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JULY 26, 2004 - MONDAY NIGHT RAW

One night removed from Vengeance, and we have a new World Heavyweight Champion! The Devil's Advocate Sean O'Haire is not scheduled for a match tonight, but he is expected to make a huge announcement tonight! Plus, a massive main event has been signed - pitting former champion Kurt Angle against Randy Orton. And rumor has it that Orton has decided which brand he's signing with! All that, plus two huge title matches, and tonight's RAW is going to be huge!

The show kicks off with tag team action pitting Chuck Palumbo and Johnny Stamboli from the Natural Born Thrillers against the debuting team of Fred Williams and Tom Howard, who are working cowboy gimmicks. The newcomers acquit themselves well, as Williams catches Stamboli with a sweet gutwrench powerbomb at one point. In the end, though, Williams takes the fall as the NBTs hit the Kiss of Death for the win.

Lance Storm and Tommy Dreamer have been on a tear since becoming an official tag team, and tonight they take on fellow fan favorites Rikishi and the "winless wonder" Luther Reigns. Unfortunately for Reigns, he again does the job as Storm gets him to out with the Straight Shooter.

Eric Bischoff is in the ring as we come back from commercial. "Ladies and gentlemen, since I became the General Manager of RAW two years ago, I have seen a number of great superstars headline my show as champion. Undertaker, The Rock, Brock Lesnar, Triple H [boooooooooo]... Yeah, I know. My thoughts too, but he was a good champion. Shawn Michaels [booooooooooooooo]... And for the last five months, Kurt Angle has been carrying the torch on the RAW brand as World Champion. But last night, we entered into a new era. Last night we began the O'Hairera. It's 'O'Haire' and 'Era' put together, for those of you in the cheap seats. And tonight, I have the tremendous pleasure to introduce to you the next step in cementing Sean O'Haire's legacy. Last week, O'Haire came to me with an idea. And he went to another man with that idea. That man was the Undertaker. Tonight, myself, the World Heavyweight Champion and the man from the dark side proudly introduce... The Natural Born Ministry!" The crowd erupts in a chorus of boos as O'Haire leads a combination of the Natural Born Thrillers and The Ministry to the ring. Can anything stop this evil combination?

Shawn Stasiak remains in the ring, where he's joined by the three members of La Resistance to take on Edge, Shelton Benjamin, and the Playboys in an eight-man tag match. Lance Cade and Rob Conway carry the load for their respective team, but in the end it's Edge picking up the win with the Edgecution on Stasiak.

WWE Tag Team Champions Canadian Violence are out next to defend their titles against Natural Born Ministry members Big Show and Kane, who won a fatal fourway match last week to earn a shot tonight. The mishmash of styles results in a surprisingly good match that the crowd gets behind, which is even more impressive since it was a match featuring four heels. The end comes when Jericho heads to the top rope for a moonsault. Benoit runs the ropes to set up for an elbow, but accidentally crotches Jericho. In the confusion, Kane chokeslams Jericho and covers him for the victory and the belts! Afterwards, Benoit shoves Jericho and walks away from him.

Back from commercial, and there's a table set up in the middle of the ring. Shane McMahon has a microphone and the table has two contracts on it, one for RAW, one for SmackDown! Shane cuts a promo about the fact that three weeks ago, Randy Orton made his shocking return to WWE and has since run roughshod over the competition on both RAW and SmackDown! Orton has become what he's called himself this whole time, the biggest free agent in wrestling. But Randy has told me that he has decided which brand he's going to sign with, and that's why we have two contracts in the ring tonight. Orton makes his way to the ring and grabs the SmackDown! contract. He looks at it and asks for Shane's pen. He tosses the contract to the floor and signs the RAW one. Shane makes a crack about how he doesn't blame him for signing with RAW. He wouldn't want a rematch with Hurricane either. Randy laughs, then nails him with an RKO! Orton climbs out through the crowd as Shane writhes in pain.

Last night, Damien once again came up on the losing end of a match against Shelton Benjamin via disqualification. The Natural Born Ministry's rookie monster looks for a bit of payback tonight as he takes on Shelton's World's Greatest Tag Team partner Charlie Haas! The match does its job, putting Damien back over as a dominant monster while letting Haas get in a couple of big moves. In the end, Haas joins the ever-growing list of victims of Damien's chokeslam. After the match, Shelton Benjamin hits the ring with a chair and lays out his rival. This bad blood is far from over!

Last week, A-Train, William Regal, and Natural Born Ministry member Mark Jindrak won triple threat matches to earn the following fatal fourway match for Rob Van Dam's United States Title! Lots of action all around between the four superstars, but it's not much of a surprise that RVD hits Regal with a Five-Star Frogsplash to retain. Good match, though, that made the other three all look like viable contenders.

Six months ago, Rhyno ended Undertaker's undefeated WrestleMania streak when he won a triple threat match, pinning former WWE superstar Booker T. Since then, the two have tangled several times, with Rhyno frequently getting the better of the Deadman. However, now that Undertaker has aligned hiimself with the Natural Born Ministry, can he turn the tables? Rhyno came up short in his bid to win the WWE Tag Team Titles last night, and he comes up short again tonight as Taker catches him with a chokeslam for the win. After the match, Edge hits the ring, looking for revenge. He lays out the man who cheated to beat him last night at Vengeance with a chair. Taker gets the win, but it's Edge who's standing tall!

Kurt Angle comes to the ring for tonight's main event against Randy Orton. He cuts a brief promo on his match last night against Sean O'Haire. He says that O'Haire shocked a lot of people last night in becoming the World Champion, and that he shocked even more by aligning himself with Undertaker. But in four weeks at Summerslam, he's invoking his rematch clause, and this time - there'll be no surprises. Oh, it's true. It's damn true!

Orton comes to the ring next, and he nails Angle with a big running knee to start the match, followed by a beautiful fallaway slam for two. From there, the two never let up, putting on a tremendous match. Angle "was sluggish and didn't put much in" to quote the game, but they still put on an 85% quality match. Can you imagine if he'd really gone for it how good this would have been? In the end, though, Angle gets his momentum back as he gets Orton to tap out to the Angle Lock. After the match, Orton comes back and lays him out with the RKO to end the night standing tall.
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