RAW RESULTS 9.1.2008

• KOFI KINGSTON def. CHARLIE HAAS
• ECW SRAMBLE BATTLE ROYAL: MARK HENRY def. MATT HARDY, THE MIZ, FINLAY, and CHAVO GUERERRO.
Mark Henry eliminates Chavo and The Miz.
Henry eliminates Finlay.
Henry eliminates Matt Hardy.
• JAMIE NOBLE def. WILLIAM REGAL
• SIX-DIVA TAG MATCH: KELLY KELLY, MICKIE JAMES, and CANDICE MICHELLE def. JILIAN HALL, BETH PHOENIX, and KATIE LEA BURCHILL.
• NON-TITLE MATCH: SANTINO MARELLA def. D-LO BROWN
• CRYME TYME def. MIZ and MORRISON – By disqualification from interference from Cody Rhodes and Ted Dibiase Jr.
• WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP SCRAMBLE BATTLE ROYAL: KANE def. BATISTA, JBL, CMPUNK.
Punk eliminates JBL and Batista.
Kane eliminates CM Punk.



Notes:
- Randy Orton made quite the entrance in his hometown of St. Louis with his sling supporting his arm, reminding all of us that he is out three more months due to injury from a motorcycle accident. Some people don’t like Randy Orton. I like him because he makes a great heal and he has great abs. :)
The usual business of a heel is to due some trash talking. Randy delivered. He said that Raw was an absolute joke without him. He named some names like Beth Phoenix, Santino Marella, and CM Punk and implying that they were the people making WWE Raw one big joke. CM Punk walks into the ring to a big pop from audience and reminds Randy that while he isn’t the conventional champion, at least he isn’t the pathetic one standing in the middle of the ring with a sling around his arm.
Randy leaves and JBL enters the ring yelling at Punk for blah blah blah….I think you know JBL well enough to know what he is pissed about.
Kane and Batista roll out and a little brawl breaks out maybe as a preview of the battle royal that would take place later on.
Overall, Raw kicked of to an exciting start. It was nice to see Randy Orton after a long hiatus and I am sorry that we won’t be seeing him for awhile. On the other hand, I loved seeing more of CM Punk!!! :)
- What is up with Charlie Haas? The poor guy can’t even get his own gimmick, he has to borrow from Carlito and John Cena to get onto TV. I don’t know where this angle is going. I feel bad for this guy. He comes out pretending to be somebody else and then gets his but kicked. I have a feeling that he will be released soon, since the creative team cannot use him in a resourceful way.
- I thought that Randy Orton bitch slapping Cody Rhodes was hysterically funny!!! The WWE superstars have been doing a lot of bitch slapping recently.
- It’s great to see Jamie Noble on television more often. He has an angle with Layla and it seems that it might take more to impress her, but he is winning her over. I like this angle and I hope to see more of Jamie Noble. How can anyone not like him? He is so lovable.
- I love Honk-a-Meter. More Honk-a-meter please!!! Santino tried to get back at Randy Orton. So he put up a Honk-a-Meter and compared himself to the Honky Tonk Man. It was so random that it was funny.
- Rey Mysterio comes back and tries to wop some giant ass with the 619 around the ring post. He is successful with the 619, but eventually gets his ass wopped by Kane. I don’t know what these guys are thinking when facing Kane. It’s FREAKING KANE for God sakes! I’d be running the other way.
- Of course, last but not least – HBK and the Ayatollah of Rock n’ Rolla end the show with a contract signing. This segment was very intense and I liked it. At the same time I am wondering when this rivalry will end, because it has dragged on for too long. They do some smack talking in the middle of the ring. They sign the contract. Shawn Michaels has a McCain moment and says that he will tell his children someday that daddy looked evil right in the face and kicked his ass…well I’m paraphrasing but I pretty sure it went something like that. Shawn Michaels and Chris Jericho look like their about to have a little Smackdown until Lance Cade runs in and wants a piece of the sexy boy. HBK fights with Lance Cade which ends with Lance getting a kick in the head. (Poor Lance!) Chris Jericho is no where to be seen. Raw goes off the air.

SUMMERSLAM XX RESULTS

· MVP def. JEFF HARDY

· BETH PHOENIX and SANTINO MARELLA def. MICKIE JAMES and KOFI KINGSTON
Winner takes all. BETH PHOENIX is the NEW WOMEN’S CHAMPION and SANTINO MARELLA is the new INTERCONTINENTAL CHAMPION

· ECW TITLE MATCH: MATT HARDY def. MARK HENRY via disqualification

· WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH: CM PUNK def. JBL (WOOHOO!)

· WWE TITLE MATCH: TRIPLE H def. THE GREAT KHALI

· BATISTA def. JOHN CENA

· HELL IN THE CELL: THE UNDERTAKER def. EDGE

NOTES:
· I really like the chemistry between Beth Phoenix and Santino Marella. The pairing creates great comedy. I enjoyed watching Satino celebrate while sitting on top of Beth’s shoulders!
· CM Punk beat JBL! WooHoo! My man keeps his title. Well….in my head he’s my man. He doesn’t know it yet.
· The ECW title match was boring and pointless! I was hoping that Matt Hardy would come away with the title, but instead he won through disqualification. I’m extremely disappointed. It wasn’t much of a match at all. It ended in like two seconds with Tony Atlas interfering in the match.
· I glad Triple H won…I just hate watching the Great Khali…
· I want this rivalry between Chris Jericho and Shawn Michaels to end. Chris Jericho hits Shawn Michaels’ wife and he doesn’t fight back? What the hell?
· I enjoyed the match between Batista and John Cena and was surprised that is didn’t end in disqualification. Batista defeated Cena, but the match had an amazing build up. Every time one of them kicked out of a count out, you could hear the crowd getting louder and louder.
· The Hell in The Cell match was the most anticipated with the return of the Undertaker. I was looking forward to the match the most. I loved watching it, but I can't help feeling a little disappointed. They were tearing each other apart…including the cell, LoL. I guess I was hoping to see both of them get on top of the cell and fight it out ad have some one fall from the top a la Mick Foley. None-the-less, I loved the ending with the Undertaker coming back into the ring and choke slamming Edge from the ladders and breaking huge hole into the mat. Fire shot out of the hole as the Undertaker did his iconic pose.

Live reactions: (Source from audience member Joe Roderick for Wrestlinginc.com)

“You could feel the buzz for the Cena/Batista match the entire night. The dark
match was great . . . if you want to get a crowd to their feet early, play the Big Show's
music, it was crazy.”

“The inter gender match was nice. For being a heel, Santino gets a great
reaction . . . he might be one of the greatest entertainers on the mic that this company has seen in a while.
Expect WWE to
ride
his wave of popularity.Another great segment between HBK and Y2J . . .
can't
wait to see what type of match they are in next. HBK's wife took a
legit shot
and you could tell she had a fat lip right away, what a trooper.”

“This was the BEST Khali match I have seen. HHH did a great job of making him
look decent in the ring. It was nice to see that some one could.”

“Cena/Batista . . . everything I expected to see in this match and with a lot
more. The spot at the end when Cena tried to do something crazy off the ropes
and got power bombed was amazing, I was a little suprised that it was a clean
win though. It's so weird to see the cut off in supporters in person. I mean
everyone under 15 really loves Cena but anyone with a drivers license can't
stand him. The guy just keeps going out and putting on great shows. And on
another side note, I would love to see one of these wrestlers take a hearing test, I mean I was about as far away
from the entrance as possible and my ears were ringing at some of their pyro. I
couldn't imagine being 5 feet away. INSANE!And for the HIAC . . . WOW WOW WOW. I
think there were 4 "Holy S***" chants during this match. The cage/spear spot was
crazy as was everything else. The match itself might have been one of the top
Cell matches of all time. There were obviously ones that were better but this
was a lot of fun to watch. My jaw actually dropped several times. The ending was
something I have never seen before. The fire at the end was so unexpected. I
wonder how they will play this off when Edge returns.”