Author: Big Cal

WWF Backlash 2001

He who has the gold, has the power. He who has the power, has the gold. No power, no gold. Know power, know gold.

 

The Dudley Boys Vs X-Factor

6 man tag here, with Spike joining his brothers and ALBERT actually being able to join his team mates for a change. He normally has to stand on the outside.

Spike knows his place early on in this match; he gets launched over the ropes onto X-Factor lol. He’s only good when he’s being used as a weapon .

Poor Justin ends up going crotch first into the ring post. I like that once Justin gets the chance, he gets X-Pac to help him crotch D-Von on the ring post too as revenge. REVENGE SPOT~!

Damn, Albert’s stalling double arm underhook suplex is amazing. And D-Von ain’t no little guy either.

X-Pac needed to kick more. He throws some awesome kicks, ones that look STIFF AS FUCK too. I still remember the Benoit one from NWO lol.

Hot tag to Bubba isn’t as hot as you’d hope, which is a shame. I mainly think it was because the match didn’t get much time and X-Factor didn’t have the chance to build much heat. Disappointing because I really think they could have done so much more had they been given the chance.

Nice finish at least. RUNNING SPLASH in the corner from Albert followed by DOUBLE SUPER KICKS.

Fun opener, but that’s about it unfortunately. Not sure why this was a 6 man… Spike was utterly pointless. They didn’t have enough time to really make use of 3 people on the babyface team (hot tags, run ins etc).

Rating: **
CAL SCALE – 0.5

 

THE DUCHESS OF QUEENSBERRY~!

Lillian walks in on Angle polishing his medals.

 

Rhyno Vs Raven – WWF Hardcore Championship Match

RHYNO 

HARDCORE TITLE MATCH 

Oh and Raven too. Whatevers.

RUNNING TRASH CAN TO THE HEAD~!

These two just start laying into each other from the get go. Oh man I just wanna throw a million stars at it already lol.

Rhyno runs up the steel steps, dives off them and Raven MOVES out of the way and Rhyno crashes into a steel chair, which just CRUMBLES under him . Then Raven runs around and jumps off the steps himself, this time with success!

TROLLEY~! Seeing one just makes me sad because I no longer have a job . Plus, HOW DARE THEY MISTREAT A TROLLEY LIKE THAT!

God I love seeing guys get hit in the head with flimsy metal objects .

Sweet Jebus this is too fun. TOO MUCH FUN. FUN OVERLOAD. 

GORE! GORE! GORE! RIGHT INTO THE FUCKING TROLLEY!!!

THE KITCHEN SINK~! About damn time someone used it!

My god that was an epic near fall lol.

GORE! GORE! GORE! THIS TIME TO RAVEN!

Rhyno keeps his title.

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Rating: ***1/4
CAL SCALE – 2

 

William Regal Vs Chris Jericho – Duchess of Queensberry Rules Match

The Duchess of Drag Queensberry Rules are unknown to everyone but Regal, but since I’ve seen this match before, allow me to explain: Regal has to win. Aaaand those are the rules! 

Great little spot at the start with them doing a tie up and going into the corner, forcing the referee to get between them. Regal gets a cheap shot in with a forearm to the face, so Jericho just blasts him right back.

EUROPEAN UPPERCUTS .

LIONSAULT~! THE BELL RINGS~! Apparently the time limit for ROUND ONE has expired . Regal rolls up Jericho to try and get a cheap win but fails.

Fuck me, that SUPLEX. Love, LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE that Half Nelson suplex.

REGAL STRETCH~! Which makes no sense if you’ve already seen the match .

WALLS OF JERICHO~! REGAL TAPS! But wait, no! You can’t win by submission! 

Jericho is PISSED, so he looks to go after the Duchess, and ends up getting smacked in the face with a sceptre!!! Of course, NO DQ’S in this match… now!

Ha, I love how Jericho looks to go for the Walls, then realises there is no submissions here AND no DQ so he just boots Regal in the balls instead!

And then this happens:

Walls of Jericho on the Duchess! Regal beats the fuck out of Jericho with a chair and gets the win.

Match is… odd. It’s entertaining and the Duchess stuff makes it interesting lol, but at the same time it’s a weird match. It’s good but not quite good. Or something. You know I’m not sure myself .

Rating: **1/4
CAL SCALE – 1

 

Chris Benoit Vs Kurt Angle – 30 Minute Ultimate Submission Match

I’m actually excited to watch this match! Always been a fan of it, even after going way down on the likes of their RR 03 match.

First few minutes are . It’s all on the mat with both guys trying to get control and to lock in their signature submission hold. Great counter wrestling from both as they go a great job of not only avoiding certain holds but also leveraging themselves with the counter into a position to potentially lock in a submission too.

CROSSFACE~! TAP OUT~! But it happen on the floor, so it doesn’t count. People complain at times about everyone and their grandma “out wrestling” Angle at points in a match, but at least here Benoit is BELIEVABLE.

Angle is pretty awesome after the Crossface; he stalls like FUCK before finally getting back in the ring because he wants to rest up as much as possible before getting back into the fight. And then when he DOES get back in the ring, he levels Benoit with a right hand to knock Benoit off his game as this has been a WRESTLING match so far, and is able to lock in a knee lock and Benoit taps! SMART by Kurt with how he went about it, and also smart by Benoit to tap straight away to avoid any more damage than was necessary. This is a 30 minute match, not a one fall match, so giving up IS going to put him at a disadvantage, he can get out of the hold quickly by tapping and then work towards getting a submission himself. Which he soon does with an ARM BAR.

Also love that the first 2 submissions AREN’T from the Crossface or Ankle Lock. We saw in the early part of the match that both guys know how to counter those holds extremely well, so both resort to other holds that they won’t be AS prepared for, and it pays off for BOTH of them.

Benoit SNAPS at the referee and shoves him down, so Angle takes advantage and decks Benoit with a chair! Ankle Lock, and this is done. 2-1 in favour of Angle so far. Oh and apparently there is a 30 second rest period, something I honestly didn’t notice from the first 2 submissions .

Oh man, Benoit is still hurt from the chair shot and Ankle Lock, allowing Angle to add insult to injury, forcing the Crippler to tap to his own Crossface! 3-1 to Angle with 18 minutes to go!

With a big advantage, Angle can stop focusing on JUST making Benoit tap out, and can start to BEAT UP Benoit because they do HATE each other, remember? Angle even locks in an Ankle Lock on the outside that makes Benoit tap out even though it doesn’t count, just because he wants to make Benoit HURT.

Nice little FIGHT on the mat with Benoit doing his best to prevent an Arm Bar attempt, followed by Angle having to escape an Arm Bar from Benoit!

Benoit gets some momentum going again and gets another submission win with a sweeet Half Boston Crap that looked more like a Half WCW Walls of Jericho lol. Angle has the 30 seconds to rest, then when the bell rings again to start the match, he rolls out of the ring! Benoit chases him, and Angle gets in the ring again and rolls out one more time! This might be one of the smartest matches Angle has wrestled lol. Certainly in the Benoit series where BOTH seemed to go full on retard lol.

Angle KEEPS going to the outside! Not just to rest up some more, but also to help run the clock down a little bit. 10 minutes left, but 30 seconds spend on the outside is 30 seconds taken from Benoit to try and gain another submission to even the score. And then when that doesn’t quite work, Angle sends Benoit outside and blocks him from getting back in for another minute!  I’m seriously loving this match so far! 9 minutes left and if they don’t fuck up I’m thinking this is gonna do really well lol.

Sleeper hold from Angle around the 6 minute mark. Works in Angle’s favour for another potential fall, but also keeps Benoit grounded and out of the match for another couple of minutes, which is the WORST thing for the Crippler with such little time left!

Angle is doing a really fucking good job at keeping Benoit down in the last 10 minutes. He’s up 3-2 and he knows if he can just keep Benoit at bay, he’s got this one in the BAG.

Benoit isn’t going to give up though, and with 2 minutes left finally gets a chance at locking in the Ankle Lock, and Angle taps! 3-3 with 2 minutes left!!!

And now with the match almost over, I LOVE that Benoit doesn’t keep trying for the Crossface just because he’s now in control. He JUST got a win with the Ankle Lock, so he immediately goes back after the leg! Angle continues to be great by attaching himself to the ropes!

Ankle Lock! Benoit can’t get out… but the clock runs out! And then Benoit taps! 3-3 and this is a draw… but then we go into SUDDEN DEATH!!! My money is on Benoit .

They’ve just wrestled for 30 minutes, and it’s now SUDDEN DEATH so they both just scramble to get in a submission, and in the end it’s Benoit who gets the Crossface in first, and Angle TAPS OUT. Benoit wins 4-3!!!

I still ADORE this match. Without a doubt their BEST match together. It’s damn near perfect tbh. There isn’t much I can possibly point to that isn’t good about this. It’s extremely smartly wrestled by both guys, especially Angle (I know, right!!!). They use the time and the stipulation WONDERFULLY. It’s incredible. My rating is going UP.

Rating: ****3/4
CAL SCALE – 8

 

Shane McMahon Vs The Big Show – Last Man Standing Match

SHANE AND THE BEANSTALK~!

 at Shane trying to grab a chair and MISSING it. KENDO STICK~!

Shane MAULS the giant with the stick until Show gets really fucked off, grabs the stick and clotheslines Shane to HELL.

The Kendo Stick didn’t work, so try a chair! Show takes about 7 shots and still only stays down for a 5 count!

 Shane tried to Chloroform Big Show . Show is OUT! Vince shows up to make sure this isn’t over yet, and cracks his own son in the face with a chair and steals the Chloroform. For his own personal use, no doubt. WHICH WAY TO THE DIVAS LOCKERROOM DAMMIT? 

The Vince interference allows Show to recover and now he’s back to trying to kill Shane.

Good GOD what a Chokeslam. I miss those kind of Chokeslams from Show. The ones he does now are shite.

Show could have won a couple of times already, but keeps picking Shane up to punish him more in the name of VINCE MCMAHON.

TEST~! He’s out to help his buddy Shane, and ends up getting his arse kicked .

Shane has time to recover and goes after Show, and then BIG SHOW GETS A PIPE!  at Shane running for his fucking LIFE as the 7 foot giant chases after him with a weapon!!!

Shane climbs the BEANSTALK aka part of the staging, while Test gets back into this and places Show on a weird stage thingy… and SHANE COMES CRASHING DOWN OFF THE TOP OF THE TITAN TRON RIGHT ONTO… THE STAGING! He didn’t quite land on Show lol, but hey, it’s an awesome spot visually .

Both men are out of it, so Test grabs a camera crane and supports Shane in order to keep him on his feet! Shane wins!

This is ok. FUN but not AS FUN as I was expecting lol. Their JD 00 match is better.

Rating: **1/2
CAL SCALE – 1

 

STEVE BLACKMAN~! He’s at WWF New York talking about the LMS match. And then GRAND MASTER SEXAY just jumps onto the screen “rapping” and Blackman is wishing he had a Kendo Stick .

 

Matt Hardy Vs Christian Vs Eddie Guerrero – WWF European Championship Match

If this happened in say, 2005, I’d be FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP’ing like made. But Christian wasn’t in THE ZONE yet as an incredible singles wrestler. Eddie was too fucked up on drugs to really GO, and Matt wasn’t quite on the level he would be either.

That being said maybe I’ll be surprised . I mean, they ARE all still talented as hell even at this time.

 at Matt running around the ring and the ref being in the way THE ENTIRE TIME as he tries desperately to run the ropes to do a sunset flip, which ends up being fucked up because they are too close to the ropes .

Sweet back body drop into the ropes countered with a DDT by Matt to Christian on the outside . DOUBLE BRAINBUSTERS by Eddie . Love brainbusters because they remind me of DICK~! Murdoch .

Edge shows up and Spears Matt, then throws him into the ring for Christian to pin him, only for Eddie to sneak up behind and take care of Christian and go for a cover himself! Only a 2 count though

Jeff shows up, takes care of Edge and gives Christian a Swanton, and Matt retains his belt.

This was short but very fun indeed. All 3 guys actually spend the majority of the match in the ring together, which makes a bloody change from the typical boring triple threat formula. Finishing stretch is pretty gosh darn cool.

Rating: **1/2
CAL SCALE – 1

 

Steve Austin & Triple H Vs The Undertaker & Kane – WWF Championship, WWF Intercontinental Championship and WWf Tag Team Championship Match

ALL THE GOLD is up for grabs here. If HHH is pinned, he loses his IC belt. If Austin is pinned and he loses his WWF title. If either Undertaker or Kane are pinned, they lose the tag belts. ALL THE GOLD, ALL THE POWER.

POWER TRIP have just gotten together and have been destroying people, so I love how BOD are their first opponents. They are two 7 foot BAD ASSES who are probably the most credible team kayfabe wise at this point to go up against Austin and HHH. And when HHH and Austin BEAT them, it makes the victory for Benoit and Jericho that much BIGGER.

Kane’s arm is FUCKED going into this match. Austin and HHH knew they couldn’t go toe to toe with the Brothers of Destruction without some kind of advantage, so they targeted Kane’s arm on their way to Backlash.

BOD stand tall in the ring and refuse to let Austin and HHH in, just a little MIND GAMES from them. HHH gets blasted in the face with a right hand of the Dead Man, and man oh man do they milk the shit out of that . Then HHH tries again and gets decked AGAIN . Hmmm… running into the ring to get punched in the face doesn’t seem to be working!

BOD look UNSTOPPABLE early on, but then the injured arm of Kane begins to prove a weakness, so Undertaker has to get in and take care of things himself.

 at Austin looking TERRIFIED when he tags into the match thinking Kane is gonna be his opponent, only for Undertaker to tag in.

 Austin wants to shake hands. So Undertaker boots him IN THE FACE.

Kane wants to tag in, but Undertaker is reluctant. Kane is persistent and Undertaker gives in since they ARE in control for the time being. Undertaker doesn’t let Kane stay in too long because he knows this match is gonna be won or lost on how long Kane spends in the ring with that bad arm.

THE TWIN TOWERS OF DOOM. JR’s new name for Undertaker and Kane lol.

OLD SCHOOL~!

OLD SCHOOL~!

Undertaker essentially having to fight both HHH and Austin himself leads to his downfall though. Nice workover period here.

A comeback from the Dead Man, and he gets the chance to tag Kane in, but he shakes his head and DOESN’T tag Kane in. Undertaker keeps trying to take on both HHH and Austin alone, but he keeps getting beat down and eventually Kane is able to get a blind tag to help out his brother, though Undertaker is NOT happy.

Kane is the fresh man in and is able to hold his own until his bad arm proves to be too much for even the BIG RED MACHINE.

HHH and Austin really fucking go to work on the injured arm of Kane. I swear if they could, they’d tear it off and beat him with it lol.

Awesome little spot where Austin smashes Kane’s arm with a chair, forcing Undertaker to go after him, and Austin runs half way up the rampay to escape .

Great tag work from HHH and Austin to as they do everything in their power to prevent a tag to Undertaker.

PEDIGREE~! Kane is OUT, so Undertaker sneaks in and Chokeslams HHH!!! STEPHANIE (looking SMOKING FAPTASTIC btw) gets on the apron to distract the ref, so WOMEN BEATER EARL pushes her off the apron! I’m glad he’s no longer in WWE. What a cunt! 

ENZIGURI FROM KANE~!

Kane finally gets a tag but the referee doesn’t see it, but by god UNDERTAKER DOESN’T GIVE A FUCK and proceeds to single handedly OBLITERATE the TWO MAN POWER TRIP.

LAST RIDE~! But Undertaker isn’t legal as far as the referee is concerned (currently making him Cody’s favourite wrestler  )!

STUNNER ON KANE~!

HHH and Kane are both out of it, and Austin and Undertaker are busy battling it out on the outside.

BIG BOOT TO STEPHANIE! Kane needs to be punished for that. SLEDGEHAMMER TO THE INJURED ARM. SLEDGEHAMMER TO THE HEAD. HHH AND AUSTIN JUST WON ALL THE GOLD!

This is still fucking tremendous. I’ve always been one of the bigger fans of this match, and now I might be THE biggest fan of it lol. You aren’t gonna find many tags better than this in WWE history.

Rating: ****1/2
CAL SCALE – 7

 

Overall CAL SCALE – 20.5

WWF No Way Out 2001

Raven Vs The Big Show – WWF Hardcore Championship Match

NINJA WOMEN~! She ties to attack Show on his way to the ring. No luck. Tori is the NINJA WOMEN~! but fuck knows why or what happened to her lol.

WEAPONS~! HARDCORE~! EXTREME~!

Seeing Raven try to knock Big Show off his feet is pretty awesome. Then from out of nowhere a popcorn vender attacks Raven… turns out to be CRASH~!

STEVE “HARDCORE” BLACKMAN~!

BOB “ACTUALLY NICKNAMED HARDCORE” HOLLY~!

KENDO STICK TO BIG SHOW’S HEAD!

BILLY GUNN~! FAMASSER~! NEW HARDCORE CHAMPION~!

THIS IS FUCKING CHAOS AND I LOVE IT!!! 

Billy don’t get chance to escape with the belt though as the ring is filled with guys desperate (fuck knows why lol) to get their hands on the title!

And then BIG SHOW gets back up. And nobody is safe.

RAVEN WINS BACK THE TITLE!

CRASH FLIES!

NINJA WOMEN IS BACK! MOLLY HOLLY RUNS BEHIND HER AND SMACKS HER IN THE HEAD WITH A TRASH CAN LID!

 Raven MISSES Big Show with a trash can. He MISSED THE WORLD’S LARGEST ATHLETE WITH A BIG FUCK OFF TRASH CAN .

Chokeslam through the trash can!!! Show wins the title! Gunn tries to get it back but Big Show throws him away. BIG SHOW IS HARDCORE CHAMPION~!

Sweet baby Jebus this is immensely FUN. Look up fun in the dictionary… you’ll get some crappy explanation when really they should just tell you to watch THIS.

Rating: **1/2
CAL SCALE – 1

Chris Jericho Vs Eddie Guerrero Vs Chris Benoit Vs X-Pac – WWF Intercontinental Championship Match

Fuck me look at that TALENT.

I like that everyone in this match has had a feud with Jericho in the last year (Eddie not so much, but Jericho injured him so that’s that). Everyone wants to KILL JERICHO . My money is on Benoit .

Jericho starts by taking the fight to everyone since they all wanna kill him. The numbers game eventually gets to him though, especially with Benoit and Guerrero working together. BUT FOR HOW LONG? THE SUSPENSE! YAWN. They’ll start fighting soon. They always do. Boring.

Of course with multiple guys in the match, they have to get rid of 2 on the outside so we can have just 2 in the ring at most times. Gives everyone a chance to take on Jericho 1 on 1, and some of it is good (Benoit Vs Jericho mainly)… but I’d have preferred a singles match. Jericho and Eddie probably could have done better in a singles match. They never had a PPV match (except for the UK Insurrextion one anyway), so would have been nice if they got the chance here. The feuds with Benoit and X-Pac were over, but Eddie was just back from being INJURED by Jericho so surely a singles feud SHOULD have happened, right?

Lots of MOVES~! here, which is ok and all I guess. These kind of matches are rarely anything else . Makes for a nice finishing stretch at least, which I’d say starts when Justin Credible comes down to help X-Pac. DOUBLE SUPERKICK TO BENOIT . Love that double move.

FUCKING HELL. I think X-pac might be responsible for Benoit… that fucking KICK. RIGHT IN THE HEAD. That HAD to have fucking hurt.

Jericho rolls X-Pac up while he’s celebrating the KICK OF DOOM and gets the win.

Fun match overall, but I would have still preferred a singles match. Less MOVES~! and more substance would have been nice.

Rating: ***
CAL SCALE – 2

 at poor Regal trying to make sense of what Vince wants him to do tonight in the STEPHANIE VS TRISH FAP MATCH.

Stephanie McMahon Vs Trish Stratus

FAP FAP FAP FAP FA…. no wait! Must. Concentrate. On. Match.

Why? Because I remember this being GOOD.

Damn Steph looks hot when she’s mad. ANGRY SEX~!

These ladies are trying to destroy each other! Pretty great brawl to start things off! Stephanie takes a bump over the barricade to the CONCRETE like a fucking boss… then gets back up and DECKS TRISH IN THE FACE.

FAP FAP FAP TRISH’S SHORTS HAVE TURNED INTO A THONG.

No no concentrate… concentrate…

Damn, STEPHANIE hitting some pretty stiff shots! MUST AVOID PENIS JOKE.

DDT! Steph takes that better than half the guys! Or at the very least, Kane. Kane CANNOT take face/head bumps. He just can’t. Seriously. Watch him any time he has to take a DDT, or an RKO, or a Bulldog. HE CANNOT DO IT. He just sticks his arms down and bounces off them with his head about 2 feet off the floor.

HATE~! Fucking plenty of HATE~! in this .

WET T-SHIRT! WET T-SHIRT!

OH SHIT HURRICANRANA COUNTERED INTO A POWERBOMB!

STEPHANIE PULLS DOWN TRISH’S SHORTS, REVEALS A THONG AND SPANKS HER!!! STEPHANIE IS TRYING TO STRIP TRISH!!!

Both ladies charge at each other and take each other out. So Regal shows up, takes down the referee and… places Trish on top of Stephanie… then when the ref starts counting he puts Stephanie’s foot on the ropes! He doesn’t have a clue what to do . Trish slaps him, so he retaliates with his cross arm neckbreaker! STEPHANIE GETS THE WIN!

This is legitimately GOOD. Hot as fuck too. But most importantly GOOD.

Rating: ***
CAL SCALE – 2

 Vince absolutely verbally destroys Regal backstage for not doing what he wanted. TAG MATCH MADE FOR RAW. Where Vince turns on Trish… yet somehow they stay together until WM. LOL.

Triple H Vs Steve Austin – 3 Stages of Hell Match – 1st Fall = Singles Match. 2nd Fall = Street Fight. 3rd Fall = Cage Match

As far as actual feuds go, this was pretty damn AWESOME. A ton of great moments from both guys screwing each other out of the WWF Title, to the awesome contract signing, to Austin Stunning STEPHANIE. One of the best examples of a pure HATE~! filled feud. Just a shame their matches were never on par with the feud. Their Survivor Series 00 match sucked, and I am not a big fan of this one either. Maybe things will change.

Starts off good at least . The first fall might be a straight up “wrestling” match, but Austin comes out swinging and is determined to maul HHH to death… just within the rules of a regular match lol.

Austin ends up targeting HHH’s arm fairly quickly, and it hinders HHH quickly as it prevents him potentially landing a Pedigree and ending the first fall.

WORST ARN ANDERSON SPINEBUSTER EVER. By Austin.

HHH targets Austin’s neck. And then decides to throw him into the corner and kick him in the gut a few times. And then chop blocks his knee. MAKE UP YOUR FECKING MIND.

Ok, seems HHH has settled on leg work now. FIGURE FOUR. Hey Miz, THIS is a figure four. For the love of god take notes or something. Please.

Leg work? WHAT LEG WORK? Austin literally IGNORES IT straight away. Stunner and he wins the first fall. Wow, that was completely uneventful and forgettable.

Street fight time.

MONITOR SHOT TO HHH’S FACE. And then for some reason Austin decides to throw a bunch of chairs in the ring (why he needs more than 1 I’ll never know lol), and that gives HHH time to recover… and escape . YEY BRAWLING IN THE CROWD… thank fuck they get back to the ring pretty quickly.

Back to the ring and Austin continues his HATE~! filled rampage by mauling HHH with a chair, similar to what he did to Rock at WM. A month later. Totally just realised half way into that sentence that this is BEFORE WM 17 .

And then, after beating HHH up with ONE chair… he grabs the ring bell. Why not just like… keep using the chair? Or another chair? You have 3 of the fuckers there. Why waste ANY TIME going for the ring bell when you clearly aren’t in short supply of fucking weapons?

2×4 wrapped in barbed wire shows up… and honestly it’s reveal is RANDOM AS SHIT. Now, if Austin went for that instead of the ring bell, it would have been fine. “Steel chair? Nah, not enough… I’ll get a fucking 2×4 wrapped in barbed wire!” That would have been cool. But no. “Steel chair? Nah, not good enough. Steel ring bell!” Then he doesn’t even USE the ring bell, ends up back by the timekeepers table and randomly seems to find the 2×4. Just baffles me tbh.

But that small (  ) annoyance aside, at least they are keeping up with the HATE~! part of the match. Austin gets busted open, HHH gets put through a table. They are at least trying to kill each other… just not very efficiently. Man, does anyone know how to commit murder properly? Do I gotta show em how it’s done?

The SLEGDEHAMMER reveal is at least done better. They spend a while trying to kill each other in the ring using the ring bell and the chairs, then the steel steps come out, but neither of them can put the other away… so HHH goes over to the announce table that isn’t broke and reaches under to pull out his trusty weapon! THIS is HHH’s big game changer, and after fighting with Austin to actually use it, it takes one shot to the head to put Austin down long enough for HHH to hit the Pedigree and get the second fall win.

That fall was actually mostly really good. Definitely came across better than the last time I saw it. Shame the first fall had to happen, because honestly it was just pure shite, and serves absolutely NO PURPOSE to the match. I swear it’s just there so Austin could pin HHH (and pin him first) so he doesn’t look a total jobber when he loses to HHH twice going into WM.

Cage match time! BARBED WIRE TO THE FACE. OF BOTH MEN. 

So this is kinda boring tbh. Just standard stuff for the most part. At least they do a pretty damn good job of selling the effects of the street fight. Austin’s Stunner is awesome. He turns around pretty slowly and then just kinda falls forward and it actually looks really cool how it’s done.

Finish is what it is. Both hit each other in the face with weapons, and HHH is the lucky one who happens to land on Austin. Gives HHH the win, keeps Austin strong in defeat going into WM. I’m fine with it tbh.

Overall… this match isn’t great. It’s not some big all time classic, it’s not MOTY, it’s not a MOTYC. It’s GOOD, but nothing more. The first fall shouldn’t have happened at all. Was a complete and utter waste of time that adds NOTHING to the match. The street fight is mostly really good, albeit with a couple of flaws. Cage is kinda dull but it does have its moments. All of it combined gives us a good match, but not one I’m looking to re-watch any time in the next decade.

My rating stays the same as before, but I ended up liking and disliking different thing compared to last time that evened out and kept the rating the same lol.

Rating: ***1/4
CAL SCALE – 2

Steven Richards Vs Jerry Lawler – If Lawer wins, The Kat gets naked. If Steven wins, The Kat joins RTC

THE FAP FAP KAT.

 at Richards doing a HO TRAIN.

10 punched in the corner? Nah. TWENTY SIX~! King really wants Kat to get naked! Then again he probably doesn’t care if he wins or not cos HE HITTING THAT.

Really, really shitty finish, and Steven Richards wins. Kat leaves the company soon after and Lawler goes with her.

Bad.

Rating: DUD
CAL SCALE – 0

The Dudley Boys Vs Edge & Christian Vs The Undertaker & Kane – WWF Tag Team Championship Tables Match

E&C are stuck in the middle of the ramp way between Undertaker & Kane and those DAMN DUDLEYS. So they bail over the sides of the ramp and let the other 2 teams go at it. Which results in both Dudley Boys getting thrown off the ramp to the floor .

UNDERTAKER AND KANE ARE ON FIRE. WELL, BAD CHOICE OF WORDS. SORRY KANE.

Fans chant “WE WANT TABLES” during a tables match. Bit redundant, is it not? You gonna get tables. It’s the whole point of the match. You don’t chant “WE WANT PINFALLS” during a singles match, do you? No. So shut the fuck up.

“BUBBA’S CUMMING!”

STEREO TOP ROPE CLOTHESLINES~!

Undertaker and Kane pretty much DOMINATE this match, forcing the other 2 teams to try and work together, but damn, BOD are just killing em.

Just as it looks like they are gonna win the tag belts… RIKISHI AND HAKU (MENG) SHOW UP! They battle up the rampway, allowing The Dudley Boys to get the win inside the ring.

This is fun, not much more though.

Rating: **
CAL SCALE – 0.5

Kurt Angle Vs The Rock – WWF Championship Match

Fuck me, 10 minutes into this one and I’ve had NOTHING TO WRITE ABOUT. They’ve just gone back and forth with some moves.

Then Big Show comes out and fucks everyone up. Kinda like he did at Battleground . Except they decide to just like, get a new referee out here to keep the match going.

 at Hebner. He and Tim White come down to help their fallen referee, but then Hebner spots Angle covering Rock and LETS GO of the other ref, leaving him and Tim White to fall down, so he can count to 2 .

They hit some finishers. Hebner kinda I think screws up the count after a Rock Bottom so he has to hit another. Rock wins the title.

Good GOD this match is just… empty. Nothing there. It’s just a bunch of stuff.

Rating: 1/2*
CAL SCALE – 0

Overall CAL SCALE – 7.5

WWF No Mercy 2001

The Hardy Boys Vs Lance Storm & The Hurricane – WCW Tag Team Championship Match

LITA LITA FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP LITA is at ringside .

IVORY. FAP. HER TITS ARE BEGGING TO ESCAPE HER TOP.

Hurricane & Storm. Can’t believe I didn’t get that until my Unforgiven ramblings .

Heyman: “ARE YOU DOUBTING MY SOURCES, JR?”

JR: “WELL… UHH… …. YA.”

FIST BUMP TAG~!

LITA chant randomly. She’s more popular than anyone else in the match lol.

MIGHTY MOLLY~!

SPEAR! SPEAR! SPEAR! FUCK ME THAT WAS A PRETTY (PUN INTENDED) SPEAR BY LITA! GREAT BUMP BY MOLLY TOO. SPEAR! I WANNA SPEAR LITA!

Cool little finishing stretch, Hardy Boys retain. But honestly other than that there isn’t much to this one. Like, at all. It’s like they didn’t do ANYTHING in the middle of the match.

Rating: 1/2*
CAL SCALE – 0

RVD shows up and Regal (now the Alliance Commissioner) gives him a talking to. RVD is in the main event tonight for the WWF Title… and he’s currently the hardcore champion… which means no hardcore title match tonight .

VINCE shows up. Michael Cole puts his jacket on for him. He drops it on the floor first. Vince says he’s gonna drop Cole if he drops his jacket again .

Test Vs Kane

I’m oddly looking forward to this match. Certainly more than the other match later tonight between the other half of these teams (Undertaker Vs Booker T. Yes, I’m looking forward to a TEST match more than an Undertaker match. Blame Booker).

PRESS SLAM OVER THE ROPES. Kane press slams Test OVER THE ROPES TO THE FLOOR. 

Fuck me at that ringbell shot to Kane’s head. Nick Patrick ignores it .

This is a pretty solid BIG MAN battle. Nothing on the Kane/Albert matches from earlier in the year, but still good stuff overall with some impressive shit (THAT PRESS SLAM) too.

BIG BOOT~! But it happens on the outside so Test doesn’t get the win there.

CHOKESLAM~! But Kane is still hurting from the BIG BOOT to capitalise on it quick enough.

PUMPHANDLE SLAM~! Damn, this is a pretty good finishing stretch. Plenty of great near falls without either of them spamming actual finishers.

A chair comes into play, the referee fucks over Kane and BAM, BIG BOOT! Test gets the win!

 Me likely this matchy.

2 chokeslams to Nick Patrick . And a powerbomb! 

Rating: ***
CAL SCALE – 2

THE COACH interviews Austin through Debra.

STACY KEIBLER FAP FAP FAP. She gives Matt Hardy a sneak peak of her lingerie. Lucky bastard.

Torrie Wilson Vs Stacy Keibler – Lingerie Match

I KNOW YOU WANT ME~! SUNNY THEME MUSIC~!

FAP.

FAP.

FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP.

FAP FAP.

FAP. FAP. FAP. FAP.

FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP.

Rating: *
CAL SCALE – 0

Christian Vs Edge – Intercontinental Championship Ladder Match

Urgh. I’ll watch this in hopes I like it. But I don’t expect to.

Booooring. Boooooring. Boooooring. Boooooring. Outside of CHRISTIAN taking a couple of cool bumps off the ladder, this is BORING. It does, however, feature THE most insane, sickening, nasty, brutal ladder spot in history:

Christian tries a one man conchairto but Edge blocks it. So Edge gets a ladder. Making it 3 in the ring now. Because apparently he needed the other 2 still. He sets the ladder up across the steel chairs and puts Christian on it and I guess he’ll climb the ladders (2 for stability) and splash Christian. LOLNO. He climbs the ropes instead. So bringing a 3rd ladder into the ring was pointless. Edge: Dumbfuck.

Fuck me. Both ladders are still set up in the ring. RIGHT UNDER THE BELT. So Christian sets up the third one at a different angle to climb, only to get SPEARED by Edge who comes off the ropes. YEAH, THAT LADDER WASN’T SET UP FOR JUST THAT SPOT…

Conchairto to Christian on top of the ladders (this time having 3 makes sense… about damn time), and Edge wins the IC title back.

DO NOT LIKE. This might be a worse Christian ladder match than the Shelton one. Urgh. These guys HAVE NO CHEMISTRY. Glad we never got a WM match now tbh. Probably would have been shite.

Rating: 1/4*
CAL SCALE – 0

Spike is at WWF New York. He’s drinking a beer. I hope they asked for his ID. Some random slut shows up to hit on him. Glad this was shown…

The Dudley Boys Vs The Big Show & Tajiri – WWF Tag Team Championship Match

Dudleys? Big Show? TAJIRI? Fap? FAP!

Tajiri and Bubba start things off .

OMG just found a Tajiri Vs Bubba match from Raw in 02. TOTALLY GONNA WATCH THAT AFTER THIS .

Tajiri plays the FIP here so we get plenty of him . KICKS~! GREEN MIST~! Poor referee gets it .

Fuck. Me. That chokeslam on Bubba was incredible.

RHYNO! GORE! GORE GORE!

KICK TO THE FUCKING HEAD!

I like how the referee doesn’t DQ Tajiri.

3-D! And this one is over. FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN.

Rating: **
CAL SCALE – 0.5

The Undertaker Vs Booker T

Urgh. Just fuck off Booker. YOU SUCK. I’d rather watch a Rock match. Or a Chavo Jr match. Hmmm… maybe not. Booker > Chavo Jr at least. Highlight of his career.

Huh, JR was calling Undertaker BOOGER RED already? Thought that was just something he called him during his heel run towards the end of the year. I LEARNDED SOMETHING!

 at JR taking a jab at some of the shitty WCW champs in recent memory.

Like how Undertaker keeps going after the arm and taking the fight to the mat here rather than just straigh up clubbing Booker T to hell. Takes Booker off his game in the early going, something Undertaker realises he needs to do after Kane tasted defeat at the hands of Booker’s tag partner Test earlier in the night.

I like how they work in part of the Kane/Test match into this, with Booker grabbing the ring bell to deck Undertaker, just like Test did with Kane, but this match has a WWF official and he ain’t standing for that shit! The bell is taken away and Undertaker decides it’s time to BRAWL with Booker now.

Undertaker might not have been at the top of his game in 2001, but his PUNCHES are always epic. WWE might have dubbed him in the best striker in history or whatever, but damn, it’s kinda hard to put up much of an argument. He’s RIGHT UP THERE with anyone. Lawler. Dundee. Bunch of guys I’m forgetting. No doubt I’ll get screamed at for forgetting certain people. I’M FUCKING SORRY WE GUYS, OK?

THE MOST ELECTRIFYING MOVE IN SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT TODAY… THE SPINAROONIE!!!

LAST RIDE~!

Very back and forth match, with Booker never really getting in control as the heel, but eh, he’s in the ring with THE UNDERTAKER and Booker is a WCW guy… so I get that they didn’t want to make Booker look THAT strong against the Dead Man. That being said Booker did a good job any time he was on offence here that a full blown control segment would have been fine. Perhaps this was more of a test for Booker than anything? Vince has been known for putting guys against Undertaker to “test” them, especially the WCW guys around this time.

Anyway, good match. Enjoyed it more than I thought I would. My dislike for Booker tends to prevent me from liking anything he does, even against Undertaker (I have horrible memories of their JD 04 match lol). But he was good here. Undertaker was good. Match was good. Good good.

Rating: ***
CAL SCALE – 2

The Rock Vs Chris Jericho – WCW Championship Match

Can Jericho win THE BIG ONE? Yeah, probably.

I do find it funny that during a time of WWF VS WCW (and ECW…), they still did a bunch of WWF VS WWF matches. Shows how crappy the talent in the ALLIANCE was outside of a few key people. Bit of a shame tbh. We could have gotten Rock Vs DDP or something instead, but they decided that DDP can fuck off and buried the shit out of him .

“I LIKE THEM, STEPH!” sign in the crowd. Can I assume this means her boob job? 

These guys have some issues they need to work out, along with the fact Jericho is DESPERATE to win THE BIG ONE. That somewhat simple story works nicely into the match with Jericho trying to do anything and everything to win.

Love the commentary for this one too. Heyman and JR really help build up how HUGE this match is, with the WCW title lineage going all the way back to the first ever world champion in 1904(?), and how significant it is that this match is taking place in St Louis, where some of the biggest legends in the business have wrestled for, won, and lost THIS very title over the years. Jericho wants to win THE BIG ONE and THE BIG ONE is being put over as the fucking MONSTROUS ONE. I love things like that. Hey Michael Cole, commentary CAN add to a match. You useless cunt.

Rock hits perhaps the GOAT catapult on Jericho. He holds him up off the ground (like setting up a GIANT SWING~!) for a few seconds before falling back to launch Jericho into the corner. Looks less fakey and shit that normal.

Rock Bottom + Lionsault is an INCREDIBLE false finish. I mean DAMN. How did Jericho not win THE BIG ONE right there? 

Rock ends up really taking the fight to Jericho and damn, I kinda wish I’d watched this BEFORE Vengeance now lol, because the finishing stretch of that match looks to be a SWEEET call back to part of this match . Table spot, People’s Elbow countered into a submission, other stuff no doubt.

STEPHANIE FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP. Rock gives her a Rock Bottom. WHAT A CUNT. FUCKING WOMEN BEATER. I’LL SAVE YOU STEPHANIE!

She brought a chair with her, and Jericho thinks nothing of hitting the Breakdown on it, sending Rock’s skull into the chair! 1…2…3 and Jericho wins THE BIG ONE! Finish plays perfectly into the story of Jericho being willing to do ANYTHING to win. STEPHANIE looks hot.

Great match.

Rating: ****
CAL SCALE – 5

Steve Austin Vs Kurt Angle Vs RVD – WWF Championship Match

SUPLEX! SUPLEX! SUPLEX! Angle wastes no time suplexing the shit out of everyone. RVD and Austin don’t know if they can trust each other, and Angle just doesn’t care. He’s gonna kill everyone.

Austin decides he doesn’t wanna wait and goes after RVD before RVD can turn on him. EVERY MAN FOR THEMSELVES~!

Glad that they had Austin do that straight away. Takes away the bullshit “working together then turning on each other” crap we tend to get. Survivor Series 09 main event does that too, only better .

Austin is a man POSSESSED here. He just doesn’t seem to stop. He knows this is HIS match to lose so he goes after both men and tries to keep himself in the match as often as possible so he has a better chance of preventing someone else from winning HIS title.

Holy shit ANGLE HIT THE MOONSAULT. And didn’t break anyone’s arm! 

Vince decks Austin with a chair. RVD tries to take advantage as they’ve been teasing RVD going to the WWF. Angle breaks up the count, fucking DESTROYS RVD, then Shane O’Mac shows up, takes out Angle (then gets taken out by Vince lol), and Austin gets the pin on RVD.

So this one is fast paced and high impact and all that shit… and that’s about it. It’s OK and all, better than a certain other triple threat Austin was involved in on PPV this year… but it’s just a SPOTTY match with little in the way of real substance aside from Austin being obsessed with retaining the title.

Rating: **3/4
CAL SCALE – 1

Overall CAL SCALE – 10.5

WWF Vengeance 2001

4 Men. 3 Matches. 2 Titles. 1 Undisputed Champion.

Yey we are opening the PPV with an IN RING PROMO. It was utterly pointless.

Scotty 2 Hott & Albert Vs Test & Christian

THE HIP HOP HIPPO!!!

So this match is random as fuck. It’s a “bonus” match.

Oh ok, apparently they’ve had a little “rivalry” on TV. Whatever.

HORSEFACE TEST.

Nice to see Test and Albert go at it. They never did have a blow off when they split a year ago.

Test has immunity at this point. Bet Big Show wishes he had that over an IRON CLAD CONTRACT which ain’t doing shit for him.

 at Lawler and JR debating over whether or not Albert and Scotty are “fly”.

OMG I just noticed the referee! TEDDY LONG!!! I really should have made a record of how many tag matches he’s refereed on these PPV’s lol.

CHRISTIAN’S WORM!!! Awww, Albert tries to break it up but Christian avoids a kick and Test levels Albert with a big boot!

SCOTTY’S WORM!!! His is successful.

BALDO BOMB~! The fly white guys win.

Fun opener.

Rating: *1/4
CAL SCALE – 0.5

Edge Vs William Regal – WWF Intercontinental Championship

 I’m a HUGE fan of the matches between these two. A very underrated series imo. Great promo from Regal before the match.

Reason I’m such a fan of this series is because it actually helps out BOTH men involved. Regal imo never really settled in as far as in ring work in the WWF until this series with Edge. Here he was back to being, well, awesome, and much stiffer than we’d seen from him in a long time (aka his WCW days). These matches seemed to help him rediscover himself.

As for Edge, after winning the KOTR and splitting with Christian, he really didn’t come across as a singles guy yet. He worked with Christian straight away and they just didn’t have chemistry. Then he worked with Test. So this was Edge’s first real opponent who was BOTH good in the ring and had chemistry with him, and that allowed for great matches and for Edge to really adjust imo to singles matches.

KNEE TREMBLER~! Edge takes some really nice STIFF SHOTS in this one, and even he throws out some nasty looking offence here and there too. You GOTTA with Regal though, otherwise he’ll just tear you apart.

Some unique spots throughout this match too, same goes for their other 2 PPV matches that follow. SPEAR OFF THE APRON INTO THE STEEL STEPS (Regal moved). Now that was awesome.

BRASS KNUCKS~! Regal hid some in the ring because he knew he’d be checked before the match.

DOUBLE ARM POWERBOMB~! One of my favourite moves from Regal .

Regal gets a little frustrated, so he hits a pair of DOUBLE ARM POWERBOMBS . And when that doesn’t work, he puts on the Brass Knucks… and walks into SPEAR!!! Edge gets the win.

Still holds up . Not as good as their RR match, and it’s been too long since I saw their NWO match to know where it stands against that, but that doesn’t matter. This is great.

Rating: ***1/2
CAL SCALE – 3

LITA (FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP) in the hottest referee outfit ever. FAP.

Matt Hardy Vs Jeff Hardy – Special Guest Referee Lita

LITA .

Feud is another of those examples of WWF being morons. At Survivor Series, Jeff had the chance to win the tag titles. Instead he decided to jump off the cage and it cost them the match. Matt is the bad guy for pointing that out. WHAT?

The actual feud wasn’t a real HATE~! driven kind of feud. Really was more of a brother vs brother thing where they didn’t hate each other but needed to sort shit out, and in wrestling the way to do that is to have a match. Not killing each other’s dog level of HATE~! yet lol.

Man, feels like they are just going through the motions here. It’s slow and sluggish and dull. Feels like they literally do nothing for the first 5 minutes or so. Then Jeff “hurts” his leg and Matt goes after it and… I just don’t care lol. If it wasn’t for LITA looking all FAP FAP I’d have probably just skipped this one tbh.

Jeff gets the 3 but Matt’s foot was on the ropes. LITA didn’t see it.

Not often a referee is the best part of a match.

Rating: 1/4*
CAL SCALE – 0

The Dudley Boys Vs The Big Show & Kane – WWF Tag Team Championship Match

So Show and Kane have been teaming up since way back when, huh? Damn, lol.

 at Bubba begging for a tag but D-Von is too scared to get in the ring with Big Show.

Show and Kane are looking UNSTOPPABLE.

CLOTHESLINE FROM THE TOP ROPE TO THE OUTSIDE!!!

STACY~! Shorts come down and she gets a spanking!!!

Dudley’s do a pretty great job of finally taking down Kane and using Show to distract the referee to double team the Big Red Machine. Stuff like that is what helps make them some of the most consistently GOOD performers the entire year for the last 2 years.

Kane accidentally clotheslined Show from the ropes! They argue and those DAMN DUDLEYS try to take advantage, but they are just too big and too strong. Then Show accidentally knocks Kane off the apron, Bubba exposes the turnbuckle, and we get a double flapjack onto the exposed turnbuckle!

Short but solid tag match. Good tag work from the Dudley Boys, great power work from Kane and Show, STACY being all FAP FAP, and a creative finish!

Rating: ***
CAL SCALE – 2

The Undertaker Vs RVD – WWF Hardcore Championship Match

 HARDCORE TITLE MATCH.

 UNDERTAKER MATCH.

  UNDERTAKER HARDCORE TITLE MATCH  .

Undertaker’s heel turn was .

Undertaker cut his hair! Looks like the fucking TERMINATOR coming down to the ring now with the sunglasses and motorbike. He just wants RESPECT and he gots all mine!

RVD has to try and stick and move against BIG EVIL, and use those quick kicks to keep him at bay. Works for about 30 seconds, and then Undertaker uses a kick of his own (BIG BOOT).

MOONSAULT ON THE CONCRETE~! From RVD, obviously.

 at Undertaker squashing RVD’s face under some guard rail.

GOAT sign: “GOOD MORNING”.

Fans: “RVD! RVD!”

Undertaker: “RVD GETTING HIS ASS KICKED!”

God I love heel Undertaker.

And of course right after he says that, RVD makes a comeback . CROSSBODY OFF THE BALCONY!

Undertaker is now covered in dust .

Babyface Undertaker, when getting pinned, would simply kick out. HEEL Undertaker gouges the fucking EYES to escape a pin .

Sweet Jebus! RVD gets launched face first into part of the staging. Makes on SICK AND NASTY sound.

Last Ride! No! RVD holds on to the stage and fights out of it! Undertaker is kicked backstage, then comes back out and just DECKS RVD in the face with a right hand. If Undertaker went for a cover there I could have bought into a near fall from it tbh. But Undertaker goes for a chair instead!

Van Daminator! No! Undertaker moves and RVD ends up kicking the titan tron! Chair shot!

And now they move closer and closer to the edge of the stage… another Van Daminator attempt… ANOTHER COUNTER! CHOKESLAM OFF THE STAGE! 1…2…3 AND THE UNDERTAKER IS THE NEW HARDCORE CHAMPION!

 This rules. This fucking RULES. I wanna watch all of Undertaker’s hardcore title defences now lol.

Rating: ***3/4
CAL SCALE – 4

Trish Stratus Vs Jacqueline – WWF Women’s Championship

Well, first match I’m skipping so far for my 2001 Rambles. Technically skipped the women’s match at WM 17 but I did that writeup earlier in the year.

Rating: NO
CAL SCALE – -1

Steve Austin Vs Kurt Angle – WWF Championship Match

Austin turned on the WWF fans by aligning with Vince to win the WWF title at WM earlier in the year. Then he turned on the WWF by joining the Alliance with the sole intention of putting the WWF out of business. Angle was the WWF Hero. Joined the Alliance to fuck them over from the inside. It worked. The WWF won. Next night on Raw, Austin gets cheered by the fans, turning back babyface, while Angle somehow ends up the heel. WHY DO YOU KEEP DOING THIS WWE?

Ok, It’s been about a week since I first attempted to watch this match lol. I just couldn’t. I got about 5 minutes in and wasn’t feeling it and gave up. Been avoiding the shit out of it since then . But I gots ta get it done! That way I can move on and get to other events from 2001 lol. Like Survivor Series and SummerSlam and Backlash .

These two have been feuding since Invasion when Austin screwed the WWF, gave Angle the Stunner and cost Team WWF the match. 2 PPV matches and a TV match for the title and a TON of good old HATE~! thrown in too. They had some fucking WARS. And now they have the chance to become the first ever Undisputed Champion ever (despite the fact JR and Lawler actually claim there has been an Undisputed champion before  ).

So how do they start the match here? A big crazy wild brawl to continue their HATE~!? No, not really. It comes across more of a “feeling out” segment. Which is odd considering how well they know each other by now.

Instead of trying to kill each other, Austin instead targets the arm of Angle. Which I guess is ok. The winner of this still has another match to go before they can win the title. So taking things easy and not going all out makes sense… but eh, I just don’t like it. Would be fine if this was say just the semi-finals of a tournament or something where they were randomly placed against each other… but these guys fucking HATE each other with a passion and have spent half of 2001 trying to tear each other apart!

So what we actually get for the most part is a dull, uninspired brawl with some dull limb work.

Oh look, terrible German Suplexes by Austin. 5 in a row. Thanks for that.

Fuck me I think Angle just botched a low blow. HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?

One Stunner and Angle is done. Kinda glad because a kick out would have meant this match would continue.

Shit.

Rating: 1/2*
CAL SCALE – 0

The Rock Vs Chris Jericho – World Heavyweight Championship Match

Was that a “Rocky sucks” chant I heard? IT WAS! 

These guys have been going at it for a couple of months now, not as long as Austin/Angle, but they have a pretty big RIVALRY going. So again I’d kinda expect them to bring the HATE~! from the start, but they don’t do it either. Ok, maybe they wanna take it slow because they have to wrestle again RIGHT AFTER THIS MATCH. Like with Angle/Austin, I wouldn’t LIKE them doing that but it would make sense.

LOLMAKESENSE. Nah. They don’t bring the HATE~! but they both start running around and flying into each other with clotheslines or arm drags and shit. So no HATE~! AND no trying to save energy at the start? Fuck you both. Especially Rock.

ASK HIM! How about someone ask Jericho to lay off the fucking rest holds. Rock ain’t the only one going to sleep here.

Rock Bottom by Jericho through a table. About 5 minutes have happened between that rest hold and the table spot. AND I HAD NOTHING TO FUCKING WRITE ABOUT. Not feeling this one tbh.

Huh, Rock just took HIS OWN FINISH THROUGH A TABLE… and yet he’s the first one back on offence. What?

Oh it’s ok, Jericho just kills Rock with the BREAKDOWN anyway. Then spends about half an hour setting up a People’s Elbow, only for Rock to counter with a Sharpshooter… only for Jericho to reverse the Sharpshooter!!! Ok, that sequence was kinda cool, though Jericho could perhaps have taken less time mocking the People’s Elbow. Also, why the fuck does Jericho look like he’s escaped DEATH? Rock has taken a ROCK BOTTOM THROUGH A TABLE, A BREAKDOWN AND A SHARPSHOOTER and he’s still fucking countering Jericho with roll ups and even a Rock Bottom of his own, all the while Jericho seems like he’s taken double that the whole time.

Vince distracts the referee, because Jericho wouldn’t be able to kick out of a Rock Bottom followed by 10 years of rest while Rock slowly makes a cover…

People’s Elbow, and Rock has a second wind. LOW BLOW. ROCK BOTTOM. JERICHO WINS.

This sucked too. Not as bad as Austin/Angle, definitely not as bad as that, but still, it ain’t got nothing on their RR match or their NM match (or at least what I remember of that one… I’ll get to it soon).

Rating: *1/4
CAL SCALE – 0.5

Steve Austin Vs Chris Jericho – WWF Undisputed Championship Match

Jericho gets the win and straight afterwards, Austin comes down and attacks Jericho. But for some reason the referee doesn’t ring the bell yet. No, he waits until Angle decks Austin with a chair first and then Rock hits a Rock Bottom on Jericho. Awesome. 2 slow, dull matches so far in this title tournament thingy and the final match starts with BOTH MEN LAID OUT AND THE REFEREE DOING A COUNT. Seriously? Shoot me now.

“AUSTIN TOOK A POUNDING FROM ANGLE EARLIER” 

Fuck me, these two are showing more HATE~! in this match than the previous 2 matches did. And these guys don’t really have any big heated rivalry or anything. They don’t like each other, but damn, they trying to kill each other anyway.

 at Austin going for a Stunner ON THE TABLE.  at the bump Jericho takes off the table when Austin counters a Walls attempt! at the bump Jericho (and Austin) take on the CONCRETE FLOOR (mat has been pulled away) after a suplex.

I never really “get” the “using the ropes of additional leverage” on submission holds. Half the time it looks like it isn’t helping at all. The other half can be summed up with Jericho’s ARM BAR here. He uses the ropes for leverage (awesome show btw, LEVERAGE. Been watching a bunch of it the last week rather than watching this) and damn, it looks NASTY. Like, break Austin’s arm kinda nasty.

Man, how does EARL at his age take some of those BUMPS? He just launched himself out of the ring following a flying forearm from Jericho. He bumps better than a lot of fucking wrestlers.

Ref is down, cue VINCE again, and NICK PATRICK. RIC FLAIR. He takes out Patrick. VINCE PUNCHES FLAIR!!! FLAIR HEAD FIRST INTO THE RING POST! I wonder if Flair bleeds .

Austin spots Vince and kills him.

WALLS OF JERICHO TO JERICHO. Man, how many finishers got STEALED~! during the last 3 matches? 

BOOKER T. He came, he ruined shit, he fucked off. Jericho wins the Undisputed Championship.

I’m actually rather surprised by this match. It wasn’t great or anything, and the finish was a little overbooked, but overall this was enjoyable. Certainly better than the previous 2 matches, which is surprising considering both men had just competed in them lol.

Rating: **1/4
CAL SCALE – 1

Overall CAL SCALE – 10

2014 Royal Rumble

Oh boy. The event that is getting talked about more than probably any show since the invention of the internet… and not for anything good!

Match 1 – Daniel Bryan Vs Bray Wyatt. Ahh Daniel Bryan. How fucking OVER is this guy? It’s pretty fucking incredible. Haven’t really been into this whole Wyatt feud, but hey, Bryan has remained over as fuck, and probably becoming MORE over (especially after that cage match), so it’s been tolerable for crowd reactions alone lol. Went into the match not expecting much, and watching live I was surprised as hell, so I’m very much looking forward to re-watching this one! Match feels very much like a FIGHT, with Bray wanting to beat the hell out of Bryan for turning his back on the family, and Bryan just wanting some good old fashioned revenge. Harper and Rowan getting sent to the back and Bray saying “I don’t need you to fight this WAR for me” sums everything up perfectly, because these two go to fucking war. Lots of stiff looking offence from both guys, combined with Bryan bumping around like a champ for Bray. Can’t say I’ve cared for Bray in the ring before, but damn he looked great here. Being in the ring with Bryan likely helped a lot, but Bray was great at making the match look like a fight and incorporating his character into the match. Irked me a little that Bray shrugged off the leg work from Bryan the moment he got in full control, but at the same time it didn’t bother me too much, if that makes any sense. Bray was so splendid in control that I didn’t care if he sold the leg longer or not. SPLASH TO THE HEAD~! RIGHT INTO THE RINGPOST~! Nice of them to work the recent concussion to Bryan into the match. Did they even mention that on TV btw? It was mentioned here after Bryan got squashed into the ring post but I don’t remember if it was brought up on Raw or anything. Another thing I really liked about the match is how Bray didn’t stick to just one body part. He gets control of the match by slamming Bryan arm first onto the apron. Then he squashes his head into the ring post. Then he attacks the mid-section. Normally I’d complain that whoever was in control was all over the place and confused about what they are doing, but it seems to work in Bray’s favour given his character. He’s a crazy psychopath who wants to HURT Bryan no matter what. PLUS you have Bryan refusing to just stay down and constantly makes little comeback attempts that force Bray to cut him off in different ways, so he doesn’t always have the TIME to focus on one part of the body without Bryan coming back at him. The head does eventually become more of a focal point though, mainly because of Bray’s finisher and the fact he uses it on the outside into the barricade which was fucking AWESOME. “WHY DIDN’T YOU HELP HIM?” Was a great line from Bray to the fans, who all just sat there and watched as he crushed the guy’s head into the ring post then splashed him. If they truly loved him then shouldn’t they have helped him? Oh and the creepy upside down spider walk thingy is awesome. Creepy but awesome. I do however await the day when someone kicks him right in the fucking FACE when he does it . THAT FUCKING CLOTHESLINE  !!! Sweet jebus was that awesome looking. Just another wonderful cut off spot from Bray. Really enjoyed how Bryan kept making those small comebacks, using his usual comeback offence, but never getting to do it all at once. He’d start doing one thing, then Bray would cut him off, then Brian would come back again with some more of his “moves of doom” stuff, and again he’d get cut off. Made a nice change from the basic “moves of doom” comeback and yet another thing I love to praise this match for. Fuck, there is just so much awesomeness to this match. There is still a ton of stuff I haven’t brought up because if I mentioned everything I liked I would have ended up with a play by play commentary of the match instead lol. So in the end, Bryan falls to Bray and Sister Abigail in the middle of the ring. Would I have liked Bryan to win? Of course. Am I particularly bothered that he didn’t? No. Because it isn’t going to hurt Bryan in the slightest. Bryan is OVER and that isn’t changing. Bray beating Bryan helps him infinitely more than it would help Bryan to beat him. The only complaint I have is how they had Bryan, the superuber over guy, in the first match of the night lose… which in all honestly teased the absolute shit out of everyone that he might show up again for the RR match and win. But that’s a rant for later. As far as this match goes… superb. ****1/4.

Match 2 – Brock Lesnar Vs The Big Show – I was fairly hyped for this one. These two have a history of good matches, so I was hoping for something super fun. Instead… Lesnar jumped Show before the bell and smashed the shit out of him with a chair. Then another chair. Show lands a WMD which DOESN’T knock Brock out (despite Michael Cole being a retard and screaming that he was knocked out…), which I have to say I fucking LOVED because it made Lesnar look like a BEAST. Show uses that time to rest and go after Brock with some more shots to the mid-section… then Lesnar powers him up, F-5 and wins. Then smashes another chair over Show over and over again. And honestly they really waste too much time on it. DID YOU KNOW? SHOW GAVE LESNAR HIS FIRST LOSS AT THE 2002 ROYAL RUMBLE EVENT!!! What? You didn’t know that? I don’t blame you, because it’s not a real thing. GREAT JOB AS ALWAYS, JERRY! I like the idea of the match; Lesnar beats down Show with a chair, Show hits WMD to make his comeback, Brock shakes it off and lands an F-5 and wins. But in execution they dragged it out FAR too fucking long. Big Show apparently might have been injured going into the match so this is their way out, but I definitely think it could have been done better. For what it was, I DID enjoy it, however I was expecting much more from them, and the amount of time spent on it drags the whole thing down. **.

Match 3 – Randy Orton Vs John Cena – So instead of sitting through this god awful on paper match live, I made some food, and watched an old episode of House. I was half way into an episode before the RR started so I continued with that, and I think I made the right choice. However, since this IS a WWEWHC match, I don’t feel right about skipping it, so it’s time to sit through what might be the least appealing “main event” match WWE could possibly throw at me.  DANIEL BRYAN chants before the bell even rings. Followed by “let’s go Cena CENA SUCKS” and then “YES YES YES YES” chants. So Bryan is definitely over as fuck in this match, and Cena has his usual mixed reaction… and Orton is completely ignores . SO LET’S CONTINUE TO PUSH ORTON AS THE TOP GUY YEY!!! Was that a “we want Angle” chant? And a “Y2J” one too? LOL. Orton Vs Cena is so bad people actually want ANGLE back. I did like how Orton stood there and soaked in the chants then started viciously kicking and headbutting Cena, like he was using the crowd’s hatred of this whole situation to motivate him. But the fans still don’t care about anything and move on to a “boring” chant and continue to absolutely ignore Orton’s existence . Orton keeps trying to use the crowd and bring them into the match, so that’s nice… but yeah, they just DON’T CARE. They, the PAYING WWE AUDIENCE, are telling WWE WHAT THEY WANT and WWE are IGNORING THEM EVERY STEP OF THE WAY. So they are just shitting over this terrible, force fed bullshit and rightly so. And it’s not like they are shitting over a good match either. Cena and Orton are doing fuck all to make this match worth sitting through. It’s just the same old shit from both guys. What the fuck? I swear there is like, an actual full MINUTE of Orton stood doing NOTHING while Cena is down on the match. Seriously. And the crowd were petty silent too . Yet another dull moment in this crapfest! Ref bump. Random shit. WE WANT DIVAS chant . THIS IS AWFUL chant . Commentators play it off as the crowd trying to get in Orton’s head or some bollacks. Ummm no. They are trying to get into Vince’s head, to tell him he’s a fucking MORON. Finisher fest that sucks. Lights go out, Wyatt’s show up, Orton takes advantage and wins. Wyatt’s beat down Cena to set up to what is apparently a WM match in the making. LOL. Crowd were the ONLY good thing in this match, and I don’t give STARS to crowds. DUD.

Match 4 – 30 Man Royal Rumble Match – RUMBLE TIME BITCHES! Punk is #1 of course, and #2 is Seth Rollins! Good pairing to start things off . Some really fun sequences her with both guys kicking each other around and shit. Sandow is #3. Yawn. CODY #4. Poor guy lost the tag belts in the pre-show. TO THE NEW AGE OUTLAWS. IN 2014. LOL. But seriously that was kinda bullshit. I like the NAO. I’m a fan of them being back atm. They’ve had some fun matches with Punk and Cody & Goldust and The Shield, but tag champs? Get the fuck out of here. And ending the Cody/Goldust reign on the fucking PRE-SHOW too? Bullshit. Sandow is gone. Good. KANE! KANE IS #5! He’s 1 elimination behind HBK for most total eliminations… so he gets eliminated by Punk before he can get even 1. HBK gotta hold on to that record I guess. Can’t have Kane breaking another RR record. Oh well. He still has most eliminations in a single rumble… . He’s been in the most consecutive Rumble matches at least. OMG #6 IS ALEXANDER RUSEV!!! HE’S THAT… DUDE. FROM NXT. THAT I’VE NEVER SEEN OR HEARD OF BEFORE IN MY LIFE. FUCK YES!!! THIS IS AWESOME *CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP* . But in all seriousness, he actually looks impressive. RR matches are a good way to debut certain guys imo, as it allows them to just come in and crush people, look dominant, hit a bunch of big moves and not be limited to some “wwe style” match where they need to apply a lame rest hold for 2 minutes in the middle of the match. SWAGGIE~! But more importantly, ZEB AND HIS AWESOME SIGN. “Kofi Kingston’s 6th Rumble match” said by Cole as Kofi comes in. Then he follows it up with “I miss-spoke, Kofi entered at #8 and this is his 6th Rumble match”. Uhhhh… how the FUCK did you miss-speak you fucking tard? great drinking game for this PPV is to take a shot every time a commentator fucks up. You’ll be dying of alcohol poisoning by the second match. Nobody makes it to the RR match. GOLDUST . 6 guys eliminate Rusev, which makes him look strong in defeat. Kofi gets launched on him and he places him on the barricade, which leads to the anual Kofi Rumble Spot. It was ok. Hard to surpass the hand walking thing tbh. I was actually hoping he’d miss it when I watched the show live . DEAN AMBROSE. So Seth entered the match from the crowd like always… but Dean enters from the entrance way? Oooook. Jim Duggan’s pick shows up at #12; Dolph Ziggler! I see the real Hacksaw is as stupid as his fake twitter account . Another Kofi isn’t eliminated spot. Urgh. KEVIN NASH. Nice to see him I guess. He eliminates SWAGGIE then goes after THE SHIELD and then… doesn’t really make a difference because #15 ROMAN FUCKING REIGNS lobs him out. Man oh man Reigns comes in looking awesome. He fucking DROPKICKS a guy who is on the apron by jumping up onto the apron with a dropkick and landing on the apron. Kinda hard to explain it exactly but it was awesome. SPEARS. ELIMINATIONS. AWESOMENESS. And then Khali shows up. The fuck is Khali still doing in the company?  I swear JBL is just sat on fucking Wikipedia so he can spout out random RR facts. Goldust accidentally runs into Cody and eliminates him! Then Goldust gets dumped out . Losing the tag titles and then the elimination is likely the beginning of the end of their tag team . SHEAMUS! YES! THE GREAT WHITE IS BACK! . Hope the guy gets right back into workhorse mode like last year before he got injured, and 2012. Cool to see him go at The Shield again after all this time. Miz. No reaction for him. Ha. Bad News Barrett mention. Didn’t Barrett enter himself into the RR on SD? The fuck happened there? Wait… why the fuck do I care? Fuck Barrett. And fuck Miz. Man, I forgot Punk was even still in this thing. The fuck has he been most of this match? Lazy shit. DANIEL BRYAN chants again as the countdown to #20 begins. El Torito ends up being the next entrant. Which is actually better than a lot of the other entrants so far lol. Guys take a bunch of bumps for the little guy and it’s kinda awesome tbh lol. Then he eliminates Fandango . Roman presses the midget bull over head and launches him into Fandango who takes a fucking hilariously bad bump. CESARO AND ZEB WITH A FOLLOW UP SIGN . GIANT SWING~! Punk with a drop kick to Miz while he’s getting swinged. Swingged. Swung. There we go. I felt a little queasy just watching poor Rollings get spun over 20 times. SPEAR TO CESARO~! Harper comes out and the crowd fall silent. LOL. Another Uso shows up and the crowd fucking DIE again, which is a shame because Cesaro and Harper have an awesome exchangeof uppercuts. JBL!!! JBL IS IN THE RR!!! He gets in, stands around, shouts to Cole to take his jacket and then gets eliminated and pretends like nothing ever happened ala Lawler in 97… which Lawler even brings up . I don’t like them wasting entrances on commentators, especially considering a certain someone doesn’t even enter… but I liked it here.  at the “you still got it” chants . Fans taking the piss, in what I would believe IS all in good fun . FUCK YES THE MIZ IS ELIMINATED . SHIELD AND WYATT STAREDOWN AND NOBODY GIVES A FUCK BECAUSE IT HAPPENS RIGHT AS SOMEONE ELSE IS ENTERING SO THAT WAS A FUCKING WASTE.  Ryback comes in and grabs Cesaro up to throw him into the corner… only to realise that all the corners are taken so he has to do his shoulder attack in the ropes . CESARO AND SHEAMUS. Ryback tries to get involved and Sheamus just punches him in the face and tells him to fuck off. “THAT WASN’T A MOVE. THAT WAS JUST “I’M GONNA THROW MY FIRST INTO YOUR FACE”. I do believe that’s known as a PUNCH Mr Jibble. #28 is none other than the Animal. Who looks fucking redicuous in his ring gear. Guy looks knackered running down to the ring… and he was only jogging .  Batista is absolutely FUCKED before #29 even comes out. Who happens to be BIG E who looks more oiled up than… I dunno… that Family Guy character. You know who I mean. Greased up deaf guy? Him. So watching this live, #30 was getting ready to come out. I couldn’t remember if anyone was left to come in that was announced. The fans were chanting YES beforehand. It GOTTA BE BRYAN, right? And then Rey comes out . And I remembered he was in it. Poor Rey gets absolutely BOOED OUT OF THE BUILDING because the fans were expecting Bryan. Gotta feel for poor Rey who was put in a lose lose situation. Didn’t matter who came out, the fact it wasn’t Bryan pissed off the fans to no end. And the fans just gave up on everything and everyone at this point. The WWE has once again IGNORED THEM and fucked them over. Could you imagine Austin not appearing in the 1998 RR match? Rock in 2000? How much fucking backlash would the company have gotten back then? So why on earth are they doing it to Bryan now? Guy is THE most over guy on the roster, and nobody even comes close, as popular as some guys are. Yet WWE are seemingly REFUSING TO PUSH HIM above the usual shit like Cena and Orton and HHH and Batista. Anyway, back to the match. Rey gets eliminated and the fans CHEER. Ambrose tries to sneak up behind REIGNS to eliminate him, but it doesn’t work, so Reigns eliminates Ambrose AND Rollins! And unfortunately that may spell the end of yet another team . Kane shows up again and eliminates Punk, then chokeslams him through a table, and the fans still don’t give a fuck because NO BRYAN. Didn’t help that Punk was a giant non factor throughout the match. He was barely doing ANYTHING. Final 3; Sheamus, Batista and ROMAN REIGNS. The fans are booing the SHIT out of this situation. NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! chants like fucking crazy. Poor Sheamus. Returns, gets a huge pop, and then is put in a situation, like Rey, where he’s gonna get booed to hell. Batista is kinda the same but fucking deserves it. REIGNS ELIMINATES SHEAMUS and with that breaks Kane’s record with TWELVE eliminations in a single match. And the whole thing is just glossed over like it’s fucking nothing. Batista and Reigns left, and the fans know they aren’t getting Bryan, so they decide to fully support the awesomeness of REIGNS because in this situation who the fuck else can they cheer for? I said prior to the event that as much as I love Reigns and do believe he’s gonna be a HUGE star… he has no business winning the Rumble match this year. Then it came down to him and Batista and I was 100% behind the guy.  at the horrendous spear attempt from Batista. Reigns shows him how it’s fucking DONE, BITCH. Then Batista eliminates Reigns and I’m sad and the fans shit all over the match once again and rightfully so. Batista can’t even stand up. Bullshit. However, outside of the DUMBEST FUCKING DECISON the company has made in some time… I really enjoyed this match. Right up until the finish, anyway . Disappointed we didn’t get JAKE ROBERTS though. But Reigns looked awesome throughout, SHEAMUS came back, El Torito was fun, Cesaro had some cool moments, plus a few other things. So overall I do think it was a very good Rumble. I just can’t believe the booking for the match and the whole show. ***3/4.

WWF Rebellion 2001

Christian Vs Edge – WWF Intercontinental Championship Steel Cage Match

OLD SCHOOL CAGE . Because apparently it was easier to bring over to the UK than the normal one .

IC title is on the line, even though Christian already has the European title. Who does he think he is, HHH?

Who the fuck set up the cage? I swear it’s wonky.

One thing I do like about the old school cage is how it looks like it ACTUALLY HURTS when someone gets smashed into it. The newer mesh cages have too much give and doesn’t look painful at all. Here they are just smashing into METAL BARS.

The fuck? Edge just hit a Spear… that didn’t look shit? HOLY FUCK!

Standard stuff from these 2, which isn’t very good unfortunately. I liked the finish at least with Edge tying Christian’s feet together through the cage while he was close to winning. With Christian tied up, Edge was free to escape.

A disappointing showing from these 2 as usual. Maybe that ladder match will be good this time around. Probably not though.

Rating: *
CAL SCALE – 0

Oh look, it’s Chavo Guerrero Jr. He’s so shitty he’s not even wrestling tonight. He’s interviewing divas. Hugh Morris claims he is interviewing divas. They agree to do it together. They walk into the divas locker room and walk in on Trish topless. Sadly she’s facing the other way then covers up. Well that was pointless. Just like Chavo Jr’s career!

Scotty 2 Hotty Vs The Hurricane

You know WWE take the WWF PPV’s seriously when we get a SCOTTY 2 HOTTY match!

Surprised they didn’t save this one for WM. Imagine this in front of 68,000 fans in the Toronto SkyDome! Hogan and Rock’s reaction would look like shit!

OMG DUDLEYS VS HARDYS VS APA for the tag titles later tonight . Oh yeah, these 2 are having a match. They do moves and stuff. Why is the WCW referee’s shirt grey? Weren’t they white before? Did he wash it with his black referee trousers and the colour came out or something?

“THE HURRICANE MOCKING SCOTTY’S WORM!!!”

Everything following the Hurricane’s attempt at a Worm is good. Unfortunately that’s the only part of the match I cared for. And it was the finish . Scotty wins with his Worm.

Rating: 1/4*
CAL SCALE – 0

Back with Trish (clothed now. BOOOOO) and the jobbers. She’s gonna get Lita for them for an interview. BRA AND PANTIES! BRA AND PANTIES! FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP.

DDP. His Positively Page gimmick was hilarious.

DDP Vs The Big Show

Heyman: “He helped me get over my sarcasm!”

JR: “It’s not working…”

Heyman: “IT’S NOT? I CAN’T BELIEVE IT!”

So this is fucking FUN as shit. Show uses his size and power to dominate DDP. DDP takes some crazy shots from Show. Tries to go after the leg of the giant, but fails because Show is just big and powerful. DIAMOND CUTTER~! CHOKESLAM~!

Rating: **
CAL SCALE – 0.5

Back to the jobber perves. They walk in on MIGHTY MOLLY. She screams because they caught her WITHOUT HER CAPE. Those monsters!

 at Angle. Even turning heel and joining the Alliance he’s still a total goofball.

The Dudley Boys Vs The Hardy Boys Vs The APA – WCW Tag Team Championship Elimination Match

I hope the Hardy Boys are eliminated first, but I know they won’t be .

APA rock the fucking world in this until they get eliminated . They don’t give a shit if it’s the Dudleys or the Hardys. SPINBUSTERS. CLOTHESLINE FROM HELLS. STIFF SHOTS. SUPER FALL AWAY SLAM.

And then Matt fucking Hardy pins Farooq . I WANT MORE APA!!

“D-VON JUST ATE HIM SOME WOOD”. What a puff .

Jeff takes a pretty good beating from the Dudleys. Mainly Bubba. How did I not see the greatness in Bubba all those years ago? I always thought he just got good in TNA when he reinvented himself as Bully Ray. Nope. Guy was always fucking great.

Hot tag comes and man oh man, things go from good to pretty freaking awesome. These guys know how to do a finishing stretch. 3-D! Dudleys retain the belts.

Man, how consistent were The Hardys, Dudleys, and even E&C (broken up at this point I know) in tag matches in 2000 and 2001? Very rare we got anything less than fun from them. This was good. APA ruled too. If only they lasted longer!

Rating: ***
CAL SCALE – 2

Video package showing the implosion (continued) of Rock and Jericho. TEST PINNED THE ROCK AND WON THE TAG TEAM TITLES . And damn, how much of a CUNT is Rock in all this? Still never understood how he was ever a face lol. He’s such an unlikeable twat!

William Regal Vs Tajiri

Loved Regal’s theme music around this time. Sounds so classy yet EVIL at the same time.

 Regal Vs Tajiri. Oh man this should rock the fucking world.

I can fap to this.

My god THOSE KICKS. Everyone needs a little Tajiri in their lives. RIGHT NOW.

KNEE TREMBLER~!

MORE KICKS~!

REGAL STRETCH~!

This was fecking awesome. Can’t wait to watch their Survivor Series match again too .

Rating: ***
CAL SCALE – 2

Chris Jericho Vs Kurt Angle – WCW Championship Match

Jericho is the WCW Champion. Somewhere in the world Eric Bischoff is crying .

Early stuff with Jericho in control is pretty damn good tbh. Then Angle hits an OVERHEAD BELLY TO BELLY and he gets in control, and does a good job too. SUPLEXES~!

Angle goes for the Walls of Jericho, but Jericho is able to counter before Angle can lock it in. One thing I’ve noticed a few times during my PPV ramblings is that Jericho does a great job of showing that the Walls is HIS hold and he knows exactly how to counter it so it can’t be used against him. More people need to protect their finishers like that tbh. Then it would be more meaningful when someone STEALS it.

Fun little finishing stretch, and the roll up out of an Angle Slam attempt was nice too. Better than just doing a basic sunset flip type roll up out of it.

Really good match. I enjoyed it a bunch. Their best match together probably.

Rating: ***3/4
CAL SCALE – 4

Lita & Torrie Wilson Vs Stacy Keibler & Might Molly – Special Guest Referee Trish Stratus

FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP.

LITA JUST CAME TO STACY~!

Damn, nice… REVERSAL by Molly to counter the Poetry in Motion attempt by Lita! Didn’t matter in the end though as a Twist of Fate put an end to Molly.

This was… fairly decent. And fap worthy.

Rating: *1/2
CAL SCALE – 0.5

Steve Austin Vs The Rock – WWF Championship Match

These 2 had an absolute classic at WM earlier in the year. This… well unless I think it’s good on this watch, is far, far away from being a classic. I remember this being utter trash.

Shitty brawling. [/review]

Seriously. That’s pretty much ALL this match is. Rock’s punches have never been what I would call great, but damn, he fucking SUCKS here with them. Austin doesn’t really seem on top of his game either. Did LOL at him jumping on the turnbuckle and flipping off the fans though .

 then Austin flips off Henber and he flips him off right back. Then Austin flips off all the fans again . Yep, so far Austin flipping fans off has been the best parts of this match.

Fuck me, this is DULL. Shitty brawling followed by REST HOLDS. Wake me up when this one is over, please. Or just let me sleep for a while. Then I can wake up all refreshed and watch something GOOD instead.

Urgh, that ref bump is HORRIBLE. Rock goes to clothesline Austin. Austin ducks. Rock puts his arm down… then PUTS HIS ARM BACK UP AND CLOTHESLINES THE REFEREE. The fuck was that shit?

 at Hebner selling it though. He’s out cold half way out of the ring.

Fuck me, that Sharpshooter from AUSTIN. Makes Rock’s version look good. THINK ABOUT IT. That’s just how bad Austin’s is here.

 then Rock reverses it into his own Sharpshooter than makes the one Austin just applied look like Bret Hart’s .

Angle shows up. Chair to The Rock from behind. Jericho shows up, grabs the chair and takes out Angle. Rock gets up and thinks JERICHO did it and attacks him. ROCK BOTTOM TO AUSTIN. No referee still. LOL. Suck it, Rock.

Angle is back in. And then out again.

People’s Elbow is stopped by Angle. Title shot to the head. Stunner. Austin retains. Yey!

Wow. This is worse than I remember. Last 2 minutes or so are pretty good as far as interferences go for a finish. Everything else was bad or dull or both.

Rating: 1/2*
CAL SCALE – 0

Overall CAL SCALE – 9