Back in, Page does the punches in the corner, but Christian drops him on the turnbuckle and bumps him from the apron to the floor. Page slugs away on Christian to start and gets a gutbuster before clotheslining him to the floor. And despite them having Christian renounce his home city before the match, the crowd still boos DDP and cheers Christian. I do miss Christian’s overblown “at last you’re on your own” entrance stinger. That was actually a real thing for a while, because Vince didn’t want people associated with “Bizarroworld” and had hometowns switched to keep people from booing Canada or something.Įuropean title: Diamond Dallas Page v. Meanwhile, Christian is all fake smiles after turning on DDP and announces that he’s no longer from Toronto and is now from Florida. RVD was looking pretty hyper in his first big stadium show and Regal had to slow him down a lot so it was kind of a style clash.

This allows Regal a chance to retrieve his lost knuckles, but Rob kicks them away again and goes up with the frog splash for the pin and the title at 6:19. Rob rolls into a monkey flip, but Regal puts him down again with an exploder and Rob bails to the floor to recover. Regal with a powerbomb for two, but Rob cradles for two and slugs away in the corner. Regal grabs a hold as Rob has managed to bust open his mouth with a kick, which probably didn’t help poor Rob’s rep. Regal beats him down and gets a suplex for two, and the arm-trap neckbreaker gets two. Regal hits him with a running knee for two, but RVD gets a crossbody for two and a backslide for two. Rob gets a spinkick right away and a standing moonsault, but Regal immediately loads up THE POWER OF THE PUNCH, and Rob kicks the brass knuckles away and then hits him with a springboard kick to set up the frog splash, which misses. You know it’s 2002 because Saliva does a live concert to open the show. Live from Skydome in Toronto, ON, drawing what was apparently a legit 68,000 and a 1.68 buyrate. As a trivia note, this is the last Wrestlemania under the “WWF” name. I know all the kids are talkin’ bout the 20 th anniversary of Wrestlemania X-7 and all at the moment, but what about the poor Wrestlemania that had to FOLLOW that one? I haven’t actually watched this show outside of the one notable match since 2002 and have forgotten most of the details of the show, so this will be interesting to revisit this weekend, I think. The SmarK Rant for Wrestlemania X-8 – 03.17.02

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