*SPOILERS* WWE Velocity and Smackdown Taping Results from Kelowna, BC, Canada
Submitted by Tom Guzik on Wednesday, April 21, 2004 at 6:49 AM EST
- Dark Match:
Johnny the Bull over some local Kelowna Wrestler
Not too bad a match actually, with Johnny getting some great power spots, and showing how quick he can be. He won with that move off the top rope that turns into a clothesline.
Velocity:
Jamie Noble over Spike Dudley
This was another great opening match, with spike really playing to the crowd. Some fun moves, with spike hitting what I believe to be the stomp, off the apron. That was cool. Noble took it with a rollup I believe.
Nunzio over Funaki
Another fun opener, with lots of heat for nunzio. He won by holding the tights, if I recall.
Mark Jindrak Over Orlando Jordan
This is where the show got good, because we got to see Teddy Long. This dude is amazing. If I had my way, he would have the modern day equivalent to the Heanan family. Call it the players club or something. Anyway, he comes out, starts talkin his jive, and we are all loving it. The mirror is in the ring, and he brings Jindrak out to pose in the mirror. We are all cheering for Teddy. Orlando Jordan comes out, and we are off. Good back and forth match with Jordan getting a lot of offense. Jindrak won with the same ‘jumping rock bottom’ move he has been doing. I hope our chants for Teddy make TV. I want that dude given more time instead of seeing Bradshaw’s mug every week for so long.
Hardcore Holly/Rockabilly over The Bashams
Another fun match, with Hardcore getting a lot of pop. Lots of back and forth, and a couple switches by the Bashams. I am pretty sure it ended with Billy pinning Damaja, using that crazy spinning move he does.
Smackdown Time!!!
Booker T Over RVD
The show started, with no pyro for some reason. RVD comes out, again no pyro. Booker comes to the ring, and RVD stops him with a baseball slide out of the ring. The bell rings while they are outside. They get into the ring. The bell rings again. Good back and forth action. RVD hits rolling thunder, and a few other of his spots. I really like the chemistry these two have. Suddenly the pyro to start smackdown goes off. Scares the crap outta everyone. Well, everyone except booker, being that he takes the opportunity to roll RVD up for the win.
Paul E’s music hits, and lo and behold, look who the new GM is. Well, for a night anyway, because Kurt is in the hospital with a broken leg, so Vince told Paul he was the only one he could trust with the Brand for tonight. He starts to go off on a tirade on how awesome smackdown is, and how he is responsible for it. he then starts to go off on RVD about how he used to be somebody in ECW and now is nothing. Cue the Dudley’s, who came out to stand with Rob. Buh Buh says that anything Paul E says can as far as he is concerned be said to them too. Heyman goes off about how they used to be monsters, but now have been tamed. He taunts them for a while longer, till Buh Buh can take it no more and clocks…….RVD!!!! yup, heel turn for the Dudley’s. They beat the bejesus outta RVD for a while, and they look to Paul for approval. Good segment.
Charlie Haas and mystery partner over Scottie and Rikishi for the Belts!
Yup, that’s right, new tag champs. They promo on the titantron that Charlie will have a mystery partner tonight…whoever will it be….hmmmmm….well, he comes out to the ring and then suddenly, Ricos music hits! Yup, Rico and Charlie Haas are the new odd couple tag team of the WWE. And let me tell you from where I sit, its gold. Soooo funny! The match was total comedy, with some fun spots. Everything from rico giving haas a good luck pat on the bum to consoling Scottie 2 hottie about his low blow. It was so fun, and rico is pulling this character off. The icing on the cake was the big kisch setting Haas up for the stink face, rico calling for him to stop, so he can switch in. Jackie hands Rico some chap stick, and says go for it. the facial expressions were great on everyone’s part at that. fun match. I believe Charlie ended up getting the pin. The story was that Charlie is attracted to Jackie, and that is why he is interested in the team. Very fun match to watch, and if you are a Rico fan you are going to be happy (Well, that they are using him anyway)
Bradshaw Over EL Gran (the Champion of Mexico)
Maybe Dave can help us with this one, cause I have no idea who this guy is. (I was hoping, in my heart of hearts for La Parka) Bradshaw cut a promo in the back with Paul E about how apparently Bradshaw met the heavyweight champion of Mexico in an airport and they started yelling at each other. So he booked the match. El Gran was announced at 215 pounds, wore black and gold and a mask. Pretty boring match actually. (not that it should be a surprise) Bradshaw played the heel by pinning and pulling the champ (who had a pretty cool Mexican championship belt actually) up off the mat at 2. then he laid down and made the lifeless body of the champ pin him, only to kick out at two. Fall away slam, clothesline from hell, and its over.
Café du Rene
I am not sure the actual name of the segment, I think this is it. But after watching him tonight, I have to say this: Rene Dupree is GOLD. The dude is awesome. He was such a great heel tonight. As far as I am concerned, he has all the tools to be great in this business. He got the most heat of the night, bar none. I hope it comes off as well on TV as it did live. Man, I love to hate him. The segment took place in the ring, with a lamppost, and street sign (rue de Rene I think is what was on it) and an Eiffel Tower about 4 feet high. Of course, there was also a café table, with bread and wine. There was also an old dude playing the accordion behind him to start the segment off. Of course, Fifi was in the corner, scared shitless of all that was going on around her. For some reason, they had her sitting on the monitor at first, which just made matters worse, cause whenever anyone would talk, she would freak out. Not a happy camper. As for Rene, he would open his mouth, and we would boo. It was great. He was in a suit, and asked torrie out. He announced her as a playboy cover girl, and most recently a diva magazine cover girl as well. She got and he sat her down all gentleman like. He was being very polite, pouring her wine, and introducing her to Fifi. I wonder how long this will last? I didn’t have to wonder very long tho, because he started asking her about the Big Show, and why in the world she would laugh at him. Torrie said she thought she was out here to talk about the Diva Rag, I mean Mag, and he should stick to that. Rene kept pressing, and got more and more intense with her. Man this guy is good. He got to the point where he was over her, shouting, saying that Fifi wasn’t the only bitch in the ring. Torrie slapped him, and he grabbed her hard. She swung again, and he blocked it. suddenly out of nowhere, John Cena is there. He cleans house, throwing the props (never did see what happened to Fifi) out of the ring. Rene was cut badly near his ear, and was sent back. Cena grabbed the wine, tried it, and spat it out. He wanted a Molson Ex (one of Canada’s most popular beer) someone in the crowd gave him one and we were chanting ‘Chug’. He said he will if we will, so raise a glass. He did a rhyme to kelowna, and everyone was drinkin. He started to promo, and suddenly, the two Chavos interrupted.
ChavoChavo Over John Cena
Handicap match with The Two Chavos fighting Cena. Lots of fun stuff here, with Cena being very very over. All the spots you would think would be there were, but in the end, with some cheating, Chavo Jr pinned Cena with at Brain Buster. Good match
Booker T came out to promo how great he is. We disagreed, so we booed him mercilessly. Booker was talking about how big a star he was, and all that, and suddenly the lights went out. A couple of bongs and thunderclaps later, booker was running away in the audience. This was the only disappointment of the night, as many of us saw taker earlier in the day, and we would not get to see him this night. The place went apeshit for the bongs, so it was disappointing not to at least see him.
The Dudley over Eddie
Okay, so Paul is calling the Dudley Boyz ‘The Dudley’ tonight. I am not really sure why, but basically, this is a handicap match. Eddie gets beat down. There is a double count out at one point but Paul E (down by ringside) says that this is the main event, and there will be a winner! So the match goes on, with Eddie working hard, and hulking up Eddie style on Devon. He triple suplexes him, and looks to have victory at hand, but then he is tripped, pinned, and buh buh holds his feet down on the outside. Bradshaw shows up and gives Eddie the Big Beat Down including a Clothesline from hell. He gets on the buckle and gloats. Pretty good match, and that’s the show.
Biggest Pops
Cena
Eddie
Taker (or the tease)
Biggest Heat
Rene (this guy is going to be a megastar)
Heyman
Booker T
After the show Eddie gets up, and gets the mic. He starts some kind of verbal game with Tazz about why Tazz wont get him a bottle of water. Tazz says its Coles job. Eddie gets some water, and throws it back to Tazz saying ‘I will give you a chance to catch this’. Tazz comments how Cole is really the Catcher, but he will do his best. He catches the water, and then tells Eddie how much he respects him so he will give him the water, and he gets up and hands it to him. Eddie then tells us again how great we are, and thanks us and wishes us God Bless. Before he leaves he gets us chanting ‘Bradshaw sucks!’
Credit: WrestlingObserver.com
- Hidden Agenda sent in the following report:
VELOCITY AND SMACKDOWN TAPINGS FROM KELOWNA BRITISH COLUMBIA... Dark Matches: *Moore/Kidman beat Akio/Sakoda *Johhny The Bull beat Bobby Rude (From Kelowna) Velocity: *Bill Demott and Josh Matthews make their way down to the ramp for Velocity *Nunzio beat Funaki *Jindrak (The Reflection Of Perfection) beat Orlando *Noble beat Spike *Hardcore/Gunn beat Bashams Smackdown: *Michael Cole and Tazz make their way down the ramp for Smackdown
*Booker T beat RVD: RVD and Booker go at it back and forth when suddenly the pyros (which should have gone off to welcome in smackdown but never did) explode causing RVD to get distracted and Booker rolls up RVD for the 1-2-3
*Paul Heyman shocks the Kelowna crowd by coming out to proclaim that for one night only IT WAS paul heymansSmackdown.. Apparantly there was only one man Vince could turn to now that Angle was in hospital..Heyman also states how he made ECW and how he also made Smackdown his show..He then begins to berate RVD which brings out the Dudleys who interrupt Heyman by saying that if he's got anything to say to RVD then he should also say it to the Dudleys..Heyman then goes on to say how Dudleys have lost their fire since joining WWE which in turn leads to D-Von and Bubba ray attacking RVD and leaving him laying..Dudleys are now HEEL
*Rikishi/scotty Vs a Haas/mystery partner is announced for later..The mystery partner turns out to be Rico...Rico had the crowds in fits of laughter with his homo moves and in turn rico and haas not only co-exist they also win the tag titles..Thats right folks Rico and Haas are the new tag champs
*An advertisement for Rene Duprees new segment 'cafe del rene' is shown
*John Bradshaw Layfield vs El Gran Luchador (the champion of mexico) is up next..before the match Bradshaw thanks Heyman for motivating him a few weeks ago on smackdown (if anyone remembers that)..But anyway back to the match Bradshaw wins with a vicious powerbomb followed by a clothesline from hell
*CAFE DEL RENE complete with a butler, a french coffee table, a french road sign and a cardboard eiffel tower debuts with Torrie Wilson as the first ever guest..Rene Dupree verbally lays into torrie blaming her for what happened to Kurt Angle last week..Rene also proclaimed that FIFI wasnt the only bitch here tonight and claimed that torrie was selfish and vain..Torrie slaps Dupree, Dupree is about to manhandle torrie when everybody's hero john cena comes down to the ring to save the day
*Cena then sucks up to the Canadian crowd by drinking a pint of molson b4 his handicap match with both CHAVOs eventually takes place
*CHAVOs beat Cena after rene dupree gains a measure of revenge by interfering and costing cena the match
*Torrie/Heyman backstage promo which ended in a match for next week Torrie Wilson vs rene dupree
*Booker comes to the ring to cut a promo about how great a star he is on smackdown..on raw he was a star but on smackdown he's now a megastar and that no one could beat him..The lights go out and the bell tolls leaving booker kinda scared..booker leaves through the crowd but the Undertaker doesnt show up (surprise surprise)
*Main Event EDDIE VS DUDLEYS in a two on one handicap which saw Dvon pin eddie after bubba held eddie's foot down.. Bradshaw then came out and delivered a clothesline from hell b4 smiling to the KELOWNA crowd who booed him out of the building
THE SHOW ENDS
After the show Eddie gets to his feet and thanks the ppl of Kelowna..Tony Chimmel thanks the fans for coming
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