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No Way Out (2004)
The 2004 No Way Out was the sixth No Way Out professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (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 in Daly City, California. The event is best remembered for its final match, which saw Eddie Guerrero defeat WWE Champion Brock Lesnar to win the title, his top wrestling achievement before his death in 2005.
No Way Out grossed over US$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.
No Way Out was first held by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) as the 20th In Your House pay-per-view (PPV) in February 1998. Following the discontinuation of the In Your House 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 in Daly City, California. While the previous year's event featured wrestlers from both the Raw and SmackDown! brands, the 2004 event featured wrestlers exclusively from the SmackDown! brand, which made it the first brand-exclusive No Way Out event.
The event consisted of eight professional wrestling matches with wrestlers involved in pre-existing scripted feuds, and storylines. Wrestlers were portrayed as either villains 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.
The primary storyline involved the WWE Championship, which at the time was held by Brock Lesnar. At the Royal Rumble on January 25, the SmackDown! brand was victorious in the Royal Rumble match when Chris Benoit last eliminated The Big Show to win. This would have entitled Benoit, who had an ongoing feud with general manager Paul Heyman at the time, to a championship match against Lesnar at WrestleMania XX.
The night after the Royal Rumble on Raw, in his role as Sheriff of Raw, Stone Cold Steve Austin interrupted an in-ring confrontation between long-time rivals Triple H and Shawn Michaels concerning the World Heavyweight Championship. Their Last Man Standing match at the pay-per-view ended in a draw, and Michaels was seeking another shot at the championship. Austin denied Michaels' request, saying that the winner of the Royal Rumble match had the first shot at the champion. However, it never explicitly was stated that the champion had to be a member of the same brand as the Royal Rumble winner; thus, Benoit opted to take his guaranteed title shot and move over to Raw to challenge Triple H instead.
Three days later, an angry Vince McMahon confronted Heyman on SmackDown! and demanded to know what he was going to do. Heyman announced that there would be a second Royal Rumble match that night, with thirteen of the fifteen brand representatives from the pay-per-view participating; the winner would then receive the next shot at the championship at No Way Out. Hardcore Holly, who had been feuding with Lesnar since returning at Survivor Series the previous fall, was added to the match in place of an injured Matt Morgan. The last spot was filled by Eddie Guerrero, who went on to win the match and earn the championship opportunity.
Meanwhile, Lesnar had also begun feuding with Raw's Goldberg, which began when the two confronted each other at the Royal Rumble. 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 February 2, Austin 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.
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No Way Out (2004)
The 2004 No Way Out was the sixth No Way Out professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (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 in Daly City, California. The event is best remembered for its final match, which saw Eddie Guerrero defeat WWE Champion Brock Lesnar to win the title, his top wrestling achievement before his death in 2005.
No Way Out grossed over US$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.
No Way Out was first held by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) as the 20th In Your House pay-per-view (PPV) in February 1998. Following the discontinuation of the In Your House 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 in Daly City, California. While the previous year's event featured wrestlers from both the Raw and SmackDown! brands, the 2004 event featured wrestlers exclusively from the SmackDown! brand, which made it the first brand-exclusive No Way Out event.
The event consisted of eight professional wrestling matches with wrestlers involved in pre-existing scripted feuds, and storylines. Wrestlers were portrayed as either villains 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.
The primary storyline involved the WWE Championship, which at the time was held by Brock Lesnar. At the Royal Rumble on January 25, the SmackDown! brand was victorious in the Royal Rumble match when Chris Benoit last eliminated The Big Show to win. This would have entitled Benoit, who had an ongoing feud with general manager Paul Heyman at the time, to a championship match against Lesnar at WrestleMania XX.
The night after the Royal Rumble on Raw, in his role as Sheriff of Raw, Stone Cold Steve Austin interrupted an in-ring confrontation between long-time rivals Triple H and Shawn Michaels concerning the World Heavyweight Championship. Their Last Man Standing match at the pay-per-view ended in a draw, and Michaels was seeking another shot at the championship. Austin denied Michaels' request, saying that the winner of the Royal Rumble match had the first shot at the champion. However, it never explicitly was stated that the champion had to be a member of the same brand as the Royal Rumble winner; thus, Benoit opted to take his guaranteed title shot and move over to Raw to challenge Triple H instead.
Three days later, an angry Vince McMahon confronted Heyman on SmackDown! and demanded to know what he was going to do. Heyman announced that there would be a second Royal Rumble match that night, with thirteen of the fifteen brand representatives from the pay-per-view participating; the winner would then receive the next shot at the championship at No Way Out. Hardcore Holly, who had been feuding with Lesnar since returning at Survivor Series the previous fall, was added to the match in place of an injured Matt Morgan. The last spot was filled by Eddie Guerrero, who went on to win the match and earn the championship opportunity.
Meanwhile, Lesnar had also begun feuding with Raw's Goldberg, which began when the two confronted each other at the Royal Rumble. 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 February 2, Austin 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.