Mike Reviews Shows Considered To Be Stinkers – WWE Unforgiven 2003

Happy Stinky Friday Everyone!

We’re back with another Stinker Review from 2003 (the WWE had a few of those that year) as we look at Unforgiven 2003 and decide whether it’s as bad a show as it often gets “credit” for

We’ve got Goldberg winning the World Title a month after it could have done any good, whilst the Semi-Main sees the Raw and Heat commentary teams wrestling one another. No, that’s not a typo, that’s literally a featured match on Unforgiven

You can view the full card for Unforgiven by clicking below;

WWE Unforgiven 2003 Card

Unforgiven is emanating from the GIANT Centre in Hershey, Pennsylvania on the 21st of September 2003

Calling the action are Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler

We get the usual dramatic opening video package, where Triple H makes sure to mention that Goldberg only beat nobodies in WCW, because heaven forfend we actually try to get the guy over

Sadly the Netflix version omits “Enemy” by Sevendust as the Unforgiven 2003 theme, which was probably the best part of the show

Opening Match
Three On Two Handicap Table Elimination Match for the Raw Tag Team Titles
Champs: La Resistance (Robert Conway, Rene Dupree and Sylvain Grenier) Vs The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray and D-Von)

La Resistance were evil French people as Vince McMahon had a bee in his bonnet that the French wouldn’t join the USA in the illegal war in Iraq, with Conway being added to the group as a French sympathiser. La Resistance had cheated to beat The Dudleyz back at SummerSlam and then nearly killed Spike Dudley by throwing him through a table in order to set this one up. The music dubbing continues to be in full force, as Powerman 5000’s “Drop The Bombshell” is mixed out in favour of the in-house Dudley Boy theme from 2001-2002, which isn’t anywhere near as good. This means we don’t get to hear the fullest of The Dudley’s pop. In a funny moment we get a crowd shot to show people chanting “USA” for The Dudleyz, but one of the fans has a Hulkamania shirt and this was during a period where Hogan was very much in the doghouse so the camera has to quickly cut away.

Sadly they decide to work this one as a standard tag match to start with two legal wrestlers in the ring wrestling whilst others wait on the apron for a tag, which makes no sense in a match with No DQ’s and is far more boring than if they just let all five wrestlers go at it. Grenier was greener than the Republic of Ireland’s kit at Japan/Korea 2002 here, so he’s mostly useless, but Dupree had worked a bit for his father’s promotion up in Canada before coming to WWE and Conway had done a decent stint in OVW, so 2/3 of the La Resistance trio are capable of working a passable WWE Style match and the wrestling is mostly fine as consequence, if not especially thrilling or exciting. Even though the classic tag formula makes no sense in a match like this, they work it competently enough and the crowd mostly gets into it. When things finally start breaking down following a D-Von hot tag segment, the crowd is invested and ready for some tables.

Thankfully once the tables come out the five wrestlers dispense with trying to have a standard tag match, as it becomes the brawl it should have been to start with. This leads to D-Von getting flung through a table propped up in the corner by the Heels, which eliminates him and means that La Resistance have a 3-1 advantage. D-Von is still allowed to be in the match itself though because there are No DQ’s and he can’t be forced to leave. Grenier is the first Heel to go when Bubba vertical suplexes him through a table, making it 2-1 to the Heels. Conway is the next to go, when he gets slammed over the top rope through a table in the same way Spike was, although Conway does at least make it through the table (despite cracking the back of his head on one of the tables on the way down). So now it’s down to Dupree and Bubba to decide it, with Renee getting 3D’ed through a table after about 10 minutes to give The Dudleyz the belts.

WINNERS AND NEW CHAMPIONS: THE DUDLEY BOYZ
RATING: **1/2

Thoughts: This was a decent opener. The standard tag match stuff at the start didn’t make any sense, but it was wrestled well enough, and when they started brawling it became an energetic match that did an effective job of firing up the crowd and hiding most of the greenness the Heel team might have had

We get a music video for the next match, and thankfully they leave in “Suffocate” by COLD as it’s the best track from Year of the Spider in this humble scribes’ opinion

Match Two
Luchas de Apuestas
Stacy’s Services Vs Steiner’s Services
Test Vs “Big Poppa Pump” Scott Steiner

Steiner beat Test to win Stacy Keibler’s services at Bad Blood but then Test won them back on Raw, so tonight it’s Stacy’s services up against Steiner’s. Yes, they somehow got 5-6 months out of this storyline. Strangely “Legs” by Kid Rock manages to survive the music rights issues as I just ponder how these things work legally. Test’s entrance video being made up of Keibler looking disgusted is a funny gag I’ll give them that. Steiner could at best “amble” around at this stage in his career due to a litany of injuries, but he’d do much better in TNA in the second half of the 2000’s when he managed to get a bit healthier. Despite that, this is a serviceable big man slugfest with a few impressive power moves, such a Test DRIVING Steiner down to the mat with a Full Nelson Slam and Steiner flinging Test around with a nice Belly to Belly Suplex. Keibler stops Test cheating at one stage by pushing his feet off the ropes, which leads to Steiner getting two from a sloppy Reverse DDT in a decent near fall. There’s chicanery in the finish, as Keibler tries to help Steiner by hitting Test with a chair when the referee isn’t looking, but she misses and Steiner gets clocked, leading to a Big Boot from Test for the three count in about 7 minutes.

WINNER: TEST
RATING: *3/4

Thoughts: Mick Foley would end up freeing Keibler from Test’s control in December. This match was sloppy as all heck, but the near falls were decent for the most part. Steiner would go Heel on Raw following this and become a willing partner for Test, leading to them doing little of interest as a Heel tag team until both left the promotion in 2004

We get a video package for the next match, detailing Randy Orton’s rise and his feud with Shawn Michaels

Match Three
Legend Vs. Legend Killer
“The Heartbreak Kid” Shawn Michaels Vs “The Legend Killer” Randy Orton w/ Ric Flair

Orton cost Shawn a match against Flair back at Bad Blood and had been beating up/defeating legends, with Shawn supposedly being the next on the list. They tell a good story in this one for the most part, with it being a battle of Shawn’s veteran smarts and superior technique against Orton’s youthful exuberance/arrogance and superior athleticism. In that ways it kind of mirrors Ric Flair Vs Sting matches, except in this instance the younger wrestler is the Heel. Shawn ends up missing a charge in the corner, leading to him charging shoulder first into the ring post and tumbling to the floor where Flair attacks Shawn further whilst Orton distracts the referee. That gives us our heat segment, with Orton targeting the shoulder and Shawn doing his usual exemplary sell job.

The combination of solidly executed work, along with Orton getting to have a long competitive match with Shawn, does help with elevating Orton somewhat and making him look like more of a serious threat to the upper card wrestlers. Orton was already mechanically strong by the time 2003 rolled around and he was starting to do a good job of getting to grips with his arrogant young Heel character. Orton wasn’t the most exciting wrestler around this time though and he didn’t have the charisma or personality to make up for that as well as he does these days, but this is still a decent heat segment because both wrestlers are clearly working and not just lying around killing time. Orton does use some holds, but he grimaces and looks like he’s trying to inflict pain, whilst Shawn sells and looks like he’s trying to find a way out, which is a big difference between making something feel like a “working” hold instead of a “resting” hold.

Shawn eventually fights back with some punches and makes a full comeback, with him eventually coming off the top rope with a top rope Axe Handle that some of the crowd actually bought as a finish. Orton replies with an RKO, but delays slightly in the cover and that allows Shawn to kick out, thus protecting the move somewhat. Sadly, despite doing such an effective job in the body of the match when it comes to making Orton look like a contender, they don’t really stick the landing, as Shawn gets the Sweet Chin Music and the three count, only for Flair to put Orton’s foot onto the bottom rope after the fall has been counted, so that the referee re-starts the match. Orton then punches Shawn with a concealed weapon when Shawn goes for a back suplex (which I believe is how Randy Savage beat Tito Santana for the IC Title in the 1980’s) and that gets Orton the tainted three count after about 20 minutes.

WINNER: RANDY ORTON
RATING: ***1/4

Thoughts: Orton cheating to win was an acceptable finish, but the way they did it was a less than optimal way of doing it, as rather than making Orton look like an effective villain it made him look like a lucky chump who only won because his manager put his foot on the rope. Had Orton gotten his own foot on the rope and then Flair had passed him the weapon to win, it makes Orton look resourceful instead of lucky because at least Orton would have actually “earned” the right to still be in the match and then made a choice to cheat to get himself over the line. It’s a small detail but it would have made Orton look much stronger and not undercut the body of the match as much as the finish they eventually went with. The match itself was good, with the work being solid and the crowd being into it. A few tweaks and I probably would have rated it higher. WWE started pushing Orton a lot stronger in 2004 and it ended up leading to him becoming a genuine top star, until they decided to turn him babyface and set him right back to square one again

La Resistance are all recuperating in the trainers room, which leads to Chris Jericho coming in to stoke anti-Stone Cold sentiment

Match Four
Tag Team Contest
WWE Women’s Champ Molly Holly and Gail Kim Vs Lita and Trish Stratus

Kim had originally debuted as a babyface, but that hadn’t gotten over so they turned her Heel, leading to Kim and Holly trying to batter Stratus. Lita returned from injury to help her old rival though and that set up a tag match here at Unforgiven. Lita has a lot of energy here, but she’s also pretty sloppy at points as well. Stratus enters a pretty composed performance, highlighting how much she’d improved as an in-ring performer in the previous year, with Holly being the ring general holding it all together whilst Kim does a solid job as the lackey, so it all works well for a quick tag match. It doesn’t really feel like it’s pay per view quality, more like a match you’d see on an episode of Raw rather than an event like Unforgiven, but it’s a totally watchable match, with the Faces getting a quick shine, the Heels working a heat segment on Stratus and then Lita running wild with the hot tag. Holly and Kim but Stratus in a combined Camel Clutch/Boston Crab submission at one stage, with Lita seemingly getting hit in the mouth at one stage, leading to some blood flowing. The crowd generally responds well to the match, especially when the babyfaces are running wild. Lita absolutely FOLDS Kim up with a Powerbomb at one stage in a rather impressive display of strength, and that leads to Stratus and Lita doubling up on Holly with a rana and Moonsault respectively leading to Lita pinning Holly after about 7 minutes.

WINNERS: STRATUS & LITA
RATING: **1/4

Thoughts: This was totally fine, but it just felt more like a TV match than a PPV one and Lita was pretty sloppy when she had to do her bits. The other three entered decent performances though and I thought the match was okay overall

We get a video package covering the backstory for the next match

Match Five
Last Man Standing
“The Big Red Monster” Kane Vs Shane McMahon

Kane lost his mask to Triple H in the summer and went nuts, with the idea being that his burns had healed years ago but he still thought he was burned due to years of mental anguish, which is actually a clever way to explain why he didn’t look burned when his mask came off. Part of Kane’s insanity saw him give Linda McMahon a Tombstone Piledriver, leading to Shane McMahon seeking out vengeance for his mum. This led to Shane beating up Kane numerous times, including kicking Kane into a burning dumpster at one stage, which didn’t exactly help Kane with his new monster makeover. This is the feud that gave us attaching a car battery to Shane’s nether regions, in an angle that was a pretty good metaphor for the quality of WWE in 2003 in all honesty. It was NOT a banner year for WWE, either creatively or commercially. The rules here are that it’s No DQ, No Count Outs and you have to knock your opponent down for a count of 10 to win. Poor Lillian Garcia made reciting those rules far more difficult than it had to be, probably because when Vince McMahon ran WWE you couldn’t usually use actual human words and it probably tripped the poor lass up.

They start this one by having Shane destroy Kane with a chair and then dominating the early stages in general, just in case we got tricked into thinking that Kane was a big scary monster that could easily destroy a non-wrestler I guess. I get that Kane just killing Shane in 5 minutes wouldn’t be that thrilling a display of wrestling acumen for the live crowd, but there had to be a way that they could keep the match interesting over a longer run time that didn’t involve Shane beating the snot out of Kane for so much of the match’s run time? Shane hitting Kane with weapons to start only for Kane to keep coming like a movie monster whilst Shane gets scared but keeps bravely looking for a way to hurt the creature would have probably worked a lot better than the “Shane is totally a bad ass who can totally hold his own against the new monster Heel because he’s a McMahon and so inherently cool” story they’ve gone with instead. Kane does finally manage to block an attempted Shane attack off the ringside barricades, which leads to Shane clobbering Shane with the ring steps and then working Shane over for a bit. In a funny moment, Kane accidentally kicks referee Charles Robinson in the face at one point whilst going for Shane and just looks totally nonplussed about it, because why would he care about accidentally killing a referee?

They actually do a clever spot that makes sense, where Kane brings the ring steps into the ring in order to Tombstone Shane onto them, but Shane slips out and gets a desperation bulldog onto the steps. See, I’m okay with that because it was presented as Shane being resourceful and finding a way to turn Kane’s monstrous designs against him, which makes sense as it doesn’t involve Shane actually having to be tougher than Kane. Shane goes coast to coast with a Van Shanenator, kicking the steps into Kane’s face, but the referee is down and thus can’t count. It should be pointed out that Shane is absolutely BUSHED at this stage, clearly using up the last of his energy to leap across the ring. Kane recovers before the ref does and starts beating Shane up in the entrance way and aisle way, with Shane at least being prepared to get thrown around by Kane. This was during the period in Raw history where they had the commentary tables up by the entrance way, so Kane tries shoving the table off the stage onto Shane, but Shane manages to move and then attacks Kane from behind with a sheet of metal when Kane goes looking for him. Surely Kane would have been able to see Shane move out of the way there? Shane swings the boom camera at Kane, but Kane gets up at 9, so Shane chokes Kane out with a camera cable and then adds a monitor shot before trying an elbow drop from the top of the entrance stage onto Kane. Kane moves though and Shane doesn’t get up whilst Kane does, leading to Kane winning after about 20 minutes.

WINNER: KANE
RATING: *1/2

Thoughts: That did NOT need 20 minutes, nor did it need a finish where Kane had to move out of the way at the last moment to defeat Super Shane. Give it 10 minutes and structure it as Shane being resourceful and finding ways to survive until Kane just grabbed him and knocked him out, and the match would have been a lot better in my opinion. As it was, it went on for far too long and did nothing for Kane that he laboured so severely to beat a non-wrestler. Shane took some good bumps in fairness to him, and the crowd was into it once they made it to the stage area, but the need to make it look like Shane could actually hang with the wrestlers physically was already a detriment by this stage and we had nearly two decades more of it to live through

Chris Jericho chastises Co-GM Stone Cold over what just happened, leading to the two arguing and Jericho promising that he’s going to make things difficult for Stone Cold as Co-GM so that Stone Cold finally cracks and gets himself fired as Co-GM

Match Six
Triple Threat Bout for the WWE Intercontinental Title
Champ: “Captain Charisma” Christian Vs “The King of the World” Chris Jericho Vs “The Whole Dam Show” Rob Van Dam

Christian had traded the IC Title with Booker T after winning it back at Judgment Day, with Booker now out with an injury. RVD got subbed in as Christian’s new feud partner, with Jericho getting added in here at Unforgiven due to Jericho and RVD having a match with no finish on Raw thanks to Christian getting involved. The wrestling in this one is solid action for the most part, but the crowd doesn’t really get that into it and the match feels pretty flat as a result. Jericho and Christian, as former Tag Champs and supposed friends in storyline, have periods where they work together and also periods where they try to stab the other in the back due to their Heel status.

There are some sloppy exchanges, notably between Jericho and RVD, but overall it’s a watchable bout from an in-ring perspective. The lack of crowd investment just makes it unenjoyable to watch at points because so much of what makes wrestling fun for me is seeing a crowd get amped up, and when you don’t have that a match suffers as a result. It’s why I struggled so much with the empty arena shows during the pandemic era. In a sure fire sign that the match has gone off the rails, we get a chin lock, in a triple threat match, a match where you shouldn’t need to rest or work a hold because you’ve got THREE people in there and can thus keep the action going at all-times, but sadly they’re working the tired formula of “two guys wrestle in the ring whilst the other sells on the floor” in this one, so a chin lock we get.

There’s a good submission tease when Jericho locks RVD in THE DREADED YOUNG LION BOSTON CRAB at one stage, which does at least wake the crowd up a small bit, but they quieten down again when Christian breaks it up and the two heels start scrapping. RVD finally manages to get a chant at one stage for a brief period of time, as the match starts to feel like it’s picking up a bit. In a clever moment from Jericho, he’s supposed to miss a Lionsault and get kicked from RVD, but RVD isn’t up quick enough so Jericho sells that he jarred his knee briefly in order to buy some time for RVD to deliver the kick. In a moment that doesn’t make a tonne of sense, Christian gets knocked on top of Jericho in a 69 position, which should really be a pin, but referee Nick Patrick just stands back and allows Jericho to head up top with a Five Star Frogsplash onto both Canadians.

The move looked nice but the spot made no sense. We get what I think is the WWE debut of the Tower of DOOM spot, when Christian Powerbombs RVD whilst he has Jericho on his shoulders. That one did succeed in getting the crowd to react at least and was the first time the spot had been done outside of TNA/ROH I think. It’s certainly the first time I personally remember seeing it in WWE, but if it happened another time then please let me know in the comments. Christian doesn’t win with that, but he brings the belt into the ring and lifts it up on another RVD splash attempt to get the dodgy win after about 19 minutes.

WINNER AND STILL CHAMPION: CHRISTIAN
RATING: **1/2

Thoughts: They were working hard here but the crowd just didn’t bite on most of it and the match felt like a slog at points as a result, even though there was some good wrestling at points and the last 5 minutes or so finally succeeded in getting the crowd to care. RVD would eventually beat Christian for the belt in a ladder match on Raw

Marc Lloyd interviews Triple H who almost does a parody-uh of Triple H-uh interview-uh hyping up the match with Goldberg

We get a video package for the upcoming battle of the announce teams

Match Seven
Winners Get RAW Announcing Spot
Al Snow and Jonathon Coachman Vs Jerry “The King” Lawler and “Good Ol’ JR” Jim Ross

Coach went Heel back at SummerSlam and became a stooge for Eric Bischoff, leading to Sleazy E booking this match in order to try and get Ross and Lawler removed as commentators. Coach and Snow are technically the better team in kayfabe I guess seeing as Coach is younger and in better shape that JR and Snow would have less ring rust than Lawler due to being a more regular performer and also regularly training the Tough Enough chumps during this timeframe, even though Lawler was unarguably a better wrestler than Snow both in kayfabe and also from a purely work sense as well when you look at his body of work and money drawn. This match actually has no commentary due to all of the commentators wrestling. I would have personally flown in Michael Cole and Taz for the night, but I digress.

Snow and Lawler have a “perfectly cromulent” match together as Scott Keith would say. It’s not going to win any match of the year awards, but it’s two experienced pros who know how to do the basics so it’s fine, if not pay per view quality, wrestling. Lawler delivers an absolutely perfect Piledriver on Snow at one stage, but Snow gets his foot on the ropes to break the count. Ross yelling “he’s out, look at him he’s got snot on his nose” is pretty funny I will concede. Coach eventually gets cocky and tags himself in, but he makes the mistake of trying a Bronco Buster and crotches himself, leading to Lawler pulling down the strap and clattering Coach with some punches, leading to the crowd wanting to see JR as I ponder if the chocolate in Hershey comes with mind-altering drugs laced in or something. Guys, you’ve got Hall of Famer Jerry Lawler actually somehow pulling something kind of watchable out of Jonathon freaking Coachman, you DO NOT want Jim Ross in there. Indeed, Ross does get tagged in and his collision with Coach is about as awful as you would expect, with all of the “wrestling” going on being absolutely awful, although Coach yelling “not the face” like he’s in the WWF War Zone video game is pretty funny at least. Sadly for Ross and Lawler; the referee is distracted by Snow and Lawler fighting outside the ring, which allows Jericho to come in and dropkick Ross so that Coach can get the three count after about 8 minutes.

WINNERS: COACH & SNOW
RATING: *1/2

Thoughts: This wasn’t as terrible as I remembered, as both Snow and Lawler know how to work and they did most of the wrestling. It felt like a Raw match and not a pay per view match (which is something I’ve said a few times watching Unforgiven, which was part of the problem with some of these brand-split pay per views) but as a spectacle it could have been a lot worse. The lack of commentary didn’t help, but everyone was trying here and the crowd didn’t hate it, so I’ll be generous with the rating

We get a video package for the Main Event, although we don’t get Sevendust so the video is pretty pointless without it. We don’t even get to see the bit where Goldberg says “believe the hype” because it had Sevendust playing over it. Score one against Netflix there

Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler are all sad over losing, but say they’ll call this match as best they can. They’d be back on Raw pretty soon after this when Ross beat Coach in a Country Whippin’ Match, but Ross does his best to sell it bless him

Main Event
Luchas de Apuestas
Goldbergs Career On The Line And The Title May Change Hands By DQ/CO
Raw World Title
Champ: “The Game” Triple H Vs Goldberg

Tri cheated to defeat Goldberg back at SummerSlam 2003, flattening both the live crowd and Goldberg himself out considerably. This rematch was booked, with Goldberg’s career on the line. Really Goldberg should have just won at SummerSlam, especially as HHH was both carrying an injury and off to make Blade III soon, but 2003 HHH gonna 2003 HHH I guess. The weird music dubbing continues on Netflix as they dub in Goldberg’s old WCW theme over his WWE theme. Surely they own Goldberg’s WWE theme don’t they? It’s THEIR theme, they made it especially for him! I don’t understand how ANY of this music rights bollocks works and I don’t think I ever will.

As this is Goldberg’s first WWE run, they make him wrestle for 15 minutes and sell a bunch, because WWE just had no idea how to book him during this period. Had Goldberg been a truck destroying people in classic WCW style for six months, then Triple H being the first to take Goldberg into deeper waters and testing him a longer match might have actually meant something, like when DDP did it at Halloween Havoc 1998. However, because Goldberg had already done long pay per view matches with The Rock and Chris Jericho, this feels like just another Triple H Main Event with Goldberg getting crowbarred into the usual formula.

It’s not even like it’s a terrible match as such, as the structure makes sense on paper. Goldberg gets the babyface shine with power moves whilst HHH bumps around until Tri is able to catch Goldberg with a High Knee OUTTA NOWHERE for the cut off, leading to Goldberg selling to build to a comeback. Goldberg’s selling is fine, but the longer he sells the less the crowd seems to care, with some of Goldberg’s attempts to fight back getting less and less of a reaction after the crowd was into seeing Goldberg throw HHH around in the early going. HHH was basically a Ric Flair tribute act during this period, with Tri even going after Goldberg’s leg and locking in the Figure Four at one stage.

It’s like Ric Flair Vs Road Warrior Hawk in 1996, just at half speed because HHH’s groin torn to shreds at the time and with less crowd investment. Goldberg eventually makes the traditional babyface comeback with some clotheslines, but the crowd decided to have a nice siesta following the heat segment and isn’t invested in it because they’ve had to watch Goldberg lie around selling for minutes on end when no one wants to see that, even though Goldberg is actually okay at it. HHH gets thrown into the ring steps and comes up bleeding, but the crowd still doesn’t really care.

Goldberg tries to powerslam Tri, but the Champ slips out and shoves Goldberg into the referee before following up with a low blow right into Goldberg’s Atlanta Falcon’s. This leads to Tri grabbing his trusty sledgehammer, leading to Goldberg getting clocked in the jaw with it. Goldberg finally decides to do some Goldberg stuff by Spearing HHH when the Champ tries to use the hammer again, with the Jack Hammer following to give Goldberg the belt a month too late after about 15 minutes. The three count got a reasonable pop at least, but the crowd was dead from the cut off onwards.

WINNER AND NEW CHAMPION: GOLDBERG
RATING: *1/2

Thoughts: An acceptably worked match on paper but totally the wrong match for Goldberg, as no one was buying a ticket to watch Goldberg sell for 75% of the match before snatching a last gasp win. The crowd was actually quite into the babyface shine, and if they’d just had Goldberg crush HHH in about 5 minutes in classic WCW Goldberg style then this could have gotten over and Triple H always had the excuse that he was wrestling injured so that they could put a bit more time into a rematch. Had this been their first match after Goldberg had been wrecking fools for months, then this would have possibly worked better, but after SummerSlam and weeks of Evolution battering and getting the better of Goldberg, they really needed Goldberg to just massacre HHH here and that’s not what we got. An okay match I suppose, but I found it pretty dull once the heat segment started and the crowd seemed to agree with me

Is It Really A Stinker?

The first half of Unforgiven was pretty decent, with the tables match, Orton/Shawn and the women’s tag match all ranging from watchable to good, but things went off a cliff at the Last Man Standing match and the show never really recovered. There wasn’t the one AWFUL match that most Stinkers have so for that reason I don’t think I could go full-on Stinker with it. Honestly, I could possibly see going for Odourless with Unforgiven because there was at least one good match and things never got below *1/2 by my watch, but the show had enough issues with the booking and the way certain matches were structured that I’ll go with a Stinky rating. 2003 was NOT a banner year for WWE, although No Mercy 2003 has a few decent matches at least so that one shouldn’t be approaching the Stinker category I hope

Final Score – Stinky
(Scores done on a scale of Stinker/Stinky/Odourless/Pleasant/Fragrant)