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[2000-06-25-WWF-King of the Ring] Kurt Angle vs Rikishi


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Angle and Rikishi provide us with basic but effective promos to start things off. Rikishi is really wounded here which again makes me question the booking as it doesn’t seem like this huge feat for Kurt to defeat this heavily hurt worker. Rikishi starts the match on the floor and quickly which makes sense given his injury. The match has a structure of Rikishi fighting through the pain but it is clearly slowing him down. Rikishi was very consistent in selling the damage. I also liked how the stinkface kind of pissed Angle off as he charges right out of the corner and hits the Angle Slam for a close nearfall. Rikishi regains the advantage and scales to the top but Angle catches him with a belly to belly in an impressive looking spot to win the match. A disappointing tournament overall given the talent. This felt like it went the right length and was a nice moment for Angle getting crowned. **3/4

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Angle and Rikishi provide us with basic but effective promos to start things off. Rikishi is really wounded here which again makes me question the booking as it doesn’t seem like this huge feat for Kurt to defeat this heavily hurt worker. Rikishi starts the match on the floor and quickly which makes sense given his injury. The match has a structure of Rikishi fighting through the pain but it is clearly slowing him down. Rikishi was very consistent in selling the damage. I also liked how the stinkface kind of pissed Angle off as he charges right out of the corner and hits the Angle Slam for a close nearfall. Rikishi regains the advantage and scales to the top but Angle catches him with a belly to belly in an impressive looking spot to win the match. A disappointing tournament overall given the talent. This felt like it went the right length and was a nice moment for Angle getting crowned. **3/4

 

Never a truer word said. I've long thought that if you look at who is in the tournament, you have all the right pieces, just completely in the wrong place. Keeping the same 8 guys, but re-arranging some of the match ups you would have a miles better tournament and in the main could keep the same stories. I know fantasy booking is not to everyone's tastes, but if you went back and did an opening round of:

 

Angle vs Crash - rather than have this as the semi, have it as QF but you can basically do the exact same match

Eddie vs Val - you can keep this the same, and they eventually build to the mixed tag at SSlam between these two with Trish/Chyna, but have Eddie go over to set up a much better potential match with Angle

Jericho vs Bull - Bull can throw Jericho around, can possibly injure him but loses nothing in losing to Jericho

Benoit vs Rikishi - again, you can keep this QF but have Benoit go over

 

This leads to semis of Angle vs Eddie and Benoit vs Jericho which I think everyone can agree would be significant upgrades on what we actually got. I know they might not have wanted to run Benoit/Jericho again, but given I think Benoit won most of the matches in the rivalry, a good way to get Jericho a win. If you don't want to job Benoit considering he's going for the title the next month you could have Benoit get DQ'd for injuring Jericho like he does Rikishi in the real thing and this again build sympathy for Jericho going into the final.

 

You then run Angle vs Jericho as the final rather than the QF and can do the same result and same finish with Steph getting involved to build that feud.

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