Monday,
24th
February
2003.
RAW Report.
Live from
Wasington
DC.
Show opens with Lillian Garcia singing Star Spangled
Banner, in aid of the current War on Iraq.
Austin comes out to a big pop. He starts talking about
his match with Rock at WrestleMania XIX, and says that
he shouldn't have got Stone Cold Stunnered by his enemy
last week on RAW. Test's music hits, and he comes
reluctantly comes out with Stacey Keibler by his side.
Test tells Steve that his match his next and that he's
sorry for interrupting him. Test gets a Stunner for his
troubles. Austin jumps out of the ring and sits down
next to Lillian Garcia as Lance Storm runs down the
aisle.
Lance Storm vs. Test
Lance slides into the ring and covers the out-cold Test.
The referee gets ready to jump in the ring and start the
match, but Steve pulls him out and jumps in himself. He
crawls over and begins to count. 1...2... Austin stops
and points his middle fingers at Storm. Storm gets up
and is sent flying with the Stone Cold Stunner. No real
match, so no real rating.
Winner - No contest
Bischoff
makes his way out with many police officers, and says he
has a restraining order for Steve, who has to leave now
or face arrest. Steve eventually leaves and passes The
Rock backstage, who is sporting a guitar singing
"Jailhouse Rock".
Jeff Hardy & Trish Stratus vs. Steven Richards &
Victoria
Quite a decent opener which saw a good confrontation
between Trish and Victoria, although nothing we haven't
seen the past 5 months. Trish finishes with a bulldog on
Steven to get the pin.
½*
Winners - Jeff Hardy & Trish Stratus
Jeff and Trish share a passionate moment at the top of
the ramp, until Jazz comes out and attacks Trish. After
a brief moment of double teaming, she turns on Victoria
prior to their Triple Threat match at WrestleMania.
Backstage, Coachman interrupts Eric while he's on his
phone and says there's some security emergency.
Goldust is reading Playboy and let's Booker T know how
proud he is of him. Goldust says Triple H thinks he's a
"dic... dic... dictator".
Bischoff
notices that Austin is pacing back and forth outside his
truck. He orders Coach to go out there and tell Steve
that if he doesn't move away from the arena, he's going
to make his live a living hell. Coach declines, but is
soon persuaded as Eric insists on firing him if he
doesn't.
Christian vs. Scott Steiner
Pretty much a one-sided match just to put Scott Steiner
over even more, but if they're serious about elevating
Christian to main event stardom, something has got to be
done soon. Scott seems to be getting slightly better
every week, although his performances are still poor.
Steiner gets Christian on the top rope and drops him
down for the win.
½*
Winner - Scott Steiner
We cut
to Coachman outside, delivering the message to Austin
who doesn't look bothered whatsoever.
Chief Morley and Lance Storm are being interviewed by
Terri Runnels. Chief announces that seeing as William
Regal is ill, there will be new Tag Team Champions
awarded, And of course they are himself and Storm. Enter
Rob Van Dam and Kane, who have a score to settle with
Dudley Boys. A match later for tonight has been made
between the two teams.
Triple H & Ric Flair vs. Booker T & Goldust
Goldust continues to impress with the amount of effort
he is putting into his matches. This one was a
surprisingly good match, with Booker T getting the clean
pin over Triple H! It's such a shame that that has put
Sunday's match as another win for Hunter. Let's just
hope they continue the feud after WrestleMania if they
put on a good enough match.
***
Winner - Booker T & Goldust
Chris Jericho makes his way to the ring and calls out
Shawn Michaels. We are shown some footage of Shawn's
moves during the late 80's or early 90's in comparison
to Jericho's amatuer movies of him attempting the same
moves. Chris states that he looked up to Shawn and
wanted to be the Heart Break Kid. Two slaps follow, as
we cut out. Not a bad segment, although the ending
seemed a bit anti-climatic as such.
Rock meets up with Bischoff to tell him he has the
feeling that Austin is staying around to hear the Rock
Concert later tonight.
Kane & Rob Van Dam vs. The Dudley Boys
I don't see why Buh Buh is even wrestling in matches
seeing as he is injured. I also don't understand the
reason of turning them heel. Hell, I don't even know why
they're feuding with Chief and Storm in the first place.
Match ends after Kane chokeslams D-Von Dudley and Van
Dam hits the 5 Star Frog Splash. The match was okay.
*¼
Winner - Kane & Rob Van Dam
Main event is the Rock Concert and he sings about fat
women before Austin finally arrives in his truck. But
wait... it turns out to be Hurricane who is carried out
by Cops. I appears that Austin is in the back of the
truck. Rock runs off, as Austin picks up the guitar and
threatens to smash it unless he comes back. He destroys
it anyway. End show, as I'm not going to bother writing
the recapping of SmackDown!.
RAW >> 24th
February 2003
