Randy Orton was kicked out of Evolution after winning
the World Heavyweight Championship from Chris Benoit at Summerslam.
He lost the title to Triple H at Unforgiven the following month and
faced Ric lair in a career-making match at Taboo Tuesday. Edge at
this point was feeling underappreciated on Raw and recently turned
heel, siding with Evolution. To be fair, he was right, from his
return in 2004 he really kicked it up a gear. Chris Jericho was
feuding with Batista recently over the Intercontinental Championship,
but lost the belt to Shelton Benjamin last month at Taboo Tuesday.
Maven's also there and he won Tough Enough and once eliminated
Undertaker from the Royal Rumble.
It turns out Maven won't be there, as tonight's
honorary team-mate, Gene Snitsky, attacks him backstage before the
match. So, to reiterate Team Triple H consists of Triple H,
Edge, Batista & Gene Snitsky
Team Orton consists
of Randy Orton, Chris Benoit, Maven and Chris Jericho
TEAM
ORTON VS. TEAM TRIPLE H (Survivor Series Elimination)
WWE
Survivor Series 2004 (14th November 2004)
Chris Benoit
starts in with Edge, they lock up and Edge is
backed into the corner, Benoit attacks with right hands, bringing
Edge out of the corner and sending him into the ropes. Edge runs into
a knife-edged chop, he gets to his feet and gets another so he takes
a breather on the floor. Benoit attacks as
Edge tries to get him in the ring, he brings
Edge in himself, sending him across the ring. This time Edge grabs
the top rope to stop the momentum and tags in Gene
Snitsky. Randy Orton tags in and talks trash
to Snitsky. Snitsky shoves Orton but Orton replies with right hands
and a kick to the gut. Randy Orton
beats Snitsky to the ground with clubbing blows and panders to the
crowd before stomping on him. He drags Snitsky to his corner, tagging
in Jericho. He holds Snitsky for Jericho to boot him in the gut, a
right hand from Jericho softens Snitsky so he's sent into the corner.
Chris Jericho lays the
boots to Snitsky. Snitsky is sent to the opposite corner but he
explodes out with a clothesline, running through Jericho.
Snitsky drags
Jericho to Evolution's corner and tags in Triple H. Anyone that has spent 5 minutes on the
internet looking at this era of Raw can guess he's the current World
Heavyweight Champion. Instead of defending his title, he is working
towards 2 weeks of Evolution having full control of Raw. Edge and
Snitsky also get their weeks if Team Triple H win, so was he going to
try and get those weeks for Ric Flair instead? He knees Jericho in
the gut but an irish whip is reversed and Triple H runs into a back
elbow. Randy Orton is back in, kicking his former mentor in the gut
and punching him. Triple H is slumped in the corner, Orton unloads
with lefts and rights then stomps Triple H down. He backs away to
avoid the DQ as Triple H gets to his feet. Orton with another kick to
the midsection and a European uppercut, but Triple H reverses the
irish whip and knocks Orton down with a high knee strike. Orton sold
that like he was almost decapitated.
Triple H tags
Batista in, he brings
Orton to his feet and they fuck up Orton being sent head-first into
the top turnbuckle. Batista hammers away with right hands, then
shoulder blocks to Orton in the corner. He brings Orton out of the
corner and chokes him with a shin. Batista hits a delayed powerslam
and covers but only gets 2 ½. Edge gets the tag, elbow dropping
Orton and hitting a combination of right hands. Edge brings Orton to
his feet and hits him with more rights, but Orton fights back. Edge
cuts that off with a drop toehold and covers for 2. Edge hits a
standing dropkick and attacks Jericho on the apron. It gives Orton
enough time to recover, he hits Edge with a European uppercut and a
clothesline, but goes down himself. He slowly gets the tag to Chris
Benoit, who knocks down every member of Team Triple H before sending
the captain off the ropes, then charges and knocks him down.
A baseball slide
by Benoit keeps Batista and Snitsky at ringside momentarily, but they
slide in, pissed off. Snitsky gets a german suplex first, followed by
Batista. Triple H eats three in succession. Chris Benoit hits a snap
suplex on Edge, who lands on Triple H. Chris Benoit hits them both
with a diving headbutt. He covers Triple H but Snitsky breaks up the
pin. Jericho attacks Snitsky and sends him out to the floor. Chris
Benoit puts Triple H in the sharpshooter, but Triple H holds on for a
pretty long time before Snitsky saves it for his team again. He
starts trying to intimidate the referee but Jericho pulls him out of
the ring. Edge has entered the ring, but gets caught in the
crossface, this time Batista saves it. It would have made more sense
for Batista to save Triple H really. Gene Snitsky has the referee
distracted as Triple H hits Benoit with a Pedigree, Edge covers and
JR mentions he's the legal man, so Chris Benoit is eliminated.
Chris Jericho enters for his team, looking a lot more
fresh than Edge. He attacks with rights but Edge reverses the irish
whip. Triple H attacks from the apron and Edge comes off the ropes
with a swinging neckbreaker. His tag gets to both Triple H and
Snitsky, they begin to argue over who should be legal. Triple H
shoves Snitsky but is shoved back and lands on his arse. Batista gets
in Snitsky's face so Jericho takes advantage, tripping the champion
and putting on the Walls of Jericho. Batista pauses the conversation
to break it up and when he gets back to it, Orton attacks him from
behind sending him into Snitsky. I guess Triple H is legal then,
Snitsky rolls out of the ring with Batista as Jericho hits the
bulldog to Triple H. Ric Flair trips Jericho as he tries the
Lionsault and gets ejected from ringside. Batista sends Jericho into
the corner, but Orton goes to help his partner. Flair tries to get
back to ringside as Batista is being double-teamed. He gets sent off
the ropes but runs through them with a double clothesline.
Batista throws Orton out of the ring and hits Jericho
with a spinebuster. He sets up a running clothesline but Orton grabs
his ankle, Batista tries to grab for him but Orton has the World
title belt and hits Batista with it! Batista walks into an enziguri
by Jericho and gets eliminated. Triple H gets in the ring, but is
immediately cut off by Jericho. Edge is dropkicked off the apron by
Y2J but Batista flattens him with the clothesline. King says it's
fine because he was on his way out. Triple H slowly tags Snitsky in,
who stomps on Jericho before sending him into the corner. Jericho
bounces out of the corner into a slow back body drop then Snitsky
uses generic big guy move #5, choking Jericho on the mat. Edge gets
the tag, going after Jericho with rights in the corner. He sends his
elbow into Jericho's neck and backs him into the ropes with rights.
Jericho reverses the irish whip but ducks too early, getting kicked
in the face. Jericho charged but Edge drops him and tags in Snitsky.
Snitsky attacks Orton on the apron, taking out Jericho's only
life-line.
Randy Orton slides back in the ring and gets past the
referee, Snitsky kicks him in the gut and the referee gets in the way
of him sending Orton back out to the floor. Chris Jericho starts
fighting to his feet as Triple H and Edge stomp on Orton outside the
ring. Why is there always a screaming fan right where they do these
things!? Anyway, Jericho is swinging the momentum and he drops
Snitsky with a DDT. Chris Jericho crawls towards his corner, looking
for a tag but Orton is by commentary as Edge sends him into the
announce table. Maven walks down the ramp with the blood from the
earlier attack still on his head and torso, the referee allows the
tag, bringing him into the match and he goes after Snitsky with lefts
and rights. He kicks Snitsky in the gut but his irish whip is
reversed, he ducks the clothesline and hits Snitsky with a jumping
forearm. Snitsky is bleeding above his eye as Triple H and Edge get
in the ring, but each are knocked down by Maven. Maven completely
fucks up sending Snitsky out of the ring and it looks awkward,
thankfully Edge is ejected in a more graceful way over the top rope.
Maven back elbows
Triple H and hits a bulldog from the top rope, but Snitsky has
brought a steel chair into the ring. He brains Maven with it and gets
himself disqualified. He hits Jericho and Orton with the chair on his
way out since you can't be triple disqualified. Triple H crawls over
to cover Maven and eliminates him, leaving it to Triple H and Edge
vs. Randy Orton and Chris Jericho, who are both outside of the ring.
Triple H rolls Jericho in and Edge covers him, but only gets 2. Edge
gets two more nearfalls in quick succession. He complains to the
referee as Jericho gets to his feet in the corner. Edge runs into a
back elbow, but ducks a clothesline and Jericho runs into Triple H.
Edge looks for a Spear but has to redirect to hit Chris Jericho and
eliminates him. Randy Orton gets back in the ring and to his feet,
realizing he's the last man on his team. Triple H and Edge
double-team him in the corner before the referee remembers he should
be getting one of them out.
Edge follows Orton across the ring and brings him to
his feet, a back suplex gets Edge a nearfall. Edge tags Triple H in
and holds Orton for some cheap shots. Orton drops to one knee and
Triple H knocks him down with another shot. Triple H slows the pace
down, but Orton blocks a right hand, getting in three of his own but
Triple H cuts him off with a knee to the gut and a DDT for a
nearfall. Triple H rehooks the leg and gets 2 again so he tags Edge
back in. Edge with more right hands, then he brings Orton over to
Triple H's corner, but Orton fights back with rights and elbows to
both guys. Randy Orton reverses an irish whip and snaps off a
powerslam. He's slow to get to his feet so he can't capitalize. Edge
runs at Orton but gets side-stepped. Edge stops his momentum before
he hits Triple H but an Orton dropkick sends them into each other
anyway. Randy Orton rolls up Edge but only gets a close nearfall. He
hits Edge with rights as they get to their feet but runs into a
spinebuster by Triple H, who entered the ring illegally.
Triple H brings Randy Orton to his feet, Edge charges
but Spears his partner as Orton dives out of the way. Edge turns
around into an RKO and gets eliminated. Triple H counters the RKO
with a low blow, but is too exhausted to follow up. He eventually
drags Orton to his feet for a Pedigree but it's reversed into an RKO
leaving Randy Orton as the Sole Survivor.
WINNERS: TEAM ORTON (Randy Orton Survives)
I'll start with a negative, Maven's entrance into the
match served no purpose other than to protect Snitsky who is greener
than Grinch shit and coming off a terrible story with Kane. He was
then given the Booker T Wrestlemania 19 treatment with his
elimination. On the plus side we didn't have to see Triple H and
Orton stink up the joint with the final showdown. Randy Orton was
able to almost look sympathetic in this match, Flair was taken out of
the match early which was a good touch and the rest are mainly
nitpicks I mentioned throughout. – As a match it's ** stars, but
personally I'd rate it 3.25/10
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