Summerslam (2005) (TV)

Director:

Kevin Dunn

Writers:

Brian Gewirtz
Stephanie McMahon
(more)

Release Date:

21 August 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Sport

Tagline:

Immortality has a price.

Plot:

Matt Hardy vs Edge, Chris Benoit vs Orlando Jordan, Kurt Angle vs Eugene, The Undertaker vs Randy Orton, Eddie Guerrero vs Rey Mysterio, John Cena vs Chris Jericho, JBL vs Batista, Hulk Hogan vs Shawn Michaels. |

Plot Keywords:

Undertaker | Hulk Hogan | Olympic Gold Medalist | Masked Wrestler | WWE

Cast

Hulk Hogan	...	Himself
Shawn Michaels	...	Himself
Dave Bautista	...	Batista
John Layfield	...	John 'Bradshaw' Layfield
John Cena	...	Himself
Chris Jericho	...	Himself
Randy Orton	...	Himself
Mark Calaway	...	The Undertaker
Bob Orton	...	Himself
Eddie Guerrero	...	Himself
Oscar Gutiérrez	...	Rey Mysterio
Vickie Guerrero	...	Herself
Dominic Gutiérrez	...	Himself
Vince McMahon	...	Himself
Kurt Angle	...	Himself
Jim Ross	...	Himself
Jerry Lawler	...	Himself
Jonathan Coachman	...	Himself
Nick Dinsmore	...	Eugene
Christie Hemme	...	Herself (as Christy Hemme)
Adam Copeland	...	Edge
Amy Dumas	...	Lita
Matt Hardy	...	Himself
Chris Benoit	...	Himself
Orlando Jordan	...	Himself
Michael Coulthard	...	Michael Cole
Peter Senerchia	...	Tazz
Torrie Wilson	...	Herself
Candice Michelle	...	Herself
Ashley Massaro	...	Herself
Stacy Keibler	...	Herself
Maria Kanellis	...	Herself
Lilián García	...	Herself
Eric Bischoff	...	Himself
Tony Chimel	...	Himself
Carlos Cabrera	...	Himself
Hugo Savinovich	...	Himself
Charles Robinson	...	Himself
Chad Patton	...	Himself
Nick Patrick	...	Himself
Jimmy Korderas	...	Himself
Brian Hebner	...	Himself
Angie Gutiérrez	...	Herself
Jack Doan	...	Himself
Mike Chioda	...	Himself
Todd Grisham	...	Himself (also archive footage)
Mark Yeaton	...	Himself
Jimmy Noonan	...	Himself
Ken Mehlman	...	Himself (as Ken Melhman)
Ed Gillespie	...	Himself
Steve Kaufmann	...	Himself (archive footage)
Teddy Long	...	Himself (archive footage)
Carlos Colón Jr.	...	Carlito (archive footage)
Travis Tomko	...	Tyson Tomko (archive footage)
Sho Funaki	...	Himself (archive footage)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Chris Mordetzky	...	The Masterpiece Chris Masters (as Chris Masters)
Lisa Marie Varon	...	Herself (as Victoria)

Directed by
Kevin Dunn

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Court Bauer
Christopher DeJoseph		writer
Rudy Fischmann
Brian Gewirtz
Alex Greenfield
Ed Koskey
Stephanie McMahon
David Merritt II		written by (as David M. Merritt II)

Produced by
Vince McMahon	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Jim Johnston

Art Department
Peter Castellano	....	motion graphics artist

Production Companies

• World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)

Distributors

• In Demand (2005) (USA) (TV)
• WWE Home Video (2005) (USA) (all media)

Also Known As:

"WWE Summerslam" - USA (promotional title)

Runtime:

USA:180 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:MA | USA:TV-14

Filming Locations:

MCI Center, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Company:

World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)

Trivia:

Final SummerSlam appearances for both Chris Benoit and Eddie Guerrero.

Goofs:

Factual errors: Jim Ross said it was Shawn Michaels' 10th Summerslam appearance, but it was his 11th.

Movie Connections:

Features The Great American Bash (2005) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Sexy Boy

Good fast surprising PPV

Orlando Jordan vs Chris Benoit (US title)

A remarkable opening and easily the quickest match you will ever see and it was actually rather funny to. 8/10

Matt Hardy vs Edge

The build up to this was very good with the real life occurrences between Lita and Edge and we see the animosity all the way through a, once more, very short encounter. Thankfully the cage match at Unforgiven was great for retribution 8/10

Rey Mysterio vs Eddie Guerrero

This ladder match for the custody of Eddie's "biological" son had some great swings and moves, particularly from the late Guerrero who always shone as a heel. Ending was obvious though 8/10

Eugene vs Kurt Angle

Seeing wrestlers like Eugene and Hornswoggle makes me despise the company today and this is why. Eugene uses no original move and thankfully Angle shows why he is the best wrestler, and performer, of all time. 6/10

Undertaker vs Randy Orton

Wrestlemania rematch was all guns blazing as Orton tried to scamper numerous times and the Undertaker is never, in his whole career, boring. The ending was quite shocking to 8/10

Batista vs JBL (No holds barred world title match)

Brutal fist fights and a powerbomb of a climax but this was surprisingly exceptionally short and rather forgettable. 5/10

John Cena vs Chris Jericho

This match has the most ridiculous outcome imaginable. Jericho, in arguably his most dominant performance in his career, is in cruise control and high flying entertaining action. Cena seriously hits about 3 big moves, this is all Y2J. Great atmosphere here as half the crowd chant "Let's go Cena" then the others chant "Let's go Jericho" 8/10

Hulk Hogan vs Shawn Michaels

A reasonable climax. Given the build up and terms and everything involved it boiled down to some risky moments involving chairs, low blows etc. Hogan bleeds profusely pretty much all the way through. There was only ever going to be one ending. 7/10

A very good consistent PPV with many surprises, none bigger than the first match but certainly worth checking out.