Was New Year's Revolution 2005 a disaster?

[Mesousa287793]

Also known as the PPV event that took place in Puerto Rico, I'm surprised there hasn't been more people thinking that this was a pretty heavily forgettable PPV. Bad, even, maybe:

- For starters, of course, we had two major knee injuries by Eugene and Lita in the first two matches, both being for the Tag Team and Women's title respectfully.

- Rest of the matches pretty much being subpar at best. (I will admit, the Puertorican crowd rooting for Kane made me mark out.)

- And finally, Maven being a major racist for no major point or reason, while also being a coward, also for no major point or reason. In a Intercontinental Title match. Not even bothering to attack Sheldon once. Did I mention he was a racist? What a waste of 7 minutes.

- Top it off with heel HHH winning, even with HBK being referee and you got yourself a very unlucky PPV.

Seriously, we can't even at least get a episode of Raw, now we're just house fodder. Crowd was rather hot for the PPV, so...yeah, kinda unfortunate that we didn't have another live event...

[BorneAgain]

It was arguably doomed from the start given that every top star on Raw was in the Chamber, including HBK, making the rest of the card look pretty sparse as far as fan interest.

[Sparkybob]

During the brand split, putting your top 6 stars in the chambers kills your undercard. They basically admitted that the only reason to buy this event is for the chamber which was a nice draw I think.

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Jan 17, 2014 17:14:44 GMT -5 Mesousa287793 said:

- And finally, Maven being a major racist for no major point or reason, while also being a coward, also for no major point or reason. In a Intercontinental Title match. Not even bothering to attack Sheldon once. Did I mention he was a racist? What a waste of 7 minutes.

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As the people above have said, it was one of the most top-heavy PPV's that the WWE has ever run. They crammed the six biggest stars on Raw into the main event, which led to an amazing main event but an undercard which had to be scrambled together with whatever 'stars' they had. Which led to classics like Muhammad Hussan vs. Jerry Lawler, Kane vs. Snitsky and whatever that IC title match between Shelton Benjamin and Maven was supposed to be.

[Kayfabe FAN don't want none]

2 things i remember from it:

Crowd was f***ing awesome.

Benoit and Jericho knife chopped the f*** out of each other and everyone else.

Oh, and i think Batista killed Jericho and a camera guy.

[543Y2J]

Was New Year's Revolution 2005 a disaster?

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[TGM]

Calling it a disaster is a bit much, its not like the building collapsed.

Unmemorable would be more accurate.

[Bootista]

Wasn't Lita supposed to retain the Women's title before she got injured??

[thegame415]

New Years Revolution was pretty bad each year.

[rapidfire187]

I hated this PPV.

[Deleted]

This is THE PPV that a lot of friends/a brother remembers as being fabulous for the main event, then when I tell them to rewatch it they realise it was one of the most boring, outright pointlessshows of all time. It's awful in its lack of occurrences & lack of good wrestling.

Best bit of the entire PPV is when the camera angles used make it seem like Flair has somehow T1000'd himself into the Chamber, with the commentators confused before it shows that the chamber door is open.

[agent817]

Jan 17, 2014 17:35:54 GMT -5 543Y2J said:

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Funny thing about this event was that it had some nice yet pointless sequences of the divas poolside at some resort. Yes, they looked great in bikinis, no doubt about this, but there really was no point to it. Plus, the chicken fight sequence in the pool? PASS!

The chamber match was good, but it was obvious Triple H would win. I still don't understand the whole angle of the title being vacated that night on Raw. It could have just ended with the decision being a no-contest and Triple H still holding the title.

[Sparkybob]

Jan 17, 2014 20:36:52 GMT -5 agent817 said:

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Funny thing about this event was that it had some nice yet pointless sequences of the divas poolside at some resort. Yes, they looked great in bikinis, no doubt about this, but there really was no point to it. Plus, the chicken fight sequence in the pool? PASS!

The chamber match was good, but it was obvious Triple H would win. I still don't understand the whole angle of the title being vacated that night on Raw. It could have just ended with the decision being a no-contest and Triple H still holding the title.

They vacated the title so Randy can have another title match. They had this long angle on how Orton couldn't challenge for the WHC as long as Hunter was the champ.

[Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster]

mediocre PPV for sure but hardly a disaster.

[Jiren]

It was bad, so was the 2006 one, Only saved by Edge's MITB cash in.

Also HHH got injured at 2007 so it's a pretty unlucky PPV

[agent817]

Jan 18, 2014 15:09:39 GMT -5 Jiren said:

It was bad, so was the 2006 one, Only saved by Edge's MITB cash in.

The chamber match for that one was decent, but I didn't like how Carlito and Chris Masters were in the match longer than Shawn, Kurt and Kane.

The only other thing I remember from that event was the Bra and Panties Gauntlet match.

[Gummydavidson]

The PPV was almost a disaster but the main event saved it.

[TheDieselTrain]

I've always thought the ic title match purposefully stalled because the injuries in the first two matched messed up with the set times they were supposed to go.

I still don't get why Christian & Tomko didn't pull an audible and win the titles since Eugene was visibly injured and couldn't even stand.