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What's even funnier than that is Lawler called Piper a washed up old dinosaur or something. Lawler was older than Piper!
Survivor Series 2004
Match 1: Cruiserweight Championship Fatal 4-Way Match - Spike Dudley (c) def. Rey Mysterio, Chavo Guerrero & Billy Kidman (9:04)
You can't go wrong opening a show with some Cruiserweights. Fast paced all the way through. First couple minutes is all 4 guys trying to get ahead of the others. First big spot of the match goes to Rey Mysterio as he leaps off the top rope to hit a hurricanrana to Kidman to the floor from the apron. Chavo reverses a bulldog and throws Rey over the top rope, causing him to hit a seated senton on Kidman. Chavo leaps over onto Rey and Kidman next. And then when Spike tries to do the same, he eats shit on the floor. Action continues and Spike slides Rey under the bottom rope and Rey hits the floor chest first. Then we get a tower of doom spot as Chavo attempts a suplex on Spike from the top rope, Billy comes over and picks Chavo up for the electric chair. Rey counters the Dudley Dog by dropping down and drops Spike throat first on the middle rope. Rey hits the 619 and goes for West Coast Pop, but Kidman stops that by pulling Rey by his foot off the apron. Chavo hits Spike with a Gory Bomb and covers him, but Kidman leaps over the ropes from the apron and hits Chavo with a legdrop across the back of his neck. Rey leaps in and catches Kidman's head and head scissors him out of the ring, but this gives Spike a chance to cover Chavo and retain.
My Rating: ***1/2
Match 2: Intercontinental Championship Match - Shelton Benjamin (c) def. Christian (13:22)
So after an exciting opener, we get another really good match. Christian makes the mistake of trying to outwrestle Shelton early on. And every time Christian tries to take control, Shelton shows how athletic he is, and just lands on his feet. That's what Tyson Tomko is there for. Tyson tries to pull Shelton off the apron and Shelton kicks him for it. He goes to dive onto Tomko, but Christian takes advantage, and knocks him off the apron to the barricade from this point, Christian grounds Shelton, with help here and there from Tomko on the outside. Christian mocks and slaps Benjamin repeatedly, which sets him off and Shelton starts to begin his comeback. Shelton goes for a Stinger splash but Christian moves out of the way to hit an impaler DDT. Shelton kicks out and Tyson slides the title in the ring. He distracts the referee and Christian picks up the title, looking to use it. But Benjamin kicks Christian and goes up top to come down with a diving clothesline. Christian kicks out and when the referee removes the title from the ring, Tomko slides in a big boots Shelton in the face. Christian covers him and Shelton kicks out. Tomko tries to interfere one more time and eats a kick to the face from Shelton. Christian goes for the Unprettier, but Shelton escapes the attempt and leap frogs over Christian. Christian tries a clothesline and gets caught for a T-Bone Suplex and Benjamin retains.
My Rating: ***3/4
Match 3: Survivor Series Tag Team Elimination Match - Eddie Guerrero, John Cena, Big Show & Rob Van Dam def. Kurt Angle, Luther Reigns, Mark Jindrak & Carlito (12:24)
Before the match even starts, Carlito gets out of there because Cena goes right past both teams to chase after Carlito and Jesús. 2 men ran away from one guy. Hmmm. Anyway. Carlito and Jesús carjack some poor woman and leave the arena, leaving Angle's team down one member before the bell even rings. Cena makes it back to ringside. Eddie and RVD work together at the start. But once Kurt gets in, he starts tossing Eddie around and now they start to keep Eddie away from his team. But Eddie gets the hot tag and RVD comes back in and goes wild. He goes to hit Kurt with the 5 Star, but Jindrak comes in trying to pull Kurt out, so Van Dam hits him across his back instead. He knocks Reigns off the apron with a spinning heel kick but Kurt takes advantage and rolls RVD up from behind, eliminating him. But then right after that, Eddie rolls up Jindrak from behind and pins him. Even though Jindrak wasn't the legal man but whatever. Big Show finally comes in and he goes toe to toe with Luther. But Reigns ultimately gets dropped with a Chokeslam and eliminated, leaving it down to Angle. Big Show goes to Chokeslam Kurt. But Kurt rolls through his legs and snatches his ankle, bringing him down into an Ankle Lock. But Big Show rolls through and sends Kurt flying out of the ring. Kurt looks back in the ring and decides its time to leave. Screw the W. But RVD comes back out to stand in his way, backing Kurt towards the ring. Kurt backs up into the Big Show and reaches back to touch his head and he makes this face that makes it look like he's about to cry. He turns around and Big Show sends him back into the ring into John Cena who finally did something in this match. Cena drops Kurt with an FU and Eddie follows that up with a Frog Splash. Big Show rolls in, covers Angle and Team Guerrero stands tall.
My Rating: ***1/4
Match 4: The Undertaker def. Heidenreich (15:53)
Wow. Um… this match… dog shit. And somehow they thought giving it 16 minutes would be a good idea. This is one of the only black spots on the show that I would recommend skipping. Heidenreich has one move… punching. That's this whole match. Undertaker takes 3 shots to the crotch by the way and that's how Heidenreich gets the upper hand. The match is at least back and forth so there's at least no long periods of Heidenreich laying on Taker. But it's just so uninteresting that it doesn't matter. Undertaker is being given the 10 punches in the corner, but Undertaker grabs him and hits a terrible Last Ride. Heidenreich gets his foot on the rope. But soon enough, the end (thankfully) comes. Undertaker gives him a Chokeslam and a Tombstone. That's it. I'll give him credit where credit is due, he tried to carry Heidenreich to a good match, but you can only do so much.
My Rating: *1/2
Match 5: Women's Championship Match - Trish Stratus (c) def. Lita via DQ (1:19)
This feud takes off right after the whole pregnancy angle was kicked and now Lita is back in the ring. Before the bell can even ring, Lita knocks Trish to the mat and then she takes her outside. And after months of Trish taunting her, Lita has enough and in the moment, the title comes second to hurting Trish. Lita uses a steel chair to bash Trish over the head and the back. When Trish comes back up, she's bleeding and Lita zeroes in on her nose, trying to break it. Officials come down to pry Lita off Trish. But when Trish gets back up, Lita comes back to push Trish's from behind, shoving her face first into the steps, further damaging her face. And rightfully so if we're being honest. Trish fucked around and found out.
Match 6: WWE Championship Match - JBL (c) def. Booker T (14:44)
This match was crazy. Not because it was good but because it was insanely overbooked. I feel like Orlando Jordan did more to help JBL retain than JBL did, which I guess is the point. But holy crap, there was so much happening towards the end. I'd say halfway through the match is when it started getting out of hand. And believe it or not, these two were having a decent match beforehand. But with the referee’s back turned, Jordan tries to attack Booker outside, and Booker ain't having that shit. He beats the shit out of Orlando on the outside like he's me playing a wrestling game and is getting sick of the manager interfering or distracting the ref. JBL comes outside to help him but Booker catches him and drops him on the outside with a Book End. Several more times however, Jordan gets involved, tripping Booker as he's going for a Scissors Kick. Distracting him as he's going for the Houston Hangover, giving JBL time to move. The referee gets knocked down and Jordan takes that as a chance to jump Booker from behind. Jordan goes out and grabs the WWE Title. But Josh Matthews of all people runs down to stop him, but not before he threw the belt in the ring. JBL beats up Josh, but Booker has recovered and gives him a kick to the face, followed by the Scissors Kick. But with no referee, there's nobody to count the pin. Orlando once again gets in the ring, only to get a Book End. But Booker turns around for JBL to knock him out silly with the title and now the referee wakes up from his nap to count the pin. JBL retains.
My Rating: ***
Main Event: Survivor Series Tag Team Elimination Match - Randy Orton, Chris Benoit, Chris Jericho & Maven def. Triple H, Edge, Batista & Snitsky (24:30)
Main event time. Gotta say, I'm quite surprised this doesn't get brought up more often. Then again, it does have Benoit in it… scratch that, I'm not surprised. Me personally, I really liked this match. Pretty great if you ask me. The stipulation going into this match is that the winning team will take a turn running Raw for a month. Because Bischoff was like “I'm going on vacation.” Snitsky also jumped Maven from behind earlier in the night and busted him open pretty good. Orton's team starting with 1 man down like Kurt's earlier. The first several minutes are nothing. But Orton tags in Benoit at around the six minute mark. And Benoit is like a one man army. He's throwing entire opposing team around, over his head. Benoit gets HHH in the Sharpshooter and Snitsky comes in to save him. Triple H hits Benoit with a Pedigree before leaving the ring, and Edge covers him to eliminate him. At the moment, its just Orton and Jericho. But fortunately for them, there are too many egos on Team HHH and the infighting begins. Jericho nearly eliminates HHH with the Walls of Jericho because Batista and Snitsky are in each other's face. But Batista turns and saves his leader. Ric Flair gets sent to the back for tripping Jericho on the Lionsault and the referee is so occupied with him that he doesn't see Orton hit Batista with the World Title, allowing Jericho to drop him with an enziguri and eliminate Batista. But Orton and Jericho are still down 2 to 3 so the domination begins. But wait. Who's that coming down the ramp? It's Maven to absolutely no pop which is awkward and hilarious at the same time. Maven gets on the apron, and Jericho tags him in. And Maven… actually kicks some ass. He actually gives Snitsky a gross cut on his left eyebrow. He takes on HHH and Edge too. But Snitsky comes in with a chair and clocks Maven’s in the head with it. He's disqualified. But already out so he might as well give one to Jericho and Orton too. HHH takes advantage and pins Maven who's now officially out. Now it's 2 on 2. But unfortunately for Jericho, Edge and HHH pick on him while Orton is still down outside. Jericho fights back. Managing to escape a Pedigree by back dropping HHH but then gets Speared a moment later and eliminated by Edge. Now its up to Orton. He's ganged up on but puts up a valiant effort. Orton nearly pins Edge with a rollup after dropkicking him into HHH who was on the apron. Edge shoves Orton off of an RKO attempt, pushing him into a Spinebuster by HHH. All 3 men start to get up and Edge goes to Spear Orton. But Orton dodges and HHH takes the Spear instead. Orton eliminates Edge with an RKO, leaving us down to 2. Orton waits for HHH to get back up and goes for the RKO, but HHH drops down, low blows Orton as the referee tells Edge to leave. HHH picks Orton back up and goes to end it with a Pedigree. But Orton swings out of it and drops him with an RKO for 1,2,3. Orton wins it for his team. If you've never seen this match, I recommend it. Pretty underrated if you ask me.
My Rating: ****
Cagematch Rating: 6.43
My Rating: 8.5/10
Unappreciated gem of a show to be honest. The only reason I didn't rate it higher is because of the Taker and Heidenreich match. I also can't say there was anything particularly special about this show which is probably why it's hardly remembered. But overall, I thought this was a great show and something I would recommend watching.
Match 1: Cruiserweight Championship Fatal 4-Way Match - Spike Dudley (c) def. Rey Mysterio, Chavo Guerrero & Billy Kidman (9:04)
You can't go wrong opening a show with some Cruiserweights. Fast paced all the way through. First couple minutes is all 4 guys trying to get ahead of the others. First big spot of the match goes to Rey Mysterio as he leaps off the top rope to hit a hurricanrana to Kidman to the floor from the apron. Chavo reverses a bulldog and throws Rey over the top rope, causing him to hit a seated senton on Kidman. Chavo leaps over onto Rey and Kidman next. And then when Spike tries to do the same, he eats shit on the floor. Action continues and Spike slides Rey under the bottom rope and Rey hits the floor chest first. Then we get a tower of doom spot as Chavo attempts a suplex on Spike from the top rope, Billy comes over and picks Chavo up for the electric chair. Rey counters the Dudley Dog by dropping down and drops Spike throat first on the middle rope. Rey hits the 619 and goes for West Coast Pop, but Kidman stops that by pulling Rey by his foot off the apron. Chavo hits Spike with a Gory Bomb and covers him, but Kidman leaps over the ropes from the apron and hits Chavo with a legdrop across the back of his neck. Rey leaps in and catches Kidman's head and head scissors him out of the ring, but this gives Spike a chance to cover Chavo and retain.
My Rating: ***1/2
Match 2: Intercontinental Championship Match - Shelton Benjamin (c) def. Christian (13:22)
So after an exciting opener, we get another really good match. Christian makes the mistake of trying to outwrestle Shelton early on. And every time Christian tries to take control, Shelton shows how athletic he is, and just lands on his feet. That's what Tyson Tomko is there for. Tyson tries to pull Shelton off the apron and Shelton kicks him for it. He goes to dive onto Tomko, but Christian takes advantage, and knocks him off the apron to the barricade from this point, Christian grounds Shelton, with help here and there from Tomko on the outside. Christian mocks and slaps Benjamin repeatedly, which sets him off and Shelton starts to begin his comeback. Shelton goes for a Stinger splash but Christian moves out of the way to hit an impaler DDT. Shelton kicks out and Tyson slides the title in the ring. He distracts the referee and Christian picks up the title, looking to use it. But Benjamin kicks Christian and goes up top to come down with a diving clothesline. Christian kicks out and when the referee removes the title from the ring, Tomko slides in a big boots Shelton in the face. Christian covers him and Shelton kicks out. Tomko tries to interfere one more time and eats a kick to the face from Shelton. Christian goes for the Unprettier, but Shelton escapes the attempt and leap frogs over Christian. Christian tries a clothesline and gets caught for a T-Bone Suplex and Benjamin retains.
My Rating: ***3/4
Match 3: Survivor Series Tag Team Elimination Match - Eddie Guerrero, John Cena, Big Show & Rob Van Dam def. Kurt Angle, Luther Reigns, Mark Jindrak & Carlito (12:24)
Before the match even starts, Carlito gets out of there because Cena goes right past both teams to chase after Carlito and Jesús. 2 men ran away from one guy. Hmmm. Anyway. Carlito and Jesús carjack some poor woman and leave the arena, leaving Angle's team down one member before the bell even rings. Cena makes it back to ringside. Eddie and RVD work together at the start. But once Kurt gets in, he starts tossing Eddie around and now they start to keep Eddie away from his team. But Eddie gets the hot tag and RVD comes back in and goes wild. He goes to hit Kurt with the 5 Star, but Jindrak comes in trying to pull Kurt out, so Van Dam hits him across his back instead. He knocks Reigns off the apron with a spinning heel kick but Kurt takes advantage and rolls RVD up from behind, eliminating him. But then right after that, Eddie rolls up Jindrak from behind and pins him. Even though Jindrak wasn't the legal man but whatever. Big Show finally comes in and he goes toe to toe with Luther. But Reigns ultimately gets dropped with a Chokeslam and eliminated, leaving it down to Angle. Big Show goes to Chokeslam Kurt. But Kurt rolls through his legs and snatches his ankle, bringing him down into an Ankle Lock. But Big Show rolls through and sends Kurt flying out of the ring. Kurt looks back in the ring and decides its time to leave. Screw the W. But RVD comes back out to stand in his way, backing Kurt towards the ring. Kurt backs up into the Big Show and reaches back to touch his head and he makes this face that makes it look like he's about to cry. He turns around and Big Show sends him back into the ring into John Cena who finally did something in this match. Cena drops Kurt with an FU and Eddie follows that up with a Frog Splash. Big Show rolls in, covers Angle and Team Guerrero stands tall.
My Rating: ***1/4
Match 4: The Undertaker def. Heidenreich (15:53)
Wow. Um… this match… dog shit. And somehow they thought giving it 16 minutes would be a good idea. This is one of the only black spots on the show that I would recommend skipping. Heidenreich has one move… punching. That's this whole match. Undertaker takes 3 shots to the crotch by the way and that's how Heidenreich gets the upper hand. The match is at least back and forth so there's at least no long periods of Heidenreich laying on Taker. But it's just so uninteresting that it doesn't matter. Undertaker is being given the 10 punches in the corner, but Undertaker grabs him and hits a terrible Last Ride. Heidenreich gets his foot on the rope. But soon enough, the end (thankfully) comes. Undertaker gives him a Chokeslam and a Tombstone. That's it. I'll give him credit where credit is due, he tried to carry Heidenreich to a good match, but you can only do so much.
My Rating: *1/2
Match 5: Women's Championship Match - Trish Stratus (c) def. Lita via DQ (1:19)
This feud takes off right after the whole pregnancy angle was kicked and now Lita is back in the ring. Before the bell can even ring, Lita knocks Trish to the mat and then she takes her outside. And after months of Trish taunting her, Lita has enough and in the moment, the title comes second to hurting Trish. Lita uses a steel chair to bash Trish over the head and the back. When Trish comes back up, she's bleeding and Lita zeroes in on her nose, trying to break it. Officials come down to pry Lita off Trish. But when Trish gets back up, Lita comes back to push Trish's from behind, shoving her face first into the steps, further damaging her face. And rightfully so if we're being honest. Trish fucked around and found out.
Match 6: WWE Championship Match - JBL (c) def. Booker T (14:44)
This match was crazy. Not because it was good but because it was insanely overbooked. I feel like Orlando Jordan did more to help JBL retain than JBL did, which I guess is the point. But holy crap, there was so much happening towards the end. I'd say halfway through the match is when it started getting out of hand. And believe it or not, these two were having a decent match beforehand. But with the referee’s back turned, Jordan tries to attack Booker outside, and Booker ain't having that shit. He beats the shit out of Orlando on the outside like he's me playing a wrestling game and is getting sick of the manager interfering or distracting the ref. JBL comes outside to help him but Booker catches him and drops him on the outside with a Book End. Several more times however, Jordan gets involved, tripping Booker as he's going for a Scissors Kick. Distracting him as he's going for the Houston Hangover, giving JBL time to move. The referee gets knocked down and Jordan takes that as a chance to jump Booker from behind. Jordan goes out and grabs the WWE Title. But Josh Matthews of all people runs down to stop him, but not before he threw the belt in the ring. JBL beats up Josh, but Booker has recovered and gives him a kick to the face, followed by the Scissors Kick. But with no referee, there's nobody to count the pin. Orlando once again gets in the ring, only to get a Book End. But Booker turns around for JBL to knock him out silly with the title and now the referee wakes up from his nap to count the pin. JBL retains.
My Rating: ***
Main Event: Survivor Series Tag Team Elimination Match - Randy Orton, Chris Benoit, Chris Jericho & Maven def. Triple H, Edge, Batista & Snitsky (24:30)
Main event time. Gotta say, I'm quite surprised this doesn't get brought up more often. Then again, it does have Benoit in it… scratch that, I'm not surprised. Me personally, I really liked this match. Pretty great if you ask me. The stipulation going into this match is that the winning team will take a turn running Raw for a month. Because Bischoff was like “I'm going on vacation.” Snitsky also jumped Maven from behind earlier in the night and busted him open pretty good. Orton's team starting with 1 man down like Kurt's earlier. The first several minutes are nothing. But Orton tags in Benoit at around the six minute mark. And Benoit is like a one man army. He's throwing entire opposing team around, over his head. Benoit gets HHH in the Sharpshooter and Snitsky comes in to save him. Triple H hits Benoit with a Pedigree before leaving the ring, and Edge covers him to eliminate him. At the moment, its just Orton and Jericho. But fortunately for them, there are too many egos on Team HHH and the infighting begins. Jericho nearly eliminates HHH with the Walls of Jericho because Batista and Snitsky are in each other's face. But Batista turns and saves his leader. Ric Flair gets sent to the back for tripping Jericho on the Lionsault and the referee is so occupied with him that he doesn't see Orton hit Batista with the World Title, allowing Jericho to drop him with an enziguri and eliminate Batista. But Orton and Jericho are still down 2 to 3 so the domination begins. But wait. Who's that coming down the ramp? It's Maven to absolutely no pop which is awkward and hilarious at the same time. Maven gets on the apron, and Jericho tags him in. And Maven… actually kicks some ass. He actually gives Snitsky a gross cut on his left eyebrow. He takes on HHH and Edge too. But Snitsky comes in with a chair and clocks Maven’s in the head with it. He's disqualified. But already out so he might as well give one to Jericho and Orton too. HHH takes advantage and pins Maven who's now officially out. Now it's 2 on 2. But unfortunately for Jericho, Edge and HHH pick on him while Orton is still down outside. Jericho fights back. Managing to escape a Pedigree by back dropping HHH but then gets Speared a moment later and eliminated by Edge. Now its up to Orton. He's ganged up on but puts up a valiant effort. Orton nearly pins Edge with a rollup after dropkicking him into HHH who was on the apron. Edge shoves Orton off of an RKO attempt, pushing him into a Spinebuster by HHH. All 3 men start to get up and Edge goes to Spear Orton. But Orton dodges and HHH takes the Spear instead. Orton eliminates Edge with an RKO, leaving us down to 2. Orton waits for HHH to get back up and goes for the RKO, but HHH drops down, low blows Orton as the referee tells Edge to leave. HHH picks Orton back up and goes to end it with a Pedigree. But Orton swings out of it and drops him with an RKO for 1,2,3. Orton wins it for his team. If you've never seen this match, I recommend it. Pretty underrated if you ask me.
My Rating: ****
Cagematch Rating: 6.43
My Rating: 8.5/10
Unappreciated gem of a show to be honest. The only reason I didn't rate it higher is because of the Taker and Heidenreich match. I also can't say there was anything particularly special about this show which is probably why it's hardly remembered. But overall, I thought this was a great show and something I would recommend watching.
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You liked the JBL/Booker match a lot more than me lol but otherwise, I agree. This was a great PPV, I watched this one live at 8 years old lol
I can definitely see why you didn't like it to be fair lol.
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WWE also felt the need to give Undertaker and Heidenreich a rematch at Royal Rumble in a Casket Match. The Trish vs Lita match would lead to the main event of Raw in December and another match at New Year's Revolution in which Lita injured her knee and would be out of action for a year. The main event would result in every member of the winning team becoming GM for one night. Orton would book Triple H vs Benoit vs Edge for the World Heavyweight title and that match would end in a draw forcing the title to be held up and a new champion to be crowned at New Year's Revolution in an Elimination Chamber Match.
