On This Day: September 15, 2003 – Monday Night Raw: Goldberg’s Funeral
Monday Night Raw
Date: September 15, 2003
Location: Carolina Coliseum, Columbia, South Carolina
Commentators: Jim Ross, Jerry Lawler
Rob Van Dam vs. Chris Jericho
Christian tries to get in a cheap shot but gets kicked down instead. Jericho gets dumped to the floor and taken out by a dive as we take a fast break. Back with Van Dam hitting a forearm and the cartwheel moonsault for two. A standing rana (called a moonsault by JR for some reason) gets two for Van Dam so he goes up, only to be shoved off the top by Christian.
Austin makes it a triple threat. You know, LIKE EVERY OTHER TRIPLE THREAT.
Video of Goldberg beating Hogan on Nitro.
Spike Dudley vs. Rob Conway
Spike is in a neckbrace and his brothers fight the other members of La Resistance into the crowd. Conway hits a neckbreaker and wins in about 20 seconds.
Post match Conway powerbombs Spike through a table before the Dudleys make the save. The Dudleys would win the tag titles Sunday in a handicap tables match.
Victoria vs. Fabulous Moolah
Victoria hits both Moolah and Mae, but the distraction of Mae lets Moolah roll her up in thirty seconds. That would be two matches that combined to last less than 60 seconds.
Goldust/Lance Storm vs. Mark Henry/Rodney Mack
Hurricane tries to teach Rosey to fly. Rosey gets a cab instead.
Molly and Gail Kim say their handicap match tonight with Trish is now No Holds Barred. Sure why not.
Gail Kim/Molly Holly vs. Trish Stratus
Rating: F. When you hear the words “no holds barred”, you expect more than a generic bad handicap match. The only thing good about this was the girls all looking good, which was the case for most Divas matches back in the day. This division needed a shot in the arm and it needed one in a hurry.
Test vs. Val Venis
Steiner beats up Test post match but Test gets Stacy before he leaves.
Lawler comes out and asks to fight Snow right now. The match is after a break.
Al Snow vs. Jerry Lawler
Coach and JR are on commentary here as Lawler controls with some very basic stuff. They slug it out and King hits a DDT for two. Snow comes back with a slam but a suplex is countered into a small package for the pin. This was the last match of the show people. This is the main event. Let that sink in.
Coach hits JR before bailing.
Austin runs into Evolution and says HHH is having the Goldberg party by himself.
Overall Rating: F. Despite that TEN MINUTE closing segment, I have zero desire to see either the main event or any of the matches on the show. There are two matches on this show that were long enough to rate: one ended in a draw and one was a no holds barred match that had nothing out of the ordinary. Other than that you have all kinds of stuff like Moolah and Test and the Spike match. Horrible show here and I want nothing to do with Unforgiven or Raw in 2003. Naturally the whole year is on my schedule.
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