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Interesting. Is he going to be a consultant for both brands or something?

So how long until they have to turn Eugene heel with the "I was never retarded" thing?

I see them having a draw in the first match, and then a draw in a triple threat match, and then a three way tag team ladder match at the 11/7 PPV or something like that. It would be typical TNA booking.

Good stuff about the Diva Search. I can't wait for that Kane movie. I'm sure it's going to be really top notch, A-level material.

Taka and Funaki are great. I still wish Funaki would get some sort of push on Smackdown, maybe as a Whipwreck-style underdog or something. Anyways, if anyone has any really random matches they want to suggest for reviewing (and I have them available to watch) I'll try and do them for ya.

All three combined!!! I actually think the sports entertainment one could be really funny if nothing else. I suppose the old school one could be a lot of fun too.

Just in case one or two people care... http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Kayfabe

This match sounds great, I need to find a tape of this show immediately.

I was looking at some old stuff on DDTDigest.com and realized how horrible the WCW booking was at time. For instance, the night after Fall Brawl 1998, a show known as just being HORRIBLE, WCW has Goldberg vs. Sting for the WCW title. Now why the hell wouldn't you have a big match like that on an actual PAY PER VIEW with some buildup to it? Also before Souled Out 1998, on the very last Nitro before the pay per view, Hogan faces the Giant, which is notable becase Hogan actually jobs. Now why the hell wouldn't you save that for a pay per view? Why would guys like Hogan wrestle on only every other pay per view? It just seems so weird. Was it just a case of the inmates running the asylum and there being no organization at all?

DIAMOND DALLAS PAGE vs. KEVIN NASH - WCW WORLD TITLE MATCH FROM SLAMBOREE 1999: DDP won the title the month before at Spring Stampede after getting some help from Randy Savage and hitting a Diamond Cutter on Ric Flair for the pin. I have no idea if this match will be any good or if it'll be embarrassing or mediocre or what. I guess we'll see. They tie up and we get a quick start with Nash missing a big boot and blocking a DDP diamond cutter try and dumping him to the floor. Tenay mentions that these guys used to be tag partners? DDP punches away and Nash gets in a knee lift. He sends DDP to the ropes and DDP slides to the apron, so Nash shoves him off and to the floor. Nash drops DDP across the guard rail. Back inside, and Nash knees DDP in the corner and then does the framed elbows. He goes for the snake eyes but DDP floats over and punches away. Good thing, Nash would have used up most of his moveset right there! DDP keeps punching Nash, who keeps shoving him away. DDP low blows Nash and Nick Patrick misses it somehow. More punches. DDP goes to the other corner and takes off the turnbuckle padding. Patrick sees it, and while he's distracted DDP hits Nash in the head with something and pins him for 2. DDP argues with Patrick, and then Nash sends DDP face first into the EXPOSED STEEL TURNBUCKLE~! Both guys are down. Nash rolls over for a two count. They trade punches. DDP hits some nice shots and clotheslines Nash to the floor. The crowd is pretty quiet for this match. DDP baseball slide kicks Nash. He rolls him back in and pins him with his feet on the ropes and Nash kicks out. Schiavone yells like it's some fucking miracle or something. DDP drops an elbow. This match is so SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW. DDP slowly works the knee and takes time out to pose a lot. He posts Nash's leg nicely, and then they do the "heel gets pulled into the ring post" spot. DDP recover and beats down Nash some more in the ring. This offense is less than exciting. But both guys have very limited move sets, so what do you expect? Nash finally comes back with punches and a knee lift, totally negating the work Page did on his knee. UGHHH! Nash hits a clothesline in the corner. He lifts DDP up and drops him across the top turnbuckle with a snake eyes. He whips DDP across and hits a big boot to the face, still not selling the knee at all. He calls for the Jacknife and hits it, but Randy Savage runs in and breaks up the count. A DQ is called for at 13:20. Savage hits Nash with the title belt. Eric Bischoff comes out and orders the match be restarted. This was Eric in his "I'm trying desperately to be a babyface again" period. Of course no one wanted to cheer him and they turned Savage heel when he was getting lots of pops upon his return, but oh well. The match is restarted and DDP gets a Russian leg sweep for 2. DDP ducks a clothesline and hits one of his own for 2. DDP hooks a cobra clutch (?) but Nash elbows out of it and hooks a sleeper. DDP counters with a chinbreaker/stunner type thing for 2. DDP gets a chair and comes back in. He swings and misses and hits himself with it. Nash covers for 2. Nash grabs the chair but DDP low blows him and covers for 2. The reaction of Nick Patrick to DDP hitting the low blow is PRICELESS. Seriously, it's worth the cost of buying this tape just for that. Okay, actually I'm lying, but it's funny. Nash knocks down DDP and PULLS DOWN THE STRAPS~! HE MEANS BUSINESS, PEOPLE! Nash hits the Jackknife and covers for the three at 16:45. See, THAT'S where DDP should have hit the diamond cutter for the win, but oh well. On the positive side, the match getting restarted instead of a bullshit DQ finish was good. On the negative side, Nash didn't sell his knee at all, and I didn't get to see DDP hit the diamond cutter. I think Tony Schiavone summed it up best: "This was a brutal world title bout." I probably would have given it ** if Nash had sold the knee, but I'll be generous and give it *1/2.

Sounds cool, I look forward to it.

"MR. INSANITY" TOBY KLEIN vs. NECRO BUTCHER (IWA-MS KOTDM 2004 TOURNAMENT, NIGHT ONE, FANS BRING THE WEAPONS): This match has gotten a lot of attention as being one of the best deathmatches ever, and I even saw a few posts on the Death Valley Driver board that listed this as one of the best matches of the year. Well, I got my KOTDM 2004 tapes today, so I figured I'd review this match. Now, I'll be the first to admit it's going to be hard to give this match a star rating, because I know ahead of time it's not going to have any wrestling, it's just going to be a crazy brawl. But we'll see what I think and go from there. Necro enters first, than Klein. Klein grabs some light tubes and fakes out a few fans, pretending he's going to hit them with the tubes. The match starts before Prazak finishes introductions. Necro grabs a computer monitor and just tosses it at Klein! They brawl on the floor and Necro chops Klein. They start trading STIFF shots back and forth. Klein throws a chair at Necro's head and then breaks a light tube over his head. Klein misses with a weapon shot and Necro chops him and then hits him with a big yellow wet floor cone and then headbutts Nero down. He bashes another light tube across Necro's back and then tears off Necro's shirt...and Necro snaps! Necro punches the SHIT out of Klein with a legit HARD shot and then starts throwing about ten chairs at Klein! Necro grabs a staple gune and puts one into Klein's forehead and then they trade more stiff chops. Klein grabs a HUGE light tube structure made into a crayon shape and cracks it over Necro's head for an "I-W-A" chant. Klein grabs a water cooler on a pole and bashes Necro with it a bunch of times. Necro is bleeding now pretty good, and Klein is bleeding some as well. They trade more NASTY punches, though not as stiff as Necro's earlier. Necro tosses Klein into a bunch of chairs as they brawl through the crowd. There seems to be some cooperation problems here taking bumps as they block several moves...but then Klein POWERBOMBS NECRO OFF THE BLEACHERS AND ONTO THE FLOOR! OUCH! It's falls count anywhere, so Klein rolls on top for a two count. Klein brings Necro back into the ring and rolls him across the glass on the mat. He rakes him in the head with something sharp. Klein then hits Necro in the back with a barbed wire baseball bat, drawing more blood. They trade shots from a seated position on the canvas, and Necro dishes out some nasty headbutts. They both charge at each other and do a double headbutt, and Klein rolls on top for another two count. Necro hits more chops. Necro sends Klein into the corner and then charges and gets backdropped to the floor...and Klein pours salt all over him! Poor Necro is just taking a BEATING here. Klein tries a sunset flip powerbomb to the floor, but Necro blocks and hits a RANA on the floor on Klein! Ha! CM Punk on commentary: "Never in ymy life did I think I'd see a flying head scissors from the Necro Butcher." Butcher bashes Klein with a huge wall of light tubes. They brawl around some more. Necro heads back to the ring and up to the top rope. He leaps off the top to the floor WITH A SENTON! Necro just BASHES his jaw on the floor here, and lost several teeth from this move. Back in, and Klein nails Necro with some Nintendo or something like that. They just have no energy left here, and I don't blame them. Necro sends Klein to the ropes and slaps on a SLEEPER! Pyschology! Klein is able to grabs some light tubes and break them over Necro's head, but Necro still holds on! Finally they sandwich the referee in the corner and Klein taps, but the referee misses it. Necro releases the hold and Klein rolls him up...FOR TWO! Actually, that "ref gets bumped but misses the submission from the heel" was done about as realistically as you could have right there. They trade a bunch more punches and Klein throws another chair at Necro. He sets it up and hits a Death Valley Driver onto the chair for three at a whopping 18:00. I have to admit, I'm not the biggest deathmatch fan, but that was one hell of a crazy brawl. Definitely not match of the year or anything, but it has to be right at the top for deathmatch of the year. Scott Keith gives Cactus/Payne vs. Nasty Boys ****3/4, and this was a better brawl than that, but I think he overrated that match, and it's so hard to give star ratings to deathmatches anyways, so I don't really think I can give it a star rating. I think the match also goes to show why deathmatches should really be done so SPARINGLY, and why Ian Rotten made the right choice in ending these deathmatch tournaments. These guys just KILLED each other out there, and it's more than just the scars most deathmatch workers get from getting stabbed in the forehead or whatever. Necro took some CRAZY bumps here that have to just KILL your spine. I mean a powerbomb off the bleachers? And that crazy senton to the floor? I also really think the best deathmatches come from guys who CAN wrestle at least a bit, but are crazy enough to take all the bumps and do all the crazy shit that the blood marks love so much. Toby Klein was pretty good here, but after seeing him work two matches with Madman Pondo and this one with Necro, it's safe to say that the man who made this match was Necro Butcher. He's simply one of the best deathmatch workers in the world today because he's such a crazy fucker. I feel sorry for the man, really, because he's killing himself for so little. But you can't say he's not good at what he does, and that's taking a lot of punishment and hitting people hard. What I liked about it is that it seemed a lot more "real" than most deathmatches, which seem really cooperative, staged, etc...like you're watching a sick freakshow exhibition (which you really are). Necro is such a crazy bastard that you never know when he's really pissed or not, because some punches he threw here were HARD. And he broke Green Phantom's nose at CZW's Tournament of Death 3 in July with a punch to the face. This match seemed more like a real brawl (thought not all of the time), and was better because of it.

Might as well put these two reviews that I already posted in the Misc. Promotions section: CHRIS HERO vs. "AMERICAN DRAGON" BRYAN DANIELSON (IWA-Mid South, 8/21/04): With all the hype this match got ahead of time, I thought I'd do a review of it here, since it's going to take me a while to get through the entire 8/21 IWA-MS show, which is over 4 hours long, with eleven matches. I should note that the show starts with a cool segment where lots of IWA wrestlers predict who will win the match. Arik Cannon is great as a heel here, and predicts Dragon will make Hero "tap like a bitch at the 23 minute mark". Punk is even better, saying Dragon will win because "he has more international experience, he's more seasoned, and oh yeah...he actually goes to the gym once in a while. Try lifting some time Chris, it might help you." He winks and walks off screen. Each man is introduced, and Danielson gets a standing ovation. Hero gets a mixed reaction. They shake hands and we're underway. They tie up and Danielson takes Hero down and goes to work. They fight over some arm bars/holds. Dragon does a great bridging reversal and they break. They go to a knucklelock, and Hero runs through some usual stuff and goes to a cravat. The fans try the whole dueling chant thing again, but any attempts at that now just seem like trying to ripoff the Joe vs. Hero match. We get another clean break, and then another tie up. Danielson and Hero each do some reverals out of the knucklelock. Danielson tries a back slide and slowly takes Hero down and into a waistlock, and then back around, shoving Hero's shoulders to the mat for 2. Hero grabs Danielson's hand, so Amdrag just slaps it free. They are all twisted up like a pretzel on the mat and do this cool double hand stand double submission thing that is kind of hard to explain, and then get a break. They tie up again, and Hero snapmares Dragon and goes to a chinlock and then a surfboard. Dragon fights out, but Hero keeps a hold of his left arm. Dragon rolls over and reverses into a hammerlock on Hero. Hero lifts Dragon off the mat, but Dragon rolls over with a sunset flip-type pin for 2. They circle each other, and Dragon teases Hero with a few jabs, and Hero responds with a big kick attempt. They tie up again and Hero gets a waistlock while Dragon hooks his left arm, and they fight for position. Hero slams Dragon, who holds onto his arm and rolls through into an arm bar. Hero gets back to his feet and shoves Dragon to the ropes, and hits a dropkick. Hero hits a floatover snap suplex for 2, and then goes back to an arm bar. Dragon gets the ropes and a break, but then hooks Hero by the arm and wrings it. He gets a monkey flip, but Hero lands on his feet and takes Danielson down with his legs. Hero offers a handshake, so Danielson slaps him and hits some headbutts to a big pop from the crowd. He hits a big European uppercut and then some more. The match picks up in intensity as Dragon brings some stiff shots. Dragon keeps focusing on Hero's left arm, and they trade strikes before Dragon takes Hero down and snaps Hero's left arm around. Hero tries to fight back with strikes, but Dragon hooks his arm and takes him to the mat and into a mounted arm bar. Hero does anything to roll free, but Dragon keeps holding on. Dragon picks Hero up and hits a slingshot suplex to big cheers; Dragon has plenty of fans in Highland on this night. Dragon goes to a surfboard, which Hero escapes, but Dragon keeps him down with a dropkick and continues to work Hero over, even briefly applying a camel clutch while Hero is in the ropes. Dragon goes back to a surfboard, stepping on the back of Hero's legs to take him to the mat. Hero fights back up, and Dragon takes him right back down. Hero fights back up again and tries to spin out, but Dragon goes right back to it. Finally Hero kicks himself free and misses a strike, but catches Danielson coming off the ropes with a powerslam. Hero now realizes he needs to hit Danielson and hit him hard, and he brings the forearms and his twisting neckbreaker from off the ropes. He scoops Danielson up and slams him down, and then hits a senton. Hero tries a suplex, and has to switch sides before he can lift Danielson up, due to his shoulder. He gets a 2 count. Hero tries a powerbomb, but Dragon flips out and hits a roaring elbow to knock Hero down. Dragon does his airplane spin into a rolling slam on Hero, but then misses his headbutt off the top rope. They get back up and trade forearms. Danielson gets a rolling bridge for 2. Hero quickly rolls Danielson up for 2. Hero hits some forearms, and then makes a small mistake by hitting a forearm with his left arm, only to not sell it as hurting at all after the work Dragon did to it. He then powerbombs Dragon and goes to the Hangman's Clutch. Dragon fights to the ropes in a good sequence. Hero tries to Hero's Welcome, but Dragon is able to counter. Hero blocks the Cattle Mutilation and hits a backdrop driver on Dragon. Hero heads up top, but Dragon catches him and hits an armbreaker off the top rope right into the cattle mutilation for the finish at 23:00, just like Arik Cannon predicted. THOUGHTS: This was an interesting match. The work was just beautiful, and everything was smooth and well done. The first 18 minutes are well worked and a great build, but a build for a LONGER match. My problem with the match is that the last 5 minutes seemed slightly rushed. After a slow, back and forth 18 minute opening, the match really should have gone at least 10 minutes longer than it did, at least in my opinion. It was like a match with a good start and a good finish, but no real middle to it. Maybe that was just me...I'd love to hear other's thoughts on it. In all honesty, though, these guys had to live up to SO much for this match, so people giving it ***1/2 say it was a disappointment. I really don't think so. This was a beautifully worked match, and set the stage for a rematch down the road, a match in which each man has PLENTY left in the bag. Think about it: Hero didn't use the Hero's Welcome, Dragon didn't use his backdrop superplex, etc. I would LOVE to see a 45-60 minute match between these two sometime in the future. Bryan Danielson is simply one of the best workers in the world. He's so damn fun to watch, and everything he does is realistic and hard hitting. I read Tim Cooke's review of the match on the DVD boards and agree that Hero needs to vary up his arm work a bit. But really, Hero didn't have much of a chance to do that in this match, as Dragon really controlled the large majority of it. If you think about it, the underlying story of the match is interesting: Dragon dominates the match, outwrestling Hero, and causing Chris to rely on strikes to get himself back into the match, but with Dragon catching him when he tries for a big move and hooking the Cattle Mutilation for the submission. I liked this match a lot, just as I did in Dragon's match with Arik Cannon, which I gave ****. I have to put this match just slightly under that match at ***3/4, with hopes that Hero and Dragon get a 2/3 falls rematch or an Ironman match sometime down the road. I suggest you get the 8/21 IWA-MS show, sit back, relax, and enjoy this match, along with a lot of other great stuff on this tape.

I decided to do match reviews of all the random crap I happen to watch during my days of wrestling viewing. I'll review matches you'll never see reviewed anywhere else. I can't promise they'll be good matches, or matches you'll really want to see...but it'll be random, dammit! Now, on with the first review! ====================================================== TAKA MICHINOKU vs. CHRISTIAN, WWF LIGHT-HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH FROM JUDGMENT DAY 1998: Christian enters first with Gangrel and to his music. Seeing Edge and Christian back in their "gothic" days is so weird. Taka comes out next, and you need to remember that this is Kaientai heel Taka, managed by Yamaguchi-San. How did Taka turn heel, anyways? Christian slugs away at Taka to start, just to make sure we don't get any wrestling at all. Taka punches him back. Christian sends Taka into the corner and tries a German, but Taka lands on his feet and hits a leg lariat. Taka clotheslines Christian to the floor and then hits a nice springboard dive to the floor. Cool stuff. Edge is shown watching in the crowd. Taka hits a guillotine leg drop with Christian lying between the ropes, and covers for 2. Taka gets a headlock and Christian takes him to the corner and hits some shoulder blocks. Taka hits a kick to the face but Christian comes back with a reverse DDT. He sends Taka to the ropes and hits a dropkick. Lawler: We could have a new champion here! JR: That's the idea... Christian with three rolling suplexes (two snap, one front) on Taka for 2. He snapmares Taka and kicks him in the back. He dumps Taka to the floor and hits his springboard cross body to the floor. Back in, and Christian hits a powerbomb on Taka for 2. Scoop slam and he chokes Taka out. I thought Christian was the babyface here? I guess it's shades of gray, baby! Christian goes up top and misses a splash/headbutt/whatever. Taka gets up but Christian hits him with a few nice forarm shots. Taka comes back with a dropkick and a baseball slide kick. He hits a nice Asai moonsault onto Christian on the floor. Taka rolls Christian in and hits a top rope cross body, rolled through by Christian for 2. Taka rolls Christian up for 2. Taka hits a seated dropkick for 2. Christian hits a side Russian leg sweep for 2. Taka hits a tornado DDT and calls for the Michinoku Driver. He lifts, but Christian rolls him up for the title and a big pop at 8:31. This match shows how Christian was at the start of his WWF career. This match has no flow or story, it's just a series of thrown-together moves. Some of the moves are pretty nice, but there's no psychology, no selling, and nothing done to draw the crowd into the match. This was kind of the norm for the WWF at the time, I guess. This gets points for the lack of restholds during the match, however. **1/4

"YOU VIOLATED ME, AUSTIN!!!" "YOU RUINED IT, AUSTIN! YOU RUINED EVERYTHING!"

I remember this. Dok Hendrix or some other no name announcer is interviewing some midcarder and Steve Austin casually walks into the dressing room behind them. A few seconds later we hear some stomps, whacks, yells, and thuds. Owen and Bulldog casually stroll out a few seconds later. Bulldog notices the camera, taps Owen, points him in the direction of it, and they both make a run for it. Classic. Yeah, it was at Revenge of the Taker in April 1997.

1. Well I guess that would be the end of the brand extension. We'd have a long mourning period and then they would try and move on, I guess. Who knows. 2) They wouldn't have pushed him right, and he wouldn't have done anything in WCW. Who knows if he would have received the same push in the WWE after being in WCW, but he's a talented guy, so I can see it happening. 3) It would have struggled some more and gone bankrupt a year later.

One last one and then I'm done for the day...this is for GAB04: Sunday Night Heat Match Saw Spike pin Noble in a clean victory *** Fatal 4-Way for the U.S. Title Cena vs. Booker T. vs. RVD vs. Dupree Outstanding showing. Cena pins RVD, cleanly. Booker pins Rene, cleanly, and Cena pins Booker, cleanly in a bad mamma jamma match. **** Charlie Haas vs. Luther Reinz Throw together match, WWE must have needed a filler. Luther pins Hass in a clean outing. ** Rey Mysterio vs. Chavo Jr Rey wins a clean match with a pin over Chavo. This was a great match that they actually gave a lot of time to develop. But different cruisers need to challenge Rey. *** Kenzo Suzuki vs. Billy Gunn Clean match pin Kenzo over Gunn, however, it is a lame fued and Kenzo is boring to watch. ** Sable vs. Torrie A horrible match, the ending was seriously screwed up Torrie's shoulder was not ever even on the mat for a one count, much less a three. A TnA match at best but not at it's best. Torrie and Sable are terrible wrestlers. Cole and Tazz can pimp out the SMACKDOWN! Cruisers all they want but RAW has the better Female athletes. Mordecai vs. Hardcore Holly With a clean pin over Holly, Mordecal utilized the "Razor's Edge" as his finisher. You have just seen the new "Next Big Thing" this bad mother hummer is fixing to rip on his opponets. **** Texas Bullrope match for the WWE Championship Eddie vs. JBL ***** This match should have been JBL's first title defence, but Eddie being the panty waste that he is, took the easy way out at Judgment Day so this was JBL's rematch. JBL makes good on his guarentee to be the new champ. Nick Patrick tried to screw JBL at the end but the good GM Angle used the instant replay and the right decision was made. ***** Concrete Crypt Match Undertaker vs. Dudleyz 1 on 2 Sweet finisher to the best SMACKDOWN! PPV of all time. Taker over clean by pining D'von ***** ------------------ And the same guy reviews this year's No Way Out: No Way Out was a let down. There was only one match that lived up to the hype. Undisputed Title Brock Lesner Vs Eddie Guerrero 0 out of 5 WTF!? Are you kidding me? Guerrero, this druggie, this felon, this POS that can't entertain to save his life, and they let him beat an all American, a good person that dose not have criminal record. WWE just urinated on that Championship belt and on everyone that ever held it. The RAW title, in my eyes, is now the better of the two belts. Big Show Vs Kurt Angle Vs John Cena 4 out of 5 This was the best match of the night and Kurt winning the match made it cool. WMXX would have been better if it was Brock and Angle for the title, but Druggie and Angle OMG how weak is that going to be? Jamie Noble Vs Nidia 2 out of 5 Entertaining and funny. Hardcore Holly Vs Rhyno 0 out of 5 Boring boring boring boring! Tag Team Title 0 out of 5 Too Cool Vs Bashem Brothers and Shaniqua Snoozfest! APA Vs WGTT 0 out of 5 Bad match. A filler match. Cruiserweight Title Chavo Guerrero Vs Rey Mysterio 0 out of 5 Dumb stupid boring match. NWO dose not earn a rating. GM Haymen should be ashamed of himself for putting his name on the same listing as this POS PPV.

Oh, and this review for this year's Judgment Day might be the best yet: May 16, 2004 LA, California Judgement Day is a pretty good Smackdown PPV with some good matches, some great matches and some DUD matches. This is going to be rated on a scale from 1 to 10 and I will also rate the extras. 1. Rey Mysterio and RVD vs. The Dudleyz This is a pretty good opener, but is mostly a Smackdown worthy match. Winner: RVD and Rey Mysterio Pinfall Rating: 5/10 Good, but not great. 2. Torrie Wilson vs. Dawn Marie WTF?!! Didn't they settle this at the 2003 Royal Rumble! OK win by Torrie, but she needs to find other people to fight. Winner Torrie Wilson Pinfall Rating: 2/10 In the words of Bart Simpson "Ay Curumba!" 3. Scotty 2 Hotty vs. Mordecai This match is disturbingly one sided. Mordecai is a great athlete and in my point of view, almost as scary as the Undertaker. Great entrance by Mordecai, and as soon as he gets in he rips Scotty to shreds. Winner Mordecai Pinfall Rating 7/10 Would have gotten more if Scotty would have tried a little bit harder to win. 4. Rico and Hass vs. Harcore Holly and Billy Gunn for the TAG TEAM CHAMPIONCHIP Funny match=) and great teamwork by Haas and Rico Winner Rico and Haas Rating: 7/10 Rico is Funny and also a good wrestler. 5.Jackie vs. Chavo Guerrero for the Cruiserweight title ... Winner and new champion Chavo Pinfall Rating: 0/10 ... WHAT! 6.John Cena vs. Rene Dupree for the US Title My man John Cena kills that French SOB. Good effort by Rene Winner John Cena Rating 8/10 Young blood at it's greatest! 7.The Undertaker vs. Booker T This I'll explain! The buildup for this match is that of a horror film. The Story: Booker T claimed to be the best wrestler on Smackdown which of course was a bad idea. The dead man Taker dominates and plays mind games with Booker T. So Booker T goes and sees Mama Sangre the pyscic and asks for supernatural help. She gives him a bag full of knick knacks and tells him to stir them up then add dirt from a grave with no name. So he looks for 3 hours (only 2 minutes are shown) and finally finds it. The Match: Booker T comes out with his normal theme song and praises the bag that was given to him. The Undertaker's entrance was SPECTACULAR! First the gates that symboled a graveyard were struck by lightning and set on fire. Then fog covered the arena. Then The Undertaker walked to the ring and did the eye roll. The match was mostly blows and hits back and forth, before Taker dominated. Then after an old school by Taker, Booker T knocked down the ref. He grabbed the powder and threw it in Taker's eyes. Taker shook it off and then tombstoned Booker T. Then Taker went for the cover. RIP! Winner: The Undertaker Pinfall Rating:10/10 Great effort by both of them, they both did great. Good ending! 8. JBL vs. Eddie Guererro for the WWE Championchip This is gorry, brutal and I'm suprised Eddie is still living. And I thought Freddy vs. Jason was bloody! Winner: Eddie Guerrero Pinfall Rating 9/10 Not for the weak of heart, you may blow chunks =0 Extras: Eddie's mother has a heart attack Good Lord! This is just plain scary. Unless you want to know more about what happened to her don't watch it. Rating: 4/10 Mordecai Vignette OK more like a promo 2/10 JBL hunting for illegal aliens (mexicans) Pompus and arrogant 3/10 Booker T meets Mama Sangre Really interesting, almost like a mini movie Rating: 7/10 Booker T in the graveyard Spooky and has a scary ending, it scared me! Rating 8/10 Mark Jindrak vs Funaki Waste Rating 4/10 Pretty good PPV, extras are OK PPV: 6/10 Extras 4/10 ====================================================== A JD2003 review: 1.CHRIS BENOIT, RHYNO, SPANKY VS. FBI, JOHN CENA THIS MATCH WAS SHORT, BUT A SICK AND SWEET MATCH. RATING- 1O/10 2.BIG POPPA PUMP,TEST VS. LA RESISTANCE [boring]. RATING-3/10 LADDER MATCH FOR SMACKDOWN TAG TEAM TITLES 3.LATINO HEAT EDDIE GURRERO,JAPENESE BUZZSAW TAJIRI VS.TEAM ANGLE THE MATCH ITSELF WAS ENTERTAINING,MATCH RATING-9/10 4.BATTLE ROYAL FOR INTERCONTINENTAL TITLE:RAW PARTICIPANTS:KANE, RVD, LANCE STORM, TEST, VAL VENIS, BOOKER T, GOLDUST, CHRISTIAN, CHRIS JERICHO MATCH RATING-7.5/10 BOOKER T WOULD OF WON IF IT WASN'T FOR THAT RETARD,CHRISTIAN. 5.BIKINI MATCH TORRIE WILSON [Hot] AND [interesting]. MATCH RATING-1,000/10 6.MR.AMERICA VS ROWDY RODDY PIPER WAS OKAY, MATCH RATING-6.5/10 7.WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT TILTLE MATCH TRIPLE H VS. KEVIN NASH WAS KIND OF BORING RATING-4.5/10 8.FATAL FOUR WAY MATCH FOR WOMEN'S TITLE TRISH STRATUS VS. VICTORIA VS. JAZZ VS. JACQUELINE WAS NOT BAD. RATING-5.5/10 9.STRECTHER MATCH FOR WWE TITLE BROCK LESNAR VS. BIG SHOW FUN TO SEE REY MYSTERIO INTEFERE IN THIS MATCH, RATING-8/10

wrestlemania XX was one of the better wrestlemanias. every match was pretty good: 1.john cena vs. big show ***** 2.rvd&booker vs. la resitance vs. dudley boyz vs. garrison cade&mark jindrak ***** 3.chris jericho vs. christian ***** 4.rock n sock vs. evoultion ***** 5.sable&torrie vs. stacy&miss jackie *** 6.wwe cruiserweight open ***** 7.goldberg vs. brock lesnar *** only because the crowd 8.too cool vs. apa vs. basham brothers vs. wgtt **** 9.victoria vs. molly holly **** only because the end 10.eddie guerrero vs. kurt angle ***** 11.undertaker vs. kane ***** 12.shawn michaels vs. triple h vs. chris benoit ***** GO BUY IT! And a Summerslam 2003 review: THE ELIMINATION CHAMBER WAS GREAT BUT RANDY ORTON SHOULD OF WON. THE FATLE FOUR WAY MATCH WAS VERY BRUTAL AND TONS OF HIGH RISK MOVES AND A LOT OF CRASHES AND BURNS GRET MATCH. THE BROCK LESNAR .VS. KUT ANGLE WAS OK BUT LESNAR SHOULD OF WON EVEN THOUGH I HATE BOTH OF THE ATHLEIGHTES. And here's a Backlash 2003 review: Tag Team Title Match: Los Guerros vs. Team Angle (champions) 7.75 since the match was entertaining, but the Guerros lost. Rikishi vs. Sean O Haire (w/Roddy Piper)8 because it was fun to watch Piper get what he deserved, but no stinkface? DAMN!! Women's Championship Match: Trish Stratus (champion) vs. Jazz (w/Theodore Long) 1 because the match sucked, Jazz had faced Trish way too many times before, plus the match was short. Tag Team Title Match: Kane & RVD (champions) vs. The Dudley Boyz with Chief Morley as the special guest referee. 10 because I was impressed when I saw Kane & RVD defeat the Dudleys when Morley was helping the Dudleys the whole time. Rey Mysterio vs. The Big Show. 2 since it was almost obvious that the Big Show would win, plus, the ending of the match was horrifying. WWE championship match: Brock Lesnar vs. John Cena. 9.75 since the match was EXTREMELY high quality, but my favorite guy John Cena lost (Cena had Lesnar beat at one point in the match) Kevin Nash, Shawn Michaels, & Booker T vs. Triple H, Ric Flair, & Chris Jericho. 4 Since Triple H cheated to win, plus the match wasn't very entertaining. The Rock vs. Goldberg. 10 because it was Goldberg's first PPV in the WWE and he made a BIG impact by defeating The Rock.

And it's really sad, when you think about it. How many big "storylines" does each writing team do at a time? One? Two? Leading up to Summerslam we had the Angle/Eddie feud on Smackdown and the HHH/Eugene storyline on RAW that got all the attention. Smackdown also had the Dudleys turning heel. Okay...but what about everyone else? I just get frustrated at how four or five guys will get a storyline, and then for everyone else it's just thrown-together crap at the last second. How did the Smackdown writers set up Holly vs. Rhyno at NWO and Gunn vs. Suzuki at the GAB? They had a DQ finish on the show before the PPV. Wow...way to think ahead, guys.

From the Socaluncensored boards: Bradley/Slym over Tornado/Supa Badd Great match, Tornado took two sick bumps Bosh over Quicksilver and Hook (3way) decent match Talwar/Mercury over Disco/Ex Solid match, comedy spots and some stiffness Am Drag over Uk Kid What you would expect...and thats a good thing Pitbulls/PUMA over Daniels/B-boy/Gansta Quance Probably the match of the night...intense...stiff...and just great Super Dragon over Chris Hero Very good match. Dragon won with the top rope stomp to the head. Joe over Kazarian via DQ Both Dragons did run ins. SD ran in on Joe first. This could lead to an insane tag match for the next show...hopefully Lost def. Ryan when the First Family came in and attacked Joe, who had previously got ahold of the straps while ref. Knox was done, and gave Lost the titles. Lost is the newest member of the First Family. ----------------- Thoughts: -Awesome show -My friend had a great time and got to mark out and see his favorite wrestler, Chris Daniels. He got to meet him during intermission and was very happy. He says he's up for the 9th show, so we'll see what happens. -Hero/SD was my MOTN. -the ladder, 6-man and Joe/FK are tied for 2nd. -The opening tag was very good. -Please, no more of Bosh's ass. -UK Kid vs. AD was good. Kid didn't look that good like I have previously seen him, IMO. -Gangsta Bobby ownz, and Daniels with a bandana = gold. -AJ Styles. vs Bobby Quance at the next show. PLEASE MAKE IT HAPPEN, PWG! -I'll miss Quance :-( -Get well soon, Homicide. -Also, get well soon as well, Bradley. -YAY FOR THE NEW DVDS! -Glad S.B.S. is back. -Seen Kazarian at the McDonald's and got to chat with him, which was awesome. Muchos gracias, PWG.

Nice review. I can't believe you bought this show, though! (j/k)

Don't forget that Vince changed his mind at the last second, or else Test would have been a WWF champion. Then they decided to go with Big Show winning the title at Survivor Series 1999.

This may be a stupid question, but how did you know that stuff before the internet? Did you subscribe to all the "dirt sheets"?