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Smackdown
Card Information: Held in: MGM GRAND Location: NEVADA, UNITED STATES Date/Time: Sept 21/00 at 7:30pm
[Sunday Night Heat]: No-Time-Limit-Match: Saturn pinned Test with the Top Rope Elbowdrop in 0:09:55. Rating: * 1/4
[Sunday Night Heat]: No-Time-Limit-Match: Gangrel pinned Billy Gunn after a gutwrench suplex in 0:07:16. Rating: **
[Sunday Night Heat]: No-Time-Limit-Match: D'Lo Brown pinned Essa Rios after the Sky High in 0:09:14. Rating: 1/2*
Interview: Smackdown opens and Commissioner Foley comes out Click here to see highlights.
No-Time-Limit-Match: Val Venis pinned Al Snow after a fisherman suplex in 0:09:38. Rating: *
**Test and Saturn were supposed to have been banned from ringside in this match, but somehow Saturn managed to come down without any obstructions. This might as well have been a 2 on 1 handicap match as StratusPhere constantly attacked Al Snow behind the referee's back.**
Interview: Saturn dives in the ring and assults Al Snow Click here to see highlights.
Elimination No-Time-Limit-Match:
Brood (Bam Bam Bigelow, Crowbar and Triple Syxx) beat
Foreign Fanatics (Essa Rios, Shoichi Funaki and Taka Michinoku) 3 falls to 1:
x Crowbar beat Rios via a power bomb in 0:03:33
x Syxx beat Funaki via the X-Factor in 0:04:49
x Michinoku beat Syxx via a flying elbowdrop in 0:05:08
x Crowbar beat Michinoku via the Inverted DDT in 0:05:45
Survivors: Bam Bam Bigelow, Crowbar
Rating: ** 3/4
**The Foreign Fanatics where simple out classed today as they were dominated by the three Brood members. Although Crowbar has to face all three men at UnFORGIVEN, he surprisingly put a lot into this match, when he could of just laid down early so he could rest. But it didn't matter anyway as the Brood took the Fanatics apart in just over five minutes. The only incident came when Syxx took to long to get up from the pin on Funaki and Michinoku hit a elbowdrop to his spine as he lay on Funaki. But Crowbar came straight in and eliminated Taka before he could do any more damage.**
No-Time-Limit-Match: Crash Holly pinned Rikishi Phatu with the Crashlanding in 0:09:25. Rating: 1/2*
No-Time-Limit-Match: Steve Austin pinned Hunter Hearst Helmsley with the Stone Cold Stunner in 0:15:47. Rating: * 1/2
**Yet again, it appeared as though, Kurt Angle is in the employ of Ted DiBiase. Kurt threw a metal sheet to Austin and clocked Hunter with it as DiBiase kept Tim White busy on the other side of the ring. Austin then hit the stunner on HHH before getting the win and leaving to a barrage of abuse.**
No-Time-Limit-Match: The Undertaker pinned Ken Shamrock with the Tombstone in 0:11:42. Rating: ** 1/2
Interview: Kane comes out but is he the only one? Click here to see highlights.
No-Time-Limit-Triangle Match: Too Cool (Grandmaster Sexay/Scotty Too Hotty) defeated The Acolytes and The Dudley Boys when Grandmaster Sexay pinned Bradshaw after the Hip Hop Drop in 0:15:16. Rating: *
**Six of the thirteen HaRdCoRe combatants took part in this match and it was filled with action, as the other seven men attempted to come down and soften up Faarooq before UnFORGIVEN. This soon turned into an all out brawl as the Dudleyz, Too Cool and Acolytes fought off, Gunn, Bulldog, Jannetty, D-Lo, Rikishi, Bigelow and Crash, so they could continue the match. In the middle of this brawl though, Bradshaw got nailed in the head by two chairs as he stepped between the Bulldog and Bigelow. Bradshaw fell to the canvas and Grandmaster decided to take advantage and hit the Hip Hop Drop off the Top.**
No-Time-Limit-Four Corners Match:
Billy Gunn defeated Davey Boy Smith, Marty Jannetty and D'Lo Brown:
x D.B. Smith beat Jannetty via a piledriver in 0:05:27
x D'Lo beat D.B. Smith via the Lo Down in 0:07:42
x Billy Gunn beat D'Lo via the Fame-Ass-Er in 0:07:48
Rating: ** 3/4
**Billy Gunn picked up a good win here after he used his brain to pin D'Lo. After D'Lo took down the Bulldog with the Sky High, Billy Gunn climbed up one of the buckles. When D'Lo went up another to hit the Lo Down, Gunn waited for his moment. As D'Lo lept, so did Gunn and he hit the Fame-Ass-Er on D'Lo in mid air which resulted in D'Lo crashing down onto Bulldog and getting the pin but meant that he couldn't defend himself when Gunn rolled him over and placed a boot on his chest to get a cocky pin.**
No-Time-Limit-Match: Tazz and The Undertaker defeated Kane and Ken Shamrock when Tazz made Shamrock submit to the Tazmission in 0:12:09. Rating: ** 3/4
No-Time-Limit-Non-Title-Four Corners Match: Chris Jericho defeated Chris Benoit, Rocky Maivia and Kurt Angle when Chris Jericho defeated Benoit by disqualification in 0:06:50. Rating: * 1/4
**This match ended with a six man brawl as Steve Austin and Triple H invaded. Jericho won the match due to Austin's interference. Austin ran into the ring and hit the Stunner on the champion which infuriated Chris Benoit as it had cost him the match. As all five men slugged it out, Triple H also came down and set his sights on Benoit. The show ended as Helmsley fought Benoit, Rock fought Angle and Austin continued to work over Jericho.**
Match observations:
NEWS DESK by Russell Mania
FINAL UnForgiven MATCHES
WORLD TITLE MATCH - Jericho (C) Vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin
FUED MATCH - Triple H Vs. Chris Benoit
FUED MATCH - The Rock Vs. Kurt Angle
IC TITLE IRON MAN SUBMISSION - Shamrock Vs. Tazz (C)
TAG TEAM TITLE MATCH - Blood Bros (C) Vs. Hardy Boyz
HELL IN THE CELL MATCH - Kane Vs. The Undertaker (under WcW contract)
FUED MATCH - Gangrel Vs. Golden Guy (Goldust)
EUROPEAN TITLE MATCH - E.Guerrero (C) Vs. Triple Syxx
TAG TEAM FUED MATCH - StratusPhere Vs. Al Snow/Test
HaRdCoRe 13 MAN TITLE BATTLE - Faarooq (C), Bradshaw, D-Lo, Rikishi, Bigelow, D-Von, Buh Buh, Jannetty, Bulldog, Grandmasta Sexay, Crash, Scotty II Hotty and Davey Boy Smith
LIGHTWEIGHT TITLE 4-WAY - Crowbar (C) Vs. Rios Vs. Taka Vs. Funaki
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Carl Ford, 09-25-2000