WWE Royal Rumble Results (01/19/03)
Submitted by Matthew Boone on Monday, January 20, 2003 at 1:35 AM EST





The following report was written by Jason Martin. All opinions contained within are those of Jason Martin, not the staff of LordsofPain.net/lordsofpain.net:

Opening video was great…featuring many of the thirty stars doing voiceovers on the importance of winning the Rumble and the dream of main eventing Wrestlemania, either for the first time or to return to that spotlight. Nice shots of the participants done with an enhanced camera, very well-executed.

MATCH 1: BIG SHOW (W/ Paul Heyman) VS. BROCK LESNAR (Winner In the Rumble)
Fans jacked as they didn’t expect this one quite so fast I would imagine… Lesnar started fast and only quickened after a thunderous overhead belly to belly suplex, followed by another one. He went for a third but Show dumped him over the top with an impressive looking double choke throw. Show slowed the pace down in a major way, threw two huge meathook chokes and heaved Brock across the ring once again, but missed a bad corner avalanche attempt and caught as much as he could of a release German suplex from Lesnar. Heyman grabbed the leg of Brock… who fought off it and turned straight into the 16.5 E boot of the Big Show. Show signaled for the chokeslam and grabbed Brock by the throat but Lesnar went to his knees and countered into a pin off an armdrag roll, then a third belly to belly suplex. Heyman on the apron was brought in the hard way and caught before he could escape… F-5 coming for Paul but he spun right into the chokeslam and caught it at 5:27 flush. Fans booed heavily, thought it was over, but Brock raised a shoulder before the three count. Paul demanded another from the giant, and the Show was irate, taking down the straps and going for the throat once again. This time though, Lesnar rolled around his back, ran Show into Paul on the apron… F-5 and that was all she wrote, and man did it look terrible.
RATING: 6, Got the point across… Brock is the man in 2003.
MEMORABLE: The first Brock overhead suplex.
CROWD: 9, Boy were they into it.
OUTCOME: Brock goes on to win later tonight.
WINNER(S): BROCK LESNAR AT 6:24
PREDICTION: BROCK, and if it were me… this MIGHT be a potential opener. I truly believed that before it happened, though I still probably would have gone with the Raw tag match. No problem with it opening to try and pop the crowd early with Lesnar and give him recoop time.

Chris Jericho talked to Terri in the back talking about the importance of fulfilling the destiny of regaining the Undisputed Championship… now the WWE Championship.

MATCH 2: DUDLEY BOYZ VS. LANCE STORM & WILLIAM REGAL (World Tag Team Championship)
Bubba controlled Lance early but it was short lived thanks to a double team, but the early offense got the crowd somewhat involved… not as much as you might think though. It was D-Von though that took the beating and the quick tags from the Champions, with Regal and Storm technically dissecting him for the better part of four minutes. Bubba finally had enough and pulled out the Bionic Elbow and the Bubba Slam on the Champions, but Regal was able to break up the pin attempt. Dudleyz looked for 3D at 6:57 but out came Chief Morley, getting the attention of Nick Patrick. 3D on Regal… who had the knucks, and D-Von got the pin at 7:22 in all the chicanery. Fans loved the Dudley Boyz regaining gold, something they have done at the Royal Rumble before might I add… 2001.
RATING: 7, Another solid… albeit unspectacular match.
MEMORABLE: 3D on Regal.
CROWD: 8, Still jacked from the opener.
OUTCOME: Dudleyz will have to face Bisch/Morley’s wrath of probably rematches and everything else imaginable in the coming weeks.
WINNER(S): DUDLEY BOYZ VS. 7:41
PREDICTION: DUDLEY BOYZ, only because it seemed the minute D-Von reappeared, the goal was to get the gold back on an established fan friendly tag team for awhile. The only reason to take it off Booker and Goldy was to put it on heels for the Dudz to take it back from in grand fashion tonight. 2-0, but I foresee the next one maybe being a stretch call from me.

MATCH 3: DAWN MARIE VS. TORRIE WILSON
Dawn came out in more of a blackish sequined up attire… with a half-veil, and Torrie in all white with garter belts tied into her boots to give the effect of lingerie. Fans noticeably booed a good bit of this matchup, Torrie with a near fall after a horrible backslide. A pair of Wilson armdrags hit but then Dawn springboarded to the second rope and flew back with a clothesline, certainly the best spot she’s ever hit. Torrie won with a swinging neckbreaker… forgot to time it. In a few words we didn’t need to hear as Dawn left… “It’s not over.”
RATING: 2, Just imagine.
MEMORABLE: Dawn’s springboard clothesline.
CROWD: 2, Pretty dead.
OUTCOME: I hope not… but MORE from these two together.
WINNER(S): TORRIE WILSON
PREDICTION: NO CONTEST, and I also believe Al Wilson isn’t dead… and will show up, in the biggest waste of time in recent memory. Dawn and Torrie could be in cahoots, and I really don’t doubt that for a minute.

Bischoff talking to Randy Orton as Stephanie comes up… she talks to Randy for a sec and then Eric ushers him off to talk to her one on one. Steph said she wanted to say “Bye” to him… she’s not going anywhere, but he will be gone in less than a month. Bischoff promised on HeAT a bombshell, and he adds the word “atomic” to it, as it will be announced tomorrow night. Stephanie says she has her own bombshell to drop on Thursday, and as far as her job security goes, “Blood is thicker than, well in your case… blood is thicker than urine.” Bisch reminds her of another phrase, “Money is much thicker than blood.” (So something big is being hyped for both shows this week… could Goldberg be one… how about Austin, just a few of the rumors you will hear over the next seventy-two hours.)

Another Sean O’Haire video package, this time telling the people to do something other than go to church… “and if there is a God, he’ll forgive you. Hey, I’m not telling you anything that you don’t already know.” (Well, I liked the cheat on your wife a lot more… don’t like religion brought into it, but it looks like O’Haire’s character is going to center around being a bad influence, almost a peer pressure for adults or older adolescents… which is intriguing and might just work.)

MATCH 4: TRIPLE H (W/ Ric Flair) VS. SCOTT STEINER (World Heavyweight Championship)
The Game sporting new attire… red variation of the familiar style, and it is a change, but doesn’t really bother me. Hebner gave the boys instructions to where we could hear them before the start… “I know how you are… and I know how you are” was the gist of it. Steiner had Old Glory on the left leg of his long tights, just to set the stage. It was Scott’s chops against Hunter’s right hands and Big Poppa Pump won the war, then threw a punch/chop combo and Triple H went to a knee. For the hype going in and perhaps the biggest draw on this card easily… the heat early was not overwhelming. Hunter took a press slam and rolled to the outside to break the momentum, but took a Steinerline on the floor. Scott rammed Hunter’s lower back into the barricade several times and suplexed the Game from the apron back into the ring as at 2:51 it was a totally one-sided affair, and the fans weren’t biting. Steiner locked on a boston crab at 3:44 and the Game did the pushup to keep his back straight and reached the ropes as the Booty Daddy dropped short elbows to the back of the head in an utterly dominant performance to this point. It was the facebuster that changed it… no it didn’t, no effect and Steiner locked on a bear hug. I would say a good seventy-five or eighty percent of Boston were Triple H fans and cheered on the facebuster… overhead belly to belly from Steiner got a two count at 5:00 as again, still not a thing from Triple H. Flair broke up the Steiner Recliner by pulling Hunter’s legs under the bottom rope. Scottay lost focus for just long enough on the floor to re-enter and… throw another chop, but then he ran into a corner boot and finally the tide had turned. The fight went back to the flooor as Steiner knocked the steps for a loop, but obviously didn’t intend to… and Hunter was in command as Flair was a bit less concerned than he was moments earlier. Swinging neckbreaker from Triple H at 6:55 but only a two count as quite honestly, the match was being worked well by both guys and was telling a good story. Flair got involved as Triple H manipulated Hebner and allowed for the blatant tie choke. That wouldn’t be the last time as the Game and Flair worked like a well-oiled machine on the fallen challenger. Pedigree attempted at 8:35 but Steiner blocked it and catapulted the Game into the turnbuckle and then hit basically a Northern Lights release suplex variation. Both fatigued at 9:05 as Steiner muscled Hunter up but the Game reversed through it… Steiner rolled through that, but Hunter hit yet another neckbreaker variation and ALMOST had enough to get the three count. Vertical suplex from the Champion, as Flair urged the crowd to respect the Champion… and they did. Hunter came off the second rope and got suplexed once again overhead from the powerhouse challenger and again Ric’s emotions were running the gamut. Steiner backed Hunter into the corner with a set of vicious right forearms and then knocked him down twice with Steinerlines and then with a back body drop and another overhead suplex as the fans booed the challenger. Another suplex as Steiner did it yet again, that’s three belly to belly overheads in a row and the fans were angry, big Triple H marks in that audience. Steiner then hit his spinning belly to belly out of the corner but the Game lifted a shoulder just long enough to stop the count. Steiner then went for his double underhook slam but fell backwards and barely pulled it off… the fans booed heavily. The Game went up top and Steiner cut him off… up to the second rope and off with a thunderous superplex. All of a sudden Flair grabbed the gold and the Champ and they attempted to leave… Scott knocked both of them down from behind, then Hebner had to restrain an irate Flair as Steiner was distracted. Hunter was perched behind Scott with the belt in hand, but Steiner blocked it and reversed the gold into the Champion’s face, busting him open at 13:50. Hunter rammed off the ring post and rolled back inside as again Steiner hit an overhead belly to belly and Boston was booing extremely hard. Triple H then went behind Cole and Tazz and went into the seats… attempting to get intentionally counted out but Scottay followed him, sent him back over, bounced the Game off the announce table (Hunter blocked it in a bad way, wrong camera angle), and it went back inside the ring. Steiner did pushups as he taunted the Game to much more heat than pop, and threw another set of rights to a nearly out Champion in the corner. Flair was beside himself, wanting Hebner to stop the match because of blood loss but Hebner said “bullshit” and wouldn’t do it, just as he would not count when Triple H kept running. Triple H lured Hebner around and then chucked him through the middle rope… should be a DQ as he raised his hand to do it… Steiner urged him not to and Hebner didn’t, screaming at the Game to wrestle and that it wouldn’t end that way. Another belly to belly, this time Magnum TA style… close near fall. Flair irate trying to keep Hebner’s attention as the Game lured Steiner to the corner and booted him low…rollup and the fans again were irate it would end that way and it didn’t… Steiner escaped it. I have never quite seen a match where the fan response was quite like this. Triple H rolled out, brought the sledgehammer from underneath the ring and came in the ring with it. He shoved Hebner out of the way and crushed Scottay with it in the ribs and THEN Hebner DQ’d him to tremendous heat. Triple H pushed Earl down and went to nail Steiner with it, but Scott blocked it, used it on the midsection of the Champion and Flair, then a head shot for the Game. The fans booed beyond belief for this… I have no idea what the hell they wanted. Steiner locked on the Steiner Recliner as the blood flowed down the face of the Champion at mid-ring… other referees came in to break it up but could not do it. Agents came out… that wasn’t enough. Eric Bischoff came out, urging Steiner to stop, saying it’s over and not to kill his Champion. Finally Scottay let up and left… only to come back with the World Championship and stand over the Champion with it, draping it over his fallen body and posing to again MORE heat.
RATING: 7.5, I really enjoyed watching this one transpire, and the fans odd response to the entire thing only served to make it more intriguing. Other than the near miss on the butterfly, Steiner was pretty solid. Both guys are pros and it showed. May have gone too long for Scottay’s first match.
MEMORABLE: The crowd…
CROWD: I’m not giving a number, it was ridiculous to see that happen.
OUTCOME: Rematch at No Way Out, as I thought… didn’t expect a non-finish, but I’m okay with that.
WINNER(S): SCOTT STEINER AT 18:19 BY DQ
PREDICTION: TRIPLE H… though I wouldn’t mind seeing it the other way, I don’t see it. I see a rematch between these two in the future, leading towards Kevin Nash’s return that should give Triple H an even bigger headache… perhaps these two go all the way to and through Wrestlemania… time will tell.

MATCH 5: KURT ANGLE (W/ Team Angle) VS. CHRIS BENOIT (WWE Championship)
These two should have no trouble tearing the house down… this show has easily been the worst Rumble since 1998, perhaps earlier. Just nothing too spectacular, and I KNOW I will be in the minority, but I found the previous match pretty entertaining. The crowd really hurt because they dictated what most people watching at home thought I would imagine. Plenty of time for this one if they want it to go long, and I hope it does. Chioda threw Team Angle out from ringside for attempting to attack Benoit before the bell… but I’m sure they’ll be back. Benoit went after the knee immediately and both guys obviously had each other well-scouted and it took a few minutes for anything major to connect. Kurt posted Benoit’s shoulder at 2:05 and began to open up on the Crippler with ferocity in the corner. Chris with a flurry of reverse knife edges and a kitchen sink for a two count as he showed his usual aggression at 3:41. Angle hung Chris out to dry but was guillotined next to the apron… fistfight won by Benoit on the apron and then he pulled out a spot I saw last year in Atlanta… the DDT on the apron as Benoit went to the floor and Kurt looked like he really hit hard. (Edge/Regal) Swandive headbutt coming at 5:15 but Benoit came up empty and Kurt took the advantage. Angle Slam countered and Benoit locked on the Sharpshooter at 5:42 in perfect position as Kurt crawled towards the ropes and made it… Kurt’s mouth bleeding, most likely from the DDT. Heat was there at times but generally the crowd sat on their hands and watched the match unfold. Benoit dropped on the barricade by a hurting Angle and then took a sick short clothesline back in the ring as Kurt got a two count before locking on a rear chin lock with a body scissors. Angle cut Benoit’s comeback attempt off with a belly to belly, followed up with a picture perfect belly to back, and scored a two count from Chioda. The chin lock came back in focus as Benoit made it back to his feet but was pummeled back down before the two nearly beheaded each other with a beautiful double clothesline. Chioda (and the crowd) reached 9 before they rose, and Benoit blocked rights and hit his own, complete with chops and his usual clotheslines. Back drop put Angle down at 11:33 and then it was German time, with Benoit rolling into two straight before Kurt reversed the grip and hit one, Benoit with a third and let go of it as both again were down. Benoit again said it was over, signaling for the swandive once again but this time Kurt jumped up and as only he can, ran up the ropes and brought Chris off with the overhead throw and got a 2.9 count. Benoit locked on the Crossface at 13:03 after countering the Angle Slam and it was in perfect position. Fans exploded as they always do for the hold and Kurt slid slowly horizontally and reached out for the ropes. Chris pulled Kurt back to ring center by the ankle and put on his own ankle lock… Kurt counter rolled and locked on his more patented variation. Benoit with a counter into the Crossface at 14:07 as Angle with a half scissors banana split pin… only a two count and immediately Chris put the Crossface on again. Angle this time not near the ropes and was about to tap it appeared… Angle rolled through it but Benoit held on… Kurt IN THE CROSSFACE picked Benoit up and hit a nice Angle Slam… fatigued cover and the Crippler kicked out at 15:15. Kurt took the straps down and put on the ankle lock again, standing and in perfect form at mid ring but Benoit rolled and leg reversed Angle face first into the top turnbuckle. Another counter into a great pin attempt from Benoit with a super close near fall. Benoit with a German… reverse… Angle with a German… reverse the grip… and Benoit with a release German as Angle cut a full somersault and landed on his face and chest to a huge pop. Benoit went up for the swandive again as by this point the fans were very into it… the headbutt was perfect at 16:56 from nearly fifteen feet away. Cover at 17:17 but Angle kicked out at the last second. Crossface but Angle was on his knees and rolled through, then did a reverse powerbomb drop into the top turnbuckle… then a second Angle Slam and the cover at 17:52 but AGAIN Benoit kicked out and the entire building erupted. Benoit out on his feet basically it looked like, but again the Crossface locked on at 18:25 and Angle about to tap… but holding on and somehow rolled to his knees into the ankle lock once again. Another half counter as Kurt tried to hang on and rolled around to the standing position. Another boot shove off but Angle right back to it …another shove but Kurt held onto the ankle as Benoit screamed and moaned. Kurt pulled him back to ring center near the ropes and twisted around with a lying variation as Chris had nowhere to go at 19:45 and had to tap out. As soon as it was over, Team Angle ran out and celebrated with the Champion, who was basically dead. I am SHOCKED it was a clean three count but what a match, last ten minutes was literally off the charts and the first ten was better than nearly anything you’d see anywhere else.
RATING: 10, You have to… was it the best match they’ve ever done? I’d say they are all stellar… it’s the Flair/Steamboat of this generation. Definitely MOTY caliber, and it’s going to take a lot to upstage it.
MEMORABLE: The last ten minutes… the suplex and submission reversals and the trip the crowd was taken on during the story.
CROWD: 5-10, By the end off the charts, early it was a bit more sublime.
OUTCOME: Angle vs. Lesnar at Mania… can it top the Benoit/Angle matches?
WINNER(S): KURT ANGLE AT 19:45
PREDICTION: ANGLE, holds it until at LEAST Mania, where the odds on pick would be to put Brock over, but I could see a swerve and not giving it to him until Backlash… either way the gold is staying put. Should be a Match of the Year contender if it gets more than twenty.

After the match, Angle had left and his music cut as Benoit was on his feet at ring center… the entire building on their feet screaming for Chris, who tapped his heart to the crowd and left to a chant and a thunderous ovation. Well-deserved as it always is from this guy… I almost hate watching those two work because I like them BOTH so much, right there with Hall… but man have they had some brilliant stuff.

Rob Van Dam stretching as Kane comes up, saying they’ve been a good team but if RVD is the man standing between him and winning the Rumble, Kane will go through him. Rob says that’s cool, every man for himself… Rob’s going to do what it takes to make sure the winner is Rob… Van… Dam.

MATCH 6: 2003 ROYAL RUMBLE MATCH (90 Second Intervals… 15 Raw, 15 SD, Winner Gets Respective Brand Title Shot at Wrestlemania)
Here’s how we do this:
ORDER OF ENTRY: SHAWN MICHAELS, CHRIS JERICHO, (Music hit, Christian came out in Jericho’s jacket… and Chris came through the crowd, delivered a low blow, and took over on Michaels in a very crafty start to the Rumble… Michaels busted open from a chair shot in the first minute), CHRISTOPHER NOWINSKI (Who let Jericho pummel Michaels while he watched on the floor), REY MYSTERIO (Who was massively quick for Jericho and caused him a lot of problems until a clothesline changed it, still Nowinski had not entered but would before the next entrant), EDGE (Double teamed Jericho and Nowinski as he and Rey worked well together before attacking each other as they were in by themselves… hurracanranna over the top but Edge only touched one foot to the floor before blocking the West Coast Pop with a sit out powerbomb), CHRISTIAN (Attacked Edge of course as Nowinski tried to throw Edge and Rey out together and ended up nearly killed on a double team), CHAVO GUERRERO (Went right for Rey but took the 619 quickly, then Christian took it), TAJIRI, BILL DEMOTT (Overpowered everyone smaller than him, threw Jericho out but Chris hung on the apron and saved himself), TOMMY DREAMER (Along with a trashcan full of toys… ECW Chant as he Singapored everything that he could find), B-2 (Selling his left shoulder for a few seconds before going out), ROB VAN DAM (Rob and Jericho one on one in there as the fans exploded for RVD, who obviously was fresher than the opposition, Jericho held on again as he was booked as the star, which is GREAT), MATT HARDY (Shannon came out with him but wasn’t in the Rumble… Matt makes the greatest pants in the world, work perfectly with his gear, he and Jericho set up a double team on Rob), EDDIE GUERRERO (He and RVD jocked for position before Matt double crossed him and hit the Twist of Fate), JEFF HARDY (Guess what happened then? Matt who was just celebrating began verbally backtracking… but it didn’t work… Shannon was great here, laying down where Matt would have fallen out and boot holding him up, then laying on top of Matt to save him from a Swanton… though both took it), ROSEY (Rico came with him… and the fan response died a bit as the Islander came out), TEST (Stacy came with him and the fans came alive again a bit), JOHN CENA (Retro Astros outfit… and you HAVE to love that… he rapped his way down to the ring obviously… Cena started to laugh during his quite long freestyle, but held it together… great gimmick there), CHARLIE HAAS, RIKISHI (His eighth Royal Rumble, the most in WWE history according to JR, hit about four superkicks before meeting up with Rosey… Shannon Moore in again and Rosey backed him hard into Matt in the corner… Back That Ass Up, but no Stinkface as Rosey double crossed him), JAMAL (Now at 31:20 total as Jamal went in and immediately attacked his relative Rikishi but went down to a superkick… then Rosey took one, Stinkface on Jamal), KANE (Biggest man in thus far… should be a showdown with Taker if my prediction is correct), SHELTON BENJAMIN, BOOKER T, A-TRAIN (He is number twenty-five if you lost count, Baldobomb on Cena immediately as he entered and then the nasty backbreaker on Benjamin, Baldobomb on RVD), at this point Shawn Michaels ran back out, basically at 38:39 and attacked Jericho, then Cena… then Chris hit him with a clothesline and Test threw Jericho out), MAVEN (Attacked Kane in the corner which didn’t work out for him), GOLDUST (Number twenty-seven, as three former winners had this slot, leaves Taker, Brock, and Batista), BATISTA, BROCK LESNAR (You could tell walking out he was going to win it), UNDERTAKER (Fans chanted for him before he came out… with the cushy thirty spot. His music hit and then out he came and as I was afraid of, if you were looking for the Dead Man… you didn’t get him, he came out on the bike as usual.)

ORDER OF ELIMINATION: Shawn Michaels at 2:35 from Jericho… WOW I’m shocked he went out that fast and that has to be disappointing, Chris Nowinski at 9:05 from Rey, Rey at 9:18 from Jericho, Bill DeMott at 13:37 from Edge and Dreamer with matching Cane shots, Tommy Dreamer at 13:58 by Jericho… less than a minute from his entry, Tajiri by Jericho at 14:37 after pushing off the Tarantula, B-2 at 15:14 and he was out within a minute from Edge, Chavo at 15:32 by an Edge spear off the apron, Edge and Christian at 15:52 by Jericho, who HBK’d himself back in off the top rope and then shoved the former team over as he was busted open nastily between the eyes, Jeff Hardy from RVD at 29:08 when attempting Whisper in the Wind and being shoved, Rosey at 33:42 from Kane, who then double chokeslammed Matt and Shannon, and nearly put Jericho out, Eddie Guerrero at 36:43 by Booker after a Spin-A-Roony, Chris Jericho by Test at 38:59 after HBK’s return… Michaels leapt to the floor onto Jericho, can you say Wrestlemania? Can you say THANK YOU, can’t wait to see that one. Goldust at 42:08 by Shelton Benjamin, less than a minute from entry, Booker T at 42:32 by Team Angle as Booker tried to fight it off on the apron, Test by Batista at 43:50 as he charged at the wrong time, Rikishi at 44:10 by Batista, Team Angle both out at 45:22 by Lesnar when they attempted to throw him out, Matt Hardy at 45:34 when Brock F-5’d Matt over the top onto Haas and Benjamin, John Cena at 47:21 by Undertaker, Jamal at 47:30 by Undertaker, Maven hilarious as he hit a dropkick to Taker’s back and thought he pulled it again… but took a chokeslam, absolutely hilarious. Maven at 48:00 by Undertaker… A-Train Bomb on the Undertaker, used to be the Baldobomb… Kane chokeslammed Brock as it was down to six. A-Train by Kane and RVD at 49:18… the tag team, then RVD by Kane at 49:35 as Kane double crossed Rob after telling him to jump into a press slam.

FINAL FOUR: Kane, Batista, Undertaker, Brock Lesnar. Taker and Brock stared each other down and the history came back to them as they got ready to get it on, but had respect for each other. Batista and Kane sidelined one each as it was Raw vs. SmackDown momentarily. F-5 on Kane as Batista had already gone down and it was only Taker and Lesnar standing… fists flying both ways and both wincing from the blows. F-5 on Taker blocked as Undertaker dropped the Next Big Thing with the Tombstone off the counter. Batista out at 53:05 to Undertaker as Taker shook hands with his brother and then Take double crossed his brother and tossed him over at 53:36. Batista ran back in with a chair but was chaired out… then Brock tossed Taker over at 53:46 rather anticlimactically. Taker had a smile on his face as he realized Brock outsmarted him. Taker came back into the ring and gave Brock props on the win.
WINNER(S): BROCK LESNAR WINS THE RUMBLE AT 53:36
PREDICTION: BROCK… has to be.

OVERALL IMPRESSIONS: Well up until Angle/Benoit, which was flat out gorgeous, it was an average kind of show with one horrendous match. It certainly will be topped by at least five PPVs this year, maybe by all of them… but it wasn’t a BAD show. Angle/Benoit was great, the Rumble itself was excellent with limited garbage talent in there, and HHH/Steiner left plenty of room for a rematch and to me was entertaining, though Boston didn’t agree. Not the best Rumble PPV by a long shot, but the WWE Championship match alone might make you think about the replay, the Rumble itself was very well executed as well, giving several guys their moment to shine.
RATING: 6, Both the WWE Championship and the Rumble itself were good, World Title match was good enough for me…only the ladies were bad.
MATCH OF THE NIGHT: Kurt Angle vs. Chris Benoit
STAR OF THE NIGHT: Angle/Benoit/Lesnar… OH YEAH, Jericho
SPOT OF THE NIGHT: Who knows… F-5 to the floor maybe, apron DDT on Angle because of the stiffness.
TITLE CHANGES: Dudley Boyz new Tag Champions
CHARACTER TURNS: none








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