WWE Raw 10/07/2002
Las Vegas, Nevada
World Heavyweight Champion: Triple H
WWE Intercontinental Champion: Kane
World Tag Team Champions: Kane & The Hurricane
WWE Women's Champion: Trish Stratus
RAW ROULETTE~!
Eric Bischoff is backstage and he welcomes us to Raw Roulette. Every match will be determined by the Raw Roulette wheel. Will we see an HLA Match? Bischoff's Choice? Kiss My Ass? Vegas offer lust, greed, unpredictability, and that's what this wheel provides. And with a flick of the wrist, we will find what tonight's first match will be. Bischoff spins the wheel, which lands on... Steel Cage Match!
Steel Cage Match: Booker T vs. The Big Show
Fun while it lasted, Show pretty much slowed the match down and just threw Booker around like a toy. Booker's bumping was damn good here but he didn't tell any effects of going into the steel cage. Late in the match, Big Show has an opportunity to leave the cage but decides to punish Booker more. Which allows Booker to comeback a few minutes later; he would hit a scissors kick off the top rope! AWESOME! Booker again goes up the turnbuckles and gets to the top of the cage, but Show grabs him and pulls him back to the ropes. Booker kicks Show in the testicles, causing Show to drop from the turnbuckle and allowing Booker T to climb over the cage and drop to the floor for the win. Post-Match: Chris Jericho runs down and attacks Booker; he knees him in the face. Jericho exposes the security barrier, and then beats Booker down. Jericho smashes Booker's head into the barrier, busting him open, and then smashes him into the cage. **1/2 - **3/4
Backstage, Bischoff tells Kane & Hurricane that he hopes they don't end up like Booker T; Kane is Tag Champ and IC Champ. And Eric calls him greedy for wanting more gold. Kane tells Bischoff that he will take the World title from Triple H at No Mercy. Eric then says they're going to defend the Tag Titles tonight, but in what kind of match? Bischoff spins the wheel, which lands on... TLC Match~! Bischoff says he'll pick their opponents.
Terri asks Jericho why he attacked Booker T for no reason. Jericho says he did have a reason: he's sick of being overlooked by the jackasses here. Goldust says that Fozzy sucks, and then Booker T calls him a sucka, which causes him to lose the IC Title to Kane. This is what happens when people don't respect him. He was the first Undisputed Champion, and he's also a very unbalanced and dangerous individual. But he is not a sucka.
Bischoff spins the wheel, and it lands on... A Blindfold! Eric is standing with H and Flair. Triple H begins to complain about it, but then says that no matter what Bischoff tries to keep him away from Kane, he'll change Kane's life forever tonight. Flair introduces Bischoff to some lesbians who want to give Eric a little show tonight. Regal comes in and Goldust is behind him, he asks if Bischoff is crazy: a Steel Cage Match, a TLC Match, and now a Blindfold Match? Just be kind and give him a true wrestling match. Bischoff spins the wheel, which lands on... Las Vegas Showgirl! Regal thinks this means he gets to leave with the Showgirls after his victory, but Bischoff tells him it means he will wrestle while dressed as a Vegas Showgirl.
Blindfold Match: D'Lo Brown vs. Triple H (w/ Ric Flair)
Ric Flair distracts the referee so Triple H can take his blindfold off and pedigree D’Lo for the win! NEXT!
Backstage, Bischoff says that the Tag Titles are up in a TLC Match, so what better guys to team up than these experts. They shoe Jeff Hardy, Christian, and Bubba and Eric says there's a TLC match tonight. He tells them to go get partners for the match.
Las Vegas Showgirl Match: Goldust vs. William Regal
Comedy stuff for a joke, NEXT!
Backstage, Terri asks Christian if he has found a partner. Christian says he knows who won't be his partner: any of the Un-Americans, because he actually wants to win. He says he won 3 TLC matches on his own, and Chris Jericho comes over. He said the one Christian didn't win was won by him
why don't the two greatest TLC wrestlers of all-time team up and take home the Titles? THE CHRISTIAN/JERICHO TEAM IS BORN!
Eric spins the wheel for Trish & Stacy's match and it's Paddle on a Pole. Trish is annoyed, so Eric goes double or nothing and clearly holds the wheel still when it hits Bra & Panties.
So the way this will work is thus: whoever strips their opponent to their bra and panties will be the new Women's Champion, and then will get to paddle the loser.
Bubba asks Tommy Dreamer if he would be his partner tonight for TLC. Dreamer gladly accepts, but Spike's feelings are hurt because Bubba didn't ask him. Spike says he watched his big brothers in TLC matches in the past and wished it would be him some day. Dreamer gracefully bows out and Bubba & Spike unite!
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Bra & Panties, Paddle on a Pole Match for the WWE Women's Championship: Stacy Keibler vs. Trish Stratus
Trish debuts the "Little Kim" theme. I came like 12 times in the 3 minutes it got, Post-Match: Trish with a spinning heel kick to the head and then grabs the paddle. Trish takes Stacy down and grabs the paddle. She holds Stacy in the ring and paddles away. Stacy runs up the ramp and Trish chases after, but Victoria emerges and punches Trish back towards the ring. Trish rams Victoria into the security barrier, but Victoria returns the favour, ramming Trish into the apron. Victoria smashes Trish's face into the apron, then into the barrier. They go into the ring, where Victoria Superkicks Trish, then scoop slams her. Victoria goes up top and hits the moonsault. She pulls Trish out of the ring and tosses her into the stairs.
Coach tells Jeff that all the teams are set except his. Jeff walks into a room and calls out his partner, Rob Van Dam!
Coach asks why Victoria has been brutally attacking Trish over the weeks. Victoria says she's doing it to expose Trish for who she really is, and claims that Trish has a past history of hurting people. But Victoria is one of the people she hurt, and now she's getting revenge.
Test and Al Snow are in the ring for a match. Eric spins and it's a Las Vegas Street Fight. Bischoff says that all their available weapons can be found under the ring!
Las Vegas Street Fight: Test vs. Al Snow
Standard Hardcore match here, NEXT!
As we go into break, Lawler leaves the announce booth to get ready for his match. He hopes it is an HLA Match, but JR says it could even be an Inferno Match.
As we come back, Jerry Lawler and Steven Richards are in the ring. Bischoff comes on the Tron and spins the wheel, which lands on "It's Legal in Nevada!" Bischoff, Richards, and the ref try to figure out what that means, when the Godfather's music hits, and he comes out with a train of ho’s. Being that Nevada is Godfather's home, he knows what is legal here. So here's the deal: the winner of this match gets to take a ride on the Ho Train.
It's Legal in Nevada Match: Jerry Lawler vs. Steven Richards
Jerry gets his shit in, Richards bumps for him. Anyway the match ends when Richards looks to use the piledriver against Lawler, but Jerry flips him over and pin and jacknife pins him. The Ho’s come in the ring and circle Lawler, and he celebrates like only he can. *1/2
Backstage, Terri asks Kane if he will be at a disadvantage at No Mercy after having gone through a TLC Match tonight. Kane says he's actually happy, for the first time in his life. He has a chance to be the first man to hold the Tag Titles, IC Title, and World Title at the same time. He knows he can do it, and Triple H knows he can do it. He can be in all the TLC Matches you want, and Triple H can make all the threats he wants, but he will do this. Coach comes up and tells them that Triple H and Flair are beating up Hurricane.
Down the hall, they're beating him unconscious until officials pull them off and Kane runs over for the save.
TLC IV for the World Tag Team Championships: Kane & Hurricane vs. Rob Van Dam & Jeff Hardy vs. Bubba Ray Dudley & Spike Dudley vs. Chris Jericho & Christian
JR doing commentary by himself
those were the days, Kane was supposed to be partnered with The Hurricane, but he was taken out earlier in the night. Jericho is wearing the GOAT Pink & Black pants; this match was voted the greatest match in the first decade of Raw. HAHAHAHAHAHA! Now this was a total spotfeast but for some crazy reason I enjoyed it, maybe it's because I've only seen this like 4 times to this point. The match featured some insane action like Jeff Hardy giving a legdrop to Kane through a table, RVD delivering a Van Terminator to Kane, Jeff Hardy being back dropped from inside the ring through a table on the outside, and Chris Jericho doing one of the most insane spots I've ever seen in a TLC match when he fell from the top of a ladder FACE FIRST to the outside of the ring. The match ends when Jericho climbs the ladder and puts the walls of Jericho on RVD on top of the ladder, RVD falls off the top of the ladder, and Jericho climbs higher. Kane returns and climbs up the other side, and chokeslams Jericho from the top of the ladder. He then sits up and climbs the ladder and retrieves both TAG TITLE BELTS to retain the titles by himself! ***1/2
POST-FUCKING-MATCH: Triple H and Flair come out on stage; Triple H says that he warned Kane that his life wouldn't be the same after tonight. He then says Kane might be happy NOW! But let him ask something. Some people can't be that happy. For instance, how happy is KATIE VICK~! That's right, I KNOW, KANE! YOU KILLED HER 10 YEARS AGO! YOU ARE A MURDERER!
SWERVE!
