RAW Results - 7th Aug 2006

RAW Results - 7th Aug 2006
Memphis, TN
Commentators: Jim Ross & Jerry "The King" Lawler


Vince and Shane were in the back dressed in Elvis outfits. They were recounting the events of last week when Triple H and HBK were bested by the McMahons and Umaga.

The opening credits rolled and here we go.

JR and King put over the rest of tonight’s card.

WWE Women’s Championship
Trish Stratus v. Mickie James

The two locked up in the middle of the ring before Edge and Lita interrupted the proceedings. Edge said he was sick of taking backseats to people because he was WWE Champion. He declared the match over and said he was taking over Raw. He wanted Trish to stay out here. He wanted the world to hear that he was a 2 time WWE Champion. He was sick of getting no respect around here.

He said it wasn’t fair that he had to defend the title against John Cena at Summerslam. He didn’t think it was fair that he had to face him in Boston as well. He said no champion in the history of the company had ever had to put up with as much crap as he does. He showed the Summerslam poster up on the screen and pointed out that DX and Cena were front and center while he was nowhere to be found.

He pointed out Batista being on there before he gets injured again and he said he wasn’t too ticked off about it all. He said he thought for sure he’d be on the cover of WWE magazine coming out tomorrow but believe it or not, he wasn’t. He said he was passed over by someone who hadn’t won a match in a year.

Lita got in Trish’s face and they brawled around the ring before Lita nailed her with a spear. Edge went to land a spear of his own before Carlito came to Trish’s aid. Carlito briefly gained the upper hand before getting speared. Edge and Lita left up the ramp, while Trish and Carlito laid on the mat in pain.

****Commercial****

Intercontinental Champion Johnny Nitro and Melina came out to the announce booth for the next match.

#1 Contender’s Match for the IC Championship
Shelton Benjamin v. Kane

Kane made his return and the look on Shelton’s face was hysterical. As Kane went to pop the corner, Shelton came off the ropes at Kane. Shelton pounded the big man to the corner but found himself whipped to the opposite buckles. Kane caught him for a power slam, but Benjamin squeaked out of the hold and almost got a roll up.
Kane took the offensive who whipped Benjamin repeatedly to the buckles, following up with a clothesline and sidewalk slam respectively. Kane came flying off of the top rope and nailed his flying clothesline before going for his choke slam. Shelton countered out however into a beautiful looking DDT and almost got the pin fall.

Shelton continued to work Kane over and went for his T-bone Suplex, but Kane bullied him to the corner. Kane rushed Benjamin but missed him. Shelton leap-frogged him and came sailing off the top rope only to be caught in the choke slam.

Winner and new #1 Contender: Kane

A promo video aired putting over Summerslam.

****Commercial****

John Cena came out to the ring. He said he needed to be honest with people, Edge, he just didn’t like. He made fun of Edge for being whiney and then said WWE did some market analysis and found out that Edge’s face scares little kids. He said Lita got a job with Seven Eleven “Slurpies for herpes’. He said shame on Edge for whining about not being on the cover of WWE magazine because he was on the cover of “Crying Bitch Illustrated”. He said he didn’t care if Summerslam was in his hometown or not. He said instead of making demands, he said Edge should come out here and try to earn it.

The Coach’s music hit and he came out to the ramp. He said Edge would not be coming out to answer his challenge tonight because he was already in a match. He said Carlito and Trish would be taking on Edge and Lita later tonight. He said it was obvious that Cena was hungry for action. He said he personally found an opponent for him who was always hungry, Viscera.

****Commercial****

John Cena v. Viscera

Cena had yet to gain an advantage in the match before dodging a sit out. He came at Viscera, but got nailed with a Samoan drop. Viscera gathered Cena and whipped him to the buckles. He came rushing in with an avalanche and completely annihilated the former champion. Cena rolled out to the floor to avoid the cover attempt, but big Vis collected him and tossed him back into the ring.

Cena ducked under a clothesline attempt but was caught and planted into the mat with a front slam. Viscera climbed on the back of Cena and laid in with a modified camel clutch. Cena fought to his feet and booted Viscera in the gut. He swatted away at the big man with right hands and some knees to the gut. Cena came flipping over Viscera with a snap mare before calling for the five knuckle shuffle. He came off the ropes but got planted with a black hole-slam like move.

Viscera went for his big splash but Cena rolled out of the way. Cena quickly capitalized and FU'd Viscera for the win.

Winner: John Cena via pin fall

****Commercial****

Vince was in the back giving the cops a little pep talk. They put over how Triple H and HBK had been looking for a fight all day. Shane went to the bathroom and Vince told him to be careful.

Trish was in the hallway with Carlito ranting about how much she hated Lita. Carlito tried to calm her down then she kissed him and walked off.

Shane was looking for HBK and ran into the Highlanders, Candice Michelle, and Torrie. HBK was able to jump Shane from behind and knocked him into the McMahon locker room and into a sea of cops. The police pinned him down as we went to commercial.

****Commercial****

HBK was apologizing to the police officers outside when Triple H came in, asking what was going on. The Police said they didn’t care whether he hit the officer on purpose or not and took him off despite the protests of Triple H.

Carlito & Trish v. Edge & Lita

Carlito caught Edge coming in with a back elbow and then planted him to the mat with a clothesline. Carlito bull-rushed the champion into the corner and began swatting away with right hands before hitting him with a flat-liner.

Edge kicked out of the pin fall attempt and went on the offensive himself. He hit a clothesline and a solid looking body slam and barely missed a cover attempt of his own. Carlito began to fight back with a boot to the gut, back elbow and clothesline combination. Edge tagged in Lita and Carlito tagged in Trish.

Trish went right at Lita hammering away at Lita with some punches and some vicious kicks in the corner. Trish missed a follow up on Lita and was shoved off the buckles by Edge. Lita capitalized, cinching in a hard rear chin lock and eventually it evolved into a sleeper.

Trish tried to elbow out of the hold, but Lita tossed her to the mat by her hair. Lita continued her assault, choking Trish out on the ropes before planting some knees into the former Women’s Champion’s back. Lita went to work on Trish’s back some more before going for some sort of leg lock that got her tossed aside. Carlito came running in and he and his partner his a double drop kick, sending the WWE Champion and his ‘lady-friend’ to the floor.

****Commercial****

Edge had a tight arm bar cinched in on Carlito. Carlito eventually fought out of the hold but was rushed to the corner in time to come flipping off it and barely missing a back cracker. Edge baseball-slide drop kicked Carlito out to the floor, allowing Lita to get a few licks in. Edge jammed Carlito’s back into the ring apron before cinching in a butterfly clutch. Carlito broke the hold with a jaw breaker and a springboard back elbow. Both men were left laying on the mat before Trish and Lita were both tagged in.

Trish hit two clotheslines and a drop kick. She continued to hit some chops before it was broken up but a kick to the gut. Lita went for the twist of fate, but Trish kicked out and went for a move herself, but Edge blocked it. Trish went for a stratusphere and connected. Edge went for a spear on Carlito, but Carlito ducked out of the way in the knick of time only to have Trish get mauled with the move. Carlito chased Edge out of the ring while Lita sneaked over to make the cover for the win.

Winners: Edge and Lita via pin fall

****Commercial****

We learned that Hulk Hogan had a torn meniscus in his right knee, which puts his Summerslam match with Randy Orton in jeopardy. Gresham asked Randy Orton what his feelings were on the situation. Orton said Hogan was trying to get out of the match and that Hogan really did know best, because if he showed up, his legend would get killed.

Ric Flair came out to the ring holding a book. He said for those of us who didn’t know it, he said Memphis got a plug they deserved from John Cena. Flair put over his being born in the city. He said he had spent ten years trying to figure out how to make Mick Foley stand up and be a man and what makes a guy like him ‘tick’.

He said he didn’t wanna be like Mick Foley, dress like him, etc. He wondered how to get him to Summerslam. He said someone came up to him and told him to read his book “Foley is Good”. Flair held up the book, dropped it to the mat, stomped on it twice and gave it two elbow drops. He ripped it up and tossed it into the crowd. He said one page was worth it though. He said deep inside Foley was a fan of Flair’s. He said Foley idolizes “the Naitch”. On page 169, his #1 favorite wrestling match was Funk v. Flair in an “I Quit” match. He said it wasn’t a stunt fest, it was a real “I Quit” match. He said there were one of two reasons he wouldn’t wrestle against Flair 1.) he didn’t know if he could beat him or 2.) he KNEW he couldn’t beat him.

Foley’s music hit and he came out to the ramp. Foley said Flair was absolutely right. He said he idolized Ric Flair, that he was a Nature Boy fan. He said Flair was a better wrestler than he ever was. He said the two hate each other and it was no secret. But he said they also knew that if Foley-Flair is in the ring at Summerslam, the match would be a match for the ages, violent, wild and intense. He said it would put the name Ric Flair right back up on top of the mountain where it belongs. He said, however, he just couldn’t allow that to happen. He said 12 years ago, Flair was in charge of his career and he could have made him, but he stepped on Foley’s dreams by not jobbing to him.

He said how fitting was it that Foley was sitting between Flair and his dreams was Foley. He said Flair didn’t do a damn thing to help him out in 1994 and he would return the favor for him this year. He said unless Flair came back to him with something more than just a match, everyone could kiss his ass.

Flair asked Foley is he could be a man just one day of his life. He asked him if he was going to just walk away from all of his accolades like nothing. He said he was giving him a chance to rewrite history if that greatest hardcore match ever involved him. He said he should wrestle him at Summerslam. Foley said he would not go back on his vow, when Ric was ruining his life. He said for embarrassing him on Raw last week, how about he beats him up? How about he takes Flair on in an “I Quit” match at Summerslam. Flair ‘woo’d’ into the mic and smiled as Foley’s music played.

Foley told him that he wanted him to understand one thing. He said this match will be Flair’s greatest match of them all and he guaranteed it would be Flair’s last. Flair toasted Foley saying ‘may one of us bleed to death in Boston’.

****Commercial****

Randy Orton v. Jerry “The King” Lawler

Orton slapped King in the face before hitting him with a back body drop. Lawler fought back with a slap of his own before Orton raked his eyes and nailed him with a drop kick. Orton clamped in a rear chin lock. Lawler fought out of the hold and hit a scoop slam.

Lawler went for his fist drop but no one was home. Orton went for the RKO but Lawler tossed him aside. Orton hit a low blow, stared King down, and RKO’d him for the win.

Winner: Randy Orton via pin fall

****Commercial****

A video putting over the re-arrival of Jeff Hardy aired.

2006 Diva Search

Jen, Layla, Erica, Marlena, and JT were left standing. Miz pointed out that one of the ladies would be eliminated tonight. Miz did his usual sleazy ‘say the ladies name behind their backs’ before stopping at Erica who was eliminated from the competition. Miz also pointed out that the night was not over and they’d be participating in “Diss the Diva” shortly.

JR ran down the Summerslam card:

WWE Championship—If Edge loses via DQ, he loses the title
Edge v. John Cena

“I Quit Match”
Ric Flair v. Mick Foley

Hulk Hogan v. Randy Orton

D-Generation X v. The McMahons

Now it’s time for “Diss the Diva”. They would have 20 seconds to tell the other why they were better than the other contestants. Jenn talked about being a kitty, and Leyla played the hyper active one, Marlena said something that didn’t make sense, and JT was clearly lost in the chorus of boos reigning in from the crowd. Whatever.

A video putting over the build up to Triple H-Umaga aired.

****Commercial****

Triple H v. Umaga

Umaga came right at the Game, who ducked under and landed a few right hands. Triple H came back at Umaga and was planted with a headbutt. Umaga hammered away at the Game in the corner, before missing a follow up which Triple H was eventually able to work the big Samoan up and over the top rope.

Triple H hit a running clothesline on Umaga, but it didn’t phase the big man who nailed the Game with a spinning wheel kick. Umaga sat out hard on Triple H’s chest before dumping him into the corner upside down and planting him with his flying head butt. Triple H slumped into the corner and was met with the running bump-butt from Umaga.

Umaga went for his flying head butt but no one was home. Triple H fought to his feet and began throwing punches in Umaga’s direction. He hit a face buster on the big man and finally floored him with a clothesline. Shane jumped into the ring and Vince distracted the ref as well. Triple H fought them off and almost pedigreed Umaga, but was back body dropped. Umaga came charging at the Game but got caught in a huge spine buster.

Shane came running in to break up the fun but found himself spine-bustered as well. Triple H went for the cover but Vince pulled the referee out of the ring. Vince jumped in but was met by a HHH kick to the gut. Just as Triple H was going to hit the move, Umaga nailed him with a Samoan spike. The referee was tossed back into the ring and made the three count.

Winner: Umaga via pin fall

After the match, Vince thanked Umaga and loaded up Triple H for a pedigree and nailed the game with his own finishing move. He did some more impersonations of Triple H before leaving the ring triumphantly.