Chris Benoit, Rhyno & Spanky vs. John Cena & The FBI (Chuck Palumbo & Johnny Stamboli) (w/Nunzio)
Meh match. This was basically just to get Benoit and Cena on the card although I would’ve preferred a singles match between the two. **
La Resistance (Rene Dupree & Sylvain Grenier) vs. Scott Steiner & Test (w/Stacy Keibler)
Why is this on PPV? Could’ve been a RAW angle. Nothing much but the angle. *¾
WWE Tag Team Title Ladder Match - Team Angle (Charlie Haas & Shelton Benjamin) (c) vs. Eddie Guerrero & Tajiri
Awesome match. Four real good wrestlers putting on a great showing with some awesome spots and double team offence. The world's greatest move off the ladder was sick. Tajiri was slick throughout this match and picked his spots. Well. Really loved this match. ***¾
Intercontinental Title Battle Royal - Booker T vs. Chris Jericho vs. Christian vs. Goldust vs. Kane vs. Lance Storm vs. Rob Van Dam vs. Test vs. Val Venis
Decent battle royal. The Christian/Booker T angle was good. **½
Mr. America (w/Zach Gowen) vs. Roddy Piper (w/Sean O'Haire & Vince McMahon)
Why? Why is Hulk Hogan..sorry I mean Mr America taking on Roddy Piper on 2003? WHY? The match is short but still so bad. The aftermath was longer and better. DUD
World Heavyweight Title Match - Triple H (c) vs. Kevin Nash
Soo this happened. Really dull match with slow, drawn out, dull and bad looking offence from Nash. HHH tried to save it but couldn’t. For once a HHH match wasn’t bad because of what he did. I’m just glad they kept it to 7 minutes and didn’t waste anyone’s time. ¼*
World Women's Title Fatal Four Way Match - Jazz (w/Theodore Long) (c) vs. Jacqueline vs. Trish Stratus vs. Victoria (w/Steven Richards)
Victoria was good, the rest though. Oy vey. ¼*
WWE Heavyweight Title Stretcher Match - Brock Lesnar (c) vs. The Big Show
Awesome match. Big Show and Lesnar have the best chemistry together, it’s unreal. Some great back and forth wrestling where Big Show tossed Brock like he was nothing and Brock bumped like a boss. They used the stretcher really well, beating each other with the actual object as well as using it to win. The Rey interference was cool and it made sense given the history between Mysterio and Big Show. Awesome main event to end such a horrid show overall. ***3/4
Overall
This is a bad show, a really bad show with three contenders for Worst match of the year. There are two matches that may have saved the show if not for those other three matches. BEST TO WORST: Brock vs Big Show [***3/4], Tajiri/Eddie vs WGTT [***3/4], The Battle Royal [**1/2], Six Man Tag [**], La Resistance vs. Steiner/Test [*3/4], Women’s Four Way [1/4*], HHH vs Nash [1/4*], Mr America vs Piper [DUD].
Meh match. This was basically just to get Benoit and Cena on the card although I would’ve preferred a singles match between the two. **
La Resistance (Rene Dupree & Sylvain Grenier) vs. Scott Steiner & Test (w/Stacy Keibler)
Why is this on PPV? Could’ve been a RAW angle. Nothing much but the angle. *¾
WWE Tag Team Title Ladder Match - Team Angle (Charlie Haas & Shelton Benjamin) (c) vs. Eddie Guerrero & Tajiri
Awesome match. Four real good wrestlers putting on a great showing with some awesome spots and double team offence. The world's greatest move off the ladder was sick. Tajiri was slick throughout this match and picked his spots. Well. Really loved this match. ***¾
Intercontinental Title Battle Royal - Booker T vs. Chris Jericho vs. Christian vs. Goldust vs. Kane vs. Lance Storm vs. Rob Van Dam vs. Test vs. Val Venis
Decent battle royal. The Christian/Booker T angle was good. **½
Mr. America (w/Zach Gowen) vs. Roddy Piper (w/Sean O'Haire & Vince McMahon)
Why? Why is Hulk Hogan..sorry I mean Mr America taking on Roddy Piper on 2003? WHY? The match is short but still so bad. The aftermath was longer and better. DUD
World Heavyweight Title Match - Triple H (c) vs. Kevin Nash
Soo this happened. Really dull match with slow, drawn out, dull and bad looking offence from Nash. HHH tried to save it but couldn’t. For once a HHH match wasn’t bad because of what he did. I’m just glad they kept it to 7 minutes and didn’t waste anyone’s time. ¼*
World Women's Title Fatal Four Way Match - Jazz (w/Theodore Long) (c) vs. Jacqueline vs. Trish Stratus vs. Victoria (w/Steven Richards)
Victoria was good, the rest though. Oy vey. ¼*
WWE Heavyweight Title Stretcher Match - Brock Lesnar (c) vs. The Big Show
Awesome match. Big Show and Lesnar have the best chemistry together, it’s unreal. Some great back and forth wrestling where Big Show tossed Brock like he was nothing and Brock bumped like a boss. They used the stretcher really well, beating each other with the actual object as well as using it to win. The Rey interference was cool and it made sense given the history between Mysterio and Big Show. Awesome main event to end such a horrid show overall. ***3/4
Overall
This is a bad show, a really bad show with three contenders for Worst match of the year. There are two matches that may have saved the show if not for those other three matches. BEST TO WORST: Brock vs Big Show [***3/4], Tajiri/Eddie vs WGTT [***3/4], The Battle Royal [**1/2], Six Man Tag [**], La Resistance vs. Steiner/Test [*3/4], Women’s Four Way [1/4*], HHH vs Nash [1/4*], Mr America vs Piper [DUD].
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