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- Rock brings it from his house
- Khali def. Miz via DQ
- Sheamus def. Daniel Bryan to become the new United States Champion.
- Cole brings out Lawler’s son, JR comes out to aid Lawler, both men get laid out by Swagger.
- Randy Orton def. Mason Ryan, gets punted after.
- Vickie def. Trish Stratus, LayCool assisted, Snooki in match at Wrestlemania.
- John Cena def. Alberto Del Rio via DQ.

-Raw opens up with a poster of the Rock and we then pan to him talking on his phone. He’s talking about the “final knockout” from Cena and discussing how lame it was. While he’s talking, Cena’s music hits and Cena is apparently in Rock’s house. Instead, it’s a little kid with Cena’s gear and he tells Rock “you can’t see me.” The kid starts rapping and then says “you want some, come get some.” Rock explains that once he left, Cena took the ball and was the man in WWE. Rock then explains that he’ll never be as good as the Rock because he’s “not that talented” and is the poster boy for a young demographic. Rock then makes the little kid cry and gives him a Cena t shirt to blow his nose with. He then spits in it and gives the kid a motivational speech. He then gives the kid a box of Fruity Pebbles and the kid leaves. Rock then talks to the camera and addresses Miz. He introduces himself to the must see champ and says that Miz made it clear that he wants to get his ass kicked. He closes by saying that he will lay the smack down on both of them, if you smell what he’s cooking.

-Cole is ringside inside a clear box to “ensure his protection.” Josh and Lawler are at the announce table. Miz comes out and we see replays from the past few weeks involving Cena and Miz. Miz talks about how Rock’s t shirt refers him bringing bad catch phrases and promos. Miz continues to say that he will make Rock cry when he gets his hands on him. After saying that he’s awesome, we get an email from the Raw general manager. He leaves his Cole mine, only for Jerry to get up and take control of the podium. He says that there are “two first time matches” for Miz and Cena. John Cena will face off with Alberto Del Rio tonight. Miz then says he has no one left to face, but then The Great Khali comes out. We go to commercial

-Great Khali vs. Miz is underway and Miz is being chopped by Khali. He then gets a big chop to the head and is now getting his skull crushed. Khali refuses to break the hold and Alex Riley comes out to break it up. Riley gets hit with a Punjabi Plunge and Miz then comes in and beats him with a steel chair. Miz finishes by giving Khali a DDT into the chair. As Khali walks up the ramp, the camera zooms into Khali’s back, which was cut open from the chair when it broke.

-Back from commercial as Lawler and Matthews hype the match between Triple H and Undertaker. We now see a video package hyping up Triple H’s career with short bits from his response on Friday. We see John Morrison backstage talking with Snooki, but Vickie and Ziggler come over. Snooki and Vickie start trashing each other. She blocks a slap from Vickie and smacks her in the face.

-Back from another commercial, and we have a match for the United States Championship. Sheamus is out first, followed by Daniel Bryan. Justin Roberts reminds us that if Sheamus does not win, then he will quit WWE. The match starts out and Sheamus is on the offensive. Daniel Bryan turns it around and dives out of the ring, onto Sheamus. Bryan goes to the top rope and hits a giant missile dropkick. We go to another commercial. After the break, if it’s any surprise, Sheamus is dominating Daniel Bryan. He knee Bryan in the head but fails to keep him down for a three count. Sheamus is flung out of the ring by Daniel Bryan and he hurt his ankle. It takes him until the 5 count to get back into the ring. Sheamus then goes for the brogue kick, but Daniel Bryan ducks. The LeBelle lock is locked in but Sheamus grabs the rope. Sheamus goes for a high cross, but it’s turned into a roll up. Daniel Bryan then hits his trademark roaring elbows followed by repeated kicks to the chest. Daniel Bryan is hit with a brogue kick while trying to hit a missile dropkick. Sheamus is your new United States Champion. That was a pretty good match.

-Cole, from his mine, says that he is bringing out someone from Lawler’s past to expose who he really is. Back from commercial and we see a replay of Stone Cold humiliating Cole. Michael Cole then goes on to say that Stone Cold will have minimal effect at Wrestlemania. Michael Cole introduces the biological son of Jerry Lawler, “Grand Master Sexay,” Brian Christopher. Cole questions him as to why he never used the name “Lawler” when he wrestled. Brian Christopher then says that he never had a father growing up. Lawler then says that his son is a bigger screw up than Charlie Sheen. His son then reminds us that he competed in Wrestlemania before his father, as a part of the tag team “Too Cool.” Christopher then starts to smack around Lawler, and then says he never used the Lawler named because he’s ashamed of him. As soon as Cole starts running his mouth, Oklahoma’s marching band music hits and out comes OLE JIM ROSS. Jim Ross says that this has all gone far enough. Cole tells Ross to go away because he is the voice of the WWE now. Ross says that the voice of the WWE is from the WWE Universe. JR calls him a rat bastard and then proceeds to leave the ring. Cole isn’t finished and JR gets back in the ring. He takes his coat and hat off. As the two get ready to square off, Jack Swagger comes out of nowhere and pummels Lawler. Swagger then gets into the ring with Ross. Swagger puts Ross into an ankle lock until Lawler comes in to save him. Lawler is then put in an ankle lock. Cole then puts JR into an ankle lock.

-Randy Orton is out to face the last remaining member of the New Nexus, Mason Ryan. CM Punk lets Mason Ryan go to the ring by himself. The match is fairly balanced back and forth, but Randy Orton…once again, hits an RKO out of nowhere and wins the match. The FCW punt express gains another passenger as Orton punts Mason Ryan in the skull.

-After seeing that Drew Carey is the latest inductee for the WWE Hall of Fame, yes you read that right, Cole announces that he will use the ankle lock to defeat Jerry Lawler. Zack Ryder gets three seconds of screen time while flirting with Snooki, and we go to commercial. After break, Justin Roberts announces Snooki to the ring. She says that she hopes to see Trish Stratus shut Vickie up. Vickie comes out and Justin Roberts announces that it is a no disqualification match. After some trash talking, Trish comes out to a nice pop. The match starts and Vickie starts doing jumping jacks. She takes off her shoes and tries to throw them at Vickie. Trish pushes Vickie over, but Ziggler comes out to stop it. Morrison comes out and removes Ziggler from the ring, but LayCool comes out for the assist and helps Vickie pick up the win. Michelle McCool then taunts Snooki, only to get beaten up by her. Vickie then issues a challenge to Morrison, Trish, and Snooki for a match against Ziggler and LayCool at Wrestlemania. Snooki accepts.

-Ricardo Rodriguez announces Alberto Del Rio as our main event may actually be longer than TNA’s PPV main event. Next out is John Cena to the biggest pop of the night. Both of these number one contenders will take part in the main event of a Raw in which I have struggled to pay attention to. The match starts and they grapple each other. Before we go to commercial, Cole says that The Rock is actually in St. Louis tonight. After commercial, Del Rio is working Cena’s neck. The “let’s go Cena/Cena sucks” chants are echoing. Cena powers out and hits a suplex, both men are down. They finally get up and exchange blows until Cena come out on top. He hits his running shoulders and then the five knuckle shuffle. He set up Del Rio for the Attitude Adjustment, but Brodus Clay comes in and the match ends in a DQ. The Rock’s music hits and… Miz, who is in a very good Rock disguise, come out and helps Del Rio gang up on Cena. After being beat up on the entrance ramp, Cena fights back for a short bit until he gets a DDT into the steel flooring. He smashes his face into the big WWE logo on the main stage, and then gives him a skull crushing finale into it.

Source: wrestlingtruth.com

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Al Snow & Necro Butcher will be part of the MCW event at the College Plaza in Alliance, Ohio on March 19th, 2011. Bell time is 7 PM. Here's the full card:

Toby Klein vs. Al Snow

Brain Damage vs. Necro Butcher

Shasta vs. Christian Vaughn in a cage match for the MCW Heavyweight Title

Larry Lavender vs. Jebediah for the MCW Elite Title

Team Be Jealous vs. Angeldust & Tuff Tina

Shane Sensation vs. Wilbur Whitlock

Justin Mane vs. Mike Hercum

Shawn Blaze vs. Supa Lucha

Tony Banks vs. Big Hurt

Bobby Beverly vs. Bill Martel

Chiyudo Ropa vs. Nikki Skids

Go to http://mcwpro.com for info about MCW & http://prowrestlingevents.tk or http://prowrestlingevents.webs.com for info about upcoming wrestling shows worldwide.

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We kick off Impact with a recap of last weeks dramas involving Anderson, Sting and RVD. Anderson drags Earl Hebner to the ring in a headlock and says if Sting didn’t call for the bell then he must. Earl says this shirt stands for authority and respect and he better give it to him. Anderson says what if he pushes him. Earl says don’t touch him or he will suspend him. Mr Anderson asks why did he DQ him and Earl says because he put his hands on Sting. He asks to change the decision or he will regret it. Anderson says he is pissing him off and goes to Mic Check him before Hebner JR stops him. Anderson says isn’t that sweet coming out to save daddy. Anderson asks if Earl is eye balling him and says he is in the business of screwing people over. Earl looks to throw a punch but is stopped by his son. Stingers music hits and he enters the ring. Sting says if you want to pick on everyone then why doesn’t he pick on him! Anderson says this isn’t Stinger country this is assehole country and if he steps up to him then he steps up to all of them. Sting says, No, I am just here to disrespect you. They start fighting but are split by security and RVD enters the ring. RVD says to Anderson if he thinks the DQ stopped him from beating him then he doesn’t want the victory and suggests they make it a three way at Lockdown. Earl says he doesn’t have the power. Hogan comes out and says that’s a great idea lets do it. Eric Bischoff says, wait a sec, we need ratings. So, lets make it them three against Abyss, Matt Hardy and Bully Ray in a steel cage tonight! Sting and ANderson try to get to each other but are split up again. Doesn’t look good for the team of RVD, Sting and Mr Anderson. RVD backstage says he has his hands full but he doesn’t care because he take out all his enemies in one go. Sting says Anderson is disrespectful and he will get an apology from him. Backstage Shannon Moore says Scott Steiner looks stupid with his head piece and he has no respect for him anyway. Scott Steiner asks if that is what he calls disrespect, wiping his ass with his head piece and running like a little bitch. He says that is not disrespect, disrespect is taking his girlfriend and knocking her all night. Or bitch slapping a guy in the bar then knocking him out. He will show him disrespect tonight the little bitch. Jeff Jarrett and Karen talk with Hogan about getting out of the cage match with the mad Angle. Hogan says the Rob Terry thing could fix this. Jarrett agrees but Karen looks perplexed, guess we will find out.

1: Scott Steiner vs Shannon Moore. EY at the commentary table adds some colour. Shannon with Jesse ringside and Scotty with Crimson. EY says they are having a four way tag match coming soon, OJ and EY vs Scotty and Crimson vs INK INC and a mystery team, he suggests it could be Demolition. Shannon runs away to start off with but Crimson throws him in to Scott who kicks him in the corner and some big chops. Back body drop off the ropes. More strikes in the corner and back elbow off the ropes. Belly to belly by Steiner out of the corner for near fall. Shannon reverses a move and beats on Scott and attacks his legs. Moore mocks Steiner with push ups. Moore strikes in the corner and drop kick out of the corner. Shannon has the head piece on and misses a moonsault off the top. Over head belly to belly by Steiner and Stiff arm clothesline followed by a elbow drop. Steiner puts Moore on the top rope and hits the Frankensteiner and gets the 1,2,3, winner, Big Poppa Pump, Scott Steiner! EY and Orlando look to congratulate the winners and Steiner just gives them the fingers. Magnus and Douglas Williams attack them from behind, mystery opponents, maybe?

Mr Anderson talks to a picture of himself asking him if he will give Sting an apology, his picture says, tell Sting to go fuck himself. He says to his picture he can’t say that, this is a family show. He says maybe they could do something. Jeff and Karen are talking and Karen asks what if the plan doesn’t work. Jeff is preoccupied as to why Anderson’s picture is on the Lockdown poster. Jarrett says don’t worry because he always has a plan B. Recap of Generation Me’s fall from grace after the Ultimate X. They talk smack about each other and will square off next!

2: Max Buck vs Jeremy Buck. Max wants Jeremy to lie down but he refuses. Jeremy wins the lock up but they take each other with single leg takedowns and roll ups. Arm drags by Jeremy and then top rope arm drag takedown. Jeremy holds the rope for Max and they get in the ring. Max knocks him down then they counter one after another before Jeremy rolls him up. More counters until Jeremy with dropkick and arm drag takes his bro down. Hurricanrana pin by Jeremy. Head scissors takes Jeremy out of the ring. Max holds the rope for Jeremy but kicks him in the head getting in and then powerbombs him into the turnbuckle and and sliced bread off the top gets him the win.

Beer Money backstage. Winter tells Angelina this is a small bump in the road and to drink her drink. She tells her she couldn’t let Velvet control her, she is just trying to protect her. Recap of The Beautiful People and Winter’s issues of late.

3: Velvet Sky vs Winter. Velvet attacks winter and shoulder blocks her in the corner. Smashes her head into the turnbuckle and more shoulder blocks. Neck whip and dropkick but just two. Winter reverses from the corner with a hair pull slam to follow. Body Slam by Winter and foot choke. Hair pull throw and back breaker by Winter. Fireman’s carry but Velvet gets out and hits a pair of clotheslines and a bulldog. Angelina strolls down all spaced out down the ramp. Velvet was looking at her and Winter chokes Velvet with the rope. Winter with a swinging backbreaker and a choke type submission that gets the victory. Winter leaves and Angelina follows.

Mr Anderson comes back to the ring and grabs the mic. He yells for Sting to get his ass out here. Sting obliges. Anderson asks if he wants him to apologise. He says he is normally an assehole but he will do something he normally doesn’t do. Anderson slaps him and all hell breaks lose. they take it outside the ring and into the crowd. They throw each other into the crowd barrier before taking it ringside. They continue to beat the shit out of each other even using the steps. Abyss Bully and Hardy come out and attack both men. Bully Ray hits Sting with a mic in the ring meanwhile Anderson is beat by the other two until RVD comes out and takes out Bully Ray. RVD however doesn’t help Anderson and they toss him back to Sting who nails him a couple more times. Backstage Karen is pretending that Kurt is coming after him to the police. Jeff looks pleased. Ric Flair backstage says they were just lucky he wasn’t there. Meanwhile the rest of Immortal said they aren’t on the same page so they will kill them. Velvet says Winter is a psychotic bitch and she shouldn’t have messed with The Beautiful People and she will make her pay. She speaks how Angelina looks drugged and she will free her from Winters trance. On a side note we hear Anderson’s music in the background.

4: Kurt Angle is in the ring and calls out Jeff Jarrett. Jarrett comes out with Rob Terry in toe. Kurt grabs Jarrett but Terry knocks him down from behind. Terry continues the assault and catches Kurt and follows with a front slam. Kurt counters with a drop toe into a Ankle Lock and makes Terry tap. Jarrett tries to run away but Kurt keeps hitting him and tries a Angle Slam but Jeff runs away. Kurt chases him but finds Karen who is screaming battery and the cops cuff him. Kurt hurls abuse at her before he is taken away.

Beer Money and Kaz talk about how RVD left Anderson and some other shit I can’t grasp. Karen talks about how Kurt turned into a piece of shit and how she met Jeff Jarrett. Kurt talks about the difficult divorce and not seeing his kids. Jeff Jarrett talks about getting revenge for Karen. Karen says she will never respect Kurt and Kurt says he doesn’t trust either of them. Quite a long recap of the whole feud. Kurt says he will beat him in a cage at Lockdown. Hogan and Bischoff talk about how they can cause chaos with Sting, RVD and Anderson. Main event time.

5: Abyss, Matt Hardy and Bully Ray vs RVD, Mr Anderson and Sting(c) in a cage match. Sting hits Anderson while he introduces himself and suplex’s him on the ramp. In the cage Sting splashes all men and mounts Matt Hardy with punches. RVD looks on as Bully and Abyss beat him down but is then hit by Abyss and Bully. Anderson pulls up a chair and watches. Sting coltheslined by Bully with help from Abyss. Matt Hardy with a neckbreaker on RVD and continue to take turns beating on him. Sting is getting choked by Abyss. Hogan comes out and tells Anderson to get in and rakes his eyes before throwing him into the cage. Anderson gets beaten up by everyone and Sting takes over the beatdown until Immortal take him out too. Ric Flair outside pulls RVD’s hair. Sting continues to get pummelled but only put down for two. Sting tries to fight back but to no avail. Abyss in now beats on Sting. Just realised this actually a tag match. Bully in now too helps Abyss take Sting out. They look to clothesline him but miss and hit each other. RVD in now with kicks for all of Immortal. Abyss gets reversed and RVD with single leg kick off the top. RVD looks for the Frog Splash off the top but is pushed off by Mr Anderson and Bully Ray hits the Bubba Bomb and gets the 1,2,3. Sting and RVD are still getting pummelled when the three Fortune members come out to even the numbers (A.J being still injured). Flair locks the cage and Hardy hits the side effect on Sting and Bully takes the others out with the chain. Kaz is busted open and then chokeslammed by Abyss. Bully tortures him with the chain and the beating continues. Christopher Daniels off the top the steel cage jumps on all of Immortal. Backstage Ric Flair asks who that piss ant is. Abyss tells him who he is, Flair says he weighs 140lbs. Then Immortal say how much of a beating they have given them and how they are going to kick Daniel’s ass. Daniels then says he shouldn’t have hurt A.J cause he is coming for them. Kaz says he is just getting warmed up for Lockdown. Storm says they will end their careers. Daniels says they built this company from the ground up and they are going nowhere. Sting says at Lockdown they will see who the true veteran is, its Showtime! Anderson goes on how he gets screwed every week and RVD attacks him and thanks him for tonight.

6: Hogan comes out and says they are the greatest team ever assembled. The lights go out, and start flashing pink and green. The Warrior has arrived! He climbs the cage but as he enters he falls flat on his face, a goof perhaps. He limps towards Hogan and the ref calls for the bell. The ring is cleared and it looks as if Warrior and hogan will go at it one more time! Warrior clotheslines Hogan down and then hits the Splash off the rope and gets the 1,2,3! A stretcher is called out but Hogan is not moving. Warrior spits on Hogan as everyone else looks concerned for him and are yelling, don’t move him, the end.

Summary:

Scott Steiner pinned Shannon Morre D+
Max Buck pinned Jeremy Buck C+
Winter submits Velvet Sky C
Kurt Angle submits Rob Terry in squash match
Abyss, Matt Hardy and Bully Ray defeated Mr Anderson RVD and Sting C
Warrior pins Hogan squash

Good Impact. Especially appreciated that there was only a short amount of talking until we got a match. Eric Young was awesome at the announce table as always and Taz was a bit of a dick. Recap of Angle/Jarrett was wayyyy too long but I understand why they did it. Good to see Daniels back and of course the suprise of Warrior was epic. Looks like he has been keeping fit.

Source: wrestlingtruth.com

Edge and Christian defeated Alberto Del Riio and Brodus Clay by pinfall. Edge pinned Brodus Clay. Edge hit Clay with a Spear to get the win.
Santino Marella defeated Justin Gabriel by pinfall. Santino hit Gabriel with a Cobra to get the win.
Jack Swagger defeated Jerry Lawler by Disqualification. The disqualification occurred when Jerry Lawler used a chair.
Sheamus and Dolph Ziggler defeated Daniel Bryan and John Morrison by pinfall. Sheamus hit Bryan with the High Cross to get the win.
The Rock was at Raw tonight. John Cena hit Attitude Adjustment to The Rock.

Source: wrestlingvalley.org

Please accept my apologies for the late recap. I was away on travel and then inundated with personal work, so excuses aside this was the soonest I could provide the report. I appreciate your patience – I’ll be “extra on time” this coming Friday.

We open tonight with a recap of Edge’s attack at the hands of Del Rio and Brodus from earlier in the week. Edge is arguing with Teddy Long about the unfairness that he isn’t allowed to retaliate on their chair attack to his elbow and arm. Long has mandated neither of them (Edge or Rio) are to lay a hand on each other until Wrestlemania … on Smackdown anyway. Strange mandate but if he breaks the rule he’s banned from Wrestlemania. Suddenly Teddy is wielding power?! Whatever…

The action from Columbus, OH opens with Rey Mysterio’s introduction. He is set to face CM Punk. What a match—my least favorite vs. my favorite “superstars” facing each other. Considering I’m not an 8-year old boy and I live in Chicago … take a guess at which is which. Any regular reader of SD recaps knows this anyway. Anyhow, it’s not about me. This is a Wrestlemania Rewind match, where Punk was forced to do a job clean last year to Rey and I’m still pissed about it. We get a recap of Punk’s sabotage attack on Orton on Raw last week. Side note, I can’t wait to see what kind of reaction Punk gets on Monday Night Raw in Chicago…I’m biased but I feel Chicago crowds are always some of the best in terms of exuberance and knowledge…plus they’re generally more heel-oriented (per capita) than most other cities. If anyone saw Night of Champions this past Fall, they’ll remember the great pop CM Punk got from the hometown crowd before he delivered a classic promo.

Anyway, that was a total sidebar so back to this match between Punk and Mysterio. I’m going to seriously lose my serenity if Punk has to job out to Rey again though, especially with all his momentum lately. Punk comes out on offense first and reverses a 619 attempt with a knee to Rey’s gut. Rey lands his right kick but misses the reverse springboard dive. Rey has already used 4 of his 5 total moves in the first minute of the match but (around the world head-scissors takedown, springboard off middle rope, 619, and head kick to seated opponent) and missed two of them. All that remains is his little plunge off the top and he can collect his paycheck for the night. Meanwhile, Punk is stomping away at Rey but can barely get a one-count. An Abdominal stretch is applied next by CM Punk, as he digs his elbow sharply between the ribs of Mysterio. Great heel psychology utilized by this subtle touch. Mysterio works his way out and the two trade some chain wrestling techniques until CM is finally pushed outside the ring. Punk manages to get Mysterio into a horsey-back ride position and harshly drops Rey chest-first into the top of the crowd barrier. Back from commercial to see Punk get a nearfall. To quote Booker, ‘right now CM Punk is all over Rey Mysterio’. Rey is getting intermittent offense in but Punk seems to be a step ahead each stage of the match, as he’s using some nice counters. Bouncing off the ropes, Punk lands a flying cross body (interesting) for another two-count and the announcers begin to talk up his frustration. Punk climbs to the top rope and I’m waiting for the imminent disaster to occur. It does in the form of Mysterio dropkicking CM Punk in mid-air. The crowd chants “619” over and over and Rey lands a beautiful reverse springboard off the ring apron onto Punk on the outside ring floor. Suddenly, Cody Rhodes enters the screen and slams Rey into the ring post. His vicious attacks continue and he returns the favor of what Rey did to him weeks ago by exposing a metal knee brace and delivering a running knee to Rey’s face. The obvious decision is a DQ victory for Rey Mysterio so Punk still can’t get over on Rey despite the fact Mysterio lies in pain with his mask half-off.

We go backstage to a dialogue between Edge and Christian. Christian is trying to talk Edge down from his match with Drew McIntyre, saying it’s too risky with WM 27 just around the corner. Edge says he has to do it to show Del Rio that he’s 100%. The match between t he two starts back and forth and Edge’s arm is heavily wrapped. Drew obviously is targeting the arm with various holds and blows to the arm. Other than the arm angle, this match is pretty conventional until Edge manages to lock in his sharpshooter-like submission hold to get Drew to tap out. I’ve really been impressed with Edge’s new moves lately—this boston crab like move for a win, some recent flying body splashes off the top, and some others not totally coming to mind at the moment. And just as I’m saying this he goes to the spear after the bell to lay out McIntyre even more. The Sinister Scotsman become a bit of a jobber, ay?

The next segment is more documentary-style commentary about the Triple-H vs. Undertaker match. Instead of just HBK, this time we get Arn Anderson, JR, Cena, Harley Race, and some others. There’s some hyperbole as AA compares the streak to winning 18 straight Super Bowls (Really? … Really??). Anyway, it’s the same thing we saw on Raw earlier in the week. What no one seems to mention is these two already wrestled about five years ago at Wrestlemania! It’s kind of like with WM 3 when everyone pretended like Hogan and Andre never wrestled and Andre was never body slammed…as we know, they met many times and Hogan slammed him plenty back in the circa 1980-1981 era. Anyhoo…I’m rooting for Triple H.

After Layla defeats Rosa Mendez with a neckbreaker, LayCool gives an annoying promo about Snooki. Using annoying in tandem with this group of twats is just redundant. It’s a shame great wrestlers like Morrison and Ziggler got caught up in this mess. If only they could just face each other 1×1 in even a standard, no stipulation match that would be so much better utilization of the two. Oh well, I’m talking like these decisions are being made by wide folks with common sense and understanding of what true wrestling fans want to see. After the Divas get their two minutes of airtime, we get a replay of The Corre devastating Kane and Big Show last week.

Next up is a good matchup with Kofi Kingston vs. Wade Barrett…for the Intercontinental Championship! Finally Kofi is defending the title and having Barrett win the IC Title would be a good move in my opinion. This would be a good WM 27 match as well but we’re treated to it now instead. Let’s see what happens… The entire Corre is with Barrett in force and that can’t bode well for Kofi. My prediction up front is a chaotic ending that results in a rematch at WM27 but Kofi retains tonight. After the bell Kofi gets a quick crucifix pin attempt but only for a one-count; he follows with a nice crisp dropkick. Kofi later with a nice cartwheel into a flying forearm move. Barrett charges Kofi in the corner but eats two boots. Eventually Barrett gets control as Kofi goes for a high risk move but it backfires. With Kofi on the apron, Barrett delivers his running pump kick that lays out Kofi. Kingston is roughed up some more on the outside, but all by Barrett—no interference yet by The Corre. Back in the ring, Kofi’s momentum is interrupted by a powerful side slam by the Englishman. He’s back in control with some wearing-down tactics and is working the upper back/lower neck area. Hard body slam followed by a missed flying elbow drop from the middle rope. Barrett misses his big kick, which gives Kofi an opportunity to launch some offense. The commentators debate whether or not The Corre should share their tag titles and let EZ Jackson/Barrett defend (a la “Freebirds” rule), which would be kind of cool. Inside the ring Kofi’s offense is interrupted by a reverse kick, but then Kofi lands the pele kick and his gorgeous aerial flying body press from the top rope. Barrett kicks out at two though. Kingston lands the ‘Boom Drop’ and starts slamming his hands. Suddenly the ref is distracted by one of The Corre on the near side of the ring. On the opposite end Slater jumps to the apron but Kingston Pele kicks him down. Kofi goes for Trouble in Paradise on Barrett but is caught perfectly in the fireman’s carry position. Barrett deliver Wasteland powerfully and gets the pinfall! WADE BARRETT IS NEW INTERCONTINENTAL CHAMPION. That reign by Kofi was clearly just a placeholder anyway so I definitely like the change of hands. After the bout, Justin Gabriel lands the 450-splash for good measure. The Corre stands triumphant in the middle of the ring with three belts now—the tag titles and the IC Title. Works for me.

Next up we have another round of smack-talk re: Undertaker vs. Triple H. This time UT’s turn to retort to Hunter. I’m going to gloss over this in the interest of time…there’s been enough words about this match (and they’ll repeat on Raw anyway), so let’s just get the talking over with and get it on. UT basically says he feels Triple H’s confidence is fading to uncertainty and soon the uncertainty will turn into despair. Then he gets into talk about Armageddon, apocalypse, mega proportions…etc. He emphasizes that HHH’s epitaph will read “Died Trying”.

Next match is Jack Swagger vs. R Truth, so of course we get Michael Cole being a big a douche-bag…he’s beyond obnoxious talking smack to Truth. While I agree that Truth’s entrance gimmick’s annoying, it’s nowhere near as bad as Michael Cole trying to be the heel. All we get is “come on Jack, get him Jack”, etc. from Cole over and over. It’s really hard to not press the fast frwrd button. One funny moment in the match is Truth holding the ropes to avoid a clothesline. Swagger stands in the middle of the ring starting at Truth, and R Truth is holding the ropes and gives him a little hip gesture to basically say “F U”. Had to see it but it was kind of amusing. R Truth is limping now and dives over the top onto Swagger and they both seem hurt equally. Truth to the top rope but cut down by Swagger. Truth is favoring the right ankle so we know what this means. Jack stomps at the ankle, DDTs the ankle, and then applies the ankle lock. R Truth holds on for a bit but then taps out. Cole is insufferable in his celebration and smack-talk/taunting after the match.

After the obligatory, painfully-long introduction of Alberto Del Rio we get set for the main event of Del Rio vs. Christian. Brodus Clay in Rio’s corner and Edge with Christian. Let’s see how these extra players will factor into the outcome. Side headlock by Del Rio but Christian throws Alberto in to the ropes and lands a flying forearm. No clean break by Del Rio in the corner and this enables him to get the upperhand over Christian. Next comes a series of impressive moves. Del Rio charges Christian in the corner and we get a sweet, full back body drop that sends Alberto way over the top rope/ring post to the outside. Christian follows with a full-bore flying body press from the top rope all the way down to the ringside floor. Both men lay down in pain but Christian is the man as we go into break! After commercial a reverse springboard sunset flip by Christian gets him a nearfall. Del Rio on the outside with Edge just starting at him with angst building. Christian misses baseball slide and is thrown into ring steps. Edge storms away frustrated. Inside the ring now, Del Rio works that shoulder and pec area of Christian. Del Rio with a middle rope dive on to Christian’s injured chest area. Alberto points to the WM 27 sign, as all superstars I’m sure are mandatorily required to do. Alberto now is in full control with arm bars, kicks/stomps and ground and pound. Moments later, Christian lands another sweet move with a frankensteiner off the middle rope to get a near fall! Christian now in command with some versatile offense, but then he misses a flying body press from the top rope. Edge still watching carefully from back of screen shot. Del Rio charges and misses his flying head kick and Christian reverts this into his spinning DDT off the top rope. He has the match won but Ricardo Rodrigues makes a save by placing Alberto’s leg on the bottom rope. Edge rushes over but is blindsided by Brodus Clay. Alberto goes for cross armbreaker but it’s avoided by Christian. Christian goes for his Killswitch finisher but can’t get it applied. Back and forth as Del Rio lands the head kick this time and gets a partial arm breaker applied but Christian gets to the ropes quickly. Pretty good match here. They two double clothesline each other, and outside the ring Edge lays out the big Clay with a spear followed by a pair of chair shots. In the ring, Del Rio is distracted and hit with the Killswitch. CHRISTIAN GETS THE VICTORY VIA PINFALL. Wow, surprising that Christian would go over twice on Del Rio leading into a WM 27 title match for Del Rio. Edge is desperate to shatter Del Rio with a chair but Christian runs in and grabs the chair and talks sense into Edge. Alternatively, Christian decides to use the chair on Del Rio, much to the approval of Edge. We end with Edge talking smack to Del Rio as Christian and Edge go backstage triumphantly.

Pretty good episode with a good main event, solid opening match (and reappearance of CM Punk on Smackdown), and an IC Title change. I have a feeling for some reason that Christian and Edge may have something go down at WM 27 and the strap ends up with Christian soon enough…just a hunch.

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Edge and Christian def. Alberto Del Rio and Brodus Clay
Santino Marella def. Justin Gabriel
Jack Swagger def. Jerry Lawler via DQ
Dolph Ziggler and Sheamus def. John Morrison and Daniel Bryan

Here we are, the Road to WrestleMania concludes tonight. Monday Night Raw starts out with CM Punk sitting in the middle of the ring. He’s getting a huge pop from his hometown crowd, despite his heel status. He then starts to draw heat after saying that since Orton got rid of the New Nexus, he has no “mindless sheep” by his side. We then see a replay of his assault on Randy Orton from last week. Cole plays up the fact that Punk has a mental and physical advantage over Orton. He concludes by saying that he will finish this at WrestleMania. Orton’s music hits and he appears on the entrance ramp. He has his right knee taped up from the attack last week. He gingerly makes his way to the ring. Orton gets in the ring and is attacked, but he turns it around and gets a rope assisted DDT. He coils up for the RKO, but Punk isn’t getting up. He then sets up for a punt, but as he runs to punt him in the skull- his leg gives out. The crowd starts chanting for Punk. The two square off and taunt each other. Punk kicks Orton in the bad knee. Punk picks up Orton and gives him a GTS, receiving a great boost of momentum going into WrestleMania on Sunday. Before we go to commercial, we see Edge and Christian heading to the ring for a tag team match.

Edge’s music hits as the Rated R Superstar makes his way out to a great pop from the Chicago crowd. Apparently, since we are on Monday Night Raw, the rules that Teddy Long put in place do not apply. Christian comes out next to an equal pop. Ricardo Rodriguez and Brodus Clay are already ringside as Alberto Del Rio comes out to a lot of heat. Brodus and Edge start out. Edge and Christian make frequent tags and use their tag team experience to gain up on Brodus. We go to commercial after about a minute of in-ring action. “Edge & Christian” is already trending on Twitter. We get back from break and see Christian grounded in the middle of the ring with Del Rio putting him in an arm hold. Christian gets up and starts to power out, only to get knocked down. Brodus the behemoth is tagged in and literally walks all over Christian. Del Rio is tagged in again and gets a top rope leg drop. Christian hits a huge tornado DDT out of nowhere and crawls over to Edge. Brodus is tagged in as well and Edge sets up for a spear, but Del Rio grabs the leg of Edge, causing him to fall. Christian and Del Rio brawl outside of the ring as Edge spears Brodus Clay. Del Rio has Christian in a cross arm breaker, but is then chased off by Edge. Del Rio then runs back down as Edge checks on Christian and puts him in a cross arm breaker.

After commercial, we get a new promo for Sin Cara. We get an email from the anonymous GM and Cole has his iPad with him, therefore he does not need to leave his Cole Mine. The GM says that he needs to know if Lawler is ready for his match on Sunday: therefore, he will face Jack Swagger tonight. For whatever reason, we now have a video package hyping up the Undertaker/Triple H match… I thought they were here in person to hype it up and bury every single match on the card.

We get back from commercial and The Corre is in the ring. Justin Gabriel is announced for the match, so it seems that he will be in a singles match. Big Show and Kane come out with a mixed up entrance once again. Santino and Vladimir come out next. Cole announces that there will be an 8 man tag match for WrestleMania: Big Show, Kane, Santino and Kozlov vs. The Corre. Gabriel and Santino are in competing tonight, but everyone is interfering. Santino is left in the ring with Santino to hit the Cobra. Santino picks up the win. Santino then gets Show and Kane to do the trumpets.

Back from commercial and the bell tolls three times, followed by Johnny Cash’s “Ain’t No Grave.” He appears at the top of the ramp, and then makes his way to the ring. Surprisingly, it only takes Undertaker about a minute to get into the ring. Triple H makes no hesitation to come out to the ring. Just as Triple H is about to spit out his water, the lights go out again and the bell rings. The lights come back on and both men are in the ring. They stare off for a while, and then Shawn Michael’s music hits! He makes his way out to the ring with the biggest pop of the night. While Taker and HHH continue to stare at each other, Michaels grabs a microphone. Shawn goes on to introduce the members. The Game is a 13 time World Champ, and The Undertaker has the most impressive streak of all time. Michaels then goes on to ask Triple H why he thinks he can do something that Shawn couldn’t. Triple H says that HBK became soft and realized that he didn’t need to win to become the Showstopper. He goes on to say that he will win. Triple H then puts over Taker, saying that he respected him since he stepped foot into the WWE locker room. Undertaker says that if he were to ever feel like he was done, and needed someone to end the streak: he would want it to be Triple H. He says that it’s not that time yet. He says that he doesn’t see the same confidence that he saw in Shawn Michaels. He says he sees the career of another man of which he ended. Shawn Michaels goes for a Sweet Chin Music on Taker, but Taker catches him. Taker goes for a choke slam, but Triple H stops it. He then asks Shawn to tell Taker why HHH will win at WrestleMania. Without saying anything, Shawn gets out of the ring. He walks up the ramp, leaving Taker and Hunter in the ring. Undertaker smirks, tips his hat, and walks out of the ring.

Jack Swagger and Michael Cole are running around in circles in the ring. Jerry Lawler comes out to new music. Lawler is getting destroyed by Swagger as Cole taunts him from ringside. King is thrown behind a barricade, but comes back with a steel chair and gets himself disqualified. He beats Swagger with the chair and then goes after Cole. Cole goes into his Cole Mine and is blocked out by security. He hits the Mine with the chair and then tries to climb in. Cole throws a cup of Coke into his face and is escorted out by Cole’s security.

Vickie Guerrero comes out to her usual heat. She puts on John Morrison’s glasses and imitates his entrance, complete with music and fireworks. Vickie insults Morrison, and then Dolph comes out. Sheamus’ music hits next and they have dropped the “King” in his name. These two will be facing Daniel Bryan, who comes out first, and John Morrison. The match starts out with Sheamus and Morrison. Morrison is caught by Sheamus after attempting a springboard. After given a back breaker, we go to commercial. After the break, Sheamus and Morrison are still going at it. Daniel Bryan and Dolph Ziggler are both tagged in. Daniel Bryan gets the LeBelle lock in, but Sheamus breaks it up. Sheamus is then tagged in and Morrison breaks up a pin. Daniel Bryan then tries to put Sheamus into a LeBelle lock, but is instead greeted with a High Cross. Sheamus picks up the pin.

Scott Stanford interviews Randy Orton and asks if he will make it to WrestleMania. Randy reverses it and asks if CM Punk will leave WrestleMania. After another commercial, we get the final inductee to the WWE Hall of Fame of 2011: The Road Warriors, Animal and Hawk! (And manager Paul Ellering.) We then go to an interview from a bar with Snooki and Trish. They bleep out Snooki’s swearing, and nothing exciting happens. We then cut back and LayCool is at the Jersey Shore with Snooki and Trish. They brawl and there is even more bleeping after a pathetic brawl.

We see The Rock backstage, and as he goes through the curtains as soon as the music hits. He spends a couple minutes in the ring as his music plays and the crowd chants for him. Finally, The Rock has come back to Chicago. He explains that he competed in his very first WrestleMania in Chicago. He goes on a rant and none of his swearing is bleeped out. (WWE doesn’t make sense anymore.) He now has the whole crowd chanting that “Cena sucks.” Cena’s music hits and he makes his way to the ring. Cena is greeted in the ring with nonstop booing, as the camera pans around to pro-Cena signs. Cena says that when he opened his mouth about The Rock, he was one of the “millions.” He lists off the things that Rock found wrong with Cena, and ends with the fact that Rock doesn’t like the demographic that Cena appeals to. Cena says he will not be judged by The Rock. Rock goes on to say that he will beat him all over Chicago. Cena drops the mic and is ready for a fight. Miz’s music hits and he makes his way out with Alex Riley. Miz says that Cena will come for a fight at WrestleMania, unlike The Rock. Miz says that Rock won’t do a thing tonight at Raw. Miz says that if Rock looks at him funny, he will beat him so badly that he will never go to Hollywood again. Rock says that it doesn’t matter what Miz thinks, and then Riley gets a cheap shot on Rock. After being double teamed, Rock starts to dominate. He hits his DDT and then a People’s Elbow. After throwing Miz out of the ring, he is greeted with an Attitude Adjustment from Cena. Cena receives the most heat of the night after hitting his finisher.

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Tonights’ Smackdown comes to us from Houston, TX – 4th largest city in the U.S. (pretty far down on the ‘stuff to do’ list though if there’s a list for that). We are 23 days from WM 27 and hopefully we’ll get some more matches announced tonight – perhaps along the way of Money in the Bank, some Tag Title build, IC Title…probably not but that’s why we watch. One thing we are promised is the first Triple H appearance on Smackdown in over a year. I’ve been watching the Triple H DVD set from 2008 this past week and I’ve gotten a little more appreciation for him, so I’m enjoying his re-emergence so far.

“You Think You Know Me?!” – the familiar intro music of Edge breaks out as we open with the World Heavyweight Champion coming to the ring dressed in street clothes—black leather jacket and blue jeans. He’s gazing at the Wrestlemania 27 sign as we get a replay of last week’s contract signing chaos with him and Del Rio. Edge begins yelling in the microphone about how much he has been through in his career, and how he “tonight I don’t care about a match…I just want to fight!”. He threatens to stalk Alberto in the parking lot, backstage, etc. Del Rio answers the taunts as his music rings out. Thank heavens it’s without Ricardo Rodriguez, so we don’t get the drawn out introduction. It’s Del Rio with his NXT protégé, Brodius Clay. Del Rio admonishes Edge for daring to call him out. He says, “I am the man who is going to replace your legacy, with my destiny”. They face off in the ring and Edge doesn’t waste much time throwing hands with both men. Eventually the numbers get to him and he’s being worked over 2 on 1. The crowd noise escalates and here comes Christian right on queue. Christian ducks a lumbering clothesline attempt by Clay, and lands a big right to slow the Bundy/One-Man-Gang-esque Clay. He takes down Del Rio with a double leg and begins throwing lefts and rights. Clay gathers himself and rams Christian with a running shoulder block. Both babyfaces are down in the middle of the ring and Rio works over Edge with a series of headbutts and elbows while Clay clobbers Christian with a big right hand. The refs scramble in to the ring as Teddy Long’s music hits. He books the tag match of Brodius Clay and Alberto Del Rio vs. the legendary Edge and Christian! Long reminds us this is the first time in over 10 years Edge and Christian have teamed together….that’s a good enough main event for me.

After the break we have Kane in the ring ready to wrestle (er, “entertain”) and Wade Barrett on the ramp telling Kane he made a big mistake last week by double-crossing The Corre. Barrett jumps into the ring and lands some quick offense with Kane backed in the corner. Kane turns the tables quickly though and irish whips Barrett in the corner and lands a running lariat. For no apparent reason The Corre bum- rushes the ring and attack Kane. Jackson lands his big clubbing clothesline to take out Kane. Next we see Big Show coming towards the ring with a chair and we go to commercial. Back from the break we’ve segued into a tag match featuring Big Show and Kane vs. Barrett and Heath Slater. It’s Big Show and Barrett in the ring with Show getting the better of it, landing his usual style of offense (chops, punches, clothesline splash). Big Show goes for the choke slam on Barrett but he slides past the back door and lands a big boot to knock down Show. Another running boot flattens Show. Barrett’s size allows him to match up pretty well with Paul White. He tags out to Slater. Slater is aggressively busy but doesn’t seem too sure what he wants (or can) do with this behemoth. Ultimately he goes for a pin attempt and barely gets a one-count.. Slater locks in a chin lock Show lands a side slam/Samoan drop-like move and tags out to Kane. The Big Red Monster enters with his flying lariat off the top rope that lands clean. Slater’s in big trouble after a side slam and big boot “to the schnout” (as called by Booker), and the rest of The Corre recognizes this and bomb into the ring. Gabriel hits Kane with a chop block from behind taking him down and the bum rush on Kane is on full blast. Big Show is outside the ring not really rushing to help out. He grabs a chair and gets in the ring and wallops Jackson with a chair (for once, it wasn’t Gabriel that took the hit) and punches the chair into Barrett’s face. The rest of the The Corre scrambles from the ring and Big Show deliberates a moment before giving Kane a blast with the chair as well, for good measure. Booker asks “what the hell?!”. Barrett looks confused and Big Show just has a “what the heck, why not?!” look on his face. We go to commercial with Rey Mysterio shown backstage prepping for action.

After the break we get a replay of the Michael Cole (worst over-actor ever), JBL, and Stone Cold from this past Monday. It’s not worth commenting further here, other than I just echo the fact Michael Cole is a massive corporate tool who just gives me dousche-chills like no other. Normally I respect a good heel who is widely hated for knowing the psychology of being a villain and knowing how to draw heat. Guys like Y2J, Ric Flair, Roddy Piper, CM Punk, Michael Hayes, Arn Anderson, even Hulk Hogan, and so many more were masters at it. Obviously I’m not comparing him to these legends … just saying that there is an art form to being a heel. And just because people hate Michael Cole as a person and rejected him as a straight commentator, doesn’t mean he’s automatically “over” as a heel by simply behaving like a complete and utter fuck-wad. I don’t know what the right words are but he is beyond annoying, and not in a respectable villainous way. Just in a way that it’s obvious he’s trying SO hard to make something work for him, but he’s got zero charisma regardless of what light they cast him in. To me, he’s right in t here with the LayCool kind of nauseam. I look very much forward to seeing him blasted at WM 27 and I truly hope it lays the ground for him to go away for a while due to a legit or storyline circumstance. We’re told tonight there will be some kind of “legendary interview” with Michael Cole and John Cena tonight. Call me skeptical, but that is highly improbable. Not with those two…

Next up we have Cody Rhodes coming to the ring in his suit, but it’s a match as he’s announced and JTG is already in the ring ready to go. Looks like he’s changed his attire and wrestling in business clothes a la I.R.S. Cody is viciously aggressive and squashes JTG in this one. He gets the pinfall about a minute into the match after CrossRhodes. Wow, JTG is a full blown jobber it appears. So much for that IC Title run he predicted in late 2009. After the match is part 2 of Shawn Michaels’ interview and thoughts of the Lavesque vs. Callous match at Wrestlemania. Details of this should be on the Raw recap but I do like the straight “shoot” feel of these segments. Even if they are a work, they feel authentic and are done pretty well. Shawn is matter of fact and doesn’t bend over backwards to put over Lavesque, but still gets his point across that their brothers in arms and he doesn’t know who is going to win.

After the break we get John Cena coming to the ring with Michael Cole. Cole initiates a replay of the end of Raw last week with Miz’s pearl harbor attack…and People’s Elbow on Cena. Cole starts to talk but Cena interrupts and grabs the microphone. He correctly says if this is going to be a legendary interview then Cold will have to shut up. He actually says something kind of funny to Cole—“turn around and crawl back to that hole you were puked out of”. Cena congratulates on Miz on getting one by him with the attack. Cena is short and sweet, and basically says Miz should have laid low but now he’s awoken a sleeping dragon. He specifically says, “if Miz wants to be the new face of the WWE, then his focus has shifted to one new goal—breaking the face of the WWE”. His music hits and he starts to leave and is called back by Cole. Cole says he isn’t done conducting his interview, and proceeds to put over Miz some more (if that’s possible). Cole alludes to the fact Cena is scared and will blow his opportunity at WM 27. He throws out some more insults and Cena finally takes off his shirt and we hear a bunch of girls in the crowd scream. He grabs Cole and then Jack Swagger runs to the ring. He starts to beat on Cena but can’t get the ankle lock applied. All the while, Cole is cheering on Swagger and yelling into the mike for Swagger to punish Cena. It all sounds like nails on a chalkboard. Cena ends up hitting Attitude Adjustment on Swagger after attempting to get one on Cole, but the little rat slipped away.

Next up is my favorite Kaitlyn vs. my least favorite Layla. I’m sure it won’t be “pretty” from a technical wrestling standpoint, but glad to see a Kaitlyn with a spot. She’s using her strength to push Layla around but inevitably McCool interferes to distract Kaitlyn while Layla hits her with crescent kick and a neckbreaker for the quick win. McCool is wearing an ankle boot from an injury and they use it to beat on Kaitlyn afterwards.

The next match is Rey Mysterio vs. Drew McIntyre. Right at the bell Drew crushes Rey with a pump kick while Mysterio was turned away praying (might want to do that before the match). Next Drew hits a big around-the-world backbreaker and starts verbally taunting Rey. This is a perfect situation where they should let Drew win to give someone younger some mojo going in to WM, but you know Rey will have to win it even though he’s already booked in a match and is “over”. As I say this Rey is hitting his usual spots. Soon after though. Drew hits an impressive move that looks painful. He delivers a sideslam on Rey from the apron so that Mysterio’s back slams into the edge of the ring while Drew lands on the ringside floor. Quite the bad intentions with that move. We get a break and return with Drew kicking out of a pinning predicament. He’s been in control most of the way, and from the middle rope Rey headbutts Drew down to the mat and lands his seated senton. He goes for the reverse springboard off the middle rope next, but actually misses it. Mac turns that into a nice rollup attempt and gets a nearfall. Rey kicks out and hits a 619 and then the top rope splash for the pinfall. Booorrring (that’s “boo” and “boring” together, the way I feel every time Rey wrestles).

Cody comes out and congratulates Rey. Rey talks about how he wears his mask with pride and says he was disgraced when Cody tore it off. He’s totally disregarding the fact it’s been pulled off several times in the past, most recently by Jericho a couple years ago. He says ‘he’s going to wear his mask with pride when he beats Cody at WM’…and for some that reason that gets the crowd excited. I guess 8 year olds are easy to please. I hate him.

Long Live the King: Next up we get Triple H coming down the ring with his music raging—a classic metal number by any standard. He points poses and points to a ‘H-H-H’ sign in the crowd and pays homage to the WM27 banner. The music fades and he soaks it all in for a moment. From what I can tell tonight and in the recent Raw appearances, the crowd is mostly behind him than the Undertaker. We get a video package of Triple H highlights from past years that rivals the one Undertaker had played at his Raw appearance on Monday. We see him beating on everyone from Michaels to Goldberg and Orton to Swagger. The message is basically “If I can’t beat the Undertaker then I’ll die trying”. Levesque begins to talk about the great matches between Shawn Michaels and Undertaker, and how his emotions kept him from being able to defeat the Undertaker despite all his accomplishments in his career. Hunter says Michaels was overwhelmed by the “emotion” of facing the Undertaker and his WM streak. According to Shawn, Triple H won’t have that problem because he has a dark side—that allows him to do unthinkable things to anyone at any time without regret, remorse, without emotion. Triple H says that sounds like a horrible person, but the thing is it’s true. “I’ll stand in this ring, on the grandest stage of them all. In the biggest match of my life, and I’ll look into the eyes of the biggest legend ever in this business, and mark my words, I will do what no man has ever done before…at WM I will beat the Undertaker”. The crowd goes wild and I’m fired up too. He says, “I will have no emotion, I will not flinch, I will no blink, I will not hesitate for one second…and I will not become unglued by things that go bump in the night. Undertaker—you made this match No Holds Barred…Thank You”. I’m digging Triple H these days. Never had a feeling either way but I’m firmly in his corner against Undertaker. Streaks are made to be broken, right?

Backstage, we get Stryker interviewing Christian. Is this really the best they can do with Stryker? They’re reminiscing all the things we’ve seen in the last 10 years (Twitter, Charlie Sheen falling apart, Facebook, Jersey Shore, yada yada, etc.), but what we haven’t see is Edge and Christian—the two who started the decade off right. Edge pops in and looks intense as he simply asks Christian, “Are you ready?”. Affirmative – and they leave the camera area. I hope we get their old “you think you know me” entrance music—the trance, jamband version.

Brodius Clay is already in the ring and Del Rio gets the full blown introduction. My wish is not granted as Christian comes down first to his own music, holding his pectorial muscle that was damaged by Del Rio on Monday. Edge his next to his normal music and introduction—pyros, pointing to the sky, etc. Clay comes out firing but keeps missing with telegraphed, sloppy right hands that Christian easily ducks and counters. They bill Clay as the former bodyguard of Snoop Dogg, so I’m wondering if he’s passed his Wellness Tests with the WWE for Cannabis. The quickness of Christian is beating the power of Clay at first, but Christian gets distracted one too many times by Del Rio and Clay catches him with an over-the-shoulder throw that sends Christian under the bottom rope to the outside. Alberto capitalizes and whips him into the crowd barrier. Edge gives chase but Del Rio jumps the barrier and runs among the crowd. Back in the ring, Clay with an elbow drop and big body slam on Christian. Del Rio tags in and steps on Cage’s gut and lands some ground and pound. He locks in an arm bar to further damage the injured shoulder and pec area. Christian in big trouble as he gets stomped and clubbed some more. Christian mounts a comeback with a flying elbos smash from the top rope (after he was in super plex position). Clay tags in as Edge gets the hot tag. Edge goes for body press but is caught and demolished with a big powerslam. Edge kicks out and gets a drop-over toehold on Clay that knocks him into the middle turnbuckle face-first. Edge takes out Del Rio with a clothesline and lines up the spear. He goes through his gimmick and as he lunges for the spear he is leveled by Brodius with a flattening clothesline. Clay drags him to the corner and goes for a big splash but Edge gets out of the way. Things start to break down as Del Rio and Christian come into the ring and all four men are duking it out—Christian on Del Rio and Edge and Clay knocked down in separate corners. As Christian disposes of Del Rio, Clay attacks him in the corner, but is hit with a spinning DDT from the top rope (the same move Christian used on Monday night). Edge hits an elbow drop from the top rope and gets the win with a 1-2-3 pinfall over Clay. We fade to black with Christian and Edge having their arms raised high in the center of the ring as the victors.

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We kick off Impact with a recap of mega mouth’s last couple of months. Mr Anderson hits the ring with a special guest. There is a whiteboard in the middle of the ring with some maths formulas on it. He introduces the man as a former professor at the university he attended. He goes on to say Bischoff and Hogan could use a brush up on there maths skills. Anderson said he had a match with one Reefer Van Dam. Both of them pinned each other at the same time. Equals a tie. But he never received a rematch. It equals he wants his freaking rematch!! The professor agrees and Anderson says he is free to go before calling him back. Anderson wants to reminisce with the professor about a young lady he sat next too. The both agree she had a big ass but more cushion for the pushin. Anderson said the professor didn’t like it when he flirted with her because he had a crush on her. Anderson he knew cause Mary Beth told him. She also told him, that he told her he was gay, so he could get some action. Professor denies it then agrees. Anderson says he would like to live out a childhood fantasy and do something to one of his teaches, he asks if he knows why he wants to do this. The Professor says, cause you are an assehole? Anderson says BINGO! Then hits the Mic Check. Bischoff and Hogan hit the ring. Bischoff says he doesn’t know what Hogan sees in this bad comedian. How’s the network going to like what he does to former professors. Hogan says he disagrees and he likes his shenanigans. But he is running around doing what he wants and breaking HIS rules. Hogan said he had to think about his offer to do it the easy way, so now he won’t be getting a rematch at all, cause he is running the show. Hogan says if he beats RVD tonight he will get his title shot, Anderson says he isn’t even in my league. RVD says you talk smack you got to man up. RVD asks what you got to say. Mr Anderson says he will do the talking in the ring tonight. Hogan says if Anderson doesn’t win tonight he will be playing in the sandbox with the professor. RVD tells Hogan to stop holding him back and Hogan says he has his shot. Sting comes to the ring entrance and says the network rang him and they want him to be the special enforcer, so he will be in total control, ITS SHOWTIME! Guess Hogan and Co aren’t in charge. Recap of the devastating end to last weeks Impact and A.J has a bruised spinal chord.

1: Mickie James vs Tara. Madison says to Tara she better win, or else. Mickie pulls Tara in by her hair and a flying crossbody. Lou Thesz press and flapjack to boot. Tara with some lethal strikes and then walks over Mickie and a standing moonsault for a near fall. Tara runs into an elbow before reversing a frankensteiner into a powerbomb. Tara climbs the turnbuckle but Mickie hits the rope and stops the attack. Mickie with a frankensteiner attempt again but Tara stops the attack again and has Mickie’s legs and drops straight down from the corner and holds the boston crab move. Somehow Mickie makes it to the rope to break the hold. Tara is reversed and Mickie hits the Mickie DDT. 1,2,3, winner, Mickie James! Madison stands at the entrance displeased.

Mr Anderson backstage says he doesn’t like Sting. He rode in on his horse and stole his title shot. Sting says he didn’t steal anything the network awarded him the title shot. Anderson asks who the hell is the network.. Sting says there is no name behind the network its simply, the network. Samoa Joe talks with his sidekick about tonight’s match.

2: Okato vs The Pope. Okato with a dropkick reversal, then a big boot. Turnbuckle now for Okato misses the dropkick. Pope with some physical strikes and from outside the ring. Boot to the head from Pope. Kick to the head from Pope and then he takes his boot off and nails Okato in the head. Pope takes his glove off showing his rings on his fingers and nails Okato before being disqualified. Pope continues to beat on him and then nails the ref before going back to Okato until Joe comes out to clear the ring.

Sting tells his tale in brief about wrestling. Kurt gives his thoughts on Jeff, Karen and the upcoming cage match at Lockdown. Hogan talks with RVD and says he has been through a lot and he wants RVD to be his guy. Hogan says he doesn’t know what Bischoff sees in Anderson. RVD can’t believe Hogan is in his corner but Hogan asks him to think about it, then calls him an idiot when he is out of the room.

Immortal in the ring now (what’s left of them) and Flair has the mic. Ric says normally he likes to steal the show but he would like to give the mic to two of the greatest tag team wrestlers in the world. Hardy says twelve years ago they made history. They thought they were going to make lots of money but it was never to be. Now they are going to be the guys in power and make sure Fortune don’t achieve there goals. Bully Ray asks if A.J is here. Of course not cause he powerbombed him onto the concrete. Bully says for twenty years no one has knocked the chip off of his shoulder. Bully says the three of them versus the four of Immortal if they have the balls. Fortune enter the ring and attack the three Immortal members. Roode beats on Flair in the ring with a number of knife edge chops. Beer Money look for the DWI but the lights go red and Abyss enters the ring and chokeslams both members and then Blackhole slams Kaz, Abyss looks to be the fourth member. Chokeslam on Kaz by Abyss and the rest of Immortal beat down Fortune. Abyss backstage says, what doesn’t kill this monster, makes it stronger. Monsters aren’t under your bed, or in your dreams, they are in your face and coming to get you.

3: Hernadez comes out with Tag Champs Rosita and Sarita along with the newest member, um, guess we will find out. Hernandez says you know these two fine ladies so I will introduce you to Anarchia, ( I think). Hernadez says they are taking over. Taking your jobs, your woman and your money. Ladies speak mexican. Hernadez says you will stop worshipping this (USA flag drops) and start worshipping this (Big Mexican flag drops). Hernandez says they challenged Morgan to a street fight, Devon comes out with Morgan and they accept. Morgan and Devon charge the ring. Devon with side slam on Arnachia and near fall. Morgan inside now with a fallaway slam on Hernadez. Machine gun elbows by Morgan and clothesline out of the ring. Girls try to stop Devon and Morgan but Velvet comes out and attacks the girls. Tag champs beat on Velvet and Angelina walks down the ramp but looks spaced out. Winter screams Angelina and calls her back, Love obliges. Back in the ring, flying tackle by Devon on Anarchia. Anarchia hit him from behind with knucks and gets a cheap pinfall. Winners, Mexican America.

4: Ink Inc vs Scott Steiner and Crimson. Steiner will square off with Jesse. Scott beats on him with some strikes. Overhead Belly to belly by Steiner. Stiff clothesline before droppinf the elbow and doing push ups. Tag to Crimson and double team shoulder block. Suplex slam by Crimson and two count. Big boot by Crimson and Jesse tags out Shannon now gets shoulder blocked and running elbows. Shannon gets caught and front slammed onto the mat. Moore with a moonsault off the top but can’t tag Jesse so continues to jump at Crimson but is caught, hits The Red Alert and gets the Pinfall. Shannon is not happy with Jesse and wipes his ass with Scotty’s mail and throws it at him.

5: RVD vs Mr Anderson with special enforcer Sting, for a shot at Stingers title. They lock up, Anderson with the upper hand but RVD hits a couple of nice kicks and stranding moonsault for a two count. Nice counter from Anderson to stop rolling thunder and a monkey flip. Swinging neckbreaker and two count by Anderson. Choke and neckbreaker dropped onto the knee for near fall. RVD thrown to the corner and two count again. Anderson grounds RVD. Anderson accidentally clotheslines the ref and RVD kicks Anderson and pins him. Sting checks the ref and counts two. Sting is now the ref. Green Bay Plunge by Anderson and two count. Kick to the head by RVD and clotheline followed by another kick. Split legged moonsault but only two. Anderson rolls outside but is caught with a cross body to the outside by RVD. Anderson grabs a chair and slides it into the ring. Mic Check into the ring post on RVD. Anderson pulls Stingers hands up to count him out but Sting doesn’t oblige and they square off. Anderson is DQd it would seem but Sting and Anderson have to be seperated by security. It would seem RVD is the number one contender because Anderson lost his cool. They interview RVD backstage and he thinks he is fighting tonight, seems The Mic Shot rocked his boat and he doesn’t know whats going on. Anderson is upset and says Sting doesn’t want to face him, asking why he is afraid of him. Sting says he never rang the bell. Anderson interupts and says he rang the damn bell, Sting said he didn’t ring it and it breaks down again before they are split up. Mr Anderson says who rang the bell? The wizard of OZ? The End.

Summary:

Was a muched improved Impact from last week but that was no mean feat. However, Bischoff not stealing the mic for twenty to thirty minutes was a big plus IMO. Mr Anderson seemed to have the most air time which made for a much more entertaining show. RVD was pretty good after the match also with his reaction. The Pope seems to be coming along as a hateable heel, but god damn it was hard work getting there given the storyline he and Joe have been working. It also marked the return of The Monster Abyss who cut a good piece after single handedly dismantling Fortune. Tara and Mickie as always it seems were the highlight of the show. Although their match was brief we got to see how good these girls are when put in the ring together, that boston crab was mean girls! Kudos.

Mickie James pinned Tara C+
Okato defeated The Pope via DQ D+
Hernandez and Anarchia defeated Devon and Matt Morgan D+
Scott Steiner and Crimson defeated Ink INC C-
RVD defeated Mr Anderson via DQ (I think) C

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- Sheamus def. Evan Bourne
- Eve def. Maryse
- The Corre def. Santino Marella and Vladimir Kozlov
- Dolph Ziggler, LayCool, and Vickie Guerrero def. John Morrison and Trish Stratus
- Rey Mysterio def. Randy Orton via count out

Monday Night RAW opens up this week with Good Ole Jim Ross coming out. Nevermind, it’s Michael Cole dressed up as JR, with a fake broken ankle and some barbeque sauce. Cole taunts Jerry and then goes into his Cole Mine. Triple H’s music hits once Cole gets into his cage and it’s actually Triple H that is coming out. Lawler says “this is amazing” after it takes 5 minutes for HHH to get in the ring and for his music to stop playing. He explains that in 2 weeks, it’s the defining moment of both HHH and Undertaker’s career. He says that by ending the streak, it will be more important than any championship he has ever won. He invites Taker to Raw next week so they can speak face-to-face. Triple H concludes by saying that at WrestleMania, Undertaker will rest in peace. Ted DiBiase comes out of nowhere and says that he was once one of the rising superstars in the WWE. He says he is now an afterthought. DiBiase goes on to question the fact that he would not be an afterthought if he were to take out Triple H. The two go at it, but DiBiase gets destroyed with steel steps, a steel chair, and a pedigree through the announce table.

Back from commercial and the United States Champion, Sheamus, is in the ring. Evan Bourne is out next as Cole says Sheamus will get retribution tonight. Bourne counters Sheamus early in the match and misses an Air Bourne. He gets a Brogue Kick to the head and is pinned in a fairly quick match. Sheamus then gets on the mic and says that he is our new US Champ. Daniel Bryan comes out right away and says that he wants to invoke his rematch clause at WrestleMania. Sheamus answers with a Brogue Kick.

Randy Orton gets off of his tour bus and Scott Stanford interviews him, asking about what the best part of having his own bus is. After the interview, Maryse is in the ring and Eve is on her way out. Maryse starts yelling at Eve and then gets smacked in the face. Maryse fakes an injury and then goes to work on Eve. Cole gets out of his box and starts to bury the Diva’s match once again, asking the ref to end the match. Eve ends the match with a swinging neck breaker and picks up the win. Eve gets near Cole’s box and tries to smack Cole.

The Corre is in the ring and Matthews says that Gabriel and Slater are in tag team action tonight. After showing the decimation of Kane and Big Show, Santino and Kozlov come out to face the tag team champs. Santino goes for the Cobra early on, but doesn’t hit it. Kozlov gets tagged in and Barrett gets involved. Gabriel hits the 450 splash and picks up the win for The Corre. Big Show and Kane come out and destroy The Corre. Big Show knocks out Slater and they both chokeslam Zeke. Kane causes the pyro to go off in the ring, the lights go red, and Big Show’s music hits. Could we be seeing them as a regular tag team in the near future?

John Cena is now bringing it via satellite. He says that next week will be epic, as The Rock will be live on Raw. He says that their problem will be settled. After the short interview, Cole comes out of his Cole Mine and says that he has another worldwide exclusive. Jack Swagger is out with Cole after commercial. Cole shows us a replay from last week. Cole has the Lawler Family Photo Album in his hands and shows Lawler’s father up on the titantron. After some trash talking, he says that the Lawler’s only have one thing in common: they’re a bunch of losers. Swagger attempts to lay out Lawler, but Lawler gets in the ring and chases Cole. Lawler is met with a clothesline. Swagger puts him in an ankle lock, and Cole then follows suit.

We see a replay from Snooki on Raw last week followed by some clips from various news shows. Dolph Ziggler is on his way to the ring accompanied by LayCool and Vickie. John Morrison comes out next accompanied by Trish Stratus. Morrison seems to have his vicious persona with him tonight, but Ziggler gets the better of him for most of the match. The GM emails us after LayCool and Vickie get involved. The match is now a 4 on 2 handicap intergender match. After commercial and Ziggler is still going at it with Morrison. Morrison has the upperhand but Layla tags herself in. Trish takes it to Layla with some catapults and chops. McCool interferes and then gets tagged in. Layla and McCool make frequent tags and take it to Trish. Once Vickie gets tagged in, Trish tags in Morrison. Morrison goes wild on Ziggler, only to miss Starship Pain. Ziggler hits his finisher and lets Vickie pin Morrison.

After a short Sin Cara promo, we get a video package for Triple H and The Undertaker. We get opinions from John Cena, Big Show, Arn Anderson, Randy Orton, Ricky Steamboat, Jerry Lawler, John Morrison, Jim Ross, Steve Austin, Booker T, Harley Race, Shawn Michaels, Dusty Rhodes, and Chris Jericho.

The Viper, Randy Orton comes out to a big pop for a WrestleMania rewind against Rey Mysterio. (Although it was a Triple Threat match that also included Kurt Angle.) Rey Mysterio comes out after the commercial break and he does well at the beginning of the match. Orton takes over, only to get hit off the top rope. Orton hits a scoop slam and then the rope assisted DDT. Rey counters into a 619, but is countered once again into a DDT. CM Punk appears on the screen with Randy’s tour bus. He says he can’t wait to go inside to meet his wife. Randy runs out of the ring and to the bus. CM Punk comes out and hits him in the knee with a pair of pliers.

Alex Riley is in the middle of the ring and says that he has been rehired as the Vice President of Corporate Communications. Miz comes out and compares himself to Michael Jordan and Muhammad Ali. Miz doesn’t have a belt, and there is something under a cloth in the middle of the ring. Miz said he would rewrite history, so I’m assuming they are introducing a new WWE Title. He goes on to say that he is the greatest WWE Champion in history. Miz says that he has changed the WWE logo, flipping the “W” upside down. The new Championship is the same thing, only with the “W” turned into an “M.” (In my defense, it is a new title belt.) Cena is on the titantron and starts clapping. He mocks Miz for flipping the logo. Then, we see movers in the background and they move the set of his house. Cena is really in the arena and runs out to the ring. Cena is in the ring but it’s two on one. Miz runs out as Cena pushes Riley out of the ring. Cena puts Riley into an STF and Miz is nowhere to be seen. Miz appears at the top of the ramp and Cena puts Riley into another STF. Miz walks away after Cena lets go, and Cena puts him into the hold one more time.

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NXT Rookie Challenge: Darren Young won Battle of the Mic.
Titus O’Neil defeated Darren Young by pinfall.
Conor O’Brian and Vladimir Kozlov defeated Jacob Novak and JTG in a dance-off.
Lucky Cannon defeated Byron Saxton by pinfall.

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The Great Khali defeated The Miz by Disqualification. The Disqualification occurred when Alex Riley interfered and attacked Khali.
Sheamus defeated Daniel Bryan in U.S. Title Match by pinfall. Sheamus hit Bryan with a brogue kick to get the win. Sheamus is our new United States Champion.
Randy Orton defeated Mason Ryan by pinfall. Orton hit Ryan with a RKO to get the win.
Vickie Guerrero defeated Trish Stratus in a No Disqualification Match by pinfall.
John Cena defeated Alberto Del Rio by Disqualification.

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NXT Rookie Challenge: Titus O’Neil won Talk the Talk.
Darren Young defeated Conor O’Brian.
Lucky Cannon and Tyson Kidd defeated Byron Saxton and Yoshi Tatsu by pinfall. Cannon pinned Saxton to get the win for his team.
NXT Rookie Challenge: Titus O’Neil St. Patrick’s Day Keg Carry.

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We open from Kansas City, MO with an introduction of Edge. He’s in his wrestling attire and the crowd is going wild for him. He’s still got it with the masses and is definitely “way over” from what I can tell. Next is Alberto Del Rio’s music but the actual competitor to face Edge is Brodus Clay, the big protégé from NXT. Del Rio and Rodriguez are in his corner though. Some bad banter from Michael Cole and fortunately the match begins immediately. It starts with a powerful over reverse suplex throw by Clay as he tosses Edge over his head behind him. Clay with some hammering right forearms and a wrist lock into a shoulder takedown. Edge in pain and on the defensive early, as he gets hit by an old fashioned heart punch (a la Mean Mark Callous from the pre-Undertaker WCW days). Edge fires back with some right hands to get out of the arm bar but every time he tries to get some momentum he’s laid out by Clay with a clothesline or clubbing blow. Soon enough, Edge is countering and landing some moves. He avoids a splash attempt in the corner and hits a flying body press from then top rope, his new move. While underneath Clay, he tries to pull him off his feat for a sunset flip like pin attempt, but Clay just gives squats on him and gives an Earthquake splash for a near fall. Clay lines up another avalanche but Edge moves out of the way and Clay crashes into the corner. Edge starts going through the Spear technique but now Rodriquez and Del Rio get involved. Ricardo gets on the apron to distract the ref and Del Rio is grabbing Edge’s ankles from the outside. This enables Brodus to crunch Edge with a battering ram full body takedown for another nearfall. All hell breaks loose as Christian runs out from behind and attacks Del Rio from behind. Clay clobbers Christian from inside the ring and turns around to get speared and pinned. EDGE DEFEATS BRODUS CLAY VIA PINFALL. Clay is one a losing streak but it’s against championship competition at least. After the bell it’s pandemonium between Christian and Del Rio as they get into a ferocious brawl, which is broken up by Teddy Long coming out. He announces a main event of Alberto Del Rio vs. Christian in a Steel Cage!

After the break we get a solid matchup of U.S. Champion Sheamus vs. Intercontinental Champion Kofi Kingston. I still can’t think of a actual recent title defense by Kingston, which is tainting my opinion of his reign, but either way it’s a good matchup even if non-title. The bell rings immediately and we have a side headlock takedown by Sheamus and some quick pressure and pounding to the right arm of Kofi (still kayfabe injured from his beatdowns by Del Rio a couple weeks back?). Sheamus is all over the arm early but Kofi fires back with some combinations that is stalled out by a powerful series of moves by the Celtic Warrior – an inverted power bomb that sent Kofi face first into the top rope; a leveling short-arm clothesline, and a twisting neckbreaker that is all good for a two-count. Sheaumus has his aggression back with a surfboard and devastating edlbow smash. His aggression backfires as he charges Kofi in the corner but Kingston gets out of the way and hits the Pele kick. Kofi to the top rope for his gorgeous, soaring flying body press, and he lands it but the momentum reverses Sheamus into the top position and he continues rolling with it until he’s on his feet and completely lifted Kofi up into a power slam position. Kofi slips out the backdoor and lands some kicks and punches, and then a side neckbreaker. He then hits the boom drop and as he’s going through his silly hand slapping “boom” think, Sheaumus gets to his feet and locks up with Kofi, only to be hit by the SOS. Kofi gets a nearfall but Sheamus grabs the bottom rope at the last moment. The two battle ruthlessly outside the ring and back inside Sheaumus obliterates Kofi with a running pump kick for the clean win. SHEAUMUS DEFEATS KOFI KINGSTON VIA PINFALL. Whatever he did to recently get himself in the doghouse, it appears he’s back in good standing with recent wins over Daniel Bryan and Kofi Kingston. Allow me to just comment that this current reign by Kingston is about as lame as an IC Championship run that I’ve ever seen.

Next we get a promo for the reunited team of Big Show and Kane vs. Heath Slayer and Justin Gabriel. Hey, what’s this, a legit tag title matchup. As Show and Kane are talking about their match, they grab each other’s throats maliciously and Kane says “you complete me” with his sinister laughter. Show just smiles as call him “one crazy man”…kind of a funny little snippet.

Next up is Trent Barretta against Cody Rhodes. Dashing is once again wrestling i. He’s vicious and the implication is pretty clear that they’re pushing Cody as a deranged psycho/socio-path. He drills Trent with a heatbutt wearing his plastic protective mask and gets a squash match within 20 seconds. If anyone’s gonna get a big push it may as well be him…

Next we get part 2 replay of the Shawn Michaels commentary on HHH vs. Undertaker. In a Divas match, Layla defeats Kelly Kelly after being distracted by Michelle McCool. Pretty sure we’ve seen this before…like basically every week. Yawn…

The tag team feature match is up next with Just Gabriel starting in there with Kane. Kane is dominant at first and hits a hard baseball slide/low drop kick to the face of Gabriel. Slayer tags in and is greeted with a devastating right hand, followed by a slide slam from Kane. The “One Man Boy Band” is in big trouble in the corner and can only get something going until he ducks a Kane charge in to the turnbuckles. The champs tag in and out quickly and work the left leg of Kane relentlessly. Good continuity and use of tags. Eventually Show is tagged in and levels Slater with some clothelines, followed by a huge body drop and a couple big splash charges into the corner. He hits a choke slam on Slater and as the ref is counting three Just in Gabriel pulles the ref out of the ring to earn a DQ. Kane comes over and punches Gabriel in the chin and it looked close to legit. In this chaos we see EZ Jackson do his clobbering clothesline to take down Show, and Barrett on the outside rips Kane into the crowd barrier. Wade is directing traffic and we get a 4 on 1 team up of The Corre working over Show. Barrett impressively lifts up Big Show and delivers his wasteland maneuver. They take their attention to Kane on the outside, and though he holds his own for a moment, the numbers game gets to him and he gets tossed hard into the steel ring steps. The Corre does a number on both Kane and Show but this time there’s some unity b/w the two big men so perhaps we’ll get another teamup with Kane and Big Show vs. The Corre at WM 27. Wow, next Barrett and Jackson lift up Big Show and slam him into the announcers table and it crumbles on top of him. Kane is laid out w/ the steel steps on top of him. Both big mean lay in pain among the ringside wreckage and The Corre stands please, cocky and victorious (despite the DQ loss) inside the squared circle.

The next match is Jack Swagger vs. Chris Masters. It Swagger with some forearms to take the upperhand early, followed by a clothesline for a two count. Masters reverses an armbar into a nice firemans carry fallaway slam. He attempts the full nelson but can’t apply it. Jack works over his ankle against the ringpole uncompromisingly by slamming it into the pole and then kicking it into the pole with all his might. He applies the ankle lock and Masters taps. Then we get the human dousche bag Michael Cole crawling out of his little safety booth to apply a lock of his own on Masters. They run around the ring with their arms extended like a couple dorks and I hit my fast forward button to get to something much better…like Y2J!! (even if it is in reference to Dancing with the Stars). Good to see Chris Jericho back on an episode – hopefully it won’t be long until he’s returned and is wrestling. I assume he’ll be back as a babyface soon enough, perhaps after the ‘Dancing’ tv show. We get a highlight package and interview vignette. He’s as good a rep to the show as any wrestler possible. I’m sure he’ll do well but it’s just a matter of the fruitcake mainstream viewers and voters as to how he does (‘queer’ as in attitude, no sexual orientation).

Next up we get Rey Mysterio entering the ring and his opponent is the seldom-seen Ted Dibiase—the unfortunate latest jobber. Dibiase catches Rey with a sweet dropkick to counter Rey’s flying body press from the top, plus a hard lariat. He looks good early but there’s absolutely no way he’ll go over against the “untouchable” golden child of WWE, Rey Mysterio. Ted is in charge for the first several minutes, but is DDT’s as he goes for a power slam. Rey goes for his usual ‘around the world’ head scissor take down but Dibiase counters it into a BEAUTIFUL inverted power bomb. It was devastating but of course Rey kicked out. Rey does a lame little move to get Ted in 619 position, hits 619, lands his pussy drop from the top rope and gets the predicable 3-count. REY MYSTERIO PINS TED DIBIASE. Once again, I hate it. Rey Mysterio is everything that’s wrong with the WWE. I can only hope he gets busted with illegal drugs again/fails his drug test and goes away for a long time.

After 15 minutes of Snooki/Vicki recap from Raw and ring introductions we’re ready to start the cage match between Christian and Del Rio. The two men exchange blows but Del Rio is in control at first. Cage with a backdrop and both men try to slam each other’s faces into the cage but can’t get it done. Christian tries for kill switch but it’s too early – Del Rio is too strong. An irish wip by Christian to Del Rio sees Alberto simply climb up the turnbuckles and on up the fence. Christian follows and the battle it out with both standing on the top rope. Del Rio tries to german suplex Christan off the top rope but Christian holds on to the fence too tightly. Captain Charisma is hit with a somoan drop off the top instead and both lay down on the mat. Back from break it’s Cage getting slammed into the cage as he misses Del Rio with a flying tackle attempt. Side suplex by Del Rio but no pinfall. The two exchange maneuvers back and forth for about five minutes, including headplants into the cage, a killswitch by Christian, and eventually they are duking it out on the top bars with both men seated and facing each other. Christian’s face is slammed forward into the metal bars and it appears Rio is going to win as he is hanging by the cage on the outside. Suddenly, Christian gets behind him and holds Del Rio idle while not allowing him to move. Christian creeps past Rio and slips further down and they both go crashing to the ringside floor but Christian is first! CHRISTIAN DEFEATS DEL RIO IN CAGE MATCH BY HITTING RINGSIDE FLOOR FIRST. Del Rio doesn’t take it well and starts attacking Christian but then we see and hear Edge wailing on the horn of Alberto’s Bentley. He threatens to smash it up with a steel chair but is laid out from behind by Brodus Clay. Clay and Del Rio commence to brutalize Edge and Christian as we fade to black. This week, the bad guys stand victorious at the end.

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Randy Orton is distraught as CM Punk threatened to “meet” his wife.

Sheamus defeated Evan Bourne by pinfall. Sheamus hit Bourne with Brogue Kick to get the win.
Eve Torres defeated Maryse by pinfall. Eve hit Maryse with a spinning neckbreaker to get the win.
Justin Gabriel and Heath Slater defeated Santino Marella and Vladimir Kozlov by pinfall.
John Morrison vs Dolph Ziggler ended in a No Contest when Trish Stratus, Layla El and Michelle McCool interfered.
Dolph Ziggler, Vickie Guerrero, Layla El and Michelle McCool defeated John Morrison and Trish Stratus in a 4-on-2 Handicap match by pinfall. Guerrero pinned Morrison.
Rey Mysterio defeated Randy Orton by Count-out when Orton left the ring.

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- Sheamus def. Evan Bourne
- Eve def. Maryse
- The Corre def. Santino Marella and Vladimir Kozlov
- Dolph Ziggler, LayCool, and Vickie Guerrero def. John Morrison and Trish Stratus
- Rey Mysterio def. Randy Orton via count out

Monday Night RAW opens up this week with Good Ole Jim Ross coming out. Nevermind, it’s Michael Cole dressed up as JR, with a fake broken ankle and some barbeque sauce. Cole taunts Jerry and then goes into his Cole Mine. Triple H’s music hits once Cole gets into his cage and it’s actually Triple H that is coming out. Lawler says “this is amazing” after it takes 5 minutes for HHH to get in the ring and for his music to stop playing. He explains that in 2 weeks, it’s the defining moment of both HHH and Undertaker’s career. He says that by ending the streak, it will be more important than any championship he has ever won. He invites Taker to Raw next week so they can speak face-to-face. Triple H concludes by saying that at WrestleMania, Undertaker will rest in peace. Ted DiBiase comes out of nowhere and says that he was once one of the rising superstars in the WWE. He says he is now an afterthought. DiBiase goes on to question the fact that he would not be an afterthought if he were to take out Triple H. The two go at it, but DiBiase gets destroyed with steel steps, a steel chair, and a pedigree through the announce table.

Back from commercial and the United States Champion, Sheamus, is in the ring. Evan Bourne is out next as Cole says Sheamus will get retribution tonight. Bourne counters Sheamus early in the match and misses an Air Bourne. He gets a Brogue Kick to the head and is pinned in a fairly quick match. Sheamus then gets on the mic and says that he is our new US Champ. Daniel Bryan comes out right away and says that he wants to invoke his rematch clause at WrestleMania. Sheamus answers with a Brogue Kick.

Randy Orton gets off of his tour bus and Scott Stanford interviews him, asking about what the best part of having his own bus is. After the interview, Maryse is in the ring and Eve is on her way out. Maryse starts yelling at Eve and then gets smacked in the face. Maryse fakes an injury and then goes to work on Eve. Cole gets out of his box and starts to bury the Diva’s match once again, asking the ref to end the match. Eve ends the match with a swinging neck breaker and picks up the win. Eve gets near Cole’s box and tries to smack Cole.

The Corre is in the ring and Matthews says that Gabriel and Slater are in tag team action tonight. After showing the decimation of Kane and Big Show, Santino and Kozlov come out to face the tag team champs. Santino goes for the Cobra early on, but doesn’t hit it. Kozlov gets tagged in and Barrett gets involved. Gabriel hits the 450 splash and picks up the win for The Corre. Big Show and Kane come out and destroy The Corre. Big Show knocks out Slater and they both chokeslam Zeke. Kane causes the pyro to go off in the ring, the lights go red, and Big Show’s music hits. Could we be seeing them as a regular tag team in the near future?

John Cena is now bringing it via satellite. He says that next week will be epic, as The Rock will be live on Raw. He says that their problem will be settled. After the short interview, Cole comes out of his Cole Mine and says that he has another worldwide exclusive. Jack Swagger is out with Cole after commercial. Cole shows us a replay from last week. Cole has the Lawler Family Photo Album in his hands and shows Lawler’s father up on the titantron. After some trash talking, he says that the Lawler’s only have one thing in common: they’re a bunch of losers. Swagger attempts to lay out Lawler, but Lawler gets in the ring and chases Cole. Lawler is met with a clothesline. Swagger puts him in an ankle lock, and Cole then follows suit.

We see a replay from Snooki on Raw last week followed by some clips from various news shows. Dolph Ziggler is on his way to the ring accompanied by LayCool and Vickie. John Morrison comes out next accompanied by Trish Stratus. Morrison seems to have his vicious persona with him tonight, but Ziggler gets the better of him for most of the match. The GM emails us after LayCool and Vickie get involved. The match is now a 4 on 2 handicap intergender match. After commercial and Ziggler is still going at it with Morrison. Morrison has the upperhand but Layla tags herself in. Trish takes it to Layla with some catapults and chops. McCool interferes and then gets tagged in. Layla and McCool make frequent tags and take it to Trish. Once Vickie gets tagged in, Trish tags in Morrison. Morrison goes wild on Ziggler, only to miss Starship Pain. Ziggler hits his finisher and lets Vickie pin Morrison.

After a short Sin Cara promo, we get a video package for Triple H and The Undertaker. We get opinions from John Cena, Big Show, Arn Anderson, Randy Orton, Ricky Steamboat, Jerry Lawler, John Morrison, Jim Ross, Steve Austin, Booker T, Harley Race, Shawn Michaels, Dusty Rhodes, and Chris Jericho.

The Viper, Randy Orton comes out to a big pop for a WrestleMania rewind against Rey Mysterio. (Although it was a Triple Threat match that also included Kurt Angle.) Rey Mysterio comes out after the commercial break and he does well at the beginning of the match. Orton takes over, only to get hit off the top rope. Orton hits a scoop slam and then the rope assisted DDT. Rey counters into a 619, but is countered once again into a DDT. CM Punk appears on the screen with Randy’s tour bus. He says he can’t wait to go inside to meet his wife. Randy runs out of the ring and to the bus. CM Punk comes out and hits him in the knee with a pair of pliers.

Alex Riley is in the middle of the ring and says that he has been rehired as the Vice President of Corporate Communications. Miz comes out and compares himself to Michael Jordan and Muhammad Ali. Miz doesn’t have a belt, and there is something under a cloth in the middle of the ring. Miz said he would rewrite history, so I’m assuming they are introducing a new WWE Title. He goes on to say that he is the greatest WWE Champion in history. Miz says that he has changed the WWE logo, flipping the “W” upside down. The new Championship is the same thing, only with the “W” turned into an “M.” (In my defense, it is a new title belt.) Cena is on the titantron and starts clapping. He mocks Miz for flipping the logo. Then, we see movers in the background and they move the set of his house. Cena is really in the arena and runs out to the ring. Cena is in the ring but it’s two on one. Miz runs out as Cena pushes Riley out of the ring. Cena puts Riley into an STF and Miz is nowhere to be seen. Miz appears at the top of the ramp and Cena puts Riley into another STF. Miz walks away after Cena lets go, and Cena puts him into the hold one more time.

Source: wrestlingtruth.com