RAW Live Madison Square Garden on 28/12/08 Spoilers

JP Liz

WWE Presents "RAW Live"
UNITED STATES
NEW YORK • Madison Square Garden • 28 December 2008

JOHN CENA vs. CHRIS JERICHO STEEL CAGE MATCH FOR THE WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP

SHAWN MICHAELS vs. RANDY ORTON

The WWE returns home and New York City will explode as the WWE Universe will decide the fate of World Heavyweight Champion Chris Jericho and John Cena when they collide in a 18 foot steel cage match, in which two men battle and flesh meets steel and bodies and careers are ended.

The Heartbreak Kid" Shawn Michaels will face "The Legend Killer" Randy Orton in a "Sweet Chin Music" vs. the "RKO" match. Who will be victorious and who will be defeated?

Plus 20 other WWE Raw superstars including "The Animal" Batista, Rey Mysterio, "The self-proclaimed Wrestling God" JBL, "The Big Red Machine" Kane, WWE Women's Champion Beth Phoenix, CM Punk, Kofi Kingston and many more.

Podge2k7

Orton vs HBK should be good!

Dancor

Im going to NY that day. Will be arriving to late for that though

jeffk

Cage match overkill!!!

Either wwe are lost for ideas or there doing this to have enough to flog a steel cage dvd set

Mr.Nice Guy

JP Liz wrote: »

The Heartbreak Kid" Shawn Michaels will face "The Legend Killer" Randy Orton in a "Sweet Chin Music" vs. the "RKO" match. Who will be victorious and who will be defeated?

Aren't all their matches essentially this way?

CMpunked

Spoilers are needed.

And also:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=58084559&postcount=40

callaway92

The way things are looking imo..
Cena vs Orton at Mania..Everybody probably thinks that though..Thats what id say it will be anyway

Rjd2

callaway92 wrote: »

The way things are looking imo..
Cena vs Orton at Mania..Everybody probably thinks that though..Thats what id say it will be anyway

Could be, the raw main event will either be Cena v Orton or/and Tista, nobody else on the Show will be near the main event.

rovert

callaway92 wrote: »

The way things are looking imo..
Cena vs Orton at Mania..Everybody probably thinks that though..Thats what id say it will be anyway

Really?

I would have thought Cena vs Batista as that was the plan since Summerslam.

Rjd2

rovert wrote: »

Really?

I would have thought Cena vs Batista as that was the plan since Summerslam.

Would be a bigger draw, but it would be interesting to see who randy gets to play with instead. He is to big for MITB, has feuded with HBK before JBL & Jericho are heels, Punk maybe?

callaway92

rovert wrote: »

Really?

I would have thought Cena vs Batista as that was the plan since Summerslam.

If I thought of another main event that could happen..I wouldve thought this..Id imagine it would be the bigger draw alright...Also, there is no doubt they will try and put Batista in a big match..I doubt they will do another triple threat though..Im not too sure tbh

rovert

Discuss away lads but predicting Wrestlemania is rather hard when WWE by the looks of things doesnt know themselves.

Red Sleeping Beauty

jeffk wrote: »

Cage match overkill!!!

Either wwe are lost for ideas or there doing this to have enough to flog a steel cage dvd set

I was thinking that myself. The overkill bit, not the dvd bit. They've already loads of cage matches for another dvd set.

JP Liz

jeffk wrote: »

Cage match overkill!!!

Either wwe are lost for ideas or there doing this to have enough to flog a steel cage dvd set

How many has Jericho been in this year???

jeffk

JP Liz wrote: »

How many has Jericho been in this year???

Hes won two I know that much from raw the other night

JP Liz

callaway92 wrote: »

The way things are looking imo..
Cena vs Orton at Mania..Everybody probably thinks that though..Thats what id say it will be anyway

With Batista out now it looks this way

Furious-Red

Here are the results

Howard Finkel came out to a big pop. Followed by the National Anthem(no Lilian) was the first match.

Match 1 - Finlay (w/Hornswoggle) vs Mark Henry (w/Tony Atlas)

Finlay won with a shilleglegh shot followed by a pin. Hornswoggle hit Atlas with the tadpole splash earlier in the match. Afterwards they invited several kids in the ring to run around with them.

Match 2 - Melina & Kelly Kelly vs Beth Phoenix & Jillian Hall

Melina attempted her new Canadian Destroyer-like finisher, but totally botched it so she ended up pinning Jillian with the standing leg drop across the chest.

Finkel then announced that at the souvenir stands in the building, if you purchase the CM Punk wrist sleeves, there are 5 signed by Punk available throughout the building to the 5 lucky fans who find them.

Match 3 - Matt Hardy vs Jack Swagger for the ECW Title

Matt wins with the twist of fate. Not many people knew who swagger was. Matt got a big pop for his entrance.

Match 4 - John Morrison & The Miz vs Cryme Tyme for the World Tag Team Title

Morrison pinned Shad with moonlight drive.

Finkel plugged the release of Mr. Kennedy's Behind Enemy Lines movie coming out next Tuesday.

Match 5 - Shawn Michaels vs Kane

JBL came out right after HBK and ripped on the NY sports teams saying he's building a bigger dynasty than any of them. He then said he won't treat Shawn like Ted DiBiase treated Virgil or how Chris Jericho treated Ralphus. He'll treat him better.

Towards the end of the match Shawn was setting up the super kick when JBL hopped up on the apron and distracted him. Kane recovered and went for the chokeslam, but JBL got up on the apron again and Kane grabbed him by the throat. This allowed Shawn to hit the super kick, but he whiffed on it. Shawn must've called an audible because instead of pinning him he picked up Kane and was caught by the throat. Shawn broke free, hit the kick again and got the pin.

Back from intermission and Santino Marella comes out. He started to say something when The Boogeyman came out. Santino screamed and ran away into the audience with Boogeyman chasing him.

Match 6 - William Regal vs CM Punk for the WWE Intercontinental Title

Nice little match with several scary suplexes thrown by Regal. The ending saw Punk get Regal up in the GTS, but Layla distracted the ref allowing Regal to hit a low blow followed by a running kick to the head for the pin.

Match 7 - Rey Mysterio & Kofi Kingston vs Randy Orton & Cody Rhodes (w/Manu)

Orton got a surprising amount of cheers during the match and there were scattered boos for Rey. The ending saw Orton getting ready to RKO Kofi, but Rey dropkicked him from behind and hit a double 619 on both Orton & Rhodes followed by a top rope splash on Rhodes for the pin.

Another intermission to set up the steel cage. During the intermission they played several videos on the screen plugging the Edge dvd, the SmackDown taping this Tuesday at The Meadowlands and the WrestleMania XXIV highlight video.

Match 8 - John Cena vs Chris Jericho in a Steel Cage for the World Heavyweight Title

The cage looked very loose. Not a lot of climbing. Very good match. Better than just about all of the WWE cage matches in a long time. Jericho kicked out of both the stfu and the fu. Cena kicked out of the codebreaker. Lots of near falls and there were 2 times when Jericho was all the way over the cage, but Cena pulled him back in. It ended with Cena hitting the fu off the top rope for the pin.

Good show. Some scattered seats here and there, but a definite sellout. No return date announced for the Garden.

herewegoagain

Is this the RAW that will be shown tonight at 2 am on Sky sports?

EdK

No it was a house show Raw is Live tonight from Manchester, New Hampshire I believe, WWE stars got 3 days off for Christmas, joke really