Smackdown is Stephanie 43 {12/12/02}

[Taylor Andrews]

December 12th, 2002

Pyros shoot off as Beautiful People by Marilyn Manson plays and Smackdown kicks off live from the sold out Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia! Tazz and Michael Cole begin the show from near the stage at the announce position!

Cole: Hello everybody and welcome to smackdown! I am michael cole alongside tazz and we have a great show tonight!

Tazz: Damn right we do! Theres a leather strap match between ashley and cassie tonight and if cassie wins she gets a shot at the cruiserweight title on sacrifice! Also we have a big tag match with red devil and big evil challenging acetaker and rapid!

Cole: Those should be good matches! Don't forget about that #1 contenders match for the womens title we have involving lita, christina, mya, and torrie!

Tazz: A bunch tomatoes fighting for the chance to earn a shot at the wmens strap!

Cole: Also strife goes up against viepr with a chance at becoming the world heavyweight champion! Should be a great matchup! Now lets get started with the first match!

Triple Threat Match

Details: Xanthus and burnout begin by tearing into each other! Burnout sends xanthus down with soem right hands and begins stomping away at him! Xanthus soon turns the tide with a spinning kick knocking down burnout! James makes his way out and his met with a sommersault quancha by xanthus! He rolls james in the ring where burnout suplexes him and looks to pin, but xanthus jumps in over the top rope and leg drops burnout in the back of the head! Xanthus picks up james and gives him a flowing ddt, then goes up top and flies off as burnout gets up and hits burnout with the acapulco driver and pins him to win!

Winner: Xanthus via Pinfall

Cole: Good match! Xanthus really did good tonight!

Tazz: Yea, he beat the self proclaimed legend burnout!

Leather Strap Match
Special Referee: Daddy Mack
Stipulation: If Cassie Wins She Gets A Shot At The Cruiserweight Title On Sacrifice

Details: Ashley begins the match by going right after cassie with some slaps, followed by arm drags and a suplex! Cassie fights back and nails a ddt, comes off the ropes and elbow drops her! Rvd looks to interefere at one point, but gets pushed away by mack while strife trips up ashley! They both take turns whipping each other with the strap, both leaving some welts on the other! Cassie begins working over ashley good and chokes her with strap as strife tries interefering again, but mack stops him and keeps him back! Meanwhile dustin sneaks in and looks to nail ashley, but mack catches him and nails dustin with da shows ova! Ashley looks to lock in the screamer on cassie, but mack knees her in teh stomack and hits the mack attack on her, then cassie rolls on ashley and mack makes the count!

Winner: Cassie Michaels via Pinfall

Cole: What the hell? Why did mack help cassie win! Thats odd!

Tazz: Yea it is! But hey, ya can't question mack! He is stephs husband!

Singles Match

Details: Hunter and flair start off locking up! Hunter gets flair in a headlock and backs him to the ropes! Flair pushes him away, but hunter comes back shoulder blocking flair down! Hunter runs the ropes and looks for a clothesline, but flair nails a dropkick, putting hunter down! He then goes up top and hits a corkscrew moonsault on hunter looking for the pin, but only gets two! They both get up, hunter a lil groggy, and trade pucnhes! Flair knocks hunter back into the ropes, then whips him into the corner and turns him upside in a tree of woe! Flair backs up a bit, then runs to hunter and dropkicks him in the face! He then begins working over hunters leg with leglocks and elbow drops before locking the figure four in! Hunter struggles, but soon has no choice and taps out!

Winner: David Flair via Submission

Cole: Wow, flair looked good tonight! He's still got it!

Tazz: He sure does! I can't wait to see more of him in the ring!

Fatal Four Way
#1 Contender For Womens World Title On Raw

Details: All four women begin by tearing into each other! Lita and chris trade punches back and forth as mya takes down torrie to the outside! After a semi long match with some high spots in it, lita finishes off chris with a moonsault to pick up the win!

Winner: Lita via Pinfall

Cole: Lita did good tonight! Now she has a chance at winning the womens title on raw!

Tazz: She definitely does have chance!

Singles Match

Details: The ref counts out both triple h and chris after they both use a chair, at the same time, on each other, knocking one another out!

Winner: Double Countout

Cole: I guess neither man wanted to win!

Tazz: I guess not!

Tag Team Match

Details: Red devil and rapid start off together! Red devil dominates for most of the match, but rapid fights back some! Ace and big evil end up in the ring at different times fighting! The match ends with ace being chokeslammed by red devil, then tombstoned by big evil and pinned!

Winner: Big Evil&Red Devil via Pinfall

Cole: Wow, red evil and big evil just beat rapid and acetaker! What a win that was for them!

Tazz: Sure was! I can't believe they won! Rapid and ace are good and seems like they would have been hard to beat!

World Heavyweight Title

Details: Viper and strife start off staring down each other, neither man backing off! Then strife throws a right hand which viper responds to with his own right hand! They begin trading punches and slugging it out! Strife starts overpowering viper and backs him into a corner where he really lays into him! Viper starts to slide down, but suddenly drives his knee into strifes gut and clothesline him down! Viper stomps away at strife and nails him with an elbow drop, then picks him up and whips strife into the ropes going for another clothesline, but instead gets a big boot from strife! Strife picks op viper and tries for a belly to belly suplex, but viper blocks him and goes behind strife giving him a release german suplex! Viper jumps up and starts beating on strife! Flair slides the title in the ring to viper, but cassie distracts the ref and dustin gets in, grabbing the title and looks to use it on viper! Viper ducks though and kicks dustin in the gut, then gives hin hells furry! Viper grabs the title and gets ready to nail strife, but the ref grabs it and takes it away! Strife then garbs viper and sets him up for the agony crush, hitting it and goes for the pin! Flair however has the ref distracted, so strife jumps up and goes after flair, but viper gets up and low blows him, then sets him up and hits the crucifix and pins to win the match!

Winner: Viper via Pinfall

Cole: What?! Did you see how viper just won? Strife was cheated out of the heavyweight title!

Tazz: Hey man, I agree, but viper got the job done and kept his title! Must have done something right!

Cole: I guess, but still, strife had it won! Oh well, its over now and so is the show, so we will see you folks next week, bye!