The first SNME in over a decade starts with Vince and Shane outback talking about how HBK disrespected him and his family. Shane says he’s going to take HBK to hell in a street fight.
HBK says that if he’s going to hell, he’s taking Shane with him.
HHH says he is the game, the king of kings and at WM he will become the 11 time champion when he defeats Cena. “But tonight...” And the a hand waves in front of HHH’s face and he doesn’t look pleased about it.
Cena butts in and tells HHH that tonight he gets to tag with the champ, lucky for him. Cena says the champ is here.
JBL has a fake moustache on. He says he’s not Earl it’s JBL and he’s made a little list of all the bad things he’s done in his life. He pulls out a huge unrolling piece of paper. JBL then says #452 on the list is challenging Austin to a beer drink contest on SNME and embarrassing him. If Austin thinks he’s going to defeat JBL he’s mistaken because JBL is not a mere mortal, he is a wrestling god.
The Boogeyman laughs with worms coming out of his mouth. He only says his key line that he’s the Boogeyman and he’s coming to getcha.
Through this whole thing is fast moving music and they jump quickly from one person to the next.
Opening music and pyro.
Good Ol’ JR is announcing. I love and miss that man. He’s sitting between Tazz and King. They all look very happy that he’s there.
HHH’s music hits and he comes out for the Smackdown versus RAW handicap match. The pop was huge for HHH and even bigger when Cena comes out. They glare a little when Cena enters the ring. Angle comes out to represent Smackdown. Rey Rey has huge pyro, but doesn’t bounce out of the stage tonight. Orton comes out, last, but not least. Angle and Rey glare at Orton as he comes down the ramp.
Cena attacks Orton from behind and gains control until a thumb to the eye. Cena hits an arm drag, but Angle gets a blind tag and nails a belly to back suplex. Angle then nails a belly to belly. Angle knocks HHH from the apron and goes for an Angle slam. Cena reverses and nails a spine buster for two.
HHH tags in and the exchange blows until Angle nails three Germans. Rey tags in and nails a sitting senton on HHH. Rey climbs all over HHH like a monkey and covers for two. Rey gets HHH in a backslide for a two count. HHH pokes Rey’s eye and tags in Cena.
Cena gets in slowly and shoulder blocks Rey. Rey lands a standing dropkick. HHH enters and Rey nails him with head scissors for it. Rey nails Cena in the head with a standing dropkick, and another for HHH. Cena sucks chants start as Rey sets up Cena for a 619. HHH moves Cena out of the way and then nails Rey with a hard clothesline.
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HHH pulls Rey up on the apron. Rey puts a shoulder in HHH’s gut. The second time he tries this HHH gets a knee up. HHH goes out and throws Rey into the barrier. HHH and Cena argue. Inside HHH covers Rey for two. HHH reaches to tag Cena, cena refused. HHH threw Rey into a corner, Rey gets his feet up. HHH nails a spine buster, but Angle breaks up the count. HHH applies a sleeper on Rey. Rey backs HHH into a corner and gets out of the hold. HHH set Rey up top facing out. Rey elbows HHH to the mat. Rey nails a high moonsault off the top and landing on HHH. Both are down on the mat. HHH gets up and grabs Rey’s ankle as Rey goes for a tag. Rey kicks HHH and tags in Orton. HHH tags in Cena.
Cena rushes in and nails two clotheslines and a shoulder block on Orton. Cena goes for an FU but Orton pushes him away. Cena knocks Angle off the apron in the process. Cena nails a modified powerbomb on Orton followed by the 5 knuckle shuffle. Cena pumps up his sneakers and nails an FU on Orton and starts to cover him. HHH grabs Cena and nails him with a pedigree. HHH starts to walk up the ramp. HHH comes back and covers Cena with Orton. The ref argues and then starts counting. Rey decides they don’t want to win that way. Rey pulls Orton off Cena. HHH enters and pedigrees Rey. Angle rushes in and clotheslines HHH over the top rope. Orton nails Angle with the RKO. Orton looks like he’s setting Cena up for the RKO, but Cena twists, reverses it and quickly rolls Orton up for three. As HHH backs up the ramp he tells Cena that all that matters is what happens at WM.
- Winners: Cena & HHH
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The announcer talk about who is being inducted into the Hall Of Fame, and who is inducting each of them.
Outback Booker is sitting on a examining bench with ice on his knee. Sharmell, a doctor and Teddy Long are asking him what’s wrong. Booker says he was getting ready for his match with the Boogeyman and he heard some thing / felt something pop in his knee. Teddy asks the doctor what’s going on. Sharmell says she was there the whole time and saw the whole thing. There is no way her husband can wrestle tonight.
Teddy says he wants to hear from the doctor. The doctor says that Booker is in a lot of pain and will need an MRI to figure out what’s going on in there.
Teddy asks how long that will take. The doctor says they have to take him to a medical facility, so it will be 3-4 hours. But even without the MRI Booker is in too much pain to wrestle tonight.
Teddy says Booker’s match with the Boogeyman is off. Booker apologizes to Teddy for not being able to wrestle. Sharmell helps her husband out of the room so they can get ready to go to a medical facility. When Teddy can no longer see their faces they start grinning and giggling. Booker keeps screaming in pain as they laugh about getting out of the Boogeyman match.
Edge and Lita come down to the ring for ‘The Cutting Edge’. Lita is yet again wearing a naval baring top.
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Lita welcomes us to ‘The Cutting Edge’. Edge is the most watched superstar, the Rated ‘R’ Superstar and perfect at WM. Edge takes the mic and says he will still be perfect after this WM. Edge says Foley is no longer hardcore. He now a Teddy bear, a Muppet. He comes out and makes a cheap pop and dance with a sock on his hand. Edge calls Foley down so Edge can give him his WM beat down.
Foley’s music doesn’t play. Edge comments again about how Foley is over rated.
Foley’s music hits and he comes out with his bag of tacks. Edge covers the table with lighter fluid and lights it. Foley comes into the ring and flips the table. Foley beats Edge down so he’s sitting in a corner. Foley drives his knee into Edge’s face.
While Edge is lolling there Foley opens the bag and spreads out the tacks. Foley gets Edge to his feet, but before he can do anything Lita interferes. This give Edge the time to counter and give Foley a bulldog into the tacks.
Lita and Edge back up the ramp grinning. That is until the see Foley coming after them. Foley nails a neckbreaker on the steel ramp. Foley sets Edge’s head on a chair and grabs another one. Foley gives Edge a one man con-chair-toe. Foley kneels down next to Edge and grins at the camera while pulling tacks out of his forehead. People rush out to help Edge.
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Video about Vince, narrated by JR. It shows him firing Bischoff and JR. It also shows people joining the Kiss My Ass Club. There are lots of heel Vince bits. It then goes on to HBK. These bit make HBK look good and like a caring courteous face. They go into the Montreal Screw Job. Then all the things that Vince and Shane have done to HBK over the past couple months.
Outback Sharmell is calling to Booker to hurry up. Booker comes out in a towel. They are talking about how they fooled a doctor and Teddy Long into believing Booker was injured, but they are going out partying. Booker is dancing around in his towel, holding his twigs and berries to make sure they didn’t fall out. Then the room turned red and the Boogeyman hangs into the room by his knees from a window. He has worms hanging from his mouth and he’s laughing. Booker and Sharmell start screaming and run from their locker room. Booker is still in his towel and Sharmell is wearing a skirt, a gold bra and her tiara. They go running through the halls past Carlito and others.
JBL comes down to the ring.
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JBL is in the ring with a table set up. There are cups and pitchers of beer lining the table.
JR tells us to sty tuned for another hour. They then show another set of opening music/video.
JBL says this is the moment everyone has been waiting for. This is the time that JBL, self made millionaire, media mogul and wrestling god comes to SNME on NBC. He then goes on to cut up their sports teams and the mayor. He also talks about the auto makers losing to Toyota. He tells them all they are an embarrassment to the country he loves because they are losing jobs to Japan. But when he beats Benoit at WM everything will change. No more lost jobs, and everything will be great fort he country.
Austin’s music cuts him off. He comes out to HUGE pop. Austin climbs on each corner saluting everyone and getting accolades from his best friend at the announce table.
Austin takes a mic, ‘Austin’ chant start. He says it’s good to be on SNME on NBC, and good to be back in Detroit. And he sure is thirsty. When he heard JBL challenged him to a beer drinking contest. Then he suddenly notices JBL. He asks if the challenge was because of something he said. JBL says it’s something he didn’t say about JBL and Texas.
Austin said he thinks JBL might be able to beat him. He asks JBL his height and weight. So Austin said he needed to start practicing. So he called room service and ordered an egg and 2 dozen beers. Then at lunch he went to the bar and drank one pitcher of beer, and then another. So, we might have well get started.
JBL takes the mic and says he makes the rules, like he made the economy. He makes the rules. Austin said okay. JBL says he went across the border to get good beer, where they play real hockey.
JBL says the rules are simple. They each have 25 beers and one minute to drink them. They get back to back like, (and he lists a number of cowboys). Austin says he doesn’t trust to turn his back on JBL.
Austin asks if JBL is the official one minute man. JBL returns with, ‘I see you’ve been talking to my wife’.
They get back to back and start drinking. They drink a couple and then Austin walks around to look at JBL. JBL is pouring beer down his chest, not drinking it. Austin asks what he’s doing. That you’d think with such a big mouth he could get the beer into it.
JBL spits beer in Austin’s eye and runs from the ring. He’s backing up the ramp grinning. Benoit comes up behind JBL and throws JBL back into the ring. Austin tosses a whole beer in JBL’s face. Austin takes JBL’s hat and gives JBL a stunner. Austin then dumps as much beer as hadn’t been tipped over, all over JBL.
Winner: Austin (unofficially)
Outback Candice asks Victoria how hot is she on the Playboy cover, while looking at a big mockup. Victoria says she’s too hot, but they need to get down to the ring. They are both wearing two piece outfits in the same light purple color.
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Candice and Victoria come down to the ring. Candice has put one of her long boob coats on, until she gets to the ring. Mickie comes down to the ring in a yellow miniskirt, white shirt and yellow bra. Video of Mickie’s introduction to WWE and her plunge into complete psychosis. Trish comes down in black pants that lace up the sides in white and a small black top with white lapels.
Trish and Candice start off. Candice dances her little dance before Trish attacks with a boot to the gut. Trish throws forearms at Candice. Candice whips Trish and then distracts the ref while Victoria pulls Trish’s hair from the apron and slams her down on the mat. Candice chokes Trish and then drags her to the bottom rope to choke her some more. Candice drops a knee on Trish’s back while she’s still hung up on the bottom rope. Candice distracts the ref while Victoria kicks Trish in the face. Candice covers Trish for two.
Victoria tags in and does her legdrop flip over the top rope and covers for two. Victoria slams Trish face first to the mat and then applies a facelock. Mickie is bouncing on the bottom rope reaching for a tag. Trish fights over to her corner and tags in Mickie, the ref is distracted by Candice and the ref sends Mickie back out of the ring. Candice and Victoria try to double suplex Trish, but she reverses it into a double bulldog. Trish ties to crawl to her corner, but Victoria takes a cheap shot at Mickie and knocks her from the apron.
Victoria turns around and tries to clothesline Trish who does a backbend to avoid it. Victoria gets kicked in the gut. Trish nails stratusfaction on victoria and covers her for three.
- Winners: Trish & Mickie
Mickie grabs a mic. She tells Trish this is goodbye. Trish wanted time apart, so she’s going to give it to her. She just wants to say goodbye the ring way. She drops the mic and puts her hand out. Trish goes to shake her hand and pulls Trish in for a kiss. Mickie kisses Trish on the cheek. Trish pushes her off. Mickie rushes back in for a tight hug, Trish pushes her off again asking what the hell she’s doing. Mickie then nails Trish with a chick kick. She then follows it up with stratusfaction on Trish.
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During the commercial Coach asked Mickie about what she did to Trish. Mickie says Trish broke her heart, and now she’s going to beak Trish.
The announcers go through all the matches that will be happening at WM.
Mark Henry comes down to the ring with Daivari. Video of Henry costing Taker the title when he interfered in his match with Angle. Henry then put Taker through an announce table.
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Daivari says the world’s strongest man is not afraid of a winning streak, a casket, or even Taker.
Henry takes the mic and says Taker is afraid of him. He tells Taker he will beat him at his own game. He will shove him into that coffin if it’s the last thing...
GONG! 6 druids come out carrying a casket. Taker comes out and stands on the stage before slowly making his way down the ramp. The druids put down the casket and walk back up the ramp passing Taker on each side. Taker raises the lights and climbs in the ring.
As soon as Taker removes his hat Henry goes at Taker. They exchange blows. Taker briefly had control, but Henry overpowers him. Taker rolls outside and Henry follows. Daivari smacks the stairs to gets Henry’s attention. Henry whips Taker, but Taker reverses it and Henry hits the stairs. Taker dumps Henry over the barrier and into the crowd with a boot to the face.
Taker chokeslams Daivari onto the top of the casket. Taker climbs on the apron and scoops up Daivari. Taker tombstones Daivari on the top of the casket. Taker slowly walks back up the ramp.
Outback HBK is heading for the ring.
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Lillian explains the rules, or lack there of, for a street fight. She then announces HBK. He comes down to the ring as pumped up as he does every night, no matter what. He pulls off his spangly vest and tosses it over his shoulder. Lillian just sticks her hand out to the side and catches it as if she did it everyday.
Shane’s music hits, but he can’t get off the stage before HBK attacks. HBK takes control. He tosses Shane into the metal barrier and then nails him in the back with a chair. HBK sets up a table, but Shane is able to push HBK into the ring post. Vince comes down tot he ring. Shane pulls out a table for his father to set up, and then Shane pulls out a ladder.
Shane beats on HBK and then picks him up and drives his back into the ring post. Shane sets the ladder up on the edge of the ring. The bottom of one side of the ladder was outside the bottom two ropes. Vince sets HBK on one of the tables and holds him there. HBK pokes Vince in the eye and gets up just before Shane jumps off the top of the ladder. HBK climbs the outside of the ladder and faces Shane at the top. HBK then superplexes Shane off the top of the ladder and through both tables. Vince is walking around the carnage not knowing what to do or how to help his son.
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HBK has control of Shane in the ring. HBK pulls Shane up when the ref thinks he’s going to cover. Shane gets body slammed tot he mat. HBK pulls himself up in a corner, the ladder had been moved over there. HBK gets to the top of the ladder. Vince climbs on the apron and (lightly) hits HBK a couple times in the lower back with a kendo stick. HBK falls to the mat. Shane gets up and folds up the ladder. He picks it up and drives the side of the ladder into HBK’s back. Then he does it again. Shane covers HBK for two. Shane picks up the ladder over his shoulder and drives the top of it into HBK’s face. Shane covers for two.
Shane drops an elbow into HBK’s back. Shane then pulls HBK’s arms back and drives a knee into his back in a submission hold. HBK fights his way to his feet, but Shane knees his back again. ‘HBK’ chants. Vince is grinning as he peers into the ring. HBK refuses to give up. HBK gets his second wind and fights to his feet. He briefly reverses the hold and then runs over to take a swipe at Vince. Shane nails HBK with a DDT. Both are down, but Shane’s head is on HBK’s gut. HBK kicks out.
They both get to their feet. Shane gets a chair and nails HBK over the head with it. Shane pushes the ladder from the ring. Vince gets a trash can and holds it in HBK’s lap while he sits in a corner. Shane climbs. HBK moves at the last moment and Shane’s feet fly into the trash can, driving it into Vince’s face.
HBK gains control HBK nails an inverted atomic drop followed by a scoop slam. HBK climbs and drops an elbow on Shane. HBK tunes up the band. He hits sweet chin music on Shane. HBK covers Shane, but Vince pulls the ref out before his hand can hit the mat with three. HBK pulls Vince into the ring. Vince was begging for mercy from HBK. Shane creeps up behind HBK and nails a low blow on HBK. Shane gets HBK into a sharpshooter. Vince rolls from the ring calling for the bell. Vince makes Lillian announce Shane as the winner by submission, even though HBK never tapped out.
- Winner, because Vince says so: Shane
Biggest pop
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Taker
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Orton
I enjoyed the first SNME in so many years. It was a good show with a slight PPV feel to it. The stage was a much bigger setup than the normal weekday shows and the crowd seemed really pumped up on TV. The ring ropes were all white. It may seem funny, but I found that very stark and distracting. Overall I liked it and hope the keep it up. It would be nice to have these extra shows that are bigger and more flashy, but still on network TV.
