Black Widow
04-10-2008, 05:01 PM
Before show Fans did the "Woooo"(S) like always. Cameraman & other ring crew come out around ring.
We see the Wrestlemania 24 video package same one that aired after WM24 & during Raw (last Monday).
Lillian Garcia music & video hits and she comes out to ring in a very short skirt. We hear Tony Chimel's recorded voice say "coming to the ring your Raw Ring Announcer Lillian Garcia!" Lillian welcomes to show and says "Welcome Albany we are goanna have some matches for you that you can see exclusively on WWE.com!" Better then Theodore Long in August, when he said "Ready Albany, Georgia!"
Robbie vs. Ron Killings Ref Marty Elias.
Robbie comes out booing the crowd acting very much heelish. Ron Killings music hits and he comes out dancing. His video is Raw logo & music is him singing "What's up" very much like his TNA theme music. Killings does a lot of dancing throughout match. Robbie yells at crowd during match. Killings keeps yelling "What’s up!" to crowd and they cheer back. Killings locks up Robbie head. and he yells "I got him!" crowd laughs & cheers. Killings hits 4 moves in a row where he jumps in air and spins. Before the final kick he dances then hits in for the win. Crowd really liked him and allot of cheers. Killings acted hurt and tried to dance a little after.
Heat:
Matt & Brian Logan vs. Cryme Tyme Ref Marty Elias.Logan Brothers come out 1st with no music they pass Killings on way to ring. Both are wearing green shorts that say "Logan" on their butts. so u cant tell them apart. Cryme Tyme comes out to a big pop. the Logan brother tag in & out 1 time. CT tag in and out twice and win. Lillian was dancing to Cryme Tryme's music as they left. Ref Elias left with Logan Brothers left on entrance ramp. Match was less than 2 minutes.
Hacksaw Jim Duggan vs. Charlie Haas. Ref Chad Patton.Crowd pooped very loud for hacksaw. Crowd chanted "USA" & "Hooooooooo" with him. Hacksaw even got crowd going longer with 2x4 and USA flag. Haas came out to basically no reaction. Longest match of heat in last 1 minute & 30 of match Haas goes under ring puts on red lucha libre mask poses outside ring and Hacksaw reaches from ring to Haas outside and rips off mask. Haas mask wasn't even out for 10 seconds. Hacksaw holds mask in ground then throws in down. Haas comes in ring angry and misses hacksaw by running into turnbuckle an d Hacksaw hits 4 point stance for the win. Hacksaw leaves with American flag waving and walks around on entrance ramp to get crowd going even more. Haas leaves with his mask in hand.
Super Crazy vs. Snitsky Ref Mike Choda. Lillian danced in ring as Super Crazy comes out. She seemed very excited to say "Suppppppppppppper Crazyyyyyyy" Snitsky comes to boos. Crazy got 2 offence moves in the fell victim to a Big boot & back handle slam for the win. Snitsky does his thing where he pushes ropes down and shows people his teeth.
There was a break here of about 5 minutes.
Paul Burchill w/ Katie Lea vs. "Canadian Bulldog" DH Smith Ref Jack Doan.Burchill cuts a promo in ring saying that DH is a mutt. Saying Burchill is really a Brit while DH is Brit/Canadian and he’s, a mutt like these Americans in crowd. DH comes out with big smile on face. What's going on here any1 who watched heat last week heard announcers build him up as heel and now he’s being built up as a face! Crowd chants "USA!" DH even helps them with chant. Towards end of match. Katie is crawling on ring apron and Doan tries to get her off and DH gets his leg taken out by Birchill. Paul then uses his finisher slamming DH's face into mat by his foot for the win. Katie gets in ring. Burchill & her hug. Katie is twirling her hair as if Paul's turning her on. Paul says "Whatever Katie wants Katie gets” they leave then pose again on stage. DH still laying motionless in ring. After Paul/Katie leave, Doan touches DH and they leave to the left of stage.
Lilian tells us we are about to go live on USA (during Law & Order) and tells every1 to get their signs and to yell and be heard. That you are at the place to be on Monday nights at Raw! After that. We have a WWE/Troops Christmas video. Jim Ross then comes out followed by the King they all shook hands with every1 surrounding ring. Lillian sang the National Anthem with fireworks on their lights on Tron. Lillian was facing the Cameras to do National Anthem while the USA flag was directly opposite her in the arena. Lillian did a awesome job singing as she always does.
Crew sets up pyro on stage. William Regal's music its and he’s comes down to ring. Raw's video airs, as that goes, 2 WWE crew guy come running out and fix the pyro 3 times! Running back & forth by the time the song is about to end the one guy goes running off and 5 seconds later we have the Pyro go off.
After opening raw segment, they pull JBL's limo to the back. They air a Raw flashback promoting the Raw DVD.
the Umaga/Venis match killed the crowd excitement they had built up during Heat. After Umaga wins. He stand looks at entrance stage and keeps looking at Venis then the stage. The replays of Umaga/Venis air and he stands and watch’s it. After it ends he goes back to being Umaga and storms out of ring. Venis leaves limping.
We have video of Raw Flashback with McMahon/Austin in hospital. Lillian laughs watching this and even covers her mouth with hand. I wonder how many times she has seen this clip, but they promoted the Raw DVD again. During this WWE crew runs out with Melina's red carpet and Pazzari.
After Diva tag match. Mickie gets out of Ring but Ref Jack Doan grabs her and tells her something and she makes a facial expression saying "Oh" and gets back into ring and she grabs Ashley and they do the pose leaving ring together.
Todd Grisham comes out and hosts "Sign time" and has everyone show their signs. Funny parts were Grisham saying to all the little girls holding Cena signs "I think your too young" another girl holding a sign saying she loves HHH, Grisham said "please be 18." a lady then had a sign saying "HBK marry me." and Grisham read it and says "I don’t think so." Grisham thanks us and goes to back.
After Murdoch/Cade/London/Kendrick, Lillian said "your winner is Lance Cade & Trevor Murdoch!" Lillian & Ring bell guy look to be in dispute over who won. Kendrick yells at Lillian from ring then after ref tells them their off air they both go over to Lillian, laughing holding their hands in the air. Murdoch/Cade are going up ramp and Murdoch walks not looking towards crowd giving the crowd the middle finger and then again as he goes backstage. London/Kendrick then leave.
Before 1st handicapped match. They air another Raw Flashback called "Slap happy" showing a ton of slaps during Raw history. Again promoting the Raw DVD. Ref Mike Choda comes out and Lillian is watching the video and Choda laughs and they talk & laugh. then Lillian hoped out of ring not using steps and talked to ring bell guy then climbed back into ring. William Regal comes out for the match. JBL then Orton comes out for match. As JBL is about to get to ring, Orton comes out and then HHH music hits and he has a nice long entrance (as you were back on TV).
After match and after Cena came out, they each leave 1 by 1. Lillian Garcia gets back in ring. Todd Grisham comes back out to host the Kiss Cam. They show about 12 "couples" Even the couple sitting right in front of me. Funny parts were 2 men who looked at each other then just looked at camera with no reaction. then 2 12-14 yr old boys, a fat kid & a kid with face painted like the "insane Clown Posse" the fat kid keeps saying "no way! no way" Grisham says "we all know u2 are going to kiss when u get home." Lillian laughs a lot. Then showing 2 older male teenagers and the one with lots of hair, gives the middle finger to camera, and the camera quickly swoops away. Grisham thanks everyone again and goes to back.
When the Cryme Tyme video aired on screen, Lillian laughed about it as it went. the crowed loved CT again laughing a lot of the funny bit they did.
During the Beth/Maria match you could clearly see Elias ask Maria if she was ok and, Maria say something then shake her head then go back to acting out of it. After match Beth leaves and Elais say something to Maria and they leave.
Another WWE/Troops Christmas as they ran out to set the Highlight reel. After that they tore it down quicker then they set it up. and played HBK;s music as he left, then Y2J's, music JBL & HHH came out as quick as the Orton/JBL; came out early one after another. When the Orton/Regal vid aired in ring, JBL/HHH paid no action to it instead walking around in ring. Cena came out then, the crowd cheered then after he started to make way to ring the boos became louder than the cheers.
After match the WWE logo went away on screen and HHH walked up ramp, shaking hands with fans and HHH/Orton attacked Cena in ring. HHH turned around and watched then came running to ring and, JBL/Orton ran to back. HHH then went out of ring and got chair looked to hit Cena with it and crowd cheered for him to do so but he threw chair out of ring and went 1/2 thru ropes then looked at crowd and turned around and as Cena got up hit him with the pedigree then went to back.
Overall Awesome show! 12 matches overall with a few segments in between set a perfect show for fans! the shows WWE does in Albany always rock. and at least this year we dint have Mr. McMahon come out at end and says I'm never coming back to Albany!, as McMahon did almost every year since Hogan return to SD! on 1/21/04.
Biggest Pops:
1. Triple H
2. Chris Jericho
3. John Cena
4. Cryme Tyme
5. Hacksaw Jim Duggan
6 (tie). Batista & HBK
8. Ron Killings
9. Matt Hardy (during WM24 video) & Jeff Hardy (during WWE/Troops video)
10(tie). Lillian Garcia & Ric Flair (during WM24 video)
Biggest Boos:
1. Randy Orton
2. JBL
3. Willaim Regal
4. John Cena
5. Batista (after Highlight reel)
6. Paul Burchill
7. Beth Phoenix
8. Snitsky
9. Murdoch/Cade
10. Robbie
Fans asleep for:
1.Umaga/Venis
2.Raw flashbacks
Other off air notes:
Lillian kept waving and blowing kisses to fans all night.
The big WWE Security guy had to keep telling the Times Union Security to not stand around and to try 2 keep the fans back.
Two WWE guys were running and grabbing signs during Highlight reel & then Main Event, HHH threw 3 water bottles to crowd, 1 bottle each entrance, each at a different spot.
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We see the Wrestlemania 24 video package same one that aired after WM24 & during Raw (last Monday).
Lillian Garcia music & video hits and she comes out to ring in a very short skirt. We hear Tony Chimel's recorded voice say "coming to the ring your Raw Ring Announcer Lillian Garcia!" Lillian welcomes to show and says "Welcome Albany we are goanna have some matches for you that you can see exclusively on WWE.com!" Better then Theodore Long in August, when he said "Ready Albany, Georgia!"
Robbie vs. Ron Killings Ref Marty Elias.
Robbie comes out booing the crowd acting very much heelish. Ron Killings music hits and he comes out dancing. His video is Raw logo & music is him singing "What's up" very much like his TNA theme music. Killings does a lot of dancing throughout match. Robbie yells at crowd during match. Killings keeps yelling "What’s up!" to crowd and they cheer back. Killings locks up Robbie head. and he yells "I got him!" crowd laughs & cheers. Killings hits 4 moves in a row where he jumps in air and spins. Before the final kick he dances then hits in for the win. Crowd really liked him and allot of cheers. Killings acted hurt and tried to dance a little after.
Heat:
Matt & Brian Logan vs. Cryme Tyme Ref Marty Elias.Logan Brothers come out 1st with no music they pass Killings on way to ring. Both are wearing green shorts that say "Logan" on their butts. so u cant tell them apart. Cryme Tyme comes out to a big pop. the Logan brother tag in & out 1 time. CT tag in and out twice and win. Lillian was dancing to Cryme Tryme's music as they left. Ref Elias left with Logan Brothers left on entrance ramp. Match was less than 2 minutes.
Hacksaw Jim Duggan vs. Charlie Haas. Ref Chad Patton.Crowd pooped very loud for hacksaw. Crowd chanted "USA" & "Hooooooooo" with him. Hacksaw even got crowd going longer with 2x4 and USA flag. Haas came out to basically no reaction. Longest match of heat in last 1 minute & 30 of match Haas goes under ring puts on red lucha libre mask poses outside ring and Hacksaw reaches from ring to Haas outside and rips off mask. Haas mask wasn't even out for 10 seconds. Hacksaw holds mask in ground then throws in down. Haas comes in ring angry and misses hacksaw by running into turnbuckle an d Hacksaw hits 4 point stance for the win. Hacksaw leaves with American flag waving and walks around on entrance ramp to get crowd going even more. Haas leaves with his mask in hand.
Super Crazy vs. Snitsky Ref Mike Choda. Lillian danced in ring as Super Crazy comes out. She seemed very excited to say "Suppppppppppppper Crazyyyyyyy" Snitsky comes to boos. Crazy got 2 offence moves in the fell victim to a Big boot & back handle slam for the win. Snitsky does his thing where he pushes ropes down and shows people his teeth.
There was a break here of about 5 minutes.
Paul Burchill w/ Katie Lea vs. "Canadian Bulldog" DH Smith Ref Jack Doan.Burchill cuts a promo in ring saying that DH is a mutt. Saying Burchill is really a Brit while DH is Brit/Canadian and he’s, a mutt like these Americans in crowd. DH comes out with big smile on face. What's going on here any1 who watched heat last week heard announcers build him up as heel and now he’s being built up as a face! Crowd chants "USA!" DH even helps them with chant. Towards end of match. Katie is crawling on ring apron and Doan tries to get her off and DH gets his leg taken out by Birchill. Paul then uses his finisher slamming DH's face into mat by his foot for the win. Katie gets in ring. Burchill & her hug. Katie is twirling her hair as if Paul's turning her on. Paul says "Whatever Katie wants Katie gets” they leave then pose again on stage. DH still laying motionless in ring. After Paul/Katie leave, Doan touches DH and they leave to the left of stage.
Lilian tells us we are about to go live on USA (during Law & Order) and tells every1 to get their signs and to yell and be heard. That you are at the place to be on Monday nights at Raw! After that. We have a WWE/Troops Christmas video. Jim Ross then comes out followed by the King they all shook hands with every1 surrounding ring. Lillian sang the National Anthem with fireworks on their lights on Tron. Lillian was facing the Cameras to do National Anthem while the USA flag was directly opposite her in the arena. Lillian did a awesome job singing as she always does.
Crew sets up pyro on stage. William Regal's music its and he’s comes down to ring. Raw's video airs, as that goes, 2 WWE crew guy come running out and fix the pyro 3 times! Running back & forth by the time the song is about to end the one guy goes running off and 5 seconds later we have the Pyro go off.
After opening raw segment, they pull JBL's limo to the back. They air a Raw flashback promoting the Raw DVD.
the Umaga/Venis match killed the crowd excitement they had built up during Heat. After Umaga wins. He stand looks at entrance stage and keeps looking at Venis then the stage. The replays of Umaga/Venis air and he stands and watch’s it. After it ends he goes back to being Umaga and storms out of ring. Venis leaves limping.
We have video of Raw Flashback with McMahon/Austin in hospital. Lillian laughs watching this and even covers her mouth with hand. I wonder how many times she has seen this clip, but they promoted the Raw DVD again. During this WWE crew runs out with Melina's red carpet and Pazzari.
After Diva tag match. Mickie gets out of Ring but Ref Jack Doan grabs her and tells her something and she makes a facial expression saying "Oh" and gets back into ring and she grabs Ashley and they do the pose leaving ring together.
Todd Grisham comes out and hosts "Sign time" and has everyone show their signs. Funny parts were Grisham saying to all the little girls holding Cena signs "I think your too young" another girl holding a sign saying she loves HHH, Grisham said "please be 18." a lady then had a sign saying "HBK marry me." and Grisham read it and says "I don’t think so." Grisham thanks us and goes to back.
After Murdoch/Cade/London/Kendrick, Lillian said "your winner is Lance Cade & Trevor Murdoch!" Lillian & Ring bell guy look to be in dispute over who won. Kendrick yells at Lillian from ring then after ref tells them their off air they both go over to Lillian, laughing holding their hands in the air. Murdoch/Cade are going up ramp and Murdoch walks not looking towards crowd giving the crowd the middle finger and then again as he goes backstage. London/Kendrick then leave.
Before 1st handicapped match. They air another Raw Flashback called "Slap happy" showing a ton of slaps during Raw history. Again promoting the Raw DVD. Ref Mike Choda comes out and Lillian is watching the video and Choda laughs and they talk & laugh. then Lillian hoped out of ring not using steps and talked to ring bell guy then climbed back into ring. William Regal comes out for the match. JBL then Orton comes out for match. As JBL is about to get to ring, Orton comes out and then HHH music hits and he has a nice long entrance (as you were back on TV).
After match and after Cena came out, they each leave 1 by 1. Lillian Garcia gets back in ring. Todd Grisham comes back out to host the Kiss Cam. They show about 12 "couples" Even the couple sitting right in front of me. Funny parts were 2 men who looked at each other then just looked at camera with no reaction. then 2 12-14 yr old boys, a fat kid & a kid with face painted like the "insane Clown Posse" the fat kid keeps saying "no way! no way" Grisham says "we all know u2 are going to kiss when u get home." Lillian laughs a lot. Then showing 2 older male teenagers and the one with lots of hair, gives the middle finger to camera, and the camera quickly swoops away. Grisham thanks everyone again and goes to back.
When the Cryme Tyme video aired on screen, Lillian laughed about it as it went. the crowed loved CT again laughing a lot of the funny bit they did.
During the Beth/Maria match you could clearly see Elias ask Maria if she was ok and, Maria say something then shake her head then go back to acting out of it. After match Beth leaves and Elais say something to Maria and they leave.
Another WWE/Troops Christmas as they ran out to set the Highlight reel. After that they tore it down quicker then they set it up. and played HBK;s music as he left, then Y2J's, music JBL & HHH came out as quick as the Orton/JBL; came out early one after another. When the Orton/Regal vid aired in ring, JBL/HHH paid no action to it instead walking around in ring. Cena came out then, the crowd cheered then after he started to make way to ring the boos became louder than the cheers.
After match the WWE logo went away on screen and HHH walked up ramp, shaking hands with fans and HHH/Orton attacked Cena in ring. HHH turned around and watched then came running to ring and, JBL/Orton ran to back. HHH then went out of ring and got chair looked to hit Cena with it and crowd cheered for him to do so but he threw chair out of ring and went 1/2 thru ropes then looked at crowd and turned around and as Cena got up hit him with the pedigree then went to back.
Overall Awesome show! 12 matches overall with a few segments in between set a perfect show for fans! the shows WWE does in Albany always rock. and at least this year we dint have Mr. McMahon come out at end and says I'm never coming back to Albany!, as McMahon did almost every year since Hogan return to SD! on 1/21/04.
Biggest Pops:
1. Triple H
2. Chris Jericho
3. John Cena
4. Cryme Tyme
5. Hacksaw Jim Duggan
6 (tie). Batista & HBK
8. Ron Killings
9. Matt Hardy (during WM24 video) & Jeff Hardy (during WWE/Troops video)
10(tie). Lillian Garcia & Ric Flair (during WM24 video)
Biggest Boos:
1. Randy Orton
2. JBL
3. Willaim Regal
4. John Cena
5. Batista (after Highlight reel)
6. Paul Burchill
7. Beth Phoenix
8. Snitsky
9. Murdoch/Cade
10. Robbie
Fans asleep for:
1.Umaga/Venis
2.Raw flashbacks
Other off air notes:
Lillian kept waving and blowing kisses to fans all night.
The big WWE Security guy had to keep telling the Times Union Security to not stand around and to try 2 keep the fans back.
Two WWE guys were running and grabbing signs during Highlight reel & then Main Event, HHH threw 3 water bottles to crowd, 1 bottle each entrance, each at a different spot.
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