haws bah gawd 0 Report post Posted December 4, 2004 Just got back from the Augusta, Georgia Civic Center. The place was about 2/3 full, and WWE put on a great show. Shelton Benjamin vs Christian - Shelton won with his Exploder Powerslam, really good match Val Venis vs Chris "Masterpiece" Masters - Masterpiece won after the standard issue HOSS spinebuster. OK match. Some random fan was ejected during the match for throwing what appeared to be a rubber ball into the ring. Next Edge cut a promo about how he should be Champion because he got the pinfall before Benoit made him tap. Benoit came out and wanted an impromptu match. They fought for a couple seconds before Edge bailed and left for the back. Simon Dean vs Tajiri - Sad to see that Nova has been reduced to the simple WWE style of Kick - Chop - Kick, repeat. Dean eventually won the match, but I missed how. Rhyno vs Muhammed Hassan - Ok match with Hassan winning with a roll-up after Rhyno fell for a distraction from Kusrow. La Resistance vs William Regal and Tajiri - Good match. Lots of funny stuff from Regal and Eugene like usual. Maven tried to interfere but WIlliam Regal pinned Conway after a running knee to the side of the head. ---Intermission--- Snitzky vs Hurricane - a 10-minute squash that couldve easily been done in 2 minutes. One has to wonder who the Hurricane has pissed off backstage. Snitzky won with the Meltdown Trish vs Lita - Pretty good women's match. I hope the match this Monday is as good as this was. Trish won after countering Lita's DDT of Fucking Death by holding onto the top rope, then covering Lita with her feet on the ropes. Coach came out to cut a promo about nothing. Stacy came out to a huge pop and kicked him in the balls. Edge/Batista/HHH vs Orton/Benoit/Jericho - EXCELLENT match. Benoit and Jericho did most of the work for the faces against Edge. A funny moment at the beginning of the match was Edge being the starting man for his team against Benoit. Edge wanted to tag out but HHH and Batista dropped to the floor. HHH grabbed the house mic and said "He's all yours champ". Later in the match, HHH went to the middle rope for something, but he jumped off and landed face first into Benoit's boot. HHH stoof there with his head held high for about 2 or 3 minutes. The ref and even Batista walked to the corner where he was to check on him. He assured them both that he was ok, and then took on step forward, and fell flat on his face, to the laughter of the crowd. Really funny stuff from HHH. The end came when Edge was tyying to spear Orton. He ran, and Orton did a vertical jump of about 5 feet, causing Edge to spear HHH into the corner. While they stood there arguing, Orton ran up and RKO'd both at the same time, then covered HHH for the win. Most of the work in the match from the face side came from Benoit and Jericho. It seemed Orton was just there for the hot tag, and to score the pinfall for his team. After the match, HHH walked down the aisle, selling the RKO like his neck had been broken. He got close to the curtain, and stumbled around a bit, then decided he needed to sit down. He then sat in a folding chair, but leaned backwards a bit too much and fell over. More funny stuff from the Game. Its really good to go to a house show and see the wrestlers really just having a good time in the matches, and pulling the occassional funny spot. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Fook_Theta Report post Posted December 4, 2004 Hate HHH all you want, but the man can do comedy/entertaining matches when he wants to. How the universe would be different if HHH was regulated to upper-midcard entertainment position. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest wildpegasus Report post Posted December 4, 2004 Thanks for the report. I haven's seen Nova wrestle in forever. Was there much difference between his style tonight and what he's been doing rescently before coming to the WWE? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
haws bah gawd 0 Report post Posted December 4, 2004 I didnt see much of Nova's work from after ECW folded to before now. His moveset was really sad. For all the innovative moves he did in ECW, he's been reduced to Punch - Chop - Kick - Resthold. He did a couple comedy spots including pushups while choking Tajiri, and checking his pulse every now and then. Sadly, hes just another WWE wrestler with a fitness instructor gimmick now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Fook_Theta Report post Posted December 4, 2004 He did a couple comedy spots including pushups while choking Tajiri, and checking his pulse every now and then. Sadly, hes just another WWE wrestler with a fitness instructor gimmick now. Well, technically I'd rather see a tiny bit of comedy injected in the newish 'work safe' vanilla moveset, since even a little bit of something different makes it better than seeing Maven vs Robert Conway. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
haws bah gawd 0 Report post Posted December 4, 2004 Im not complaining about the comedy. I love when the WWE wrestlers add humor to their matches. Not everything needs to be taken seriously. My main gripe was to see how much Nova's moveset has been neutered. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JoeDirt 0 Report post Posted December 4, 2004 Great to hear that Masters' finishing move is a fucking spinebuster. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
haws bah gawd 0 Report post Posted December 4, 2004 Not just a spinebuster but a HOSSTASTIC spinebuster. Double-A would be proud. </sarcasm> Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheFranchise 0 Report post Posted December 6, 2004 Great to hear that Masters' finishing move is a fucking spinebuster. Who was expecting a powerbomb? Or... a sit-down powerbomb? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
