WWE Heat Taping Results/Dark Matches/Post-Show news from Washington, D.C.
Submitted by Matthew Tremley on Tuesday, July 20, 2004 at 11:09 AM EST







• Miles44 sent in the following report:
  
  Dark Matches/Heat tapings
  
  Rodney Mack beat a local boy from Bethesda, MD
  
  They announced Al Snow and The Coach as Heat announcers ... who came out, waved, and promptly left again ... strange.
  
  Val Venis finished off Steven Richards with the Money Shot
  
  Victoria beat Jazz with the help of a "woman" who looked a lot like Steven Richards in a Kurt Cobain costume
  
  Maven beat Chuck Palumbo
  
  After RAW went off the air ...
  
  Edge stole JR's cowboy hat and did a little pony dance to the back. Orton stumbled up the ramp.
  
  Other live notes ...
  
  Only 10 more weeks to go: The 30-minute-long Diva search segment, which as Rommel pointed out, the crowd booed relentlessly, and when it got tired of booing, chanted "BORING!"
  
  Making the save: Edge and Orton reviving a dead crowd (people were leaving in droves before the main event) with a great finisher
  
  But there IS good news, I just saved a bunch of money on car insurance by switching to Geico: Bischoff bitch-slapping the paying crowd in the first 15 minutes announcing that a) there would be an Iron Man Match... NEXT week; and b) Triple H wouldn't wrestle at all this week
  
  Best sign: "AUSTIN 3:16 SAYS I JUST BEAT MY WIFE"
  
  Best taunt: (as Victoria worked over Jazz) "Pull out her weave!"
  
  Worst booking: Having the hometown boy (Northern Virginia's own Batista) play the heel against the Canadian face ... Benoit got big cheers coming in, but Batista got even louder cheers on his way out.
  
  Not that there's anything wrong with that: Orton's ambiguously gay rear crotch-level rear chinlock on Edge
  
  Worst ring attire: Chuck Palumbo's strange outfit, which looked like he was wrestling in the clothes he came to the arena in ... he was wearing Chuck Taylors, prompting talk of some sort of Chuck-based endorsement deal ... all complemented by bleached blonde hair reminiscent of his
  Billy 'n' Chuck days
  
  Biggest pops:
  1) Benoit
  2) Edge
  3) Batista going back for seconds on Benoit
  4) Stacy
  5) Maven
  
  Biggest heat:
  1) The Coach
  2) Triple H (mixed with heavy cheers)
  3) La Resistance singing the Canadian national anthem
  

  
  

  
  
  

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