WWE Royal Rumble 2004

Rating:
Summary: A Perfromance Of A Life Time!
Review: 2004 Royal Rumble
January 25, 2004
Wachovia Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Tables Match for the World Tag Team Championship:
Ric Flair & Batista (Champions) V. The Dudley Boyz
horrible opener. Flair & Batista dominate them again and win. *

WWE Cruiserweight Championship:
Rey Mysterio (Champion) V. Jaime Noble
Very short. About 3 minutes. Rey retains. ** This match would have been better if given time.

Eddie Guerrero V. Chavo Guerrero
A good match. Slow at first. Eddie wins. **3/4

WWE Championship:
Brock Lenser (Champion) V. Hardcore Holly
This match was boring. It started to pick up then out of nowhere it's over. **1/4 I do like how they made Holly look in this match though.

Last Man Standing Match for the World Heavyweight Championship:
Triple H (Champion) V. Shawn Michaels
Why do people think this match is so great. It's a good match, but not that good. By far, the best match so far. It ends in a draw and the fans boo. ***

Royal Rumble Match:

Benoit is the man! Benoit enters number one and wins it all! **** What A performance. He went 62 minutes. breaking Bob Backlunds old record of 61. People tell me that Shawn's Royal performance from '95 was better. HOW? That year, people came in very 30 seconds, so Shawn only lasted lasted at least 17 minutes. you can't tell me that Shawn's was better.

Overall, a very underwhelming show. probably a **1/2 star because of Benoit.

Rating:
Summary: WWE ROYAL RUMBLE 2004
Review: EVOLUTION VS. THE DUDLEY BOYZ IN A TABLE MATCH FOR THE WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
This was an okay match. I wish the Coach would have gotten 3D'd again, but it was cool to see D-Von get chokeslamed through the table. 2 out of 5.

REY MYSTERIO VS. JAMIE NOBLE FOR THE WWE CRUISERWEIGHT TITLE
This match was too short. It was high flying how ever, and Nidia messing up Jamie Noble set up their No Way Out Match. 3 out of 5.

EDDIE GUERRERO VS. CHAVO GUERRERO
This was again too short. Eddie did nothing for the first 7 minutes. All he did was a triple suplex and the frog splash. However, the post match beat down was cool. It was a personal match. 4 out of 5.

BROCK LESNAR VS. HARDCORE HOLLY FOR THE WWE CHAMPIONSHIP
Once again, this was a short match. It was considered the Smackdown main event but it was only 10 minutes long. 3 out of 5.

SHAWN MICHAELS VS. HHH IN A LAST MAN STANDING MATCH FOR THE WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP
This was not a good match. They did not use any weapons barely. That is basically why Last Man Standing Matches are cool. Shawn Michaels can get up after a pedigree, but not after giving sweet chin music. Absolute Horse Crap. 2 out of 5.

ROYAL RUMBLE MATCH
This saved the show. Benoit was #1 and went all the way. It was good. The Undertaker's gong was cool to. This was GREATNESS. 5 out of 5.

If you buy Royal Rumbles for the Rumble, than this is worth it. If you buy it for all of the other matches, then don't buy it.

Rating:
Summary: Royal Rumble came to you live from the Wachovia Centre in Ph
Review: First of all great opener.Tells the audience great storylines and such. T

1st Match: World Tag Team Championship Tables Match ***

2nd Match: WWE Cruiserweight Championship Match **

3rd Match: Eddie vs. Chavo Guerrero Jnr with Chavo Guerrero Snr***

4th Match: WWE Championship Match ****
pretty good lots of excitment.

5th Match: World Heavyweight Championship Last Man Standing*****Match:
The only good match on the card. HHH and HBK put on a great show.

6th Match: Royal Rumble Match *************************
Very good and lots of surprises: undertaker's gong, return of Mick Foley, Billy gunn's return.

Must buy DVD. The only flaw about this PPV was that the 30 superstars were announced. It would be better if they left it to be a surprise. I am also judging the arena.The arena for Royal Rumble was not that creative but cool in a way. Overall but this DVD.

Rating:
Summary: One of the best Royal Rumbles
Review: Great start of 2004.Great PPV

1)Dudleyz vs Batista/Ric Flair World Tag Team Titles
kinda of good, kind of sloppy, but it did it 7/10

2)Rey vs Jamie Noble Cruiserweight Title
great cruiserweight action 8.5/10

3) Eddie vs Chavo
history match, family vs family 9/10

4) Brock Lesnar vs Holly WWE Title
good, but short and Smackdown needs to make their title matched with blood and stuff like on Raw 8/10

5) HBK vs HHH World Heavyweight Title
the best match of the night, blood and everythinh in this match was awesome

6) Royal Rumble
good but disapointing at the end with Goldberg and Lesnar.

Rating:
Summary: GOOD PPV GREAT DVD
Review: I saw this live on ppv and i got it on dvd(only 2 more dvds and i got my collection build up to W XX Summerslam-W XX) ok review time

1.Dudlys vs. Flair Batista, 7/10 i would have liked it better if coach went through the table.

2. Rey vs. Jamie Noble, 4/10 Not that good of a match but it built up the Nidia/Noble match at least Rey won.

3. Eddie vs. Chavo, 8/10 history making match a good family match

4.Brock vs. Holly, 6/10 decent match But i like Brock

5. Triple H vs. HBk 5/10 what was so good about this? sure HBK was awesome but why barly no weapons

6. Royal Rumble 10/10 a great match undertakers gong was cool i was hoping so bad he would come out and brock was cool how he F-5 Goldberg. Micks return was cool how he attacked Ortan. The rest of the Rumble was amazing but im not going to spoil it for you ;)

DVD EXTRAS
Promos

--HBK vs. HHH

--Rumble Reflections

--Eddie vs. Chavo

--Lesner vs. Holly

Sunday Night Heat

--Eddie Interview

--Mark Henry Interview

--Kurt Angle Interview

--Eddie Interview

--Molly vs. Victoria

HBK and HHH Aftermath (what the look like after there match back stage)

--Royal Rumble Moments (the Surviover series one was better then this)

Rating:
Summary: Horrible Undercard, Great Rumble though
Review: I thought this PPV would overall be great, I was pretty disappointed by a lot of the matches.Whatever here are my opinions.

PPV Intro - Wow WWE is always the best in making these kind of videos.

Dudley Boyz v. Batista and Flair (World Tag Titles Table Match) : You think this would be a good match considering being in PHilly, ECW land and being a tables match with such awesome talent. But it was really bad.

John Cena self-promo ft. RVD - Nice...

Rey Mysterio v. Jamie Knoble (WWE Cruiserweight title match) : I was really looking forward to this match but it was a waste of 3 minutes. Plus the storyline with Nidia did not climax, it happened on the next Smackdown! which makes no sense, why didn't they just put it here?Whatever.

Eddie Guerrero v. Chavo Guerrero : Another match that I was extremely looking forward to. Slow-paced match not that good actually.

Hardcore Holly v. Brock Lesnar (WWE title) ; I still have trouble believing that Sparkplug Bob Holly was maineventing Smackdown! for more than a month. Anyways I thought the storyline itself was pretty good. But the match was another waste. Sudden F-5, over, crowd pretty pleased with that too actually.

HBk v. HHH (World Title Last Man Standing Match): Their match on DEcember,30th,2003 in San Antonio was so much better, this was bloody and had its moments but also not that good. People disliked the finish but it made sense for the characters roles.

Goldberg meets Lesnar Backstage II

Eric Bischoff say hello to Paul Heyman: I loved this segment.

the 2004 Royal Rumble: incredibly predictable but I still loved every moment of it. Amazing sixty minutes.

Rating:
Summary: A great atmosphere
Review: I was at Insurrextion in my home town and it was definitely one of the much better UK PPV efforts. Compare this event to Badd Blood shown a week later in the USA and this is a much more enjoyable PPV in my opinion. For example the RVD/Kane Vs. La Resistance bout is much more enjoyable here, as is Booker T Vs. Christian, the Dudley Boys Vs. Rodney Mack/Chris Nowinski w Teddy Long. All of the matches gain from having clean finishes, unlike Badd Blood. The only match which was better at Badd Blood was Nash Vs HHH but that was to be expected. The main highlight of the PPV was the Austin segement on Chris Jericho's highlight reel, the crowd was so loud in the arena you could hardly make out what was being said, great stuff!. A touching moment was the video tribute to Freddie Blassie (which hopefully will make it to the DVD) which earned a standing ovation and loud "Freddie" chants, clearly moving announcer Jim Ross. I would highly recommend anyone buying this DVD, which will hopefully come with some extra's.
Full Card: Trish Vs. Jazz, Booker T Vs. Christian, Kane/RVD Vs. La Resistance, Goldust Vs. Rico, Chris Jericho's highlight reel with Bischoff/Austin, The Dudley's Vs. Rodney Mack/Chris Nowinkski/Teddy Long, Test Vs. Scott Steiner, Kevin Nash w. Shawn Michaels Vs. HHH w Ric Flair.

Rating:
Summary: Good, not great
Review: I watched this event live (as I have for three of the last five years) and I have to say that although it wasn't the worst Rumble PPV, it wasn't the best either.
The first match was an unfortunate sign of the entire night: the World Tag Team Table match was short and confusing (In 2000 at the Rumble, the Hardyz beat the Dudley Boys in a table match by putting both Dudleys through a table; in this match - a championship match by the way - only one man was put through a table ???) I normally look forward to seeing Ric Flair (even at 54 or 90 or whatever the hell age he is now!) wrestle now, because every match nowadays may be his last, but I was dissapointed overall.
It would not be the last time.
The cruiserweight title match lasted what, 5 minutes tops? Anytime Rey Misterio is on a PPV, the match shoud be longer than five minutes. Interesting what happened with Noble and Nidia (Is she Spanish?)
Anyway, one of the highlights of the evening was RVD and John Cena. If you saw the PPV, you know what I'm talking about. if you didn't, well, let's just say that Cena inquired about RVD's choice in plants.
Okay, one of the matches I was looking forward to was Eddie vs. Chavo (although at the time, I thought why have this match at the Rumble? Let them both enter the Rumble match, then set up the brother vs. brother match at Wrestlemania, again - ten years after Bret and Owen match at MSG?) But again, the match ended within minutes. Both did do some wear down holds, but the beatdown given after the match I think was longer that the match itself!
Next was the WWE title match with Lesnar and Holly. The result was predictable, bu I thought Holly gave a good accounting of himself.
Finally came the World title match. Now I didn't see the Dec. 30 HHH-HBK match, but I'm hearing that it was better than this one. I can say three things about this match: 1. This one was gorier; 2. It didn't settle anything and 3. It did set up Wresltlemania ... sort of.
The Lesnar-Goldberg interview was interesting ... but not as interesting as their Survivor Series interview.
The Rumble match itself was okay ... the ending surprised me (as what happened the following night) A couple of things came to mind:
Why did they say the record was Ric Flair's 1992 performance? I thought Backland broke it the following year.
Why did I think the best moment of the night was when the Dead Man's gong went off and Kane freaked out?
Why was Test even in the Rumble?
Why was Scott Steiner in the Rumble? (Actually, I know the answer to that one)
I think the interview with Benoit being interrupted by Evolution threw me off at first.
Anyway it was an okay Rumble. If you really want to see the best Rumble match ever, check out the Ultimate Ric Flair collection for the 1992 Rumble match - in its entirity; for the best Rumble PPV, watch the 2000 Rumble from MSG - great Rumble match preceded by one of the best undercards in history.

Rating:
Summary: IMPOSSIBLEW
Review: if you all know chris beinot beat big show at royal rombal that
was so fake! tajari couldtho! im not suprised tripleh won
against shawn micheals!

Rating:
Summary: Best Insurrextion in a long time
Review: Insurrextion results
- Jazz beat Trish to retain the Women's title after outside interference from Victoria and Teddy Long, who shoved Trish shoulder first into the ring post.

- Christian beat Booker T to retain the IC title by pinning with his feet on the ropes. Booker did a spinaroonie and had the upper hand after a very slow start.

- Austin backstage with Theodore Long. To cut it short, Austin puts Long in
a six man with Nowinski and Mack against the three Dudleyz.

- RVD and Kane beat La Resistance

- Al Snow interviewed Goldust to hype the Goldust/Rico match

- Goldust beat Rico with a powerslam. Boring filler match.

- Freddie Blassie tribute video aired. Plenty of loud "FREDDIE" chants from the Newcastle crowd, respecting a guy who most of them probably haven't seen wrestle. JR and King applauded the crowd (on screen too, apparently) after the video.

- Highlight Reel - Jericho comes out to a good pop, but that turns to heel heat after he put down the cheap set for his show, and Newcastle's failed Capital of Culture for 2008 bid (that title went to Liverpool). He also made a few cheap remarks at the expense of local football/soccer team Newcastle United and it's manager Bobby Robson (which I liked, since I support Sunderland - but that's by the by). Eric Bischoff comes out, and the pair continue a verbal barrage on Newcastle. Glass shatters, Austin comes out to a monster pop. Talks about how much beer he drank... then says he made the main event (Nash/HHH) a street fight. Jericho said a killer long line to the crowd ("if you want me to have a beer say...") and the three had a beer bath. Austin stunnered Jericho, before teasing a Stunner to Bischoff, before hitting it on his co-GM.

- Dudley Boyz beat Rodney Mack, Theodore Long and Chris Nowinski

- Scott Steiner beat Test with his Flatliner-like finisher

- HBK (massive pop), Nash (none at first, then polite applause), and HHH (good pop) got their separate intros to the main event. HHH beat Nash in the street fight after a sledgehammer to the head, when Nash was distracted by Flair. Flair and HBK were sent to the back early on, but not before Flair started juicing. Flair returned late in the match with practically red hair from the blood loss. Usual shenanigans as Flair helped HHH, then HBK made the save before being laid out. The crowd started to leave after HHH's entrance, by the way.