WWE House Show Results from Detroit, Michigan 2-16-03
Submitted by Calvin Martin on Monday, February 17, 2003 at 12:19 AM EST



Report by Steve Gray

The entire upper deck was blocked off, but most of the
lower bowl was sold out.

Note: Originally scheduled for the show was Cena vs
O'Haire, Jones vs DeMott, Matt/Shannon vs Funaki/Rey,
and Edge/Rikishi vs Jericho/Christian in a Raw vs
SmackDown Kiss My Ass Match. Edge was not on the show
and Rey took his spot in the Raw vs SmackDown tag
match, Matt took on Jones in a singles match, and
Demott/Cena took on Funaki/O'Haire.

Opening Match: Brock Lesnar def. Big Show and Paul
Heyman (Handicap Match). Tony Chimmel starts the show
be saying how great Detroit is, but Heyman interupts.
The crowd was all over Heyman with a "You Suck" chant,
to which Heyman replied to someone in the audience
"Yes, I DO suck, but your daughter taught me now".
Make of that what you will. At one point, Show had
Lesnar down and tagged in Paul, who cowardly kicked at
Brock's body. Match ended when Brock hit show with a
chair while Heyman inadvertantly distracted the ref.
Heyman took the F5 afterwards.

Match #2: A-Train def. Kanyon. Kanyon gave it his all
and as a result it was a decent match. Kanyon's tights
resembled Storm's old Red and White tights except they
were Green and Black with "Who Betta?" written on
them. Kanyon kicked out of the former Baldo Bomb but
fell victim to the Derailer or Train Wreck or whatever
the hell the Shoulder Backbreaker is called. Kanyon
got a standing ovation after the match (from me and my
friend Drew, anyway.. some scattered applause from
others).

Match #3: John Cena and Bill Demott def. Funaki and
Sean O'Haire (Cena over Funaki, small package). Cena
cut an anti-Detroit rap promo ("I ain't even tryin,
the worst NFL team is the Detroit Lions" or something
like that). Good heat, decent match. Mostly heels
beating Funaki, brief hot tag to O'Haire who rocket
launched Funaki onto Cena while the ref was yelling at
DeMott. O'Haire took out DeMott and Cena packaged
Funaki. O'Haire and Funaki hugged afterwards to some
cheers.

Match #4: Nathan Jones def. Matt Hardy (Version 1.0).
Matt cut a promo, asking if those were boo's he heard
(I informed him it was "Boo-urns", but he continued to
run down Detroit). Short match, Jones didn't look as
bad as I've been led to believe, but not a tremendous
talent either. I'd say he did better than Batista.

Match #5: Billy Kidman def. Jamie Noble (/w Nidia).
Good match, better than the last one I saw live at
Vengeance. There was a blown spot where either Kidman
was too far or Noble didn't sell it, but the always
trusty "Opponent Powerbombs Kidman, Kidman does a
Faceslam" spot ended with Kidman landing on his ass
and Noble still standing. They quickly transitioned
from that to that powerbomb Kidman does that D`Lo did
too (Raiden bomb?) followed by the SSP.

Bonus Match: Steve Gray and Canadian Change vs Soda
Vendors Who Won't take 3 Canadian Quarters. Also known
as 15 minute intermission.

Match #6: Team Angle def. Los Guerreros. Not much heat
(some people hadn't returned from intermission yet not
to mention some people view the Guerreros as heels)
but it picked up near the end. Team Angle went for a
second Superkick / German Suplex Combo on Chavo, but
the ref ended up getting in the way and was knocked
out. Eddie hit Haas with the tag title with no ref. I
apologize for forgetting the finish, but I believe
Haas pinned Eddie with an Oklahoma Roll after the ref
got up.

Match #7: Nidia def. Torrie Wilson (Special Ref: Dawn
Marie). Bad match that seemed decent live, mostly due
to all the interest from the male fans. At one point,
Torrie and Nidia did the trademark "let's roll around,
have the ref jump over us, continue rolling around and
take the ref with us" spot, with the added twist Dawn
was the ref, so you had tree chicks rolling around
together. Torrie hit her Neckbreaker of Doom, but Dawn
didn't count it. Torrie argued, Nidia rolled her up,
fast count by Dawn.

Match #8: Rikishi and Rey def. Jericho and Christian.
Comedy to start (Jericho promo, Christian standing on
the ropes and falling down when Jericho high fives
him). A good match live with both god comedy and good
wrestling, but also some slow stuff when Rikishi was
in. Finish invovled Christian choking Rikishi on the
middle rope, setting up a 619 from Rey and a Belly to
Belly suplex by Rikishi (I think...). Rey and Rikishi
gave stereo stinkfaces to Jericho and Christian
respectively and danced with Brian Hebner and a little
kid they brought into the ring.

Main Event: Kurt Angle def. Chris Benoit. Some people
left early to avoid traffic... shame, as the match was
much slower than TV bouts but got quite good at the
end. I assumed Lesnar would do a post match run in,
but was quite surprised by who DID show up. Benoit had
Angle tapping in the crossface but Charlie Haas
distracted the referee while Shelton hit Benoit with
the title belt. After the match, RHYNO came out to a
huge pop and everyone went nuts as he Gored Charlie
and Shelton. Benoit and Rhyno had a staredown and
shook hands.

Good show overall, I really enjoyed it. I just wish
people wouldn't bring signs to house shows...








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