*SPOILERS* WWE Velocity and Smackdown Taping Results from Kansas City, Missouri
Submitted by Tom Guzik on Wednesday, February 25, 2004 at 6:59 AM EST
- Thanks to Mister Roboto for sending this report:
Kemper Arena had a lot of upper deck sections tarped off, along with most of the side that the cameras were on. The infamous Sign Guy was in attendance (I thought he only appeared at Texas shows, but it was definitely him). The crowd got to see a Wrestlemania hype video set to the Foo Fighter’s “Times Like These” which was a really good video package. It’d be nice if they played it on the air.
Dark Matches
Funaki vs. Mike Bucci
I have to admit, I enjoyed the jobber’s gimmick (looked like a cross between Don Johnson from “Miami Vice” and Disco Inferno), and he came across really well in the ring. Funaki got the win with a roll-up.
Tough Enough III Champions Matt Cappotelli and John Hennigan vs. The Self-Proclaimed World’s Greatest Tag Team.
Both of our TE3 winners look descent enough. John’s starting to look a little like Glenn Danzig. Matt didn’t do anything memorable, while John hit some pretty good spots. TGWTT looked great as usual, and got the win with the Haas of Pain.
Josh Matthews and Bill DeMott came out and it was time for the Velocity tapings.
Velocity
Tajiri (with Akio and Sakoda) vs. Paul London
Good match with some interference by Tajiri’s henchmen (Sakoda looks pretty wicked in person). Tajiri would get the win with a head kick after London hit some of his spots.
A-Train vs. Shannon Moore
Moore got a descent reaction, while A-Train got the usual “shave your back” chants. Standard match where the little guy gets a little offense, but is eventually beat by monster. A-Train hit his version of the Vader Bomb for the win.
Chuck Palumbo and Johnny Stamboli vs. Orlando Jordan and Hardcore Holly
Massive pops for Holly throughout the match. Definitely an entertaining match-up, with competent ringwork from all four participants. Orlando Jordan would eventually get the win by pinning Palumbo.
DeMott got in Tony Chimmel’s face about something, and then he and Josh left.
Rhue came out and sang “America the Beautiful”. She looks amazing in person, and is also a pretty good singer.
Michael Cole and Tazz came down to Tazz’s music from “Forceble Entry”, and then it was time for Smackdown to start.
Before the opening, Kurt came on the twin-trons and told us he’d be explaining why he attacked Eddie Guerrero on last week’s show. Cue intro, and the show’s ready to start.
The main event is announced to be Eddie Guerrero and John Cena vs. Chavo Guerrero and the Big Show. We’d also get the answer to the musical question: “WHY, KURT, WHY?”
SUDDEN DEATH FOUR-WAY FOR A CHANCE AT THE TITLE AT WRESTLEMANIA XX
Rey Mysterio vs. Jamie Noble vs. Nunzio vs. Billy Kidman
Mysterio pretty much dominated the match, which was interrupted by a backstage segment. Eddie Guerrero charged into Paul Heyman’s office, where Heyman was talking to Tajiri (with evil minions) and Dawn Marie. Not a point to the segment except to set up that Eddie was here tonight, and he was severly upset over what happened last week.
Back to the match, Rey dominated and was about to get the win when Heyman (along with Dawn, Tajiri, Akio, and Sakoda) came out and cancelled the match. Paul then announced that he couldn’t go through with it because no Japanese people were represented in the match, and he would have to make other arrangements. For the first time ever at Wrestlemania, there would be a CRUISERWEIGHT OPEN with the winner facing Chavo for the Cruiserweight Title that very night.
After the ring area cleared, a video package recapping last week’s events between Eddie, Chavo, and Kurt Angle was shown.
NON-TITLE TAG MATCH
Rikishi and Scotty 2 Hotty vs. the A.P.A.
Not too bad of a match, with the APA doing some quasi-heel stuff. Eventually the Bashams would interfere, and Bradshaw would get the pin by putting the Clothesline From Hell on Rikishi.
After the match, Rikishi looked injured, and it took a couple of minutes for the trainers to help him out of the ring. It looked real, and maybe not a result of Bradshaw’s clothesline.
A video recap was shown of the match announcement made on Monday’s RAW, featuring Brock giving Stone Cold Steve Austin the F-5.
The next segment was Josh Matthews interviewing Brock Lesnar in the locker room. Tonight Brock would be facing Billy Gunn, but Josh wants to know why Brock F-5ed Austin. Brock says that because Austin gave Goldberg a ticket to “No Way Out”, then it was Austin’s fault Brock lost the title. He then tried to use the segment to pimp his t-shirt by saying he was going to teach them the true meaning of “Off the Hook Pain”.
The next segment featured Eddie Guerrero (without a low-rider, and with altered lyrics to his theme song so there’s no reference to Chavo) coming down to the ring for a promo. Huge “Eddie” chants, as the crowd was behind him 100%.
Eddie says that all around his neighborhood, people wanted to know what it was like to be the WWE Champion. He says that he’s just taking it “one day at a time”. He then calls out Kurt Angle, but gets tired of waiting, so he runs to the back looking for the former champion. Eddie goes to the door of Kurt’s private locker room, but is stopped by Heyman and about six or eight fake cops. Eddie then sees Kurt, but as he’s trying to get to him, Eddie knocks Paul into Dawn-Marie. Paul Heyman then has Eddie kicked out for attacking Dawn-Marie.
SINGLES MATCH
Billy Gunn vs. Brock Lesnar (with his kick-ass pyro)
Say it with me: Billy Gunn sucks. Lots of rest holds in the match, as Brock isn’t quite up to the task of carrying Gunn. Sign Guy’s antics during the match are pretty funny, though. Eventually Brock wakes up the crowd by hitting the F-5 for the clean win.
At this point there’s a break, and the t-shirt guy comes out and Chimmel has some fun with the fans.
The next segment featured a promo by Torrie Wilson and Sable, with both ladies wearing evening gowns and playing the faces by kissing up to the fans for buying their magazine. The talk about being hotter than Miss Jackie and Stacy Keibler, and kind of drone on for a couple of minutes. Either the sound system was off, or Torrie sounds like she’s on helium in real life.
John Cena would then come down to a huge pop (he was wearing a Derrick Thomas jersey and pointed to it several times for the additional cheap pops…Saddam Hussein could get a pop for wearing a Derrick Thomas jersey in Kansas City). He rapped about how hot they looked in their magazine, but asked them to leave because they were breaking his concentration. Since his original tag partner for tonight was kicked out of the arena, he’d have to call a new partner. He then pulled out a cell phone and dialed “619”. Rey then joined Cena in the ring.
TAG TEAM MATCH
John Cena and Rey Mysterio vs. The Big Show and Chavo Guerrero (with Chavo Senior)
Pretty good tag match, with Rey playing the “face in peril” for a sizable portion of it. Cena’s selling looks better on TV than live, but he definitely had the crowd in the palm of his hand. Chavo got some massive heat from the crowd by using many of Eddie’s signature moves, but Rey got the pin on Chavo after a 619. Big Show would then chokeslam Cena to get his heat back before going backstage.
The final segment was Kurt Angle coming to the ring to explain why he attacked Eddie last week. He says he did it for us, because Eddie’s a former drug addict and was a bad role model for kids (since encouraged lying, cheating, and stealing). Drugs are bad, mmmmkay? It hurt Kurt to attack Eddie, but he did it for us. Kurt said he’d win at Wrestlemania and be the kind of champion we could be proud of. Of course, Eddie would then sneak up behind Kurt and attack him. Paul Heyman would come out with his fake cops, and have Eddie arrested and hauled off in handcuffs. Eddie’s going to have to spend the night in jail! Angle would taunt Eddie all the way outside and to the police car and yell at him as the police drove away.
I’m pretty sure this is wear the tapings ended.
Kurt came back to the ring and tried to tell us what he did was for the good of America, before Rey came out, wrestled Kurt for a couple of minutes, and wiped his butt with Kurt’s t-shirt. Kurt left, and Rey thanked us for coming.
Chimmel then thanked us for coming.
Biggest pops
Eddie
Cena
Torrie and Sable
Rey Mysterio
Undertaker (during videos)
Most heel heat
Angle
Chavo
Heyman
Brock
Tajiri
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