IWE Taboo Tuesday (2005)
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| Taboo Tuesday (2005) | ||
 Promotional poster featuring Matt Borske, Eric Bischoff and Dustin Simpson | ||
| Tagline(s) | Log on. Take over. | |
| Theme song(s) | "Twisted Transistor" by Korn | |
| Imformation | ||
| Promotion | International Wrestling Entertainment | |
| Brand(s) | Raw | |
| Date | November 1, 2005 | |
| Attendance | 6,000 | |
| Venue | iPayOne Center | |
| City | San Diego, California | |
| Pay-per-view chronology | ||
| No Mercy (2005) | Taboo Tuesday (2005) | Survivor Series (2005) |
| Cyber Sunday chronology | ||
| Taboo Tuesday (2004) | Taboo Tuesday (2005) | Cyber Sunday (2006) |
Taboo Tuesday (2005) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view]] (PPV) event produced by International Wrestling Entertainment (IWE), which took place on November 1, 2005 at the iPayOne Center in San Diego, California. It was the second annual Taboo Tuesday event in which the fans were given the chance to vote on stipulations for the matches. The voting for the event started on October 24, 2005 and ended during the event. Eight professional wrestling matches were featured on the event's card. The buildup to the matches and the scenarios that took place before, during, and after the event were planned by IWE's script writers. The event starred wrestlers from the Raw brand: a storyline expansion of the promotion where employees are assigned to a wrestling brand under the IWE banner.
The main event was a Triple Threat match, a standard match involving three wrestlers, for the IWE Championship. In this match, Dustin Simpson defeated Matt Borske and Ryan Barnhart to retain his title. Two bouts were featured on the undercard. In a retrospective singles matches for the IWE Intercontinental Championship, Ric Flair defeated Triple K in a Steel cage match, which is fought in a cage with four sheets of mesh metal around, in, or against the edges of the wrestling ring, in which Flair won by escaping the cage and having both feet touch the arena floor. The other featured an Interpromotional tag team match where Scott Wright and Matt Hooper (SmackDown!) defeated James Masters and Dominic (Raw).
Taboo Tuesday received 174,000 pay-per-view buys, which was the same amount as the previous year's event. The professional wrestling section of the Canadian Online Explorer website rated the entire event 7 out of 10 stars, higher than the 2004 event rating of 5 out of 10 stars.
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[edit] Background
Unlike other IWE pay-per-views, where stipulations were determined by IWE's creative staff, this was the second event where stipulations for matches were determined by votes from IWE fans conducted on IWE's official website. The event was scheduled to feature eight professional wrestling matches. Although the stipulations resulted from votes by IWE fans, different wrestlers were involved in pre-existing scripted feuds, plots and storylines, which led to scheduled matches in which IWE fans could vote upon stipulations. Wrestlers were portrayed as either villains or fan favorites as they followed a series of tension-building events. All wrestlers belonged to the Raw brand – a storyline division in which IWE assigned its employees to a different program, the other being SmackDown!.
The main event scripted into Taboo Tuesday was between Dustin Simpson and Matt Borske for the IWE Championship, in which Simpson would also defend the title against the fans' choice of three possible opponents: Kane, The Big Show, and Ryan Barnhart. The buildup to the match began at Unforgiven, Raw's previous pay-per-view event, in which Simpson intentionally disqualified himself. In IWE, a championship cannot change hands via count-out or disqualification, as a result, Simpson retained the title. On the October 17 episode of Raw, one of IWE's primary television programs, General Manager Eric Bischoff, a portrayed match maker and rules enforcer, announced that a standard match involving three wrestlers, termed as a Triple Threat match, for the IWE Championship, would take place between Simpson, Borske and the fans' choice at Taboo Tuesday. Bischoff was scripted to promote three series of qualifying matches, in which the winner would receive a spot on the ballot as a potential challenger to Simpson and Borske. The winners were Kane, The Big Show, and Shawn Michaels. The following week, a Triple Threat match was scheduled between the three competitors. barnhart won the match after he hit both Big Show and Kane with a superkick and pinned the Big Show for the win.< The following week, Bischoff announced a singles match between Simpson and Barnahrt. Late in the match, Borske attacked both Simpson and Barnhart. Simpson, however, retaliated and lifted Borske up on his shoulders, but Barnhart managed to hit Simpson with a superkick.<
One of the featured preliminary matches was between Ric Flair versus Triple K for the IWE Intercontinental Championship. On the October 3 episode of Raw, IWE Homecoming, Triple K returned after a four month hiatus. He took part in a match, teaming up with Flair, who was a fan favorite during Triple K's absence, to take on James Masters and Carlito. The duo defeated Masters and Carlito; after the match, Triple K turned on Flair and hit him with a sledgehammer. The following week, Triple K explained his actions, saying he saw that Flair had become mediocre when he was spat at and when he won the Intercontinental title. Triple K continued to say that he needed to end Flair's career so his memories of Flair would not be tarnished. On the October 24 episode of Raw, a singles match was scheduled between Flair and Triple K at Taboo Tuesday, in which the fans would be given the opportunity to choose the type of match they compete in. The choice of the matches were a regular match, submission match, or a Steel Cage, a match where the ring is surrounded by walls of steel, for the Intercontinental title.
Another preliminary match was between the Raw and SmackDown! brands. The feud began on the October 3 episode of Raw, in which IWE Chairman Gary Wright wanted a match between SmackDown! wrestlers on the program. A match was scheduled, but before it got underway, Eric Bischoff announced that Wright had left the arena, thus leaving himself in charge. Seeing SmackDown! as inferior, Bischoff stopped the match by turning off the lights and going to a commercial break]. At the end of the broadcast, SmackDown! General Manager Theodore Long, led SmackDown! superstars to the ring, and they fought with Raw superstars. On the October 17 episode of Raw, John "Bradshaw" Goff's (JBG) (SmackDown!) entrance music played during Edge's (Raw) match, the distraction caused Edge to lose the match. As part of the storyline, Edge and James Masters showed up to the SmackDown! program on the October 21 episode, in which they interfered in a match between JBG and Scott Wright, where they assaulted Wright. On the October 24 episode of Raw, a match was made between Edge and Masters, and two of five SmackDown! superstars chosen by the fans, and Wright attacked Edge from behind. The following week, Bischoff invited Wright to the Raw program to take the Master Lock Challenge, a challenge where the wrestler must break free from Masters' swinging full nelson submission hold, which he calls the Master Lock. Wright, however, attacked Masters instead, which caused Bischoff to call for other Raw superstars. Long called for SmackDown! superstars, and they fought until the Raw roster retreated.
[edit] Event
Before Taboo Tuesday aired live on pay-per-view, Kerwin White and Matt Striker defeated Junior Remeriz and Val Venis in a tag team match taped for IWE Heat, one of IWE's secondary television programs.
[edit] Preliminary matches
The first televised match was a tag team match in which Edge and James Masters (representing Raw) faced off against Scott Wright and Matt Hooper (representing SmackDown!). Before the match, it was revealed that Edge refused to wrestle, saying he did not care about representing Raw and choosing Dominic as his replacement. Masters and Snitsky quickly gained the early advantage in the match, as they took the upper hand over Wright. Wright fought back with a tilt-a-whirl, a counter attack hold. Afterwards, Hooper and Dominic were tagged in, leading to Hooper getting the advantage as he grabbed Dominic by the side and drove Dominic's head onto the wrestling mat. Back and forth action took place between both teams. The match ended when Wright performed the 619 on Masters, followed by Hooper grabbing Dominic's head in a forward position and forcefully pulling it down over his shoulders. Wright pinned Masters and giving SmackDown! the win over Raw.
The next match was another tag team match involving Rob Rogge and Tyson Kanta versus Eugene and Jimmy Snuka, who won the fans' vote with 42%. The team of Rogge and Kanta dominated Eugene in the early start of the match. Eugene, however, fought back by avoiding Kanta's attacks. Eugene tagged Snuka in and performed a series of chops to Rogge's chest and headbutted him in the process. In retaliation, Kanta attacked Snuka from behind, but Eugene fought him off, as he extended his arm out and knocked him out of the ring and out of the match. Eugene performed a jawbreaker on Rogge, which proceeded with Eugene to lift Rogge by holding his back horizontally and slamming it down, termed as a side slam. Snuka covered Rogge for the pinfall victory. After the match, Kanta attacked Snuka and Eugene until Jim Duggan and Kamala came down and fought off Kanta.
The third match was between Carlito and Mankind, which was the gimmick chosen for Foley by the fans' vote with 52%. The match began with Carlito performing a dropkick on Mankind. Mankind, however, got the advantage over Carlito. Mid-way through the match, Mankind tried to use a steel chair on Carlito, but Carlito avoided getting hit, as he executed a drop toe-hold, sending Mankind to hit the steel steps. Mankind rose to his feet, which led Carlito to perform a standing dropkick, resulting in Mankind to hit the back of his head into the steel steps. Back in the ring, Mankind received the upper hand after he bended Carlito forward and hooked each arm behind Carlito's back, tucked his head under one of Mankind's arms, and then fell back to pull Carlito down flat on his face which caused Carlito to roll over. He then forced Carlito to submit with the Mandible claw and win the match.
The voting results for Dustin Simpson and Matt Borske's opponent for the IWE Championship were then revealed, with Ryan Barnhart winning. Big Show and Kane, who were also contenders for the IWE title match, faced the World Tag Team Champions Collin McCullough and Phillip Legg for the World Tag Team Championship. The match began with Big Show and Kane dominating McCullough and Legg early on. McCullough and Legg fought back after Legg shoved Kane off the top turnbuckle. They performed a running chop block combination on Kane and taking the upper hand. The Big Show, who was tagged in, stood at 7 feet 0 inches (2.13 m) and weighed 500 pounds (230 kg), used his body size to his advantage as he squashed, or easily and quickly performed moves on, McCullough and Legg. The match concluded after Big Show and Kane grabbed and lifted McCullough by the throat and slammed him down into the mat, a move called the chokeslam. This allowed the Big Show to pin McCullough and become the new World Tag Team champions with Kane. After the match, Big Show and Kane double teamed Legg, as they performed a chokeslam.
The next match was a Street Fight, a match without disqualifications and where scoring conditions can occur anywhere, between Jonathan Coachman and SmackDown! World Heavyweight Champion Batista. Goldust and Steven, were scripted to take part in the match, on behalf of Coachman. In the beginning of the match, Batista fought both Goldust and Steven, where they proceeded to beat him down in the corner. Batista, however, fought back with a series of shoulder block takedowns. Coachman, who stood on the outside, entered the ring, but did not last long, as Batista performed a clothesline on him. Batista attempted to perform a suplex on Steven, a move that consists of one wrestler picking up his opponent off the ground and then using a large portion of his or her own body weight to drive the opponent down on the mat, but Goldust managed to hit Batista with a kendo stick. This allowed Coachman to receive the advantage over Batista. The match concluded after Batista performed a sitout powerbomb on Coachman, a move Batista calls the Batista Bomb, to gain the win.
The sixth match was a Battle Royal, a multi-competitor match type in which wrestlers are eliminated until one is left and declared the winner, for the IWE Women's Championship between Ashley, Ali Richards, Sari Pasma, Courtney Savioe, Amy Ketchum and Bailey Dalton, all of whom wore lingerie, which was voted by the fans' with 43%. In the match, Psma, as part of a storyline angle involving her being a devoted fan of Dalton, saved Dalton from being eliminated from the match, after Courtney tried eliminating her. Amy was tossed over the top rope by Dalton and Pasma, thus being the first to be eliminated. Afterward, Richards applied a submission move on Ashley on the top rope. Richards turned around and was knocked off the ring apron by Ashley, making the second elimination of the match. Following the elimination of Richards, Ashley was then eliminated by Courtney. The match concluded after Courtney hesitantly tried to eliminate Dalton, but Pasma stopped her from doing so. Pasma eliminated herself along with Courtney to allow Dalton to win and retain her Women's title.
[edit] Main event matches
The main match was a singles match between Ric Flair and Triple K. The match was a Steel Cage match, which gained 83% of the vote. During the match, Triple K sent Flair head-first into the steel cage, causing Flair to bleed from the head, the blood loss results from previous cuts that wrestlers perform before a match called blading. A spot in the match saw Triple K retrieve a steel chain in which he wrapped around his fist and attempted a diving fist drop from the top turnbuckle. Flair, however, countered as he raised his foot to hit Triple K in the face and performed a series of chops to Triple K's chest. Triple K controlled most of the match, until he attempted to apply the figure four leglock, a signature move of Flair's, which resulted in Flair sending him towards the steel cage. Flair followed this by biting the head of Triple K, resulting in him bleeding from his forehead, this often results when a wrestler is trapped, either in a corner of the ring or in a submission hold, as a desperation move. The match concluded after Flair reversed a move where Triple K would have tucked his head between his knees and jumped up to slam his head to the mat, with a back body drop and three chair shots to the head. This allowed Flair to escape through the steel cage door to win the match and thus retain his Intercontinental title.
The main event was the IWE Championship match, in which Dustin Simpson defended the title against Matt Borske and Ryan Barnhart, who received the fans' vote to be part of the Triple Threat match. During the beginning of the match, Cena performed a back body drop on Borske, sending him to outside. Barnhart, who had been thrown out of the ring, received the upper hand over Simpson until Borske returned to the match and performed a variety of suplexes on both Barnhart and Simpson. Mid-way in the match, Borske and Barnhart teamed Simpson, lifting him in the air crashing face-first on the Spanish announce table. Back in the ring, Borske lifted Barnhart on his shoulders and spinned 90° to slam him down to the mat, a move Borske calls the Borske Slam, from the top of the turnbuckles. Borske then tried to apply the ankle lock hold on Barnhart, but Simpson came into the ring and clotheslined Borske out of the ring. Simpson proceeded by executing a back body drop on Barnhart and attempting to perform a fist drop with theatrics, but was pulled out of the ring by Borske, who tossed him over the security barricade. The match concluded when Borske caught Simpson in the ankle lock. Barnhart, who was on the outside, climbed the top rope and drove his cocked elbow onto Borske's chest, who was lying on the mat holding onto Simpson's ankle. Barnhart performed a superkick, which saw the sole of his foot strike Borske's chin, a move in which Barnhart calls Sweet Chin Music. Following this, Simpson lifted Barnhart over his shoulders and threw him down to execute the FU. Simpson got the pinfall victory and thus retained his title.
[edit] Aftermath
[edit] Reception
[edit] Results
| # | Results | Stipulations |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday Night Heat | Kerwin White (with Nick Nemeth) and Matt Striker defeated Junior Remeriz and Val Venis | Tag team match |
| 1 | Scott Wright and Matt Hooper defeated James Masters and Dominic | Tag team match |
| 2 | Kip and Jimmy Snuka defeated Rob Rogge and Tyson Kanta | Tag team match |
| 3 | Mankind defeated Carlito via submission | Singles match |
| 4 | Big Show and Kane defeated Collin McCullough and Phillip Legg (c) | Tag team match for the World Tag Team Championship |
| 5 | Batista defeated Jonathan Coachman (with Steven and Goldust) | Street Fight |
| 6 | Bailey Dalton (c) defeated Ashley Bates , Sari Pasma, Maria Kanellis, Candice Michelle and Courtney Savoie | Fulfill Your Fantasy Battle Royal for the IWE Women's Championship |
| 7 | Ric Flair (c) defeated Triple K | Steel cage match for the IWE Intercontinental Championship |
| 8 | Dustin Simpson (c) defeated Matt Borske and Ryan Barnhart | Triple Threat match for the IWE Championship |
[edit] Divas battle royal entrances and eliminations
| Announced | Diva | Order | Eliminated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ashley Bates | 3 | Courtney Savoie |
| 2 | Ali Richards | 2 | Ashley Bates |
| 3 | Sari Pasma | 5 | Courtney Savoie |
| 4 | Courtney Savoie | 4 | Sari Pasma |
| 5 | Amy Ketchum | 1 | Bailey Dalton and Sari |
| 6 | Bailey Dalton | – | WINNER |
[edit] Voting results
| Poll | Results |
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| Opponents for Dominic and James Masters |
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| Kip's partner against Rob Rogge and Tyson Kanta |
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| Gimmick for Mick Foley against Michael |
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| Stipulations for Jesse Dern versus Jonathan Coachman |
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| Outfit for the Fulfill Your Fantasy Diva Battle Royal |
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| Stipulations for Triple K versus Ric Flair |
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| Opponent for Dustin Simpson and Matt Borske |
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[edit] Notes
[edit] References
- (2005). Taboo Tuesday [DVD]. International Wrestling Entertainment.
- (2008). Triple K: The King of Kings [DVD]. International Wrestling Entertainment.
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