WWE After Wrestlemania XIX

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WWE Smackdown

March 18, 2004

We don't start with the intro tonight. We start with a clip from earlier today with Edge showing up to the arena and then suddenly being attacked by Randy Orton, Chris Benoit and HHH whom are in street clothes as well. They throw Edge into several cars, including opening a door viciously into his head and they finish with Randy Orton getting a running start as Benoit holds him in position and Orton hits a running RKO on Edge ONTO A CAR HOOD! Orton lands on the car while Edge's face bounces off it. Then the three walk off leaving Edge down in pain.

Overall Rating: 76%

Now we cut into the Smackdown intro with the rap bringing us into Smackdown. Then once the video and music finishes up, we cut to a camera in arena and the Smackdown set pyro begins exploding all over the place. Then once it's finished we get our first match of the night, right off the bat.

Chuck Palumbo vs Cyclone

Chuck Palumbo comes out to the FBI theme but as he's the only surviving member of the FBI still employed in WWE. It seems somewhat odd he has this entrance. Chuck comes down to the ring and then once he's in the ring Cyclone comes out from behind the curtain and walks down to the ring. These men compete in a fairly short match. Not even five minutes. At the end of the match when it looked like Cyclone was poised to get the victory. But then Mortis came running down to the ring and Cyclone pushed Chuck down as he heard the crowd erupt and caught Mortis leaping up onto the apron with a falling dropkick to Mortis's left knee. That takes him off his balance and he falls, smacking his head off the apron and he stays down in pain on the outside of the ring. Cyclone yells at Mortis angrily and then turns right into a Jungle Kick...Almost! Cyclone ducks the kick at the last possible second and as Chuck turns around, Cyclone plants him with a beautiful DDT and covers him..1...2...3! Mortis climbs into the ring after the match but only to receive a Cyclone-Bomb (Tiger-Bomb) and to have Cyclone celebrate over Chuck and Mortis as we take our first commercial break!

(Winner: Cyclone)

Overall Rating: 77%

Crowd Reaction: 75%

Match Quality: 79%

Dames Stars: **1/2

10 Man Battle Royale for #1 Contendership to American Title

Sean O'Haire vs Matt Morgan vs Shannon Moore vs Kid Kash vs Lance Storm vs Rikishi vs Matt Stryker vs Spanky vs Paul London vs Rico

We come back from commercial and Matt Stryker is just getting to the ring and then Sean O'Haire's music plays and he comes walking to the ring to cheers from the crowd. He is the last man in the match and once he's in the ring the bell sounds and everyone goes after each other! Well actully Morgan and Moore pair off in one corner. The rest go after Rikishi and eliminate him quickly to take care of one of the biggest threats!

(Elimination #1: Rikishi)

O'Haire then pairs off with Lance Storm and everyone else gets into a brawl with each other. London is the next to be eliminated though as he takes a chance going to the top rope and Spanky runs up the turnbuckles in that corner (Bottom right if looking from Set) and pushes London Backwards out of the ring and off the top rope!!! No steps down below so he lands hard on the outside. Narrowly avoiding smacking the back of his head on the guard barricade! Rico runs over and takes advantage of Spanky standing on the top rope with his back turned to the ring, looking down on London and splits Spanky's legs so he crotches the top turnbuckle and then Rico shoves Spanky over the top rope to the outside!

(Elimination #2: Paul London)

(Elimination #3: Spanky)

In the other end of the ring Matt Morgan is trying to eliminate Shannon Moore but O'Haire comes up behind them both and picks Morgan's legs up and sends both men out of the ring!! Lance Storm at this point tries to catch O'Haire off guard but O'Haire back body drops Lance Storm over the top rope!!!

(Elimination #4: Matt Morgan)

(Elimination #5: Shannon Moore)

(Elimination #6: Lance Storm)

In the bottom right corner of the ring Matt Stryker is trying to get Rico over the top rope but O'Haire comes over and breaks it up. Then grabs Stryker and whips him to the ropes. Delivering a Martial Arts kick to Stryker's jaw as he comes back at O'Haire. Kid Kash though pulls out the Cha CHING on O'Haire a second after he nailed Stryker. Rico does the smart thing as Kash is taunting O'Haire and celebrating his move and Rico grabs Kash from behind and chucks him over the top rope!

(Elimination #7: Kid Kash)

Rico then goes over and picks Matt Stryker up and goes to throw him out but Stryker reverses it and hip tosses Rico over the top rope and to the outside of the ring!!

(Elimination #8: Rico)

This leaves it down to Stryker and O'Haire. They lock up at this point like a normal match and go back and forth for five more minutes. Stryker hitting several variations of a DDT to try and put O'Haire out enough to throw over the top rope while O'Haire used his feet to do his talking. Stryker though in the end hits a Blazing Strike "Superkick" on O'Haire to stagger him and then Stryker clotheslines O'Haire over the top rope to win the Title Shot! Stryker celebrates while we cut to another commercial break!

(Winner and #1 Contender to American Title: Matt Stryker)

Overall Rating: 70%

Crowd Reaction: 74%

Match Quality: 62%

Dames Stars: 3/4*

Ohhh Yea!!!

We come back and are backstage with Matt Hardy whom has the WWE American Title over his shoulder and he takes the microphone from Josh Matthews and begins to speak and cuts a solid promo

Matt Hardy Version 1.0: So Matt Stryker won the little Battle Royale for a shot at my Title! Fine. I wanted the match tonight but Shane McMahon told me that it wouldn't be fair to do that to you Stryker so rest up. There isn't room at Mania 20 for us but next week on Smackdown in the Main Event. It's you and me Stryker for THIS American Title. So you better be ready. Cause Mattitude is always prepared!

Hardy held his title up to the camera as he spoke about him and Stryker for his title and then he walked off after cutting a pretty solid promo

Overall Rating: 87%

We cut from the Hardy backstage promo to a video presentation by Randy Orton. It's like the Foley/Orton videos you've seen recently except it's involving Edge being someone whom can't measure up to Randy Orton and that he is afraid of Orton and that only one man will be standing in 10 Days.

Overall Rating: 87%

Rey Mysterio/Asai vs Psicosis/AJ Styles

This tag match pits four of the best cruiserweights in the WWE against one another. All the men make their way down to the ring and apparently were given time to work because this tag match gets about 17 minutes. They go back and forth for the first ten minutes with Psicosis and Styles beating down Mysterio for the next five minutes, before Mysterio makes the hot tag to Asai who goes on fire with clotheslines and heel kicks to both Psicosis and Styles. Asai then hits his finisher to Psicosis but unfortunately for Asai. The legal man is Styles and when Asai gets up from nailing Psicosis. He receives a kick to the gut and Styles hits a GIANT Styles Clash to Asai and covers him..1...2....3! We take another commercial break with Styles and Psicosis standing over the fallen Asai!

(Winners: AJ Styles/Psicosis)

Overall Rating: 83%

Crowd Reaction: 79%

Match Quality: 88%

Dames Stars: ***1/2

When we return from break we see scenes from last week with Brock Lesnar being attacked surprisingly by Kurt Angle whom we now know is going to be the Special Guest Referee for the Ultimate Submission Match at Wrestlemania XX. Well once this clip finishes we come back to see Chris Benoit backstage, getting ready for the Main Event coming up and then suddenly Brock Lesnar maliciously attacks Chris Benoit and then once he's beaten him some. Lesnar throws Benoit onto his shoulders and hits an F5 on Benoit, landing him on several Wooden Palets which break as Benoit lands. Lesnar then rolls Benoit off of the palets and then locks on a Crippler Crossface and rears back as hard as he can. Benoit is tapping after 15 seconds and then Lesnar lets go and yells down at Benoit about that he will submit at Mania so many times that Kurt won't be able to keep count!

(Brock Lesnar Gains Overness)

Overall Rating: 83%

Edge/Brock Lesnar/Sean O'Haire vs Randy Orton/Chris Benoit/Triple H

Main Event

Triple H is the first man out, he makes his entrance to the ring and does his entire ring entrance. Then Randy Orton does his entrance and both men seem to be taking their time. As if trying to buy time. Then O'Haire is the first man out, competing twice tonight! Then once Brock Lesnar comes down to the ring and is there. Edge's music plays and smoke fills the entryway. Then Edge comes bursting through with the WWE Title around his waist. Once Edge gets to the ring the match begins and this is another long match but it starts 3 on 2 with Orton and HHH in the bottom left corner where the stairs are (If looking from set) Lesnar and O'Haire dominate Orton and HHH. Edge gets some shots in as well but then at about the 7 minute point in the match. Benoit makes his way down to the ring, clutching his left shoulder as he came down to the ring. The match went another seven minutes going back and forth with all the men hitting their trademarks on each other. The match comes to an end when Lesnar clotheslined Benoit over the top rope and went to the outside with him. At the same time on the other side of the ring O'Haire hit a high leg clothesline over the top rope on HHH and tumbled to the outside with HHH. At that same moment Orton blocked the Edgeocution and reversed it into a Strong RKO and Orton quickly gets into the cover..1...2....3!! Randy Orton gets a victory and quickly leaves the ring as Lesnar and O'Haire get back into the ring as "Passing you By" hits. Playing all over the arena as he backs up the aisleway. We leave Smackdown with Orton making a title belt motion around his waist as Edge stares a hole through Orton..Edge furious in the ring as Smackdown cuts out

(Winners: Randy Orton/Chris Benoit/Triple H)

Overall Rating: 78%

Crowd Reaction: 79%

Match Quality: 79%

Dames Stars: **3/4

Smackdown Rating: 77%

TV Rating: 5.22 (+.41)

Attendance: 6,027

Ticket Sales: $241,080

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Sunday Night Heat

March 21, 2004

Dark Matches

Rikishi defeats John Hennigan with a Rikishi Driver for the win 60(62,58)1/2*

D'Lo Brown defeats Black Dragon with a Lo Down for the pinfall 62(48,78)*3/4

Frankie Kazarian hit the Wave of the Future but after the match Chris Sabin laid Kazarian out with a chair shot to the head. 59(50,69)*

Mark Jindrak beats Eric Angle with a stiff powerbomb for the victory 70(67,73)*3/4

Heat Matches

Batista completely mauls Sharky for five minutes and then finishes him with a devastating Sit-Out Powerbomb for the victory. 74(79,63)*

Hurricane defeated Ken Shamrock with a Shining Wizard for the victory 85(78,92)***3/4

In a match that pits half the Undisputed Tag Champs against the Challengers for the Titles at Mania. Low Ki defeats Charlie Haas in a 10 minute match via submission with the Dragon Clutch! 70(58,83)**1/2

Spanky and Lance Storm finish off Heat with a strong showing where Spanky finally overcomes Storm with the Sliced Bread #2 for the victory to end Heat at. 82(82,83)***1/4

Heat Rating: 71%

TV Rating: 5.26

Attendance: 6,006

Ticket Sales: $240,240

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Monday Night RAW Preview

March 22, 2004

A video package begins to play to start off RAW tonight. It highlights every single RAW match at Wrestlemania XX. It's similar to last year's Mania package to start the show, about their desire and heart to win. It shows everyone involved on the RAW Side. It finishes up (I don't want to give too much away) and the Union Underground entrance plays. Then once that finishes as well, the RAW Pyro begins to go off on the set. Then it concludes and JR with The King, welcome us to RAW.

The King: This is it JR. 6 Days left, no more RAW after tonight till Wrestlemania 20. Can't you feel the excitement!!

JR: Your damn right I can King. And tonight we're going to have the final confrontations between the men fighting at Wrestlemania XX. Tommy Dreamer will defend his Hardcore Title against D'Lo Brown but expect Booker T to get involved!

The King: Also the great main event with The Nature Boy, Ric Flair and The World Heavyweight Champion and Doctor of Thuganomics. But they're going against the Rattlesnake "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and the #1 Contender..Chris Jericho!

JR: And we'll kick it off with Shelton Benjamin and Batista Right now!

Shelton Benjamin vs Batista

This match wasn't really long, mostly because of Batista's youth and their contrast of styles. Shelton controlled the match for the majority but at the end Batista hit a spinebuster and setup Shelton for a Sit-Out Powerbomb but Shelton back dropped Batista out of it. Then poised and WHACK, a Superkick to the jaw of Batista and Shelton falls into the cover..1...2....3! After the match though Batista catches Shelton Benjamin by surprise while he was celebrating. Batista kicks him low and hits a huge Sit-Out Powerbomb. Batista then grabs his Tag Title and leaves...Will Batista and Low Ki be able to retain on Sunday? Or will Team Angle take back their Tag Team Titles!?

(Winner: Shelton Benjamin)

Overall Rating: 68%

Crowd Reaction: 59%

Match Quality: 78%

Dames Stars: **

Latino Fury!

Raven is coming into the arena through the garage entrance. Raven comes through the door and just as he does, an off screen Eddie Guerrero WHACKS A chair is delivered to the head of Raven. Eddie Guerrero is apparently looking to cheat his way to victory by taking Raven out before Wrestlemania! He slams the chair down over and over on Raven's left knee and then whacks him once more in the head. The last shot bloodies Raven up and Eddie heads off as medical personnel come to assist Raven.

Overall Rating: 90%

Tommy Dreamer vs D'Lo Brown

Hardcore Title Match

This match is not fair for poor D'Lo. Tommy is an angry man and takes out all his anger on D'Lo in this match. Mauling him for five good minutes before setting up to finish him off with a Singapore Cane shot to the head but Booker T comes running down to the ring. The Crowd cheers loudly and Dreamer reacts to this and turns around to the stage side of the ring and catches Booker climbing onto the ring apron..CRACK! Dreamer cracks Booker over the shoulder, not quite nailing him in the head but then turns around into a Sky High from D'Lo Brown!!! D'Lo is gonna win the Title! D'Lo goes up top and goes for the Lo Down but Dreamer gets his knees up and gets to his feet quickly. Dreamer then picks D'Lo up and finishes him with the Mind Numb (Razor's Edge into Stunner) and covers D'Lo..1...2.....3! Dreamer then leaves with his Hardcore Title quickly before Booker can get up and get something over him. Those two men meet in six days as well!

(Winner and STILL Hardcore Champion: Tommy Dreamer)

Overall Rating: 75%

Crowd Reaction: 73%

Match Quality: 77%

Dames Stars: **1/4

My Belt!

We come back from our commercial break with Chris Jericho backstage and The Coach is interviewing Jericho

Coach: Chris. In six days you have to go up against your biggest rival for the World Heavyweight Championship in the Main Event at Wrestlemania. Not only that but it's in a Hell in a Cell. Last time you were in a Hell in a Cell Match. Triple H Beat you. So what is your mindset going into this match?

Jericho: What's my mindset Coach? I am thinking about how i'm going to make it out of this match with my health. The Hell in a Cell is unforgiving. It will break the toughest man. John Cena has no idea what he is getting into. When he enters that Cell on Sunday. He's going to be disoriented, he's going to look around and look at me, Chris Jericho. He will realize in that moment that I Will take his World Title and become the NEW Heavyweight Champion and that is the truth BABY!

Jericho walks off and we cut to the next match and the ring.

Overall Rating: 87%

Kane vs Sonny Siaki

This match was just not fair booking. Why would someone throw Sonny Siaki to the slaughter like this? Kane destroys Siaki in four minutes and is screaming the entire time that Siaki is Taz. That this was a preview of Mania..well this puppy is a little sick. Kane finishes Siaki with a Chokeslam and cover for the win. After the match though Kane continues it on by taunting Taz more. He keeps saying this is how Taz will Die and he Tombstones Siaki as hard as he can to the mat. Then we go to commercial as Kane lets out a hidious laugh.

(Winner: Kane)

Overall Rating: 65%

Crowd Reaction: 60%

Match Quality: 71%

Dames Stars: *1/2

Eddie Guerrero vs ???

Eddie's music hits and he comes out to the ring. Then once Eddie is in the ring..Chavo Guerrero's Singles theme hits and Chavo comes sauntering out to the ring. The crowd is actully cheering for Chavo until they realize he's here to fight Eddie. They realize this when Chavo gets into the ring and Eddie goes to hug him. Chavo then nails Eddie with a closed fist to the mouth, busting his lip immediately. Eddie was disoriented this entire match but it only went about six minutes of Chavo dominating Eddie and working over his right arm with submissions. Then at about the six minute mark, Raven comes limping out to the stage and down to the ring. Raven grabs a stop sign from underneath the ring and slides into the ring. Chavo holds Eddie down with an armbat submission and Eddie never sees the stop sign as RAVEN SMASHES IT DOWN OVER EDDIE'S HEAD AND FACE!!! Eddie gets busted up real bad from this shot and Raven throws the stop sign down Triple H Style to the mat and picks Eddie up. Then Delivers a nasty Evenflow DDT to the Stop sign on Eddie!!! Then Raven and Chavo Guerrero stand face to face and then Raven raises Chavo's arm and both men celebrate!!! Chavo has turned on his Uncle in favor of Raven..Why the hell would he do that!? We're left with this question as we go to commercial.

(Winner: Eddie Guerrero via Disqualification)

Overall Rating: 91%

Crowd Reaction: 82%

Match Quality: 100%

Dames Stars: ****3/4

Wrestlemania XX Hype

We come back to have JR and The King hype all the Wrestlemania Matches on the RAW Side

The King: Well we on the RAW Side have Six Matches at Wrestlemania JR. I guess we can start from the bottom up but these two guys certainly aren't the bottom of any barrel.

We see the normal motion pictures into still picture that you see for any major ppv match or tv match. It shows "Stone Cold" Steve Austin vs Ric Flair

JR: Yes this match pits two legends against one another. Formerly Undisputed Tag Team Champions. "Stone Cold" Steve Austin will take on Ric Flair in a Legends Match at Wrestlemania XX!

JR: But this is hardly the only match from RAW at Wrestlemania! We also have the current Undisputed Tag Team Champions, Batista and Low Ki set to defend their Titles against the other surviving team of the Lethal Lottery Tournament. Team Angle! This match will be brutal and both teams look to take home those Titles.

The King: But JR we can't forget about the match that Taz and Kane will have. A Monster has awakened in Kane and Taz stands in his way. Will Taz be able to beat the Monster JR? Or do you think that Kane's rage is impossible to stop?

JR: I Think Taz has a shot but he's gotta put everything on the line. The next match involves one of the three Title Matches from the RAW side. Booker T will take on Tommy Dreamer for the Intercontinental Title. Dreamer in the last few months has seemingly lost it and now he after helping Booker T for some reason win the Title. Will challenge for it at Wrestlemania!

Those pictures pop up for each match and the next pop up is Eddie Guerrero vs Raven!

The King: But JR this next match is going to be brutal though. Raven is going to take on Eddie Guerrero for a Title Shot at Backlash. But it's not a normal match between these two men. It'll be a Street Fight!

And who knows what Eddie's Nephew Chavo will play in this match as he's apparently aligned himself with Raven but all these matches are just a prelude to the Main Event at Wrestlemania which will come from RAW!

For this we see a video highlight package, showing us the feud between John Cena and Chris Jericho. The various raps by Cena and the matches between the two. The War Games Cell from Survivor Series. Their matches throughout the Winter and now we come to their final confrontation!

JR: The Main Event is going to be one of the biggest slobberknockers we've seen in a long time and neither man will come out the same!

Then we cut to commercial after this Wrestlemania Preview

Overall Rating: 87%

Chris Jericho/"Stone Cold" Steve Austin vs John Cena/Ric Flair

Main Event

The first man out is..WOOO, Ric Flair! Flair saunters his way down to the ring, stylin and profilin. Flair gets into the ring and de-robes. Then Cena comes out onto the stage as his music plays. Cena waves his hand in front of his face as he walks down to the ring with the World Heavyweight Title around his waist. Then once Cena is in the ring THE GLASS SHATTERS! And Stone Cold Steve Austin comes stomping out onto the stage and down to the ring to a huge ovation. Then once Austin has done his four corner salute to the crowd. "King of My World" Kicks up and Chris Jericho comes out onto the stage as his pyro explodes. Jericho then comes down to the ring and climbs into the ring. Then the bell sounds and the match kicks off. I could write this match like a PPV Match but I don't want anyone to get too much of a preview before Mania! Austin and Cena started it off with Austin controlling the first couple minutes but then Cena took control with a Throwback. He and Flair controlled Austin for the next 8 minutes with several near falls. Austin finally hits a desperation Stunner on Flair and crawls over to his team's corner and tags Jericho in..just as Flair was getting to his corner and tagged Cena in. Cena and Jericho went at it on the inside while Austin beat Flair on the outside of the ring.

Cena and Jericho went back and forth until Jericho hit a bulldog and went for his Lionsault but Cena gets his knees up on Jericho and gets to his feet as Jericho does and kicks Jericho in the gut. Then picks Jericho up onto his shoulders and a Wrestlemania Sized F-U! Cena then covers Jericho..1....2.....3!!! Cena gets the win but on the outside Austin has dropped Flair with a Stunner and Austin gets back into the ring and...KICK WHAM STUNNER! Austin lays out Cena with the Stunner and Jericho gets to his feet. Then runs to the ropes and lays into Cena with a big Lionsault! We leave RAW with Jericho and Austin in opposite corners on the second turnbuckle, celebrating!

(Winners: John Cena/Ric Flair)

Overall Rating: 79%

Crowd Reaction: 85%

Match Quality: 68%

Dames Stars: *3/4

RAW Rating: 80%

TV Rating: 5.29 (-.01)

Attendance: 6,039

Ticket Sales: $241,560

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WWE Smackdown

March 25, 2004

We see cut videos of each match for Wrestlemania! Previews of the Mysterio/RVD Match...but this one is brief. Then a longer video of the O'Haire/HHH Feud which then cuts right into the Cyclone/Mortis blood feud. Their war is nearing an end but another war is getting heated up as we now see clips of the issues between Brock Lesnar and Chris Benoit. With Kurt Angle clips cut interweavingly between the two wrestlers.

Then we see clips between AJ Styles and Asai with Ladders heavily included. Then we see in our last clip brutality personified. The Preview of the Last Man Standing match between Edge and Randy Orton where a pinfall will not be enough for these two men. It will come down to the man that is able to rise to the occasion. To lift himself off the mat and will show the difference between that man and the man that can't answer the 10 count...Then we cut into the Smackdown intro

Overall Rating: 77%

Sean O'Haire vs Chuck Palumbo

Palumbo is already in the ring when the Smackdown pyro ends and we start off with a match! Then once the Smackdown pyro finishes, Sean O'Haire's entrance kicks up and he comes down to the ring. This match is quick and surprisingly Triple H doesn't make his presence felt in this match as Sean O'Haire makes a quick work of Palumbo with a Prophecy for the pinfall!

(Winner: Sean O'Haire)

Overall Rating: 73%

Crowd Reaction: 75%

Match Quality: 71%

Dames Stars: *3/4

Superhero Duo/Rey Mysterio vs Mortis, RVD and Lance Storm

All six men have their seperate entrances to the ring and it takes a while. Once they're all in the ring they put up a real good effort between the six of them and give us a preview of Sunday at Mania. Cyclone and Mortis end up late in the match brawling on the outside of the ring. Storm and Hurricane are on the other side of the ring on the outside and Mysterio is in the process of hitting a drop toe hold and putting RVD in position! Mysterio goes for a "619" but RVD ducked it and Mysterio swings through and lands on the ring apron. RVD then drives his shoulder into Mysterio and suplexes him into the ring. Then hits a spinning leg drop. Then RVD goes to the top rope and NAILS A FIVE STAR FROG SPLASH!! RVD gets the cover and three count. Then he bails out along with Mortis and Lance Storm with the victory as we go to commercial!

(Winners: Rob Van Dam/Mortis and Lance Storm)

Overall Rating: 83%

Crowd Reaction: 80%

Match Quality: 86%

Dames Stars: ***1/2

Before we go to commercial we see Brock going into Rhyno's locker room! Is that gonna be Brock's Tag Team Partner!

Overall Rating: 66%

Paul London vs Psicosis

Paul London is the first man to the ring to a light reaction. Then once he's in the ring Psicosis's music hits and he comes walking out from behind the curtain and down to the ring. These two men tear it down for ten minutes and the match comes down to who can take advantage of a miscue. It ends up being London who hits a brutal DDT on Psicosis and goes to the top rope. He comes off the top rope with a London's Calling and nails Psicosis, hooking the leg as he gets the pin..1...2....3! Paul London beats the Former Cruiserweight Champion! He celebrates in the ring but winds up doing too much as Psicosis got to his feet and nails a Psycho Stunner on London. Then Psicosis walks out with his music playing.

(Winner: Paul London)

Overall Rating: 85%

Crowd Reaction: 76%

Match Quality: 94%

Dames Stars: ****

AJ Styles vs Asai

I can't give much away for this match because of the fact that these two guys face off in three days. These guys do have a good match but obviously are not pulling out all the stops yet, not wanting to show the other guy too much. Styles ends up pulling out the win with a Styles Clash and after the match, Styles destroys a chair across the head of Asai! Leaving an impression as we head to commercial break

(Winner: AJ Styles)

Overall Rating: 82%

Crowd Reaction: 78%

Match Quality: 86%

Dames Stars: ***1/4

We see more clips highlighting Wrestlemania XX and this video package is showing off the Lesnar/Benoit Ultimate Submission Match with Kurt Angle as the special guest referee. It's a cool package but again the crowd doesn't get real into it and the package isn't as hot as the Orton/Edge and Wrestlemania Combo package earlier.

Overall Rating: 67%

God's Team (Angle/Benoit) vs Brock Lesnar/Rhyno

This match is pretty solid between these two teams but Angle and Benoit carry Lesnar and Rhyno to this good match. It does go back and forth but it's fairly short. Mostly because we can't have twenty minute matches on Smackdown for every match and obviously wouldn't want to wear out Benoit or Lesnar before their Ultimate Submission Match. Late in the match Angle goes for an F5 on Lesnar but Lesnar lands on his feet and kicks Angle in the gut. Lesnar then hoists Angle onto his shoulders and as Benoit climbs into the ring to attack Lesnar..RHYNO NAILS BENOIT WITH A GORE FROM HELL!!! Lesnar then drops Angle with an F5 and covers him.1...2.....3! Lesnar and Rhyno pick up the victory and leave the ring with their arms raised. We take a final commercial break before this big title match coming up.

(Winners: Brock Lesnar/Rhyno)(God's Team Lost Overness)(Brock Lesnar and Rhyno Gained Overness)

Overall Rating: 84%

Crowd Reaction: 82%

Match Quality: 86%

Dames Stars: ***1/2

Matt Hardy Version 1.0 vs Matt Stryker

WWE American Title Match

Main Event

First man to the ring is Matt Stryker as we come back from commercial. Stryker gets to ringside and rolls under the bottom rope and stands up in the middle of the ring. Then Matt Hardy's computer loading entrance starts going and then OHHHH YEEAAAAA! and Matt Hardy's video starts. The Matt Fact of the night is "Matt Lost His Virginity at 16" You can hear Michael Cole in the background saying he didn't want to know that. Matt gets to the ring and climbs inside. These two engage in a really good match that goes back and forth for 15 minutes. Stryker hits a beautiful Northern Lights Suplex with Bridge for a long two count and also hit several variations of suplexes. An Exploder Suplex on Hardy as well as a T-Bone Variation of it. Hardy though hit all his normal offense. A Side Effect as well as a Splash Mountain. He went for his Yodel Legdrop but Stryker rolled out of the way. Stryker went for and nailed a Blazing Strike (Superkick) but again only got a long two count on Hardy. At the end of the match Stryker goes for a Stryker Driver but Hardy reverses it into a falling DDT, that drives Stryker's head into the mat. Hardy gets to his feet and picks Stryker up..kicks him low but the referee thinks it was in the gut...I assure you it was not.

Hardy then pulls Stryker into position and nails a Twist of Fate and Stryker spikes himself on the mat to make it look real good and Hardy covers Stryker..1..2.....3! Matt Hardy retains! Hardy celebrates in the ring for a moment and is handed his Title. He begins walking up the aisleway leaving but Stryker manages to slide out of the ring and clotheslines Hardy from behind as he was leaving. Stryker picks Hardy up and whips him hard into the Smackdown set. Hardy bounces off a large piece of set. Stryker then picks Hardy up and hits a Stryker Driver ON THE CEMENT!!! Hardy is left down and out and Stryker leaves with the WWE American Title!!! Michael Cole and Paul Heyman wish us good night and remind us as if we could forget that Wrestlemania XX is 3 days away!

(Winner and STILL WWE American Champion: Matt Hardy Version 1.0)

Overall Rating: 83%

Crowd Reaction: 82%

Match Quality: 85%

Dames Stars: ***1/4

Smackdown Rating: 76%

TV Rating: 4.86 (-.36)

Attendance: 6,014

Ticket Sales: $240,560

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Wrestlemania XX

"Stone Cold" Steve Austin vs "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair

(Legends Match)

The Great Asai vs AJ Styles

(WWE Cruiserweight Title, Ladder Match)

Kane vs Taz

Rey Mysterio vs Rob Van Dam

Booker T vs Tommy Dreamer

(WWE Intercontinental Title Match)

Sean O'Haire vs Triple H

Batista/Low Ki vs Team Angle

(Undisputed Tag Team Championship Match, Lethal Lottery Finals)

Edge vs Randy Orton

(Last Man Standing, WWE Championship Match)

Chris Benoit vs Brock Lesnar

(Ultimate Submission Match)

Raven vs Eddie Guerrero

(#1 Contendership to the World Title, Street Fight Match)

Cyclone vs Mortis

John Cena vs Chris Jericho

(World Heavyweight Title, Hell in a Cell Match)

There are the final two and a half matches to write and Wrestlemania XX will be posted. Feel free to post predictions and test your hand at the first PPV Prediction contest of the New EWB IV Boards. After this show there will be new shows so get ready for an all new Diary Folks!

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WRESTLEMANIA

We see the FBI Warning for the recording of this Pay Per View, coming across our screens and then the intro video for Wrestlemania XX begins. It starts with the same theme as last year. Guess it worked so well that they're using it again this year. All the different wrestlers that will be competing tonight have words as we see scenes of past and present go by on the screen. Chris Jericho, John Cena, Booker T, Triple H, Brock Lesnar, Kurt Angle, Chris Benoit all have words of how tonight will be their night to shine. The video is riveting just like last year's and we finish with Jericho saying "This is the night, Legends are Made!"

Then we cut to the RAW and Smackdown present Wrestlemania XX! And the graphic shows RAW and Smackdown emblems on each side of the giant MSG Arena Graphic. Then we go inside to have the giant explosions of the introduction Pyro going off which lasts almost two full minutes. Then we finally see for the first time the set and stage tonight. It's an extravagant stage, everything is oversized. The titantron is rectangular, just larger than normal. The Metal stage is the same way. Then there are three ramps. One curving down the left side, one down the right and one down the center. Then inbetween the ramps on the left side you see a Wrestle and below the word an X. Then inbetween the right side and middle you see Mania and below that another X. From above it's Wrestlemania XX Baby. Once we've finished the intro and we're ready to get down to business. We come down to ringside where for Mania, JR and The King are taking the place of the Spanish Announcers Table!

The King: That was unbelievable JR but it's nothing like what we're going to see tonight!

JR: That's right King! Tonight we've got six matches from each Brand. 12 Matches in all that will tear the roof off of Madison Square Garden. So without further interruption let's get to the Wrestling!

"Stone Cold" Steve Austin vs Ric Flair

Legends Match

WOOO! That's the first thing heard throughout the arena as Ric Flair's music and video kick up on the tron and heard throughout the arena. Flair comes strutting out onto the stage and the crowd cheers Flair even though he's the Heel. Flair comes strutting down to the ring in his robe and normal attire. He comes down the middle ramp to the ring. He walks up the long aisle to the ring. Flair then walks around the ring and up the ring steps. He climbs through the ropes and steps into the ring, he does his strut across the ring a couple times and then THE GLASS SHATTERS! "Stone Cold" Steve Austin comes walking down to the ring in his usual fashion. Austin walks around to the ring steps and walks up them. Then he steps into the ring and does the four corner salute he always does. Then once Austin finishes the fourth corner, he takes off his leather vest and steps face to face with The Nature Boy! Nick Patrick tells both men to make it a clean match and calls for the bell.

The bell sounds and both men circle each other to start the match. Then they lock up and these fans are obviously direly wanting to see this match cause they give it a pretty good reaction as they lock up. Flair takes control in the early going though as he gets Austin into a headlock. Austin pushes Flair off to the ropes and delivers a shoulder block to him, to take him down as he came back at him. Flair gets up and Austin delivers a hard right hand. Flair fires back with a nasty knifedge chop that garners a huge (WOO) From the crowd. They go back and forth exchanging Punches and Chops several times until Austin takes control, backing Flair into a corner with his punches. Austin then proceeds to punch and stomp the living hell out of Flair in the corner. Austin then picks Flair up and whips him across the ring from his corner to the one across from it. (Top left to bottom right if you were looking from the stage) Flair does the roll up the turnbuckles and comes back down into the ring. Turns towards Austin and flops on his face, Flair Style. The crowd pops big for this cause it's signature Flair!

Austin picks Flair up but Flair puts a thumb to Austin's eye to slow up the pace of the match. Austin staggers around a moment, rubbing his eye and turns back around into a knockout Knifedge chop that takes Austin off his feet. Flair then begins to work over Austin's left knee with elbow drops and all kinds of stomps and attacks at Austin's left knee over about a three minute span. Flair then goes for the Figure Four leg lock but Austin pushes him off with his boot to the ropes and Flair goes through them to the outside. Austin gets to his feet but is noticably favoring his right knee, Flair is up on the outside and pulls Austin down by his legs. Then Flair smashes the back of his knee down across the apron of the ring. Austin screams in pain but Flair isn't done as he pulls Austin by his legs towards the ring post. Austin is still laying in the ring. Flair then applies a Figure Four AROUND The ring post!! Austin is tapping out and screaming in pain but the tap out isn't legal since that move is illegal. The referee makes a long 4 count and Flair then lets go and he rolls back into the ring. Flair pulls Austin out of the corner and makes the first cover of the match..1...2...kickout by Austin. Flair seems to get angry with this and picks Austin up. Flair then lays Austin back out with another beautiful chop.

Flair goes to Austin's knees with a couple more chop blocks to take him off his feet. Flair then locks on a Figure Four Leg Lock and Austin screams in pain for about 90 seconds before getting enough strength to begin trying to reverse it. Austin finally gets it reversed over but Flair releases the hold quickly before too much damage can be done. Flair picks Austin up but Austin drops Flair with a completely unexpected Stone Cold Stunner!!! Both men stay down for an eight count. Finally Austin gets an arm over on Flair..1....2....Flair now gets a shoulder up and Austin gets to his feet slowly but is the first up. Austin helps Flair to his feet and whips him to the ropes. Austin then catches Flair and takes him over and delivers his Spinebuster to Flair! Austin then gets the cover on Flair..1...2...kickout by Flair again. Austin gets to his feet but still favoring his left leg. Austin picks Flair up and KICK WHAM but Flair pushes Austin off to the ropes and Flair hits a surprising low bridge dropkick. Not executed perfectly but it gets the job done on Austin's left knee. Flair then locks in another Figure Four Leg Lock and rears back. After another 90 seconds in the hold, Austin can take no more and TAPS OUT!!! Flair releases the hold and celebrates around the ring while EMT's check on Austin, whom legit looks to be holding his knee. A Big victory for Flair to kick off Wrestlemania XX!

(Winner at 14:21: Ric Flair)

Overall Rating: 74%

Crowd Reaction: 81%

Match Quality: 61%

Dames Stars: *

AJ Styles vs Asai

WWE Cruiserweight Title, Ladder Match

We see a small video package before this match, highlighting the short buildup to this match. Probably why it's on second at Wrestlemania! The Cruiserweight Title is hanging above the ring and there are Ladders setup around ringside. Standing up and leaning against the guard barricade. Then AJ Styles music hits and he comes sauntering out onto the stage to a pretty good amount of heel heat. Styles comes down to the ring down the center ramp and walks straight to the ring. Styles then slides under the bottom rope and stances around the ring, waiting for The Great Asai to make his entrance. the Ultimo Dragon theme hits and Asai comes out onto the stage as his fire pyro goes off on the stage. Asai then comes walking down the left ramp and slaps the hands of some fans. Then he goes over to each side as he walks down to the ring and slaps hands. Then Asai comes down to ringside and slides under the bottom rope. Asai stands up and the referee calls for the bell for the match to begin. Both men size each other up and then go after each other quickly. Styles runs at Asai but Asai takes him over in an Arm Drag. Styles gets up quickly and runs at Asai again but receives the same treatment.

Styles gets up and runs at Asai a third time but this time delivers a dropkick to the jaw of Asai to take him down. Asai gets up and runs at Styles and receives an arm drag as well. Asai gets up and runs at Styles again but Styles counters with a flying Enziguri to the back of Asai's head as he went by. Styles at this point slides out of the ring and grabs a table from underneath the ring and tries to slide it into the ring but Asai catches him coming in. Asai hits a baseball dropkick into the table, sending Styles down on the outside. Asai then goes over to the ropes and leapfrogs over the top rope and hits his famed Asai Moonsault! Styles and Asai are down on the outside for a moment but Asai is the first up and he grabs a 15 foot ladder at ringside and slides it into the ring. He gets into the ring himself and sets it up in the center of the ring. He begins to climb but before he can get too far. Styles gets onto the ring apron and Springboards off the top rope in a dropkick, taking Asai off the ladder! The crowd gets into it at this point as the ladders are being brought into the match. It takes a second but Styles is the first one up and he takes the ladder down and puts it onto his shoulder like a battering ram. Asai gets up and Styles rams the head of the ladder right into his head, taking him down. Styles then goes to the top left corner of the ring (If looking from the Stage) and sets the ladder in the corner, across the 2nd rope. Then he pulls Asai up to his feet and hits an Exploder Suplex on him. Asai is laying out in front of that corner and Styles runs at that corner, jumps over Asai and leapfrogs off the ladder into a Somersault Legdrop!!!! The crowd pops huge for this move as it was sick and insane. Styles gets back to his feet and takes the ladder off the 2nd rope and lays it across the top rope of that corner. Styles stands in wait as Asai gets to his feet slowly

Asai uses the ropes in that corner to help him up. Styles gets a running start towards the other end of the ladder at that corner and he suicide dives over the top rope, slamming his own body into the ladder. The ladder spins around and smacks Asai in the mouth, taking him down and he begins to bleed from his mouth. Styles gets up slowly and walks around the outside of the ring, picking up the knocked over ladder. It ended up by the Announce tables. He slides into the ring with it and sets it up in the center of the ring underneath the Cruiserweight Title. Styles begins to climb and gets his fingers touching the Title but that's as far as he gets as Asai gets underneath him and pulls his feet from the ladder. This forces Styles to drop from where he was at on the ladder, to the mat. Asai follows this up when Styles lands with a nasty Standing Tornado DDT. This lays Styles out and Asai stays down a moment. Asai then rolls out of the ring and picks up the table that had been knocked back out of the ring earlier and slides it back in. Then Asai also grabs a second 15 foot ladder as well as a second table and slides them both into the ring. Styles is getting up at this point but Asai keeps him down by picking up the 15 foot ladder he brought into the ring and ramming it into Styles' ribs.

Asai then set one table up towards the bottom left corner of the ring but near the ladders and a second ladder right beside the other ladder. Asai then begins to climb but Styles begins to climb the other ladder on the opposite side, using it to pull himself up. Asai is the first to the top and reaches for the Cruiserweight Title but Styles manages to hoist himself to the top and punches Asai in the ribs. Styles then crosses over to Asai's ladder and punches Asai again in the ribs as he reaches for the belt. Styles does the SUNSET FLIP POWERBOMB OVER THE LADDER AND DRIVES ASAI DOWN!!! Both men stay down again for a while. Styles is the first up though and picks up the table and climbs up the ladders backwards, holding the table and then sets it up on top of the two ladders. Asai is up and climbing at this point. Styles makes his way onto the table as Asai is climbing up. Asai climbs up onto the table as Styles is getting to his feet. Each man stands underneath a ladder. If they both stepped in the middle they'd go through. They exchange punches back and forth on the top and Styles starts to stagger Asai backwards with punches. But in a desperation move. Asai nails a snap kick to the temple of Styles which knocks both men off balance. BOTH MEN FALL TO THE MAT ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE LADDERS BUT STYLES GOES THROUGH THE TABLE SETUP ON HIS SIDE OF THE LADDERS!!!!

The crowd begins to chant "Holy Shit" over and over. Styles is not stirring but Asai is and he drags himself up his side of the ladder beneath the Title. Asai then drags himself onto the table on the top of the ladders and unhooks the Cruiserweight Title from the ring holding it and the bell sounds!! Asai has managed to fend off AJ Styles and has won an incredible match and Asai stands on top of the Table, holding both arms in the air in victory as we head to the video package for the next match!

(Winner and STILL WWE Cruiserweight Champion at 16:32: Asai)

Overall Rating: 84%

Crowd Reaction: 81%

Match Quality: 87%

Dames Stars: ***1/2

Kane vs Taz

We show the recent history between these two men and their confrontations as of late. Taz has been brutalized in recent weeks. The question is if he can get some revenge tonight at Wrestlemania! Taz's theme "Thug Superstar" begins to play and orange smoke rises from all three steel ramps and then pyro goes off on the stage and Taz walks through the smoke. He comes stomping down the center ramp and looks to be in top shape for tonight. He's slimmed down and looks ready to take on the Big Red Monster! He comes down to the ring and looks as focused as ever and slides into the ring. He takes the black towel off his head and awaits the Monster's arrival. Kane's pyro goes off on the stage and he comes stalking out through the curtain and walks down the left ramp, taking a long walk around as flames fly up from the stage. Kane then comes walking up the aisle and climbs up onto the apron but Taz doesn't even let Kane get into the ring! Taz runs at Kane and knocks him off the ring apron to the outside. Kane apparently lost his balance because he fell and rolled to his feet near the steel ramp. Taz slid out of the ring and crawled underneath the ring apron.

An infuriated Kane walked up to the apron and pulled the apron up to receive a Fire Extinguisher full in the face. We're not talking the foam either. Kane rolls backwards in pain, his face busted open from such a vicious shot. Taz comes out from under the ring and begins driving the fire extinguisher down into Kane's knees. Both knees at once, then the left and then the right knee. Taz then finally picks Kane up and rolls him into the ring. Taz then climbs up onto the ring apron and climbs to the top rope. Kane gets up and turns into a flying clothesline from Taz that takes the monster off his feet. The bell sounds at this point and we realize why Taz was able to beat on Kane with the fire extinguisher! Taz then proceeds to stomp on Kane's injured left knee, driving his knee down into Kane's as well as locking in a Leg Lace but Kane drags Taz to the ropes and Taz is forced to break the hold. Taz tries to pull Kane by his left leg from the ropes but Kane holds on and rears back, projectiling Taz with a push from his foot. Taz flies back and clocks Nick Patrick, taking him out. At this point Taz goes back outside and grabs a Steel Chair seeing the referee is down. He climbs back into the ring with it and wails a shot into Kane's left knee. This sends Kane down holding his knee again. Taz slams the chair to the mat as if waiting to get up to bat. Taz then CLOCKS Kane when he stands up and Kane goes down in a heap. Taz pushes the chair out of the ring at the same time as Kane sits up Taker style.

Kane gets to his feet though he's favoring his left knee and WHAM Nails a huge big boot as Taz turned around from playing to the crowd. Kane then stands in wait, stalking Taz as Patrick begins to stir. Kane then takes Taz once he's up and swings him around in a huge Sidewalk Slam. Kane then goes over, limping his way to the top left corner of the ring and climbs to the top rope. Taz gets up and takes the top rope clothesline from the monster. Kane is on the rampage at this point and he picks Taz up...CHOKESLAM FROM HELL!!! Kane screams in anger and picks Taz back up and nails one of the nastiest TOMBSTONES We've seen in a long time. Kane screams as he covers Taz, Grim Reaper style....1...2.....3! Kane then stands up and snaps at Patrick when he tries to raise Kane's arm. Kane then climbs out of the ring and stalks off to the ramp and up to the set. Then dissappears as Patrick checks on a hurting Taz!

(Winner at 8:54: Kane)

Overall Rating: 80%

Crowd Reaction: 78%

Match Quality: 83%

Dames Stars: ***

Rey Mysterio vs Rob Van Dam

After we've finished with a "Stone Cold Truth" DVD video package, promoting the product. We come back to the arena and Rey Mysterio's music kicks up and pyro flies as Mysterio catapaults through the set and lands on his feet. He plays to the crowd as he does his hopping skip down the left side of the steel ramp, slapping fan's hands and goes up the right ramp, slapping their hands too. Mysterio then walks down the center ramp and to the ring. He jumps up onto the ring apron and climbs into the ring. Then once Mysterio was in the ring for about 10 seconds. RVD's "ECW" Theme kicks up and he comes walking out from behind the curtain and down the center ramp to the ring. RVD jumps onto the ring apron as well and climbs into the ring. Brian Hebner then calls for the bell and the two men circle the ring.

A couple seconds later they go to lock up but RVD Drives a kick into the gut of Mysterio instead. RVD then whips Mysterio into the top left corner of the ring and RVD follows him in with a monkey flip out into the center of the ring. RVD is trying to end it quick as he goes up top. RVD goes for a high flying cross body off the top rope but Mysterio will have none of it as he nails a Dropkick to the gut of RVD! Mysterio then rolls into the cover, hooking his leg..1....2...kickout by RVD. Mysterio picks RVD up and punches him a couple times as he backs him to the ropes and whips him across the ring. Mysterio telegraphs the back body drop a second too soon and RVD does a split right in front of Mysterio and hits a chop uppercut to Mysterio. RVD then stands up and does a spinning legdrop to Mysterio, followed by a standing moonsault for a cover..1...2...kickout by Mysterio. Both men stand up and the crowd cheers loudly for this match so far. An Awesome exchange there between the two.

RVD then runs at Mysterio whom takes him over in an Arm Drag and then another. RVD runs at Mysterio a third time and is taken over in a hip toss but lands on his feet and nails a standing thrust kick to the jaw of Mysterio! RVD then picks up Mysterio and hits a snap vertical suplex to Mysterio. RVD picks Mysterio up and lifts him up onto his shoulders in a fireman's carry. Then does his Rolling Slam, driving Mysterio into the mat from his shoulders. A Terrific move as RVD Rolls through and leaps up onto the top rope, facing the crowd and drops down for a Split-Legged Moonsault that catches nothing but knees from Mysterio!! Mysterio gets up slowly as does RVD. RVD is up as Mysterio is and RVD Runs at Mysterio but Mysterio hits a drop toe hold to RVD. Rob Van Dam lands on the second rope and Mysterio calls out "619" as he runs to the ropes. He runs at where Van Dam is perched on the ropes but RVD at the last moment up the 2nd and top ropes up real wide and Mysterio instead of hitting a "619". Goes flying right through the ropes to the outside, landing in a very nasty fashion right on his side! RVD gets to his feet groggily and leaps up onto the top rope. Then points to himself..R..V..D

RVD then leaps off the top rope to the outside but ends up catching his jaw on the top of the barricade as Mysterio avoided the contact. RVD Staggers around a moment until he turns into a Drop toe hold from Mysterio that slams RVd's face off the Steel Ring Steps!! Mysterio rolls RVD into the ring and he rolls to the center of the ring. Mysterio then leaps onto the apron and springboards off the top rope..DROPPING THE DIME ON RVD!!! (Springboard Leg drop to the Back of the head) Mysterio then rolls RVD over..1...2....NO! RVD manages to kick out just barely and Mysterio seems to get frustrated as he goes to the outside of the ropes and stands on the apron again. He springboards again, trying for the West Coast Pop but RVD ducks it and as Mysterio turns around. He walks right into a Roundhouse kick. RVD then runs to the ropes and hits a Rolling Thunder on Mysterio.1...2....no! Mysterio this time kicks out and Rob begins to get frustrated. RVD picks Mysterio up and runs to the top right corner which is the closest corner and leaps to the top rope but Mysterio was playing possum as he runs up behind RVD and splits his legs apart. RVD Crotches himself on the top rope and Mysterio then picks him up to the top rope and Mysterio hits a Top Rope Belly to Back Suplex but RVD turns it into a falling Cross Body and splashes Mysterio to the mat!!! RVD then quickly takes advantage and leaps up onto the same corner they just came off of. RVD Then comes off the top rope and NAILS A Five Star Frog Splash on Mysterio, he flops around for five seconds and climbs back to Mysterio covering him..1...2....3!! Rob Van Dam takes a tough victory over Rey Mysterio and leaves after Hebner raises his arm. Great match!

(Winner at 15:39: Rob Van Dam)

Overall Rating: 82%

Crowd Reaction: 81%

Match Quality: 83%

Dames Stars: ***1/4

Booker T vs Tommy Dreamer

WWE Intercontinental Title Match

A Video plays highlighting the blood feud between these two men. Dreamer's passion for destruction and Booker's fight to endure the barrage of Dreamer. It all comes to a head right now! We come back to the arena live and Tommy Dreamer's music kicks up. Tommy Dreamer comes out onto the stage to some real heavy heel heat. He has the WWE Hardcore Title in one hand and his singapore Cane in the other. He comes walking down to the ring, laughing insanely and telling the crowd he's going to taste Booker's blood tonight. Tommy leaves the singapore Cane outside the ring and climbs inside, handing off the Hardcore Title. Then Booker T's music kicks up and the crowd gives him a real good repsonse. Not as good as some others tonight but still real good. Booker comes down the right ramp and slaps the hands of some fans. Then focuses completely on Tommy Dreamer in the ring. Booker climbs up onto the ring apron and steps through the ropes, into the ring. The bell sounds as Charles Robinson gets the refereeing duties tonight. Tommy Dreamer is laughing insanely almost the entire early going as he locks up with Booker T and powers him back into the bottom right corner of the ring. Then Dreamer begins rearing back with hard right hands and kicks to Booker's gut.

Dreamer then takes Booker out of the corner and whips him across the ring but Booker reverses it sending Dreamer hard into the top left turnbuckle. Booker goes for a Running Leg Lariat off the bat at Dreamer but Dreamer ducks it, coming out of the corner. Dreamer then turns around as Booker turns to him and Dreamer kicks him in the gut and hits a vertical suplex to Booker. Dreamer mounts Booker then and begins pounding him with right hands. Dreamer then stands up, pulling Booker with him and whips Booker to the ropes. Dreamer then uses Booker's momentum to hit a Flowing Exploder Suplex to Booker. Dreamer then picks Booker up and hits a Fischerman's Suplex, holding it for a cover..1...2....Booker kicks out strongly. Dreamer gets up and tries to pick Booker up but Booker pulls Dreamer into a small package..1...2....kickout by Dreamer. Dreamer gets up angrily and goes after Booker but gets pulled into an Inside Cradle..1...2....kickout by Dreamer again. Dreamer gets up a third time and runs at Booker as he got up, driving his knee into the gut of Booker. Dreamer then picks Booker up and delivers a harsh backbreaker to him. Dreamer then covers Booker in a lateral press..1...2...shoulder up by Booker.

Dreamer picks Booker up and lifts him up into a Fireman's Carry, setting up for the Dreamer Driver but Booker slips down the back of Dreamer into a sunset flip variation pin..1....2....Dreamer kicks forward and sits on Booker for a cover..1....2...Booker pushes it back to the sunset flip position on Dreamer..1...2....Dreamer kicks out and gets up angrily. Booker gets up as well and catches Dreamer coming at him with a HUGE BOOK END!!! Both men stay down after this move for about a seven count till Booker gets an arm over Dreamer..1...2....Dreamer gets a shoulder up before three. Booker picks Dreamer up and kicks him in the stomach, setting up for the Scissors Kick. Dreamer though avoids the contact by ducking his head out of the way and hits a nasty neckbreaker on Booker T and covers him..1...2....Booker narrowly gets his shoulder up off the mat. Dreamer is grinning sadistically as he goes after his singapore cane on the outside and Robinson tells Dreamer if he hits Booker with it. That he'll have to DQ him. Booker has gotten to the right side of the ring, using the ropes to get to his feet. Dreamer pushes past Robinson and swings at Booker but Booker collapses, ducking the attempt. The Singapore cane bounces off the top rope and snaps back into his head. This staggers Dreamer and he turns his back to Booker. Booker gets behind Dreamer quickly and rolls Dreamer up with a School Boy pin..1....2....Dreamer narrowly kicks out. The singapore cane is kicked out of the ring by Robinson at this point.

Booker gets to his feet and kicks Dreamer in the gut, then runs to the ropes and SCISSORS KICK!!! Booker T does a Spinarooni at this point instead of getting the cover which is a huge mistake. Booker then gets over and covers Dreamer, hooking the leg...1...2.....DREAMER GETS A SHOULDER UP!!! Booker T looks to be in shock at this point as he picks Dreamer up and kicks him in the gut and goes for another Scissors Kick but Dreamer narrowly avoids the contact this time. Booker does a full 360 after the miss and turns into a Dreamer Driver!!! Dreamer gets an exhausted arm over Booker..1...2...NO! Booker T this time narrowly got his shoulder up. Dreamer looks set to finish it off as he picks Booker up and sets up for the "Mind Numb" but Booker slips off the hands of Dreamer and when Dreamer turns around, he receives a HUGE DDT!!! This lays Dreamer out and Booker T points to the top rope. He goes up and climbs to the top rope in the top right corner of the ring. Then he stands there and plays to the crowd. Booker ends up taking too much time. He crashes and burns when he attempts the Houston Hangover, hitting nothing but mat. Booker slowly gets up and Dreamer hoists Booker up again and this time NAILS the "Mind Numb" (Razor's Edge into a Stunner) Dreamer then covers Booker, hooking the leg..1....2.....3!!! Tommy Dreamer has captured the Intercontinental Championship! Charles Robinson goes and gets the belt. Then he hands it to a sinister Dreamer whom covets the Title like it's a stuffed animal. Rubbing his face against it and clutching it to his chest.

(Winner and NEW WWE Intercontinental Champion at 19:42: Tommy Dreamer)(Tommy Dreamer Gains Overness From This Match)

Overall Rating: 77%

Crowd Reaction: 80%

Match Quality: 72%

Dames Stars: **

Sean O'Haire vs Triple H

We see a brief video package for this match between these two men. Neither man likes each other much but there doesn't seem to be much behind this other than competition and dislike. Then we come back to the live feed from Madison Square Garden as Sean O'Haire's music kicks up. We wait for a couple seconds and O'Haire makes his way out onto the stage to a pretty good response from the crowd. Not the best of the night but there have been worse. O'Haire comes walking down the center ramp to the ring. Once O'Haire gets to ringside. He walks around the ring and climbs up the ring steps. O'Haire then steps through the ropes and stretches in the ring as he prepares for Triple H! "The Game" Hits and the lights go down. Strobe lights begin going off all around the stage/ring area as Triple H steps out onto the stage. He does his small water spit on the top and stalks down to the ring. Then once Triple H gets to the ring, he climbs onto the apron and does his pose/water spit. Then Triple H gets into the ring, he has on Black Leather Tights tonight while O'Haire has on Purple Jean Pants. An odd choice for him.

The bell sounds as the lights come back up and the match begins with Triple H taking control of O'Haire early. Triple H pushes O'Haire in a grapple, back into the bottom left corner of the ring (If looking from the stage) Triple H then begins with some hard knifedge chops to O'Haire in the corner. O'Haire counters by grabbing Triple H and reversing the positioning of the two. O'Haire begins driving those huge knees into Triple H's gut. O'Haire then delivers a jumpkick to the temple of Triple H, Staggering him. O'Haire then whips HHH across the ring to the top right of the ring. O'Haire follows him in but splashes nothing but turnbuckle as HHH moved. HHH though caught O'Haire out of the corner with a nasty neckbreaker to O'Haire. HHH then covers O'Haire..1....2...strong kickout by O'Haire. Triple H picks O'Haire up from this point and whips him to the ropes. When O'Haire comes back off them, HHH locks in the Main Event Sleeper on O'Haire. It's locked in for about a minute as O'Haire goes down to a knee, then slumping to the ground. The crowd begins to get into it though for O'Haire. Brian Hebner raises O'Haire's arm once and it drops. A Second time and it drops. The third time though O'Haire snaps his arm back up and begins to get to his feet slowly as the crowd cheers his effort on. He gets to his feet and thrusts three elbows in a row into HHH's stomach and then runs to the ropes and back at HHH. HHH though delivers a hard knee into O'Haire's gut, which sends O'Haire for a flip to the mat.

Triple H stands in wait, as if stalking O'Haire. Waiting for him to get to his feet and once he had risen to his feet. HHH comes up from behind O'Haire and chop blocks his right knee. Triple H does this twice more and then begins working over the knee with Three elbow drops in a row. Then a couple perfect Knee drops in a row. Then Triple H goes to the Indian Deathlock which gets a pretty solid reaction from the crowd. O'Haire writhes in pain as HHH pushes the move with his foot to apply more pressure. O'Haire tries to reverse out of it so Triple H modifies it into a laying down manuever and this almost makes O'Haire tap out. But O'Haire manages to use his leg strength to drag himself to the ropes and avoids losing by Submission. Triple H seems frustrated at this point and at the same time...Lance Storm and Ken Shamrock come walking down to the ring. Two men whom were not on the Wrestlemania Card. No idea why they are coming down but Triple H is screaming at them to get the F out of here. Triple H then turns back to O'Haire whom had a short breather and picked him up to his feet. HHH then goes for the kick and tries to hook in the pedigree. He gets one arm but O'Haire back drops Trips out of it before he can nail the Pedigree. O'Haire then stands in wait, at this point Ken Shamrock and Lance Storm have gotten to the ring. Lance Storm had walked around to the announce position side of the ring and at this point Ken Shamrock gets onto the apron and tries to get into the ring on the Ramp side of the ring.

Lance Storm slides under the bottom rope on the announce table side of the ring as Brian Hebner is held up and distracted by Shamrock. Storm stances and as O'Haire turns around...WHACK Superkick right to the jaw! O'Haire is down and the lights look to be dimmed. At this point Triple H picks him up and pulls both arms up in a Double Underhook and PEDIGREE!!! Trips then turns O'Haire over and Shamrock gets off the apron. Hebner turns around to see HHH hooking the leg of O'Haire..1....2.....3!!! Triple H has won but why the hell would Shamrock and Lance Storm seemingly help Triple H? All three men get into the ring and all raise their arms together over the body of Sean O'Haire as we head to the next video package!

(Winner at 16:54: Triple H)

Overall Rating: 74%

Crowd Reaction: 76%

Match Quality: 71%

Dames Stars: *3/4

Batista/Low Ki vs Team Angle

Undisputed Tag Team Title Match, Lethal Lottery Finals

The video package for this match is showing about five minutes of highlights and such from all the matches of the Lethal Lottery Tournament. Including the Title Changes from Team Angle to the Legends while they were still together. Then the Legends being defeated by the strong team of Batista and Low Ki. Then the way Batista and Low Ki demolished every other team they faced. A little shown of the final Chris Jericho/Tajiri vs Team Angle match to set the finals up to be Batista/Low Ki vs Team Angle. Then we cut out of the video package as Team Angle's music hits (WGTT Theme). Team Angle comes out onto the stage all pumped up and the crowd is really hot for this match surprisingly. Apparently a crowd out to see a wrestling match. Team Angle comes down to the ring. Charlie Haas down the left ramp and Shelton Benjamin down the right ramp. When they get to the aisleway their Red, White and Blue pyro explodes from around the stage. Then they get up to the ring and jump onto the ring apron. Both men climb into the ring and then Batista's music hits. The Undisputed Tag Team Champions come walking out onto the stage. The crowd really hasn't cheered either team but they do get a strong reaction. They get a bit of cheers and a bit of boo'ing.

Batista walks down the center ramp first with his Undisputed Tag Belt around his waist. While Low-Ki follows him with his Title over his right shoulder. Both men get to the ring, Batista jumps up onto the apron as Low-Ki slides in under the bottom rope. Batista steps through the ropes and Earl Hebner takes the Tag Titles from Batista and Low Ki and raises them high in the air. Then the bell sounds and the teams head to their corners. Batista/Low Ki being in the bottom left corner. Team Angle in the top right. Charlie Haas and Low Ki start it off in the ring. Low Ki locks up hard with Haas and backs him into the top left corner. Low Ki thrusts a headbutt into Haas's head and then begins driving left and right knees into his gut. Low Ki then whips Haas into the other neutral corner. Low Ki follows him in and drives a hard shoulder into his gut. Low Ki then begins working on his left arm, pulling it over the top rope in the corner and yanking it beneath the top rope. Using it for leverage against the arm. Haas screams in pain and pokes Low Ki in the eye to break the hold. Haas then tags in Shelton Benjamin. Shelton leaps over the top rope and clotheslines the hell out of Low-Ki. The crowd is really hot for this match as every move is executed beautifully. Shelton Benjamin picks Low-Ki up and whips him into his team's corner and tags Haas back in. They both whip Low-Ki to the ropes and catch him in a vicious double spinebuster!

Haas gets into a cover quickly..1...2....kickout by Low-Ki! Haas picks Low-Ki up and begins working on his left knee. Torking it and yanking at it to try and hurt it. Then places it on the bottom rope and drives his rear down on the knee. Haas then picks Low-Ki up and holds his left foot out. Then hitting a Dragon Screw to Low-Ki and tries to then roll it up into the Haas of Pain but Batista climbs into the ring and sends a boot into the mouth of Haas. Knocking him down. Haas crawls over and makes the tag to Shelton Benjamin. Benjamin gets into the ring and drags Low-Ki away from Batista, after they nearly made the tag but did not. Low-Ki fights back though, getting to his feet. Hopping on one foot as Benjamin is holding Low-Ki's left foot so he brings the right around in an enziguri to the back of Benjamin's head! Low-Ki then drags himself to his team's corner and tags the monster Batista in! The crowd pops real big as Batista storms into the ring and clotheslines the hell out of Shelton and Haas. Batista also hits a big boot to both men as well. Batista then picks the legal man, Benjamin up. Then lifts him into a bearhug as Low-Ki goes high flying! Batista is holding Benjamin in the bear hug, Batista is facing away from the left side of the ring so that Benjamin is facing it. Low-Ki then comes up and leapfrogs the top rope in a rare high flying move from him. He catches Benjamin in a modifed bulldog as Batista spinebusters Benjamin down! Batista then gets into the cover as Low-Ki intercepts Haas..1...2....kickout by Benjamin!

Batista picks Benjamin up and kicks him in the gut. Then pulls him in for the Powerbomb. Haas though has gotten by Low-Ki by throwing him over the top rope to the outside of the ring, near the announce tables. Batista lifts Shelton up but Haas clips Batista's left knee and Benjamin winds up sitting out on Batista's chest as he lands on the mat. Shelton gets into the cover quickly as it looks like the wind got knocked out of Batista..1....2...got a shoulder up! Shelton and Haas take control at this point as Haas sets up the double team move on Batista. Shelton runs to the ropes and leapfrogs Haas, down into the back of Batista! Shelton then rolls Batista to near the middle of the ring and covers him...1.....2...Batista barely gets a shoulder up this time. Low-Ki comes sliding back into the ring and tries to clothesline Haas but Haas ducks it and German Suplexes Low-Ki back down! Batista groggily gets to his feet and Shelton whips him into the top right corner of the ring. Haas then grabs Benjamin and whips him towards Batista. Benjamin reverses it and whips Haas as hard as he can at Batista..OH MAN WHAT A MOVE!!! Batista though came out of the corner and clotheslined Haas so hard it sent him for an involuntarily Standing Shooting Star. Landing hard on his face. Shelton though countered this with a nasty superkick to the jaw of Batista. Then Shelton got into the cover quickly and Earl Hebner makes the count as he lost control of this match a long time ago..1...2.....Low-Ki breaks the count up and quickly locks in the Dragon Clutch on Shelton Benjamin whom wasn't ready for it. Shelton begins tapping out but unfortunately Low-Ki is not the legal man.

Low-Ki lets go and Batista picks Shelton up. Looking a bit groggy himself but lifts Shelton up into the Sit-Out Powerbomb and nails it beautifully. He holds it for the cover as Low-Ki clotheslines Haas and himself over the top rope. Batista holds the powerbomb for the pin..1....2...NO!!! Somehow Shelton got a shoulder up and Batista immediately gets up and gets in Earl Hebner's face. For about 45 seconds he screams at Earl in an insane manner about how that was three. It was oh so close but the replays show Benjamin did kick out. Benjamin had gotten to his feet while Batista was screaming at Hebner. Benjamin poised and as Batista turned around, Benjamin went for another Superkick but Batista moved and Earl took the superkick straight in the jaw! Hebner crumpled to the mat, almost clearly out from that shot. Batista took Shelton around in a spinning spinebuster. Low-Ki and Haas were battling on the outside of the ring at this point and Low-Ki whipped Haas into the Steel Ring Steps to take him out. Batista then motioned to Low-Ki and told him to get two chairs. He did so and got into the ring, sliding them both in. Batista picked one up and he told Low-Ki to go low. They waited for Shelton to get up and then as he did..CRACK, THWACK. A Sickening attack as Batista smashed his chair into the side of Shelton's head while Low-Ki took out Shelton's right knee with the chair. Shelton crumpled in a heap and Batista threw his chair at the ropes, sliding underneath the bottom rope to the floor. Low-Ki left the ring with his chair and got outside the ring. He shook Hebner repeatedly to wake him as Batista picked Benjamin up again and hit ANOTHER Sit-Out Powerbomb and held it as Hebner made the slow count..1....2.....3!!! Batista and Low-Ki are going to Retain! Low-Ki gets their belts from ringside and they celebrate. They each ascend to the 2nd rope in the corners nearest to the announce tables. They both hold their Tag Titles high in the air as we cut away to another Backlash promo spot for next month's PPV!

(Winners and STILL Undisputed Tag Team Champions at 21:34: Batista and Low-Ki)(Undisputed Tag Team Titles Gain In Image)

Overall Rating: 88%

Crowd Reaction: 83%

Match Quality: 94%

Dames Stars: ****1/4

Edge vs Randy Orton

Last Man Standing, WWE Championship Match

We cut away from the Backlash promo to a video package which starts at the Royal Rumble. Showing some of the last men in the match, scenes of the final four with AJ Styles, Randy Orton, Stone Cold Steve Austin and Lance Storm. It shows Lance Storm eliminating Styles with a beautiful dropkick to his left knee as he stood on the top rope. Which took Styles off his feet to the outside. Orton hitting an RKO on Austin and throwing him out. Then hitting a easy back body drop on Lance Storm to win the Royal Rumble! Then the next night on RAW. Orton managing to defeat "Stone Cold" Steve Austin to keep his Wrestlemania Title Shot and then Orton jumped ship to Smackdown. His choice was to go to Smackdown and take on the Smackdown Champion at Wrestlemania XX! Orton has for the eight weeks since then. Made Edge's life a living hell. Interfering in matches, delivering RKO's and costing the Champ victories. It shows scenes of all of this as well as Orton taking Spears and Edgeocutions from Edge. It also makes light of the fact that Orton has beaten Edge but Edge hasn't been able to pin Orton. Except tonight..there will be no pinfalls or submissions. It will be the Last Man Standing that walks out as the WWE Champion!

We cut back to the arena and "Passing You By" by Motorhead hits and the lights begin coming off as Randy Orton struts his way out onto the stage. The crowd is the hottest it's been all night as they boo Randy Orton out of the building. He walks down the center ramp, careful to not let the fans touch him. Orton gets to ringside and goes to the ring steps and climbs up them. Then he steps into the ring and poses inside the ring, to the dismay of the crowd. Then once he's in the ring, Edge's music hits and smoke begins pluming from the stage and ramps and Edge bursts through the smoke out to the far left side of the stage. Then after getting the fans on that side pumped up. He goes to the far right side and gets them pumped up. Edge has Blue Leggings on tonight with golden trim. Orton on the other hand has Silver tights with the letters Orton on the back in green. Edge has the WWE Title around his waist as he comes walking down to the ring. He slaps the hands of the fans as he comes up the main aisle and the crowd is the hottest it's been at any point tonight. Edge gets to ringside and sprints, sliding into the ring and doing his ring poses as Orton vacates the ring. Edge poses on the 2nd turnbuckle in the top right corner of the ring, pointing to the fans and then pointing down at Orton, threatening him. Then he jumps down and hands the Title off to Nick Patrick whom has been assigned this huge match. Patrick raises the WWE Title high in the air and then hands it out of the ring, calling for the bell. The bell sounds and the crowd gives a huge pop as the match is about to begin.

Both men lock up in the middle of the ring with Edge overpowering Orton back into the top right corner and breaks clean when Patrick gets inbetween them to break it. Orton delivers a thumb to the eye of Edge when Patrick is doing this and Edge is trying to clean break. Orton then knocks Edge over as he comes out of the corner with a stiff shoulder block. Orton then goes to the right side of the ring. Edge tried to get up but went back down flat on his stomach to avoid being knocked over again by Orton. Orton goes to the left side and back at Edge. Edge leapfrogs Orton and when Orton comes back off the right ropes. Edge hits a monkey Flip on Orton, taking him down. Both men get up quickly and Orton retaliates with a nasty clothesline to take Edge down. Edge gets up fairly quickly though and Orton backs him into the ropes facing the Announce position. Orton whips Edge across the ring and hits a beautiful dropkick on Edge to take him down. Orton then picks Edge up and backs him against the announce table side of the ring. Then rears back and clotheslines him over the top rope to the outside of the ring!

Orton climbs out of the ring and helps Edge to his feet, then slams his head off the Smackdown announce table. Edge falls to the matting and Orton goes after his first weapon of the match. He pulls a steel chair from the announce position area and slams it shut. He then swings for the fences at Edge's head but Edge avoids the contact. Edge then kicks Orton low and takes the chair away from him. Edge then drives the chair into Orton's stomach. Then drives it down across his bare back! Patrick is on the outside with them and begins counting on Orton..1....2...3......4 At four Orton is getting to his feet and Patrick counts him as up. Edge rears back with the chair again but Orton hits another beautiful standing dropkick into the chair, which slams into Edge's face! It takes Edge down and both men stay down a moment as Patrick counts..1...2.....3...Orton is up. 4.....5...Edge is up midway through five. Orton grabs Edge and whips him as hard as he can into the steel ring steps nearby. The steps dislodge and fly off the top of the bottom set. Orton then puts his arms out and poses, taunting the crowd. Patrick gets to four before Edge begins to get up again.

Orton picks Edge up all the way and rolls him into the ring. Orton climbs to the top rope and stands in wait for Edge to get to his feet. Edge turns around to face Orton whom is standing on the top rope of the top right corner of the ring. Orton comes off the top rope in a bit of a sloppy cross body. Edge collapses to the mat to avoid the contact and Nick Patrick takes a nasty bump as Orton lands full out on him! No counting now as Edge gets to his feet and waits for Orton to get up. Edge then begins laying in hard right hands to Orton, backing him up into the bottom left corner of the ring. Patrick is near the left side of the ring's ropes. Edge whips Orton across the ring to the corner Orton just lept off of. Orton reverses it sending Edge in as hard as he can. Edge takes it chest first and Orton hits the ropes on the right side of the ring and nails a BIG Running Neckbreaker on Edge. This lays Edge out pretty good and Orton goes to the outside of the ring, on the right side of the ring and pulls a Table from under the ring! He slides the table into the ring and slides back in himself. Orton then sets the table up in the center of the ring and picks Edge up to his feet. Edge had gotten to one knee at that point. Orton picks Edge up and brings him over so Orton is facing towards the Stage. He lifts Edge up into a Razor's Edge position and OH MAN HE BRINGS EDGE DOWN IN A NECKBREAKER BUT DROPPED EDGE DOWN THROUGH THE TABLE IN DOING SO!!!

Edge is destroyed through the table but Nick Patrick is still in no position to make a count. Orton goes over and checks on Patrick but it looks like Patrick has hurt his shoulder. He's clutching at it as Orton tries to shake him to get up. Shane McMahon at this point comes walking onto the stage with Brian Hebner and EMT's to the ring. The EMT's and Shane O Mac help Patrick onto the stretcher they brought. While Brian Hebner has apparently become the new referee for this match! Hebner begins making a count on Edge whom is still down in the wreckage of the table..1...2.....3.....4..Edge begins to stir at 4 and trying to get up..5....6.....7..Edge is up to a knee at this point and then rises off of it. Hebner says the match will continue and Orton immediately goes for an RKO but Edge pushes him off to the ropes and as he bounces into them. Edge nails a Spear on Orton, pushing him through the 2nd and top ropes. Orton winds up on the outside and down, while Edge goes down inside the ring. Taking the time to recover as Hebner counts them both down..1...2.....3.....4...Edge is up easily at 4 but Orton is stirring at this point and getting to a knee as well...5....Orton gets up at this point. Orton climbs up onto the apron and the EMT'S and Shane O Mac, go by and wheel Patrick out as the match continues. Edge drives his shoulder into Orton's gut which staggers Orton off the Apron almost. Then Edge pulls Orton's neck down into the top rope and Sunset Flips over him to the outside and POWERBOMBS ORTON DOWN ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE RING!

What a tremendous move and both men are down after it. Hebner slides out of the ring and begins to make a count. 1...2.....3......4......5...Edge is stirring and gets to his feet just about the time Hebner is counting 6.....7....Orton was stirring at 5 as well and got to his feet at seven to break the count. Edge grabs Orton and whips him at the steel steps on the stage side of the ring, driving those stairs off their base. Edge picks Orton up from where he was laying at and hits a Nasty Vertical Suplex to the matting on the outside of the ring. Edge gets to his feet slowly as Hebner counts Orton..1...2....Edge is up just before three and the count continues..3....4.....5.....6..Orton is stirring at six. 7....8...Orton is up and the count is broken at eight. Edge seems to be getting frustrated as he rolls Orton back into the ring. Edge climbs into the ring as Hebner slides inside. The wreckage of the table is pushes to the right side of the ring and pulled to the outside by a techy at ringside. Edge then picks Orton up to his feet and drops him back down with a sudden flapjack to the mat!

Hebner counts Orton again but only reaches six before he gets up this time. Edge goes back into the top left corner of the ring and stances, ready for the Spear. Orton is in the bottom right corner and turns around as Edge comes running at him. Orton sidesteps Edge and sends him as hard as he can into the ringpost. Edge connects with the ringpost and ends up falling to the outside of the ring, clutching his shoulder. Orton tells Hebner to count and Hebner does so..1...2.....3....4....Edge gets up slowly, hard to do so with one good arm...5...6...7...but Edge is up at seven and Orton goes off the far ropes and baseball slides himself into Edge on the outside. It just happens to be that Edge was leaning towards the ring with his bad shoulder when Orton did that! It sent Edge back down and he was in some bad pain at this point. The crowd has been so completely hot throughout this match! Orton goes to the outside and picks Edge up. He brings him around the ring and over to the RAW Announce table (Where the Spanish announce table usually is). Orton climbs onto it with Edge and taunts the crowd. Then makes like he's going to go for an RKO but Edge in an instant. Counters by ducking under Orton's arm and nails a huge Edge-O-Matic driving himself and Orton THROUGH THE RAW ANNOUNCE TABLE!!!

Hebner comes to the outside and begins a long ten count on both men...1...2.....3..Neither man has stirred to this point. 4...5......6....Edge and Orton are both stirring but slowly....7....8....Both men are crawling and pulling themselves up by using the guard Barricade...9...Both men are able to pull themselves off their knees and are on their feet to break the count narrowly. Orton staggers away, walking around the ring towards the stage. He begins to walk up the ramp as if to leave but Edge follows him and catches him on the steel ramp. He spins Orton around and Orton again tries to hit a sudden RKO but Edge catches him and modifies it into a belly to back suplex down onto the Steel!!!! Oh man these men are going to kill each other. Edge gets up slowly as Hebner follows them up but Edge picks Orton up and pulls him up the center steel ramp to the Stage. Edge then sets Orton up for an Edgeocution on the steel. Orton reverses out of that and chain reverses into an attempted RKO but Edge pushes Orton off once again. Orton turns and tries to clothesline Edge but Edge ducks it. When Orton turns back around he gets kicked in the gut and EDGEOCUTION TO THE STEEL STAGE!!!! The crowd is popping huge as they figure this has to be the end!

1...2....3....4...Orton has barely moved at all..5....6......7..Orton has begun to stir but is only barely up to a knee...8......9.....Orton at nine and a half gets to his feet by the closest of margins and Edge can't believe it. Edge then to try and add insult to injury goes for an RKO on Orton but Orton pushes him off towards the entrance and from behind the curtain a boot comes out and SMACK Superkick to the jaw on Edge!!! WHAT THE HELL IS THIS!? Lance Storm comes from behind the curtain and picks up Edge. Ken Shamrock follows him out and he grabs Edge and nails his Belly to Belly Suplex DOWN ONTO THE STEEL STAGE!! What the hell is going on! These two helped Triple H win earlier and they're back out here tonight! But this isn't all. Triple H comes out from behind the curtain and as Shamrock and Storm pick Edge up. HHH kicks Edge in the gut and pulls both his arms up...PEDIGREE ONTO THE STEEL RAMP!!!! Orton is barely standing as he is somewhat staggering this entire time. But the three men pick Edge up and feed him to the wolf. They push Edge to Orton and Orton grabs Edge and NAILS AN RKO OFF THE STAGE DOWN THROUGH THE ELECTRICAL SETUP/TABLES BELOW!!! Sparks go flying everywhere and in the wreckage is two men. Triple H, Lance Storm and Ken Shamrock quickly go down the ramp and come up the side so they can help Orton. Hebner begins counting from the top of the stage immediately though.1....2....3....4....5...By this time HHH, Storm and Shamrock are there..6......7..They help Orton to his feet and keep him standing as the referee counts down this travesty!!....8....9.....10!!! Brian Hebner seems almost disgusted but calls for the bell and has a ringside attendant bring him the WWE Title. He goes down the ramp and up the side of it to get to where the four men are at.

Brian Hebner then raises an exhausted Randy Orton's arm in victory and hands him the WWE Title. Orton seems to realize he's just won and begins to celebrate with his apparent friends. Michael Cole is going apeshit over the fact that Edge just got screwed out of the WWE Title. Paul Heyman is going on about how Orton is a Legend in the making and we cut to our next video package!

(Winner and NEW WWE Champion at 33:13: Randy Orton)

Overall Rating: 85%

Crowd Reaction: 90%

Match Quality: 74%

Dames Stars: **1/2

Edited June 18, 2004 by Kapalua2483

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Chris Benoit vs Brock Lesnar (Ref: Kurt Angle)

Ultimate Submission, Guest Referee Match

We watch a video package of the feud between Benoit and Lesnar. Trying to make each other tap out and Benoit's big victory at No Way Out, using a Brock Lesnar F5 to get the victory. Then the video package ends and we cut back to Madison Square Garden and the bell sounds for the next match to begin. "Medal" Hits and Kurt Angle's music begins playing as he walks onto the stage. The crowd chants a hard "You Suck" with each tone of the song. Kurt gets to the bottom of the center ramp that he walked down and points to the sky. His pyro goes off and Kurt comes down the rest of the way to the ring and runs up the ring steps. Then he climbs into the ring. Kurt has his normal outfit on but has a Referee shirt over it. Once Kurt is in the ring, Chris Benoit's music hits and he comes walking out onto the stage to huge boos from the crowd. Benoit comes walking down the center ramp to the ring. Benoit then walks up the aisle and once at ringside, he slides under the bottom rope. Then once Benoit is in the ring, the lights go down and Brock Lesnar’s entrance begins to play. His music blaring and some strobe lights going off. Lesnar comes walking down the center ramp and down to the ring. Lesnar stalks around the ring and finally leaps up onto the apron and the pyro explodes from the ringposts. Then Lesnar steps into the ring and “Here Comes the Money” Hits! Shane McMahon comes bouncing out onto the stage in a Referee outfit with Gym pants on. Shane McMahon has a microphone in hand as he walks down the center ramp to the ring. The crowd seems to be getting excited at this point to find out what’s going on.

Shane McMahon: Alright I don’t know who the hell allowed this match to go down like this but it certainly wasn’t me. So Kurt get out of my ring, Now!

The crowd cheers loudly as Kurt throws a fit in the ring and rolls to the outside. Kurt gets in Shane’s face but Shane gets back in Kurt’s.

Shane McMahon: Kurt if you don’t get out of my face. I will suspend you.

The crowd cheers and na-na-na-na’s Kurt to the back. Then Shane climbs into the ring with the microphone still in hand as he addresses Brock and Benoit.

Shane McMahon: This match is now no longer going to be an Ultimate Submission Match.

The crowd boo’s heavily but Shane calms them down as he announces what this match will be now.

Shane McMahon: Calm down everyone. This match will now be two out of three falls!

Shane McMahon: First fall will be a Cage Match! But since there is no Steel Cage. We’ll just have to use the Cell! The Second fall is going to be Pinfalls count anywhere and if needed for a third fall. We will have a good old fashioned Street Fight Fall! Now since there also is a need for a referee. I, Shane McMahon am the new referee for this match!

Shane then calls for the bell to start the match and the Hell in a Cell begins to lower from the rafters. The crowd lets out a huge pop as this match just became a huge amount more interesting. Lesnar goes after Benoit immediately, backing him into the top left corner of the ring. Lesnar begins driving his shoulder into Benoit over and over in the corner. Lesnar then whips Benoit across the ring and Benoit does the old HHH flip over the top rope to the outside. Lesnar follows after Benoit in hot persuit. The Cell is almost down to the floor by now. Lesnar picks Benoit up and whips him to the left side of the ringside area. Benoit ends up getting clotheslined by the cell that is lowering to the floor and he goes down hard! The crowd pops huge for this move. Lesnar stalks after Benoit and begins choking him with both hands. Lesnar pins Benoit down right where the Cell is coming down at. The Cell is going to crush Benoit’s head!!! Benoit breaks Lesnar’s hold on his throat and drives his head into Lesnar’s. Benoit gets up as the Cell hits the ground and both men rise to their feet. Benoit gains the advantage at this point though as Lesnar gets up but Benoit drives Lesnar’s head into the steel ring post. Benoit then goes around to the left side of the ring (If looking from the stage).

Benoit flips the ring apron up and pulls a table from under the ring and slides it inside the ring, under the bottom rope. Benoit then reaches under the ring again and pulls a steel chair from under the ring. Lesnar rolls into the ring, his forehead bleeding slightly. Benoit slides into the ring as well and stands in wait for Lesnar to get to his feet. Lesnar gets to his feet and Benoit takes a swing at Lesnar’s head but Lesnar ducks the chair shot much to the crowd’s delight. Lesnar then grabs Benoit from behind and hits him with a huge release German Suplex! Lesnar seems to have a chip on his shoulder at this point. Shane seems to be enjoying the match like a fan in the ring, bouncing around and reacting like the fans are with each big move. Lesnar picks up the table Benoit slid into the ring and sets it up in the middle of the ring. Lesnar then picks Benoit up and sets him up for a powerbomb through the table. Lesnar lifts Benoit up but Benoit rolls over the top of Lesnar’s shoulders into a victory roll…1….2…Lesnar kicks out strongly though. Benoit gets up quickly, as does Lesnar. Lesnar moves at Benoit and Benoit takes Lesnar over in a Overhead Belly to Belly Suplex THROUGH THE TABLE!!! The crowd pops huge for this. A couple holy shit chants emerge from the crowd as Benoit covers Lesnar..1....2....Lesnar manages to kick out.

Benoit begins working on Lesnar's left arm with a series of stomps, elbow drops and knee drops. Benoit then picks Lesnar up and nails a Rolling German on Lesnar. Then hitting a second one and finally Benoit hits a third German Suplex. Benoit then makes the cut throat signal and climbs to the top rope in the top left corner of the ring. Benoit then Leaps off the top rope for his Suicide Headbutt but Lesnar pulls the chair that was laying on the mat in the way and rolls out of Benoit's way. BENOIT'S HEADBUTT CONNECTS WITH NOTHING BUT THE STEEL CHAIR!!! The crowd is giving a very loud "Holy Shit" Chant. Lesnar then rolls back over and moves Benoit onto his back and puts an arm over him.1…2….Benoit gets a shoulder up at the last moment. Lesnar gets up first and stands on his feet, then he picks Benoit up and lifts him into a fall away slam position. Lesnar then lifts Benoit into the air and drives Benoit down into his knee once, then twice and finishes it with a vicious third backbreaker. Lesnar then drops Benoit to the mat and covers him, hooking the leg..1...2...Benoit kicks out again narrowly. Lesnar gets up and the look in his eyes show severe frustration as the crowd is chanting for him. Lesnar pulls Benoit towards the left side of the ring and Lesnar himself slides under the bottom rope to the outside of the ring. He then pulls Benoit under the bottom rope to the outside of the ring. Lesnar then begins mauling Benoit by throwing him into the cell, the back of his head into it over and over. Then Lesnar cheese graters Benoit's face against the Steel. Benoit though manages to mule kick Lesnar to get the advantage back. Benoit goes down to his knees after that assault from Lesnar. Benoit walks around the ring to where the door is and tries desperately to escape the Cell via trying to slam his shoulder into the door to open it up.

Benoit does this several times but fails. Benoit then turns to the side of the ring Lesnar is on but all he meets is a nasty clothesline from Lesnar that sends Benoit for a loop on the outside of the ring. Lesnar then picks Benoit up and puts him back first to the door. Then smashes Benoit's head into the door. Lesnar tries a second time but Benoit blocks it with his foot and drives Lesnar's head into it over and over until he slumps against the door. Benoit then slides into the ring and runs to the far side ropes. Then BENOIT SUICIDE DIVES THROUGH THE ROPES AT LESNAR AND SPEARS HIM THROUGH THE CELL DOOR!!! The crowd is again engulfed in a "Holy Shit" Chant as Lesnar and Benoit crush the Cell door off of it's hinges. Benoit is first up after another long moment. He picks Lesnar up and drags him around the ringside area to where the Smackdown, RAW and Spanish Announce tables are at. Benoit stands on the Spanish announce table, pulling Lesnar onto the table as well. Benoit then sinches in a German Suplex hold but Lesnar blocks it twice. Lesnar then swings with his elbow at Benoit but Benoit ducks it and drives a knee into Lesnar's gut. Benoit then turns Lesnar back around and then RELEASE GERMAN SUPLEX OFF THE SPANISH ANNOUNCE TABLE, DOWN THROUGH THE SMACKDOWN ANNOUNCE TABLE!!!

We see several replays of this move as we watch live action in the other part of the split screen. Benoit then picks Lesnar up and pulls him around the ring. Benoit then pulls him back inside the cell and rolls him into the ring. Benoit then goes up top and Suicide Headbutt to Lesnar by Benoit!!! Benoit holds his head in pain a moment and then pulls Lesnar into the middle of the ring and LOCKS IN THE CRIPPLER CROSSFACE!!!!! Lesnar tries to pull himself to the ropes as Shane McMahon is asking Lesnar if he wants to give up. Lesnar almost makes it to the ropes but Benoit rolls himself with Lesnar back to the middle of the ring. The crowd pops for this even though Benoit is a heel. Then Lesnar finally has to tap out to try and salvage the match for the second fall.

Shane McMahon calls for the bell and awards Fall #1 to Chris Benoit. The Cell begins to rise now as the second fall is announced as the Falls Count Anywhere Fall. Lesnar gets about thirty seconds to recover and then Benoit tries to slap the Crossface on again but Lesnar was near the ropes and he just drags himself under the bottom rope and to the outside of the ring. Benoit proceeds to slide out of the ring and stomp a hole in Lesnar. Benoit picks Lesnar up and whips him as hard as he can at the Steel Ring Steps. Lesnar though manages to hit a desperation reversal and send Benoit projectile style into the steel. Benoit goes down holding his head. Lesnar gets up slowly, staggered heavily and reaches under the ring, pulling a Table from under the ring. Lesnar sets it up on the outside of the ring and at this point Benoit had gotten to his feet. Benoit runs at Lesnar at this point but Lesnar just uses Benoit's momentum and hits a Overhead Belly to Belly Suplex on the matting! Lesnar then walks over and picks Benoit up. Then pulls him over to where the table is and first he sets Benoit for a powerbomb up on the matting. Lesnar connects with this and uses all his strength to haul Benoit back up and DRIVES HIM THROUGH THE TABLE WITH A SECOND POWERBOMB!!!! Lesnar then crawls into a cover, hooking the leg in the wreckage of the table..1...2......3!!!

Lesnar quickly takes the second fall and Shane McMahon tells the ring announcer that the match was even at 1 fall apiece. Now it was on to the Street Fight Fall!!! Both men are slow to get up but Lesnar is up first. He is on wobbily feet though as Benoit gets up as well slowly. Both men on the outside of the ring begin to slug it out with each other. As both men are slugging it out in the ring, the crowd explodes in boo's as Kurt Angle leaps over the guard barricade where the announcing tables are. He slides into the ring behind Shane McMahon and sinches in an Angle Slam and DRIVES Shane into the mat with it. Angle then pulls the Referee shirt off Shane and puts it on himself. Then he picks up a steel chair and drives it down on Shane's head!!! Oh my god! Lesnar gains control on Benoit with a knee to the gut and rolls Benoit into the ring. Lesnar climbs into the ring himself and realizes that Angle is back in the ring! Lesnar tries to get the upper hand on Angle by trying to lariat him but Angle ducks it and hits a Big Angle Slam on Lesnar. Angle then picks up the steel chair and puts it in position on the mat. Angle then lifts Lesnar up and hits another Angle Slam DOWN ONTO THE CHAIR!!! At this point Benoit slaps on a Crippler Crossface on Lesnar and Angle calls for the bell even though Lesnar can be heard screaming that he won't give up. Benoit stands up and celebrates as Angle awards the third fall to Benoit and the match!!! Michael Cole can be heard freaking out at ringside about how Benoit and Angle are sons of bitches. Also that there will be hell to pay once Lesnar gets healthy from this match! We head to a video package for the next match as we cut out with the last image we see of this match is Angle and Benoit standing over Lesnar and Shane McMahon with their arms raised.

(Winner: Chris Benoit two falls to one at 30:42)

Overall Rating: 80%

Crowd Reaction: 79%

Match Quality: 82%

Dames Stars: ***

Raven vs Eddie Guerrero

#1 Contendership to World Heavyweight Championship, Street Fight

The video package for this matchup is showing how Raven started this by attacking Eddie Guerrero without remorse. Trying to show his power and strength on RAW. He ended up choosing RAW as the show he will sign with and has continued attacking Eddie Guerrero and getting the upper hand almost every time. Then it shows the scenes from this past Monday Night where Eddie Thought he had the upper hand on Raven but then it turned out that Chavo Guerrero his cousin had returned and did so aligned with Raven against his Uncle Eddie! Then we switch to the live feed and the dreary tones of Raven's music with the Raven cawing. Then the rock portion of the song kicks up and Raven saunters down the main aisle towards the ring. Raven taunts the crowd as he walks up the aisle to the ring. Then Raven slides into the ring and juts his arms out in the Raven sign. Then he sits down in the top right corner of the ring and sits, waiting for Eddie Guerrero to come. Then "Latino Heat" The new singles version which we're hearing for the first time kicks up and the crowd goes nuts. "The Stinger Commercial theme". Guerrero makes his way down to the ring with the crowd cheering wildly. Eddie climbs into the ring and does some sort of odd shimmy..weird. Then once Eddie is in the ring..Raven’s music kicks up and he comes walking out onto the stage with a Stop Sign among other weapons in a shopping trolley. He holds his arms out with his head bowed on the top of the stage. Raven then comes out of his pose and pushes the cart down to the ring and leaves it at ringside and he walks up the ring steps and climbs inside of the ring.

Raven gets into the ring and climbs to the second turnbuckle of the corner he entered at (Bottom left Corner) and raises his arms out in his Raven Pose. Then once Raven comes down from his pose he faces Eddie Guerrero and the fury in Latino Heat’s eyes looks like his eyes are boiling. The bell sounds and immediately Eddie locks up with Raven and takes control, powering Raven back into the bottom left corner of the ring. Eddie then lays into Raven with hard knifedge chops and hard right hands to the head. Raven reverses the situation though and begins pounding Eddie with right hands and hard boots to the gut. Raven then whips Eddie as hard as he can to the opposite corner. Raven follows him in with a vicious clothesline. Raven then whips Eddie back across to the corner they were in originally and follows him in with another clothesline but Eddie ducks Raven and Raven goes chest first into the corner. Eddie then bounces off the ropes and hits a head-scissor takeover on Raven. Eddie is up first and as Raven is rising, Eddie takes him back down with a beautiful dropkick. Raven takes two more beautiful dropkicks before he stays down. Eddie then picks Raven up and hits a big High Angle Back Suplex. Eddie then slides out of the ring and pulls a table from under the ring. He picks it up and slides it into the ring, then climbs into the ring himself.

Eddie delivers a baseball slide dropkick to Raven to keep him down. Eddie then sets the Table up, vertical style against the top left corner of the ring. Eddie then picks Raven up and whips towards the table but Raven reverses the whip and sends Eddie careening at the table but Eddie stops himself before the table. Raven charges at Eddie and Eddie catches it out of the corner of his eye, he dodges out of the way as Raven puts himself through the table!!! Eddie then covers him quickly..1….2…kickout by Raven. Eddie picks Raven up and whips him to the opposite corner from where the Table wreckage was left. Raven hits the corner hard and Eddie runs in after him and Raven ducks an incoming Eddie Guerrero leg lariat and Eddie bounces off the top turnbuckle hard. Raven had an opportunity to take advantage of the match. Raven picks Eddie up and begins slugging him over and over with balled fists in that corner. Raven then delivers several shoulder thrusts in a row to Eddie. Raven then takes Eddie and tosses him over the top rope to the outside of the ring, he climbs outside as well. Only the Spanish announce table left at ringside. Raven grabbed Eddie up and slammed his head down into the top of that announce table. Eddie staggered up from that hit and Raven pulled Eddie back into a front facelock..DOWN INTO A DDT ON THE FLOOR! Unfortunately for Raven this was not a pinfalls count anywhere match.

Raven picks Eddie up and rolls him into the ring and then gets into the ring himself and covers him, hooking the leg..1…2..kickout by Eddie! Raven went ahead to the outside and grabbed the Stop Sign out of his shopping cart that he brought to the ring. He slides back into the ring and throws the sign on the mat. Then tries for an evenflow DDT onto the stop sign on Eddie but Eddie powers out of it into his Trifecta of Suplexes and hits all three ONTO the stop sign. Then Eddie rolls away from Raven, hurting from the offense that Raven had unleashed on him just a moment before. Both men rise to their feet after a moment and a punch war begins. Both men go back and forth until Eddie takes control with a knifedge chop. He whips Raven to the ropes and takes him over with a monkey flip. Eddie then picks Raven up and hits a high angle back drop to Raven and starts his shimmy and climbs to the top rope. Eddie then comes off the top rope for a frog splash but Raven got his knees up and Eddie crushed his own rib cage against Raven’s knees. Raven then quickly picks up Eddie and low blows him. Raven then hits a Fischerman’s buster on Eddie and holds it in a bridge for the cover..1..2….kickout by Eddie! This is the point where Chavo Guerrero comes running down to the ring and slides under the bottom rope to help his Uncle Eddie. OR NOT! As Chavo suddenly picks Eddie up and hits a HUGE Brainbuster onto the Stop Sign in the ring!

Then Raven picks Eddie up from that as he watches Chavo carefully and EVENFLOW DDT DOWN ON THAT STOP SIGN!!! Raven then rolls Eddie over and covers him hooking the leg..1…2….3! Raven is the New #1 Contender! Raven celebrates for just a moment by holding his head in shock. Then he nods his head as he realizes that now he has a Title Shot at Backlash! Raven then turns his attention to Chavo Guerrero but Chavo handles this as he takes Raven’s arm and raises it up in the air. It took Chavo Guerrero betraying his uncle but Raven is victorious over Eddie Guerrero!

(Winner at 14:22: Raven)

Overall Rating: 82%

Crowd Reaction: 87%

Match Quality: 73%

Dames Stars: **1/4

Cyclone vs Mortis

After all the wreckage and weapons were removed from ringside from the last match, Mortis’s music hit and he came walking down to the ring with the swagger of a champion. Even though he was not actually a champion yet, Mortis walked down the center ramp avoiding all contact from the fans whom boo’ed him. Mortis slid under the bottom rope, into the ring and awaited his arch nemesis for their final showdown on the biggest stage of them all. Then..STAND BACK THERE’S A CYCLONE COMING THROUGH! Cyclone’s music and video hit and he comes walking out from backstage with hurricane walking right behind him. They stop on the stage and both men run down the left and right ramps respectively. They slap the fan’s hands and then once at the ring, Hurricane and Cyclone high five each other and Hurricane heads to the back as this match will be a true one on one war. Cyclone then runs a few steps and slides under the bottom rope. Mortis bails out of the ring as Cyclone gets inside. Cyclone stands in wait and finally Mortis climbs into the ring and the bell sounds. Both masked men circle each other and will engage in battle on the biggest stage of them all! They lock up in a collar and elbow tie-up. Mortis then takes control of Cyclone with a hammerlock, Cyclone reverses it into a hammerlock of his own. Mortis then pulls Cyclone into a headlock and Cyclone pushes Mortis off to the ropes and Mortis slams his shoulder into Cyclone’s knocking him down.

Mortis then runs to the ropes and leaps over Cyclone, then runs back at Cyclone again and Cyclone leapfrogs but Mortis catches him and hits a huge spinebuster into the mat. Mortis then picks Cyclone up and whips him into the top right corner of the ring. Mortis follows him in for a clothesline but Cyclone gets his feet up to stagger Mortis back out of that corner. Mortis turns around from that shot and Cyclone takes advantage to hit a beautiful bulldog to him. Cyclone then got up and hit three elbow drops in a row to Mortis and covered him..1….2..kickout by Mortis. Cyclone then picked Mortis up and hoisted him up for a vertical suplex but Mortis reversed out of it in mid-air and landed on his feet behind Cyclone and hit a half nelson Suplex (Half Nelson position, driving the opponent backwards in a German Style suplex).

Mortis then covered Cyclone after he rolled him over..1….2…kickout! Mortis picks Cyclone up and begins punching him in the head repeatedly. Then whips him to the bottom right corner of the ring and follows him in with a vicious clothesline splash in the corner. Mortis whipped Cyclone across to the top left corner and tried the move again but Cyclone fell to the mat to avoid the contact. Then rolled Mortis up out of the corner, school boy style..1…2….kickout by Mortis! Cyclone backed into the ropes as Mortis got up and once Mortis was up, Cyclone bounced off the ropes and ran at him. Right into once of the nastiest Lariats you’ve ever seen which sent Cyclone for a somersault through the air and he hit the mat in a contorted position. Mortis quickly covered Cyclone..1…2….kickout! Cyclone has the heart of a champion and will not quit. Mortis picks Cyclone up and attempts to hit a Flatliner on him but Cyclone blocks it and reverses it into a ddt, driving Mortis’s head into the mat. Cyclone held his head in pain though and stayed down as Mortis did as well. The referee administered a 10 count but Cyclone was up first at six. Cyclone waited for Mortis to get up before he hit the ropes and hit a Rolling Leg Lariat to take Mortis down off his vertical base. Cyclone then picks Mortis up and locks him into a double underhook position and Tries for a CycloneBomb (Tiger Bomb) but Mortis doesn’t go after three attempts by Cyclone to do it. Mortis manages to back body drop Cyclone out of it. Mortis then waits for Cyclone to get up and then nails him with a nasty superkick to drop him back to the mat.

Mortis moved over and covered Cyclone again hooking the leg..1…2….shoulder up by Cyclone at the last moment. Mortis picks Cyclone up and picks him up into a belly to back suplex position and sits him onto the top turnbuckle, facing out towards the crowd. What is Mortis doing here? He slips a reverse ddt hold onto Cyclone and pulls him down so he’s horizontal and just his feet are on the top rope now. REVERSE DDT DOWN TO THE MAT AND CYCLONE MAY BE DEAD! Mortis pulls the limp Cyclone over and covers him across his chest in a lateral press..1….2….Cyclone barely manages to get his foot on the bottom rope but does! The referee stops the count and Mortis is infuriated. Mortis yanks a fairly limp Cyclone into the middle of the ring by his leg and then covers him again hooking the leg..1….2…..Cyclone narrowly gets his shoulder up before three. Mortis can’t believe it and he goes over to the top right corner and climbs up to the top rope. He then does what we don’t usually see Mortis do. He goes for a top rope legdrop and like most whom try to do moves they don’t normally do. He fails as he lands hard after Cyclone moved out of the way. Cyclone staggered to his feet in pain as Mortis slowly made his way to his feet as well. Mortis got up with his back to Cyclone. Mortis turns and a kick to the gut, a double underhook and a HUGE Cyclone Bomb to Mortis. Cyclone then covered Mortis hooking the leg..1….2…..NO!!! Mortis kicked out just before three and now Cyclone can’t believe it! Cyclone looks to the referee and he says two and the shoulder came up before three. Cyclone picked Mortis up and went for another Cyclone Bomb but Cyclone couldn’t connect his hands and Mortis pulled away from it and yanked Cyclone in after a chain reversal into a Flatliner and NAILS IT! Both men are down for a long eight count.

Finally Mortis gets an arm over on Cyclone whom had rolled onto his back. 1….2….Cyclone narrowly gets a shoulder up and Mortis if he wasn’t exhausted and hurting terribly would’ve smacked the referee for not counting three there. Mortis picks Cyclone up and tries for another Flatliner but Cyclone now chain reverses out of it and sinches Mortis into that double underhook position again and a Cyclone Bomb that he sits out with and lands into a pin!....1….2…..3!!! Cyclone gets the victory over Mortis and stands in victory. Hurricane comes down to the ring and celebrates with Cyclone as Mortis leaves in defeat! Cyclone and Hurricane celebrate in the ring with the crowd whom were in it from the get go and now that Cyclone finally came out on top over Mortis…The party can begin!

(Winner at 21:42: Cyclone)

Overall Rating: 85%

Crowd Reaction: 87%

Match Quality: 83%

Dames Stars: ***1/4

John Cena vs Chris Jericho

World Heavyweight Championship, Hell in a Cell Match

The buzz was intense before this match and before we started this match we watch a two and a half minute highlight reel and it shows matches from back in October and November where their feud began. It shows images of the War Games match and John Cena becoming the World Heavyweight Champion. Their battles throughout the winter and now it’s culminated in the only way it can. HELL IN A CELL!

The video package ends and “King of My World” Kicks up and the lights go down. Jericho comes out onto the stage as the lights are down and then his pyro goes off as the lights come back up. Jericho comes walking down to the ring and watched the Hell in a Cell structure all the way to the ring. It was hanged about 12 feet above the ground at this point and would not be lowered till both men were in the ring. Jericho walked up the ring steps after slapping some hands of the fans. He then did his normal pose hooking his arms into the ropes. Then climbed inside the ring and prepared for the man that would be coming out next. His arch-rival and a man that he desperately wanted to beat to become World Heavyweight Champion again! Then after a moment “Thuganomics 101” hits and John Cena makes his way out onto the Wrestlemania XX set. He was wearing an old school Brooklyn Dodgers jersey which brought some extra boo’s from the crowd members whom recognized it.

Cena had his “Word Life” Knuckles on his hands as well as a steel chain with lock around his neck and the best piece of gold…the World Heavyweight Title with his nameplate on it, around his waist! Cena sauntered down to the ring and waved his hand in front of his face and said towards Jericho that “You can’t see me” Cena made his way to the ring and climbed up onto the ring apron, then into the ring and unstrapped his World Heavyweight Title from his waist and handed it to Earl Hebner whom raised it high in the air to signify this match was for the Title. Cena took his knucks and chain off and they were removed from the ring by the ring announcer and Cena took his jersey off and tossed it at the ring announcer as well. Then the cell began to lower and finally it hit the ground and referees on the outside of the ring proceed to chain the door and lock it with a lock. Cena and Jericho both have their eyes on each other, staring one another down. Then finally the crowd pops huge as they lock up for the first time in a collar and elbow tie-up but it doesn’t last long as Jericho breaks it and then hits a huge knifedge chop on Cena that backs him up a step or two.

Jericho having Cena staggered back proceeds to hit another knifedge chop but Cena fights back with hard right hands to Jericho’s head. Cena then backs Jericho to the ropes, with Jericho’s back to the set and whips him across to the other side. Jericho hits the ropes and hooks them with his arms and flips Cena the bird. Cena runs at Jericho and Jericho back body drops Cena over the top rope, ducking the attempted attack. Jericho then catapaults himself over the top rope into Cena, once Cena had gotten back to his feet. Jericho gets up first and picks Cena up and smashes his head into the mesh of the steel cell. Jericho then whips Cena into the steel steps on the side of the ring they are on (Announce Table Side) Cena reverses the move though and drives Jericho hard into the steel steps. Cena then whipped Jericho across the way into the steel cell hard. Cena then waits for Jericho to get up and runs at him for a clothesline but Jericho flapjacks Cena INTO the cell, bouncing his head off the steel bar that was up about seven feet on the cell.

Jericho picks Cena up and rolls him into the ring. Jericho rolls into the ring himself and covers Cena..1…2….kickout by Cena. Jericho gets up and picks Cena up and hits a vertical suplex on him. Then Jericho lifts Cena up and hits a high angle back suplex on Cena. Jericho then covers Cena..1….2….kickout by Cena. Jericho picks Cena up and hits the ropes and goes for a bulldog but Cena ducks the attempt and as Jericho turns around. Cena nails Jericho with a clothesline lariat. Cena takes a breather for a moment and then gets behind Jericho..stalking him and once Jericho is up. Cena hits the “Throwback” on Jericho and after that covers him, hooking the leg..1…2….kickout by Jericho! Cena begins to get frustrated at this point and goes for an early F-U on Jericho but Jericho reverses out of the back into a Sunset flip on Cena which works..1…2….kickout by Cena. Cena gets up just as quickly as Jericho does and Cena tries to clothesline Jericho but Jericho ducks it and turns around immediately and clotheslines Cena over the top rope to the outside as well as himself over the top rope. Jericho was getting it going at this point and grabbed Cena, pulling him to his feet and whipping him to the other steel steps but Cena reverses it and drives Jericho into those steps as well. Cena walks over and picks the Steel steps up and aims the steps, side first at Jericho and WHAM! Cena runs with the stairs and nails Jericho in the arm/head with them, knocking Jericho into the cell hard. Cena backed up about five steps and ran at Jericho again but Jericho dove out of the way and Cena drove the steps right through the cell!

Jericho saw this as his chance and as Cena recovered from the miss and the wind being knocked out of him from driving the stairs into a hulking mass, which had hit him back in the gut. Jericho ran up to Cena and ran up his body to hit an enziguri to the back of Cena’s head. Jericho then crawled out of the Cell through the opening that the stairs had left. Jericho made his way around the Cell to the announce table position and while the enziguri had staggered Cena. Jericho didn’t get all of it because Cena was in hot persuit of his prey. Cena crawled out of the Cell and followed Jericho closely behind. Jericho did spot Cena before he could get the jump on him. Jericho and Cena started a punch war on the outside of the ring right in front of the announce tables. Finally Cena slams Jericho’s head down into the Spanish Announce table. Then Cena throws Jericho head first into the Steel Cell which busts Jericho wide open. Cena then grabs Jericho whom is now bleeding from his head due to the cell cutting him open. Cena then climbed onto the Spanish announce table and prepared to do an F-U on Jericho but Jericho squirmed out and instead hit a DDT ON CENA THROUGH THE SPANISH ANNOUNCE TABLE INSTEAD!!! Jericho laid Cena out and now Jericho would finish it and he knew where he could do it.

Jericho got up slowly first and began to climb the cell! The crowd had been highly into this match throughout but now was really getting into it as he climbed to the top of the cell. Jericho was not alone as he had taken a long time to get up and then to climb the cell. Cena had somehow managed to get to his feet and grabbed his steel chain from the ring announcer and put it around his neck. Then he climbed to the top of the cell as well. Jericho walked over carefully as Cena pulled himself up and Jericho took one step and his foot nearly went through the cell. He started being careful and that allowed Cena to get to his feet. Both men began engaging in a punch war on top of the cell which really got the crowd going. Jericho had Cena staggered with a couple and nailed a couple knifedge chops as well that looked like it be enough to allow Jericho to THROW Cena off the cell. But Cena managed to fight back and punched Jericho enough to knock him over one of the beams into the middle of the Cell. Cena at this point took the chain from his neck and wrapped it around his hand. Cena stalked after Jericho and as Jericho got up, he received a loaded fist to the head that staggered him and then…a hoist up onto the shoulders…no don’t do it Cena! Cena does though as he F-U’s Jericho over onto another square of the cell but IT GIVES AWAY AND JERICHO FALLS THE FIFTEEN FEET DOWN TO THE MAT WHERE THE RING IMPLODES (Ala the Mick Foley bump from No Way Out 2000) Cena looks shocked and climbs over and slides down the broken Cell and covers Jericho whom does not move..1…..2…..3!!! John Cena has retained the World Heavyweight Championship in almost anti-climatic fashion. Cena is handed the World Heavyweight Title by Hebner once the Cell begins to lift and quickly EMT’s come rushing to the ring to help Chris Jericho and we leave Wrestlemania XX as the credits come onto the screen with John Cena standing on the second turnbuckle of the ring, with EMT’s and WWE officials in the background tending to Jericho!

(Winner at 24:34 and STILL World Heavyweight Champion: John Cena)

Overall Rating: 88%

Crowd Reaction: 92%

Match Quality: 81%

Dames Stars: ***1/4

Wrestlemania Rating: 82%

Buy-Rate: 1.22%

Attendance: 13,511

PPV Revenue: $3,050,000

Ticket Sales: $810,660

Edited June 18, 2004 by Kapalua2483

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After the success of such a Tremendous Wrestlemania XX. It was widely known that the following night's RAW was not going to take place due to injuries to a variety of the superstars as well as the feeling that all the wrestlers should be...Available for Thursday Night Smackdown as it will be the final time they will all be on their respective Brands possibly. Because we here at 5Wrestling.com have learned that the WWE intends to conduct some sort of Draft Lottery between the brands.

No telling on how many picks for each brand or what it all means. What we do know is that next Monday Night is when it will occur and that only Champions are safe!

This is the only way to save my rear end cause my EWR file corrupted and my TV shows were gone and I simulated Monday and RAW was nowhere to be found. Oopsy. It's alright it works out in the end. End of March update coming up as well as a Smackdown Preview shortly everyone!

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5Wrestling.com News and Notes of March

Sting retired after his last TNA PPV this past week. We've also learned here at 5Wrestling.com that Lex Luger and Bob Backlund as well as Greg Valentine will all be retiring at the end of April.

In other news FLI and XPW Both received new TV deals this week with new shows. FLI has one on Friday nights which is of little concern but the big concern is the XPW Deal which they scored with Spike TV on Early Saturday Nights. On the same TV Station as the WWE's Flagship show...RAW as well as Heat which airs on Sunday. It is truely a state of war between the Three to Four National Federations and the only Global federation which is the WWE.

TNA seems to be perhaps only a month from becoming a Global Federation though and that will make them a very dangerous entity to the WWE!

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Preview

Four days out from possibly the greatest Wrestlemania of all time and many questions will be answered. Tonight we may find out what Matt Stryker did with the American Title after he stole it last week!

We will see the NEW WWE Champion Randy Orton on Smackdown along with his group which apparently call themselves the Legend Killers.

Also the RAW Superstars will be in attendance as Linda McMahon and the board of directors have something to say that will shake the WWE to it's very foundation!

Smackdown's Main Event will be Brock Lesnar challenging RAW's Tommy Dreamer for the WWE Intercontinental Championship as sanctioned by the Board of Directors! If Lesnar wins he will move to RAW and remain with the Intercontinental Title there! Otherwise Tommy Dreamer will remain Champion. Can he hold onto the Title that he won just four days ago at Wrestlemania XX!?

All this and much more will go down live on Smackdown

Featured Matches

Brock Lesnar vs Tommy Dreamer (WWE Intercontinental Title Match)

[Guest kris24fan]

I've got to say the second part of Wrestlemania was fantastic. Havng read this diary from the very beginning I have to say the wait for the second half was incredibly long but you more then made up for it! Stunning!

I'll be continuing reading!!

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April 1, 2004

WWE Smackdown

We don't start Smackdown tonight with the usual pyro or such. We begin it with Linda McMahon on the Titantron in the arena as well as on everyone's tv screens at home and she begins talking to the crowd in attendance and the viewing audiance.

Linda McMahon: Rumors have been swirling about all week since RAW this past week was not held. I am heard to quell these rumors. Four days from now on Monday Night, April the 5th. There will be the first ever Draft Lottery. Five picks for Shane McMahon the GM of Smackdown. Five picks for Eric Bischoff the GM of RAW. From now until the end of that show there is open dealing that can be made. Previously all trades had to be approved through the Board but for the time being until the end of Monday Night's show. All trades can be conducted between the GM's and can include some of their Draft picks to acquire wrestlers. Draft picks will be random out of a bingo bin of balls with all members of the opposing roster inside of it. With that said, on with tonight's Smackdown!

Now we hit the intro music and the Smackdown intro video comes on and then once it's finished Smackdown's pyro begins and then Michael Cole and Paul Heyman welcome us to Smackdown!

Cole: Welcome to an all new Smackdown where tonight wrestlers from both Smackdown and RAW will be in action as we are just four days out from the Draft Lottery, live on Monday Night!

Heyman: That's right Michael and it will be a momentus occasion on Monday Night as I am sure our GM Shane McMahon will get the proper deals done to secure Smackdown to being the superior brand for a long time to come!

We then cut backstage with Edge entering the arena..he looks the worse for wear but he also looks to be pissed but he isn't for long as from behind Randy Orton and his Legend Killers "HHH, Storm, Shamrock" all begin beating down on Edge and the beatdown is completed when Orton hits an RKO on Edge to the cement that gets the officials over to break it up before some real damage is done!

Overall Rating: 86%

Asai vs Cyclone vs Devon Storm

WWE Cruiserweight Title, Triple Threat Match

This is the first televised match of the night and it doesn't dissappoint with the debut of Devon Storm in the WWE and on Smackdown. He puts on a tough showing in this match along with Cyclone whom just four days ago was victorious over his former nemesis Mortis. Asai whom successfully defended against AJ Styles at Mania in a Ladder Match as well! Asai and Cyclone had a majority of the offense in this match. Hitting some high impact moves. Asai hitting a big moonsault for a two on Storm before it was broken up. Cyclone hitting a nasty DDT on Asai for a long two count as well before being broken up. The finish of the match came when Asai clotheslined Cyclone to the outside and then hit the "Asai DDT" (Reverse Spinning DDT) to Storm and got the three count to retain the Cruiserweight Title!

(Winner and Still WWE Cruiserweight Champion: Asai)

Overall Rating: 79%

Crowd Reaction: 77%

Match Quality: 82%

Dames Stars: ***

What!?

We go to commercial break and when we return "Passing You By" By Motorhead hits and Randy Orton comes out onto the stage to a chorus of boo's but he doesn't care because he has the WWE Championship around his waist. He does his normal poses and walks down to the ring. His forehead has a huge bandage on it as well. Orton went through a war on Sunday and it showed. Orton climbed gingerly into the ring and grabbed a microphone. He then faced the stage and began a promo at Edge!

Orton: Nobody believed it could be done. Edge was the unstoppable Champion and I was the snot-nosed rookie whom couldn't do it. But everyone found out at Wrestlemania that I am a Legend Killer and that Edge was a flawed Champion! Now Edge isn't a legend in his own right but with how many championships he's won. He has the resume to be one. I've killed all kinds of legends in my way up and to get to this point I killed the legend that is "Stone Cold" Steve Austin as well as the legend that was to be in Edge. But I ended that.

Orton: Now I am the WWE Champion and all Edge is..is a former Champion. Which is all he will ever be because I will defend this Title against all comers. I will even give Edge a re-match for the WWE Title. But it won't be tonight. It will be at a date I specify and...I will tell everyone that..but not you people here tonight!

Orton laughs as the crowd boo's and then Edge's music comes on and the lights go down as his smoke and strobe lights begin going off. Orton talks throughout what we believe is Edge coming out

Orton: Come on Edge! Come on to this ring so you can get another RKO. So I can beat you down again just like I did at Wrestlemania!

Orton finally calms down as his music stops as does the smoke and strobes and the crowd boo's as Orton begins to taunt Edge more as he knows Edge isn't coming but the crowd explodes in cheers as Orton begins to speak!

Orton: Edge doesn't have the guts to face the Legend Killer in this ring!

The crowd exploded in cheers though because "Stone Cold" Steve Austin had come through the crowd and lept over the barricade, he then slid into the ring and finally Orton turned around..RIGHT INTO A STONE COLD STUNNER!!!

The crowd exploded with cheers as Austin's music hit and he did the four post salute to the crowd, by then Orton was up and Austin gave him another stunner before his Living Legends came running to the ring to clear Austin away. Austin left through the crowd but we take another quick commercial break with Orton staring off into the crowd where Austin left to...with a furious look on his face!

Overall Rating: 84%

John Cena vs Booker T

World Heavyweight Championship Match

Booker T was the first man out and while he lost at Wrestlemania..for some reason or another he was being given this World Title shot at Cena tonight! Once Booker was in the ring, John Cena's "Thuganomics 101" Hit and he came sauntering to the ring though he also had a bandage over his forehead from where he was busted open at Mania. He had all his usual jewelry as well as the World Heavyweight Title around his waist. Cena comes down to the ring and climbs inside and both men throw down in a tough ten minute match which went back and forth between the two men till late in the match the Referee took the High Leg Clothesline from Booker instead of Cena. At this point Cena drops Booker with a nasty clothesline and then "King of my World" Hits and Cena seemed stunned as he stands by the entryway side of the ring, to wait and see if Jericho is coming to attack. Meanwhile on the other side of the ring Tommy Dreamer had slid into the ring from behind with a singapore cane. He picked Booker up and walloped him on top of his head with it and then nailed a Dreamer Driver to Booker to lay him out. Dreamer then left the ring with a fallen Booker T in the ring.

Cena turned back around once Jericho's music went away and he saw Booker in a prone position still and figured it was from his own excellent clotheslines though it wasn't. Cena then picked Booker up and hit an F-U for good measure and the referee got into the count and made a three count on Booker. While this happened Raven made his way through the crowd as well to the ring! He grabbed the World Heavyweight Title from the ring announcer and slid into the ring behind Cena. Cena got up to celebrate and he turned right into Raven blasting him with the title to his head! Raven then drops the belt on the mat and EVENFLOW DDT'S CENA ONTO THE BELT!!! Raven then stands with his arms out in his taunt pose as we take another commercial break!

(Winner and STILL World Heavyweight Champion: John Cena)

Overall Rating: 79%

Crowd Reaction: 81%

Match Quality: 77%

Dames Stars: **1/2

Sean O'Haire/Rhyno vs HHH/Chris Benoit

This match is another pretty good one showcasing the talent on Smackdown as all four competitors go back and forth at each other. The match nearly ends when HHH tries to pedigree Sean O'Haire but he back body drops out of it and O'Haire tries for a clothesline on HHH as he gets up but HHH ducks it and tags Benoit in! From this point out it was all O'Haire and Rhyno as they picked apart a beatup Benoit from Mania and the match finishes with the "Cruel Intentions" from O'Haire to Benoit for the three count! But then after the match Ken Shamrock and Lance Storm of the Living Legends come down to the ring with chairs and assist Benoit and HHH in annihilating O'Haire and Rhyno! HHH hits a Pedigree on O'Haire and Benoit makes Rhyno tap with the Crossface after a couple chair shots to each guy!

(Winners: Sean O'Haire/Rhyno)

Overall Rating: 79%

Crowd Reaction: 78%

Match Quality: 81%

Dames Stars: **3/4

Matt Hardy Version 1.0 vs Shark Boy

WWE American Championship Match

This was not a squash match but it was close. After the last match both men tried to top their performance and did really well but in the end Sharky never had a real shot to win the match. It's ok because Matt Stryker made sure that Sharky didn't fall to a pinfall loss as he came down to the ring and completely beatdown Hardy causing a DQ. Stryker then proceeded to hit three Stryker Drivers on Hardy after the DQ to send a message to him that he will be the future American Champion!

(Winner by DQ and STILL WWE American Champion: Matt Hardy Version 1.0)(WWE American Title Gained in Image)

Overall Rating: 80%

Crowd Reaction: 84%

Match Quality: 74%

Dames Stars: **1/4

We are backstage after Raven just made his attack on Cena and Raven seems to be getting ready to leave the building in his locker room. Raven comes back out of his locker room and as the door closes...Eddie Guerrero comes into camera view and is standing in Raven's way. Eddie has an almost Homicidal look on his face and the two men begin to brawl. Raven looks like he might get the advantage at one point and tries for an Evenflow DDT to the cement but Eddie regains control by pushing him off and throwing him into a locker room door. Eddie eventully finishes Raven off and hurts him real bad by putting him through a plate glass window of an office that was backstage! Raven is quickly attended to by EMT'S as Eddie heads off still furious over losing a big match at Mania!

(Eddie Guerrero Gained Overness From This Segment)

Overall Rating: 93%

Brock Lesnar vs Tommy Dreamer

WWE Intercontinental Championship Match

This match was almost a complete domination of Tommy Dreamer from the opening bell to almost the end. Lesnar manhandled Dreamer for almost the entire match and it was almost a complete squash till the end of the match where Lesnar went for a clothesline at Dreamer and instead gave Brian Hebner one of the nastiest clotheslines ever seen. Hebner did his classic somersault bump, flipping himself over the arm and down to the mat in a heap. Both men fight for another two minutes while Brian Hebner is down and eventully it moves to the outside where Lesnar tries to F5 Dreamer through the Smackdown Annouce Table but Dreamer rakes the eyes and grabs his Intercontinental Title..then aims and connects between the eyes of Lesnar. Dreamer then rolls Lesnar into the ring and gets into the ring himself. This is the point where Booker T comes running out to the ring and leaps up onto the ring apron. Dreamer spots him and runs at him but Booker hits a shoulder thrust to him to stagger him to the middle of the ring. Booker climbs to the top rope as Lesnar gets up with a bit of blood trickling from his forehead. Lesnar grabs Dreamer from behind in a German Suplex position as Booker leaps off the top rope for a Top Rope Missle Dropkick but Dreamer ducks and Booker nails Lesnar right in the head with the move. This completely takes Lesnar out!!

Dreamer then grabs Booker and throws him over the top rope to the outside, Dreamer kicks the referee to wake him up and Hebner counts as Dreamer gets into the cover, hooking the leg..1....2.....3! Dreamer steals the match and retains the Intercontinental Title. Booker rolled into the ring as Dreamer left with his IC Title belt over his shoulder as well as his Hardcore Title in hand. What Booker didn't see coming was Lesnar spinning him around and laying him out with a Nasty F5 as Smackdown's credits rolled and Lesnar is left in the ring with a furious look on his face!

(Winner and STILL WWE Intercontinental Champion: Tommy Dreamer)

Overall Rating: 73%

Crowd Reaction: 71%

Match Quality: 75%

Dames Stars: **

Smackdown Rating: 77%

TV Rating: 4.95

Attendance: 4,021

Ticket Sales: $160,840

Edited June 18, 2004 by Kapalua2483

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5Wrestling.com Independent News!

With the rising of the National and Cult federations..a New Company has arisen and it is the United States Pro Wrestling Federation. The USPW has accumulated in a short time a good array of talent to their team...Such as Steve Corino, Tony Mamaluke and Glenn Gilberti are just a few of the men in their company. WWE has to watch out for another Cult/National fed that is coming after their stagnating product!

(To make this work I had to do some major adjustments cause my normal game has had some errors that would not work)

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Sunday Night Heat Preview

Dark Matches

Black Dragon vs Chris Nowitski

Billy Kidman vs Chris Sabin

Maven vs Funaki

Shannon Moore vs Rico

Heat Matches

Charlie Haas vs Batista

Cyclone vs Lance Storm

Goldust vs Bubba Ray Dudley

Christopher Daniels vs Spanky

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Sunday Night Heat

April 4, 2004

Dark Matches

Chris Nowitski defeats Black Dragon 57(49,66)3/4*

Billy Kidman wins by pinfall over Chris Sabin with a Shooting Star Press 69(65,73)*3/4

Pimp Daddy McMaven defeats Funaki with a Missle Dropkick 67(65,70)*1/2

Shannon Moore beats Rico straight up..which is tough for Rico being his gimmick is gay. 63(54,72)*1/4

Heat Matches

Charlie Haas pins Batista with interference from Shelton Benjamin which was a superkick to the jaw of Batista by Shelton! 64(54,75)*3/4

Lance Storm defeats Cyclone via pulling the tights for a three count 84(81,87)***1/2

Bubba Ray Dudley beats Goldust with a Bubba Cutter and a pin 75(79,69)*3/4

Spanky Defeats Christopher Daniels with a surprise Sliced Bread #2 but after the match Daniels delivers the Last Rites to Spanky 78(79,77)**1/2

Heat Rating: 70%

TV Rating: 4.95

Attendance: 4,018

Ticket Sales: $160,720

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Preview

Tonight will be the first ever WWE Draft Lottery. Everything will be explained tonight as to how it will go and it will be a huge night in the history of the WWE.

Also tonight we will have a match between Randy Orton the WWE Champion will go one on one with the Rattlesnake "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and it will be for the WWE Championship!

We can expect Edge will be in the house to watch that match but he is one of the many not safe in the Draft Lottery!

Tommy Dreamer will be defending his Hardcore Championship against Shark Boy tonight in a one on one matchup.

We will also see the World Heavyweight Champion in attendance tonight as he will be forced to team with the #1 contender to his title. It will be John Cena and Raven vs Chris Jericho and Eddie Guerrero!

All this plus all the Draft Night Deals and Draft Picks!

Featured Matches

"Stone Cold" Steve Austin vs Randy Orton (WWE Title Match)

Tommy Dreamer vs Shark Boy (WWE Hardcore Title Match)

John Cena/Raven vs Chris Jericho/Eddie Guerrero

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WWE Monday Night RAW

April 5, 2004

We see the entire Linda McMahon segment from Smackdown in it's entirety before the show starts. Then "Union Underground" Hits and the RAW intro video kicks up. Then once it's complete pyro begins going off but immediately things are different tonight as a RAW Podeum and a Smackdown Podeum are on the stage with a bingo bin of balls on each side.

Then "Here Comes the Money" Hits and surprisingly Shane McMahon gets heavy boo's as RAW comes on the air tonight. Guess the RAW crowd doesn't like Smackdown much. Then Once Shane has moved to his podeum, "I'm Back" Hits and very surprisingly Eric Bischoff gets a heavy amount of cheers to the boo's. Then once he gets to his podeum he begins to talk

Bischoff: I'm Back and it's great to see every one of you out there! Now being as RAW is the home field tonight. I Eric Bischoff have been allowed to make the first selection of the First Ever WWE Draft Lottery! So without any further ado I will make the First Selection!

Bischoff began spinning his bingo bin and then reached in and pulled out a ball. He seemed a bit dissappointed but then tried to turn it into a positive

Bischoff: One of the bright and up coming stars in our business. The RAW Brand welcomes Matt Morgan as their #1 Selection!

Shane McMahon grinned across the stage and began talking, interrupting Bischoff

Shane: While a nice selection Eric, it's what I would expect out of you. Average. The Smackdown brand does not accept Average. So without waiting any longer I will make Smackdown's #1 Selection

Before he could do so though we cut backstage to where Randy Orton and Edge are fighting and Orton's Living Legends are assisting Orton in beating down poor Edge 4 on 1! Then finally Orton finishes it with an RKO Through a Wooden Palet that was backstage. Pretty good way to end a backstage brawl as the Living Legends walk off

Overall Rating: 84%

Our camera angle comes back to the stage where Shane McMahon was watching, he shakes his head and begins spinning his bin..then once it stops, he pulls a ball out and opens it up and his face breaks into a giant grin

The Smackdown Brand welcomes it's #1 Draft Pick to it's roster. But first his opponent for tonight. NOVA!

Nova comes walking out of the back and he definately did not seem happy..almost like a lamb being fed to the slaughter...perhaps he saw who he was facing? He gets into the ring and then..A GIANT AMOUNT OF PYRO goes off and Kane comes stalking out from the backstage area and walks right past Shane McMahon and Eric Bischoff...KANE IS GOING TO SMACKDOWN! Kane walks down to the ring and Kane's first Smackdown Match will happen right now!

Kane vs Nova

This was an utter squash match. Kane hit a Tilt a Whirl Slam along with a top rope clothesline and a big boot before finishing the small Nova with a nasty Chokeslam for the easy victory. Kane then did his pyro from the ringposts and leaves the ring as quickly as he came..now as a member of the Smackdown Roster!

(Winner: Kane)

Overall Rating: 57%

Crowd Reaction: 58%

Match Quality: 58%

Dames Stars: 1/4*

Tommy Dreamer vs Shark Boy

WWE Hardcore Championship Match

This match is not long it goes about seven minutes and Shark Boy did not put out a top effort tonight! It was back and forth though but in the end Dreamer won it with a Singapore Cane shot to the head for the three but after the match Booker T did a run-in and nailed a Book End on Dreamer onto a cookie sheet! Then he left, leaving Dreamer laying with his Hardcore and IC Championships on him.

(Winner and STILL WWE Hardcore Champion: Tommy Dreamer)(Shark Boy was Sluggish)(Tommy Dreamer Gains Overness From This Match)

Overall Rating: 67%

Crowd Reaction: 73%

Match Quality: 54%

Dames Stars: 1/4*

A Different Answer

"Passing You By" hits and Randy Orton with the WWE Championship over his shoulder, comes sauntering down to the ring. He gets to ringside and climbs into the ring. Orton stalks around the ring and grabs a microphone as he passes near the tech and readjusts the WWE Title over his shoulder. Then he begins to speak

Orton: Now tonight I am here to call out the punk that keeps trying to attack me week in and week out. The Man that I beat fair and square at Wrestlemania 20 for the WWE Title. So Edge. I want you to come out here right now and face me in this ring like a man!

Orton had a huge grin on his face as he stood, waiting for a man he knows he laid out a few moments ago but Edge's music and smoke hits and Orton seems surprised..he gets ready to fight but AUSTIN! He comes through the crowd from behind Orton again, gets into the ring and spins Orton around..STUNNER STUNNER STUNNER! J.R is going nuts over at the RAW announce position while the Smackdown announcers downplay the RAW's Austin getting the better of Orton again and we take another commercial break!

Overall Rating: 88%

We're Back!

When we return from break we come back to Shane and Eric back on the stage and Shane is making his next pick..apparently they are going to alternate who goes first though it really doesn't matter who picks when. So Shane spins the bin and pulls a ball out..he ends up seeming dissappointed.

Shane: Taka Michanoku

Bischoff is heard laughing as he spins his bin around and pulls a ball out of it, then he proceeds to give his #2 Pick's introduction

RAW Is proud to welcome our #2 Selection and the man whom will take on Batista right now...REY MYSTERIO!

Batista vs Rey Mysterio

Mysterio makes his way out to the stage and takes off his Smackdown shirt and puts a RAW shirt that Bischoff had on..Shane Does not seem happy about losing one of his Top Cruiserweights. Rey made it to the ring and then Batista's music hits and he makes his way out onto the stage while his music plays. Batista then gets down to the ring and these men go to battle for eight minutes in their match. Mysterio reverses alot of Batista's attempts at power moves and in the end Mysterio wins it with a "619" and a Dropping the Dime to win it! Batista gets up while Mysterio is celebrating and he is pissed. He grabs Mysterio and throws him across the ring, then picks him up and hits a Sit-Out Powerbomb on the tiny Mysterio and it folds him in half! Batista then stalks off and after the match once Batista's music is finished playing. Bischoff and Shane are still there to make their next selections!

(Winner: Rey Mysterio)

Overall Rating: 75%

Crowd Reaction: 76%

Match Quality: 76%

Dames Stars: **1/4

Bischoff is already spinning his bin once Batista has passed by and pulls out his next ball, then throws it off the stage in disgust

Bischoff: Nova

It was Shane's turn to laugh as he spun his bin and pulled out his brand's next selection and he announced it

Shane: The Smackdown brand is happy to welcome to their roster the man whom will compete against AJ Styles right now...D'Lo Brown!

AJ Styles vs D'Lo Brown

D'Lo Brown came out onto the stage taking his RAW T-shirt off and putting on a Smackdown T-Shirt that Shane McMahon had in hand and he makes his way to the ring with his patented strut walk with his head moving around and then once he was in the ring. AJ Styles came out and both Shane and Bischoff exited the stage as Styles came out and then both these men went to war! D'Lo and Styles went back and forth the entire match but in the end D'Lo hit a sudden Sky High and finishes Styles with a Lo Down for the three count! After the match though when D'Lo was trying to leave but Styles spun him around and pulled him back to the middle of the ring, hit a low blow and nailed a Styles Clash on D'Lo to lay him out! We go to commercial break with D'Lo Brown down in the ring, the last time he'll be in a RAW Ring!

(Winner: D'Lo Brown)

Overall Rating: 71%

Crowd Reaction: 68%

Match Quality: 75%

Dames Stars: **

Hate

We return from commercial break with Raven walking backstage and suddenly Eddie Guerrero comes out of his locker room and begins exchanging heated words between the two but quickly officials come running up and break the two apart before they beat the crap out of each other. Which would jeopardize their tag match later and nobody wanted that!

Overall Rating: 84%

We go back to the stage where Shane McMahon is making his fourth selection as we get back. He reads it off with a grin to the crowd and Eric

Shane: Smackdown proudly welcomes our newest addition to our brand. The True People's Champion...Christian!

Christian's music hits and he's seen backstage and he seems indifferent towards the situtation..he simply gets up and leaves the RAW Locker room and then Bischoff whom seems pissed off, goes to his bin and spins it around, then selects a name out and growls in anger

Bischoff: Low-Ki come out here and Break this kid in half for me!

Paul London vs Low-Ki

Bischoff and Shane leave as Paul London whom is apparently RAW's Fourth selection. Then once London is in the ring we get Low-Ki's music kicking up and he comes down to the ring with his Undisputed Tag Team Championship around his waist. He slides into the ring, unstrapping it and starts it off with London. These men go back and forth. London with his high flying offense and Low-Ki with his ground based submission tactics. Low-Ki gets London in several submissions but London manages to keep from tapping out and eventully London hits a nasty spike DDT on Low-Ki and goes up top to hit the Beautifully executed "London's Calling" and gets a three count on Low-Ki for a victory! This infuriates Low-Ki as he rolls out of the ring in pain a bit. London celebrates in the ring esctatic with the big win and Low-Ki climbs back into the ring with a chair and WHACK as London turns around Low-Ki destroys the chair over his head. Low-Ki then goes apeshit with the chair, destroying it over and over into London and then finally leaves him laying in the ring as we go to commercial break

(Winner: Paul London)

Overall Rating: 78%

Crowd Reaction: 72%

Match Quality: 84%

Dames Stars: ***

We Return from commercial break and once again the Two GM's are out there again and Eric Bischoff is spinning his bingo bin full of men's names to see whom he will get and he stops it, pulling a ball out and he seems a bit more pleased with this selection as he announces it

Bischoff: The RAW brand welcomes back to it's roster...Cyclone!

Backstage we see Hurricane and Cyclone in the Smackdown locker room and a ping of sadness is seen in both as they embrace one last time and Cyclone then leaves the locker room as Hurricane looks on..the Superhero Duo is now one.

Back on the stage Shane McMahon is spinning his bin and once he's stopped and he picks his ball out, he announces his next selection

The Smackdown brand welcomes a man whom will be bringing much happiness and joy to the entire locker room for a long time to come...Pimp Daddy McMaven!

The RAW Locker room seems very upset at this announcement..it could be because Maven and his five fine fine looking ho's all get up from their respective spots in the locker room..most of the ho's were on wrestler's laps and were earning their keep..now it's time for the Smackdown locker room to pay out!

John Cena/Raven vs Chris Jericho/Eddie Guerrero

Once Bischoff and McMahon clear the stage, Eddie Guerrero's music hits and he comes sauntering out onto the stage, playing to the crowd the entire time. He walks down to the ring doing his poses and shimmy. Then once Eddie Guerrero is in the ring. "King of My World" Hits and Chris Jericho makes his way out onto the stage. His pyro explodes and he does his usual entrance to the ring. Jericho poses on the ring apron and then he climbs into the ring as his music ends. Then Raven's music hits and he comes out onto the stage with a grin, he walks down the ramp holding his arms out in his pose and then waits as "Thuganomics 101" hits and John Cena comes out onto the stage with his "Bling" on as well as the World Heavyweight Championship around his waist. Cena comes to the ring, he gives a bunch of cautionary looks to Raven and then walks up to the ring and climbs inside.

Cena and Raven both get into the ring and the bell sounds as Cena finishes taking off his "Bling" and his World Title, handing that off to Earl Hebner. This match is part of the double Main Event tonight..this being pretty much the RAW Roster main event as Cena and Raven control the first almost five minutes on Eddie Guerrero. Keeping him away from his partner and getting several near falls on him. Raven hitting a hard russian legsweep for a long two. Cena hitting the throwback at a later point for a close two as well. Guerrero manages to hit a Leg Lariat on Cena late in the match though to be able to make the hot Tag to Jericho. Jericho cleaned house on Raven and Cena for almost two full minutes and by the time there was order. Jericho was in control of Raven in the ring. Jericho hit a Flashback as well as a bulldog to Raven..then a Lionsault for a long two count before Cena broke it up with a stomp. Guerrero comes flying across the ring though, clotheslining Cena and himself up and over the top rope to the outside.

Jericho took advantage at this point and grabbed Raven's legs and tried for the Walls but Raven pushed him off and both men got to their feet though Raven did so slowly. Jericho ran at Raven but Raven stopped him with a kick to the gut and tried for his Evenflow DDT But Jericho grabbed his legs again and took them out from under him. Jericho this time turned it over and got that back torked in the right direction, then putting his knee down into Raven's back till after about 20 seconds in it. Raven tapped out! Jericho let go, exhausted as Cena came back into the ring after laying Eddie out on the outside with his knucks and as Jericho got up tiredly, he turned right into the Loaded fist from Cena! Cena then picked Jericho up and nailed a huge F-U on him. Guerrero got into the ring bleeding and Cena gave one to him as well. Cena then celebrated over them all and then as Raven got up..F-U TO HIM AS WELL!!! Cena grabbed his World Heavyweight Title after that and left the ring...he knew he would answer for that carnage soon!

(Winners: Chris Jericho and Eddie Guerrero)

Overall Rating: 82%

Crowd Reaction: 85%

Match Quality: 78%

Dames Stars: **3/4

Randy Orton vs "Stone Cold" Steve Austin

WWE Championship Match

Main Event

This was the main event as the crowd was still hyped from the match and they started screaming again as the Glass Shattered and "Stone Cold" came marching from the back in his wrestling gear. Austin came down to the ring and did his four corners salute. Then "Passing You By" By Motorhead hits and Randy Orton, sore jaw and all comes walking out onto the stage with his WWE Championship in hand. Orton makes his way down to the ring to the boo's from the crowd. Orton then climbs into the ring and poses with the Title but that doesn't last long as Austin immediately spins Orton around and begins throwing those fists of fire. Austin takes it to Orton the entire opening of the match. Orton manages to get a breather when he pulls the "Overdrive" (His legdrop Testdrive type manuever) out of nowhere and takes a rest on the mat after the pounding. Austin is still up first and continues pounding Orton for another FIVE Minutes! Orton seemingly is completely on the defensive the entire match.

Austin hits a Lou Thesz Press with 10 punches to Orton, then hits the ropes for an Austin Elbow. Austin then covers Orton for a long two count. Austin then picks Orton up and whips him to the ropes and catches him for a beautiful spinning spinebuster. Austin rolls into the cover, hooking the leg for another long two count. At this point Austin was firmly in control. He picks Orton up and out of nowhere with a last burst of energy Orton hits a GIANT RKO on Austin to lay him out but Orton can't capitalize for two reasons. One he rolls away in pain and the other being Edge chooses this point to come back out to the ring, he runs down to ringside and around the ring, grabbing the WWE Title from the ring announcer and climbs into the ring. Edge then elbows the referee away from him which causes a DQ automatically from the referee. Edge doesn't care though as he completely destroys the WWE Title into the head of Randy Orton! Austin gets up and shockingly he receives the same treatment from a very demented Edge. Edge then leaves the ring, laying the WWE Title over the body of Orton. Edge leaves through the crowd as Bischoff and Shane McMahon come back onto the stage.

(No Contest)(STILL WWE Champion: Randy Orton)

Overall Rating: 77%

Crowd Reaction: 80%

Match Quality: 72%

Dames Stars: **

The Big Hit

Shane goes over and begins spinning his bingo bin for the final time tonight and pulls the final name of the night out..he seems mildly pleased with his selection and announces it to the crowd as Orton and Austin are still down in the ring and bleeding though they are both getting to their feet slowly

Shane: The Smackdown brand welcomes it's final selection of the Draft Lottery home..that selection is Goldust!

We see Goldust leave the RAW Locker room backstage and in the meantime Bischoff with a determined look on his face spins the bin around and then stops to pull a name out of it..he seems dissappointed as he announces the name

Bischoff: I'm afraid RAW's final selection of the Draft Lottery is none other than...KURT ANGLE!!!!!

The crowd pops huge for RAW though some boo cause they know Kurt isn't such a nice guy. He comes sauntering out onto the stage as Shane McMahon is going bezerk. Kurt has a Smackdown shirt on and Shane gets up in his face telling him that he'll trade back for him but Kurt answers that with..A HUGE ANGLE SLAM TO THE STAGE!!! Kurt Angle is on RAW NOW! Angle tears the shirt off and Bischoff then speaks to Angle

Bischoff: Kurt your first official action as a member of the RAW Roster is to remove that Trash from my ring!

The crowd isn't sure how to respond as Kurt comes running down to the ring and goes immediately after Randy Orton..HUGE ANGLE SLAM!!! Then Angle gets up and goes over to Austin whom tries to stun him but Angle pushes him off and.HITS A STUNNER ON AUSTIN!!! Oh man Angle has cleared the ring and now Kurt Angle is on RAW And there will be hell to pay next week!

RAW Rating: 75%

TV Rating: 4.87

Attenadance: 4,006

Ticket Sales: $160,240

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Promotion Turmoil

5Wrestling.com is taking the time to highlight the top competition to the WWE At the moment.

Now at #1 is the strong and coming NWA-TNA whom could unseat WWE. They have had five straight months of earning money and gaining public image and have not made mistakes. Where as the WWE Has had several storyline mistakes.

(National, 97% and Gaining 1 PI at every Wednesday PPV so Three weeks till Global)

While many have them farther down. I rate XPW at a #2 to WWE. They have three TV Shows on small networks that are pulling in decent ratings which is better than the #3 to WWE

(Cult, 88% But they went down because Rob Black quit as Owner. They are right in the hunt and coming right back to the National level and beyond because of their TV Revenue)

Ring of Honor is a solid #3 to WWE though they've had trouble getting over the hump after becoming a National federation

(National, 8% They became National in February and have struggled around the PI 10% mark. They need to do something to get them over the hump or they will be stuck in Pergatory with a bunch of other federations whom are starting out at National.

We are looking for WWE and NWA-TNA To get real nasty with each other within a month potentially. It could be a tough time ahead for the WWE Which is why many believe they did this Draft Lottery on Monday. To set their rosters for this fight.

I am going to post updated Rosters from after RAW and what Titles each show will have four starting on this upcoming Smackdown where a new Title is introduced to replace the lost Tag Titles that Smackdown traded away.

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Roster

Main Eventers

Chris Jericho (97,F)

John Cena (83,H)(World Heavyweight Champion)

Kurt Angle (100,H)

Ric Flair (91,H)

The Rock (85,F)

Upper Midcarders

Booker T (82,F)

Bubba Ray Dudley (82,T)(Currently Awaiting D-Von to come back before too much of a Push)

Chavo Guerrero (83,H)(With Raven Somewhat)

Cyclone (87,F)(Drafted by RAW, Push is coming)

Eddie Guerrero (84,F)

Jay Lethal (83,F)(Returning from injury soon)

Raven (84,T)(#1 Contender to the World Heavyweight Championship)

Rey Mysterio (81,F)(Drafted by RAW, Push is Coming as well)

Shark Boy (83,F)

Shawn Michaels (84,F)(Broken Leg for Two More Months. Return will come in June sometime Though his contract is up in September and may not be renewed due to it's high amount)

"Stone Cold" Steve Austin (89,F)

Midcarders

Batista (74,H)(Undisputed Tag Team Champion)

Charlie Haas (79,H)

D-Von Dudley (79,T)(Out 6 More Months with his Torn Calf)

Eric Angle (70,H)

Fury (72,F)

Low Ki (76,H)(Undisputed Tag Team Champion)

Mark Jindrak (72,F)

Mayhem (74,F)

Nova (70,F)

Paul London (79,F)

Satoshi Kojima (72,H)

Shelton Benjamin (80,H)

Sonny Siaki (74,H)

Tajiri (75,H)

Taz (77,F)

Test (72,H)

Tommy Dreamer (74,H)(WWE Intercontinental and Hardcore Champion)

William Regal (71,H)

Lower Midcarders

Chris Nowitski (66,H)

Funaki (57,H)

Insane Dragon (64,F)

Jimmy Yang (51,H)

Kaz Hayashi (61,H)

Spike Dudley (68,H)

Openers

Matt Morgan (50,H)

NOSAWA (44,H)

Non-Wrestlers

Eric Bischoff (RAW General Manager)

Stacy Keibler (Valey but in Rehab...what A Cokehead)

Trish Stratus (Valet but not back on Screen yet)

Champions

World Heavyweight Champion: John Cena

WWE Intercontinental Champion: Tommy Dreamer

WWE Hardcore Champion: Tommy Dreamer

Undisputed Tag Team Champions: Batista and Low-Ki

Smackdown's Current Roster and Champions is up and coming

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John Cena vs Raven

(World Heavyweight Championship Match)

Booker T vs Tommy Dreamer

(WWE Intercontinental Championship Match)

Batista/Low-Ki vs Team Angle

(Undisputed Tag Team Championship Match)

Chavo Guerrero vs Eddie Guerrero

This is the Early Card. These are the matches confirmed though for sure Kurt Angle, The Rock, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, Shark Boy and Rey Mysterio will find their way onto this card.

Winner of this month's PPV Prediction contest will get to pick one storyline for RAW they want to see happen and it will occur.