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What is up, guys. Welcome back to the fall Count.
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I'm your host, he fall In. Today we're hopping into
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our wrestling time machine to revisit one of the wildest,
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most chaotic years in wrestling history two thousand and one.
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We are talking about the peak of the Attitude era's fallout.
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Just months before this show, Vince McMahon did the unthinkable
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and bought out wc W. Then he scooped up the
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remains of ECW, creating a massive, bloated roster of hungry,
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talented fighters. Now this brings us to the fourth annual
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Summer Slam, happening on August nineteenth, two thousand and one,
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at the Kopack Center in Saint Jose. It has massive
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shoes to fill because the giant event in July Invasion
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pay per view did a monstrous seven hundred and seventy
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five thousand buys, the most for any non WrestleMania event
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ever up to this point. SummerSlam kept that momentum alive
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with five hundred and sixty five thousand buys. Business was booming,
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which was great because WWE was losing a fortune on
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the XFL that year. Now, one major star is missing
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from the mix, and that was Triple H who is
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out with a horrific torn quad suffrage back in May.
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In his absence, the entire summer was carried by the
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ultimate family feud, Shane and Stephanie joining forces with the
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Alliance to get control of sports entertainment of WWE from
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their father, Vince McMahon. Now, as the Pyro explodes for
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this event, Jim Ross is on the mic alongside Paul Hayman,
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who is filling in after Jerry Lawler quit earlier in
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the year because his wife at the time the Cat
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was fired. Now, Hayman was incredible on Collar commentary, and
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he was hyped to see one of his Alliance Crown
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Jewels kick off the night. First matchup the evening, it's
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the Innercondinal title. It's Lancestorm the champion taking on Edge. Now,
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the drama peaks when Christian runs down to help his
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brother Edge. At this point, Christian is Edge's brother For
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some strange reason. In the future, Christian is no longer
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a blood relative and he is just a best friend. Craziness. Christian,
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though accidentally spears Edge. Landstorm hits Christian with a super
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kick and covers Edge, who barely kicks out, Edge recovers
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in plant Storm with the devastating educution DDT to score
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the three count and become the new inner Continental Champion. Now, postmatch,
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Christian hands Edge the Intercontinental title, but there's some tension
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lingering looks between both men. Now this match with a
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solid three or four stars if you like that stuff.
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While I thought splitting up edging Christian this early was
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a mistake, it did set up a great robbery where
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Christian would turn heel when the title at unforgiven, and
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then Edge would win it back in a ladder match
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at no mercy. But as WWE celebrated edges win, things
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got tense backstage, where Michael Cole was standing by with
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the Alliance. Michael Cole asks Tests why he turned his
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back on WWE enjoy the Alliance. Test snaps back. He
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says the WWE turned there on him first, and calls
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the Dudly Boys the greatest tag team in the business
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because they actually understand loyalty, do they really now? While
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Test vows to prove his loyalty tonight, the Dudley's just
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stare and just stare. Speaking of backstage talk, Chris Jericho
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was waiting in the wings to deliver a few choice
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words of his own. Now Jericho is with Lily and Garcia,
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who he repeatedly calls Vivian I can understand being confused.
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He hypes up his upcoming match with Rhino before launching
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into classic attitude era jokes about Stephanie McMahon's new implants
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in the long list of guys from her high school
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that want to get back with her. He promises to
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do something to write on that Stephanie has no concept
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of leave him flat my God up next, though, with
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Apa and Spike Dudley representing the WWE taking on the
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Deadly Boys in newly turned Test. Now, Spikedudley tries a
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Dudley Dog on Test, but Test counters launching the little
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guy over the top rope straight through a table on
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the outside. Auchi back in the ring, jbl unleashes a
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brutal clothesline from Hell on Tests, but as he goes
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for the cover, the referee is distracted by Spike Dudley's
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broken dead body on the outside. Shane mcmahonnon slides in
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corrects Bradshaw over the head with a steel chair and
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Test covers one win the Alliance. Now this is fun.
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It's fast page, but Spike taking that table bump was insane,
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like the camera. Then that's backstage and we're just like, oh,
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that's by Tudley's dead. Let's go backstage though, the Edge
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celebrating his win, where Christian gets a call on his
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chunky two thousand and one Nokia break phone. He tells
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Edge it's their grandma Edna, but when Edge takes the phone,
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she has already hung up talking to Edge but not
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to Christian. The arena gets a good laugh out of this,
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but this is clearly the beginning of Christian being much
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much more angry to Edge. Not about the title, it's
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about the grandma hanging up on him. Now we're going backstage.
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Debra is looking over a stone cold Steve Auston's schedule
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when Sean Stasiac, of all people, walks in without knocking.
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Stasiac playing the lovable idiot trying to impress Austin apologizes
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and points out his pink star covered tights that's say
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Mecca on the back. He confesses he doesn't even know
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what mecca means. Deborah tells him she doesn't care, orders
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him to kick some but it reminds him to knock
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next time. With Austin's room cleared, it was time to
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head back to the ring for a historic double title
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unification match. It's to Jerry the late Heavyweight Champion versus
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expoc who is the WCW Cruiserweight Champion. Now, this was
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the final time the WWE Light Heavyweight title was ever
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defended on a pay per view before being retired in
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favor of the cruiseweight title. Now, the ending is when
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Albert runs down to distract to Jerry. To Jerry turned
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sprays Albert directly in the eyes, blinding him for life.
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Wait he doesn't know My notes say he's he's not blind, okay, spies.
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But as to Jerry turns back around, x Pot catches
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him with a lightning fast X Factor facebuster to win
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the match and unify the titles. There you go. If
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you go to a Friday Night Wrestling two thousand and
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one trivia night and they ask you this question, who
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is the last technically rating defending like heavyweight champion, I
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guess you'd say it's xpoc ork to Jerry. After that, though,
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we are going to Chris Jericho versus Rhino, which I
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think is a very very good match, and Rhino is
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with Stephanie McMahon. Now, Jericho had been tormenting Stephanie for weeks,
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talking about her implants, talking about how instead of the
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bodies will hit the floor drowning pool the theme song
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it's the boobies will hit the floor. Who you know?
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Everyone thinks ninety eight ninety nine as oh oh, that
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was crazy. Here we are two thousand and one, still
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doing it. The ending, though, is when Stephanie is screaming
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at the ref on the apron, Jericho decides to pull
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her into a passionate kiss that makes no sense. The
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crowd erupts, Rhino tries to capitalize with the gore, but
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Jericho side steps. Rhino crashes in Jericho immediately locks in
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the walls of Jericho for the submission. Now Jericho wins,
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Stephanie throws a massive temper tantrument ringside in the crowd
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signs like SummerSlam MVP, Steph's breasts and Steph mcjugs are
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proudly displayed by children and grown adults. Repeat that again,
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Steph mcjuggs in SummerSlam, MVP Steph's breasts. Think about that,
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think about the We're going back stays it's the Rock,
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with Commissioner William Regel insisting he is ready for Booker
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t Just as the Rock asks Regal, do you feel
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the electricity? Do you smell it? Sean stays Yat comes in,
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charging out of nowhere to tackle the Rock. The Rock
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simply sidestep, stays the act. He crashes headfirst into a
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metal garbage door. Rock looks down and finishes, do you
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smell what the Rock is cooking? La? La la la
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from comedy. We go to straight high flying carnage because
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we're going to Jeff Hardy, who is the hardcore Champion
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defending his championship against Rob van dam And if he
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didn't do the thumbs when I said the name, I'm
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disappointed in you. I can do it again if you want.
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Here we go, Rob fan Damn. Some of you did
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it good few. It's an absolute classic rematch from Invasion.
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Even though RVD was healing the Alliance, the fan did
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not care. They loved him. Listen. Both men crash and
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burn multiple times in this match. This is the match
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that I think a lot of fans go back and
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remember the most from SummerSlam. Both men, though climb the
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ladder Jeff Hardy grabs onto the title belt dangling high
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above the ring. RVD quickly pushes the ladder out from
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under him, leaving Hardy hanging before he crashes violently onto
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the roofs RVD resets the ladder, climbs up and grabs
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the belt to become the new Hardcore Champion. It's hard
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to argue this is the match of the night. The
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chemistry between these two was pure magic and the pacing
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was flawless. They shared a nod of respect after the
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match as well, which the crowd loved. We're going back
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save Ze Booker t is gifted a broken piece of
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the announced table by Shane McMahon, promising to dedicate his
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match to him. Meanwhile, Undertaker, Cain and Sarah are shown
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walking to the ring. It's the Brothers of Destruction taken
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on DDP and Canyon inside of a steel cage. The
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winner take all steel cage match was for both the
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WWE and WCW titles. The storyline was awful, so we're
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gonna start right there. This storyline was awful. DDP, who
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is the People's Champion in WCW, was booked as a
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creepy stalker filming Undertaker's wife, Sarah Yuck Yuck. Sarah actually
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had the key to the cage around her neck, so
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there was no escaping through the doors as well, but
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they ruined DDP the ending though, realizing that they are doomed,
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Canyon climbs over the cage and escapes, leaving DDP alone.
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Undertaker corners DDP grabs him by the throat delivers a
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massive choke slam off the cage wall, followed by a
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last ride power bomb. Just just huw the pin and
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unify the titles. Why would Canon ever leave if it's
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pinfall too? This was this was just bad? Okay. Backstage,
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Sean Stasiat Trice, who attack the Rock again in the
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trainer's room, only to crash headfirst into the wall. As
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he's laid out, both locker rooms gather around the TVs
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because time for one of the matches of the night.
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Its Stone Colal Steve Auston defending his WWE champion against
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Kurt Engle. Now, the match was born out of Austin's
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shocking heel turn at Invasion. Engele was the intense, proud
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babyface challenger and the crowd was desperate for him to
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shot stole cold Steve Austin up now the ending though,
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Engle hits an angle slam, but Austin kicks out. Realizing
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he can't put Engle away, Austin goes full heel. He
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knocks out the first referee, hits a Lottle blow, starters
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a second referee, and hits a third with the championship bell.
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Engle fights back, hits another angle slam, but the Alliance referee,
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Nick Patrick, slides in instead of counting the pin, Patrick
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disqualifies Austin for attacking the officials. So technically Kurt Engle
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wins the match, but Austin retains the WWE Championship. Let's
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take a moment of silence for all those poor referees
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who took bumps from Stonecall C Boston today. Okay, now,
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it's an absolute masterpiece Austin, He'll work with legendary. Some
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might hate it, but other I love it. An angle
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fall like a true hero. Furious after the bell, Angle
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lock Nick Patrick in the ankle lock to a massive pop.
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This perfectly set up their emotional rematch at Unforgiven, where
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Angle would win the title in his hometown. But now
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it's time to go to the main event of the evening.
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It's the wc W Championship on the line, Booker T
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defending against the Rock. Can you believe it? The Rock
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in the WCW title in the main event of a
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Summer Slam. A year before this never would have called
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it now. The ending that was when Seae mcmhn tries
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to interfere, but APA's Bradshaw runs down and wipes him
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out with a brutal clothesline from hell inside the ring,
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Booker T goes for the sixers kick, but the Rock
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side steps plants them with a thunderous Rock Bottom to
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get the three Cow and become the new WCW champion.
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Now the Rock celebrates with a WCW title as the
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WWE locker room pops some champagne backstage. Hope by share
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some with the Rock. But what an incredible show from
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top to bottom, Austin versus Engle, RVD versus Hardy, and
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the ending on a high note of the Rock winning
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the big one, the WCW Championship. What did you guys
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think though of Summer Slim two thousand and one. Let
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me know in the comments. Don't forget to subscribe. Leave
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a five star review. And keep your shoulders off the mat.
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We'll see you next time for another edition of the
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Fall count. I'm a Ceefall have a great day. We'll
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see an exi
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What is up, guys. Welcome back to the fall Count.
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I'm your host, he fall In. Today we're hopping into
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our wrestling time machine to revisit one of the wildest,
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most chaotic years in wrestling history two thousand and one.
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We are talking about the peak of the Attitude era's fallout.
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Just months before this show, Vince McMahon did the unthinkable
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and bought out wc W. Then he scooped up the
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remains of ECW, creating a massive, bloated roster of hungry,
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talented fighters. Now this brings us to the fourth annual
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Summer Slam, happening on August nineteenth, two thousand and one,
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at the Kopack Center in Saint Jose. It has massive
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shoes to fill because the giant event in July Invasion
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pay per view did a monstrous seven hundred and seventy
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five thousand buys, the most for any non WrestleMania event
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ever up to this point. SummerSlam kept that momentum alive
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with five hundred and sixty five thousand buys. Business was booming,
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which was great because WWE was losing a fortune on
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the XFL that year. Now, one major star is missing
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from the mix, and that was Triple H who is
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out with a horrific torn quad suffrage back in May.
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In his absence, the entire summer was carried by the
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ultimate family feud, Shane and Stephanie joining forces with the
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Alliance to get control of sports entertainment of WWE from
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their father, Vince McMahon. Now, as the Pyro explodes for
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this event, Jim Ross is on the mic alongside Paul Hayman,
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who is filling in after Jerry Lawler quit earlier in
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the year because his wife at the time the Cat
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was fired. Now, Hayman was incredible on Collar commentary, and
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he was hyped to see one of his Alliance Crown
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Jewels kick off the night. First matchup the evening, it's
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the Innercondinal title. It's Lancestorm the champion taking on Edge. Now,
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the drama peaks when Christian runs down to help his
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brother Edge. At this point, Christian is Edge's brother For
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some strange reason. In the future, Christian is no longer
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a blood relative and he is just a best friend. Craziness. Christian,
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though accidentally spears Edge. Landstorm hits Christian with a super
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kick and covers Edge, who barely kicks out, Edge recovers
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in plant Storm with the devastating educution DDT to score
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the three count and become the new inner Continental Champion. Now, postmatch,
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Christian hands Edge the Intercontinental title, but there's some tension
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lingering looks between both men. Now this match with a
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solid three or four stars if you like that stuff.
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While I thought splitting up edging Christian this early was
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a mistake, it did set up a great robbery where
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Christian would turn heel when the title at unforgiven, and
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then Edge would win it back in a ladder match
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at no mercy. But as WWE celebrated edges win, things
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got tense backstage, where Michael Cole was standing by with
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the Alliance. Michael Cole asks Tests why he turned his
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back on WWE enjoy the Alliance. Test snaps back. He
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says the WWE turned there on him first, and calls
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the Dudly Boys the greatest tag team in the business
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because they actually understand loyalty, do they really now? While
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Test vows to prove his loyalty tonight, the Dudley's just
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stare and just stare. Speaking of backstage talk, Chris Jericho
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was waiting in the wings to deliver a few choice
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words of his own. Now Jericho is with Lily and Garcia,
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who he repeatedly calls Vivian I can understand being confused.
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He hypes up his upcoming match with Rhino before launching
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into classic attitude era jokes about Stephanie McMahon's new implants
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in the long list of guys from her high school
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that want to get back with her. He promises to
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do something to write on that Stephanie has no concept
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of leave him flat my God up next, though, with
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Apa and Spike Dudley representing the WWE taking on the
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Deadly Boys in newly turned Test. Now, Spikedudley tries a
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Dudley Dog on Test, but Test counters launching the little
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guy over the top rope straight through a table on
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the outside. Auchi back in the ring, jbl unleashes a
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brutal clothesline from Hell on Tests, but as he goes
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for the cover, the referee is distracted by Spike Dudley's
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broken dead body on the outside. Shane mcmahonnon slides in
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corrects Bradshaw over the head with a steel chair and
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Test covers one win the Alliance. Now this is fun.
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It's fast page, but Spike taking that table bump was insane,
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like the camera. Then that's backstage and we're just like, oh,
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that's by Tudley's dead. Let's go backstage though, the Edge
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celebrating his win, where Christian gets a call on his
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chunky two thousand and one Nokia break phone. He tells
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Edge it's their grandma Edna, but when Edge takes the phone,
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she has already hung up talking to Edge but not
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to Christian. The arena gets a good laugh out of this,
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but this is clearly the beginning of Christian being much
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much more angry to Edge. Not about the title, it's
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about the grandma hanging up on him. Now we're going backstage.
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Debra is looking over a stone cold Steve Auston's schedule
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when Sean Stasiac, of all people, walks in without knocking.
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Stasiac playing the lovable idiot trying to impress Austin apologizes
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and points out his pink star covered tights that's say
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Mecca on the back. He confesses he doesn't even know
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what mecca means. Deborah tells him she doesn't care, orders
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him to kick some but it reminds him to knock
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next time. With Austin's room cleared, it was time to
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head back to the ring for a historic double title
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unification match. It's to Jerry the late Heavyweight Champion versus
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expoc who is the WCW Cruiserweight Champion. Now, this was
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the final time the WWE Light Heavyweight title was ever
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defended on a pay per view before being retired in
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favor of the cruiseweight title. Now, the ending is when
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Albert runs down to distract to Jerry. To Jerry turned
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sprays Albert directly in the eyes, blinding him for life.
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Wait he doesn't know My notes say he's he's not blind, okay, spies.
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But as to Jerry turns back around, x Pot catches
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him with a lightning fast X Factor facebuster to win
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the match and unify the titles. There you go. If
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you go to a Friday Night Wrestling two thousand and
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one trivia night and they ask you this question, who
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is the last technically rating defending like heavyweight champion, I
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guess you'd say it's xpoc ork to Jerry. After that, though,
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we are going to Chris Jericho versus Rhino, which I
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think is a very very good match, and Rhino is
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with Stephanie McMahon. Now, Jericho had been tormenting Stephanie for weeks,
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talking about her implants, talking about how instead of the
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bodies will hit the floor drowning pool the theme song
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it's the boobies will hit the floor. Who you know?
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Everyone thinks ninety eight ninety nine as oh oh, that
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was crazy. Here we are two thousand and one, still
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doing it. The ending, though, is when Stephanie is screaming
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at the ref on the apron, Jericho decides to pull
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her into a passionate kiss that makes no sense. The
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crowd erupts, Rhino tries to capitalize with the gore, but
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Jericho side steps. Rhino crashes in Jericho immediately locks in
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the walls of Jericho for the submission. Now Jericho wins,
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Stephanie throws a massive temper tantrument ringside in the crowd
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signs like SummerSlam MVP, Steph's breasts and Steph mcjugs are
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proudly displayed by children and grown adults. Repeat that again,
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Steph mcjuggs in SummerSlam, MVP Steph's breasts. Think about that,
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think about the We're going back stays it's the Rock,
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with Commissioner William Regel insisting he is ready for Booker
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t Just as the Rock asks Regal, do you feel
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the electricity? Do you smell it? Sean stays Yat comes in,
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charging out of nowhere to tackle the Rock. The Rock
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simply sidestep, stays the act. He crashes headfirst into a
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metal garbage door. Rock looks down and finishes, do you
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smell what the Rock is cooking? La? La la la
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from comedy. We go to straight high flying carnage because
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we're going to Jeff Hardy, who is the hardcore Champion
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defending his championship against Rob van dam And if he
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didn't do the thumbs when I said the name, I'm
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disappointed in you. I can do it again if you want.
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Here we go, Rob fan Damn. Some of you did
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it good few. It's an absolute classic rematch from Invasion.
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Even though RVD was healing the Alliance, the fan did
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not care. They loved him. Listen. Both men crash and
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burn multiple times in this match. This is the match
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that I think a lot of fans go back and
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remember the most from SummerSlam. Both men, though climb the
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ladder Jeff Hardy grabs onto the title belt dangling high
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above the ring. RVD quickly pushes the ladder out from
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under him, leaving Hardy hanging before he crashes violently onto
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the roofs RVD resets the ladder, climbs up and grabs
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the belt to become the new Hardcore Champion. It's hard
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to argue this is the match of the night. The
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chemistry between these two was pure magic and the pacing
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was flawless. They shared a nod of respect after the
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match as well, which the crowd loved. We're going back
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save Ze Booker t is gifted a broken piece of
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the announced table by Shane McMahon, promising to dedicate his
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match to him. Meanwhile, Undertaker, Cain and Sarah are shown
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walking to the ring. It's the Brothers of Destruction taken
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on DDP and Canyon inside of a steel cage. The
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winner take all steel cage match was for both the
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WWE and WCW titles. The storyline was awful, so we're
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gonna start right there. This storyline was awful. DDP, who
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is the People's Champion in WCW, was booked as a
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creepy stalker filming Undertaker's wife, Sarah Yuck Yuck. Sarah actually
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had the key to the cage around her neck, so
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there was no escaping through the doors as well, but
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they ruined DDP the ending though, realizing that they are doomed,
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Canyon climbs over the cage and escapes, leaving DDP alone.
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Undertaker corners DDP grabs him by the throat delivers a
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massive choke slam off the cage wall, followed by a
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last ride power bomb. Just just huw the pin and
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unify the titles. Why would Canon ever leave if it's
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pinfall too? This was this was just bad? Okay. Backstage,
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Sean Stasiat Trice, who attack the Rock again in the
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trainer's room, only to crash headfirst into the wall. As
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he's laid out, both locker rooms gather around the TVs
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because time for one of the matches of the night.
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Its Stone Colal Steve Auston defending his WWE champion against
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Kurt Engle. Now, the match was born out of Austin's
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shocking heel turn at Invasion. Engele was the intense, proud
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babyface challenger and the crowd was desperate for him to
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shot stole cold Steve Austin up now the ending though,
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Engle hits an angle slam, but Austin kicks out. Realizing
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he can't put Engle away, Austin goes full heel. He
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knocks out the first referee, hits a Lottle blow, starters
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a second referee, and hits a third with the championship bell.
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Engle fights back, hits another angle slam, but the Alliance referee,
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Nick Patrick, slides in instead of counting the pin, Patrick
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disqualifies Austin for attacking the officials. So technically Kurt Engle
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wins the match, but Austin retains the WWE Championship. Let's
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take a moment of silence for all those poor referees
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who took bumps from Stonecall C Boston today. Okay, now,
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it's an absolute masterpiece Austin, He'll work with legendary. Some
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might hate it, but other I love it. An angle
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fall like a true hero. Furious after the bell, Angle
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lock Nick Patrick in the ankle lock to a massive pop.
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This perfectly set up their emotional rematch at Unforgiven, where
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Angle would win the title in his hometown. But now
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it's time to go to the main event of the evening.
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It's the wc W Championship on the line, Booker T
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defending against the Rock. Can you believe it? The Rock
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in the WCW title in the main event of a
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Summer Slam. A year before this never would have called
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it now. The ending that was when Seae mcmhn tries
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to interfere, but APA's Bradshaw runs down and wipes him
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out with a brutal clothesline from hell inside the ring,
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Booker T goes for the sixers kick, but the Rock
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side steps plants them with a thunderous Rock Bottom to
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get the three Cow and become the new WCW champion.
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Now the Rock celebrates with a WCW title as the
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WWE locker room pops some champagne backstage. Hope by share
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some with the Rock. But what an incredible show from
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top to bottom, Austin versus Engle, RVD versus Hardy, and
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the ending on a high note of the Rock winning
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the big one, the WCW Championship. What did you guys
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think though of Summer Slim two thousand and one. Let
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me know in the comments. Don't forget to subscribe. Leave
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a five star review. And keep your shoulders off the mat.
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