Monday Night Raw – February 10, 2003: Sacre Bleu What A Waste Of My Time
Monday Night Raw
Date: February 10, 2003
Location: Staples Center, Los Angeles, California
Commentators: Jim Ross, Jerry Lawler
Theme song.
Evolution arrives.
Christian vs. Test
Post match Christian gets in a cheap shot while Test is talking to Stacy. Christian goes after Stacy but Jeff Hardy of all people makes the save, despite teasing a heel turn for awhile now.
JR is on the phone with someone and trying to get hold of Austin.
We look back and Booker and Goldust splitting after losing their tag title shot last week. This continues to make no sense given how hot they were as a team, but nothing made sense on Raw in 2003. Goldust also got electrocuted by Evolution after the loss, turning him into an epileptic.
Jazz vs. Molly Holly
Rating: C-. The match was nothing great but Jazz looked awesome out there. Yeah I actually said that. We never really got a good submission master in the Divas division so this was a nice change of pace. Unfortunately Jazz had the personality of a slug so she never went anywhere.
Jazz beats up Molly again post match with the double chickenwing and another STF.
Kane/Rob Van Dam vs. 3 Minute Warning
Vince arrives and wants to know why JR is in the parking garage.
Regal and Storm suck up to Vince in hopes of getting the GM spot. Vince promises to name a new GM tonight.
Chief Morely vs. Dudley Boys
The Dudleys put Morely through a table because they can.
Tommy Dreamer vs. Batista
Spear, Batista Bomb, pin.
Evolution comes in for the beatdown but Booker comes in for the save. He gets beaten down as well but Scott Steiner makes the real save.
Jeff Hardy and Shawn have a moment in the back after Shawn kicked his head off last week.
Chris Jericho vs. Jeff Hardy
This HAS to get some time right? Jericho takes him down with a headlock to start but Jeff fights up with some right hands to the head. A headscissors gets two on Chris but Jericho throws him out to the floor. Jericho does the Hogan hand to the ear but misses a springboard dive, allowing Jeff to score with a not great looking Asai Moonsault. A whip into the steps gets two for Hardy and he dropkicks Jericho out of the air to keep control.
Overall Rating: F. This might have been the least important show I can remember in my entire career of reviewing these things. We spent the entire night building up an angle, only to have the whole thing be rendered pointless at the end. On top of that, the matches SUCKED and nothing of note happened as a result of any of them. Horrible show with no redeeming value at all.
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