WWE Unforgiven 2003 (WWF Pay Per Views)

Member Name: nytemare

Product:	WWF Pay Per Views
Date:	05/10/03 (154 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Good for insomniacs , Lots of toilet breaks

Disadvantages: Tedious

The writers of RAW must be a chromosome short or something. You would have thought that after the disaster that was Bad Blood that they would have done something to drag the level up a bit. So what did they do? Did they watch Smackdown's pay-per-view and learn something? No. Did they sit around for hours trying to think of a way to make a successful pay-per-view? Obviously not. What they did was put on a worse showing then Badd Blood, if that is possible.

It is without doubt the worst pay-per-view I have ever seen and I have been watching professional wrestling since the late 80's!

Well with that little rant out of the way let us get on with the review of each match.

[Six-Man Table Match]
Bubba Ray, D-Von & Spike Dudley vs. La Resistance & Rob Conway

Whether you wish to admit it or not The Dudley's have found their niche as pay-per-view openers. And they are damn fine at it as well. No one can get a pay-per-view crowd warmed up better than The Dudley's can. It may seem stale week in and week out on Raw but it works just great on pay-per-view.

The match was made into a 3 on 2 affair once Spike was not able to compete and as soon as the tag titles were on the line you just knew what was going to happen. Pity they did not announce this until 2 minutes before the match.

The match was basically an America versus France battle. The Dudley's got all their normal moves in and when D'Von got eliminated by being driven through a table you just knew it was coming, Bubba the hero fighting against the hated French team.....

Bubba did it he won the match, which meant that The Dudley's have won the tag titles about 1,963,923 times or something like that. The sad truth is this tea mare the best tag team on RAW, apart from Jindrak & Cade of course. The only person who shone in that match was Rob Conway. This kid is going to be a star much along the lines of Randy Orton. Just get him
as far away from La Resistance and quickly!

Winner: The Dudley's


[Winner Gets Stacy & Steiner]
Test Vs Scott Steiner

Oh my god! Why the hell would you put the two most tedious performers in a match on a pay-per-view that already looked bad? Where is the logic in that? This match lasted just over seven minutes and Steiner was absolutely knackered after only two minutes of ring action. Surely some other wrestlers could have taken their places.

This feud has been going on for months, and months, and months. And the best moment was when Steiner attempted to attack Test and slipped off the apron. Test used to be a talented performer but he is slowly losing it with every bad match and feud he has. He is becoming the Billy Gunn of RAW, but with talent.

NEXT!

Winner: Test


[Legend Vs Legend Killer]
Shawn Michaels Vs Randy Orton

In my view the best match of the night. I have said this before and I will say it again, Randy Orton will be a huge star and a multi time world champion in this business. He has the look; the talents and putting him next to Ric Flair will only do him the power of good. Having him wrestle legends like Shawn Michaels and put in angles with Mick Foley will help as well.

It was plain to see that Shawn was walking Randy through some parts of the match but he took to it like a duck to water. This was by far his best singles match to date. Randy's rookie stance came through several times, like when he was working on the wrong shoulder on the outside, but having Shawn and Ric there to walk him through helped him a lot.

Shawn is a great wrestler and putting over the young stars of the future is such a classy thing to do. Something you do not see a lot of these days. I am looking forward to a future pay-per-view rematch between these two.

Winner: Randy Orton


[Female Tag Match]
Lita & Trish Stratus Vs. Gail Kim &
Molly Holly

The female tag match was fast and so bloody pointless. Lita is not as good as she or her fans would have you believe. She is probably along the same lines as Trish Stratus. Who is also pretty dire.

Molly Holly is a very talented female wrestler and to have to be placed in such as a match as this is an insult to her and the Women's championship belt, which is a joke these days.

The best moment was seeing her lose several teeth and watching as she botched a moonsault. She should really give that move up if she can not hit one without nearly landing on her head.

The sad part is when She pinned Molly you know she will soon be our new (Ha Ha!) Women's champion somewhere in the next week or so.

This match was indeed bad but it was not the worst match of the night.

Winner: Lita & Trish Stratus


[Last Man Standing]
Kane Vs. Shane McMahon

This was watchable, just barely at times. Kane has gone through a lot of bad storylines and this one was probably the worst. Getting the hell beaten out of you by a part time wrestler whom weighs in at about 100 odd pounds lighter than you is not the way to build a wrestler up.

There was not really much going on between the big spots, just kicking and punching until the next spot arrived. Shane always comes up with the big bump and he did a huge one right off the titan tron and it did in fact look awesome.

Hopefully this is the end of this feud and Kane can start being a legit threat for the World title held by the man Goldberg.

Winner: Kane


[IC Title Triple Threat]
Christian Vs. RVD Vs. Chris Jericho

The biggest letdown in wrestling since I was told that wrestling was scripted and not real. I thought that on paper this match should and would have been the match of the night in my view. How wrong I was.

The match was sloppy and If it was not for me doing live play-by-play
for www.wwestyle.com (ooh cheap Foley style plug - check them out) I would have turned the dam thing over or made a sandwich. It was that dire.

Putting the match right after the Shane McMahon/Kane match was a bad move to start with. The crowd died half way through of that match so it did not look good for the IC title match.

If this is the best they can do with the IC title then just retire it again, the belt has had great matches from Razor Ramon Vs. Shawn Michaels in ladder matches right up to Rock Vs. Triple. We do not need matches like the triple threat match stinking the belt up.

Harsh? Yes maybe. But very true.

Winner: Christian


[RAW Announce Job Match]
Coach & Al Snow Vs. Jim Ross & Jerry Lawler

What bright spark decided that it would be a great idea to have no one commentating the worst match of the year? Steve Austin and Eric Bischoff were backstage doing nothing surely they could have taken charge?

The match was worse than the gimmick of Coach being a legit heel. I can think of at least five other wrestlers that could have done with a spot on the pay-per-view but they decided to put two out of shape commentators who have never wrestled before in the ring against an out of shape Memphis wrestler and Al Snow.

The only good thing about this match was seeing the ref count the three and I was sorely tempted to turn the channel.......

Winner: Coach & Al Snow


[RAW World Title]
Triple H Vs. Goldberg

Then we had the main event. The match we had all waited for, not Goldberg versus Triple, we were waiting for the match were Triple H would lose a pay-per-view match and lose the title. For all those people that did not see it, trust me it bloody happened!

The match was not going to be a classic. Triple H has a dodgy groin and Goldberg can not wrestle long matches. When Triple H is 100% fit he can carry almost anyone through a match. r>
The match was such an anti climatic match up. The fans were only interested in the bout for about 5 minutes then it fizzled out like a wet firework. This could have been the biggest feud for years but they cocked it up just like the potential Goldberg/Austin feud.

Both men hit their moves and Goldberg wrestled the title from the sweaty hands of Triple H.

Winner: Goldberg


[Overall]

The writing and booking teams that work for World Wrestling Entertainment are not normal people. I truly believe that they must search all over the world for the most mentally demented people and hire them as writers and bookers for their shows.

What normal sane person would inflict another month's worth of Test Vs. Steiner matches on our innocent eyes? They had a fantastic opportunity to finish this dire angle once and for all but oh no! Let's give us more of it. After all if we watch it enough then we must like it eventually, right? Erm, right?

This pay-per-view was supposed to blow the roof off the arena and take over as the number one pay-per-view. They failed miserably. Smackdown still provide the very best pay-per-views.

I only have one more thing to say.

Roll on the Smackdown pay-per-view No Mercy!

Until next time....