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WWE Wrestlemania 19 review

I know I did these one long time ago but I'm watching every single WWE ppv in order they happen and putting my thoughts about them.

I would like your comments-

WWE Championship Match:
Kurt Angle vs. Brock Lesnar-****1/2
A stellar main event with one bad spot with Lesnar blowing the shooting star press.

Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. The Rock-***1/2
Not as good as their WM 17 match but I think better then their WM 15 match because this match had no overbooking nonsense.

Street Fight "20 Years in the Making"
Hulk Hogan vs. Mr. McMahon-**1/2
a very entertaing crap with McMahon pulling out a great blood covered evil
look.

World title
Booker-T vs. HHH-***
a solid match but again HHH should have put Booker-t over.

Shawn Michaels vs. Chris Jericho-****1/2
the show stealing match. with the wrong guy going over. Y2J should have won.

Triple-Threat WWE Tag Team Championship Match:
Charlie Haas/Shelton Benjamin vs. Eddie Guerrero/Chavo Guerrero vs. Chris Benoit/Rhyno-**1/2
this could have been if given more time

Triple-Threat Women's Championship Match:
Victoria (with Steven Richards) vs. Trish Stratus vs. Jazz-**
solid womans match

Undertaker & Nathan Jones vs. Big Show & A-Train-*
only book to get Taker WM win

WWE Cruiserweight Championship Match:
Matt Hardy (with Shannon Moore) vs. Rey Mysterio-**
should have been better if they were given more time

Comment-there is several of good matches but it's bloated with celebrity/music nonsense. I don't mind some of it but it got to much and took away time from other matches.

Rating-8.0

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top 5 wrestling dvd's of 2007 and best of raw thoughts

1. WWE Royal Rumble Box set
A huge improvement over the Mania set. next I'm waiting for is the summerslam set due out this year.

2. WWE Ladder Match dvd
One of the best dvd's in terms of match qualty

3. HBK dvd
Stellar program and stellar matches

4. Four horseman dvd
Another great program but solid match listing

5. Best of Raw dvd

Best of Raw thoughts

a very solid dvd with some great moments like austin/vince feud. Gun segment with Pillman. unedit verison of the DX spoof of the nation.

the matchs
Ric Flair vs. Curt Henning-***
solid match but it's clipped

Razor Ramon vs. The Kid (05.17.93).-*
dud but the upset is well known

Intercontinental Title: Shawn Michaels vs. Marty Janetty (05.17.93).-****
a stellar tv match. I heard many goods things about this match and most of them are true

WWF Heavyweight Title: Bret Hart vs. The 1,2,3 Kid (07.11.94).-****1/2
awsome match

Shawn Michaels vs. Owen Hart (w/Mr. Fuji & Jim Cornette — 11.20.95).-**
decent match but this match is remember for the storyline of HBK going unconious

No Holds Barred Match: The Undertaker vs. Mankind (w/Paul Bearer — 12.09.96).-**
ok brawl

Vacant European Championship, Tournament Final: Owen Hart vs. The British Bulldog (03.03.07).-*****
a freaking great match here.

Flag Match: Steve Austin, Dude Love & The Undertaker vs. Bret Hart, Owen Hart & The British Bulldog (07.21.97).-**
alright match

European Title: Shawn Michaels vs. Triple H.-*
next

WWF Heavyweight Title: Steve Austin vs. Mr. McMahon (w/Gerald Brisco & Pat Patterson — 04.13.98).-*
not much of match

WWF Heavyweight Title: The Rock (w/the Corporation) vs. Mankind (w/DX — 01.04.99).-***
decent match but it's the moment

Mean Street Posse vs. The Stooges (05.10.99):-**
this match is good for a laugh

HHH vs. Y2J-***
the usual for these two. I did not care for the Dusty Finish

Gold Rush Tournament: Shelton Benjamin vs. Shawn Michaels (05.02.05).-****
a great tv match

Iron Man Match: Shawn Michaels vs. Kurt Angle (10.03.05).-***1/2
the usual solid match for these two

WWE Heavyweight Title, No DQ: Rob Van Dam vs. Edge (w/Lita) vs. John Cena (07.03.06).-**1/2
decent match

Street Fight: Edge vs. Shawn Michaels.-***
solid brawl

comment-another solid wwe dvd. it's missing some moments. some hard to find great matches

Rating-8.5

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WWE No way Out 2003 review

Chris Jericho defeated Jeff Hardy (12:59)-***
a pretty decent opener

William Regal and Lance Storm defeated Kane and Rob Van Dam to retain the World Tag Team Championship (9:20)-**
basic tag match

Matt Hardy (w/Shannon Moore) defeated Billy Kidman to win the WWE Cruiserweight Championship (9:31)-**
basic match but I did love Hardy entrence at this time.

The Undertaker defeated The Big Show (w/Paul Heyman) (14:08)-**
better then excepted but still not that great

Brock Lesnar and Chris Benoit defeated Team Angle (Kurt Angle, Shelton Benjamin, and Charlie Haas) (w/Paul Heyman) in a Handicap match (13:19)-****
a great tag match

Triple H defeated Scott Steiner to retain the World Heavyweight Championship (13:01)-dud
Welcome to wresltecrap twice in a row-HHH/Steiner

The Rock defeated Hulk Hogan (12:20)-*
did not have the magic that their first match did and the stupid lights went out angle sucked

Comment-the show started off ok with decent matchs but died a slow death

Rating-6/10

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WWE Royal Rumble 2003

Royal Rumble Match - Winner gets a shot at his respective brand's title at WrestleMania XIX.-***1/2
the usually fun rumble with a nice effort by Y2J

WWE Championship Match
Kurt Angle with Team Angle vs Chris Benoit-*****
my fav. match so far this decade

World Heavyweight Championship Match
Triple H with Ric Flair vs Scott Steiner-dud
this match is bad that it's entertaing in a bad sorta of way

First-Ever Stepdaughter vs Stepmother Match
Torrie Wilson vs Dawn Marie-dud
crap

World Tag Team Championship Match
Lance Storm & William Regal vs Dudley Boyz-**
basic tag match

Brock Lesnar vs Big Show with Paul Heyman
Winner advances to Royal Rumble match-**
short but Lesnar belly and belly Suplex the Big show few time is quite impressive.

Comment-this show one of the best and worst matches of these decade. The Benoit/Angle is available on other better dvd's

Rating-6/10

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WWE Armageddon 2002 thoughts

Booker T and Goldust defeated Lance Storm and William Regal, The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray and D-Von), and Chris Jericho and Christian (c) in a Fatal Four-Way Elimination match to win the World Tag Team Championship (16:43)-**1/2
a very soild opener

Edge defeated A-Train by disqualification (7:12)-*1/2
meh

Chris Benoit defeated Eddie Guerrero (16:47)-***
solid match but these guys have had better

Batista defeated Kane (6:38)-*
meh

Victoria defeated Trish Stratus and Jacqueline in a Triple Threat match to retain the WWE Women's Championship (4:28)-**
very solid for womans match

Kurt Angle defeated The Big Show (w/Paul Heyman) to win the WWE Championship (12:36)-**1/2
pretty good match for the Big Show

Triple H defeated Shawn Michaels in a 3 Stages Of Hell match to win the World Heavyweight Championship (35:25)-***
in-ring was there but there no heat to match.

Comment-meh

Rating-5.5/10

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WWE Suriver Series 2002 review

WWE Championship Match
Brock Lesnar with Paul Heyman vs. Big Show-*
not much of a match.

Elimination Chamber World Heavyweight Championship Match
Triple H vs. Chris Jericho vs. Kane vs. Booker T vs. Rob Van Dam vs. Shawn Michaels-****
This was the quite the gimic match. I still perfer the 2005 one.

Triple Threat Elimination WWE Tag Team Championship Match
Edge & Rey Mysterio vs. Kurt Angle & Chris Benoit vs. Eddie Guerrero & Chavo Guerrero-****
It started slow but pick up really nice at the end.

Six-Man Table Match
Jeff Hardy, Bubba Ray Dudley & Spike Dudley vs. 3-Minute Warning & Rico-**1/2
a solid spot fest but I have seen it before and 3MW sucks.

Women's Championship Hardcore Match
Trish Stratus vs. Victoria-**
decent

WWE Cruiserweight Championship Match
Jamie Noble with Nidia vs. Billy Kidman -**
decent

Comment-this pretty much a one match show. That match delivered and the smackdown six match.

Rating-7.0

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WWE Unforgiven and No Mercy 2002 reviews

Unforgiven
Kane, Goldust, Booker T and Bubba Ray Dudley defeated The Un-Americans (Lance Storm, Christian, William Regal and Test) (9:59)-**1/2
a solid opener

Chris Jericho defeated Ric Flair to retain the WWE Intercontinental Championship (6:16)-**
another solid match

Eddie Guerrero defeated Edge (11:55)-****
a great match. This two had some great matches in 2002. I'm hopeing that their streetfight from smackdown makes it to dvd.

3-Minute Warning (Rosey and Jamal) defeated Billy and Chuck (6:38) -*
crap

Triple H defeated Rob Van Dam to retain the World Heavyweight Championship (18:17) -**1/2
sloppy and solid match.

Trish Stratus defeated Molly Holly to win the WWE Women's Championship (5:46)-**
solid for a womans match

Chris Benoit defeated Kurt Angle (13:55)-****1/2
some of the best chain wrestling I have seen in awhile.

WWE Champion Brock Lesnar fought The Undertaker to a double disqualification (20:27)-***1/2
a solid main event with a stupid bullshit ending.

Comment-Solid show with three solid matches but stupid booking nearly kills the show.

Rating-7.5/10

No Mercy
Chris Jericho and Christian defeated Booker T and Goldust to retain the World Tag Team Championship (8:46)-**1/2
another solid tag match

Torrie Wilson defeated Dawn Marie (4:40)-*
crap

Rob Van Dam defeated Ric Flair (7:59)-**
basic match

Jamie Noble (w/Nidia) defeated Tajiri to retain the WWE Cruiserweight Championship (8:15)-**
another basic match

World Heavyweight Champion Triple H defeated WWE Intercontinental Champion Kane in a Title unification match (16:13)-**
match was boring but got going near the end

Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit defeated Rey Mysterio and Edge to become the first WWE Tag Team Champions (22:03)-*****
WWE best non gimic tag match so far this decade. I love this match. everybody was on.

Trish Stratus defeated Victoria to retain the WWE Women's Championship (5:31)-**
another solid womans match

Brock Lesnar (w/Paul Heyman) defeated The Undertaker in a Hell in a Cell match to retain the WWE Championship (27:18)-****
people either hate or love this match. I love this match. I know this has it's faults but the brualty makes up for it and Taker bleeding 2.0 on the Muta scale.

Comment-too great matches but the rest mainly crap.

Rating-7/10

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WWE Summerslam 2002 review

WWE Undisputed Championship
The Rock vs. Brock Lesnar (with Paul Heyman)-***1/2
A really good match for Brock.

Non-Sanctioned Match
Shawn Michaels vs. Triple H-****1/2
a great streetfight.

Undertaker vs Test-**
okish big man match

WWE Intercontinental Championship
Chris Benoit vs. RVD-***1/2
another solid match. These two had better match on Raw before it.

WWE Tag Team Championship
Lance Storm & Christian vs. Booker T & Goldust-**1/2
a WWE basic formalic good tag match

Edge vs. Eddie Guerrero-***1/2
another very solid one on one encounter.

Ric Flair vs. Chris Jericho-**
okish

Rey Mysterio vs. Kurt Angle-***1/2
A very good opener. I wish it was little longer.

Comment-The best show of 2002 so far

Rating-8.0

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Ring of Honor: Man up review

I got into this show a little late because cable problems. I missed most of the first match. What I saw was pretty good.

This my first intro into ROH

Best-of-Three Series: Matt Cross (w/The Resilience) vs. Rocky Romero (w/The No Remorse Corps).-**1/2
short but good while it lasted

Best-of-Three Series: Austin Aries (w/The Resilience) vs. Davey Richards (w/The No Remorse Corps).-***
another strong match

Best-of-Three Series: Erick Stevens (w/The Resilience) vs. Roderick Strong (w/The No Remorse Corps).-***1/2
a solid in-ring match with some great moves

ROH World Title: Takeshi Morishima vs. Bryan Danielson.-****
a great little man vs. Big man match. I did not care for the bullshit ending.

ROH World Tag Titles, Ladder War: The Briscoe Bros. vs. Kevin Steen & El Generico.-****1/2
the best ladder since the four way at Armagodden of last year. Great effort from all guys. The best gimic match this year.

Comment-oh hell yeah. A great show of wrestling.

Rating-8.0

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WWE King of the Ring 2002

KOTR Semi-Final: Rob Van Dam defeated Chris Jericho (14:32)-****
a great opener

KOTR Semi-Final: Brock Lesnar (w/Paul Heyman) defeated Test (8:18)-**
a solid big man match

Jamie Noble (w/Nidia) defeated The Hurricane to win the WWE Cruiserweight Championship (11:38)-**
solid but slow at times

Ric Flair defeated Eddie Guerrero (17:00)-**12
okish but disappioint because who was involved

Molly Holly defeated Trish Stratus to win the WWE Women's Championship (5:41)-*
meh

Kurt Angle defeated Hulk Hogan-**1/2
It's a decent match for Hogan.

KOTR Final: Brock Lesnar defeated Rob Van Dam to win the King of the Ring tournament (5:42)-*
too short to mean anything

The Undertaker defeated Triple H to retain the WWE Undisputed Championship (23:44)-*
crappy crappy match

Comment-the usual crappy KOTR show except for the opener but I think that match is found on the RVD dvd

Rating-5.5/10

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WWE Wrestlemania 18 thoughts

ntercontinental Championship Match:
-Rob Van Dam vs. William Regal-**1/2
a solid opener

European Championship Match:
-Christian vs. DDP-**
a decent tv match

Hardcore Championship Match:
-Goldust vs. Maven-*
crap

Kane vs. Kurt Angle-***
a pretty good match with a botched ending

No Disqualification Match:
-Ric Flair vs. Undertaker-***1/2
One of Takers best WM matches

Edge vs. Booker T-**1/2
decent match but a stupid angle

Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. Scott Hall-*
crap

Four Corners Elimination Match for the Wordl Tag Team Championship:
-The Hardy Boyz vs. The Dudley Boyz vs. APA vs. Billy & Chuck-**
filler

The Rock vs. Hollywood Hulk Hogan-****
the in-ring is about ** stars but the entertainment of the match and the crowd get's the other two stars.

Triple-Threat Match for the Women's Championship:
-Jazz vs. Lita vs. Trish Stratus-*
I would hate to come after Hogan/Rock

Undisputed WWE Championship Match:
-Chris Jericho vs. Triple H-***
solid match but not WM main event should be.

Comment-an entertaing show with some solid tv matches and Rock/Hogan is worth a look. That match sounds pretty sweet on HTS

Rating-7.5

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WWE No Way Out 2002

The APA won a Tag Team Turmoil match (14:05)-**
a solid match

Rob Van Dam defeated Goldust (11:06)-***
a pretty good for these two

Tazz and Spike Dudley defeated Booker T and Test to retain the WWF Tag Team Championship-*
basic match

William Regal defeated Edge in a Brass knuckles on a Pole Match to retain the WWF Intercontinental Championship (10:25)-**1/2
there usual perfectly accfetable wrestling

The Rock defeated The Undertaker (17:25)-***
a very solid match but mauled by overbooking nonsense

Kurt Angle defeated Triple H (w/Stephanie McMahon as Special Guest Referee) (14:40)-***
another very solid match but again overbooking killed most of it

Chris Jericho defeated Steve Austin to retain the Undisputed WWF Championship (21:34)-***1/2
a pretty good main event.

Comment-meh show

Rating-6.5/10

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WWE Royal Rumble 2002

30-Man Royal Rumble Match
Winner Gets Undisputed Title Shot At WrestleMania X8-***1/2
the usual solild rumble with the highlight with Maven taking Taker out the rumble and then getting his ass kicked.

Undisputed WWF Championship
Chris Jericho vs. The Rock-****
this was match going towards ****1/2 area but the stupid ending stop that other that it's sorta of a lost great match.

Street Fight (no DQ, no countout)
Vince McMahon vs. Ric Flair-***
the Flair carrying a boomstick to a good match theory happens here.

WWF Women's Championship
Trish Stratus vs. Jazz
with Special Referee Jacqueline-**
solid womans match

WWF Intercontinental Championship
Edge vs. William Regal-**1/2
decent match but there different don't mesh all the time.

WWF Tag Team Championship
Spike & Tazz vs. the Dudley Boyz with Stacy Keibler-**
decent opener

Comment-an entertaing show with some stupid booking

Rating-7.5

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WWE: HBK-Heartbreal & Trumph dvd review

The program-Another great program from WWE. Stellar documentary. Probably the second best one this year right behend the four horseman docmentary. It's very frank with some bull shit. . This more of clompentary set to inside the vault dvd. Now..I'm just waiting for the WCCW documentary that is coming out next month.

Billy Haynes (w/Sunshine) vs. Sean Michaels (WCCW TV — January 11, 1985).-*
basic squash

AWA Tag Team Titles: Buddy Rose & Doug Somers (w/Sherri Martel) vs. The Midnight Rockers (02.10.87).-**1/2
a decent tag match but no real heat to it.

AWA Tag Team Titles: The Midnight Rockers vs. Ninja Go & Super Ninja (06.12.87).-***
another solid tag team match

The Rockers vs. The Brainbusters (01.23.89).-****
a great tag match.

WWF Tag Team Titles, 2/3 Falls: The Hart Foundation vs. The Rockers (10/90).-**1/2
pretty sloppy match but historical reason this is a must see for the rope breaking and the Rockers title win that "never" happen.

Opening Match: The Rockers vs. The Orient Express (w/Mr. Fuji — "Royal Rumble" 01.19.91).-****
a very great and hot opener

Intercontinental Title: The British Bulldog vs. Shawn Michaels (w/Sherri — SNME, 11.08.92).-***
a solid tv match

Royal Rumble 1995.-**1/2
one of the worst rumbles because of 30 min. intervel times and too many jobbers.

Intercontinental Title: Jeff Jarrett (w/Roadie) vs. Shawn Michaels ("In Your House II" 7.23.95).-****1/2
A lost classic and Probably Jarrett best match ever.

WWF Heavyweight Title: Shawn Michaels vs. The British Bulldog (w/Jim Cornette & Diana Hart-Smith — "King of the Ring" 06.23.96).-***12
another good match for this set

World Heavyweight Title: Triple H (w/Ric Flair) vs. Shawn Michaels ("Raw" — 12.29.03).-****1/2
one of the greatest tv matches of all time

The Rockers vs. La Resistance ("Raw" — 03.14.05).-**1/2
a nice and fun match.

Kurt Angle vs. Shawn Michaels ("Vengeance" — 06.26.05).-****1/2
not as good as their first match at Mania but still damn good

Shawn Michaels vs. John Cena ("Raw" — 04.23.07).-****1/2
The best match I have seen so far this year.

Comment-another great dvd but I think that the ladder match dvd is the best on this year. Stellar documentary & rare and great matches.

Rating-8.5

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WWE Suriver Series 2001 and Vengeance Review

Team WWF vs, Team Alliance
Winner-Take-All Elimination Match:
The Rock Stone Cold Steve Austin
Chris Jericho Kurt Angle
Undertaker vs. Rob Van Dam
Kane Booker T
Big Show Shane McMahon
-****
a pretty good main event match. Hot opening and ending. Little bit slow in the middle.

Six-Pack Challenge for the Women's Championship:
Lita vs. Jacqueline vs. Trish vs. Ivory vs. Mighty Molly vs. Jazz-*1/2
solid for womans match

Immunity Invitational Battle Royal Match:
Featuring 22 WCW & WWF Superstars-*
basic battle royale

Steel Cage Tag Team Championship Unification Match:
Hardy Boyz (WWF Tag Team Champions) vs. Dudley Boyz (WCW Tag Team Champions)-***
good spotfest

Championship Unification Match:
Edge (WCW U.S. Champion) vs. Test (WWF Intercontinental Champion)-**
decent match

Tajiri vs. Alliance Commissioner William Regal-*
basic match

WWF European Championship:
Christian (champion) vs. Al Snow-*
basic match

Comment-this is one match ppv. alough the match delivered but the other did not

rating-6.5

WWF Vengeance

Final Championship Match to Determine the Undisputed Champion:
-Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. Chris Jericho-***
a solid main event

WWF Championship:
-Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. Kurt Angle-***1/2
the usual solid angle/austin match with Angle great sell job of the stunner

World Championship:
-The Rock vs. Chris Jericho-****
another solid match for these two

WWF Women's Championship:
-Trish Stratus vs. Jacqueline-**
alright

WWF Hardcore Championship:
Rob Van Dam vs. Undertaker-***
pretty decent hardcore match

WWF Tag Team Championship:
Dudley Boyz vs. Big Show & Kane-**
basic tag match

Jeff Hardy vs. Matt Hardy-*
Special Referee: Lita
trainwrack

WWF Intercontinental Championship:
-Edge vs. William Regal-**1/2
a solid match

Scotty 2 Hotty & Albert vs. Test & Christian-**
a decent opener

comment-first sucked but the second half was gold.

Rating-7.0