SummerSlam (2004) was the seventeenth annual SummerSlam PPV. It was presented by Stacker 2's YJ Stinger and took place on August 15, 2004 at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario and featured talent from the Raw and SmackDown! brands. The main match on the Raw brand was Chris Benoit versus Randy Orton for the World Heavyweight Championship. The predominant match on the SmackDown! brand was John "Bradshaw" Layfield (JBL) versus The Undertaker for the WWE Championship. The featured matches on the undercard included Kurt Angle versus Eddie Guerrero and Triple H versus Eugene.
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First Match: The Dudley Boyz vs Rey Mysterio, Billy Kidman, and Paul London. Rule of thumb, starting a PPV with a Mysterio match is a guaranteed winner. I miss Billy Kidman so much, he has the best Shooting Star Press in the history of wrestling. I love The Dudleyz as heels because I find their trash talk hilarious. A good match to start the show. Rating: 3.5/5 Second Match: Kane vs Matt Hardy, "Till Death Do Us Part" match where the winner will marry Lita. Oh boy, it's one of those "People as Property" matches. While I liked their match at Vengeance the month before this, this match was so one-sided it wasn't even funny. Kane beats Hardy so quickly and the story was just "Who cares?" levels of ridiculous by this point that the crowd was almost non-existent. The match is watchable though, mostly due to it being only 6 minutes. Rating: 3/5 Third Match: John Cena vs Booker T, Match #1 in a Best-of-Five Series for the WWE US Championship. Oh White Rapper John Cena, it's hilarious to watch these old matches knowing how far you've come. This match exists. It's over in 6 minutes, there's not a lot of action, and it's the first match of a series which isn't all that suspenseful. Like the previous match though, it is watchable, but mostly due to it being so short. Rating: 3/5 Fourth Match: Edge vs Batista vs Chris Jericho, Triple Threat match for the Intercontinental Championship. This is where the crowd starts to hijack the show. Also there's a guy with an "Edge Sucks" sign, only it's spelled "Edje",and the "J" is backwards. Despite the short match time, and the weird crowd, the match manages to be pretty good. Certainly not the best triple threat match, but a good one. Rating: 3.5/5 Fifth Match: Kurt Angle vs Eddie Guerrero. The sequel to their Wrestlemania classic. While not as good as their Wrestlemania match, it does tell a great story. Another "Reality Check" match for not only Guerrero fans, but Guerrero himself. No matter what Eddie does, he gets out-wrestled by Angle and can't outsmart him like he did previously. A great match in terms of story-telling and selling an onslaught of submission holds. Rating: 4/5Sixth Match: HHH vs Eugene. This match felt a lot longer than 14 minutes, in a bad way. Eugene gets way too much offense, and Hunter has to be on the receiving end of some stupid moves, thus making himself look very stupid. And yes, while HHH does win, it's mostly due to a distraction and unfortunately he didn't live up to his promise of ending Eugene's career. Rating: 2.5/5 Seventh Match: JBL vs The Undertaker, WWE Championship. I miss that old belt design so bad. This is also where the crowd goes completely off the rails and barely cares about what's going on in the match. But whatever, the match is a decent brawl, even with Orlando Jordan (remember him?) interfering too much for my liking. The ending of the match is lame, but Bradshaw gets the tar beaten out of him by Taker after the match, which helps. Also Bradshaw has the sickest clothesline in the history of ever. I wonder if he's ever broken someone's neck with it? Rating: 3.5/5 Eighth Match: Chris Benoit vs Randy Orton, World Heavyweight Championship. Holy cow this match is awesome. It's such a surreal moment to see Orton, who prior to this was billed as a heel, wrestle Benoit one-on-one without any help from his buddies in Evolution. The wrestling is fantastic, Benoit is on fire, Orton beats Benoit clean, and makes history by becoming the youngest person to ever win the World Heavyweight Championship; a record that was never beaten. Benoit could not have lost the title in a better match, to a more deserving opponent. And the handshake after the match is an absolute class act by one of the greats. Rating: 5/5Final Rating: 7 out of 10. Even though WWE will never again say who Orton beat to make history, the show is still really good, even if only for that match. Just skip Eugene's match, and you have a great show.R.I.P. Chris Benoit & R.I.P. Eddie Guerrero
Match 1: The Dudley Boyz vs Rey Mysterio, Billy Kidman & Paul London - A well needed opener for this show. A great chemistry of power from Bubba Ray and D-Von along with a great display of high flying from Spike Dudley, Rey Mysterio, Billy Kidman and Paul London. The cruiserweights took the fight to the Dudleys with their speed. It didn't pay off, because after all of it the Dudley Boyz took the win.Match 2: Kane vs Matt Hardy - Not a bad match. This was to determine who was marrying Lita. Matt Hardy was fighting off Kane with all he really had left over from their Vengeance encounter. Kane dominates with his power moves, while Hardy uses his showman like persona to carry some competition out of the powerhouse Kane. In the end Kane lands a chokeslam for the win and he ends up marrying Lita later that year.Match 3: John Cena vs Booker T - This was the first match in a Best of 5 series for the vacant United States title. Not really a bad match from these two, but more of a mediocre match instead. They carry a somewhat OK match that lasts a little over five minutes. Cena hits an FU for the win and he advances over Booker in the series.Match 4: Edge (c) vs Chris Jericho vs Batista in a Triple Threat match for the Intercontinental Championship - Batista has been billed as a huge powerhouse since joining Evolution, at this point he really wasn't known for his wrestling skills or in ring ability. He looked pretty horrible in this particular match. Once we got to Edge and Jericho just fighting each other it got a little more interesting. Pedictably we see Edge retain in the end. Mediocre match once again.Match 5: Kurt Angle vs Eddie Guerrero - Top notch match once again from these two. They both had some impressive battles in 2004. Angle continuously works on Eddie's ankle, which gives him the edge in the end. Guerrero uses his usual tactics in the ring and it makes for a pretty great match. In the end Angle makes Guerrero tap out to his signature ankle lock.Match 6: Eugene vs Triple H - Fairly lousy match from these two. Triple H takes on Eugene because he cost him his chance to regain the World Championship from Chris Benoit at the previous Vengeance event. The longer the match went it looked more and more lackluster. Triple H wasn't even able to beat Eugene on his own, he needed to help of Ric Flair to beat this guy. Triple H should try winning matches on his own for a change instead of relying on Flair all the time. In the end he lands a pedigree on Eugene for the win.Match 7: Team Dream vs Team Diva in Diva Dodgeball - Uh interesting stuff at best. The Team Dream wins.Match 8: JBL (c) vs Undertaker for the WWE Championship - JBL proves why he is such a horrible wrestler once again. The only reason this match is considerably average is do to the Undertaker carrying JBL and his terrible wrestling skills. Undertaker reveals a whole lot about JBL and his bad wrestling skills in this match. It was a pretty lousy WWE title match on this big of an event. The ending isn't clear cut, but it is also very entertaining to see JBL get put through his limo.Match 9: Chris Benoit (c) vs Randy Orton for the World Heavyweight Championship - Benoit was in the same spot that his challenger was in, only at Wrestlemania XX. The match was better than the WWE Championship encounter before it. Orton shines bright in this one, showing a ton of promise as a main eventer. Benoit proves that he was a great Champion for as long as he held it, taking the fight to his young challenger. In the end Orton lands an RKO to claim the gold and be noted as the youngest World Champon in history. Too bad he didn't hold it that long.
Match 1) Spike Dudley and the Dudleys Vs. Rey Mysterio, Paul London and Kidman. I found this match pretty long and boring. Not really giving two s#!+s about any of the wrestlers (excluding Mysterio of course) didn't help matters. As bland and boring as it was, it wasn't the worst of this pay per view. The Dudleys won but does anyone care? 3/10. They plays clips from Monday night Raw on how the next match/ love feud came about. Match 2) Matt Hardy Vs. Kane for Lita's pregnant hand in marriage with Kane's baby. Kane ceased being cool when he lost his mask and the dropped the hideously scarred face plot line, so I really wasn't looking forward to this match that much. Kane wins after an amazing choke slam, the only notable thing of the match. This causes Lita to run away 3/10. John Cena interrupts an interview with Randy Orton. Man I hate Cena. Match 3) Booker T Vs. wigger John Cena. After a lousy match, Cena wins 2/10.Theo Long and Eric Bischoff talk. Match 4) Batista Vs. Chris Jericho Vs. Edge in a Triple Theat Matchin a good match, then again it might have only looked good because of the lameness that came bore. 4/10. A promo for "Hard Knocks: the Chris Benoit Story" is shown. Match 5) Eddie Guerro Vs. Kurt Angle Good Ole' Kurt rarely disappoints in his matches and this one was no exception. Both are very capable technical wrestlers and it shows. Angle wins in one of the few bright spots of this PPV. 8/10. Clips of the events leading up to the next event are shown Match 6) Triple H beats Eugene in an alright match. Not really a Eugene fan. 5/10. Match 7) Diva Dodgeball. God the horror, the horror. Worse then a women's match (if such a thing is even possible) Simply horrid 0/10. Match 8) Undertaker Vs. JBL, after a good lengthy match JBL wins via disqualification, but Undertaker isn't done pummeling JBL yet. 8.5/10. Paramedics tend to JBL and cart him away. Commercial for Wrestlemania 21. Match 9) Randy Orton Vs. Chris Beniot. I like Orton's Motorhead theme song. Orton wins in a pretty tight match, becoming the World Champion. not the best match, but in the top 3 of the night 8/10 My Overall Grade:C-DVD Extras: 11 Summerslam Promos; Behind the scenes of said promos; 3 clips from the Sunday Night Heat before the PPV; Evolution reacting to Orton's Victory; Eddie Guerrero consoling Benoit after his match; The Diva contestants being interviewed; and Trailers for the Gamecube game "Day of Reckoning", "Cheating Death, Stealing Life: the Eddie Guerrero Story", & "Vengence 2004"
This was definitely a great PPV with lots of good matches. Here is my review.6-man tag. DUDLEYS vs Kidman, London, and Mysterio. A good way to kick things off. As usual the dudleys are seemingly lacking the flair they used to have but still a good match. Rather bland ending though. 7 out of 10.Matt Hardy vs Kane, winner marries Lita. This match was just brutal. WWE really needs to give kane back his mask. 5 out of 10.Cena vs Booker T. 1st out of best of five series. Why is this match on PPV?Oh well. Still a good match that really made up for the last one. Booker seemed in my opinion, to be having some trouble doing his moves. 6 out of 10.Edge vs Y2J vs Batista. Triple threat for IC title. Very weird how Edge was booed in his hometown. Not the best triple threat match, but still a good one. It seemed that there was never a scene where all three men were in the ring at once. 7 out of 10.Kurt Angle vs Eddie Guerrero. Awseome match. Very technical. Kurt seemed to be at the top of his game here and Eddie was not that far behind. Was not predicting Eddie tapping out though. I thought the angle slam would put him away. 9 out of 10.HHH vs Eugine. This match would have been 10 times better if they made it a NO DQ match (I am not copying material, I just have the same thoughts). Eugine is not a good wrestler, he is just really entertaining. I laughed so hard when he did the stunner. Good match. 8 out of 10Diva dodgeball. Good grief this was stupid. 1 out of 10.Undertaker vs JBL WWE championship. I thought this match was going to suck but I was wrong. Undertaker was 100% on the top of his game. As usual JBL sucks. Disappointing ending with the DQ and all. However I did love it when JBL was put through the roof of his limo. 8 out of 10.Chris Beniot vs Randy Orton. Match of the night. This match proved to me that Orton deserves the belt (although Beniot is my favorite wrestler). Unbelievable performance by both men. Surprised that Orton got the clean win. 10 out of 10.