Raw
New York City
November 16, 2009
results thanks to wrestleview.com
The show starts with
"Rowdy" Roddy Piper saying he is back. With him tonight is actor Luis Guzmán.
Luis is here to promote the movie "Old Dogs" coming out later this month. Piper
also brings in The Iron Sheik. Luis starts talking about Hulk Hogan and Sheik
goes into promo mode. They all do the "Saturday Night Live" style intro
welcoming us to Monday Night Raw.
The new Raw intro runs by Nickelback.
We go live to Madison Square Garden in New York City. The Garden is sold out
tonight.
They are using the small entrance area for MSG tonight instead of using the huge
Raw HD set. Miz is out first and gets booed loudly. He said since he is a
champion he assumed they would like him, just like the World Champion New York
Yankees. Miz said the Yankees didn't earn the World Series title, they bought
it. He said that is why New Yorkers are hated all across the world. A loud "LETS
GO YANKEES" chant starts up. Miz informs us that Piper signed a title match for
him tonight and calls out his opponent.
WWE United States Championship
The Miz (c) vs. MVP
Sherri Shepard is at ringside cheering on MVP. Miz with lots of strikes on MVP
early on. MVP fires back with a clothesline, hip toss and scoop slam. MVP
catches Miz with a big right hand on the outside of the ring. Miz with a big
knee to MVP that sends him flying to the outside. Miz then throws MVP up against
the ring. MVP fights back in the ring planting Miz near the ropes and drops his
ballin' elbow. Miz counters a Playmaker attempt, but MVP fires back with a big
boot that results in a two count. Miz with a front facebuster on MVP and gets
the pinfall.
Winner & STILL WWE U.S. Champion: The Miz
Later tonight Melina will defend the WWE Divas Title against Alicia Fox.
****Commercial****
Santino Marella vs. Chavo Guerrero
Santino walked out wearing a Rangers jersey. He took it off and revealed a
Giants jersey. He took that off and revealed a Knicks jersey. Fans booed. He
takes that off and reveals a NY Jets jersey. He stops and reveals a Mets jersey.
Lots of boos. He stops again and reveals a Phillies jersey. One last time and he
has a Yankees jersey on. Chavo runs up and hits his three amigos suplexes on
Santino. Chavo goes up top looking to hit a frog splash, but Santino keeps
rolling away. Hornswoggle comes out and distracts Chavo allowing Santino to get
a quick roll up for the win.
Winner: Santino Marella
After the match, the DX music hits right away. Triple H gets on the mic and
talks about how the DX army is in the house of the world's most famous arena.
HBK starts shilling the DX book. Triple H said tonight isn't about that and
instead Survivor Series this Sunday where DX will take on John Cena in a triple
threat for the WWE Championship. He said DX will be on the same page this Sunday
and will remain a unit since the goal is to bring that title to DX. HBK asks if
they will be a unit. Triple H says yes, but in a good way. HBK said they have
another issue and that is the DX gimmick stealing Hornswoggle. Triple H said
they know he is here and is probably under the ring. He said Hornswoggle stole
that DX gear and didn't even pay for it. Triple H said they will give him the
benefit of the doubt and give Hornswoggle the chance to become part of DX.
Hornswoggle starts jumping around and doing crotch chops at Triple H and HBK.
Triple H tells Hornswoggle to be a big boy and get in line. He asks Hornswoggle
and the crowd if they are ready. Triple H does his usual DX intro, stops, kicks
Hornswoggle, gets him setup for a Pedigree and connects. HBK finishes it off
saying if you aren't down with that then they have two words for ya. They take
out a tiny stretcher (that says "DX" on it) and put Hornswoggle on it.
****Commercial****
A video package runs highlighting the history of WWE at Madison Square Garden.
Backstage, Chris Jericho complains that he gets no respect from any Raw guest
hosts. Piper blows him off and brings in Chris Masters to do his new pec talent
to the Black Eyed Peas "Boom Boom Boom" song. Two members of the Black Eyed Peas
are shown at ringside.
****Commercial****
Judah Friedlander from "30 Rock" comes out and gets on the mic. He is the
special guest ring announcer for our next match.
WWE Divas Championship - Lumberjill Match
Melina (c) vs. Alicia Fox
Melina throws Fox out right away. Fox gets back in and Melina with a quick roll
up for a two count. Fox throws Melina out and the Divas go after her. Melina
with a facebuster and clothesline on Fox. Melina gets the win with her rolling
through suplex into a pinfall.
Winner & STILL WWE Divas Champion: Melina
After the match, all the Divas from Raw and Smackdown hit the ring and start
brawling. Team Mickie James clean house and are the ones who stand tall tonight.
****Commercial****
Piper’s Pit
Piper came out and put over the whole McMahon legacy at the Garden and then
introduced Vince to the crowd. Vince said Piper did a lot of horrible things at
the Garden, but the worst was showing up here tonight. He said Piper should have
a 100,000 mile checkup. He said piper has skinny little arms and knobby knees
and a catchers mit face.
He said the only thing he loved was Piper’s kilt. The two kept going back and
forth and Vince started talking about himself and how good he looked. He said
unless there’s better competition heading forward, he’s officially retired.
Piper said Vince was a coward. He said he’d been in 7,000 matches, electrocuted,
had cancer… if he could beat those things, he could beat Vince. He said let’s
make Vince accountable to the people who made him a billionaire. Piper said he
didn’t want anything on a pay per view he wanted something tonight. He wanted to
retire Vince for him. He leaves the ring and we have OMG SUSPENSE~
****Commercial****
Seamus said he’s been here two weeks and already put one man out of wrestling.
He said he’ll face anyone tonight. When no one answered the call, Seamus went to
the time keeper and choked him before sending him flying across the announce
table. When Jerry Lawler protested, Seamus hit a big boot to his face and left
the ring side area. Medics and officials tended to Lawler and the time keeper.
****Commercial****
Matt Striker is back in Lawler’s stead and he and Cole run down the Survivor
Series card.
****Commercial****
Jack Swagger vs. Evan Bourne
Swagger hit a wheel barrel suplex before Bourne wiggled out, hit a kick and
attempted a roll up. Bourne drop kicked Swagger to the buckles and charged him
in the corner and got elevated to the apron. He hit a big kick before hitting
the double knees off the top turnbuckle. Swagger attempted a lariat and then
caught Bourne coming off the top rope and smashed Bourne off of two turnbuckles
before hitting a NASTY gut-wrench power bomb for the win.
Winner: Jack Swagger via pin fall
****Commercial****
Randy Orton came out to the ring to confront Piper, who was waiting for Vince
McMahon. Orton said there’s nothing more that he’d want other than to relieve a
little stress.
Orton sucker punched Piper who responded in kind. Orton decked Piper to the mat
and began Garvin stomping him into the mat. Orton lined up a punt but held up
once Kofi Kingston’s music hit. Kingston came down and jumped Orton from behind,
and chased him out of the ring. Orton fled the ring and began sauntering to the
back, only for Kingston to chase him out to the ringside area and began
hammering Orton around the ringside area.
They ended up moving into the ringside area where Orton slammed Kofi’s head off
the ringside steps. Orton hammered Kofi in the ring and then looked to deliver a
punt, but Kofi responded by cutting him off and hammering away at his face. They
went back out to the ringside area and brawled more before the officials tore
them apart. Orton feigned like he was done, only to explode back into Kingston’s
direction.
They fought into the upper decks where Kingston stomped away on Orton’s face and
then dumped him over the guard rail onto the floor of the arena. Kofi picked up
one of the production cases and SMASHED Orton over the head with it. Kofi set
him up on the production table and went to the guardrail where he feigned
hitting a boom boom leg drop. The officials dragged him off the railing only for
Kofi to hit the boom drop through the table to a monstrous pop from the MSG
crowd. Kofi celebrated with the crowd as we went to commercial.
****Commercial****
WWE Champion John Cena’s in the back. He puts over the tag match tonight. He
cuts a really weird promo about the triple threat.
****Commercial****
John Cena & The Undertaker vs. D-Generation X vs. Chris Jericho & The Big Show
Cena, Jericho and Michaels started things off. Jericho got thrown aside and then
tagged in Big Show. HBK didn’t want any of Show and Cena didn’t want part of
Show and Triple H. So we’ve got Triple H, Undertaker and Big Show. Triple H and
Taker started going to town on Show hitting a knee lift and then clotheslining
Show to the floor.
Taker hit a running boot on Triple H before hammering away at him in the corner.
Triple H hit a retaliatory spine buster and tagged in Michaels. HBK and Taker
stared each other down in the middle of the ring. The two traded shots before
Michaels skinned the cat. Taker looked for a tombstone only for HBK to push
Taker to the middle of the ring where he was met with a Big Show spear.
Jericho went to work on Michaels and Taker, looking for the walls on HBK only
for Cena to tag himself in and go to work on Jericho. Cena hit a bulldog only to
eat a right hand to the face. Triple H tagged in and went toe to toe with Cena
before Big Show showed up and choke slammed both. Taker came in and hit a flying
clothesline on Show and sent him to the outside. Show reversed a Taker whip on
the outside and sent him reeling into the guard rails.
We ended up with HBK and Jericho back in the ring and Michaels was hitting
signature spots. HBK hit a flying elbow and he went for Sweet chin music only
for Cena to interrupt him. Cena looked for an FU, but Triple H hit a blind tag
and interrupted. Triple H decked Chris Jericho before hitting a spine buster on
Cena. He loaded a pedigree only to eat a Big Show head butt. Michaels hit a
sweet chin music before Jericho hit a code breaker. Taker hit a choke slam and
then Triple H knocked Taker out of the ring only to turn around into a Cena FU
for the win.
Winners: John Cena and The Undertaker via pin fall
After the match, Taker caught Cena and hit a tombstone. Taker posed over Cena as
we went off the air.