Raw January 31 2005
 

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Fallout from the “Rumble.”
Jan. 31, 2005

Evolution's Batista won the 2005 Royal Rumble, giving him the right to fight in the main event of WrestleMania 21. Now, Batista must decide. Will he choose to face World Heavyweight Champion and fellow Evolution member Triple H? Or will Batista go the other way and challenge SmackDown's JBL for the WWE Championship? Watch RAW for more on this developing story.

Before winning the Rumble, Batista was the target of Ric Flair. "The Dirtiest Player in the Game" tried to sneak behind Batista and eliminate him from the match. Flair was obviously unsuccessful. But will Batista let "The Nature Boy" off easy? Watch RAW to find out.

Also at the Royal Rumble, Edge gained some extra leverage from the ropes to defeat the legendary Shawn Michaels. Will this be the end of this long rivalry? Or will HBK demand retribution for what appeared to be a tainted victory for Edge?

What we do know is that two big matches have been signed for tonight: Kane and Gene Snitsky will take their hatred to another level inside a Steel Cage. Also, the team of Randy Orton and HBK will face Evolution's Triple H and Ric Flair.

But with the damage done to last night's competitors, what condition will they be in for matches on RAW?

All this and more on Monday Night RAW (Spike TV, 9/8 CT)

Kane and Snitsky in the cage WTF :mad:

heres to hoping Raw will be some what enjoyable...

Batista's full face turn tonight baby.

The forums will probably shut down again. Maybe we should do another AIM chatroom.

this thread will be lucky to make 2 pages...

I pray Batista doesnt go to Smackdown... him and Jericho are the only reason's i watch Raw...

WTF?. THEY STOLE MY CATCH PHRASE :mad:

Should be a good show.

BTW that jackass Kane Knight neg repped me for stating the rumble finish between Batista and Orton :rant:

Denied. :lol:



Sue them for using it :shifty:

Where and What catchphrase?

Hey Deadman, you really need to post a promo in the c-fed

O I see it's in the title :lol:

DENIED!!

Hope today's show is good and the board decides to behave good. And Vicky... I miss you!

Im having trouble coming up with ideas on what direction my character is going

I heard the Rumble wasnt that good

If the forums crash I'm going to watch 24

Flair kissing HHH's ass again

Yep, the man with the cum colored hair is a real ass licker.

Notice the black ropes? It must be for the SuperShow deal tonight. I smell something big going on.

I like these black ropes

Evolution stays together :y: :y: :y: :y:

OMFG

I WAS GONNA PREDICT THIS

Batista might bring the WWE title to RAw/evolution uniting the brands!!

or so i can dream

I saw this coming...

That segment made little sense

ROFL @ HHH

Puff daddy and foghorn leghorn

Interesting.. I was thinking about JBL. I mean, Cena fighting JBL at WM21? Boring. So why not give RKO something to do and have Cena/RKO instead.

Oh, everything should be clearer by the end of tonight.

HHH trying to keep Batiasta on his side...HHH putting on a front that he wants to face Dave at Wrestlemania...HHH gets a video to play of JBL insulting Dave because Dave can face either WWE World Champion...Dave goes on to face JBL for the WWE Championship, and HHH's World Championship is safe.

What would you like to make sense of?

Shelton Benjamin vs. Charlie Haas at Wrestlemania for the IC Title.

the reason probably why they have black ropes is because SD and RAW are being done on the same night and same place.

What are you talking about that was brilliant.HHH showed no fear of Batista and said it would be an honor to face him then by playing that JBL skit it makes Batista want to face JBL which was HHH's plan all along.

Yeah, that's why I said SuperShow. That's the name for the SD/Raw double show tonight and the ropes are there because it would waste less time changing ropes when one show is done.

Benoit lasted longer then Edge by the way

ANGLE V. HBK. Now that sounds good.

Edgeward sucks, just like this damn forum consisting screwing up.

Did anyone else get flashbacks of the Barbershop incident after that handshake?

Marty Janetty :'(

**** Stay in the back!! There's a heel turn--

SORRY, THE SERVER IS DOWN. PLEASE RELOAD.

...damn it!!!

24=$$

Alright, I finally got through to the RAW thread.

Batista going to SmackDown???? I smell some trading going on in the next few weeks. They even planted Cena/Christian at RR.

** BOWS FOR THE APPEARANCE OF THE MAN OF 1004 HOLDS, CHRIS JERICHO!! **

And 62 days until this site better be fixed. I think you get the hint.

Marks out for Canadian Violence.

Wow, what a mess. I have no idea about the ending of that match.

Anyways... "Dream Team"???! Just abit exaggerated, no?

Wow the Raw thread.



Thank god I watched 24, Tony Almeida motherfuckers :yes:

I almost wonder if that ending was decided during the match. Jericho & Benoit looked confused, as did the other 2.

Hussan's theme = Greatest. Theme. Ever.

MERCI!

Sgt. Slaughter HAHAHAHAHAHA

Hassan will never get over facing old timers. Where's his prospective feud with Jericho gone?

Worst bearhug ever.

Isn't that how RKO was supposed to get over? By facing the old timers? So, yeah, looks like they are trying, almost, the same formula.

Jericho vs Benoit @ Wrestlemania? Ultimate submission please.....:)

man I just gotta comment... the end of the Jericho Benoit match was the worst that I've seen. Very very confusing.

Orton and Shawn is not the dream team... I don't know why they keep on sayin that.

and Sarge against that guy? nono

Yeah Benoit and Jericho should have just kissed.

I don't recall him facing many in matches. Just punking them out. I don't see Hassan lasting in this gimmick much longer after WM.

Eugen commercial :lol:

William Regal rules.

Run Eugene Run

LOL!!! ***AIRPLANE SPINS *** for Eugene!!! I miss that crazy kid..

Lol I hope McMahon got permission to use that Forsest Gump stuff. Him getting sued again - lol.

Doesn't HHH already run everything :nono:

HHH vs Edge :eek:

Next week looks pretty cool.

Great crowd shot of Ortons entrance. Everyone sitting down.

I guarantee Orton RKO's HBK to further his concussion angle

I'm praying for a Kurt run-in.

You guys see that. That's REvolution coming out :yes:

Evolution theme possibly for the last time :'(

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I hate these group of words together. COME ON, KURT!! COME OUT AND INTERFERE, I'M FALLING ASLEEP!

Yes, Batista's face turn has truly begun

See the smirk?

For the last three weeks :shifty:

Batista smiling = Ratings.

:)

I left out.........."again"
:-\

HHH is NO Arn Anderson

so what do u guys think will happen with the cage match?

So anyone else agree that this concussion thing with Orton isn't a very good storyline.

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They desperately need to turn Orton heel. They want him to be a star in the Rock-calibre, and it's just not going to happen this way. Perhaps if they dumped the 'honest-arrogancy' attitude of the character, it may get him over. Simply put, I don't like him at all.

Well to the average fan it makes Orton look like a hero for wanting to entertain the fans though he isn't fit to wrestle.

5 minute cage match :roll:

They have no idea what to do with Orton. That's all I will say about that.

And as for the cage match, HeidenReich returns from the grave to read poetry.. but first.. TO ELIMINATE KANE!!!

agreed, its extremly cliched. then again so is every angle in wrestling. he played it off well at the rumble but its a little to much now. on another note, as much as i think heidenreich is a bad in ring performer and snitsky is nothing special ill admit im into their characters right now and im lookin forward to the extremely likely WM21 tag match

HOLY SHIT ON THAT atomic drop on the door!

The site was working/not working, so I went to an AOL chatroom. Decent RAW, was hoping for some SD interference. HHH had to have been behind the JBL video. Why not use Christy for something better. She got paid $250,000 to shoot t-shirts? Double DQ seemed like a screwup, nobody in the arena seemed to understand it. Cool to see Sgt. Slaughter, but a good thing hes not in the ring on a daily basis. I still like Orton, but it seems turning him heel would be the better thing now. As HHH said, his destiny is over. Snitsky/Kane was better with some cool spots.

so that raw didnt really advance anything except batista's face turn a slight bit. correct me if im wrong, but so far in the pipeline for WM21 we have Batista - HHH, Taker/Kane - Heidenreich/Snitsky, HBK - Angle, and possible JBL - Cena. Where were the developments?? (excluding the last one obviously)

I only really watched the last hour of the show (yeah 24 rules!!), but it seemed pretty lackluster.

I thought they would shoot some major angles to get Mania going, but nothing really happened.

No Angle-HBK interaction, ditto for Taker et all, and even Batista-HHH nothing really happened.

Kinda wierd.

Gouda's Raw Thoughts:

- I was shocked to see HHH start the show.

- The above was sarcastic and those who do not realize this should be shot... or at least have something done to their voicebox.

- Isn't winning the Rumble kinda pointless since the precedent was set last year that all you have to do to get in the Mania main event is knock the winner out and sign the contract?

- What the hell was up with the finish to the Bentoit/Jericho vs. La Resistance match? Double DQ? For what? Getting out of hand. The tag match later on got way more out of hand than that.

- Snitsky is hilarious. "Nice Shoes!" :rofl:

- The thing that was most on my mind tonight was...

WHERE THE FUCK WAS CHRISTIAN?!! :rant: :mad: :foc:

Jericho/Benoit at WM, mmmmmmmm goodness

man to me it would have been gold is Cena would have shown up when Triple H was congratulatin Batista on his Rumble win. Then Batista could show up on SD! while Cena is in the ring. ya know get some real Raw vs. Smackdown! goin on.

anyway overall I didn't like the show that much. The thing that killed me besides the 20 minute promo at the beginnin was the endin of the Jericho/Benoit tag match. Those two as a tag team are aweosme. And La Res are also good but that match looked like crap. Like little kids runnin around tryin to do a match they threw to together in a couple of seconds. Then this whole Randy Orton concussion thing is retarded. More retarded than Eugene's character. I mean what is it supposed to do for a guy?

But Kane vs. Snitsky in the cage was pretty good for me and that helped save it for me. Some of the matches on the card didn't help. But seein Theo on the show was gold. Too bad he didn't have a SmackDown! guy there as like a bodyguard type or somethin.

Yep, what you just said in your first sentence was exactly what I thought they should of done. I mean, it's little things like that that make shows memorable and they just don't want to do anything memorable for some reason. It's like they can't deviate themselves from the norm for most shows/

I'm just wonderin are they afraid to make the product interesting again. SOmething that we would want to see. Sure it might have been a little precdictable but it would have garnered viewers. Then it also would have garnered attention for SmackDown! and got more people watchin to see if there would be a retaliation. Sets off a chain reaction and gets people slightly more interested. All from one action. But no they let it slide just like so many other things.

Now all that can be done is Cena rippin on Batista on SmackDown!. If he doesn't then I will be pissed. I don't know why but I will.

God damn, is Sgt Slaughter on the Simon System or what, he's really lost some poundage.

Orton angle: I'm wondering if they might be trying to take him out with an "injury" for a few weeks and bring him back as a heel. If they really want to make him a star of Rock proportions, it would make sense that they might want to repackage his character, as they did with Rocky back in the day.

Benoit/Jericho: Personally I'd rather see them tag team than feud with each other. Ideally they'd both be in the title mix, but with the HHH/Batista drama (and likely Orton and Edge playing supporting roles) it's not likely to happen anytime soon. So it seems to me they at least give them a run at the tag titles. There they could possibly carry out the feud with Hassan and Dalvari. (Although for Hassan's sake they should be careful about doing that too quickly lest they would take from his credibility or simply make him squash fodder.) As for Benoit and Y2J, though, perhaps it's just the mark in me hating to see 2 face friends butt heads, but it seems to me they deserve something more that what they look to be getting.