RAW IS SEF 37 {10/28/02}

[Taylor Andrews]

October 28th, 2002

Pyros shoot off as Across The Nation by Union Underground plays and Raw kicks off live from the sold out Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, MI! Jim Ross and Jerry "The King" Lawler begisn the show from near the stage at the announce position!

Jr: Hello everybody and welcome to raw! I am jim ross alongside jerry the king lawler and we have a great show for you tonight!

King: Yes we do! Some good matches are signed for tonight!

Jr: There certainly are! Five titles are on the line including the world title which xanthus has a shot at! That kid is doing great here!

King: True, he is, but he's facing mack! He'll lose, macks too good!

Jr: Mack is good, but Its gonna be close! We can't forget about the womens tag title match, plus the ic title will be on the line!

King: Yea and svd is defending both is titles tonight! That should be interesting to see if he can keep both titles!

Jr: Yes it should! Tonight we also see the debut of velzian and this msytery man who seems a lil familiar and strange! Anyways lets get started with the show!

United States Title

Details: Svd starts off dominating hayabusa with his power and size! Hayabusa soon fights back and takes down svd a few times with some big moves from the top rope! They fight back and forth, taking it outside at one point and fight iin the crowd! After throwing hayabusa into the steps, he rolls him in the ring and sets him up for the simulator, but hayabusa kicks him in the gut, then hits svd with a piledriver and goes up top, nailing the phoenix splash to win the match! Afterwards both men shake hands!

Winner: Hayabusa via Pinfall

Jr: That was a good match and what a show of respect between the two men!

King: Yea, that was cool!

Singles Match

Details: The match is declared a draw when neither man shows up!

Winner: Draw

Jr: Well, I guess randy or dan didn't want to be here!

King: Yea, too bad, now we can't see gemini!

Hardcore Title

Details: Ace begins by taking strife down with some big rights and hits him with a trash can and a few other weapons as well! He goes to hit strife with a chair, but strife drop toe holds him, making ace bounce his head off the chair! Strife then starts beating on ace with any weapons he can find! Ace however comes back and looks to put strife away with the westsidazs edge, but daddy mack runs out as ace has strife up and nails ace with da shows ova, laying him out! Strife rolls over, draping his arm across ace and wins the match and the title! Mack helps him up and out of the ring!

Winner: Strife via Pinfall

Jr: What the hell was that? First strife helps mack beat the rock, then we heard from strife earlier on about it, now this!

King: Hey, there just helping each other out and making sure each others matches are fair!

Singles Match

Details: Both men start off with a lock up and struggle for a while, breaking a couple times, then finally, the man shoves velzian back into the corner! Velzian looks at the man with a suprised look, then charges at him, but the man ducks and nails a clothesline to velzians back, taking him down! He jumps on velzian, punching him in the head, then picks him up and whips him into the ropes, grabs velzian in a headlock, but velzian backdrops him and then starts working on the man! He hits him with some good mat moves! The man comes back and executes some equally as good moves on velzian! They go back and forth for quite a while, giving a great match, even trading belly to belly suplexes to each other! Velzian nails a clothesline, knocking the man down, then locks him in the velzian recliner, stretching back, locking it all in! The man screams and struggles to get out and almost looks ready to give it up, but starts shaking, then make sit to his feet with velzian on his back and then falls backwards, breaking the hold! They both make it up, the man holding his back a lil! Velzian starts punching him and the man responds! They slug it out for a bit, then the man knees velzian in the gut and lifts him up hitting a jumping powerbomb out of nowhere and pins to win the match!

Winner: Mystery Man via Pinfall

Jr: Wow, that was a good match by both men! That mystery man is good!

King: Yea he is, but so his velzian! He should get a rematch too!

Womens Tag Team Titles

Details: The match starts out with lita of course in the ring and no trish! Julie starts off against lita! The two trade punches, then julie takes down lita with a ddt and tags out to kaci who comes in and hits some quick moves on lita! Lita fights back and puts down kaci a few times for some near falls, but kaci won't stay down! Julie comes back in and takes it to lita who takes it to julie as well! They both hit each other with some high impact moves! At one point when kaci gets back in, lita hits her with the moonsault and almost wins it, but julie flies off the t/b with an elbow drop to litas back! Julie and kaci double team lita a bit! Julie hits a powerbomb on lita and gets out of the ring as kaci goes up top and hits paradise to win it for her team!

Winner: Julie&Kaci via Pinfall

Jr: That was a great match! Those women did good tonight and lita really showed she was tough by going in alone!

King: yea she did, but hse was no match for julie one on one, let alone against julie and kaci!

Intercontinental Title

Details: Svd charges after jericho and takes control of him early on with some big rights and uppercuts! He hits jericho with a side buster and flying clothesline, then tries for the simulator, but jericho distracts the ref and kicks svd in the nuts, then runs off the ropes and takes down svd with a flying forearm smash! Jericho starts punching away at svd, but gets shoved back! Svd rusn off the ropes and tries nailing a big boot, but jericho sidesteps him and there ref gets hit! Svd ends up hitting the simulator on jericho and has him pinned, but the ref is still out! He tries waking him up and meantime, jericho slips out and grabs a chair, bringing it in and nailing svd in the back, then gets on the second t/b and comes off, nailing svd in the head, laying him out! Jericho jumps off the second rope and hits the lionsault and pins him! The ref crawls over and counts the fall and jericho wins!

Winner: Chris Jericho via Pinfall

Jr: What?! Jericho won it that way! That is not fair!

King: Hey, jericho didn't cheat, he was just using everything to his advantage!

World Heavyweight Title

Details: Mack starts off taking down xanthus early and begins working him over with some punches and well executed moves! Xanthus fights back and takes down mack a few times with some high moves! Mack reels a bit from it, but stays in it and the two go back and forth! Outiside the ring, mack hits a big piledriver to xanthus on the steel steps, then rolls him in the ring and climbs the t/b's hitting a frog splash and pins, but only gets two! He picks up xanthus and tries for a powerbomb, but gets a hurrcanrana by xanthus, then rolled up a few times, but doesn't stay down! Xanthus ends up hitting the flowing ddt, but mack kicks out and soon hits the mack attack on xanthus! They then both get up and mack nails da shows ova on xanthus, but before he can pin him, the mystery man runs out through the crowd and jumps in the ring! He runs at mack, but mack ducks and dropkicks the man to the outside! Xanthus nails mack from behind and whips him into the ropes, but mack nails him with da shows ova! Julie then walks down the ramp and distracts the ref as the man jumps in with a sledgehammer and hits mack in the back, then as he is on his knees, the man swings and nails amkc in the head, busting him open and laying him out! He jumps out as julie backs off and the ref turns around to see xanthus crawl over and cover mack to win the match! Afterwards, xanthus is handed the title and he just looks at it wiht a smile and makes it up, raising the title in the air, then the man gets in, holds xanthus's hand up, but suddenly hits him with a hard clothesline! He then picks up mack, sets him for a powerbomb, but hooks his arms and drives his head straight down, landing on his knees! The man then grabs xanthus and lifts him up, hitting him with a jumping powerbomb on to mack! Julie is now in the ring, looking on with a evil smile! The man just stares out at the crowd, gets a mic and says!

Man: F'ck you mack, f'ck you xanthus, f'ck all you boys in the back, f'ck this town and f'ck all of you assholes, I am back and ready to kill sef!

The man then drops the mic and rips off his mask to reveal none other than viper! The crowd looks on in shock as julie stands by him, takes his hand as they raise them in the air, viper holding up the world title as raw goes off the air!

Winner: Xanthus via Pinfall

Jr: Oh my god! Viper is back! The mystery man was viper all along!

King: This is weird jr, whats viper doing back? And he cost mack the title as well!

Jr: I don't know know what hes back for, but I am sure mack will have something to say! Well folks, I am sure your all as shocked as us and we hope to hear from viper soon, goodnight and we'll see ya next week!