Delta Center
Salt Lake City, Utah
September 16, 2002
Welcome to a special house show featuring the stars of Smackdown as they continue their northwest tour. We've gone from Montana to Wyoming and now Utah. Hardcore Holly broke his neck on Smackdown and still worked yesterday in Wyoming. He'll be in a six man tag in this one although hopefully he doesn't do much. We're just six days away from Unforgiven so let's see what the final house show of this current circuit is like.
Match 1
Funaki vs The Hurricane
We open with a cruiserweight match featuring The Hurricane against SMACKDOWN NUMBA WUN ANNOUNCA! Unfortunately for Funaki, Hurricane wins it with a chokeslam.
Winner: Hurricane by pinfall
Match 2
Tajiri and Chavo Guerrero Jr vs John Cena and Randy Orton
Talk about a treat without even knowing it. 5 years later Cena and Orton would be THE top stars of WWE but here they're two rookies against two veterans in a makeshift tag match in a house show in friggin Utah. Orton did get the pin on Chavo though.
Winners: Orton and Cena by pinfall
Match 3
Albert vs Val Venis
Albert had been on a cold streak on Velocity until he took out Funaki....but he still does the job here to Val Venis.
Winner: Venis
Match 4
Billy Kidman (with Torrie Wilson) vs Jamie Noble (with Nidia) for the WWE Cruiserweight Championship
Kidman gets a title shot here but he's got Torrie to balance out Nidia. Didn't help as Noble takes it with the Tiger Bomb.
Winner: Kidman by pinfall
Match 5
The Undertaker vs Brock Lesnar for the WWE Championship
After Edge got the title shot yesterday, Taker is back to work the main event against Lesnar. Brock wins it with a chair shot to the head.
Winner: Lesnar by pinfall (Still WWE Champion)
Match 6
Mark Henry, Hardcore Holly and Batista vs Reverend D'Von, Horace Hogan and Bull Buchanan
As mentioned earlier, Holly broke his neck on Smackdown and still made his dates on this circuit. He might be a titantic asshole to wrestling fans, but he's got balls of steel to be working with a broken neck. Henry pinned D'Von with the powerslam.
Winners: Henry, Holly and Batista by pinfall
Match 7
Shannon Moore vs Matt Hardy
Yesterday it was the North Carolinians Hardy and Hurricane going at it and now its the other member of 3 Count going against Matt. Hardy wins it with the Twist of Fate.
Winner: Hardy by pinfall
Match 8
Chris Benoit and Eddie Guerrero vs Edge and Rey Mysterio Jr
Damn good tag match here on paper. Edge and Mysterio win with the double pin.
Winners: Edge and Mysterio by pinfall
Match 9
Rikishi vs Kurt Angle in a Kiss My Ass Match
Same match as yesterday with the same result. Angle steals the pin by cheating to win the match.
Winner: Angle by pinfall
Say goodbye to Hardcore Holly as he'd be out for over a year with a broken neck. With Unforgiven next Sunday, we only got Smackdown and a house show on Saturday to go for the stars of Smackdown. They're running Angle vs Rikishi into the ground but they're warming up for Unforgiven by having Taker and Lesnar go at it. The next show after this is tomorrow night's Raw in Denver, I'll see you there.
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