(Retro) WWE RAW - The Recap: July 23, 2003

WWE RAW - The Recap: July 23, 2003

Live from Los Angeles -
Hosts are The King and the Coach

Video recap of the whole Steve Austin situation from last week and the JR/Kane interview

Eric Bischoff is in the ring. He says that Austin is gone. Here comes Linda McMahon. She says kane is responsible for Kane and no one else is. JR hasn't pressed charges yet, but Kane is under house arrest and needs extensive psychological evaluations. Yawn! The Linda boring factor is setting in. Bischoff wants Austin fired. Here comes Steve Austin. Austin refuses to apologize for anything. Linda says Austin is not getting fired tonite. But - Steve can not keep beating up WWE Superstars...unless physically provoked. Austin says he has to think about it. She gives him a week to think, and the night off. Eric starts acting like Eric, and she gives him the night off too. Austin gets some beer and gives one to Linda. The toast and he leaves the ring..

X-Treme Blast of the Night - Gail Kim beats Molly last week

Trish Stratus and Gail Kim versus Molly Holly and Victoria w/Steven Richards
Molly & Gail start off - exchange arm bars - tag to Trish - double team on Molly and Trish gets 2. Chop suey by Trish. Molly comes back and hits the cartwheel to the corner move. Tag to Victoria. Leg drop and Widows Peak. Reversal into headscissors - tag to Gail. She gets legscissors and goes to top, but slips. Molly to the top. Ballbuster! Trish hits Stratusfaction on Molly. Gail with the roll-up but Molly powers out. Trish goes for chick-kick on Molly, hits Gail Kim by mistake, and Molly gets the pin.
Winners: Gail Kim and Molly Holly

Tonite on WWE.com - Should JR press charges against Kane.. Vote now!

Terri is in the parking lot, waiting for Kane to arrive. Here is Chris Jericho. He sings. He dances. He's the "king of bling bling". Steve Austin walks by and Jericho shuts up. Eric Bischoff is out here as well. He and Austin argue and Austin shoots him the bird. Funny.

Evolution comes to the ring. Orton takes the mic and talks about throwing Foley down the stairs and beating all three Dudleyz last week. His new name is "Legend Killer".

Randy Orton with Ric Flair versus Val Venis
It's total control by Val until he gets distracted by Flair. Orton nails the dropkick. Val comes back and goes for the money-shot. Distracted by Flair arguing with the ref - takes too long - Orton moves out of the way. RKO by Orton for the pin.
Winner: Randy Orton

Evolution is in the ring. Trip has the mic and talks about "no competition". Here comes Goldberg to the ring. Long rambling promo by Goldberg. Cliffnote version: You're Next! Evolution looks ready to attack, but Trip calls them off and Evolution leaves the ring.

Evolution is backstage and Orton is hot about Goldberg stealing the spotlight. Flair and Triple H just tell him to stick to the plan.

Wrestlemania Recall - Wrestlemania 19 - Jericho and HBK

Y2J Chris Jericho versus HBK Shawn Michaels
Slow match to start as it's mostly headlocks and armbars. They go to the ouside a few times, but basically mat wrestling. Midway through - Jericho misses moonsault and goes to the floor. HBK with suicide dive. Back and forth. Here comes Ric Flair down the ramp and HBK decks him. Commercial. Come back and Y2J has a chinlock. All back and forth - great 80's style match. Jericho is knocked off the top - HBK hits the flying elbow for 2. Misses the sweet chin music and Y2J gets a low blow. Jericho goes for a chair, but gets kicked in the face by HBK. Flair distracts the ref and here's Randy Orton with a quick neckbreaker on HBK on the chair. Jericho with a slow cover for a 2 count. Jericho applies the Walls of Jericho. HBK tries to power out and then tries to reach the ropes - Y2J cinches it in and gets the tap out.
Winner by submission: Chris Jericho

Replay of Linda laying down the law to Austin and Bischoff earlier tonite.
Lance Storm is in the ring with a prepared statement about his talent and charisma. Meathead is in the audience. Lance reads from his statement, and we cut to the garage area with Terri. Kane has arrived and is in chains, and being led by police officers into the building.

Video highlights of my beloved, Terri, and the APA in Kuwait over the weekend.

Vote on WWE.com - Should JR press charges?

Intercontinential Title Match
Booker T versus Test
(trivial note - Booker T and Test held the World Tag Team Championship together as members of the Alliance during the Invasion..)

Booker and Test lock up - back and forth - Test in control, but Booker fights back. Goes for spineroonie, but Test kicks him in the head. Here's Scott Steiner and Stacy on the ramp. Stacy gives Scott a lapdance as Test watches, distracted, from the ring. Booker from behind - nails the Bookend and gets the pin - Winner: Booker T

WWE.com Results - Should JR press charges against Kane? 62% - yes 38% - no
RVD is in the back warming up..

Wrestlers are sitting around the locker room. Huricane looks at Rosey and sys he looks like a superhero in training. Rosey speaks and here is Golddust. Golddust is just bizarre and states the obvious - Super Hero In Training would make Rosey the S.H.I. - and Golddust has an attack of whatever it is he has..Sounds like alot of shit to me. Funny!

Kane is in chains as he's led to the ring by security.

Video recap of the actions of Kane the past month or so..
Kane versus RVD

RVD charges the ring. knocks Kane to the floor. RVD with kicks - Kane fights back. RVD eats the steel pole and they fight up the ramp. RVD kicks Kane. Kane levels the ref. He prepares to chokeslam RVD off the ramp, but RVD fights back. RVD speared into Titantron. Kane sees Linda McMahon out and grabs her by the throat. Jerry Lawler makes the save, and goes flying. Kane picks up Linda again, and gives her a tombstone piledriver on the stage. He laughs and walks off to the back as the refs and Arn Anderson attend to an out-cold Linda McMahon.

A decent show - fast moving. The HBK -Y2J match was slow at first, but pretty good. The building of Randy Orton is coming along, and hearing Lawler tear into Coach all night about how he's not JR and how oppotunistic he is was funny as hell. Good to see Golddust as well, even if only for a few moments. Same with Arn Anderson. Not a bad show - not bad at all. But Linda does need to go back to her acting class -she plays "out cold" pretty badly. But on a scale of 1-10 - let's give it a 7 3/4. Not too shabby.

-Doug