2004 was a transitional year. Focus on veterans like Benoit, Guerrero, Bradshaw, BookerT, HHH, HBK taking to the main event, while new stars like Cena, Orton, Batista were starting to gain traction. Then you had Kenzo Suzuki and Mordecai 😂
@@sreenaths6829 Nah, Kenzo was garbage IMO. Even back in 2004 I was used to japanese wrestlers being awesome in the ring, mostly due to guys like Tajiri, Taka, Kaientai or Ultimo Dragon. Kenzo was an embarrassment for any japanese dojo. I watched him a few years ago in All Japan and was hoping to see some improvement, but he still is one of the worst japanese wrestlers I have ever seen.
It might just be me looking back fondly on my youth, but the closing of Wrestlemania XX with Chris and Eddie celebrating will always be my favorite wrestling moment
2004 was the year I properly got into Wrestling. I remember being ridiculously excited to get home from school to watch Westlemania... you never forget your first.
David Jenum I live in the UK so it was on really late at night. Taped it over Sunday night, went to school on Monday morning and watched it Monday night!
I was in the crowd at Backlash 2004 and I will never forget that Mick Foley vs Randy Orton match for a as long as I live. Also, the buzz for Benoit at the time in the city was unreal. He was all over the news and the city even declared April 18th, the date of the PPV, to be Chris Benoit day in Edmonton.
@@leo_laughlin1414 I mean, I don't think they officially denounced it or anything like that, but nobody recognizes or celebrates it as far as I know. They just kind of quietly swept all relation to Benoit under the rug the same way the WWE did.
I didn’t start watching wrestling until December of 2010 lol but have since gone back and watched a lot of old stuff and I now have my own TH-cam channel about wrestling and video games
@@vampirascoffin870 i only watched smackdown didnt have cable back then all i really remember is the angle brock feud and eddie rey and cena but i got really invested back then
Aaawwww, 2004: the year of Spike Dudley as a heel Cruiserweight champion who bossed his big brothers around and La Resistance as the dominant tag team on Raw !
This is when i started watching WWE in 2004 (august) Royal Rumble 2001 WrestleMania X-7 Survivor Series 2003 No Mercy 2002 WrestleMania X8 WrestleMania XIX Backlash 2004 SummerSlam 2005 ECW One Night Stand 2005 WrestleMania 22 Survivor Series 2004 Survivor Series 2005 Backlash 2007 Royal Rumble 2000 and WrestleMania XXIV were my favorite wrestling PPVs.
I’d say it was great, SmackDown was bad but Raw helped the year. As well as Benoit and Guerrero finally getting main event pushes. In my top 10, simply because of the nostalgia and since Orton Cena Batista etc. were becoming more popular.
Here's what I'd like to see... when this series gets to 2001 and prior years, they should do a ranking of WCW PPV's as well. Good or bad, nostalgia is nostalgia 👍🏼💯
This is my personal list 14- The Great American Bash 13- Armageddon 12- Taboo Tuesday 11- Unforgiven 10- Judgement Day 9- No Way Out 8- Royal Rumble 7- Vengeance 6- Bad Blood 5- Wrestlemania 20 4- No Mercy 3- Summerslam 2- Backlash 1- Survivor Series.
I loved JBL's reign and we are severely missing a heel like him who can do long hateful promos to rile the crowd. Heels these days are too well liked by the fans.
People talk about mjf and he is good, but a lot of the time it feels like the crowd is in on the act and are just booing to go along with it. NOBODY liked jbl but damn that was a fantastic heel world title run
2004 was the year I really got into wrestling and when I actually watched the ppvs instead of highlights, wrestlemania 20 was the first mania I saw and will always be my favorite
1. Wrestlemania 20 2. Royal Rumble 3. No Way Out 4. Backlash 5. Summerslam 6. Survivor Series 7. No Mercy 8. Armageddon 9. Bad Blood 10. Unforgiven 11. Vengeance 12. Judgment Day 13. Taboo Tuesday 14. The Great American Bash
Literally the worst of 2004 is still better than 99.99999 percent of the stuff that has ever happened in Wrestling. Ruthless agression era is the greatest era in Wrestling history it's literally not even close.
2004 was a recovery year since lesnar n goldberg left especially after survivor series 2004(fav ppv of that year) thats when smackdown and raw established their future main eventers for the following years to come. Raw: hhh,randy orton, batista, edge and on smackdown ! :jbl,eddie guerrero,john cena,rey mysterio
2004 was such a great year! I was 16 and I went to both Bad Blood and Survivor Series that year and also a few Raws and SmackDowns. I remember just wanting to see the Undertaker!! I also saw the Ironman Match between Benoit and Triple H
2004 really was the year WWE and the business as a whole took its " Death Blow". With all those *MAJOR* stars/pillars leaving and only but a few left to fill the MASSIVE holes left (never quite did either). And after that initial "blow", WWE has been bleeding out ever since....
Yup. The draft destroyed Smackdown and it never really recovered for the remainder of the brand split. Benoit, Edge, Tajiri, Rhyno and Benjamin, all gone to Raw. All of them incredibly skilled guys. Heyman gone as well. The only two decent guys SD got out of the draft were RVD and Booker T. Then Brock left for NFL and Angle was injured for most of the year. Adding absolute duds like Luther Reigns, Mark Jindrak, the Bashams or Orlando Jordan to the roster also didn't help much. I think at one point during the year RVD and Rene Dupree had the same exact match every week for like 2 months in a row. That's when I realised how desperate the SD roster was.
When I was just getting into wrestling this o Was one of the first dvd’s and I absolutely loved the main event because it has so much action without being overbooked
1:24 Adam Pacitti presents... 1:33 The Great American Bash. 2:52 Armageddon. 4:31 Judgement Day. 6:07 Taboo Tuesday. 7:28 Unforgiven. 8:36 No mercy. 10:10 Survivor Series. 11:37 Vengeance. 12:49 Bad Blood. 14:16 Summerslam. 15:51 No Way Out. 16:55 Royal Rumble. 18:17 Backlash. 19:50 Wrestlemania 20.
You know, I always look back at 2004 as being a consistently great year for WWE and one of my personal favorite years in general. But I never really fully realized how much of a hit the business took that year....with Austin leaving, Rock, Lesnar, Goldberg...Cena, Orton, and Batista still not *yet* molded into the mega-stars they would become and no one but HHH, HBK, Taker and a few others to fill in those MASSIVE holes those guys left (and no one ever really fully did). *THAT* was the year WWE and wrestling as a whole really took its " Death Blow".....and its been bleeding out ever since. And then ofc...the following year...Eddie passed, and not too long after Benoit; both shrouded in controversy (especially Benoit), and then ofc the following scandals... only further cementing WWES' fate.
Freddie Johnson Oh ya that was a really good moment. It was kind of upsetting though, do you remember at the end of Mania XX when the vacant title belt was in the middle of the ring and Eddie came down to give the belt a hug?
Hardcore Holly vs. Brock Lesnar should have gotten at least 20 minutes. Even though Holly had no hope in hell of winning, they really could have gotten more time to build the match seeing as that Brock only BROKE THE MAN'S FREAKING NECK.
I was in the 4th row at Armageddon '04. Still have the folding chair. The event..........was not good. The video doesn't mention that Jesus was just thrown in to be Cena's punching bag because Carlito was injured, and he disappeared not long afterwards. The Angle/Santa segment was only there to fill time, because of the thin card. And WOW, did the crowd HATE Puder vs Miz. I did think Funaki and Spike Dudley did a pretty good job considering the absence of any modicum of heat for their match.
1. Backlash: 8/10 2. Wrestlemania 20: 7/10 3. No Way Out: 6/10 4. Vengeance: 6/10 4. Summerslam: 6/10 5. Bad Blood: 5.5/10 6. Survivor Series: 5/10 7. Unforgiven: 4.5/10 8. Royal Rumble: 4/10 9. Taboo Tuesday: 3/10 10. No Mercy: 2.5/10 11. Judgement Day: 1.5/10 12. Armageddon: 1/10 13. The Great American Bash: 0.5/10 While I did like 2004 more than most people, the PPV quality wasn't great. Especially with Smackdown stinking up the joint.
Watching this made me remember that I was at the Smackdown with Chavo Classic vs Jacqueline as my only live wwe event to date. The one where he was pants and tbh Im not sure if that has any weight on why I haven't gone to another . . .
Yeah I've just kind of spaced out on this list from 06 to 04, 2003 to 1997 (or 96, the last quarter of that year set up the brilliant 97) is the golden age of wrestling.
2004 was a transitional year. Focus on veterans like Benoit, Guerrero, Bradshaw, BookerT, HHH, HBK taking to the main event, while new stars like Cena, Orton, Batista were starting to gain traction. Then you had Kenzo Suzuki and Mordecai 😂
My favorite year by far considering attitude era stars could come back and still be what they were . Good times .
Kenzo wasn't bad!
@@sreenaths6829 Nah, Kenzo was garbage IMO. Even back in 2004 I was used to japanese wrestlers being awesome in the ring, mostly due to guys like Tajiri, Taka, Kaientai or Ultimo Dragon. Kenzo was an embarrassment for any japanese dojo. I watched him a few years ago in All Japan and was hoping to see some improvement, but he still is one of the worst japanese wrestlers I have ever seen.
Iiiiiiiiiiiiev
@wicked786 dont Forget Eugene the MVP!!
It might just be me looking back fondly on my youth, but the closing of Wrestlemania XX with Chris and Eddie celebrating will always be my favorite wrestling moment
2004 was the year I properly got into Wrestling. I remember being ridiculously excited to get home from school to watch Westlemania... you never forget your first.
Wrestle mania is on Sunday why did you have school on Sunday lmao
David Jenum I live in the UK so it was on really late at night. Taped it over Sunday night, went to school on Monday morning and watched it Monday night!
I remember my first wrestlemania it was my first wrestling show and it was very close to home and my dad help make John Cenas car for it too WM23
WrestleMania 2000 was 1st one I saw
Sumerslam 2000 for me
I was in the crowd at Backlash 2004 and I will never forget that Mick Foley vs Randy Orton match for a as long as I live. Also, the buzz for Benoit at the time in the city was unreal. He was all over the news and the city even declared April 18th, the date of the PPV, to be Chris Benoit day in Edmonton.
Wow that’s pretty cool. Its just sad years after this moments like these are tarnished for what Benoit did.
I was at that show as well. Great crowd!
I assume that there’s no such thing as Chris Benoit day anymore in Edmonton?
@@leo_laughlin1414 I mean, I don't think they officially denounced it or anything like that, but nobody recognizes or celebrates it as far as I know. They just kind of quietly swept all relation to Benoit under the rug the same way the WWE did.
Ironically the Wrestlemania XX had the tagline "Where it all begins again" when in reality it just ended for good..!😢
oof
Damn never thought of that
I can’t wait for the next list. 2003 was the year I really started getting into WWE.
Me too 2003 is the year im most nostalgic for
I didn’t start watching wrestling until December of 2010 lol but have since gone back and watched a lot of old stuff and I now have my own TH-cam channel about wrestling and video games
93 or 94. Feel old. Lolz
Ah 2003 the hhh buried year!!!
@@vampirascoffin870 i only watched smackdown didnt have cable back then all i really remember is the angle brock feud and eddie rey and cena but i got really invested back then
I loved the end of WMXX when Stevie Richards and Eddie Guerrero embraced in the middle of the ring.
Dude it was Eddie gerruero and Chris Benoit sharing the middle of the ring at Wrestlemaina
@Stone Harper it was Benoit and gerruero
@@rhysvandermerwe8205 Woosh
It was Deez Nutts
Jonny Oyster you don’t get jokes do you?
Benoit and Guerrero winning the big championships made that year worth it.
Aaawwww, 2004: the year of Spike Dudley as a heel Cruiserweight champion who bossed his big brothers around and La Resistance as the dominant tag team on Raw !
This is when i started watching WWE in 2004 (august)
Royal Rumble 2001
WrestleMania X-7
Survivor Series 2003
No Mercy 2002
WrestleMania X8
WrestleMania XIX
Backlash 2004
SummerSlam 2005
ECW One Night Stand 2005
WrestleMania 22
Survivor Series 2004
Survivor Series 2005
Backlash 2007
Royal Rumble 2000
and WrestleMania XXIV were my favorite wrestling PPVs.
Shelton Benjamin should've won the World Heavyweight Championship late 04 or 05.
2004 was the year I started watching WWE and it is still my favourite year.
Eddie vs Brock is my favorite match of all time and I'm really glad you gave it the credit it needed
Christian vs jericho at unforgiven was for the vacant intercontinental title
Yes. Edge had to vacate it after SummerSlam due to injury
2004 great year to me with wwe! Ppvs and shows
Love watching you guys, thanks for brightening my day
+1
ahhh the good ol days. I miss those days.
2004 was a mixed year, it was good year for Raw but awful year for Smackdown!.
I’d say it was great, SmackDown was bad but Raw helped the year. As well as Benoit and Guerrero finally getting main event pushes. In my top 10, simply because of the nostalgia and since Orton Cena Batista etc. were becoming more popular.
The intro was a nostalgia trip. This was my entire childhood in one video😂
I was never home on Fridays, therefore every smackdown ppv, I have no clue about any of this.
Thank you for these! Can’t wait for 2003. That was my favorite year in all my time being a pro wrestling fan!
2001-2007 was my main time. Excited to watch all these lists
2002 is gonna be a hard list to do.
I can wait for the "Every 1999 PPV ranked"
Eh 2000 was better
@@RealBrizz You got that right
2000 is gonna a tough one to rank but I'm calling it now. Backlash or Fully Loaded as #1
@@johnbeatz380 same
Here's what I'd like to see... when this series gets to 2001 and prior years, they should do a ranking of WCW PPV's as well. Good or bad, nostalgia is nostalgia 👍🏼💯
An early memory I have as a kid is asking my mum to order PPV for Taboo Tuesday and she thought I was joking.
Ahh the year I became a wrestling fan Eddie vs Brock is still my favorite match of all time.
Say what you say man, but Chris Benoit worked his ass off for the company in 2004. Literally every match he wrestled was match of the night.
This is my personal list
14- The Great American Bash
13- Armageddon
12- Taboo Tuesday
11- Unforgiven
10- Judgement Day
9- No Way Out
8- Royal Rumble
7- Vengeance
6- Bad Blood
5- Wrestlemania 20
4- No Mercy
3- Summerslam
2- Backlash
1- Survivor Series.
Where did the 2003 one go???
I loved JBL's reign and we are severely missing a heel like him who can do long hateful promos to rile the crowd.
Heels these days are too well liked by the fans.
People talk about mjf and he is good, but a lot of the time it feels like the crowd is in on the act and are just booing to go along with it. NOBODY liked jbl but damn that was a fantastic heel world title run
2004 was a fine year for wrestling. Just fine. It was a transitional period.
Glad I'm not the only one who thought 2004 was a great year. One of my favourites.
Like him or not but I think JBL is one of the most hatable and funniest heels of all time. Truly a great chickenshit heel.
2004 was the year I really got into wrestling and when I actually watched the ppvs instead of highlights, wrestlemania 20 was the first mania I saw and will always be my favorite
I appreciate the types of videos so much
1. Wrestlemania 20
2. Royal Rumble
3. No Way Out
4. Backlash
5. Summerslam
6. Survivor Series
7. No Mercy
8. Armageddon
9. Bad Blood
10. Unforgiven
11. Vengeance
12. Judgment Day
13. Taboo Tuesday
14. The Great American Bash
Literally the worst of 2004 is still better than 99.99999 percent of the stuff that has ever happened in Wrestling. Ruthless agression era is the greatest era in Wrestling history it's literally not even close.
Bullshit, The Great American Bash 2004 is the worst PPV in WWE history.
@@fedeeeeee King of the Ring 1995:
@@optimus2008 ong literally Kotr 95 is one of the only ppv that can be considered much worse then the gab 2004
@@fedeeeeee i agree attitude era was better then the 2004 era
@@fedeeeeee December to dismember ‘06
2004 was a recovery year since lesnar n goldberg left especially after survivor series 2004(fav ppv of that year) thats when smackdown and raw established their future main eventers for the following years to come. Raw: hhh,randy orton, batista, edge and on smackdown ! :jbl,eddie guerrero,john cena,rey mysterio
2004 was such a great year! I was 16 and I went to both Bad Blood and Survivor Series that year and also a few Raws and SmackDowns. I remember just wanting to see the Undertaker!! I also saw the Ironman Match between Benoit and Triple H
Wrestlemania 20, Royal Rumble, and Survivor Series
such a bizarre year, looking at where it started and where it ended. but it was my first year as a wrestling fan so I guess they did something right.
2004 really was the year WWE and the business as a whole took its " Death Blow". With all those *MAJOR* stars/pillars leaving and only but a few left to fill the MASSIVE holes left (never quite did either). And after that initial "blow", WWE has been bleeding out ever since....
Let just say after the 2004 draft smackdown became trash
Yup. The draft destroyed Smackdown and it never really recovered for the remainder of the brand split. Benoit, Edge, Tajiri, Rhyno and Benjamin, all gone to Raw. All of them incredibly skilled guys. Heyman gone as well. The only two decent guys SD got out of the draft were RVD and Booker T. Then Brock left for NFL and Angle was injured for most of the year. Adding absolute duds like Luther Reigns, Mark Jindrak, the Bashams or Orlando Jordan to the roster also didn't help much.
I think at one point during the year RVD and Rene Dupree had the same exact match every week for like 2 months in a row. That's when I realised how desperate the SD roster was.
Wurzelknecht yep it didn’t start getting better till late 2005
Funaki finally winning the CW belt was a tearful moment.
When I was just getting into wrestling this o
Was one of the first dvd’s and I absolutely loved the main event because it has so much action without being overbooked
The HIAC from Bad Blood is my all time favourite match!
Confessions album?!? Good taste Pacitti
1:24 Adam Pacitti presents...
1:33 The Great American Bash.
2:52 Armageddon.
4:31 Judgement Day.
6:07 Taboo Tuesday.
7:28 Unforgiven.
8:36 No mercy.
10:10 Survivor Series.
11:37 Vengeance.
12:49 Bad Blood.
14:16 Summerslam.
15:51 No Way Out.
16:55 Royal Rumble.
18:17 Backlash.
19:50 Wrestlemania 20.
I loved all 2004 WWE events especially WWE WrestleMania XX
This series will end at which wwe year?
Always good quality
perfection
You know, I always look back at 2004 as being a consistently great year for WWE and one of my personal favorite years in general. But I never really fully realized how much of a hit the business took that year....with Austin leaving, Rock, Lesnar, Goldberg...Cena, Orton, and Batista still not *yet* molded into the mega-stars they would become and no one but HHH, HBK, Taker and a few others to fill in those MASSIVE holes those guys left (and no one ever really fully did). *THAT* was the year WWE and wrestling as a whole really took its " Death Blow".....and its been bleeding out ever since. And then ofc...the following year...Eddie passed, and not too long after Benoit; both shrouded in controversy (especially Benoit), and then ofc the following scandals... only further cementing WWES' fate.
2004 was my first year in buying wwe dvds.
The good old UK Silverscreen dvds.
Royal Rumble 04 was my first.
2004 was Great!!!! Wrestlemania XX changed the trajectory of my life for the better. Thank you 2004!
This is Vince McMahons FAVORITE year in the history of his company, his favorite wrestler ever even got to main event Wrestlemania
Freddie Johnson Yea after it was vacated, Randall Keith beat the ring post in a SunmerSlam Match for the title
Freddie Johnson Oh ya that was a really good moment. It was kind of upsetting though, do you remember at the end of Mania XX when the vacant title belt was in the middle of the ring and Eddie came down to give the belt a hug?
Freddie Johnson and the eventual punchline is, the belt was back on Triple H by September.
Hardcore Holly vs. Brock Lesnar should have gotten at least 20 minutes. Even though Holly had no hope in hell of winning, they really could have gotten more time to build the match seeing as that Brock only BROKE THE MAN'S FREAKING NECK.
Why they can’t talk about the royal rumble 2004? I’m confused?
John Cena getting cheered absolutely stunned me watching Weestlemania 20 back lmao
The best part about Survivor Series 2004 was the Exies also most of the matches where good
Rest in peace to our brothers Eddie Guerrero and Chris benoit you maded the year memorable ☮️
Back when WWE was wachtable:)
Current wwe sucks so much!
Guess who's wrong!!
@Talûn-karkû The Warchief nah. Find a less complicated name.
I would love to see a “every TNA PPV” for each year as well! These are awesome to chuck on when I sleep
omg after watching this i realized how bad this year was
I am SOOO looking forward to "ranking every PPV from 1985"
Yeah, but the only ppv was wrestlemania 1.
best HBK wrestlemania matches from worst to best
I miss these days I was 8 🤦🏽♂️
At 8:04 Jericho didnt retain the the intercontinental championship it was vacated at the time.
Can't wait for every 1953 PPV ranked
@Brooklyn T. Guy Its a joke?.......
Do Shawn Michaels Wrestlemania matches ranked from worse to best!
I thought after WM XX, we were going to enter an era of Wrestling, led by Chris &Eddie...
Hey, Pacitti takes his Subway sandwich like I do. Sweet onion chicken teriyaki with jalapenos. :)
Long story short, i miss edd8e Guerrero
The great American bash was like a throw away show for two or three years straight
Am I crazy? Wasn’t 2003 posted?
does Pacitti seriously not know why Orton dropped the world title immediately to HHH? it was all Ortons fault for that
I was in the 4th row at Armageddon '04. Still have the folding chair. The event..........was not good. The video doesn't mention that Jesus was just thrown in to be Cena's punching bag because Carlito was injured, and he disappeared not long afterwards. The Angle/Santa segment was only there to fill time, because of the thin card. And WOW, did the crowd HATE Puder vs Miz. I did think Funaki and Spike Dudley did a pretty good job considering the absence of any modicum of heat for their match.
Since you mentioned a Subway meal, do you guys have a SUBWAY near Cultaholic Army HQ? I got hungry all the sudden. 😋
Kung Funaki.. That was really one of his gimmicks.
Nidia vs Noble was surprisingly fun on a WeeLC level.
Such a shame I wasn't watching WWE in 2004 and so I missed Snitsky, Heidenreich and Mordecai in their prime.
My boy Charlie Haas is underrated
My favourite show at the moment, I’ll start knowing all the cards from now on, are you going to do the 80/s as a whole, and early 90s, from 95 your ok
Yes! It's literally what I asked for, thank you Cultaholic!
The 2001-2005 era of WWE ( mostly Smackdown ) was amazing . 🏆
1. Backlash: 8/10
2. Wrestlemania 20: 7/10
3. No Way Out: 6/10
4. Vengeance: 6/10
4. Summerslam: 6/10
5. Bad Blood: 5.5/10
6. Survivor Series: 5/10
7. Unforgiven: 4.5/10
8. Royal Rumble: 4/10
9. Taboo Tuesday: 3/10
10. No Mercy: 2.5/10
11. Judgement Day: 1.5/10
12. Armageddon: 1/10
13. The Great American Bash: 0.5/10
While I did like 2004 more than most people, the PPV quality wasn't great. Especially with Smackdown stinking up the joint.
@Brooklyn T. Guy Respect your opinion!
The next few years will be interesting
This was the year I was born yet I know a lot of what happened this year and before and after
from going back to watch major storylines
Triple h pedigreeing someone back in line was such a real thing back then lol
Man that WM XX main event is tough to watch considering what will inevitably happen in 2-3 years
Mania 20 was so good, honestly if it weren't for the all time stinker of Goldberg vs Lewsnar, I would call it my favorite ever.
13:48 it was his best showing to that point, bc it was his WWE debut 😂
this is gold
Hope Ross always in good condition. We miss you ❤️
Your subways have fresh jalapeños?!
Chris jericho vs Christian at unforgiven...
The title was vacant
My favourites
Royal rumble
No way out
Wrestlemania 20
Backlash
Bad blood
No mercy
Survivor series
This year kinda sucked
Watching this made me remember that I was at the Smackdown with Chavo Classic vs Jacqueline as my only live wwe event to date. The one where he was pants and tbh Im not sure if that has any weight on why I haven't gone to another . . .
Yeah I've just kind of spaced out on this list from 06 to 04, 2003 to 1997 (or 96, the last quarter of that year set up the brilliant 97) is the golden age of wrestling.
I honestly got confused and thought at 7:56 was an old match between Batista and Shawn Michaels.... Fuck I’m high
The Cena match during Armageddon was good
5:00 funniest Adam moment
I was just 10 years old ... Geez where the time has gone