Summer Slam 2004 results

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Published on August 16, 2004 By mrboo In Sports & Leisure

In the weeks leading up to SummerSlam, many questioned if Evolution's Randy Orton had what it took to defeat Chris Benoit and become the youngest World Champion in WWE history. Orton answered that question with a resounding YES, as he pinned Benoit after hitting his signature RKO to capture the World Heavyweight Championship.

Unable to leave the arena under his own powers, JBL was torn to pieces by the Undertaker. However, despite being carted out of SummerSlam, JBL was still the WWE Champion, as he won his match via disqualification when Undertaker was caught hitting JBL with the WWE Championship.

Elsewhere, Kurt Angle turned back Eddie Guerrero and Triple H defeated Eugene. For full results, click the match links in the upper, right hand corner of this page.

World Heavyweight Championship
With the quickness and impact of a lightning strike, Randy Orton became the youngest World Champion in WWE history at SummerSlam.

Catching Chris Benoit with an RKO out of nowhere, the Legend Killer pinned the Rabid Wolverine to reach the pinnacle of the sports-entertainment world. Benoit was likely still feeling the effects of a diving headbutt-gone-bad when his attack was reversed into Orton's finisher. And just like that, the youngest member of Evolution became "The Man."

After the bell, Benoit was also man enough to offer his hand in congratulations to the new World Heavyweight Champion.

Orton was innovating and determined throughout the bout, but Benoit was a suplex machine, and his crippling submission holds took their toll on the young challenger. It took a sudden and irrevocable turn of events for Orton to emerge as the new champion

The Undertaker went "Old School" against WWE Champion JBL, but he also displayed a new trick or two to catch the big Texan-turned-Wall-Street-star off guard. Still in the end, Orlando Jordan's meddling cost the Undertaker his shot at the WWE Championship.

Using the championship belt Chief of Staff Jordan brought into the ring, the Phenom slammed JBL over the head to gain a decisive advantage. The problem was that referee Nick Patrick saw it happen. The Undertaker was disqualified, rendering useless an especially creative effort in which he displayed amazing countermoves and technical mat skills.

Unsatisfied with the outcome, the Undertaker returned to ringside after the bell to dispense with Jordan and chokeslam JBL through the roof of his own limousine.

In a moment invoking their battle at WrestleMania XX, Eddie Guerrero's boot went flying off his foot. But this time, it was Kurt Angle who benefited as a result.

Without the protection and support the boot provides, Angle locked Guerrero in a dangerous and excruciating ankle lock. Writhing in pain, Eddie tried to hold on. But when the Olympic gold medalist added a grapevine for additional leverage, the pain became just too great. Latino Heat tapped to give Angle a triumphant return to the pay-per-view stage.

Guerrero certainly had his moments in this matchup - at one point reversing Angle's attack into an ankle lock of his own as well executing the 3 Amigos suplexes and top-rope frog splash. But the night belonged to Angle, who had clearly not forgotten how their last match went down.

Intercontinental Championship
Before a hometown crowd of 17,640 at the Air Canada Centre, Edge retained the Intercontinental Championship in fiercely contested Triple Threat Match. But the win may have been bittersweet since the crowd seemed to be solidly behind challenger Chris Jericho.

The Triple Threat conditions proved challenging for all three competitors, as attacks were often thwarted by a third party. Edge had a spear intercepted by Y2J. The animal of Evolution had a Batista Bomb broken up, and Jericho was forced to break a crippling Boston Crab.

Ultimately, Edge was able to connect with a surprise spear to Jericho after Y2J sent Batista to the outside with a springboard kick. The three-count victory shortly followed, giving Edge a huge win ... even if those in attendance didn't fully appreciate the accomplishment

Till Death Do Us Part Match
Girls begin to fantasize about their wedding day at a very young age. They dream about the day their daddy gives them away to be married and start a family of their own.

Lita has both of these, however, they have become less than joyous occasions for her. In an attempt to save her boyfriend Matt Hardy from a beating at the hands of Kane, Lita slept with the Big Red Monster. By doing this, Kane agreed to keep his hands off of Matt. Unfortunately, however, Lita became pregnant. The young Diva would like to believe that Matt is the father of her baby, but she is not 100 percent sure who the father is.

Despite knowing that he may not be the father of Lita's baby, Matt asked Lita to marry him. She happily accepted. But with the engagement came more threats from Kane. Lita soon realized that the only way to get rid of the monster was to give into his needs once again. As a result, Lita accepted a stipulation for the match between Kane and Matt Hardy at SummerSlam - if Matt wins, Kane leaves them alone. But if Kane wins, he marries Lita instead of Matt.

Triple H vs. Eugene
Mentor William Regal saw it coming. Unfortunately, Eugene did not. Triple H nailed a distracted Eugene with a punishing Pedigree, sending the young talent to his first-ever WWE pinfall defeat.

Eugene entertained and impressed the Toronto crowd with his imitative arsenal Sunday night - hitting Triple H with a Rock Bottom and Stone Cold Stunner. But the crafty Ric Flair made his presence felt and just the right time to turn the tide against Eugene. Regal emerged to take out Flair and warn Eugene of The Game's pending assault, but it was to no avail.

The Cerebral Assassin brought an effective game plan into SummerSlam: He feigned injury, used those at ringside (including Lilian Garcia) as bait and tripped up Eugene with distractions and other means of deception. In the end, Triple H got the victory in a very personal battle. But he may not have succeeded in ending Eugene's career.

U.S. Championship
In the early part of 1998, Booker T was an accomplished tag team competitor. He and his brother, Stevie Ray, were one of the most successful duos in WCW history. Despite their success as a team, neither Superstar really shined brightly as a singles competitor. Later in the same year, Booker was scheduled for a similar series of matches with Chris Benoit for the WCW Television Championship. The series of matches really put Booker on the map as a singles competitor. And, as they say, the rest is history.

Now Booker T finds himself in a similar situation. This time, his opponent is John Cena. And the prize is the WWE United States Championship. At SummerSlam, the all-important first match will take place between the two SmackDown! Superstars. Which one will take the early advantage? Watch SummerSlam to find out.

Six-man Tag Team Match
With a tremendously amazing sequence of events, the team of Paul London, Billy Kidman and Rey Mysterio came a heartbeat away from a SummerSlam victory. But the dastardly D-Von Dudley got in the way.

With a double-team clothesline, slingshot into a 619 and a Shooting Star Press, a victory seemed assured. Then, D-Von pulled a covering Kidman to the outside, where he was met in anger. In the chaos that followed, the Dudleys were able to connect with the ever-dangerous 3-D. Legal man Spike covered, and the Dudley family walked away with the win. After the bout, Spike boasted with his Cruiserweight Championship. His new arrogance and confidence seemed to distinguish him as the de facto leader of the Dudley family.

Diva Dodgeball
In a highly-surprising upset, Team Dream dominated Team Diva in Diva Dodgeball. On the strength of an athletic performance by Michelle McCool, the Diva Search hopefuls dropped RAW's established Divas, popping Molly Holly and Gail Kim to end the competition.

In frustration following the result, Women's Champion Trish Stratus brawled with Victoria. It seemed to signal the end of the Divas' unity.

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Comments

Anne Alogy

on Aug 16, 2004

mrboo, Your article is a good read! As a longtime wrestling fan (I admit it, and I'm not ashamed), I think it's a rip-off to have a highly-hyped match end in a DQ on a pay-per-view. Fans who paid a lot of money deserve better than that. I'll be looking foward to future blogs of yours.

Anne

mrboo

on Aug 17, 2004

Thanks Anne, I am here to serve all you wrestling fans.
If U wanna meet more wrestling fans then why not visit my site too wwe world wrestling portal vivekwwe.com , online discussion forum
forum.vivekwwe.com

mrboo

on Aug 17, 2004

agreed with U it was disappointing to see a title match ending via DQ, but apart from that the match got a very low rating due to poor organisation .

shan eye

on Aug 17, 2004

Elevating JBL as champ was the poorest move wwe has made.

shanvi

on Aug 17, 2004

Useless match.

Gimmick blogger

on Aug 18, 2004

Nice article man & like Anne said we except same from you in the future.

mrboo

on Aug 19, 2004

Yeah everyone critized about the title match, hope wwe learns some lessons from it.

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