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Resuts for 2/5/02
Smackdown opening: Tape of Stephanie's big revelation...nothing else. Boy, Trips gets cheers when he's by himself, and gets heat when he does anything good with Steph (like hugging and kissing). Who says the woman on your arm doesn't change people's perception of you?
Titles, Welcome to the Sold out Staples Center.
The Rock comes out, and "Finally, the Rock has..." Wait! No cliched lines! The Rock very quickly calls out the Taker, but Booker T says he's sick of people with big egos. After all, didn't he beat Triple H last week? After a little more jawing, the two go at it, and a ref comes out.
Smackdown #1: Rock def. Booker T
The match is good fare between two of the best sellers (in my less than popular opinion) in the WWF. Book does his Spin-a-rooni, almost sticking to the mat and blowing before he could even get started. Rocky finally finishes the Book-man off with a People's Elbow, and the Rock can't seem to decide whether or not to leave the ring, as the guys handling the board can't decide whether to turn off his music and start the taped interview on the screen, false starting it twice.
In the back - Steph and Trips meet with someone who I guess is the family doctor from the east coast. He gives them an ultra sound. The kids next to me yawn. Meanwhile, Kurt strolls to the ring, with a baby carriage?
Commercial break - (if this is taped, why do we have to wait for the normal commercial breaks?) nWo promo (2 or 3 different ones would get repeated almost every break)
Kurt comes out, walking a baby carriage to the ring. He intones that what should normally be the big news of last Monday, his getting the match with Trips at No Way Out. But, no, Stephanie's announcement of the pregnancy was the news. Never before has Kurt felt so sorry for a baby, having Triple H as a father. The sloping forehead, the knuckles dragging (And Kurt does some faces that make everyone laugh, even stopped the 'What?' chants!). So Kurt pulls out Trips' baby from the stroller, a stuffed Gorilla with a big nose mask on it! Say what? You're the Little Game? Well, the little game gets, baby bananas! What do you say, they're that damn good? Trips comes out at this point, no music, smiling. He steps into the ring, with a huge grin on his face, laughing. He finds this as hilarious as everyone else! He calmly walks over to Kurt, and without breaking stride clocks him, then hits him with the stroller! He tosses the bananas to the crowd, then kicks the stroller off the stage.
Smackdown Match #2: 6-Man tag - The Dudley Boyz and William Regal def. Edge, Rob Van Dam and Rikishi.
Honestly, I forgot much of this match, as it was a lot of in and out. Rikishi did get a stinkface in on Bubba, but then got 3-D'ed for the pin. No Stacy! I know, she's coming, but still, there's no such thing as too much Stacy, even if it means watching her less than skilled wrestling ability.
After another break, Jericho comes out (in checkered pants???) and calls out Stone Cold. Stone Cold stumbles out, and does his in-ring stuff. Boy, he looks like he's put on weight. Jericho assails him, face to face, answering the sporadic "What?"'s with filled out question. Stone Cold keeps asking What?, then Who?, then How? Wait, that's not Stone Cold. Stone Cold #2 starts implying Jericho's the better man, apologizes to him, then kisses his boots. The real Stone Cold comes out, and Jericho high tails it, but the fake is frozen. Stone Cold assails him for doing this, asking if it's supposed to be funny. SCSA offers to drink a beer with the fake, then changes his mind, then changes his mind again and toasts with the fake. The fake drinks, gets stunned, and after Austin poses, he pours half a six pack over the fake. Mildly entertaining, but it went on too long.
Smackdown Match #3: Hardcore Title Match - Maven def. The Undertaker (with help)
You know, I'd rather see Maven feud with Taker than the Rock, so I'm thrilled. Maven comes out with Al Snow. The Taker comes down to huge pops, and finally gets into the ring after circling it for way too long. Maven ducks him, and grabs a garbage can lid, smacking the Taker around with it, but Taker grabs the lid and hits Maven. Maven starts getting his ass kicked, until Snow tosses him a garbage can. Undertaker punches Maven THROUGH the can, though (A punching, Undertaker Van Daminator?) Undertaker pounds on Maven some more, and when Al tries to distract him, Taker throws him into the crowd. The Rock comes down, and disrespects the Taker by giving him a Rock Bottom. Al encourages the crowd to encourage Maven, who rolls onto the Taker. 1-2-3, and Maven, bleeding from several cuts, wins the Hardcore Title! The Rock watches the Taker watching Maven get helped up the ramp by Snow.
Jericho's happy with himself, backstage, but Rick stops him. Rick says, well, why wait? How about a non-title, one on one match between you and Triple H tonight? Good with you? Good with me!
Oh, yes, it's time, as Jerry Lawler enters the ring. Jerry introduces the first ever Pose Down! (Guess if it's not on TV, it doesn't count). Down comes Billy and Chucky, in white robes flashing a little too much. Torrie and Stacy follow, in black robes, also flashing a lot of too little. He explains they'll each do three poses in 30 seconds, and the fans will choose the winner. First, there's Back to Back, then Down in Front, then Face to Face. Billy and Chucky are told to start, and they take off the robes, taking the time to compliment each other on the booty shorts that appear to have been designed by the Nasty Boyz of old with pastel spray paint. Stacy gets fed up with the all too unwanted love-in by opening her robe, revealing a blue bikini that is made hotter just by being on her. Torrie has a black bikini, but I'm not watching her. Billy and Chucky open with a pose that's more butt-to-butt than back to back, until Jerry thankfully corrects them. They continue with Billy doing a near splits to go down in front of Chucky, and then Chucky leans over Billy for the Face to Face. Hey, are they doing that pose from Gone with the Wind? Billy turns his face before they get too close, and they get out of the way for the winners, Stacy and Torrie. I didn't see those poses too well (damned signs), but Stacy was on her knees crawling towards Torrie at one point, and I love her ass. Stacy gets up, and the crowd votes. When the girls win, Stacy turns to rub it in the guy's faces, and Jerry raises Torrie's hand in victory, though naming them both (and Stacy first). Stacy sees Torrie's hand raised, and the jealousy gets going. She clocks Torrie from behind, and Jerry gratefully takes his role, getting between the two cat-fighters. Jerry breaks them up, and it seems we'll finally get an angle of these two away from their undeserving men. Too bad it's a rerun, but what isn't these days?
After another too long commercial break, Goldust's PG rating strikes, and he comes out. (Isn't this freak at least a PG-13?) After enough hand sliding and tongue licking to earn an NC-17 rating, the escorts come out, leading Godfather to the ring. The girls start dancing with their employer in the ring, but from no where, RVD attacks Golddust! Wow, Golddust hasn't even done anything to him yet, except talking big. While the Godfather protects his investment(?), Golddust turns tail, and runs away. The match never happens, and that gets the biggest heat of the night.
At the parking lot, The Rock gets asked if things are even between him and Taker going into No Way Out. The Rock says things will never be even, and then the Taker ambushes him. Taker chokeslams Rock into the hood of a limo! The Undertaker then emphatically agrees with the Rock, that things aren't even, then pulls Rock up to the roof of the limo and Tombstones him! Rock is left twitching.
Triple H tells Vince he doesn't want him anywhere near his kid, so Vince responds by making Triple H's single match into a handicap match against Jericho and Angle.
Finally, the main event! Triple H against Jericho and Kurt Aingle. This match went in and out of the ring, and I didn't get it all, but Triple H ruled for about 5 minutes, then Kurt and Chris took over, and actually paid attention to the rule that only one of them was supposed to fight at a time for a couple of minutes. Trips again got the upper hand, setting up Kurt for a Pedigree, but pushing Kurt into Jericho's flying kick from the turnbuckle instead. Trips throws out Chris, and tries to Pedigree Kurt again, but again moves to avoid an attack by Jericho. Trips throws Kurt away to take care of Chris, but as Trips sets up a pedigree on Chris, Kurt comes from behind, giving him the Olympic Slam. Trips kicks out of the pin attempt, but Kurt hits another Olympic Slam and that seals it. Kurt and Chris celebrate, and Steph comes out to check on her husband. (Stephanie, doing the right thing? Wow). Chris notices the new target, and backs Steph into the corner. Trips gets a chair, and hits Kurt from behind, then nails Jericho. Trips embraces Steph, but gets hit from behind by Kurt, knocking The Game and Steph down, The Game on top. The heels leave, and Steph clutches at her stomach.
After the cameras stop (I assume):
Trips gets up, and helps her out, sitting her down on a chair by the announcers. He gets back into the ring, and tells Kurt "I'm still standing here!" Kurt comes back, and gets pedigreed in short order. Steph cheers her husband, and they take their time leaving, while Kurt slinks out. HHH gets pics taking with some 'celebrities not famous enough for me to care about.'
Biggest pops:
1) The Rock (What, you were expecting H20 Waterman?)
2) Stacy and Torrie disrobing
3) Triple H (when not kissing up to Steph)
4) Kurt Aingle making fun of the baby.
5) (tie) Taker coming out and Maven winning the Hardcore title.
Biggest Heat
1) The Fake Stone Cold kissing Jericho's boots.
2) Stacy putting her robe back on.
3) Triple H when making out with Steph
4) Golddust running away, costing us a chance to see the Ho Train
5) Seeing the same nWo video for the third time
Most Incongrous Line of the night (By a fan):
(During the Jericho-Aingle-HHH match) "Come on you fucker, kick the fucking shit out of that fucking queer!"
Considering there were three men in the ring, and all were trading shots, I have no clue who the first fucker is, who the queer is, and who was just being ignored. The 7 year olds next to me laughed at the line though.
One last note - Steph seemed to be getting a real face push. No indication of a team up with Jericho, she did the usual Damsel-in-Distress role, and some fans began cheering her at the end (although it was still drowned out by the 'slut' chant). Also, ENOUGH WITH THE DAMNED 'WHAT?'S! When you almost make the 8 year old singing the national anthem cry by interuppting her with them, that's wrong. However, I think the "You Suck What?" chants during Aingle's theme song is actually pretty creative, and found myself chanting that along with the song.
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February 5, 2002
Los Angeles, CA
Report by: Chris R., rajahwwf.com reader
Smackdown:
Rock comes out ready to fight, calling out the Undertaker but instead "Can You Dig it Sucka" Booker T storms out stopping at the top of the ramp the two exchange words and Rock invites Booker T to the ring. Booker runs down to the ring and the two exchange fists finally Tim White comes out and the bell rings we got a match going. Booker hits his trade mark moves Axe Kick, SpinaRooni, Rock delivers the Peoples ELBOW 1,2,3. Rock Wins.
Winner: The Rock
They aired an nWo promo showing highlights of the group from 1996.
HHH And Steph are shown in the back with the doctor who has a picture of the baby inside Steph's tummy. Couldn't quite hear what all they were saying.
Kurt Angle was showned heading to the Ring with a baby carriage (LoL) with a smirk on his face.
"MEDAL Hits" and out comes Kurt Angle bringing the carriage with him its one of those old fashion ones. Angle puts it inside the ring and says he has good news. Angle said he sat with Vince McMahon and McMahon gave him a shot to face the undisputed champ at WrestleMania but before he gets that he just has to beat HHH at No Way Out, Angle says there was also another big announcement when Steph said she was pregnant, Angle says he feels sorry for the baby cause the father is horrible, Angle makes impressions of HHH's face and showed everyone what the baby would look like. He takes the baby out of the carriage and its a monkey (Gorilla) with a diaper on and HHH logo. Angle says hello to "Baby Game". He also has a present for the baby and opens the box and its bananas. Angle says Steph has alot of bananas. HHH makes his way out (no music) and walks down the ramp into the ring and attacks Angle. HHH Picks up the stroller and throws it on Angle's arm. Angle leaves the ring and HHH remains in the ring.
6 Man Tag Team Match
RVD,Edge,Rikishi vs Dudleyz,William Regal
All six men go at it at the start. We start with RVD and D-Von in the ring. Fast paced match can't keep ur eyes on what everyone is doing. Rikishi delivers the Stinkface to Bubba Ray. Rikishi ends up getting hit with the 3D and the pin.
Winners: Regal & The Dudleyz
After Regal and the Dudleyz attack Edge and Regal hits Edge with the Knucks.
Another nWo video airs.
Y2J/Fake Austin/Real Austin Segment WHAT?
Jericho makes his way to the ring and starts yapping and calls out Austin, saying Austin is a coward. He dares Austin to come out. Out comes Austin and the fans go crazy well a lot of them did but I didn't; I was sitting at the top and I knew it wasn't him. A fake fluzy Austin staggers his way down the ring (hilarious What? Funny What? Amazing What? Watch it) Y2J talks and fake Austin replies who? what? why? where? Finally the glass shatters and this time the real Stone Cold comes down, poses on the turnbuckles and walks past the fake Austin and flips him off. Austin asks the fake Austin questions with repeated Whats? Austin attacks Y2J. Jericho heads up the ramp and the fake Austin tries to escape. Stone Cold calls him back into the ring and says "You trying to be like Stone Cold. You don't smell like beer". Austin says he forgives him and gets some beers and they toast. The fake Austin starts to drink "STUNNER" OH HELL YEAH, Austin gives the fake Austin a stunner for good measure.
Paulina is showed from Tough Enough 1.
Ric Flair tells Chris Jericho that he will be facing HHH tonight in the main event.
Hardcore Title Match
Undertaker vs Maven w/Al Snow
Great match. Al threw some weapons to Maven a trash can lid, trash can and uses them on Taker. Taker responds with some hits of his own and Taker knocks out Al Snow. Drop kick by Maven and Undertaker chokeslams Maven before Rock storms to the ring w/ a chair he hits taker with the chair. Rock Bottom. Maven slowly moves to Undertaker while Al Snow is jumpin up and down telling Maven to pin Taker. 1,2,3 Maven wins.
Winner and New Hardcore Champion: MAVEN
Pose Down Match
Chuck & Billy vs Stacy & Torrie w/Jerry the King Lawler as special enforcer
Chuck & Billy pose first with 3 poses. This is the same stuff they did last week on Smackdown that wasn't aired. Stacy & Torrie pose and WOW, they look so hot up close. I went down to get pictures. =) Fans vote Stacy and Torrie are the winners and then I headed up to my seat. Not sure what happend after I think they were attacked by Chuck and Billy or Torrie and Stacy started fighting each other.
Rock is showned heading to the limo when Coach asks him if they are even after causing Undertaker his Hardcore Title. Rock says no they are not even, they aren't even next week or two weeks from now, nor are they gonna be even at No Way Out. Undertaker attacks The Rock and then chokeslams the Rock onto the limo. But that's not all. They get on top of the Limo and Undertaker delivers the Tombstone to the Rock as he lies on top of the limo.
Godfather w/Hos vs Goldust
This Match doesn't get started as Godfather is dancing w/ his hos in the ring and RVD attacks Goldust in the ring. The two fight outside of the ring and Godfather and his ladies walk back up the ramp.
Time was running out so im sure that's why they didn't get to start. RVD was probably gonna interfere during the match but they had to make him interfere before the match.
HHH tells Vince that he does not want him anywhere near his baby but that Stephanie wants him there for the ceremonies on Monday. Vince responds by turning HHH's match into a handicap against Angle and Y2J.
MAIN EVENT:
The Game HHH vs Jericho & Kurt Angle in a Handicap Match
HHH has the early advantage attacking both Y2J and Angle. Y2J gets thrown over the guard rail and into the seats while Angle and HHH are fighting inside the ring. Several tags made by Angle/Y2J to keep fresh. HHH was by himself trying to fight off the two. Knee to the Face by HHH, neck breaker by HHH. Jericho goes for the Walls of Jericho but HHH Counters it into a Walls of Jericho of his own. Jericho looks like he's gonna tap but Angle comes from behind and HHH counters a move into Angle's own Ankle lock manuever. HHH attempts the Pedigree several times on both but Angle hits the Angle Slam on a Chair 1,2, shoulder up by HHH. Angle does it again this time succeeds for the victory.
Winners: Jericho and Angle
Afterwards: Steph comes down to check on her husband y2j and angle surround them the two hug but angle comes from behind and nails hhh, Steph and HHH Fall to the ground. Angle leaves several minutes after, hhh and steph get out of the ring and steph sits on a chair next to the announcers table and hhh walks back into the ring and calls Out ANGLE. Angle's music hits and he comes out the two fight knee to the face and then HHH Hits the pedigree. hhh poses on 3 turnbuckles, celebrates with motorhead as they are at ringside.HHH And steph walk up the ramp but hhh comes back down and poses on the 4th turnbuckle and thats Smackdown
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