WWE Royal Rumble 2003
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Actor: Chris Benoit, Kurt Angle, Mark Calaway, Paul Levesque, Scott SteinerDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 180 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-03-18
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: World Wrestling
Product features:
- The Royal Rumble Match (Chris Jericho, Shawn Michaels, Jeff Hardy, Batista, John Cena, Undertaker, Edge, & many more) - Kurt Angle vs. Chris Benoit - Triple H vs. Scott Steiner - Torrie Wilson vs. Dawn Marie - Lance Storm & William Regal vs. Dudley Boyz - Brock Lesnar vs. Big Show
Movie Reviews of WWE Royal Rumble 2003
Movie Review: good ppv
Summary: 5 Stars
I stopped watching wrestling around fall 2001. In late 2003, I began watching again, and had missed a whole lot. A kid with one leg wrestling? The Hardy Boyz split? Who the hell are Batista and Brock Lesnar?
Well, I'd find out by playing all the games, but then I started buying 2003 WWE DVDs, and this was one of my first. I'll rate the Pay-Per-View event, which has excellent theme music (the title of which is never given on the DVD but it is "Falling Apart" by Trust Company), match-by-match:
ROYAL RUMBLE QUALIFIYING MATCH:
THE BIG SHOW (w/Paul Heyman) vs. BROCK LESNAR
*** Pretty good match-up. Paul Wight (Big Show) always puts effort into his matches and is a great worker. I would've loved to see Lesnar F-5 Heyman. These three guys had a great fued going from late 2002-early 2003.
DAWN MARIE vs. TORRIE WILSON
* First-Ever Stepdaughter vs. Stepmother match. Weird title for a very boring match with two sexy women who belong in strictly gimmick matches (lingerie, evening gown, bikini contest, pudding, egg nog, etc.). Stupid storyline, too. Dawn Marie's husband is Torrie Wilson's father, Al; on their honeymoon they have sex a lot and then he dies on Dawn. C'mon, writers. What was the cause in all this? And the match was terrible.
WWE WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP:
LANCE STORM & WILLIAM REGAL (cs) vs. THE DUDLEY BOYZ
** In 2003, we had Lance Storm, William Regal, and Chief Morley (now known as his former character, Val Venis) as an anti-American stable. La Resistance came around and now they are the chief anti-American stable (if you count Kenzo Suzuki and Rene Dupree, who is a member of La Resistance). Anyway, mediocre tag match-up, the Dudleys are good workers but I just don't like them that much.
WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP:
TRIPLE H (c) w/Ric Flair vs. SCOTT STEINER
**** While some found this match dull and lifeless, I enjoyed it a great deal. But maybe that's just because I'm a big Ric Flair mark. Liked how Triple H kept on trying to get himself disqualified 'cause he knew he was gonna lose the Championship to a no-good wrestler like Steiner, who I can't stand. All Steiner did were suplexes, which were pretty good, hard elbows and punches, and chops. Triple H has tons of more wrestling knowledge and experience than "Big Poppa Pump". This and the rematch at No Way Out 2003, which I have yet to see, are Steiner's two big breaks in the WWE. The rest of 2003 he spends fueding with a mid-carder like Test over the very sexy Stacy Keibler.
WWE CHAMPIONSHIP:
KURT ANGLE (c) vs. CHRIS BENOIT
***** The match of the night and an incredible technical bout. Lots of chemistry these two seem to have with each other, and no doubt equal amounts of respect.
ROYAL RUMBLE MATCH:
*****
One of the best Royal Rumble matches I've seen. I immensely disliked 2002's, and 2001's was great, as was 2000 and 1999, so this was good. I didn't like seeing HBK eliminated quickly by Chris Jericho. Chris Nowinski sustained quite the concussion during a double-team kick by Rey Mysterio and Edge, who were a great tag team together. B2, formerly known as Bull Buchanan, got eliminated quick, and Bill DeMott now provides commentary for Velocity. Tommy Dreamer now holds some significant position in the actual WWE company. It was cool to see Jeff and Matt Hardy go at it, I'd never understood why they split in the first place, I guess 'cause of the RAW/Smackdown draft.
It's a shame Jeff left WWE and now seems to be showing himself the door out of TNA, no-showing some shows, and this the federation to which he jumped to for a few months. His brother's not done much better. He had a few mediocre PPV matches against Kane this year, at Vengeance and Summerslam, but he has tremendous technical ability and as I write this is undergoing ACL surgery in his knee and will be out for about 6 months. But, storyline-wise, Kane chokeslammed him off the side of the stage, and is turning face against newcomer Gene Snitsky.
Brock Lesnar ended up winning the Rumble and fought Kurt Angle in one of the most hard-fought bouts at WrestleMania XIX. It was also cool to see Undertaker cheaply eliminate Kane and sort of plant the seeds for Kane's revenge later in the year at Survivor Series.
Overall, a good PPV, and a solid DVD. Average picture quality for a WWE show, and it boasts Dolby Digital 5.1 sound, as it should. Average special features, one extra RAW match, and it makes for a pretty good buy.
Summary of WWE Royal Rumble 2003
The WWE's annual ROYAL RUMBLE event roll's into 2003 with a devastating array of wrestlers committing to hours of fierce competition as they fight it out to become the ultimate champion. The Royal Rumble Match (Chris Jericho, Shawn Michaels, Jeff Hardy, Batista, John Cena, Undertaker, Edge, & many more) - Kurt Angle vs. Chris Benoit - Triple H vs. Scott Steiner - Torrie Wilson vs. Dawn Marie - Lance Storm & William Regal vs. Dudley Boyz - Brock Lesnar vs. Big ShowSimilar DVD Movies
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