Hey, no pre-show hype for the first time in a LONG long time..

Opening Credits

Pyro! Folks! Action! We are LIVE 10.7.2K from the San Jose Arena in San Jose, CA and even tho' it's right around 6 PM over here, the place is full. So, let's start early with

CHRIS BENOIT and BIG SKIPPY hit the ring together, to Benoit's music. Shane says that the reason the next leader of the WWF and the next WWF Champion are together is simply becuase they are good friends...and lately, he's really begun to admire certain qualities in Benoit. He's goal-oriented, possess deadly focus, is cold hearted, ruthless, and just happens to be an equal-opportunity offender. Let Us Take You Back One Week as Benoit puts a hurtin' on both Eddie Guerrero and Chyna...then, made the Rock CRY as he put him in the Crippler Crossface. Shane reminds us that Rock has been ducking Benoit - Let Us Take You Back to Thursday as Rock "used Shane's presence to run away" during their big matchup. Shane says he's proud to call Benoit his friend - and they shake hands. "Thank you, Shane - I'm equally proud to call you my friend. However, the Rock is certainly no friend of mine. You see, I don't have friends who are...cowards. I don't have friends who like to hide behind women's skirts, and I do no have friends who cannot admit that I am THE world's greatest technical wrestler in the history of the WWF. [Huh?] That's why tonight, I'm asking the Rock to prove me wrong. Oh, don't worry, Rock, I'm not gonna ask you to put up the title tonight, but if I beat you...(chuckles) and I will, then I want you, one on one, in a title match at Fully Loaded, and I WILL become WWF Champion, and that is the way it is." One brief laugh later... "Oh, and by the way, Commissioner Foley isn't here to make the match tonight. He's on a PR Tour of southeast Asia - as far as I'm concerned, I hope the commissioner comes down with a case of disentary - that way, he'll be able to talk out of both ends at the same time....just like the Rock." Well, this finally bring out LA ROCA. "Chris Benoit, you come out here and run your mouth, and you actually have the nerve to ask the Rock 'prove you wrong.' Well, the Rock has no problem proving you wrong. Because if you think, Benoit, that you're better than you're wrong. And if you think that Shane McMahon is anything more than a silver-spoon, puffy cheeked, punkass son of a (beep), you're wrong. And if you think after hearing your challenge that later on tonight that the Rock isn't gonna walk down this ramp, get in that ring and whip your candyass all over San Jose...["Rock E!"]...then you're wrong, Benoit, 'cause the Rock says this: to you and you...just bring it jabrones, just bring it." Benoit and Shane are left to mug for the crowd while Rock's music plays...until EDDIE GUERRERO & THAT SLUT CHYNA run out with chairs - Shane takes one shot in the back before they both run off and Eddie's music plays. Tonight! Jericho vs. Road Dogg! Venis vs. Kane AND Rikishi in a Triple Threat IC title match! All this AND a women's Street Fight between Lita and Stratus! Tag team titles on the line! And Rock and Benoit - that enough for ya? Yow!

Here's a look via map at the WWF Southeast Asia tour - follow the bouncing smiley face mit Mankind mask as it travels from New York to LA, then across the ocean to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Jakarta (No "D?"), Indonesia - No City Listed, Singapore - back to Malaysia - and ending up in No City Listed Hong Kong! But with the Commissioner ten thousance miles away...how will that affect tonight's outcomes?

Two weeks away - TWIX presents WWF Fully Loaded - it's all in the mix!

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Triple H complains about the absent commissioner ruining their lives even in his absence. We also learn that Foley has promised to null and void the Triple H/Jericho match at Fully Loaded if any of them punk out Jericho pre-match. H tells Road Dogg to take care of Jericho...or don't bother coming back to see him. "Hey - what's that about?" X-Pac: "Hey, just chill out..."

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Moments Ago - Tazz comes out between the "O" and the "R." What's motivating these "random" attacks?

Backstage, KEVIN "NAILZ" KELLY tries to catch up to Tazz and get some rationale. "So *now* you want to talk to me....(hissing) I don't think so!" and off he goes, having sufficiently frightened him.

ROAD DOGG

Backstage, Undertaker drives his motorcycle through a crowd...parting them. Undertaker is too hep to be WALKING!

Moments Ago...damn, that looked like it hurt. Triple H threw a lamp, too

Road Dogg tries to explain to X-Pac how he normally doesn't moonsault (got that right, eh?) - Triple H enters the picture and shoves Road Dogg back. X-Pac attempts to make the peace: "we're all on the same side!" Triple H: "I used to think that..." and he takes off.

THE UNDERTAKER rides his Beautiful Titan Bike around the ring. Once again, the ring steps have mysteriously placed themselves on end so he can make the full lap. He's not scheduled to compete tonight, we are told - hey, I bet he'll have a few words for us. "Now I ain't about a lotta talk these days with too much people doin' too much talkin'...but when someone pisses me off, there's gonna be hell to pay! And there ain't nothin' I can't stand more than some punkass that's afraid of a fight! Kurt Angle. American hero? If that ain't a big load o' crap, I don't know what is! Kurt, first you stop my brother Kane and I from winning the tag titles with your bogus-ass interference. And if that ain't enough, then you pour milk and food on my brand new Titan motorcycle? And you don't even have the common courtesy to clean it off! Listen, if you got a beef with me, I ain't a hard guy to find. I stand six foot ten, I weigh 330 pounds, and I'm usually kicking the hell out of somebody! So I guess, Kurt, I will be all damned to hell if I let you hide behind some bogus apology that I do not accept. So let me lay it out like this - I think it's time Kurt Angle find out WHY I AM the American Badass - and it's time for him to feel an ass-kickin' - OLD SKOOL STYLE. So I guess what I'm gettin' at - is Kurt Angle, it's time for you and me to fight - tonight -

And now, the WWF Slam of the Week - brought to you by Twix! From SmackDown! last Thursday, Tazz takes a camera to Rikishi, helping Val Venis defend the intercontinental title

Moments Ago - thank God Kurt Angle wasn't on that poot scooter!

WWF INTERCONTINENTAL CHAMPIONSHIP: RIKASHMONEY v. KANE v. BALD VENIS (by his damn self) - champion enters last, just to confuse me. Venis seems to be newly-shorn - maybe he's giving up on that combover, wot? Rikishi and Venis are going at it on the outside after we Take You Back to Last Thursday as Venis saved Stratus from a Kane chokeslam. RAW Credits help Rikishi put Venis in the ring for Kane - off the ropes, big boot, clothesline in the corner, TV-14-DLV ratings box, fat ass splash by Rikishi on Venis - Kane tries to punch Rikishi, blocked, right, superkick. Both men down - Venis slumps in the corner - crowd swells because there's nothing they love more than the stinkface - but Kane is over with an uppercut, halting him. They trade blows in the middle of the ring, Kane taking over, knee, clubbing forearm, uppercut, off the ropes, caught in a Samoan Drop. Rikishi off the rope with a drumstick drop. Kane put in the ropes, head down, Kane takes it to the mat. Clothesline flips Rikishi. Venis kicks Kane in the back of the legs, then goes outside to put Rikishi in the STEEL steps. Back in, where Kane clothesline him down. Venis with a gutshot, head to the buckle, repeated rights, into the opposite corner is reversed and Venis hits hard.

Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley catches up to her husband and asks him to please try and calm down. They'll make things right tonight. Triple H comes up smiling. "Have I got an idea for you...this is foolproof!"

Earlier Today, a limousine pulled up to WWF New York - and the Kat emerged. I DID hit the place over the weekend. I vowed not to leave until I saw Steve Blackman's entire entrance video...and now, my life is complete.

STEPHANIE ONO comes out to hit her one pose and if we're lucky, maybe she'll tilt her head to one side, too. "Chris Jericho. Y2J. I have a proposition for you. Why don't you, um, come down to this ring and, well, let's make up. I promise you I'll make it worth your while. Now...I know that Chris has said some - some not very nice things about me - but I know that he didn't mean them! And I've also said and, well, done some things that I'm not very proud of. But I have a secret. Now, Hunter might get a little bit jealous about this but, ah, at King of the Ring, when you laid that big ol' kiss on me...I kinda liked it. And I think you liked it too! So before this whole thing blows up with Triple H and you, Chris, and me, let's - let's put the past behind us. Let's...be friends. So, pucker up, Chris, and let's make up." We see Jericho on the EntertainmentTron. "Stephanie, I'm absolutely ecstatic that you feel that way - I've been thinking about nothing but that wonderful, wonderful kiss for the last two weeks, it's thrown my life absolutely upside down, to be honest, I've been waiting - I've been pining for the day when I get to taste the wine of your ruby-coloured, rose-coloured lips once agayne - I mean, I want to take your shapely, curvaceous, pulchritudanouse female form and hold it next to mine and squeeze for everything I've got and now my dreams are coming true agayne! My heart is racing, my blood is pumping, and I'm coming out there...provided I don't embarrass myself I'm gonna give you the biggest smooch you have ever, EEEEVER had in your entire life! I'm coming right out, sugar muffin, you wait right there for me!" Jericho takes off as Stephanie puckers up...the Y2J countdown hits again...we look at the ramp to see D & X where Jericho normally would be - but no Jericho. Stephanie: "Hello!" THE NEW MAN joins them at the top of the ramp as we look back on the screen to see Jericho. "Seriously, that was the most pathetic attempt at an ambush I've ever seen in my entire life, orchestrated by Triple H, the biggest jackass I've ever seen in my entire life! I mean that plan was as painfully obvious as the fact that Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley is nothing more than a filthy, dirty, disgusting, brutal, skanky, bottom-feeding trashbag ho...AND a rancid, reeking, foul-smelling, stinking piece of roadkill...Triple H, I know why you're so miserable, because you have to live with the fact that Y2J got more action from a ten second kiss with your wife than you've gotten from her in the entire ten months that you've been together! Well at Fully Loaded, Trip, if you want action, Y2J is gonna give you all the action you can handle, jerky, because now...you're still the Game...but *I* have become...the hunter." "Jericho...tonight might not be the night, but Jericho, mark my words. At Fully Loaded YOUR ASS IS MINE!"

Kevin Kelly stands with the tag team champions. Edge proclaims this decision as "totally reeking of heinosity."

Tomorrow, SmackDown! in Oakland is sold out - but check the box office for tickets released the day of the show! And look for MEEEEEEE, too!

Here's your exterior of the beautiful Shark Tank - it's really bright out because it's the 7 hour.

Exclusive footage of Mick Foley's Southeast Asia tour will be available for viewing Saturday on LiveWire!

X-Pac tells Triple H it was a stupid idea - Triple H makes some arguments and shoves him back. "How about you and I go at it?" "I ain't the Brooklyn Brawler!" Looks like these two might hook it up tonight...Road Dogg fails to make peace, so he's outta here.

EDGE (with Christian) v. ACOLYTE BRADSHAW (with Acolyte Faarooq) - I guess they'll shove this title shot all the way back to the PPV, huh? Coming up, a women's streetfight. Finish sees referee "Blind" Jack Doan too preoccupied with the shenanigans of the seconds to miss Edge brain Bradshaw with the ring bell to score the fall (3:01).

Backstage, the Hardy Boyz give Lita a final pep talk. I think. Did Jeff just dis her after she went behind the curtain?

Meanwhile, we look from Test...to Val...to Albert. "Man, why's it always me?" Albert brings her out and puts on her coat. After revealing that they're not allowed at ringside, Trish freaks out. A quick pep rally by HER stable and she's pumped up (of puffed up - like her cleavage!) enough to take off. Lawler completely blows the punchline (Test and Val saying "not a chance in hell") by hooting over it.

And now, the WWF Burn of the Week - brought to you by Stacker 2! From Heat last night, Trish Stratus gets the sweater choke on Lita.

Road Dogg tries to talk X-Pac out of his match tonight - he's gonna regret it. X-Pac don't want none of that "big family" talk. Dogg says he's outta here - wait, didn't he say that already?

TRISH

Road Dogg attempts to talk sense into Triple H and fails. Once again he promises to take off and not be a part of this - they'll regret it later, by golly!

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Earlier Today, the XFL announced that there'd be a franchise in San Jose - Jerry Mimnaugh, executive director of Spartan Stadium, says that Candlestick Park SUCKS and they'll be so much happier playing in the rain in San Jose instead of in San Francisco

During the Break, Road Dogg FINALLY made good on his threat to leave already

Tonight, RAW is WAR is brought to you by Chef Boyardee Overstuffed Ravioli, Bally Fitness, and Lorillard's Whacko Tobacco!

THE NEW MAN (with Stephanie Ono) v. X-PAC - staredown - words exchanged - shove from H - right from X-Pac, ring the bell. Here we go. Right, right, right, right, into the ropes is reversed, clothesline ducked, somersault clothesline. X-Pac making much noise. H pops up and knocks him down with a right...and stomps away. Tossed through the ropes - H follows. X-Pac pops up with a right, right, right, head to the commentary table. X-Pac puts him back in. Right, kick, H knees back, knee, gutshot by X-Pac, whip is reversed, H with a facebuster. Crowd content to ignore the match in favour of a "Stephanie swallows" chant. Is it that time of the year to proclaim DX dead once again? How the time passes. H puts his head in the turnbuckle, punches, kicks, now X-Pac punches back. Into the ropes is reversed, duck, high knee by Triple H. I bet they find a way to have NEITHER man do the job. H with a right, into the ropes is reversed, H ducks the clothesline, but not the spinning heel kick. X-Pac hits his kick trifecta in the corner - will he hit the broncobuster? Why, no, he won't. H up - but X-Pac sidesteps him and puts H through the ropes. CHRIS MONDAY JERICHO is out to stomp on Triple H...X-Pac looks to Jericho and laughs...then points to the top of the entryway where ROAD DOGG emerges, all smiles, with a sledgehammer. Tripleteam beatdown of Jericho ensues. Well, I'll be jiggered. X Factor for Jericho in the ring. Pedigree coming up...

Moments Ago, Jericho spit on Helmsley - well no WONDER he got the sledgehammer treatment.

As a bloodied Jericho is loaded into the ambulance, DX looks on and gloats. X-Pac says the beating he took was worth it.

At WWF New York, the Kat is dancing on the bar.

Shane McMahon keeps saying "deadly focus" as he and Chris Benoit are WALKING!

Meanwhile, Rock is WALKING!

What, they're gonna sneak in ANOTHER ad break? Blaah!

Commentators plug USA's "Tuesday First" airing of "Sliver."

CHRIS BENOIT (with Big Skippy) v. LA ROCA in a nontitle match - if Benoit wins tonight, we'll do it again at Fully Loaded for the strap. There's not much show left here, and Rock's entrance goes ON and ON and ON - I mean, "wow, they're really establishing a story by repeatedly showing Rock and Benoit staring at each other!" Didn't Benoit already beat this guy? What's he got left to prove? Okay, here we go. Shane attempting to distract Rock to give Benoit an opening - nope. Block, right, right, right, into the ropes, back elbow, Benoit elbows, kick, kick, into the ropes, reversed, Rock with a powerslam for 2. Right, into the opposite corner, Benoit puts up an elbow, ducks a clothesline, backdrop suplex. Put in the corner, Benoit with ten kicks. Northern Lights suplex for 2.