WWE SmackDown! House Show
San Francisco, C.A.
5-14-05
By: Submission Specialist, rajah.com reader
CRUISERWEIGHT BATTLE ROYAL
Winner : Paul London def Chavo,Kidman,Akio,Shannon Moore,Scotty 2 Hotty and Nunzio
During this match I chanted Chavo and the crowd replied with SUCKS!
Matt Morgan .vs. Funaki
Winner : Matt Morgan
I recieved a few laughs when I chanted "Let's Go Mmmmat!"
CARLITO'S CABANA
Carlito's Guest was Theodore Long(Unfortunetly) who was then interupted by Big Show who came out beat the crap out of Carlito and Carlito left to the back and that was the end of that.
WWE Tag Team Titles
[c] MNM .vs. Hardcore Holly and Charlie Haas
Winners : MNM
Kurt Angle .vs. Booker T
Winner : Booker T
When people started chanting You Suck to Angle I turned around and pointed to them and started chanting You Suck which helped with some people who agreed with me that Angle Dosen't Suck!
Eddie Guerrero .vs. Rey Mysterio
Winner : Rey Mysterio By DQ
Eddie Guerrero gave Mysterio a low blow when he tried going for his finisher.
Eddie Sucks chants broke out, but you could hear people who disagreed and as people chanted Eddie Sucks some other people at the same time chanted Rey Sucks. Over all Rey had the crowd more than Eddie.
Heidenreich .vs. Spike Dudley
Winner : Heidenreich
I got a Heidenreich chanted going and he looked to the audience and began edging them on to chant his name. Which they did and he recieved a nice response as everyone wanted to be his friend.
Handicap Match
John Cena .vs. JBL and O.J.
Special Guest Ref : Roddy Piper
Winner : John Cena
During the intermission I chanted JBL and was hoping others would too, unfortunetly I got 2 people behind me and others were brain washed by rap star turned wrestler Vanilla Ice.
Note : The show over all was worth the price of admission. It was like a ppv a full 3 hours long, and what made this night just a little memorable was that Theodore Long announced that Hot Rod Roddy Piper would be the special guest referee in the Main Event was a replacement for a no show for Taker.
WWE Smackdown presents Wrestlemania Revenge!
San Francisco, CA
5/14/05
By: Vortex
Well the show was a blast as are all the WWE shows. They mixed up the card a bit so
some matches
ended up getting changed around. Here are the results.
Paul London retained the Cruiserweight title after throwing Chavo Guerrero out.
Pretty solid opener. Nothing special really. No top rope maneuvers to mention except
London's
double stomp from the top. Near the end, Kidman and Chavo worked together to try and
eliminate
London. Kidman set London in the corner, and told Chavo to give him a running
clothesline. Chavo
ran at him, but Kidman gave him a HUGE dropkick.
Heidenreich def. Spike Dudley
Basically Heidenreich came out and asked if he had any friends in San Francisco
which got him a
pretty good pop. He went up to some kid in the front row and asked him if he'd be
his friend. The
kid didn't respond, and I don't think he wanted to be near Big John as he had to ask
the kid to
come here a couple times. Heidenreich then read the same poem he read on Smackdown
last week.
Heidenreich's face character is working out so well IMO.
Matt Morgan def. Funaki
Pretty lame match. Was over in less then ten minutes. Morgan cut a promo afterwards
telling
everyone not to m-m-m-m-mess with Matt Mmmmmmorgan.
Carlito's Cabana!! Basically he interviewed Theodore Long and asked Long how it felt
to be on
another show, and not be in charge. Long replied by saying he was just about to ask
you the same
thing dawg. Long then said that Undertaker wouldn't be here tonight (huge boos, and
funny stuff
from Carlito as he laid down and pretended to go to sleep), but Long said he was
gonna make it up
to us. He said that he made some calls earlier, and he assigned a special guest
referee for the
main event: "Rowdy" Roddy Piper! Screaming from myself ensued. After that, Long said
that there
was someone in the back who wanted to talk to you, and I don't even think I need to
say his name.
Big Show then came out, and beat up Carlito with some chops, and a couple headbutts.
Carlito ran
away, and Big Show followed.
Booker T def. Kurt Angle
Angle was supposed to wrestle 'Taker, so when I found out Taker woulnd't be here, I
was praying
for this. Not a bad match at all. Angle was playing with the crowd with the old
"goes in the ring,
but then rolls out to decide if he wants to do this". At one point, Angle tried to
leave, but
Booker ran after him and slammed his head on the guard rails. The only thing I
didn't like about
this match was the end. Booker controlled the entire end with a Book End, a leg
lariat, a Super
Kick, and then the Scissors Kick for the win. A good match anyway.
Miss Jackie and Michelle McCool come out to shoot T-shirts.
Intermission
WWE Tag Team Championships
MNM def. Hardcore Holly and Charlie Haas
Definitly the match of the night. Lots of good back and forth action. Towards the
beginning, Joey
Mercury got mad at Hardcore and slapped him. Hardcore looked at the crowd as if to
say "damn
rookies never learn", turned around and gave him the loudest slap to the face I have
ever heard.
Joey fell down and rolled out of the ring. At one point, Melinna slapped Charlie
when the ref
wasn't looking, and I thought Hardcore was legit pissed. He ran in the ring, and ran
out to chase
Melinna AT FULL SPEED, none of that "oh she's just a little bit faster then me"
crap. After that,
Nitro saw Hardcore and started running too. Hardcore took a shortcut through the
ring, and tried
to catch them but the ref made him get back in his corner. Charlie tagged in
Hardcore, and
Hardcore cleaned house. He set up Mercury for the Alabama Slam, but Nitro ran in and
gave Hardcore
a Super Kick when the ref wasn't looking, and Mercury rolled him up for the win.
Rey Mysterio def. Eddie Guerrero by DQ
This was one I was looking forward to. Kind of a slow start as it took Eddie about 5
minutes to
decide if he was gonna do this or not. A lot of tech stuff in this match. Both men
did their
trademark moves, except no Frog Splash from Eddie. For some reason, Rey couldn't
properly hit the
619. He kept getting tangled in the ropes, but after he hit it, he held his knee so
he may have
hurt himself earlier. Rey went for the West Coast Pop, but Eddie gave him a mid-air
low blow.
Eddie then went for a chair, and tried for a repeat of lasw week's show, but
referee's ran in and
stopped him.
WWE Championship
John Cena def. JBL & Orlando Jordan
I was kinda surprised that this was for the WWE title. Roddy Piper came out first to
a standing O.
Me and my brother were wondering if he was going to get involved or not. JBL and O.J
came out to
plenty of boos. Funny stuff from JBL calling San Francisco Sacramento. Then he said
"We are in
Sacramento, right?" O.J whispered something in his ear, and JBL said something along
the lines of
"well both cities suck anyway". JBL looked at Piper and said "I don't know if you
knew Piper, but
he is not Mr. T (pointing to O.J), and I'm not Hulk Hogan". Roddy then went to shake
each mens
hand, but he wiped his hands on his pants when he shook Jordans hands which was
pretty funny. John
Cena then came out to a HUGE pop. All of Cena's trademark moves were hit, including
the 5 Knuckle
Shuffle, and the shoe pumping thing. At one point Cena went for a pin, but O.J was
coming and Cena
moved and OJ elbowed JBL. OJ got up and was met by a clothesline from Cena, and went
for a pin,
but JBL was coming and Cena moved and made JBL elbow OJ. JBL and OJ started arguing,
and Cena
clotheslined them both which was funny as hell. JBL got on the mic and said "Screw
you Cena, screw
you Piper. Count me out, I don't give a damn. I'll see you at the PPV!". Then they
started to
leave, but Cena ran up and hit them both, and made them knock their heads. JBL
argued with Piper
and Piper socked JBL, and Cena hit the F-U on OJ for the win. Cena got on the mic
afterwards and
said "San Francisco, stand the F up, and represent!" which got a big pop. Then he
said that there
were two things wrong with JBL tonight. For one, there are about 10,000 people
(don't know where
he got that number) who want to kick his ass, and he had the nerve to call San
Francisco
Sacramento. I left after that, but I know he kept talking for a few more minutes
because I was at
the merch stand, and by the time I got my shirt, I heard his music play.
Other notes-
Cow Palace wasn't full, roughly about 65-70% of the arena was though. Crowd was hot
for everyone
except Morgan/Funaki. Frisco LOVES Cena. A mountain of boos when Teddy Long said
Undertaker wasn't
going to be there, but were happy again when we found out Roddy Piper was in the
building.
