Submitted by Rajah on December 30, 2003 at 03:04:20

Hello again everyone and a very Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukah to you all. WELcome to your rajah.com RAW report. My name is Jason and I will be your host for the next two hours as we look back at the year that was on WWE RAW.

The music plays and we are TAPED from the rafters of an empty arena as Jonathan Coachman and Jerry "The King" Lawler welcome us aboard. King immediately threatens to throw Coach off the balcony if he steps out of line once.

After a little more bickering, Coach and King intro highlights of the match between Shawn Michaels and Chris Jericho at WrestleMania XIX from Safeco Field in Seattle, Washington. The ending saw HBK win it with a nice reverse sunset flip after a good, long match. Jericho feigned friendship after the bell, but went low and returned to form very quickly.

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WWE Extreme Blast of the Night: On RAW several weeks ago, Molly Holly and Gail Kim beat Lita down and shoved pages of her autobiography down her throat.

King leafs through WWE Unscripted before talking about the Mick Foley-booked World Heavyweight Championship Match for next week's RAW from San Antonio, Texas. Triple H will defend the title against hometown hero Shawn Michaels.

Coach wonders why he doesn't have his own book before introducing highlights from a January RAW match for the Women's Championship that saw Trish Stratus challenge Victoria in a Chicago Street Fight. In the end, Steven Richards aided Victoria in keeping her title.

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WWE RAW Retro: A video package of highlights from the awful RAW 10th anniversary special.

Coach and King talk briefly about RAW's long tenure on the air before Stacy Keibler joins the broadcast. Coach asks Stacy to choose between them. Stacy goes with the King. Why? Bod Man Body Spray of course. A commercial ensues.

Coach intros highlights from the September 29th RAW Ladder Match that saw Rob Van Dam win the Intercontinental Championship from Christian. I had the pleasure of calling this match for rajah.com readers and it was excellent. Interestingly enough, Charles Robinson has been the referee for every match profiled so far.

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Best of RAW 2003 Moment: Goldberg makes his WWE debut, spearing The Rock during an interview.

Coach and King intro Backlash highlights of Goldberg versus The Rock. It was Goldberg's first WWE match and he defeated The Great One after two spears and the Jackhammer.

Best of RAW 2003 Moment: Chris Jericho and Trish Stratus share their first kiss in the continuing saga of Young Canadians in Love.

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Best of RAW 2003 Moment: WWE Chairman Vince McMahon gives Eric Bischoff 30 days to turn RAW around, so Bischoff brings Stone Cold Steve Austin back to the show.

The Coach and The King take us back to No Way Out, which saw Stone Cold Steve Austin return to the ring (after walking out on the company eight months earlier) to beat the hell out of Eric Bischoff in a match.

The Coach intros a clip from this past Saturday's Confidential in which Mean Gene Okerlund offers his heartfelt thanks on behalf of the entire WWE to the U.S. Armed Forces for the opportunity to perform for our troops in Iraq. Smackdown's Christmas From Baghdad will air this Thursday night.

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Best of RAW 2003 Moment: Kane unmasks and a months-long rampage follows.

Coach and King agree that Kane is despicable for tombstoning WWE CEO Linda McMahon on the steel stage before introducing highlights from the Survivor Series Ambulance Match between The Big Red Machine and Shane McMahon. In the end, Kane got the win after tombstoning Shane on the concrete floor.

WWE Body Slam of the Week: The just released Goldust cuts a pro-pro-pro-ooo-AH-AH-AH...PROMO on Triple H and Ric Flair shortly before WrestleMania XIX.

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Best of RAW 2003 Moment: The Rock and The Hurricane debate who's the better superhero and the size of The Rock's "ding-a-ling."

Coachman and Lawler intro a tribute to the Superstars we've lost this year. Stu Hart, Crash Holly, Miss Elizabeth, Road Warrior Hawk, Mr. Perfect and Classy Freddy Blassie are all profiled.

We've lost too many too soon, folks. Too many. Too soon...

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Best of RAW 2003 Moment: Ric Flair tells Triple H he ain't laying down for nobody shortly before their RAW World Heavyweight Championship match.

Coach and King intro highlights from that very title match, which saw Flair come up just a bit short as Triple H managed to retain his title in a very good match.

Best of RAW 2003 Moment: The Rock delivers a Rock Concert to the un-amused people of Sacramento, California.

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Best of RAW 2003 Moment: At Bad Blood, Stone Cold Steve Austin serves Eric Bischoff a heaping helping of Mae Young pie. Ouch.

Coach and King intro Survivor Series highlights of the Team Austin versus Team Bischoff Elimination Match. In the end, a lone Shawn Michaels eliminated Christian and Chris Jericho, but Batista interfered in the match to make sure Randy Orton got the win for Bischoff's team, thus ending Steve Austin's career...at least for the time being.

The Coach intros highlights from last week's RAW of Mick Foley walking out on his IC title match with Randy Orton...and his job as Co-General Manager of RAW.

Coachman and Lawler do some hype for next week's Triple H/Shawn Michaels World Heavyweight Championship, The King wishes us all happy holidays and that's that.

Folks, it has been my great pleasure looking back on RAW's 2003 with you. I'll see you back here next week for live action from San Antonio. For rajah.com, this is Jason saying goodnight and Merry Christmas everybody!

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