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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