WWE Bad Blood 2003

Rating:
Summary: Raw Presents Bad Blood!!
Review: Chris Nowinski & Rodney Mack v. Dudley Boyz
This match was absolutely horrible. It wasn't put together until Heat. The Dudleys win in a bad match.**

Scott Steiner v. Test Winner gets Stacy
Oh my god how horrible. These two can't wrestle period. Test wins.*

Christian v. Booker T IC Title
WOW how bad does it get. This fued is annoying. They have Booker win the title on Raw the next night. Christian wins by DQ.*

RVD & Kane v. La Reistance World Tag Titles
No, No, No, No!!! This match was horrible too. La Reistance beats RVD & Kane and then RVD & Kane fight.*

Goldberg v. Chris Jericho
Thank you GOD!!! Finally a good match. Actually it wasn't good it was awesome. Jericho & goldberg put on a good match with Goldberg winning.*****

Shawn Michaels v. Ric Flair
This match was absolutely great. Wasn't as good as Goldberg v. Jericho. Flair wins in a thriller thanks to Orton.****1/2

Triple H v. Kevin Nash SPR Mick Foley World Title Hell In A Cell
This match was okay. It is Bad Blood's new theme to have HIAC every year. HHH beats Nash now why did Foley count for HHH. Anyways HHH retains in a good not great match.****


Rating:
Summary: WWE Bad Blood
Review: I know what many of you are thinking: "I know that everyone said that Bad Blood was crap, but I just want to read some reviews about it, just to get some facts straight. Oh look, this must be another negative review..." but the fact is, apart from most of the mid-card matches and the opener, Bad Blood is still quite unsatisfying, but nevertheless an enjoyable event. Not extremely enjoyable mind you, but still alright.
I won't go into all the matches, just the ones that were worth mentioning.

Intercontinental Championship: Christian vs. Booker T
Christian had won the IC Title a month earlier, but had cheated by being eliminated in the Battle Royal by Booker, than coming back in while the ref was down and eliminating Booker by cracking his skull with the belt and tossing his carcass over. So of course, a feud started.
The match itself? Decent, yet Christian retains in a lame self DQ way... Booker handles himself quite well, although having to suffer from being shifted from the mainevent spotlight in March, to dissolving down to a mid-carder. Although Booker would go on to win the title back from Christian on an episode of RAW instead of his hometown, Booker never got his due in the WWE and would eventually get drafted to SD!. Watch for the reception Booker gets when the crowd realised he used his old, old, incredibly old finisher, the missile dropkick, from his WCW days.
***

World Tag Team Championship match: RVD & Kane vs. La Resistance
Pretty Good! ...for a RAW match. As I just stated, this is basically your ol' RAW tag team title match which ends in a title change. Kane would go on to lose his mask and involve himself in ridiculous storylines, and RVD's WWE career would linger in the toilet. La Resistance however would hold the titles, lose them, regain them and reign as champs for a heckuva time. The End.
**1/2

Goldberg vs. Chris Jericho
Ah, here's the one, here's that old go-getter! Jericho carries Goldberg to a match that Goldberg couldn't normally bring to a ** match, and brings this bad boy to *** match! At last the fans (not including non-mainstream fans) realise that Goldberg can't wrestle a lick and that Jericho is one of the finest wrestlers in the business! Of course, that bald-headed moron STEALS a win from Y2J, although eventually at WrestleMania XX Goldberg would be disgraced and as you are reading this, wrestling in Japan and making 5 times more money than he did in the WWE.
***

Shawn Michaels vs. Ric Flair
Before I get onto the part about the interference: Great match. Great, great, great ring psychology and an all-round entertaining match. A lot of guys think that the match was completely ruined by HBK setting up the table and Orton interfering, but when HBK and Flair really shine, it's in the ring for the most part of the match. When many people expected a dream match with a clean ending, they basically got a dream match cut short by interference. Although, however, most people just took it as the whole match being shot down to a burning pile. Guys, take it or leave it. Although the interference, undoubtedly ruined these guys from taking this match to great heights, it still was worth watching these two legends get together in the match of the night.
****

Hell in a Cell for the World Heavyweight Championship- Triple H vs. Kevin Nash (Special referee Mick Foley)
As we know, Nash could never wrestle to what he could back in the day, and all 3 men in the ring had seen better days, the match still promises what it was meant to live up to. Many people here are saying that HIAC means guys getting thrown off the top of the cell, and people going through it, and people escaping it etc., but quite frankly, who said so? Of course all those stunts are great, but in Hardcore matches and Street Fights do people get thrown off of a big cage? No! And did you even expect any of these men to fall so many feet and through a table? No freakin' way! As Undertaker commented on his No Mercy 2002 HIAC match with Lesnar, "the match we put on proves that HIAC doesn't have to be about guys falling off cells, it proved tha HIAC is meant to be two guys fighting eachother inside a cell, and we made that concept work."
Of course, this match does have its flaws, such as its slow pace and the sloppy ending, but to not be satisfied AT ALL with this match is crazy, and all you people who think this match was just too poor to be seen are in denial. Of course we all know that the HIAC match is used merely as a ticket-selling concept nowadays, so of course if Bad Blood was a PPV which was known for selling tickets and buyrates (which it definitely is not) a HIAC match wouldn't have been necessary, but rather a normal singles match, or a street fight. But all in all, the match, which is definitely not one of the finest, is still worth a look.
***1/2

Overall, is this PPV worth purchasing? Probably not, but a rent could satisfy you.
**1/2