RAW Report 2/25/08 Phoenix
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RAW this week starts with a recap of last RAW’s main event between Cena and Orton with HHH as the guest ref. HHH said he’d call the match as would best serve himself. Orton manages to get to the ropes to break free of the STFU, but Cena then hit the FU for the win. After it was over HHH pedigreed both of them. HHH posed over them both with the title belt. Regal is in the ring and introduces HHH, Orton and Cena who are all in the ring with him. He says at WM24 they will compete in a historic Triple Threat Match. This is a photo op that he’s been asked for all week. The three stand together in the ring while photographers outside take their photo. Regal then says they will all get mics to make comments about the match. Video replay of Orton hitting an RKO on HHH then on Cena. - Commercial WM promo - 34 days. Orton is walking out back and Kennedy approaches him. Kennedy says he’ll be winning MITB. He says he’ll be cashing it in that night. He tells Orton if he loses, he loses. If he wins, he loses. Carlito and Santino come out to the ring with Maria in tow. Maria is in a tiny black dress with a white Playboy bunny on the front. Cody and Hardcore Holly come out to face them. - Winners: Holly & Cody Maria rushes into the ring to Santino’s side. Santino yells at King as Maria tries to explain. Santino stomps from the ring and makes her go with him. Santino glares at King. - Commercial Video recap of the feud between Mayweather and Big Show. Video of the WM press conference. Grisham is out back with Regal who has a major announcement. Regal says nothing sells a big match like conflict. Orton and Kennedy will tag against Cena and HHH in the main event tonight. - Commercial WWE Rewind - last Monday when Jeff Hardy faced Snitsky to qualify for the MITB and manages to win the match. Jeff Hardy comes down to the ring. Y2J comes out to face him. - Commercial Y2J has Jeff arms pulled up and back with a knee between his shoulder blades. Jeff gets up and out and fights back. A high knee drops Jeff and Y2J covers for two. Y2J chops Jeff into a corner. More chops to Jeff who then ducks a clothesline. They both go for cross bodies at the same time and crash hard. They’re both down for five. Jeff takes Y2J down a couple times. Y2J gets whipped and gets a foot up into Jeff’s face. Y2J rushes Jeff in a corner and lands straddling the corner in a painful way. Jeff covers for two. A clothesline by Y2J and he covers for two. An elbow to Jeff’s upper back and “Y2J” chants. Jeff goes for whisper in the wind but Jeff gets knocked to a sitting position up top. Jeff hits whisper in the wind but Y2J manages to kick out at two. Jeff rushes Y2J, Y2J counters and locks on the walls. Jeff gets to the ropes quickly. Y2J stomps Jeff’s lower back. A kick to Jeff’s gut. Jeff hits a face first suplex and Y2J is flat on the mat. Jeff climbs and goes for the swanton. Y2J moves. Y2J hits a lionsault and covers but Jeff kicks out! Jeff manages an inside cradle for two. They both counter each other’s moves and Y2J is able to pin Jeff for three. - Winner: Y2J Y2J celebrates in the ring and shrugs at Jeff who looks over at him. Y2J is all grins. Video replay of the key moves in the match. Video of Hornswoggle’s beat down in the cage last week. Vince is out back looking in a mirror getting ready to head for the ring. - Commercial Vince’s music and he comes strutting to the ring. Vince gets major heat. He says we’re about to hear something from him we’ve never heard before. He says he has an admission to make. He made a mistake. The first time in his life, but he made a mistake. It was last week when he let his son be put in jeopardy. He took his belt off and whipped him. He had that coming. What he didn’t have coming is what JBL did to him after he lft the cage. After placing his son in that kind of jeopardy, he apologizes. He says he’s not the only one who’s going to apologize tonight. The person who put his son under the care of a physician with head trauma and spinal injuries will apologize too. When no one comes out he says he doesn’t have all night and to get out there now. Out back Cena approaches HHH. HHH says this is the part that Cena says they need to work together tonight and all will be fine even though they don’t like each other. HHH says he doesn’t like Cena and would like to see Cena facing them himself. But HHH wants to go out and fight like he always does. - Commercial Umaga comes down to the ring. D.H. Smith comes out to face him! - Winner: Umaga Umaga stands over Smith. Video replay of the flying splash, the bum slam and the spike. Umaga is still standing over Smith. Out back Regal, Burchill and Katie were watching the match. Regal reads a letter from Vickie saying to send someone from RAW to face someone from SD! Regal wants to send Umaga. Katie says Regal should send her brother. Regal says he likes Paul, but needs to see more. - Commercial WWE Slam Of The Week - HBK in the ring announcing Flair as the first inductee into the HOF. Cade and Murdoch are in the ring. Cade is wrestling. HBK comes out to face him. - Winner: HBK via DQ They double team HBK and beat him down. They are about to take him out when HBK hits sweet chin music on Murdoch. Cade rushes HBK and gets an inverted atomic drop followed by sweet chin music. Video of Shaq talking about Mayweather facing Show. He thinks Mayweather will break his nose again. Show’s big and agile, but talks to much. Mayweather has speed, agility, the greatest fighter in the world. He knows how to gather the attention of the crowd. It could be one of the greatest matches in history. - Commercial The crappy announcer talks about Flair becoming the first ever active wrestler inducted into the HOF. This brings him to the next inductees. Peter Maivia - Rock, Vince and Pat Patterson talk about him. Also, Rocky Johnson (wow, I’d never seen him wrestle - amazing!). Rock talks about his father also. He and Atlas were the first African American Tag Team Champions. The Rock is inducting them both into the HOF! JR and King talk about the Rock and his family. They then talk about the Playboy match at WM. Video of Maria posing for Playboy. It’s a high fashion photo shoot. She even got some of her own creations into the shoot - clothes she’s created. The cover will be unveiled next week. - Commercial Kennedy comes down to the ring. Orton comes out next. Orton glares at Kennedy all the way to the ring. HHH then comes down to the ring. Orton and Kennedy leave the ring so HHH cane do his normal ring entrance - spitting. Cena is last out and the women go crazy for him. HHH and Cena talk and it looks too amicable for storyline. - Commercial Cena covers Kennedy for two. HHH tags in and works Kennedy over in a corner. Kennedy gets whipped and then HHH runs and elbow into him. Kennedy comes out punching. HHH hits a spinebuster. Cena and HHH tag hard. Cena works Kennedy over in a corner. They again tag each other hard. Kennedy takes HHH down by the leg which he’s holding. Orton tags in and stomps his way around HHH. Orton drops a knee on HHH’s face. Orton covers for two. Orton tags out. Kennedy keeps working on HHH’s leg/knee. HHH tries to fight out of the heel corner but gets a knee to the face. Kennedy drags HHH to the center by one leg and covers for two. Orton tags in and locks on a headlock. HHH works his way to his feet and punches out. Orton slams him back down. Cena argues with the ref while Kennedy attacks HHH from outside. HHH gets DDTd through the ropes by Orton. Orton covers for two. Kennedy tags in and stomps HHH. HHH gets whipped but gets a foot up. Both are down. - Winners: Cena & HHH Cena’s music plays and then stops as HHH is suddenly there. HHH is ready to fight. Then Kennedy is there and hits a mic check on Cena, HHH never warned him. Cena staggers from the ring. Biggest pop Biggest heat |

