-'Mankind Wreck' plays as Commissioner Foley comes out to a huge ovation.-

MICK - Now then, last week on StratusPhere twice proved that they do NOT even deserve to hold
       those belts by first claiming they were unavoidable detained elsewhere on Raw.  Meaning
       they couldn't defend their titles against The Hardy Boys.
       I later found out that, they were calling from a hotel just five minutes from the arena.

       So on Smackdown I made a four way match with their belts on the line and they took the
       cheap way out by getting a double countout with themselves and the Shamrock/Blackman
       combination.

       BUT they will not get away with it, they will defend their belts again in another fatal
       four way match featuring Bull & Test of the Million Dollar Team....Kane and Vampiro ...
       .....and MATT & JEFF HARDY!!

       StratusPhere, remember this as long as I'm running things, the only men who hold belts
       here will be the ones who have fought for it and have fairly defended their titles.
       NOT getting the cheap way out by DQ and countout and certainly not by no-showing only
       to come on the show an hour later to attack Crash!

       I'll see you in the ring later.....HAVE A NICE DAY! 

**Opening match saw Christian take on Scott Hall in a very fast match.

  This was due to Christian's brother Edge though, as he ran down after a few minutes holding
  something in his hand.  He threw them at Hall but Christian caught it in mid-air and hit
  Scott Hall with them as Edge distracted the ref.

  Edge snapped when he saw Christian had used them and tried to get in the ring only for
  Christian to dropkick him off the apron and then covered Scott Hall.

  However it wasn't finished there as the action continued after the match.**

Christian pinned Scott Hall after hitting him with brass knucks in 0:03:52.
Rating: ** 1/2

-Edge slides into the ring but Christian catches him coming in with the same knucks that he
 threw in for Hall.
 Christian leaves the ring and grabs a microphone, he stands on the bottom of the ramp and
 waits for Edge to get back up.-

CHRS - Hey Edge, looks like another plan backfired. Typical for you, you can't do anything
       right.  Now you've been a pain to me the last few weeks by first turning on me in a tag
       match and then by constantly attacking me inside and outside of the ring.

       SO how about THIS Sunday at ARMAGEDDON. Me Vs. You, let's settle this in the ring because
       I'm sick of it.

EDGE - You don't want none of this brother dear.

CHRS - What's the matter? You afraid of your little brother?

-Scott Hall is now back to his feet and looks pi$$ed at losing because of Edge trying to bring
 the knucks in. He walks up behind Edge as Christian continues the distraction.-

EDGE - Afraid of you, Edge ain't afraid of anyone. You know it, I know it, these people know it
       and Ted DiBiase certainly knows it that's why he hired me!

CHRS - See you at ARMAGEDDON then! Oh and about never being afraid....turn around!

-Edge turns to face an angry Scott Hall and drops his mic in shock, Scott Hall kicks Edge in the
 midsection and follows up with the OutKast Edge.  Scott Hall then leaves the ring and goes for
 Christian as well, but Christian high-tails it out of the ringside area before he can catch
 hold of him.- 

**The fued between these two factions continued yet again in this challenge from Tazz and the
  Dudley Boys.

  The match wasn't as long as some of the previous battles they'd had as with the table element
  everyone was trying to watch their backs so they wouldn't be caught from behind.  Faarooq
  almost lost his team the match after five minutes after he got caught out by the Dudley Boys
  as Shamrock and Blackmen double teamed Tazz.

  Faarooq would have gone through the table if Shamrock hadn't noticed at the last second and
  pulled it away as D-Von and Buh Buh hit the 3-D on the former Acolyte.  Blackman came over
  to help Shamrock with the Dudleys and they began getting control of the match.

  As the Dudleys and Shamrock/Blackman worked over each other, Tazz recovered and put Faarooq
  to the outside with a clothesline.  Meanwhile Buh Buh had got shoved outside on the opposite
  side allowing Shamrock and Blackman to have their way with D-Von.  Shamrock placed D-Von on
  one of the tables and climbed up on top with him as Blackman was caught from behind by Tazz
  and spun around.

  Tazz then grabbed Blackman as Shamrock hoisted D-Von up in a piledriver position.  Tazz then
  used a T-Bone suplex on Blackman that put him through another table as Shamrock delivered the
  piledriver to D-Von Dudley.  With the members of each team exhausted the referee looked a
  little puzzled as to how went through the table first and it wasn't til he asked for a replay
  on the TitanTron that he made his decsion.  Blackman went through first so Team Extreme win.**

Team Extreme (Buh Buh Ray Dudley, D-Von Dudley and Tazz) defeated The Shooters
(Faarooq, Ken Shamrock and Steve Blackman) when Tazz defeated Blackman by T-Bone suplexing him
through a table in 0:12:05.
Rating: **

**Following his closesly contested match against Kurt Angle on Smackdown last week, a lot of
  people expected Edge to win this one with little problem.

  However Syxx wanted to break his losing streak of the last few weeks and put up a good fight
  against Edge.  But Edge's new attitude and move set were too much for Syxx and he soon put
  Waltman down with the Edge-amatic, which is a Syxx-Factor from behind!

  But Edge may have the attitude, the moves and Ted DiBiase's money by his side but he still
  made a cardinal mistake as he didn't go for the cover and instead taunted Christian who was
  providing colour commentary.

  As Edge bad mouthed his brother, this gave Syxx a chance to recover and dropkicked Edge in the
  back of the head.  Edge fell forward onto the ring ropes and staggered around only to be
  caught by the midsection kick and the Syxx-Factor.**

Triple Syxx pinned Edge with the Syxx-Factor in 0:05:35.
Rating: ** 1/4

**This match was originally scheduled to be Eddie Guerrero against Billy Gunn for the European
  title but Eddie had problems before the show with his flight and was unable to get to the
  arena tonight.  So Essa Rios came out and demanded to represtent Latino Heat in this match
  against Billy Gunn.  Although Gunn accepted he claimed it would be unfair for him to put his
  European title on the line at such short notice.

  The actual match was as fast paced and entertaining as the Guerrero/Gunn matches of the last
  few weeks and it seemed as if Gunn was having more trouble with Essa Rios then he had against
  Eddie Guerrero, last week.

  It wasn't long though before Billy Gunn was able to use his strength to counter a fast move
  from Essa Rios.  Essa went for the running headscissor lock but Gunn was able to stop himself
  from going down and lifted Rios up whilst Essa still had his legs locked around Gunn's head,
  Lil Latino was then dropped to the mat in a reverse powerbomb.

  Essa got back to his feet but the move by Gunn had gave him a bloody nose as his face had 
  gone into the mat.  Gunn then closed in for the kill with his neckbreaker take down followed
  by the Fame-Ass-Er for the win.**

Billy Gunn pinned Essa Rios with the Fame-Ass-Er in 0:15:23.
Rating: ***
(Eddie Guerrero no-showed.)

-Trish Stratus snatches the microphone and European title away from the ring announcer and
 enters the ring to join her man, Billy Gunn. They embrace for a few seconds before Billy
 speaks.-

GUNN - Well, Mr. Ass does it again. It seems to me that in the last few weeks the challenges
       have been medicor at best, so right now I am issuing an OPEN CHALLENGE to anyone back-
       stage.
       Anyone back there who thinks they can take me on for the European title at ARMAGEDDON,
       this Sunday, come out here and make yourself known.

-Trish fixes the European title around the waist of Gunn before hugging him again as the
 capacity crowd await a reply to the challenge.-

GUNN - No one? You guys are pathetic, come on Trish.

-As Billy moves to leave the lights go out and the corners explode in fire and flame piros as
 Kane appears at the entrance way with Vampiro.-

GUNN - Oh, a challenge. SO which one of you dead b@stards thinks you can take me on at the PPV,
       ARMAGEDDON?

-Kane lifts a microphone up along with his voice box.-

KANE - ...*buzz*....Not me.......*buzz*....not...*buzz*....Vampiro....*buzz*... ..but Triple...
       .*buzz*.....Syxx!

-At that Triple Syxx aka Sean Waltman hops over the crowd barrier and dives in to the ring. Gunn
 turns around to the Syxx-Factor, Trish flees from the ring as Triple Syxx walks to the entrance
 way to join his friends.-

SYXX - Gunn, I accept. This Sunday, ARMAGEDDON. If that's not a suitable PPV for us three to
       make our voices known, I don't know what is.

-The Pryos then fire again and Hell Fire leave.- 

**A tag match made earlier on by Foley as he wanted to give the capacity crowd a preview of two
  of the big singles matches at ARMAGEDDON by putting Y2J and HBK against the people they would
  be facing in less then a weeks time.

  The match was mostly Jericho as Shawn was still hurting after his shoulder injury on Smackdown
  at the hands of Benoit and Triple H.

  Chris Benoit and Triple H worked well together again as they worked over Chris Jericho, who
  was trying to hold on as long as he could.  Jericho didn't seem to want to tag in Shawn due
  to the injury but eventually Michaels had enough and ran into the ring anyway to stop a
  double team by the OutKasts.

  This caused an all out brawl from these four superstars which led to Helmsley working over
  the shoulder of Shawn again.  Benoit went up top as the ref seperated Jericho and Triple H,
  but Jericho was able to pull Michaels out of the way as Benoit went for the Swandive Headbutt.

  Chris Benoit hit the mat face first and rolled onto his back clutching hit forehead, this 
  gave Jericho an opening and he connected with the Asai Moonsault as HHH was stopped from
  breaking the count by Michaels and the Sweet Chin Music.**

Chris Jericho and Shawn Michaels defeated
The Outkasts (Chris Benoit and Hunter Hearst Helmsley) when Chris Jericho
 pinned Benoit after an Asai Moonsault in 0:23:18.
Rating: ***

**Kevin Nash gave out an open challenge for this match as he wanted to get back on his winning
  ways following his submission loss to Chris Jericho last week.

  But what he got was the Rock who came storming out to the ring and went right to work on
  Nash instantly.  Nash tried to get hold of the Rock but was taken down by a diving shoulder.
  Nash get back up but the Rock connected with the Floatover DDT.

  Kevin Nash was disorintated but still he charged at the Rock only to run into the Rock Bottom,
  Maivia then threw his elbow pad into the crowd and hit his patented People's Elbow for the
  three count.  Giving Nash his quickest loss since his return and the Rock a psycholigical
  advantage before their tag match at ARMAGEDDON.**

Rocky Maivia pinned Kevin Nash with the People's Elbow in 0:03:18.
Rating: * 3/4

-Trish is busy talking to Venis and Saturn before the tag team title match next on RAW.-

TRSH - Look guys, I don't care what Mick Foley said. I want those titles kept in the group.
       With Billy's Euro title, we're the most crowned group at the moment.

-Mick Foley walks into the locker room.-

MICK - StratusPhere, oh and you, Trish. I just came here to say good luck and by the way, if
       you take the cheap way out again by DQ, countout or any other way to cheat the fans out
       of true tag team champions, you will suffer the conseqences.....so no pressure.

-Foley then leaves the locker room chuckling to himself-

VENS - Damn, we can't use the plan then?

TRSH - Hmmmm....No go ahead as planned.

SATN - But he said.....

TRSH - I don't care what he said. What can he do to you! No, use the plan we had organised and
       let me worry about the consequences. I mean what do you think I'm here for?

VENS - Eye-candy!

SATN - Errrrr......yeah, I'd have to go with Val, Eye-candy.

TRSH - It's a rhytorical question idiots.

SATN - Oh...

TRSH - Well come on let's go.

-They all stand up to go, Saturn opens the door and Val walks out, but as Trish goes to step
 out, Saturn stops her.-

SATN - Was I right then?

TRSH - *sigh* yes, you were right, now come on lug nut. 

**Following the last few shows and StratusPhere's attempts to retain their titles by foul means,
  Mick Foley signed yet another title defence for Trish's team.

  The tag champions however, used the same tactics as they did on Smackdown.  They stayed on the
  ring apron as much as possible to make sure they were the freshest team out there.  This left
  Bull & Test to control the match as they out powered Matt & Jeff Hardy.  However when it came
  to Kane and Vampiro, the Million Dollar Team became unstuck as nothing they did to the Dark
  Duo seemed to have an effect.

  Eventually Test & Bull gave up and allowed the Hardys to try their luck against Kane & Vamp
  by tagging them in.  The Hardys also had problems trying to get a reaction out of their
  opponents, but they managed to take them down with their high risk and tandom offence moves.

  But it was only ten minutes into the contest before Trish's plan became apparent.  Stratus
  signaled to the back and Billy Gunn came out armed with a bat.  Referee Earl Hebner dived
  to the outside to stop him coming in.
  Meanwhile StratusPhere both grabbed steel chairs from under the ring and proceeded to knock
  everyone down with them....finishing with Kane.

  Saturn and Venis hit Kane with a double chair shot but he didn't go down.  Then what happened
  next was pure genius from Trish, she said something to Venis and Saturn and then walked up
  behind Earl Hebner.  Trish nodded at her team and Saturn threw a chair towards Kane.  The
  Big Red Machine caught the chair and was surprised when Venis and Saturn both fell down to
  the mat without any contact.

  Then the full plan was revealed as Trish turned Hebner around and pointed to the ring.  Earl
  say Kane standing in the ring with a steel chair with the Hardys, Test/Bull and StratusPhere
  laid out in front of him.  Hebner took one look at the scene and disqualified Kane!  Trish
  and Gunn then hugged as another of her plans had paid off and StratusPhere snatched the belts
  off Earl Hebner and joined them as the show went off the air.**

The Hardy Boyz defeated Kane and Vampiro, Million Dollar Corporation (Bull Buchanan and Test)
and StratusPhere when Kane lost by disqualification in 0:12:16.
Rating: **
(StratusPhere retained the WWF Tag Team Champions.)

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