2000 Survivor Series Review
Live from Tampa it's the 2000 Survivor Series. Your hosts are JR and Jerry Lawler
Match #1
Six Person tag Team Match
Trish Stratus And T+A Vs Molly Holly, Crash And Steve Blackman
Albert and Blackman start, then Crash comes in and gets beat up by the big guys. Molly and Trish face off next, and Trish runs. Crash hits a rana on Test for 2. Then he gets pummeled. Hot tag Molly, and she beats up Trish, but gets tripped up by Test while running the ropes. Big fight breaks out and Trish bulldogs Molly for 2. Molly goes up top and hits a flying sunset flip off the top rope for the pin at 4:58. Generic six person tag. Molly can actually wrestle. 1 1/2 star.
Match #2
8 Person Elimination Tag Team Match
The Radicalz Vs Chyna, Billy Gunn, Roadogg Jesse James And K-Kwik
Radicalz are all decked out in black and yellow tonight. Gunn and Chyna gang up on Saturn. Chyna powerslam gets 2. DDT gets 2 after a lowblow that gets no reaction from the crowd. Eddie sneaks in during a frakas and whacks her with his IC title so Saturn can pin her. Didn't expect her to be the first to go. Road Dogg is in next and gets a vertical suplex from Eddie. Eddie dropkicks him in the knee to stop the shake rattle and roll punches. Radicalz work on the knee but he manages a tag to Gunn who runs like an idiot into the heels corner and gets mugged. He manages a drop sleeper on Eddie go get rid of him then K-Kwik aka Ron Killings gets in with Malenko and they have a nice little match but Kwik does a weird legsweep that looks like somebody goofed up on. Benoit tags in and kills Kwik with a german suplex pin. Road Dogg and Saturn fight it out and Saturn ends up getting a suplex and pin which leaves Gunn 1 against 3. A fameasser gets rid of Malenko pretty fast but he gets overwhelmed and benoit trips him up on a vertical suplex attempt and Saturn falls down on top for the winning pin at 12:23. 2 1/2 stars.
Match #3
Singles Match
Kane Vs Chris Jericho
Jericho dropkicks Kane out and baseball slides him. Tope follows and they brawl. Jericho dropkicks the stairs into Kane. Back in, Kane powerslam gets two. Kane beats down Jericho then pulls off a turnbuckle pad. Kane pounds him down again, and casually tosses him out to the floor. Back in, Kane goes up top, but gets crotched. He tries again and Jericho dropkicks him in mid air. Jericho hits a missile dropkick for 2. Rollup gets two. Jericho goes to the walls according to JR but it's the case where he's wrestling somebody too big to take the move without being hurt and it's just a standard boston crab. A year from now the move degenerated into a standard boston crab. He powers out and catches Jericho on the Lionsault, then chokeslams him for the pin at 12:32. Not bad. 2 1/2 stars.
Match #4
European Championship Match
William Regal Vs Hardcore Holly
Holly is back from a half a year on the shelf after Angle broke his arm back around KOTR with a botched moonsault. Regal does his mat stuff and attacks the healed arm and Holly gets pissed and smacks him with the belt and gets DQ'd at 1 1/2 star.
Match #5
Singles Match
The Rock Vs Rikishi
Rock has a hurt chest region going. Rock goes for a chair, but the ref snatches it and turns into a superkick. Legdrop injures Rock’s chest further. Sideslam gets 2. Rock dumps Rikishi. Ref is bumped outside, so Rikishi goes under the ring for HHH's hammer and takes a swing but gets rockbottomed. No ref. Rikishi comes back with a falling headbutt and samoan drop, and sits on Rock for 2. Charging ass bump in the corner and he actually gives Rock the stinkface. Rock pops up and explodes out of the corner knocking him for a loop. Spinebuster, but he’s too hurt to follow up quickly. He manages to hit the People’s Elbow at 11:18 to win. Rikishi beats Rock into a puddle of goo with four banzai drops postmatch. 2 1/2 stars.
Match #6
Womens Championship Match
Ivory Vs Lita
They start out slow as hell. Just running the ropes like slugs and throwing kicks and punches in the same speed. Ivory busts Lita open legit and she bleeds bad from around the left eye area. They start to pick it up in speed. Lita gets a stiff rana on Ivory then hits a vault onto Ivory and Richards outside. She sends Ivory back in and gets a flying bodypress for 2. Moonsault misses, and another one hits the knees and Ivory gets the pin to retain at 4:53. Weird finish but ill ad a bonus 1/2 star for Lita getting busted open. 1 star.
Match #7
World Heavyweight Championship Match
Kurt Angle Vs The Undertaker
Angle asks the crowd to take a moment of silence to reflect on their favorite Angle moment of his rookie year. Taker interrupts and is wearing a pair of slacks that look like leftover props from the Godfather gimmick. Angle attacks, but UT hits the big boot and legdrop. Taker picks Angle up after two pin attempts and JR acts like Angle wouldn't of kicked out of the horrible standard elbow drop. Taker goes "old school" and Angle bails. Back in, Angle suplex gets 2. Outside, UT posts Angle twice. Angle works the knee back in the ring until Taker suddenly hits a Fujiwara armbar out of nowhere. Angle is tapping, but Edge and Christian run out to distract the ref. Angle keeps working the knee. Taker musters a Chokeslam but the ref is still farting around. Russian legsweep gets two. Angle gets a figure four, Taker reverses. Tiltawhirl slam gets 2. Angle goes back to the knee, and hooks the Bret Hart ringpost figure four. Whole lotta Bret Hart references tonight. Even for Survivor Series. Looks like Angle attempts a tombestone but Taker counters then Angle wiggles free and goes under the ring but Taker pulls him out and gives him the last ride !. 1.......2..the ref stops? Hebner points at "Angle" and it turns out Kurt got his brother to dress up in a pair of tights and take the fall so Angle can sneak in and roll up Taker for the pin at 16:06. This ending kind of worked for me. Angle going to great lengths to protect the title. Im going 3 stars.
Match #8
8 Man Elimination Match
Edge And Christian And The Right To Censor Vs The Hardy Boyz And The Dudley Boyz
Bull Buchanon and Bubba start. D-Von gets beat up next then he hottags to Matt who cleans house but Edge gets him with the edge-o-matic for the first elimination. D-Von rather quickly falls victim to the unprettier of Christian which leaves Jeff and Bubba against 4. Jeff works over Christian and hits a moonsault, but ends up getting posted. Bull tags in and misses a blind charge, and Jeff brings in Bubba who goes nuts. Edge tries helping out but spears Bull by mistake and Bubba gets a pin to ease the pressure. Edge goes byebye after a mistake by Christian and a bubba bomb then Bubba turns into a DVD from the goodfather. Jeff Vs Christian and Goodfather. Christian works on Jeff then misses something which lets Jeff get the swanton to eliminate him. Goodfather goes for the ho train which hasn't worked in any of the ppv matches he's had all year and Jeff pins him to finish at 9:59. RTC attack and the Dudleyz and Hardyz run back and brawl. Tables for everybody. These matches don't have the same magic as years past. 2 stars.
Match #9
No Disqualification Match
Stone Cold Steve Austin Vs HHH
Austin kicks HHH's ass. Thesz press and elbow from Austin, and they brawl outside. They fight around the crowd and back by the announce position and Austin nails him with a tv monitor and HHH is busted open. Austin sits and grabs a couple of beers, has a drink and hits HHH with a half full can. Into the ring for the first time in 5 or 8 minutes and HHH counters the stunner attempt with a neckbreaker. Austin gets a spinebuster, but the second rope elbow misses. Back outside, more fighting. HHH gets backdropped through a table. Then back inside he eats a stunner but Austin won't pin him. He grabs a chair and tries to do to HHH what he did to Pillman in 96. HHH gets away and they fight into the backstage area and The Radicalz attack. I guess Benoit/HHH became friends again after last months feud. HHH goes to his car then somewhere along the way Benoit loses track of Austin. He goes to look for him so HHH can run him down, Austin suprises HHH, by driving out a forklift and picks him up in the card, HHH gives an oh **** on camera that isn't bleeped as Austin drops the car upside down and im calling it a no contest at 21 minutes even. This time there weren't any cops around to arrest Austin like last month. Go figure. Im going 2 1/2 stars. I don't like these attempted murder angles to close a ppv and end in a no contest so nobody has to job. Feigning getting killed is more acceptable then letting a guy pin you??
Overall Opinion: Felt weaker than last years Survivor Series. Not a whole lot going on in this show and the elimination matches felt rushed.
Final Score: 5.1