Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2630 in VHS
• Released on: 2001-08-06
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 165 minutes

Video Description
Please note this product was created before 10 November 2002 when the World Wrestling Federation Entertainmnet Inc. traded as WWF. This product refers to WWF and carries a WWF logo

Synopsis
Includes Steve Austin, Triple H, Chris Jericho, Matt Hardy and many more.

Customer Reviews

As good as Wrestlemania?
The PPV after Wrestlemania X-7 has 7 matches (plus 2 extra ones if you buy the DVD). Strange thing is, there isn't a straight forward one-on-one match. Doesn't matter though. Here are the matches.

1: 6 Man Tag Team Match
X Factor VS. Dudley Boyz
O.K. 6 Man Match. X-Pac gets put through a table afterwards. Sniff. 7/10

2: Hardcore Championship Match
Rhyno (Champ) VS. Raven
This was a good hardcore match with loads of weapons. Rhyno gores a shopping cart. 9/10

3: Duchess Of Queensbury Rules Match
Chris Jericho VS. William Regal
The Duchess was at ringside! She kept changing the rules to make sure that Regal didn't lose. Did it work? Possibly. 7/10

4: 30 Minute Ultimate Submission Match
Kurt Angle VS. Chris Benoit
This is a great match if you're a fan of technical wrestling. If not, this probably isn't for you. I like it though. 8/10

5: Last Man Standing Match
Big Show VS. Shane McMahon
Not the first time Vince has put one of his kids in a match with the Big Show. What a guy. Anyway, Show Chokeslams Shane a lot, and could have won loads of times. At the end, Shane leaps off the Backlash set. Brutal. 9/10

6: Triple Threat Match for the European Championship
Matt Hardy (Champ) VS. Eddie Guerrero VS. Christian
A good match with some interfernce from Edge and Jeff Hardy. No-one helps out Eddie? Oh well. 7/10

7: Tag Team Match for the WWF, Intercontinental and Tag Team Championships
Kane & Undertaker (Tag Champs) VS. Stone Cold (WWF Champ) & Triple H (IC Champ)
The main event didn't disappoint. In a match where all the major titles are on the line, both Vince and Stephanie McMahon attempt to help out Triple H and Austin. Stephanie fails when Kane gives her a Big Boot! 8/10

This was a good follow-up from Wrestlemania, the best 2 matches (in my opinion) were the Hardcore Match and Last Man Standing.

DVD Extras include:
Jerry Lynn winning the Light-Heavyweight Championship. In his WWF debut!

Lita VS. Molly Holly

Interviews with the Dudley Boyz, Big Show, Chris Benoit and William Regal (who never gets round to explaining the Duchess Of Queensbury rules)

If you haven't already got it, you should buy it.

Original and entertaining
This was an interesting Pay Per View for many reasons. Four out of the seven matches had stipulations that were either unique to this one event or very rare for regular WWF shows. This made the event entertaining from an originality standpoint but perhaps the more established wrestling fan felt a lack of tradition put a shadow over this show.

The main event was a Tag Team Match between the Heavyweight Champion, Steve Austin, with the Intercontinental Champion, Triple H, against the Tag Team Champions, Undertaker and Kane. This match was special because all three titles were on the line and it certainly made an emotional affair. I do not like ruining the results for people so I wont tell you who wins, all I will say is that it is very dramatic.

For a bit of revenge for Wrestlemania X-7 the month before this event, the owner of the WWF Vince McMahon put his only son Shane in a Last Man Standing Match against the immovable Big Show. As always, the versatile young McMahon looked completely at ease in the limelight and pulled off a stunt to shock full-time wrestlers and fans alike. The rules off this match state that the winner is the man who can keep his opponent down on the floor for the count of 10. There was a lot of back-up storyline going into this bout which helped it no end, and Shane-O-Mac's elbow drop has to be seen to be believed.

In perhaps one of the most bizarre matches in the history of the Federation, William Regal took on the ever-popular Chris Jericho in a Duchess of Queensbury Match. The Duchess, on the side of Regal, seemed to be making up the rules as she went along to stop Jericho winning at every chance, much to the frustration of the very vocal crowd. This wasn't my favourite match of the night by a long shot. I don't know why but it seemed a little silly, maybe immature, compared to the other contests.

In a complete contrast to that bout, two of the most technically sound athletes in the entire world of wrestling got the chance to showcase their talents in a 30 minute Ultimate Submission Match. The winner was the man with the most submissions scored over his opponent after the half-hour time limit. This was a stunning match and stole the show for me, these guys are absolutely amazing and jealousy oozes from my every pore when I think about the amount of talent that they have to use. These were the main matches all with important story lines backing them up.

The remaining three bouts were impressive in themselves, but lacked the creative back up of the 'Top Card' matches. Matt Hardy defended his European Title in a Triple Threat Match against Christian and Eddie Guerrero. This bout went back and forth a lot, with the right man victorious in the end.

At every Pay Per View, a Hardcore Match is always on the bill and this was the turn of two former ECW Champions took each other on, as champion Rhyno defended against the challenger Raven. This was one of the best Harcore matches I've seen and since I'm not a great fan of this division, that is saying something! Every weapon is used creatively and new ideas are explored by these two athletes, leaving out many irritating clichés that litter other hardcore bouts.

There was also a Six-man Tag Match between the Dudley Boyz and X-Factor. As strong fan favourites it didn't take long for the crowd to begin chanting for the Dudley trademark: Tables!

All in all, I was impressed with this event and all credit is due to the WWF's creative writing team and the hard work they must have put in to making these story lines original and yet still somewhere on the believable side of ridiculous, well done!

A poor showing from the WWF
One of the poorer showings from the WWF, especially coming off of the back of the excellent Wrestlemania X-7. One of the problems was that the main event, instead of featuring single's matches, saw Stone Cold and Triple H face off against Kane and The Undertaker, in a match for not only the WWF Tag Team Titles, but for The WWF World and Intercontinental Titles. There was also quite a poor undercard, that included a Duchess of Queensbury Rules match between Chris Jericho and William Regal, and a six-man tag match between The Dudley Boyz and X-Factor. The event was only saved due to the 30-minute Ultimate Submissions match between Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit, which although it was not their best encounter, (see Judgment Day 2001, Wrestlemania X-7, and Insurrextion 2001 for better), was still interesting. The whole event was saved once again by Shane McMahon, the boy-wonder took another major bump for the company, leaping from 50 feet off of the Titantron, onto The Big Show in the Last Man Standing Match. Overall one of the poorer WWF cards, but it did also feature a rather rushed European Title Triple Threat match, and one of the better WWF Hardcore matches between Raven and Rhyno.