WWE Monday Night Raw
Monday 28th January 2008
Picking Up Pieces Of The Rumble
Episode One
Monday Night Raw begins with an opening photo packet showing some of the happenings from last night’s Royal Rumble PPV. It starts off by showing Ric Flair keep his career by beating United States Champion from Smackdown MVP. It then shows Mr. Kennedy costing Chris Jericho his match against JBL. Then is shows Randy Orton beat Jeff Hardy to retain the WWE Championship, and finally ends with Triple H eliminating Shawn Michaels to win The Royal Rumble.
Then we head straight into the arena. Before we are treated to an opening video package we hear the music of Royal Rumble winner Triple H. Most of the fans cheer for the Cerebral Assassin but after his actions last night quite a lot of the crowd are booing him. As he makes his way down to the ring Jim Ross and Jerry The King Lawler welcome all the fans and viewers to Monday Night Raw. They tell us that tonight Kennedy will be on the highlight reel, and also World Tag Team Champions will be in action as they take on The Highlanders.
Triple H gets in the ring and takes a microphone. He says first of all he would like to apologise for his actions last night in The Royal Rumble. He then says he wants everyone to know that any body else would have done the same thing in his position. He says he had a clear shot to be in the main event of Wrestlemania so he took it. Trips then says even Shawn would have done the exact same thing regardless of how much history they share together. Triple H says the only thing on his mind was Wrestlemania, and like he said once before, he would even pedigree his own mother for a chance to be in the main event at Wrestlemania, so doing it to his best friend Shawn was easy.
Then suddenly the music of WWE chairman Mr. McMahon hits the speakers and he makes his way down to the ring like only he can. McMahon climbs in the ring and takes a microphone. He has a big grin on his face. Vince says he would like to first congratulate Triple H for winning The Royal Rumble last night. Secondly he would like to say well done to The Game for doing exactly as he was told. This kind of confuses the fans. Vince then says that’s right, he was the one that told Triple H to eliminate his best friend Shawn Michaels. Vince says he knows how much Wrestlemania means to Triple H so he had the advantage, and the power over him. McMahon then says but now Triple H has got his main event spot at the grandest stage of them all, it’s not over. Vince says if he wants to keep his spot he will still have to do whatever he says. Vince says if Triple H fails to do as he says, his Wrestlemania spot will go straight to someone else.
Just as McMahon finishes speaking Shawn Michaels makes his way to the ring with his music blearing across the speakers. Michaels gets into the ring and also takes a microphone just like the other two. Michaels begins by calling McMahon sick! Michaels says for all these years they have been friends he has just thrown it all away by siding with Vince McMahon. Shawn reminds Triple H of all the bad things he has done to him over the years and still he does everything he says. Michaels then tells Vince that the only reason he is doing this is because he is a loser, and he is scared to be alone. Michaels then corners Mr. McMahon and takes off his jacket in the process. Vince tells Michaels not to come any further or else he will fire him on the spot. Michaels says he doesn’t do things that Vince McMahon tell him to do. McMahon then tells Triple H to do something. The Game just stands there for a while, and then, after a few moments of hesitation Triple H hits Shawn Michaels with a pedigree. Triple H’s music then plays as The Cerebral Assassin makes his way back up the ramp. Vince follows with a big grin from ear to ear, Triple H on the other hand just looks emotionless.
COMMERCIAL BREAK
Match One
Hardcore Holly and Cody Rhodes © vs. The Highlanders
World Tag Team Championships
This was an average tag team contest. The champions Rhodes and Holly were made to look strong throughout. HARDCORE holly was in for most of the match. He started making light work of The Highlanders picking them off one by one. Holly then made the hot tag to Rhodes who then got his ass beat for a while. The Highlanders started to make a comeback. They were about to hit the Scot Drop on Rhodes until Hardcore Holly came running in to save his partner. There was chaos in the ring now as all four men were brawling. The referee finally got things together again and Rhodes tagged in Holly. Holly unloaded on Robbie as Rhodes flung himself over the top rope onto Rory. Holly in the ring then manages to hit the Alabama Slam. This got him the three count, and Hardcore Holly and Cody Rhodes remain World Tag Team Champions.
Cody Rhodes and Hardcore Holly regroup in the middle of the ring and celebrate with the championship belts. Jim Ross and Jerry The King Lawler hype the Highlight Reel again and tell us that up next, Woman’s Champion Beth Phoenix will be in action against former Woman’s Champion, Mickie James.
A video then plays on the screen. It shows some of the best moments In Wrestlemania history. At first everyone thinks it’s a Wrestlemania hype video. Instead after a few seconds, John Cena shows himself on the screen looking in better shape than ever. Cena then says The Champ Will Be Back! This video gets a massive cheer from the fans, as it is now clear that Cena will be returning soon.
We now go backstage. The camera reveals Santino Marella sitting in a chair. He stares intensely at the camera. Marella says he is sick and tired of being mistreated. He is sick and tired of being the class clown. He is sick and tired of being nothing but a joke to everybody. Marella says he should be main eventing. He should be fighting Randy Orton for the WWE Championship. Santino then says that’s why, at Wrestlemania, he is making himself one of the contestants in Money In The Bank. Marella then just smiles at the camera.
Match Two
Beth Phoenix © vs. Mickie James
Non-Title
This was a normal diva match up. Both women were sloppy at times, but it had to be said that these women were two of the best in the company so they put on quite a good show for the fans. James had a few times to take offence on Beth, but Phoenix countered a DDT attempt. Beth hit her own DDT, and then ended the match with a Beth valley Driver. This got her the three count.
Her music begins to play. Beth gets up to a standing position and the referee hands he the championship belt. Beth looks at her belt and then hoists it up high in the air getting a good amount of heel heat from the crowd.
COMMERCIAL BREAK
Monday Night Raw returns with some of the loudest cheers ever as Jeff Hardy’s music plays. Jeff Hardy makes his way to the ring with his Intercontinental Championship around his waist. Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler hype the kid, and talk about how close he was to winning the WWE Championship last night. Jeff gets into the ring and takes a microphone. He says last night was the greatest night in his carer. He was granted an opportunity to become WWE Champion, but unfortunately he missed that opportunity and lost the match. Jeff then says the bad news in this situation though is that now it’s all over. Now is the time to go back to reality, which starts tonight. Jeff then says tonight he will go back to concentrating on his Intercontinental Championship. Jeff then syas right now, he is offering anyone backstage the chance to fight him right here, right now with the Intercontinental Championship on the line.
After a while the famous music of WWE Champion Randy Orton plays and the cocky champ makes his way out from behind the curtain. There is not one cheer for Orton, instead everyone boo’s and shouts abuse at him. Orton says after beating Jeff last night he might as well come down and finish the job. Orton says he would love to add the Intercontinental Championship to his resume. Jeff then stops Orton in his momentum and says the last time Orton tried to do that he was dropped with the twist of fate, and he has no problem doing that again tonight. Orton looks pissed off as he gets in the ring and gets ready for his match.
Match Three
Jeff Hardy © vs. ©Randy Orton
Intercontinental Championship
This was definitely a contender for match of the night. The end of the match came when Orton was in control. Randy Orton throws Hardy into the corner. Orton then comes charging towards Jeff. Jeff managed to get some momentum and stick his boot up, knocking it right into the chin of WWE Champion. Hardy then climbed onto the top rope, as he was about to jump onto Orton; Orton got the better of him and pushed him right to the outside. Hardy whacked his face on the announce table. Orton was smiling in the ring. The referee started counting. The ref got to the count of nine. Hardy just about managed to roll himself back in the ring as the ref got to 9 and a half. Orton then got on his knees and stalked Intercontinental Champion. As Jeff got back to a standing position Orton struck and went for the RKO. Hardy countered it to the cheers of the crowd, and connected with the Twist Of Fate. Hardy then climbed up to the top rope. Hardy connected with the Swanton Bomb and got the three count. The crowd went absolutely nuts as Hardy beat WWE Champion Randy Orton.
Jeff Hardy stood up as his music plays. He rolls out of the ring holding his back and his jaw. Hardy grabbed his Intercontinental Championship. He also grabs the WWE Championship, takes one long stare at it and throws it back down on the table. Hardy then went back up the ramp holding the Intercontinental Championship up in the air. Back in the ring Randy Orton looked angered enough to kill somebody. Hardy’s music stops as he goes behind the curtain. Orton is left standing in the ring after being beat by Jeff Hardy. Orton then looks at the referee. He stares for a while before out of the blue dropping him with the RKO. The fans booed the Champion. He then picks up the referee and kneels him down. Orton walks over to the other corner and stares at the ref. Jim Ross and King are screaming at Orton not to do it, because obviously he is about to kick the ref in the face. Orton then runs to him and boots hin right in the skull. The ref falls down absolutely out cold. Orton takes his championship belt and starts back up the ramp, as he leaves, EMT’s and paramedic’s rush down and tend to the referee.
We then see The Great Khali making his way down the corridor. Jim Ross lets us all know that he will be in action next.
COMMERCIAL BREAK
We return to Monday Night Raw with The Great Khali making his way down to the ring. The fans all boo as he comes out. His translator also comes out with him getting the same reaction as Khali. They both get in the ring and wait for the opponent.
Suddenly the music of general manager William Regal plays. Regal makes his way to the ramp. He says his is the general manager of Raw and it is his duty to make the product a better place. He says he knows Khali has some issues left to settle with Finlay and Hornswoggle, but they are not here tonight on raw. Instead The Great Khali will get his match at No Way Out against Finlay and Hornswoggle, in a handicap match. Tonight on the other hand, The Great Khali will do something for him. Because tonight his opponent is none other than Ric Flair..
Flair’s music plays and The Nature Boy makes his way down to the ring for what could possibly be his last match in the World Wrestling Entertainment. He stops and stares at Regal for a bit before going to the ring.
Match Four
The Great Khali W/Rinjin Singh vs. Ric Flair
In what could have been Ric Flair’s final match in this company, he gave everything he could. Khali was overpowering Flair for the most part of this match, but Flair got the odd punch or chop in. Flair backed Khali into the corner with menacing knife edge chops to the chest. Flair then got the crowd going and ran towards Khali. Khali outstretched his arm and it caught Flair in the face. Khali then lifted his arms up in the air and then grabbed Flair in the Vice Grip. Flair was getting weaker and weaker and it looked like Flair was about to give up. The crowd was willing Flair on but it didn’t look good. Then suddenly Hornswoggle came from under the ring and got in. He hobbled over to Khali and started slapping away at his hands. This got a few laughs from the crowd. The referee grabbed Hornswoggle and told him to get out. As the ref had his back to the action, Finlay ran into the ring and clobbered Khali with the shilleighly. Khali didn’t fall, he just stumbled, Finlay continued to hit him with it. Finally Khali fell down to the ground. The crowd was going insane. Flair then locked in the figure four-leg lock on Khali and eventually he tapped out. Ric Flair lives to see another day in this company.
Flair stands up exhausted. The referee who didn’t notice what had gone on held Flair’s arm up in the air. This got a huge cheer from the fans. Finlay and Hornswoggle then joined in and also held Flair’s arm up in the air. Khali was still on the floor; his translator came in and knelt by Khali. Jim Ross and King were hyping up Flair and how he stays in the company for at least another match.
We then go backstage where we see Todd Grisham standing by with his guest Triple H. Todd asks The Game why he has aligned himself with Mr. McMahon. Trips says he hasn’t aligned himself with anyone, he is his own man, but when someone tells you to do things for a Wrestlemania spot, you don’t argue, you just do it. Todd then asks if McMahon has anything else up his sleeve.
Before Triple H could answer Mr. McMahon comes onto the scene. He says it’s funny he should mention that actually because he has confirmed it with Mr. Regal, and tonight, right now in fact. Triple H will be going one on one against a mystery opponent. Vince then laughs and leaves the picture.
COMMERCIAL BREAK
Raw returns with Triple H making his way down to the ring. The game gets in the ring and waits to see who his opponent is. After a while the music of Maria hits and the scared Diva makes her way to the ring very slowly. The crowd boo because they know Mr. McMahon has made this match. As she is getting into the ring Mr. McMahon shows up in the titan tron. He reminds Triple H that he will have to wrestle Maria, if he wants his Wrestlemania championship shot.
Match Five
Triple H vs. Maria
Triple H was surely not going to go this far just for a championship shot at Wrestlemania right? Well that’s what we thought. Maria just looked cute as usual. Triple H then grabbed her and put her in the pedigree position. After a few seconds Shawn Michaels runs down the ramp and gets into the ring.
Triple H lets go of Maria. Maria rolls out of the ring. Shawn Michaels stares at Triple H and mouths things at him.
Then suddenly Mr. McMahon shows up on the titan tron again. As usual he has a huge grin on his face. Vince says Triple H has done his work, and since Shawn Michaels wants to fight tonight so much he can, right now infact. Mr. McMahon says his opponent is none other than Mark Henry and Big Daddy V! Triple H walked to the back as Henry and Big Daddy V made their way out.
Match Six
Shawn Michaels vs. Mark Henry and Big Daddy V
This was surely just punishment for being normal. Michaels got no offence in this match. The only thing that happened was Big Daddy V and Henry beat the holly crap out of him. The match ended when Mark Henry hit the Worlds Strongest Slam on Michaels and got the three count.
The match finished and Henry and Big Daddy V stand tall in the middle of the ring.
We are then shifted to the backstage area. To William Regal’s office to be exact. Regal is just watching Mark Henry and Big Daddy V on the monitor. Regal smiles and says that will come in handy next week.
We are now back in the arena and we hear the music of Chris Jericho play. The crowd stand up and cheer very loudly. The ring has been set up for the Highlight reel, which is coming next.
COMMERCIAL BREAK
We return to the show with the music of Chris Jericho. The human highlight reel comes down to host the highlight reel. He looks pissed off after last night but he keeps himself composed. Jericho gets into the ring and takes a microphone. He says WELCOME TO RAW IS JERICHO!!! Tonight he wanted to host the highlight reel for one reason. Jericho said he wanted to get answers from that assclown known as Mr. Kennedy! He says last night the second coming was about to come true. Chris Jericho was about to win the match against JBL when suddenly he was attacked by Kennedy. Jericho then says enough about that, it’s now time to talk a out the guest. Tonight his guest is an assclown, ladies and gentlemen your sanctimonious son of a bitch!! Mr. Kennedy. The crowd boo.
Then instead of Kennedy making his way down to the ring, JBL’s music plays and he makes his way out in his white limo. JBL gets out and climbs into the ring taking a microphone in the process. JBL says Kennedy didn’t wan’t to appear on this second rate talk show. Kennedy told me to tell you Jericho that you suck and he will gladly give you a match. Jericho says it’s a shame because in actual fact he’s glad JBL came out, because he want’s a rematch right here right now. This gets the crowd hyped. JBL laughs and says he didn’t have a match in mind he had something else in mind. JBL then clotheslines Jericho straight to hell. The crowd boo. JBL picks up Jericho and throws him to the outside. JBL then signals for the limo driver to drive the limo down to the ring. The limp parks right by the ring, then Kennedy gets out to reveal himself as the driver. Kennedy picks Jericho up and slaps him across the face. JBL then grabs Jericho, lifts him up an powerbombs him onto the hood of the limo. Jericho’s head smashes the windshield of the car. Kennedy then takes a microphone and goes right up to Jericho’s face. He then shouts “This was a beating, from yours truly, John Bradshaw Layfield, and Mr. Keeeeeeeeeeennnnnnnnnnnnnnneeeeeeeeeeeddddddddddddddddddyyyyyyyyyyyyy!………………………Kennnnnnnnnneeeeeeedd yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
Monday Night Raw goes off the air with Jericho layed out on the car, and JBL and Kennedy looking grin at him.
That was the first episode of Raw. Over on the other forum I am only a few weeks before Wrestlemania 24 so I'm gunna be going fullk steam ahead over here so that I can almost catch up. Anyway yeah there you go people. It may not be much but I improve week after week I've been told. So I hope you all enjoy this.
