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A great end to a great year in ppv's Aug 06, 2008
Vengeance crowned the first ever undisputed champion and this was just a good ending to a sensational year in ppv's. This was also Jerry Lawler's first commentated ppv in 2001 since No Way Out, so it was good to hear him back in action with JR.
It starts out with Mr. McMahon coming out to the ring to address the fans about the situation that happened the past Thursday on Smackdown with the whole Kiss my A55 thing. Ric Flair would come out to shut up McMahon and then the ppv would start.
1. Scotty 2 Hotty & Albert vs. Christian & Test
The match started with a little brawl on the outside which led to the match in the ring. There were some very good brawling and impact moves. All four men look good in this one. There was some funny spots with S2H & Albert. I thought it had a pretty good ending. Pretty solid opening contest. 3.5/5
2. Intercontinental Championship
Edge vs. William Regal
Before the match started, Regal did a pretty good heel interview with the Coach. The match was pretty good with some nice counters with some good back and fourth action. Edge would go for the spear on the outside but would miss Regal and run right into the ring steps. Regal would find some brass knucks but doesn't get a chance to use them. Edge hit the spear out of thin air which was made the ending better to me. 3.5/5
3. Matt Hardy vs. Jeff Hardy with Lita as the special Referee
Pretty solid match up right here, and surprisingly the Hardys work pretty well against each other. Matt would try to work on Jeff's leg about mid way in the match so Jeff wouldn't be able to pull off any of his high flying Hardy offense. There were some pretty good counters and high risk. Some good wrestling moves applied as well. It had a pretty questionable ending but it worked in well. Good match. 4/5
4. WWE Tag Team Championship
The Dudley Boyz w/ Stacy Keibler vs. Big Show and Kane
I believe Show and Kane always made a good big man team. I believe they work well as a team and they make a good big team duo. There was some nice double team moves and a little high risk. A good funny spot with Show & Stacy mid way in the match. Some good hard shots too. A few nice counters as well. There was some miss cues on the part of Kane & Show which costed them the match. Pretty good tag match, I really enjoyed this one. 3.5/5
5. Hardcore Championship
Undertaker vs. RVD
It seemed in the early going that Undertaker was just over powering the smaller RVD. It had some pretty fast paced action. It soon would fall out into the crowd and get more hardcore out there. Some nice high aerial offense from Van Dam out there. Some nice weapon use. It had a pretty solid and hardcore ending. Good title match up. 4/5
6. Women's Championship
Trish Stratus vs. Jacqueline
This was a pretty decent back and fourth women's match up. There were some nice physcial spots with some good wrestling moves and counters. Nice wrestled up women's contest right here. A little short but it served its purpose to set up the Undisputed title matches. 3/5
7. WWE Championship
Kurt Angle vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin
This match was very different from their previous ecounters but it was great though. It had some good wrestling and some good brawling. Austin really trys to ware down Angle in the beginning. Austin really works on Angles arm in this one. They really brawled each other out on the outside where Angle applied the figure four on Austin on the ring post. Some good reversals and good counters, just a great solid match up. 5/5
8. World Heavyweight Championship
The Rock vs. Chris Jericho
This was a pretty solid title match up as well. And this match to was different from their previous encounter from No Mercy. The match was more fast paced and more physical. Some nice wrestling moves used too by both men. It seemed to drag on a little bit but not that much. It had some good counters and I believed that this match was more personal then the Angle/Austin Match before. There were some few high risk and a good table spot as well. I wasn't really all too fond of the ending but it was good. Another good one right here. 4.5/5
9. Undisputed Championship
Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. Chris Jericho
Before the match got under way, Angle would come out and hit Austin with a chair and the Rock would Rock Bottom Jericho. The match would then start and these two had a pretty good match up as well. They put on a good showing on the outside just beating on each other out there. Jericho took some hard slams on the hard exposed concrete floor. They put on some good brawling and some nice counters. Flair and McMahon would interfer which would set up their match at the Royal Rumble. It had a pretty cheap ending but it all fitted in. A nice solid undisputed match up. 4.5/5
Vengeance topped off and unbelieveable year of 2001. This is a great ppv to check out if yall haven't already. Pretty solid card.
WWF Ends 2001 Pretty Strong. Jul 08, 2008
First of all, 2001 was a great year for the WWF as it featured so many memorable matches & unique storylines. But I think that most will remember this year for having some of the best PPV events as there were not many bad shows in the year. This event promised more history as for the first time ever, An Undisputed Champion will be crowned.
Scotty 2 Hotty & Albert vs Christian & Test. This was a good opener as everyone was able to look strong & get the crowd heated up for the rest of the card. I always thought Christian deserved more than these guys, but still a nice opener.
Intercontinental Champion Edge vs William Regal. Edge has come a long way in his career, so this is not his best. Edge & Regal's styles did not clash well & this one was given too much time that it was hard to sit through more than once.
Jeff Hardy vs Matt Hardy w/Guest Referee Lita. The storyline was pretty solid & left the fans with anticipation of a high-flying contest. Well, that is not the case here as the Hardyz try to wrestle a straight up grappling contest. This was not a bad showing but this did not live up to the hype.
WWF Tag Team Champions The Dudley Boyz vs Kane & Big Show. There was some nice entertainment in this one like Show spanking Stacy, Dudleys trying to overcome the odds to Kane & Show having problems in the end. The match was average, at best but the entertainment added more to the match.
WWF Hardcore Champion Rob Van Dam vs The Undertaker. Undertaker just turned heel & this was his best match during this heel turn. Taker & RVD worked well together as they went around the arena, the crowd & ended up on the stage. Check out how great Taker can be as a heel when the crowd was chanting RVD, Funny stuff. Sorry, lost my focus, Great Match.
WWF Women's Champion Trish Stratus vs Jacqueline. Trish was still green here & Jackie was never known for carrying a match so this was short & brief.
WWF Champion Stone Cold Steve Austin vs Kurt Angle. First of all, this match was better than their Unforgiven encounter but not even close to their SummerSlam classic. Austin & Angle worked well in this one, as always, even though most of the moves here we had seen before in their past encounters. But a nice spot was the Figure Four Leglock around the Ring Post that looked like it hurt.
World Champion The Rock vs Chris Jericho. Rock & Jericho have never disappointed in a match together & this was no exception. Jericho fits well as the arrogant heel while Rock keeps the action going. While I still like their No Mercy encounter better than this one, this was still the match of the night as it had great wrestling, back & forth action, a nice table spot & a unique but somewhat cheap ending.
WWF Champion Stone Cold Steve Austin vs World Champion Chris Jericho. I know that my title is a spoiler but what wrestling fan does not know what happened here. The match itself was just above average due to Jericho already just going through a match with the Rock while Austin had a match with Angle around 15 mins. earlier. The bigger issue here was just Jericho becoming the first Undisputed Champion in decades, as well as the beginning of the Flair/McMahon feud that lead to the Royal Rumble.
Overall, this was a great finish for the WWF as it delivered for the most part but more importantly, the industry finally giving Chris Jericho his spotlight that he has always deserved (Yes, even though it was done in heel fashion... still deserved).
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 Couldn't even give Jericho a clean victory for his first ever world championship Jun 01, 2008
To sum this all up, this was a flaccid way to end 2001, which had seen one of the best Wrestlemanias in history, and some of the most ground-breaking and ground-failing TV in wrestling history---Stone Cold Steve Austin turning heel, a mass invasion of two other wrestling companies, and the emergence of relatively new superstars like Rob Van Dam and Chris Jericho to superstardom. And they topped this all off with a "status-quo" humdrum average sort of event.
First Vince comes out, and really powerhouses his heel abilities in getting the crowd riled up. I've always admired Vince's sheer charisma in getting people to hate him; as of late, that's really been weak and uninteresting, and consisting of just doing things that would make the audience mad; but here, he just completely channelled everything that made a good heel, and threw it at the crowd. Phenomenal. Ric Flair comes out and says PPV time, and Albert and Scotty 2 Hotty come down the ring to dance with Vince before Vince storms out.
Scotty 2 Hotty and Albert vs Test and Christian
From the beginning, this is what I expected to be the warm-up for a stellar event. After watching the event, this turns out to be probably the second best, or probably best match of the night. Everyone is completely on, putting on great WWF-style wrestling with nonstop action and constant momentum shifts. Powerful stuff, and if only they pushed these four guys like this more often, they'd all STILL BE IN THE COMPANY. (9/10)
WWF Intercontinental Championship
Edge (C) vs William Regal
As boring as any regular TV match with Regal and someone else. I know Regal is legitimately talented as a chain wrestler, but was it just laziness or the booking getting to him that he came off as dull as Hardcore Holly in this match? It was lackluster, boring, and the audience didn't care about it. (0/10)
Neat sort of build up to the break-up of the Hardy Boys, but they really make it too blatant that Matt is going to be the heel.
Matt Hardy vs Jeff Hardy Lita special referee
If these two are dynamite together, they are wet bathwater together. The match was almost entirely brawling, with a few high spots, but mostly generic Hardcore Holly vs John Cena type brawling. Lita is so unremarkable as referee that she may as well not be there; her only saving grace was the Dusty finish, paving the way for their eventual breakup. (3/10)
The Rock promises to screw Trish after they win their respective matches.
WWF Tag Team Championship
The Dudley Boys (C) vs The Big Show and Kane
The only highlight of this match was The Big Show showing off his powerhouse skill. Little more than a glorified squash of the Dudley Boys. I forgot who won, and I only just saw the match yesterday. (1/10)
WWF Hardcore Championship
The Undertaker vs Rob Van Dam (C)
The Undertaker is heel here. But most of the arena cheers him anyway. The match itself was very dull. Standard forced "hardcore" affair of trying to be like ECW by having the superstars fight in the crowd. But they did little more than generic brawling, fake punches, and below-average chair shots. Even Van Dam's jump off the railings was cut short by the Undertaker's 6'10" height, plus maybe 2-3 foot arms, reaching up to catch him, making for a weak-looking spot. And god forbid the ECW guy should win out over the WWF original! (5/10)
WWF Women's Championship
Trish Stratus vs Jacqueline
Typical WWF/WWE women's affair... that is, barely anything of worth beyond some sloppy moves and generic brawling. (0/10)
WWF Championship
Stone Cold Steve Austin (C) vs Kurt Angle
By now, we've seen these two wrestle so much (Summerslam, Unforgiven, No Mercy, Survivor Series) that quite frankly, I'm sick of it. There was nothing new, nothing special, nothing remarkable about this match. Austin was mostly restrained in his wrestling, clearly saving up for his next opponent. The submission holds were weak, sloppy things that looked to be barely there. (0/10)
Test barges into Trish's locker room while she's covered with a towel and basically threatens to rape her, until she shuffles him out and he just leaves despite the door being open. The hell? Useless backstage promo FTL
Not WCW World Championship
The Rock (C) vs Chris Jericho
This was certainly better than the WWF Championship match, but it wasn't much better. It was still much of a generic brawl, and Jericho did basically two high flying moves or so in the match. The submission holds, just like the previous match, were so sloppily applied that there is absolutely no way you could think they would be painful. Imagine someone basically crouching over your rear end and holding your legs up bent at the knee, while the rest of your body is totally straight. That's pretty much all it was. (5.5/10)
WWF Undisputed Championship
Stone Cold Steve Austin vs Chris Jericho
Immediately after winning, Jericho has to face Austin. And everything that Austin held back in his Angle match, perhaps knowing or realizing that it was a boring little affair repeated for the fifth or eighteenth time, unleashed on Jericho. The absolute best of the WWF on display, with Jericho barely hanging on, yet managing to look tough against Austin. Austin sells his gimmick so much, he would legitimately frighten me in real life... I couldn't imagine this guy reading a book, reading the newspaper beyond the sports section or the comics, or being able to understand the whole concept of kayfabe. But he does. And he sells it to perfection.
I would have rated this pay per view as average, 3/5 stars, and this match a full 10/10 if it weren't for the fact that this is supposed to be Jericho's night; he's supposed to have completed his journey from his debut in 1999, from his time in WCW before that, ECW, independent wrestling, all just to make it to the big time, to be at the top of the WWF, the last standing major wrestling promotion in the US! And they screw him out of this.
They screw Jericho out of that glory. Because during the match, every loser from the previous match and his asshole come and interfere. First Angle beats up Austin, then The Rock beats up Jericho, then Earl Hebner is knocked out, then Vince McMahon attacks Austin, and sends Nick Patrick out. Then Ric Flair comes and stops Patrick from counting. Austin beats up McMahon. Then Booker T (who should be kayfabe fired) comes and attacks Austin, and Jericho picks up the pin.
So according to the WWF, Stone Cold Steve Austin is their unstoppable juggernaut, and Chris Jericho, a former ECW and WCW superstar despite being in the WWF for two years, isn't good enough to make history by himself---he needs three men and a crooked referee to try and defeat Austin. Pathetic. (5/10)
WWF arrogance at its best, Jericho is nothing more than the random twit who happens to get lucky against the WWF's untouchable superstar who absolutely cannot lose too many matches cleanly, Stone Cold Steve Austin. I love Austin as a wrestler, I think he's one of the best in the business. I know he has legitimate technical prowess despite the WWF making him a brawler. But for god's sake... the WWF, taking a page out of WCW's book (just like today) just can't let go of their tried and true top guys for a little while and let a new rising star reach the top. So what if Jericho is a heel? That doesn't mean heels are inferior superstars, or that he doesn't deserve to cleanly beat the best guy in the company for its top prize. Horrible.
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2001 was a good year for wrestling Nov 10, 2007
After the invasion angle came to an end. Some new pretty good storylines were in the works. The two heavyweight titles were to be unified in 3 matches. 3 matches that lived up to the hype. The midcard was pretty good also. No duds on this ppv.
Scotty 2 Hotty & Albert vs. Christian & Test
These two teams seemed like the odd couple indeed . But the inring work was a plus. A very good opener. It surprised me. Entertaining match with some comedic spots. Good brawling and a couple of good slams. The match did its job getting the crowd into it. 3.5/5
IC Title Match
Edge vs. William Regal
Their conflicting styles didn't really mesh well to me but it was still a decent match. A bit slow at times but the very fact Regal could cheat and use brass knucks at some point added to the match. Edge takes a pretty good bump also. The ending came out of nowhere too. 3/5
Matt Hardy vs. Jeff Hardy w/Lita as special ref.
The brother vs. brother storylines have been done to death. And none of them had the same dramatic impact as Bret vs. Owen(RIP). The build up was pretty good with Matt blaming Jeff for the loss the month before. The crowd didn't really know who to cheer for. A good match in itself. Especially with Lita as special ref being pressured by Matt. Decent wrestling with some good counters and a clever finish. 4/5
Tag Team Championship
Dudley Boyz vs. Kane & Big Show
An average match . Nothing to special here except for the little segment between Show & Stacy. It was pretty funny but I have to point out Stacy is hot as he11. Especially in her panties. 3/5
WWF Hardcore Match
RVD vs. Undertaker
Undertaker is in heel mode. And anyone familiar with that knows how vicious he can be. This match was proof of that too. It started in the ring then went into the crowd and at the top of the stage. Some very good brawling and high flying moves.Weapons came into play as well. RVD takes a good battering ram into the steel. A great hardcore match with a great finish. Definitly one of the best on here. 4.5/5
Womens championship
Trish Stratus vs. Jacqueline
Trish is still pretty green in this match in my eyes. And a vet like Jackie was perfect for her. They went well together. Some very good wrestling from these two ladies. With a good finish and a nice ending. I liked this match. 4/5
WWF Championship
Stone Cold vs. Kurt Angle
Another good match in thier classic rivalry. Of course alot of this was seen before but these two have it also. Some good striking and wrestling. A few good spots. Multiple german suplexes and counters. Great title match. 5/5
World Championship
Rock vs. Y2J
Started out pretty quick pace, then eventually slowed down. They had a pretty good match but this wasn't their best. A few good spots. Going through the announce table and stolen finishers. The only thing that took away to me was the interference. I got a little sick of Rock getting the superman treatment and not putting guys over clean. That was one thing about him that got on my nerves alot. 4/5
Undisputed World Championship
Stone Cold vs. Y2J
You gotta love Stone Cold's character. He attacked Y2J before the bell sounded. Then there was intereference like crazy. It really did add to the match. The match was alot better than the last. Some brawling and it went outside the ring. Both of these guys bought their best and each of them deserved the win. The interference later on did its job. It began a storyline between Ric Flair and Vince that resulted in a brutal street fight match the next month. So this match had alot riding on it. 5/5
This ppv closed out 2001 with a pretty good bang. In my opinion no one can go wrong with any of the ppv's for that year. Some are pretty expensive for a good reason. One down side is, there are no extras on this DVD.
 wwe pay per view vengence Nov 10, 2007
this was okay but not the best it is worth watching just because I a wwe fan and for my collection
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