October 20th, 2003
Wilkes Barre, PA
World Heavyweight Champion: Goldberg (since 9/21/03)
Intercontinental Champion: Christian (since 8/10/03)
World Tag Team Champions: The Dudley Boyz (since 9/21/03)
WWE Women's Champion: Molly Holly (since 7/28/03)
In Memory of Road Warrior Hawk Video Package airs…
To open the show, Stone Cold Steve Austin comes out. He says there was a note on his desk to meet someone in the ring so here he is. Out comes Test and Stacy Keibler. Test is pissed about last week and the fact that he got injured at a house show in a match Austin booked. Austin tries to get Test to provoke him. Stacy ends up bumping Test into Austin and Austin cracks him with a stunner. Eric Bischoff comes up on the screen and says this shit is pathetic and proposes a Team Austin vs. Team Bischoff match at Survivor Series. If Team Austin wins, the physical provocation rule will be void and if Bischoff wins, Austin will no longer share GM responsibilities with him. Austin is down and toasts and STACY JOINS IN THIS TIME!!!
Backstage, Shane McMahon is standing around.
1) The Dudley Boyz vs. La Resistance (Rob Conway & Rene Dupree)
The only thing this is good for is them Dudleyz hitting a Doomsday Device in tribute to Road Warrior Hawk. Take er home boys.
Match rating - *1/2
Backstage, Ric Flair and Randy Orton are talking when Booker T walks up. They get into it about who’s here to prove themselves more and Book slaps him and challenges him to a match NEXT.
2) Booker T vs. Randy Orton
My review of this match kept getting ate, it rocked, though. But I am not about to write up anything again so here's the rating.. Book wins via contour in sub 5 mins.
Match rating - **3/4
3) Rob Van Dam & Lance Storm vs. Chris Jericho & Scott Steiner
“What is ice?” -Jim Ross
This was a good Monday Night Raw tag team match. Jericho & Storm naturally work well together. Steiner & RVD play their roles well. Steiner continuously pulls Storm out and slams him into the steps and shit. Just good basic rudo shit. Steiner even ends up using a chair on Van Dam’s back behind the ref’s back and it allows Jericho to hit the lionsault for the win.
Match rating - **3/4
After the match, Jericho & Steiner add insult to injury by continuing to assault Van Dam & Storm.
Back at the commentary table, JR & King pay tribute to Hawk and also queue up a Stu Hart memorial video with a monologue by Vince.
Meanwhile, Chris Jericho is all worked up and starts flirting with Trish Stratus. They both seem to have a thing for each other and awkwardly walk off. The crowd was chanting “We Want Puppies” through this whole thing.
Over in the Evolution locker room, Randy Orton gets ambushed by Lance Cade & Mark Jindrak. I AM SCREAMING. This shit was hilarious. They steal the brief case with the Goldberg bounty money in it and run off. Orton chases after them as we go to commercial.
Back from commercial, Orton is still running and he runs into Ric Flair. Flair doesn’t realize Orton lost the money so Orton plays it off. Flair says “you got the money right?” And Orton says yes and Flair tells him to go flaunt it front of Shawn during his match. Flair walks off WOO’ing and Orton looks concerned as fuck cause his dumbass lost the money.
4) Trish Stratus & Lita vs. Molly Holly & Victoria (w/ Steven Richards)
“These two, they’re a potato salad and baked beans away from a tailgate party.” -Jim Ross
JR says Molly has a bullseye on her backside and Jerry gets horny. He then says Stevie Richards is Victoria’s TRAILER. These fuckers have got to STOP LMAO. Stevie ends up being the determining factor of this match as he helps Molly & Victoria get the victory. After the match, they attack Lita while Trish is down and… Christian? comes down to make the save.
5) Maven vs. Ric Flair
Flair basically lets Maven get a chance to shine and he doesn’t necessarily shine. He holds steady and does stuff and it’s passive and fine, but when you d got Naitch in there and he’s doing his schtick and letting you get stuff in, you have to nail it. I guess it’s better than shitting the bed, but in a way, you got a chance to wrestle Flair and all I could say was good here was Flair bumping around for you.. hm. Anyways. Flair wins using the tights, once again making Maven look better than he could make himself look here.
Match rating - *3/4
Backstage, Flair approaches Orton stoked on his win. Orton still can’t find the money so he tells Flair that Cade & Jindrak jumped him and stole the money. Flair spazzed the fuck out and they go to find the money when a bunch of cops and security come running through and BY FUCKING GOD ITS KANE STANDING IN THE GARAGE WITH A TOWEL ON HIS HEAD. JR exclaims “MY GOD….” with a growl that made me howl.
SURVIVOR SERIES coming in 4 weeks to Dallas, Texas and holy fuck that video package just made me so nostalgic. Man… I miss my childhood. I gotta find that song somewhere. (it’s Build a Bridge by Limp Bizkit)
Back from commercial, Big Kane is here. JR is still unloading. Kane walks us through his thoughts when he beat up Linda. He explains that inflicting pain turns him on. He says Shane can’t do anything to stop him. Fire couldn’t, a tractor trailer crash couldn’t, but at Survivor Series, he will give him one more shot. Kane says Survivor Series will be the end of Shane, but for now, his pain has just begun.
Meanwhile, Triple H catches Cade & Jindrak with a 2x4 as they are trying to escape the arena with the briefcase full of money. H approaches Orton & Flair in the locker room and says Orton best not lose the money again because Shawn Michaels is about to beat Goldberg and collect the bounty up next..
6) Goldberg (c) vs. Shawn Michaels - World Heavyweight Championship Match
This doesn’t go too long before Goldberg accidentally spears the referee. Shawn superkicks him and another referee runs down. Before anything can happen, BATISTA jumps the railing making his first appearance in a long ass time. Batista hits the spine buster and the Batista bomb on Goldberg then snaps his leg in a chair while Jim Ross puts him over like crazy on commentary. “THIS GUY IS BIGGER THAN GOLDBERG!!!”” Batista leaves the ring and Evolution comes out to meet him at the entrance to deliver him his bounty for destroying Goldberg. This closes the show.
BATISTA HAS COLLECTED THE BOUNTY.....
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