Why It Sucked The matches that were always going to suck, did, and the matches that looked good on paper, were poor in practice. Unforgiven 2003 was a deeply dissatisfying show with a feel-good main event moment that came a month too late and an undercard that was far from inspired. The first match, a handicap Tables Match for the World Tag Team Titles, was average. The Dudley Boyz beat La Resistance for their seventeenth tag titles on the night. No wonder they were getting stale back then. Following that was another in the seemingly endless series between Scott Steiner and Test. Like the previous 462 matches, it wasn't very good. At least Scott didn't trip off the ring apron this time. Lita made her return from a year out with a broken neck, tagging with Trish Stratus to take on Molly Holly and Gail Kim. It was okay. Following that we got Shane McMahon and Kane re-enacting the Friday the 13th films in a fun and cheesy Last Man Standing match. Good if you like that sort of thing and one of the best matches on the card, but that's hardly saying match. You'd think a triple threat featuring Christian, Rob Van Dam and Chris Jericho would be really good, wouldn't you? You'd be wrong. Their effort here was so-so and way long (it lasted almost twenty minutes). It was still better than Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler versus Al Snow and Jonathan Coachman which followed it, though. Nine minutes of PPV time WWE will never get back, that. And finally you had Triple H versus Goldberg, the match that should have headlined SummerSlam...before Triple H suffered a groin injury. Like most of Goldberg's WWE matches it was a bit weird, with Goldberg forced to sell for long periods and work Triple H's type of match. Watching this back, it's really no surprise Goldberg didn't last long in WWE. Did Anything Redeem It? Shawn Michaels and Randy Orton had a nifty midcard tussle. They'd have far better ones in later years, though, and it doesn't quite make this PPV worth watching.
