Steve Austin (WWF Heavyweight Champion) Much hype around this one. Good match, nothing great but entertaining. Tajiri (WCW US Champion) with Torrie Wilson Better than I thought but am still surprised to see this that high in the card. So pretty good match with some good moments, Shane certainly added a lot to the match. Booker at Summerslam(which was not bad by any means). The Rock (WCW Heavyweight Champion) Better than Rock vs. I'm just not too happy with the ending, a match of this quality don't deserve such ending. Chris Jericho When you have RVD and Jericho in hardcore match, you expect a 5 stars match and that exactly what we've got. 3.5/10 5-Rob Van Dam (WWF Hardcore Champion) vs. I can't imagine what this would have been if it was not Taker and Kane taking on Kronik. Taker and Kane are not made to be a tag team. Taker and Kane sold as much as they could. Anyway, they are not very good wrestlers. The Undertaker & Kane (WCW Tag Champions) OK, in the edition of Smack down before that, Kronik squashed Kaientai, maybe they should have wrestle a more experienced team like the APA. However, this is nothing compare to the great ladder match they had at No Mercy in the next PPV. Not as good as I expected but still decent. Edge (WWF Intercontinental Champion) Brother vs.Brother. End of the silly but yet still quite funny Moppy storyline. The crowd was not in it, nothing great, nothing that bad either but forgettable for sure. Saturn I prefer Raven in the hardcore division and I consider Saturn as a good wrestler. The Dudley Boyz (WWF Tag Team Champions) I expected a more exciting match but it was not bad. Austin v Angle was sleep inducing which it really needed to be better for what was to happen. Sadly Jericho v RVD didn't get more time and a clean finish but ends before it was just getting really good. There was even one part where Angle throws Austin off the stage and instead of jumping down to continue his attack he walks down the ramp to get to Austin. ![]() This match should really have been the match at Summer Slam but as it is it comes off as slow. Certainly not as good as the match at Summer Slam. His kicks actually sound like they hurt and he gets in a few really good ones. Tajiri v Rhyno Its always fun watching Tajiri. This match is basically like the Edge v Christian match but with Shane doing 2-1 antics on the apron, so its slightly more interesting but the match itself is slow and gimmicky. At one point he does a snapmare waits a second then does a pin attempt. He also comes across as lost and not sure what to do next. His wrestling revolves around irish whips (so does the Rock) and its very evident that he is communicating because he slaps the back of his opponent very noticeably. Rock v Booker T and Shane McMahon Just going to say it. I still rate RVD's matches against Jeff Hardy slightly higher but best match of the night for sure. Sadly it doesn't end cleanly and could have been a classic if it had gone on longer. There is a lot of counters to each others moves, which make this surprisingly a better wrestling match than a hardcore. It takes a while to get to the weapons and instead we get head scissors and ground wrestling looking for pinfall attempts. Lots of really good wrestling which before RVD showed up, the hardcore division was getting really lazy. Jericho v RVD RVD was really over at this point. It actually isn't a bad or boring match, however. At one point taker screams the F word after a botched jaw breaker and there were a few other botches. Kane and Taker v Kronik This match is rather infamous for the botches of Kronik. It was a very meh match with few back and forth innovation and LOTS of unconvincing pinfall attempts, before finally ending with a non clean finish. You'd think this would be better being that they are former tag team partners but it dragged and stalled. Christian gives a very meh backstage promo before his match before Edge but debuts his new theme. Its a decent match for the time allocated but neither really convince that Saturn's romantic interest, a mop, had been sent into a wood cutter by Raven. Saturn is actually a really good wrestler and has a really good repertoire. The opening tag team was decent and rather high tempo but nothing really special and we have seen the Dudleys v Hardys many times by now. This PPV had lots of work ethic but lacked a particularly memorable match.
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