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Have 4 for today.....

Bikini Match Torrie +105

Easy pickings.....

Womans 4 way... Jazz -125

Again easy.....

IC title Winner

Christian +400

If not him it will be Booker....

Tag Team Titles...

Current Champs +120.... they need something for when Angle Returns.... Also everyone expects them to lose all the time....

Last PPV wasn't good at all..... so the due theory is in....

Best Bet is for Torrie to win Bikini match.....

3 out of 4 and the big one at +400 a winner...

Overall for the PPV 3-1 +252.50

Nice bounceback from the last PPV.

This really was one bad PPV. Lots of missed spots, old wrestlers and just bad action.

Until the next PPV....

Nice going Freak , Overall the PPV was better then I expected. Here are some reviews from some so called experts that write rasslin newsletters.
They rank it 1-10, Id give it a 6 was expecting a 2 or 3 going into it.
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PPV ROUNDTABLE: Mitchell, McNeill, Keller, Powell on Judgment Day

May 18, 2003, 11:05 PM


Pat McNeill, columnist (5.0)

Judgment Day wasn't a bad show, but outside of the ladder match there wasn't anything worth going out of your way to see.

The stretcher match between Brock Lesnar and Big Show came across well. That's a minor upset, all things considered. The opening minutes of the match were good. The show lost its steam in the middle portion. And it wrapped up with the Hollywood ending as Lesnar arrived with the forklift to save the day. This was probably WWE's most effective month of pushing Brock Lesnar since he turned babyface.

Kevin Nash's match with Triple H wasn't as bad as we expected, but it sure wasn't anything good. The Game deserves some credit for doing what he could to get Nash over, but he would have been better off using whatever influence he has to kill off this feud in the womb before it was born.

The Mr. America match was the right length and it will hopefully spell the end of Roddy Piper's pro wrestling career.

The ladder match was an entertaining and athletic effort. Tajiri was suitable substitute for Chavo Guerrero. Hopefully WWE will protect the ladder match gimmick and their wrestlers by only rolling it out once or twice a year. This was one of the company's better PPV matches of the year. I'm looking forward to the July PPV and mildly anxious about having to sit through the next month of Raw.

Jason Powell, assistant editor (4.0)

Brock Lesnar and The Big Show capped off what was an otherwise forgettable pay-per-view with an entertaining gimmick main event. The only flaws in the match were that Rey Mysterio's interference could be seen coming a mile away, and bodyslamming Show should still be treated as a major accomplishment, not as a move so ordinary that it went down at ringside. As creative as the forklift finish was and as hard as the two big men worked, they lack the skills to deliver the type of main event needed to save this show.

Is Vince McMahon stubborn or simply out of touch? That's the question everyone should be asking now that WWE has set the stage for a Triple H vs. Kevin Nash rematch for the first Raw brand pay-per-view. That event is being held in Booker T's hometown, so instead of doing the right thing and booking him a title match against Triple H, WWE is going to throw Booker a bone by presumably having him beat Christian for the Intercontinental Title.

I would hope that WWE had established some plan prior to Chavo Guerrero's injury that required Team Angle to lose the Smackdown Tag Titles. Otherwise, there's no good excuse for giving the makeshift team of Eddie Guerrero and Tajiri the straps. The right move would have been to insert Chris Benoit into the mix, since WWE can't come up with anything better for him than a meaningless feud with The FBI. At the very worst, I was hoping Team Angle would retain the belts because (a) it was too soon for another title change and (b) Smackdown could use a talented singles heel like Eddie.

Notes: Biggest bump of the night goes to Trish Stratus. As if that doesn't seem odd enough, it's even more bizarre when you include the fact that there was a ladder match on the show... Mr. America vs. Roddy Piper was every bit as bad as it looked on paper. And now it appears that Tenacious Z will be playing Robin to Hulk Hogan's Batman... Putting Hunter and Steph back together? Yeah, that's what the fans want to see. Oh boy...

Bruce Mitchell, columnist (3.0)

This show was just about what it figured to be coming in, really bad. The best of the show, the ladder match and the women's title match, were mediocre at best. The only performer on the show who had a stand out night was Eddie Guerrero. Apparently Kevin Nash and Triple have just given up. If they haven't, they ought to. There's a real cornball taste to WWE these days, between Mr. America's "Inspiration," Zack, and the vomitous humor of the two GMs. The only funny thing on the show was Shawn Michaels hugging of Earl Hebner. Watching Brock Lesnar and the Big Show beat up stretchers is not my idea of entertainment. Roddy Piper vs. Mr. America was terrible. The laughable screwjob at the end of the Battle Royal hurt, too. This is a promotion and entertainment genre on the way down.

Wade Keller, editor (5.5)

This show was better than I expected. Not a lot better, but better. Big Show vs. Brock was much better than I expected. Brock really showed some signs of progress not just as worker in the sense of moves and timing, but in terms of how he carries himself in the ring. He seems to be getting more comfortable and establishing a better connection with the crowd. To do that against Big Show is saying something. The introduction of the fork lift played very effectively into the hype going into the match. Rey gave the match an extra burst of juice at just the right time. The dive at the end by Brock was a more pleasant surprise than the moonsault against Angle.

Triple H vs. Nash was better than expected in part because they didn't set out to prove they could do a four star match. They limited themselves to seven minutes, didn't try to do anything too extreme, and booked the content of the match in a logical fashion. The finish was bad, as the crowd boos indicated. Stretching this out to another PPV I think isn't so much an endorsement by Vince McMahon in Nash vs. Hunter but an admission that there isn't anyone else ready to push into that slot who won't be hurt in the long-term by being shoved right out of it so Goldberg can move in for SummerSlam against Hunter.

Mr. America vs. Roddy Piper filled its slot just fine. It wasn't overplayed, it wasn't too long, and nobody took themselves too seriously (nor too flippantly). The match had the right tone, and it's nice to see Vince McMahon in a second tier legends feud rather than messing around with the main events. He's found the right slot for himself, too. The wrestling was what you'd expect (terrible!), but at least Piper knows his limitations and didn't try to do things he can't pull off. Same with Hogan. By the way, Zach needs to look like he hasn't been there before. He stood in the corner watching Hogan as if he had been there 200 times before. He didn't seem awestruck, and that really worked against him gaining the sympathy of the crowd, which is the role he should be playing.

The women as usual put in a spirited, high-energy performance. The IC battle royal wasn't designed to be anything spectacular, but Christian saved the day with another in his string of strong performances. He seems to be finding his stride as a character right now. I completely disagree with Bruce about the finish of the IC battle royal. Christian is an opportunist, and the timing of the finish and the way he played it are perfect. It sets up house show matches with Booker chasing Christian, which has a lot more drawing power than Booker winning and the chase being over.

The ladder match was the obvious highlight of the in-ring wrestling. They managed to add some new spots. The Steve Austin-Eric Bischoff skits were funny and usually just the right length (the first one went a tad bit long, but overall it was good comedy relief). Who would have ever thunk Austin and Bischoff would have this type of on-air chemistry. It is funny to see Bischoff playing the role of an inexperienced drinker.