WWE Armageddon 2002
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Movie Reviews of WWE Armageddon 2002
Movie Review: 2002 Comes To An End
Summary: 3 Stars
Four Way Elimination Match: World Tag Team Champions Chris Jericho & Christian vs. Booker T & Kane vs. Lance Storm & William Regal vs. Dudley Boyz - Don't let the match title fool you because Storm, Regal, and the Dudleys are eliminated within the first couple of minutes...with Bubba Ray screwing up the rollup attempt. From there, it was all about Goldust proving that he wasn't the "weak link" in the team as he finally became the World Tag Team Champions with Booker T in the end.
Edge vs. A-Train - They gave Albert a new nickname & renewed push by taking Mysterio out of action for a month so Edge was out for revenge for his partner. The match itself was just boring as Albert just isn't very good in the ring and Edge at this point in his career didn't have the capability of carrying his opposition. Dud match.
Chris Benoit vs. Eddie Guerrero - This was before Eddie was doing the "lie, cheat, steal" gimmick so it was a straight up wrestling match without the usual Eddie humor we get from time to time. It's not a classic encounter as their later & earlier matches have been but it's still a good solid pure wrestling match that you would expect from these two.
Kane vs. Batista - This match was just like the Edge/Albert match in that it just wasn't good & boring for the most part. Batista was still very green at the time & Kane is just like Edge in that he can only carry his opposition so far in the match but it just didn't work here for another dull match.
Womens Champion Victoria vs. Trish Stratus vs. Jacqueline - This was a solid fast paced matchup here between the women. It was good but nothing memorable.
WWE Champion Big Show vs. Kurt Angle - Big Show continued to show what his true potential since moving over to SmackDown & it continued here as he went against Kurt Angle. A-Train appears again but the real treat was the appearence of Brock Lesnar helping Kurt Angle win the WWE Title...and starting their roads to WrestleMania XIX.
3 Stages Of Hell (street fight/cage match/ladder match): World Champion Shawn Michaels vs. Triple H - Just like Stone Cold vs. Triple H at No Way Out 2001 in that you get 3 full main events in one match. The story here was will we see the "humble" Shawn Michaels or "Heartbreak Kid?" Just a side note but watch before the match gets started as Ric Flair kept getting into it with the referee to the point where he gets shoved on his ass...it's funny. The street fight was brutal as they didn't do alot of weapons spots but just instead beat the hell out of each other & occassionally use weapons such as a flaming barbed wire board. The cage match was around 10 mins. with the only memorable spot being HBK's dive onto Triple H though a table. The ladder match wasn't the calibur of HBK's previous ladder matches but it was still good concidering the circumstances with the finish of HBK falling off the ladder though loads of tables being a highlight to the point where WWE continued to use that footage in their "Don't try this at home" advertisement before any WWE home video.
Somewhere on here as well was the Dawn Marie/Torrie Wilson "hotel room" footage which was nothing more than them being in lingere/bra & panties and resulting in a kiss.
Overall, this was a good PPV but it's nothing memorable past the main event (and the hotel footage if your a very horny man) so this is something I would recommend for a rental or at a cheap cost.
Movie Review: Could Have Been A Lot Better
Summary: 3 Stars
WWE Armageddon 2002 was an OK PPV. You would think the WWE would have ended the year on a better note. The PPV was held in December 2002 from the Office Depot Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. This crowd was horrible. I will rank and review the matches. The matches are based out of 10 points.1. GOLDUST & BOOKER T (VS) CHRISTIAN & Y2J (VS) DUDLEY'S (VS) STORM & REGAL (WORLD TAG TITLE/FATAL FOURWAY ELIMINATION)
Good way to open up the PPV. Storm and Regal are eliminated first and the Dudley's are eliminated second. The match really picked up with the last two teams. Great finish with a lot of near falls. Booker T & Goldust become new champs. It looked as though both teams were going to win many times. (8/10)
2. EDGE (VS) A-TRAIN
Why did they have this match? I understand that Edge was sticking up for Mysterio, but who cares about A-Train. Edge wins by DQ. Edge beats A-Train with the chair after the match. (4/10)
3. CHRIS BENIOT (VS) EDDIE GUERRERO
This match was good, but I thought it was goig to be a lot better. There are a lot of counters in this match. Benoit finally gets Eddie to tap to win it. Decent match. (7.5/10)
Torrie & Dawn Marie meet in the hotel room. This is great. You have to see it for yourself.
4. BATISTA (VS) KANE
Horrible match. Batista wins. (3/10)
5. TRISH (VS) VICTORIA (VS) JAZZ (WOMEN'S TITLE)
I think Trish wins. (2/10)
6. KURT ANGLE (VS) BIG SHOW (WWE TITLE)
Not a bad match. Of course, Angle makes every match good. There are really no high spots. Lesnar interferes and hits Big Show with the F-5. Angle gets the 1-2-3 to become new champ. (7.5/10)
7. TRIPLE H (VS) HBK (BEST TWO OUT OF THREE FALLS/WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE)
FIRST FALL - STREET FIGHT
This was the worst fall of the match. This match started out slow and went for a while. Good use of the two by four with barbed wire, lit with fire. Michaels suplexes Triple H through a chair. Triple H wins with the Pedigree. (7.5/10)
SECOND FALL - CAGE
While the cage was coming down Triple H loaded the ring with weapons. Flair gets involved and gets really bloddied up. Michaels gets the 1-2-3 after he Bodysplashes Triple H through a table after jumping off the top of the cage. (9/10)
THIRD FALL - LADDER
Good last fall. Michaels looks like he is going to win it, but Triple H pushes over the ladder and HBK fall through four tables. Triple H reaches the belt to become new champ. (9/10)
Overall the match was OK. The ladder and cage matches were two short and the street fight was to long. Triple H was injured for the match, but still did a good job. Overall, decent match. It could have been put together a lot better. (8.5/10)
EXTRAS
The extras are worth the price of the DVD for one match. The Fatal Fourway Elimination match from Smackdown to determine the #1 contender for the WWE title. Angle, Benoit, Edge, and Guerrero are the participants in the match. This is an amazing match. Obviously Angle wins it. Angle & Edge show great chemistry. (8.5/10)
Overall, the PPV was Ok. I recommend buying this DVD for the HBK and Tripel H match and for the extra match.
Movie Review: Main Event Saves the Show
Summary: 3 Stars
Fatal Four Way-Tag Team Championship Match
Chris Jericho&Christian vs Regal&Lance Storm vs Dudley Boyz vs Booker T&Goldust-
It was actually a pretty good opener here. There were two pretty quick eliminations but there was a lot of action in this one. I'm not a big fan of Goldust--I actually find him very annoying--but Goldust and Booker have good chemistry together. Good opening match.
7/10
Edge vs A-Train-
Well, not much to say about this. Edge did his best to put A-Train over, but Albert was just always a bad wrestler. Bad ending.
4/10
Chris Benoit vs Eddie Guerrero-
Now these two men had great chemistry together! Not one of their best matches, but it was good. Any time you see these two together on the card, you can expect a great match, and thats what you got here--a great mid-card matchup
7.5/10
Batista vs Kane-
What can I say, Batista was still pretty young. I never really liked big-man matchups and this one showed why. Neither man had it that night. There were still some impressive moves in this one, which keeps it from being a complete dud.
5/10
Womens Championship Triple-Threat Match-
Victoria vs Trish Stratus vs Jaqueline-
Now this is back when the Women's divison was actually good. They had great diva wrestling with these girls, but this match was definatly not what I was expecting. Very short and boring. Triple-Threats are hard to put together, but I was expecting much better then this.
4/10
WWE Championship Match-
Kurt Angle(c)vs Big Show-
Big Show could never wrestle. They gave him chances and this is what you get. Kurt Angle is an amazing athlete. He can do many things and I, as well as many others, think he is a great wrestler. Kurt did all he could to make this a match, but it's hard to put over Show. It was a pretty short match for a title match and wasn't much. Kurt Angle kept this one somewhat entertaining. Brock Lesnar makes a run-in on this one.
6.5/10
Main Event-World Heavyweight Championship
2 Out Of 3 Falls Match
1st Fall-Street Fight
2nd Fall-Steel Cage
3rd Fall-Ladder Match
Triple H vs Shawn Michaels
This was an amazing match as well as the reason I bought this DVD! The Street Fight was the longest match, by far, and they put on a hell of a show. Many weapons, many high-risk moves. Steel Cage match was pretty short, Triple H picked Shawn Michaels a part for most of this, althought Michaels had his part in the cage. By this time, there was a lot of these 2 selling their injuries. Ladder Match was very short, only a few minutes. A nice move to end it--one man goes through the table on the outside off of the ladder, nothing we havn't seen before. So, these 2 just had it back then. They had a hell of a rivalry, one of the best in WWE history. Great match. Match of the night.
10/10
Movie Review: It was alright
Summary: 3 Stars
Armageddon was alright. Nothing too special and it was just the WWE ending the year.Four Way Elimination Match for World Tag Team Championship-Chris Jericho and Christian vs Booker T and Goldust vs William Regal and Lance Storm vs The Dudley Boyz-The Dudley Boyz reunited at the Survivor Series and Goldust decided that if he and Booker T did not win the titles then they would break up. A solid and fast paced match that had a good ending. Drags a little, but only when it comes down to two teams. One of the highlights of the ppv. 8 out of 10 stars.
Edge vs A-Train- Can't stand A-Train. Outside of the shortlived X-Factor he has never shown anything to make him worth watching. This was the case with this match. A decent feud that centered around A-Train injuring Rey Mysterio, but a lackluster match. Edge is really misused here as he deserves to be in better feuds than this one. 7 out of 10.
Eddie Guerrero vs Chris Benoit- Two of the greatest technical wrestlers in the WWE lock horns. Not as exciting as what was expected, but a solid technical match. A decent showing from these two and hopefully there will be a rematch later on. Another highlight of the show. 8 out of 10 stars.
Kane vs Batista w/Ric Flair- Batista is an impressive looking wrestler, but he has yet to do anything that really makes him stand out. Kane has been stale since he returned. These two have actually met in the past when Batista was in OVW, but nothing shows here. This is a boring match that had nothing going for it. Please do not put these two together again. 5 out of 10 stars.
Triple Threat for the Women's Championship-Trish Stratus vs Jacqueline vs Victoria- A match that was thankfully kept short. One of the worse women's matches on ppv in a while. 3 out of 10.
Kurt Angle vs The Big Show w/Paul Heyman- Kurt Angle is awesome. He can carry anyone to a decent match and that goes for this one too. A solid match with the only downfall being the interference from Lesnar. A clean ending would have made this match, but it would have hurt the Big Show so the ending makes sense. 9 out of 10.
Triple H vs Shawn Michaels for the World Heavyweight Championship in a Two-out-of-Three Falls Match: The First Fall a Streetfight, The Second Fall a Steel Cage Match and the Third Fall a Ladder Match- The match of the night. Shawn Michaels is the HBK of old and it shows here. The only downfall is the ending, which was kind of predictable. Other than that a 10 star match.
Some nice little extras on the dvd including the Four Way Elimination Match to determine the Number One contender on Smackdown with Edge vs Chris Benoit vs Kurt Angle vs Eddie Guerrreo.
Movie Review: December 2002 - Office Depot Center - Fort Lauderdale, FL
Summary: 3 Stars
Very weak effort by the WWE to end the year. The PPV is alright for a couple of matches, but some are horrible.
1. Booker T & Goldust vs. Christian & Chris Jericho vs. William Regal & Lance Storm vs. The Dudley's (World Tag Title/Fatal Fourway Elimination Match)
Good way to kick off the show. Probably the second best match of the night. The finish between the final two teams is very good and filled with a lot of near falls. (8.5/10)
2. Edge vs. A-Train
This was the beginning of the WWE's attempt to bring up A-Train, to no avail. Nothing at all happened in the match. Very boring, except for the post match action. (6.5/10)
3. Eddie Guerrero vs. Chris Benoit
What could have been a classic match was very slow and sloppy. For some reason these two just did not have it together on this night. Very, very disappointing. (7.5/10)
4. Kane vs. Batista
This is Batista's first match on a WWE PPV. One of the worst PPV matches of the year. Very slow and very boring. Horrific. (5/10)
5. Trish Stratus vs. Victoria vs. Jacqueline (Women's Title/Triple Threat)
Who cares. Actually, it wasn't that bad. (5/10)
6. Big Show vs. Kurt Angle (WWE Title)
Okay match. Once again Angle has to carry someone throughout a match. Just nothing very good in the match. Lesnar makes an appearance. (7.5/10)
7. Shawn Michaels vs. Triple H (World Heavyweight Title/2 out of 3 Falls Match)
1st Fall/Street Fight
Longest segment of the match. It started out kind of slow, but had a good ending. They even brought back the two-by-four rapped in barbed wire and lit it on fire. (8.5/10)
2nd Fall/Cage Match
Good segment. Flair took a good beating in this match. Crazy spot when HBK jumps off the top of the cage and onto Triple H, through a table. (9/10)
3rd Fall/Ladder Match
Another good segment, but slow. Michaels takes a nasty bump falling off the ladder and through four tables. Good match, just a bit short. (9/10)
Overall, this match was good. It suffered because Triple H was hurt and really couldn't do much. Overall match rating: (9/10)
This DVD is not really worth picking up. The main event sounds better than it actually was. One worthwhile thing about this DVD is the extra match which featured a Fatal Fourway Elimination #1 Contender Match on Smackdown which featured Kurt Angle, Edge, Chris Benoit, and Eddie Guerrero. Great match, with many, many close falls. (9/10)
Overall Rating: 7/10