WWE: The New Beginning

May 23, 2004

Well it's good to see Konan won't be gracing our screens anytime soon. It will be interesting to see what you do with Jeff Hardy if he comes in .. you do need him on SmackDown!

May 23, 2004

Triple H

Rhyno

Evolution

Shawn Michaels

Chris Jericho

Shelton Benjami

BQ1: How many championships will change hands? 1

BQ2: Which match will have the greatest match quality in EWR? Shelton vs. Hurricane

BQ3: Which match will have the greatest crowd reaction in EWR? HHH vs.BEniot

BQ4: Which match will open the show? Hurricane vs. Shelton

D-Extreme · May 23, 2004

Velocity was ok to me dude. But hey a Hoss Tag Team would be cool. The Morgan Brothers? Wait dont we have Basham Brothers already? Or will you name them something besides 'morgan brothers'?

DYSI · May 23, 2004

Velocity was ok to me dude. But hey a Hoss Tag Team would be cool. The Morgan Brothers? Wait dont we have Basham Brothers already? Or will you name them something besides 'morgan brothers'?

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Wel for now I lack creative energy... so yeah, it's The Morgan Brothers-- for now. But expect great things for their future. MWUAHAHAHA... *shifty*

DYSI · May 24, 2004

Triple H
Rhyno
Evolution
Shawn Michaels
Chris Jericho
Shelton Benjami

BQ1: How many championships will change hands? 1

BQ2: Which match will have the greatest match quality in EWR? Shelton vs. Hurricane

BQ3: Which match will have the greatest crowd reaction in EWR? HHH vs.BEniot

BQ4: Which match will open the show? Hurricane vs. Shelton

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Yet you pick Triple H and Rhyno to win the World and IC Title. *shifty*

Everyone unite and post more predictions. Still have 5-7 days left.

To up the prize, I will personally add 1,000 KK to the contest...

May 25, 2004

Just dropping a line to let everyone I know I'm still here. I've actually got a fair bit done on Backlash .. more than I thaught I would have anyway. I'm pretty sick at the moment, and I reckon I might be home from school tomorrow, so that'll give me a chance to do quite a bit.

Expect it up in around three days. And keep those predictions coming!

D-Extreme · May 25, 2004

Here are my predictions to HYA's backlash

Chris Benoit vs. Triple H

Randy Orton vs. Rhyno

Evolution vs. RVD & Edge

Shawn Michaels vs. Kane

Christian vs. Chris Jericho

The Hurricane vs. Shelton Benjamin

BQ1: How many championships will change hands?

What? Does the vacant Euro title count? If not then...ONE TITLE will change hands

BQ2: Which match will have the greatest match quality in EWR?

Christian vs Y2J

BQ3: Which match will have the greatest crowd reaction in EWR?

HBK vs Kane

BQ4: Which match will open the show?

The No Holds Barred Tag Team Matchup of RVD/Edge vs Evolution (if not...then shame on you! Ric Flair opener = ratings)

MSC · May 25, 2004

Chris Benoit vs. Triple H

Randy Orton vs. Rhyno

Ric Flair & Batista vs. Rob Van Dam & Edge

Shawn Michaels vs. Kane

Chris Jericho vs. Christian w/ Trish Stratus

The Hurricane vs. Shelton Benjamin w/ Theodore Long

BQ1: How many championships will change hands? 1

BQ2: Which match will have the greatest match quality in EWR? Chris Jericho vs. Christian w/ Trish Stratus

BQ3: Which match will have the greatest crowd reaction in EWR? Shawn Michaels vs. Kane

BQ4: Which match will open the show? Ric Flair & Batista vs. Rob Van Dam & Edge

May 25, 2004

Just to clear something up about the predictions.

"How many championships will change hands?"

My defintion of change is going from one thing to another, and seeing as their currently isn't a European champion, technically that doesn't count as a title changing hands.

Kind of a trick question .. I should have made it more clear.

May 26, 2004

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"><HTML><HEAD><TITLE>World Wrestling Entertainment: After WrestleMania XX, Bringing The Brands Together. Finally. </TITLE><STYLE type=text/css>BODY { }BODY { FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 220%; FONT-FAMILY: verdana}P { FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 220%; FONT-FAMILY: verdana}TD { FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 220%; FONT-FAMILY: verdana}</STYLE><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"><meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0"><meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document"><title>New Page 1</title></HEAD><body bgcolor="#FFCC99"> WWE Backlash Sunday,April 25th, 2004 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada-The PPV Extravaganza Begins! -The broadcast begins with the WWE logocoming across the screen, before we see it fade into the beginning of a videopackage. The video hypes up some of tonight's matchups, mainly focusing on theWorld Heavyweight championship match and the No Disqualifications match betweenShawn Michaels and Kane.<img border="0" src="http://www.2and2.net/Priv/blint2.jpg" width="320" height="240"> As the video comes to an end we seean explosion of pyro go off at the top of the ramp, before heading down toringside where Jim Ross and "The Coach" Jonathon Coachmanwelcome us to the show. They quickly run through the card for tonight,mentioning that Evolution has a chance to walk out of Backlashtonight with just about all the gold on RAW.The Coach starts predicting a few of the matches tonight, before he'sinterrupted by the music of The Hurricane! It's time for the first matchof the night.<img border="0" src="http://www.2and2.net/Priv/blpyro.jpg" width="320" height="240">WWE European Title Match: Shelton Benjamin vs The HurricaneThe arena slightly darkens as "Standback! There's a hurricane coming through!" hits the speakers. The RAWbrand's very own superhero makes his way out to the top of the stage, striking afew of his special "Hurri-poses." He salutes the crowd before marchingdown to the ring, awaiting the arrival of his opponent. Shelton Benjamin's musichits and out he comes, alongside Theodore Long. Benjamin cockily strutsdown to the ring, while Long starts hyping his man as the next European champ tothe cameras. Benjamin slides underneath the bottom rope, before walking over tothe ropes, taunting the crowd as Long makes his way up the steel steps.<img border="0" src="http://www.2and2.net/Priv/blbenjamin.jpg" width="320" height="240">Both men are in the ring, and seem justabout ready for the match to begin. JR talks about who each man has had to beatin the European title tournament to get to the final today, as the bell ringsand the two men start circling around the ring. They soon lock-up and Benjaminlocks in a back tieup. Shelton hits a back rollup, which gets a two count. TheHurricane makes it to his feet, only to receive an arm drag from Benjamin. Hethen looks for a another, but Hurricane reverses it in mid air into an armdragof his own. Hurricane strikes a pose, before looking for a clothesline. However,Benjamin ducks and sets up for a backdrop as he waits for Hurricane to bounceoff of the opposite ropes. Hurricane comes back with a kick to the head ofBenjamin though, before hitting a Spinning DDT. He makes the cover, 1 .. 2 ..kickout.The Hurricane heads up to the top rope,preparing to fly as Benjamin makes it to his feet. However, Theodore Long comesfrom ringside and shakes the rape, causing Hurricane to land on the top ropequite awkwardly. Bejmain quickly takes advantage by going up top and nailing aFrankensteiner off of the top rope! Benjamin makes the cover, 1 .. 2 .. kickout!The Hurricane manages to JUST kick out. As both men make it to their feet,Hurricane looks to whip Benjamin into the ropes, but gets reversed. As Hurricanecomes off of the opposite ropes, he surprises Benjamin with a runningneckbreaker. The Hurricane gives the fans thethumbs-up, before setting up Benjamin for the Eye of The Hurricane. However,Hurricane is distracted by Theodore Long at the ring apron. Hurricane wondersover, and takes a swing at Long, but Long ducks .. Hurricane turns around, andwalks right into a Superkick from Shelton Benjamin! Benjamin makes the cover, 1- 2- 3! Benjamin gets the three count over The Hurricane to become the new WWEEuropean champion! The ref raises Benjamin's hand and presents him with theEuropean title as Theodore Long comes into the ring to celebrate with him. Longraises Benjamin's hand in celebration, before we cross back to the announcetable.Winner & New WWE European Champion:Shelton Benjamin (83, 75, 91) ***3/4-The Next WWE PPV Offering -An image comes apon the screen advertisingthe next WWE pay per view offering, which will be a SmackDown! brand production,WWE Judgement Day. Coming to you live on pay per view, May 16th from The StaplesCenter in Los Angeles.<img border="0" src="http://www.2and2.net/Priv/jdprev.jpg" width="320" height="240">-MattitudeInterrupted By .. The Dude? -We hear the chords of Matt Hardy"Version 1"'s music, as the crowd immediately responds with boo's.Hardy walks out onto the Backlash stage, striking a "V1" pose beforeheading down the ramp. He slides into the ring and plays up to the crowd, beforetaking a mike from the ring announcer, and then prepares to talk.HARDY - "Ya'know, eversince I came to RAW .. I havn't been treated with the respect that I truelydeserve. But I thaught that when Steve Austin left RAW, I would finally get mychance. The whole world would finally get their weekly does of Mattitude. Butnuh-uh .. that wasn't the case at all. I mean, lets look at WrestleMania 20. Thebiggest event in the history of this business. And where was Matt Hardy? Nowhereto be seen. And now tonight, once again .. this time on a RAW only pay per view,I still dont have a match. This is a problem that NEEDS to change .. and itchanges, tonight! So right now, I'm making an open challenge, to everyone in theback. I want anyone who thinks they've got what it takes to face"V1-uuhhh" to bring their ass out here, right now!"Matt throws the mike to the mat andawaits an answer. The fans wait in anticipation, as ... Dude Love's musichits!? A confused cheer goes up in the arena, before "The Dude" dancesout onto the runway. However, the camera zooms in to reveal Stevie Richards,who's dressed up as Dude Love.DUDE LOVE -"Owwww, you're one whacky cat, Matt.But'ya know what Matty, as totally tripped out as you are .. I do believe wehave one thing in common. And that is, we're both in the mood for kickin someheavy-duty booty! So if a match is what you truely desire, then you got it bigguy! Owwww, have mercy!"Richards drops the mike and starts going through some of DudeLove's classic dance maneouevers as he makes his way to the ring, while Hardylooks in with a look of confusion/anger. "The Dude" slides into thering, and it looks as if we're ready for the second match of the night."Dude Love" Stevie Richards vs MattHardyAs Richards slides into the ring, Hardy quickly jumps him,stomping on Richards' stomach repeatedly. Matt drags him up and hits a backsuplex, before making a cover. Richards quickly kicks out and makes it to hisfeet as Hardy nails a few right hands. Matt whips Stevie into the ropes, andmeets him with an elbow to the throat on his return. Hardy looks for a quicklegdrop, but Richards moves out of the way. As Matt stands up, he runs atRichards, only to be backdropped.Matt gets up and angrily stares at Richards, who starts to dothe famous "knee swapping dance" that Dude Love is known for. Mattruns at Stevie, as Richards hits a dropping toe hold. Richards struts around thering as he waits for Hardy to make it to his feet, before nailing a verticalsuplex. Cover, but only a two count.Stevie starts stomping on the mat, tapping his leg, signallingfor some sweet shin music! As Matt makes it to his feet, Stevie looks for aSuperkick, however Matt blocks it and then spins Richards around before nailingthe Twist of Fate. Matt makes the cover, 1-2-3! Matt Hardy gets the win over"Dude Love" Stevie Richards.Winner: Matt Hardy "Version 1" (76,77, 75) *1/4-Earlier On Sunday Night HeAT -We cross back to the announce table whereJim Ross talks about some video footage from earlier this evening on SundayNight HeAT. The screen crosses to the footage of World Heavyweightchampion Chris Benoit arriving at the arena, greeting a few friends inthe corridoors. <img border="0" src="http://www.2and2.net/Priv/blben.jpg" width="320" height="240"> However, seconds later we see Evolution come from nowhereand attack the champion! Triple H repetadly throws Benoit into thewall, before walking off out of the picture. As Benoit struggles to his feet,HHH comes back into the shot, nailing Benoit with a steel chairshot to theskull! The foursome start stomping the fallen champ, as blood trickles from hishead. However, soon enough a number of officials come to Benoit's aid, andEvolution walk off, satisfied with the carnage they'd left behind. The footagecomes to an end, and JR & Coach discuss how that might effect tonight's mainevent, with the World Heavyweight title on the line.WWE Intercontinental Title Match: RandyOrton vs Rhyno"Evolution Is A Mystery" hits the p.a as the ICchampion Randy Orton walks out to the top of the stage. Orton recieves quite ahostile reception as he steps into the ring and poses with the IC title aroundhis waist. Rhyno' music then hits, and here comes The Manbeast stomping his waydown to the ring. The two circle around the ring to start things off, beforelooking to tieup. However, Rhyno sneaks in a quick boot to the gut and applies aheadlock. Orton pushes Rhyno off into the ropes, then Rhyno comes firing backwith a shoulder block. Rhyno drives a falling fist into Orton's throat, beforedragging him up and throwing him into the turnbuckle. Rhyno begins throwing someharsh right hands, before whipping Orton into the opposite turnbuckle andlooking for a clothesline. However, Orton dodges it and hits a neckbreaker whichgets a two count.Orton controls the next few minutes, wearing Rhyno down with afew submission holds. The tide turned however when Orton looks for aclothesline, only to be thrown over the top rope by Rhyno! Rhyno heads to theoutside and starts throwing Orton into the guardrail a few times. He thenbounces Orton's head off of the apron before whipping him into the steel steps.Rhyno then dumps Orton over the guardrail with an atomic drop, before thumpinghis chest and screaming as the fans cheer him on. When Orton makes it to hisfeet Rhyno looks for a vertical suplex, but Orton reverses out of it and landsbehind Rhyno. Orton then drives Rhyno's head into the ringpost, before rollinghim back into the ring, and then sliding back into the ring himself.After a few minutes of back and forth action, Orton sets upRhyno for a reverse DDT. However, Rhyno reverses out if it and nails a runningpowerslam. He makes the cover, 1-2 kickout by the champion. Both men make it totheir feet soon enough, and Orton looks to throw Rhyno into the ringpost ..however, the referee finds himself in the way and ends up being knocked down andfalling out of the ring. Orton seems to be looking down, checking on the ref aswe see Rhyno setting up for the Gore on the opposite corner of the ring. Rhynolooks for the Gore, however Orton turns around and nails Rhyno with the IC titlebelt! Orton then hits the RKO onto the title belt, before making the cover asthe ref comes to. 1-2-3, Orton retains the Intercontintental title. After thematch Orton quickly escapes the ring and starts backing up the ramp, with afuming Rhyno looking on in the ring.Winner & Still WWE IntercontinentalChampion: Randy Orton (79, 81, 77) **1/2World Tag Team Title Match: RicFlair & Batista vs Rob Van Dam & EdgeEdge is the first competitor to make his way out onto thestage, getting a huge ovation in his first pay per view appearance since the2003 Royal Rumble. RVD joins Edge in the ring, before the World Tag Teamchampions Ric Flair and Batista come out from behind the curtain. Soon enoughboth teams are in the ring and ready to go, with Flair and Batista trying todecide who should start it out with Rob Van Dam.It turns out to be Flair who starts it out with RVD. These twoengage in some mat based wrestling, with many techincal moves, counters andnearfalls to begin with, which gets the fans right into the match. Soon enoughRVD takes the advantage by grounding Flair with a spinning back kick, beforehitting the Rolling Thunder, much to the fans excitement. RVD goes up top,waiting for Flair to make it to his feet, however Flair tags to Batista and RVDdrops back to the mat. Batista and RVD tieup, before Batista whips RVD into theropes. Batista leans over, looking for a backdrop, but Van Dam rolls over it andcomes back with a spinning wheel kick! He then tags in Edge who begins brawlingwith Batista.Edge has the momentum at first, but eventually the big manwears Edge down with a number of powerful maneouevers. Batista throws Edge tothe outside where Flair starts to choke Edge with his boot, before stomping onthe fallen Edge for a while and throwing him back in the ring to Batista.Batista throws Edge into the turnbuckle and tags to Flair. Evolution startdouble teaming Edge, and RVD tries to run in the ring for the save, however thereferee sees it and forces RVD to step out of the ring. While this is happeningBatista and Flair choke the life out of Edge, and when the ref returns to facethe action Flair acts as if nothing happened. Flair isolates Edge for a good fewminutes, before eventually he makes the hot tag to Rob Van Dam.RVD leaps into the ring and immediately takes down Flair witha back-kick. Batista then runs at RVD, only to recieve a side kick to the head.Flair approaches RVD only to recieve a roundhouse kick, before Van Dam bouncesoff of the ropes before hitting the cartwheel-back splash maneouver. 1-2,Batista breaks up the count. Flair tags to Batista, and for a moment all fourmen are brawling in the ring. RVD levels Batista with a dropkick, before goingup top, looking for the 5 Star Frog Splash. However, from nowhere Ric Flairshakes the ropes, leaving RVD to fall awkwardly on the top rope. Batista thentakes advantage by hitting a huge Powerbomb on RVD off of the top rope! He makesthe cover, 1-2-3. The World Tag Team championships remain within Evolutionhere tonight at Backlash! Ric Flair and Batista do their special "Evolutionhandshake", before celebrating with the titles on their way to the back.Winner & Still World Tag TeamChampions: Ric Flair & Batista (85, 87, 81) ***As Flair and Batista enter the backstagearea, we see an image hyping up the following match between Christian andChris Jericho. This is followed by a video package of highlights from thelast few months, detailing the fued between these two former friends. It comesto an end, and we head down to ringside because that match .. is up next! Chris Jericho vs ChristianChristian is the first man to make his way out onto therunway, being accompanied by his lady Trish Stratus, who the fans showered withchants of "Slut! Slut!" The duo makes their way into the ring andChristian looks to take a mike from the ring announcer Lillian Garcia. Christianprepares to adress the crowd, but is rudely interrupted by Y2J's countdown!Christian looks furious as the arena errupts in cheers as Jericho makes his wayout onto the stage.<img border="0" src="http://www.2and2.net/Priv/bly2jintro.jpg" width="320" height="240">Jericho makes his way down to the ring, and soon enough we'reready for the match. As the bell rings Jericho and Christian square off in thecenter of the ring, trading right hands with intensity as the camera gets a shotof Trish watching on from the outside. Christian whips Y2J into the ropes, butJericho comes back with a flying forearm. Christian makes it to his feet andruns at Jericho, only to be leveled with modified backbreaker. Once againChristian launces at Jericho, and this time ends up getting nailed with a DDT.Christian quickly scuffles to the outside, needing to regroup. Jericho seesChristian on the outside and looks for a baseball slide, but Christian moves outof the way and drags Y2J to the outside. Christian throws Y2J into the steelsteps and starts laying the boots to Jericho's stomach as Trish watches in witha smile.Christian sets up for a suplex on Jericho, but Y2J reverses itand Christian ends up being suplexed on the outside. With Christian down,Jericho moves his attention to Trish! Jericho starts stalking Trish, beforegrabbing her by the hair and preparing to take a swing, but Christian comes frombehind with a low-blow, making the save. They then work their way back in thering, which leads to some back and forth action for a few minutes. Neither manable to gain the upper hand. But that soon changes when Jericho nails a stringof vertical suplexes, hitting three in a row before making the cover, 1-2kickout by Christian.<img border="0" src="http://www.2and2.net/Priv/bly2jch.jpg" width="320" height="240">Jericho starts climbing up to the top rope, before waiting forChristian to make it to his feet. He then launches off with a missile dropkick,which nails Christian right in the side of the head. Jericho makes it to hisfeet, and then launches himself off of ropes, hitting the Lionsault. He makesthe cover, 1-2 Trish places Christian's foot on the rope! Jericho walks over tothe side of the ring and pulls Trish up by the hair, but before any damage isdone, Christian beats down Jericho from behind. Christian looks to whip Jerichointo the corner, but gets reversed and Christian ends up in the buckle. Y2Jlaunches at Christian, but Christian drags the ref in front of him and the reftakes the clothesline from Jericho.With the ref down Trish slides a steel chair in the ring.Christian picks it up and gets ready to take Jericho's head off .. he swings thechair, but Jericho blocks it, before locking in the Walls of Jericho!Christian's tapping, but there's no referee! Trish quickly runs into the ringand jumps on Jericho's back, trying to get him to release the hold. Heeventually does, and then locks in the Walls on Trish! While this is happening,Christian grabs a hold of the steel chair. Before he can nail Y2J with the chairfrom behind, Jericho sees it coming from the corner of his eye and blocks thechair shot, before grabbing it out of his hands and nailing Christian with achairshot over the head! However, the ref has just come to, and he saw Jerichonail Christian with the chair. The ref calls for the bell, declaring Christianthe winner by Disqualification! Christian and Trish quickly run to the back,while in the ring Jericho snaps and locks in the Walls of Jericho on thereferee! Eventually a number of officials come down to the ring and pull Jerichooff of the referee, and an angry Jericho heads to the back.Winner via DQ: Christian (92, 93, 93) ****1/4No Holds Barred Match: Kanevs Shawn Michaels"Sexy Boy" hits the p.a and out comes "TheHeartbreak Kid" Shawn Michaels dancing out onto the runway. He doesn't seemto get quite the same reaction as he's used to. Take note, we are here inCanada. Michaels struts down to the ring, before striking his trademark in thecenter of the ring with the pyro going off in the background. Kane then slowlywalks out onto the stage, making his way down to the ring. The monster stepsinto the ring, raising his arms and shooting them back down again as the fieryred pyro blasts off in the arena.<img border="0" src="http://www.2and2.net/Priv/blkane.jpg" width="320" height="240">Michaels tries to get the upper hand to start the match,attacking Kane from behind, but Kane fights him off before throwing Michaelsinto the turnbuckle. Kane starts beating down Michaels with heavy right hands,before dragging him out and dropping HBK to the mat with a press slam. Kane thenslams HBK to the mat, before whipping him into the ropes and looking for a bigboot. However, Michaels ducks underneath and comes back with a flying forearmwhich sends Kane over the top rope. Michaels climbs up to the top rope .. beforelaunching to the outside, looking for a flying body press. However, Kane grabsHBK out of mid-air and throws him into the ring post.The two start brawling up the ramp, with Kane dominatingMichaels. After a number of hard hitting moves on the ramp, Kane throws Michaelsoff of the stage. Kane keeps working over HBK, and they soon end up back aroundringside. Kane takes out HBK by throwing the steel steps right into Michaels'face, and is easily in control. He slowly walks over to Michaels, but HBK comesout of nowhere, hitting Kane in the face with the ring bell! HBK then hits theSweet Chin Music on the outside! However, Michaels falls to the mat, not havingenough energy to make the cover.They soon work their way back inside the ring where Kanecontinues to dominate. Eventually Michaels comes off of the top rope, lookingfor a flying clothesline, but Kane grabs Michaels out of mid air and Chokeslam'shim to the mat! Kane makes the cover, 1-2 suddenly Kane pulls HBK up, notsatisfied with ending the match here. Kane then hauls HBK over his shoulder,setting up for the Toombstone! However, Michaels slips off of Kane's back andnails the Sweet Chin Music! Michaels makes the cover, 1-2-3! Michaels didit! He's beaten the big monster, Kane! After the match Michaels is celebrating when Kane attacks frombehind. Kane can't believe his loss, and starts taking it all out on ShawnMichaels. He throws HBK around the ring for a while, before hitting twoconsecutive Chokeslams! He then takes HBK to the outside and continues thebeatdown. After another shot with the steel steps to Michaels, Kane goes on toChokeslam HBK right through the announce table! Still not happy with the beatinghowever, Kane starts to drag the fallen and bloodied Michaels to the top of theramp, in front of the Backlash set. He drags the near unconcsious HBK and throwshim over his shoulder, signalling for the Toombstone! As JR screams "Don'tdo it!" Kane toombstone's Shawn Michaels on the steel runway, leavingMichaels unconcsious and in a very, very bad way. Kane leaves to the back with asick smile on his face as EMT's attend to Shawn Michaels.Winner: Shawn Michaels (84,88, 77) **3/4World Heavyweight Title Match: ChrisBenoit vs Triple HBefore tonight's main event begins, we see a three minutevideo package, featuring everything that's gone down between these two men overthe past months. When the video comes to an end, we head down to the ring where"Time To Play The Game!" hits the speakers, as a huge wave of boo'scomes over the arena. HHH comes out and does his usual entrance routine, waterbottle and all. And then Benoit's music hits, and the arena simply errupts. Thehometown hero (with heavy bandaging around his head, from the attack earlier this evening) makes his way out to a deafining response from the fans. Benoitslides into the ring and stands toe to toe with HHH, raising the World title forall to see.<img border="0" src="http://www.2and2.net/Priv/blmaineven.jpg" width="320" height="240">The referee takes the belt and hands it to the timekeeper asBenoit and HHH stare each other down in the middle of the ring. Eventually bothmen explode with right hands, and we have a brawl on our hands. HHH takes Benoitdown with a shortarm clothesline, before Benoit makes it to his feet andarmdrags HHH to the mat. Benoit locks in an armbar, before HHH reverses it andapplies a leg lock. The two start trading holds for a few minutes, which isfollowed by a little chain wrestling. As HHH looks for a tieup, Benoit reversesit to a backtieup and nails a german suplex! HHH scurries out of the ring toregroup, but Benoit follows him outside and starts throwing HHH into the ringapron a few times before atomic dropping him awkwardly on the guardrail. Benoitthen starts to hit a number of chops to The Game, before suplexing him to themat and heading back into the ring.As HHH climbs up to the apron, trying to get back into thering, Benoit meets him with a vertical suplex, sending HHH into the ring thehard way. The next few minutes of the match are quite slower paced, with neitherman able to truely take the advantage. Soon enough Benoit lands a Northernlights suplex, which he holds for a two count. Benoit then heads up to the toprope, but as soon as he's up, HHH makes it to his feet and nails Benoit with aright hand. HHH then climbs onto the second rope and starts brawling withBenoit.<img border="0" src="http://www.2and2.net/Priv/blmain.jpg" width="320" height="240">HHH tries to set up for a Vertical suplex, but Benoit managesto shove HHH off, sending him back down to the mat. Benoit then signals to thecrowd, before launching off with the Swandive headbutt! He makes the cover, 1-2Triple H just manages to kick out! Benoit makes it to his feet and stalks HHH,waiting for him to stand up. As soon as HHH is on his feet, Benoit takes HHHdown by the arm and locks in the Crippler Crossface! Triple H is screaming inpain with the hold locked in. He tries to inch closer to the ropes, but can'tseem to get anywhere. HHH's hand is stretched out, looking like he's almostabout to tap. However, HHH makes a big lunge for the ropes, and makes it. Benoit is forced to release the hold. Both men are slow totheir feet. Benoit takes a swing at HHH, but The Game dodges it, kicks Benoit inthe gut and nails the Pedigree! My god, we have a new world champion! HHH makesthe cover, 1-2 .. Benoit gets his left foot on the ropes! The Game can't believeit! HHH argues with the ref, before turning around right into a right hand fromBenoit. Benoit looks for another but HHH blocks it and counters with a Russianleg sweep. HHH sees Benoit on the mat and begins to lock in the SharpShooter! However, before it's locked in, Benoit drags HHH down by the neck intoa small package. However, Benoit releases the pinning predicament straight awayand locks in the Sharp Shooter! Triple H is screaming pain, with his armstretched out, trying to reach the ropes. He gets centimeters away, but Benoitdrags HHH back in to the center of the ring, where he taps out! Benoit'sdone it, he's made Triple H tap out, once again! The ref calls for the bell andhands Benoit his World heavyweight championship belt. Benoit climbs up to thetop rope and raises the worldtitle high in the air as the hometown crowd of his cheers him on, while Backlashgoes off of the air!<img border="0" src="http://www.2and2.net/Priv/363.jpg" width="320" height="240">Winner: Chris Benoit (86,89, 82) ***1/4- PPV Buy Rate - 1.62; OverallRating - 81; Attendance - 16085  </body></html>

May 26, 2004

Well there's RAW's first pay per view over and done with. Thanks to a day off of school I finished it much earlier than expected. I strongly encourage feedback (especially constructive feedback)

I'm just finding out the winner of The Prediction's Contest as we speak, once I've figured it out I'll post the winner. That should be up soon. However, the winner will book the main event of the second RAW after Backlash, not the first.

Once that's over with, look for a "News/Headlines" type thing, before it's my turn again .. this time, with Monday night RAW.

May 26, 2004

The WWE RAW Predictions Contest

Do You Smell It? - 5/6

CTOx - 4/6 (2/4)

Big D00 - 4/6 (1/4)

Baby Hewey - 4/6 (2/4)

blueblood - 4/6 (1/4)

muthafawkkinmatt - 3/6

D-Extreme - 4/6 (1/4)

MSC - 3/6

Note: Bonus Questions in brackets.

Now, I know what you're thinking. DYSI? got 5, which is more than everyone else, so therefore he wins. Right? .. WRONG! I've decided that due to many discussions we've had over AIM, he had an unfair insight to my PPV outcomes. Therefore, he doesn't win

Don't worry though DYSI? .. I've something better for you .. YOUR SHOES! They are currently being sent to you via e-mail (Y)

Anyway, onto the joint winners .. CTOx & Baby Hewey. Hmm, two winners. What I've decided is, they can both send their RAW Main Event to me via PM, and I'll decide which one I want to use.

Thanks for the predictions everyone, make sure you return for DYSI?'s Judgment Day!

D-Extreme · May 26, 2004

now thats what I call a PPV! Nice job dude. Damn you put a lotta work out there and it sure payed off now. *shakes fist* ARGH! I wish I got that bonus question! Damn I'm 2nd place..which is a good thing. I shall return! I wonder how the RAW after backlash follows up the good event shown.

May 26, 2004

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"><HTML><HEAD><TITLE>World Wrestling Entertainment: After WrestleMania XX, Bringing The Brands Together. Finally. </TITLE><STYLE type=text/css>BODY { }BODY { FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 220%; FONT-FAMILY: verdana}P { FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 220%; FONT-FAMILY: verdana}TD { FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 220%; FONT-FAMILY: verdana}</STYLE><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"><meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0"><meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document"><title>New Page 1</title></HEAD><body bgcolor="#FFCC99">WWE RAW NEWS & NOTES - Monday, April26th, 2004- WWE officials are said to be quite pleased with last night's Backlashpay per view. In particular the match between Chris Jericho and Christian,the European title match and the World Tag Team title match. The main event wasseen as a moderate success, largely due to Chris Benoit's overwhelmingreaction in his hometown.- If you've been wondering why Test hasn't been seen on RAWprogramming lately, he's been sent to OVW for the time being. The reason being,writers currently have nothing planned for the big man. Expect him to returnsometime between Bad Blood and Summerslam. There are rumours going around thatwe might see the reformation of T&A apon Test's return. Stay tuned onthat one.- The duo of Rob Conway and Sylvian Grenier (La Resistance)have also been sent to OVW. Officials feel that the La Reistance team isvery stale at the moment, and that these two were holding back Rene Dupree.I wouldn't expect to see either of these two back on WWE programming any timesoon.- Shawn Michaels will be kept off of RAW for the next few weeks,selling the injuries from Kane's post match attack at Backlash. Michaelshas been requesting some time off for quite a while now. Expect HBK to continuehis feud with Kane apon return.</body></html>

May 26, 2004

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"><HTML><HEAD><TITLE>World Wrestling Entertainment: After WrestleMania XX, Bringing The Brands Together. Finally. </TITLE><STYLE type=text/css>BODY { }BODY { FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 220%; FONT-FAMILY: verdana}P { FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 220%; FONT-FAMILY: verdana}TD { FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 220%; FONT-FAMILY: verdana}</STYLE><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"><meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0"><meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document"><title>New Page 1</title></HEAD><body bgcolor="#FFCC99">MONDAY NIGHT RAW PREVIEW - 04/26/04The fallout from Backlash begins this Monday night! After retaining his worldheavyweight title against Triple H last night in his hometown of Calgary,Alberta, Canada, Chris Benoit goes one on one with Christian in a non-titlematch. Speaking of Christian, he'd better be careful, as Chris Jericho is surelygoing to be out for revenge after being DQ'ed in their match last night atBacklash.Also, Evolution will take on Rob Van Dam, Edge & Rhyno in six man tagaction and Shelton Benjamin defends his newly won European title against D-VonDudley. Plus will Shawn Michaels be in the arena after being viciously assaultedby Kane last night at Backlash?Be sure to tune into RAW this Monday night, only on Spike TV!</body></html>

D-Extreme · May 26, 2004

Nice preview dude, though Benoit's home town is not 'calgary' its 'edmenton'(sp?) or something like that.

Damn I cant wait to see the 6-man tag on RAW. I just hope HBK will be gone for a while and not for a long while.

therockbox · May 26, 2004

Awesome PPV man, I can see that a lot of effort went into that. Keep it up (Y)

Hewey · May 26, 2004

Awesome show, Glad to see HBK beating Kane and the beatdown from Kane afterwards was sick , The rest of the show was enjoyable, Christian winning is always a good thing and hopefully he gets a push down the line

Keep up the great work, Raw looks good as well

DYSI · May 26, 2004

Grrreat show HY. All the matches were done very well, especially the main event and Y2J/Christian. I like the added pictures (don't expect that fancy stuff on Judgment Day, ) it brought a better visual into the PPV than just the writing-- which was great.

Even though I was screwed over *shifty* The return of the shoe shall cometh!

Protoman Version 2.5 · May 26, 2004

I just started recently reading your diary, and all i gotta say is this is awesome. Good stuff from both sides, and very enjoyable to read( Too bad the real SD isn't even half as good as your's has been ). And Backlash i liked every bit except for kane losing :angry: . Though you can't always have it your way. Though i'm glad to see the euro belt back and rhyno getting a push. I soooo hope we see at Badd Blood the GORE! GORE! GORE! on orton...i would so mark for that . And the rock being a heel is grand, i always enjoyed the taker/rock feuds. And i hope rock beats the micky mouse tattooed rolling his eyes into the back of his head underseller's roody poo monkey candy ass!......

Okay i'm calmed down again, and all i gotta say on the Backlash Main Event is Yes! HHH losing is always in the words of DDP not a bad thing, it's a good thing! * flashes big stupid grin *

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