No Way Out 2004 | |||
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Promotion | World Wrestling Entertainment | ||
Brand(s) | SmackDown! | ||
Date | February 15 2004 | ||
City | San Francisco, California | ||
Venue | Cow Palace | ||
Attendance | 11,000[1] | ||
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No Way Out 2004 was the fifth annual (and sixth overall) No Way Out pay-per-view event produced by American professional wrestling promotion, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), and starred their SmackDown! brand. It took place on February 15 2004 at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, California.[2] The official theme song was "Crossing Borders" by Rey Mysterio.[3]
The main event was a WWE Championship match between Brock Lesnar and Eddie Guerrero, which Guerrero won via pinfall after hitting a Frog Splash.[4] The main match in the undercard was between Kurt Angle, The Big Show, and John Cena in a triple threat match for a WWE Championship match at WrestleMania XX, which Angle won after forcing Cena to submit with the Ankle Lock.[5]
Report
Background
After winning a 15-man Royal Rumble match on the January 29 2004 episode of SmackDown!, Eddie Guerrero earned a WWE Championship match at No Way Out against the WWE Champion, Brock Lesnar.[6][7] Outside of the angle concerning Guerrero's place as the number one contender, the WWE Champion, Brock Lesnar, was involved in a feud with the Raw brand's Goldberg.[8] The feud between Lesnar and Goldberg began at the 2004 Royal Rumble. After Lesnar successfully defended his WWE Championship against Hardcore Holly, Lesnar interfered in the Royal Rumble match, attacking and eliminating Goldberg.[8][9] On the January 26 2004 episode of Raw, Goldberg went on to defeat Jonathan Coachman, and after the match, he told WWE cameras that Lesnar was "next."[10][11] Lesnar responded by calling Goldberg a "wannabe" Brock Lesnar, on the January 29 2004 episode of SmackDown!.[6][12] The following week on Raw, Steve Austin gave Goldberg a front row ticket for No Way Out.[13][14] That Thursday, on the final SmackDown! before No Way Out, the feud between Guerrero and Lesnar continued. As Michael Cole hosted an interview with Guerrero, Lesnar intervened and attacked Guerrero. The fight continued until Lesnar retreated from the ring; Guerrero then danced around the ring with Lesnar's WWE Championship belt.[7]Cite error: The <ref>
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With Eddie Guerrero winning the 15-man Royal Rumble match on SmackDown!, the then-General Manager of SmackDown!, Paul Heyman, needed to determine a number one contender for the WWE Championship at WrestleMania XX.[16] On February 5 2004, Heyman announced that a Triple Threat match would take place at No Way Out to determine who would face the WWE Champion at WrestleMania XX. The match featured The Big Show, Kurt Angle, and John Cena.[16] The following week on SmackDown!, which was the final episode before No Way Out, Kurt Angle was scheduled to wrestle in a tag team match with Eddie Guerrero against the Big Show and Brock Lesnar, but he was found kayfabe unconscious before his match. Cena replaced Angle, and he and Guerrero won the match after Guerrero rolled Lesnar into a pin.[15]
In February 2004, Rey Mysterio produced his own song, "Crossing Borders", which was No Way Out's official theme song. A storyline was created in which Chavo Guerrero became jealous of all the attention that Mysterio had been receiving. As a result, Paul Heyman set up a match between the two at No Way Out for the WWE Cruiserweight Championship.[16] The following week on SmackDown!, Rey Mysterio was accompanied by Jorge Paez, a professional boxer and childhood friend of Mysterio who was featured in his "Crossing Borders" music video, to his match against Tajiri.[17] Mysterio defeated Tajiri but was attacked by Chavo Guerrero after the match. Chavo Guerrero, Sr. then intervened and helped his son attack Mysterio until Paez came into the ring and knocked Guerrero, Sr. out with a left hook.[15]
Event
Before the event went live on pay-per-view, Tajiri, Sakoda, and Akio defeated Ultimo Dragon, Billy Kidman, and Paul London in a six-man tag team match that aired on Sunday Night HEAT.[18] The first match that aired was a WWE Tag Team Championship two on three, mixed Handicap tag team match between the team of Rikishi and Scotty 2 Hotty against the team of the Basham Brothers and Shaniqua.[18][19] After back and forth action between the two teams, Hotty attempted to win the match by performing the Worm, but failed when he was clotheslined by Shaniqua. Soon after, Shaniqua had control over her opponents until she tagged in the Bashams, when they were clotheslined over the top rope by Hotty. The turn of events allowed Rikishi to perform the Samoan Drop and Rump Shaker on Shaniqua before pinning her, thus Rikishi and Hotty winning the match and retaining the WWE Tag Team Championship.[19][20][21] Next was a Blindfold match between Jamie Noble and his on-screen girlfriend at the time, Nidia.[5][18] Noble had to wear a blindfold, which allowed Nidia to perform many antics on her boyfriend. After much humiliation by his girlfriend, Noble finally got a hold of Nidia, but was tripped onto the second rope. Noble recuperated, however, and applied the Paydirt on Nidia, forcing her to submit.[5][18][19]
The third match of the night was a tag-team match between The World's Greatest Tag Team (Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas) and the APA (Bradshaw and Faarooq).[18][21] After a back and forth match, Bradshaw appeared to have the advantage when he delivered a Clothesline from Hell to Haas, but he was superkicked and pinned by Benjamin, thus The Worlds Greatest Tag Team winning the match.[5][20][21] After the match, Goldberg was seen arriving to the arena and being escorted to his seat by arena security. In the ring, Paul Heyman cut a promo on how SmackDown! was the better brand. He was then joined by Brock Lesnar as he promoted the main event match and told everyone how Goldberg was scared of attacking Lesnar. He told Goldberg, "Sit there and be the bitch that you are";[22] Goldberg immediately jumped over the barricade into the ring, where Lesnar speared Goldberg. Goldberg recuperated and performed his Jackhammer slam before being escorted out of the arena by security.[22] This was followed by the encounter of Hardcore Holly and Rhyno. In a brawling match, Holly was gored out of the ring by Rhyno, but he recuperated and performed the Alabama slam and pinned Rhyno.[5][21]
The fifth match was a WWE Cruiserweight Championship between Rey Mysterio and Chavo Guerrero.[18][20] Mysterio was managed by Jorge Paez and Guerrero was managed by his father, Chavo Guerrero, Sr. After back and forth action between Mysterio and Guerrero, Paez attacked Guerrero, Sr., causing the referee to order Paez to return backstage. The two combatants continued to spar in the ring until Guerrero rolled Mysterio into a roll-up while holding Mysterio's tights and successfully pinned Mysterio to win the WWE Cruiserweight Championship.[5][22][23] The next match was a Triple Threat match between The Big Show, John Cena, and Kurt Angle for a WWE Championship match at WrestleMania XX. Most of the match was controlled by the Big Show, as he squashed Cena and Angle. As all three combatants performed their finishing moves on each other, Show was Angle slammed to the outside of the ring. Angle then applied an ankle lock on Cena, forcing him to submit, thus winning a WWE Championship match at WrestleMania XX.[5][22][24]
The main event was a WWE Championship match between Eddie Guerrero and the defending champion, Brock Lesnar.[21] Brock Lesnar did not show any effect from the Jackhammer he received earlier in the event, as he dominated most of the match. As Lesnar performed the F-5 on Guerrero, he knocked down the referee, thus no official present to officiate the match. As Lesnar went to retrieve the WWE Championship to use as a weapon against Guerrero, Goldberg reappeared and speared Lesnar. As Goldberg left, the referee became semiconcious, while Guerrero attempted a pin fall, however, Lesnar kicked out of the pin attempt. Guerrero then got a hold of the WWE Championship and performed a DDT on the title belt, as the referee was still recuperating. Guerrero then kicked the belt out of the ring, and went to the top turnbuckle and successfully pinned Lesnar with a frog splash, thus winning the match and the WWE Championship.[5][19]
Aftermath
Role: | Name: |
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Commentator | Michael Cole[25] |
Tazz[25] | |
Josh Matthews[25] (Sunday Night HEAT) | |
Ring Announcer | Tony Chimel[25] |
Referee | Tony Garea[25] |
Brian Hebner[25] | |
Jimmy Korderas[25] | |
Nick Patrick[25] | |
Charles Robinson[25] |
Eddie Guerrero went on to retain the WWE Championship at WrestleMania XX, defeating the number one contender, Kurt Angle.[26] Eddie Guerrero lost his WWE Championship to John "Bradshaw" Layfield four months after this event at the The Great American Bash, after Faarooq was "fired" and the APA was split up.[27][28] Guerrero failed to recapture the title in a steel cage match on an episode of SmackDown! on July 16 2004, against JBL.[29] During the Raw and Friday Night SmackDown! Eddie Guerrero Tribute Shows, this event was the main highlight of Eddie Guerrero's career, as it was the event where he won his only World Championship.[30][31] The Big Show went on to feud with John Cena over the WWE United States Championship.[32] At WrestleMania XX, John Cena defeated the Big Show for the United States Championship after he delivered an FU to Show.[33][34] Goldberg and Brock Lesnar continued their feud up to a match at WrestleMania XX.[35] Goldberg went on to defeat Lesnar at WrestleMania XX.[33] After their match at WrestleMania XX, Goldberg and Lesnar were released from the company.[8][9]
After No Way Out, Rey Mysterio continued to feud with Chavo Guerrero over the WWE Cruiserweight Championship. On the February 26 2004 episode of SmackDown!, SmackDown! General Manager Paul Heyman announced a Cruiserweight open at WrestleMania XX for the Cruiserweight Championship, involving Mysterio.[35] On the March 11 2004 episode of SmackDown!, Mysterio was involved in an Eight-man tag team match where, Guerrero attempted to interfere, however, Mysterio retaliated and was able to win the match. After the match however, he and his tag team partners were involved in a brawl involving the Guerreros.[36] At WrestleMania XX, Guerrero retained the Cruiserweight Championship, last eliminating Mysterio.[33]
After the Draft Lottery, Rico was drafted to SmackDown! and began a feud with Charlie Haas, as his former partner, Shelton Benjamin, was drafted to RAW. On the April 15 2004 of SmackDown!, Rico defeated Haas via count out after Rico kissed Haas, causing Haas to intentionally disqualify himself.[37] However, they were then forced to become tag team partners to face the WWE Tag Team Champions, Rikishi and Scotty 2 Hotty, on the April 22 2004 edition of SmackDown!, where they defeated Rikishi and Hotty via pinfall, to become the Tag Team Champions.[38]
Results
- Sunday Night HEAT match: Tajiri, Akio, and Sakoda defeated Billy Kidman, Paul London, and Ultimo Dragon (5:35)[25]
- Tajiri pinned Dragon after a Powerslam from Sakoda.
- Rikishi and Scotty 2 Hotty defeated The Basham Brothers (Doug and Danny) and Shaniqua in a Mixed Handicap Match to retain the WWE Tag Team Championship (8:16)[39]
- Rikishi pinned Shaniqua after a Rump Shaker.
- Jamie Noble defeated Nidia in a Boyfriend vs. Girlfriend Blindfold Match (4:23)[39]
- Noble forced Nidia to submit with the Paydirt.
- Noble was blindfolded throughout the match because Nidia, his ex-girlfriend, suffered from blindness and Noble exploited that in earlier storylines.
- The World's Greatest Tag Team (Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas) defeated The APA (Bradshaw and Faarooq) (7:21)[39]
- Benjamin pinned Bradshaw after a superkick.
- Hardcore Holly defeated Rhyno (9:54)[25]
- Holly pinned Rhyno after an Alabama Slam.
- Chavo Guerrero (w/Chavo Guerrero, Sr.) defeated Rey Mysterio (w/Jorge Páez) to win the WWE Cruiserweight Championship (17:21)[39]
- Guerrero pinned Mysterio with a roll-up after Chavo Sr. pushed Mysterio off the top rope.
- Kurt Angle defeated The Big Show and John Cena in a Triple Threat match (12:18)[39]
- Angle forced Cena to submit with the Ankle Lock to earn a shot at the WWE Championship at WrestleMania XX.
- Eddie Guerrero defeated Brock Lesnar to win the WWE Championship (30:07)[39]
- Eddie pinned Lesnar after a Frog Splash.
- Goldberg, who was in the front row seat earlier, interfered late in the match by spearing Lesnar.
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