosses Guerrero but Guerrero hangs on. Angle goes after him, but Guerrero locks Angle in the Angle Lock while on the outside!! Angle gets him back in the ring, and reverses the Angle Lock, and tries to toss him, but Guerrero survives. Guerrero gets the advantage and goes for a frog splash, but Angle runs at him and meets him at the top. They push off each other, and land on the top rope, and both barely keep their feet off the floor. Angle locks in a sleeper, but Guerrero runs at the ropes, and Angle almost go out. Angle is on the outside and tries to suplex Guerrero onto the outside, but Eddy reverse it, and tosses Angle outside to get a shot at the title against Brock Lesner. That was a really good show.

The Good: The Rumble match was awesome, the Angle/Guerrero segment was great and I can’t wait for Mania if that is the way they go. The Tag team match was good but a little on the short side. Noble/Misterio was a great match, and the Nidia angle had a good ending to it.

The Bad: They could have found a better guy than Orlando Jordan to challenge Lesner. Seems like a waste of a segment. I hated the breaks in the middle of the rumble, just ruins the flow of the match.

I’M BACK!!!!!!!!! Thursday, December 4 2003 - 10:03 PM by: Boucher

I’M BACK!!!!!!!!!

Show starts with a recap of last week’s battle royal which had John Cena & Chris Benoit touch the floor at the same time leading to a match between the two and the winner gets a title shot.

Hosts are Cole & Tazz

Brock Lesner Interview: Lesner himself starts chanting “you tapped out” Says the people in the audience should take a look at the guy beside him, and realize they have more in common than they thing because Lesner could kick everyone ass in the audience. Lesner thinks both Cena & Benoit are scared to face Lesner. Lesner adds that he will never tap out again, and he will make someone tap out tonight.

Basham Bros vs. Rikishi & Scotty 2 Hotty: I come back after 6 weeks, and the first match involves Rikishi!! Danny Basham tries a sunset flip, and Rikishi sits down on his head!! Ouch! Scotty gets tagged in, and starts doing the moonwalk for some reason. When a guy gets charged with abuses little boys. Don’t do his dance moves. Shaniqua tries to interfere but the ref sees it, and makes her go to the back. Rikishi has Danny Basham set up in the corner for the stink face, but Shaniqua comes back and distracts the ref. The Bashams make the switch, and Doug Basham gives Rikishi a low blow. Scotty clotheslines Doug and hits the worm. Danny Basham knocks Scotty out of the ring, but walks into a fat man drop for the win. Shaniqua starts bitching out the Bashams after the match. Shaniquas “Come on” count was only 3, but she did get sent to the back.

Meanwhile Paul Heyman is in the back with Dawn Marie who is Heyman’s new assistant. Heyman gets Dawn to write a memo to Hardcore Holly saying his suspension will be a little bit longer. Good, lets keep him away from the show as much as possible. Heyman gets Dawn to tell Shannon Moore to meet him the ring.

Paul Heyman Interview: Heyman is with Nathan Jones & Matt Morgan. They show footage of Jones & Morgan beating on Shannon Moore. Heyman than calls out Moore to the ring. Heyman tells Moore that he is not mad at Moore for Matt Hardy leaving Smackdown for Raw. Heyman says he like Moore, and he likes his toughness, so he’s going to give him bigger opportunities. Heyman than calls out Big Show.

Big Show vs. Shannon Moore: Moore hits a baseball slide, and trys a top rope placha, but Show catches him. Back inside, Show tosses Moore off the top rope with one hand. He then trys to rip Moore’s face off. Show hits Moore with his new leg drop move, and one chokeslam later, Show gets the win. It was the cool spinning chokeslam.

Elsewhere, Noble is talking to Nidia. Noble tells Nidia to not come down during his match, because she keeps distracting him. Nidia agrees to stay, but Noble changes his mind, and says he can use her.

Jamie Noble vs. Sakado: Noble starts the match working on Sakado arm, but Sakado gets the advantage with a big clothesline. Sakado works on Noble’s back, but Noble does a pretty cool move where he drops to his back, and rams Sakado into his knees. Noble hits a suicide dive through the second rope. Noble tosses Sakado back in the ring, and then tosses Nidia into the ring as well. Back inside, Noble pushes Nidia into Sakado, and wins with a rollup. Noble then tosses Nidia outside the ring. After the match, Nidia asks what just happened, and Noble says it was one of Tajiri’s henchmen that did that to her. That’s pretty funny, looks like a heel turn for Noble. I’m shocked, I thought for sure his face turn with Billy Gunn would skyrocket him into main event status.

Going off topic here for a bit. You know the commercial where the guy can’t find the phone. I really want to beat the fuck out of his friend who keeps yelling at him. Just wanting to get that off my chest.

John Cena vs. Chris Benoit: winner gets a shot at Lesner later tonight. A “Let’s go Cena “ chant starts early. Cena starts turning into Road Dogg before our eyes, as he starts shaking his shoulders before dropping a fist onto Benoit. Cena puts Benoit into a surfboard, and hits a spinebuster, but only gets two. Cena then turns into the British Bulldog, and hits a 10 second vertical suplex that only gets two. Benoit is able to catch Cena with the triple Germans, but misses the flying headbutt. Cena hits the F-U, and gets the win. Benoit starts complaining after the match saying that his foot was on the ropes. Another ref comes down, and says that is what happened, so Nick Patrick decided to restart the match. They have so many finishes where that happens, but they decide to restart the match tonight. Pretty dumb!! We return from break with Benoit working on Cena’s arm for a good 3-4 minutes. Cena is able to regain advantage after hitting the throwback. Benoit takes over right away, and grabs Cena in the sharpshooter, but Cena is able to reach the ropes. They both start trading blows in the middle of the ring, but Cena hits a quick F-U on Benoit. Cena can get the pin attempt because Big Show makes his way to the ring. Cena knocks Show off the apron, but walks right into the crossface, and Benoit gets the tapout and the shot at Lesner tonight. Pretty good match, and it they did a good job of setting up Cena vs. Show.

Meanwhile, Chavo is in the back training when Eddie Guerrero joins him ready to accompany Chavo to the ring, but Chavo tells Eddie to stay in the back.

Shelton Benjamin vs. Chavo Guerrero: Eddie comes down in a low rider. He brings a lawn chair, and sets up shop outside the ring reading the new smackdown magazine, and has a beer hat only with Y2Stinger in it. Benjamin spent the majority of the match working on Chavo’s knee. Chavo hit a big tornado DDT onto Benjamin, but Charlie Haas distracted the ref. This distracts Chavo, and Eddie takes advantage and hits Benjamin with the frog splash, and Chavo gets the win. After the match, Chavo starts yelling at Eddie for coming down to the ring.

Elsewhere, Benoit shows a clip of him making Lesner tap out at Survivor Series.

Meanwhile, the FBI are taking bets on tonight’s main event. Funaki puts $500 on Lesner, and A-Train comes in and bets $10,000. Nuziuo assumes it’s for Brock, but A-Train says it’s for Benoit. I can’t believe A-Train makes that much more than Funaki.

World Title match, Brock Lesner vs. Chris Benoit: Benoit hits a couple armdrags to start and clotheslines Lesner outside the ring, where he tosses him into the post. Back inside, Benoit catches Lesner in the crossface, but Lesner is able to escape. Lesner gains control, and hits that cool looking cradle suplex on Benoit for two. Lesner tosses Benoit outside, and pressslams Benoit face first into the announce table. Back inside, Lesner locks Benoit into a double grapevine, Benoit rises to his feet and trys to escape, but Lesner nails Benoit with a powerslam. They exchange blows on the outside, but back inside, Lesner hits a nasty looking release germen suplex. Both men are out, but Benoit gets to his feet first and starts chopping away at Lesner, and hits the triple Germans to Lesner. Benoit hits the flying headbutt, but only gets two. Benoit tries to catch Lesner in the crossface, but can’t get Lesner down, Lesner flips Benoit away, but Benoit tries to catch Lesner in the crossface again, but this time Lesner flips Benoit into the ref. The ref is out, and Benoit gets Lesner to tap. Benoit goes to see how the ref is doing, but Lesner hits Benoit with the F-5, but that only gets two!! Lesner grabs a chair and smokes Benoit in the knee. Lesner locks Benoit in an awesome looking submission. Almost looks like a half crab, but Lesner is holding Benoit’s leg at the knee joint. He then sits down, and it looks like a combo half crab/walls of Jericho. Benoit refuses to tap out, and passes out from the pain giving Lesner the win. Great match!!

The Good: The main event was awesome, it made Benoit look like the better man without having Lesner lose, and it makes a rematch very easy to make. Cena/Benoit was good as well, and it protected Cena, and set him up for a shot at Big Show’s title. Eddie was awesome tonight, and it was nice to see Dawn Marie back on TV

The Bad: Most of the matches were pretty good, but way too short. Don’t get why Rikishi/Scotty 2 Hotty won, they could have picked some other tag team to get the win, but the two of them were pretty popular in 2000, and could Nidia wear something revealing to show off her new assets.

The Raw Review 10/06/03 Monday, October 13 2003 - 11:59 PM by: Lawerence

Quick preview of Raw before we get into what actually happened on tonight’s show. After last weeks exceptionally week offering we have another live edition of Raw tonight. The only match that we have confirmed is Maven vs. Ric Flair. Due to a knee injury to Rodney Mack it is unlikely we will see Goldberg and Michaels teaming up to take on Mack and Mark Henry, which I was expecting to happen tonight after last weeks show. That match has been placed on the back-burner for now, and hopefully the writing staff forgets that it ever happened. I would hope that they fast-forward to a Goldberg/HBK program, but we’ll see what happens. We also have HHH’s bounty on Goldberg, a hopefully continued push for Lance Storm who after last week has a bit of momentum, and the injury angle to Kane to deal with, albeit hopefully less obnoxiously as last week.

Well after last weeks monkey with a typewriter edition of Raw tonight was a show that was surprisingly entertaining. The opening segment was straight to the point and came off quite well. The four-way beat-down of Shane McMahon leading up to a hot Dudley’s save set up the night’s best match and the return of Booker T. The eight man table match, featuring Rob Conway/Rene Dupris/Jericho/Christian against the Dudleys/Shane McMahon/Booker, was good and really picked up toward the end when everyone started hitting high spots. The only loser in all of this was Lance Storm who, after a great angle and match with RVD against Jericho and Christian last week, would have been a perfect fit in the match was left out in the cold.

The main event was about as good as you can get when you consider that it involved Mark Henry. Michaels did the lion’s share of the work while teaming with Goldberg against Mark Henry and the remaining Evolution members. The finish where Michaels avenged himself with a super-kick on Goldberg after the match sets up Michaels and Goldberg for the World Title next week. No complaints from me on that one. The stuff with a mystery man tormenting Goldberg with runaway cars and falling boxes was a little too reminiscent of an angle with Steve Austin a few years ago.

The women continue to impress me week in and week out. They put on a solid six-woman tag match that left Trish and Victoria coming out the stars of the match. After winning the match for her team Trish was being double teamed by Stevie Richards and Victoria after all other participants had powdered out. Chris Jericho making the save was fairly surprising, but was only done to aggravate Steve Austin. The story there was a good one. After a short RVD against Scott Steiner match that did more for Scott Steiner than anything in the past year ending in a DQ win for RVD, Steiner threatened Stacy with a chair. Austin made the save on Stacy and dared Steiner to hit him. When Steiner obliged Austin cleared the ring and offered Stacy a celebratory beer. When Stacy refused to drink, she received a stunner. Jericho’s save on Trish was solely for the reason of pointing out that it is never right for a man to hit a woman. Unless you accidentally hit her with a chair. Then it’s all gravy.

The replacement match of Rico and Maven, in place of Flair and Maven, came off rather bland. Rico hasn’t been on TV on a long enough basis to really garner much heat and Maven isn’t the right opponent to through him out there against. The resulting match was a short, but somewhat dull affair that ended predictably with a win for Maven. The post-match attack by Flair was almost enough to justify it though.

Not so good was the “interview” with Kane. Hey, at least it was kept short and was an afterthought of a good match proving that they at least might have learned something from last week. The skinny on the interview is that they are going to go another round at Survivor Series. The clips of Rosey stuck in a phone both were useless and unfunny.

MORE MCMAHONS BABY!!!!! Thursday, October 16 2003 - 9:49 PM by: Boucher

Show starts with a preview of the Stephanie McMahon interview shown later on.

Hosts are Cole & Tazz

John Cena Interview: It’s not Cena, but Kurt Angle dressed as John Cena. He’s dressed in a Jacksonville Jaguars jersey. He looks more like Mark Brunell than Mark Brunell. Angle was actually very funny, and had Cena down pat, doing the “okkkk” the wiping of the shoulder, the 2-pinky salute, and even got the crowd to rhyme with him. Very funny stuff. “Cena” calls out Angle, and a mini angle comes out. Sweet!! Midgets!! “Cena” tries to attack the mini angle but falls face first. The mini angle puts “Cena” in the Angle lock, including dropping the straps before he did it. The real Cena comes down, and gets in Angle’s face. The mini Angle low blows Cena, and Angle attack Cena for awhile, but Cena is able to escape and head to the back.

Chris Benoit vs. Doug Basham: Benoit gets the crossface early, but Basham is able to get to the ropes. Both Bashams are on the outside, and Benoit goes for a suicide dive between the ropes, but the Bashams move out of the way. Back inside, Basham hits some X-Pac like lighting legdrop, and works on Benoit’s neck for the next part of the match. Basham misses a legdrop from the top, and Benoit is able to regain control. Benoit hits a release German, and signals for the flying headbutt. Danny Basham grabs a chair, but Benoit takes it away. The ref grabs the chair and the Bashams switch with each other in the ring. Killer Bees live!! Benoit misses the headbutt on a fresh Danny Basham, but Basham only gets two. They try to make the switch again, but Benoit is able to catch Basham in the crossface, and gets the tapout for the win. A-Train attacks Benoit with a chair after the match.

Stephanie McMahon Interview: This is a sit-down interview before Smackdown because Vince McMahon barred her from the building tonight. Alright here goes….it’s the Friends episode where Ross & Rachel take a break. Ross is a loser, it’s been 6 years since they broke up, and he still isn’t over her. In the interview Stephanie seems to be crying saying she hates her Dad. Let’s check out “Beat the Geeks” it’s one with the second music geek, he sucks. TV Geek rules, and Tiffany is quite hot. Troy beats the Comic Book geek. The comic book geek didn’t know the guy wasn’t Dolph Lundgren. Idiot, he was in He-Man. In the interview, Stephanie has stopped crying, saying she loves her Dad. What??? I know I’m not watching the interview, but what happened?? She loves him, she hates him. Girl can’t make up her mind. It’s not like she’s deciding who HHH will bury this month.

Elsewhere, Tajiri overhears Noble & Nidia saying Smackdown would be better without Vince McMahon. Tajiri tells McMahon, and McMahon makes a Tajiri vs. Jamie Noble match

Tajiri vs. Jamie Noble: Noble gets the early start working on Tajiri’s arm for the early part of the match, but Tajiri turns the tide by kicking Noble in the head when the ref tries to separate them in the corner. Tajiri works over Noble’s leg, but Noble hits a powerslam on Tajiri. Noble tries for a tiger bomb, but Tajiri blocks it, and kicks Noble in the leg. Tajiri goes for a powerbomb, but Noble holds on, and they fly over the top. Tajiri grabs a belt, but Nidia tries to grab it, so Tajiri blows green mist in her face for the DQ.

we return from break with Noble in the ring with a mic. He says Tajiri better come out, or Noble is coming after him. Tajiri doesn’t come out, so Noble goes after him, but just as Noble is about to get to the back, Brock Lesner attacks him. Lesner hits the F-5 on Noble into the ringpost as Vince McMahon’s music hits.

Vince McMahon interview: He says Stephanie is lying and she hasn’t loved him for a long time. He says he has to give her tough love, and he will on Sunday. He calls the fans lazy. That’s how you do a heel interview!!! Call the fans lazy, who ever thought of that?? We catch Vince in a lie when he says he’s a billionaire. Forbes 400 doesn’t agree. McMahon then goes on to say that Stephanie better hope God has mercy on her soul, because Vince won’t. Sable grabs the mic, and says she will steal Linda McMahon’s husband from her. Haven’t they been fucking for the past three months??? Sable & Vince make out to end the segment. If Sunny could put down the crack pipe, she could get her job back because I’m sure Vinnie wants to try and fool around with her too. Bring back Sapphire too!!

Eddie Guerrero vs. Rhyno: both men exchange shoulder tackles to start, but Rhyno hits a powerbomb to gain control, and hits a nice looking press slam into a gutbuster. Rhyno grabs a belt, but Guerrero hits a dropkick to break that up. Guerrero hits his triple vertical suplexes, but misses a frog splash as we go to break. We return from break with Rhyno applying the sharpshooter on Guerrero, but Guerrero is able to counter it and get out of the hold. Guerrero hits a flying elbow, but takes too long on the top rope, and Rhyno hits a big superplex for a 2 count. Guerrero misses a charge, and Rhyno sends him flying over the top. On the outside, Guerrero unties his boot, and places the ringside hammer into his boot. Back inside Rhyno goes for the GORE, but Guerrero holds the ref in front of him. With the ref distracted, Guerrero tosses the hammer to Rhyno, the ref sees the hammer in Rhyno’s hand, and grabs it from him. The ref has his back turned and Guerrero hits Rhyno with the U.S title and gets the win. After the match, Big Show attacks Eddie Guerrero while he’s in the low rider. Show tosses Guerrero aside, and attacks the car with a crowbar, smashing all the lights and windows. He even smashed the front window with his bare hand. Big Show grabs Guerrero and tosses him onto the lowrider, and Guerrero has a bunch of cuts on his back. Show than hits Guerrero with a nasty looking powerbomb on the hood, and a chokeslam on top of the roof. Nice beatdown!! I kind of want to see this match now. We’re up to three I want to see!!

Rey Misterio vs. Johnny the Bull: I haven’t seen Johnny the Bull fight in about 5 months. A classic speed vs. power match. Johnny the Bull hit some nice suplexes, and Misterio had his usual awesome high flying moves. Misterio had Johnny the Bull set up for the 619, but the Bull was able to block it but holding onto Misterio’s legs, he hits a backbreaker. He tries for a press slam, but Misterio reverses it into a hurricarana and gets the 3 count. Nice little filler match.

Undertaker interview: Taker explains what a biker chain match is. The chain is going to be suspended above the ring, and the first guy that grabs the chain gets to use it. Taker says he is in the best shape of his life, and will be the new champion. Cole asks him who will win the I-Quit match. If my prayers go answered, Baltimore will boo the hell out of those two. Taker hops Steph wins, but think Vince will win. Lesner attacks Taker and wraps a chain around Takers neck and drags him to the ring. Taker tries for some comeback, but Lesner always regains control by tagging on the chain wrapped around Taker’s neck. Lesner tried to choke out Taker by hanging him from the ring post, but Lesner gets too close, and Taker catches Lesner with a couple boots to the face. They head back to the ring where and this may surprise you, but Taker gains control of Lesner and hit a chokeslam to end the show.

The Good: A little better than last week. Rhyno/Guerrero was a solid match as was Benoit/Basham. The opening segment between Cena & Angle was very funny, but too early in the show for someone to remember at the end of the show. Tajiri continues to be built up well during his angle with Noble & Nidia. I hope he gets the win this Sunday. Taker got the upper hand on Lesner to end the show, so that means Lesner will win at the PPV. The Big Show Beatdown was one of the best beatdown ever, and did a lot to gain interest in the match.

The Bad: Too many interviews, not enough wrestling. The McMahon vs. McMahon stuff overshadowed everything on the show, which wasn’t a good thing. I didn’t watch the Stephanie interview so I’m just assuming it was bad.

MORE MCMAHONS BABY!!!!! Monday, October 13 2003 - 6:36 PM by: Boucher

First off, I’d like to say sorry to my buddy Louis. I choose to review Smackdown over Raw, and I watched the show that Louis had to recap. One word….TERRIBLE. Mark Henry in the main event!! Give me a break, HHH is supposed to be filming movies, but is on the show every week.

Hosts are Cole & Tazz

Linda McMahon Interview: You’ve got to be fucking kidding me!!! I’m sorry Friends, Survivor, CSI, ER, it looks like Smackdown is tonight’s ratings winner. Any Linda McMahon appearance brings 50 million people with her. Linda can’t believe what is going with her family. Yep, they’ve only been fighting with each other for 5 years!! Stephanie married HHH to piss off her father. They got back together 3 months later at Wrestlemania 16. Stephanie bought ECW to piss off her father, Vince fired Steph after WWF won at Survivor Series, Vince hired Steph to be General Manager of Smackdown, and now they’re fighting at No Mercy. I can’t believe it either. Stephanie comes down and says she has to go through with the match, and Vince comes down and says that Steph had her chance to stop the match, but didn’t change the title match at No Mercy. Sable comes down and says she will be in Vince’s corner. Linda calls her a slut, so Sable kicks her in the gut. Steph than attacks Sable and Vince clotheslines Steph to end an awful segment.

Cruiserweight Title match, Tajiri vs. Ultimo Dragon: Wow, Ultimo Dragon making an appearance on a smackdown show not called Velocity. Rey Misterio is in the announce booth. I think there’s going to be a lot of kicks in this match. Dragon counters the handspring elbow by kicking him in the back, and hits an asai moonsault on the outside. Cole announces a Title match between Misterio & Tajiri at No Mercy. They go back & forth until Tajiri tries to catch Dragon in the Tarantula, but Dragon slips out and slams Tajiri. Dragon goes for his DDT type finisher, but flips too far, and Tajiri catches him with a back kick to the face. Another kick to the back of the head gets the win for Tajiri. Tajiri keeps kicking Dragon after the match, and Misterio enters the ring to stop it, and hits the 619 on Tajiri. They’re doing a real good job of building Tajiri up, but they can’t keep having him beat Misterio because it makes Misterio look weak, but they can’t keep switching the belts because it makes the belt look weak.

Elsewhere, Stephanie announces that Linda will be in her corner at No Mercy. Oh My God!! Linda is going to turn on Steph at the PPV. BUYRATES HAVE TRIPLED!!

Undertaker vs. Chuck Polumbo: I’m positive Taker used to feud with the FBI. Your standard Taker/FBI match. Taker goes for the chokeslam, but gets distracted by Johnny the Bull, so Taker knocks Johnny the Bull off the mat, and hits the chokeslam for the win. Brock Lesner attacks Taker after the match, and heads outside to set up the table. Taker no sells the attack by jumping up and grabbing a chain he brought with him. Taker nails the three members of FBI, and Lesner runs back to the back.

Meanwhile, Paul London enters Vince McMahon’s office, and asks for a tryout match. McMahon makes a Paul London vs. Brock Lesner match.

Big Show vs. Orlando Jordan: This is a rematch from last week when Jordan won by countout because Show had to take a shit. Show attacks Jordan to start hitting Jordan with some huge chops. Show misses a charge, and regains control with a boot to the face. One chokeslam later, and Show the 3-count.

Elsewhere, Eddie Guerrero says he has some friends in Hartford, so if Big Show tries to get revenge on him, Guerrero will be fine. Guerrero says he is nervous facing Show at No Mercy. Big Show attacks Guerrero from behind.

John Cena vs. Kurt Angle Rap Challenge: Cena starts first, and gets some people sweet lines on Angle. Best one being Angle wouldn’t win the bronze medal at the Special Olympics. Cena tries to get the crowd to say “Fuck You” but Angle stops him. Angle says he can’t beat Cena in a rap challenge, so he’ll tell a story about Cena. Angle says he’ll make Cena tap at No Mercy. Angle says he’s not here to rap; he’s here to fight, and nails Cena with a clothesline. Cena gets a cheapshot in, but Angle hits the triple Germans and Cena runs to the back. This match will be pretty sweet, and I have no idea who is going to win the match. One of two matches I’m looking forward too. Two out of Six, that sucks!!

Zach Gowan vs. Shannon Moore: Matt Hardy is in the announce booth. He says that in 5 years, he’s never got the video packages that Gowan has. Moore hits the sick looking suplex where Gowan’s one leg hits the turnbuckle, and his head lands straight on the mat. Gowan hits a flatliner to regain control. Hardy leaves the announce booth and receives a kick to the face from Gowan. Gowan hits a roll the dice type move. Gowan goes up top for the moonsault, but Hardy pushes him down, and Moore hits a swinging neckbreaker for the 3. I guess they are going to try to setup the Hardy-Moore feud again.

Meanwhile Taker leaves Steph’s office with a big smile on his face. HHH is pissed!!

Chris Benoit & APA vs. A-Train & Basham Bros: Basham’s attack the APA during their entrance. Benoit fights off the Bashams but A-Train nails Benoit from behind. Bashams & A-Train spend the first part of the match working over Bradshaw. Faarooq is being attending to on the outside. Bradshaw eventually makes the tag to Benoit and he cleans house on the three guys, locking in a pair of sharpshooters to A-Train and Doug Basham. He tries to get A-Train in the crossface, but A-Train is being pushed so he powers out holding Benoit on his shoulders. And in one of the worst editing jobs I’ve ever seen, A-Train nails the trainwreck on Benoit. Funny part was Benoit was facing the ground when A-Train picked him up, and next scene he was facing up. Train wreck gets the three count. That sucked hardcore!! The whole point of their match at Summerslam is to see if A-Train can finally beat Benoit, so what do the smart guys do, they have A-Train pin Benoit before the PPV.

World Title Match, Brock Lesner vs. Paul London: saw this kid wrestle at the house show a couple of weeks ago, and he was awesome. Look forward to seeing him in the cruiserweight division. He’s about to get squashed though. Lesner allows London to touch the belt before the match. As London goes to touch it, Lesner smokes him with a clothesline, and London flips over, but flips over forward!! Couple power moves and an F-5 and this one is done. After the match Lesner goes to F-5 London into the ringpost, but Spanky comes down and attacks Lesner only to get thrown into the ringpost. This brings out Taker who says their title match at No Mercy will be a Biker Chain Match. Can’t just call it a chain match. BUYRATES HAVE TRIPLED AGAIN!!!

Chavo Guerrero interview: Chavo calls out Show for what he did to Eddie. Show is dressed for a night on the town. Chavo calls Show a chicken. This leads to a Big Show vs. Chavo Guerrero match. As Show enters the ring, Chavo runs outside and gets counted out. Weird!! Chavo waves to the back, and Eddie comes down with a sewage truck. Eddie starts to hose down Big Show with some raw sewage. Sweet!! End of Show.

If you have a friend on suicide watch AKA Vince Howie. Don’t let them watch this show, because that was the worst show I’ve ever seen on TV, and I used to watch WWF Action Zone in 1995. Duke the Dumpster, Duke the Dumpster, Dumpster, Dumpster, Dumpster!!

The Good: Tajiri & Ultimo Dragon was pretty good for the 90 seconds it got. Cena’s rap was pretty good. THAT’S IT!!

The Raw Review 10/06/03 Monday, October 6 2003 - 11:31 PM by: Lawerence

Tonight’s Raw took quite a few steps back from the previous two weeks and came off rather poorly. The opening half hour, which was dominated mostly by Kane, left a lot to be desired. Just when I thought they had a winning formula with Kane, they do the exact opposite of what makes sense. The short version of what happened is that Kane won a match against Rosy, choke-slammed the Hurricane, and then was attacked by Shane McMahon. This just goes to show, when two wrestlers can’t beat another wrestler, call a McMahon to get the job done. Shane lured Kane into a Limo, slipped out the front door, lodged a 2x4 onto the gas pedal and steered the Limo into a truck. Kind of makes you long for the days where we had jumper cables, doesn’t it. I should have known that I couldn’t go three weeks without something this stupid on Raw. You know what the really stupid thing is? Biscoff runs past the people who are “working” on getting Kane out from the limo to talk to an eye witness who “saw everything.” So did I. So did everyone. IT WAS ON FRICKIN TV! Or when Austin runs through all of the firemen who are trying to “rescue” Kane from the wreck, backs off, and then tells everyone to keep clear. I know I’m supposed to be just a stupid wrestling fan but this whole angle insults my intelligence.

After this, everything else just came off flat and uninspired. This was in part due to the announcers who frequently broke off from announcing the matches to talk about how horrible what happened to Kane was. I mean, I’m trying to forget what just happened and I’ve got the announcers reminding me off it every chance they get. The first half hour of the show completely ruined everything for me.

So were there any redeeming qualities? Yeah, there were some. Steiner is making positive progress from where I’m sitting, even though half of his match with Spike was cut off to show replays of the car wreck. Being a heel fits his character more and I feel that his heel turn has been long overdue. Trish and Victoria continue to impress the hell out of me. The two of them had a nice little tag match tonight along with Maven and Stevie Richard’s. The work that the ladies did was off the page and blew away the match earlier between Lita and Gail Kim. I feel sorry for Lita and Gail being the first segment after the car wreck angle, and their match clearly lost heat because of it. The match they had seemed a little sloppy as well, which didn’t really help much. Chris Jericho continues to prove that he is the MVP on Raw. He can put a guy like Storm over and I guarantee he won’t lose any heat for it. It probably won’t do Storm that much good though because he won’t be on TV next week. Or the week after that. Maybe the week after the week after though.

Goldberg and Mark Henry was a mess, but what do you expect from theses two. Very few people can carry Henry to a good match and Goldberg ain’t one of them. What is the point of giving Goldberg a DQ win over Henry? Are they trying to protect him or something? Hey assholes, it’s Mark Henry! No one cares about him! The tag match between the Rookies and Evolution was dull and lacking heat. They need to do a better job of building Jindrak and Cade up or their will be back off Raw in a couple of weeks.

The entire show was killed by poor pacing. If they had shuffled some stuff around and did the limo angle closer to the end of the show I think that the show would have come off a lot better. I think they need to do a better job of building the newer talent up. Almost the entire mid-card gets almost no heat, and that’s because with most of the guys there is no reason to care. I think it’s time to do a serious overhaul of Raw and put the show in a new direction.

Smackdown Review 10/02/03 Tuesday, October 2 2003 - 11:12 PM by: Boucher

Over/Under on Louis’s streak of doing a Raw recap is five. I’m taking under.

Hosts are Cole & Tazz

U.S.Title Match, Eddie Guerrero vs. Matt Hardy: This match is a result of Hardy attacking Guerrero after their tag match last week. Guerrero seems to be favoring his ribs after every move he does. Guerrero tries to go for his moonsault over the top ropes, but Shannon Moore grabs Eddie’s legs, and Hardy gives Guerrero a suplex on top of the ropes. Hardy works on the ribs for a while, even hitting a powerbomb, which I’ve never seen him, do. Guerrero gains the advantage after Hardy misses an elbow, and Eddie hits his triple vertical suplexs. Eddie goes up top, but Hardy meets him there, and hits a superplex, laying both men out. Hardy gets up first and goes for the suicide legdrop, but this time Guerrero meets him up top and nails a hurricanrana on Hardy. While Hardy distracts the ref, Moore tries to attack Eddie with the belt, but Guerrero knocks Moore away, and tosses the title to Hardy, pretends to be struck just as the ref is turning around. The ref grabs the belt from Hardy, and when the ref has his back turned, Chavo nails Hardy with the other tag belt. One frog splash later, and Eddie has the win. Sweet match, but I was really hoping Hardy was getting the title shot at No Mercy. Looks like it’s going to go to Big Show

. In the back, Big Show says he likes Taco Bell, but doesn’t like the Guerreros

APA VS. Basham Bros: Bradshaw beat the Basham Bros by himself so he shouldn’t have any troubles this week. APA dominates the early portion of the match, but Bradshaw gets tossed outside. Shaniqua hits Bradshaw from behind, and when Bradshaw goes after her, Danny Basham pushes Bradshaw in the ringpost. Bradshaw plays your face in peril as the crowd chants “APA” Faarooq gets the tag and the ref gets bumped. Bradshaw gets thrown out again, and Shaniqua boots him in the face. Back inside Faarooq is going for the dominator, but Doug Basham gets his brother off Faarooq's back, and they hit their finishing move for the win. A lot better than it had any right to be. Good to see the Bashams get a big win.

Chris Benoit vs. Charlie Haas: A-Train is at ringside doing commentary. Cole pisses me off by announcing A-Train vs. Chris Benoit will go one on one at No Mercy. Great!! Benoit better win. Haas has had some good matches with Kurt Angle, so this should be pretty good. Pretty long wrestling sequence to start the match. Benoit goes for the crossface, but Haas hip tosses Benoit outside the ring. Back inside, Haas hits a Jake the Snake like short arm clothesline. Haas has Benoit in the tree of woe, and runs at Benoit hitting a running knee. Benoit catches Haas with the germans, but Haas is able to roll though on the second one, and applies the Haas of Pain. That was pretty sweet, but Benoit is able to get to the ropes. A moment later, Benoit gets Haas in the Sharpshooter, but it’s Haas turn to get to the ropes. Benoit hits a couple more germans on Haas, but Haas is able to reverse one, and hits Benoit with a nasty looking overhead suplex. Benoit landed on his head!! As Haas goes to pick up Benoit, Benoit catches him the crossface, but A-Train breaks it up causing the DQ. After the match, A-Train applies the crossface on Benoit. A really good match, but I couldn’t get past A-Train in the announce booth. I don’t mind someone saying they are a monster; I have no problem in someone trying to get over. It’s when you start putting down smaller wrestlers, and saying a good big man will always beat a good little man. How does it help over half the roster? No one sitting at home will buy in the cruiserweights as any kind of threat. Vince McMahon Interview: McMahon’s Baby!! Vince says that the one week he gave Stephanie to decide whether or not she is going to quit. He calls out Stephanie, who is wearing a really low cut shirt. Those bad boys are huge!! Lunchbox, creator of Peg Reviews brought up a good point. On taped shows if they don’t show the crowd during someone’s entrance, which means they aren’t cheering. Guess what Steph; they’re not showing the crowd. Stephanie says she’s not quitting. Vince wonders why she would do this to him, Vince has always been there for her. Sable calls Steph a Bitch, Steph calls Sable and they have a catfight. Vince grabs Steph by the hair, and delivers one of the most awesome moves I’ve ever seen…a bodyslam. He grabs her again, but Undertaker comes out and punches Vince, he goes for a chokeslam, but Brock Lesner runs into the ring and Taker gives him a boot to the outside.

Elsewhere a delivery guy is looking for Eddie Guerrero and goes into Big Show’s locker room. Big Show steals the bag, and starts eating one of the burritos. He spits in one of the Burritos and tells the delivery guy to give this one to Eddie.

Cruiserweight Title, Billy Kidman vs. Tajiri: Tajiri sneak attacks Kidman to start, and throws Kidman to the outside. Kidman gets thrown shoulder first into the ringpost. Tajiri spends the majority of the match working on the same arm, including a sick looking kick to the shoulder. Tajiri goes for the handspring elbow, but Kidman ducks and gets a kick of his own to the back of Tajiri’s head. Kidman tries to drag Tajiri to the center of the ring, but Tajiri kicks him in the head, and tries a tornado DDT, but at the last minute Kidman reverses it to powerbomb. Tajiri reverses an Irish whip, and the ref has to jump out of the way, giving Tajiri just enough to hit a low blow on Kidman. He starts bowing towards Kidman’s and then kicks him in the head. Awesome!! Another good match for the night, and it made Tajiri look really strong.

Big Show vs. Orlando Jordan: Big Show kicks Orlando Jordan to start, and Big Show starts grabbing at his stomach. Show heads back to the dressing room to take a shit, and Orlando Jordan gets the countout win. I’m not trying to be funny, that’s really what happened.

Zach Gowan interview: He says he’s not 100%, but he is tired of the people’s sympathy, and he’ll be back next week.

Elsewhere, Big Show is taking a shit, and Eddie Guerrero tells him that he set him up and that was his cousin that was the delivery guy. Diarrhea jokes, baby!!!

John Cena & Brock Lesner vs. Undertaker & Kurt Angle: Cena does a pre match rap, and gets the crowd to say “shit’ for him. Angle & Cena start the match out with a little wrestling, which of course Angle wins. Lesner & Cena take control after Lesner hangs onto the top rope, and Angle goes flying over the top. Lesner & Cena work on Angle for the next portion of the match. Cool sequence had Lesner going for a press slam on Angle, but Angle got out of it, and hit a german suplex. The two teams then do the classic “tag, but ref didn’t see tag” sequence. Angle manages to catch Cena in the Angle lock, but Lesner breaks it up, and delivers that awesome looking cradle suplex to Angle. Taker gets the hot tag, and goes to town on both Cena & Lesner. Lesner gets clotheslined outside, and Cena gets chokeslamed by Lesner breaks up the pin. Angle gets tagged in and catches Cena with the german suplexs. Cena grabs his chain as Angle goes for the Angle lock. Lesner knocks down Angle, and Lesner starts fighting with Taker on the outside. Cena takes advantage and nails Angle with the chain, picking up the win. After the match, Lesner goes to F-5 Taker into the announce both, but Taker escapes and chokeslams Lesner through it.

End of Show.

The Good: Once again, the wrestling is solid on Smackdown; even the APA/Basham match wasn’t horrible to watch. Guerrero & Hardy take match of the night honors.

The Bad: All the Big Show/Guerrero angles involving shit. Isn’t there a better way they can buildup a match between Guerrero & Big Show?? The McMahon’s interview was a bust, but that’s a given with Stephanie involved.

The Ugly: Is Torrie Wilson dead?? First she misses the house show on the weekend, and now she isn’t on Smackdown. And she’s not at my house, so this isn’t good.

The Raw Review 09/29/03 Monday, September 29 2003 - 11:48 PM by: Lawerence

With two matches officially announced tonight I didn’t really know what to expect when Raw went on the air. Of the two matches that they announced it looked like the rest of the show could go either way. In general, ladder matches never suck. On the other hand, matches that feature two announcers wrestling each other do suck. The rest of the show was a crap shoot. They set up some decent storylines on last weeks show, and for the first time in a while I found I had some interest in what was happening on Raw. Fortunately for me, Raw extended its streak of good outings to two. While a mix of good and bad, I found that the good was really good and the bad was not horribly offensive.

I like the main event. A lot. It has been an annoying habit of the Raw team to feature a “confrontation” in the main event slot. So when they throw a match at me for the main event tonight like the RVD/Christian ladder match I’m going to come out happy. I tend to base a lot of how I feel about the show based on the last segment. When you have two guys that busted ass like RVD and Christian did tonight I find it very hard to complain.

What else did I like? I liked the Goldberg/Michaels vs. Flair/Orton match, at least until the ending. The bounty on Goldberg is not a very compelling storyline. I’ll have more on that later. The match was a good length and I like most of the workers involved. The match was tainted by a bad ending that featured Rodney Mack (who shouldn’t even be on TV) and Mark Henry running in to (presumably) attack Goldberg and try to collect da cash. Mack had the right idea and went after Goldberg. Henry went after Michaels. Does anyone else think that makes no sense?

I liked how they worked Victoria into the brewing situation between Lita, Trish, Molly, and Gail Kim. Any excuse to get Victoria on my TV is a good one, especially one where she busts out the Widow’s Peak. I love that move.

The six man tag match with La Resistance against Maven/Jindrak/Cade was okay. I like the team of Cade and Jindrak. They are a good tag team on a show that is just dying for teams. I think that with a bit of time these guys can be regular contributors to the tag division on Raw.

The segments with Hurricane and Kane came off fairly well. I thought they did a good job of setting up the match by reminding us of the history between the two. The match was short, and I thought that it should have taken more than tree moves to beat the Hurricane. The match was supposed to make Kane look good, and on a small level it succeeded.

On the flip side, I thought that there were a few bad segments. The most pressing of them is the match between JR and the Coach. If there is anyone who thought the Coach had a chance of winning you need a crotch punch. They don’t have enough confidence in Coach to give him the ball yet. Hopefully this is the end of the writing staff giving storylines to announcers rather than the wrestlers.

The opening tag match featuring the Dudley’s against Test/Steiner was a bit of a train wreck. I appreciate that they are trying to go somewhere with the Test and Steiner storyline but the fans stopped caring about this feud months ago. I think they did the right thing in turning Steiner heel, and it is in my opinion way over due. Steiner is better as a heel, and he gets a better crowd reaction when being an asshole. Is anyone else scared that we might see Test and Steiner challenging for the tag titles soon? On a side note, I was shocked as hell to see TSN show Steiner delivering the suplex to Stacy. Usually we get the random crowd shot. They even showed it on the replay.

Smackdown Review 09/25/03 Thursday, September 25 2003 - 11:12 PM by: Boucher

First off, I’d like to say welcome back to “Louis” Cameron, who returned with a Raw report this week.

Hosts are Cole & Tazz

They announce that Eddy Guerrero will be defending both of his titles in two separate matches

Vince McMahon interview: After being on the show for only 2 minutes last week, you knew McMahon was controlling tonight’s show. It looks like they’re going to have a Brock Lesner Title presentation. As Vince McMahon is about to introduce Lesner, Kurt Angle’s music hit. McMahon says Angle is only out here to bitch and cry about last week’s events. He says he won’t get a title shot for a long time; he has to work from the bottom, and work his way back up. But Kane is on Raw!!! Angle grabs the mic from McMahon, and says either Lesner comes down to the ring, so he can beat the hell of him, or Angle will find Lesner and beat the hell out of him. John Cena comes out and calls Angle a girl, which causes Angle to attack Cena. Cena runs to the back, and Angle vows to find Lesner in the back. We head to the back, as Angle is looking for Lesner, but Cena cheap shots him. Cena & Angle feud baby!!! This is going to kick ass. Good news for Angle fans from Winnipeg, Angle is going to be the house show on Saturday.

During the break, Cena gets in his car, and drives off, Angle follows behind and asks a guy who looks like a cross between Paul Bearer, and Flat Top from Dick Tracy. Angle ends up stealing McMahon’s limo to chase after Cena.

Tag Title Match, Los Guerreros vs. Matt Hardy & Shannon Moore: Wow, I guess getting squashed by APA has its benefits. Guerreros double-team Matt Hardy to get the early advantage, but Moore drags Chavo out of the ring, and Hardy gets a baseball slide. They try to take advantage of Chavo, but he hits a flying DDT on Moore, and gets the tag to Eddy. Hardy gets thrown to the outside, and Chavo & Eddy double team, hitting a back suplex/frog splash combo for the win. After the match, Eddy celebrates a little longer, and Hardy attacks him from behind, hitting a side effect on Eddy. Looks like they’re trying to setup a Hardy/Eddy title match for No Mercy. Angle/ Cena, and Hardy/ Eddy. No Mercy is looking pretty sweet so far. Chavo is looking after Eddy, and Charlie Haas attacks Chavo, and throws him to the outside. Haas applies the Haas of Pain on Eddy.

A-Train interview: This has quickly become the worst show ever. A- Train says he can beat Benoit, anyone in the back, and anyone in Philly. He grabs the timekeeper, and applies the crossface on him. Chris Benoit comes down, and him and A-Train go toe-to toe. Benoit gets the crossface, but A-Train causally gets up and tosses him outside. He grabs a chair, and nails Benoit. The push continues!!!

Meanwhile, McMahon says later on, they will still have the title presentation for Lesner.

Cruiserweight title match, Rey Misterio vs. Tajiri: hopefully they give the same amount of time to this one that they did 3 weeks ago. I’ll try to keep up, but I doubt it. Misterio gets a hurricanrana early, but Tajiri reverses a victory roll for two. Tajiri gets the Tarantula about 3 minutes in, and goes to blow the mist to Misterio eyes, but Misterio counters it. It looks pretty cool seeing the green mist run down Tajiri mouth since he couldn’t spray it. Tajiri to catch a break on the outside, but Misterio surprises him with a springboard to the outside. Back inside, Misterio goes for an axhandle off the top, but Tajiri catches him with a kick to the ribs. Tajiri spends the next portion of the match working on Misterio’s ribs with some kicks and a bodyscissors. Awesome sequence has Misterio charge after Tajiri, but Tajiri throws Misterio, but Misterio lands on the second rope, and lands a moonsault on Tajiri. Tajiri regains control quickly, locking Misterio in the tree of woe, but Misterio body is facing the other way, and Tajiri hits a nasty looking dropkick to the back of Misterio’s head. That only gets two. The ref gets knocked out after a kick to the face by Tajiri. New ref comes down Misterio hits a 619, but Tajiri lands a kick when Misterio goes for the west coast pop, but only gets two. Tajiri goes for a powerbomb, but Misterio slips out, and lands the west coast pop, but the ref is seeing if the old ref is o.k. While this happens, Tajiri sprays Misterio with some red mist, and kicks Misterio in the back of the head to get the win, and become new cruiserweight champion. Great match, so good to see them doing something with the cruiserweight division. I would have Misterio move up a little into a mid card feud, while building Tajiri up against the other cruiserweights.

Basham Bros vs. Noble & Bradshaw: This is a weird match. Basham Bros hit some pretty cool looking double team moves onto Noble. I wish they were on the show more. Noble is your face in peril, and after a neck breaker makes the tag to Bradshaw who cleans house. Action spills to the outside, and Shaniqua looks like she’s going to attack Noble, but Nidia comes to Noble’s aid, and gets hammered by a Shaniqua clothesline. Back inside, Bradshaw hits the clothesline from hell on Doug Basham, but Shaniqua causes the DQ.

They show a recap of last week’s ironman match.

U.S Title match, Eddy Guerrero vs. Charlie Haas: Big Show is at the announce table for some reason. Before the match starts, Big Show attacks Guerrero, and throws him into the ring post. I don’t understand this at all. Haas obviously takes advantage of this working on Guerrero ribs & back throughout the match. Guerrero tries to get out of the ring, but Hass holds him up on the outside, Hass holds Guerrero’s arm behind his head, and slams him into the ring post. Back inside, Haas locks in the Haas of Pain, but Guerrero pops out of it. The ref looks after Guerrero, and Haas grabs the U.S title. Ref sees it, and takes it away from Haas, Haas & the ref get into it, and Guerrero hangs the belt across the over the turnbuckle. Haas charges after Guerrero, but Guerrero moves and Haas knocks himself out after hitting the belt. Guerrero hits a frog splash, and gets the win. Haas is still only a tag team guy, so I don’t mind the loss, and it really pushes Guerrero as a top guy. He has to be in the world title picture by Royal Rumble. I’d love to see Guerrero vs. Angle or Guerrero Vs. Lesner. Don’t want to see Guerrero vs. Undertaker, because Taker would squash him.

Brock Lesner title presentation: Vince congrats Brock and they have a big hug. McMahon demands a speech. Crowd starts chanting, “you tapped out” to Lesner. Lesner just laughs at them, and thanks McMahon for making him an animal. Lesner tells the guys in the back that he is unstoppable. Undertaker’s music hit, and he heads down to the ring. Taker says that remembers what happened last time he saw Lesner when Lesner cost him the championship. Taker says he will challenge Lesner for the title at No Mercy. McMahon says he can’t make that match. Stephanie McMahon comes down, and she announces that she made the match. Vince says if she doesn’t change the match, he will fight her. Stephanie says the match will go on, so Vince says they will fight in an I Quit match at No Mercy. He calls Stephanie a bitch, and Taker goes to hit Vince, but Lesner hits Taker with the belt. A belt shot usually knocks someone out, but it doesn’t affect Taker who delivers a chokeslam to Lesner to end the show.

The Good: Again the wrestling is the highlight of the show. The 3 Title matches were all pretty good, Tajiri/Misterio taking the match of the night award. The push of the cruiserweight is a plus. A Cena/Angle feud is a go, which will rule.

The Bad: The A-Train push continues and makes Benoit look terrible in the process. Taker gets another title shot for some reason. Lesner says he’s unstoppable, but has anyone even come close to hurting Bradshaw.

The Ugly: didn’t know there was a huge demand for McMahon vs. McMahon match, but we’re getting another one again.

The Raw Review 09/22/03 Monday, September 22 2003 - 11:59 PM by: Lawerence

Okay, so it’s my first review of raw (or anything) in awhile. What did I think of the show? Find out…. Right now.

On a night where it seemed like someone finally hit the refresh button on Raw the show took a step in the right direction. It was like someone saw Fubar and said “Hey, why don’t we turn down the suck?” Or at least most of it.

First, as it was the most pressing change we look at the announcing. I liked seeing the change. I think that Lawler especially has grown stale, like a lot of things on the show. It’s also nice to see Coach get a decent shot at announcing without someone reminding us that he’s no JR. It was probably the first real chance that Coach got to show us what he can bring. Did he blow me away? No, he didn’t. But he did do a decent job of holding together the show and he is a nice change of pace. At least until next week.

I’m glad to see that the belt is off HHH after almost a full year. I am still unsold on Goldberg being the champ mainly due to his light working schedule. They did a good job tonight of building him up as the champ though. I wish they hadn’t fed him Jericho this soon. I was expecting it to happen, just not tonight. I thought that they should probably have built to it and used it as something special. It was an okay match though.

The women’s match blew me away. Trish is amazing. The match also had good heat, which is a compliment to all involved. I like the way things are going for the division.

The tag match between La Resistance and Hurricane/Rosey was a one of the lows tonight. Neither team really got much heat, and putting both of them together in a segment that just screamed “throw-away” doesn’t help them. La Resistance is a gimmick team and the gimmick should be buried ASAP. The Dudley’s and their over-patriotic celebration afterward seemed rather lame as well.

I like how they handled Jindrak/Cassidy. Or at least the theory behind it. They get punked out by Evolution, and demand a match to get revenge. Adding Maven to the match took away from the attention these two should have received. I’ve seen these guys on Heat, and they are a good team. They have been on Raw a couple of times before, but they just get thrown out in the ring to have a match without anyone knowing who they are. I think that the previously mentioned attack was a good way of re-introducing them and getting at least some people to care about them. The match however, was executed poorly. I think that Maven took away from some of the attention that these guys should be getting. I mean, have you seen the tag division lately? They need someone new. Anyone.

RVD and Christian had a decent match once it got going. I’m really looking forward to seeing the ladder match between the two, especially if they get a proper amount of time to have a decent match. I hope that this is the start of something bigger for RVD because he is getting wasted in his current role and he knows it. RVD hasn’t had an edge in a long time and has been missing a lot of the fire that used to make his matches so exciting to watch.

I am still unsure of why Mark Henry and Rodney Mack are on my television each week. Both are useless and should not have jobs. Mark Henry had a squash match over Tommy Dreamer who certainly deserves better from the company. I mean, the guy’s on Raw maybe once every two months.

The Kane and Shane segment went well. It does foreshadow more Kane and Shane, but whatever. I don’t like Kane anyway.

IRONMAN MATCH BABY!!!!! 18/09/03 Thursday, September 18 2003 - 11:20 PM by: Boucher

Hosts are Cole & Tazz

Chris Benoit & Rey Misterio vs. Tajiri & Rhyno: They announce a Misterio vs. Tajiri cruiserweight match for the title next week on Smackdown. That should be awesome!! Heels dominate early, but Tajiri accidentally spits mist into Rhyno’s eyes. Cool sequence has Benoit catch Tajiri in the German suplexs. Benoit hits Tajiri with a German suplex, and holds Tajiri so Misterio can 619 him, and delivers another German to Tajiri. Rhyno still blinded by the mist gets a 619 for his troubles. One springboard leg drop later and Misterio gets the three, and the win. A little on the short side, but with one match going over 60 minutes, I shouldn’t complain. I wish they had built Misterio & Tajiri up a little more for their cruiserweight match next week.

Shaniqua vs. Torrie Wilson & Nidia: Torrie looks amazing!! All women wrestlers should wear stocking when they wrestle, except for Mae Young, and Moolah. Torrie & Nidia double-team Shaniqua to start, but Shaniqua regains control after a powerslam on Nidia. I just realized its Tough Enough 1 winner vs. Tough Enough 2 winner. Torrie tries to attack Shaniqua but gets slammed onto Nidia and tossed outside the ring. Shaniqua crushes Nidia with a sweet looking powerslam, and the gets the pin. That was quick. After the match Dawn Marie comes out and sees if Nidia is ok, but Shaniqua attacks her too. I think only Stephanie McMahon could beat Shaniqua. She’s the booker, so it’s pretty for her to get the win.

Speaking of Stephanie, she’s drawing funny faces on a Sable poster. HA HA HA!!! Vince shows up with Big Show & Sable and warns Stephanie that he’s going to make her life miserable so she has no choice to quit. He’s going to make her watch Raw?? Where is the Raw reviewer??? Must be breaking his track records

Meanwhile, John Cena is standing on the roof of a building for some reason. He says he underestimated the Guerreros last week, but’s he’s still Americas team. He makes a Ben Affleck/J-Lo reference which is pretty funny, and a John Ritter reference, which I didn’t laugh at. That man was a comic legend, Three’s company ruled, and 8 simple rules was pretty funny.

Tag Title match, Loss Guerreros vs. World’s Greatest tag team: Haas & Benjamin don’t even get a entrance, it’s a taped show, and you edit the World Tag Team champs. Wow!! Eddy is crazy over with the crowd. It all started at the last house show that came to Winnipeg, a huge “Eddy” chant started when he entered the ring. His push started after that. So Winnipeg accepts your thank you. Guerreros show a little rust missing a double elbow, but Chavo makes up for it with a monkey flip, and nice looking hurricarana. With Haas & Benjamin on the outside, Eddy & Chavo hit planchas at the same time. Guerreros lie, cheat, and steal to keep control of the match. Haas distracts the ref, and Benjamin starts cheating himself, and delivers a superkick to the just healed bicep of Chavo. Haas & Benjamin continue working on the bicep of Chavo. Both teams do the classic one partner distracts the ref while the tag is made, ref didn’t see it, and doesn’t allow the tag. Always love that one. Chavo eventually makes the tag, and Eddy hits a double hurricanrana on Haas & Benjamin. Haas goes to grab a chair, and as Eddie grabs at Haas, Benjamin comes in with a chair, but Eddy ducks it, and Chavo takes out Benjamin’s knee. Chavo & Eddy do a double team move that sort of looked like a double brainbuster. Eddy goes up top and hits the frog splash for the pin, and we got new champions. Read that Haas & Benjamin were pretty injured after the match, and Benjamin needed knee surgery, so maybe that’s why we had a title change. It sucks because I was really looking forward to seeing Benjamin at Winnipeg. At least the APA didn’t win the titles.

Ironman World Title match, Brock Lesner vs. Kurt Angle: Read that Lesner hurt his knee over the weekend, but it shouldn’t bother him for the match. I hope not, this should be wicked. This is the 3rd ever ironman match. Shawn Michaels beat Bret Hart 1-0 at Wrestlemaina 12, and HHH beat Rock 6-5 at Judgment Day 2000. Crowd starts a “You tapped out” chant. Lesner cheap shots Angle to start, but Angle gains control, and Lesner goes outside to regroup. Lesner starts complaining about his knee, and asks for a timeout. He cheap shots Angle again, but it doesn’t work, and Angle sends him back to the outside. Back inside, and Angle goes after Lesner’s leg, and Lesner heads outside again. Lesner stalls big time (got to kill 60 minutes some how) Angle decides to head outside himself, and starts beating on Lesner for a bit. Lesner slams Angle into the steel post, and tosses Angle back inside. Lesner grabs a chair and smokes Angle with it to draw a dq, and Angle gets the first fall at about the 9-minute mark. Lesner hits Angle with the F5 to tie the match at 1-1 at the 11 minutes mark. Sweet move by Lesner. Lesner applies an Ankle lock to Angle, and Angle has to tapout. Lesner takes a 2-1 lead at the 13-minute mark. Lesner hits an Angle slam, but Angle kicks out. Lesner goes for a running shoulderblock, but Angle moves out of the way, and delivers 3 German suplexs on Lesner. Both men are outside, and Lesner hits a F5 to Angle on the outside. Lesner gets back inside the ring before the 10 count, and Lesner gets a 3-1 lead at the 21-minute mark. Lesner works on Angle for a bit, but Angle quickly catches Lesner with the Angle slam to close Lesner’s lead to one at 3-2. Angle tries for another Angle slam, but Lesner reverses it to a F5, but Angle reverses that to an Angle lock. Lesner somehow gets out, and accidentally nails the ref with a clothesline. Lesner hits Angle with a low blow, grabs the title belt, and hits Angle with it. Lesner grabs the ref, and gets the pin on Angle to regain the 2-pin advantage at the halfway point of the match.

We return from break with 25 minutes left. Lesner is on the outside, and Angle pulls a Macho Man, and hits Lesner with an axhandle off the top rope. This gets two. Angle pulls a Booker T, and hits a missile dropkick, but only gets two. Angle tries the best looking moonsault in wrestling history, but Lesner moves out of the way. Score is still 4-2 for Lesner with 20 minutes left. Lesner grabs the steel steps, but Angle baseball slides the steps into Lesner’s face. Angle goes for a quick pin, but Lesner kicks out. We return from break with the score 5-2 for Lesner. During the break, Lesner hit Angle with a superplex. We have 12 minutes left. Both men are outside, and Angle F5’s Lesner into the steel post. Angle applies a half crab onto Lesner inside the ring. Lesner grabs the ropes, but Angle pulls him to the middle of the ring with an angle lock, but can’t get Lesner to tap out. Lesner regains control and goes to the top, but Angle does the running belly-to-belly suplex from the top to cut the lead to 5-3 for Lesner with 9 minutes left. Angle goes for the Angle slam, but Lesner pushes Angle into the ropes, and hits a DDT for two. 7 Minutes left!! They both trade German suplexs on each other. Lesner goes for another, but Angle rolls out of it, and locks in the Angle Lock and Lesner if forced to tap out and his lead is cut to 5-4 with only 4 minutes left. Angle locks in a bow & arrow. 3 minutes left. Lesner breaks out of it with elbows, and rolls out of the ring with 2 minutes left. Angle gets another Angle lock on the outside and rolls Lesner back in, but Lesner rolls back out with 1:30 left. Angle hits 3 more germen suplexs with 50 seconds left. Lesner grabs the ref, and delivers a low blow to Angle with 30 seconds. He goes after Angle, and gets caught in another Angle lock, but he doesn’t tap out as time expired to win the WWE Title!!!!! Awesome match, awesome show, Smackdown rules!!

The Good: Everything!! The ironman, tag title and tag match were all really good, and the women’s match served its purpose. The ironman match has a legit shot at match of the year. The McMahon’s were held to an all time low in terms of screen time. Torrie looked crazy hot tonight.

Not a big fan of having the Guerrero win the tag titles. Eddy doesn’t need two belts, and now the U.S Title and Tag Titles have basically become one. Haas & Benjamin getting hurt doesn’t help the tag team division.

The Boucher: nothing!!

WWE pays tribute to the heroes of 9/11 11/09/03 Thursday, September 11 2003 - 9:20 PM by: Boucher

Hosts are Cole & Tazz

Rey Misterio & Billy Kidman vs. Tajiri & Nuziuo: Wow, a Billy Kidman sighting. Both teams hit some neat looking double team moves. Kidman plays your face in peril, and gets the hot tag to Misterio who hits Tajiri with a springboard senton. Cool finish had Tajiri go for his handspring elbow, but Misterio moved out of the way, and Tajiri with the 619 right into a standing dropkick by Kidman. Kidman and Nuziuo start fighting on the outside. Misterio has Tajiri set up for the 619, but Tajiri was playing possum and moved out of the way, and smoked Misterio with a superkick for the 3 count. After the match Tajiri nails Misterio with the belt.

Meanwhile Vince McMahon, Sable, and Big Show discuss what kind of flowers to get Zach Gowan. Stephanie McMahon shows up and starts to bad mouth Brock Lesner, who enters the room, and says he needs a warm-up match before next week’s iron man match, so he requests a match against Stephanie. Vince says she has to fight Lesner, or quit her job as GM.

Shaniqua vs. Dawn Marie: Shaniqua dominates the match throughout. This is basically a squash match for Shaniqua. She goes outside to grab a chair, when she goes to hit Dawn Marie, Torrie Wilson, and Nidia come down & attack Shaniqua. Shaniqua nails Nidia with a clothesline, but Torrie gets a chair shot on Shaniqua. The 3 girls quickly run back to the dressing rooms.

Elsewhere Sable talks to Stephanie, and says she should quit instead of getting beaten by Lesner.

Chris Benoit vs. Rhyno: Benoit gets the early offense locking in the crossface early, but Rhyno makes the ropes. Pretty back & forth match until the WWE decides to keep the A-Train/Benoit feud going, and make A-Train attack Benoit outside the ring. He drives Benoit into the ringpost, but Rhyno is only able to get a two count. Back inside, Rhyno hits a big superplex on Benoit. Crowd starts chanting “Rhyno Sucks” Benoit is stuck in the tree of woe, and Rhyno gives him a gore against the turnbuckle. Rhyno locks in a sharpshooter, but Benoit makes the rope. Rhyno hits a shortarm clothesline, and tries for another, but Benoit ducks and gets a sharpshooter of his own. Cool sequence!! Benoit goes up for the diving headbutt, but Rhyno gets up and tries for another superplex, but Benoit reverses into a sunset flip/powerbomb combo. Rhyno regains control with a spinebuster, and tries for the gore, but Benoit locks in the crossface for the win.

In the back, APA are hosting a pokergame. Matt Hardy yells at APA for degraded their butler Bruce, and then yells at Shannon Moore for not getting Orange Juice with extra pulp. Hardy & Bradshaw exchange insults with each other, which leads to a match being set up between the two teams. The all go outside to watch the parking lot brawl between John Cena & Eddy Guerrero. APA goes for the super cheap pop, by paying tribute to the victims of 9/11. Just have every face do that; they’ll all be super over.

Streetfight, John Cena vs. Eddy Guerrero: There are cars around the two guys creating a circle in the middle. Cena is wearing a Brian Urlacher jersey, which makes him my favorite wrestler. Guerrero attacks to start the match and has the early control, but Cena hit a standing suplex on top of a car. Cena grabs a lawnmower, but Guerrero dodges it, Cena grabs a spade, but Guerrero dodges that as well. Guerrero hits Cena with a car door, and start choking Cena with a seatbelt. Guerrero than throws Cena face first through a car window, but Cena regains control, and returns the favor to Guerrero. Cena tries to get away inside a car, but Guerrero burns him with the cigarette lighter!! Ouch!! Cena gets a back body drop on Guerrero and sets him up for the F-U, but Guerrero reverses that into a hip toss onto a car. Chavo Guerrero makes his return and hits Cena with some object. Eddy hits a frog splash from the top of a car onto the hood for the 3 count.

APA vs. Matt Hardy & Shannon Moore: I wonder who wins this one. APA no sells everything, and dominates the match. Bradshaw wins with a clothesline from hell on Moore. Hardy and Moore got one move in, that’s it. Who did they piss off???

Stephanie McMahon vs. Brock Lesner: This is fuckin stupid, she’s been in 3 main events in less than two months. She decides to fight, Lesner grabs her, she gives him a low blow, she gives Vince a low blow. She tries to escape to the back, but Lesner goes to the back and grabs her. He’s going to F-5 her into the ringpost, and I’m begging he actually does it. Kurt Angle comes down, and beats up Lesner causing him to retreat to the back. End of Show.

The Good: The first hour, the opening tag match, Benoit/Rhyno, and Cena Guerrero were all really good.

The Bad: the last half hour just sucked, sucked badly. Again no Haas & Benjamin, I guess the APA is too important to have the tag champs on the show.

The Ugly: Stephanie in another main event, and Hardy & Moore got one move during their match.

SMACKDOWN REPORT 04/09/03 Thursday, September 4 2003 - 9:21 PM by: Boucher

Are you ready for some football?? Starts tonight, baby!!!

Hosts are Mikey Cole, and Tazz.

Tag Title match, APA vs. World’s Greatest tag team: Finally, Haas & Benjamin are back on my TV. APA starts quickly, but Haas & Benjamin regain after hitting their jumping double team move. Haas goes to the top, but Faarooq hits a powerslam. Bradshaw gets in, and he cleans house hitting Benjamin with the Last Call, and Hass with a boot to the face. Faarooq gets back in, and hits the best spinebuster in the biz on Haas. He goes for the dominator, but Benjamin helps out with a superkick. Bradshaw hits Benjamin with the Clothesline from Hell, but Haas gets Benjamin foot on the rope. Bradshaw tries to grab Haas, but Haas smokes Bradshaw with the title belt for the three.

Elsewhere, Eddy Guerrero is outside waxing his low rider, while Vince’s limo pulls up. Brock Lesner confronts Vince McMahon about not paying any attention to him. Vince says they’ll talk in his office.

Back in Vince’s office, Vince says he’s disappointed in Lesner, and tells him he’s a monster. Vince slaps Lesner, and Lesner smiles and leaves the room.

John Cena Interview: Cena says if Guerrero leaves his car for one minute, he’s going to steal his ride. They show last week’s event where Cena attacked Guerrero after their match, and hit a F-U on the steel wheel. Cena and starts making fun of what he did to Eddy Guerrero last week. He makes a reference to Madonna kissing Britney Spears at the MVA’s. I knew he would!! He says he pisses on Guerrero’s Latino heat. Guerrero comes down in his low rider, and starts attacking Cena, but Cena hits Guerrero with the U.S. title. Cena then steals Guerrero’s car.

they show a tale of the tape between Undertaker & Kurt Angle. You know how old Undertaker is getting, when he started, he was 6’10, now he’s down to 6’8.

Chris Benoit vs. A-Train: This is a rematch from last week. Poor Benoit, stuck in a mini-feud with A-Train. A-Train dominates the match again this week. Benoit is bleeding. A-Train spends the majority of the match working on the back. Benoit hits the rolling germans, but misses the diving headbutt. A-Train hits the derailer, but the ref notices Benoit’s arm was under the rope. Nice touch given what happened last week. Benoit goes for the crossface, but can’t get A-Train off his feet. Ref gets knocked down. While this happens, Rhyno comes down but accidentally gores A-Train and Benoit gets the 3 count. Much better than last week, but sucks because the mini-feud continues.

Earlier, Undertaker says Angle will have to break his ankle before he taps out. Taker says Angle is the best wrestler in the world, but Taker knows how to beat him.

Meanwhile, Torrie teaches Nidia how to dance sexy, and Nidia applies lotion to Torrie. Wow!!!!!

Backstage, Big Show is standing outside a door. Stephanie McMahon asks what’s going on. Show says Lesner is beating on another victim. Vince refuses to let Stephanie in to see what’s going on.

World Title match, Kurt Angle vs. Undertaker: Before the Match, Vole announces that Taker injured his hand last week. They start trading submission moves on each other. Taker hits Old School on Angle, but misses a charge, and Angle hits a couple of suplexs for two. Angle gets up, and Taker hits a big right hand on Angle. Taker starts working on Angle outside the ring hitting Angle with some elbows and a legdrop. Angle gets driven into the ring post. Back inside, Angle & Taker exchange right hands, but Angle gains control with a sleeper. Taker drops to one knee, but hits a back suplex to break the hold. Taker tries to grab his dragon sleeper on Angle, but Angle reverses with a fireman’s carry, and a belly-to-belly suplex. Taker reverses a Irish whip into a running clothesline, hits Angle with snake eyes, and goes for a legdrop. Angle moves, and hits the Angle lock, and Taker gets out. Angle hits a Angle slam, but only gets two. He goes for another, but Taker gets out, and hits a chokeslam on Angle, but that only gets two. Taker goes for the Last Ride, but Angle reverses into a sunset flip, and hits the Angle lock. They reverse each other a coupe times. Taker uses his size, and gets a choke on Angle with his legs. Angle starts fading, but gets his foot on the rope. Taker tries for a leg drop across the ropes, but Angle moves and locks in the Angle Lock, while Taker is on the ropes. Taker goes for another chokeslam, but Angle reverses this as well into another Angle Lock, but Taker gets out of this as well, and catches Angle in the last ride. Lesner runs in and crushes Taker with a chair, causing a DQ. Lesner goes nuts hitting both Angle & Taker with chair shots. Crowd starts chanting, “you tapped out”, but Lesner just laughs it off.

they show highlights of the Bourbon Street Bikini Contest. A DAWN MARIE SIGHTING!! She’s alive! Torrie ends up winning the contest. She’s the HHH of bikini contest!! After the contest, Shaniqua comes out and attacks the four ladies.

Meanwhile, APA announce they’re back in business with their new office. They also have a new butler.

Cruiserweight Title, Rey Misterio vs. Tajiri: little wrestling sequence to start, which gets a good reaction from the crowd. The shake hands. Misterio goes for a move off the top rope, but Tajiri catches him with a kick while Misterio is in midair. Tajiri goes for the handspring elbow, but Misterio counters with a spinning heel kick to the back. Tajiri gets thrown outside and Misterio hits a suicide dive trough the middle rope. Back inside, Misterio goes up top, but Tajiri meets him, and Misterio tries for a sunset flip/powerbomb combo, but Tajiri blocks it, and catches Misterio in the Tarantula. Tajiri goes for the kick to the head, but Misterio pushes Tajiri into the ropes and gets the 619. Misterio tries for a tarantula of his own, and Tajiri breaks free. Tajiri sets up Misterio on the top turnbuckle, but Misterio pushes Tajiri off, and hits the West Coast Pop for the 3 count. Tajiri goes to shake Misterio’s hand after the match, but spits green mist, and kicks him in the head.

Vince McMahon interview: McMahon comes out, and says sorry for the ending of the title match earlier. McMahon makes a title match between Angle & Lesner in two weeks. He announces that the match will be Iron Man rules!!! Sweet!! McMahon then introduces Brock Lesner. Lesner is in the crowd. He has Zach Gowan tied up in a wheelchair!! McMahon asks what kind of wheelchair it is. Lesner says it’s a very fast wheelchair. Lesner than wheels Gowan to some steps but throws Gowan off the chair. Lesner says Vince wants a monster; he’s going to get a monster, and pushes Gowan down the stairs!!! Show ends with Lesner sitting on the steps laughing.

The Good: Once again, the wrestling on the show was awesome. Misterio/Tajiri was the best of the bunch. Taker & Angle was also very good because Angle got a lot of offense in the match, it wasn’t Taker dominating like he always does. The Cena/Guerrero feud continues which is good. The return of Haas & Benjamin was good. The development of Lesner’s heel turn was awesome, and he should be hated big time. Any show with four hot women in bikinis are a plus to me.

The Bad: The Benoit/A-Train mini feud continues which is too bad for Benoit. The Tajiri heel turn is good, but what happened to Billy Kidman & Ultimo Dragon.

The Ugly: Two weeks in a row without Mattitude!!!

EDDY GUERRERO COMES HOME!!!! 28/08/03 Thursday, August 28 2003 - 9:21 PM by: Boucher

Hosts are Cole & Tazz

Eddy Guerrero Interview: Eddy comes out to a huge pop, crowd starts chanting “Eddy” right away. Eddy says it’s good to be home, and tells the story about the first Guerrero to Lie, Cheat, and Steal. Turns out Guerrero’s great, great, great, great grandmother lied to the cops about being a citizen, beat the shit out of another grandmother for her answers for the citizenship test, and then stole a donkey to get back to town. Out comes John Cena to some crazy heat, he starts rapping about Guerrero not belonging in the U.S. Cena goes on about Guerrero being U.S Champion, and not being American. Guerrero says you can talk down to him, but not to his people, and goes after Cena. Cena escapes and says he’ll fight Guerrero only if the U.S. title is on the line. Guerrero agrees, and the match is made later. Now according to WWE booking, Guerrero will get beat, and embarrassed in his home town, just like JR does every time in Oklahoma, and any Canadian in Canada.

Rey Misterio vs. Nuziuo: Cruiserweight title is on the line, Misterio gets a big pop to start, ref sends Chuck Polumbo, and Johnny the Bull to the back before the match starts. Misterio hits a corkscrew over the top on Nuziuo to get the advantage. Misterio goes for the 619 early, and Nuziuo moves out of the way, and trips up Misterio when his back is turned. Misterio hits a bulldog and the 619 is set up again, but Nuziuo counters the West Coast Pop into a powerbomb for two. Finish has Nuziuo set up Misterio for a back suplex from the top, but Misterio pushes him off, and hits a top rope leg drop for the 3 count

Chris Benoit vs. A-Train: Poor Benoit, he has a lot of work ahead of him. Benoit starts off with chops, but A-Train shoves him off with ease. Benoit hits a German suplex, and the diving headbutt, but only gets two. A-Train gets up right away, and hits a derailer for two. Benoit shoves A-Train into the exposed turnbuckle that A-Train ripped up earlier, and catches A-Train in the crossface for the tapout. A-Train & Sable complain that his feet were under the ropes. Yep, got to protect the money making machine that is A-Train.

Elsewhere, someone tells that Guerrero that something happened to his car.

Meanwhile, A-Train approaches Benoit in the back, and says he can’t beat him fair & square. Benoit goes to respond, but Rhyno gores Benoit through a door. Ouch!!

Brock Lesner Interview: Lesner is pissed off because people keep chanting; “You tapped out” at him. This obviously get the crowd to start chanting “you tapped out” Lesner calls what happened at Summerslam a total fluke, and he demands a rematch against Angle. Angle responds calling Lesner a big baby, Angle says he used to be just like that. Whenever he lost, he cried like a little bitch. Angle says he could easily do what happened at Summerslam again. Lesner wants Angle to prove it, so Angle heads to the ring. Out comes Undertaker, who was listening in the back, he says Lesner already had his chance at the title, but he tapped out. Takers says when you’re at the front of the line, and lose, you go to the back of the line. I can’t quite remember Taker being at the back of the line. Taker says it’s been awhile since he had a title shot, and that Lesner is in his yard. This brings out Big Show, who says he should get the shot since he’s inflicted the most punishment on everyone. Angle comes out and says he’ll make all three of them tap anyway, so it doesn’t matter who he faces, and he should make up their mind soon. Stephanie McMahon comes out, and makes a triple threat match between Lesner, Taker, and Show and the winner gets a shot at the title.

Elsewhere, Cena denies doing anything to Guerrero’s car.

U.S. Title, John Cena vs. Eddy Guerrero: Cena comes out with the tire from Guerrero’s car, and says he lies, cheats, and steals as well. Guerrero attacks Cena from behind. Cena starts bleeding right away. Guerrero basically dominated the early portion of the match. Cool spot had Guerrero bring the tire inside the ring, and while the ref starts to roll it out, Guerrero smokes Cena with some chair shots. Guerrero attempts the frog splash, but Cena rolls out of the way. Cena tosses Guerrero outside, and slams him into the steel steps outside the ring. Back inside, Cena starts working on Guerrero’s lower back hitting Guerrero with a sweet looking powerbomb, and then hits a Bulldog like standing suplex holding him up for about 10 seconds. Guerrero gets a little offense, but Cena goes to the back again hitting a big back body drop. Cena tries a F-U, but Guerrero gets a victory roll for two. Ref gets bumped, and Guerrero hits the frog splash, but Cena kicks out at two!!!! Guerrero goes for his three suplexs, but Cena goes low, and gets DQ’d. After the match, Cena attacks Guerrero with his chain, causing Guerrero to bleed. Cena brings the tire into the ring, and hits a F-U onto the tire. Cena holds up the U.S belt to massive boos from the crowd.

they replay last’s week event between Lesner & Zach Gowan.

Brock Lesner vs. Undertaker vs. Big Show: Kurt Angle comes out to do color commentary. Lesner & Show double-team Taker to start. He beat Show & A-Train by himself so this shouldn’t be a problem for Taker. Double team ends when Lesner tries to pin Taker after Show suplexs Taker. Taker gets thrown out and Lesner & Show go at it. Lesner hits a belly to belly on Show, but Taker breaks the pin. Taker starts going to work on Lesner & Show hitting his corner-to-corner clotheslines. Show tries for the chokeslam, but Taker reverses into a Japanese armbar. Outside the ring, Lesner goes to F-5 Taker into the ringpost, but Taker slams Lesner into the post, only to have Show hit Taker with the chair. Lesner grabs the chair, but Show punches it back into his face. That was pretty cool. Back inside, Taker & Show exchange big boots, but Taker catches Show with another armbar submission. They both hit chokeslams on each other only to get broken up both times by Lesner. Lesner hits a vertical suplex on Show!! That looked awesome!! Taker tries for the Last ride, but Show breaks it up, and Taker knocks him outside the ring. Lesner catches Taker in the F-5, but Show breaks it up. Show hits the chokeslam on Lesner, but Lesner kicks out. Show tries for a chokeslam from the top, but Taker breaks it up. Lesner tries for the superplex from the top, but Taker gets Lesner in the Last Ride and gets the 3 count & the shot at Angle next week. Show ends with Taker & Angle staring each other down.

The Good: The 2nd hour was all wrestling, and both matches were really good. The whole buildup for Cena & Guerrero was excellent. Misterio vs. Nuziuo was good. The McMahon’s were hardly on the show, which is always good.

The Bad: Another solid show again this week, so not much in terms of negative. A-Train no sold basically anything Benoit did, which is wrong. Not a fan of Taker getting more title shots. Remember when he Cena beat him???. I’ll have to catch Velocity to get my weekly dose of Torrie.

The Boucher: Concussions, which is why there was a serious lack of Mattitude this week.

LAST SMACKDOWN BEFORE SUMMERSLAM!!!! 21/08/03 Thursday, August 21 2003 - 10:12 PM by: Boucher

Sorry about last week folks, the power outage on the east coast screwed up The Score, which is the channel Smackdown is on.

Show starts with a recap of Lesner turning on Angle.

Hosts are Mikey Cole, and Tazz.

Kurt Angle interview: Angle comes out and says he would have done anything to get back the title, but doing what Lesner did really pissed him off. Angle says he doesn’t need Vince McMahon’s help, and challenges both Lesner & McMahon for a fight tonight. This brings out McMahon, who says he doesn’t care about what Angle wants, or what the fans care about, he only cares about what Vince McMahon wants. I don’t want to see 2 hours of McMahon, but we get it every week, so he must not care about the fans. McMahon says if Angle touches him or Lesner, he is fired. Mc Mahon than says if Angle wants a match, he’ll get one with the Big Show. Angle than attacks Show, nailing him with the title.

McMahon makes the match tonight a falls count anywhere match.

Rey Misterio vs. Matt Hardy: Kidman comes out with Misterio (A house show over the weekend had Kidman turning on Misterio, but I guess that was just to gauge crowd reactions). Cool start to the match had Misterio hopping on the ropes and hitting Hardy with a hurricarana. Shannon Moore, and Kidman both try to interfere in the match, but the ref just sends Kidman to the back. Hardy dominates the match after this, but Misterio turns the actions around with a spin kick. Crowd chants “Hardy Sucks” as he regains control with the side effect. They start trading blows, but Hardy gets a reverse Side effect for two. Misterio gets the advantage and has both Hardy & Moore set up for the 619, but waits to long to do the move & gets clotheslined by Hardy. Zach Gowan comes down & nails Hardy with his cane, and Misterio hits the 619/West Coast Pop combo to get the win. Awesome match!!

Elsewhere, McMahon makes a match between Brock Lesner & Zach Gowan because Angle has a match. Lesner says he’ll break Gowan’s leg tonight.

They show hi-lights from last week’s McMahon vs. McMahon feud. YAWN!!!!!

Meanwhile Cole talks to Zach Gowan’s mom at ringside, who says she is worried about Zach facing Lesner.

Billy Gunn & Jamie Noble vs. Basham Bros: Gunn & Noble attack the Basham’s outside the ring; Tazz makes a lame joke about Jamie having a Gun. Basham gain control early, but Billy Gunn makes the tag to Noble who’s sporting new Tommy Hilfiger jean shorts due to all his money. Noble catches Danny Basham in a bridge, but Shaniqua pulls Noble out of the ring. Torrie Wilson & Nidia try to attack Shaniqua, but she smokes them with a double clothesline. While all this is going down, the Basham switch spots in the ring and Doug Basham rolls up Noble for the win. The Killer B’s gimmick returns!!!

Brock Lesner vs. Zach Gowan: Before the match starts, Lesner starts talking trash to Gowan’s family, Lesner tries to shakes Ms. Gowan’s hand, but she refuses. Bitch!!! Gowan attacks Lesner from the top, and hits Lesner with his leg. This pisses Lesner off, and starts pounding on Gowan. Lesner brings back the double powerbomb smoking Gowan on the second one. Lesner throws Gowan outside the ring, and grabs a chair. He lays out Gowan with the chair, which causes the DQ. Gowan is busted open from the shot. Lesner proceeds to F5 Gowan’s leg across the ringpost. Gowan’s Mom is begging Lesner to stop, only to see Lesner F5 Gowan into the ringpost again. EMT’s start to stretcher Gowan towards the back, but Lesner runs and throws the stretcher around. He brings the stretcher back to the ring, and wipes blood from it across his chest, and starts laughing at Gowan. Great way to build up Lesner’s heel turn.

Summerslam preview: No Smackdown Tag Title match, no I-C Title match, no Misterio, no Kidman, no Cena, no Booker T, no Steiner, no Torrie, no Haas & Benjamin, no Christian, but WE GOT MOTHER FUCKIN A-TRAIN BABY!!!!!!!!

John Cena & A-TRAIN!!! Vs. Undertaker & Orlando Jordan: Cena & Taker start, which Taker dominates of course. Jordan comes in and Cena gets control and tags to A-TRAIN who says he wants Taker, when Jordan turns to tag to Taker, A-TRAIN attacks Jordan. Taker had Cena in the dragon sleeper, but A-TRAIN distracts him, and hits the derailer on Jordan, Taker hits A-TRAIN with the chokeslam, and Cena nails Taker with a spinebuster. Taker gets control quickly and sets up Cena for the last ride, but A-TRAIN hits Taker with Cena’s chain, and Cena gets the win.

After the match, Sable meets up with A-TRAIN, and Sable gives him her hotel card. Now A-TRAIN is a sex machine. A-TRAIN, A-TRAIN, A-TRAIN.

Eddy Guerrero & Rhyno vs. Chris Benoit & Tajiri: Rhyno’s riding shotgun with Guerrero in the low rider. Tajiri has new music. Benoit gets the early advantage on Guerrero to start the match, but Guerrero uses the ref to slow down Benoit. Rhyno comes in, and Benoit locks him up in the crossface, but Guerrero breaks it up with a dropkick to the face. Guerrero hits Benoit with his spinning hips suplexs, and tries to go the top, but Benoit nails Guerrero with a superplex off the top. Benoit & Rhyno makes the tag to their partners, and Tajiri hits the handspring elbow, and catches Rhyno in the tarantula. During this, Benoit hits the headbutt on Guerrero. Tajiri accidentally hits Benoit, and Rhyno nails Tajiri with the gore for the win. After the match, Benoit tries to attack Rhyno, but he gets caught in the crossface, but Guerrero hits Benoit with the belt. Rhyno thanks Guerrero, and Guerrero hits Rhyno with the belt, and just for the hell of it, also hits Tajiri with it.

Falls Count Anywhere, Kurt Angle vs. Big Show: Angle comes out first and waits by the aisle and attacks Big Show during his entrance. Big Show gains control and bring a table into the ring, Big Show hits a legdrop on Angle on top of the table. Show sets up Angle in the corner, and lays the table beside him, as Show runs at him, Angle throws the table at Show. Angle hits a Angle slam, but only gets two. Angle brags a chair, but Show punches the chair into Angle. Show goes to powerbomb Angle but Angle grabs the chair and hits Show with it. Action spills to the floor, and Big Show sets up the steps beside the announcers table. He tries to chokeslam Angle though the table, but Angle espaces and gets Show in the Angle lock. Show kicks out of the hold, but gets knocked onto the table. Angle grabs a chair and legfrops Show on the two, but only gets two. They go back in the ring, where Show catches Angle for the chokeslam, but Angle reverses, and Angle slams Show through the table and gets the 3. After the match, Lesner comes down, and Angle & Lesner have a staredown to end the show.

The Good: More good wrestling this week, Angle vs. Show, and Misterio vs. Hardy were the hilights. Lesner beating on Gowan really helps Lesner heel turn. Cean’s rap was awesome, and the McMahon were kept to only a couple segments.

The Bad: The tag matches were all a little on the short side, which is way they weren’t as good as the matches mentioned above.

The Boucher: A-TRAIN!!!

BROCK/VINCE IN A CAGE AND CENA/TAKER II 07/08/03 Thursday, August 7 2003 - 8:10 PM by: Boucher

Recap of last week’s events between Lesner, Angle, and McMahon.

Hosts are Cole & Tazz

Eddy Guerrero vs. Chris Benoit: Benoit gets a big pop from the Canadian crown. Guerrero doesn’t put the title on the line. Cole says that’s a crock. He did defend it last week against Tajiri, so he has 30 days to defend it again. I’m with Guerrero on this one. “ Benoit “ chant to start the match following by an “Eddy” chant shortly after. The guy doesn’t even get booed in Canada while fighting a Canadian. The heel turn is not working. Guerrero works on the arm to take away the crossface. Great back & forth match between the two; Benoit smokes Guerrero with a vicious looking powerbomb. Goes for the flying headbutt but Rhyno knocks him off the ropes. Guerrero tries to end the match with the frog splash, but Benoit moves, and hits Rhyno outside the ring with a suicide dive. Tajiri attacks Guerrero in the ring. Officials try to break the 4 up. Sgt. Slaughter comes out and makes the match into a tag match.

Eddy Guerrero & Rhyno vs. Chris Benoit & Tajiri: Benoit gets the crossface on Rhyno early on in the match, but is broken up by Eddy. Tajiri gets tagged in and cleans house. No mention of Rhyno beating Tajiri for the U.S title in 2001. Tajiri locks Rhyno in the Tarantula, but gets booted in the head by Guerrero. Guerrero finally gets the crowd to start hating him. Tajiri plays your face in peril. Cool ending has Tajiri knock out Guerrero out of the ring, he makes the hot tag to Benoit, but Rhyno knocked Benoit out of the ring, but Rhyno doesn’t know he made the tag. Rhyno hits Tajiri with a powerbomb, and Guerrero hits him with a frog splash. Benoit hooks Guerrero in the crossface, and the tapout.

Nunzio vs.Zach Gowan: Matt Hardy comes down for commentary. Matt Fact: Matt is a better commentator than Michael Cole. Nice wrestling sequence to start the match off. Nunzio gets stuck in the ropes, and Gowan hits him with a moonsault, which looked pretty good. Gowan goes to the top, but Shannon Moore interferes, and Gowan hits him with an elbow. Nunzio takes advantage and nails Gowan with a dropkick off the top for the win. Hardy attacks Gowan after the match and hits another twist of fate on Gowan. He than mocks Gowan by standing on one leg, and giving the Mattitude symbol. Big boos for that one.

Undertaker is shown warming up for his match, he goes into Vince McMahon’s office, and says he’d kick his ass if he was in Vince’s family. Funaki appears and tells McMahon something happened to Brock Lesner. Lesner is shown backstage knocked out. McMahon gives Angle a smile.

Undertaker vs. John Cena: Cena has to get the win or he’s fucked. Taker dominates the early portion of the match working on Cena’s shoulder. Crowds chants both “Cena sucks” and “Cena” Taker goes for Old School, but Cena takes out his knee, but it doesn’t faze Taker and he takes control again. Taker hits a big Superplex but re-injures his ribs, which happened against Cena at the PPV. Cena takes control after this working on the ribs. Match goes back & forth after this with Taker getting the majority of the offense. Ref gets knocked out and A-train comes down to attack Taker. A-Train hits Taker with a backbreaker, but only gets two. Taker gets up first and tries for the tombstone, but that gets reversed in to the F-U for the 3 count. Yes!!!!!!!

Jamie Noble vs. Doug Basham: The show hi-lights of last week’s event involving Noble & Torrie. I just noticed that Noble kept his boots on after the orgy. I guess Noble is a face after last weeks events. Should have told the fans that, as the crowd was pretty dead. Noble gets the win with a small package. Basham double team Noble after the match, but Billy Gunn makes the save.

Meanwhile, Kurt Angle denies attacking Lesner

Rey Misterio vs. Charlie Haas: Misterio tries to go for a bodyscissors early on, but Haas counters it into a sweet looking backbreaker. Haas applies a cool looking hold as Misterio face is against the 2nd turnbuckle, Haas bends Misterio’s arms back and puts a foot into Misterio back. Looked awesome. Misterio takes control after Haas hits his head on the steel post. Misterio hits an awesome summersault off the top rope. Misterio gets the 619, but Haas counters the west coast pop into the Haas of Pain for the tapout. Haas & Benjamin rule!!

Steel Cage match, Brock Lesner vs. Vince McMahon: Not much time left in the show, so this could be quick. Lesner tosses McMahon around for a while. Lesner gets the F-5 on McMahon early on, but collapses in mid move. Lesner is out. McMahon wants Angle to count to three, but Angle refuses. McMahon slaps Angle and Angle puts McMahon in the Angle lock. While this happens, Lesner kips up, and F-5’s Angle!!!!! It was a setup!!! Lesner than starts smashing Angle into the cage. Show ends with Lesner and McMahon celebrating over Angle’s beaten body. Awesome show.

The Good: Every single match was really good. The show was mostly wrestling and with the roster they have, that’s how it should be. No Stephanie McMahon either which is always good.

The Bad: Nothing bad this show, I hate A-Train so him being on the show, and his push continuing is a bad.

The Boucher: No Torrie Wilson as her & Billy Kidman were on their honeymoon

? IT’S THE SMACKDOWN AFTER THE PPV!! CAN THEY MAKE IT 2 GOOD SHOWS IN A ROW!! 31/07/03 Thursday, July 31 2003 - 8:10 PM by: Boucher

Hosts are Michael Cole & Tazz

Kurt Angle Interview: Big Pop for Angle, who boasts about winning the WWE Title back just four months after a serious neck injury. This eventually led up to Brock Lesner coming out to the ring to ask for a rematch, which the crowd was pretty stoked for. I can’t see them giving away this match for free. Angle agreed, but then Vince McMahon interrupted. Says he's in charge since Stephanie is out selling the PPV attack from A-Train, and how he won't sanction a rematch tonight, because he wants to put Brock and Angle together in a tag match, against the team of his (Vince's) choice. Vince then says that the real reason Brock's not getting a rematch is because Angle didn't want to give him one tonight, and that Angle's a backstabber, not a true friend. Angle tries to deny it, but the segment ends with Vince smiling at the pot of shit he just stirred up. So Vince is on both Smackdown and Raw, Steph has been one of the most used Smackdown performers, Linda got Tombstoned by Kane a couple weeks ago, and Shane made his return to attack Kane on Raw. ALL THE MCMAHONS ARE BACK, I LOVE IT!!!!!

Rey Misterio vs. Shelton Benjamin: with only 4 weeks until Summerslam, I wonder if they will do a Tag Title rematch instead of Kidman turning on Misterio to set a cruiserweight match. Benjamin & Haas don’t really have any challengers. They could do a Haas & Benjamin vs. Angle & Brock match since HHH vs. Goldberg will be the main event. Both Kidman & Haas are at ringside. Really good opener if only it had more time, Misterio missed a 619 early in the match, and Benjamin had the early control. Finish had Misterio hit Benjamin with a different version of the West Coast Pop to get the win.

Jamie Noble/Torrie Wilson Segment: Torrie Wilson shows up at the hotel. Noble looks funny just wearing some briefs and a cowboy hat. He shows Torrie the sex toys, and she runs to the washroom to puke. Puke, that’s a funny word.

Chris Benoit Interview: Benoit comes down, he wants revenge on Rhyno for him giving him the gore, and costing Benoit the U.S Title. Rhyno shows up on the videotron and says he’s not coming down to the ring, but Benoit has to prove himself. This leads to…

Chris Benoit vs. Doink the Clown: Basically a 2-minute squash for Benoit. He makes Doink tap out to the Crossface. After the match Rhyno reappears on the big screen, and basically screw you to Benoit and leaves the arena. Doesn’t the guy to turn on the partner usually come out first to explain why he turned on him??

Noble/Wilson segment: Nidia knocks on the hotel door, and storms into the ring. Instead of attacking Noble or Torrie, she takes off her fur coat to reveal a sexy outfit, her & Noble go at it on the bed, but we can’t see it. Based on Torrie’s reactions (which were pretty funny) Noble & Nidia were doing some pretty freaky shit.

Angle/Lesner segment: Brock grills Angle about Vince's accusations, but Angle admits nothing, other than noting that their one-on-one match at WrestleMania was brutal, and Vince probably didn't want anything like that to happen to either one of them here tonight at Smackdown.

U.S Title match, Eddy Guerrero vs. Tajiri: Tajiri was hiding in the trunk of Guerrero’s low rider, and surprised Guerrero by blowing the mist in his face. Guerrero tries to get out of the match, telling the ref he can’t see the guys three fingers he’s holding up. Announcer says that if Guerrero doesn’t wrestle, he will be stripped of the title. Tajiri controlled the match with stiff kicks throughout. Tajiri tried to spew the Green Mist at Eddie, but Eddie dodged it, and the ref was blinded. This allowed Eddie to use the US Title belt to Knock Out Tajiri. Then Eddie grabbed some water and wiped the mist out of the ref’s eyes. Guerrero hit the frog splash and got the win.

Zach Gowan promo: this was the segment they showed from Confidential, showing when Zach got cancer, how he started wrestling.

Zach Gowan vs. Shannon Moore: Moore hits a cool looking fisherman suplex causing Gowan’s leg to connect with the turnbuckle, giving Moore the edge throughout the match. Gowan would keep fighting back only to get distracted by Matt Hardy on the outside. Gowan hit Hardy with a clothesline off the top rope, which allowed Moore to roll Gowan for the 3 count. After the match Hardy attacked Gowan, giving him the side effect and the twist of fate. This got big boos and even an “Asshole” chant.

John Cena vs. Orlando Jordan: Cena has a promo before the match about how Undertake is at home taking care of injuries while Cena is here at the arena. He challenges Taker next week on Smackdown. Cena than makes a bunch of gay jokes about Taker & Jordan. Cena dominates the match working on Jordan’s ribs, and getting the win after a F-U.

Noble/Torrie segment: Billy Gunn shows up at the hotel, but Noble says he hasn’t touched her. While Gunn finds out if Torrie is o.k. Noble & Nidia start going at it again. This time Gunn and Torrie make the funny reactions.

Lesner/McMahon segment: Lesner challenges McMahon to a match next week to see if that proves he’s worthy of the rematch. McMahon accepts the challenge. I like how they make Lesner seem like a killer but McMahon has no problem fighting him, and building himself up as some tough guy as well.

Back at the hotel: They show a slow moving shot revealing that the 4 people have sex. The segment with Gunn showing up, and the end of that segment was only 7 minutes. Gunn seems to be a quick shooter.

Sable interview: she tells the fans she told them that she was going to beat Stephanie McMahon at the PPV, and it proves she’s the dominate female on Smackdown. They show A-Train attacked Steph at the PPV. Sable than announces A-Train as one half of McMahon’s team. YES!! A-Train push # 4877 is on!! Big Show’s music hits and he is the other half of the team to face Angle & Lesner.

Kurt Angle & Brock Lesner vs. Big Show & A-Train: A-Train actually dominates both Lesner & Angle during the early portion of the match, causing me to puke. Puke, that’s a funny word. Big Show and A-Train spend the majority of the match kicking Angle’s ass. Angle makes the hot tag to Lesner. Finish of the match had Lesner F-5 Big Show, but Angle tags himself back into the match and gets the win. After the match, Angle & Lesner start an argument with each other. Lesner ends the argument by giving Angle a F-5. McMahon comes back out and says he will face lesner in a steel cage match, and Kurt Angle will be the special guest ref.

The Good: Misterio vs. Benjamin was solid. The Noble/Torrie segments were pretty funny, hopefully Noble comes out on top in this one. I’d prefer Torrie on top, but that’s not wrestling related. Guerrero vs. Tajiri was awesome, but I hope this wasn’t a one and done for Tajiri, and he stays in the upper mid card. Cena kicking the shit out of Jordan making him look like a serious ass kicker. Zach Gowan vs. Shannon Moore was also good, and Hardy attacking Gowan helped out Hardy.

The Bad: McMahon making himself seem like a super tough guy. I wish they spent more time on Rhyno & Benoit, as that should be a major angle. Wasn’t a big fan of the main event, but I don’t like A-Train.

The Ugly: A-TRAIN GETS ANOTHER PUSH!!!!!!.

Cena vs. Undertaker & McMahon vs. Lesner in a cage.

VENGEANCE PREDICTIONS Saturday, July 26 2003 - 11:20 PM by: Boucher

Hi everyone, Boucher here to give you his predictions for this S