Live Feed Mania – WWF Monday Night Raw 11/13/00

WWF @ Columbus, OH – Nationwide Arena – November 13, 2000 -13,284 (sell out)

Time for more live footage from a Raw taping but with the actual show included this time! It’s the week before Survivor Series 2000, let’s see if anything happens.

Dark Match!

Mark Henry vs. ???

Henry blindsides the nameless bald white guy as he enters the ring as Henry is feeling it tonight. Unknown guy lands a crossbody off the second rope before Henry slams the forgotten one but breaks up his own pin. Mystery man hesitates running so Henry blasts him but misses a wild back senton off the second rope. From Henry? Wow. Bald dude backdrops a crazed Henry for the hell of it before The World’s Strongest Man converts a Frankensteiner into a powerbomb to end it. There was no match audio but crowd seemed to enjoy a motivated bump-filled Henry match.

Fink introduces the commentators for Jakked & Metal: Jonathan Coachman, Michael Cole, Tom Prichard & Michael Hayes.

Cole: Can you take the heat?
Prichard: I’ve got nothing but heat.

Al Snow vs. Albert (w/ Trish Stratus)

Aired on Jakked 11/18/2000

Al’s local to the area so the crowd love him. Or at least his prop. Albert is wearing a custom-made T & APA shirt, oh I remember that. They were responsible for taking APA off TV for a bit and then took their jobs in the mean time. The story was more memorable than the blow-off. Albert batters Al with big man moves and even busts out of a giant swing. Al continues to wrestle like he’s Sky Low Low before running outside to chase Trish, distracting him long enough to take a clothesline from Big A. Crowd chants that Albert sucks which is true because Al counters a powerbomb into a Frankensteiner for the win at 3:48. At least it was better than Wrestlemania 2000.

Albert Baldo Bombs Al afterwards and then Trish leaves a T & APA card on top of his corpse while Cole yells “a subliminal message!”

Too Cool (Grandmaster Sexay & Scotty 2 Hotty) vs. Sho Funaki & Just Joe

Aired on Jakked 11/18/2000

Wow they really teamed Just Joe up with everyone on the roster on these C-Shows huh? Scotty lands a lovely T-Bone Suplex onto Funaki before moonwalking to the corner to tag in his buddy. Sexay dismantles both lads before Hotty lands head-over-tit on the outside when the top rope is pulled down. Joe lands a clothesline then jumps around the ring yelling “Oh My God!” No one reacts. Funaki lands some suplexes before the ref tells him to go home. Racist. Sexay tags in to powerbomb Funaki to allow Hotty to land the W-O-R-M on Joe before a Hip Hop Drop ends a perfectly acceptable hot opening match at 4:48. Nothing else to add other than appreciating being reminded how crazy hot Too Cool were in 2000.

Cole and Lawler get their lines ready as Vince is adamant about not mentioning that Rikishi is here tonight. After debating how they should say it, Lawler points out “ah it’s only a cut-in, no-one’s listening!” J.R. explains what Martial Law is to Lawler (“it’s kind of a detective show with a rowdy Asian”) and we start the show.

Actually we get the audio of the pre-tape of Rikishi attacking The Rock backstage as we still have ten minutes before the show starts.

Ah we get the Boomer Sooner song and now the commentators head out. So the crowd just waits around for Martial Law to finish? Understandable, it was a fun show. Lilian Garcia gets everyone hyped and now the show starts.

Raw is War

WWF Champion Kurt Angle starts us off as J.R. reminds us he’s facing The Undertaker this Sunday. Oh god, that match. Kurt reminds us he’s the “most fighting-est” champion in history which is why he challenged Undi. Kurt uses air quotes when he calls him the “American Bad Ass” as we know Kurt would never curse. Kurt says he’ll prove Undi is both “Bad” and “Ass” and says he is going to face someone who dared to challenge Kurt with one arm tied behind his back and it’s…oh!

WWF World Heavyweight Title

Kurt Angle vs. Crash Holly (w/ Molly Holly)

Sure enough, Crash has his arm tied up. J.R. points out Crash came very close on Heat to beating Kurt (doubt.jpg) but Crash wants this stipulation cos Kurt delivered an Angle Slam to Molly.

Kurt easily manhandles Elroy with Fireman’s Carries as the crowd aren’t raving yet cos they must not have watched Heat. What’s wrong with them? Crash removes the tie so he can land two punches on Kurt before Angle starts suplexing him around the place. Kurt runs the ropes and somehow bonks into Molly which results in a close kick out that the crowd were ready for. Kurt then flapjacks Crash into an Ankle Lock for the insta-tap at 2:55.

Kurt is so happy with getting a clean victory on TV that he gets a chair so he can attack Crash, which results in Hardcore Holly running out to a giant reaction (really) before E & C even the odds. So here comes Your Dad The Undertaker to throw the Canadians out. Kurt smacks him in the face which Undi’ grins at, causing Kurt to bravely run away. Well Kurt got to look dominant for a few seconds.

T & APA argue about who gets to team with Kane tonight. Trish decides to flip a coin with Test picking tails.

Albert: Why do I have to have heads?
Test: Think about it, yours is huge.

Test “wins” but at least we got an alright pun out of this brief segment.

We get a replay of Hardcore attacking Kurt with J.R. reminding us that Kurt broke his elbow months ago. Team ECK ask Mick Foley in his office (a random room that makes it look like he works at Severance) if this is the WWF or the World What the Heck, More Interference Federation? Angle says it would have been the scandal of the century if during the 1996 Olympics, “some Checzekslovakian ran in.” Foley agrees and makes it a six-man tag for everyone tonight. J.R. says those crybabies need some nappies. I love Kurt.

Hardcore Match

Chris Jericho & WWF Hardcore Champion Steve Blackman vs. Kane & Test (w/ Trish Stratus)

Oh, the Jericho vs. Kane feud. I had hoped years of alcohol abuse would have removed you from my memories but here we are.

On Raw, Kane was wrestling Steve Blackman for the Hardcore Title so Jericho interfered with a Singapore cane so Kane could drop the stairs he was carrying on top of himself, which seemed to happen a lot to just him. Then on Smackdown, Jericho did a bunch of shitty Photoshops to show how much cooler people would look if they all had Kane masks on. The targets are Britney Spears, George Bush and Al Gore. Ha imagine Kane getting into politics ha ha ha.

Blackman of course is jacked to fucking fuck and yet still not as huge as his 80s prime. Jericho attempts to attack Kane during his entrance but needs help from Blackman. Kane shrugs it off cos he’s Kane, leading to Test trying to attack Blackman with a street sign. Test is wearing silver tights and they do not suit him at all. Blackman continues to dog Test while Jericho lands a dive off the middle rope to the apron in a wild moment that sees Kane take the bump on his knees cos he’s consistent. Jericho dumps a bin multiple times over Kane’s head to send him down for a pin attempt. Kane tries to chokeslam Jericho but Chris is able to snatch the bin lid out of Test’s hands to twat Kane.

Test then accidentally hit Kane with the Singapore cane to cause Jericho to Lionsault Kane at 3:57. A big mess that the crowd was hot for at least but the final spot made me laugh so I’ll give it that.

A pissed Kane blames the gay libs Test for his loss and chokeslams him before chasing after Jericho. Test should get chokeslammed after every match, especially ones he’s not in.

A long limo pulls up to reveal the…The Radicalz, all wearing black leather jackets of varying sizes in a horrible look for everyone involved. Benoit sure dressed like shit for the majority of his career. So the Radz had joined WWF as a team in February, split up, got back together, split up again and then re-re-united in November to be HHH’s flying monkeys.

Chris Benoit starts the in-ring segment by praising HHH and how much of a man he is. At least in 2025 he waits until the end of the show to remind you who’s writing it. It was only a few months ago Benoit was going toe-to-toe with The Rock for the title. Benoit shows us footage of The Radicalz attacking The Rock & Austin on Smackdown while HHH watched on the ramp, twirling his hands like the cockroach from Family Guy.

Eddie Guerrero says him and Triple H were both smart enough to kick Chyna to the side (ouch) before asking “Cheap-acita” how it feels to be dumped. J.R. points out she dumped him, Lawler disagrees. Terri Runnels gets mic time (why) to point out HHH gave them money so thanks. Yeah that was needed. Dean Malenko gets the mic so Mick Foley does a shoot run-in to prevent everyone from switching over to watch The Boogie Knights vs. Goldberg.

Foley does an impression of Triple H to only a mild pop. Foley redeems himself with a cheap pop and booking The Radicalz vs. Billy Gunn, Chyna, the Rock & Steve Austin for tonight. This was not a great reason to have Benoit demoted, especially seeing as HHH and Benoit had that hot match at No Mercy only a few weeks prior. Also Perry didn’t get a chance to speak, possibly because he was (according to him) proper fucked during this time. And by time I sadly mean “years.”

Backstage Kane throws Jericho through a window while Sgt. Slaughter freaks out. Cool visual, crap feud.

The Dudley Boyz (Buh Buh Ray Dudley & D-Von Dudley) vs. Tazz & Raven

Lawler: “At least Tazz & Raven have something in common, no-one cares about either of them!” I love shoot comments that aren’t supposed to be shoot comments.

D-Von lands some high spinning elbows which seems cruel when wrestling Taz. Taz & Raven beat up D-Von in the corner but everyone is distracted at the sheer amount of smoke in the ring right now. It looks like a snow day.

Crowd chant “we can’t see you” as Raven gets a few pin attempts. Taz & Raven accidentally clash and start to argue, causing Bubba to tag in and slam both doylums. Taz receives the WASSUP headbutt “south of The Bronx” before The Duds go for the tables. Taz lands a sweet T-Bone Suplex on Bubba while the fog finally clears up. Taz struggles with getting a table in the ring to Lawler’s glee. J.R. says it’s “too little too late” for Taz which would have been a sweet name for this tag team before he walks directly into a 3D at 5:03.

Tazz then lands a T-Bone Tazzplex through the table to end the Raven/Tazz tag team. Except it wouldn’t as they’d team up to wrestle Too Cool on the following Smackdown. Match was about breaking up a team that wasn’t breaking up while Silent Hill did a run-in.

The Radicalz hang out in their special room and decide to order some food because they have so much money now because they sold out. Uh huh.

Lo Down and Tiger Ali Singh are ready to talk to Michael Cole…but then The Rock shows up so Cole ignores them to tell The Great One that he’s in the main event. Rock promises gifts for The Radicalz: Benoit gets a pair of wolverine parts, Malenko six inches (“no, not there!”) to make him a 5’2″ champion, Saturn a slap to straighten out his googly eyes and also Guerrero a sombrero, a donkey and a hot bottle of tequila for a 2000s helping of casual racism. Well if The Radicalz hadn’t fallen down the rankings enough already, this put them in concrete shoes. Also Rikishi gets a serious threat at the end from The Rock because he’s the star in this. In terms of Dwayne’s filmography, this was up there with Doom.

Kurt Angle is complaining to E & C about having to wrestle twice tonight. E&C work out a battle plan where they will take out the Hollys leaving the Undi for Angle, but Angle bemoans the fact that either way he ends up facing Undi. So E & C try to cheer him up by playing Crash Holly’s theme music on the kazoo: “It is Crash, It is Crash Holly! He’s often mad and never jolly!” Kurt thanks them but politely asks that they leave. Kurt getting Kurted by his mates was always fun.

Oh thankfully we’re back with Cole and this Tiger Ali Singh interview…only to immediately get cut off again with Jericho wanting to know where Foley is so he can kill Kane (in Minecraft). This is a good use of Tiger Ali Singh.

WWF No Mercy for the N64 presents: Undi becoming the new Number One Contender for Kurt’s title by pinning Jericho. Hey, what’s a French wrestling fan’s favourite video game? WWF No Thank You!

WWF World Champion Kurt Angle, and Edge & Christian vs. The Undertaker, Hardcore & Crash Holly (w/ Molly Holly)

I appreciate having undercard guys teaming up with headliners but at the same it’s funny seeing Crash & Undi teaming up. Kurt takes a shellacking and the kick-to-the-dick from Hardcore who is enjoying being able to pound the champ. He probably fantasized about this moment thousands of times in the morning while drinking raw eggs. Best Dropkick In The Business sends Kurt down long enough for Big Red to tag in and cause Christian to save Kurt. He gets a quick flurry on Undi and thinks he’s winning until reality smacks him down. Undi shoves in the corner and demands Kurt tag in. He declines. Crash tags in to land a top rope dropkick on Edge as the crowd politely cheer. Crash gets dumped outside so Christian can get some sneaky kicks on Elroy who is being treated as a big deal here. Angle tags in to loud ANGLE SUCKS chants drawing Lawler’s ire as well as J.R. getting to call Angle a crybaby like “Jerry Falwell”. Ross points out Kurt is very talented, he just hates his attitude. Ah J.R. used to be so good. Hardcore saves his cousin by yanking Christian’s hair like a real man. Undi (who is dressed terribly, looking more like Mideon) gets the hot tag so he can batter Kurt. Big boot causes E & C to run in and save his buddy so The Hollies run in to take out the Canadians to the floor. Kurt lands a belly-to-belly and thinks everything is OK but walks into a one-armed chokeslam followed by a Last Ride at 6:46 to let us know that Undi is not winning on PPV. Decent match.

We get the Jericho advert for Chef Boyardee where he’s stuck on an island and it’s very unrealistic that people stranded on a desert island would eat canned meat before Jericho.

Hardys and Lita are walking when Lt. Commish Debra informs them they’re in a Six Person Tag match against Right To Censor, and she’s decided that if any of the good guys pin the bad guys they win their respective title. They were really running out of ways to shoe-horn Debra into things. Lawler sells the moment by yelling about puppies.

Steve Austin heads to the ring to watch his words because right now they’re all four letter ones. Well “wife” is four but “beater” is six. Anyway Austin says HHH is at home with a back injury (J.R. said it was a nose injury so a crossed wire I guess) but Austin promises HHH will see all the ass-kicking unlike the sneak attack Austin didn’t expect. Austin says he could have murdered HHH with his monster truck but that would have been easy so he’s going to bring a can of WD40 to spray on his knees in case they break from kicking HHH’s ass. Austin throws the mic and nearly hits J.R. because Austin has to attack all his lovers.

Warriors Of Might & Magic presents Right To Censor winning the tag titles in unconvincing fashion from The Hardys. The video game received “generally unfavorable reviews” which is appropriate for RTC.

WWF Women’s & Tag Team Titles

Right To Censor (WWF Women’s Champion Ivory & WWF Tag Team Champions The Goodfather & Bull Buchanan) vs. Team Extreme (Lita, Matt & Jeff Hardy)

Team Extreme bum rush the Censors but come out on the losing end. RTC wear down Jeff as Lawler comments on Jeff’s vest flopping around the place. Lita tags in as Matt echoes the thoughts of million by asking why you would do that. Lita’s clotheslines and punches are some of the worst to appear on WWF TV. Ivory resists the urge to destroy Lita long enough to take a reverse DDT, which causes The Goodfather to sneakily land a sidewalk slam on Lita to J.R.’s disgust. She kicks out and is able to kick Ball in the bulls, causing Matt Hardy to run wild. Well, wilder than usual. Top rope leg drop looks to finish but Goodfather breaks it up, with the match breaking down again with Jeff landing the swanton on Bull. Goodfather yanks the ref out the ring for the DQ at 3:56. This starts a brawl with Val Venis running out to deliver a Blue Thunder Bomb to end something that I guess was technically a wrestling match.

The One Billy Gunn and Chyna talk backstage and act like they’re good friends. I mean on one level it was nice that they put a guy and a girl together and they weren’t in a relationship, but at the same time…God they were boring together. It felt like six months of Billy beating up someone Chyna had already taken out. The only successful gun Chyna had was that bazooka she used in her entrance.

XFL cheerleader commercial with God Bless America playing in the background to remind us that USA is a real country. It’s easy to forget,

Benoit answers the phone and says “everything is under control.” Yeah great, when’s the food showing up?

WWF European Title

William Regal vs. The Road Dogg

Regal still has the fantastic Jimmy Hart version of the Keeping Up Appearances theme. Willie says the Americans should bring back the monarchy to deal with these pesky elections. Well Trump is technically a King now I think. Anyway J.R. tells him to “shut his pie-hole”, which is appreciated.

Dogg sounds woof rough during his entrance as we’re circling the drain on his WWF career. Oh last night he met K-Kwik for the first time. Dogg was on Heat? I hope he’s had the snip.

Dogg gives Regal some armdrags as I think that’s the only move they have in common. Regal delivers some uppers before suplexing Dogg to keep him on the mat which is where he was happy to stay for as long as possible. He gets his breath back after two minutes to deliver the dancing punches and then the shaky leg knee drop…and then K-Kwik runs out to attack Regal while Dogg has the advantage for the DQ at 2:41. Dogg is happy to see K-Kwik so they must have mis-timed the hell out of whatever was supposed to happen there. Kwik then asks Dogg to rap with him and he does and oh man, the crowd are trying to look anywhere else other than the ring. Debra and Foley dance backstage to try to put it over and this had no chance of working did it?

Austin tells Michael Cole backstage that he has a funny feeling in his gut. We then hilariously cut to WWF New York which I’m sure wasn’t supposed to imply Austin ate some bad Stottie Too Hotties but that’s how I’m taking it. Oh Steven Richards is there to tell people they can be saved. Yeah, by getting the fuck out of there.

Foley and Debra talk about how great Survivor Series 2000 is going to be as they are padding the hell out of this episode until the main starts. Was anything worth checking out on that PPV? Maybe Rikishi vs. The Rock. Austin vs. HHH was only OK and the rest was eh.

Steve Austin, The Rock, Billy Gunn, & Chyna vs. The Radicalz (Chris Benoit, WWF IC Champion Eddie Guerrero, WWF Light Heavyweight Champion Dean Malenko, & Perry Saturn) (w/ Terri)

The Radicalz couldn’t appear less threatening if they were wearing baby blue. Anyway, here’s the amazing Billy Gunn theme that kept him around and pushed during this period:

Radicalz attack Billy & Chyna before the main eventers arrive, with Austin not waiting for his music to start.

Saturn gets whooped by Austin who doesn’t bother to take his waistcoat off. Billy lands a Tilt A Whirl but Saturn sends him across the ring with an impressive T-Bone. Dean does his best to compete with Billy but he looks like Dink The Clown out there so Billy press slams him with ease. Rock lands a Samoan Drop on Saturn until Benoit cheap shots him to start a nefarious heat segment. Rock comes back with a Rock Bottom out of nowhere on Saturn so Eddie spices things up by taunting Chyna, which leads to a very hot tag from the Ninth Wonder of The World. Dean has to interfere for Eddie to sneak attack and get the advantage, drawing large “Eddie Sucks” chants and to remind us how great he’d really get.

Austin gets envious of all these guys beating up a woman so he throws Saturn over the announce table. It’s grim watching this and realising Saturn likely doesn’t remember what planet he was on at the time. Saturn loudly asks Chyna if she’s ready for a suplex before yelling “what the fuck?” really loudly after she kicks out of the pin attempt. Hebner joins in by telling the lads they have “five minutes” before the end of the show. Good. Chyna makes a comeback on Eddie to good heat before Billy has enough of Saturn running in and decides to kick start a ringside brawl. Benoit and Rock brawl to the back, leading to Austin to stomp Eddie as the crowd cheer furiously. Stunner on Eddie ends it at 10:45 just like that. Oh. Quite the nothing main event match here considering the talent involved.

We cut to Benoit and Rock brawling backstage, showing more intensity than anything we saw in the match. Benoit ignores some shots to the head (cough) and summons Rikishi who sticks his sledgehammer out the window while HHH drives the car which sends Rock into a bunch of wires. Oh God I’m being reminded how funny I found this moment as a kid, I’d forgotten all about it oh yeah that’s getting a GIF.

Post-show, Austin has a few drinks with the crowd but doesn’t seem into it as his mind is on HHH. Or he can’t be bothered, it’s hard to tell.

Overall: Winter 2000 was not an especially great time for WWF. Obviously it’d re-heat very quickly in 2001 but here we’ve got a substantial amount of talent spinning their wheels while Benoit gets demoted. Yeah give this a skip.

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