Monday Night Raw – December 19, 2005: Tribute to the Troops 2005: Simple and Fun

Monday Night Raw
Date: December 19, 2005
Location: Bagram Air Force Base, Bagram, Afghanistan
Commentators: Joey Styles, Jerry Lawler

This is a special episode of Raw, not a regular special if that makes sense. Also as usual with these shows, the ratings are going to be much lighter.

We open with the soldiers running up to meet the WWE guys.

Video on how awesome WWE is for doing this.

Video on WWE landing in Germany for a pit stop.

Big Show vs. Carlito

Carlito pounds away as well as he can but jumps into a chokeslam for the pin. This barely lasted a minute.

Video on troops detonating landmines.

Good Santa vs. Bad Santa

We see some clips of a press conference with Cena and Trish answering some questions.

Video on MSNBC being in Afghanistan as well.

Shelton Benjamin vs. Snitsky

John Cena vs. Chris Masters

Video on troops missing their families.

Intercontinental Title: Ric Flair vs. Jonathan Coachman

Video on the troops being heroes.

Music video on the WWE people meeting the troops.

Maria almost walks into a bomb shelter.

Maria/Candace Michelle vs. Trish Stratus/Ashley Massaro

Rating: A. This was about getting hot women in small outfits for the troops. It worked.

The Divas celebrate with the troops post match.

Video on the WWE people meeting the troops again.

HHH vs. Shawn Michaels

Back from a break with Shawn being backdropped out to the floor. HHH tries a Pedigree on the outside but gets backdropped down instead. Shawn blasts HHH in the face with a sandbag and pounds away even more. HHH comes back with a gas can to the head, giving off a big THUD. They slug it out in the aisle and head back in where HHH is thrown over the corner and right back to the floor.

A final music video ends things.

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