RAW - 17 Март 2008

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After being subjected two weeks in a row to the sadistic whims of others, next week it’s time for The Game to make the rules. And what Triple H has in mind spells nothing but hurt for his WrestleMania XXIV opponents, Randy Orton and John Cena.

Two weeks ago, Raw General Manager William Regal announced a Triple Threat Takeover, allowing each of the three men involved in the WWE Championship Triple Threat Match to arrange their opponents’ bouts for one week. That night, on John Cena’s command, Triple H was forced to battle reigning WWE Champion Randy Orton. Last week, The Cerebral Assassin was pushed into a match with his WrestleMania XV opponent, Kane, compliments of Orton.

This week, however, Triple H has arranged a match pitting Cena & Orton against the entire Raw roster. (No, really. It’s true!)

What the hell does this mean? Having suffered through two weeks of his opponents’ will, can The Game capture the momentum in the weeks leading up to the greatest stage in all of sports-entertainment?

In other action, Chris Jericho returns to Raw as the new Intercontinental titleholder after defeating former champion Jeff Hardy. The lion-hearted warrior has been salivating to recapture a title he’s held seven times prior. Now that he’s back on top, how will Y2J handle the list of contenders gunning for him?

The bad blood continues to flow between Big Show and his WrestleMania foe Floyd “Money” Mayweather. The animosity between the two flooded the arena last week when The World’s Largest Athlete grabbed the WBC welterweight champion after their weigh-in, lifted him overhead and tossed him over the top rope causing Mayweather to injure his elbow. Will Mayweather be able to continue with their match? If so, how will The Greatest Fighter in the World retaliate?

For answers to these questions and more, tune in to Monday Night Raw at 9/8 CT on USA network.

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WWE RAW
March 17, 2008
Lafayette, LA
Commentators: Jim Ross & Jerry “The King” Lawler
Reported By: Hunter Golden of WrestleView.com

The opening pyro hit and here we go.

Chris Jericho is in the ring and he’s got his first guest, the Intercontinental Championship. The second guest is the Big Show. He thanked Show for giving us a clip that didn’t involve Mayweather using his face as a piñata. He showed highlights from last week and Show said it re-enforced the fact that no one likes Floyd Mayweather. His peers don’t like him, the guys in the back don’t like him and the fans sure don’t like him.

He said Jericho wouldn’t last in the ring two seconds and he wondered why that made Mayweather think he has a shot. Jericho went a little creepy and started getting in Show’s face. Show said Jericho needed to cool down. He said he didn’t think Jericho was as bad as Mayweather would be, he was just the WWE equivalent. He was loud, obnoxious, etc. He also said Jericho was in over his head. He challenged Jericho to an IC title match later tonight and sure enough, we’ve got it.

Mr. McMahon is in the back and he’s talking about himself and it’s glorious. Well he says nothing could top everything this week, his name on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, WWE stock going up and his 700 pound squat. He said except being a McMahon on St. Patrick’s Day. He said he wanted to do something special and tonight… he’d end Ric Flair’s career. In a street fight.

****Commercial****

CM Punk v. Carlito

The two locked horns and grappled around for a little bit and we’ve got a stalemate. Punk hit a back kick and well, another series of kicks before Carlito finally avoided one and was able to dump Punk to the outside of the ring.

Carlito caught him coming back in and floored him with a right hand before slamming him headfirst into the turnbuckles. Punk turned the tide briefly but got caught with a kick as his head stuck through the ropes. Carlito slapped on a bow and arrow and we’re at a good old rest hold.

Punk fought back and almost grabbed a roll up, but Carlito responded with a hand spring elbow off the kick out for a two count. Carlito went back to a chin lock, trying to wear Punk down. He dropped a few elbows on Punk’s head to maintain control, but once the crowd got into it, Punk was able to fight to his feet.

Punk countered out of the hold and immediately hit a knee in the corner and rushed out with Carlito’s head in toe for a bulldog to get a two count. Punk ate a drop kick on the springboard lariat, but wasn’t able to connect with a back cracker. Punk went for Go 2 Sleep, but Carlito countered out with a nifty swinging neck breaker for a great near fall.

Carlito went for another springboard move but Punk caught him in mid air and killed him with Go 2 Sleep for the win.

Winner: CM Punk via pin fall

Snoop Dog is in the back and he’s a master of ceremonies at Bunny Mania. He reads a really badly scripted few lines before he stops and says these cue cards are ridiculous. Santino Marella comes out of course and calls Snoop Dog “Snoopy the Dog”. Really who cares about anything else.

****Commercial****

Raw Gm William Regal calls Umaga out to the ring for a fight against both Paul London & Brian Kendrick.

Umaga v. Brian Kendrick & Paul London

Oh this is just beautiful. No one bumps and dies more spectacularly than London and Kendrick. Really play by play is dumb for this, so I offer glorious highlights:

1. Double Samoan Drop

2. Head smash. No two of them.

3. London tossed by his hair in air and spiked.

Winner and Still the best thing to happen since Sliced Bread and Garbage Pail kids: Umaga by a lot

BTW, Brian Kendrick just walked out on Paul London. So sinister.

William Regal and Triple H are in the back gleefully putting over the stipulations for the Orton/Cena v. Everyone match. If Cena runs, he’s out of the match at Wrestlemania. If Orton runs, he’s going to be stripped of the belt. Regal tries to prevent it from happening, asking Triple H why he just doesn’t strip the title from Orton. Triple H said he had been awarded titles before. It wasn’t satisfying. Instead, he was going to win it on the biggest stage of them all.

****Commercial****

A pretty hilarious of Vince McMahon being immortalized on the Hollywood Walk of Fame aired. In case you’re wondering, he’s right next to Kermit the Frog.

Shawn Michaels is watching everything on TV. Ric Flair shows up and tells him to leave. Flair says he doesn’t need his help or his sympathy. He said he didn’t want to see Michaels until Wrestlemania.

****Commercial****

JBL came out to the ring. He said it was St. Patty’s day and he was ready to do something for the Irish, who made him a lot of money. He said tonight, for Finlay, he’d be challenging the second toughest guy in Ireland, Colin Delany. Good lord this’ll be godly.

JBL v. Colin Delaney

JBL goaded Delaney to hit him and Colin obliged. JBL cold cocked him in short order and freaking killed him with a clubbing shot to the back. JBL hit his big boot and short clothesline. He hit a second on before taunting the youngster a bit.

JBL wound up and took Delaney’s head off with a clothesline from hell and that’s all she wrote.

Winner: JBL via pin fall

JBL said if Finlay thought he had a chance, he needed to listen to what his grandparents said to Finlay’s ancestors. They came to them looking for a job and a handout. JBL said the “Irish need not apply”.

Flair v. McMahon is next!

****Commercial****

Street Fight
Ric Flair v. Vince McMahon

We get some old man ‘put up your dukes’ posing at first and then some nasty punches from both and McMahon even covers up like he’s in one. Flair knocks him out of the ring and now Flair’s all over McMahon on top of the announce table. Flair is just potato-ing Flair with right hands before dumping him over the guard rail and into the stands.

Flair shows off Vince for some fans and then whoops his ass back over the guardrail and back into the ring side area. Flair charged McMahon, but Vince avoided him and Flair cracked into the ring post. Vince is pissed and he’s setting up the ring table for something sinister. But no! He’s got the monitor and he takes it and smashes Flair right in the mug with it.

Flair’s bleeding. In other news, the sun came up today. Vince goes right at Flair and hammers away at his wound against the guard rail before tossing him in the ring for a two count. Vince reigned some more blows down on Flair’s face and yet again, gets a two count.

Vince figures this isn’t going to work so he’s going shopping underneath the ring. He pulls out the awesomely fake trash can and kills Flair with it for a WICKED close near fall. Vince smashes Flair’s face with his fists some more and went back to the outside to find more toys for tots.

McMahon grabbed a kendo stick and he’s got that masturbatory look on his face and starts cracking Flair in the back with it. Two more shots across Flair’s head but still, Flair refuses to go down.

McMahon goes out for a third time and he’s got the old, reliable steel chair. He PLOWED Flair’s head with a chair shot and went for the cover, but HBK popped up and pulled the official out of the ring. HBK got expelled to the back before we get a glimpse of Vince.

He’s going back to the outside for a fourth time. And he’s got a table. Vince went to gather Flair but got smashed in the nuts twice. Flair plopped Vince on the table and pounded his skull some. FLAIR ON THE TOP ROPE. That was the most gloriously awful splash ever, and Flair SHOULD HAVE an awful splash. Naitch wins.

Winner: Ric Flair via pin fall

Fantastic, fantastic match.

An awesome John Cena “Why I’m wrestling at Wrestlemania” video aired.

****Commercial****

King is with Jared from Subway!? Jesus Christ. This show just can’t get better.

Candice & Maria v. Jillian Hall & Victoria

Jillian’s theme song f-ing kills me. It’s almost as awesome as.. Santino Marella on commentary.

Maria and Jillian are starting us off. Jillian hit a knee to the gut and her hand spring elbow before Victoria tagged in and began tossing Maria around like a pound of meat. Victoria went for her standing moonsault but Maria got the knees up. An enzeguiri later, Candice is tagged in and she’s cleaning everyone out.

Candice hit a great sit out slam and some wheel kicks. Her flurry kept it coming until Victoria caught her and laid her out with a back breaker. Jillian tagged in and went for the 450, but missed by a mile. Candice cleared out and hit the un-prettier. Wow, nice to see that dusted off.

Winners: Maria & Candice via pin fall

Santino poured beer on Lawler’s face before stealing his Subway sandwich. That calls for a match at Wrestlemania if I ever saw a reason, to, uh, have a match at Wrestlemania.

Mayweather has a video putting him over. Good stuff.

****Commercial****

WWE Intercontinental Championship
Chris Jericho v. Big Show

Show quickly caught Jericho with a big boot and began working him over in the corner. He hit a knee to Jericho’s gut. Jericho hit a jaw breaker and knocked Show the the floor but got caught by Show and flung into the barricade.

Show went for a Vader bomb and missed clean. Jericho came firing back with some punches and managed to hit a code breaker, but it didn’t so much as phase Show. Jericho eventually got frustrated and grabbed his title belt and slammed it into the skull of Big Show to get himself DQ’d.

Winner: Big Show via DQ

After the match Big Show hit Jericho with his freaking mallet of a right hand. Jericho’s out.

****Commercial****

Kim Kardashian showed up. She met Big Dick Johnson and apparently is our ‘host’ for Wrestlemania.

A Randy Orton kills the world video aired. Awesome.

Randy Orton’s in the back with John Cena. Cena said they’d whoop everyone tonight no matter how much it might hurt. Orton told him to hold up and said Triple H probably wanted them to get hurt, but they should just lay down and avoid getting hurt. Cena said that was actually a good idea. The two couldn’t agree on who’d take the loss. Cena then said they’d have to man up and there was no way he’d take a loss to help the guy that injured him, stole his title and kicked his father in the head. He said there only chance was to fight. Triple H showed up and reminded both that they had ‘no chance’.

****Commercial****

John Cena & Randy Orton v. The Raw Roster

This is a hilarious spectacle. Snitsky starts the fun and kills Cena with a boot and a body slam before Santino tags himself in. Cena quickly rolled him up and that’s one down.

Murdoch tagged into the match and after some clubbering and a save from Orton, Cena was able to slap the STFU on and get him to submit. Cade didn’t like it and came in only to eat an RKO and he’s done.

Umaga came running in and hit a double clothesline on both Orton and Cena. He’s killing them as we got to commercial.

****Commercial****

Over the break, Super Crazy was eliminated with an RKO.

JBL hammered Orton around and holy crap this rules. JBL tagged Duggan. Awesome. Cody tagged in and got some licks in before Burchall tagged in. Everyone’s getting shots in including Val Venis (whose being cheered by Snitsky), Carlito, Hardcore Holly, Robbie… Orton catches him with an inverted back breaker and tags Cena who comes swooping off the top rope with a leg drop for the pin.

Harry Smith ate an inverted power bomb and a five knuckle shuffle. Before you know it the rookie eats and FU and he’s gone. Orton pops up out of nowhere and hits an RKO. Val Venis and Birchall are down and these two are just having a field day. Orton-Cena teamwork and the crowd’s going.

The Raw roster jumped into the ring and now they’re beating down on the champion and the challenger. The wrestlers began beating Orton down before Cena retrieved a chair from ringside and began cleaning em out.

He didn’t see Umaga though who peppered him with an upper cut while JBL decapitated Orton with a clothesline from hell. JBL hit Umaga accidentally with the chair and it made Umaga mad enough to just spike Orton and chase JBL out of the arena.

As the ring cleared, Triple H’s music hit. He came down, hit dueling pedigrees on Cena and Orton, and posed with the belt.

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Taка... началото на тазседмичния RAW ме израдва значително. Джерико бе на невероятна висота на микрофона, макар че публиката май не разбра доста от шегите му. Грамадата също се представи добре. Факта, че се разбраха за мач за титлата лично мен ме израдва и дори за секунда се замислих дали Джерико няма да загуби. Важно е да се отбележи, че едва една седмица след като той е шампион му се налага да защитава пояса. Ако продължат така титлата може да върне блясъка си...

Пънк срещу Карлито можеше да е доста по-добър мач, но и сега не ме разочарова. Handicap Match-a не съм сигурен, че искам да го споменавам... писна ми някак си. Радвам се, че Кендрик най-вероятно ще turn-e, защото Лондон винаги ми е бил по-симпатичен. Съмнявам се обаче колко екранно време ще получи една възможна вражда между двамата.

Срещата на Рик и НВК в съблекалнята даде малко живот на враждата. Просто Майкълс все още не може да ме накара да вярвам, че ще направи всичко за победата. Рик се справя добре с ролята на неотказващото се старче, но честно казано мача с Винс ми идеше да го проспя. През 2002 направиха къде-къде по-добър Street Fight.

Подигравката на Брадшоу с Дилейни я пропускаме Сантино кърти. Точка. Следващата седмица сигурно пак ще джоби на Кинг, който явно е решил да пораздвижи кокали преди Мания-та. Мачът между Джерико и Грамадата не беше нищо особено. Според мен няма нищо чак толкова heel-ско в постъпката на Джерико. Той винаги се е поддавал на подобни tweener-ски номера. Правилен завършек на мача.

От клипчетата за Ортън, ННН и Сина, това за Ортън ми хареса най-много. Но си признавам, че става въпрос за лично отношение... Сегмента преди Main Event-a - златен Самия МЕ беше добре замислен, но не чак толкова добре изпълнен. Изключително много ме издразни факта, че Бърчил беше туширан (а и в последните седмици не му се отделя внимание). Прословутото RKO с подхвърляне, което Сина и Ортън направиха на Коуди ме израдва доста. Ортън като се надъха и почне да хвърля РКО-та наляво-надясно просто ме прави супер щастлив. Края на мача беше малко странен... сякаш всички бяха чакали елиминацията на Коуди, за да влязат на ринга. Интересно ми е дали има шанс да видим Умага срещу JBL следващата седмица. Педигритата бяха ясни.

Като цяло добро шоу, но мачовете малко ме разочароваха