Dark Matches, Jakked Taping Results, Live notes, and After Raw
    Submitted by Calvin Martin on Tuesday, July 31, 2001 at 1:07 PM EST

    Thanks to Tommy Rock for sending this report in!

    Dark Matches:

    Loverboy defeated Andy Anderson with a flying elbow.
    These guys seemed to be very green, still in wrestling school green, as most
    of their attack consisted of punches, kicks, and armdrag takedowns. Loverboy
    did a pretty good job of working the corwd, getting major heel heat.

    Chazz defeated Inferno Kid.
    The crowd got behind the local Beaver Cleaver, err Chazz. Hedominated
    throughout the match and picked up the win.

    K-Kwik defeated Mark Jindrak with a reversal.

    Justin Credible defeated Scotty 2 Hotty.

    Albert defeated Hugh Morrus with the Baldo Bomb. Jindrak tried interfering
    the whole match.

    Raven defeated Essa Rios with his DDT.

    Show Gunns defeated Awesome & Rhyno with a Fameasser on Awesome. After the
    match, Rhyno gave a gore to Gunn which got a nice pop. The crowd seemed to
    be behind Show.

    The last three matches were Metal matches.

    During the commercial break of the Booker T and Kurt Angle match, McMahon
    ripped on the Philly sports teams saying they lie on their backs. He
    commented on the Phillies and the Lakers beating the Sixers (which got major
    heat).

    During another commercial break, Kidman did an interview where he dumped on
    Philly more, wondering why he had to wrestle here, and couldn't wrestle in
    Los Angeles.

    During the Rock by the Rocky statue, a guy began fighting the event staff
    which got most of the people's attention away from that segment.

    The crowd was out of it for the most part, the commercial breaks just seemed
    to kill them.

    Biggest pops:

    Rock
    Kurt Angle
    Undertaker & Kane
    Rob Van Dam
    Matt & Lita (they had a huge backing tonight. I noticed alot of people
    actually dressed like the Hardyz. I can't believe their parents let them out
    of the house like that.)



    Thanks to Matt F from http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/theoriginalwwffanclub for sending this report in!

    Chaz did a dark match, decent pop when they announced
    he was from south jersey.

    Raven, Justin Credible, Rhyno, and Mike Awesome all did
    matches before RAW, maybe to keep the former ECW stars
    off RAW to make Rock get more attention (like Tito
    predicted).

    Billy Kidman is from Allentown, PA, driving distance
    to Philly... but they didn't announce his hometown and
    had him complain about facing X-Pac in a dump like
    Philadelphia in a promo before the match.

    People didn't want to cheer for X-Pac but when he did
    the x-factor from the top rope, he got a nice reaction.

    Everybody loved the RVD-Tajiri match.

    Lots of people hated how Jericho squashed Tazz so
    quickly, we wanted more of them.

    One fight, not too big... no flashers.

    Event went on until ~11:30 -- Rock was attacked by
    Storm and Kanyon, then he acknowledged that the slut
    left when Steph tried to walk away. Then he and
    Shane talked about Philly sports teams and he shook
    Shane's hand. Shane hugged him, he didn't like that
    and after that gave him a rock bottom. He told Vince to
    do a people's elbow on Shane, he did, was not impressed, and
    did another elbow himself, then the show ended.

    Was really funny after the cameras went off, some
    people left but they missed a good 15-20 minutes of
    The Rock at his finest.

    Deadest match during RAW was the edge&christian /
    storm&kanyon match. The double team boston crab leg
    drop maneuver wowed people, and people laughed when
    Storm said he loves parties... but for the rest of it,
    the crowd was dead... chants of "boring"

    During the Angle/Booker T commercial break, Angle and
    Shane talked trash about the Sixers about how we
    started off great but then were swept... and how it
    was like angle winning the championship but Booker T
    was about to take it away.

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