This week’s RAW start with video of the NXT rookies beating down Vince McMahon last Monday.
Cole talks about how far reaching this attack has been. No comment from the McMahons. The group now wants to be referred to only as Nexus. Wade Barrett’s been called to the carpet at WWE Headquarters in Stamford. The new GM isn’t there personally, but is involved.
Sheamus out to the ring and received huge heat. He says he’s seen the footage of the severe beating of VKM and is disgusted by what happened. He felt that as WWE Champion he should come out and make a statement for the company. That statement is, “The Champ is here!” Even more heat for Sheamus, he’s all smiles. Even though those Nexus lads got involved in the match, he still would have beaten Cena. It’s unfortunate what happened, but one important factor came out of this and that’s that Cena’s not number 1 contender for the championship. That’s because he used his rematch clause. No longer does he have to see those tacky orange t-shirts. No longer does he have to listen to those never give up slogans of his. No longer does he have to listen to them chant, ‘Cena’ like a bunch of parrots. No longer does he have to listen to Cena make fun of his beautiful skin, by calling him ‘a human jar of mayonnaise.’ Sheamus sneered while saying that, but the fans love it. Sheamus says he hates Cena. But Cena can get to the back of the queue because he’ll never get a shot at his title ever again. Cena’s music hits and he came bouncing out. Into the ring Cena’s still all smiles. Sheamus asks what he’s doing there, he’s not getting a shot at the title or him again. Cena says he knows, he’s not out for that. He came out to ask Sheamus for help. Everyone saw how he won the WWE Championship, then kept the Championship. It’s that group of gibrones who call themselves the Nexus. They targeted him as Champ and almost ended his career. So who do you think they’re coming after next? Nope, it’s not Don Rickles, it’s the human jar of mayonnaise! Philadelphia’s own giant block of cream cheese. That would be the WWE Champion. He wants to keep his title? Then help Cena. Start off RAW the way they should. Fighting side by side rather than each other. Ding-Ding, Cole gets up and says he has an email. Cole now steps up to a podium with the laptop set up and some sort of emblem on the from we can’t see. He also puts on his glasses to make it look more professional. He asks for attention please! The GM sent “I will wait until next week to take action against Nexus, giving Wade Barrett time to make his case to WWE Officials. As far as tonight it concerned, if any member of Nexus makes contact with any member of the WWE roster, they will be fired. If any member of the WWE roster makes contact with any member of Nexus, they will be suspended.” Cena says thanks a bunch Mr. Anonymous GM! His plan’s completely ruined. Its not all lost, they’ve learned a lot about Sheamus. He’s not just all pale skin and the worst hair cut since Kid N Play, but he did learn some great dance moves from House Party 2 and 3. But we learned that Shamus’s a good dude. A guy who’s thinking RAW with a brawl, but we can’t so we should start RAW with a WWE Championship Match. Ding-Ding, Cole says the GM has informed him that Sheamus will be in action tonight, however against Mark Henry. Cena slammed down his hat and yelled, “Baloney, fudge and mustard!” Cena’s life is being ruined by the internet. His life hasn’t been this bad since his mom cancelled his subscription to Warcraft. Cena says to have the GM email him personally, his address is… Candypants554@gmail.org. Ding-Ding, Cole says a new PPV will be MITB, and then he explains how it all works. The 8 in the match will be revealed tonight. The new GM would like to demonstrate. Sheamus says demonstrate all they want, he’s out of there. Ding-Ding. Sheamus halfway up the ramp and a cage starts coming down. Ding-Ding. Since their match was interfered with, Sheamus will face Cena at the MITB PPV inside a steel cage! Cena, still in the ring loves this and poses to his music. Sheamus, on the ramp, looks pissed. The cage finishes lowering.
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The Hart Dynasty out to the ring with Natalya. Just as they were on the apron, the Usos and Tamina attacked them. The Hart Dynasty left in puddles outside the ring as they backed up the ramp. Natalya started moving so Tamina ran back down. Tamina rolled her in, set her up and climbed. Tamina splashed Natalya and left again. Video of the attacks. They’re still on the ramp as Kidd and Smith go check on her.
Backstage Josh is with R-Truth. He asks what actions should be taken against Nexus. R-Truth says they’re acting like wild, untamed animals. Don’t fire them. Leave them in the WWE zoo because he’s the zookeeper and that’s the truth!
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Slam Of The Week - RAW Viewer’s Choice. Santino and Kozlov in a dance contest. Kozlov won. Santino and Kozlov shook, then danced, then Kozlov pushed Santino down.
Kozlov in the ring. If Santino can beat Kozlov, then Kozlov agrees to be his partner. Santino out to the ring, all smiles.
Santino with his arms around Kozlov from behind, but nothing. Santino goes for a punch, hits Kozlov’s hand and it hurt. Santino went for a submission and impressed Kozlov. Kozlov locked up Santino’s arms, head butted him and took him down for two. Arm lock around Santino’s waist, Santino took him down and got the three.
- Winner: Kozlov
Kozlov posed, then pulled Santino to his feet. Santino fell forward. Kozlov pulled him up again and he flopped down again. Kozlov left the ring. Regal passed Kozlov on the ramp, shook his hand, then Regal in and attacked Santino while he was down. Kozlov rushed back in, took Regal down. Regal fled. Kozlov grabbed Santino and carried him up the ramp over both shoulders, huge smile on Kozlov’s face.
Josh backstage with Khali. Josh asks what actions should be taken against Nexus. Ranjin says that Khali is a big, stupid giant. That his manager is tired of protecting him. If Nexus came up right now, Khali would run like a kabuter (?). Ranjin walked off and Khali was confused, repeating the last word Ranjin said.
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Voting for NXT starts tomorrow at 10pm Eastern time.
Justin announces tonight’s Special Guest Host. Rob Zombie comes out looking as he normally does. He grabs a mic and gives a cheap pop. He’s there because he loves singing twisted things, like the sick twisted things that happen in that ring. Possibly like a MITBLM. He has the list of the wrestlers in the PPV Match, top secret, only he know. The first is Randy Orton, his face shows up on the tron, good pop. The Miz, decent heat. R-Truth, some pop. Chris Jericho, great heat. Evan Bourne, good pop. Ted DiBiase, solid heat. John Morrison, huge pop. This guy, Edge, some heat. Then Edge’s voice calls to Rob, he’s on the tron. He asks how Rob’s been? He hasn’t heard from Rob since he called him personally to tell him Edge was dropping his song as his entrance music. Rob says he wants to set the record straight between him and the old man up there. He says he took his song back from Edge because he didn’t want Edge to destroy it any longer. That’s it, goodbye. Edge asks if he scared away the astrograph. What matters is he won his first MITBLM and then cashed it in on Cena to win his first WWE Title. People don’t remember it? Got a short memory? Video of the first MITBLM. Edge finally climbed and got the briefcase to win. 10 months later Cena went through an entire Elimination Chamber and retained, but then Edge, with Lita in tow, cashed in and easily won against Cena. Edge then says he did it. He had so much fun doing it, that he did it again years later to Taker. That’s what he was talking about last week when he speared Orton and said than now the fun begins. That’s because he owns the MITBLM. He can show how twisted he can be. You know what can happen when a viper runs into a 20 foot ladder? The viper gets his head crushed before he can even strike. And he’s going to do it to every other participant in the match. At the end they will all be staring up at Edge. Ding-Ding, Cole steps up to the spiffy RAW GM podium. Cole calls for attention and gets heat. Tonight’s main event will feature all 8 participants in the MITBLM. Edge, Miz, Ted and Jericho against Evan, Morrison, R-Truth and Orton in an 8 Man Tag Team Mega-Match.
Backstage Henry heads for the ring.
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Sheamus out to the ring. Mark Henry came out, Lucky came out, smiled, but didn’t go to the ring.
Henry reached for Sheamus, Sheamus attacked hard but Henry pushed him off. DDT on Henry for two. Knee drops to Henry’s head, then forearms to the face from behind for two. Chinlock on Henry. Henry to his feet and out. Henry rushes Sheamus in a corner, but eats a foot. High knee to Henry. Sheamus with for a clothesline, but was knocked down by Henry. Henry hit a clothesline and pinned, but Sheamus got a foot on the bottom rope. Sheamus rolled out of the ring. Henry goes out, picks up Sheamus and throws him back in the ring, over the second rope. Henry in and eats a big boot. Sheamus pins for three.
- Winner: Sheamus
Sheamus to his feet holding his ribs, celebrates, then glares at Henry. Video of the high points of the match. The ref checks on Henry as Sheamus celebrates on the apron and then on to the ramp.
Josh with Nexus, minus Wade. He asks what they think of what the GM said. Tarver says that it goes the other way too. If a member of the roster touches them, they’ll be suspended, so they can still make an impact. Skip then demands to know what someone said off camera. The camera pans to Skip. He gets in the face of a crew member of some sort and pushes him down hard. Tarver says that’s what they mean. They all laugh as they pull in closer to Josh who stares at the floor, noticeably nervous.
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King’s in the ring. He says a new DVD will be out. It chronicles one of the best in ring technicians ever. He says to take a look at this. It’s a video setting up for Ricky ‘The Dragon’ Steamboat’s new DVD. It will be out tomorrow. King announces Steamboat who comes out on the stage, in a suit and waves, then poses. He comes down to the ring, slapping hands on his way out. Steamboat gets in the ring with King. King says the DVD cronicals some of your greatest matches and your career. But there’s a few guys who wanted to come out and honor his career as well. Steamboat’s jaw drops when Arn Anderson, Dean Malenko, Mike Rotundo, Michael Hayes comes out (but they all work for the WWE, they work together and are always there - not a big deal!). Hugs in the ring from all four of the guys to Steamboat. King says they all have something to say. Dean says it’s an honor to share this moment with him. He’s even more excited to watch some of the greatest matches of Steamboat’s career. Dean’s embarrassed to say, for most of those matches, he wasn’t even born yet. They laugh. Rotundo says he’s never faced Steamboat in a match. But when the money starts rolling in, don’t forget to pay his taxes. Lots of smiles. Hayes says Steamboat knows how much everyone respects him. They didn’t wrestle together much. He heard the other guys were coming out, he hasn’t had much camera time in the past three years, so he came out to do this - he did his little strut, then smiled at Steamboat. They hugged. Arn gets nice pop from those in the know. Arn says this is pretty impressive, all these legends. There’s a billion dollars worth of talent in this ring, and the rest of the guys! Arn wanted to be sincere. He wrestled Steamboat at least a hundred times and he never won one of them. But every time something magical happened in the ring and it was all because Steamboat made it happen, friend. Steamboat’s very special. When asked about the best 5 of all time you’ll hear names like Triple H, Taker, HBK, never know who number one or five was. He doesn’t know who was better, hasn’t seen anyone better and never been in the ring with anybody better. It will take more than 3 DVD’s to hold his career. Steamboat thanks them all and the WWE Universe for nearly 40 years… Of course it’s Nexus. They walks out slowly. Off came the jackets in the ring as the legends prepared for these boys. Nexus couldn’t even get in the ring at first because they kicked them back. Slater in, but they beat him back. The same with Tarver, but then they grabbed Arn and pulled him out of the ring and started beating on him. Arn into the ring post and was down. “You suck” chants filter through. Dean pulled out and slammed into the barrier. Tarver in and grabbed I.R.S. Pulled him out and beat him down. Hayes, King and Steamboat left in the ring. They all slowly climbed up on the apron, then all got in at once and attacked. King sent out and a couple guys out to work him over. Hayes out and beaten down. Steamboat beaten in the ring. More on Hayes outside, more on I.R.S., then back in on Steamboat who could barely get to his feet. They surrounded him and he was all alone. They begged him to ‘strike old man!’ Steamboat did and they took him down. The fans are really hot, really pissed off. Arn about to his feet, grabbing a bottom rope, Tarver kicked him down from inside the ring. They got Steamboat up and Otunga hit a spinebuster on Steamboat. They lines Steamboat up and Skip clotheslined him. Skip again called Steamboat an old man. “You suck” chants get very loud. They drag Steamboat over and Gabriel climbs. He hits his 450 splash on Steamboat. They all stare down at Steamboat, then look up at the fans for huge heat. Nexus leaves the ring, Steamboat a lump in the middle. Fans scream at Nexus as they leave.
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Video of the attack on Steamboat, Arn, Hayes, Malenko, King and I.R.S. Cole narrates through each man’s abuse. Steamboat is being taken out on a stretcher, head immobilized. Arn barely standing. Cole says it looks as though nothing will happen to Nexus for this attack because they couldn’t touch a WWE Superstar or retaliate, but these are legends. Cole says the locker room didn’t empty because the wrestler’s would be suspended if they had. They then showed Gabriel’s 450 onto Steamboat as Cole says it says the entire story.
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Alicia Fox out in a lilac and silver two piece outfit. Maryse with her in black with studs. Josh has joined Cole at announce. Gail Kim out in sparkly blue, Eve with her in blue animal print.
Fox attacks Eve with a kick, then punches. Eve fights back. Eve tries a sunset flip but Fox doesn’t go down and knees Eve in the temple hard! Fox stays on Eve slamming her into a corner, then a high knee. Snap mare with Eve’s hair and Fox pins for two. Maryse and Fox have a bitchy tag. Maryse slams Eve back by her hair. Eve slammed face first into a corner. Fox tags in and knees Eve. Fox whips Eve, but Eve moves before Fox gets there, so Fox eats the corner. Eve tags out. Kim on Fox hard. Kim reverses into a lateral press for two. Sweet dropkick sends Fox into a corner. Fox rolls out and gets into it with Eve out there. Maryse in and gets a stray back elbow. Fox then in and takes Kim down for three.
- Winners: Alicia Fox & Maryse
Fox poses with her strap and Maryse gets pissy at her, won’t celebrate, just wants the gold for herself.
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Again they show the video of Nexus beating down VKM. Then they show the beat down on Arn, Malenko, King, Hayes, I.R.S. and Steamboat. Cole then states, again, that the wrestlers would have been suspended if they had been involved. Cole also said he expects serious punishment for Nexus next week.
Edge out to the ring first. He climbs the ladder in the ring and poses next to the red briefcase out there. Jericho out next. The Miz comes out. Last of the team, Ted, comes out with Maryse. On the stage she kisses him on the cheek and heads backstage. R-Truth out, but not singing as he normally does. He waits outside. John Morrison is next with his slo-mo entrance. He gives his glasses to a young fan. Evan Bourne out to join them. Morrison reaches under the ring and pulls out a ladder. They set it up between them outside the ring. Orton comes out to round out the match.
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Ted and Morrison start. Ted takes him down with a kick, then stomps him in a corner. Morrison pulled up and reverses a whip. Back body drop on Ted. R-Truth tags in and throws a few punches. Ted punches back but is then elevated up and out of the ring. Evan tags in, runs the apron and flies, kicking Ted in the chest. Kicks take Ted down a couple times. Evan pins for two. Ted tags out. Miz in and Evan hit’s a hip toss with such height it shouldn’t have been possible. Miz pokes Evan in the eye and tries to get the upper hand, but Evan nails a drop toe hold, a dropkick and then a slam to Miz low in a corner for two. Arm bar on Miz. Miz is whipped but gets an elbow up in Evan’s face. “RKO” chants. Ted punches Evan from outside as Jericho distracted. Jericho tags in. Jericho kicks Evan in the head then slams him up into the bottom rope. Baseball slide sends Evan out to the ring. Jericho poses and taunts the faces. Jericho out, grabs Evan and sends him into the ring. Jericho taunts Evan who wants to tag out. Jericho then holds Evan’s ankle so he can’t tag, then punches him to the mat. Miz in and elbows to Evan’s shoulders, then a stomp to the top of his back. Miz wrenches Evan’s head up to he can see his corner, but can’t tag out. Evan reverses out of a suplex, ducks a punch and tags out. Morrison in quickly and nails two clotheslines on his former partner quickly. A dropkick to the Miz, then Morrison off the second rope to kick Miz in the head in what Cole calls a ‘vintage’ move. Ted pulls Miz out of the ring. Morrison flies out and takes them both down. Edge out and stomps Morrison.
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During the breaks Jericho slams a ladder into Morrison’s gut outside, then acts like he’s injured. Morrison rolls Jericho up for two. Jericho takes Morrison down for two. Edge tags in and kicks Morrison in the gut while Jericho holds him. Knee to Morrison’s ribs then to his back. Morrison throws punches to Edge’s gut, but Edge comes back with a drop toe hold and won’t let Morrison tag out. Ted tags in and is on Morrison hard. Morrison whipped into a corner. Knees to Morrison’s gut. He fights back with punches. Ted hit’s a scoop slam for two. Ted gets a chin/armlock on Morrison. The camera zooms into the briefcase as Cole and Josh talk about MITBLM. Edge tags in, whips Morrison but eats a foot. Morrison rushes out into a big boot. Edge sets Morrison up for the spear, but Morrison sidesteps and Edge eats a corner. Morrison crawls, but Edge grabs his belt to stop him. Morrison nails an enziguri on Edge and both are down. All six guys are yelling to get into the match. Jericho tags in, but so does Evan. Evan takes Jericho down quickly twice, then kicks him in the jaw to take him down. Another kick to the head and Evan pins for two. Evan starts to climb, Jericho joins him. Evan holds on and punches Jericho down. SSP, but Jericho moves and Evan lands on his feet. Code breaker on Evan and both are down. Ted and Orton tag in. RKO on Ted and it’s over.
- Winners: Evan Bourne, John Morrison, R-Truth & Randy Orton
Edge rushes in and nails Orton from behinds. Edge out and slides a ladder in. Edge in and has the ladder in hand. Slams into Evan’s gut. Morrison and Evan dropkick the ladder, Edge falling back. Jericho in and eats Evan’s knee. Morrison helped Evan springboard off the top rope and fly down on Jericho who slams into announce. Miz in and slams Morrison face first to the mat. Miz looks up at the case. He grabs the ladder and sets it up. Miz smirks and then slowly climbs with a big smile. Orton in and pushes over the ladder, Miz hung up on the top rope. “Randy” chants. He sets the ladder back up and climbs. Orton looks up at the case and takes it down. Huge cheers from the fans. Orton poses with the case for the fans. Video of the end of the match.
Biggest pop
Randy Orton
Jerry ‘The King’ Lawler
Ricky ‘The Dragon’ Steamboat
Biggest heat
Nexus
Sheamus
Edge
Most mixed
John Cena
