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Just got back from Smackdown in DC! My friend who I went with keeps telling me how he got to meet a lot of the wrestlers at the garage entrance last time RAW was in town, so we went extra early to do the same. Problem was it was cold and sleeting outside. We hung aroung, and didn't see much. I noticed a guy wearing a WWE tag walking toward us, it was Harvey Whippleman! We said hello and I asked "How's Kamala" which caused him to do a double take and start laughing. My friend then told him he should be on TV to which he answered "its not my job anymore" before saying goodbye and walking off. We also saw Dawn Marie pull in her Durango and waved hello. We also saw Earl and Dave Hebner and Sgt. Slaughter walking into a chinese restaurant across from the arena. We said hello but decided against bugging them further. Before the doors opened, someone said "hey John Cena's signing autographs!" We thought he was joking but sure enough, Cena was there in the Modell's (sporting goods) store that's attached to the arena. He was buying something like 5 basketball jerseys and signing some autographs but was just leaving as we walked up to him. I guess "we couldn't see him" :( ;)

We had floor seats, off to the side of the announcer's desk. Last time my friend went to RAW he got to talk to Little Naitch Charles Robinson and starting retellling him the histoy of his time as WCW interim president and fighiting Gorgeous George we he apparently found very amusing. As they were setting up the ring, there he was helping out, so we called him over and seemed to recognize my friend but forgot his name. He introduced me, had a good laugh at me studying old WCW tapes and shook our hands before leaving to the back. The guy is just really nice, and I'd reccomend anybody who comes early to a show to stop to chat with him.

 

Interesting to note, I felt kind of like I was at a TNA show when ICP were there because directly across from us were a group of ICP fans, Juggalos I guess decked out in ICP gear. Throughout the night they'd chant various ICP things, and also TNA and ECW stuff so we had some good times.

 

First match I think was a dark match. Johnny The Bull and Palumbo vs. 2 jobbers who were supposedly from DC. Decent heat for the "hometown" boys. FBI won, forgot how though.

 

Velocity:

Chimmel introduced "Josh Mathews and his assistant, Michael Cole!" which was pretty funny.

 

To be perfectly honest I don't really remember the finsihes to any of the matches, they were all pretty forgetable.

Akio defeated Funaki. Funaki got a good pop, we tried a "Jimmy Yang" chant but it didn't go very far.

Ultimo Dragon defeated Shannon Moore. HUGE pop for Dragon at his entrance but then it got deafly quiet during the match. O well. I'm pretty sure finish was his flipping reverse DDT thing.

Sakoda over. S2H. Big shock here. Scotty was over huge but we were being dicks and cheering for Sakoda. He hit the worm, but Sakoda got out and got a win with his feet on the ropes!

 

I got to slap hands with Taz as he came out and told him "FTW brotha" to which he nodded the affirmative and with his hand.

 

Smackdown started out with Paul Heyman coming out. Big ECW chant from the Juggalos. And then immediately Vince came out to a huge pop. Vince talked down Heyman for letting Benoit, the winner of the Rumble go to RAW and asked him what he was going to do. Classic Heyman speech where he says he was going to do exactly what Vince Mcmahon would do. "When Hall and Nash jumped to WCW, what did you say? SCREW HALL AND NASH! and you created new stars. When Hulk Hogan left you, what did you do? You said SCREW HULK HOGAN! You screwed Bret Hart! (big "You Screwed Bret!" chant) Vince: " (very matter of factly)Yes I did". So Heyman says "Screw Chris Benoit" and tonight we're going to do the Smackdown Royal Rumble over again and declare a new winner who will face Brock at No Way Out for the title! Eddy replaces Benoit and Hardcore Holly replaces an injured Matt Morgan.

 

All night long we were treated to really funny backstage sketches of Dawn Marie helping various superstars pick their numbers with dialogue about Dawn grabbing their balls and then Heyman getting pissed and belllowing how they have to grab their own balls. Funny stuff, really, especially since it was a running joke all night. '

 

Bashams defeated Kidman and PAUL LONDON!!!! ME and the JUggalos tried a "TNA" chant for London and gave Paul all the love in the world but no one else in the arena gave a shit. Kidman missed the SSP, Bashams win.

 

Rey defeated Noble in a good match. EVeryone was cheering for Noble in our section yelling things like "White trash!" and "Redneck Messiah" good times. He started punking out Nidia, Rey stopped him, won with the usual. Afterwards Nidia takes of the glasses, showing she's not blind and leaves Noble. OOOOH~!

 

There was a backstage segment where someone took Eddy out and Rey thinks it's Chavo. Chavo is there with Chavo Sr. and they claim innocence. Angle is also pissed about it and tells Heyman he better not give Eddie's spot to Chavo. Heyman says he'll play Eddy's music and if he can come out he can still be in the Rumble.

 

Lesnar does an interview. HUGE Goldberg chants. Brock just generates HUGE heat. He insults the town and basically calls out Goldberg. He says its a privelage we even get to see him perform. He challenges any Smackdown superstar for a nontitle match. Everyone thought it would be Goldberg...it's....Orlando Jordan. Yeah. Basic squash, OJ got in some token dropkicks and such though. Fans were actually really into it though. Brock wins with the Brock Lock (stretch muffler).

 

Royal Rumble was seriously excellent, and I don't think it was just because I was there live. Just really good work all around. The Juggaloes were huge into Rhyno chanting for him and chanting Juggalo at him. Everyone gangs up on the Big Show, Show fights them all off. Everyone's huge into Cena. Cena gets eliminated by Show but then from the outside helps eliminate Show. Funny spot sees poor Shelton Benjamin tied up in the ropes with Billy Gunn with Gunn's foot stuck across Shelton's throat, Haas came RUNNING over and carefully pried them apart, as Shelton collasped to catch his breath. Funny shit. After Holly was elimnated a pretty good nananan hey hey hey goodbye chant was done. Good riddance. Fans really into Eddie. Lots of Eddie chants. Eddie actually screwed up a few spots. He was supposed to a headscicors to eliminate Haas but he didn't go over so he had to kind of throw him over after. He also landed ackwardly on Rikishi with a frog splash like his knees going into Kish's face. Ouch. There was also a spot with Eddie and Angle both teasing going over the top and they nearly did, Eddy was this close to slipping off to the floor and one of the ref's RUSHED over and gave him a little lift back up. Woops! Rikishi gave everyone a stinkface, including a classic expression by poor Shelton before he got it. Angle and Eddie were the last 2. These 2 had a really good match with each other throwing suplexes at each other all over. Angle's neck is either better or he's going to seriously hurt himself. Eddie put Angle in the ankle lock. Lots of eliminaiton teases, finally Eddy flips Angle out for the win and has an emotional celebration. Crowd was into Eddie. He gave a thank you speech after and vowed to become the first MExican WWE champ at No Way Out for La Raza.

 

Great way to end the show. We caught Earl Hebner again near the entrance stage and he was nice enough to give us autographs. I told him I thought it was an awesome show and complimented on the use of Eddie. We saw Orlando Jordan hanging around too and got his autograph. We jokingly told him to be careful and that must have been a hell of a match and he kind of shook his head and said "it was tough".

 

Good show. The RUmble match I'm confident will come out just as good on TV. Viva la Eddie!!!

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This one. It has more info, and considering the other originated with those DVDR pricks, this one lives.

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So it does look like it will be Eddie/Brock at NWO.

 

Eddie will win the title, but who will he defend it against? Angle?

 

EDIT: And good report Slapnuts. One of the best I've seen in a while.

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Benoit getting a main event push...Guerrero getting a main event push. What the hell? Is this bizarro WWF?

Could we be evovling and moving into the future?

*waits for the other shoe to drop before he dances*

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Yes they did, they said that the Rumble winner got to choose which belt he wants to go after. Now all we need is a reasonable explanation from Benoit as to why he wants a worthless belt :lol:

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Glad you had a great time, SlapNuts. As for missing out on a Superstar by a short time, I know what the feeling's like. Hopefully you'll get a chance with Cena next time. :)

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Face it guys: there is no explanation for why Benoit left Smackdown. No matter what they come up with it makes no sense. Just let the man cash his paycheck and do the job for HHH, and the world will turn.

 

I'm stoked about this Eddie thing. I am betting we get the Goldberg run in at NWO to cost Brock the title, which normally is a lame way for someone to win the title but for Eddie works just fine (cheating to win is his mantra). I'd say Eddie will pull out every cheap trick he can think of to win the title, and it'll be sold as a monumental upset.

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I think we're all making too big a deal over the legitimacy (or lack thereof) of the Raw belt. After reading the SD! spoilers I now think Benoit's move to Raw is a good thing, as they can now push both Eddie and Benoit for world title shots at the biggest event of the year no less.

And consider this for Benoit's reasoning to go after the Raw title: He'll be facing either HBK or HHH, neither of whom to my knowledge he has beaten and who are considered by many wwe fans (especially HBK) to be the very best. He's already proven he can beat Brock, so no he wants to beat HBK and HHH and win the title in the process.

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I think we're all making too big a deal over the legitimacy (or lack thereof) of the Raw belt. After reading the SD! spoilers I now think Benoit's move to Raw is a good thing, as they can now push both Eddie and Benoit for world title shots at the biggest event of the year no less.

And consider this for Benoit's reasoning to go after the Raw title: He'll be facing either HBK or HHH, neither of whom to my knowledge he has beaten and who are considered by many wwe fans (especially HBK) to be the very best. He's already proven he can beat Brock, so no he wants to beat HBK and HHH and win the title in the process.

 

Eddie isn't going for the World title at Wrestlemania, he'll be ordered to go after the title at NWO so Brock can go after Goldberg at Mania. Or worse, Vince will bring in Goldberg to try and screw Brock.

 

Eddie will get F-5ed straight into the mat, possibly after a distraction by Chavo or Angle.

 

Brock vs Goldberg is Mania, not Brock vs Eddie.

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I think we're all making too big a deal over the legitimacy (or lack thereof) of the Raw belt. After reading the SD! spoilers I now think Benoit's move to Raw is a good thing, as they can now push both Eddie and Benoit for world title shots at the biggest event of the year no less.

And consider this for Benoit's reasoning to go after the Raw title: He'll be facing either HBK or HHH, neither of whom to my knowledge he has beaten and who are considered by many wwe fans (especially HBK) to be the very best. He's already proven he can beat Brock, so no he wants to beat HBK and HHH and win the title in the process.

 

Eddie isn't going for the World title at Wrestlemania, he'll be ordered to go after the title at NWO so Brock can go after Goldberg at Mania. Or worse, Vince will bring in Goldberg to try and screw Brock.

 

Goldberg screws Brock out of the Title at NWO (Eddy wins it).

 

Then for some reason you can have Eddy/Angle for the Title and Goldberg/Lesnar.

 

It actually works out perfectly. Of course, this is about the closest thing to the perfect scenario for Wrestlemania from a Smark fans standpoint. The only thing that would make it better is if HBK wins the belt from HHH and faces Benoit.

 

Benoit/HBK

Angle/Eddy

Goldberg/Lesnar

 

Someone better buy a bulk load of paper towels just in case...

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I think we're all making too big a deal over the legitimacy (or lack thereof) of the Raw belt. After reading the SD! spoilers I now think Benoit's move to Raw is a good thing, as they can now push both Eddie and Benoit for world title shots at the biggest event of the year no less.

And consider this for Benoit's reasoning to go after the Raw title: He'll be facing either HBK or HHH, neither of whom to my knowledge he has beaten and who are considered by many wwe fans (especially HBK) to be the very best. He's already proven he can beat Brock, so no he wants to beat HBK and HHH and win the title in the process.

 

Eddie isn't going for the World title at Wrestlemania, he'll be ordered to go after the title at NWO so Brock can go after Goldberg at Mania. Or worse, Vince will bring in Goldberg to try and screw Brock.

 

Goldberg screws Brock out of the Title at NWO (Eddy wins it).

 

Then for some reason you can have Eddy/Angle for the Title and Goldberg/Lesnar.

 

It actually works out perfectly. Of course, this is about the closest thing to the perfect scenario for Wrestlemania from a Smark fans standpoint. The only thing that would make it better is if HBK wins the belt from HHH and faces Benoit.

 

Benoit/HBK

Angle/Eddy

Goldberg/Lesnar

 

Someone better buy a bulk load of paper towels just in case...

I believe that is exactly what is going to happen.

 

Eddie vs. Brock at NWO. It looks like Brock is about to win, then Goldberg comes down and spears or jackhammers Brock. He is getting revenge on Brock since he gave Goldberg an F-5.

 

Eddie than does the frog splash, 1,2,3, Eddie is WWE champion.

 

That actually makes sense, and I can see Vince doing this.

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Except Eddie was WCW, and Vince doesn't give those guys the "real" belt. Why else was Benoit moved to Raw to get a title he already won (in a non-WWE sense anyway). Best case scenario is that Eddie does win it, but gives it up to Angle at WM. What I think will likely happen is that Brock will find a way to retain, Brock fights Goldberg at WM, and Goldberg loses, then leaves.

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How long were the intervals for the rumble? (Unless I missed a sentence)

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Except Eddie was WCW, and Vince doesn't give those guys the "real" belt. Why else was Benoit moved to Raw to get a title he already won (in a non-WWE sense anyway).

It's a different title, both in legacy and in the actual belt itself.

 

And why is the Raw belt 'fake'. Because Triple H is holding it? He's the top heel on Raw, of course he's holding it! It's no more fake than Lesnar's belt, and a lot less fake than Big Show's belt.

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Except Eddie was WCW, and Vince doesn't give those guys the "real" belt.  Why else was Benoit moved to Raw to get a title he already won (in a non-WWE sense anyway).

It's a different title, both in legacy and in the actual belt itself.

 

And why is the Raw belt 'fake'. Because Triple H is holding it? He's the top heel on Raw, of course he's holding it! It's no more fake than Lesnar's belt, and a lot less fake than Big Show's belt.

Big Shows reign makes HHH look like Bruno Sammartino. At least Trips defends occasionally, and use to defend against lower card guys (Jeff Hardy, D'lo Brown, Spike & Bubba Dudley to name a few). Now he's just too injured or fights the same guys.

 

And I'm not sure if anyones complained about Benoit challenging for a title he already won, but if you were to ask him, I'm sure he doesn't count the 2000 win where he threw the title back at the company and said he wanted it when he knew the bookers wouldn't be out to make him look like crap (Kevin Sullivan actually).

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I'm sure he doesn't count the 2000 win where he threw the title back at the company and said he wanted it when he knew the bookers wouldn't be out to make him look like crap (Kevin Sullivan actually).

 

You're right. He doesn't. But for some reason, WWE does.

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I think we're all making too big a deal over the legitimacy (or lack thereof) of the Raw belt. After reading the SD! spoilers I now think Benoit's move to Raw is a good thing, as they can now push both Eddie and Benoit for world title shots at the biggest event of the year no less.

And consider this for Benoit's reasoning to go after the Raw title: He'll be facing either HBK or HHH, neither of whom to my knowledge he has beaten and who are considered by many wwe fans (especially HBK) to be the very best. He's already proven he can beat Brock, so no he wants to beat HBK and HHH and win the title in the process.

It's more than that. Lesnar embarrassed him on national TV, & disrepected him. Would Austin do the same if he were in that spot? "Oh, well, I proved I could beat him, so I'll just switch brands to go after a guy I haven't interacted with for 2 years, and go after his title just for the challenge of it." No, Austin would be gunning for Brock, to regain his honor, to teach Brock respect, and to take his title.

 

He's only on Raw because HHH used up all the top level faces, so he needed someone that could make him look good while simultaneously not being able to overshadow him (or HBK), which is why Cena (the other guy rumored to be a possibility to switch) wasn't chosen. Benoit will get a token title run, maybe a few months, before HHH grabs the belt back, shoving Benoit down to the midcard just like everyone else before him (except HBK).

 

Also, SD looks pretty good. Knoble/Rey get 9+ minutes? I'm *SO* there.

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Assuming Eddie beats Lesnar at NWO. Does he face Angle at WM XX?

It's nearly 100% certain he faces Angle...in a WWE title match.

 

The idea of Goldberg/Lesnar does not need a title to sell it as a marquee match-up (think Rock/Austin from XIX, or Rock/Hogan from X-8). People would pay for the match by the names alone.

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It absolutely cracks me up that Eddy and Benoit - the two guys that most smarks are most enamored with - are getting title shots and huge pushes but people are still complaining. "Eddy won't win it 100% clean" and "Benoit is going after the wrong belt" and "Their reigns will only last a few months" ... come on, you're getting what you wanted and yet you still bitch and want more.

 

I hope that this all falls through, and next Monday it's announced that Bischoff traded for the FBI and their feud with Benoit is going to continue all the way through Wrestlemania, and that at NWO a returning Gobbely Gooker costs Eddy his match and that sets up a Wrestlemania feud as well. If people are going to bitch and moan, at least then it'd be something worth bitching and moaning about.

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Guest Goodear

at NWO a returning Gobbely Gooker costs Eddy his match and that sets up a Wrestlemania feud as well.

 

Considering the Gooker was Hector Geurrero (I think)... I wouldn't rule that out.

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