I missed the first 15 minutes of Raw tonight because I forgot it was on early, shame on me! I came in at the end of Randy Orton talking to Ric Flair and Shawn Michaels but I have no clue what was said, sorry folks! (Orton is in charge of Raw tonight I read on WWE.com. John Cena will have to face Shawn Michaels tonight apparently. Triple H will take on the big red machine Kane.)
The first match is a casket match between Smackdown's Undertaker vs Mark Henry. Undertaker comes out first in all his dead man glory, torches lit and all. I still tear up when I see his entrance, it's so breath taking! I wish I was there live right now! That is so awesome! It is my dream before I die to go see a live event where the Undertaker does an entrance like that, I've been wanting to do that for years! Mark Henry comes out as the World's strongest man. Can strength defeat the Undertaker tonight? The match gets underway and the Undertaker starts with the punches into the face of Henry. The only way to win this match is to the opponent to be put into the casket and the lid to be closed. No submissions, no count outs, no covers. Undertaker goes old school on Mark Henry, Henry catches the Undertaker in mid air and gets a lock hold on the back of Undertaker. Undertaker fights back and breaks the hold. Henry rushes Undertaker and knocks him out of the ring. Undertaker pulls Henry out of the ring and slams his head into the security wall. Henry the whips Undertaker into the other part of the security wall. Henry goes back outside and tries to drill the Undertaker into the ring post, but Undertaker gets out of his clutches. Undertaker then uses the casket for a weapon and slams Mark Henry's head right into it. Henry then slams the Undertaker into the mat and builds some momentum as he drops knees into Undertaker. Undertaker turns the tables and gets a triangular choke hold on Henry who taps but to no avail. Henry is lying at the edge of the ring by the casket. Undertaker kick/rolls Henry into the casket and the lid goes down. Henry is out of this match and Undertaker is victorious. Let's hope that Undertaker will be just as victorious at Wrestlemania where he goes for yet another undefeated year!
Mr. Kennedy is front and center tonight for a match against Finlay who doesn't even give Kennedy a chance to make his nightly commentary. Finlay comes down looking for a fight. Before the match begins JBL interrupts the match via the Titan Tron to tell Finlay that he accepts the match at Wrestlemania which will be a Belfast Brawl. JBL is convinced that he is going to beat JBL at his own game. Finlay goes after Kennedy with the shalleighly and won't stop beating him. The match is called for disqualification before it ever starts. Officials have to restrain Finlay to get him off of Kennedy who is being damned near carried out of the arena. Finlay goes to the outside and continues the attack on Kennedy with shots to the head and body from the shalleighly. Finlay finally walks out of the arena and leaves Kennedy in a heap on the ramp. I'm sure JBL has received that message loud and clear.
An intercontinental championship match between Jeff Hardy and Chris Jericho. There is a bit of hostility from last week on Raw when Hardy delivered a twist of fate to Jericho after being insulted. This match gets underway and the ref has to break up the count. The match continues and both these men explode into each other. Hardy gets tossed to the outside and Jericho remains in the ring. Jericho brings Hardy back into the ring and delivers some physical dominance. Hardy gets Jericho on the outside and delivers a nice baseball slide to keep him there. Hardy runs the wall and goes to leap at Jericho and gets a face full of announcers table for the effort. Jericho gets Hardy back into the ring and begins to weaken the rainbow haired warrior. Hardy can barely stand at this point but he refuses to give up the match to Jericho. Jericho continues to deliver the punishment. The fans are behind Hardy who gets the will to jump up and take down Jericho mid air. Hardy gets a whisper in the win on Jericho and Jericho kicks out. Jericho gets a Northern lights suplex on Hardy who battles back and now it's on. Blow after blow these two men counter each other in maneuverability. Hardy goes for a twist of fate but Jericho hits the lionsault instead. Jericho goes for the walls of Jericho, Hardy counters. Hardy get the twist of fate but misses the swanton as Jericho moves. Jericho delivers a huge codebreaker to Hardy and wins this match up tonight becoming the NEW INTERCONTINENTAL CHAMPION! This just sets Jeff up to become the champ after Wrestlemania when he wins the Money in the bank match at Wrestlemania. I'm counting on it!
The Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff take on US Express in a rematch from 1985. They are interrupted by Jillian Hall who comes out and tries to sing Born in the USA, Mike Rotundo from the US Express picks her up and spins her around leaving her dizzy and ditzy! Bye Jillian! The match will have to wait for another day!
The next inductees into the Hall of fame are Jack and Jerry Brisco. These brother's were tag team champs over 20 times in WWE history. These two men set the standards for future brother tag teams such as Matt and Jeff Hardy. Congratulations to the Brisco brother's for paving the way with such talent!
Triple H and Kane are facing off from Wrestlemania 15! The match that was dubbed the most brutal match ever seen in the WWE (I beg to differ). Triple H comes out first. Kane comes out in a burst of flames, angry and ready to end the Game. Kane wastes no time in cornering the Game and delivering some heavy hands. Triple H gets a boot to the chest of Kane but gets taken right down to the mat. Kane delivers some huge fists to the Game. Triple H powers back and gets tossed out of the ring for his efforts. Kane outside to retrieve the Game. Kane bounces Triple H's head off the announcer's table. Triple H reverses the attack and slams Kane into the ring post. Triple H gets into the ring to break up the 10 count. Triple H is powering back against the big red machine. Kane delivers a huge boot to the face of Triple H and goes for the cover, Triple H gets his shoulders up. Triple H continues to power back and lands a face buster on Kane who remains on his feet. Triple H goes for the pedigree but Kane powers out of it and slams Triple H to the mat. Kane goes for the choke slam but Triple H powers out of it. Kane goes up top but Triple H counters with a pedigree and wins this match up right in front of the champ Randy Orton who came out to distract Triple H.
The beautiful Melina makes her way to the ring being accompanied by Beth Phoenix. She will be taking on Maria being accompanied by Candace Michelle. Melina starts this match off powerfully but Maria doesn't let her get by with it. Maria powers back and shows her competitive nature. Santino Marella comes down the ramp to distract Maria. Santino distracts Maria by jumping up on the ring apron and she loses this match at the hands of Melina who capitalizes on the moment. Beth Phoenix cold cocks Candace Michelle with the women's championship as Santino leaves with Beth and Melina.
Floyd "Money" Mayweather and the Big Show come to the ring for the official weigh in before Wrestlemania. Shane McMahon comes out first to oversee this weigh in. The Big Show is the first man to hold titles from all three brands at one time WWE Championship, World Championship and ECW Championship. He is the world's largest athlete! Floyd "Money" Mayweather is the undisputed undefeated welter weight champion right now. 39-0! 25 of those 39 by knock out! He's impressive no doubt, but he's tiny compared to the Big Show. These two men eye each other intensely. Mayweather gets on the scale after some razzing from the crowd. 159 pounds exactly! Big Show gets on the scale (and it breaks, just kidding). 441.4 pounds! Now that's a size difference. Big Show takes the microphone from Shane and invites his posse to the ring since Mayweather brought his posse to the ring. Out come wrestlers from all three brands, Raw, Smackdown and ECW. Big Show wins the bigger posse contest that's for sure. "You're in the shark tank now 20 million dollar man!" Big Show teases. The question of the night is: "Is the risk really worth it?" Mayweather is putting his life and his career on the line in this match and he's not the favorite going into this match. Big Shows abruptly hands the microphone to Mayweather who addresses the crowd and Big Show. "I respect what you have done in the WWE but I don't respect you as a human being." Mayweather confesses. "You may could hurt me, but you have to catch me first!" Mayweather teases. "At No Way out I broke your nose, I will break you jaw!" Mayweather promises. His posse leaves the ring and Big Show picks up Mayweather and throws him right out onto the ramp. Other wrestlers get involved and the posse knocks the shit of of half the wrestlers and knock Shane down too. Some guys help Shane up and the Mayweather posse keeps backing out of the arena. That was all totally uncalled for. This match may not go well at Wrestlemania if Mayweather keeps his bros with him. Brothers looking for a reason to fight do not need to be given a reason to get rowdy that's for sure.
Smackdown's Champion Edge comes to the ring accompanied by his two goons Hawkins and Ryder to take on ECW's CM Punk in a rematch of the money in the bank match from last year at Wrestlemania. CM Punk gets an early advantage in this match up but Edge has a few tricks up his sleeve. He gets a near fall on Punk but Punk gets his shoulders up. Punk battles back but gets a takedown from Edge. Edge gets taken down by Punk who goes for a cover which is kicked out of by Edge. Punk is really using his feet and legs on the champ. A lateral press almost wins this match for Punk, but Edge kicks out. Edge lands a huge DDT on Punk, but Punk kicks out of the cover. Edge goes for the spear but misses as Punk jumps over him, Punk is then distracted by Ryder. Edge uses that distraction to get another spear on Punk and win this match! Will Edge have what is takes to defeat the Dead Man at Wrestlemania or will the Undertaker be 16-0?
William Regal is in the ring to make an announcement about something. Wrestlemania will be Smackdown vs Raw for supremacy on which is the better brand. Umaga will be representing Raw and representing Smackdown will be Batista. No one can stop Umaga but he hasn't met anything the likes of the animal Batista yet! Batista is here tonight and he comes to the ring to face off against Umaga and have his say about how Wrestlemania is going to go down. He immediately begins beating Umaga with fists but Umaga stops him. Batista delivers a huge suplex to Umaga and shows just who the dominant man in the ring is! (I've met Batista in real life, he's awesome and very muscular!) Umaga leaves the arena at the demand of Regal and Batista is the last man standing in the ring, at least for tonight!
Mr. McMahon gets a star on the Hollywood walk of fame on Friday morning! Congratulations Mr. McMahon.
Shawn Michaels comes of for his match against none other than John Cena in a Wrestlemania 23 rematch. This match gets underway and if it's anything like the match at Wrestlemania 23, it's going to be a great one. These two men are countering each other like crazy and it's had to keep up. Michaels takes Cena to the mat but tries to keep Cena off his feet. Cena is powering back trying to get his vertical base back so he can use his strength against HBK. Michaels gets a hold on Cena's head but Cena gets a moment of momentum. Michaels almost gets the STFU but manages to use the ring ropes to stop that from happening. He steps out of the ring to gather his senses. As Michaels gets back into the ring Cena gets a sidearm bar on Michaels taking him down to the mat. Twisting Michaels arm gets Cena a few moments, but Michaels counters with a swinging neckbreaker. Blows are exchanged and Michaels is taken down twice, but Cena is taken out of the ring over the top rope by Michaels. Michaels gets Cena back in the ring and Michaels begins capitalizing on the injured leg of Cena. Cena doesn't let it get him down and he powers through the pain to deliver a 5 knuckle shuffle to Michaels. Michaels counters the FU. Cena counters Michaels counter and it's battle of the counters folks! Both men end up down and the count begins. Another collision takes both men down in the center of the ring. A flying forearm takes Cena down. Michaels goes up top for the elbow and lands it! Michaels begins tuning up the band. Cena counters the sweet chin music but Michaels counters Cena's counter in an inverted figure 4 on Cena. (ouch). Cena struggles for the ropes to break the hold and he makes it. A baseball slide pushes Cena out of the ring from the apron. A nice back flip off the ropes lands Michaels right on top of Cena on the outside. Cena gets knocked into the ring post by Michaels who then gets knocked out by Orton. Orton sets up a chair in the center of the ring and tries to take out Cena. The match is called as a DQ and Orton goes for the RKO on Cena, who counters and Orton lands on his back on that steel chair. Cena delivers a huge FU to Orton showing how much he doesn't appreciate being interrupted!
Triple H makes an announcement about his turn at running Raw next week. Randy Orton and John Cena will be tag team partners against.....the entire Raw roster! Good lord! That's why they call him the cerebral assassin folks, he's always on top of his Game!
Join me next week for the next explosive episode of Raw and let me entertain you!
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