Kind of a weird layout here, with two decently long FIP segments and very little babyface control, then a short finishing run after the second hot tag. You'd think Rock would at least get to go on a bit of a tear out the gate, but instead they basically went straight into a heat segment on him. Eddie and Benoit work very INTENSELY and even if it's sort of trite or played out as a talking point about Benoit, he really did bring an almost unmatched INTENSITY to everything he did. I don't really want to talk about Chris Benoit though, so instead I will take that intensity talking point and apply it to the context of Eddie Guerrero being INTENSE. Tazz on commentary mentions this as well and it really is very noticeable. He definitely came back from that sabbatical with no intention of ever being saddled in an angle where he takes Chyna to the prom ever again. A very angry man. The heat segment on Edge was probably the better of the two peril sections, a little more focused with Eddie and Benoit working over the lower back. My favourite part of this was Eddie crushing him with a hilo to the spine as Edge was struggling to get to his hands and knees. Edge's spear looked much better in 2002 than it did when he started using it as an actual finisher. Maybe I'll like that Edge/Eddie no DQ match more now than I did the last time. This was good stuff.
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