Judgment Day 2003 Judgment Day 2003 was a professional wrestling pay - per - view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) that took place on May 18 , 2003 , at the Charlotte Coliseum in Charlotte , North Carolina . It was the fifth annual WWE Judgment Day event and featured wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown ! brands . Eight professional wrestling matches were scheduled for the event which featured a supercard , a scheduling of more than one main bout . The first match from the SmackDown ! brand featured WWE Champion Brock Lesnar ' s defeat of The Big Show in a Stretcher match to retain the title after Rey Mysterio interfered , attacking The Big Show . The second match from the Raw brand was between Kevin Nash and World Heavyweight Champion Triple H , where Nash won by disqualification . Three matches were featured on the undercard . The first match featured Women ' s Champion Jazz defeating Victoria , Jacqueline . and Trish Stratus in a Fatal Four - Way Match to retain the title . The next was a Battle Royal featuring Christian , Val Venis , Chris Jericho , Lance Storm , Test , Rob Van Dam , Kane , Goldust and Booker T for the WWE Intercontinental Championship . Christian won the title , re - activating it after it had been unified with the World Heavyweight Championship in 2002 . The final was between the team of Eddie Guerrero and Tajiri , and the team of Team Angle ( Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin ) in a ladder match for the WWE Tag Team Championship . Guerrero and Tajiri won the match and the titles . Background . The event featured nine professional wrestling matches with outcomes predetermined by WWE script writers . The matches featured wrestlers portraying their characters in planned storylines that took place before , during and after the event . All wrestlers were from either one of the WWE ' s brands – SmackDown or Raw – the two storyline divisions in which WWE assigned its employees . The main feud heading into WrestleMania on the SmackDown ! brand was between Brock Lesnar and Big Show , with the two feuding over the WWE Championship . At Backlash , The Big Show defeated Rey Mysterio and then smashed him with a streatcher on the ringpost . The next Smackdown , Lesnar confronted Big Show about it while Big Show refused to face him . The next week , Big Show was set to team up with A - Train against Chris Benoit and Brock Lesnar , as Lesnar challenged Big Show to a Stretcher match at Judgment Day . The F - B - I then locked Lesnar in his room as Big Show defeated Benoit . Big Show tried to injure Benoit as he did to Mysterio but Lesnar saved him , only to get chokeslammed by Big Show . The next week , Big Show took Rey Mysterio during an interview to the ring as Lesnar ran out to save Rey , helping him hitting Show . The main feud on the Raw brand was between Triple H and Kevin Nash , with the two feuding over the World Heavyweight Championship . After Triple H pinned Nash at the six men tag at Backlash , him and Ric Flair challenged Rob Van Dam and Kane for the Tag titles . Nash interfered and then chased Triple H out of the arena , as Triple H flew with his car . The next week , both Nash and Triple H were guests of the Highlight Reel , Chris Jericho ' s talk show . Both brawled all over the arena . The next week , Nash fought against Jericho , and won after Shawn Michaels pervented Triple H and Ric Flair from interfering . Nash then hit Triple H with the Jacknife Powerbomb . The secondary feud on the SmackDown ! brand was between Mr . America ( Hulk Hogan ) and Roddy Piper . After Hogan won against Vince McMahon at WrestleMania XIX , McMahon was frustrated with him and wanted Hulkamania to die , and forced him to sit out the rest of his contract . For weeks after that , mysterious Mr . America promos airing for weeks during SmackDown ! shows . On May 1 , Mr . America debuted on SmackDown ! on a Piper ' s Pit segment . McMahon appeared and claimed that Mr . America was Hulk Hogan in disguise ; Mr . America shot back by saying , " I am not Hulk Hogan , brother ! " ( lampooning Hogan ' s use of " brother " in his promos ) . McMahon couldn ' t fire Mr . America due to his contract with Stephanie McMahon . The next week , Vince said that he would prove that Mr . America is Hulk Hogan in order to fire him . He interviewed Hogan live via satellite from his home , but then was informed that Mr . America was in the building . Vince tried to rip the mask off Mr . America ' s face but Mr . America laid him out . The next week , Piper challenged Mr . America to a match at Judgment Day , but then Piper attacked Mr . America and his fan . Piper then pulled the prosthetic leg off the fan , who was revealed as Zach Gowen .