Monday Night Raw
February 5, 2009
Pyro!
Pyro!
Pyro!!
JR: Welcome once again to the flagship program of the WWE, Monday Night Raw! Tonight’s show is almost bursting at the seams, the tension in this arena is ready to blow the roof! King, what have we got planned for tonight?
King: We have a WWE Championship defence, with Edge as the Special Referee. Bret Hart is here tonight and says he’ll decided who he wants to face at Wrestlemania, there’s the first MITB Qualifying match and a whole lot more!
Bret Hart comes down to the ring to a very awful ovation, the crowd booing him and throwing their drinks at him
Hart: See, that’s what I am talking about! The greatest WWE superstar, EVER, the best there is, the best there was, the best there ever will be, and I get beer thrown at me?
Heat
Hart: Whatever, I’m not here for you, I’m here about one thing: the Wrestlemania Main Event. Something I haven’t been a part of since Wrestlemania 12, and you know who the man I faced that night was? Shawn Michaels! That stupid idiot has been a cancer on my career since day one, and thank god the doctors have finally found a cure. That cure is Wrestlemania 25, when Bret Hart will regain the WWE Championship from Shawn Michaels!
RVD’s music hits as he comes to the ring
RVD: Whoa man, you need to slow down. You want Shawn Michaels, but you seem to be forgetting something. HBK might not be the champion come Wrestlemania. You know, he might not win tonight, so you’re gonna be facing Rob…Van…Dam!
Hart: Dear lord look what this business has become! We’ve got a stone facing off with a homo for our companies main championship! Maybe after tonight you and Shawn can go backstage and do a little ‘high flying’, as long as you don’t incorporate some driving into it!
Big ‘OHH’ from the crowd as RVD is visibly agitated. ‘Sexy Boy’ is heard as Shawn Michaels also makes his way down to the ring
Hart: Oh look who it is! Shawn Michaels, the Showstopper, The Main Ev-
HBK: Bret why don’t you just shut your damn mouth!
Massive pop
HBK: Bret, you just signed your own death warrant. With all due respect to you and your abilities, Bret, you are not going to be walking out of Wrestlemania on your own two feet when I’m done with you! You’ll be drinking soup through a straw while doctors go up your ass looking for the teeth I kicked down your throat on the biggest stage of ‘em all!
Metalingus plays suddenly as Edge comes and joins the other men standing in the ring, wearing a referee shirt.
Edge: Fellas, fellas, what’s going on? Bret, Shawn, you’re both washed up. RVD, you’re a stoner. I’m the only man in this ring who should be in here, and I have the control to decided who will be the WWE Champion, my title! The Rated R Superstar is-
Hart: Is probably the most disrespectful little brat I’ve ever seen!
Edge: Old man, don’t break a hip. Shawn may say he’s gonna kick your teeth down your throat, but if you don’t watch your mouth the Rated R Superstar is gonna shove your dentures straight up your ass!
HBK, RVD and Hart all look at each other, before looking at Edge. They tackle him to the mat and begin to attack him. Edge rolls out of the ring as HBK levels Bret with the Sweet Chin Music! Shawn stands over Bret when suddenly Van Dam hits him in the back of the head with the championship belt. Rob climbs up top before soaring down for the Five Star Frog Splash! Van Dam gets to his feet when suddenly he is hit with a huge spear from Edge!
JR: It’s straight-up pandemonium here on Raw!
King: This chaos is over, but there will surely be more to come after the break when Brock Lesnar takes on another Revolution member, Shelton Benjamin!
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Brock Lesnar VS Shelton Benjamin w/Revolution
JR: Brock has made it clear he wants to face Randy Orton after what happened at the Royal Rumble, but he’s going to have to battle another one of Randy’s Revolution cronies, Shelton Benjamin
The match starts with Carlito distracting Brock on the apron before Shelton comes up behind Lesnar and begins to assault his upper back with some clubbing blows. Brock though manages to knock Benjamin across the ring with a shoulder to the gut. Shelton runs at Brock who is leaning on the ropes, but gets back dropped up onto Carlito and Randy Orton to a huge pop.
Brock follows him outside the ring when he sees MVP coming up behind him, before he grabs Porter and powerslams him on the floor! Lesnar turns around and the distraction of MVP appears to have given Shelton enough time to recover as he gets irish whipped into the turnbuckle by Benjamin. The referee is at about 8 when Shelton rolls Brock back into the ring and follows him, before signalling it’s time for the Pay Dirt.
Shelton leaps up for the Pay Dirt-but Brock catches him and drops him down with a backbreaker across his knee! Lesnar picks up Shelton and slams him with a power bomb, followed up by another power bomb, dead lifting Shelton back up and finally delivering a THIRD power bomb! The crowd go berserk as Brock picks Benjamin up for the F5. Shelton though gets off and puts Lesnar in position for a T-Bone Suplex, but Lesnar counters and gets Shelton back on his shoulders!! F5! One, Two, Three!
Brock Lesnar wins by pinfall
Orton suddenly charges into the ring and drops Brock with an RKO! Carlito and MVP bring chairs into the ring, one for each Revolution member. They begin to repeatedly slam the steel into the body of Lesnar, who is laying out cold on the mat.
Orton grabs a mic
Orton: Brock, don’t you get it! You cannot win! Week after week, you get your ass beat up by Revolution. I am the Legend Killer, cross me one more time and your Legend will be killed once and for all!
King: What a sick display by Revolution
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Non-title
World Tag Team Champions, Motor City Machine Guns VS The Dudley Boyz
Match-up starts with Sabin and Bubba locking up. Bubba takes Chris down to the mat with a headlock before Sabin fights his way back up and breaks the hold. Chris launches some punches to the head of Bubba Ray before bouncing off the ropes, only to get nailed with a hard clothesline from Bubba Ray.
Bubba tags in D-Von, before setting up Sabin for the Wassup Headbutt. D-Von comes flying down, but Chris uses his legs to flip Bubba over his head and D-Von crashes straight on top of him! Sabin crawls over to his corner and manages to make a tag to Shelley! Shelley gets the hot tag and begins to take down Bubba and D-Von. He gives Bubba a huge heel kick which takes him out through the ropes. Shelley tags in Sabin before putting D-Von on his shoulders. Sabin then flies off and hit’s a cross body to D-Von as Shelley falls backwards with the electric chair drop! One, Two, Three!
World Tag Team Champions, Motor City Machine Guns win by pinfall
JR: And that’s a move those two men like to call the Motor City Meltdown!
Shelley and Sabin celebrate on the turnbuckles when suddenly, the lights go out. After a few seconds, the light once back on and Sabin and Shelley are lying in the middle of the ring, bloodied. A man stands in the middle of the ring holding a steel chair. He’s wearing a pair of black jeans and a tank top, with long black hair similar to the old Kane, but sorter. He has strange black markings under his eyes and on his cheeks. The man suddenly turns his head sideways to the Dudleys laying on the outside of the ring. He begins to assault them with the chair, then delivers an Even Flow DDT to Bubba on the floor. The man rolls back in the ring and sits in the bottom turnbuckle, rocking back and forth nervously
King: What-or Who was that!
JR: I’m not sure King, but that was one of the most bizarre things I’ve seen over all my time here on Raw!
The man slowly begins to leave the ring, looking at the carnage he has caused with a twisted smile
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Money in the Bank Qualifying Match #2
Intercontinental Champion, Matt Sydal VS Jay Lethal
JR: What has become a Wrestlemania Tradition will take to the ring for it’s 5th anniversary at Wrestlemania 25, the Money in the Bank Ladder match! It’s sure to be a blockbuster, after Shane McMahon announced that he thinks both Kofi Kingston and AJ Styles are in the match!
King: Not to mention, everybody who has cashed in that briefcase has won the title! CM Punk, Edge, Rob Van Dam all used the Money in the Bank to propel themselves through the glass ceiling, and that opportunity awaits at Wrestlemania for Matt or Jay!
Lethal and Sydal lock up and do the usual opening spot until Sydal nails Jay with a heel kick. Sydal goes for a standing moonsault but is hit in the gut with Lethal’s knees. Jay attacks Matt with a series of dropkicks, followed by a standing knee drop for a quick 2 count. Lethal lifts Matt up for the Lethal Combination, but after some elbows to the head Sydal break free.
The Intercontinental Champion then begins to get on a roll with some elbows and kicks. Sydal then hit’s a feint ensuing head scissors and a standing moonsault. Sydal goes up top-Shooting Sydal Press! One, Two, Three!
Intercontinental Champion, Matt Sydal wins by pinfall
Qualifying for MITB Ladder match: Intercontinental Champion, Matt Sydal
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We go backstage and see CM Punk standing by with Maria
Maria: CM Punk, af-
Punk snatches the mic
Punk: Maria, I don’t have time for you to talk, no offense. I’ve got to get straight to the point, and that is Samoa Joe!
Punk: Joe, what you did to me last week and at the Rumble was a straight up coward act. My whole career, no my whole LIFE, people have said I was too small, I wasn’t big enough, I should just give up. But you know what? I stood up to those idiots like you and proved them all wrong! I’m still not cleared to compete, and hell, I’m not even meant to be here tonight. But I proved them wrong and showed I could be here tonight. I’m still no cleared to compete, but Joe, I’d be watching you back on Smackdown from now on. Because Punk is gonna kill you!
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Paul Burchill w/William Regal VS AJ Styles
Regal nails Styles in the back of the head before the bell rings giving Paul Burchill the early advantage. Burchill digs his knee into the shoulder joint of Styles, before puling it back. AJ though manages to get forward and grab onto the ropes, forcing Burchill to release the hold. Paul holds onto the 4 though and begins to argue with the referee. AJ is laying on the bottom rope as Regal runs through and gives him a running boot to the side of the head.
Burchill covers but it only garners a 2 count. Paul signals it’s time for the Twisted Sister as Styles gets up. Burchill runs towards him but AJ leaps up and hit’s a big Pele kick! Styles now waits for Paul to get up and runs at him, before clotheslining Burchill over the top rope onto Regal! AJ waits for The Empire to get up-before bouncing off the top rope and hitting both with a Shooting Styles Press! AJ now grabs Paul and throws him in the ring, before hitting the Style Clash! One, Two, Three!
AJ Styles wins by pinfall
JR: A strong showing by another Money in the Bank competitor, could Styles be the man to grab that briefcase?
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We are backstage as we see AJ Styles sitting in his locker room. Kofi Kingston walks into the room
Styles: What do you want?
Kofi: I’m here to congratulate you on your win man, you did good, but not great. And maybe give you some pointers
Styles: Not great? What would your ‘pointers’ include man, slapping my hands like a big baboon?
Kofi: Hey man, lay off the thunder clap. Just watch my match next week with the Big Show, then maybe you can be great. But still man, it was a good match
Kofi leaves as Styles sits angrily, muttering under his breath
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Main Event
WWE Championship
Special Referee: Edge
Shawn Michaels (c) VS Rob Van Dam
JR: This is a HUGE Raw match-up here folks. This will determine the Wrestlemania Main Event! Who will the Hitman face, Shawn Michaels or Rob Van Dam?
King: It’s too close to call JR, but I’m sure that our ‘impartial’ guest referee will have something to do with it
Edge rings the bell and the match-up starts. RVD and Shawn lock up before Van Dam pushes HBK back into the ropes. Edge promptly runs over and pushes RVD across the ring. Van Dam gets up angrily and begins to argue with Edge, who says that Shawn got the rope. HBK runs through and hits RVD with a big clothesline while he argues with Edge. Shawn puts Van Dam in a one-legged Boston crab, but Rob manages to grip the bottom rope. Edge grabs HBK by the hair and drops him face first onto the mat.
Michaels now begins to argue with Edge, which gives RVD the chance to hit Shawn with a spinning heel kick. Van Dam bounces off the ropes for Rolling Thunder, but HBK lifts up his knees and they dig into the back of Van Dam. Shawn covers, but Edge counts extremely slowly, and Michaels only gets a one count. Shawn gets up angrily and yells at Edge who just smiles and sarcastically repeats ‘One’
Van Dam is up and cross bodies Michaels through the ropes. Edge doesn’t begin the countout yet though, as he perches himself up on the top turnbuckle and watches the carnage outside. Van Dam walks up onto the apron-then springboards from the second rope and catches Shawn with a moonsault! Edge begins to clap sarcastically before he begins a very fast countout. Rob manages to throw Shawn back in and roll himself back in just before Edge got to ten.
RVD now climbs up onto the top rope and flies off for a Frog Splash-but the champion moves out of the way! Shawn gets up and gets ready for it, tuning up the band for Sweet Chin Music! Shawn begins to step forward, but RVD dodges and sweeps Michaels leg out from under him. Van Dam waits for HBK to get up-but misses the kick and hits Edge straight in the jaw!! RVD is stunned and as he turns around gets hit with the Sweet Chin Music! One, Two, Three!
Shawn Michaels wins by pinfall
STILL WWE Champion: Shawn Michaels
JR: So there it is! A re-match that has been building up for more than a decade, Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels, the two greatest performers of all time, Wrestlemania 25!!
Shawn holds his championship up high as we walks down the ramp, leaving RVD in the ring. Edge is up though and he looks furious. He squats in the corner-and hit’s the Spear! But Edge isn’t done as he grabs two steel chairs. Edge puts them in the ring and hits Rob Van Dam with the Con-Chair-To! Edge stands over Van Dam before leaning down close to him and with that sadistic look in his eye mutters angrily to the unconscious RVD
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Wrestlemania
March 25, 2009
LIVE from Sydney, Australia
Main Event
WWE Championship
Shawn Michaels (c) VS Bret Hart
Money in the Bank Ladder match
AJ Styles VS Kofi Kingston VS Intercontinental Champion, Matt Sydal VS ??? VS ??? VS ??? VS ??? VS ???