Original Airdate: Thursday, May 12th, 2005
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After a highlight package of his feud with Rey Mysterio, Eddie Guerrero here and he pulls up a chair in the middle of the ring. Eddie is yelling at one of Rey's mask that he is holding and is saying it is all Rey's fault. I'm not sure I've seen Eddie cut a promo quite like this one. Eddie advises Rey not to return at Judgment Day. This is a promo that only a few guys can handle and Eddie is one of them.
Heidenreich vs. Spike Dudley
Heidenreich gets on the mic and says that Spike Dudley refused to be his friend. He goes out into the crowd looking for a friend and finds a kid in the crowd and brings them in the ring. He reads one of his disasterpieces. He has the kid stand in his corner for the match. Spike avoids a shoulder in the corner, which allows Spike to get 5 seconds of offense in. Spike goes after the kid and Heidenreich makes the save. Heidenreich hits his finisher and that's all. Obviously that was just to show off a little more of his new character. For whatever reason the crowd was into this.
Match Rating: 1/4* (out of 5)
Sharmell is backstage and walks into Booker's locker room. They then start making out. Yes, really.
Chavo is backstage with MNM. Mercury is sporting a black eye. They are going to fight Paul London and two teammates of his choice.
Kurt Angle is backstage and blames all of this on Sharmell on slapping him in the face. He then gives what Angle said was the most uncomfortable promo of his career. I don't know how he ever agreed to this garbage or why Vince McMahon would ever think that one of the most talented wrestlers in their company history would ever need to be involved in an angle like this. Absolutely insulting to everyone involved.
MNM & Chavo Guerrero vs. Paul London, Hardcore Holly & Charlie Haas
Nitro and London start things off. That'a a match I would like to see. Melina distracts Haas and MNM is able to capitalize. As bad as things sometimes are here in 2019 WWE, you can't even compare the rosters from this period and now. The depth on the current roster is insane. Hardcore Holly gets the hot tag and hits his signature moves. Holly eats a superkick from Nitro, which allows a blind tag from London and he hits a double crossbody on MNM. He hits the dropsault on Chavo, but MNM break up the pin attempt. Chavo goes for the Gory Bomb, but London reverses it. Chavo then gets a sloppy reversal off his pin attempt and puts his feet on the ropes for the victory. Good little match minus the sloppy finish by Chavo.
Match Rating: **1/2
JBL is here to talk about his book will now be back due to popular demand. He calls John Cena's album a flop. He says that he will never say "I quit" and that the more he bleeds, the more championships he wins. He of course is interrupted here by Cena and they instantly begin brawling. The Cabinet is out to make the save and allows JBL to get clean shots on Cena. The job squad is out to try and stop JBL, but they keep brawling. Ricky Steamboat and Skinner are even out to try and stop it. This felt more like a go home segment, but it was effective nonetheless.
Eddie Guerrero vs. Jimmy Jacobs
Hey, it's future WWE writer Jimmy Jacobs. Eddie has the ref check out Jacobs and uses it to his advantage and blindsides him with a clothesline. Eddie puts the Rey Mysterio mask that he was carrying earlier on in the show on Jacobs and takes out his aggression on him. Eddie grabs a chair and brings it into the ring. Charles Robinson tries to stop him, but Eddie hits a brainbuster on the chair and he is disqualified. This was another good performance by Guerrero.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Michael Cole and Tazz run down the card for Judgment Day. Mysterio vs. Guerrero, Booker T vs. Kurt Angle (yes, even though they are fighting on this show) and JBL vs. Cena. Cole then does his Mr. T impression to introduce the Cena music video yet again.
Matt Morgan vs. Funaki
Wow, two appearances by Funaki tonight. The stuttering gimmick of course continues. He insults Funaki for how he talks while stuttering. Comedy gold. Funaki hits him with a thumb to the eye, but is then greeted with a big boot. Morgan hits his finisher and gets the victory. While he continues to get time on SmackDown, he did not get a match at Judgment Day.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Booker and Sharmell are shown backstage again and Booker says he doesn't want Sharmell to have any part of this. He's going to take him out tonight.
Carlito is here for Carlito's Cabana with his guest the Big Show. Carlito wants Big Show to be his backup. Carlito says that Big Show needs him just as much as Carlito needs him. He then shows pictures of Big Show from his sumo match. Big Show tells Carlito that he doesn't need him. He grabs him by the throat and starts eating one of the apples. Show begins gagging on the apple. Carlito then tells him that he knew Big Show wasn't smart enough to join him and I guess admits the apple was poisoned? He dumps the bucket of apples on him and that's about it. That was a very typical segment with a bizarre take on the outcome.
Kurt Angle vs. Booker T
They immediately start brawling, with Booker getting the best of Angle. Booker hangs him Angle on the top rope and he falls to the floor. Booker grabs a chair, but the ref tries to take it to him and Angle takes advantage of the distraction. Booker counters a chin lock with a jawbreaker and then hits a nice kick to the jaw. Angle hits the Angle Slam out of nowhere and then heads towards the back while Booker is down. Booker now is heading after Angle, but Angle is already in Booker's locker room. He closes the door and Sharmell is screaming on the floor. Angle comes from behind and attacks Booker. No winner is declared and we go off the air with Booker down and Sharmell screaming. Obviously this was more of an angle than a match.
Match Rating: *
Every scene Eddie was in was gold. Unfortunately he was not in every segment. The Angle/Booker storyline played a big role here on this episode and it continues to be embarrassing for all involved. The Carlito/Big Show segment was also goofy, but JBL and Cena also shined tonight. We got a handful of matches, but the only one that was really a match and not an angle was the solid 6 man tag match. This wasn't a terrible episode, just one that was very up and down.
Overall Rating: 52%
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