• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (November 3, 2001) – WWF Rebellion 2001
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on November 3, 2001, the World Wrestling Federation aired ‘WWF Rebellion 2001’ LIVE on PPV from the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England (UK).
This was the 3rd out of 4 annual Rebellion pay-per-views that aired between 1999 and 2002.
The 2001 edition had the taglines “Manchester Divided” & “Never Seen In The U.S.A.”.
Here are the PPV results:
Steel cage – WWF Intercontinental Championship: Edge (c) defeated Christian
Scotty 2 Hotty defeated The Hurricane
Big Show defeated Diamond Dallas Page
Triple Threat – WCW Tag Team Championship: The Dudley Boyz (c) defeated The APA and The Hardy Boyz
William Regal defeated Tajiri
WCW Championship: Chris Jericho (c) defeated Kurt Angle
Lita & Torrie Wilson defeated Mighty Molly & Stacy Keibler
WWF Championship: Stone Cold Steve Austin (c) defeated The Rock
• Vince McMahon’s Reaction To NXT Being Heavily Featured On SmackDown
As seen on this week’s episode of SmackDown, NXT was heavily featured on the show and this was done because majority of the top SmackDown stars couldn’t make it to the show.
According to WrestlingNewsco, Vince was impressed with this week’s SmackDown and was telling people backstage that they hit a home run.
Vince’s thinking is that they need to provide something better to the fans when they aren’t able to provide them with what was originally advertised, so that fans feel like they still got their money’s worth despite not seeing their favorite wrestlers in action, and Vince feels they delivered.
Vince re-wrote the show a few hours before it went on the air and Triple H had a lot of influence on this week’s show.
As we noted yesterday, this week’s episode of SmackDown on FOX drew 2.54 million viewers. This is up from previous week’s 888,000 viewers (last week’s episode of SmackDown aired on FS1 because of MLB World Series coverage on FOX).
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