By Garrett Kidney
August 13th, 2004
Orlando, FL
Quick Results
1. Jeff Jarrett defeated Psicosis
2. Monty Brown defeated Jimmy Rave
3. Jerrelle Clark and Mikey Batts defeated The Naturals (Chase Stevens and Andy Douglas) in a non-title match
4. Petey Williams (w/ Scott D'Amore) defeated Amazing Red in a non-title match
5. Raven defeated Todd Sexton
6. AJ Styles and Jeff Hardy defeated Abyss and Alex Shelley (w/ Goldylocks)
Notes: Petey Williams won the X-Division title on the last Weekly PPV
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Disappointing use of Psicosis (who had a remix of what became Jay
Lethal's music) on this show. They could've fed any number
of guys to Jarrett and they could've used him for something decent in
the X-Division rather than waste him while they had him there. Same
Jarrett match we've seen in recent weeks - a squash with a small hope
spot and some ringside brawling.
- Monty squashed Jimmy Rave and killed him with the Pounce, that is all.
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At least they did all the squash matches to build to the big upset win
(though it was over the team that probably needed the reinforcement
most). Nothing match but 3LK give Batts and Clark the biggest win of
their careers to build to the upcoming 3LK/Naturals title match.
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Decent Petey/Red match, and I would've liked to see more from them.
D'Amore interfered constantly leading to Petey winning with the Canadian
Destroyer (which I will never, ever tire of seeing). This led to Russo
banning D'Amore from ringside henceforth (I'm looking forward to seeing
how long they enforce that one).
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Raven squashed Todd Sexton, and brawled with Sabu again (essentially a
repeat of any angle involving the two for the last few weeks) to set up
their PPV match.
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Styles and Hardy looked very good beating Shelley and Abyss. Styles
also did this awesome rana on Abyss jumping off Abyss' back, Styles and
Abyss had such good chemistry in those days (culminating in their
tremendous Lockdown cage match). Hardy still doesn't look all there but I suppose he was a star and that was something they were sorely lacking at the time.
Closing Thoughts
Same
as recent weeks with lots of squashes, a smattering of good wrestling
and at least the novelty of Styles and Hardy's first match as a team.
