RAW this week begins with music and pyro.
HBK and Cena are outback face to face. They wish each other luck in their respective matches. They are about to walk away and Cena says that everytime in the ring with HBK he has a bad feeling. HBK says it's true, he's always turned on his partners and friends before, but he feels different about Cena. Cena says that's the line HBK always uses just before turning on his partner. HBK says that maybe Cena's is right not to trust him. Cena's not happy about this but says he will cover HBK's back in his match with Orton tonight if needed. HBK says he won't need any help.
My TV suddenly cuts to commercial, but only one commercial was shown before RAW returns.
HBK is coming down to the ring to huge pop. Orton comes down, with Edge in tow, to face HBK. Video of Cena and HBK retaining their Tag Team belts last week - Edge turned his back on Orton when he thought Orton hit him with a chair.
Orton rushes the ring and attacks HBK. HBK hits a swinging neckbreaker and then a kick. A back body drop to Orton and then HBK clotheslines Orton from the ring and his head bounces off the announce table. Orton gets on the apron and HBK flips him into the ring. A chop to Orton in a corner. Orton is whipped but gets his foot up into HBK. Orton chokes HBK on the ropes. Orton gouges HBK's eyes in the corner with Edge cheering him on. HBK hits a knee lift but is then flipped up over the ropes and out of the ring. The ref keeps Edge away from HBK but Orton approaches from the other side.
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HBK chops Orton a couple times. Orton gets HBK into a Boston crab in the center of the ring. HBK fights his way to the ropes. Orton takes advantage of the five count. HBK gets a sleeper on Orton. Orton counters and HBK counters again and covers for two. HBK leaves the ring and avoids Edge but Orton hits a modified DDT as HBK re-enters through the ropes. Orton hits a standing drop kick while HBK is in a corner, he bounces around the corner before falling to the mat. Orton hits a kick to HBK's head and covers for two. A reverse chin lock on HBK in the center of the ring. Orton gets HBK flat on the mat. HBK fights his way to a vertical position and punches out. HBK hits a couple chops followed by a back suplex. Both men are down for six. HBK chops Orton again and then HBK hits a flying forearm and nips up. HBK hits an inverted atomic drop, a right hand and a scoop slam. HBK climbs and hits a flying elbow. HBK tunes up the band. Orton blocks sweet chin music and is knocked into the ref as he tries for an RKO. Orton hits a clothesline but there's no ref to count. Edge tries to get involved with the Tag Title belt but the ref stops him. HBK quickly rolls Orton up for three.
- Winner: HBK
Edge tosses a chair into the ring and Orton hits an RKO on HBK onto the chair. Cena rushes the ring and slides through as Edge and Orton flee. Cena grabs the chair and taunts the heels who back up the ramp glaring. Cena kneels over HBK as he writhes in pain.
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Mick Foley does another promo for his new book asking if WWE would publish the book considering all the telling information he put in the book.
Video of Lashley beating Hardcore Holly on ECW Tuesday. Lashley then breaks the cage and knocks Umaga down with it.
Outback Vince is asking Estrada what type of mood Umaga is in tonight. What's he going to do to Jeff Hardy tonight. Estrada tells him not to worry. Estrada leaves and Coach tells Vince he looks stressed about the board of directors. Vince says there's the board of directors and then there's Vince. They do the same thing Coach does, kiss Vince's butt. Vince says they will pick who he wants them to pick. Someone independent, someone with McMahon blood, someone like his son Shane. Coach agrees.
Jeff Hardy comes down to the ring to big pop. Umaga comes down to the ring with Estrada. Umaga rips up part of the floor padding at the bottom of the ring.
Jeff gets backed into a corner and then tries to flee but is caught. Jeff is whipped but moves before getting splatted. Umaga leaves the ring and Jeff flies out over the top at him. Umaga rushes Jeff who moves making Umaga run into the stairs. Jeff then flies off the stairs into Umaga. Back in the ring Jeff gets hit with a hard clothesline. Umaga drags Jeff to the ropes, climbs on the second rope and jumps down landing his bum on Jeff's chest - twice. Umaga picks Jeff up by his hair. "Hardy," chant. Jawbreaker to Umaga by Jeff. Umaga then clotheslines Jeff hard. Jeff gets hung up-side-down in a corner. Umaga runs from another corner and hits a hard headbutt on Jeff's chest.
Jeff is then flopped down and sitting in the corner. Umaga hits his bum slam on Jeff. Umaga picks Jeff up to his feet and hits a Samoan spike on Jeff for three.
- Winner: Umaga
Video of Umaga beating Jeff Hardy.
JR and King talk about Lashley's possibilities in beating Umaga at WM. Video of Vince taunting Trump in the ring. Trump comes on the titan tron and announces Lashley as his representative in their WM match. Lashley comes out and ends up fighting with Umaga. Vince then, on ECW, puts Lashley in a match with Hardcore Holly. He has to beat Holly in five minutes or Holly wins the ECW Title. He beats Holly and then breaks the cage onto Umaga. On SD! Vince calls out Lashley and offers him twice the money Trump is paying him. Lashley says, "NO!" Vince bitch slaps Lashley and then flees the ring when Lashley turns back to face him with a crazed look on his face.
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A variety of stars and sports figures talk about Trump possibly getting his head shaved. Howie Mandell, John, Travolta, and other big names.
Grisham is outback with Carlito and Flair. He says there was some animosity between them but then they tagged together and won. Tonight they face each other for the last spot in the MITBLM. Flair says nothing in the past matters, what matters is tonight. He says he has more heart and passion and will win. Carlito says that might have been true a few weeks ago, but not now. No one thinks he can win a world title and he will prove them wrong tonight. Flair says it won't happen, because even though Carlito has improved, he hasn't improved that much.
Vince is on his cell phone outback talking to Shane. Shane says he'll be there soon. Vince gets off the phone and Coach asks what he said. Vince says that Shane thinks the vote will go their way. Vince then tells Coach he resembles Trump. The camera zooms in on Coach and his bald head and then zooms on the altered picture of Trump with a bald head.
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Chris Masters is in the ring for a Masterlock Challenge. Hacksaw comes out for the challenge, 2X4 in one hand, American flag in the other. "USA," chant.
Hacksaw sits down briefly and then bounces up yelling at Masters to 'put the hold on'. He sits back down and yells over and over to 'put it on'. Masters locks it on and Hacksaw fights like crazy. Hacksaw drops to a knee. The ref pulls up Hacksaw's arm once and it stays up. "USA," chant. Hacksaw gets a second wind but then drops to a knee and the ref calls for the bell. Masters celebrates in the ring.
- Winner: Masters
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Video from the beginning of the show when Cena says he has HBK's back. HBK says he doesn't need his help. HBK wins the match but gets hit with an RKO on a chair after. Cena rushes in before the heels can really hurt HBK too badly.
Outback Cena is in a dressing room and HBK comes up looking pissed. HBK tells Cena he still has his back tonight. Cena says, using HBK's words form earlier, no thanks.
Vince comes out to the stage and picks up huge scissors on the table next to the barber chair and barber's pole. Vince then struts down to the ring. Vince gets huge heat in the ring. He says before we find out - but is stopped due to the noise. He starts again and says before we find out who will be the independently appointed guest ref for the Trump & McMahon match, next week they will have a contract signing in the ring. Vince on one side of the table, Trump on the other. He's going to do to Trump what he did to Lashley on SD! He's going to bitch slap Trump across the table.
Bishoff's music hits and he comes down to the ring. Vince asks what the hell he's doing there. Suddenly something dons on Vince and he says to please don't tell him...
Bisch says he's not the guest ref for the WM match. Bisch says he lives in Pheonix (I've never heard pop like this for Bischoff, they actually like him in his hometown!) and has had a lot of time on his hands since he was fired and taken out in a garbage truck. Bisch says he's there to tell Vince how much he and his friends are going to enjoy watching Trump shave Vince's head.
Vince is not impressed with Bisch. He says he's there to find out who the guest ref is. The sound of cars crashing and music hits. Foley comes down in his famous painted ref's shirt. Vince tells Foley he looks good and asks about the kids.
Foley says he thinks it's ironic that the last time they were in the ring together he was kissing Vince's ass and now Vince is kissing his ass. Vince asks for bygones to be bygones. Foley asks for his old job back - Vince agrees. Foley says he's like free reign to plug his book that comes out tomorrow. He says he said a lot of things in the book that Vince might not like. Vince agrees. Foley also says he ran up a large hotel bill and would like that covered - including porn. Vince agrees.
Foley says there's been a misunderstanding. Foley is not the guest ref for Vince's WM match. He's there to be the special guest ref for a rib eating match between Charles Barkley and the Sun's mascot at Foley's friend's restaurant. The gorilla mascot comes through the crowd and enters the ring to huge pop. Foley and the gorilla show off for the fans.
Vince throws them both out of the ring.
Shane O'Mac's music hits and he comes down to the ring. Vince is all excited and announces his son. Shane tells Vince they have to talk. The board voted and they lost five to four. Vince asks who the ref is.
The sound of glass breaking and then music hits. Stone Cold Steve Austin comes down to the ring to the hugest pop so far of the night. He poses in the corners and then faces Vince. Vince holds his hand out for a shake. Austin looks at the hand and walks off to call for beers. He makes like he's going to give Vince a beer. Vince reaches for a beer and Austin pulls it back. Austin drinks his beer in the corner while JR screams like crazy. Vince and Shane go out on the apron, but before they can leave Austin opens a beer in Vince's face so it spays everywhere.
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JR and King are talking about what just happened as video is shown of Austin coming out to the ring.
Outback Foley is reading to the gorilla from his book about Austin. They walk away, Ron Simmons walks up and says, "Danm!"
Lillian announces the special guest announcer - Ashley. Ashley comes down to the ring while King looks at her new Playboy. Ashley announces the match in a black bra with a shiny pink bra top over it and a black micro-mini. She announces Mickie James who comes bouncing out in a beige stripped belly halter and beige mini. Melina comes out to face her in leopard cut out pants and matching triangle halter. It's the rematch Mickie requested - Falls Count Anywhere.
Mickie baseball slides Melina before she can enter the ring and then flies over the top onto Melina. Melina gets free and runs away from the ring beside the ramp, Mickie follows her outback. Mickie attacks Melina and covers on a table for two. Mickie throws Melina into a metal door and then they enter the Diva locker room to find Divas partially dressed. They trash the room. Victoria holds Mickie for Melina until Torrie attacks Vic. Candice comes out of a shower with a towel wrapped around her. Mickie grabs the towel and chokes Melina with it. The camera keeps blacking out, as does sound from outback and the crowd boos. It comes back and Candy is wearing boy shorts with her hands over her tatas. Mickie chases Melina and the camera blacks out again to lots of male boos form the crowd.
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The girls come rolling out onto the stage. They roll part way down the ramp. In the ring Melina gains control briefly. Mickie slams Melina down by her hair twice and then flings her by the hair. Mickie hits a fisherman's suplex and bridges for two. Melina tries to climb a corner and Mickie follows. Mickie slams Melina into the ring post. Mickie gets to the top rope and goes for a hurricanrana. Melina pushes Mickie to the mat where she lands horribly on her head and neck. Melina jumps down and covers Mickie for three.
- Winner: Melina
Melina leaves the ring to get her belt. Ashley is holding the belt standing by the bell, the time keeper and Lillian. Melina starts talking trash to Ashley, getting right in Ashley's face and grabs her belt. Ashley pushes Melina to the floor where she lands on her tush, quite pissed and shocked. Ashley gets in the ring to check on Mickie. She helps Mickie to her feet and raises her arm in a show of respect. Melina glares at Ashley through the whole thing.
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Flair comes down to the ring in a nice yellow robe that I don't remeber seeing before (or not recently) for his qualifying match. Carlito comes out with Torrie on his arm. Torrie is wearing a short green V-neck sleeveless jersey dress.
They lock up and Flair is dropped to the mat. Carlito covers for two. Carlito backs Flair into a corner and drives his shoulder into Flair's gut a couple times. Calrito kicks him in the gut but Flair comes back with chops. Carlito whips Flair who comes running from the corner. Carlito hits a back body drop for two. Carlito hits a suplex on Flair for two. Carlito chops Flair in a corner. Carlito hits punches in a corner but Flair hits an inverted atomic drop followed by chops. A knee to Carlito's head and Flair covers for two. Carlito hits his slingshot reverse elbow.
Flair hits a chop block and Khali's music hits. Flair stops Khali with chops as he straddles the ropes. Khali tosses Flair off and about takes Carlito's head off before Carlito rolls from the ring. Torrie rushes to Carlito's side. Khali picks up Flair with both hands around his neck and slams him to the mat. Khali grabs a mic and screams, in his horribly impeded English, that he wants Kane.
JR and King say that after the commercial we will learn the 4th inductee into the Hall of Fame.
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Video of Vince demading to know who the guest ref for his WM match is. Austin comes down and gives Vince a beer splat in the face. JR says Austin will be on ECW tomorrow night. They then announce the newest inductee - Nick Buckwinkle. They show a video of his career and Buckwinkle talks a bit at the end of the video. King says he was one of the greatest AWA Champions ever.
Edge and Orton are outback talking. Edge asks about Orton being there for his match against Cena later. Orton says he won't be there because he has a meeting with Coach. Edge asks if this is about last week and then how he couldn't help Orton win against HBK earlier. Orton hedges a bit. Edge asks what's going on and Orton says he DOESN'T have Edge's back. Orton walks off.
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Cena comes down to the ring to big pop. MNM come down to the ring, Cena looks confused. They go over and stand in front of the announce table. Edge's music hits and he comes down and gets a mic from Lillian. He says he's ready to kick the hell out of Cena right now. But he's also a huge civil rights activist. He's color blind and Canadian and can't perform in front of these bigots. Nitro's great grandmother was black. So Nitro will be beating the hell out of Cena tonight.
Mercury distracts Cena as Nitro attacks and beats down Cena. Cena comes back with a high elbow but is then tossed from the ring. Mercury bounces Cena's head off the ring post then runs off to not get yelled at by the ref. Nitro tosses Cena into the stairs. In the ring Nitro covers for two, twice. Nitro gets a headlock on Cena in the center of the ring. "Cena," chant. Cena gets to his feet and forces out of the hold. Cena kicks Nitro in the gut and then hits a hard clothesline followed by two more. A slam to Nitro then Cena hits the five knuckle shuffle. Mercury tries to cause trouble but can't. Cena gets Nitro up for the FU but Mercury rushes the ring and hits a chop block on Cena. The ref calls for the bell.
- Winner: Cena via DQ
All three heels attack. HBK's music hits and HBK runs down the ramp. HBK stops short of the ring and stares for a moment. HBK starts back up the ramp and the crowd boos him. He turns and looks at Cena while at the top of the ramp before rushing to the ring and dispersing the heels. HBK leaves the ring after the heels are gone.
Cena sits up in the ring and stares at HBK as he walks back up the ramp.
Biggest pop
Austin
Foley
Bischoff
HBK
Cena
Jeff Hardy
Biggest heat
Vince
Shane
Umaga & Estrada
Edge
Orton
