Guest HartFan86 Posted July 2, 2002 Report Posted July 2, 2002 I posted this on some sites: WWE Smackdown Brand House Show, July 1, 2002: Portland, ME. By: Bobby Trask Before I start, I waited with a friend for over 5 hours outside to meet the wrestlers. We met Edge, Christian, John Cena, Nidia, Jamie Noble, Rico, Steve Bradley, Rey Mysterio, Jr. and Referree Mike Chioda. Also, I yelled to Kurt Angle when he arrived and said "Hey Kurt, You really don't sick, your awesome" and he acknowledged back with a "I know." Now, onto the card: Tony Chimel announced the event and it started off with a local radio station personality. Opener: Rico vs. Funaki. Funaki wins after ducking a Rico spinkick and rolling into a rollup. Decent opener. USA vs. Canada John Cena & Steven Bradley vs. Lance Storm & Christian Before the match, Christian ran down Portland, Canada is better, blah. Storm pins Bradley after a superkick. Crusierweight Title: Jamie Noble w/ Nidia vs. Hurricane Noble wins with reversing a suplex from the inside out while Nidia holds the foot (Think Warrior/Rude WM5). Hurricane gives the Chokeslam after the match. Tag Titles: Billy & Chuck w/Rico vs. Venis/Bob Holly Billy with a rollup afrter Chuck superkicks Holly. Rey Mysterio/Kidman vs. Chavo/Tajiri Rey looked AWESOME. Rey wins after getting a leap frog from Kidman to jump on top of Chavo on the top rope and give him a Frankensteiner off the top. 15 Minute Intermission. Rob Conway/Hugh Morrus/Mark Henry vs. D-Von/Deacon/Albert D-Von cuts promo about how we are all sinners and Portland is horrible and blah. He's probably right though. D-Von pins Conway after some move which I wasn't paying attention too. Rikishi vs. Test Rikishi superkicks a chair into the face of Test after he brought it in to get the 3. Stinkyface for Test after the match. Stacy vs. Torrie, Bra and Panties HORRIBLE match. Torrie wins within 2 minutes. They blow more spots in this match then Sabu (Ok, maybe not THAT bad, but you get the point.) Edge vs. Kurt Angle. A Huge Clusterf*ck here. Billy/Rico/Chuck ran down to beat on Edge, but he fought them all off and won with a spear on Angle. Then the 4 did a beat down on Edge, Rikishi ran down, then Test/Storm/Christian ran down, then Venis/Holly ran down. Confused? Yeah. Anyways, the babyfaces clear the ring and all start to dance, then Rikishi says he has a special friend to bring in the ring. Everyone starts chanting "Scotty". It was the return of Scotty 2 Hotty (he lives in the Portland area and grew up in it as well.) They all danced for about 10 minutes and then we left. Good show otherwise, but terrible attendance. Not even half the arena was full...probably between 4,000-5,000 people in a 9,000 people arena. Yeah, it was that bad. I'm going to SD tommorow in Boston, so I'll send the results for that too.
Guest LesnarLunatic Posted July 2, 2002 Report Posted July 2, 2002 and the show ends with Holly, Venis, Rikishi, Scotty and Edge dancing. How can the fans lose?
Guest MarvinisaLunatic Posted July 2, 2002 Report Posted July 2, 2002 Hmm. Sounds like a preview of what I'll see next Monday night, and Im not too sure if I like it. Seeing Rey wrestle would be cool, but I bet he debuts on Smackdown tomorrow (Thursday)
Guest Anglesault Posted July 2, 2002 Report Posted July 2, 2002 Okay, the NEW Anglesault doesn't care that Edge fended off four men to beat Angle with a spear, because it's a house show!
Guest LesnarLunatic Posted July 2, 2002 Report Posted July 2, 2002 It appears Edge absorbed Super-powers from Hogan. Eh?
Guest Anglesault Posted July 2, 2002 Report Posted July 2, 2002 Anglesault ALSO doesn't care that Angle was teaming with the gay group, because hopefully it won't transfer to TV!
Guest LesnarLunatic Posted July 2, 2002 Report Posted July 2, 2002 But, we can all be sure of one thing... Anglesault is on some pretty powerful drugs right now. Sorta like the drugs that Tyson takes so he won't eat people and yell alot. Ya know..
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