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Shawn Michaels was out of the spotlight for 4 years and his return produced a huge buy rate for SummerSlam 2002.

I was happy to hear of Jason's return to wrestling. I know Jason and his little brother in real life (we all went to the same high school) and I was saddened when Jason said he may have to quit wrestling due to his injury. It thrills me to see him back.

They'll probably add Rhyno vs. Bob Holly on Heat

WWF In Your House February 18th, 1996 Louisville, Kentucky @ The Louisville Gardens Attendance: 5,500 Buy Rate: 0.77 Dark Matches: -- Ahmed Johnson defeated Issac Yankem -- The Godwinns (Henry & Phineas Godwinn) defeated The Body Donnas (Skip & Zip) -- The Undertaker defeated Intercontinental Champion Goldust by countout Free For All Match: -- Jake Roberts defeated Tatanka Pay-Per-View Matches: -- Razor Ramon defeated The 1-2-3 Kid in a Crybaby Match -- Hunter Hearst Helmsley defeated Duke Droese -- Yokozuna defeated The British Bulldog by DQ -- Shawn Michaels defeated Owen Hart -- WWF Champion Bret Hart defeated Diesel in a Steel Cage Match ============== WWF In Your House - "Final Four" February 16th, 1997 Chattanooga, Tennessee @ The UTC Arena Attendance: 6,399 Buy Rate: 0.5 Free For All Match: -- The Godwinns (Henry & Phineas Godwinn) defeated The Headbangers (Mosh & Thrasher) Pay-Per-View Matches: -- Marc Mero defeated Leif Cassidy -- The Nation of Domination (Faarooq, Crush, & Savio Vega) defeated Goldust, Bart Gunn, & Flash Funk -- Intercontinental Champion Rocky Maivia defeated Hunter Hearst Helmsley -- Doug Furnas & Phil LaFon defeated Tag Team Champions Owen Hart & The British Bulldog by DQ -- Bret Hart defeated The Undertaker, Vader, and Stone Cold Steve Austin in a 4-Way Elimination Match to win the vacant WWF Championship ============== WWF In Your House - "No Way Out Of Texas" February 15th, 1998 Houston, Texas @ The Compaq Center Attendance: 16,110 Buy Rate: 0.52 -- The Headbangers (Mosh & Thrasher) defeated Goldust & Marc Mero -- Light-Heavyweight Champion TAKA Michinoku defeated Pantera -- The Godwinns (Henry & Phineas Godwinn) defeated The Quebecers (Jacques & Pierre) -- Bradshaw defeated NWA North American Champion Jeff Jarrett by DQ -- Ken Shamrock, Ahmed Johnson, & D.O.A. (Chainz, Skull, & 8-Ball) defeated The Nation of Domination (Faarooq, The Rock, D'Lo Brown, Kama Mustafa, & Mark Henry) -- Kane defeated Vader -- Stone Cold Steve Austin, Owen Hart, Cactus Jack, & Terry Funk defeated Triple H, The New Age Outlaws (The Road Dogg & Billy Gunn), & Savio Vega in a No DQ match ============== WWF In Your House - "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" February 14th, 1999 Memphis, Tenneesee @ The Pyramid Attendance: 19,028 Buy Rate: 1.21 Sunday Night Heat Matches: -- Too Much (Brian Christopher & Scott Taylor) defeated The Hardy Boys (Matt & Jeff Hardy) -- Viscera defeated Test -- Billy Gunn fought Tiger Ali Singh to a no-contest Pay-Per-View Matches: -- Goldust defeated The Blue Meanie -- Bob Holly defeated Al Snow to win the vacant Hardcore Championship -- The Big Bossman defeated Mideon -- Tag Champs Owen Hart & Jeff Jarrett defeated Mark Henry & D'Lo Brown -- Val Venis defeated Ken Shamrock to win the Intercontinental Title. Billy Gunn was the special guest referee -- Kane & Chyna defeated Triple H & X-Pac -- WWF Champion Mankind fought The Rock to a no-contest in a Last Man Standing match -- Stone Cold Steve Austin defeated Vince McMahon in a Steel Cage Match ============== WWF No Way Out 2000 February 27th, 2000 Hartford, Connecticut @ The Hartford Civic Center Attendance: 15,000 Buy Rate: 1.2 -- European Champion Kurt Angle defeated Chris Jericho to win the Intercontinental Title -- The Dudley Boys (Bubba Ray & D-Von Dudley) defeated The New Age Outlaws (The Road Dogg & Billy Gunn) to win the Tag Team Titles -- Mark Henry defeated Viscera -- Edge & Christian defeated The Hardy Boys (Matt & Jeff Hardy) -- Tazz defeated The Big Bossman by DQ -- X-Pac defeated Kane in a No Holds Barred match -- Rikishi & Too Cool (Grand Master Sexay & Scotty 2 Hotty) defeated The Radicals (Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko, & Perry Saturn) -- The Big Show defeated The Rock -- WWF Champion Triple H defeated Cactus Jack in a Hell In A Cell match ============== WWF No Way Out 2001 February 25th, 2001 Las Vegas, Nevada @ The Thomas & Mack Center Attendance: 15,223 Buy Rate: 1.6 Sunday Night Heat Match: -- Rikishi defeated Matt Hardy by DQ Pay-Per-View Matches: -- The Big Show defeated Raven to win the Hardcore Title -- Intercontinental Champion Chris Jericho defeated Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero, and X-Pac in a Fatal 4-Way -- Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley defeated Trish Stratus -- Triple H defeated Stone Cold Steve Austin in a 3 Stages Of Hell Match -- Steven Richards defeated Jerry Lawler -- Tag Team Champions The Dudley Boys (Bubba Ray & D-Von Dudley) defeated Edge & Christian and The Undertaker & Kane in a 3-Way Table Match -- The Rock defeated Kurt Angle to win the WWF Title ============== WWF No Way Out 2002 February 17th, 2002 Milwaukee, Wisconsin @ The Bradley Center Attendance: 15,235 Buy Rate: 1.33 Sunday Night Heat Match: -- European Champion Diamond Dallas Page defeated The Big Bossman by DQ Pay-Per-View Matches: -- The APA (Faarooq & Bradshaw) defeated Lance Storm & Christian, Scotty 2 Hotty & Albert, The Hardy Boys (Matt & Jeff Hardy), The Dudley Boys (Bubba Ray & D-Von Dudley), and Billy & Chuck in Tag Team Turmoil -- Rob Van Dam defeated Goldust -- Tag Team Champions Tazz & Spike Dudley defeated Booker T. & Test -- Intercontinental Champion William Regal defeated Edge in a Brass Knuckles On A Pole match -- The Rock defeated The Undertaker -- Kurt Angle defeated Triple H. Stephanie McMahon was the special guest referee -- WWF Champion Chris Jericho defeated Stone Cold Steve Austin ============== WWE No Way Out 2003 February 23rd, 2003 Montreal, Quebec, Canada @ The Bell Centre Attendance: 16,125 Buy Rate: 0.95 Sunday Night Heat Match: -- Rey Mysterio defeated Jamie Noble Pay-Per-View Matches: -- Chris Jericho defeated Jeff Hardy -- RAW Tag Team Champions William Regal & Lance Storm defeated Rob Van Dam & Kane -- Matt Hardy defeated Billy Kidman to win the Cruiserweight Title -- The Undertaker defeated The Big Show -- Brock Lesnar & Chris Benoit defeated Kurt Angle & Team Angle (Shelton Benjamin & Charlie Haas) -- RAW Champion Triple H defeated Scott Steiner -- Stone Cold Steve Austin defeated Eric Bischoff -- The Rock defeated Hulk Hogan

For the blind: "Don't you wish you were me" is on Jericho's shirt.

Wow, what a stupid post.

A fare collector on a Boston subway. Pretty good for a guy who once main-evented Starrcade, I'd say. And have you seen any pictures of him lately? He's got to be at least 350 pounds. He's could double as A-Train's bodyhairless twin.

It won't end. This will probably become a yearly thing for Mania, with cross-brand matches.

Paez looks like a retard. Possibly an aborted baby that made it. Or someone with MS. Either way, I can't help but laugh at what a retard he looks like. He probably gnaws on his wrist in his spare time.

Ernest "The Cat" Miller has been released from his contract by World Wrestling Entertainment. http://www.wwe.com/news/headlines/1254738 It's official now.

As of 3:03pm on 2/12/04, Ernest Miller's bio still appears on Smackdown's website while Kanyon's has been removed.

According to Meltzer, they signed him to a 3-year contract at the end of November 2003.

I still say when Kanyon came back from his severe shoulder injury around February 2003, they should have had him come back thinking the InVasion was still going on. That = gold. ...And yet, A-Train still has a job.

Remember when Billy Gunn wore those idiotic hair extensions at Vengeance 2003?

Yeah, he was starting to turn redneck about 2 months before he left for that long stretch. He was starting to cut promos with that southern drawl and started telling stories about riding motorcycles in deserts or something. Another thing I'm surprised no one has picked up on is his skin. UT is still looking pretty tanned, and I don't recall Deadman UT ever having any semblance of a tan. In fact, he was always quite pale.

According to Meltzer, NOAH wanted Angle and Lesnar to come in and job to their guys for a very hefty payday, which WWE wasn't took keen on. PRIDE also wanted Angle and Lesnar for shootfights.

Yeah, they had to bring in Dustin's wife Terri and dress her up as Marlena to kill the "He's gay" stigma and explained it as psychology.

Ok, can we not turn this into a political flamewar please? Randy Orton flamewars are bad enough.

lol, I love how everyone here is completely ignoring the fact that Benoit just beat Flair clean (via submission no less) and accusing them of burying Benoit because of one little promo. Grow up.

He's right. I went to a Monday Night RAW in February 1995 and there was about a 20:5 ratio of jobber matches to non-jobber matches. One of the non-jobber matches was Jeff Jarrett vs. Diesel for the WWF Title, so that didn't help matters. We got a great Shawn Michaels vs. British Bulldog match and the last match of the show was a great Bret Hart vs. Owen Hart Submission Match, but still, sitting through 4 hours of an event that is 90% jobber matches was easily worse than this. Oh yeah, we also had to sit through a 15-minute angle (a novelty at the time) of The King's Court with Jerry Lawler with Shawn Michaels introducing Sid as his new bodyguard.

I have a friend of mine that went to the Smackdown house show in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, that related to me some shocking and disheartening news on how he was treated by Eddie Guerrero. After the show was over, my friend spotted Eddie and asked him if he could sign something for his cousin, whom is a huge fan of his. Eddie just ignored him so my friend tried to get his attention again thinking Eddie didn't hear him, and Eddie totally exploded on him, saying, "Get the fuck away from me, asshole." My friend said he just gave him a funny look and shook his head as Eddie power-walked off. If this news about Eddie's attitude is true, then I'm very disappointed in his behavior, especially from one that claims to be a full-fledged Christian in his real life. It's one thing to say no to a fan or to be having a bad night, but it's another to use such obscene language to a fan innocently asking for an autograph.

No, someone was disputing that he said Eddie's name 15 times. I was stating that he said his name twice because that was the issue. I don't understand why everyone is insisting that this has to absolutely be false and that I'm a lying asshole. I mean, you're making me out to be some kind of jackass when all I'm doing is telling you what I was told. Don't kill the messenger please.

You know, I always thought it was fishy that Bret Hart didn't officially announce his retirement until a week or two after he was released from his WCW contract in October 2000. He looked pretty healthy at New Blood Rising.

We had pictures with Orton. And he doesn't have 1/1000 of the talent ot heat or skill of Eddie, so of course Eddie gets the BotD. Fair or not, (probably not) we're willing to give the talented people more leeway And by all accounts Jindrak did more then ask him for an autograph. What did he supposedly do? I don't recall precisely, but I think it was because Jindrak was angry at some spots in the Evolution/Team MaveKick six man match earlier that night? That'd be my best guess. and you do realize the whole fucking thing was a joke from those two... ONCE AGAIN a case of IWC over reacting to bullshit. Seriously, The IWC is so fucking fickle and gullible No, in this case the two of them starting a fight in a restaurant to work us is a case of backtracking... or an incredible immaturity on their part. There were police present at the restaurant if I remember correctly. Yeah....to play along in the joke. Didn't Orton even admit on a radio show or something that the whole thing was a prank? I wish I could live in a city where police have nothing better to do then particpate in pranks to rib the IWC. In one of the pictures, you could clearly see one of the policeman beside Orton with a laughing smile on his face. Yeah, but that's probobly because of the insanely rediculous outfits Orton and Jindrak were wearing and because both of them looked drunk out of their minds. And because they get to tell their kids they met wrestlers tonight. Yeah, that is true. They looked like supreme dorks that night.