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Submitted by Calvin Martin on Wednesday, October 30, 2002 at 3:15 AM EST
Report by Jim Hall via http://www.1wrestling.com Report by Bob Jardien via http://www.wrestlingobserver.com dark matches: Val d. The Cat. the crowd was partially dead for this, but Cat got some good reactions. Shelton Benjamin d. Bull Buchanan Albert d. Mark Moraluche. Albert was great here talking about how he's sexy and saying "Jealousy will get you nowhere." Funaki/Kidman d. Noble/Crash when Kidman pinned Crash with the Shooting Star Press after Nidia interfered. intro for Velocity Chuck d. D-Von Chavo d. Textbook. I actually didn't catch Textbook's name, but that was what was written on his tights. Textbook did some really bad dancing before and throughout the match. I have a feeling a some dark matches will show up on Velocity. intro for SmackDown! there was a party backstage with everyone dressed up. Edge d. Benoit Big Show d. Rikishi Torrie d. Dawn Marie in a "Trick or treat" match. it was a liquid in a pool match in which Torrie, dressed as Xena, popped out quite a few times. they kept it short. Mae Young and Moolah were there hitting on Tajiri Matt Hardy d. Tajiri. the crowd was partially dead for this match. Vince is in Steph's office. turns out that Bischoff is in a Vince mask. he says that Steiner is coming to Raw, takes off the mask, and kisses Steph. a video for Lilian Garcia's "Shout" aired. Eddie d. Angle after Benoit and Chavo interfered. Brother Love was back stage at the party. Angle and Benoit brawled around the room for a bit. Rey n/c Lesnar. Show came down and threw Rey into the crowd then chokeslammed Lesnar through the announce table. a really loud Goldberg chant ensued. after the show, Show came back down so Lesnar could beat on him. Lesnar then posed, walked up the ramp, shoved Paul E., and took the strap from him. http://www.wrestlingobserver.com Report by bogeymsu I was at the Smackdown! tapings at the Van Andel Arena, in Grand Rapids, MI last night. The crowd was pretty dead all night despite some decent matches. However, the crowd did come in pretty pissed off. Ticket sales appeared to be terrible so they had to move everyone from the side behind the camera to the other side to appear to be full. People were forced to wait in a line that was taking over an hour to be relocated. Needless to say, people were not pleased to be moved from their lower bowl seats to upper bowl, just so the wwe can appear like they sold tickets. Velocity was met with little to no response. There were really only three things between the dark matches and velocity that garnered any type of response: 1. albert: had a promo about how sexy he was and his man fur (nice shave your back chant started) 2. some young wrestler with "textbook" on his tights, dancing like a rooster got some laughs and cheers. 3. tag team match between jamie noble & crash vs. billy kidman and funaki. pretty dead through out most of it until the end, and got rather loud for the shooting star press at the end. Smackdown! itself was pretty good, but again the crowd was dead for just about everything. Edge and Benoit came out to a nice pop, but then the crowd went back to sitting on their hands. Good match overall, but a nice pop at the end for a kurt angle run in. just about everyone was getting a good pop for their entrance, but the crowd died soonafter for pretty much every match. Another reason the fans were pissed off, they had a trick or treat match, but it was on the side they moved the fans from!!! so now they had torrie wilson and dawn marie in a kiddie pool filled with chocolate milk (or whatever) but no one could see it, cuz it was behind the stupid stage. big show manhandled rikishi in a thankfully short match. big show picked up rikishi and carried him around on one shoulder, now that's impressive. he followed it up with one of the most boring promos i have ever heard, and i tend to be a fan of the giant. angle and eddie guerrero came out to a nice pop, and shockingly, the crowd then went quiet. really good match put on by these two, despite the crowd, and a nice run in through the crowd by benoit. main event was rey mysterio jr. vs brock lesnar with brock just tossing him around like a rag doll, with rey rey getting in very little offense. big show then came down and caught mysterio in a 619 and gorilla pressed him and threw him into the crowd 5 rows deep (just like hogan did to rocky in rocky III). the show ended (i think) with big show destroying lesnar and choke slamming him through the announce table and then taunting him. after the cameras were off (again, i think. couldn't quite tell for sure) show came back and lesnar got the better of him and clotheslined him over the top rope. show left and lesnar was leaving the ring when some dumbass fan tried to jump the barrier and get after him, and was then mauled by security. lesnar made his way up the ramp and posed a bit. heyman came back out (left when show was there) and lesnar took the belt from him and then crushed heyman with it. he posed a little more and then left the stage. lights went on, end of show. overall, i had a good time there, and i'll be curious to see what was edited out, but the crowd was dead all night despite some good wrestling.
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