Customer Reviews

WWE: Armageddon 2005

5 star:		(30)
4 star:		(20)
3 star:		(10)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

I'm rather surprised at this PPV, because on paper, it looked like ARMAGEDDON 2005 was going to be a disaster from start to finish. Considering that bookings for these matches were rushed, ARMAGEDDON 2005 managed to avoid "awful" and acheieve "mediocrity".

JBL cuts an excellent promo in the ring, and has an okay match with Matt Hardy. A little too one-sided for my taste, plus these guys' styles seemed to mesh well together. I'm giving it my personal score, but I gotta admit the crowd was really into this opener. (5.0 / 10)

Then MNM take on Super Crazy & Psicosis (of the Mexicools) in an excellent Tag Team Match. This was going to be a titles match until MNM lost the belts two days prior. But that took nothing away from the contest; a great faceoff between two great teams. One of the year's best matches! (8.5 / 10)

Booker T and Chris Benoit continue their Best-of-Seven Series, with Booker ahead 3-0, in Match #4. Believe it or not, this wasn't too predictable, as Benoit nearly loses on plenty of occasions. I've seen these two do better, but Booker T and Benoit know how to make slower wrestling look strategic and intelligent. (6.5 / 10)

Then comes along a boring promo with Vito and Nunzio (FBI) dressed an evil Santa and elf, only to have The Boogeyman make short work of them.

We then get a pointless little match where Bobby Lashley takes on both Paul Burchill and William Regal in a 1-on-2 Handicap Match. Lashley getting a nice push, while Regal & Burchill still keep some credibility. But these 5 minutes are filler, and are forgettable when the finish comes. (5.5 / 10)

The Friendly Tap bar, home to many WWF/WWE comedy scenarios, is then the setting for the bizarre Tim White suicide. Don't ask.

Kid Kash challenges Juventud for the Cruiserweight Championship, with the crowd just bored and mostly dead. That's kind of sad, as Kash and Juvi work very hard and get no crowd momentum. Good physicality, but the tough crowd took me out of it. (5.0 / 10)

Kane & Big Show (RAW's World Tag Team champions) take on Batista & Rey Mysterio (SmackDown's WWE Tag Team champions). Sadly, due to Mysterio's smaller size and Batista's real-life injuries, this match was kept short. What's here is good, but way too short and inconsequential. One ponders what the point of this all was, considering the WWE didn't continue this storyline. (5.5 / 10)

For the main event, Randy Orton and The Undertaker conclude their awesome feud with an average Hell-In-A-Cell Match. I've noticed many writers and critics love this match, so maybe I admit I'm in the minority on this one. But I didn't witness Hell-In-A-Cell; I saw was a No DQ Match that happened to have a cage around it --- see the difference? I think what I dislike the most is that Taker and Orton compete in a very slow match, and I don't mean "slow" in a good way. You'd think that two guys who competed at WRESTLEMANIA and engaged in violent mind games would have more energy in the final showdown. I don't consider this Cell Match to be bad, but it's not exactly good either. I want to love this --- the outstanding Taker/Orton feud was 2005's best, but this 30-minute main event just didn't do the trick. (6.5 / 10)

ARMAGEDDON 2005 turned out much better than I thought it would. But overall, I can't quite recommend it because I was really disappointed with the two main events. Also, the extended "comedy" moments (the suicide & FBI Christmas) were flatout weird. To make matters worse, there is only one Extra (a 10-minute look back on previous Friendly Tap Bar segments). If you can get this at a cheap price ($10 or less), you might like it.

THIS PPV WAS A GOOD ONE NOT BAD AT ALL SOME REALLY GOOD MATCHIES INCLUDING THE MAIN EVENT

JOHN BRADSHAW LAYFLID vs MATT HARDY
THIS MATCH WAS JBL BEATING ON HARDY FOR ABOUT 6 MINS HARDY DID GET SOME OF HIS MOVES IN BUT NOT REALLY 6/10

MNM vs PHYCOSIS & SUPER CRAZY
GREAT TAG TEAM MATCH IN MY VIEW NICE TEAM WORK BY BOTH TEAMS BUT THE MATCH WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER IF MNM HAD THEIR TAG TEAM TITLES AND THEY WERE ON THE LINE BUT STILL A GREAT TAG TEAM MATCH 7.5/10

BEST OF SEVEN SEIRES MATCH 4
BOOKER T. vs CHRIS BENIOT
GREAT MATCH REALLY ENJOYED THIS MATCH IN MY VIEW BEST IN THEIR WWE SERISE WCW DID THE SAME THING WITH THESE TWO AND WCWS TURNED OUT BETTER BUT STILL GREAT MATCH 8.5/10

HANDIE-CAP MATCH
PAUL BURCHILL & WILLAM REIGL vs BOBBY LASLEY
THIS WAS AND OK MATCH JUST A DECENT FILLER VERY BORING THOUGH 5/10

CRUSIERWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP
JUVENTUD champ vs KID KASH
GOOD MATCH EVEN THOUGH THE CROWD WAS DEAD THE MATCH WAS A GOOD CRUSIERWEIGHT BOUT WITH BOTH MEN GIVING IT THEIR ALL 7/10

TAG TEAM MATCH
REY MISTERIO & BATISTA vs BIG SHOW & KANE
OK TAG TEAM MATCH KINDA SHORT BUT STILL A GOOD MATCH 7.5/10

HELL IN A CELL
UNDERTAKER vs RANDY ORTON
I LIKED THIS MATCH EVEN THOUGH IT WAS NOTHING REALLY GREAT BUT THEIR WHERE SOME SPOTS DID VINCE BAN WRESTLERS FROM GOING TO THE TOP OF THE CELL BUT A GOOD SOLID MAIN EVENT 8.5/10

OVERALL REALLY GOOD SMACKDOWN PPV BETTER THAN THEIR LAST ONE BEFORE THIS

JBL vs. Matt Hardy 7.5/10
Really not a bad opener. Good choice in fact. The only downfall is that is was abit too short for these two men. Could have been abit longer by about 3-4 mins.

Mexicools vs. MNM 7/10
Decent tag match. Nice moves from both teams. I really felt, while i watched this, that these teams have a great connection with each other. I think it's because they are like the tag teams on Smackdown. Good match.

United States Championship - Match 4 of the Best of 7 Series
Chris Benoit vs. Booker T with Sharmell 9/10
Kinda predictable, but still a fantastic match. I really wanted Benoit to put Sharmell in the crossface or sharpshooter, but still it sure was nice to see her reaction about the reaction.

Lashley vs. Wiiliam Regal & Paul Burchill 6/10
Short and sweet. I actually really enjoy seeing Lashley beat the crap out of his opponents.

Segment: Boogeyman, Vito & Nunzio
The Boogeyman... um... he should really be fired. His character is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo pathetic and pointless. This segment is should of been in place with a match or another segment, which wasn't stupid.

Friendly Tap Bar: Tim White interview
Sick. Thats it.

Cruiserweight Championship
Juventud vs, Kid Kash 8/10
Nice match with high risk moves.

Interbrand Match
Batista & Rey Mysterio (SMACKDOWN) vs. Kane & Big Show (RAW) 9/10
A great tag team match. Non stop action all the way. The ONLY downfall is that it could have been longer. However it's understandable because Batista at the time was injured. All in all, great contest.

Hell in a Cell
Undertaker vs. Randy Orton 10/10
Final match, thank God, from these two. But they went out with a huge bang. They used chairs, ring steps, steel chaiin, table, the cage it self, everything, on each other. Blood was spilt on both men, Bob Orton and even the ref. Great match. Match of the night. One thing i did hate, but not about the match. It's the Undertakers tights. What happened to his leather, bagy pants?

Overall, Armageddon 2005 was much better than 2003 and 2004. And draws with 2002. Good way to end the year. Would have been the perfect way, only if they didn't have those two segments.

Usually, SmackDown only PPV's leave a bad taste in my mouth because it always comes off like an old WCW PPV where they work on their top three matches & then just throw a bunch of fillers in there to take up PPV time with a poor to zero buildup & the matches just end up putting me to sleep. However, this has been one of the better overall SmackDown PPV's ever since the split. Of course, there are some things to fast foward through but still, it's good.

JBL v. Matt Hardy - A decent opener but honestly, nothing really memorable & not the best performance from Matt Hardy.

MNM v. Mexicools - Two of the best tag teams on the SmackDown brand. They kinda killed the buildup with the tag titles no longer being on the line but it's still a great tag team match. One of the best in the past year of WWE.

Chris Benoit v. Booker T - This match doesn't surpass any of their previous ones but it's still a great match.

Now comes the parts to where you start to press the skip button.
Lashley v. Regal and Burchill - Just a squash, nothing memorable. Just not a fan of squash matches on a PPV.

Vito & Nunzio come dressed as Santa & his elf out for a boring skit until Boogeyman showed up & did his usual worm deal.

Tim White's skit about suicide was just boring, stupid, had no point, and just seemed to drag on forever.

Juventud v. Kid Kash - These two actually had a decent match but nobody gave a damn since the Tim White skit really killed the crowd.

The PPV starts to pick up again here...
Big Show and Kane v. Batista and Mysterio - Watchable but overall, nothing memorable & pretty short since Batista was limited with his injury & Mysterio had to carry the load.

Hell In A Cell: Undertaker vs. Randy Orton - This for the most part came off as a "No Holds Barred" type of match match more than a Hell In The Cell match. Weapons were used like a chain & steel steps while everyone bled (including Cowboy Bob & the referee). I personally enjoyed it while some didn't because again...it wasn't as brutal, non-stop high impact or "spotty" like the previous Cell matches were.

The DVD extra was that they showed all the skits they've filmed over the years (all of them involving the A.P.A.) at "The Friendly Tap" bar that they did the Tim White skit at earlier.

I know my review probably isn't the best one but compare this to other SmackDown PPV's like Great American Bash, No Way Out, and Judgment Day...you'll see this is one of the better ones out there.

80-76%-perfect
75-71%-awsome
70-66%-good
65-61%-poor
60-56%-awful

1. Jbl vs. Matt hardy- this was an average 7 inute match. Jbl did a good promo before the match and got some heat behind him which was goo. Matt came through the crowd and nailed jbl from behind and it brought the intensity to the match. Hardy controlled for the first minute but once he got caught in the ropes it was rather boring because jbl controlled the rest of the match. A nice moonsault by hardy as well but to much one sided offense. Winner JBL. Match Rating 6/10.

2. MNM vs. The mexicools- This was an above average tag match. It started out with back and forth action but then it was slowed sown when MNM took control. MNM had some nice taging and are proboly in my opinion the best tag team in wrestling today. It really started to pick up when crazy got the tag and there was a nice 3 minutes of action and that is why the match is rated higher. Winners MNM. Match Rating 7/10.

3. Chris Beniot vs. Booker T in the best of seven series- This was the best match in there series. It started out really slow for the first 8 minutes oof this 20 minute match but then started to pick up. This rating was brought down by some of the time wasted in the match. One thing that i would say is i did not know if beniot was going to win and that is a good sign. Beniot was a suplexing machine and was not slowed down from 10 minutes on. There were some nice near falls and it was unpredictable. Good match. Winner chris beniot. Match Rating 8/10.

4. Bobby Lashey vs. paul burchill and william regal- This was better than alot of lasheys match at the time and they accualty let the other team get in some offense. It was still to short at 4 minutes long and in a way a squash match but i think all three of these wrestlers have skill. Winner Bobby Lashey. Match Rating 5.5/10.

5. Juvented vs. Kid Kash for the cruiserwieght title- This was another good cruiser wieght match. I think the wwe should really start thinking about giving this devision alot more time than they do. I think that with a storyline there matches would be even better. This started out with some nice moves by juvented and slowed down a little with kash working on the shoulder. I think that stupied segment with tim white ruined the crowd for this match when it was good. Winner and new wwe cruiserwieght champ Kid Kash. Match Rating 7.5/10.

6. Big Show and Kane vs. Rey Mysterio and Batista- This was a good match but i was expecting more from this. It was about 9 minutes long and with the storyline being so good they should have at least given them 15 minutes. I can understand if batista was injured but i wish they would have gave this more time. Saying that they all did an awsome job in the time that they were given and this match brought the crowd back to life after that awful tim white segment. Good match. Winners kane and big show. Match Rating 7/10.

7. Randy Orton vs. The undertaker hell in a cell- This was an awsome way to end the ppv. The match started out with some mind games which slowed it down but quickly picked up. Some really nasty chair shots on orton and he bleeds the rest of the match bad. These shots you have to see. Some nice spots with the steel steps and a chain makes this match more interesting. It slowes down a little but not much. Bob orton interferes and gets busted open. This match has a really nice table spot which was some what messed up but still very nice. The ref even gets busted open. It really picks up when bob orton interferes. We get to see the last ride and some really nice near falls. Randy even hits a tombstone on taker but he kicks out. Awsome stuff hear. Winner the undertaker. Match Rating 9.5/10.

Well that raps up another. I would give armagedon 2005 a rating of 50.5/70 which is a 72% which means this ppv is awsome. I think that is fair to say. There is really not a bad match on the card but some that you can watch once. Watch this for the main event beniot and the rest of the matches are decent. If you can tell me if my review was helpful or not.

Benoit vs. Booker T
Great match that was probably the best in the series thus far, good big match atmosphere and good nearfalls. Very good match!
RATING: 87/100

MNM vs. Mexicools
Nice tag match that did what I expected but wasn't bad at all, good.
RATING: 75/100

Hardy vs. JBL
Poor matchup that failed to get the show off to a cracking start that I was hoping for, JBl was in control of the whole match but it should have been the other way around so that Hardy could have carried JBL
RATING: 65/100

Kid Kash vs. Juventud
Relatively good Cruiserweight match. In the middle of the match it was a bit boring though and brought the match to a disappointing stage. It came back nicely though with a few high flying moves
RATING: 74/100

Batista & Rey vs. Big Show & Kane
Very good for what was there, but far too short for my liking as such a big match was only 8 minutes long. Well performed though
RATING: 76/100

Lashley vs. Regal & Burchill
A filler match to make Lashley look good. Not great at all but did its job.
RATING: 64/100

Boogeyman Segment
Its stupid little segments like this that can highly damage a PPV. This did so as its time wasted and entertainment given was a very poor balance to make this a failure of a segment that irritated me entirely.
RATING: 55/100

Randy Orton vs. Undertaker
An outstanding main event to an erratic PPV.
Undertaker, hell in a cell, 30 minutes; are all aspects that make this match as good as it was. Only problems were that they didn't go on top when the opportunity arose (when the door had to open for the ref to leave they could have left the cell). And also I would have loved to have seen Undertaker end the match by doing more of a high impact move such as a Last Ride through the table or a Tombstone on a chair. Outstanding match still
RATING: 95/100

74% - This PPv had potential to touch Vengeance, but failed to do so because of erratic matches and bad segments. The main event gave this PPv the rating it got and Booker vs. Benoit also helped.
Because of those 2 aforementioned marvellous matches (especially the former) this PPV was very good and with out a doubt memorable

Armageddon 2005 was a great way to end the year. HIAC was crazy, the best match of the night.

JBL vs. Matt Hardy
Nothing outstanding but wasnt really boring. Ok match I guess
7/10

MNM vs. Mexicools (Psicosis and Super Crazy)
I liked this match alot. Im a huge fan of lucha libre and there was some of that too. Overall nice match...it could of been a little longer but it was good enough
7/10

Booker T vs. Chris Benoit
Match 4 out of 7 Series
This was do or die for Benoit since he is losing 3-0. Let me just say this in my opinion is their best match yet. Amazing match and it gets real exciting at the end.
9/10

Boogeyman Segment
Long and Palmer come out talking about Christmas and whatever, I dont really care, they decided to bring out "Santa" and his little elf, which was Vito and Nunzio as the elf. Pretty stupid stuff until Boogeyman comes out. I think he is a horrible wrestler but he is funny as crap. He basically beats the hell out of them which leads to some real nasty stuff at the end...disgusting

Bobby Lashley vs. William Regal and Paul Burchill
Squash match. I didnt really pay attention. William regal has some talent but didnt really use it in this match, Vince just tried to get Lashley over.
4/10

Tim White Segment
Josh Matthews is at some local bar in Providence in which he interviews Tim White which was a referee in a HIAC match with HHH vs. Jericho. Jericho did a spot where he hit the ref and he flew and hit the cage. He broke his arm and made him retire. White just kept drinking and staring until he pulled out a shotgun. Matthews said they were leaving while White leaves the camera scene. Matthews starts screaming "White no no no dont do it" when all of a sudden....BOOM

Cruiserweight Championship
Kid Kash vs. Juventud
Good match. Kid Kash was held back alot in TNA but they used him well in this match. Some high spots but I expected more high flying action. Not bad though. The end kinda saved this match.
7/10

Batista and Rey Mysterio vs. Big Show and Kane
Champions vs. Champions
This match was good. It would of been alot better if Batista wasnt injured but the match was still good. Highlight of the match in my opinion was at the end with a CRAZY-ASS chokelsam from Kane to Rey.
8/10

Hell In A Cell
Randy Orton vs. Undertaker
THIS MATCH WAS THE BEST MATCH OF THE NIGHT. It was spectacular with both men giving wonderful performances. This match will keep you at the edge of your seat guaranteed. Tables are in it steel steps, chairs, chains, blood, however they didnt go to the top, but the match was still crazy. Nice ending
10/10

Overall, Armageddon was a very good PPV. It passed my expectations. Nice way to end the year and you should get the DVD.

Hell In a Cell
Undertaker vs Randy Orton

Interpromotional Match
Batista/Rey Mysterio vs Kane/Big Show

Match 7 of Best of 7 Series for US Title
Benoit vs Booker T

WWE Tag Team Titles
MNM vs Mexicools

..There should be at least 3 more matches, those above mentioned are the meat of the PPV though.

Match 1: JBL def. Matt Hardy: Rating 8/10 This could've been a little better
Match 2: MNM def. The Mexicools: Rating: 8/10 This was going tobe a WWE Tag Team Title Match
Match 3: Match 4 out of the best of 7 series for the Undisputed United States Championship: Chris Benoit def. Booker T w/Sharmell: Rating: 9/10 Awesome Match!
Match 4: 2 on 1 Handicap Match: Bobby Lashley def. Paul Burchill and William Regal: Rating: 7.5/10
Santa Claus Segment w/ Nunzio, Vito and Boogeyman: Rating: 7/10
Match 5: WWE Cruiserweight Championship: Kid Kash def. Juventud (New Champion) Rating: 8/10 Pretty Good Match!
Match 6: WWE Tag Team Champions vs. RAW's World Tag Team Champions: World Tag Champs Kane and Big Show def. WWE Tag Team Champs Batista and Rey Mysterio: Rating: 7.5/10 Could have been a lot better without Batista's injury! Although an above average tag team match
Match 7: Hell in the Cell Match: Undertaker def. Randy Orton w/Cowboy Bob Orton: Rating: 10/10 A very good Hell in a Cell Match! Triple H's matches are just slightly better though! Excellent Match though!

I love this PPV! Spend your money on it!!

World Heavyweight Title Match;
Batista vs Chris Benoit vs The Undertaker vs Kurt Angle vs Booker T vs The Great Khali in an Hell in an Cell Match

Jeff/Matt vs some tag team

Bobby Lashley vs The Boogey Man

Tatanka vs Fit Finlay

Kristal vs Ashley in an bra and panties match