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SEPTEMBER 6, 2004 - MONDAY NIGHT RAW
Tonight, with just three weeks until Unforgiven, the final four participants in the tournament to determine the #1 contender to Sean O'Haire's World Title will be decided with tonight's quarterfinal action. Plus, in a non-title champion-versus-champion match will pit O'Haire against United States Champion Sean O'Haire! Also, in a preview of next week's WWE Tag Team Title match, Charlie Haas will go one-on-one with Big Show!
Yay another fucking dead show! Damien beats Tommy Dreamer in the opener. Dreamer manages to land a piledriver at one point, but eventually Damien puts him away with a chokeslam.
The tournament continues next with co-holder of the WWE Tag Team Titles Kane taking on Randy Orton. As soon as Kane pops his pyro, Orton spears him and levels him with an RKO for the surprise win to advance to next week's semifinals! After the match, Kane gets a measure of revenge with a chokeslam.
Backstage after the break, Big Show is trying to restore Kane's confidence when they're confronted by the #1 contenders to their titles, A-Train and Charlie Haas. The faces joke that it will take them half as many moves to put them away next week when they win the titles!
The tournament continues as United States Champion and the 2004 King of the Ring Chris Benoit takes on Shelton Benjamin. Solid match that eventually ends with Benjamin tapping out to the Crippler Crossface. Afterwards, Orton returns to the ring and puts Benjamin down with an RKO. Why?
Benjamin grabs a mic and cuts a brief promo on Orton, basically saying that if Orton wants to start something, he'd better be watching over his shoulder next week, because he'd be glad to knock him out of the tournament the way Orton just did to him.
Big Show is looking to take out some frustrations on Charlie Haas after that backstage confrontation from earlier. And he manages to, putting the Seton Hall alum away with the Final Cut.
Chris Jericho grabs a microphone and cuts a promo. He knows he's about to breeze through A-Train, who's managed to make it to the quarters thanks to some accidental "help" from the champ. And he knows that there's a chance that eventually his path is going to cross with Rhyno. He talks about how Rhyno has all the potential in the world. Of course, people have been saying that for five years now, and he's still getting by on potential. Jericho, on the other hand, is a bona fide main-eventer on the biggest show in wrestling. And in 20 days, he'll be where he should have been all along, holding the World Heavyweight Championship!
A-Train comes out for their match, and it's a decent one that gets a good pop. Eventually, Rhyno comes to the ring and blasts Jericho with a chair, allowing Train to hit the Derailer for the win! A-Train is in the final four!
We get another hype video for Undertaker. Swear to God, I'm going to turn his career around or die trying. ...well, maybe not.
One more spot in the final four is at stake now as Rhyno and Undertaker try to join Orton, Benoit, and Train in the semis. A couple of good near falls, but eventually Rhyno just has too much damn momentum heading into the PPV, and he picks up the win with the Gore. After the match, Taker flips his shit and clotheslines the referee.
And now for our champion-versus-champion main event! Rob Van Dam and Sean O'Haire put on a very solid match that is unfortunately spoiled by Chris Benoit taking out RVD after Van dam had hit the Five Star Frogsplash. After the match, RVD fights off both heels and stands tall as RAW goes off the air.
Next week it's Rhyno vs. Chris Benoit and A-Train vs. Randy Orton for a shot at Sean O'Haire's World Title at Unforgiven! Plus, the Ministry Monsters Big Show and Kane defend the WWE Tag Team Titles against A-Train and Charlie Haas, plus we expect some matches to be announced for Unforgiven. You don't want to miss RAW next week on SpikeTV!
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