(SPOILERS) Velocity & Smackdown Taping Results from Greensboro, North Carolina
Submitted by Calvin Martin on Wednesday, May 21, 2003 at 9:04 AM EST



***VELOCITY***

Bill Demott beat unkown wrestler.

Funaki beat Kanyon with a rollup holding the tights.

Rhyno beat A-Train by countout. A-Train got gored out of the ring an was unable to make it back in before the ten count.

Tazz and Michael Cole come down to the announce table for Smackdown.

***SMACKDOWN***

Vince McMahon is shown arriving to the arena in a very bad mood. Vince heads straight to the ring with a mic in hand. Vince says he is not happy about all the mistakes that have happened on Smackdown such as Mr. America's contract. Every attempt to prove that Mr. America is Hulk Hogan has failed. Vince says he was emberassed at Judgment Day by some handicapped kid. Vince says all the mistakes are gonna change starting tonight. Vince says Stephanie is still GM but as of tonight he is taking over. Vince guarandamntees by the end of the night we will see a smile on his face.

WWE Tag Team Championship
Eddie Guerrero and Tajiri beat Team Angle by DQ when Haas got caught using a chair.

Backstage, Stephanie asks Vince why he is so obsessed with Mr. America. Stephanie wants to make sure Vince knows what he is doing. Vince says after tonight he will be out of control.

-commercial-

Vince comes back down to the ring. Vince says Judgment Day was supposed to be the day that Piper beat mr. America and then would have allowed Vince to rip the mask off Mr. America and prove that he is really Hulk Hogan. You have heard the expression that you have to pay the Piper? Tonight the Piper will have to pay Mr. NcMahon. So allow me to introduce you to Roddy Piper who will apologize to me.

Piper and O'Haire come to the ring. Piper says as difficult as it is for a man like him, he apologizes.

Vince tells Piper that he wanted to beat Hogan as badly as he did but all he gets is an apology? Vince calls Piper an SOB.

Piper says if Vince touches him again he will rip his throat out.

Vince says that will not happen and O'Haire has to seperate the two.

O'Haire says if anyone is to blame for what happened at Judgment Day it is him. He dropped the ball. O'Haire knows that they all want revenge. O'Haire proposes that he face Mr. America right here tonight in this ring.

Piper says O'Haire will rip Mr. America's mask off and prove the fraud that Hogan really is.

Vince agrees to the match. Vince says if O'Haire does not beat Mr. America tonight then Piper is fired.

-commercial-

Kurt Angle commercial says he will return to Smackdown in two weeks.

John Cena beat Spanky with the fireman's carry slam.

Backstage, The FBI talk about the match they have with Brock Lesnar tonight. They mention that he is not 100% after the stretcher match at Judgment Day. They laugh because Lesnar does not know which one of them he will face tonight.

-commercial-

Backstage, Matt Hardy, Shannon Moore, and Crash say that Greensboro sucks because it lacks Mattitude.

Rey Mysterio comes down to the announce table to watch the next match.

Non Title Match
Chris Benoit beat Matt Hardy w/ Shannon Moore and Crash with the crippler crossface. Mysterio did his part towards the end of the match on keeping Moore and Crash out of the ring. After the match Matt issues Mysterio a shot at the cruiserweight title anytime he wants as long as he can beat Crash and Moore in a match right now.

Handicap Match
Rey Mysterio beat Shannon Moore and Crash after a huricanrana on Crash. After the match Matt gives both Crash and Shannon the twist of fate. Mysterio is helped to the back by trainers. Not sure if he was really hurt or they are just playing up his previous injury angle.

-commercial-

Backstage in a special Smackdown set, Stephanie interview Zach Gowen. Stephanie asks about his prostetic leg. Zach says he was 8 years old in 1991 when he had to get his leg amputated because of cancer. Stephanie brings up the Make A Wish foundation and how they came to his hospital bed. His wish was to meet Hulk Hogan but he passed on the wish because he knew he was going to live. Stephanie asks Zach what his next goal is. Zach says his goal is to become a professional wrestler and with Hogan's help he may one day wrestle on Smackdown. Vince is shown elsewhere backstage watching the interview wrap up.

-commercial-

Backstage, Mr. America is taking pictures for a photographer. Vince walks up and says that if Mr. America loses his match tonight that he will agree to submit to a lie detector test next week. Mr. America says he is not losing tonight and he is not taking any test. Vince says the reason he will not take the test is because he is afraid we will find out. Vince tells Mr. America that Zach Gowen will never sign a WWE contract, that his dreams are shattered. Mr. America agree to take the test provided he does lose tonight. Mr. America calls Vince an SOB and walks off.

Brock Lesnar beat Johnny Stamboli by DQ when Nunzio and Chuck Palumbo interfered. After the match the FBI were triple teaming Lesnar until The Undertaker came down to make the save.

-commercial-

Sable comes down to the ring with a mic in hand. Sable says she is here tonight for two reasons. Sable says she is on the cover of the new Raw magazine, which she has in her hand. Sable plugs the magazine saying the pictures inside are even hotter. Sable questions Tazz's excitement over Torrie Wilson's appearance last Sunday. Sable says she does not think it is fair that Tazz made Torrie Wilson the winner of their bikini contest without asking the audience. Sable gets out of the ring and steps on the announce table in front of Tazz. Sable says she is hot right now and pours water down her chest. Sable says Tazz's decision at Judgment Day was a bit premature but premature comes naturally to him. Sable dumps water on Tazz's head and leaves.

Backstage, Vince and Piper talk with O'Haire about his upcoming match with Mr. America. Vince reminds them what will happen if O'Haire loses. Piper promises that Vince will have a happy night tonight. Vince says he will one way or the other.

-commercial-

Sean O'Haire w/ Roddy Piper beat Mr. America w/ Zach Gowen by countout. During the match Vince comes down to the ring with police officers to arrest Zach Gowen for criminal trespass and assault because Zach does not have a backstage pass and he assaulted Vince at Judgment Day. During the confusion Mr. America is counted out and Sean O'Haire is declared the winner. Vince raises O'Haire and Piper's hands at the top of the stage.

After the cameras go off, O'Haire drags Mr. America back down to the ring and continues to beat on him. Mr. America hulks up and clears the ring of Piper and O'Haire. Mr. America lifts his mask 3/4 way off and reveals his face to the crowd showing everyone that he is indeed Hulk Hogan. Hogan waves the american flag and poses for the crowd. Hogan put his finger to his mouth making the *shshsh* motion for everyone not to tell.

Chimmel thanks everyone for coming.

Thats it...

Time for the re-takes...

A re-take is done of the Stephanie/Zach Gowen interview. In the original segment Zach referred to Mr. America as Hogan as noted by the way I typed it above. They fixed it for him to say Mr. America.

Backstage, Josh Mathews interviews Team Angle about their match tonight with Eddie Guerrero and Tajiri. This was no re-take. They simply never filmed it in the original.

Some sort of WWE movie trailer is shown titled "The Passion Within" coming this summer to theatres. The trailer mostly details how and why most of the wrestlers work through injuries, backstage happenings that most fans are unaware of, why older wrestlers continue to wrestle, "the story that takes you way beyond the mat", and etc. The trailer showed comments from all the big name stars and the overall impression that I got is that it is some kind of insider documentary film. This is the first I have heard of it and the teaser still leaves me with tons of questions. I have made a 5.31 meg .rm (real audio) audio only file of the trailer for my own personal enjoyment as I am sure WWE would try to sue me again if I were to post it on this site.



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Report sent in by Michael Craver

Just returned and making the last leg of the 3 stop
JD, Raw, SD tour from NC to SC and back.

Dark::
Horseshoe (did Raw Dark as well) and Murray Happer
(also "Bo Dupp" from NWA-TNA and ECW, and Otto Schwanz
from Omega and the NC independents (Omega was the
Hardys promotion), defetaed David (I can't come to my
dad's appreciation night) Flair, and Nick Denucci.

Jamie Noble with a noticably bandaged right ear
whipped some high flyers ass.

Rikishi over Phil Brown also locally from SCW, VCW
known as 2 Damn Badd.

Bill Demott handed Brad Hunter a defeated after a
great match for the visually handicapped.

Rhyno over A-Train by Gore through the ropes? Come on,
JOB you metal detctor arch rival SOB.

SD was quick but some solid stuff from Angles and
Guerreros- great win by Edie and Tajiri.

Benoit over Matt- crossface

Rey over Shannon then Crash but HE IS HURT!- At least
pulled a groin muscle that is sad.

Cena beat Spanky

Segment with Ten. Z and Steph he will wrestle

Vince ruled the night front to back.

Brock over the FBI by DQ- and guess what, I sent to
several sites last week that Greensboro was piping
Undertaker coming to SD but hell if they wanna take a
shot at posting you know, such credibility from the
people who bring you that all this "might change."

Didn't stay for Hogan O'Haire after the intros, Hogan
did his ear taunt and he didn't seemed to care the
fans were saying "Whoo" in response.

New SD theme, video
New video for Vince
Stacy vid
Torrie playboy vid
Rey Jr DVD ad
Matt punks the audience and Crash punks his wife
saying she is a pig
Vince was born in NC I don't think anyone appreciated
it.

I sat a section over from Pat Cusick who worked Dark
Matches for Raw and Smackdown last time through and he
did Raw yesterday. He hadda be pissed after seeing the
other guys do Velocity and especially Ernest Miller
dancing to a silent crowd.

Nothing to mention about this show except the
noticeable build of A-Train, Taker/Brock, and Rey Jr
taking on so many people, as for Brand Extension, they
were selling Rock shirts and Austin fingers...?
Angle is coming back but make yourself the best teams
from the brand and say Raw vs Smackdown oh- 10 man
Elimination tag...








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