The NeelDown Video Review: WWE Backlash 2003

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– Okay, first thing’s first, the Monty Brown Hard Justice promo. Let me first say that I have NEVER seen anything in pro wrestling quite this funny. Nope, not the Shockmaster entrance. Nope, not Vader falling off the apron on Raw (or Scott Steiner falling off the apron at Bad Blood against Test, for that matter), the screen freezing on Sacrifice, not Great American Bash 1991. Nope, it is the Monty Brown promo from Hard Justice 2006!

– We all know the story, we’ve all seen the YouTube video. There was time that needed to be killed while the fire was being handled and to herd the crowd back in. So we have an interview with the guy who has never cut an interview worth a crap, the Alpha Male, Monty Brown. Totally unrehearsed, unscripted, 100% natural. One of the other funniest things is to watch Mike Tenay’s facial expressions throughout it, because he knows what a mess they’re in. So, as a present here is my translation to the whole interview! I’ll try my best …

Monty Brown: “Ya feel that? Ya FEEL THAT? Well let me tell ya something, let me blaze ya, group y’all together and blaze y’all all at one time. Starting with you, Joe. FAT JOE! You want a falls count anywhere, any time, any place match with the Alpha Male? And you … (Monty now slaps his chest, mocking) Rhino!”

– Okay, let’s pause. From that beginning, it looks like, actually Monty is doing a good job. He is keeping a straight face (although the interviewer, Tenay is not quite), being energetic, and promoting his match tonight with Samoa Joe and Rhino. Good start. Now let’s see how things progress …

“The ONLY ( … pause … ) CARNIVORE on the Serengeti, is the Alpha Male.”

Mike Tenay: “Fat Joe?! He’s the undefeated Samoan submission machine! Well over a year Samoa Joe has been here has never been pinned, never submitted. You have the opportunity to break that streak later on tonight, but you also have to deal with the War Machine.”

Monty Brown: (In a singing voice) “Hey Joe, why are you running around with that cheeseburger in your hand?”

– Okay, wait. Is this somehow supposed to be mocking the classic Jimi Hendrix song, or is he just continuing on making Samoa Joe fat jokes? Either way, a singing Monty Brown is priceless, and worth the price of a PPV alone.

Monty Brown: “And you Rhino? Haha, I got something for both of you! Like I said, I’m blazin everybody tonight. Joe, you may be undefeated going in, but you won’t be undefeated going out. You know, and the Alpha Male knows, that no one can STOP the most dominant male in two feet, teed up from the feet up constantly, and looking so flll-ll-lll-llllly! And that is the war that I am going to bring to the (in a high, squealing pitched voice, and also making a retarded face) War Machine, Rhino! Because he cannot deal with the Alpha Male. You don’t want to admit it I know Don, you don’t want to admit it Tenay, but the truth remains the same. The Alpha Male was here, the Alpha Male was the first, the Alpha Male will be the last. I AM THE ALPHA MALE. THE ALPHA MALE IS ME. HE IS I, AND I AM HIM.”

– Okay, now thing’s are just out of hand. First of all we have Monty singing how he is “fly.” And basically the whole thing was him finding new variations of how his nickname is the “Alpha Male.” His impressions of others wrestlers are atrocious. And finally, in one of my favorite parts, he has nothing better to add so he says that last sentence. That one had me really going. But wait! It gets better!

Monty Brown: “And Joe … you call him what you want. I call him a HIPPOPHANT. Half hippo, half elephant. Hippophant. And you Rhino … a herbivore, you’re a plant eater!”

– Okay, I have no jokes to pull out on Monty inventing the word “hippophant.” I mean, he has already sang a song about Joe being fat in which he runs around with a cheeseburger in his hand. So what’s next? Combine the words hippo and elephant! And also, what kind of insult is calling some a plant eater? All right, that’s all. I decided not to do the last part, which just featured a Poooooooooooounce and so on.

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The NeelDown: Backlash 2003

– From Worcester, Massachusetts

– Hosts are Jerry Lawler, Jonathan Coachman, Tazz, & Michael Cole

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The Self-Proclaimed World’s Greatest Tag Team v. Los Guerreros – SmackDown Tag Team Championship

Team Angle bring out a portrait of Kurt, respectively. Haas starts with Eddie, and grabs an armbar. Eddie floats over into a front facelock and Haas gets a quick press then they stand off. Eddie takes him down in a headlock and shoulders him down for two. Snapmare by Eddie gets two. Cradle gets two. Eddie makes a cocky tag to Chavo, and Shelton comes in. Chavo gets a quick hammerlock but Benjamin reveres to an arm wringer. Chavo reverses that and takes him down by the leg for two. Benjamin sweeps him for two.

Chavo works on the arm and tags in Eddie who slugs him down for two. Back in comes Chavo who continues to work on Benjamin’s arm with an armbar. Benjamin gets out with a scoop and a slam but Eddie slows down his momentum with the evil heel kick from the apron antic. Chavo chokes Benjamin with the tag rope while the ref’s distracted. Shelton gets dumped and Eddie chops him, then rolls him back in where Chavo drops him with a back suplex for two. Eddie springs in with the signature rolling senton thing for two. Back suplex by Eddie forces Benjamin to tag out to Haas who back drops Eddie and works him over in the corner.

Benjamin returns the favor of choking with the tag rope, then gets a snap suplex on Eddie for two. Team Angle get the self-proclaimed BEST TAG TEAM MANEUVER EVER, where Haas hangs Eddie into the ropes like a wheel barrel and Shelton jumps on his back. That gets two. We hit the rear choke point, applied by Haas on Eddie. I’ll let it slide for an opening match in this one. Eddie elbows out and gets a suplex to break it. Eddie goes to dive for a tag but Haas catches him and slams him down in a spinebuster, in a spot you don’t see ever day. “Holy double leg!” proclaims Tazz.

Benjamin comes in off of no tag and rear chokes Eddie. Eddie tries crawling to make the tag but the technically sound Benjamin reels him in with an ankle lock, then gives him a T-Bone suplex, which would later be his finisher in his singles career, for two. Back to the rear choke, and a tag to Haas who hangs Eddie in a backbreaker submission. Eddie fights out and gets a headscissors, then finally makes the diving hot tag to Chavo, who dropkicks Benjamin and back drops Haas. In short, “cleaning house.” Haas misses a corner splash and hits Benjamin, then Chavo dropkicks them both. A suplex on Haas gets two, but Benjamin then nails him with a big jackknife powerbomb.

However, he turns around into an Eddie missile dropkick. Rolling verticals time for Haas, which gets a close two. Chavo gets the pop up dropkick on Haas, followed by the Frog Splash from Eddie, but he isn’t legal. So, wisely, Chavo goes for the cover, but Benjamin yanks Chavo out JUST in time. Chavo tries to back suplex Haas near the ropes, but Benjamin sweeps him and Haas drops on top of him for the pin and to retain the tag titles. Afterwards as the heels are hugging the Kurt Angle portrait, Eddie launches Chavo onto them and steal the tag straps, because you can cheat even after you lose, I guess. The Guerreros then drive away in a lowrider. Expectedly, a good hot opener. (***1/4)

Winners: The Self-Proclaimed World’s Greatest Tag Team

– Meanwhile in the back, Torrie tells Test to stop calling her and so on, and tries to leave, but Test grabs her and makes out with her. Sable apparently was watching the whole thing.

Sean O’Haire v. Rikishi

Let me refresh you with the classic story here, if I may. Piper has just made his “triumphant” return to the WWE at WrestleMania XIX, and “turned heel” again by running on the Hogan-Vince match, brutally attacking Hogan with the sport’s favorite Clue boardgame weapon, a lead pipe. Then, he brought back Piper’s Pit on SmackDown (which was the show nobody cared about besides the Lesnar freaks), and blindly aligned himself as managing Sean O’Haire, who similarly made his return in January with buildup promos of him being some sort of Devil’s Advocate role. Some of his vignettes included:

– Blasphemy in telling people that it is a stupid idea to go to church.

– It is perfectly fine to break the law. In fact, it is encouraged.

– Committing adultery is A-okay, in fact, it should be the right thing to do.

– Paying taxes is for idiots. Do not pay your taxes.

His catchphrase to end all of the vignettes was “but hey, I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know.” A few months later, he is managed by wrestling legend, Roddy Piper. Good idea, right? Well, then came a good old “breaking the kayfabe” moment when Piper spilt some details on the “darker sides of wrestling” in a HBO interview with Bryant Gumble. Yep, he was released. That left O’Haire to squash jobbers on Velocity, and eventually he was released. But anyway, here we are reliving the whole Snuka coconut incident, as Piper has nailed Rikishi with one, and he is a relative of Snuka or something.

The match! Rikishi is angry and comes out to feed O’Haire to the steps right from the get-go. Inside Rikishi adds some clotheslines and the samoan drop. Rikishi gets distracted by Piper and walks into a superkick. Piper adds some cheap shots and O’Haire gets a corner clothesline for two. Yawn, neck vice time. O’Haire shows off his MMA background with some kicks to the seated Rikishi. Rikishi ducks a spin kick and it’s Celluliteface time. However, O’Haire makes a lot of Celluliteface victims of the past look stupid, as he simply counters out of it by kicking Rikishi by the ass.

Piper tries to get involved with a coconut, and they collide with superkicks. Piper comes in again, but Rikishi busts the coconut over his head. However, he then turns around and falls victim to O’Haire’s reverse Valley Driver finisher, and that’ll get him the pin. Short and to the point, and not pretty. (1/4*)

Winner: Sean O’Haire

– In the back Stacy hits up the salad bar, then runs into Sable who tells her that Torrie is Test’s girlfriend. Stacy does not believe, but Sable reminds her that Test got that reserve issue of Playboy and everything. This upsets Stacy, who then ruins a perfectly fine fruit salad plate by throwing it on the ground.

– RVD tries to reason with Kane, and Kane responds by saying that they will take the Dudleyz down. Simple and relatively harmless enough.

Kane & Rob Van Dam v. The Dudley Boyz – RAW Tag Team Championship

That’s right, Sean Morely is your special guest referee. There’s something about this crowd that just always seems dull. You never hear much of any reaction, really, despite when Piper was stirring them up earlier. Every now and then you just DREAD having to review a match. This is one of those instances, I’m afraid.

Bubba slugs RVD down to start and tries a hip toss but RVD gets out and sweeps him. Bubba drops a spin kick and tries a powerbomb, but RVD slides out and they stand off like true comic book heroes. That sequence looked awfully silly. Now, if you replaced Bubba with, oh, I don’t know, Chris Benoit and made it a real reversal into standoff opening sequence, it might be plausible. RVD stops to taunt and is met with a lariat. Bubba mocks the chant and in return gets knocked down with a spin kick for two. Big clothesline by Bubba out of the corner and in comes D’Von who continues to ground RVD, but he comes back with a spin kick and leg drop for two.

Kane comes in as D’Von is trapped in an arm wringer and works on it himself, dropping a leg on the arm. Kane gets a reverse elbow and then drops an elbow. D’Von pokes the eyes and hammers away but, like so many do, runs straight into a big boot. D’Von is able to manage the flying forearm for two, then tags in Bubba who charges into a Big Red BEATDOWN. Bubba gets a bulldog for two. Kane spinebuster gets two. RVD gets fancy and gets a seated dropkick in the corner, then gets a spin kick and split leg moonsault for two. The unlikely duo is finally slowed down when Bubba blocks a monkey flip out of the corner by shoving RVD off.

He proceeds to give him a side slam and a scoop and a slam, then it’s wazzzzzzzzup headbut time to the “place where the sun don’t even think about shinin.'” D’Von leg lariats RVD for two, called an elbow by Coach. Rear choke time. Tag to Bubba, and well, it’s still rear choke time. RVD fights out but, in one of the fine showcase of why you should not sport long hair in professional wrestling, rule number 73: Once you fight out of a rest hold, you will get hairmared back down to the mat. RVD is able to get a spinning heel kick and gets the hot tag to Kane who cleans house on the DUDleyz, side slam on D’Von gets two. RVD comes in off the top with a mule kick.

Rolling Thunder on Bubba, but he tries going up top and D’Von wisely counters to a neckbreaker. Kane comes off the top with the flying clothesline, Bubba tries the shuffling punches but is caught with a Chokeslam, however Morely goes downstairs on Kane. Morely slides Kane to the floor and tries clotheslining RVD, but he accidentally hits Bubba. That pisses off D’Von, who attacks Morely. Lance Storm appears, with a flying clothesline on D’Von, but Bubba gives him the Bubba Bomb. So Morely continues to try to attack the Dudleyz, but gets 3-D’ed. Chokeslam and 5* on Bubba thankfully ends it, as reluctantly we have a real, fresh ref to not complicate things more. Ugly, ugly, ugly mess. The referee was practically a participant of the match. (*3/4)

Winners: Kane & Rob Van Dam

– Meanwhile, the frenzy of triangle love storyline between Stacy, Test and Torrie continues in the diva’s lockeroom, where Stacy calls Torrie a bitch and they catfight. Speaking of cats, a real one runs past them as they fight in a funny spot. I have no idea why, but it’s funny. The idea of this whole thing is that we see Stacy walking around in a pink miniskirt a lot.

Trish Stratus v. Jazz – Women’s Championship

Theodore Long is managing Jazz at this point in his career, who says that Jazz will rise to the top and defeat Trish. Believe dat, playa. Jazz feels him because the bitch is back, and the bitch is black. Believe dat. Close staredown to start and Jazz grabs a quick hammerlock. Trish comes back with one of her own and takes her down the gets a creative roll up for two. Backbreaker by Jazz, but Trish comes back with a lariat for two. Jazz slams her down face-first and drops some knees to the injured ribs/back.

Trish flips out of a sideslam and gets one of her own for two. Jazz hairmares her down and gets a jumping … sit. Jazz exposes the turnbuckle, but Trish gets a backslide for two. Schoolboy by Jazz gets two. They trade punches, won out by Trish but a charge to the corner meets boot Trish tries to retaliate with the top rope rana, but Jazz blocks it and slams her down while applying a Boston Crab! Trish reverses out of it and gets a double Boston Crab, then locks in her own STF, but Jazz gets the ropes. Holy crap, this is a women’s match? Trish chops her boobs then gets the Chick Kick, but only for two.

Jazz comes back with a nice-looking high dropkick for two. Trish slips out of a back suplex and gets the Stratusphaction, Theodore creatively breaks up the pin by throwing his shoe and hitting Trish in the head. Jazz tries to catch her off guard with a roll up, but that fails. Trish tries the bulldog again, but Jazz blocks it so she tries a sunset flip instead, but Jazz falls on top of her and hooks the ropes for the pin and the title. This was one of the best Women’s Division matches you’ll probably ever see. Could be looking at around *** + if they let it go more than five minutes. (**3/4)

Winner: Jazz

– Booker and Shawn wonder if Big Kev is ready. He says he is. Okay.

Big Show v. Rey Mysterio

Oh, this has disaster written all over it. ALL over it. However, it does supply us with the crowd sign of the night: Big Show loves Cher. It takes a true creative mind to come up with that one. Rey plays it safe on the outside to start, and has Show chase him in and out. Show gets mad and kicks the steps over. As Show gets in, Rey springs off the ropes and dropkicks him, but then gets tossed into the corner where he takes a whiplash bump. A fat chop puts Rey on the floor, where Show lifts him up by his head. Rey skins the cat while on the apron, but springs in and gets caught, then dropped into a backbreaker.

Show steps on him then lifts him up and drops him, but Rey lands on his feet and kicks away, but Show slaps him sending him to the floor. Rare, funny commentary line of the night comes when Rey pulls out a chair from under the ring, and Tazz suggests that maybe he’s looking for the Marine Core. Show leans over the ropes and gets wacked by the chair, Rey follows with a senton for two. Rey gets a pair of 619’s to get Show in position for a regular one, and there’s one more. However, Show no-sells that and Chokeslams him for the pin. This was your average short cat and mouse contest. (-*) The EMT’s come out and put Rey on a stretcher, but Show comes back out and slams the strapped Rey into the post, where he nearly falls on his head. Uh huh.

Winner: Big Show

– Lillian, playing HHH backstage interviewed role, confronts HHH about Nash being angry at him. HHH has no worries, because he has Ric Flair and the King of the World on his team. HHH says he told Kevin he didn’t want to be against him, and tonight he’ll find out what it means to be against The Game.

– Apparently Stacy and Torrie are still going at it in the back, where Stacy gets shoved into a cabinet and a plastic box of supplies falls on her head. Brownie points for pushing her hard enough into it to actually make the box fall off, although a worker was probably just standing behind it to push it off. Big Poppa Sump Pump makes the save, but they run into Pop Quiz. Thing is, both guys have no personality, so it works out pretty well.

Brock Lesnar v. John Cena – WWE Championship

The background is that Cena won some tournament on SmackDown to get the title shot, but I don’t remember much of it. Cena is in his mega-Vanilla Ice, for lack of a better term that might offend some of you, stage at this point. That is supposed to rile up the crowd for the better, but instead they chant that the Yankees suck. Oh, and Cena is wearing a NYY Roger Clemens jersey.

Cena jumps him to start and takes him to the corner but Lesnar gives him some knees and a the two backbreakers combo, topped off with a fallaway slam. Cool. Pair of suplexes by Brock get two. Lesnar applies a front facelock and Cena tries fighting back, but Lesnar press slams him and tosses him to the floor where Brock feeds him to the announce table. Back in Cena bails off of a whip and tries to get a chair, but Lesnar follows him and interrupts that. Cena finally amount some kind of offense, by sending Lesnar to the steps.

That gets two back inside, and Brock is now bleeding. Back suplex gets two. Some slow stomping follows. That gets two. Reverse elbow gets two. Is this really the best offense Cena can muster? Stomps for a couple of minutes and then an elbow? Geez. Lesnar fights back with knees out of the corner but Cena gets a sloppy running shoulder that draws no crowd reaction. Lesnar gets sent to the post, and that gets two inside. …………………. and it’s rear choke time. A lengthy one at that. Brock fights out but Cena gets a DDT for two. Brock comes back with a big spinebuster for a double-KO spot, which I think was well needed. Cena gets a jawbreaker and a sloppy clothesline for two … annnnnd we’re back to the rear choke stage. To make it a little more interesting, he grapevines it. Eventually Lesnar breaks it and both guys are tired.

Lesnar gets some clotheslines and a snap powerslam for two. To the corner for the shoulder blocks, and yet another slam gets two. Lesnar nearly bumps the ref and Cena low blows him then gets a schoolboy for two. Cena gets his old neckbreaker but then gets driven into the turnbuckle. Cena gets the steel chain but Hebner makes him get rid of it, and a F5 finishes it. This was incredibly dull, making both guys look anything but ready to be in this big of matches. The incredibly long rear chokes did nothing but make it look bad too, but if anything else, at least they kept it to a semi-reasonable length and didn’t overkill it, although it came close. (*1/2)

Winner: Brock Lesnar

Triple H, Ric Flair & Chris Jericho v. Booker T, Shawn Michaels & Kevin Nash

Jericho starts with Michaels, and they go back and fourth. Michaels shoulders him down and tries a german but Jericho elbows out and pounds on him. He tries a suplex but Michaels gets out and rolls him up. They do a series of reversals with variations of pins, including a bridge into a backslide for two by Shawn. Jericho counters a dropkick into a Walls attempt, but Shawn kicks him off and arm drags him into an armbar. Tag to Nash who bullies Jericho around and tosses him, then signals for HHH to get in. He goes, but then Jericho runs back in and attacks.

Jericho however gets tossed again, but hangs on to the ropes and pulls himself back in Royal Rumble style. Nash big boots him then, and tags out to Booker who gets a flapjack slam for two. Booker gets chop happy in the corner but a charge meets elbow. Jericho tries coming off the second rope but is met with a Booker flapjack. Jericho rushes Booker into the heel corner and tags in HHH who gets side kicked by Booker for two. Booker chops away but is met with a facebuster. Booker pounds his way back into it but runs straight into a spinebuster. What the hell, the facebuster and spinebuster already?

Flair comes in and tries dropping and elbow but Booker rolls out of the way. Shawn comes back in and tees off on Flair then gets a back drop. Jericho tries getting involved, but he gets back dropped to the floor Shawn gets the flying forearm on Flair, and it’s superkick time for Flair. However, HHH then Pedigrees him. Nash comes in to aid Shawn, but HHH bails. Jericho comes in and we’re back to square one with he and Shawn. Jericho drops a series of elbows on him, then flexes and adds a last one for two. HHH is back in, and he slugs it out with Shawn. HHH gets the WRATH OF THE KNEE on Shawn, Booker breaks up the count. Flair is apparently legal now, and he tries the Figure Four but Shawn rolls him up for two.

Tag to Jericho who gives Shawn a backdrop suplex then goes to the bow and arrow stretch. Tag to HHH who crotches Shawn with the post and adds a shot to Booker, for good measure. The heels isolate Shawn in their corner and Flair works on his leg. Flair tries the chops, but Shawn fires back with punches and gets an enzigiri. Shoulderblock by Shawn gets two. Dueling tags and yes, it is HHH and Nash. Nash cleans house via a bunch of boring crap. Flair gets clotheslined to the floor. Big boot for Jericho. Snake eyes for HHH. “Mammoth” side slam gets two after Flair breaks up the pin. Chops won’t effect Flair, and Booker gives him a spin kick. However, Jericho tosses Booker. Jericho is able to manage some offense on Nash, but he gets slammed down.

HHH tries a Pedigree on Nash but gets backdropped. Nash sets up for the powerbomb but Jericho breaks that up with a missile dropkick. Booker takes care of Jericho and gives him the Scissor Kick. Weak leaping kick to Flair and it’s spinaroonie time. Jericho ducks a leg lariat but nonetheless gets tossed, for about the seventh time in this match. Meanwhile Nash and HHH brawl on the ramp, Booker and Jericho at ringside, leaving Flair and Shawn in the ring. Flair takes his annual toss off the top and Shawn sets up for the SCM, but Jericho sneaks in and bulldogs him, leaving Flair to lock him in the Figure Four, with a moonsault from Jericho to boot.

Jericho has Shawn on the Walls now, and Nash comes in to break it up rather than powerbomb HHH through the Spanish table. Darn. Nash tries a powerbomb on Jericho, but Flair breaks it up and gets shoved into the ref, as if this clustered mess didn’t have the physiology of a ref even being there already. The powerbomb proceeds on Jericho, but HHH runs in and clocks Nash with the sledgehammer, ref wakes up, bam there’s your pin. Out of place finish there, but I guess when HHH, whether it be in singles or a six-man tag match, needs a win, just throw in a random sledgehammer shot and you’re set. Solid stuff until the clustered couple of minutes. (***)

Winners: Triple H, Ric Flair & Chris Jericho

The Rock v. Goldberg

Rock stalls for a while to get in to start. The crowd is way behind Rock here, which was not needed. Oh, now they’re chanting for Goldberg too. Lawler’s explanation is that they are all jealous that Rock is a big Hollywood star. They stall some more with a stare off and finally the bell rings. Lockup is won by Goldberg who powers him down, drawing boos. The Rock: “You are in trouble now!” Another tie-up, and again Rock gets shoved down, this time to the floor. Back in Rock slaps him so Goldberg pounds on him and shoulders him down, then clotheslines him to the floor.

The commentators are busy talking about their music preferences, such as “Snoop Doggy Dog” and Barry Manilow as we do more stalling, with Rock threatening to walk out on the match. He skins the cat and gets back in and clotheslines him down. Rock slugs away, but Goldberg gets his own version of the Rock Bottom and tries an early Spear, but Rock scouts it and the Spear meets pole, which Goldberg oversells and falls to the floor. Rock hauls him back in and locks in the Sharpshooter, but Goldberg inches to the ropes.

Rock gets pissed that he has to break it, so he shoves the ref then goes downstairs on Goldberg, which the crowd loves. However, Goldberg gets up and Spears him with the non-injured shoulder out of nowhere. The do a sloppy whip reverse sequence that Goldberg gets a shoulder out of, then a powerslam for two. The only thing preventing this from behind a total squash, of course, is Goldberg selling the shoulder. Rock works on the shoulder with some clotheslines but can’t knock him down, but a spinebuster does the trick. Rock Bottom gets a CLOSE two, almost Kurt Angle close, but I think they might have whiffed on it. Well, I love those close kick outs, so I appreciate the effort from Bill.

Clothesline by Goldberg, but his shoulder is hurt, and Rock gives him another spinebuster. People’s Elbow connects for another close two. At least the crowd has kept things interesting throughout this one. There’s another Spear, drawing “Goldberg sucks” chants, and there’s a third. Jackhammer, and there’s the pin, to mixed reactions. Match was pretty crappy, I think only a bout seven wrestling moves were done here, not to mention the match involved two Spears, two Rock Bottoms, and two spinebusters. The idea was just for Goldberg to come into WWE go over a hot name, but the crowd was behind of course Rock for obvious reasons. ( * )

Winner: Goldberg

End of show. See you in the SummerSlam roundtable and for Raw.