RAW Report 5/19/08 Kansas City, MO
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RAW this week stats with music and pyro. Jeff Hardy comes out to the ring. JR talks about how Jeff beat MVP in an impromptu match at JD last night. Umaga comes out to face Jeff. Jeff is down outside with trainers looking over him try to get him to wake up. Out back Y2J is talking to Batista. Batista is threatening Y2J. Y2J doesn’t take it well and threatens Batista. They wish each other luck, but don’t turn their backs on each other. - Commercial The lights are out. When they come up it’s Regal in the ring. He sets up for ONS. Jeff will face Umaga there. Orton and JBL are on the tron. Regal speaks to them about who they want to face. Tonight they will team up and face HHH and Cena. If they win they will get their rematches at ONS and they can pick their types of matches. But if Cena and HHH win they will face each other and Regal will pick the match. - Commercial WWE Slam Of The Week - Beth hitting a double back breaker on Mickie and Melina last night! Melina comes out to the ring in a tie dye strapless top and tiny black mini. She does her split on the announce table. King is about to fall apart. She joins them at the table. Beth comes out to the ring in a blue halter jump suit. Beth glares at Melina as she gets in the ring. Maria comes out in blue pants, a matching bikini top over a black bra and black boots. - Winner: Beth Beth dump Maria to the floor before leaving the ring. Melina leaves the announce table and enters the ring. She takes off her boot and runs after Beth. She attacks from behind, but is then slammed over Beth’s head to the hard ramp. - Commercial Clips from Jimmy Kimmel with Piper and Santino. It reduced to a mess of a party at Hooters. Katie Lea and Mickie are out back talking. Katie says Mickie is sleeping her way to the top with Cena. Mickie says they just had fun and he was a complete gentleman. Regal, in his office, HBK comes in. He says he knows Regal is busy, but wants to wish him luck with Kennedy. HBK says he’ll get to sit back and watch tonight. Regal says HBK is going to be in a Stretcher Match at ONS with the winner of tonight’s Y2J and Batista match. - Commercial Video from the GI Film Festival and how WWE got an award there. Y2J comes out to the ring. Batista comes out to face him. - Commercial Batista is slamming Y2J around in the ring. Batista has the upper hand and Y2J is limping. Y2J pulls the top rope low and sends Batista out over the top. Now Batista is holding his left knee. Batista re-enters the ring. Y2J works over Batista’s knee in a big way. Chop block and leg holds to Batista. Y2J’s leg now seems fine and JR comments on it. Y2J gets kicked from the ring by Batista. Batista, with his legs wrapped in the ropes kicks Y2J into the announce table. Back in the ring Batista gets a HARD boot to Y2J’s face. Y2J is down for a while holding his face. A spinebuster from Batista but Y2J comes back with a single leg Boston crab. Batista is slowly crawling to the ropes and manages to get there. Y2J has to break the hold. Springboard lionsault is missed when Batista moves. Batista gets Y2J up, but Y2J holds the ropes and gets out. Y2J flies but a clothesline catches him above the eye and they’re both down. Batista covers for two. Y2J flies at Batista who catches him and hits a Batista bomb for three. - Winner: Batista Video replay of key points of the match. HBK comes out to the stage to glare at Batista. Batista glares back from the ring then grins. (HBK looks sort of stoned tonight. Don’t take it as he is stoned - but that he looks heavy lidded.) - Commercial Regal is getting ready for his match. Vince comes in and tells him he needs to beat him. Ted DiBiase comes in. Regal gets tossed from his office. Piper’s music starts and Santino comes out dressed (badly) as Piper with a pillow under his shirt and a bad wig. He says he’s Rodney The Piper. He says he’s been irritating people all over the world. He says he’s sick to death of Piper. He’s not happy about being disrespected. He shows the Kimmel video again. He’s glad we find it amusing. He talks about Cousin Sal. Since this is HIS Pit of The Piper and he has Cousin Sal. Sal comes out to the ring. - Commercial WWE Rewind - Cade and Murdoch beat Cryme Tyme Tyme but when Murdoch sung, Cade attacked him. JR says Cade and Murdoch are finished as a tag team. Lillian announces that the winner of this match will be fired. Kennedy comes out to the ring. His mic comes down and he says soon there will be no more Regal who’s about to lose his Royal jewels. Regal comes out to face him. - Winner: Kennedy Regal is writhing on the mat, jobless, looking like he’s in actual pain. He hasn’t looked well through the whole match. The fans are yelling at Regal who suddenly realizes what happened. They start singing ‘Goodbye’ to him. He grabs his knucks, tucks them in his tights and looks around. The “USA” chants start too. He glares around at the fans, nods and then leaves as they chant “Regal sucks.” He backs up the ramp, looking around at them all. He looks kind of out of it, a bit bobble headed. - Commercial Regal is pounding on his office door, trying to be let in. Teddy Long comes out and walks by with a grin. Regal looks shocked. Grisham is out back with HHH. He asks about his tag match tonight. HHH says he and Cena aren’t friends, but JBL and Orton aren’t going out on lunch dates. HHH and Cena both won last night, so they’re odds on to win. There’s a lot changing on RAW, but the one constant is HHH. Orton comes out to the ring. JBL comes out to tag with him. - Commercial Cena comes out to the ring. HHH comes out to tag with him. Cena and Orton lock up. Cena gets backed into a corner. The ref backs them off. Cena comes back with a bulldog. Tag to HHH. Orton gets whipped but gets an elbow up to the side of HHH’s head. HHH hits a high knee and a cheap shot to JBL. Cena pulls down the top rope to help HHH and send Orton flying outside. - Commercial JBL covers HHH for two. JBL locks on a strange head lock. HHH manages to get to his feet but into the heel corner. Orton tags in and stomps HHH. HHH hold the ropes leaving Orton’s drop kick to fall flat. Cena tags in and takes Orton down a couple times. Cane calls for the five knuckle shuffle and hits it. HHH argues with the ref. Orton tries to an RKO but Cena pushes off he tries for the FU, but JBL enters behind the ref’s back and kicks Cena in the head. Orton covers for two. Orton and Cena slam heads together. Both are down for seven. Both tag out. - Winner: JBL & Orton JBL grabs a mic and says he’ll face Cena in a First Blood Match. Orton grabs the mic and says he’ll be taking back his title the way he won it in the first place, in a Last Man Standing Match. Biggest pop Biggest heat |

