The 2005 Great American Bash was the second annual

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(PPV)

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produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (

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), and 16th Great American Bash event overall. It was held exclusively for wrestlers from the promotion's SmackDown! brand division. The event took place on July 24, 2005, at the

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. The

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was

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defending the World Heavyweight Championship against

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(JBL). JBL won the match after Batista was disqualified, but did not win the title because a championship can only be won via

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. One of the featured matches on the

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was

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versus

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, which Mysterio won by pinfall. The other was

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versus

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for the

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, which Jordan won, also by pinfall. The event was also notable for the final WWE appearance of Muhammad Hassan, who was involved in a controversial angle on an '' SmackDown!'' episode that aired on the same day of the London bombing attacks earlier that month. The event grossed over US$375,000 in ticket sales from an attendance of 8,000, and received about 233,000 pay-per-view buys, the same amount as the following year's event. This enabled WWE's pay-per-view revenue to increase by $4.7 million from the previous year. When the 2005 event was released on

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, it reached a peak position of second on ''

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s DVD Sales Chart. The event was also available free of charge for

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members and their families.

Production

Background

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is a

event established in 1985. Following

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's (WWE) acquisition of

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(WCW) in March 2001, WWE revived

to be held in June 2004 as a SmackDown!- branded event. The 2005 event was the second annual Great American Bash

(PPV) produced by WWE, thus establishing the event as an annual PPV for the promotion, and was the 16th Great American Bash event overall. It took place on July 24, 2005, at the

. Like the previous year, it featured wrestlers exclusively from the SmackDown! brand. The event was available free of charge for

members and their families.

Storylines

The Great American Bash event featured a

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, which contained matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing

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feuds, plots and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed either a villainous or fan favorite gimmick as they followed a series of events which generally built tension, leading to a wrestling match. The name of a wrestler's character was not always the person's

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, as wrestlers often use a

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to portray their character. Batistalive

The

at The Great American Bash was a standard wrestling match for the World Heavyweight Championship, in which

defended the championship against

(JBL). The buildup to the match began when

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was drafted to the

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brand, taking the title with him and leaving SmackDown! without a top-tier championship for the heavyweight division.

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, a portrayed match maker and rules enforcer, announced a match between six wrestlers for a new top-tier SmackDown! championship. On the June 30 episode of the ''SmackDown!'' television program, the match took place between JBL,

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, Muhammad Hassan, and

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. JBL was victorious in the match, but Long announced that he was still not the champion. Instead he had won the right to a match against the World Heavyweight Champion, Batista, who was SmackDown!'s final 2005 draft pick, making the World Heavyweight Championship exclusive to SmackDown!. On the July 14 episode of ''SmackDown!'', Batista defeated

in a standard match after performing a Batista Bomb. After the match, JBL successfully attacked Batista by executing a

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. The following week on ''SmackDown!'', JBL, who was accompanied by Jordan, threw himself a celebration party with the belief that he had already won the World Heavyweight Championship. Batista appeared, and as JBL fled the scene, performed a

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on Jordan. The event also featured a feud between

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and

. At the No Way Out event, Guerrero and Mysterio won the

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from the Basham Brothers. After Guerrero and Mysterio lost the championships, Guerrero then began to portray a villainous character,

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on Mysterio in the process. At

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, Mysterio defeated Guerrero in a standard match. On the April 21 episode of ''SmackDown!'', MNM ( Johnny Nitro and

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) defeated Mysterio and Guerrero to win the tag team championship. On the April 28 episode of ''SmackDown!'', Guerrero and Mysterio faced MNM in a rematch for the title, but MNM retained them after pinning Mysterio for the win. At the

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event, Mysterio defeated Guerrero by disqualification, and on the June 30 episode of ''SmackDown!'', the rivalry between Guerrero and Mysterio continued when Guerrero threatened to reveal a secret concerning Mysterio's son Dominik. Both the Mysterio and Guerrero families continued to beg Guerrero to not reveal the secret. A match was made between Mysterio and Guerrero for The Great American Bash, where if Mysterio won, Guerrero could not reveal the secret, but if Guerrero won, he would be able to reveal the secret on live television. The third predominant feud prior to the event was between Chris Benoit and Orlando Jordan for the

. On the July 7 edition of ''SmackDown!'', Benoit defeated Booker T in a match to become the #1 contender for the title. Long granted Benoit a match against Jordan for The Great American Bash.

Event

Before the pay-per-view went live, a match took place on the '' Sunday Night Heat'' pre-show between

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and Nunzio for the WWE Cruiserweight Championship, which London won to retain the title.

Preliminary matches

The first match on the card was between MNM (Johnny Nitro and Joey Mercury, managed by Melina) and

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( Heidenreich and

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) for the

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. During the match, Nitro hit Animal with one of the championship belts, but Animal retaliated by

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ming him. Animal and Heidenreich then performed the

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on Nitro and scored the

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to win the match and the titles. The next match was between

(managed by

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) and

. Booker T won the match after performing a scissors kick. In the next match,

faced

for the United States Championship. During the match, Jordan removed the top turnbuckle pad. Benoit attempted to slam Jordan but Jordan avoided the attack and instead forced Benoit to run into the exposed turnbuckle. Jordan scored the pin to win the match and retain the title. The fourth match was between

and Muhammad Hassan (managed by Daivari) to determine the #1 contender for the World Heavyweight Championship. During Hassan's entrance, men in masks accompanied him to the ring to represent his Arabic culture. The masked men proceeded to interfered in the match, but Undertaker retaliated and removed all of the masked men from the ring. Midway through the match, Undertaker attempted to use a Tombstone piledriver on Hassan, but Hassan escaped the move and attempted a Clothesline. The Undertaker countered by

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ming Hassan and scored the pinfall on Hassan to win the match and become the #1 contender. Following this, Undertaker executed a Last Ride through the stage floor on Hassan, writing him out of storylines. The next match was between

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and

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in a six-man

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match. At the match's end,

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executed a

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onto Big Stevie Cool from the top ring rope, and

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performed a

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. Psicosis proceeded to pin Big Stevie and win the match for his team.

Main event matches

The following match was between

and

, where the stipulation was that if Guerrero won the match, he would reveal the secret he has been hiding from the public that neither Mysterio's nor Guerrero's families wanted revealed. If Mysterio won, however, Guerrero would not reveal the secret. Guerrero executed the Three Amigos on Mysterio and performed a

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. Guerrero then tried to score the pinfall, but Mysterio countered by pinning Guerrero to win the match. As a result, Guerrero was not able to reveal the secret. The seventh match was between Melina and

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with

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, as the guest referee, in a Bra and Panties match. The only way to win a "Bra and Panties" match is for a wrestler to strip her opponent down to her underwear. At the start of the match, Wilson pulled off Melina's shirt to reveal her bra, but Melina retaliated and pulled off Wilson's shirt. Wilson then lifted Melina to her shoulders and dropped her to the mat, while she attempted to pull off her pants, but Melina countered the attack by pulling Wilson's pants off to win the match. Afterward, Michelle stripped Melina and then removed her own clothes, as well. The

was between

and

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(managed by Orlando Jordan) for the World Heavyweight Championship. Jordan interfered by attempting to hit Batista with a

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, but Batista grabbed the chair from him. Batista then used the chair to hit Jordan and JBL, and JBL was declared the winner, via disqualification. In WWE, a title cannot be won by disqualification, but only by pinfall or submission (the normal scoring conditions in professional wrestling matches). As a result, Batista retained the title. After the match Batista gave JBL and Jordan a Batista Bomb.

Reception

The HSBC Arena has a maximum capacity of 18,690, but it was reduced for The Great American Bash. The event grossed over $375,000 in ticket sales from an attendance of 8,000, the maximum allowed. The event resulted in 233,000 pay-per-view buys, which was the same amount as the following year's Great American Bash. The promotion's pay-per-view revenue was $21.6 million, greater than the previous year's revenue of $16.9 million. The event was widely criticized by fans and critics alike. ''

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s professional wrestling section rated the event a five out of ten. The World Heavyweight Championship main event match was rated three out of ten, and the match between Rey Mysterio and Eddie Guerrero received the highest match rating of eight out of ten. The event was released on

on August 23, 2005, by

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. The DVD reached seventh on ''

s DVD Sales Chart for recreational sports during the week of October 8, 2005, and it rose to the fourth spot the following week. It remained on the chart's "top ten" for four consecutive weeks, until the week of December 15, 2005, when it ranked thirteenth.

Aftermath

The feud between Batista and JBL continued after the Bash. On the July 28 episode of ''SmackDown!'', JBL defeated The Undertaker after interference from Randy Orton to become the number-one contender for the World Heavyweight Championship at

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. The following week on ''SmackDown!'', Batista and JBL held a scripted official contract signing, where it was announced that their match at SummerSlam would be a

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that allowed for no disqualification. At SummerSlam, Batista defeated JBL to retain the World Heavyweight Championship. The feud between the two ended when Batista defeated JBL in a

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on the September 9 edition of ''SmackDown!'', a match where the objective is to touch all four ring corners while tied to one's opponent with a bullrope. On the edition of ''SmackDown!'' following The Great American Bash, Eddie Guerrero revealed the secret he had been keeping; he was Dominick's real father, not Rey Mysterio (was thought to be). At SummerSlam, Mysterio defeated Guerrero in a ladder match, where the goal is to climb a ladder to retrieve an object that is suspended in the air. As per pre-match stipulations, Mysterio gained complete custody of Dominick. On the September 9 edition of ''SmackDown!'', Guerrero finally defeated Mysterio in a

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match to end the feud. Guerrero then began a feud with Batista when Guerrero was given a title match at No Mercy. Guerrero, however, died unexpectedly of

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on November 13, 2005. In 2006 Guerrero was inducted into the

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by Mysterio, his nephew Chavo Guerrero Jr., and Chris Benoit. The feud between Chris Benoit and Orlando Jordan continued. At SummerSlam, Benoit defeated Jordan for the WWE United States Championship in a match that lasted 25.5 seconds. On the September 1 edition of ''SmackDown!'', Benoit once again defeated Jordan for the title, but this time the match lasted 23.4 seconds. The following week on ''SmackDown!'', Benoit defeated Jordan in another title match, where the match lasted 22.5 seconds.

Results

References

External links

Official Great American Bash 2005 website
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