Vince has given his speech and thinks it went moderately well. Post match Flair gets punched as well but Batista comes in for the save.īischoff tells the referees that he stands for law an order in a way to suck up to the Board of Directors. Bubba comes in and hits the Flip Flop and Fly…and that’s a DQ. D-Von hiptosses and armdrags Craven to start as the fans already want tables. Before the match, the Dudleys say they can’t believe it, but Mick Foley turned into a coward last week. Ric Flair is guest referee for the purposes of a screwy finish. Video on Tribute to the Troops, including footage from the plane ride over.ĭudley Boyz vs. That’s kind of the line that sums up the last six years. Vince comes in and says he’s pretty easily going to win because he owns the company. We’re now to the point where the McMahons arguing is now one officially one of the biggest plot points on the show. How dare Jericho?Ĭoach is in Stamford, Connecticut, where Vince and Linda McMahon will be arguing against and for Steve Austin’s return to Raw. Not really a great match but the huge crowd makes up for it.Ĭhris Jericho and Christian argue over their friendship ending because of a GIRL. They’ve never pulled the trigger on either of them and while there’s no reason to believe they’ll do it again here, at least we can get something to bridge the gap between Shawn and whomever is next.Ĭlassic Shawn clip: Royal Rumble 1997. Raw needs faces near the top of the card and someone like RVD is as good as anyone else. Just a match here but it’s cool to see someone getting a clean pin like this. The top rope kick to the face sets up the Five Star to put Steiner away clean. Rob is right back with a kick to the face, setting up Rolling Thunder and the split legged moonsault for two of his own. The spinning belly to belly gets the same, followed by the Push Up Elbow for two more. A crotching brings Rob back down and a belly to belly superplex gets two. That just earns him some spinwheel kicks and a standing moonsault, followed by the jumping kick to the face. Steiner whips him hard into the corner and we hit the pose. Somehow this is still fallout from Survivor Series. Instead, Henry can take the night off next week.
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They’re out of the building but Henry cashes in his Survivor Series favor to get to stick around. Orton accepts the challenge for later tonight like a good villain should do.Įric Bischoff stops Henry and Teddy Long to say that was a bad idea. That’s going to have to be delayed though as Mark Henry comes out and jumps Booker from behind, sending him into the set. to say his New Year’s resolution is to win the Intercontinental Title tonight. Orton has Lillian Garcia come inside and announce him as the winner of the match and the NEW Hardcore Legend.Ĭue Booker T. Foley knew what would happen if he got in the ring with Orton but we’re not quite done yet. Orton has been thinking about Foley over the holidays and knows that while Foley is a coward, he’s a smart coward. We open with Mick Foley’s music….and Randy Orton coming out instead. This is treated like the most serious moment in years, which actually works instead of making it feel ridiculous. The opening recap focuses on Mick Foley walking out on the show instead of fighting Randy Orton two weeks ago. Such is life in WWE, which is rarely up for capitalizing on the extra time that they have. This will set some stuff up for the Royal Rumble, which is in about four weeks and has barely been discussed yet. We’re FINALLY done with this terrible year with one last show and, of course, it’s focused on HHH, who is defending the World Title against Shawn Michaels in Shawn’s hometown. Note that I rate using letters instead of stars and I don’t rate matches under three minutes as really, how good or bad can something that short be? It could be anything from modern WWE to old school to indies to anything in between. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I’ll be posting a new review here on. I’ve been reviewing wrestling shows for over twelve years now and have reviewed over 6,000 shows. Welcome to KB’s Old School (and New School) Reviews.