WWE House Show Results from Poughkeepsie, NY: 6-27-03
Submitted by Matthew Tremley on Saturday, June 28, 2003 at 11:16 PM EST


• Chris Beaumont sent in the following:
  
  These aren't very detailed, but I'll tell you it was a great show:
  
  Opening match: Scott Steiner vs Lance Storm
  
  Big pop for Steiner and even louder "Boring!" chants for storm. A pretty entertaining match dominated by Steiner who won with his version of the DDT.
  
  2nd Match: Rodney Mack and Chris Nowinski w/ Theodore Long vs The Hurricane and Val Venis
  
  Long and crew came down to the ring and announced a change in the match, Nowinski would have the night off and would be replaced by Rosey, who had accompanied them to the ring.
  Pre-match, hurricane gave a mask to a boy in the front row to a loud pop. Mediocre tag match, with Hurricane getting the biggest reaction. Venis and Hurricane win the match, then made a lucky lady in the front row happy by getting Val's towel.
  
  3rd Match: Randy Orton vs Maven
  
  Orton looked to be in incredible shape, and good at drawing heat on himself. Maven was in good shape and surprisingly they put on a pretty decent match, Orton won.
  
  4th Match: Rico vs Tommy Dreamer
  
  Crowd goes nuts for Dreamer, lots of ECW chants. This match was played for a lot of comedy with Rico prancing around the ring trying to get Dreamer to spank him. Match was very entertaining. Rico has got great skills, although
  I don't much care the gimmick. Sadly Jackie was not there to accompany Rico. Dreamer wins with a DDT.
  
  5th Match: La Resistance vs The Dudley Boyz for the Tag Titles
  
  Lots of heat for Resistance as they tried to sing the French anthem. Dudleys came out to a huge pop and chants for tables. decent match, La Resistance are soooo green. They win with a week looking double spine buster. Spike came out to help his bros and gives the Dudley Dawg to both Renee and Sylvan. then Renee goes through a table. the Dudleys then brought in a young boy from the front row and gave him a piece of the busted table and posed for a picture with him while Spike took it. Bubba and Dvon spent a lot of time in the crowd shaking hands to a great ovation.
  
  6th Match: Christian vs Goldust for the Intercontinental Title
  
  Sadly this was a pretty dull match, damn shame because I like Christian. Christian eventually won using the ropes to get the pin.
  
  15 minute break
  
  7th Match: Divas tag match: Victoria w/Steven Richards and Molly Holly vs Ivory and Gail Kim
  
  This was a good Women's match, all 4 of these women can go in the ring. This was my first time seeing Gail, she looked great and was very good in the ring, she reminded me a lot of Lita. Ivory and Gaiul win.
  
  8th Match: Triple H vs Kane for the World Heavyweight Title
  
  Hunter comes down grabs the mic and says that as a result of Kane losing his mask on Monday, he was not there to wrestle because he lost what made him the Big Red Machine, and that H would be taking the night off. In response Rob Van Dam makes his way to the ring to challenge. Good match lots of back and forth action with both hitting their signature spots. At one point when it appeared all over for Hunter, RVD climbed the ropes for the 5 Star Frog Splash, Randy Orton runs down and pushes Rob off the turnbuckle. while Hunter and Randy beat on RVD, Kane's music hits and he slowly makes his way to the ring (with No Mask, no Hair, No Makeup, just his caveman lookin bald
  head) he knocks Orton out of the ring and delivers a chokeslam to RVD. Hunter knocks Kane out of the ring and makes the pin. Orton and HHH leave. Kane slowly gets back in the ring and helps RVD up only to deliver another chokeslam. He then leaves. RVD slowly gets up, poses in the corners and makes his way to the back.
  
  End of Show.
  
  Biggest Pops:
  1. Triple H (when his music hit)
  2. Dudleys
  3. Kane
  4. RVD
  5. Tommy Dreamer
  
  Biggest Heat:
  1. Triple H
  2. La Resistance
  3. Theodore Long
  4. Lance Storm (Boring)
  5. Rosey (Where's Jamal?)
  
  This was only the second show I have been to, the first being a Smackdown House Show this past January also in Poughkeepsie. This was the better show, better production, plus my seats were great 4th row and right next to the entrance.
  
  
  

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  Report sent in by Joey Berwick
  
  I just got back from the RAW-brand house show at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie, NY. Small arena, but it was packed; at least 2,000 people there. Here's what happened:
  
  1. Scott Steiner def. Lance Storm with his flatliner-type move. About what you'd expect from these two.
  
  2. Val Venis & Hurricane def. Rodney Mack & Rosey (w/Theodore Long and Chris Nowinski). Venis pinned Mack after a Shining Wizard / Money Shot combo.
  
  3. Randy Orton def. Maven. Maven missed missle dropkick off the top; Orton hit his Diamond Cutter move for the win.
  
  4. Tommy Dreamer def. Rico with a DDT. Good grief, Rico has this.... um, "flaming" character down pat.... even grabbed the ref's ass after the match.
  
  5. La Resistance def. Dudleyz with a double flapjack, retaining the tag titles. La Resistance did the French national anthem bit, completely butchering the song. I don't know what it is they think they're singing, but I can guarantee it is NOT La Marseillaise. And they didn't even bring out a French flag.... anyway, a HUGE pop for the Dudleyz; lots of "We want tables" and "USA, USA" chants. Postmatch, Spike ran in and hit the Dudley Dog on one of the heels; Bubba and DVon put the other through a table with the 3-D.
  
  Intermission; Howard Finkle hawked merchandise. They seemed to have a lot of old stuff for sale; I saw a couple of kids walking around with Steve Austin smoking skull title belts....
  
  6. Christian def. Goldust, retaining the IC title. Slight "Goldust" chants during the match. Pretty neat ending: Christian reversed a Curtain Call into a Tomikaze, which was reversed into a rollup by Goldust, which was reversed into ANOTHER rollup by Christian, who held the ropes and got a handfull of tights for the win.
  
  7. Victoria & Molly Holly (w/Stevie Richards) def. Ivory & Gail Kim. Kim went for something off the top rope; Richards pushed her off; Victoria got the pin. Nothing special out of Gail Kim....
  
  8. Triple H def. Rob Van Dam. ENORMOUS pops for both guys. HHH held a sleeper for at least five minutes during the match. Ending saw the ref somehow get KOed.... RVD hit rolling thunder, but no ref for the count; RVD goes for frog splash, but Randy Orton runs out and interferes. RVD fights him off, hits the frog splash; ref counts to two, then Orton pulls him out of the ring. KANE then runs in and chokeslams RVD; HHH covers, and ref counts to three.
  
  Postmatch Kane hit another *huge* chokeslam on RVD; trainers came in to help RVD up (I think that one of them was Fit Finley, but not sure). RVD's music played; end of show.
  
  Overall, a pretty enjoyable night. Kane was not only *completely* bald, but had no "burn" makeup on his face whatsoever.... wonder what he'll look like next Monday night.
  
  
  Top face heat:
  1. Dudleys
  2. RVD
  3. Charles Robinson -- seriously, the crowd was crazy for him, "whooing" every time he came out for a match
  
  Top heel heat:
  1. HHH
  2. La Resistance
  3. Rico

  
  

  
  
  

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