The 2004 No Way Out was the sixth
No Way Out professional wrestling
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pay-per-view (PPV)
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produced by
World Wrestling Entertainment
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(WWE). It was held exclusively for wrestlers from the promotion's
SmackDown! brand division. The event took place on February 15, 2004, at the
Cow Palace
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in
Daly City, California
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. The event is best remembered for its final match, which saw
Eddie Guerrero
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defeat
WWE Champion
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Brock Lesnar to win the title, his top wrestling achievement before his
death
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in 2005.
No Way Out grossed over
US$
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450,000 ticket sales from an attendance of approximately 11,000 and received 350,000 pay-per-view buys, and was instrumental in helping WWE increase its pay-per-view revenue by $11.9 million compared to the previous year. Like the event, the DVD received favorable reviews.
Production
Background
No Way Out was first held by
World Wrestling Entertainment
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(WWE) as the
20th In Your House pay-per-view (PPV) in February 1998. Following the discontinuation of the
In Your House
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series,
No Way Out returned in
February 2000 as its own PPV event, thus establishing it as the annual February PPV for the promotion. The 2004 event was the sixth event in the No Way Out chronology and was held on February 15 at the
Cow Palace
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in
Daly City, California
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. While the
previous year's event featured wrestlers from both the
Raw
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and
SmackDown! brands
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, the 2004 event featured wrestlers exclusively from the SmackDown! brand, which made it the first brand-exclusive No Way Out event.
Storylines
![Brock Lesnar - WWE Champion](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Brock_Lesnar_-_WWE_Champion.jpg)
The event consisted of eight
professional wrestling match
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es with wrestlers involved in pre-existing
scripted
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Back ...
feuds, and
storylines. Wrestlers were portrayed as either
villains
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or
fan favorites as they followed a series of tension-building events, which culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. All wrestlers belonged to the
SmackDown! brand – a
storyline division in which WWE assigned its employees to a different program.
After winning a 15-man
Royal Rumble match
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on the January 29 episode of ''SmackDown!'',
Eddie Guerrero
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earned the right to challenge for the
WWE Championship
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at No Way Out against the champion
Brock Lesnar in a
singles match.
Outside the storyline with Guerrero, Lesnar was involved in a
staged rivalry with
Goldberg, a member of the
Raw
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brand. The feud between Lesnar and Goldberg began at the
Royal Rumble
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. Lesnar interfered in the Royal Rumble match attacking Goldberg, which caused Goldberg to be eliminated from the match. On January 26 and January 29 Goldberg and Lesnar conducted
promos on respective episodes of ''Raw'' and ''SmackDown!'', in which they insulted each other.
On the February 2 episode of ''Raw'',
Sheriff Steve Austin
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gave Goldberg the option of attending No Way Out by giving him a front-row ticket. On the February 5 episode of ''SmackDown!'', the storyline between Guerrero and Lesnar was enhanced when they began a brawl after an in-ring interview segment.
On the February 5 episode of ''SmackDown!'',
General Manager
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Paul Heyman
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scheduled a
triple threat match
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between
Big Show
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,
Kurt Angle
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and
John Cena
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for No Way Out.
The winner of that match would face the WWE Champion at
WrestleMania XX
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for the title.
The rivalry continued to develop on the February 12 episode of ''SmackDown!'', when Angle was scheduled to team with Guerrero to face The Big Show and Lesnar, but was found unconscious backstage. Cena then replaced Angle in the match and defeated the opposition with Guerrero.
In February,
WWE Cruiserweight Champion
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Rey Mysterio Jr.
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produced "Crossing Borders", which was No Way Out's official theme song. In this storyline,
Chavo Guerrero Jr. became jealous of the attention Mysterio garnered as a result of recording the song. Therefore, Heyman promoted a match between the two at No Way Out for the Cruiserweight Championship during the February 5 episode of ''SmackDown!''.
On the February 12 episode of ''SmackDown!'', Mysterio was accompanied by
Jorge Páez, a
professional boxer
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and childhood friend of Mysterio who appeared in his "Crossing Borders"
music video
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, to his match against
Tajiri. Mysterio defeated Tajiri but was attacked by Guerrero and
Chavo Guerrero, Sr. after the match until Paez intervened and helped Mysterio.
Event
Sunday Night Heat
Before the event began and aired
live on pay-per-view, Tajiri,
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and
Akio defeated
Último Dragón
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,
Billy Kidman
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, and
Paul London
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After being trained at the Texas Wrestling Academy, London began competing for Ring of Hon ...
in a 6-Man Tag Team Match on ''
Sunday Night Heat.
Main Show
After ''Sunday Night Heat'', the pay-per-view began with a
handicap match
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that saw the WWE Tag Team Champions
Rikishi
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and
Scotty 2 Hotty
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defend their titles against
Basham Brothers (
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and
Danny Basham) and
Shaniqua. During the match Hotty attempted a
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on Shaniqua, but Shaniqua countered by
clotheslining Hotty. The challengers had the advantage until Hotty clotheslined the Bashams, causing them to flip over the top ring rope and into ringside. Afterwards, Rikishi delivered a
Samoan drop. Rikishi then
covered
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Shaniqua to retain the championships.
Next was a singles match, in which
Jamie Noble
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was blindfolded as he faced his storyline girlfriend
Nidia. Nidia would take advantage of Noble's inability to see by performing antics that caused him to fall. Eventually, Noble was able to apply the
guillotine choke
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on Nidia. Noble won the match after he forced her to
submit with this move.
The third contest was a tag team match, in which
World's Greatest Tag Team (
Shelton Benjamin
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and
Charlie Haas
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) faced the
APA (
Bradshaw and
Faarooq
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). At one point, Bradshaw performed a clothesline on Haas. Benjamin then delivered a
superkick
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to Bradshaw and pinned him to gain the win for his team. After the match, Goldberg was seen arriving at the arena and being escorted to his seat by arena security. In the ring, SmackDown! General Manager Paul Heyman gave a promotional in-ring segment on how ''SmackDown!'' was the better program over ''Raw''. Brock Lesnar would come down to the ring to promote his match and to insult Goldberg. As part of the storyline, Goldberg immediately jumped over the barricade into the ring, where Lesnar performed a
spear
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on Goldberg however he recuperated and delivered a
Jackhammer
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to Lesnar. Goldberg was then escorted out of the arena by security.
This altercation was followed by a match between
Hardcore Holly
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and
Rhyno
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. Before the match began, Holly and Rhyno brawled on the entrance ramp, before they entered the ring. Once there, Holly executed a
superplex
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, though, as they recuperated, Rhyno delivered a Gore that caused Holly to roll out of the ring. Afterwards, Holly delivered an
Alabama slam for the pinfall.
In the fifth match Rey Mysterio (managed by
Jorge Páez), defended his
WWE Cruiserweight Championship against Chavo Guerrero (managed by his father Chavo Guerrero, Sr.) During the fight, Mysterio performed a 619 on Guerrero, leading to an attack by Paez on Guerrero, Sr. The referee ordered Paez backstage. Both fighters wrestled inconclusively until Mysterio delivered a second 619. During the second sequence of the move, Guerrero
grabbed Mysterio's legs and achieved a position with his shoulders spread so as to win both a pinfall and the WWE Cruiserweight title.
The following match was the triple threat match between Big Show, John Cena and Kurt Angle, with the winner facing the
WWE Champion
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at
WrestleMania XX
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. For the duration of the match, The Big Show, who stood at and weighed , used his body size to his advantage as he
squashed, or easily and quickly performed moves on, Cena and Angle. Thereafter, Cena delivered an ''
FU'', while Angle threw Big Show out of the ring with an Angle Slam. Angle then applied an
ankle lock on Cena, forcing him to submit. As a result, Angle won a WWE Championship match at WrestleMania XX.
The main event featured Brock Lesnar defending the WWE Championship against Eddie Guerrero. Lesnar used his size advantage over Guerrero throughout the match. As Lesnar attempted an
F-5, he knocked down the
referee. Lesnar then attempted to take advantage of the referee's state, as he went to retrieve the WWE title belt to hit Guerrero. Meanwhile, Goldberg came down into the ring and delivered a spear to Lesnar. As Goldberg retreated, Guerrero countered Lesnar's second F5 into a
DDT
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on the title belt while the referee regained consciousness. Guerrero kicked the belt out of the ring to prevent the referee from seeing it and performed his
Frog splash
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to pin Lesnar and win the WWE Championship from him.
Reception
The
Cow Palace
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arena usually can accommodate 13,000, but the capacity was reduced to 11,000 for No Way Out 2004. This event grossed over
$450,000 from an approximate attendance of 11,000 which was the maximum allowed. It also received 350,000 pay-per-view buys. No Way Out helped World Wrestling Entertainment earn $43.7 million in revenue from pay-per-view events versus $31.8 million the previous year;
Linda McMahon
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McMahon ...
, then
CEO of WWE, confirmed this statement on June 21, 2004, in a quarterly financial report. The event received mostly positive reviews.
Canadian Online Explorer's professional wrestling section described the event as "''Smackdown!'' us our money's worth last night but they also set up what's probably going to be the best match at Wrestlemania."
Kevin Sowers from PWTorch described the main event between Eddie Guerrero and Brock Lesnar as "one to remember for a long time."
The event was released on
DVD
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on March 16, 2004. After its release, the DVD received a rating of 8.5 out of 10 points by
IGN
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.
Aftermath
At
WrestleMania XX
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, Eddie Guerrero defeated Kurt Angle via pinfall and retained the WWE Championship.
John "Bradshaw" Layfield, portraying a new
character
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after the semi-retirement of his tag team partner Faarooq,
challenged Guerrero for the WWE Championship and defeated him at
The Great American Bash
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to win the title. Guerrero failed to recapture the title from Layfield in a
steel cage match
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on the July 15 episode of ''SmackDown!''. After Guerrero's
death
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in November 2005, WWE held tribute shows on ''Raw'' and ''SmackDown!'' During these programs, No Way Out was the main highlight of Guerrero's career, as it was where he won his only world championship.
John Cena began a rivalry with Big Show over his
WWE United States Championship
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and, at WrestleMania, Cena defeated Big Show to win the title.
Goldberg and Lesnar continued their rivalry, leading to a match promoted at WrestleMania, in which Goldberg defeated Lesnar.
After their match, Goldberg and Lesnar left the company,
although Lesnar would make his return in April 2012 and Goldberg made his return in October 2016.
Rey Mysterio and Chavo Guerrero's storyline over the WWE Cruiserweight Championship also continued, culminating in a battle royal match at WrestleMania XX involving other wrestlers. Guerrero last eliminated Mysterio to retain his title in this match.
After the
Draft Lottery, a mock
sports draft lottery in which wrestlers switched programs,
Rico
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was drafted to SmackDown!, while Shelton Benjamin was drafted to Raw, in the process splitting up The World's Greatest Tag Team. Afterward, Charlie Haas and Rico won the WWE Tag Team Championship from Rikishi and Scotty 2 Hotty on the April 22 episode of ''SmackDown!''.
Results
References
External links
Official No Way Out 2004 Website
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