Month: February 2014

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