[bigcal]

Raw 3rd January 2000


Opening segment

The Rock opens the show, just one week after the "pink slip on a pole" match where he beat Mankind, who lost his job as a result.

He gets on the mic, does his"finally, The Rock blah blah", but says "Home" instead of the place, as we are live in Miami. He starts naming some things from Miami, and when he says one of the sports teams, half the people boo . Guess not many of them are from Miami, or just hate that team lol.

He finally shuts up about crap that nobody cares about, and starts talking about Foley. He talks about how crap it was he was fired and challenges Triple H to a match.

Things start to pick up now as Triple H comes out with Stephanie. He talks about how he would love to beat the hell out of The Rock right now, but... The Rock doesn't offer Triple H anything, but Big Show does, and he will face Show tonight for the WWF Title!

So instead of The Rock facing Triple H tonight, he is going to be in the first ever Handicap "You're Fired" Match! DX (X-Pac, Road Dogg and Billy Gunn) all run out and attack The Rock, to give him a taste of what he can expect later tonight!

An entertaining segment, with some really good mic work by Triple H, who made what could have been another boring Rock promo where he says the same thing all the time...


2 Cool Vs The Dudley Boys

2 Cool start the match off with things going their way, but after a Worm to D-Von, The Dudley's take control. Seriously, is the Worm supposed to be Scotty's finisher? D-Von got up RIGHT AFTER Scotty hit the Worm!

The Dudley's try to beat down Scotty, but Scotty is able to make a tag to Grand Master. The Mean Street Posse attack Rikishi on the outside, and the APA come down and chase the Posse away. Rikishi comes into the ring and super kicks Bubba, getting his boys DQ'd, then hits a Rikishi Drop or Bomb or whatever they call it, on D-Von.

Rather odd that Rikishi got 2 Cool DQ'd, when 2 Cool were doing ok...

The match was too short to be anything good.

Rating: *


Backstage Segment

The APA get interviewed, saying that they could beat the Posse with one arm tied behind their backs. Camera switches to HHH and Steph, who think that is a great idea, and book a 2 on 3 handicap match between the APA and Posse, with the APA having one arm tied behind their backs.

Steve Blackman then comes into the room, and Triple H tells him if he hits Kane with a kendo stick tonight, he is fired. Steph looks confused as to why he would do that, and Triple H says it is because Kurt Angle is facing Kane tonight! (Blackman and Angle were sort of feuding)

Nothing much to this segment really other than 2 matches being announced.


Kane Vs Kurt Angle

Kurt Angle is still undefeated here, but Kane has to have been considered a big favourite to end his streak.

Kane dominates early on, until Angle uses his speed and intelligence to start to to take down the big monster. Kane still manages to chokeslam Angle, and just as he sets him up for a Tombstone, Blackman comes out with a Kendo stick!

Angle gets hits with the kendo stick, and wins by DQ!

Short match, but fun!

Rating: *1/2


Backstage Segment

Triple H asks Stephanie if she had said anything to Blackman after he left the room earlier. She says no, and that Angle was still undefeated, then says she has a plan for the IC title.

Nothing happened really.


In Ring Segment

Stephanie comes out to the ring to talk about the IC title situation. Last week on Smackdown, both Jericho and Chyna pinned each other at the same time, with multiple referees arguing who won.

Steph asks one of the referees who is the champion, and he says Chyna, so Steph asks Chyna to come down to the ring. Steph asks another referee who is the champion, and he says Jericho, so Steph brings out Jericho.

It is announced that BOTH Chyna and Jericho are the champion! Only one of them can defend the title at a time, and if one of them loses the belt, they both lose it.

Hardcore and Crash Holly interrupt them, and asks for a title shot right now. Steph agrees!


Chyna Vs Hardcore Holly - WWF Intercontinental Title

Chyna dominates Holly early on (WTF?) and almost beats him with a DDT. Dropkick to the face puts Hardcore in the drivers seat now.

The Kat distracts the referee as Holly has Chyna pinned, and Jericho hits Holly, allowing Chyna to roll him up for the win. Jericho then leaves with the belt, and Chyna goes after him.

Back in the ring, Hardcore beats down Crash, as usual.

Another very shot match, but entertaining to watch.

Rating: *


Backstage Segment

Triple H and Steph tell Bossman and Albert that they are facing Test and a couple of partners tonight. Bossman doesn't care who his partners are.


The Big Show Vs Triple H - WWF Title

Show starts off the match in control thanks to his size and power. Triple H gets in control on the outside, sending Show over the guardrail, and sending Show into the steel steps, and then over the announcers table.

Show starts to come back, and almost retains his title a couple of times. When it looks like Triple H is done, DX, who were on the ramp, come down to ringside. They don't interfere, but distract the ref long enough for HHH to hit a low blow and the Predigree. We have a NEW WWF Champion!

Not a very long match, as most aren't on these older Raws, but it was a pretty good match, and the title change makes it even better.

Rating: **1/2


Test, Mae Young & The Fabulous Mullah Vs The Big Bossman & Albert

Mae Young hits the bronco buster on Bossman... Eeewwww.

Test gets double teamed, then starts to make a comeback, until he gets hit with the nightstick and then kicked by Albert and pinned.

Lol, WTF. Seriously, WTF.

Rating: DUD


Backstage Segment

Triple H, Steph and DX are celebrating Triple H's title win, as they watch The Big Show looking upset leaving the arena. It doesn't look like much of a fun party though . Funny listening to Road Dogg singing the leaving song in the background though.


APA Vs Mean Street Posse - APA have 1 arm tied behind their backs

Before the match starts, the Posse attack the APA on their way to the ring, and then The Dudley Boys come down and attack them with chairs.

Rating: Match Never Happened


Backstage Segment

More celebrating with the new champ, followed by a DX movie .

The movie is called "Have a Bad Day", and is about Mankind looking for a new job, with Mankind being called pathetic and useless, and he starts to cry . Funny as hell if I'm honest.


Jeff Hardy Vs Al Snow - Cage Match

Wow, what an epic cage match this looks to be...

Snow pulls Jeff out of the cage and hits him with a chair, then throws him back in the cage, and throws Terri in their too. He brings the chair in there, and chains the door shut.

Jeff recovers, and hits the whisper in the wind on Snow. Jeff tries to get Terri out, but Snow attacks him from behind. Jeff is sent flying face first into the cage, then puts the chair in Jeff's ankle to try and break it. Terri comes from behind to stop him. Just when it looks like Al is going to hit Terri with the shair, he hits the side of the cage.

We then find out that Matt was trying to climb the cage, so it made sense. Jeff climbs to the top of the cage, and Al follows, and brings Jeff down with an RKO type move, and lands on the steel chair! If that was done these days, it would be shown on the replay about 1000 times from different angles. Here, the crowd hardly make any noise, and they announcers don't really say much about it.

Jeff actually comes back from that move, with a spinning heel kick. Jeff tries to climb out again, but is knocked off the ropes. Al picks up Jeff and runs him into the cage again. He tries to do the same thing on the other side, but Jeff reverses it, and climbs out of the cage.

However, Terri is still in the cage, and Terri decides that now would be a good time to try and climb out. Why didn't she do that before? Moron. Matt gets into the cage and hits Al with the chair to save Terri.

Huh, a decent match. Nice big spot from these 2, even if nobody seemed to care.

Rating: **1/2


Have a Bad Day - Part 2

Mankind is shown trying to get a job entertaining kids at a hospital, and ends up getting kicked in the balls by Dr. Hung Low . I don't know why, but I always seem to find these videos funny.


Backstage Segment

The Rock is in his locker room, and Patterson and Briscoe are saying how awful it would be if he lost. Pointless lol.

It then switches to DX, with Triple H telling them to beat up The Rock.


Have a Bad Day - Part 3

Mankind is at a book signing, with nobody showing up. More insults to Foley, who gets fired from his book signing, then threatens the manager with his sock, and gets thrown out . More random funny stuff lol.


Backstage Segment

Basically the same as the last DX segment. They talk about beating up The Rock. Then something different happens! Yey! Someone knocks on the door, and The Rock runs in and attacks Billy Gunn and Road Dogg, then runs off!


DX (X-Pac, Road Dogg & Billy Gunn) Vs The Rock - Handicap "You're Fired" Match

Triple H gets on the mic before the match starts, and makes the match a No DQ match! Rocky takes the fight to all 3 men, but soon gets beat down as the numbers game is too much for him.

The Rock fights back, knocking down Road Dogg, throwing Gunn into the steps, and throwing X-Pac crotch first into the ring post. The Rock is quickly knocked down again. In the ring, Road Dogg and Gunn double team him, then as soon as he gets the advantage again, X-Pac kicks him in the face, and he is down once again.

After a few minutes of being beat up, he hits a DDT on Gunn, Samoan Drop on X-Pac, then the People's Elbow on Road Dogg! 1..2.. the ref is pulled out of the ring! Spinning kick to the face from X-Pac, and a Jackhammer from Gunn take down The Rock once again.

Road Dogg tells X-Pac and Gunn to hold up The Rock while he gets a chair, and from out of the crowd comes Mick Foley!!! He knocks down Dogg, gets the chair and hits everyone but The Rock with it, including Triple H!

The Rock then hits a Rock Bottom on Gunn, and gets the win to keep his job! The fans go crazy, so I guess I am the only one that was rooting for DX...

A good, entertaining TV match. Not a classic by any means, but fun to watch and a good TV main event!

Rating: **3/4



Overall Show Rating: 6.5/10

With some very solid and entertaining matches, along with a good opening segment and some funny as hell DX videos mocking Mankind, this Raw is pretty good and very entertaining.

Some real surprises on this show, especially the cage match. I thought it was going to suck, but ended up being one of the best matches on the show, and featured a really good spot. Pity that the crowd didn't seem to care, nor did the announcers.

Odd to see the WWF Title change hands half way through the show, but it was still nice to have the biggest title change hands on Raw, something we don't see often these days. I guess they didn't put the show on last because they wanted The Rock's big match on last, since it was in his home town, and there was the chance he could have been fired .

So all in all, a good show to kick start one of the best years in Raw history!




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I might do another 1 or 2 shows today, not sure yet. Also, I know my "reviews" of the segments aren't that good just now, but I'm sure I will think of something better to do with them the more I review them .

[PowerPlay]

I love old Raws reviews good job Cal!

[TheSoulTaker]

wow thats was the first time i seen a review on a weekley show and good work Bigcal.

[Austin101]

Cal, I remember that SHOW! Great job by filling in all the details! Such a good job. This is gonna be fun, shows are good to re-live or re-read for the first time if you've never seen it. (For others)

I WILL be doing all the matches I just said some for whatever reason, I meant all of them. As I watch them on my laptop I'll write it down on word.

Nice job again man!


Clique, my first show is January 4th's Raw. It was a historic one so I'm temped to do that before I get Amrageddon 2007 at the store and I just might we'll have to wait and see.

This is the first show I'm watching!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omNE1OYFxyc

Originally Posted by TheSoulStalker

wow thats was the first time i seen a review on a weekley show and good work Bigcal.

Well like I've been telling people, he's doing the year 2000 and I'm doing 1999, and I believe HBKBretHart might be doing another year from the md 90's.

We're all starting in January so stay tuned to this thread to see PPV, Documentary or Raw reviews!

[HBKBretHart]

Good revie bigcal. That raw season is a really good one. I might get WCW Nitro 1997 and review that instead of raw 1995, But this would take a long time and i am starting to get busy with my job and ebay. So i might just do PPV's for now.

[bigcal]

Thanks guys, glad you liked the first of MANY TV show reviews!

Austin, I'm really looking forward to your Raw 1999 reviews, especially the first few as I watched them last night for the hell out it lol.

Edit:

HBKBretHart, if you do review Nitro's instead, that would be great too! While I haven't seen much of Nitro, I did watch all of the 1995 shows, and some from 1996, and I personally thought they were better shows than the odd few I saw from 1998 when they were supposedly at their best. It would be interesting to see what you think of the older Nitro's too.

[HBKBretHart]

In my opinion 1997 was the best Nitro year.

[bigcal]

Originally Posted by HBKBretHart

In my opinion 1997 was the best Nitro year.

Cool. So if you think 97 was best for Nitro, and I think 97 was best for Raw, then 1997 has to be considered one of the best wrestling years of all time!

[TheSoulTaker]

austin101- It actually sounds like a good idea reviewing weekley show, it difference but is a good year. It would be cool if somebody rates either this years shows or last years shows.

[Austin101]

1997 was so amazing in the WWF but I agree it was awesome for Nitro as well.

But Austin/McMahon starting, D-X starting, and the whole Hart foundation against austin, michaels, with taker, mankind, vader, etc. LOD, The Nation...etc

I just loved it.

Cal, I'll be doin my review later as I haven't started just yet.

HBKBrethart, that'd be cool if you did a brief review still of nitro if you're too busy.