WWE Judgment Day (2009 TV Special) User Reviews

PPV turned from PPV of the year to snooze fest

[PyTom83 · 7/10 · 11 June 2009]

Umaga d. CM Punk, Samoan Spike — pin (***1/2). So why is Umaga battling Pepsiman anyway? Anyways, hometown rule applies here as Punk does the job, though it was a really good opener otherwise with lots of nifty spots like G2S countered into a Samoan drop. I don't understand WWE's obsession having their talent ALWAYS lose in their hometown, unless you're Jim Ross, then you're embarrassed on a grand scale.

ECW champion Christian d. Jack Swagger, handful of tights — pin (***1/2). I really enjoyed this match and loved when Christian jumped down from the top rope over Swagger and ran to the other side ha ha… classic Christian. End came when Swagger went for the gut wrench power bomb, but Xian flipped out, went for the killswitch, as Swagger pulled away, then Xian did a roll up, with a handful of tights FTW and to further the feud. I guess Christian is the new dirtiest player in the game. Kind of a lame ending, though. Too bad Christian isn't "popular" enough to have a clean win.

John Morrison d. Shelton Benjamin, Starship Pain — pin (***). Sadly Charlie Haas has dropped the impersonation gimmick. While I'm excited to see the World's Greatest Tag team reunited, The Great Charli > WGTT. Anyways, this was a good match, but it was missing something. Maybe it was the crowd; they didn't quite seem to be buying Nitro as a face. Anyhoo. great stuff at the end as both guys hit some beautiful spots and in the end Nitro wins with his flippy spinny Indy move. Both these guys need more match time; they can put on a hell of a show.

Flying Batista d. WWE champion Randy Orton w/ out hair, attacking the referee — DQ (*1/2). Finlly, a toilet break match. Orton can be okay, but needs someone to help him, and that man is not Batista. Same goes for Batista. They just cancel each other out. Anyways, there was a sizable RKO chant and this was not a pro-DAVE crowd. This match just sucked the energy out of the show. Both of these guys are like video game characters. Repetitive moves, awkward animations, over excessive normal mapping, and occasionally victim to lag. If Orton's finishing move was a headlock, he'd win every match. End came when Orton deliberately got himself disqualified, attacking the referee in a cheap ending. Those kind of finishes just make you wonder why he didn't slap the referee two seconds into the match and leave. Post-match, Legacy came down to attack Big Dave, but a 90 year old man makes the save. Whoo. Dammit Flair, stay retired.

John Cena w/ odds to overcome d. The Big Show, Attitude Adjustment — pin (*). I love how Cena looks like he's about to cry when he's in that stare down. The Cena Sucks chant is way louder as it should be. And if I had a dollar for every time they said "No one evokes more emotion out of the WWE Universe than John Cena." and "The Worlds largest athlete." for this match alone I'd be able to buy the WWE 100 times over. And man, it's amazing how quickly and severely this PPV turned from possible PPV of the year to utter snooze fest. Anyhoo, in the end, Cena overcomes adversity and by God I am so inspired! Miracles do happen! Boring match, though. So if Cena is Superman, does that make having a good match with the Big Show his kryptonite?

World champion Edge d. Jeff Hardy, DDT off the top rope — pin (***). This has been a show where champions come out first. End came when Matt Hardy interfered and attacked Jeff, Cowboy Bob Orton-style with a cast on his arm. This was a good match going through until Matt Hardy came out. Judgment Day is then over and there's no Punk and no cashing in, just credits. I guess the hometown rule is still in effect. Still Edge is still the champion, so all is right with the world.

Final Thoughts: I didn't like Punk losing to Umaga, and the "beat the guys in their hometown for heat" thing is dumb. And he never should've lost to Kane either. Also the ending to Orton/Batista was the same ending as Orton/Cena at No Way Out 08 (consistency for Randy or just laziness?). Anyways, Cena/Show and Orton/Batista were the only blah matches of the night, but the rest were fun entertaining matches.

My verdict : Bad!

[sashank_kini-1 · 3/10 · 28 May 2009]

This year's Judgement Day had a number of problems that really irked me to the core. A brief on each match is given below:

1) C.M Punk vs Umaga: The match was good, even though I wonder why Umaga was told to target only Punk. Normalyy, Umaga is supposed to destroy every wrestler and so the feud seemed a bit odd. But the match was good mail;y because of Umaga's strength. I always thought that Umaga was a very good wrestler. C.m too did a good job. The ending was somewhat predictable though. 3 out of 5.

2)Christian vs Jack Swagger: One of the worst matches of the event. Horrible moves with both of the wrestlers making errors. The problem was that it did not look clean. Many of the moves could have been done in a much better way in order to make it look more real. 0.5 out of 5.

3) John Morrison vs Shelton Benjamin: Okay match. The moves were good but bad timing resulted in it looking fake. For example, in some of the moves, the opponent could have easily moved away. The crowd was a dud throughout the event and in this march, even though they were astonished by some of the moves, they weren't excited throughout the match. 2 out of 5.

4) Miz and his blah... blah... blah: The thing was a bit funny but as usual, it was completely irrelevant. He went from talking about Cena to criticizing the Chicago Cubs. Why did they come suddenly into the picture? And then, Santino coming was even stranger. WWE has very poor humor and this one too wasn't so good at all. 1.5 out of 5.

5) Rey Mysterio vs Chris Jericho: Another yawn match. The whole thing stretched too long. Rey Mysterio won in the end but most of the audience were cheering for Jericho throughout. I completely forgot about this match after Judgement Day got over. 1.5 out of 5.

6) Randy Orton vs Batista: Ric Flair has returned again. He is a hypocrite. Firstly, he is given one of the best farewells when he left WWE and now he just comes back. The match was dull, especially because of Randy Orton trying to escape towards the end. He caught the pole and did not want to fight the match at all. This dampened the whole match as I was expecting a good result with one of them pinning the other. But the whole match was ruined after Randy smacked the referee. Then, Randy's gay pals come and beat up Batista, as usual. 1 out of 5.

7) John Cena vs Big Bore... I mean Show: Big Show made the whole thing boring. He is so slow. John Cena pretended to be very weak and so, most of the match was dominated by Show. Suddenly a spirit entered Cena and he began bashing Show and won the match! 1 out of 5.

8) Jeff Hardy vs Edge: I could not see this match completely as I needed a break after enduring the torture. So no score for this match.

Jerry 'The King' Lawyer sucks without J.R as he sounded uninterested throughout. Mike Cole or whatever was talking irrelevant nonsense. J.R and Todd Grisham were the only two who were talking sense and made the match more interesting. MAtt Striker and the other one tried to make the match interesting but failed.

Overall, the event sucked. 3 out of 10.