Monday Night Raw – May 6, 2002: Beyond Free Fall
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Night Raw
Date: May 6, 2002
Location: Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, Connecticut
Commentators: Jim Ross, Jerry Lawler
Jazz throws her around with some butterfly suplexes for two, followed by the double chickenwing facebuster to send Lawler into hysterics. A Chick Kick and Stratusfaction has the champ beaten but Richards makes another save by superkicking Trish down to give Jazz the pin.
Bubba Ray Dudley with a Bubba Bomb, Raven with the Raven Effect, Justin Credible with a superkick, Crash Holly with a missile dropkick, Bubba with a trashcan shot and Trish stealing the title and a blinded Bubba (fire extinguisher) powerbombing Trish through a table so Richards can steal the pin gives us six Hardcore Title changes in about two minutes because old jokes are funnier when you do them for the third time in less than two months. Bubba takes Trish to the back because that makes up for powerbombing her through a table.
European Title: William Regal vs. Spike Dudley
Flair rants to Arn Anderson in a nothing segment.
We look at Planet Stasiak costing Brock Lesnar and himself a tag match at Insurrextion over the weekend.
Undertaker arrives and assigns someone to watch his bike.
The NWO is standing near the entrance, seemingly waiting on somebody.
Planet Stasiak vs. Brock Lesnar
Brock fires off the shoulders in the corner to start as we get the GOLDBERG chants. The spinebuster looks to finish but Heyman wants an example made. An F5 and a boot on the chest is enough for the easy pin. Another squash.
Hogan finally leaves the bike on the ramp and runs (work with me here) after Undertaker as we cut to the commentators. You can hear the engine revving as Hogan is apparently still out there trying to get the thing to work. Well done by JR and King to not die of laughter here. The chase is FINALLY on with Hogan driving the bike around backstage (had to do it as the pre-tape shows him on the bike backstage). He changes pace a bit by driving around even more, all while shouting for Undertaker.
Rob Van Dam/Jeff Hardy vs. Booker T./Eddie Guerrero
NWO vs. Ric Flair/Bradshaw/Steve Austin
Rating: D-. The length here is the big problem as this went on for over fifteen minutes and set up the most obvious ending they could have gone with after eliminating every other possible option. Taking out the fact that Nash was just a decoy and what else could it have been other than Flair turning heel? It makes sense, but it was really tiresome having to sit through the APA hat/Kane mask stuff earlier. Just WAY too long here though and it really dragged things down even further than they were before.
Raw has had six shows since the Brand Split. Here are the main event matches/segments which go along with Hogan/HHH as World Champion:
Kane vs. X-Pac/Austin contract signing
Austin vs. Hall
Austin/Bradshaw vs. NWO/Undertaker
Austin/Big Show vs. NWO
Hogan vs. Regal/Undertaker beats Hogan down
Austin/Bradshaw/Flair vs. NWO
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