RAW Report 4/14/08 London
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This RAW in London starts with Regal out back sipping tea. The fans go wild and chant his name. JBL comes in and they glare. JBL says he doesn’t care that they’re in Regal’s country or that he’s facing Orton. What he cares about is Cena and HHH in his title match at Backlash. They had their chance, now his one on one title match has become a fatal four way. Music and pyro. HBK comes out to the ring. He’s in a white dress shirt, jeans and his cowboy hat and looking less upset than he has since WM. The fans love him on the other side of the pond. Huge “HBK” chants. He says the last thing he wanted to do is go out there and once again address the issue between him and Batista. ‘Boos’ from the fans. He recaps - Flair demanded he be the man to face him at WM. They had the match of the ages. He beat him, they hugged and it was over. Everyone he knows has accepted that except Batista. ‘Boos’ for Batista. He says last week they got to what’s really bugging Batista and it’s HBK. He thinks HBK’s held people down and backstabbed his way to success. In 1998 he was told by doctors never to wrestle again. In 2002 he astounded people by coming back and wrestling to this day. He’s done it because he loves this job and it’s what he’s built to do. He might not be proud of all of his actions, but he’s sick of apologizing for his past. Batista says the only reason HBK retired Flair was to boost his ego and that’s not true. But what will boost his ego is to kick Batista’s teeth down his throat. - Commercial A throne is shown and JR talks about how King Of The Ring will return next week during the three hour special. Santino comes out to the ring. Carlito comes out to join him. London and Kendrick come out to face them. - Winner: Santino & Carlito Santino takes a mic and starts rambling in Italian at Cody and Holly. He then says to be Tag Team Champions you need strength, agility and international superstars. Those are the things Santino and Carlito have. Santino and Carlito are the real wieners. Carlito corrects Santino saying they’re going to be winners. - Commercial Mickie comes bouncing to the ring in a yellow version of her two piece wrestling outfit. Beth comes out to face her in a shiny red and black knee length one piece outfit with a halter top and the sides cut out. The side of the legs are also cut out and laced up. This is a title match. - Winner: Mickie James! Mickie flees the ring and grabs the title belt on her way by. Beth is in the ring with a shocked look on her face. Mickie celebrates with the title belt as she backs/bounces up the ramp. Replay of high points of the match. Mickie falls to her knees on the stage with the belt, hugging it close then holding it high. Beth is stomping around the ring and glaring up the ramp at Mickie. - Commercial On the stage Maria and Ashley have joined Mickie. Grisham asks Mickie how she feels beating Beth. Regal is out back getting ready for his match with Orton. The crappy announcer is back there asking why Regal decided to take on the best in the world. - Commercial Video of Foley on set during taping of Anamorph that is supposed to be released very soon. The lead, Willem Defoe, talks about Foley in the movie. Cryme Tyme comes down to the ring. JTG is wrestling tonight. JTG gets the fans going with ‘yo’. Shad says it doesn’t matter if it’s pounds or Benjamins, it’s about ‘money money’ those ‘Euros euros’. Cade and Murdoch’s music cuts them off. Video of Cade giving Murdoch a pep talk earlier, out back. Murdoch is in the ring. - Winner: JTG Murdoch, in the ring, looks shocked about his loss. Cade enters and glares at him, pissed. Cade stares for a few moments, shakes his head and leaves the ring. Orton is out back heading for the ring. - Commercial Orton comes down to the ring to huge heat. Orton says at that people things he got lucky at WM. You can say lucky, but her prefers WWE Champion. He took out HHH and Cena. After Backlash he’ll have taken out Cena, HHH and JBL. Then he’ll have beaten everyone there is to beat. But tonight he gets to beat RAW GM Regal in his home country. We are in the age of Orton. Regal comes out to huge pop. “Regal” chants. - Winner - Orton Video replay of the two head shots to Orton followed up by the RKO. In the ring Orton is holding his neck but staring at Regal with that evil smirk of his. Umaga is out back talking gibberish to the camera. - Commercial Umaga comes down to the ring. Y2J comes out to face him for the title match. Video of Y2J eating HBK’s foot earlier. - Commercial Y2J has Umaga backed into a corner and throws punches, but gets tossed off. Umaga splashes Y2J. Umaga locks on his nerve hold in the center of the ring. Y2J gets to his feet and elbows out. “Y2J” chants. Y2J manages to use Umaga’s momentum, pulls down the top rope and sends Umaga flying outside. Y2J follows outside but gets slammed down. (Someone in the front row yells “fuckin wankah!”) back in the ring Umaga slams Y2J down. Umaga uses the second rope for height and tries to slam down on Y2J, but Y2J gets his knees up. Y2J tries to get Umaga up for a body slam but can’t do it and falls back. Umaga uses it and covers for two. Y2J gets punches around the ring. Y2J gets whipped. Umaga scrapes Y2J off the mat and whips him back the original corner. Y2J hits the mat again. Scoop slam to Y2J. Umaga grabs Y2J’s hand and drags him to a corner and sets him up for a bum slam. Umaga backs up to the opposite corner but Y2J moves out of the way and Umaga slams into the corner. Y2J climbs and flies hitting a clubbing blow to the back of Umaga’s head. They’re both down for a 5 count. Flying forearm to Umaga but Umaga comes back with a side slam. Y2J avoids the splash but doesn’t avoid the Samoan drop. Y2J manages to kick out at two. Umaga telegraphs and Y2J kicks him in the chest. Y2J gets whipped but moves so Umaga flies hard into the corner. Umaga falls back and Y2J rolls Umaga up - using the ropes - and covers for three. - Winner: Y2J Video replay of the high points of the match. Umaga is on his knees in the ring shocked at his loss. Y2J backs up the ramp holding his chin. - Commercial Hacksaw comes down to the ring. Paul Burchill comes out with his ‘sister’ Katie Lea. Katie Lea is in a shiny red and black halter, matching arm warmers and black micro-mini with matching red waistband. - Winner: Paul Burchill Paul and Katie Lea celebrate the squash outside the ring. - Commercial Grisham is out back with HHH and his new DVD. He asks HHH about facing JBL for the first time. JR and King go through the matches slated for Backlash. HHH’s music and he comes down to the ring. JBL’s music cuts in early, cutting off HHH’s showing off in the ring. JBL comes out as far as he can in his longhorn limo and then walks to the ring. - Commercial HHH is slammed to the mat. JBL gets a side headlock on HHH in the center of the ring. HHH reverses it to head scissors. Back on their feet a shoulder block drops JBL. “HHH” chants. JBL looks pissed. They lock up and HHH is backed into a corner. The ref gets between them and yells at JBL. They glare at each other and then talk smack in the center of the ring. They again lock up and HHH is backed into a corner. After they break they talk smack again. They go back and forth with punches. JBL is backed into a corner and HHH drives his shoulder into JBL’s gut. HHH hits a neck breaker for two. They scrabble around on the mat trying for holds. They get to their feet and exchange blows. HHH tries for a pedigree but can’t get it off. A hard shoulder block to HHH. Punches to HHH that drop him to the mat. HHH is backed into a corner and the ref is yelling at JBL. JBL hits his own version of a swinging neck breaker. JBL locks on a full nelson. HHH drops to one knee in the hold. Biggest pop Biggest heat |

