Official Raw is Barack Thread (4/21/08): All Hail King Obama
 

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Preview:King me!
April 21, 2008

As WWE Superstars return from the rich, royal tradition of the United Kingdom to American shores, the stars of Raw, SmackDown and ECW will compete for their own unique crowning glory.

For the first time in two years, a new King of the Ring will be decided in a one-night tournament that commences in the very first hour of a special three-hour episode of Raw, live from the BI-LO Center in Greenville, S.C.

Eight competitors will have to defeat multiple opponents in a single night to be coronated with the treasured crown and robe that WWE Legends and Hall of Famers such as Harley Race, “Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase, Bret “Hitman” Hart, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin and Edge have worn during their illustrious careers.

WWE.com is also proud to break the news of a blockbuster match added to Raw tonight. An Eight-Man Tag Team Match will feature the Backlash main events from Raw, SmackDown and ECW. World Heavyweight Champion Undertaker, ECW Champion Kane, John Cena & Triple H will take on WWE Champion Randy Orton, Edge, JBL & Chavo Guerrero. With just six days until Backlash, will these teams be able to function together, or will Raw see the combustible combinations implode?

Watching the King of the Ring tournament live at BI-LO Center will be Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, who have been invited to settle their Democrat differences in Greenville. What will happen as these two titans of the political world face off in the WWE ring? Will their confrontation finally end their stalemate on the road to their party’s presidential nomination? Watch: WWE's invite

With Shawn Michaels and Batista at odds over HBK’s retirement of WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair at WrestleMania XXIV, look for sparks to fly if the two cross paths in the tournament or if they match up with their special guest referee at Backlash, Chris Jericho.

Also, the Divas cheered as Mickie James ended The Glamazon’s dominance, stunning fans worldwide to claim her fourth Women’s Championship. How will Beth Phoenix react to the loss? And will other Divas look to challenge the new champion, making her new reign a short one?

Find out as a king is crowned on Monday Night Raw, airing live at a special start time of 8/7 CT, only on USA Network.

I wonder if Barack will yell out <b>"IF YOU SMEEEEEEELLLLALALALALALA... WHAT BARACK... IS COOKING"</b> at the end of his message.

Check the news section and find out :lol:

Seeing as how my thread attracted noone willing to help...

Any idea how I can find a stream through sopcast??

No idea XL. Btw i sometimes get your posts confused with my own due to similar names!:mad:

Looking forward to this raw..despite the piss break that was announced two weeks early.

The Age of James starts tonight as well.

You could always request a name change. :p

I'm looking forward to it too...if only I can find a stream!!!! :mad:

BARACKY! BARACKY! BARACKY!

Barack re-forms The Nation tonight

BTW has Raw started yet or are we still 45 mins away?

I know these 3 hour specials tend to start an hour early but I get confused by daylight savings over here!

Yeah, i could request that YOU get a name change. :cool::y:

Were still 45 mins away.

Awesome! That means I can get a few more games of Pro Evo Soccer in!

Just went up to "Professional" level having done the treble in the Master League the season before.

Currently I've won 9 from 9 and I'm on a 20 game winning streak in the league apparently.

In case you cared. ;)



P.S. Will someone please explain to me how I can use sopcast to watch Raw tonight? Preferably before it starts!

how is pro eva compared to winning eleven?

ok sopcast: PM csliManing he's the expert on this. if not PM me and I'll copy paste his stuff to you.

Cryme Tyme, Shelton Benjamin, and Coffee Kingston

should be a fun show tonight

We've got 3 hours. It better be

yes please explain i need this too!!!

3 hours.

Hope this show is near the "Flair Farewell" show on quality.

I'm predicting Kennedy to beat Punk in the finals and then Punk putting his MITB briefcase on the line against King Kennedy at Backlash.

All Hail King Santino

Evening all.

Colt Cabana should debut and win KOTR and become King Cabana.

Here we go...

Good evening, everybody.

Here we go!!

Evenin' all

heh, that's what I said they should do in that thread we're we talked about KOTR.

Dark match and off the air notes:

LIVE NOTES FROM RAW
by Devin Cox @ 7:54 PM on 4/21/2008

There was only one dark match before Raw.

Ron Killings beat Trevor Murdoch with the Axe Kick.

Lilian Garcia sang the national anthem and was awesome.

Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler got huge pops coming down to the announce postion.

Orton to start?

N/M it was already posted.

Spot the odd man out.

To my knowledge it's the same game with a different name. In fact I thought the last game they brought out over in the States was called Pro Evolution Soccer: Winning Eleven 2008!? (Or the other way round)

YES THEY ARE STILL DOING THE MATCH!

Ah shit, they're still going ahead with the spoof.

King MVP

5..4..3..2..1..

Y2J!

Oh, we're actually starting with a wrestling match? How original.

JERICHO!!!

SAVE US KING JERICHO

IF ANYONE IS WATCHING THRU SOPCAST PLEASE HELP ME OUT!!

OOOH MVP NOW THERES A SURPRISE

OH SHIT

1 2 you hear the clock tickin'................

Nice pairing... wonder how they'll click.

(Didn't bother watching the SmackDown match the other week because... well, it was on SmackDown. Reason enough.)

not really..

this guy needs to come to Raw and get the hell off crap shows

Man, this would've been a great final, and they're wasting it in the first round.

It's the match of the anagrams!

considering their last match on smackdown this should be good

So they are just going to be springing the matches on us as they go along?

I can seriously see MVP as the top heel in the company easily

They put on a good match on Smackdown before Mania.

Evening! :D

Glad I came to see if the thread was open, I thought it started at 2!

Jericho/MVP could be good, but I expect the first round matches to be short, so no dice I guess.

Did I miss an opening promo or anything?

Matt Hardy will probably cost MVP the match.

I don't mind them surprising us with the 1st round matches

I think it's gonna be an all night thing.

Unless they're gonna throw a tag match and few other oddball things.

Hell, I among others need a Cryme Tyme fix tonight.

Today's wrestling business could have a battle royal of the anagrams.

HBK, HHH, Y2J, MVP, JBL....

Announced, of course, by JR.

omg, i missed the Northern lights suplex. :love:

THAT DAMN DX HAS GOTTEN TO THE USA LOGO

so far bdc is posting his usual one sided bullshit

MVP is a guy that can lose a billion matches and still be as over as ever because of his charisma

where as usual he is stuck up his own arse and making no sense.

BREAK THE WALLS DOOOWWN

King Jericho

DAMN!

Fuck Jericho :mad:

Well, there goes one of the logical choices for the crown.

MVP is fuckin ballin btw

lol, this is how the WWE feels about Smackdown

I really get a feeling we're getting Jericho vs HBK tonight. Likely with time.
It's a safe match to give away on tv, since it's been done. It's a good match to pad the tournament.
And logically it builds for Backlash sunday

YOUR NEXT KING OF THE RING....CHRIS JERICHOOOOOO

Anyone got a sopcast or other stream they can link me to?

Yeah Jericho!

Punk is gonna face Jericho in the finals

Not as good as their last match.

Whats wrong XL? TV not working?

PUNKER!

Jericho will go over Michaels next, Punk will upset someone to make the finals

Then he'll pull it out against Jericho. They'll fued after Backlash
and Punk will be drafted to Raw

uhh god, more babyface matches. just what I love

sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/46119

FYI, I googled 'sopcast raw'

I don't know if it works, I have a TV :-\

Good opening match really. MVP was real good.

This could go the way of the classic 1993 workrate worthy tournament... or the way of the horrific 1996 tournament. At the moment, I'm leaning towards the former.

Punk vs Jericho semi?

And by "semi", I'm not referring the condition of Noid's penis if this match takes place.

Its the Punkster

what is the point in cm punk being in this since he's already mitb?

V1!

and Matt Hardy V111111111111111111uh

Hardy vs Punk... interesting.

meh fuck it

should be decent

Wow

In the original MITB briefcase, wasnt there 100k?

I don't see why they carry it around like a nutter, since the announcers pimp them as MITB winners anyway.

This is being done excellently thus far. I love the mystery brackets and compettitors