Smackdown 31-08-00

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Card Information: Held in: SPRINGFIELD CIVIC CENTER Location: SPRINGFEILD, MASSACHUSETTS, UNITED STATES Date/Time: Aug 31/00 at 7:30pm [Sunday Night Heat]: No-Time-Limit-Match: Crowbar pinned Essa Rios with the Inverted DDT in 0:11:10. Rating: ** 1/4 (Crowbar retained the WWF Lightweight Title.)

**So Crowbar retains his title in a close match. Crowbar used his ariel ability to take down Essa Rios to great effect. Rios came close to winning after he hit a moonsault from the top but Crowbar managed to get a foot on the rope to prevent it happening. Crowbar eventually regained control when Rios took to long on the top rope before going for a 450 splash. The champ took it to Rios some more before hitting the Inverted DDT for the win.**

**Marty Jannetty came close to winning this match when he took Gangrel down with a series of great moves. Then Goldust came running down armed with a ring bell after the referee, Tim White got sandwiched in the corner by Gangrel after Marty reversed a whip. Goldust shouted at Marty J to catch and threw the bell in, but Gangrel had faster reactions and caught the bell in mid air before clocking Jannetty with it. As Goldust jumped up onto the apron, Gangrel clocked him with it as well before turning back around and covering Marty Jannetty as a groggy Tim White counted.**

Interview: Goldust attacks Gangrel Click here to see highlights. [Sunday Night Heat]: No-Time-Limit-Match: Too Cool defeated Foreign Fanatics (Shoichi Funaki and Taka Michinoku) when Grandmaster Sexay pinned Michinoku after a tiger driver in 0:18:33. Rating: ***

**Too Cool pull off a win against the Fanatics to break their losing streak. But despite the loss, the Fanatics looked very impressive in the ring and even though together, they weigh less then everyone else on the roster, they could be a good team in the future.**

[Sunday Night Heat]: No-Time-Limit-Match: Eddie Guerrero pinned D'Lo Brown with the Frog Splash in 0:08:19. Rating: *** (Eddie Guerrero won the WWF European Title.) D'Lo Brown injured his left knee. He will be out for approximately 1 card.

**Eddie Guerrero is a champion again! He beat D'Lo in a gruling match, both men had obviously prepared for this match as they were able to anticipate most of their opponents moves. Unfortunatly for D'Lo, his loss wasn't due to a mistake he made, but due to his knee that he had injured several weeks ago. D'Lo went up top for the Lo-Down and as he pulled himself to the standing position, his knee buckled and he fell to the canvas. Guerrero took advantage by hitting his own version of the Lo-Down, the Frog splash to take the win. After the match, Guerrero helped D'Lo backstage and into the awaiting Ambulance.**

**Saturn came out with out Terri in this match and was more determained then he had been in the last few weeks due to Foley's stipulation. Saturn went right to work on the right leg of Rikishi Phatu and destroyed the big Sumoan's vertical base with in a matter of minutes. This tactic paid off later when Phatu went for the Rikishi-driver only for his knee to go out under him, as D'Lo's did earlier. Saturn then hit Phatu with a great crossbody from the top rope and then followed it up with another top rope move namely his Elbowdrop.**

**So Foley, at least managed to get part of his plan to pay off as Crash Holly walks away with the win and Boss Man is OUT of the WWF. Crash was able to grab the night stick fairly quickly as his smaller stature enabled him to evade the Boss Man long enough to retrieve it. From there Crash went to work with the stick on the Boss Man and busted him wide open. The Boss Man attempted to get away by sliding out of the ring but Crash caught up with him and finished him off with his Crashlanding (Frankensteiner) on to the steel walkway.**

**Bad Ass Billy Gunn came out looking to make a bigger name for himself against the Rattlesnake, and he did just that. Gunn came extremely close to beating Austin and if it wasn't for Ted DiBiase's interference, he would have done just that. The Million Dollar Man kept drawing the attention of Mike Kaeota through out the match when ever, Steve Austin looked in trouble. This not only served to infuriate Gunn, but also took his mind off of Austin for a second and that's all Austin needed. Like a coiled snake, he pounced at the right moment and hit the Stunner.**

**Hell Fire's streak ends and it's quite appropriate that they lose to two members of the original Brood. Edge & Christian's team work was superb and the brothers were able to get the best of Hell Fire, who have only been a team for less then a month. Hell Fire's teamwork was good as well but the Brother's have an inside knowledge of what the over is thinking and so can concentraite on Kane & Bigelow more. As Bigelow charged at Edge, he ducked and Bam Bam went into Kane, knocking the Big Red Monster to the outside and enabling Edge to go behind Bigelow. Edge some how managed to lift Bam Bam up long enough for Christian to hit the Bulldog off the shoulders to take the match.**

**An imprompt match that saw Crash Holly triple teamed as he was simply getting some chocolate from a snack machine. He got blind sided by all three members of T&A who went to work with steel chairs and lead pipes. Crash was pushed backwards into the Snack machine and as he staggered forward, Al Snow grabbed him and hit the Snow Plow on the concrete floor before getting the pin.**

Interview: T&A continue the attack on Crash Click here to see highlights. No-Time-Limit-Match: The Dudley Boys defeated The Acolytes when D-Von pinned Faarooq with the Flying Legdrop in 0:12:01. Rating: **

**A good match between two of the most powerful teams in the WWF. The Dudleys sent the Hardy Boyz a message in this match as they dismantled Faarooq. Bradshaw tried in vain to get a tag in, but the Dudley Boys cut the ring in half for the entire match and worked over Faarooq. Near the end, Bradshaw did run in but he got hit with the 3-D instantly and then D-Von put the finishing touches to Faarooq with a legdrop from the top. After the match, Bradshaw looked frustrated with Faarooq but helped him up anyway.**

**A re-match from Raw and Tazz was even more dominant then before. He risked Disqualification on a number of occassions by sending the Bulldog into the barriers and at one point he smashed the Bulldog's head against the ring apron. Tazz was able to apply the Tazmission to the Bulldog with ease as he had beaten Davey Boy into a state of unconciousness. As he applied the Tazmission, he screamed out "Shamrock, BRING IT" before he finally allowed the referee to test the Bulldog's arm, which dropped three times.**

**Possibly the match of the night. Kurt Angle and Val Venis fought tooth and nail in this one and on another night, it could just have easily been Venis with the win. Trish Stratus had no effect on Kurt Angle in this match as he remained 100% focused on the match. The main story isn't the actual match though, because during the match, Al Snow came running out closely followed by Crash Holly as he attempted to win back his title. Snow used Trish as a shield from Crash for a while and then pushed her into Crash before making his escape. Crash then apologised to Trish Stratus before continuing the chase. Back in the ring, Kurt Angle had taken control with some great plexes and came close with a belly-to-belly overhead suplex. But Kurt got the win after he ducked a Val right hand and got behind him, before hitting the Olympic Slam.**

**Re-match from Raw which saw the sides evened out this time. This time with the sides even the match was much closer as both sides came close to getting the win. Triple H wasn't prepared for the match to be fair though, as he managed to smuggle his sledge hammer to the ring before hand. After missing the Rock by inches, he turned to hit Y2J, only for Jericho to duck and HHH hit Benoit. Jericho then pulled out HHH's legs from under him and applied the Walls of Jericho as the Rock bounced past and hit the People's Elbow on Benoit for the victory. But Smackdown wasn't over yet........**