There really wasn't much of a show tonight to speak of. The whole event was based on Halftime Heat, which was more than worth it, if you ask me, though I see no reason why we couldn't have a real Heat show before it. But I digress.
The show starts with Shane and Team Corporate coming to the ring to introduce Chyna, to a chorus of boos. No matter how much I hate this angle, I could never bring myself to boo Chyna, she just kicks too much ass in my book. I do hate it, though- she's wearing less and less clothing, and looking less and less badass every time she comes out. Chyna: "Well, what do you know? An opportunity to talk! That's what it's about, we all want to get ahead. DX wanted to get ahead, and I carried those degenerates for almost two years. Even though I did that, where's my gratification? What did they do for me? Not a damn thing. At the Royal Rumble, Vince told me, "We appreciate you, yoy have what we want. You have what we need. Vince was also willing to give to get. It's all about the mighty dollar. Well, the buck stops here. I got your appreciation, DX, suck it, because I can buy and sell you now like the (edited out).
DX comes out. HHH: "Shane, you did a wonderful job, you pulled one over on us. But you get one shot, and it'll never happen again. Chyna, you wanted to be treated like an equal from the beginning, so myself and everyone... (a "Chyna sucks" chant starts) Are you happy? is that what you wanted to hear? You wanted to be treated like an equal and that's what we did. But we never were equals because the 4 of us are men, and no matter how much you wanted to grow a set, you never could. Obviously it's all about the money for you because you're nothing but a two dollar whore.
XPac starts yelling that he'll get at Shane, and when he does, "I'll take that silver spoon from your mouth and hsove it up your..." he's cut off by Road Dogg, who says, "Wait, wait, this is Heat, you can't say that word on Heat"
Shane says he can take XPac and sets up a match for Raw tomorrow: HHH vs Kane in a steel cage. Chyna adds: "One word. Corporate."
Jeff Jarrett (with Debra) vs Big Boss Man
ho hum.ho hum. Bossman won.
Shamrock (with nasty veins, scratches all over his back, and nipples, of course) vs Owen Hart
as if they couldn't just have made this a tag match? Ah well. Win for Shamrock. Blue Blazer came out, but got knocked off top rope. Owen looked confused.
Then, the WWF treated us to a replay of Monday's HHH/Rock match, complete with screwy sound. Followed by McMahon's speech.
Halftime Heat
Mankind vs Rock (Heavyweight Title, empty arena match)
Neat match- the Rock was classic Rock, and had me laughing the whole match. Foley took a couple of unpleasant looking bumps, mainly falling down the stairs in the arena. The two fought through a kitchen, using cotton candy racks, sticks, pots and pans, food, bags of popcorn, and more to fight. Socko got tossed into an oven. They fought on a catering table, with food flying everywhere, and Rock getting off some comments. Rock takes a sip of Jack Daniels, McMahon (doing commentary) adds: "That wasn't REAL alcohol, by the way." Rock tatstes the popcorn, and yells, "TOO MUCH SALT," promptly kicking Mankind. Mankind dominates as they make their way to an office area. Rock answers the phone "Smackdown hotel" and strangles Foley with the phone before hitting on a woman who was uninterested in him. For some reason, Mankind is wrestling in one sneaker, and one boot. They make their way outside, and fight in a loading dock of some sort. Mankind gets Rock down with a mandible claw (removing his shoe and sock for a new Socko)and then lowers a forklift of kegs onto him for the pin. Pretty cool match, and seeing Foley win the belt AGAIN was GREAT! "I did it again!" he said, and yes he did. Yay, Foley!
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