IWE Armageddon (2005)
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| Armageddon (2004) | ||
 Promotional poster featuring Batista | ||
| Tagline(s) | November 26, 1987 | |
| Imformation | ||
| Promotion | International Wrestling Entertainment | |
| Brand(s) | Smackdown! | |
| Date | December 18, 2005 | |
| Attendance | 8,000 | |
| Venue | Dunkin' Donuts Center | |
| City | Providence, Rhode Island | |
| Pay-per-view chronology | ||
| Survivor Series (2005) | Armageddon (2005) | New Year's Revolution (2006) |
| Armageddon chronology | ||
| Armageddon (2004) | Armageddon (2005) | Armageddon (2006) |
Armageddon (2005) was the sixth Armageddon professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by International Wrestling Entertainment (IWE). It took place on December 18, 2005 at the Dunkin' Donuts Center in Providence, Rhode Island and was a SmackDown! brand-exclusive event.
The main event was a Hell in a Cell match between Kevin McAlmond and The Undertaker, which Undertaker won by pinfall after performing a Tombstone piledriver. One of the predominant matches on the card was an Interpromotional tag team match between IWE Tag Team Champions Jesse Dern and Scott Wright and World Tag Team Champions Big Marc and Kane. Big Marc and Kane won the match after Kane pinned Wright following a chokeslam. Another primary match on the undercard was Booker T versus Kevin Hunter in the fourth match of their "Best of 7" series for the vacant IWE United States Championship. Hunter won the match after forcing Booker to submit with the Crippler Crossface, thus earning his first victory in the series.
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[edit] Background
The event featured six professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing scripted feuds, plots and storylines. Wrestlers were portrayed as either villains or fan favorites as they followed a series of tension-building events, which culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. All wrestlers belonged to the SmackDown! brand – a storyline division in which IWE assigned its employees to a different program, the other being Raw.
The main event at Armageddon was fought in a Hell in a Cell, a match where the ring is surrounded by a structure of metal between The Undertaker and Kevin McAlmond. The buildup to the match began at WrestleMania 21, where The Undertaker defeated McAlmond, a Raw superstar at the time, in an Interpromotional match. On the June 16 episode of SmackDown!, during the third annual IWE Draft, a mock sports draft lottery in which wrestlers switched programs, McAlmond was drafted to the SmackDown! brand. At the August pay-per-view event, SummerSlam, McAlmond defeated The Undertaker, where he pinned him after performing an RKO following interference from his father, "Cowboy" Bob McAlmond. This led to a Handicap Casket match between Undertaker and McAlmond and his father at No Mercy. At the event, McAlmond and his father defeated Undertaker, and set the casket, which McAlmond locked Undertaker in, which was scripted to be on fire. The proceeding month, at Survivor Series, the Undertaker returned and attacked several SmackDown! superstars following a 5-on-5 Survivor Series match between Raw and SmackDown!. Mcalmond, who won the match for SmackDown!, was able to escape the attack.
The pay-per-view event featured the build up of a rivalry among two tag teams, a group of at least two wrestlers. The two groups were Batista and Scott Wright versus Big Show and Kane. On the November 11 episode of SmackDown!, an Interpromotional Street Fight match was scheduled between Batista and Edge. Edge, who earlier in the night, pleaded to Batista not go through the match. Batista, however, declined to cancel the match. Outside the arena, General Manager Theodore Long was outside talking to Raw General Manager Eric Bischoff, who had just arrived to the show. As Long and Bischoff were talking, James Masters showed up and grabbed Long from behind and placed him in a full nelson submission hold, which he calls the Master Lock. After the assault on Long, Bischoff and Masters got into a limousine and drove away from the arena. Scott Wright, Matt Hooper, and John "Bradshaw" Goff (JBG) got into JBG's limousine and followed Bishoff and Masters. Inside the arena, Kane and the Big Show showed up and chokeslammed Batista. The chokeslam resulted in Batista legitimately injuring his back. On the November 21 episode of Raw, one of IWE's primary television programs, SmackDown! superstars, Batista, Kevin McAlmond, JBG, Scott Wright, and Bobby Ashley, arrived to the show's arena. The Raw superstars met the SmackDown! superstars and a brawl broke out between both rosters. The fight led to Kane and the Big Show to double chokeslam Batista on top of a car, which was scripted so that Batista could attend to his injury. On the November 25 episode of SmackDown!, Batista was scheduled to defend his World Heavyweight Championship against McAlmond in a No Holds Barred matchs. Batista retained his title after the Raw roster showed up to the arena and began a fight with the SmackDown! roster. Kane and the Big Show double chokeslammed Batista into the announcer's table.
[edit] Event
Before the event aired live on pay-per-view, James Noble defeated Funaki on Sunday Night HeAT, which aired on Spike TV. The first match of the event was Matt Hooper versus John "Bradshaw" Goff.
[edit] Aftermath
In the "Best of Seven" series, Booker T ended up winning the vacant IWE United States Championship on the January 13, 2006 edition of SmackDown in Philadelphia, with the help of Kevin McAlmond. The feud between Kevin McAlmond and The Undertaker ended in the Hell in a Cell match after the feud ran for about nine months. Batista and Scott Wright, who were the IWE Tag Team Championship holders at the time, lost the title to the team of MNM after Batista suffered a legitimate injury in early 2006, sidelining him for up to seven months.
[edit] Results
| # | Results | Stipulations |
|---|---|---|
| Heat | James Noble defeated Shoichi Funaki | Singles match |
| 1 | John "Bradshaw" Goff (with Dixie Hooper) defeated Matt Hooper | Singles match |
| 2 | MNM (Joey Hayes and Johnny Linderman) (with Denise) defeated The Mexicools (Super Crazy and Psicosis) | Tag team match |
| 3 | Kevin Hunter defeated Booker T (with Tia) | Match 4 in a "Best of 7" series for the vacant IWE United States Championship |
| 4 | Bobby Ashley defeated William Kapphan and Paul Churchill | Handicap match |
| 5 | Kid Cash defeated Juventud (c) | Singles match for the IWE Cruiserweight Championship |
| 6 | Big Marc and Kane defeated Scott Wright and Jesse Dern | Tag team match |
| 7 | The Undertaker defeated Kevin McAlmond (with "Cowboy" Bob McAlmond) | Hell in a Cell match |
