Off-Air Notes from WWE Raw; Dark Matches and much more
Thanks to DeAndre Buck for sending this in:
Hey I was reading your report from earlier and I just wanted to add to it. The live crowd was probably treated to a good 12 matches total throughout the night I actually arrived in the arena around 6:45. I was sitting second row and when I took my seat and looked up there were around 3000 balloons, a track above the ring (which we later found out would be JBL's above ring pyro) as well as Kennedy's mic (so it was kind of a disappointment when he didn't show but the part w the midget was priceless)
Dark/Heat Matches:
Umaga def. Drew McIntyre
Santino Marella def. D.H. Smith
Hacksaw Jim Duggan and Super Crazy def. The Highlanders
Brian Kendrick def. Charlie Haas
Hardcore Holly (w. Cody Rhodes) def. Carlito (w. Santino)
Funny story, Santino kept making all these random comments during his match that kept the ringside fans laughing and he continued them when he came out w Carlito and tried to give Carlito an orange to console him for his lost apple that Carlito tossed into the crowd.
Other News & Notes
With the "Mini Royal Rumble" I thought it would've been the actual people because Batista was spotted driving down one of our main highway's from the airport.
We also ended up seeing Santino, Carlito, Beth Phoenix, and someone else in TGI Friday's after the show.
The entire show went hard from top to finish. For this being their first time filming Raw in Mobile since 1997, they treated the show first class all the way. We were promised a dark match main event or Randy Orton/JBL vs. Jericho/Hardy but I'm guessing because they're selling Jericho's injuries that killed that idea, so the Hardy/Orton finish was CRAZY. And I'm glad they treated the crowd to a wonderful show, let's hope that this it won't be another 10 years before they bring Raw back
Biggest Pops
Jeff Hardy
Triple H
John Cena (Tribute Video)
Shawn Michaels
Biggest Heat
JBL
Randy Orton
