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Bossman beat Goldberg, though.

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RAW The show opens with a recap of last weeks event's between Benoit & HBK as they head into Backlash in Edmonton, and the tag match they lost last week to the FBI with the technicallity that lead to Shawn getting pinned. The RAW opener plays, and the pyro & fireworks went off, and JR & The King welcome us to RAW. HBK comes out to the ring, pissed about what happened, last week in the tag match. HBK accussed Benoit of hitting him with the title belt on purpose, because he thought HBK was stealing his thunder. Shawn calls Benoit out to the ring, right now. "Whatever" blared, and the World Heavyweight Champion, Chris Benoit comes down to the ring, ready to fight. Benoit gets into the ring, and gets into Shawn's face, teasing a possible fight between the two. Bischoff comes out, and tells them to knock it off. He says that the last thing he wants is for his investment to go down the toilet because of this. He then orders Chris & Shawn to team up to face the FBI again in a rematch from last week. Eric leaves, as the champion & challenger stare each other down as we go to break. Christian w/Trish def. Tajiri with help from Coach, who was doing commentary with JR & King. Christian came out to the Evolution theme before the match. Mick Foley & WGTT def. Evolution in a 6-man tag match when Foley pinned Orton Backstage, Edge is once again seen hanging out with Torrie, Sable, Dawn, & Jackie in his locker room. The girls are coping a feel all over his muscular upper-body as he smiles, sinfully. Edge invites the girls to another shower, and tells them that they're gonna play a game of "hide the salami". Afterwards, he's gonna go out there, and kick Kane's ass, again. The girls giggle as they leave with Edge to the shower. Chris Jericho def. Rosey Evolution came out and tried to attack Jericho, again. But, Jericho fended them off with a steel chair. Later, we go backstage to Bischoff confronting Rosey, and telling him that he's officially FIRED from RAW for losing to Chris Jericho, and sucking in the ring. Later, we go to Edge's locker room to hear obvious sounds of wild sex inside a running shower stall behind a curtain. In Evolution's locker room, Bischoff comes in and tells all 4 of them that they'll be teaming up against Jericho, Foley, & TWGTT in an 8-man tag match, next week. Flair say they'll be more than happy to "walk that isle", next week and destroy the opposition. Christian & Trish agree. Orton nods as he still hasn't recovered from his tonsilectimy. After the break, the cameras pick up Edge sitting outside the shower stall, breathing heavily, mumbling something, indicating that he had just got done "laying" all 4 divas. He then pulls himself up, and leaves to get dressed. Kane def. Val Venis After the match, Edge came to the ring once again, and attacked Kane. Edge busted Kane wide open with a steel chair, and tried to do what he did, last week. But, Kane quickly slid out of the ring, and got out of dodge. Edge stared at Kane with rage & vengeance in his eyes as "The Hunter" played. *commercial* Main Event Chris Benoit & Shawn Michaels def. The FBI when Benoit made Stamboli tap out to the Crossface. HBK, who was busy outside the ring, brawling with Palumbo, looked on from the outside, seething with jelousy that Benoit got the win over The FBI, this week, when he lost by pinfall, last week. Benoit celebrated the win with his title belt while Shawn looked on in anger & jealousy. RAW goes off the air.

Speaking of football background, you just know that JR would just cream himself while mentioning Monty Brown's football past.

RAW The show begins with RAW GM, Eric Bischoff in the ring. Eric says that while Heyman took RAW's "crown jewel" away to Smackdown, he will create a new "crown jewel" for RAW. He then introduces his 10 draft picks. But, like on Smackdown, only 9 of them come out. WGTT, A-Train, FBI, Tajiri, Rhyno, Nidia, Sable, Torrie, & Dawn Marie. Bischoff then introduces his biggest draft pick from Smackdown, Edge. "The Hunter" by Dokken hits, and Edge comes down to the ring to a huge welcoming pop from the crowd. He wears a striped black leather jacket, black leather pants, and dark sunglasses. He takes the mic from Eric, and thanks him for the welcome. He starts talking about sitting on the sidelines for over a year, due to a neck injury, and why. He said the reason why is because he was attacked from behind, and piledriven into the floor by a certain RAW superstar. That man broke his neck, and nearly ended his career, and that man's name is Kane. Bischoff tells Edge that Kane hasn't arrived to the building yet, but he can make a no holds barred match between Edge and Kane at RAW's Backlash. Edge accepts, and the match is made along with Benoit/Michaels for the World Title. Bischoff closes the segment by thanking the 10 RAW draftees for their attendance, and we then go to a commercial break. Later, Edge is seen walking around backstage with a Vengeful look in his eyes as he is looking for the man that put him on the shelf for a year, Kane. Suddenly, Edge is sidetracked by the pressence of RAW Divas, Sable, Torrie, Dawn, & Miss Jackie. He decides to greet them. As they start talking, Sable & Torrie start playing with Edge's hair, while Dawn & Jackie start coping a feel on Edge's chest under his shirt. Dawn Marie asks why don't they escort Edge into their room, and "get aquainted with him". With that, they pull a smiling Edge into their dressing room. Rhyno & Tajiri def. La Resistance The 3 remaining members of Evolution come out. Orton & Batista are dressed in their wrestling gear. Ric Flair gets on the mic, and says that since Hunter is now on Smackdown, Randy Orton is the new leader of Evolution, and by Randy's orders, there will be a new member of Evolution inducted, tonight. Mick Foley comes out and challenges Orton to a street fight at Backlash. Flair accepts the challenge on Orton's behalf, and says that Randy will NOT be talking this week, due to his tonsiles being surgically removed. Foley, Flair, & Batista start talking back & forth, until WGTT's music hits, and the next match begins WGTT def. Evolution when Shelton pinned Batista. Later, Evolution is backstage, complaining to Bischoff about what just happened out there. Eric says that in addition to the Foley/Orton street fight, Flair & Batista will defend the World Tag Team Titles against TWGTT at Backlash. Meanwhile, a hidden camera shows outside a shower stall in which apparently Miss Jackie, Dawn Marie, Torrie Wilson, & Sable are having a little fun with Edge behind the curtain. Kane is seen entering the arena. Chris Benoit comes down to the ring to a thunderous ovaition with the World Heavyweight Title over his shoulder. He gets on the mic, and talks about what HHH said on Smackdown, last week. Benoit said that he will be thinking Eddie and his tenure as WWF Champion. But, he will not be concerned, because he's pretty confident that Eddie will kick The Game's ass again and again like he did the last time. He then started to talk about Backlash, his title defense against HBK. But, before he could continue, HBK came out to the ring, and said that as much as he respects Benoit, he respects the title alot more, and he wants to take it at Backlash so that he can finally get the last word on HHH. Benoit says that as much as he respects Shawn, it's just not gonna happen, not in Edmonton. Bischoff comes out and says that since both men are in such a competitive mood tonight, he'll book them in a tag match against the FBI tonight in the main event. HBK & Benoit stare each other down as RAW goes to break. After the break, we go back to the shower room where Edge steps out of the shower stall, breathing heavily with a towel around his waist. The girls told Edge how great he was in the shower. Edge responded by saying as much as he enjoyed the fun he had with them, he's got work to do. They both blew each other kisses as Edge left to get dressed. Kane def. A-Train. After the match, Edge stormed out to the ring, and attacked Kane. Edge tried to break Kane's neck with a steel chair, but WWF Officials came in and broke it up. Victoria def. Gail Kim and Molly Holly in a triple threat match to retain the Women's Title. After the match, Molly & Gail attacked Victoria, which brought out Nidia and Lita to fight them off. Backstage, La Resistance were talking with Rhyno & Tajiri. Conway dared Tajiri to spew mist at the next person that comes throught the door in front of them. Coach came in, and got misted by Tajiri. They all laugh as Coach vigorously oversells his "blindness". The Highlight Reel: Trish Stratus was the guest on Jericho's highlight reel segment, and Trish said that the reason why she turned on Jericho is because he wasn't man enough to save her when Christian was beating her up on RAW, prior to Wrestlemania. Jericho goes on to insult & humilliate Trish by calling her a "filthy, dirty, digusting, brutal, bottomfeeding, trashbag ho, and Trish just storms off in anger. Suddenly, Evolution's music hits, and Christian slowly makes his way to the ring after consoling Trish. Suddenly, all 3 members of Evolution come out from the crowd, and attacked Jericho. Christian comes in to join the group's slaughter of Chris Jericho. Afterwards, all 4 men & Trish stand in the ring over Jericho, raising their arms in the air, signifying that Christian & Trish have joined Evolution. After the break, Evolution celebrate with their newest members with champaigne. Bischoff comes in and tells Christian & Trish that they will face Jericho in a handicap match at Backlash. Main Event Chuck Palumbo & Johnny Stamboli (FBI) def. Shawn Michaels & Chris Benoit when Palumbo pinned HBK after Benoit accidentally knocked Shawn out with the World Title. JR & King play out the question of what kind of mood HBK will be in, next week on RAW as the show goes off the air. Author's note:Now, for all of you who will have any thoughts on Edge "gettin' it on" with Sable, Torrie, Dawn, & Miss Jackie, this is going to be Edge's new gimmick that will eventually lead him to his heel turn, leading into RAW's Unforgiven PPV in September. His new gimmick is gonna be a cool, cocky, ladies man heel that hangs out with hot-looking women, and cheats to win. This gimmick will lead Edge into a World Heavyweight Title program with Chris Benoit leading into Unforgiven.

Smackdown! The new SD! opener plays with the new cast of superstars, and it's being played to "Numb" by Linkin Park. The pyro & fireworks go off, as Cole & Tazz welcome us to Smackdown. Paul Heyman's music hits as the Smackdown GM comes down to the ring, and gets on the mic. Heyman says that last monday night on RAW, "Paul Heyman's Smackdown!" got the better of RAW after the draft lottery was all said and done. He then goes on to introduce the 10 draftees to SD! But, only 9 of them come out. Dupree, Jindrak, Cade, all 3 Dudleyz, Hurricane, Booker T, RVD, & Rico. Then, Heyman introduces Smackdown all-time best draft pick, and the "future WWF Champion", "The Game" Triple H. "The Game" by Motorhead hits, and HHH comes out, wearing his old leather jacket with the HHH denim vest on it. He comes down to the ring, and dose his usual HHH poses. He then gets on the mic, and says that he's going back to being the oldschool HHH. He congradulates Chris Benoit on his World Title victory at Wrestlemania 20, and wishes him well on his title reign, because while he may be lucky, his friend won't be so lucky. He tells Benoit that while he watching at home in Edmonton with his family, and World Heavyweight Title belt with him, he may be safe from The Game from now on, but he want's Benoit, right now, to say a prayer for his friend, the WWF Champion, Eddie Guererro. He want's him pray that Eddie will even be fortunate enough to survive "The Game". He tells Benoit, who's over on the "safe haven" side known as RAW, to enjoy his title enjoy his title reign. But, he wants him to think about his friend, Eddie Guererro, every day that he's defending the title on RAW, because on the Smackdown side, Eddie will have to deal with the "ultimate nightmare" known as "The Game". Hunter goes on to talk to Eddie Guererro. He tells Eddie that he knows he's watching, and that he can hear every word he says. He tells Eddie that he's had such a great ride over the past few months, but that ride is about to come to an abrupt halt, because pretty soon, he's gonna have step into the ring with the man who will be his ultimate challenge, period. The "Cerebral Assassin", and when he destroys "Latino Heat", and takes his title, that will be ''his redemption''. Why, because he's "The Game", and he's "That Damn Good". Suddenly............. VIVA LA RAZA! The WWF Champion, Eddie Guererro comes out in his trademark lowrider to a huge pop. Eddie gets out, and climbs onto the roof of his lowrider with his WWF Title over his shoulder, and microphone in hand. Eddie starts off by "welcoming" HHH back to Smackdown, and tells him that if he wants a title shot, he won't be a hard man to find. He tells Hunter that he may be "that damn good", but as long as Eddie "lies, cheats, & steals" he will hold onto the WWF Title as long as he can. HHH grins and says that Eddie may "lie, cheat, & steal", but HHH wrote the book on "lying, cheating, & stealing". He too can play that game. Eddie interrupts by telling Hunter how constipated he sounds on the mic, and starts mocking him by making the "uhhhhhhh" sound after every sentence. He then grabs out a bottle of Taquila, opens it, starts drinking, and throws his arms in the air, and spits it out in the air. HHH gets pissed, and challenges Eddie to a fight. Eddie jumps in the ring, and brawls with HHH, before the SD! superstars come in and break it up. Mark Jinkdrak & Garrison Cade def. Scotty & Rikishi for the WWF Tag Team Titles. Renee Dupree def. Spike Dudley. John Cena came out afterwards, and starts planting the seeds for their feud by dissing him in a rap. The Dudley Boyz def. The Bashams Chavo Guererro def. The Hurricane to retain the CW Title. RVD & Booker T are being interviewed backstage by Josh. RVD says he's "stoked" to be on Smackdown, while Booker says that he's better off on RAW, and he hates it here. RVD & Booker get into an arguement which leads to Booker turning on his partner by attacking him from behind when he turned around. This turns Booker T heel. Later, Heyman offers Booker T a WWF Title shot, later in the night. Booker accepts. But HHH takes acception to it, saying that there won't be another title change, tonight. John "Bradshaw" Layfield came out to the ring with his new look, and gimmick. Layfield explained why he walked away from his friendship with his former partner & friend, Faarooq after he got fired. He says that he's gonna do things his way from now on, and he's gonna make an impact. He talked about his financial intellegence and how he's a billionare, and he's living life his way from now on. WWF Championship Eddie Guererro def. Booker T by DQ when HHH & Layfield interferred, and attacked Eddie. First, it was HHH who came in, but Eddie fought him, and knocked him down. But, Eddie turned to get clotheslined by JBL. HHH & Layfield both double team the champion. When it was over, HHH posed with the WWF Title, before throwing it down upon Eddie. HHH's music hit as Hunter left with JBL in toe. An alliance perhaps? *show ends* Ok, I'm gonna do RAW next up until Backlash.

I know, but I had a lot of trouble thinking of a way to make it any more different. But, this time, there ain't gonna be no trades.

Ok, here's what I would do, starting at the Draft Lottery. Only this one would actually mean something. RAW Draft Lottery begins with the cameras in the respective locker rooms of RAW & Smackdown. Then it cuts to the 2 GM's Bischoff & Heyman. WWF Owner & Chairman, Vince McMahon comes in and explain the rules. Each GM gets 10 picks from the tumbler. A total of 20 picks, altogether. Once they're done, that's it. (no trades) The show begins with the usual opener, pyro, & fireworks. "I'm Back" hits, and RAW GM, Eric Bischoff comes out to his side of the stage. Heyman's music hits, and Smackdown GM, Paul Heyman comes out to his side of the stage. Since Smackdown won the initial coin toss, Heyman gets the first pick. Heyman reaches into his tumbler, and draws the name of Renee Dupree. A stunned Renee gets up, removes his RAW shirt, and leaves his now former LR partners behind. The LR theme stops, and Bischoff then announces that it's now his turn to make the first draft pick for RAW. Bischoff reaches into his tumbler, and is happy to announce that he has drafted the World's Greatest Tag Team to RAW. WGTT's music hits, and a shocked Charlie & Shelton remove their Smackdown shirts, and leave the Smackdown locker room. LR's music fires up again, and Smackdown's first draft pick, Renee Dupree comes down to the ring. He grabs the mic, and challenges anyone from RAW to a match. The Y2J countdown starts, and "Break The Walls Down". Chris Jericho accepts Renee's challenge. Jericho wins the match with the Liontamer. (No, I'm not kidding) *commercial break* After the break, it's time Heyman to make his next draft pick. Rico & Miss Jackie are currently in the ring. Heyman reaches into the tumbler, and draws the name of Mark Jindrak. Mark says "goodbye" to Garrison Cade, and removes his RAW shirt before leaving the RAW locker room. Suddenly, BOOM! The flames burst out of the stage, and Kane comes out to the ring for his match with Rico. Kane won the match, which was basically a squash for time constraints. As Kane heads back to the locker room, he warns both GM's that he'd better not wind up on the same show as his brother, The Undertaker. With that, he made the flames burst out of the ringposts, and left. Heyman asked Bischoff as to why he couldn't maintain a little control over his superstars. Bischoff answered by making his next draw as he reached in, and drafted Nidia. An excited Nidia left the Smackdown locker room, and came out to the stage, where she took off her SD! shirt, and put on her RAW shirt, and left. Heyman says "good luck" to Nidia before hoping that she goes blind, again. Before Heyman could make his next draft pick, "Word Life" hits, and the U.S. Champion, John Cena came out to do a little rap to entertain the RAW crowd. Then, he reached into the tumbler, and picked out a name, and gave it to Heyman before leaving. Heyman refused, and said that it wasn't a legal pick, but Eric insisted that Heyman take the pick, and make it official. Heyman gave in, and read the name. A smile came across his face as he asks Bischoff if he's sure he wants him to read it out loud, and Eric said yes. Heyman then went on to announce the Paul Heyman's Smackdown has drafted & aquired the services of the former World Heavyweight Champion, Triple H. HHH suddenly spit out his water in shock. The RAW locker room said their own special goodbye to The Game as he threw his water bottle at them, and left. Bischoff went into panic mode upon realizing that RAW had just lost it's "crown jewel". After the commercial break, Christian w/Trish, defeated Spike Dudley in a match with the Unprettier. Later, Bischoff was backstage, complaining to Vince that Heyman didn't make a legal pick. Vince said that once it's made official, it's official. He can't do anything about it. Heyman interrupted by proposing an idea to Vince by having Eddie Guererro defend the WWF Title against Triple H in the main event. Vince accepts the idea, and books the match for tonight. Later, Bischoff comes out to make his third draft pick. He reaches in and picks Rhyno, and says that Rhyno will challenge Chris Benoit for the World Heavyweight Title, later in the evening. Rhyno is elated as he leaves the Smackdown locker room for RAW. Ric Flair & Batista def. Booker T & RVD for the for World Tag Team Titles. Paul Heyman makes his 4th draft pick, and announces that it's Rob Van Dam. Coach told RVD backstage that he was drafted to SD!, much to the disbelief of the former champions. Chris Benoit def. Rhyno to retain the World Heavyweight Title. Later, Eric tells HBK that he'll be challenging Benoit for the World Title at RAW's Backlash in Edmonton. Eric Bischoff makes his 4th draft pick from the tumbler, and announces that it's Tajiri. Tajiri hugs Akio & Sakoda, and leaves the SD! locker room. Heyman makes his 5th draft pick from the lottery tumbler, and it's Garrison Cade. Cade sighs with relief as he removes his RAW shirt, and leaves the RAW locker room. Bischoff makes his 5th lottery draft pick, and it's Edge. Heyman panics, saying that Edge is on injured reserve. Heyman makes his 6th draft lottery pick, and it's Spike Dudley. Bischoff makes his next pick, and drafts Sable. Heyman makes his 7th pick, and it's The Hurricane. Bischoff then draws the name of Torrie Wilson. Heyman draws the Dudley Boyz. Bischoff draws Dawn Marie. Heyman draws Rico. Bischoff draws Chuck Palumbo & Johnny Stamboli of the FBI. Heyman draws Booker T. Bischoff draws A-Train. The drafts were now complete. Main Event Eddie Guererro def. Triple H with the Frog Splash to retain the WWF Title after HBK interferred, and knocked out HHH with his superkick. A huge riot ensues between RAW & Smackdown as RAW goes off the air. 1.Renee Dupree WGTT 2.Mark Jindrak Nidia 3.Triple H Rhyno 4.Rob Van Dam Tajiri 5.Garrison Cade Edge 6.Spike Dudley Sable 7.The Hurricane Torrie Wilson 8.Dudley Boyz Dawn Marie 9.Rico Palumbo & Stamboli 10.Booker T A-Train There you have it. I'll be getting to the storylines, tommorrow, starting with the 1st Smackdown after the draft lottery, and then continue with RAW up until Backlash.

I have both DVD sets. Dune & Children.

I think it did. There's no way that couldn't have happened. That's how good those movies were. (except the original)

I think that Smackdown was officially killed off when they put Triple H on Smackdown for only 24 hours before putting him back on RAW. I personally think that dispite most people's hatred for him, HHH could have been very benificial to Smackdown as long as he constantly does the right thing for the brand to point where he would actually deserve to be WWE Champion.

I've been doing alot of thinking about this issue, and the one thing I wanna know is, when did Vince start showing this favoritism towards RAW? I'd like to think that maybe it all started somewhere in late 2002 with guys like HHH and Scott Steiner signing with Bischoff. Who do you think?

Yeah, that's because Big Show's a Hoss, BAH GAWD, and Vince just loves his Hosses more than anything.

Ian McNease did a GREAT job playing the role of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen. I constantly enjoy all of his scenes in the Dune remake & Children of Dune. Also, the woman who plays the role of grown up Alia does a great job of playing the evilish insane dictator Alia.

My personal favorite was "Jacob's Ladder". Yours?

Has anyone here watched the original movie, "Dune" from the 80's, and then the "Dune" remake from recently, and then the sequel to that, "Children of Dune"? My father has the original version recorded on videotape from 1988. We also have the remake version on 3-disk DVD, and the sequel on 2-disk DVD, Children of Dune. But, I just wanna ask you guys here if you may have heard of these movies, because they're pretty cool.

Yeah, because he destroyed the name recognition of everyone else.

HHH's time in this business has come and gone. He's already had his time in the spotlight. It's now time for the WWE to create new stars and new players. To continue relying on old/current stars is making the same mistake that WCW made, and look what happened to that company.

Edge also used that move to beat Christian on the Smackdown episode following RAW. Christian "quit" the WWF, afterwards.

He did it once in his match with Kane at Backlash.

Yeah, and I personally blame Stuffanie McHam and the WWE Uncreative team for Edge's blandness.

Maybe. Or he could rename it, the Vertical Edge or The Edgemission.

A few seconds before Batista broke it up. Edge orginally invented the hold on William Regal on RAW in 2002, the night after No Way Out.

Am I the only one here who marked out when Edge finally brought back his submission move, the Figure-Four Edgelock on RAW when he slapped it on Randy Orton for a few seconds before Batista broke it up? Forget the spear, Edge should bring back the Downward Spiral, and the Figure-Four Edgelock as his submission finisher. That's the move he should use to win his matches. The spear is way overused, and needs to be retired. He should start making his opponents tap out from now on.

The theme song was the fans in attendance rioting at ringside when Bradshittler won the WWE Title.