Announcement:
After seeing how long it takes to write an episode of RAW, I've decided that I'm not going to do SmackDown!. However, because there is no superstar split, if there are any important storylines or matches that are on SmackDown!, I'll only post them and not a whole show.
Thanks and anxious to see your replies,
2004Kingpin.
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WWE RAW: Episode I:
Raw kicks off live with Vince McMahon heading to the ring, with he whole of the RAW roster already surrounding the ring.
Vince gets in the ring and begins talking about how much he liked the fact that a few weeks before Unforgiven on RAW, Chris Jericho asked the fans for the match type between himself and Christian at the PPV. Vince announces that he’s making a whole PPV out of the idea, called Taboo Tuesday!
Vince says that while we have some new and challenging ideas affecting the WWE today, we also have some old-fashioned ones, like going back to before the brand extension! Mr. McMahon explains that as from that night, superstars could freely appear on RAW and SmackDown! once more!
However, Mr. McMahon says that titles and PPVs were still exclusive to shows, so if you were a champion, you couldn’t change shows – except for the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Champions and the Undisputed WWE Champion!
Mr. McMahon then announces that Taboo Tuesday will be a mixed, interactive PPV with the first two matches being announced as the WWE Tag Team champions vs. the World Tag Team champions, and the WWE champion vs. the World Heavyweight champion!
McMahon then announces the Main-event for the evening: Randy Orton vs. Triple H in a rematch for the World Heavyweight Championship!
When Triple H hears this, he jumps in the ring and begins to protest to Vince. He says that he is not feeling good from the previous night and that he needs time to rest. He also complains that the fans don’t know how to run a wrestling company; they’ll probably end up with a Hell in a Cell, Ladder, TLC and Cage match all in one night!
Vince tells Triple H that he wasn’t going to get out of this one. He says that he believes the fans will make a great WWE pay-per view. McMahon then declares that Taboo Tuesday will be one of the greatest WWE pay-per views ever! Vince then tells everybody to have a great evening and leaves the ring as Triple H looks on in fury!
After a break, Tyson Tomko accompanies Trish Stratus to the ring for a Women’s Championship match, with the challenger being Victoria, in a rematch from Unforgiven.
Match I: Trish Stratus (w/Tyson Tomko) def. Victoria to retain the Women’s Championship
Victoria ducks a clothesline from Trish and nails the Victoria Sidewalk Slam. As Victoria picks Stratus up for the Widow’s Peak, Trish quickly rolls through Victoria for the 1-2-3!
After the match, Tyson Tomko gets in the ring and is about to attack Victoria, but Trish stops him. Trish takes the mic and asks why there wasn’t going to be an Undisputed Women’s Champion. She accuses Vince McMahon of being against women’s rights and calls the WWE Divas to protest against the WWE owner! She then shakes Victoria’s hand before cheap-shotting her to the mat!
Backstage, Eric Bischoff in his office talking to Kane. “The Big Red Machine” tells Bischoff that he wants a shot at the World Heavyweight Championship. Bischoff tells Kane that he was sorry, but he didn’t know when he could give him a shot, because Vince said that after that night’s Main-event between Orton and Triple H, he didn’t want the championship to change hands again, because of the upcoming Taboo Tuesday PPV. Kane threatens Bischoff that now Vince has got rid of the superstar split, he can go on whichever show he chooses, whenever. Kane then grabs Bischoff by the throat and tells him that if he doesn’t get what he wants, he’ll never appear on RAW again!
Bischoff tells Kane he will sort the situation out, but for now, he wants Kane to be happy with another championship – the Intercontinental Championship. Bischoff continues to tell Kane to go to the ring for the match.
Kane then releases the RAW GM and heads for the ring.
As Kane leaves, Christian walks in and asks Bischoff why he was giving Kane a shot at the Intercontinental title, when he should be the one challenging for the belt.
Bischoff tells Christian to stop whining. The RAW GM says he has had enough of wrestlers demanding that they get what they want from him. He orders Christian to get to the ring, for this was going to be a Triple-Threat title match, and if Christian lost, he would never get an Intercontinental title shot again!
Match II: Chris Jericho def. Christian and Kane in a Triple-Threat match to retain the Intercontinental Championship
Kane goes to double-clothesline Christian and “Y2J”, but they both duck in time and instead he knocks down the referee. Jericho then gives Kane some chops to the chest before taking him out of the ring with a Dropkick, whilst Christian quickly gets the IC title belt. Christian gets back in the ring and nails Jericho with the belt. As Christian tries to get the ref back up, Kane gets back in the ring and waits for Christian to turn around. Christian turns and receives a Chokeslam! As the ref is still coming to his senses, Jericho hits Kane with the belt to the back of the head and knocks the “Big Red Machine” out of the ring. Jericho then gets a dizzy Christian from behind with a Bulldog, followed by a Lionsault, for the victory!
After the match, Christian escapes up the ramp as Kane gets back in the ring and hits Jericho with a Chokeslam; but the monster isn’t finished. Kane picks “Y2J” up and nails the Tombstone Piledriver, onto the IC title belt!
After Kane leaves the ring, paramedics come to attend to Chris Jericho, who seems to have hurt his neck after the vicious Tombstone onto Jericho’s own IC belt by Kane.
Suddenly after a break, the music of Theodore Long hits the arena and out comes the General Manager of SmackDown!.
Long takes a mic and asks Vince McMahon that since it was such a explosive night, why not have the company’s most important champion, the WWE champion, defend his title later on that evening? Long informs us that JBL would be happy to defend the title that night…whether he wanted to be or not!
Before the SmackDown! GM can continue, Eric Bischoff appears on the TitanTron. Bischoff is seen in the Parking lot.
Bischoff tells Long that he couldn’t deal with him now because he had to leave the arena immediately for important business, but he had a little bit of time left to tell Long to get his ass out of his ring right now!
Long responds with a soft “No”. Long explains he thought that the superstar split coming to an end meant General Managers being able to go on each other’s shows as well!
Vince McMahon comes out (without entrance movie or music, thanks to Bischoff being on the TitanTron) and says that the arguments between Long and Bischoff had to come to an end…at Taboo Tuesday!
Bischoff then thanks Vince for the chance to kick Long’s ass with his karate skills, gets in a limo and leaves the arena! As the TitanTron goes black again, Vince says it was a shame that Bischoff had to leave so quickly before he announced that fans could choose whether it was going to be a Hair vs. Hair, Career vs. Career or Ass vs. Ass match, where the loser would have to kiss the winner’s ass!
Vince then says he will be in charge of RAW for the rest of the evening and agrees to Long’s idea, claming it was turning out to be a great show, so he would allow a WWE championship match to happen!
Long then thanks Vince, and announces JBL will defend the title in a Triple-Threat No-DQ match against Kurt Angle and The Undertaker!
After a break, backstage, Vince walks into Triple H’s locker room and tells that because there was going to be a WWE championship match, he was putting it as the Main-event, so Triple H should get ready because his match was after the next!
Suddenly in the arena, Booker T’s music hits and out comes the “Book Man”!
Booker takes the mic and says it was great to be back on RAW! Booker says that he’ll never be in the “minor leagues” again. Booker goes on, saying he feels so great that he was challenging any wrestler to come and face him right there, right then!
After a minute and nobody comes out, Booker T calls every man on the roster a chicken, gets out of the ring and begins to walk up the ramp when suddenly Chris Benoit’s music hits and out comes the “Rabid Wolverine”, accompanied by Edge!
Booker says it wasn’t fair for him to face both of them and asks somebody to help him out…
Match III: Restarted as a Tag-Team match
Booker gets ready to give Benoit the Book End, but Benoit elbows Booker in the face and locks on the Crippler Crossface! As Booker tries to hold on, Ric Flair comes down to the ring accompanied by Batista! Flair gets in the ring and breaks up the Crossface. The ref then goes to DQ Booker, but Flair explains that he is going to be Booker’s partner and the ref restarts the match!
Match III: Booker T and Ric Flair (w/ Batista) def. Chris Benoit and Edge
Flair continues to chop Benoit’s chest and knocks him down. Flair goes to lock on the Figure Four Leg-Lock, but Benoit kicks Flair, sending him into the ropes. When Flair bounces back off the ropes, Benoit takes him down and locks on the Crossface! Suddenly, Batista gets on the apron and distracts the ref because Flair is tapping out! Booker breaks the hold, and Edge gets in the ring to face Booker. As the two brawl and Batista is still distracting the ref, Flair takes down Benoit with a right-hand and gives a Low Blow to Edge. Booker T then throws Edge out of the ring and continues to attack him on the outside, as Flair delivers a Low Blow to Benoit also and rolls him up for the pin, just as Batista finally gets off the apron, and the ref gives Flair the 1-2-3!
After the match, Booker throws Edge into the steel steps as Batista gets in the ring and executes the Sit-Out Powerbomb on Chris Benoit. Flair then takes the mic and challenges Benoit to a Singles match the following week on RAW. Booker T then gets in the ring and says he challenges Edge to a match the following week on RAW.
Vince McMahon appears on the stage and says that since Booker T liked to use weapons so much, he would face Edge in a No-DQ match the following week, and since Batista wanted to attack Chris Benoit so much, then he would face Benoit, in a Submission match, with Evolution banned from ringside the following week!
J.R. and Jerry “The King” Lawler then promote the following week’s episode of RAW by repeating the two confirmed matches: Chris Benoit vs. Batista in a Submission match, and Booker T vs. Edge in a No-DQ match.
Backstage, Kurt Angle is seen knocking on JBL’s door. JBL answers and asks Angle what he wanted. Angle says of he wanted the WWE championship of course, but first he had to talk business to JBL. JBL tells Angle he was listening. Angles goes on to explain that they had to work together during the match to take out The Undertaker, and then they could go one on one, because if they let ‘Taker win the match, no one would be able to get the title off of the “Dead Man”. JBL tells Angle that he understands. Angle extends his hand and the two men shake, before Angle walks away and JBL goes back into his locker room.
Josh Matthews is with Randy Orton in an interview segment. Matthews asks Orton how he feels after being betrayed by Evolution, and then having his title stolen from him. Orton asks Matthews how he was supposed to feel? He felt angry. He felt annoyed, but to sum it all up, he was ticked off! Orton says that however, he was going to be feeling on top of the world by the end of the night when he regained the World Heavyweight Championship. Matthews asks Orton how he would cope if Evolution interfered in the match. Orton replies by saying that he had spoken to Vince, and Evolution was banned from ringside! Orton shouts that the World Heavyweight Championship was his possession, his souvenir, his title and he would get back his “stolen good” tonight!
Before the match, Triple H makes a surprise move by telling Ric Flair and Batista not to come to the ring during his match, because he had a surprise for them.
Match IV: Triple H def. Randy Orton to retain the World Heavyweight Championship
HHH takes down Orton with a clothesline and pounds away on the “Legend Killer”. HHH then picks up Orton for the Pedigree, but Orton reverses with a back drop. Orton waits for HHH to get up. HHH gets up, and Orton hits the RKO! Suddenly, a wrestler comes running down to the ring with an Evolution t-shirt on and is wearing a black mask, covering his face and head. Orton sees him and goes to attack on the outside, but gets takes down with a fierce right-hand. Triple H makes a distraction by grabbing a steel chair. As the ref argues with “The Game”, the masked man rams Orton into the steel steps, before picking the steps up and smashing Orton in the head with it! Orton is out of it and the masked man rolls him back into the ring. Triple H then throws the chair out of the ring, delivers the Pedigree to a knocked out Orton, and gets the pin.
After the match, the masked man gets in the ring, picks up Orton and gives him the Diamond Cutter! HHH then grabs the steel chair from the outside and this time beats the living hell out of Orton! Orton is busted wide open as HHH raises the masked man’s arm. The masked man then takes off the mask and reveals himself to be…the lights go out!
After a few minutes, the lights come back on, but the masked man and Triple H are nowhere to be seen, but Orton is still in the ring, lying in a pool of his own blood as a result of Triple H and the masked man’s attack. Who was he?
Vince McMahon is backstage and tells us that this week on SmackDown!, in preparation for the Undisputed WWE Championship match at Taboo Tuesday, in the Main-event, the World Heavyweight champion would face the WWE champion in a non-title match! Mr. McMahon goes on to announce that the fans could choose if at Taboo Tuesday, the Undisputed WWE Championship match was going to be a Cage, Ladder or Submission match. Vince then tells everybody to enjoy the Main-event of the evening.
Main-event: Kurt Angle def. The Undertaker and JBL for the WWE Championship
Angle and JBL are double-teaming ‘Taker, when Angle grabs a steel chair and nails ‘Taker’s back. As the “Dead Man” stumbles, JBL does one of the most dangerous moves in wrestling by giving ‘Taker a Piledriver on the outside! As ‘Taker is knocked out and JBL is getting up, Angle lifts the chair high to strike JBL, but he gets Angle with a kick to the gut just in time. JBL rolls Angle into the ring. JBL throws Angle in the corner, then walks away, and runs back with a hard clothesline into the corner. Angle stumbles forward into a Sidewalk Slam. JBL goes for the pin, but only gets a two-count. JBL gets ready for the Clothesline from Hell. JBL charges towards Angle, but the “Olympic Hero” catches the WWE champion with a knee clip and locks on the Angle Lock! After a few moments, ‘Taker begins to get up on the outside and can only watch on as JBL taps out and we have a new champion!
After the match, the pyros explode in celebration of Kurt Angle’s WWE Championship win as RAW goes off the air!
Summary:
-Trish Stratus def. Victoria to keep the Women's Title
-Chris Jericho def. Christian and Kane to keep the Intercontinental Title
-Booker T and Ric Flair def. Chris Benoit and Edge
-Triple H def. Randy Orton to keep the World Heavyweight Title
Main-event: Kurt Angle def. The Undertaker and JBL for the WWE Title
After seeing how long it takes to write an episode of RAW, I've decided that I'm not going to do SmackDown!. However, because there is no superstar split, if there are any important storylines or matches that are on SmackDown!, I'll only post them and not a whole show.
Thanks and anxious to see your replies,
2004Kingpin.
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WWE RAW: Episode I:
Raw kicks off live with Vince McMahon heading to the ring, with he whole of the RAW roster already surrounding the ring.
Vince gets in the ring and begins talking about how much he liked the fact that a few weeks before Unforgiven on RAW, Chris Jericho asked the fans for the match type between himself and Christian at the PPV. Vince announces that he’s making a whole PPV out of the idea, called Taboo Tuesday!
Vince says that while we have some new and challenging ideas affecting the WWE today, we also have some old-fashioned ones, like going back to before the brand extension! Mr. McMahon explains that as from that night, superstars could freely appear on RAW and SmackDown! once more!
However, Mr. McMahon says that titles and PPVs were still exclusive to shows, so if you were a champion, you couldn’t change shows – except for the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Champions and the Undisputed WWE Champion!
Mr. McMahon then announces that Taboo Tuesday will be a mixed, interactive PPV with the first two matches being announced as the WWE Tag Team champions vs. the World Tag Team champions, and the WWE champion vs. the World Heavyweight champion!
McMahon then announces the Main-event for the evening: Randy Orton vs. Triple H in a rematch for the World Heavyweight Championship!
When Triple H hears this, he jumps in the ring and begins to protest to Vince. He says that he is not feeling good from the previous night and that he needs time to rest. He also complains that the fans don’t know how to run a wrestling company; they’ll probably end up with a Hell in a Cell, Ladder, TLC and Cage match all in one night!
Vince tells Triple H that he wasn’t going to get out of this one. He says that he believes the fans will make a great WWE pay-per view. McMahon then declares that Taboo Tuesday will be one of the greatest WWE pay-per views ever! Vince then tells everybody to have a great evening and leaves the ring as Triple H looks on in fury!
After a break, Tyson Tomko accompanies Trish Stratus to the ring for a Women’s Championship match, with the challenger being Victoria, in a rematch from Unforgiven.
Match I: Trish Stratus (w/Tyson Tomko) def. Victoria to retain the Women’s Championship
Victoria ducks a clothesline from Trish and nails the Victoria Sidewalk Slam. As Victoria picks Stratus up for the Widow’s Peak, Trish quickly rolls through Victoria for the 1-2-3!
After the match, Tyson Tomko gets in the ring and is about to attack Victoria, but Trish stops him. Trish takes the mic and asks why there wasn’t going to be an Undisputed Women’s Champion. She accuses Vince McMahon of being against women’s rights and calls the WWE Divas to protest against the WWE owner! She then shakes Victoria’s hand before cheap-shotting her to the mat!
Backstage, Eric Bischoff in his office talking to Kane. “The Big Red Machine” tells Bischoff that he wants a shot at the World Heavyweight Championship. Bischoff tells Kane that he was sorry, but he didn’t know when he could give him a shot, because Vince said that after that night’s Main-event between Orton and Triple H, he didn’t want the championship to change hands again, because of the upcoming Taboo Tuesday PPV. Kane threatens Bischoff that now Vince has got rid of the superstar split, he can go on whichever show he chooses, whenever. Kane then grabs Bischoff by the throat and tells him that if he doesn’t get what he wants, he’ll never appear on RAW again!
Bischoff tells Kane he will sort the situation out, but for now, he wants Kane to be happy with another championship – the Intercontinental Championship. Bischoff continues to tell Kane to go to the ring for the match.
Kane then releases the RAW GM and heads for the ring.
As Kane leaves, Christian walks in and asks Bischoff why he was giving Kane a shot at the Intercontinental title, when he should be the one challenging for the belt.
Bischoff tells Christian to stop whining. The RAW GM says he has had enough of wrestlers demanding that they get what they want from him. He orders Christian to get to the ring, for this was going to be a Triple-Threat title match, and if Christian lost, he would never get an Intercontinental title shot again!
Match II: Chris Jericho def. Christian and Kane in a Triple-Threat match to retain the Intercontinental Championship
Kane goes to double-clothesline Christian and “Y2J”, but they both duck in time and instead he knocks down the referee. Jericho then gives Kane some chops to the chest before taking him out of the ring with a Dropkick, whilst Christian quickly gets the IC title belt. Christian gets back in the ring and nails Jericho with the belt. As Christian tries to get the ref back up, Kane gets back in the ring and waits for Christian to turn around. Christian turns and receives a Chokeslam! As the ref is still coming to his senses, Jericho hits Kane with the belt to the back of the head and knocks the “Big Red Machine” out of the ring. Jericho then gets a dizzy Christian from behind with a Bulldog, followed by a Lionsault, for the victory!
After the match, Christian escapes up the ramp as Kane gets back in the ring and hits Jericho with a Chokeslam; but the monster isn’t finished. Kane picks “Y2J” up and nails the Tombstone Piledriver, onto the IC title belt!
After Kane leaves the ring, paramedics come to attend to Chris Jericho, who seems to have hurt his neck after the vicious Tombstone onto Jericho’s own IC belt by Kane.
Suddenly after a break, the music of Theodore Long hits the arena and out comes the General Manager of SmackDown!.
Long takes a mic and asks Vince McMahon that since it was such a explosive night, why not have the company’s most important champion, the WWE champion, defend his title later on that evening? Long informs us that JBL would be happy to defend the title that night…whether he wanted to be or not!
Before the SmackDown! GM can continue, Eric Bischoff appears on the TitanTron. Bischoff is seen in the Parking lot.
Bischoff tells Long that he couldn’t deal with him now because he had to leave the arena immediately for important business, but he had a little bit of time left to tell Long to get his ass out of his ring right now!
Long responds with a soft “No”. Long explains he thought that the superstar split coming to an end meant General Managers being able to go on each other’s shows as well!
Vince McMahon comes out (without entrance movie or music, thanks to Bischoff being on the TitanTron) and says that the arguments between Long and Bischoff had to come to an end…at Taboo Tuesday!
Bischoff then thanks Vince for the chance to kick Long’s ass with his karate skills, gets in a limo and leaves the arena! As the TitanTron goes black again, Vince says it was a shame that Bischoff had to leave so quickly before he announced that fans could choose whether it was going to be a Hair vs. Hair, Career vs. Career or Ass vs. Ass match, where the loser would have to kiss the winner’s ass!
Vince then says he will be in charge of RAW for the rest of the evening and agrees to Long’s idea, claming it was turning out to be a great show, so he would allow a WWE championship match to happen!
Long then thanks Vince, and announces JBL will defend the title in a Triple-Threat No-DQ match against Kurt Angle and The Undertaker!
After a break, backstage, Vince walks into Triple H’s locker room and tells that because there was going to be a WWE championship match, he was putting it as the Main-event, so Triple H should get ready because his match was after the next!
Suddenly in the arena, Booker T’s music hits and out comes the “Book Man”!
Booker takes the mic and says it was great to be back on RAW! Booker says that he’ll never be in the “minor leagues” again. Booker goes on, saying he feels so great that he was challenging any wrestler to come and face him right there, right then!
After a minute and nobody comes out, Booker T calls every man on the roster a chicken, gets out of the ring and begins to walk up the ramp when suddenly Chris Benoit’s music hits and out comes the “Rabid Wolverine”, accompanied by Edge!
Booker says it wasn’t fair for him to face both of them and asks somebody to help him out…
Match III: Restarted as a Tag-Team match
Booker gets ready to give Benoit the Book End, but Benoit elbows Booker in the face and locks on the Crippler Crossface! As Booker tries to hold on, Ric Flair comes down to the ring accompanied by Batista! Flair gets in the ring and breaks up the Crossface. The ref then goes to DQ Booker, but Flair explains that he is going to be Booker’s partner and the ref restarts the match!
Match III: Booker T and Ric Flair (w/ Batista) def. Chris Benoit and Edge
Flair continues to chop Benoit’s chest and knocks him down. Flair goes to lock on the Figure Four Leg-Lock, but Benoit kicks Flair, sending him into the ropes. When Flair bounces back off the ropes, Benoit takes him down and locks on the Crossface! Suddenly, Batista gets on the apron and distracts the ref because Flair is tapping out! Booker breaks the hold, and Edge gets in the ring to face Booker. As the two brawl and Batista is still distracting the ref, Flair takes down Benoit with a right-hand and gives a Low Blow to Edge. Booker T then throws Edge out of the ring and continues to attack him on the outside, as Flair delivers a Low Blow to Benoit also and rolls him up for the pin, just as Batista finally gets off the apron, and the ref gives Flair the 1-2-3!
After the match, Booker throws Edge into the steel steps as Batista gets in the ring and executes the Sit-Out Powerbomb on Chris Benoit. Flair then takes the mic and challenges Benoit to a Singles match the following week on RAW. Booker T then gets in the ring and says he challenges Edge to a match the following week on RAW.
Vince McMahon appears on the stage and says that since Booker T liked to use weapons so much, he would face Edge in a No-DQ match the following week, and since Batista wanted to attack Chris Benoit so much, then he would face Benoit, in a Submission match, with Evolution banned from ringside the following week!
J.R. and Jerry “The King” Lawler then promote the following week’s episode of RAW by repeating the two confirmed matches: Chris Benoit vs. Batista in a Submission match, and Booker T vs. Edge in a No-DQ match.
Backstage, Kurt Angle is seen knocking on JBL’s door. JBL answers and asks Angle what he wanted. Angle says of he wanted the WWE championship of course, but first he had to talk business to JBL. JBL tells Angle he was listening. Angles goes on to explain that they had to work together during the match to take out The Undertaker, and then they could go one on one, because if they let ‘Taker win the match, no one would be able to get the title off of the “Dead Man”. JBL tells Angle that he understands. Angle extends his hand and the two men shake, before Angle walks away and JBL goes back into his locker room.
Josh Matthews is with Randy Orton in an interview segment. Matthews asks Orton how he feels after being betrayed by Evolution, and then having his title stolen from him. Orton asks Matthews how he was supposed to feel? He felt angry. He felt annoyed, but to sum it all up, he was ticked off! Orton says that however, he was going to be feeling on top of the world by the end of the night when he regained the World Heavyweight Championship. Matthews asks Orton how he would cope if Evolution interfered in the match. Orton replies by saying that he had spoken to Vince, and Evolution was banned from ringside! Orton shouts that the World Heavyweight Championship was his possession, his souvenir, his title and he would get back his “stolen good” tonight!
Before the match, Triple H makes a surprise move by telling Ric Flair and Batista not to come to the ring during his match, because he had a surprise for them.
Match IV: Triple H def. Randy Orton to retain the World Heavyweight Championship
HHH takes down Orton with a clothesline and pounds away on the “Legend Killer”. HHH then picks up Orton for the Pedigree, but Orton reverses with a back drop. Orton waits for HHH to get up. HHH gets up, and Orton hits the RKO! Suddenly, a wrestler comes running down to the ring with an Evolution t-shirt on and is wearing a black mask, covering his face and head. Orton sees him and goes to attack on the outside, but gets takes down with a fierce right-hand. Triple H makes a distraction by grabbing a steel chair. As the ref argues with “The Game”, the masked man rams Orton into the steel steps, before picking the steps up and smashing Orton in the head with it! Orton is out of it and the masked man rolls him back into the ring. Triple H then throws the chair out of the ring, delivers the Pedigree to a knocked out Orton, and gets the pin.
After the match, the masked man gets in the ring, picks up Orton and gives him the Diamond Cutter! HHH then grabs the steel chair from the outside and this time beats the living hell out of Orton! Orton is busted wide open as HHH raises the masked man’s arm. The masked man then takes off the mask and reveals himself to be…the lights go out!
After a few minutes, the lights come back on, but the masked man and Triple H are nowhere to be seen, but Orton is still in the ring, lying in a pool of his own blood as a result of Triple H and the masked man’s attack. Who was he?
Vince McMahon is backstage and tells us that this week on SmackDown!, in preparation for the Undisputed WWE Championship match at Taboo Tuesday, in the Main-event, the World Heavyweight champion would face the WWE champion in a non-title match! Mr. McMahon goes on to announce that the fans could choose if at Taboo Tuesday, the Undisputed WWE Championship match was going to be a Cage, Ladder or Submission match. Vince then tells everybody to enjoy the Main-event of the evening.
Main-event: Kurt Angle def. The Undertaker and JBL for the WWE Championship
Angle and JBL are double-teaming ‘Taker, when Angle grabs a steel chair and nails ‘Taker’s back. As the “Dead Man” stumbles, JBL does one of the most dangerous moves in wrestling by giving ‘Taker a Piledriver on the outside! As ‘Taker is knocked out and JBL is getting up, Angle lifts the chair high to strike JBL, but he gets Angle with a kick to the gut just in time. JBL rolls Angle into the ring. JBL throws Angle in the corner, then walks away, and runs back with a hard clothesline into the corner. Angle stumbles forward into a Sidewalk Slam. JBL goes for the pin, but only gets a two-count. JBL gets ready for the Clothesline from Hell. JBL charges towards Angle, but the “Olympic Hero” catches the WWE champion with a knee clip and locks on the Angle Lock! After a few moments, ‘Taker begins to get up on the outside and can only watch on as JBL taps out and we have a new champion!
After the match, the pyros explode in celebration of Kurt Angle’s WWE Championship win as RAW goes off the air!
Summary:
-Trish Stratus def. Victoria to keep the Women's Title
-Chris Jericho def. Christian and Kane to keep the Intercontinental Title
-Booker T and Ric Flair def. Chris Benoit and Edge
-Triple H def. Randy Orton to keep the World Heavyweight Title
Main-event: Kurt Angle def. The Undertaker and JBL for the WWE Title
