Offical WWE RAW Thread for 1/22/07: HBK to lose smile again
 

Preview:Getting ready to rumble

January 22, 2007

With only one stop for the Raw Superstars before the Royal Rumble blasts into San Antonio, Raw will continue to raise the bar in sports-entertainment action this week when the show emanates from the Cajundome in Lafayette, La.



HBK to kick off Raw
Fresh off his emotional victory over Rated-RKO last week, Shawn Michaels will kick off Raw tonight right at 9/8 CT. What does HBK have on his agenda tonight?


Still standing?
WWE Champion John Cena will defend his title against Umaga in a Last Man Standing Match at the Royal Rumble. The Last Man Standing Match has no rules except to beat your opponent so severely that he is unable to answer to a 10 count. Armando Estrada still claims that Cena’s win over the previously undefeated Umaga at New Year’s Revolution was a fluke, and chose a match that would allow no fluke victories. After the contract was signed cementing the match, Cena laid out both Umaga and Estrada. Will Estrada and Umaga try to get the upper hand on the final Raw leading into the Royal Rumble?

Raw vs. SmackDown challenge
Six days before The Hardys face MNM at Royal Rumble, Intercontinental Champion Jeff Hardy will face Joey Mercury in a special non-title Raw vs. SmackDown challenge match. Who will gain momentum for their team heading into this Sunday?
Find out all this and more on Raw, Monday night at 9/8 CT on USA Network.

Spoiler: Cena Wins.

I think I'll actually watch the whole show tonight. It's been a while.

I turned on USA, and saw the flyby of all the signs and... what was the deal with the Jeff Hardy sign with the penises on it?

ROFL, WHAT!?

Jeff does make those fingerbang hands alot.

Also, I'm hoping for more random Superkicks on Todd and others.

This sounds like a bland show tonight.

But maybe Mercury/Hardy will be good. If none of the teammates run in and spoil it, or turn into a tag match half way through.

You can almost smell it now that Shawn is going to win the rumble.

BAM BAM!

God I miss him already. :'(

That was so awesome.

So Triple H has been reincarnated as a sledgehammer?

That's the kind of actions Cena needs to do to get a better reaction.

I'm not a fashion expert or anything, but that belt on HBK doesn't go good with his shirt.

I think HBK should come out to his music now that he's flying solo.

Shawn needs to untuck that shirt. He looks geriatric. =/

HBK and Sledgie H

Is Shawn gonna turn heel on God?

God's a face?

God I missed HBK.

Hey. He is asking god for help after all.

Edge :love:

This will hopefully be Fued of the Year: HBK and Edge.

Hey Edge has a new hoodie

I have that hoodie.

It's been out for a while.

"A feeling of close, but no cigar"? WHO KEEPS WRITING THIS SHIT??

Edge is depressed? /emo.

That would be nice Edge.

This is good.

This is the shit I missed. <3

This is going to be a Wrestlemania match.

Its new to me :'(

Not a bad start, too bad it's probably going down the tubes after that.

THAT is how you book a wrestling show.

Did I just see a "Chad Patton is hot" sign?

Mercury back in the ring already?

This COULD be a great match.

Mercury looks like Mini-Abyss now.

Start the Jobbing of Mercury.

I thought the same exact thing when I saw his protevtive mask.

Mercury is going to shoot Melina in the head 9 times.

SANTA IS IN THE FRONT ROW!

That was weak.

LOL. Squished.

That 'Whisper in the Wind' was fucking awful.

Holy shit. :love:

Yikes. Another Segal movie.

Hey, this RAW has been a decent show so far, looks like it might continue.

Street Fight FTW

Meh.

Goodbye show.

Hopefully this announcement will be about the Rumble and nothing more...

Hahahaha yeah right.

What the fuck is this shit about Donald Trump? This is why I haven't been watching Raw.

Did he say "Our Television Ratings are in the toilet"?

I'd watch for Trump's daughter. Nothing more.

LOL

"Idiots say what?"

WWWWWWTFFFFFFFFF

From bad to worse.

If this was heel Cena, he'd come out in a Brian Urlacher jersey.

Hmmmmmmmmmmm

Brother Love > John Cena

GOD, Cena is not even a poor man's Austin.

XFL!

Ouch. Low blow there.

LOL @ XFL chants

Soooooooooooooo. Where's Khali?

Vince vs. Donald

"The Battle of the Hairpieces"

Cena vs. Khali & Umaga

... AGAIN? WTF...

Didn't we see this like two weeks ago?

WTF?! :wtf:

Gods that was bad

I'm definitely buying Saw III tomorrow.

Atleast we get the Street Fight.

That being said, he has been the most entertaining thing on Raw so far tonight. Pretty sad.

So wait. Carlito stands up to vince and sends Khali to kill him.

The Chump stands up to Vince and he gets Coachman?

What else is on television tonight?

This show is gonna be shit.

Carlito hasn't paid his dues.

lol Masters entrance got fucked up

Masters.

What happened to that Desperado music he had last week?

....What?

Super promo skills by Crazy, lol.

Masters just got owned

Nice pin.

That was better than the Hardy/Mercury match tbh.

That's easy to say since Hardy/Mercury lasted all of two minutes.

Exactly.

That match could have had a lot more time instead of the pointless shit about Trump.

Nice finish. But we're an hour in and only 3 pages? We need something that's fucking epic.

John Cena vs. Coach

Duh.

69 days till I go to Wrestlemania.

I was expecting Kenny to mention C.M. Punk.

That Super Crazy pin was reminiscent of Bret Hart pinning Stone Cold.

HOLY SHIT!!!!

OK I HAD CALLED IT EARLIER....RKO BREAKS UP ....

I sure hope that was just a good make up job.

Damn, Orton's face is pretty sick looking.