The Retribution was the fourth

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produced by

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(WWA). The event took place on December 6, 2002 at the

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. The event aired in the United States on February 9, 2003 via tape delay. Eight

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were contested at the event.

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defeated

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in the

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to win the vacant

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after previous champion

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vacated the title due to leaving WWA to join

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. Predominant matches on the undercard were a

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between Sabu,

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and

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and a title defense of the

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against Nathan Jones.

Event

Preliminary matches

In the opening match,

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defeated

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after performing a '' Dead Sea Drop''. Next, Nate Webb was scheduled to compete against

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in a match but

attacked him from behind by hitting a

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, a

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and a

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and then applied a ''

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'' on Webb. Konnan then came and covered Webb for the pinfall and referee rang the bell and counted the pinfall to award the quick victory to Konnan. Next,

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and Malice took on

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and

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in a tag team match. Bagwell and Swinger attacked Smiley before even Malice made his entrance. Malice then joined the match to even the odds. Near the end of the match, Smiley tried to hit a ''Big Wiggle'' to Swinger but Swinger hit a low blow to Smiley and Bagwell performed a '' Buff Blockbuster'' on Smiley for the win. Next, Teo took on Puppet in a

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, with Midajah as the special guest referee. Teo hit a missile dropkick from the second rope and a

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for the win. After the match, Perry Saturn attacked both men and kidnapped Midajah taking her away to the backstage. Later, new Commissioner Mike Sanders took on

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. Near the end of the match, Legend tried to hit a ''Stone Cutter'' but Sanders pushed him off and hit a

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for the win. This was followed by

defending the

against Nathan Jones. Jones tried to hit a chokeslam to Jarrett but Jarrett pushed the referee in Jones' way, so Jones picked him up and threw him to the mat, which allowed Jarrett to hit Jones with a guitar for the win to retain the title. In the penultimate match, Sabu took on

and Perry Saturn in a

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. Teo and Puppet interfered in the match and hit Saturn with Singapore canes but Midajah stopped them, allowing Saturn to attack them. They ripped off Midajah's dress and ran off while Saturn covered Midajah and the two left the match and went to the backstage. Diamond then dived off the top rope but Sabu threw a chair at him and hit a triple jump moonsault for the win.

Main event match

took on

in the main event for the vacant World Heavyweight Championship. Near the end of the match, Luger pulled the referee in the way of a '' Stinger Splash'' attempt by Sting. Jeff Jarrett then interfered by hitting Sting with a guitar. Luger then applied a '' Torture Rack'' but Sting's foot hit the referee knocking him down again and then Sting countered the ''Torture Rack'' into a '' Scorpion Death Drop''. Jarrett then hit Sting with a second guitar, allowing Luger to win the title.

Reception

''Retribution'' received mostly negative reviews from critics. ''Crazy Max'' staff gave negative reviews on the event and panned the event for Sting's first televised match in eighteen months ending in a loss. Arnold Furious of ''411Mania'' gave negative reviews to the event, rating it 4 out of 10 as he wrote "Some of it was alright and main event aside it didn't leave the "WCW" bad taste in the mouth. Some of the one night booking was pretty nonsensical. Like the Midajah situation. It's like a different person booked each one of her segments. I think they were probably expecting Sabu-Diamond-Saturn to be a show stealer but it would have worked better having a triple threat if it was entirely high fliers. Diamond's presence didn't really add to the match. It was one of the more spotty efforts on the night. The other being the opener. Jarrett & Jones did nothing. Sting & Luger did nothing. The formula tag was very bland. It seems like the entire company had no direction. You can understand them struggling a little as their champion got signed by the

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but hey, it happens. Moving someone up the card was probably the answer rather than drafting in an out of shape Lex Luger to run a match that scraped over seven minutes and still blew up both participants. Thumbs down for this PPV. WWA was only ever really entertaining when it was copying successful achievements from elsewhere and even then it just came off as a second rate rip off."

Results

References

External links

The Retribution results at Pro Wrestling History
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