WWE King of the Ring 2002
WWE King of the Ring 2002
| 23 June 2002 (USA)
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King of the Ring (2002) was the tenth annual King of the Ring PPV. It was presented by Snickers and took place on June 23, 2002 at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. It was the final King of the Ring pay-per-view event. The main match from SmackDown was a singles match for the WWE Undisputed Championship whichThe Undertaker defended from Triple H. The main match from Raw was a singles match which Brock Lesnar competed aganst Rob Van Dam in the finals of the King of the Ring tournament. The predominant match on the undercard was Kurt Angle versus Hollywood Hulk Hogan, and the other matches on the undercard were Ric Flair versus Eddie Guerrero, a WWE Women's Championship match between champion Trish Stratus and challenger Molly Holly and a WWE Cruiserweight Championship match between champion The Hurricane and challenger Jamie Noble.

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amanwhorocks

1. KoR Semifinal: Rob Van Dam Vs. Chris Jericho - Wow, clean victory for RVD. Interesting. 9/10 2. KoR Semifinal: Test Vs. Brock Lesnar - 8.5/103. WWE Cruiserweight Title Match: Champ-The Hurricane Vs. Jamie Knoble -Fuc* this booking made me angry. Who the f*ck is Jamie Knoble, I dislike him even in the WCW. But I have to be fair, match was fine. 8.5/10 4. Eddy Guerrero Vs. Ric Flair - Interference from both sides and finally Flair got the pin. 6/10 5. WWE Women's Championship: Molly Holly Vs. Champ-Trish Stratus - Molly won that title in an average match. OK I guess she deserved tit that time. 6.5/10 6. Kurt Angle Vs. Hollywood Hulk Hogan - IMPOSSIBLE! Hogan tap in a clean way to somebody. Now he has to pay all the years ruining younger more talented wrestlers or what? Booking is fine, match was worse than average. 7/10 7. KoR Finals: Brock Lesnar Vs. RVD - Another wow, Lesnar quite EASILY defeated rob Van Dam. I have to say this event is full of surprises for me. 8/10 8. WWE Undisputed Championship - Triple H Vs. The Undertaker - Both guys were so slow, especially Taker. Though he won. 7/10

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wrestlingsitewebmaster

This was OK, but it could have been better. It was known who was going to win the Ring of the Ring title, and not many matches were exciting.Match 1 saw RVD challenging Chris Jericho in a semi final match up. This was very good. RVD got the win.Next up was a semi final match between Test and Brock Lesnar. While this was enjoyable, it was all Test. This was strange because Lesnar is supposed to be tough, mean, nasty and damn right destructible. All this did was make him look like a kid. Next up Ric Flair challenges Eddie Guerrero in a p*ss poor contest. It was boring, crap, slow and useless. OK yeah so WWE had to find a replacement for 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin, but Flair? Give me a break! Next up Jamie Noble challenged The Hurricane for the Cruiseweight in a boring match. Nidia done my head in with her interfering actions. However I must be fair, one good spot was when Hurricane gave a Noble a neck breaker off the top rope.Next up Molly took on Trish Stratus in a usual Women's match. In other words, useless. Then Hulk Hogan took on Kurt Angle. I just fast forward this match, because I couldn't have been arsed about it. Apologies if it was good, but Hogan was getting on for 49 years of age 3 years ago, and he's no Chris Benoit is he? Next up RVD battles Brock Lesnar in the KotR final match. Common do I need to tell you who won?! This was a very good match though.Then The Undertaker challenges Triple H in a passable main event match. This was nowhere near as good as their Wrestlemania 17 clash in March 2001.Overall Grade - C+

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DaveHasNoTimeForAnyOfThisBull

It's a terrible main event with Undertaker/HHH stuffing their match with arm holds that women in a mud wrestling school could do. Mediocre matches all around with Angle/Hogan, Test/Lesnar, Guerrero/Flair, and RVD/Lesnar. Molly/Trish is overrated and below average in terms of quality and Hurricane/Noble has no high spots. Guerrero/Flair was put together at the last minute with Flair taking Stone Cold Steve Austin's place due to his problems with Vince McMahon behind the scenes. But it has nothing of great value from either men. I'm sorry but this is an awful PPV led by the main event hogging Undertaker/HHH match. Even The Rock couldn't do that much to make the match interesting in commentary. In case you've heard about the Booker/Goldust/Rock scene, don't buy this for it. Buy The Rock's "Just Bring It" collector's DVD for it and other great moments in The Rock's career. But to summarize, this is an iceberg of a PPV that showed that the old guys were keeping the young guys down and a PPV split should have happened a long time ago. I apologize to Undertaker and HHH fans, these two guys can still do something good for the business just never have them work together again.

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Big Movie Fan

SPOILERSKing of the Ring 2002 was one of the better PPV events of 2002 which has turned out to be a decent enough year for the WWE.In the opener, Rob Van Dam beat Chris Jericho in a very good match to advance to the final of the King of the Ring tournament. A great match but these past few years the tournament itself has meant very little. When it started as a PPV event in 1993, the tournament was the main event and everything else was undercard. These past few years, the tournament has been the undercard and other matches have been main events.The still green Brock Lesnar beat Test in another decent match to advance to the finals.Jamie Noble beat the Hurricane to win the Cruiserweight Title. A great match and Nidia is just beautiful.Ric Flair beat Eddie Guerrero in an exciting match. They had a match on WCW Nitro around 1996 but this bout knocked spots off that bout and was perhaps the match of the card.Molly Holly beat Trish Stratus to win the Women's Championship. Nothing special but who needs a good match when you have two beautiful younger women in front of your eyes.Kurt Angle had a match with Hulk Hogan. It was quite mediocre although it was a convincing match in the sense that Hogan and Angle did really wrestle as though they were enemies. It was also a shock to see Hogan submit. The last time he submitted before this match took place was when he was with the NWO in WCW. He submitted to Lex Luger three times in 1997 but I never thought I'd see a babyface Hogan submit. Hogan has been selfless this year.Brock Lesnar then beat Rob Van Dam to win the King of the Ring tournament. It was an okay match.The final pitted 'undisputed' champion Undertaker against Triple H. This match was no good and not a good way to end King of the Ring. I found nothing redeeming in this match.All in all, I think King of the Ring was the second best WWE PPV of 2002 after the Survivor Series.

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