Raw spoilers for tonight from England

[JoeDirt 0]

Here are quick spoilers for tonight's Raw. They are brief and probably not in order.

 

Batista opened the show and introduced Jim Ross. HHH came out. They teased a fight but didn't happen.

 

Christian and Tomko were in the ring. Kane came out and destroyed Tomko. Christian ran away and then asked HHH for help.

 

Chris Jericho vs. either Sylvan Grenier or La Resistance: Jericho wins. La Resistance attack him after the match. Shelton Benjamin comes out to help but Jericho ends up pushing Shelton. Shelton hits his finisher on him and leaves.

 

Divas and Daily Star women came out to throw a "party" for William Regal. Daivari and Muhammad Hassan came out and challenge Regal and Tajiri. Haasan and Divari won the match.

 

Edge beat Val Venis. Edge kept attacking him until Benoit came out and hit Edge a few times. Chris helped Val up.

 

Batista vs. Christian: Coach is ref. Game is the "problem solver" and Ric Flair is timekeeper. Batista won after knocking Christian out and forcing Coach's hand to tap the mat.

 

Trish/Viscera sketches aired throughout. She says she'll reward him after Backlash, where he fights Kane. Quite funny.

 

Was also a backstage bit with Hogan and HBK, talking about Backlash.

 

 

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[Caliban 0]

RAW Spoilers from Birmingham

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Yup, I was there, yup, it was great. I find now that I don't have a lot of energy right now, so I'll just leave it brief...

 

Heat matches were Simon Dean over Robbie Brookside (local indy wrestler), The Heart Throbs over two local indie guys and Hurricane over Maven.

 

Raw starts with Coach coming out for commentary, then King "Jerry!, Jerry!". It then starts proper with Batista getting a MASSIVE ovation, bringing him out at the beginning of the show was perfect, as the crowd was at his hottest. He gets easily the biggest reaction since he became champ... He brings out JR who also gets a huge ovation, congratulating on his victory last week. HHH comes out and the fans are eating this up, the heat in this segment will be amazing. Doesn't really go anywhere though...

 

Now you have to understand the crowd were REALLY into the opening, with all the big stars having already appeared, so the next few bits are a blur.

 

Y2J over Sylvain Grenier (or was it Rob Conway), short, pretty dull, decent reaction for Y2J. Shelton saved Y2J from the post-match double team, but they turned on each other. I'm hoping my "Shelton" chant is heard, 'cause it was the only one, sadly.

 

They showed various segments on the Tron of Viscera's date with Trish, there are four segments, Viscera is pretty funny in them and had the crowd laughing. "Cheque please..." ahh... you'll get it...

 

Christian came out to do an interview and the crowd popped big for him, but that was nothing compared to later. Christian is all over the show this week, DMM will be please to know. Kane interrupted for some reason and beat up on Tomko.

 

Christian also had some classic backstage segments with Flair and HHH, seriously funny stuff. As I said, lots of Christian on this show. The backstage segments through the night had Christian suggesting HHH should move to Smackdown to beat Michael Cole. Seriously. The upshot of the segments though is that Coach is the special ref in the main event, with Evolution at ringside.

 

Masterlock challenge with some local jobber. Boring. Next.

 

Backstage in an obviously pre-recorded segment, Mean Gene interviewed HBK and Hogan. Hogan got a huge pop live but it died down as people realised he wasn't in the building.

 

All the Divas came out with some women from the Daily Star. They were there to throw a party for William Regal, who was celebrating the release of his autobiography. Regal got a great ovation from the Birmingham crowd. As the "party" started, of course Hassan and Daivari interrupted which segues into a non-title tag match. No Bischoff on this show, the matches just... happen. Hassan pinned Regal somehow. Quick and dumb finish, since the crowd were heavily behind Regal.

 

Edge over Val Venis... the crowd was disapointed with Edge's opponent. Plenty of "We Want Matt" chants again tonight, he said "well you ain't getting him!" and was playing to the chants. Chris Benoit saved Val from Edge's post-match beatdown. Really disapointing that Benoit didn't have a match. Benoit got a great ovation, but not sure if it will be televised.

 

And the main event... Christian vs Batista with Coach as special referee, and HHH and Flair at ringside. I hope it comes off on TV - this was like our version of Rock/Hogan at Skydome... cast Christian as Hogan. Plenty of "Lets Go Christian" chants and as the match went on, the crowd would boo Batista and cheer Christian. There was a lot of interference from Evolution so it will be interesting to see if they acknowledge the reaction, or try to blame it on the interference. Finish was Batista clean with the Demon Bomb, but HHH got the low blow and Pedigree in. End of show will be HHH posing over an unconcious Batista.

 

 

Afterwards Batista slowly got up as HHH was mouthing off, then of course Batista attacked Evolution, posed for a while and left. Not much else.

 

Really entertaining event though from 7.30 - 10.30. Hope the crowd comes out on TV, because it was HOT. Not much in the way of good wrestling on this show though, very hype-intensive. But the main event was classic. Vince - the people have spoke again - push Christian to the main event.

 

 

Oh yeah, after we saw Ric Flair coming out of the arena on a coach... Maven was also on there with some girl but he hid when he saw everyone. Flair didn't acknowledge the fans at all which was kind of weird. And this was 30 minutes after Flair and HHH were in the ring with Batista - in a hurry or what?

 

Saw Arn Anderson from a distance at the same exit too - on the way in BEFORE the show I saw Jerry Brisco too - only one other person recognized him, from a distance anyway.

 

 

 

Well, see if you can make some sense of this. I am utterly shattered, and am going to set my video to tape this and see if I can get on TV.

 

I'm wearing a red T-shirt next to a guy with blond hair and a black guy in a white outfit, maybe holding a "Batista- unleash the Beast" sign with them - to the extreme left of the hard camera

[MillenniumMan831 0]

Doesn't look like a good night for Christian.

 

EDIT --- Didn't see the detailed spoilers.

[Caliban 0]

If you like Christian you'll LOVE this show

[JoeDirt 0]

Thanks for the details.

 

Did they announce Backlash matches of Kane vs. Vis and a tag team turmoil match like was rumored?

[Guest lactose]

was this shown live on sky?

[Caliban 0]

Lilian announced to the crowd to would be shown live on Sky, but she's lying - it's not on until 2am as normal, when you lot see it...

 

Only Vis vs Kane was announced with Trish and Lita in the respective corners. No mention of a tag team turmoil match.

 

Oh, and it seemed to us Lita wasn't on Raw at all, but I saw the Tron show Maria about to interview her... there was MASSIVE booing and the Tron switched off... blinked and you missed it if you were there.

[gWIL 0]

God, I hope they don't edit over the Christain chants.

[Guest Shadow]

They didnt have much time to play with the tape...

[gWIL 0]

True, but they are damn talented... but I hope not.

[Guest Shadow]

I like how the first report makes it look like Christian got squashed and yet the second and more detailed report shows how tonight is the christian show.

[gWIL 0]

But Christain will still end up looking like a jobber in the match, I hope he at least got better treatment than Orton did.

[slimm44 0]

Anyone else find it wierd they didn't do the normal PPV card rundown during the show?

[Guest Deadbolt]

How Batista finished the match against Christian was the same way Stone Cold Steve Austin won a couple of years ago when he beat Dude Love and Vince was the reffere...