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NOVEMBER 24, 2003 - Monday Night RAW

The last RAW of November will help us round out the Sweet 16 of the Intercontinental Title tournament. Plus, the eight men who have already advanced will be involved in a pair of tag team matches. That, plus the Dudley Boyz defending the World Tag Team Titles!

The night kicks off with two unlikely tag teams going at it in a preview of next week's second-round matches - Tommy Dreamer and Val Venis against Christian and Rico. Dreamer and Val take an early advantage until Christian tags Rico in. Rico goes after Venis until Val manages to hit a big neckbreaker. Double hot tag, and Tommy winds up catching Christian with a Dreamer Driver out of nowhere for what has to be considered a bit of an upset victory!

Up next is another first-round match in the Intercontinental Title tournament pitting Rodney Mack against William Regal. Regal pretty much dominates the match other than a knee lift and a slam from Mack. In the end, Regal lays Mack out with the Power of the Punch to advance.

Our next first-round match is between the World's Strongest Man Mark Henry and Matt Hardy Version 1.0. The match goes back-and-forth, but the crowd really isn't into it, and their clashing styles don't exactly make for a five-star match. In the end, Matt slams Henry into an exposed turnbuckle for a cheap victory. He sprints away from the ring to avoid Henry's wrath.

Backstage, The Rock cuts a promo about his feud with Triple H. He wishes H well in his second-round match next week against his new partner Shawn Michaels, but H knows that if he loses the match, Rock's going to be waiting for him to finally settle the score for the World Title.

Nova and Sylvan Grenier are the next to attempt to advance to round two. Another ugly match ends with Nova putting Grenier away with the Spin Doctor.

Hurricane is becoming way over with the crowd, and they get into his first-round match with Chris Nowinski. Nowinski only manages to get a couple of moves in, because it's pretty much all Hurricane. A Shining Wizard puts the Harvard grad away and send Hurricane into the Sweet 16.

The tournament continues as Lance Storm takes on Maven in what turns out to be a pretty good match. Storm wins it with a superkick.

The World Tag Team Titles are on the line next as the Dudley Boyz defend the gold against La Resistance's Rene Dupree and Rob Conway. La Res dominates D-Von early until he can hot-tag Bubba. Bubba goes to work on Conway until Dupree tags in, but Dupree winds up falling victim to the 3D, and the champs retain!

Goldberg beat Scott Steiner with a Jackhammer. Yep, it's as bad as it sounds. I can't wait to release this idiot.

Disappointingly, Booker T and Kane didn't put on a very good match. Jericho comes to ringside and takes out Booker with a chair, allowing Kane to hit the chokeslam for the win. Afterwards, Jericho puts Booker in the Walls of Jericho.

Our main event pits Shawn Michaels and Rob Van Dam against Evolution's Batista and Triple H. All four men have advanced to the second round of the Intercontinental Title tournament, and they're looking to build momentum toward next week's matches. I'm running out of time, because Ihave to go to work, but Triple H pins Michaels with a Pedigree, but then gets laid out by a Rock chairshot afterwards.