This was the now-famous match that only got on the
Wrestlemania card because Molly put her hair on the line. Smackdown's
Playboy-featuring match still had a spot, but Raw's women with
something tangible to fight for had to bargain their way in. Welcome
to the world of business! This was actually the first Women's
championship match on pay-per-view of the year. Before the match a
video package is shown hyping Edge's return. After this Jesse
“The Body” Ventura interviews future President of the United
States and Mr. McMahon's good business buddy, Mr. Donald
Trump. Ironically he gives his Political Endorsement to Jesse, maybe
that's where he thought he would run again? Jim Ross and Jerry“The King” Lawler are on commentary. It takes a whole 20
seconds before Lawler makes a crude “bald everywhere” joke about
Molly, because why not? JR mentions it's the 7th Women's
championship match in Wrestlemania history.
VICTORIA
© VS.MOLLY HOLLY (HAIR VS. TITLE)
WWE
Wrestlemania XX (14th March 2004)
The bell rings,
they lock up and Victoria is backed into the ropes. They break clean
and Molly Holly goes
back to it, a knee to the gut and clubbing at Victoria's back
follows. Victoria fights back but gets a “Diva knee strike” to
the head before getting sent into the corner. Molly Holly follows
with a running knee strike in the corner. Molly Holly chokes and
brings Victoria out of the corner with an arm wringer until Victoria
kips up and rolls Molly up, but she immediately kicks out and gets
out of the ring. Victoria tries to charge but the baseball slide is
side-stepped, Molly drags Victoria out of the ring and drops her with
a clothesline before breaking the count and taking it back in the
ring. Victoria kicks out of a cover straight away so Molly Holly hits
a suplex and gets a 2 count. Molly Holly follows Victoria with elbow
drops then snapmares her over, a running dropkick gets the challenger
another 2 count.
Molly Holly wears
Victoria down with a neck vice, but she gets to her feet. Victoria
tries to elbow her way free but is taken down by her hair. Victoria kicks her away and takes her down into a jackknife cover for 2. Molly
Holly runs into a right hand, then another but cuts off the third
attempt with a kick to the gut. During this (relatively) decent
portion of the match King and JR are of course talking about....
Panties. Yeah, anyway Molly comes off the ropes into a snap powerslam
for 2. Molly drops Victoria's throat across the rope with a drop toe
hold, but is cut off as she gets to the top rope. She blocks a
superplex and hits a sunset flip powerbomb just as King and JR
remember why they're at the Garden tonight. It looked pretty good but
they messed it up and Molly got a nearfall. Molly Holly tries the
Widow's Peak but it's countered by Victoria into a backslide to win
the match.
WINNER: VICTORIA (STILL WOMEN'S CHAMPION)
This is a match, that happened. The neck vice was
slightly irritating in the middle as it went on for too long, they
didn't have enough time to slow the match down to that pace. It
looked good for the most part but commentary didn't care, the company
didn't really care and no matter how much they tried they couldn't
bring me in to care about the match.– [*] match but personally 1/10
After the match, Molly Holly is getting her head
shaved after the match. This is still going on whilst Kurt Angle makes his way out for the next match.
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