South Florida Fair & Expo Center
West Palm Beach, Florida
September 28, 2002
The stars of Monday Night Raw came to sunny Florida for a house show in West Palm Beach. Some of the matches come from the fallout of this past Monday including the main event when Triple H puts the World Heavyweight Championship on the line against Bubba Ray Dudley. Rob Van Dam gets a piece of "Nature Boy" Ric Flair and Booker T & Goldust take on 3 Minute Warning. Christian and Lance Storm get a rematch with Kane & The Hurricane and other matches should be good. Let's get to the action.
Match 1
Spike Dudley vs Rico
With Bubba busy in the main event, Spike Dudley takes on the manager of 3 Minute Warning, Rico, in singles action. Rico wins it with a spinkick to the face.
Winner: Rico by pinfall
Match 2
Test vs Randy Orton
Orton jumped to Raw this past Monday and defeated Steven Richards in his debut. Now he faces Test of The Unamericans and surprises the big guy with a roll up victory.
Winner: Orton by pinfall
Match 3
Steven Richards, Raven and Justin Credible vs Mark Jindrak, Johnny Stamboli and D-Lo Brown
Its ECW vs WCW....and D-Lo Brown in a six man tag match. Jindrak and Stamboli were getting a trial run on the house show circuit before both could be put on television while the others were wrestling out their contracts. D-Lo pinned Raven with the sky high.
Winners: Jindrak, Stamboli and D-Lo by pinfall
Match 4
Christian and Lance Storm vs Kane and The Hurricane for the WWE Tag Team Championship
The rematch from Raw as Kane and Hurricane had won the tag belts from these two in Hurricane's Raw debut....well, after the brand split anyway. Kane and Hurricane pinned both opponents after dueling chokeslams to retain.
Winners: Kane and The Hurricane by pinfall (still tag team champions)
Match 5
"Nature Boy" Ric Flair vs Rob Van Dam
Ric Flair turned heel at Unforgiven and cost RVD the World Heavyweight Championship against Triple H so Rob gets him one on one here. Rob takes it with the five star frog splash.
Winner: RVD by pinfall
Match 6
Molly Holly and Victoria vs Jacqueline and WWE Women's Champion Trish Stratus
The four best ladies of Raw battle it out after Trish had regained the women's title at Unforgiven. Jackie pinned Victoria after a DDT.
Winners: Jackie and Trish by pinfall
Match 7
Tommy Dreamer vs Big Show
Apparently there was a stipulation in place that if Big Show didn't beat Dreamer within 10 minutes, he'd have to kiss Tommy's ass. Show beat him a little over nine minutes in with the chokeslam.
Winner: Big Show by pinfall
Match 8
Booker T and Goldust vs 3 Minute Warning (Rosey and Jamal)
This was supposed to be a match featured on Raw this coming Monday so they tried it out on the house show to build some chemistry. Jamal pinned Goldust after the Samoan drop.
Winners: 3 Minute Warning by pinfall
Match 9
Bubba Ray Dudley vs Triple H for the World Heavyweight Championship
Our main event also stems from Raw when Bubba and Rob Van Dam stepped up to face HHH and Flair in the tag match. Now Bubba faces HHH alone for the WHC. Ric Flair distracted the ref allowing HHH to use a chair and hit the pedigree for the 1-2-3.
Winner: HHH by pinfall (still WHC)
Sounds like a decent house show and at least it made sense after what happened on Raw. Consistency is definitely a good thing as Raw may not have the in-ring perfection that Smackdown has, but they make up for it with the characters. Kane and Hurricane are getting pushed strong and it looks like no one is touching Triple H for that title until they want to get serious with Big Show. All in all it might have been a good house show to those who saw it. Next up is tonight's showing of Velocity which was taped before Smackdown...which was taped on Tuesday itself. I'll see you there.
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