Title: WWE house Show
Description: 2/1 - Honolulu Hawaii
dynamite kido - February 2, 2005 08:27 PM (GMT)
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WWE UNVEILS A WRESTLEMANIA PREVIEW AS STARS FROM BOTH BRANDS FACE OFF: 2/1 WWE RESULTS FROM HONOLULU, HAWAII
by Peter McCoy
Last night's WWE show was just amazing. I am so glad I went (I wasn't going to but a friend dragged me along at the last minute). The down side was that it showed me how much better off WWE would be with only one brand.
In the opener, Shelton Benjamin beat Edge to retain the Intercontinental Title. It was a good match to start the show.
Trish beat Victoria to retain the Women's Title. She pretended to be hurt by wearing the neck brace, but took it off during the match, which was very good.
Coach did an in-ring spot where he brought out The Magnificent (Don) Muraco, who lives on the island. Of course, Coach ran him down which led to Muraco kicking his butt.
The Bashams kept the tag belts against Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio when the champs used a chair. Eddie and Rey were super over with the crowd and this was another good match.
Batista crushed Maven with one Batista Bomb after Maven shot off his mouth. It was over that quick.
Big Show beat JBL and Orlando Jordan when he hit the chokeslam on Orlando.
The did a Battle Royal with workers from both brands. It came down to Benoit and Big Show, and the finish was just like at last year's Rumble. It was a lot of fun and good action.
Shawn Michaels beat Ric Flair in a great match featuring true legends of the business. Shawn won with Chin Music.
John Cena beat Kurt Angle to retain the US title. Kurt carried the match most of the way and it was good.
In a WrestleMania preview match, Kane and The Undertaker beat Snitsky and Heidenreich when they did a double chokeslam and tombstone. Like Dave said the other day, at least the two heels will be in the same match at Mania.
The main event saw HHH beat Randy Orton to retain The World Title. Very good match to end a very good show. |
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Jesus H. Christ, that would be a show that I would actually PAY to see. I'm highly surprised that they would even do a show like this.....I haven't heard much about the match quality.........but still. I would mind picking up a handheld of this....you know....if it exists.
D.A.V.E. - February 2, 2005 08:37 PM (GMT)
I'm worried about that battle royal. It's the sorta thing that sets off the "OMG - RAW IS TREATED BETTER THAN SMACKDOWN" Clowns
dynamite kido - February 2, 2005 08:44 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (D.A.V.E. @ Feb 2 2005, 02:37 PM) |
| I'm worried about that battle royal. It's the sorta thing that sets off the "OMG - RAW IS TREATED BETTER THAN SMACKDOWN" Clowns |
Funny thing is DAVE, that's the concensus in the locker room as well.
D.A.V.E. - February 2, 2005 08:52 PM (GMT)
Not me. I think they're pretty equal.
Raw's certainly the better show, but they're both treated equally.
Scrooge McSuck - February 2, 2005 10:22 PM (GMT)
Holy fuck... I would so want to go to that show. KANE & UNDERTAKER REUNITE BITCHES!
SamoaRowe - February 3, 2005 09:30 PM (GMT)
I don't think Smackdown has been treated equally since early 2003. I think it's because the Smackdown brand was blowing Raw out of the water in terms of quality for so long and HHH didn't like it anymore.
The last co-brand pay-per-view to have a Smackdown main event was Judgment Day 2003...
prof_plague - February 3, 2005 11:01 PM (GMT)
...Was it really that long ago?
Scrooge McSuck - February 3, 2005 11:14 PM (GMT)
Well, there's only been 5 real PPV's with co-brands with a certain brand main event.
Royal Rumbles Main Event is the Rumble itself, so that doesn't count, leaving SSlam 2003, Survivor Series 2003, WM XX, SSlam 2004, and Survivor Series 2004.
SamoaRowe - February 4, 2005 03:17 AM (GMT)
Even the Royal Rumble favors the Raw world title match over the Smackdown one. Last year it was justifiable since Smackdown had Lesnar vs Holly and Raw had HHH/HBK.
This year there was a well built JBL/Angle/Big Show Smackdown title match and a poorly built HHH/Orton Raw title match that we'd already seen twice.
Still, even with only four pay-per-views a year with both brands on them, we're approaching two years without a Smackdown main event on any of them. There really is no excuse for this, especially since it was only less than a year ago where Smackdown started sucking.
Scrooge McSuck - February 4, 2005 04:23 AM (GMT)
Well, Summerslam 2003 had the EC, and that naturally should go last, so they don't have to waste 10 minutes of PPV time waiting to clean up the ring of crap and raise the piece of crap.
Survivor Series 2003 had a shit World Title Match, and the SD Champion was in the opening match (I don't get it either).
WM XX... Benoit/HHH/HBK should've been the main event, naturally.
Summerslam 2004: JBL/Taker had a shit finish, so it shouldn't have been the main event.
Survivor Series 2004: Once again, the SD World Title match was thrown together, while the RAW Elimination Match had a lot coming out of it.