Guest wildpegasus Report post Posted October 10, 2003 From 1wrestling.com 10/9 SMACKDOWN BRAND RESULTS FROM TURKU, FINLAND by Matti Ahlstrom Updated: 10/9/2003 9:32:19 PM Report from Smackdown house show in Turku, Finland. Hi, I just got back from the Smackdown house show in Turku, Finland. It was an excellent show with all good to great matches and a very nice surprise at the end. Crowd attendance was around 8,000 people, some of the upper parts of the arena were empty, but the floor and the middle section were completely full. The arena erupted when Tony Chimel came out and stayed incredibly hot all night. Sable came out after Chimel and welcomed us to the show. She led us to the first match of the night: MATT HARDY VERSION 1.0 defeated A-TRAIN with a roll-up. Hardy came to the ring accompanied by a Finnish rock artist and played complete babyface in the match. A-Train, being the first person out, got major heat for just about everything he did. Lots of "A-Train sucks" and "shave your back" chants. An entertaining match, with Hardy and A-Train both working hard to get the show started. ULTIMO DRAGON defeated FUNAKI and NUNZIO in a triple-threat match with his bulldog-type finisher (forget the name). Very nice, fast paced action from all three of the wrestlers. Funaki was dancing between being a heel and a face in the match, sometimes teaming with Nunzio and other times with Ultimo. Again, a good match with good heat. Ultimo got a huge pop coming out, while Nunzio did his job well and was hated by all. CHARLIE HAAS defeated CHAVO GUERRERO after Shelton Benjamin superkicked Chavo in the face while Haas distracted the ref. A sound technical match, one of the best of the night, with Chavo getting tons of babyface heat from the crowd (the arena erupted when Viva la Razza started playing). Some chants of "Kurt Angle wannabe" were directed at Haas. A very enjoyable match to watch. BILLY KIDMAN and JAMIE NOBLE defeated THE BASHAM BROTHERS after Kidman hit the Shooting Star Press. A match that started off slow and almost became the only match of the night with no heat. The Bashams aren't that much on Finnish TV and the team of Kidman/Noble wasn't that exciting to much of the crowd. Fortunately things picked up and the match turned out to be quite enjoyable. Kidman hurt his leg on the SSP, came down awkwardly. It appeared to be legit, since he was limping even at the end of the show. TORRIE WILSON defeated DAWN MARIE, SABLE and NIDIA in a bikini contest. Not much to say, all the women looked hot, even though I've never understood why people consider Dawn good-looking. I guess it's just me. The bikinis were tiny. And I mean tiny. EDDIE GUERRERO defeated RHYNO in a US-title match after a shot in the head with the title belt followed by a 5-star frog splash. Absolutely brilliant match, one of the best of the night. Before the match one guy shouted happy birthday to Eddie, which led to a section of the crowd actually singing happy birthday to Eddie. Eddie was all smiles after that. Lots of comedy spots by Eddie during the match, and the story of the match was lie, cheat and steal to victory. The crowd absolutely loved Eddie, got one of the biggest pops of the night. INTERMISSION 15 MIN. TAJIRI defeated REY MYSTERIO in a WWE Cruiserweight championship match with the green mist and a kick to the head. Again, a brilliant match with great response from the crowd. A lot of high flying, high risk moves with a few very nice spots. ReyRey was loved beyond reason. At the end Rey hit the 619 and was going for the West Coast Pop, but Tajiri pulled the ref in the way and green misted his way to a win. KURT ANGLE and CHRIS BENOIT defeated JOHN CENA and THE BIG SHOW, when Angle hit the Angle slam on the Big Show. Huge heat for Cena before the match, he rapped about how the whole place was stinky and how the worst place in the world is Helsinki. He even insulted our ice-hockey, which got MAJOR heat from the crowd. Kurt Angle definitely got the biggest pop of the night. He came out with a digital camera and videotaped his entire entrance. He seemed to be loving every minute of it. Even with the Big Show, this was the best match of the night. Angle, Cena and Benoit were all amazing in the ring and even the Big Show worked very well together with the rest of the team. There were a few comedy spots, for instance one where Cena was running from side to side for a ridiculously long time, so that finally The Big Show, his tag-partner, had to clothesline him, so that he would stop. Funny stuff. BROCK LESNAR defeated UNDERTAKER in a match for the WWE title when Brock hit 'Taker with a chair while the ref was unconscious. A solid match to end an excellent show. Lesnar got a mixed reaction from the crowd coming out, but with the Undertaker in the other corner, was a full fledged heel all through the match. Lots of You tapped out chants directed at Brock. Both wrestlers hit their finishing moves, 'Taker kicked out of an F5, while Brock survived a chokeslam and the last ride. After the match Rhyno came out and attacked 'Taker, save was made by Eddie. Almost every wrestler came out after Eddie and the Undertaker revealed to the crowd that it was indeed Eddie's birthday. 'Taker then said that we're gonna hear something special: Kurt Angle singing happy birthday to Eddie. Crowd was happy, but Angle had a better idea, and invited the Big Show into the ring. Big Show then congratulated Eddie while imitating Hulk Hogan. Hilarious. Led by The Big Show, the arena sang happy birthday to Eddie and Eddie thanked everyone for the night. After people had already started to leave, Brock came out and started dissing Eddie, saying he was the WWE champion, not Eddie and so forth. Eddie then came out, hit Brock with a chair and got the final pop of the night. I have to say, Brock's mic skills have improved incredibly. He's much better as a heel than a face. Best heat: 1. Cena 2. Haas/Big Show 3. A-Train Best pop: 1. Angle 2. Eddie 3. Mysterio 4. Any finnish move made by any one of the wrestlers, the crowd was that hot. Signs in the crowd: F5 me, please. Here comes the pain in the ass. Brock fears Ludvig Borga. That's all from the show. Hope the WWE comes back soon, they've now had two shows in Finland, both of them have been extremely high class. Wildpegasus-It looks like the WWE put on a much better house show here than their last time out. It's nice to see that Benoit's been in a good posistion on the house cards lately as far as main event status goes. I would've liked to see Benoit defend hockey on the mic here. Hopefully, Kidman will be okay. It always sucks to see someone get hurt. Mat Hardy as a face is interesting. It looks like the WWE is experiementing here. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cbacon 0 Report post Posted October 10, 2003 Perhaps planting the seeds of a Guerrero title chase? If only we could get this at the PPV. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mecha Mummy 0 Report post Posted October 10, 2003 Kidman injured himself on his own SSP? Again? Right, just give the damn move to London who knows how to hit it. The show sounds great, wish I could have been there. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cawthon777 0 Report post Posted October 10, 2003 *sniff sniff* I smell an Eddie world title match at WrestleMania. After watching SD and then reading this, I can see it happening. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest webmasterofwrestlegame Report post Posted October 10, 2003 I wouldn't mind that card for a SmackDown! PPV. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest TheGame2705 Report post Posted October 10, 2003 Here comes the pain in the ass. Sue me but I thought this was a reference to anal sex at first. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
haVoc 0 Report post Posted October 10, 2003 I don't get why they don't record some of these over sea shows for Raw or Smackdown? The crowds are always hot since they don't get WWE on a regular basic. Smackdown is pre-recorded anyway and it wouldn't hurt Raw ratings that much if there was spoilers. They could even push the show for a week as being something "special" because it's a over sea show. Make some (GOOD) matches a week before and the hot crowds would help the show come across great on TV. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nevermortal 0 Report post Posted October 10, 2003 Here comes the pain in the ass. Sue me but I thought this was a reference to anal sex at first. SHOCKING~! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hogan Made Wrestling 0 Report post Posted October 10, 2003 Brock fears Ludvig Borga. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lil' Bitch 0 Report post Posted October 11, 2003 Why can't we see this in our country?!!! No McMahons and great matches! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PsychoDriver 0 Report post Posted October 11, 2003 Why can't we see this in our country?!!! No McMahons and great matches! Like that will ever happen. Even when all the McMahons die they will probably be replaced by robot McMahons programmed to push hosses, book poorly, hold pointless grudges and generally stink up the product. Good card though, sounds alot better than the upcoming PPV. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lil' Bitch 0 Report post Posted October 11, 2003 *hopes this card will be similar to Rebellion's this year Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
