Both teams attack each other on the other's show. Of course, they continue to build on that last attack. Survivor Series 2005: Team Smackdown defeats Team Raw He's then attacked by Big Show and Kane, but Batista and Mysterio are there for the rescue. That makes Eddie Guerrero the sole survivor. Batista is the last eliminated before Michaels). It is once again Shawn Michaels who comes back from 3-1 ( Batista doesn't get eliminated 2nd for Smackdown, instead it's JBL. Eddie just fills the same role that Randy had. This match was great, let's just keep it. Team Raw vs Team Smackdown.īatista, Rey Mysterio, Batista, JBL and Bobby Lashley vs Big Show, Kane, Shawn Michaels, Carlito and Chris Masters Survivor Series 2005: Randy Orton defeats Shelton BenjaminĪnd now, of course, the main event. One of the first that were "out of nowhere". The winner is promised a future title shot, and it is the Viper who manages to cash in on this opportunity, winning after catching Shelton with a mid-air RKO. First wrestling as part of Shelton's feud with Evolution ( mostly Triple H ) in 2004, and then helping eachother when Shelton returned from injury to help Randy Orton fight off Evolution. So whilst they may be young, they were still both very accomplished already. Two of the young great workers of the Ruthless Agression Era, Randy was a former World Heavyweight Champion, whilst Shelton recently was Intercontinental Champion for 244 days. Yeah we're gonna get rid of that, and instead we got: Randy Orton vs Shelton Benjamin is the Semi-Main Event, replacing the worst Survivor Series match of all time: Teddy Long vs Eric Bishoff. That completes the build to Survivor Series. Raw 14-11-2005: Shelton Benjamin defeats Eugene and Shawn Dean He won his triple threat the Raw before, facing Eugene and Shawn Dean ( Kurt Angle, who originally faced Shelton Benjamin, loses to John Cena instead of Randy Orton ) Smackdown 18-11-2005: Randy Orton defeats Carlito and Matt Hardy Our Apex Predator wins that match, pinning Matt Hardy. He wrestles a triple threat match against Carlito and Matt Hardy, to earn a place in the Raw vs Smackdown Breakout Star match. His story is already made, so I'm going to use this time to explain what happens to Randy Orton, the man who in real life replaced him. He wrestled against Mr.Kennedy and won that match with some chair shithousery, earning his spot on the Smackdown Survivor Series Team. Eddie's last match was o,n November 11th, 2005. That's a story we're going to explore now. What if Eddie Guerrero never passed away. But then tragedy struck.īut what if it didn't. He became Batista's Frenemy until truly turning face in November 2005. He was universally loved for playing dirty, he won the WWE Championship from a young beast incarnate to a monster pop, and kept until losing it on a technicality to JBL, in a feud mostly based on hate for Mexicans ( not your smartest move WWE ). How Eddie Guerrero lied, cheated and stole his way into everyone's hearts was truly something spectacular. Each man would go on to win at least one world championship in the years following this run.Viva La Raza. These six also helped establish the credibility of the WWE Tag Team Championships with classic matches at No Mercy 2002 and Survivor Series 2002. It’s hard to put into words when stuff like that is just bam, bam, bam, and it’s exactly how you envisioned it and then some.” “I think back to No Mercy and that tag match we had for the inaugural tournament, and it was and Chris against me and Rey, and it was just to be in there with three other guys like that and just performing at that level, you know, you can’t really explain it. I mean, there are so many scenarios, you can go with that to me that, again, so much fun. Whether it’s Eddie and Edge one week, and Benoit and Rey, or and Chavo, and then flip them the next week, and then flip them again. “When we started that idea of the SmackDown Tag Titles, I knew with those six, with those six talents - and I’m sure Paul thought this as well, ‘I can mix and match every week.’ No matter what mix or match it is, they’re gonna crush it. On The Kurt Angle Show, Edge reminisced over this era of SmackDown (h/t to Fightful’s Robert DeFelice for the transcription): Unsurprisingly, Edge holds this period of SmackDown in the same esteem.
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