For the 3rd straight week, we open with a video package
detailing Undertaker's road to Wrestlemania, starting at
the Royal Rumble, but updated to include footage from last
night's Raw. Talk about beating a point into the ground.
No opening music this week. Michael Cole & JBL hype
the cross-brand double-main event.
Boogeyman vs. Finlay.Return from last week,
where Boogey suffered his first loss, thanks to Little Bastard
& the shillelagh. Finlay has control again, and Boogey
is selling for the Fighting Irishman. Finlay tries to uncover
a turnbuckle pad, but ref Chris Kay stops him. He goes for
the shillelagh, but Kay cuts him off there, too. Little
Bastard enters, and is about to KO Boogey with his shillelagh,
but in comes....a mini Boogeyman?! Little Bastard is frozen,
stunned, and we have a quick brawl between the two "juniors".
As Kay is busy with them, Boogey pulls out his staff and
gives Finlay an appropriate receipt for last week with a
shot to the gut to pick up the win. We'd later learn that
the PPV match between these two is now a tag match with
the minis added to the mix, meaning Little Bastard is finally
going to wrestle. Winner: Boogeyman.
Deuce (w/Domino & Cherry) vs. Brian Kendrick
(w/Paul London). Ashley Massaro, the manager of
the tag champs, isn't out this time, but we'll see her later.
Kendrick was treated like a JTTS most of the match, and
a late flurry is cut off as Domino pushes Kendrick off the
top behind the ref's back. Kendrick sits up to get his bearings,
but Deuce KOs him with a running kick to the face. Winner:
Deuce.
Raw's World tag team champions, Shawn Michaels & John
Cena, meet backstage, and HBK is promising he'll have Da
Champ's back leading to their match at Wrestlemania. Meanwhile,
tonight's opposition, Mr. Kennedy & MVP, are headed
to the ring......Shawn Michaels & John Cena
vs. Mr. Kennedy & MVP. Easily the match of
the night, as the heels, supposedly overlooked according
to JBL, took the fight to the World tag t eam champs. Michaels
went into his late-match moveset way too early, but MVP
kept him from superkicking Kennedy to the next county. After
a break, the champs are still in control, and all the while,
JBL warns of a possible blow-up that never comes. Hot tag
to Cena, and the WWE champ begins cleaning house. After
a 5 Knuckle Shuffle to MVP, Kennedy gets a chair, but HBK
cuts him off with a superkick. MVP eats an FU and that is
all.Winners: Shawn Michaels & John Cena.
King Booker returns to a comedy skit he last did with Goldust
a few years ago, parodying movie review shows, this time
with Queen Sharmell as his co-host. Subject: "See No
Evil". They even recycled the bit where Booker stands
in front of a screen trying to superimpose himself into
the movie. Lame. Kane can be heard warning Booker that there's
No Way Out on Sunday, and then Big Red slashes the curtain
open with a knife and laughs evilly. Saved the segment from
being a total dog.
Once again, Kristal Marshall is flirting with Teddy Long,
and even goes so far as to seduce the GM with a strip tease.
Jillian Hall comes in, still trying to sing. Comes across
as a Cyndi Lauper wannabe gargling with razor blades, it's
that bad. 1984 called. They want their "She-Bop"
back. Later, Kristal finally leaves, and ECW champ Bobby
Lashley, sharply attired in a 3-piece suit, visits. Kennedy
interrupts and challenges Lashley for the ECW title at No
Way Out. There's a reason JR said Kennedy had beaten 7 different
champs instead of 6 last night, but JBL had the count at
6. Kennedy's victims list consists of Lashley (for the US
title), Chris Benoit, Kane, Batista, Undertaker, Booker,
& Rey Mysterio.
Gregory Helms vs. Scotty 2 Hotty. Two weeks
ago, Scotty moved to Raw, or more specifically, Heat, in
a trade for a player to be named later. Suddenly, he's back
on Smackdown, with no mention of being on Heat the last
two weeks. Did he get traded back for himself? (That's happened
in baseball) Helms ambushes Scotty before the bell and gains
control. Should mention, too, that Helms has a new beat,
but Cole & JBL don't acknowledge this, either. Scotty
comes back and sets up for the W*O*R*M, but is intercepted
by Daivari. In short order, Funaki, Jamie Noble, and ECW's
Shannon Moore hit the ring. Helms bails, but is cut off
by Jimmy Wang Yang, who herds the champ back in and hits
a moonsault. Winner: Scotty 2 Hotty via DQ, although no
announcement was made.
Ashley is finally out and unveils the Playboy cover. For
once, she left her sk8ter girl clothes and the fishnet stockings
behind and comes out in a hot black cocktail dress. She
does wear the fishnets on the cover, however. Cole wants
JBL to use his Wall St. connections to get an advance copy.
Don't they have a few of those floating around already?
Note, too, that the issue will also reprint earlier layouts
of Sable, Chyna, & Torrie Wilson.
Rated RKO are discussing strategy for their match, and it
involves getting Batista & Undertaker to turn on each
other. Ah, but the best laid plans of mice and men often
go astray......
Batista & Undertaker vs. Rated RKO.
This, too, was dominated early by the faces, but after a
while, the former World tag team champs took over, and Batista
was made the face in peril. Hot tag to Undertaker. Ref Jim
Corderas is bumped down and out of the match after Edge
is whipped into him. What was the point of that? Edge hit
the spear, but no ref to count. He goes for the con-chair-to,
but Undertaker sits up. Orton with a low blow and a chair
shot. Charles Robinson takes over the officiating, and Edge
gets a near fall. Batista makes the save and sets up Orton
for a Batista Bomb, but Edge spears him down. Undertaker
with a chokeslam and a tombstone, and Edge is done.Winners:
Batista & Undertaker. Post-match, HBK & Cena return
with a receipt from last night. Undertaker gets 2 superkicks,
while Batista is FU'd into dreamland. HBK & Cena leave
and don't even bother looking back. |