Month: September 2013

Unforgiven 2000

Was gonna watch JD 00 but couldn’t be arsed to get off my arse and get the DVD, so this will do since it’s on my PC.

The Dudley Boys & APA Vs Right to Censor

They show a video before the match to explain why this match is happening. Also includes the APA dancing with 2 Cool. Bradshaw attempts a Spinaroonie. My eyes bleed. And yet it was awesome.

Anyone else kinda miss Bull Buchanan? He was a big guy who could really move and actually looked to have some talent. If only he came around 5 years later we could have gotten Bull Vs Undertaker over on SD instead of fucking Luther Reigns or some shit. Could give the Heidenrape matches some competition. Alas such a thing never happened and could never happen as I’d have better things to do should I ever invent that time machine. Any day now I swear!

RTC should reform in WWE right now. They could come out every week and fuck shit up any time they think someone is doing something non-PG. Epic heat.

Damn this match is filled with a bunch of rough and tough bastards who enjoy pummelling each other and hitting as many back suplexes as possible. And Steven Richards too of course. Val too maybe, but he’s more rough and tough than fucking Stevie. Fuck Steve btw. Fuck him to hell. I hate that name. Big Bald Bastard Steve. My now former boss was called Steve. I wanna put him through a table.

Superkick by Steven Cunt and Val gets the win for his team, but everyone keeps fighting anyway and Steven Cunt gets the fuck beaten out of him (I swear Bradshaw stiffs the ever loving fuck out of him with a punch to the face and then a kick to the back lol) and then powerbombed through a table.

Match is short and fun. No STF or any of that nonsense, just 8 men brawling.

Rating: **1/2
CAL SCALE – 1

HHH is backstage with his main squeeze telling her how he’s gonna destroy Kurt Angle tonight. Stephanie says she’s sorry she ever defended Kurt and shit. Next month she manages him when he becomes the WWF Champion. Lying bitch.

Jerry “The King” Lawler Vs Tazz – Leather Strap Match

JR trash talking Tazz is probably the best part of this match. “YOU’RE WRESTLING LAWLER, NOT ME, YOU’RE WRESTLING LAWLER IN A STRAP MATCH YOU IDIOT!” 

Fans are weird for this match. PPV is in Philly so obviously they have that Pro-ECW guys shit going on, but Tazz is supposed to be the heel and Lawler the face, and they don’t really seem to know what to do lol.

Tazz no sells the Piledriver. Twice. Gets up after the third one too but falls down. What? How did Lawler agree to do that spot lol.

RAVEN! Huge pop for Raven screwing the babyface lol.

Another short but fun match. JR was the MVP of it lol.

Rating: *1/2
CAL SCALE – 0.5

Austin arrives backstage. Tells Kevin Kelly that tonight HE’S asking the questions. Then doesn’t ask any questions but throws KK into the wall.

Steve Blackman Vs Al Snow Vs Crash Holly Vs Perry Saturn Vs Test Vs Funaki – Hardcore Championship Invitational Match

Al Snow . As the Europeans champion he’s decided to represent a different European country every match. Tonight he’s Italy. DEAD FISH. Al Snow’s career sleeps with the fishes.

Similar to WM 2000 hardcore match, except only 10 minutes this time around and fewer people. No Mean Street Posse or Viscera already makes this shit in comparison.

SATURN JUST GAVE TRISH HEAD. AND NOW TEST GAVE TERRI HEAD. AND NOW AL HAS HEAD. Why is everyone getting head but me? 

Speaking of head, I think Crash’s just got broken. Hurricanrana from the ropes was supposed to either actually happen or be reversed into a powerbomb. Neither quite happen and Crash crashes head first into the mat. Poor guy.

 the camera cuts in this are hilarious. One second Al Snow has a fucking butterfly net or something going after Crash… then it switches to someone else and when we come back to them, Al is using a steel chair instead. Few moments later and… Al is holding his eyes and fuck knows why.

You know how WWE have *insert weapon here* matches? Well I want a trash can lid match. Those things sound AMAZING and you can really fucking go all out hitting someone in the head without hurting them too much. Perfect PG gimmick match.

 Test sells a shot to the head from a fucking PIZZA BOX.

Blackman was awesome. Give him a big stick and plenty of people to take shots and I  like fuck. He made the fucking Hardcore title CREDIBLE during his reign. Something that the title never had the moment Foley lost it the first time.

With 30 seconds left Blackman regains the belt (Crash got it first, then Saturn), and with everyone trying to win nobody will let anyone else get a pin so Blackman is able to survive. FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN.

So this match was fun and stuff. Love me some WWF 2000 Hardcore Title Matches.

Rating: ***
CAL SCALE – 2

KURT ANGLE AND STEVE AUSTIN FIRST EVER BACKSTAGE SEGMENT . Austin’s isn’t as big as Kurt’s. So Austin is gonna store his inside Kurt’s ass.

HE’S TALKING ABOUT GOLD MEDALS. Perverts.

X-Pac Vs Chris Jericho

Oh man, the video package showing X-Pac attacking Jericho is awesome. X-Pac fucking DECKS Jericho RIGHT IN THE FACE with some nunchucks. I mean fucking BAM. BAM IN THE FACE. Looked amazingly brutal. Mr Paddy used to think nunchucks were made up .

Oh man, Jericho is fucking PISSED to start the match off, so he gets in the ring like a house on fire (which is apparently pissed off and dying to get hold of someone to beat them up) and… HEADLOCK! 

Ok so the headlock was more a case of just trying to fucking catch and hold on to the quick little X-Pac bastard so he could pummel his face in.

So this is like, really fucking good. Lots of old fashioned HATE~! with both men trying to kill each other within the limitations of a basic one on one match. Hell even a sleep hold by X-Pac at one point looks deadly lol.

X-Factor gets a rather splendid near fall, and even the referee falls on his arse out of pure shock that the match didn’t end lol!!! In the end Jericho is the winner, but he’s still in a bad mood. Then he’s nearly murdered when X-Pac smacks him in the back of the head with the nunchucks LOL. Don’t remember this match being so good!

Rating: ***3/4
CAL SCALE – 4

COMMISSIONER FOLEY AND KURT ANGLE BACKSTAGE SEGMENT . Kurt reveals he has the shits at the Olympics. We don’t hear about that too often do we? It’s always the “BROKEN FREAKIN’ NECK” crap. Well I want more “BURNING FUCKIN’ HOLE”.

Urgh, Rock and Austin segment. SAVED BY JOE!!! Joe who, you ask? Just Joe. He’s a sorry son of a bitch. So Austin kills him. Someone has anger management problems.

Edge & Christian Vs The Hardy Boys – Steel Cage Tag Team Championship Match

Another match like the previous one where everyone fucking hates each other and… THEY SHOW THE HATE IN THE MATCH. RIGHT FROM THE START. How often these days do we get people who hate each other going out and doing fancy moves and reversals instead of, oh I don’t know, KILLING EACH OTHER? Can you imagine Punk/Lesnar from SummerSlam being a pure wrestling match? 

E&C get fucking murdered right from the start and just can’t get anything going, until Jeff’s insane mind causes him to go for a Swanton off the top of the cage early on, allowing Edge to push him off to the floor! Jeff has been eliminated from the match and now this is a handicap match! Good strategy by E&C, even if Matt Hardy proceeds to murder them single handedly for the first few minutes .

I like (aka fucking hate) how Jeff just stands around on the outside watching Jeff get beat down. Uhhh… NO DQ, Jeff? GET BACK IN YOU TWAT.

He finally attempts to climb back in, but E&C find ways to smash him back to the floor. Good shizzle. Jeff takes a bunch of insane bumps despite now being OUTSIDE of the cage lol.

Jeff attacks the ref on the outside who has the key to the cage door, and throws a chair into the ring… only for E&C to get it and smash the cage door into his face then find a new chain and padlock to lock the door again. WELL DONE JEFF .

Matt takes a heluva beating in the cage, bleeds some too. E&C do a real sweet job mauling him. Loved the Poetry in Motion while mat was against the cage. His face gets SMASHED into the cage legit.

A comeback from Matt, and a ladder from Jeff help the Hardy’s get back into the match, and holy fuck, we get what might be Jeff’s best high risk bump thingy ever when he LITA IS HERE!!! FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP!!! She climbs the cage and gives Christian a fucking hurricanrana off the ladder to the floor!

 Edge launches a chair right into Jeff’s face and I don’t think he quite managed to get his hands up in time. Great stuff. Speaking of great stuff, LITA . And the finish too. E&C “get theirs” and the Hardy Boys pick up the win and the tag belts, getting some redemption for all the shit E&C have put them through for the majority of the year. Excellent match.

JR: “AND YOU’VE GOT TO GIVE IT TO LITA”. Oh I’d love to, Jim. I really fucking would. DAMN YOU CM PUNK! AND EDGE! AND MATT HARDY! AND PROBABLY A “FEW” OTHERS. LITA IS A WHORE. I still want her .

Rating: ****
CAL SCALE – 5

Steve Austin shows up looking for HHH and finds Stephanie. She has the hat he wore when he got ran over. Austin is sarcastically happy.

COMMISSIONER FOLEY AGAIN . HHH tells him he’s gonna destroy Angle. They mock how he cried at the Olympics. Foley doesn’t care what happens in the match since it’s no DQ.

Michael Cole had replaces Lawler on commentary after his strap match. Apparently he was doing so bad they got Lawler back out lol. No wonder Cole turned heel. Took him a while, but still .

Eddie Guerrero Vs Rikishi – Intercontinental Championship Match

“EDDIE JUST SPRAYED SOMETHING IN RIKISHI’S FACE!!!”

Eddie trying to break into the Playboy Mansion was hilarious. I don’t blame him either. BURN THOSE NUDES.

 the video package makes Chyna look retarded. Eddie was making her entire life miserable for ages, but once he popped the question she says yes (while CRYING) and everything is fucking hunky and dory. Women and rings. Whores.

JR trying to sell us Chyna’s Playboy issue just doesn’t work. For starters, it’s Chyna naked. Secondly it’s JIM ROSS telling us how sexy it is. I’d struggle to keep it up even if it was LITA (FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP) in Playboy with JR talking about it .

Pretty certain the video package for this match (which focuses very little on Eddie/Rikishi) takes up about 10 sodding minutes.

 at how Eddie reacts to nearly getting crushed by Rikishi’s ass. IT NEARLY KILLED ME!

He tries to leave but Chyna pushes him back to the ring and throws him back to Rikishi. What a bitch. He buys her a ring and she wants to see him squashed by a fatty. Then she drags Eddie out of the ring to avoid a stinkface. MAKE YO MIND UP BIACH.

THE NEVER ENDING CRACK.

Rikishi’s head pretty much breaks the steel steps.

Match is pretty much an Eddie squash match… where Eddie gets squashed by Rikishi. Then Rikishi beats up a women (well, Chyna, but you get the point).

Strange match, but was all to put over the Eddie/Chyna break up angle. I dunno, I think I kinda liked it all tbh lol. No wonder the video package before hand was so long, it had to be to explain what was happening and so you would understand the match. Whole thing probably shouldn’t have been as long but hey, it’s Eddie being a hilarious prick so I’ll let it pass .

Rating: **
CAL SCALE – 0.5

Undertaker is gonna take everyone on a ride tonight but they ain’t gonna like it.

Kurt Angle is breaking down backstage. Trish and her tits show up, and Kurt runs away. LOL.

Kurt Angle Vs Triple H – Special Referee Mick Foley – No DQ Match

WWF 2000 was just so damn fun, especially during the summer and this feud was a huge part of it.

Angle burriez HHH with his own Sledgehammer AND makes out with Stephanie? Lucky cunt.

Kurt Angle’s brilliant idea to make up to Stephanie after sexually assaulting her (possibly multiple times, we never did find out what happened after SummerSlam…) is to sing Happy Birthday to her. Never worked for me and doesn’t work for Kurt.

Lawler: “Hey Foley, I know it’s No DQ, but does that mean anything goes?”

Some fun brawling early on. Angle goes after the injured ribs, HHH fires back with punches that don’t look quite as bad as usual. Then Angle catches HHH with an overhead belly to belly and THE GAME is fucked. Foley nearly gets into a fight with Angle giving HHH some time to breath… until he gets another suplex from Angle .

The brawling gets progressively worse as things go on, and we also get some hilarious miss-timed spots. HHH attempts a swinging neck breaker but Kurt just keeps on running the ropes .

They do a nice little callback thingymajig with HHH going for a Pedigree on the announce table, as he did it at SS and it knocked Angle legit out. This time though Angle counters and hits an overhead belly to belly . Angle does it so he doesn’t fall back as it would probably kill him, but in the process he loses his balance and nearly crushes HHH’s head with his foot as he falls off the other table . And that was after HHH slipped and fell on Kurt after taking a low blow (which is how Angle countered the attempted Pedigree). 

This whole thing just turns DULL. Reaally fucking dull. Time passes and I couldn’t tell you a damn thing that happens until Angle went for the Moonsault.  at Stephanie’s low blow to Kurt. Pedigree and HHH wins. Stephanie looks conflicted. She helped her HUSBAND win a match against the guy who MIGHT HAVE RAPED HER and she isn’t sure if she did the right thing. Fucking women, man. LITA (FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP) is the only one who isn’t insane on this show. Except for the insane bump she took, but she did that for her tag team with no conflicted feelings and shit.

Horrible match overall.

Rating: *
CAL SCALE – 0

SHANE MCMAHON! He claims he has video footage of who ran over Steve Austin! He shows footage of Blackman running over Ken Shamrock. Which somehow proves Blackman did it. Shane is just racist.

STUNNER TO BLACKMAN. STUNNER TO SHANE WHO SPIRTS OUT BEER. Fun segment.

Rock cuts a promo. Something about nipples and funny feelings.

The Undertaker Vs The Rock Vs Kane Vs Chris Benoit – WWF Championship Match

I don’t recall this match being anything special whatsoever, but I DO recall getting a bunch of good TV matches out of it with all the guys facing each other on a couple of occasions and shit. Rock/Kane in particular having a handful of really good matches. And of course we also got 2 Undertaker/Benoit matches on TV out of it too, though Undertaker wasn’t up to really giving us anything special at the time .

Loved me some American Bad Ass theme song for ‘Taker at this time. Better than Rollin’. Not as good as YOU’RE GONNA PAY, YOU’RE GONNA PAY, THERE’S NO FORGIVENESS THIS TIME.

Anyone remember that Benoit guy? Apparently he was pretty good. But he got released in 07 and left on such bad terms WWE prefer not to mention him.

Typical 4 way match. Everyone spends time with everyone at some point and it’s just one massive brawl usually with 2 guys in the ring and 2 on the floor. Ref gets taken out and Undertaker, the BABYFACE, brings in a chair and cracks Rock in the head . Then Benoit does the same to Undertaker and WINS THE WWF TITLE!!!!!!!! BENOIT IS CHAMP! BENOIT IS CHAMPION!

Then Foley comes out and ruins the whole thing because Undertaker’s foot was on the ropes. I wish they’d make up their minds with the instant reply lol. Sometimes they’ll do it, other times they’ll ignore the shit out of it .

Bit with Benoit turning around and seeing the other 3 guys in a line waiting to beat the fuck out of him was awesome.

Match actually really picks up following the false Benoit finish. Everyone gets more intense and really lay it in to each other. Then of course they go into a nice finishing stretch featuring Rock attempting a Crossface, Rock bleeding, big chokeslame from Kane to Undertaker, Benoit breaking up a People’s Elbow , HUGE Last Ride to The Rock and more!

Benoit is pretty outstanding throughout this whole thing. Him almost winning was great, how he reacts to not winning is great, and he’s just a fucking beast at times, really taking the fight to everyone and almost winning again a couple more times. Shame he’s the one that takes the pin. Finish is a little dumb though; Kane actually prevents Undertaker from breaking up the pin. Aside from that this is pretty good. A lot better than I remembered.

Rating: ***1/4
CAL SCALE – 2

Overall CAL SCALE – 15

No Mercy 2008

Had to take the wrapping off this to watch it. Guess I bought it in bulk with a bunch of other DVD’s when SV did their “going out of business cos WWE are cunts and are replacing us with a shitty company who charge rip off prices and only have like 10 DVD’s in their library to sell you” sale.

Matt Hardy Vs Mark Henry – ECW Championship

 What a way to start the show! HENRY! HARDY! ECW TITLE! I miss the ECW brand when WWE had it. Except that time when Bobby “bathturd” Lashley was the main guy. Mid-Late 08 onwards was just awesome. So much talent. These 2 guys were big parts of it for the 08 period too. In fact they were pretty much the biggest part of the 08 ECW awesomeness.

Hardy is the fighting champ, but Henry is the World’s Strongest Man and lost his title without being pinned in the Scramble match the previous month, so he’s fucking PISSED.

HENRY SMASH! Then Matt finds an opening and goes for the legs of Henry! Tony Atlas is screaming “NOOOOOOOO!” on the outside that really helps put over what kind of a threat Hardy might actually be if he continues to destroy the WSM’s legs.

Henry’s power allows him to, well, power through the leg work and continue to try and maul the champ, but Hardy is pretty spectacular with his comebacks, and damn that finish was fantastic. The FIGHTING SPIRIT~! of Matt is shown, the leg work comes into play, and Henry is finally defeated.

Me like this match. Could have done with more time, but what ya gonna do? They did a great job and worked a pretty sweet match regardless of the time.

Rating: ***1/4
CAL SCALE – 2

As much as I don’t really care too much for HHH… I do have to wonder what he was thinking in the backstage interview with him and Jeff as Jeff acts all… Jeff right in front of his face. I’m thinking “the fuck is wrong with this weirdo?” so fuck knows what HHH is thinking lol.

Beth Phoenix Vs Candice Michelle – Women’s Championship

LOL.

Rating: No
CAL SCALE – -1

Hi Kane :). Does he like, carry red lightbulbs around with him so he can set the mood backstage for his interviews and shit? Or does he just scare the production crew into doing it for him? Why am I putting any thought into something fake? FUCK YOU VINCE RUSSO. What?

Rey Mysterio Vs Kane – If Rey loses he must unmask

Lmao remember how everyone thought this feud was all about Kane getting his mask back? That burlap sack that we all thought was KANE’S mask, then it turned out it was Rey’s and this feud was about Rey losing his mask? Some crazy dumb shit right there lol. And now Kane has his mask back again. AND GUESS WHAT HE DIDN’T GET ANY MORE AWESOME. Not that I think he sucks balls, but why oh why did everyone think his mask would somehow make him 97/98 Kane again?

Anywho, I always really liked the chemistry between these two. I hope this is the match I remember as that match was great. When it’s over I’ll let you know if it was that match or not. Ok? Good :P.

We need to invent a drinking game where we take a shot any time Rey takes a big boot in a match against a giant. Easy way to get absolutely fucked 5 minutes in :P. Rey bumps like a fucking GOD for everything Kane throws at him, and Kane throws some good shit. All basic, but it all looks good and Rey sells it like murder. The clothesline early on to stop a 619 attempt might as well have beheaded Rey. Kane is awesome everyone. Stop hating and start… I dunno, not hating so much.

There’s a spot that I thought was more awesome than I think anyone should think such a small spot should be but fuck it I loved it. Rey was sat up on the mat, and Kane ran the ropes and did the boot to the face spot. Not the dropkick, but just a running boot. You know the spot. Anyway, Kane kinda slows down as he gets to Rey, as if he doesn’t want to really kick Rey’s head in because, fake and shit… but then it’s like Kane realises real quick that it would look terrible for him to do the kick now because he’s practically stopped now. So he makes up for it by just smashing poor Rey’s face in with a boot :P. So in order to prevent accidentally smashing Rey’s face in by going too fast, he slowed down and smashed Rey’s face in because it would look bad if he didn’t . And I marked out a little inside.

NEW DRINKING GAME! Take a shot any time Kane hits a side slam in this match. Pretty sure I’d need my stomach pumped before the match was over. Andy and Craig would probably just be a little tipsy by now. Unless they got a head start and got drunk before they started. Alcoholics. Now hurry the fuck up and ring me from Tesco or where ever you are going Dad so you can tell me what offers are on beer and I can transfer money into your bank account and you can get me some and I can get drunk tonight before I go to work tomorrow even though my contract ended today.

Rey’s comebacks in this match make Matt Hardy look like the biggest amature EVER in the Henry match. Just spectacular. And speaking of, the finish . Yes, this IS the match I was thinking of. I know because of the finish. Was dumb as shit in terms of the feud and the stipulation (because Kane got himself DQ’d so Rey wouldn’t lose his mask…), but damn it looked awesome.

Yeah I adore this match. A ton. Kane is great at beating down Rey, and Rey bumps around like a lunatic and sells the shit out of everything really well and is just all round great throughout.

Rating: ***3/4
CAL SCALE – 4

MVP demands to speak to Vickie backstage, but Big Show scares him off. So MVP comes out to the ring instead. And gets interrupted by Randy Orton. Who gets interrupted by Priceless and Manu. Fans chant “Boring” with as much passion as possible for such a chant. Orton leaves. Thanks for coming. MVP talks about how he would love to hang out with Priceless if he was on Raw, and they shun him off. Punk and Kofi come out, and talk MVP into running down to the ring and attacking them. MVP gets in the ring and Punk and Kofi laugh as he gets mauled. THESE ARE THE BABYFACES. Oh wait it’s ok they help MVP in the end after he takes an arse kicking first. Cunts. THIS ENTIRE SEGMENT WAS POINTLESS AND DID NOTHING.

Batista Vs John Bradshaw Layfield – Winner becomes #1 contender for the World Heavyweight Championship

Kinda scared to watch this match because… you know, they suck together. That sounds wrong but I’m rolling with it. Takes effort to delete shit.

Oh hey this isn’t too bad! Nice brawling, some hard hitting shots, and the Clothesline from Hell counter by Batista is cool, though JBL seems to almost have a delayed reaction to taking the Spear :P. JBL tries to slow the match down with a sleeper, but thank fuck they get out of that spot quickly otherwise I might have had to shoot someone.

BATISTA BOMB. And this one is over. It’s short, hard hitting and fun. Could have done without the sleeper hold, but at least it only lasted like half a minute. Not high on the old STARS~! but given the time it got and what they did, I couldn’t bring myself to going any higher even if I enjoyed it. Nowhere near bad at all though, so don’t let the rating fool you. Circumstances are the only reason it’s low.

Rating: **1/4
CAL SCALE – 1

JBL’s promo after the match is sweet. Starts off like he might be turning face then he turns it right around and looks like the biggest cunt on the planet. ALL HAIL JBL. Then Cryme Tyme show up and dance with the divas then steal JBL’s limo. Way to ruin JBL’s promo. Then Sgt Slaughter saves it by showing up with the biggest, cheesiest grin on his face and hops in the back of the limo with all the divas . Then Mickie James kills it by trying to be “fly”.

The Undertaker Vs The Big Show

The first match on the show without any title or stipulation lol. In fact I think it’s the only match like that on the show.

I loved Undertaker/Big Show feud from this time. Doesn’t officially end until like Feb 09, and even when they weren’t having matches we still got to see them slug it out (RR for example). One thing I did think was odd though, was how they handled the Vickie part of it. Undertaker was trying to kill her, so Show turned heel and aligned with Vickie to take down the Dead Man. Then Undertaker gets his hands on Vickie and Tombstones her before the first Show/Taker match? Strange. Surely they should have like, built up to Undertaker FINALLY getting his hands on her? Then again maybe Undertaker wanted to get it out of the way early rather so he didn’t have to thinking about getting his hands on her for too long :P.

So this match is about 2 big bastard punching each other. Repeatedly. And it’s better than almost everything else ever. And holy fucking shit at the bump Undertaker takes from the running shoulder block by Big Show. He nearly did the “turned inside out” bump, but not quite… almost like he didn’t mean to but Show ran into him THAT FUCKING HARD he couldn’t control himself properly lol. Looked amazingly sick.

What else can I say about this? 2 big bastards punch each other. I love it like it’s the greatest thing ever. The fans are all over it too. It’s mega awesome. A DDT is done as a legit believable finish to the match. Undertaker does the spot where he scares the ever loving shit out of the referee for trying to get in the middle of him and Show during a punch out. 

Finish shocked me back then and honestly still shocks me today. Ok the exposed turnbuckle comes into play for the finish, but still, UNDERTAKER LOST IN 2008 BY KO. And I’m not even mad! In fact I loved this match more than ever before this time around!

Rating: ****1/4
CAL SCALE – 6

Triple H Vs Jeff Hardy – WWE Championship

Trable Haige Vz Juff Hervey fur deh dubly dubly eeeeeeeee titel.

Match starts with Jeff doing the whole “nobody thinks I can wrestle so I’ll do basic wrestling moves to prove them wrong and put my opponent off his game” schtick, but quickly goes back to his high risk offense and unfortunately he crashes and burns allowing HHH to take control. Not really sure what I think to the opening parts of the match tbh. Yeah, Jeff did the “unexpected” to try and take HHH off his game and shit, but then that leads to Jeff just doing his usual shit and it backfires on him. So uhhh… why even bother with the “wrestling” stuff before hand? Might as well have had Jeff go all out to begin with, rocking HHH with some quick, high impact moves before HHH finally avoids something because Jeff went to the well far too often. Transitions into HHH’s control segment the same way, but doesn’t waste the time at the start of the match lol.

Thankfully the wasted time at the start of the match is the only real thing wrong with this match. HHH works well in control, Jeff is good fighting from the bottom, and like every other match on the show so far, it features some rather wonderful comeback and cut off spots. Those 2 things have really been the highlight of the entire PPV thus far, and probably a big reason for me loving everything thus far too lol.

Love how they keep working in Jeff’s high risk offence as being a big game changer (no pun intended. Unless you laughed, then I totally meant it), both working for Jeff and against him. Finish is… a little odd tbh. HHH gets hit with the Swanton but still has enough strength to counter the pin fall afterwards and hold Jeff’s shoulder’s down for the 3. Odd but I kinda liked it.

Have to admit I’ve gone down on this match since last time. Not by much but I definitely saw some flaws in it that prevented it from being as great as I used to think it was.

Rating: ***1/2
CAL SCALE – 3

Triple H walks to the back, gets congratulated by ARN FUCKING ANDERSON, then Vladimir Kozlov shows up to kick start their little feud that would result in one of the worst main event matches in the history of existence.

Chris Jericho Vs Shawn Michaels – World Heavyweight Championship Ladder Match

I miss Mike Adamle. Bring him back as SD GM or something, with Big Johnny on Raw and have them feud. IMAGINE THE PROMOS!!! Or they could join forces to take down the new McMahon-Helmsley-Orton faction! Imagine the promos with Big Johnny, Mike Adamle and Randy Orton!!!

Man oh man was the whole HBK/Y2J 08 feud overrated to fuck :P. Started off good, all stemming from the HBK/Flair match which lead to the Batista match where HBK faked an injury and Jericho called him out on it and somehow turned heel in the process but it was all GOOD SHIT. And then it just draaaaaged on. Then at SummerSlam they did the angle with Jericho decking HBK’s wife RIGHT IN THE KISSER and things got heated up again only to die out very, very quickly and get dull as shit again. All the mediocre at best matches didn’t help (except for JD which I enjoyed).

I’ve never been overly high on this match, but at the same time I’ve never hated it. Always did think it was very good, I just never got the “GOAT ladder match/MOTY” praise it got. Half way into it so far and I am absolutely loving it though. They are just beating the absolute shit out of each other, at first by brawling and going to the outside where the ring post was used a couple of times, and then with the ladder that results in some rather nasty looking shit. Loving how this comes across as a very personal match filled with oodles of HATE~! A lot of ladder matches, some I consider the best of it’s gimmick, usually seem to be all about having a good “wrestling” match then bringing the ladder in for high spots (for the most part anyway, don’t want to generalise all ladder matches like that but you get my point). This one is different. They are trying to MURDER each other by using the ladder, and if they get the chance, claim the WHC for themselves too.

But for as much HATE~! as we get, we also get a bunch of STUPID~! thrown in too. Some immensely dumb spots, the main one being HBK ELBOW DROPPING A LADDER while it’s on top of Jericho. Yeah, hurts Jericho too, but absolutely fucks up HBK’s arm. I could have bought that Jericho put the ladder over himself to give him some protection and injure HBK at the same time… IF he had moved the ladder while HBK was in mid-move. But nope. Jericho drags the ladder over himself and THEN Shawn dives off the ropes already seeing and knowing the ladder is there. Next spot right after that? Lionsault onto a ladder while HBK is underneath. Again doing just as much damage to the person doing the move. DUMB AS SHIT. Doesn’t even really work into the HATE~! thing. I just can’t accept the old “willing to hurt himself to hurt his opponent” crap because there are smarter ways to go about hurting your opponent with the ladder and doing as little damage to yourself. Maybe if the spots were “quick thinking” type spots that are done out of desperation, but again, NOPE *insert Ambrose pic here*. They are all purposely SET UP like that. Makes me wanna scream out loud.

Both men battling it out at the top of the ladder and quite literally fighting over the belt is awesome… except for when Lance Cade runs in at one point and kinda kills it for me a little. Fuck Lance Cade. I hope he di… uhhhh yeah. Ooops :P. Lance Cade aside the tug of war finish is pretty sweet, and the entire match IS mainly very good, but fuck me those dumbarse retarded fucking spots really kill part of the match for me. Match should be a classic but instead it’s just really good. Not that that is a bad thing, but it really could have been so much better. Still liked the majority and it WAS a good main event for a pretty great PPV.

Rating: ***3/4
CAL SCALE – 4

Overall CAL SCALE – 19