RAW RESULTS MAY 5TH
We start with video of Linda McMahon's decision to bring in Stone Cold Steve Austin as Co-GM due to Bischoff's recent actions.
The Raw music video plays, and we begin with Raw Co-General Manager, Stone Cold Steve Austin. Before we start, Stone Cold wants to extend a special thank you to Linda McMahon. She called him up and asked him to be Co-GM, and he said "Oh hell yeah." So for his first night, he's decided to have the biggest beer bash in Raw history: the Stone Cold Beer Bash.
But on the business end, a lot of things were done while he was suspended, many that he thought were stupid. The first is the abolition of the Intercontinental Title. That was one of the highest honors Stone Cold ever held. As such, there will be a Battle Royal at Judgment Day, and the winner will be the new Intercontinental Champ. To enter the Battle Royal, you must be a Raw superstar who has held the IC Title before. But Judgment Day is a long way away, and he wanted to do something a little more immediate.
Bischoff's music hits, and Co-GM Bischoff and Chief Morley come to the ring. Bischoff wants to make something very clear: he and Austin are Co-GMs, emphasis on "co." Any decision, especially one of the magnitude of the reinstatement of the IC Title, is one that they have to discuss mutually. Austin agrees, but since they're both looking to improve the show, he thought is was a no-brainer. Bischoff says that Austin knows it was he who abolished the Title. But just to prove to Linda McMahon and all the fans that Eric Bischoff is a team player, he will agree to the Judgment Day IC Battle Royal.
But since it's all about making things better, Bischoff wants to make an announcement of his own. At Judgment Day, Triple H will defend his World Title against Kevin Nash. Austin says that he has no problem with that. They're working well together already.
Austin asks if he may move on to the announcement he was going to make. Bischoff says they didn't talk about anything else. Austin says that since they're both looking to make the show better, he made a decision on his own and he knows he shouldn't but he already did. He hired somebody. He doesn't have a whole lot of friends, but he went ahead and hired his buddy, the best announcer in Raw history: Good Old JR.
JR comes out and into the ring. Bischoff says that if Stone Cold took it upon himself to hire JR, then it allows one more opportunity to fire him. JR is fired. Austin and Bischoff go back and forth, hiring and firing JR. Austin grabs Bischoff's microphone and tells him that he is trying not to lose his temper. That being said, why not settle it like men and have a match. Austin wins, JR stays; Bischoff wins, JR goes. Bischoff says he'd love to, but Linda McMahon specified that they couldn't lay a hand on each other. Morley interjects and says that he would be more than happy to wrestle on Bischoff's behalf. But since JR's job is on the line, he should wrestler JR himself. If Bischoff doesn't wrestle, JR won't wrestle. Austin thinks about everyone in the back that want to kick Morley's ass. Jerry Lawler stands up and says that he would love to fight on behalf of JR. Austin and Bischoff agree that it will be Lawler versus Morley with JR's job on the line. Austin suggests that it happen right now, and Bischoff agrees.
Jim Ross's Job On The Line - Chief Morley vs. Jerry Lawler
Morley starts by forcing Lawler into the corner and choking him with his boot. Lawler explodes out of the corner with two clotheslines. Back body drop by Lawler, then a dropkick. Mounted punches by Lawler 1-2-kickout.
Morley comes back with clubs to the back. Back body drop by Morley. Morley goes for another, but Lawler stops and hits the piledriver 1-2-shoulder up.
Lawler goes second rope, but misses the elbow drop. Clubs by Morley, who hits three vertical suplexes in a row. Morley goes second rope and hits an elbow drop of his own 1-2-kickout.
Mounted punches by Morley. Lawler elbows Morley in the gut and smashes him into the turnbuckle. Uppercut by Lawler, but Bischoff pulls Lawler down from the outside. Austin tries to attack Bischoff outside, but the referee separates them. Morley goes up top for the Money Shot, but JR pushes him off with the ref distracted.
Lawler goes up top for the Flying Fist 1-2-3! Jim Ross is reinstated.
After the match, Bischoff screams at Morley and then punches him in the face. Bischoff races to the back, with an angry Morley following him.
Meanwhile, Stone Cold calls for the Coach to come down to the ring with himself, King, and JR. Austin says that he thinks Coach should get to be the first one to congratulate JR on getting his job back. Austin looks at the three of them and starts to say that there is a problem. He stops short of saying it and shakes Coach's hand, then Stunners him, saying that we only need two.
As we return, in the back, Bischoff is screaming at Morley. Bischoff says that he was embarassed, and when that happens, people get fired. In fact, Morley is fired! Bischoff tells him to leave immediately. He runs into Stone Cold on the way out. Austin grabs Morley and brings him back to Bischoff. Austin asks why he was fired. Bischoff says it was from embarassment. Austin says that he didn't talk to him first. Morley gets happy that Austin is taking his side, only for Austin to agree that he should be fired.
In the back, Test and Steiner are warming up in front of the mirror. Stacy comes in and says that they both look great, but they'll look better in gold.
WWE World Tag Team Championship - Kane and Rob Van Dam vs. Scott Steiner and Test
RVD and Steiner start off, with Steiner shoving Van Dam into the corner. Steiner chops away on RVD, then picks him up and rams him into the turnbuckles. He goes to throw RVD, but Van Dam floats over and kicks Steiner in the face. Split-legged moonsault 1-2-kickout.
Van Dam knocks Steiner out of the ring, then leaps out onto him. Back in the ring, Stiner catches a leaping RVD and plants him into the mat 1-2-kickout. Punches by Steiner, followed with elbow drops. Steiner does some push-ups, then a belly-belly suplex 1-2-kickout. Tag to Test.
Test rams RVD into the turnbuckle, then lays in with back elbows. Clothesline by Test for a two count. Sleeper hold applied by Test. RVD elbows out of the hold, only to get kicked in the gut. RVD floats over Test's back, but Test grabs a chokehold. RVD dropkicks him away and tags in Kane.
Clothesline to Test, then another. Sidewalk slam to Steiner. Clothesline to Test, then to Steiner. Big Boot to Test, and a clothesline that sends Steiner out of the ring. Kane goes up top and hits Test with the flying clothesline. he reaches back for a chokeslam, but Steiner comes in and hits a side suplex. Test tosses RVD into the ringpost. He picks up Kane and hits the pumphandle slam 1-2-shoulder up.
Test reaches back for a Big Boot, but Kane ducks under. Kane applies a choke to Test. Steiner attacks, so Kane releases the choke and boots Steiner away. Test hits a slam then a flying elbow drop 1-2-broken by RVD.
Test groggily goes to Big Boot RVD, but Van Dam rolls away and Test nails Steiner, knocking him out of the ring. Kane hits Test with a chokeslam, followed up with the Five Star!
1-2-3!
In the back, Austin puts up a picture of himself next to the picture of Bischoff in the General Manager's office. Bischoff asks why such a large amount of beer is being carted in. Austin tells the delivery guys to bring in his desk, but Bischoff says that there is no room. Austin makes room by picking up the couch and putting it vertically. Austin tells Bischoff that he needs a piece of paper and a pen to write down some more supplies for the Beer Bash.
The Y2J Countdown hits 0.00 and out comes the Ayatollah, the Rock Star, the King of the World, the Living Legend, the Highlight of the Night, Chris Jericho comes out for tonight's Highlight Reel.
Jericho welcomes us to the second edition of the Highlight Reel. As a quick rebuttal to Roddy Piper's comments on SmackDown that he would lose weight as soon as Jericho got some talent: Piper better start eating some wheat germ because he is as talented as it gets.
Jericho says that he's going to enter the Intercontinental Battle Royal and bring the Title back to Canada. He is, after all, Canada's greatest athlete right now, especially after the team he captained at Backlash defeated the team of Booker T, Shawn Michaels, and Kevin Nash. Jericho rolls the footage of both Triple H hitting Nash with the sledgehammer at Backlash and Nash busting up Triple H's limo at Raw the next night. Jericho introduces his guest, the challenger for the World Title at Judgment Day: Kevin Nash.
Jericho starts to talk to Nash, but Nash snaps at him, yelling that he should shut up. Nash has fought his brother, and he's fought his friends. Triple H tried to end his career, but he is still standing. Triple H is a dead man. Jericho says that it's funny he should say that, because there is another guest on the Highlight Reel: Triple H!
Triple H comes out and Jericho starts to introduce him. Nash grabs Jericho and tosses him out of the ring. He busts up Jericho's set and awaits Triple H. Trips speeds towards the ring, only for Jericho to come in from behind and low blow Nash. Triple H beats him into a corner. Trips grabs a chair and cracks it across Nash's back. He sets the chair on the mat and goes for the Pedigree, but Nash back body drops him. Trips knocks Nash into the corner and picks up the chair, but Nash boots him away. The two men exchange punches, with Nash getting the upper hand. Elbows in the corner by Nash, who then clotheslines Triple H out of the ring.
Outside, Nash smashes Triple H onto a table, then shoves him away. Nash picks up a chair and swings, but Trips ducks and kicks the chair away. Repeated punches to the face by Triple H. He goes for a whip, but Nash reverses it and slams Trips into the stairs.
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