Monday Night Raw!
August 25th, 2008
~Camera goes to the arena where some heavy pyronamics go off. The camera pans around the arena for a little while before going over to Michael Cole and Jerry ‘The King’ Lawler. They welcome us to the show, and start to talk about what to expect later in the show, but they are interrupted by the music of CM Punk. Punk comes out to a pop from the fans, but still looks a little angry about something.~
CM Punk starts to tell the fans that he thinks that he has now proven that his World Title win over Edge was not a fluke. He has defeated Batista and JBL. Two former World Champions themselves. Rey Mysterio’s music hits, and Rey returns to Raw after an absence. Mysterio tells Punk that he has a lot of respect for him, but yet, CM Punk has not beat Rey Mysterio. Punk says he would be happy to face Rey Mysterio anytime, anyplace, anywhere. Mike Adamle comes out and says that Rey will have to earn the #1 contenders match. He announces a fatal four way match for later in the show. Batista vs JBL vs Kane vs Rey Mysterio. The winner would go on to face CM Punk at Unforgiven for the World Heavyweight Championship.
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Match #1
Jillian Hall vs Mickie James
Jillian Hall is out next, and she starts singing horribly. Mickie James comes out, interrupting Hall. James rolls in the ring, and the opening match for Raw is on. James was a little mad at losing her Women’s Championship last night, and she seemed to take it out on Jillian Hall. The only offense that Jillian Hall got was her horrible singing at the beginning that made everyone in the arena go deaf (:P). Mickie James was drilling Jillian Hall with hard right hand shots in the corner, until Jillian Hall reverses it, and lifts Mickie James up, putting her in a sitting position on the top rope in the corner. Mickie would fight back though, and she kicked Hall hard right in the face. Mickie would then get Hall in position and land a tornado DDT from the top rope! Mickie James covered Hall for the win.
Todd Grisham is backstage, and he tells everyone that he is about to go into Mike Adamle’s office, to see who is the first ECW superstar to be drafted to Raw. Grisham knocks, and Adamle comes to the door. Grisham asks him who is the first draft pick from ECW? Adamle tells him that you, and everyone else in the world will find out next!
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Match #2
‘MVP’ Charlie Hass vs Raw’s first draft pick from ECW
Charlie Hass is out when Raw comes back from commercials. This week, he is dressed like MVP. He does some MVP like taunts in the ring as he waits for his opponent, who is the first person to be drafted to Raw from ECW. Tommy Dreamer’s music hits, and he comes out to a pop. ‘MVP’ Charlie Hass (Charlie Hass will be known as for one night only
) got a little bit of offense in on Raw’s newest superstar Tommy Dreamer, hitting him with a few punches, and even came off the ropes and did a MVP like taunt, acting like he is shooting a basketball before dropping a elbow to the heart of Dreamer. Dreamer soon got the momentum of the match back though, and he was hitting MVP Hass with some hard right hands. Dreamer then got Hass in the corner, still firing the right hands. Dreamer then puts MVP Hass in the tree of woe in the corner. Dreamer goes to the other side of the ring then runs at Hass and gives him a dropkick right to the face! Dreamer then helps Hass up to his feet, then gives him a huge DDT. Dreamer covers him for the win.
Camera goes backstage to Ted DiBiase and Cody Rhodes, the World Tag Team Champions. They announce that right here tonight, they are going to issue a open challenge to any team in the WWE to a non-title match. At this time, Jesse walks in with the strange Festus. Jesse tells them that they better get ready, cause tonight, they are going to have to deal with them. Because they accept the challenge! Jesse and Festus walk out as the World Tag Team Champions start shaking their heads before saying that Jesse and Festus are jokes, and they are going to prove it tonight!
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Camera goes backstage to Mike Adamle. He’s talking to someone, and he it appears to be Jake Hager from FCW. Chris Jericho walks into the office. He says he’s tired of being overlooked in the World Heavyweight Championship Title Picture. Mike tells him that he has to earn his way into the World Title picture. And he will give him the chance, next week. It will be a treat for the fans, as they have been so loyal to Raw in the past. Next week, the main event of Raw will be Shawn Michaels vs Chris Jericho! Chris Jericho is furious, as Lance Cade starts to try and get him to leave the room. Just as they are about to leave though, Adamle stops them. He says that he heard Shawn Michaels is in the arena tonight. And, just so Lance Cade doesn’t feel left out, right here tonight, Lance Cade is going to take on Shawn Michaels! Lance Cade starts trying to argue with Adamle, before he and Jericho both leave the room furious.
The camera cuts to the ring as Santino Marella is standing in the ring with Beth Phoenix. He says that he has been Intercontinental Champion for 2 days. And he looks to break The Honky Tonk Man’s record of being Intercontinental Champion for 454 days. Marella then says only 452 more days! The crowd laughs as Beth Phoenix looks a little mad at Santino for being stupid (But Santino just can’t help it ) as D’Lo Brown’s music hits. He comes out to a pop. And it looks like the next match is under way.
Match #3
Santino Marella (W/Beth Phoenix) vs D’Lo Brown
The new Intercontinental Champion was trying to defeat his opponent, the former Intercontinental Champion himself, D’Lo Brown. D’Lo was just about to close in on a victory over Intercontinental Champion Santino Marella, as he went up to the top rope, looking for the Lowdown, but at this point, Beth Phoenix pushed D’Lo off the ropes, with D’Lo landing face first onto the announcers table. The ref didn’t see a thing either, as he was checking on Santino. The ref looks a little confused, but nonetheless, he starts his ten count, and Brown is not able to answer it, and he is counted out. After the match, Santino celebrates like he has just won the WWE Championship. Beth hands him the Intercontinental Championship, and Santino kisses her. They both look a little confused for a little while, but then they start kissing again. Afterwards, Beth leaves the ring, as Santino stays in the ring, still acting like he just won the WWE Championship, until Beth tells him to come on, and Marella gets out of the ring and follows Beth to the back.
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Match #4
Ted DiBiase and Cody Rhodes vs Jesse and Festus
Both teams are already in the ring when Raw comes back from commercial. The bell rings, and Festus goes nuts, and he runs at the World Tag Team Champions, but the Tag Champs get out of the ring. The ref tells Jesse and Festus that one of them has to get out of the ring, as Cody Rhodes slowly slides back into the ring. Festus gets out of the ring. The match was controlled by the World Tag Team Champs, and they didn’t let Jesse tag in Festus the entire match, as they kept him in there corner for most of the match, making frequent tags. Jesse starts to fight back though, and he almost makes the tag to Festus, but DiBiase and Rhodes both grab Jesse’s legs and drag him back into their corner. About a minute later, Jesse starts to fight back again, and this time, he tags in Festus. Festus jumps into the ring, and starts to clothesline, punch, and kick the World Tag Team Champions. Festus grabs Cody Rhodes, the legal man, and throws him into the corner where he delivers some hard right hands. Meanwhile, DiBiase is outside the ring, and he grabs the bell, and rings it, Instantly, Festus goes back to his calm self. Rhodes gets on the top rope and delivers a axe-handle to Festus, that makes Festus go down to the ground. Rhodes then covers Festus for the three.
Rhodes and DiBiase celebrate as the camera cuts backstage to Todd Grisham. He welcomes his guest at this time, the former WWE Champion, John Cena. Cena doesn’t let Todd say anything, and he says that he doesn’t understand why he was overlooked for the #1 contenders match for the WWE Championship tonight. Cena goes on to say that he will make an impact in the match weather he’s in it, or not.
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Adamle is backstage, and he is looking for John Cena, yelling out his name. All of a sudden Jamie Noble is running away, and he tells Adamle that the dude is crazy and to run! Adamle looks where Noble was running from, and sees walls punched out, things tipped over, everything just ruined. Adamle walks down the hall a little ways, before he is hit in the head with a steel chair. Adamle goes down to the ground, but the camera doesn’t show who it is. Eventually, the camera goes up to reveal it was John Cena that hit Adamle with the chair. Cena stands over Adamle before walking away, with the chair still in hand.
Out in the ring, Mark Henry’s music hits, and the former ECW World Champion makes his way down to the ring, accompanied with Tony Atlas. Henry gets in the ring, and Atlas grabs a mic. Atlas starts reminding everyone how dominate he was on ECW. Atlas then says that the dominance of Mark Henry will continue on Raw. And that Mark Henry has been drafted to Raw! And he wants to let everyone on the Raw roster know. Mark Henry grabs the mic and says he is scared of nobody, and will face anybody on the Raw roster. Henry and Atlas wait for a while, apparently waiting for someone to come out, but no one does, so they go to the back.
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Match #5
Lance Cade vs Shawn Michaels
Lance Cade was actually bringing a good fight to Shawn Michaels. Michaels had went for Sweet Chin Music in the match already, but Lance Cade was able to roll out of the ring and ‘regroup.’ Back in the ring a few minutes later Lance Cade had grounded Michaels and had him in an armbar. The crowd was getting behind Michaels trying to get him back into the match. Michaels eventually fights his way back up to his feet, and throws some hard elbows to the gut of Lance Cade. Cade lets go, and then Michaels fires away at Cade, throwing hard right hands at him. Michaels connects with a hard one right to Cade’s nose that bust Cade right open! The referee backs Michaels off of Cade, and checks on Cade. Cade has blood running down his face as Chris Jericho is looking a little uneasy on the outside of the ring as Michaels shoves the referee out of the way, and gives a look to Jericho, before throwing a few more punches to the face of Cade. The referee finally calls for the bell and stops the match. Michaels looks at the ref, and then cast a dirty look down at Jericho. Michaels gets out of the ring and chases Jericho around the ring, before Jericho hightails it up to the stage. Jericho stops there, as Michaels gets a sadistic smile on his face and he rolls back into the ring. Michaels helps Lance Cade up to his feet, before going back and delivering some sweet chin music! Chris Jericho looks uneasy some more on the top of the ramp as Michaels stares him down and mouths the words “Next Week.”
Camera cuts backstage to Mike Adamle receiving some medical attention. William Regal walks up to him and asks if he’s ok. Mike says yes, but he would like to ask Regal a favor. Mike Adamle asks Regal if he will go find John Cena and give him this message. If he interferes in the #1contenders match tonight, he will be suspended indefinitely. Regal says he will, and runs off.
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Main Event-#1 contenders Match for the World Heavyweight Championship
Batista vs JBL vs Kane vs Rey Mysterio
Kane and Rey Mysterio battled it out throughout most of the match with Batista and JBL gunning it at each other. Rey Mysterio and Kane are battling it out on the outside of the ring, near the announcers table, while Batista and JBL are in the ring. Kane hits Mysterio with a huge uppercut that takes Mysterio down. Kane starts to take apart the announcers table. He gets it taken apart, and he helps Mysterio up to his feet. Kane grabs Mysterio by the throat, and delivers a huge chokeslam through the table! Mysterio is out, while in the ring, JBL comes off the ropes and delivers a huge clothesline to a staggered Batista! JBL goes for the cover, but Kane slides in the ring and breaks it up at two. Kane helps JBL up to his feet, only to throw him out of the ring. Kane then stalks Batista, waiting for him to get up to his feet. Batista gets up and Kane grabs him by the throat. Batista though kicks Kane in the gut, and then delivers a huge clothesline! Batista goes into the corner and waits for Kane to get up. Kane gets up and Batista runs at him and hits a huge spear! Batista covers, but JBL gets back in the ring and breaks up the count at two. Batista starts to get up to his feet, but JBL starts to hit the Animal with some right hands. Batista goes back down to the mat. Batista starts to get up slowly, same as Kane. Batista gets up with Kane behind him, with the ref behind Kane. JBL comes off the ropes, looking for the clothesline from hell, but Batista ducks, and so does Kane, and JBL hits the referee. JBL turns right around into Kane who grabs JBL’s neck, but JBL fights out of it, chopping at Kane’s hand. Kane turns around into Batista who delivers a right hand. Kane fires back at Batista though, as JBL watches in the corner, sitting down. Rey Mysterio is back up, and he jumps onto the top rope, and flies off landing a crossbody on both Kane and JBL. Mysterio hits both men with right hands. All of a sudden, John Cena’s music hits, and runs down to the ring, with a steel chair. Cena gets in the ring and slams the chair across JBL’s head, who came after Cena. Mysterio comes at Cena, but Cena just hits Mysterio in the head with the chair. Cena does the same to Batista, then drops the chair, kicks Kane in the gut and delivers a huge DDT onto the chair! Regal comes out to the ring to confront Cena, but Cena isn’t going to have it, as he just kicks Regal in the gut, and delivers an F-U onto the chair! Cena leaves the ring as JBL starts to stir around. JBL gets up and goes for the downed Mysterio, but out of nowhere Mysterio delivers a drop toe hold into the ropes. Mysterio comes off the ropes and delivers 619! Mysterio jumps onto the top rope and leaps off, landing a West Coast pop! Mysterio covers, and is able to get a three count! Mysterio gets out of the ring fast, as Batista and Kane start to get up. Mysterio raises his hand up, as he will face CM Punk at Unforgiven for the World Heavyweight Championship.
End of Show
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Current Unforgiven Card
World Heavyweight Championship
CM Punk© vs Rey Mysterio