Post by Valdora on Mar 17, 2013 21:27:39 GMT
WWF Raw 25/1/2013
-We open the show with Samoa Joe coming to the ring; he says that last Saturday was a big hit. But what he does when he takes a big hit is turn around and knock the other guys head off! So right now he is demanding that Legendary get out here and get their heads removed! Legendary all come out laughing at Joe, including Vince who stands with a microphone amongst them all. He says that Joe and the Undertaker couldn’t get the job last night, tonight will be no different and for that matter neither will Wrestlemania. Joe shots back that if he is so confident why not let him try. Cena now has the mic and says he has nothing else to prove and neither does Goldberg; they beat him for the second time, just like at Survivor Series and at Wrestlemania Cena will beat him again! “Three strikes and you’re out!” Joe concede that and says he will indeed prove his point about beating Cena when he repeats what happened in 52 seconds in October at Wrestlemania! He says that the man he wants is the man who ducked him last week…Hogan! Hogan now comes forward from the crowd and grabs the mic. He says that he proved last week that Joe wasn’t in his league, so he better get back in line before he embarrasses him like he did Steve Austin last night! Joe answers that he can try. Hogan eventually just shrugs and agrees. Joe says that he wants it for the NWO title, Hogan agrees. Joe says that since he earned all those other titles already and they stole them back, he wants ALL of them on the line. Legendary goes nuts around him, Hogan even growing wide eyed at that and snapping back, asking why he wants the belts if they are just “fake trophies.”
“Because of what they mean to you. To you those aren’t titles, they are your pride. I took the rest of theirs, now I want yours so that when I beat Cena at Wrestlemania, I can say that I am truly the best and have beaten the best to do so.” Hogan goes to answer but Vince cuts and backs everyone down, calms them down. He agrees with sends Legendary into a frenzy, but then adds that is will be a Lumberjack match! All of Legendary will be Hogan’s lumberjacks and if Joe wants any he will have to suck it up and go ask people himself. He no one wants to be with him because he isn’t known for being a team player (see last night) then that’s just too bad. Take it or leave it! Joe takes it.
-JR and King announce that Shane has made a match and tonight there will be an eight man X Division tag team match. The winning team will go on to an Ultimate X Match at Wrestlemania with Rey for his title. We are also told that the teams were randomized by computer.
-We get a quick backstage reaction from Rey on this. He is pissed and rants that he will get Vince on this.
-Awesome Kong & Kendra VS Daffney & Victoria: Kong and Kendra cream them, but then have a heated stare down. We see Trish watching this with a grin backstage.
-We come back from break finding out that Vince has made a match for Smackdown: Awesome Kong VS Kendra in a Falls Count Anywhere match! JR “speculates” that Trish obvious got her boss to make this.
-The Pope VS Jushin “Thunder” Liger: Liger gets the easy win. During the match JR and King talk about last night as backstage we see Wade among those at the monitor glaring on with a steely glance.
-Bryan Danielson comes out, yelling “NO! NO! NO!” At the crowd who are chanting “You tapped out!” He continues this for a few minutes before going on a tirade about how the official screwed him last week and he shows the footage of him grabbing the rope in slow motion as the referee was holding his face from the elbow. He demands a rematch. AJ comes out and says that he will get his rematch at Wrestlemania and this time the Pure Title will be on the line. He says that if he makes Bryan tap then it will be him making trips down to his old stomping crowd to defend it. Bryan yells that that won’t happen, that AJ will never make him tap! He will be the one to tap at Wrestlemania. AJ sees that bet and raises him, saying that the only way to settle this is to make their match at Wrestlemania a submission match. Bryan laughs at this saying that he so many ways to make AJ tap AJ won’t know what hit him in that match. AJ counters that he should just accept him. Bryan thinks about it for a minute and then accepts. The crowd goes wild as the two have a heated stare down.
-We come back finding out its official; Shane has agreed to make AJ VS Bryan a submission match.
-First Hour Main Event – Ultimate X Qualifying 8 Man Tag (randomized teams)- Delirious, Antonio Césaro, Chris Hero & Alex Shelly VS Chris Sabin, Doug Williams, KENTA & Davey Richards: These teams have a hard time working together that’s for sure. Especially for Sabin and Shelly, who are used to being tag partners in the past being on opposite sides. But when they are tagged in they go at it in beautiful and very heated fashion just like their great matches at the tail end of 2012. Everyone gets their moment, everyone looking strong as tags go back and forth, partners argue, more than a few hot tags but eventually Sabin hits the Cradle Shock on Hero and covers, but its broken up by Césaro. That brings in Sabin’s team. Richards and Williams first followed by KENTA as Shelly and Delirious run in as well. Even with two refs out there, they have lost complete control as all eight men hit anything that moves on the other team. Eventually though is starts to spill out of the ring, Shelly hitting a senton plancha that takes out half of the other team. Back in the ring Williams hits the Chaos theory but rises into a reverse DDT from Hero which is broken up by Sabin who hits a standing Frakensteiner, but that is broken up by Delirious with a running dropkick to the face! He then goes for the Bizarro driver, but Sabin reverses it and sends him out of the ring. He then sees Hero rising and heads up onto the top and off…right into Cesaro’s uppercut! Nailing him out of the air and covering for 1…2…3!!!
Delirious, Antonio Césaro, Chris Hero & Alex Shelly Qualify as Rey looks on pissed from Legendaries suite.
-The Dudley Boyz VS the Briscoe Brothers: The Dudley Boyz with a mighty 3D!
-Home interview with Shawn Michaels in response to the Rock. He makes several cutting comments and tells us how important this match is to him. He says even if his career wasn’t on the line at Wrestlemania, he would quit the company if he couldn’t beat the Rock anyway.
-Dolph Ziggler & The Miz w/ Velvet Sky VS Mankind and Abyss: After getting their ass handed to them all match, they manage to eliminate Abyss and when the ref is distracted by Velvet Sky Ziggler nails Mankind with the IC title followed by a SCF from the Miz to get the victory!
-After the match Dolph and Miz cut a cocky promo on last night, on how they beat the odds and then did so again tonight. Because they are winners and there are losers (pointing at the crowd.) Miz then changes topic and says speaking of that, seeing as how they dispatched Liger and Barrett last night he was thinking that the only person worthy of and IC title shot now…is him. Dolph looks angry as shoots back that he never agreed to that. Miz replies “that’s too bad” before then pointing behind Dolph and darting out of the ring. Behind him is Abyss, back and angry. Dolph swallows as he turns…right into a mighty black hole slam! Velvet screams at Miz, getting on her knees by her man and protecting him from Abyss, Mankind finally grabbing him and ordering him away as Miz laughs it up all the way up the ramp to the back.
-It is announced as we come back that by order of Shane Mcmahon; Next week on Raw it will be a Triple Threat match between The Miz, Wade Barrett and Jushin “Thunder” Liger. The winner will get the IC title shot against Dolph at Wrestlemania!
-Main Event- Lumberjack Match for all of Legendaries Championships– Hollywood Hogan VS Samoa Joe: All of Legendary come out with Hogan including Vince and Trish and surrounds the ring. Joe comes out onto the stage and introduces his lumberjacks: London & Kendrick, Awesome Kong which makes Trish crap herself, AJ Styles, Wade Barrett, Jushin Liger and Shane Mcmahon with gets Vince’s blood boiling. And here we go:
Joe just tears into Hogan, but Hogan manages to get some aid as his men pull his ankles more than a couple of times allowing Hogan to take advantage. On one of the last the face lumberjacks come around and glare across warning Legendary. Hogan now hammers into with hard right hands and then body slams him, hitting the ropes and dropping the leg…but Joe moves and then grabs Hogan, taking him up to the top rope and down off with, walking back and down from the Muscle Buster! He then covers for 1…2…NO! Goldberg breaks it up to loud boos. Legendary pile into the ring, the boos getting louder as they all stomp down into Joe…but the crowd then explodes as the heroes hit the ring and engage Legendary A full out battle in the war broken out right here, the match still on but it’s all out war in the middle of the ring and as fists and feet fly. The favorites start to fight Legendary back bit but Goldberg charges and spears Barrett, then spears Liger and the runs and tackles down, beating into Joe. Legendary now fully in control thanks to their powerhouse, Cena dropping London with the WWF title belt, Hogan dropping the leg on Barrett.
BONG! Here comes Taker. He chokeslams Goldberg but then turns and it beaten out of the ring by other members of Legendary. Glass Breaks! Austin comes out and beats into Legendary, he then enters the ring and Stunners Goldberg out of the ring into Taker who fights off Cena and Rock and beats him down. He then flips off and delivers a stunner to Hogan into the clutch, the referee then calling it. Cena then goes to get in, but is warned off by the glaring Joe and leaves. Joe now recovers all of his collection including Hogan’s NWO title, the faces standing tall.
Smackdown!
-Zack Ryder w/ Robbie E VS Paul London w/Brian Kendrick: Ryder manages to hairspray London in the eye as E takes out Kendrick so that he can hit the Rough Ryder and get the shocking victory.
-Mankind & Abyss VS the American Wolves: Mankind & Abyss when Mankind lock in the Mandible claw.
-Ayako Hamada VS Sarita: Hamada
-Bryan comes out with a huge list and lists every one of his submission holds that he can beat AJ with ala Jericho until the production team just goes to the break on him.
We come back from break to Bryan arguing with security as they are trying to get him out of the ring, they are demanding he leave. Bryan yells back “but I haven’t gotten to arm bar yet!” Security eventually just rush him and manage to drag him out of the ring.
-Raven & RVD VS the Briscoe Brothers: The Briscoe Brothers
-We get a quick promo from Kenta Kobashi in which he shows off that he just this last weekend won the GHC World Heavyweight Championship in his native Noah, but despite his commitments there he WILL be at Wrestlemania.
-AJ Styles VS Dolph Ziggler: Bryan comes out towards the end of the match and distracts AJ, letting Ziggler hit him with the super kick and pick up the huge victory for the IC champ.
-Main Event- Falls Count Anywhere- Awesome Kong VS Kendra: These two women beat the holy hell out of each other, recalling their big rivalry from a couple of years ago as they go all around the arena and hit each other with anything they can get their hands on. Eventually though an Awesome Bomb through the announce table gets the victory for Kong!
-After the match though as she celebrates Trish attacks from behind nailing her with the women’s title over and over and then nails her with a chair aided chick kick to leave Kong out on the mats with Trish standing over her to close SD.
WWF Raw 11.3.2013
-We open with Vince coming out. He demands to know who let into the building last week, as he was fired, and who in the production truck played their music. Shane comes out and says that Wrestlemania may be “one night only” but in that little contract he added a few “promotional appearances on TV beforehand. Vince has had enough of this. He challenges Shane saying that there needs to be one guy running things here in the WWF. Shane agrees. They decide that if Cena retains then Shane is gone for good, but if Joe wins then Vince can no longer run the wrestling side of the business.
-Chris Sabin bumps into Shane as he walking back from the ring and pleads to be allowed into the Ultimate X match. Shane agrees that he deserves a chance. As does everyone who was on the lossing team last week. And let's face it...5 is an odd number. So he says that tonight the lossing team will all face each other in a fatal four way match and whoever wins gets to go into the Ulimate X match.
-Sarita VS Trish Status: Trish with the Chick kick.
-After the match Trish is interviewed by Okerlund. She says that last week she proved to Kong that she will not just lay down for her. She beat her before at Wrestlemania two years ago and will do it again on the 31st!
-X Division Fatal Four Way- Winner gets into the Ultimate X match- Chris Sabin VS Davey Richards VS KENTA VS Doug Williams: These four tear it up in high impact X Division action. Double moves, triple moves and break neck sequences have the crowd whipped into a frenzy. In the final moments Williams is able to hit a Chaos theory, but as he goes back over with Richards in it, KENTA catches Richard out it right into a GTS! Then as Doug stands gets dropkicked down. KENTA turns as Sabin grabs him and goes for the Cradle Shock, but KENTA reverse that right into the GTS and covers for 1...2...3! The crowd errupts as it is annouced, KENTA rising and pumping his fists into the air at his hand is raised. KENTA is going to Wrestlemania, KENTA is going to be in the Ultimate X match. As he leaves the ring the camera pans the disapointed faces of the lossers, none more than Sabin who looks downright depressed as we fade out.
-We come back and are shown footage during the break of Chris Sabin walking to the locker room, his head low when he bumped into his old partner and recent rival Alex Shelly. Shelly tries to console him on he loss but Sabin snaps back that he doesn't know how it feels, he already got in! But in the middle of his rant he breaths out and says sorry before then saying to Alex that he damn well better win the title back for Detroit at Wrestlemania, the two linking hands to a cheer.
-The Briscoe Brothers VS Paul London & Brian Kendrick: The match is going on well until the Dudleyz run out and attack both teams, putting them through tables and standing tall for the 3rd week in a row.
-Bryan Danielson comes out. Three local talents are in the ring. He then says he will prove how much of a submission master he is by showing off all his best holds and making all these lossers tap out to them. The bell rings with the first man in the ring. He then runs for Bryan, but Bryan trips him down with a drop toe hold and then locks on the bow and arrow lock, the guy submits in short order. The second guy in, Bryan makes him tap to the Yes lock. And then finally the last guy he submits to the Cattle Multilation. He stands from that grinning the crowd and pointing his hands into the air with the Pure title in one, yelling "YES! YES! YES!" JR reminding us that AJ isn't here tonight.
-Our cameras then catch Mankind and Abyss in the locker room. Abyss is trying to talk down Mankind who is saying that he feels like the weak member of the team, that no one ever beats Abyss but just like before, he let him down last week when he let Dolph and Miz beat him. Abyss tries to talk sense into Mankind but Foley continues saying that he wants Abyss to stay back here for their match next. He wants to prove himself by beating both men by himself! Abyss tries to stop him but Mankind runs out of the room, pushing the camera over as he does! He then locks the boiler room door and leaves, the camera man standing and swinging the camera to the banging door, Abyss trying to get out.
-Mankind VS The Easy Ryders: After a good start the Ryders start to get the numbers game on Mankind beating him down and hitting a double suplex and then a leg drop fist drop combination. They then continue to beat on him for a few more minuets until finally Mankind starts to fight back hammering into both men as the crowd pop big time for him. Ryder swings with a closeline but Foley ducks it and then catches him in the double arm DDT, kicking Robbie away and then dropping Ryder with it. Then standing as Robbie E comes back and slaps on the mandible claw! Robbie writhing as he falls to the mat and then eventually passes out. Mankind has done it! He has beat the odds and proved himself to the world and his partner in his own eyes. Looking good heading in Wrestlemania.
-Last minuet pre match interviews with Miz, Barrett and Liger. We even get Ziggler perspective on it saying he doesn't care who he faces because he's gonna win.
-Main Event (match) - Triple Threat Match- Winner faces Ziggler for the IC title at Wrestlemania - The Miz VS Wade Barrett VS Jushin "Thunder" Liger: Wade Barrett is the clear controler in the first parts of the match, fighting both men off with he speed and power but soon as he is fighting Liger, Miz jumps from the second rope onto his back and locks in a sleeper, Liger then hitting a dropkick to the gut taking him both down. As the match goes on they all trade momentum and being the one of top, Liger going to the top rope more than once and taking both men down. And that is how we finish as Miz and Barrett are trading blows back and forth when Liger comes off the top with a double sprinboard Liger wheel kick taking them both down. He then hits Miz with the brainbuster and then avoids a big boot from Barrett and drops him with a CTB. Dropping down in hurt and exhastion and placing his arms over both men. But as he does he doesn't notice them both place their arms over him as the referee counts 1...2...3!
-Most of the crowd roars, thinking Liger has done it, his music even hitting and Finkle starting the annoucement before he is cut off, Mike Choida coming to the outside to talk to him. They talk in confusion for a few minuets until finally Finkle gets back on the mic, all the men in the ring now up and looking on in confusion. He then annouces that the match is a draw to some boos and yells from all the men in the ring as they argue with Finkle, Choida, with each other all claiming them won. When Shane Mcmahon comes out. He annouces that since there is no winner they WILL ALL face Ziggler for the IC title ar Wrestlemania! And just to make sure we have a clear winner it will be an elimination match! Barrett and Liger really seem to like the idea, looking over with smiles and nods at each other staring each other down as in the background Miz that he won, that's its his shot! We then cut backstage where Ziggler is yelling at everyone around the monitor about how unfair this is, he and Velvet storming off and pushing a ring hand over as they leave.
-We get the Wrestlemania promo and a preview of next week saying HBK and Austin have both been invited to Raw by Shane.
-As we come back JR is stood at the podium in the centre of the ring, the ring covered in royal red and two tables, leather chairs, contracts and mics are ready.
“Ladies and Gentleman, welcome to the contract signing for the Main Event of what is shaping up to the biggest and the greatest Wrestlemania ever: Wrestlemania 29. These two men have been in each other’s cross hairs seemingly since John Cena returned last year, but it really all started back in October right here on Raw. Since then Joe has gained a shockingly quick victory over the Champion, and Cena in return has beaten Joe twice in tag team action at Survivor Series and last Saturday on The Main Event. But many feel like had it been singles action, it would have been very different. On Wrestlemania night we will find out when they face of the greatest prize in this entire sport; The World Wrestling Federation Championship. Now…with that said at this time allow me to introduce the challenger. He hails from the Samoan Islands, currently residing in Orange County California. He has been largely undefeated over the past few years, and in many people’s minds is the uncrowned World Champion. He has victories over many of the biggest and best ever. He is a former 2 year reigning ROH Champion, a TNA World Champion and a two time WWF Intercontinental Champion. Ladies and Gentleman, accompanied to the ring by the CEO of the WWF Shane Mcmahon. Samoa Joe!”
*Joe out to a big pop*
Joe is dressed in his own T-shirt over his boxing style wrestling attire, sitting right at the table as Shane walks over and shakes JR’s hand with a polite nod before standing behind him.
“And now his opponent” boos “much has been said and wrote about this man. But love him or hate him, he has been the face of this company for 8 years. He hails West Newberry Massachusetts. He is a former United States Champion, World Heavyweight Champion including a long reign with that title over in the NWA just a few years ago, and multiple time Tag Team Champion. He has held the WWF World Championship 7 times, his current reign have now lasted almost 7 months. He has beaten every man there is to beat in the sport of professional wrestling and was the longest reigning champion in recent memory. He is the face of this company and of the controlling group Legendary which has ran things here for the last year. Ladies and Gentleman; Accompanied to the ring by the Chairman of the World Wrestling Federation Vince Mcmahon: John Cena!”
*Cena out to thunderous boos*
Cena slides into the ring, turning his back to Joe and throwing the WWF spinner belt with both hands to the crowd who jeer back loudly, Vince standing proudly behind his corporate champion with a broad grin and applauding. As the music now dies down Cena looks back over his shoulder with a sneering smile at Joe and then makes his away around to sit at the other table, placing the title belt on it facing Joe.
“Well Gentleman,” JR continues as they look over the contracts with their Mcmahon behind them “before we sign the contract there are a few things to address that have been place in there. This match is of course for the WWF Championship. Like any modern WWF Championship match, there will be no rematch unless earned later by the loser. This is it. The match will have a one hour time limit. Regular rules will be in place, however it has been agreed by both controlling bodies in Vince and Shane that all interference is banned from ringside on threat of immediate termination. And finally, this is the big one, as decided earlier tonight and just now written into the contract by our legal team; if John Cena retains then Shane Mcmahon will be fired, out of the WWF and replaced by his sister Stephanie. But if Samoa Joe wins the Championship at Wrestlemania then the Chairman, Vince Mcmahon, you will be restricted to simply running the business of the WWF and will no longer be able to make any decisions regarding the on screen product, the matches, the titles or even appear on your own show. Shane Mcmahon will completely run the wrestling side of the business.”
Vince and Shane glares across at each other as JR speaks, Shane smirking at bit at the idea but Vince calling back with his own evil smile that it won’t happen.
“Now…if both of your, Shane and Vince, if you would both sign the contracts for that part. The top line if you would.”
Vince and Shane glare across the tables at each other as they come forward and reach down, both picking up and signing on the dotted line. Joe and Cena now take the papers.
“And now gentleman. Cena, Joe, if you would.”
Without any hesitation Joe and Cena sign on the dotted line, place the pens down and slide the papers away from each of across the table.
“Alright then,” JR nods “as stated earlier, the reason this is happening tonight is that after tonight you will both have two weeks off to go away and train hard, however you see fit, for this match. This is your last chance for a couple of weeks to speak to each other, so I will open to comments.”
Both men continue to stare at each other. Joe gesturing his eyebrows at Cena and towards the mic as if to say ‘you first’. Cena shakes his head with a smug grin as he straightens his title belt and reaches for the microphone, bringing it up to his face. Turning and laughing with Vince about something and then turning back to Joe and speaking now.
“Look at you, look at you Joe. So confident, such a bad ass, knowing that you have already won this title from me. I’ve seen that look a million times pal, and you know what, one by one from Batista, to CM Punk, to Ric Flair, to Steve Austin to the Undertaker…I wiped the smiles of their faces when I pinned their shoulders to the mat. You have been living off this 52 second victory. Yeah…well done, you caught me off guard when I was tired and jet lagged and you locked me in your submission and I passed out. Yeah you did that, you got lucky once and you have lived off that, hung your hat it ever since as the guy who beat me. But what has happened since Joe. What has happened since is that I beat you at Survivor Series! I pinned your shoulders to that mat just like every else’s. Two weeks ago on SNME I took you out and me and Bill beat you and Undertaker, the unbeatable dream team. You bust in here with you Taz meets Misawa act from that gloried Indy company that never made a dime the entire time they operated and you think you can take over this place. Look around Joe, look at the calendar; you have been here for 4 years. And what have you done in that time? Oh you beat some pretty big names, you became IC Champ. But you know what? I became World Champion in 3. By 4 years, by the time I was here as long as you have been I main evented my 3rd straight Wrestlemania and beat Shawn Michaels in one of the biggest Wrestlemania’s ever in Detroit! What are you? What you got compare to that? Nothing! You dominated the indies, big deal. You beat a few guys but helped but TNA out of business with you on top, great work. And then you came here and for two of those four years lingered in mediocrity. And by time I came back you had found yourself as a Goldberg wannabe beating everyone here but still…still unable to reach that brass ring. Oh you had excuses, but they don’t cut it. You failed to reach the top while smaller pals of yours from your Indy and TNA days jumped ahead of you and did it. And now, now last April I returned after spending a year on the fringes because Vince allowed an mark to run his business who thought that overrated loser like you could pay the bills. But now we’re back, and you Joe, you were exactly who I and the Rock started this whole thing to fix. You and your Indy pals almost killed this company and now we are back, I am back and I tell you now, my time is here again, as I have proved over the last year with victory after victory I am back where I belong! As the face of this company and you…you will be beat, embarrassed on the biggest stage of all and then…then you will be nothing and Vince will trade you off for somebody worthy in April. Who are you? You got nothing man, I’m the man, your just a punk” the crowd react to Cena’s words as he sits back in his chair, placing his feet up and spinning his belt at Joe with a grin on his face, Vince with an even bigger grin, very proud of himself and his comments as Joe just glares back and now shakes his head, reaching for the mic himself.
“He has a point JR” King comments as Joe lifts his mic up and looks towards Cena.
“Talk the talk. It doesn’t change the fact, it doesn’t the bottom line that I am going to beat you John” the crowd cheers “and this time I am not gonna let you down easy, this time it won’t be an easy 52 seconds. This time I am gonna hurt you. Sure, I’ll put you away fast, maybe five minutes tops, but when I’m done…you will never be able to dance around this ring in your stupid kids sneakers again” Cena swallows now “what have I got? I got the fact that I am on the rise, I am the killer. Great, you beat me in some tag matches, pinned me once at SS by taking advance of your gangs attack. But since the night I embarrassed you, you have been ducking me. Because no matter all your retains, all your victories over Legends and top guys of today…you know, and I know you know, I see it in your eyes. You know that I am what Austin was to Shawn and Bret, what Goldberg was to Hogan, what Rock was to Austin, what you were to John Layfield. At Wrestlemania you know that I am the man who is going to beat you. And not just beat you, beat you at Wrestlemania, take that ugly looking title belt away from you and end it all. You know that at Wrestlemania when my music hits you are gonna piss your 12 year old jean shorts, because you know that a year ago you didn’t come back to the big time to take your spot back. You came back so I could end it” The crowd, Cena and Vince react to that, Cena now quickly rushing to respond.
“You end it? You? My time is now, now again you son of a bitch! Am of the face of this company! I am immortal! I am Superman!” Cena rants.
“And I’m your kryptonite boy. For too long that man behind you” he points who at Vince who sneers back “has been protecting you, making sure that you were his golden goose that would lay eggs for years to come. Nothing lasts forever and I ain’t here to be handed any torch Cena, at Wrestlemania I am here to rip it out of your bloody hands! You music says your time is now! In 27 days your time…is done!”
The crowd reacts loudly; Cena is taken back by that for a moment, unable to respond, just breathing in heavily as he glares across as at Joe. He goes to reach for the microphone and then stops, grabbing his title and slowly stands. Then holding the title high into the air and yells “come take it.” Joe now standing across from him at the other table and stares right back. Vince and Shane behind them, the Wrestlemania sign between them as JR speaks.
“Well Gentleman, go and train however you see fit and we will see you in two weeks on the last Raw before Wrestlemania. For everyone here, Goodnight from Washington!”
With that we now zoom in on the heated stare down, Joe and Cena exchanging a few off record words as Raw fades to black.
Smackdown!
Sarita & Michelle Mcool VS Angelia Love & Velvet Sky: During the match the old Beatiful People showed some of that old chemistry, working well as a team and picking up the win. Afterwards they gave each other an odd interested and bemused look as though they realized why they work so well together.
We then got a video package highlighting all the matches Kong and Trish have had in the past from brutal wars to thrilling epics these two have done it all and as the video says have truly been the corner stones of the women's division for years and at Wrestlemania it is finally decided who is the best.
The Briscoe Brothers VS The Natural Born Killers: The Brothers pick up a countout victory when Rekks is kept on the outside for the 10.
The Miz VS AJ Styles: AJ gets his win back this week with the Styles clash, easily done with Bryan not being there to distract him this time.
We then got a response video from Hogan and Rock who spoke about their Wrestlemania opponents and then proclaimed that if they were going to be around next week, they should be there to fight. They challenged Shawn and Austin to a Texas VS Hollywood tag team match next week on Raw.
Delirious then came out and cut a quick promo on Wrestlemania and how he will climb to victory for that X title. He then faced off against Eddie Edwards and got the win with the bizarro driver.
We get a backstage moment with Shane who says he was just on the phone to HBK and Austin and they have agreed. The tag match is on, the Main Event set for next week.
Main Event- Paul London, Bryan Kendrick, Jushin "Thunder" Liger & KENTA VS The Easy Ryders, The Pope & Dolph Ziggler: Liger gets the win with a Liger bomb on Pope.
WWF Raw 11.03.2013
-We start off Raw with a hype package on tonights main event and the men involved in it. We also get told that tonight Rock and Shawn will go face to face in the ring for the first time in months.
-Delirious VS Doug Williams: Fast paced X Division action to kick us off, back and forth it goes with counters into high flying and devasting moves. The last moments come when Doug goes for the third german suplex on the match, perhap a chaos theory, but Delirous is able to reverse it into a reverse DDT and then hit the Bizarro driver for the 3 count!
-After the match Christy interviews Delirious about the Ultimate X match. Delirious gives his usual spiel, but in there we get that he is in it to win it and Rey Mysterio is the has been masked man.
-Backstage we see Velvet kissing Dolph as he walks off, she then enters the women's locker room and is seen talking to Angelina Love.
-Mankind & Abyss VS The Dudley Boyz: This is a brawl of a match to say the least, haymakers flying and clubbing everywhere and its quickly gets out of control as all the men enter the ring and slug is back and forth in a stiff brawl. Eventually the referee is shoved down by them brawling and has enough, calling for the bell. They ignore it and continue brawling, eventually though Abyss manages to grab both of them and double chokeslam them into the mat, that sends Bubba and Devon rolling out under the bottom rope and retreating to the back as Abyss and Mankind look on.
-Back from break and Okerlund gets a quick word with The Dudleyz who say that tonight they were just being the smart ones, retreating to fight another day. And that day is Wrestlemania where they will again become WWF Tag Team Champions!
-Shawn Micheals is seen entering the area earlier today, cowboy hat on and pulling his bag. We then see Austin arriving via his signiture pick up truck, swaggering into the building and yelling at an attendant in the way that its his ass if that truck gets touched.
-Paul London & Brian Kendrick VS The American Wolves: Great techinical and faced passed tag team action here. Back and forth the tags and double moves go until Kendrick is issolated, London taken out and the Wolves hit the superkick into German Suplex combo for the victory. They are looking strong heading into the gauntlet.
-Video package plays on Trish Stratus VS Awesome Kong, explaining their history and that this is the final, the last word to see who is truly better.
-The Rock come to the ring, he berades Shawn Micheals and says that no matter what Shawn says he will let down the thousands of "geek marks" and the millions and millions will cheer when he beats him at Wrestlemania...again! Shawn comes out! He gets in Rocks face and points out that everything he is a contradiction. He says the buisness is in his blood, he says that he loves this buisness, but in reality he is ashamed of it, he wants to be more than just a wrestler, he wants to be a movie star, he wants to a household name. Shawn says he had that and he has it as a wrestler and no matter how hard he tries, no matter how much he wants to be Dwayne Johnson, he will always be the Rock and he will always crawl back to this buisness for his payday. But his fans are long gone and only those who love wrestling, the men he is fighting for, remain. Rock is angry at first but then smirks, he says that Shawn is right. He IS Ashamed of this buisness, but not what it was, what it has become. He is ashamed that men like Cena and Austin had to go find work elsewhere, that he has to leave the WWF because he was booked in the undercard with a joke of a wrestler like Goldust...ashamed that marks got incharge and messed everything up by listening to the fat, greesy lossers who live a home with their parents and think they know everything because they read it on some BS website. He says that he has said no to more women that they have ever seen, and he will never...ever listen to them because they simply don't matter.
"But the Rock saw your little package. You want to talk about contridictions Shawn, look in the mirror because you say you love the buisness you say you fight for all of them. If that is truly the case then why, oh why, are you "ok" with lossing? Why are you ok with being beaten by me and retiring at Wrestlemania 29? Because no matter what anyone says or does, if you are "ok" with lossing and going home to your hick family then you will never, and the Rock means ever...beat him. Because the Rock with all his sweat and all his blood and with everything he is, needs to beat you at Wrestlemania. To put a nail in the coffin and send you away and with you the dark ages, the stupid moron fans and allow the Rock and men like him in Legendary take their place at the top of the mountain where they should be. Shawn Micheals if you are OK with lossing then you better get your ass back to Texas, but not to wrestle, to your home...and stay there. If you smell what the Rock, is cookin!"
Shawn has nothing to say to that, he swallows and lowers his head as the Rock's music plays. Rock then walking past him with a sly smile and struts through the ropes and up the ramp to the back, leaving Shawn in the ring slowly turning around and watching Rock with eyes that tell a better story than his mouth ever could. JR and King sum this up as we go to break.
-We now come back seeing Shawn walking backstage, his head low when Stone Cold matches up to him. He lays it into Shawn and says that as much as he hates saying this, the Rock is right. So he better man up, go and find out if he wants to carry on here, if he truly wants to win at Wrestlemania...because if he doesn't then he better not bother showing his ass in the tag match tonight! With that Austin walks off as Shawn looks on at him with those same telling eyes.
-The Beautiful People VS Awesome Kong & Ayako Hamada: The reunited beatiful people are back in form, unfortunatly their opponents are way beyond what they can handle. They are thrown around the ring like ragdolls and finally, they are put out their missery with a mighty implant buster to Love for the victory.
-After the match Okerlund comes in and tries to get a response from Kong to Trish. Kong replies simply "Trish Stratus is dead in 20 days!" And storms off.
-We get a promo package from Goldberg where he talks about his match with Undertaker and says he will end the streak at Wrestlemania, because the Undertaker is old news, and he's next.
-The Miz VS Chris Sabin: Sabin puts in his best effort, really taking it to Miz with all he has got but in the end it's not enough as beating on the head all match ends with a SCF victory for the self proclaimed awesome one.
-After the match Miz speaks about the Fatal Four Way, explains his reasons for going against Dolph and says that he will be IC Champion come Wrestlemania.
-Promo package showing Cena and Joe training. Cena is at a state of the art Gym with a team of trainers. Joe has checked himself into an MMA club and is training with the head trainer there who speaks. Joe says the reason he has done this is because Wrestlemania won't be a match, it will be a fight, and a fight he will win.
-Wrestlemania promo.
-Main Event (Hollywood VS Texas Tag Team Match): Shawn doesn't show, leaving Austin high and dry to get destroyed, he tries, even getting ahead a few times but the end a Rock Bottom followed by two leg drops is too much for even the rattlesnake and team Hollywood get the win as JR and King comment that obviously Shawn decided to go home.
-Hogan that yells to Rock to "keep him busy" and then heads out the ring and through the curtain. Our camera's follow him as he walks through the halls, smiling all the while and dripping with sweat from the match. All the whole he is saying "big bad Austin? I'll show you Austin! I'll show you." Eventually he gets to the parking lot and grins as he sees Austin's truck. He then yells for an the attendant to get out the way, throwing him aside as he now goes over, the camera crew running to follow as he gets to a Hollywood Hogan black monster truck with Hogan spray painted on it. Biggest Icon in wrestling amoung the things wrote on it. He then gets in and starts up the engine, JR and King as well as the crowd getting the idea as he pulls out. The camera man jumps back so as not to be hit as Hogan reverses into postion, laughing manically from the truck as we cut back to the area where Rock is now holding up Austin, forcing him to watch this on the titantron in his half concious state. Hogan then reving the engine a few more times before then driving the monster truck up and over Austin's pick up crushing it, laughing as he reverses back over it a few more times and then eventually dismounts. In the ring this has sent Austin in a fit of rage, coming to and nailing the Rock with a stunner! He then heads out of the ring and starts to run up the ramp, but stops as on the screen we see Hogan getting out to stand outside the door of his truck, laughing into the camera and says "and thats the bottom line because Hollywood Hogan says so!" Austin mouths a variety of four letter words now and runs up the ramp and to the back, us now seeing Hogan laughing now as he gets back into the truck and drives off as the box appears and Raw fades to black.
Smackdown!
Alex Shelly & Chris Hero VS Antonio Cesaro & Rey Mysterio: The heels getting it this time.
The Beatiful People VS Kendra & Victoria: The people get crushed again.
The Natural Born Killers VS The American Wolves: The Wolves again getting the win, but this time because Eddie was able to hook Rekk's tights.
Raven & RVD VS The Briscoe Brothers: Raven & RVD get the win this time.
AJ comes out and says that Danielson's demonstrations were very impressive but he will have one of his own in the next match.
Main Event- AJ Styles VS Dolph Ziggler: Hell of a match that goes for nearly 20 minuets of pure heaven until finally AJ manages to make Ziggler tap out to the lion tamer!
-We open the show with Samoa Joe coming to the ring; he says that last Saturday was a big hit. But what he does when he takes a big hit is turn around and knock the other guys head off! So right now he is demanding that Legendary get out here and get their heads removed! Legendary all come out laughing at Joe, including Vince who stands with a microphone amongst them all. He says that Joe and the Undertaker couldn’t get the job last night, tonight will be no different and for that matter neither will Wrestlemania. Joe shots back that if he is so confident why not let him try. Cena now has the mic and says he has nothing else to prove and neither does Goldberg; they beat him for the second time, just like at Survivor Series and at Wrestlemania Cena will beat him again! “Three strikes and you’re out!” Joe concede that and says he will indeed prove his point about beating Cena when he repeats what happened in 52 seconds in October at Wrestlemania! He says that the man he wants is the man who ducked him last week…Hogan! Hogan now comes forward from the crowd and grabs the mic. He says that he proved last week that Joe wasn’t in his league, so he better get back in line before he embarrasses him like he did Steve Austin last night! Joe answers that he can try. Hogan eventually just shrugs and agrees. Joe says that he wants it for the NWO title, Hogan agrees. Joe says that since he earned all those other titles already and they stole them back, he wants ALL of them on the line. Legendary goes nuts around him, Hogan even growing wide eyed at that and snapping back, asking why he wants the belts if they are just “fake trophies.”
“Because of what they mean to you. To you those aren’t titles, they are your pride. I took the rest of theirs, now I want yours so that when I beat Cena at Wrestlemania, I can say that I am truly the best and have beaten the best to do so.” Hogan goes to answer but Vince cuts and backs everyone down, calms them down. He agrees with sends Legendary into a frenzy, but then adds that is will be a Lumberjack match! All of Legendary will be Hogan’s lumberjacks and if Joe wants any he will have to suck it up and go ask people himself. He no one wants to be with him because he isn’t known for being a team player (see last night) then that’s just too bad. Take it or leave it! Joe takes it.
-JR and King announce that Shane has made a match and tonight there will be an eight man X Division tag team match. The winning team will go on to an Ultimate X Match at Wrestlemania with Rey for his title. We are also told that the teams were randomized by computer.
-We get a quick backstage reaction from Rey on this. He is pissed and rants that he will get Vince on this.
-Awesome Kong & Kendra VS Daffney & Victoria: Kong and Kendra cream them, but then have a heated stare down. We see Trish watching this with a grin backstage.
-We come back from break finding out that Vince has made a match for Smackdown: Awesome Kong VS Kendra in a Falls Count Anywhere match! JR “speculates” that Trish obvious got her boss to make this.
-The Pope VS Jushin “Thunder” Liger: Liger gets the easy win. During the match JR and King talk about last night as backstage we see Wade among those at the monitor glaring on with a steely glance.
-Bryan Danielson comes out, yelling “NO! NO! NO!” At the crowd who are chanting “You tapped out!” He continues this for a few minutes before going on a tirade about how the official screwed him last week and he shows the footage of him grabbing the rope in slow motion as the referee was holding his face from the elbow. He demands a rematch. AJ comes out and says that he will get his rematch at Wrestlemania and this time the Pure Title will be on the line. He says that if he makes Bryan tap then it will be him making trips down to his old stomping crowd to defend it. Bryan yells that that won’t happen, that AJ will never make him tap! He will be the one to tap at Wrestlemania. AJ sees that bet and raises him, saying that the only way to settle this is to make their match at Wrestlemania a submission match. Bryan laughs at this saying that he so many ways to make AJ tap AJ won’t know what hit him in that match. AJ counters that he should just accept him. Bryan thinks about it for a minute and then accepts. The crowd goes wild as the two have a heated stare down.
-We come back finding out its official; Shane has agreed to make AJ VS Bryan a submission match.
-First Hour Main Event – Ultimate X Qualifying 8 Man Tag (randomized teams)- Delirious, Antonio Césaro, Chris Hero & Alex Shelly VS Chris Sabin, Doug Williams, KENTA & Davey Richards: These teams have a hard time working together that’s for sure. Especially for Sabin and Shelly, who are used to being tag partners in the past being on opposite sides. But when they are tagged in they go at it in beautiful and very heated fashion just like their great matches at the tail end of 2012. Everyone gets their moment, everyone looking strong as tags go back and forth, partners argue, more than a few hot tags but eventually Sabin hits the Cradle Shock on Hero and covers, but its broken up by Césaro. That brings in Sabin’s team. Richards and Williams first followed by KENTA as Shelly and Delirious run in as well. Even with two refs out there, they have lost complete control as all eight men hit anything that moves on the other team. Eventually though is starts to spill out of the ring, Shelly hitting a senton plancha that takes out half of the other team. Back in the ring Williams hits the Chaos theory but rises into a reverse DDT from Hero which is broken up by Sabin who hits a standing Frakensteiner, but that is broken up by Delirious with a running dropkick to the face! He then goes for the Bizarro driver, but Sabin reverses it and sends him out of the ring. He then sees Hero rising and heads up onto the top and off…right into Cesaro’s uppercut! Nailing him out of the air and covering for 1…2…3!!!
Delirious, Antonio Césaro, Chris Hero & Alex Shelly Qualify as Rey looks on pissed from Legendaries suite.
-The Dudley Boyz VS the Briscoe Brothers: The Dudley Boyz with a mighty 3D!
-Home interview with Shawn Michaels in response to the Rock. He makes several cutting comments and tells us how important this match is to him. He says even if his career wasn’t on the line at Wrestlemania, he would quit the company if he couldn’t beat the Rock anyway.
-Dolph Ziggler & The Miz w/ Velvet Sky VS Mankind and Abyss: After getting their ass handed to them all match, they manage to eliminate Abyss and when the ref is distracted by Velvet Sky Ziggler nails Mankind with the IC title followed by a SCF from the Miz to get the victory!
-After the match Dolph and Miz cut a cocky promo on last night, on how they beat the odds and then did so again tonight. Because they are winners and there are losers (pointing at the crowd.) Miz then changes topic and says speaking of that, seeing as how they dispatched Liger and Barrett last night he was thinking that the only person worthy of and IC title shot now…is him. Dolph looks angry as shoots back that he never agreed to that. Miz replies “that’s too bad” before then pointing behind Dolph and darting out of the ring. Behind him is Abyss, back and angry. Dolph swallows as he turns…right into a mighty black hole slam! Velvet screams at Miz, getting on her knees by her man and protecting him from Abyss, Mankind finally grabbing him and ordering him away as Miz laughs it up all the way up the ramp to the back.
-It is announced as we come back that by order of Shane Mcmahon; Next week on Raw it will be a Triple Threat match between The Miz, Wade Barrett and Jushin “Thunder” Liger. The winner will get the IC title shot against Dolph at Wrestlemania!
-Main Event- Lumberjack Match for all of Legendaries Championships– Hollywood Hogan VS Samoa Joe: All of Legendary come out with Hogan including Vince and Trish and surrounds the ring. Joe comes out onto the stage and introduces his lumberjacks: London & Kendrick, Awesome Kong which makes Trish crap herself, AJ Styles, Wade Barrett, Jushin Liger and Shane Mcmahon with gets Vince’s blood boiling. And here we go:
Joe just tears into Hogan, but Hogan manages to get some aid as his men pull his ankles more than a couple of times allowing Hogan to take advantage. On one of the last the face lumberjacks come around and glare across warning Legendary. Hogan now hammers into with hard right hands and then body slams him, hitting the ropes and dropping the leg…but Joe moves and then grabs Hogan, taking him up to the top rope and down off with, walking back and down from the Muscle Buster! He then covers for 1…2…NO! Goldberg breaks it up to loud boos. Legendary pile into the ring, the boos getting louder as they all stomp down into Joe…but the crowd then explodes as the heroes hit the ring and engage Legendary A full out battle in the war broken out right here, the match still on but it’s all out war in the middle of the ring and as fists and feet fly. The favorites start to fight Legendary back bit but Goldberg charges and spears Barrett, then spears Liger and the runs and tackles down, beating into Joe. Legendary now fully in control thanks to their powerhouse, Cena dropping London with the WWF title belt, Hogan dropping the leg on Barrett.
BONG! Here comes Taker. He chokeslams Goldberg but then turns and it beaten out of the ring by other members of Legendary. Glass Breaks! Austin comes out and beats into Legendary, he then enters the ring and Stunners Goldberg out of the ring into Taker who fights off Cena and Rock and beats him down. He then flips off and delivers a stunner to Hogan into the clutch, the referee then calling it. Cena then goes to get in, but is warned off by the glaring Joe and leaves. Joe now recovers all of his collection including Hogan’s NWO title, the faces standing tall.
Smackdown!
-Zack Ryder w/ Robbie E VS Paul London w/Brian Kendrick: Ryder manages to hairspray London in the eye as E takes out Kendrick so that he can hit the Rough Ryder and get the shocking victory.
-Mankind & Abyss VS the American Wolves: Mankind & Abyss when Mankind lock in the Mandible claw.
-Ayako Hamada VS Sarita: Hamada
-Bryan comes out with a huge list and lists every one of his submission holds that he can beat AJ with ala Jericho until the production team just goes to the break on him.
We come back from break to Bryan arguing with security as they are trying to get him out of the ring, they are demanding he leave. Bryan yells back “but I haven’t gotten to arm bar yet!” Security eventually just rush him and manage to drag him out of the ring.
-Raven & RVD VS the Briscoe Brothers: The Briscoe Brothers
-We get a quick promo from Kenta Kobashi in which he shows off that he just this last weekend won the GHC World Heavyweight Championship in his native Noah, but despite his commitments there he WILL be at Wrestlemania.
-AJ Styles VS Dolph Ziggler: Bryan comes out towards the end of the match and distracts AJ, letting Ziggler hit him with the super kick and pick up the huge victory for the IC champ.
-Main Event- Falls Count Anywhere- Awesome Kong VS Kendra: These two women beat the holy hell out of each other, recalling their big rivalry from a couple of years ago as they go all around the arena and hit each other with anything they can get their hands on. Eventually though an Awesome Bomb through the announce table gets the victory for Kong!
-After the match though as she celebrates Trish attacks from behind nailing her with the women’s title over and over and then nails her with a chair aided chick kick to leave Kong out on the mats with Trish standing over her to close SD.
WWF Raw 11.3.2013
-We open with Vince coming out. He demands to know who let into the building last week, as he was fired, and who in the production truck played their music. Shane comes out and says that Wrestlemania may be “one night only” but in that little contract he added a few “promotional appearances on TV beforehand. Vince has had enough of this. He challenges Shane saying that there needs to be one guy running things here in the WWF. Shane agrees. They decide that if Cena retains then Shane is gone for good, but if Joe wins then Vince can no longer run the wrestling side of the business.
-Chris Sabin bumps into Shane as he walking back from the ring and pleads to be allowed into the Ultimate X match. Shane agrees that he deserves a chance. As does everyone who was on the lossing team last week. And let's face it...5 is an odd number. So he says that tonight the lossing team will all face each other in a fatal four way match and whoever wins gets to go into the Ulimate X match.
-Sarita VS Trish Status: Trish with the Chick kick.
-After the match Trish is interviewed by Okerlund. She says that last week she proved to Kong that she will not just lay down for her. She beat her before at Wrestlemania two years ago and will do it again on the 31st!
-X Division Fatal Four Way- Winner gets into the Ultimate X match- Chris Sabin VS Davey Richards VS KENTA VS Doug Williams: These four tear it up in high impact X Division action. Double moves, triple moves and break neck sequences have the crowd whipped into a frenzy. In the final moments Williams is able to hit a Chaos theory, but as he goes back over with Richards in it, KENTA catches Richard out it right into a GTS! Then as Doug stands gets dropkicked down. KENTA turns as Sabin grabs him and goes for the Cradle Shock, but KENTA reverse that right into the GTS and covers for 1...2...3! The crowd errupts as it is annouced, KENTA rising and pumping his fists into the air at his hand is raised. KENTA is going to Wrestlemania, KENTA is going to be in the Ultimate X match. As he leaves the ring the camera pans the disapointed faces of the lossers, none more than Sabin who looks downright depressed as we fade out.
-We come back and are shown footage during the break of Chris Sabin walking to the locker room, his head low when he bumped into his old partner and recent rival Alex Shelly. Shelly tries to console him on he loss but Sabin snaps back that he doesn't know how it feels, he already got in! But in the middle of his rant he breaths out and says sorry before then saying to Alex that he damn well better win the title back for Detroit at Wrestlemania, the two linking hands to a cheer.
-The Briscoe Brothers VS Paul London & Brian Kendrick: The match is going on well until the Dudleyz run out and attack both teams, putting them through tables and standing tall for the 3rd week in a row.
-Bryan Danielson comes out. Three local talents are in the ring. He then says he will prove how much of a submission master he is by showing off all his best holds and making all these lossers tap out to them. The bell rings with the first man in the ring. He then runs for Bryan, but Bryan trips him down with a drop toe hold and then locks on the bow and arrow lock, the guy submits in short order. The second guy in, Bryan makes him tap to the Yes lock. And then finally the last guy he submits to the Cattle Multilation. He stands from that grinning the crowd and pointing his hands into the air with the Pure title in one, yelling "YES! YES! YES!" JR reminding us that AJ isn't here tonight.
-Our cameras then catch Mankind and Abyss in the locker room. Abyss is trying to talk down Mankind who is saying that he feels like the weak member of the team, that no one ever beats Abyss but just like before, he let him down last week when he let Dolph and Miz beat him. Abyss tries to talk sense into Mankind but Foley continues saying that he wants Abyss to stay back here for their match next. He wants to prove himself by beating both men by himself! Abyss tries to stop him but Mankind runs out of the room, pushing the camera over as he does! He then locks the boiler room door and leaves, the camera man standing and swinging the camera to the banging door, Abyss trying to get out.
-Mankind VS The Easy Ryders: After a good start the Ryders start to get the numbers game on Mankind beating him down and hitting a double suplex and then a leg drop fist drop combination. They then continue to beat on him for a few more minuets until finally Mankind starts to fight back hammering into both men as the crowd pop big time for him. Ryder swings with a closeline but Foley ducks it and then catches him in the double arm DDT, kicking Robbie away and then dropping Ryder with it. Then standing as Robbie E comes back and slaps on the mandible claw! Robbie writhing as he falls to the mat and then eventually passes out. Mankind has done it! He has beat the odds and proved himself to the world and his partner in his own eyes. Looking good heading in Wrestlemania.
-Last minuet pre match interviews with Miz, Barrett and Liger. We even get Ziggler perspective on it saying he doesn't care who he faces because he's gonna win.
-Main Event (match) - Triple Threat Match- Winner faces Ziggler for the IC title at Wrestlemania - The Miz VS Wade Barrett VS Jushin "Thunder" Liger: Wade Barrett is the clear controler in the first parts of the match, fighting both men off with he speed and power but soon as he is fighting Liger, Miz jumps from the second rope onto his back and locks in a sleeper, Liger then hitting a dropkick to the gut taking him both down. As the match goes on they all trade momentum and being the one of top, Liger going to the top rope more than once and taking both men down. And that is how we finish as Miz and Barrett are trading blows back and forth when Liger comes off the top with a double sprinboard Liger wheel kick taking them both down. He then hits Miz with the brainbuster and then avoids a big boot from Barrett and drops him with a CTB. Dropping down in hurt and exhastion and placing his arms over both men. But as he does he doesn't notice them both place their arms over him as the referee counts 1...2...3!
-Most of the crowd roars, thinking Liger has done it, his music even hitting and Finkle starting the annoucement before he is cut off, Mike Choida coming to the outside to talk to him. They talk in confusion for a few minuets until finally Finkle gets back on the mic, all the men in the ring now up and looking on in confusion. He then annouces that the match is a draw to some boos and yells from all the men in the ring as they argue with Finkle, Choida, with each other all claiming them won. When Shane Mcmahon comes out. He annouces that since there is no winner they WILL ALL face Ziggler for the IC title ar Wrestlemania! And just to make sure we have a clear winner it will be an elimination match! Barrett and Liger really seem to like the idea, looking over with smiles and nods at each other staring each other down as in the background Miz that he won, that's its his shot! We then cut backstage where Ziggler is yelling at everyone around the monitor about how unfair this is, he and Velvet storming off and pushing a ring hand over as they leave.
-We get the Wrestlemania promo and a preview of next week saying HBK and Austin have both been invited to Raw by Shane.
-As we come back JR is stood at the podium in the centre of the ring, the ring covered in royal red and two tables, leather chairs, contracts and mics are ready.
“Ladies and Gentleman, welcome to the contract signing for the Main Event of what is shaping up to the biggest and the greatest Wrestlemania ever: Wrestlemania 29. These two men have been in each other’s cross hairs seemingly since John Cena returned last year, but it really all started back in October right here on Raw. Since then Joe has gained a shockingly quick victory over the Champion, and Cena in return has beaten Joe twice in tag team action at Survivor Series and last Saturday on The Main Event. But many feel like had it been singles action, it would have been very different. On Wrestlemania night we will find out when they face of the greatest prize in this entire sport; The World Wrestling Federation Championship. Now…with that said at this time allow me to introduce the challenger. He hails from the Samoan Islands, currently residing in Orange County California. He has been largely undefeated over the past few years, and in many people’s minds is the uncrowned World Champion. He has victories over many of the biggest and best ever. He is a former 2 year reigning ROH Champion, a TNA World Champion and a two time WWF Intercontinental Champion. Ladies and Gentleman, accompanied to the ring by the CEO of the WWF Shane Mcmahon. Samoa Joe!”
*Joe out to a big pop*
Joe is dressed in his own T-shirt over his boxing style wrestling attire, sitting right at the table as Shane walks over and shakes JR’s hand with a polite nod before standing behind him.
“And now his opponent” boos “much has been said and wrote about this man. But love him or hate him, he has been the face of this company for 8 years. He hails West Newberry Massachusetts. He is a former United States Champion, World Heavyweight Champion including a long reign with that title over in the NWA just a few years ago, and multiple time Tag Team Champion. He has held the WWF World Championship 7 times, his current reign have now lasted almost 7 months. He has beaten every man there is to beat in the sport of professional wrestling and was the longest reigning champion in recent memory. He is the face of this company and of the controlling group Legendary which has ran things here for the last year. Ladies and Gentleman; Accompanied to the ring by the Chairman of the World Wrestling Federation Vince Mcmahon: John Cena!”
*Cena out to thunderous boos*
Cena slides into the ring, turning his back to Joe and throwing the WWF spinner belt with both hands to the crowd who jeer back loudly, Vince standing proudly behind his corporate champion with a broad grin and applauding. As the music now dies down Cena looks back over his shoulder with a sneering smile at Joe and then makes his away around to sit at the other table, placing the title belt on it facing Joe.
“Well Gentleman,” JR continues as they look over the contracts with their Mcmahon behind them “before we sign the contract there are a few things to address that have been place in there. This match is of course for the WWF Championship. Like any modern WWF Championship match, there will be no rematch unless earned later by the loser. This is it. The match will have a one hour time limit. Regular rules will be in place, however it has been agreed by both controlling bodies in Vince and Shane that all interference is banned from ringside on threat of immediate termination. And finally, this is the big one, as decided earlier tonight and just now written into the contract by our legal team; if John Cena retains then Shane Mcmahon will be fired, out of the WWF and replaced by his sister Stephanie. But if Samoa Joe wins the Championship at Wrestlemania then the Chairman, Vince Mcmahon, you will be restricted to simply running the business of the WWF and will no longer be able to make any decisions regarding the on screen product, the matches, the titles or even appear on your own show. Shane Mcmahon will completely run the wrestling side of the business.”
Vince and Shane glares across at each other as JR speaks, Shane smirking at bit at the idea but Vince calling back with his own evil smile that it won’t happen.
“Now…if both of your, Shane and Vince, if you would both sign the contracts for that part. The top line if you would.”
Vince and Shane glare across the tables at each other as they come forward and reach down, both picking up and signing on the dotted line. Joe and Cena now take the papers.
“And now gentleman. Cena, Joe, if you would.”
Without any hesitation Joe and Cena sign on the dotted line, place the pens down and slide the papers away from each of across the table.
“Alright then,” JR nods “as stated earlier, the reason this is happening tonight is that after tonight you will both have two weeks off to go away and train hard, however you see fit, for this match. This is your last chance for a couple of weeks to speak to each other, so I will open to comments.”
Both men continue to stare at each other. Joe gesturing his eyebrows at Cena and towards the mic as if to say ‘you first’. Cena shakes his head with a smug grin as he straightens his title belt and reaches for the microphone, bringing it up to his face. Turning and laughing with Vince about something and then turning back to Joe and speaking now.
“Look at you, look at you Joe. So confident, such a bad ass, knowing that you have already won this title from me. I’ve seen that look a million times pal, and you know what, one by one from Batista, to CM Punk, to Ric Flair, to Steve Austin to the Undertaker…I wiped the smiles of their faces when I pinned their shoulders to the mat. You have been living off this 52 second victory. Yeah…well done, you caught me off guard when I was tired and jet lagged and you locked me in your submission and I passed out. Yeah you did that, you got lucky once and you have lived off that, hung your hat it ever since as the guy who beat me. But what has happened since Joe. What has happened since is that I beat you at Survivor Series! I pinned your shoulders to that mat just like every else’s. Two weeks ago on SNME I took you out and me and Bill beat you and Undertaker, the unbeatable dream team. You bust in here with you Taz meets Misawa act from that gloried Indy company that never made a dime the entire time they operated and you think you can take over this place. Look around Joe, look at the calendar; you have been here for 4 years. And what have you done in that time? Oh you beat some pretty big names, you became IC Champ. But you know what? I became World Champion in 3. By 4 years, by the time I was here as long as you have been I main evented my 3rd straight Wrestlemania and beat Shawn Michaels in one of the biggest Wrestlemania’s ever in Detroit! What are you? What you got compare to that? Nothing! You dominated the indies, big deal. You beat a few guys but helped but TNA out of business with you on top, great work. And then you came here and for two of those four years lingered in mediocrity. And by time I came back you had found yourself as a Goldberg wannabe beating everyone here but still…still unable to reach that brass ring. Oh you had excuses, but they don’t cut it. You failed to reach the top while smaller pals of yours from your Indy and TNA days jumped ahead of you and did it. And now, now last April I returned after spending a year on the fringes because Vince allowed an mark to run his business who thought that overrated loser like you could pay the bills. But now we’re back, and you Joe, you were exactly who I and the Rock started this whole thing to fix. You and your Indy pals almost killed this company and now we are back, I am back and I tell you now, my time is here again, as I have proved over the last year with victory after victory I am back where I belong! As the face of this company and you…you will be beat, embarrassed on the biggest stage of all and then…then you will be nothing and Vince will trade you off for somebody worthy in April. Who are you? You got nothing man, I’m the man, your just a punk” the crowd react to Cena’s words as he sits back in his chair, placing his feet up and spinning his belt at Joe with a grin on his face, Vince with an even bigger grin, very proud of himself and his comments as Joe just glares back and now shakes his head, reaching for the mic himself.
“He has a point JR” King comments as Joe lifts his mic up and looks towards Cena.
“Talk the talk. It doesn’t change the fact, it doesn’t the bottom line that I am going to beat you John” the crowd cheers “and this time I am not gonna let you down easy, this time it won’t be an easy 52 seconds. This time I am gonna hurt you. Sure, I’ll put you away fast, maybe five minutes tops, but when I’m done…you will never be able to dance around this ring in your stupid kids sneakers again” Cena swallows now “what have I got? I got the fact that I am on the rise, I am the killer. Great, you beat me in some tag matches, pinned me once at SS by taking advance of your gangs attack. But since the night I embarrassed you, you have been ducking me. Because no matter all your retains, all your victories over Legends and top guys of today…you know, and I know you know, I see it in your eyes. You know that I am what Austin was to Shawn and Bret, what Goldberg was to Hogan, what Rock was to Austin, what you were to John Layfield. At Wrestlemania you know that I am the man who is going to beat you. And not just beat you, beat you at Wrestlemania, take that ugly looking title belt away from you and end it all. You know that at Wrestlemania when my music hits you are gonna piss your 12 year old jean shorts, because you know that a year ago you didn’t come back to the big time to take your spot back. You came back so I could end it” The crowd, Cena and Vince react to that, Cena now quickly rushing to respond.
“You end it? You? My time is now, now again you son of a bitch! Am of the face of this company! I am immortal! I am Superman!” Cena rants.
“And I’m your kryptonite boy. For too long that man behind you” he points who at Vince who sneers back “has been protecting you, making sure that you were his golden goose that would lay eggs for years to come. Nothing lasts forever and I ain’t here to be handed any torch Cena, at Wrestlemania I am here to rip it out of your bloody hands! You music says your time is now! In 27 days your time…is done!”
The crowd reacts loudly; Cena is taken back by that for a moment, unable to respond, just breathing in heavily as he glares across as at Joe. He goes to reach for the microphone and then stops, grabbing his title and slowly stands. Then holding the title high into the air and yells “come take it.” Joe now standing across from him at the other table and stares right back. Vince and Shane behind them, the Wrestlemania sign between them as JR speaks.
“Well Gentleman, go and train however you see fit and we will see you in two weeks on the last Raw before Wrestlemania. For everyone here, Goodnight from Washington!”
With that we now zoom in on the heated stare down, Joe and Cena exchanging a few off record words as Raw fades to black.
Smackdown!
Sarita & Michelle Mcool VS Angelia Love & Velvet Sky: During the match the old Beatiful People showed some of that old chemistry, working well as a team and picking up the win. Afterwards they gave each other an odd interested and bemused look as though they realized why they work so well together.
We then got a video package highlighting all the matches Kong and Trish have had in the past from brutal wars to thrilling epics these two have done it all and as the video says have truly been the corner stones of the women's division for years and at Wrestlemania it is finally decided who is the best.
The Briscoe Brothers VS The Natural Born Killers: The Brothers pick up a countout victory when Rekks is kept on the outside for the 10.
The Miz VS AJ Styles: AJ gets his win back this week with the Styles clash, easily done with Bryan not being there to distract him this time.
We then got a response video from Hogan and Rock who spoke about their Wrestlemania opponents and then proclaimed that if they were going to be around next week, they should be there to fight. They challenged Shawn and Austin to a Texas VS Hollywood tag team match next week on Raw.
Delirious then came out and cut a quick promo on Wrestlemania and how he will climb to victory for that X title. He then faced off against Eddie Edwards and got the win with the bizarro driver.
We get a backstage moment with Shane who says he was just on the phone to HBK and Austin and they have agreed. The tag match is on, the Main Event set for next week.
Main Event- Paul London, Bryan Kendrick, Jushin "Thunder" Liger & KENTA VS The Easy Ryders, The Pope & Dolph Ziggler: Liger gets the win with a Liger bomb on Pope.
WWF Raw 11.03.2013
-We start off Raw with a hype package on tonights main event and the men involved in it. We also get told that tonight Rock and Shawn will go face to face in the ring for the first time in months.
-Delirious VS Doug Williams: Fast paced X Division action to kick us off, back and forth it goes with counters into high flying and devasting moves. The last moments come when Doug goes for the third german suplex on the match, perhap a chaos theory, but Delirous is able to reverse it into a reverse DDT and then hit the Bizarro driver for the 3 count!
-After the match Christy interviews Delirious about the Ultimate X match. Delirious gives his usual spiel, but in there we get that he is in it to win it and Rey Mysterio is the has been masked man.
-Backstage we see Velvet kissing Dolph as he walks off, she then enters the women's locker room and is seen talking to Angelina Love.
-Mankind & Abyss VS The Dudley Boyz: This is a brawl of a match to say the least, haymakers flying and clubbing everywhere and its quickly gets out of control as all the men enter the ring and slug is back and forth in a stiff brawl. Eventually the referee is shoved down by them brawling and has enough, calling for the bell. They ignore it and continue brawling, eventually though Abyss manages to grab both of them and double chokeslam them into the mat, that sends Bubba and Devon rolling out under the bottom rope and retreating to the back as Abyss and Mankind look on.
-Back from break and Okerlund gets a quick word with The Dudleyz who say that tonight they were just being the smart ones, retreating to fight another day. And that day is Wrestlemania where they will again become WWF Tag Team Champions!
-Shawn Micheals is seen entering the area earlier today, cowboy hat on and pulling his bag. We then see Austin arriving via his signiture pick up truck, swaggering into the building and yelling at an attendant in the way that its his ass if that truck gets touched.
-Paul London & Brian Kendrick VS The American Wolves: Great techinical and faced passed tag team action here. Back and forth the tags and double moves go until Kendrick is issolated, London taken out and the Wolves hit the superkick into German Suplex combo for the victory. They are looking strong heading into the gauntlet.
-Video package plays on Trish Stratus VS Awesome Kong, explaining their history and that this is the final, the last word to see who is truly better.
-The Rock come to the ring, he berades Shawn Micheals and says that no matter what Shawn says he will let down the thousands of "geek marks" and the millions and millions will cheer when he beats him at Wrestlemania...again! Shawn comes out! He gets in Rocks face and points out that everything he is a contradiction. He says the buisness is in his blood, he says that he loves this buisness, but in reality he is ashamed of it, he wants to be more than just a wrestler, he wants to be a movie star, he wants to a household name. Shawn says he had that and he has it as a wrestler and no matter how hard he tries, no matter how much he wants to be Dwayne Johnson, he will always be the Rock and he will always crawl back to this buisness for his payday. But his fans are long gone and only those who love wrestling, the men he is fighting for, remain. Rock is angry at first but then smirks, he says that Shawn is right. He IS Ashamed of this buisness, but not what it was, what it has become. He is ashamed that men like Cena and Austin had to go find work elsewhere, that he has to leave the WWF because he was booked in the undercard with a joke of a wrestler like Goldust...ashamed that marks got incharge and messed everything up by listening to the fat, greesy lossers who live a home with their parents and think they know everything because they read it on some BS website. He says that he has said no to more women that they have ever seen, and he will never...ever listen to them because they simply don't matter.
"But the Rock saw your little package. You want to talk about contridictions Shawn, look in the mirror because you say you love the buisness you say you fight for all of them. If that is truly the case then why, oh why, are you "ok" with lossing? Why are you ok with being beaten by me and retiring at Wrestlemania 29? Because no matter what anyone says or does, if you are "ok" with lossing and going home to your hick family then you will never, and the Rock means ever...beat him. Because the Rock with all his sweat and all his blood and with everything he is, needs to beat you at Wrestlemania. To put a nail in the coffin and send you away and with you the dark ages, the stupid moron fans and allow the Rock and men like him in Legendary take their place at the top of the mountain where they should be. Shawn Micheals if you are OK with lossing then you better get your ass back to Texas, but not to wrestle, to your home...and stay there. If you smell what the Rock, is cookin!"
Shawn has nothing to say to that, he swallows and lowers his head as the Rock's music plays. Rock then walking past him with a sly smile and struts through the ropes and up the ramp to the back, leaving Shawn in the ring slowly turning around and watching Rock with eyes that tell a better story than his mouth ever could. JR and King sum this up as we go to break.
-We now come back seeing Shawn walking backstage, his head low when Stone Cold matches up to him. He lays it into Shawn and says that as much as he hates saying this, the Rock is right. So he better man up, go and find out if he wants to carry on here, if he truly wants to win at Wrestlemania...because if he doesn't then he better not bother showing his ass in the tag match tonight! With that Austin walks off as Shawn looks on at him with those same telling eyes.
-The Beautiful People VS Awesome Kong & Ayako Hamada: The reunited beatiful people are back in form, unfortunatly their opponents are way beyond what they can handle. They are thrown around the ring like ragdolls and finally, they are put out their missery with a mighty implant buster to Love for the victory.
-After the match Okerlund comes in and tries to get a response from Kong to Trish. Kong replies simply "Trish Stratus is dead in 20 days!" And storms off.
-We get a promo package from Goldberg where he talks about his match with Undertaker and says he will end the streak at Wrestlemania, because the Undertaker is old news, and he's next.
-The Miz VS Chris Sabin: Sabin puts in his best effort, really taking it to Miz with all he has got but in the end it's not enough as beating on the head all match ends with a SCF victory for the self proclaimed awesome one.
-After the match Miz speaks about the Fatal Four Way, explains his reasons for going against Dolph and says that he will be IC Champion come Wrestlemania.
-Promo package showing Cena and Joe training. Cena is at a state of the art Gym with a team of trainers. Joe has checked himself into an MMA club and is training with the head trainer there who speaks. Joe says the reason he has done this is because Wrestlemania won't be a match, it will be a fight, and a fight he will win.
-Wrestlemania promo.
-Main Event (Hollywood VS Texas Tag Team Match): Shawn doesn't show, leaving Austin high and dry to get destroyed, he tries, even getting ahead a few times but the end a Rock Bottom followed by two leg drops is too much for even the rattlesnake and team Hollywood get the win as JR and King comment that obviously Shawn decided to go home.
-Hogan that yells to Rock to "keep him busy" and then heads out the ring and through the curtain. Our camera's follow him as he walks through the halls, smiling all the while and dripping with sweat from the match. All the whole he is saying "big bad Austin? I'll show you Austin! I'll show you." Eventually he gets to the parking lot and grins as he sees Austin's truck. He then yells for an the attendant to get out the way, throwing him aside as he now goes over, the camera crew running to follow as he gets to a Hollywood Hogan black monster truck with Hogan spray painted on it. Biggest Icon in wrestling amoung the things wrote on it. He then gets in and starts up the engine, JR and King as well as the crowd getting the idea as he pulls out. The camera man jumps back so as not to be hit as Hogan reverses into postion, laughing manically from the truck as we cut back to the area where Rock is now holding up Austin, forcing him to watch this on the titantron in his half concious state. Hogan then reving the engine a few more times before then driving the monster truck up and over Austin's pick up crushing it, laughing as he reverses back over it a few more times and then eventually dismounts. In the ring this has sent Austin in a fit of rage, coming to and nailing the Rock with a stunner! He then heads out of the ring and starts to run up the ramp, but stops as on the screen we see Hogan getting out to stand outside the door of his truck, laughing into the camera and says "and thats the bottom line because Hollywood Hogan says so!" Austin mouths a variety of four letter words now and runs up the ramp and to the back, us now seeing Hogan laughing now as he gets back into the truck and drives off as the box appears and Raw fades to black.
Smackdown!
Alex Shelly & Chris Hero VS Antonio Cesaro & Rey Mysterio: The heels getting it this time.
The Beatiful People VS Kendra & Victoria: The people get crushed again.
The Natural Born Killers VS The American Wolves: The Wolves again getting the win, but this time because Eddie was able to hook Rekk's tights.
Raven & RVD VS The Briscoe Brothers: Raven & RVD get the win this time.
AJ comes out and says that Danielson's demonstrations were very impressive but he will have one of his own in the next match.
Main Event- AJ Styles VS Dolph Ziggler: Hell of a match that goes for nearly 20 minuets of pure heaven until finally AJ manages to make Ziggler tap out to the lion tamer!