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SEPTEMBER 13, 2004 - MONDAY NIGHT RAW
With less than two weeks to go until Unforgiven, four men remain in the running for a shot at Sean O'Haire's World Title. Tonight, the semifinals of the #1 contender tournament take place, but first...
Later tonight, A-Train has an unlikely semifinal berth in the tournament, but tonight he and Charlie Haas cash in their WWE Tag Team Title shot against Big Show and Kane, the Ministry Monsters. Train and Haas put up a good fight, but eventually the size and strength of the champions proves too much and they retain after hitting Haas with a double chokeslam.
Yet another Undertaker hype video plays.
Up next is a really solid tag match pitting Fred 'n' Tom against NBM members Chuck Palumbo and Johnny Stamboli. The rookies look good against the former FBI mates, but eventually Fred Williams takes the Kiss of Death to give Palumbo and Stamboli the win.
World Champion Sean O'Haire cuts a brief promo backstage about this tournament that's ongoing and how ridiculous the final four are. I mean, really? A-Train?!? But, then again, he's not telling us anything we didn't already know.
Val Venis and the ECW Originals Lance Storm and Tommy Dreamer take on La Resistance in a six-man tag match. Solid but not great match that ends when Grenier hits Dreamer with a piledriver for the win.
Damien comes to the ring with his former Ministry leader Undertaker - who is now essentially just another stablemate. They issue an open challenge for Unforgiven to any two superstars for a tag match. Any two. And, in true Ministry fashion, they're going to make them rest in peace.
Former U.S. Champion Rob Van Dam comes to the ring for his match with Damien. Damien controls the tempo of the match until RVD finally starts to turn things around. However, eventually, RVD's nemesis Chris Benoit hits the ring and locks him in the Crippler Crossface, allowing Damien to pick up the cheap win. After the match, Benoit blasts RVD with the title several times before a bunch of referees drag him away.
Our first finalist in the World Title contender tournament will be determined next as the vicious viper Randy Orton takes on the improbable A-Train. Unfortunately, Orton's sins from last week catch up to him as Shelton Benjamin seeks revenge from Orton's attack, blasting him with a chair, allowing Train to hit the Derailer to advance to the finals!
Orton grabs a mic and says that Shelton made good on his promise from last week, but now it's Randy's time to make a promise. He promises that in 13 days, he is going to cripple Shelton Benjamin once and for all.
And now for our main event, as Rhyno and Chris Benoit go toe-to-toe to advance to take on Train in the tournament finals next week. Benoit has dominated tournaments this year, but Rhyno seems to have his number until Chris Jericho takes advantage of a distracted referee by clamping on the Walls of Jericho allowing his Canadian Violence partner Benoit to pick up the win and advance.
Rhyno grabs the mic and challenges Jericho for Unforgiven. Jericho talked about how Rhyno is living off of potential. Well, the funny thing about potential is that eventually potential is either reached or somebody becomes a nobody. Well, the manbeast refuses to become a nobody. And if Jericho insists on being the one at whose expense his potential is reached, he's just one Gore Gore Gooooooooooooore away.
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