Flair/HHH SVS 05 was great, but doesn't hold a candle to their Cage match at TT. Ratings for SVS 05 that I remember:
Triple H/Ric Flair - ***3/4
John Cena/Kurt Angle - **1/2
Team Smackdown/Team Raw - ****
Raw/Smackdown Survivor Series match is always worth a watch for the commentary alone. Match itself is fun too seeing heels and faces team up all in the name of their brand. Undertaker return was awesome as usual.
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Man, I miss when the brand extension mattered. Team Raw vs. Team Smackdown from SS05 was brilliant and the build up was phenomenal. My favourite part of the match is how Bobby Lashley got eliminated, hated the guy back then and when he got eliminated the way he did, I let out a big ass cheer.
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Fuck I remember loving Flair/HHH at SS '05. Need to give that a rewatch since the Taboo Tuesday one usually gets most of my love.
And that 5 vs 5 main event is one of my favorite SS matches they've done, if not my absolute favorite.
Great matches. Other traditional SVS matches I like are 2001 and both of the 2003 ones.
I also just finished watching JBL/Eddie from JD 04 again. I barely gave it **** last time but on this watch, it was so much better and more epic. Eddie's comeback and the energy he had despite being a bloody mess post-match is just unbelievable. Easy ****1/2 this time. Also lol'd @ Malenko, Finlay and Arn Anderson appearing in the end.
Was Edge/Flair really the first TLC match since 2002?
Yep. Don't know why the stipulation took such a long absence. Edge vs Matt Hardy at Raw Homecoming could have easily been a TLC since they used a table anyways.
Which 'History of _____ Championship' is the best set?
All three (WWE, IC & World) have classic matches that you should have in your collection. The WWE Title is very strong but I personally don't own it because I have all of the matches on other sets. I do own the other two but if I had to recommend just one it would be the World Title. It has a solid documentary on the history of the World Title plus some classics from the NWA, WCW, and WWE. Although, you can't go wrong with the IC Title DVD featuring Savage/Steamboat, Bret/Bulldog, Bret/Perfect, Michaels/Razor, and HHH/Flair. Again though, I own all of those matches on other DVDS too. It's perfect if you don't own Bret, HBK, Flair, and Savage's DVDs.
Which 'History of _____ Championship' is the best set?
Intercontinental Championship set, imo. It's GRAND. World Heavyweight Championship set is awesome for the NWA/WCW bouts that got put on it. Not enough of those if you ask me. WWE Championship isn't bad. The 80's part (disc 1) sort of suffers since you have a slew of Hogan matches & other old school bouts which in turn come off clipped. Not all, but some. Which is a shame. Backlund vs Slaughter was a really good match. Btw, if you own a pretty vast modern collection of WWE PPVs/DVD sets (00-05) then maybe passing on the WWE Championship set is best. The entire 3 disc is all PPV matches which you could possibly own already. A head's up for you.
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Was Edge/Flair really the first TLC match since 2002?
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Originally Posted by Choke2Death
Yep. Don't know why the stipulation took such a long absence. Edge vs Matt Hardy at Raw Homecoming could have easily been a TLC since they used a table anyways.
Yup, all true. And in case your wondering, the last TLC match that's taken place on a Raw show since the latter one was Miz vs. Lawler in 2010.
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Team Raw vs. Team Smackdown from SS05 was brilliant and the build up was phenomenal. My favourite part of the match is how Bobby Lashley got eliminated, hated the guy back then and when he got eliminated the way he did, I let out a big ass cheer.
