WWE RAW Results - February 25, 2008  
 
Reported By Patrick Boucher on Wednesday, February 27 2008

- RAW opens tonight with a video package on the Cena vs. Triple H vs. Orton match for the WWE Title at WrestleMania with the ending of RAW last week, where John Cena won his way into the main event at the big event.

- We're in the arena and in the ring is William Regal, John Cena, Triple H and Randy Orton for a "photo opportunity." The red carpet covers the ring, and Regal asks the three WWE Superstars to come together in the center of the ring for the photo op. They hesitate and come together and let the photographers snap the photo. Each man gets a microphone.

- Cena thanks both of them for coming out, and says he has a problem with one of them, that being Triple H. Cena comes face to face with The Game and says he doesn't appreciate the Pedigree he got last week on RAW. Triple H says Cena and some fans might not appreciate it, but a lot of fans did, which the fans cheer to. HHH tells him he is going to get the same thing at WrestleMania. Cena reminds The Game that he tapped out to him before. They square up and Orton interferes, saying one thing will remain the same, he will still be WWE Champion.

- Orton says there isn't a damn thing either of them can do about that. Triple H and Cena double team Orton, throwing him over the top rope. They come face to face and start brawling in the center of the ring. Orton comes back in the ring and lays out both men with a pair of RKO's. Orton stands over both fallen men, as the crowd chants "YOU SUCK" and holds his WWE Title up high as his music hits. Orton walks towards the back as Cena and Triple H lay in the ring.

- Back from commercial and Mr. Kennedy runs into Randy Orton in the back. Kennedy says after he wins Money in the Bank this year, he is going to cash it in on that night and tells Orton, if he is still Champion, he will drop the WWE Title to Kennedy. Orton says you can make all the threats you want, but he is still walking out of WrestleMania as the WWE Champion. Kennedy says we'll see about that.

Carlito & Santino vs. WWE Tag Team Champions Cody Rhodes and Hardcore Holly
Maria comes out on Santino's arm, wearing a Playboy Bunny tank top.

Santino and Cody start out the match, back and forth. Santino takes control with a few takedowns on Cody. Jerry Lawler is acting like he's trying to get Maria over to do some commentary to talk about her Playboy shoot and the Bunny match at WrestleMania. Carlito tagged in, keeping Cody grounded in the center of the ring. 2 count by Carlito.

Santino tagged back in, but gets countered by a Cody Rhodes neckbreaker. Santino tags back in Carlito but Cody gets to Holly. Holly comes in and cleans Carlito's clock, dropping him for a big slam and a low kick from the back. Carlito reverses and gets clotheslined but tags back in Santino. Santino climbs the top but gets thrown off the top by Holly. Santino was distracted by Jerry Lawler who was talking to Maria at ringside. Alabama Slam by Holly and Santino gets pinned.

Winners: Cody Rhodes & Hardcore Holly

After the match, Maria gets in the ring to tend to Marella. Santino flips out, yelling at Maria and then Jerry Lawler. Lawler keeps fussing as he, Maria and Carlito make their way toward the back.

- Lawler plugs the WrestleMania 24 press conference from earlier today as we go to commercial.

- Back from commercial and we go to a promo video with highlights of Big Show and Floyd Mayweather. After a long video package, Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler lead us into highlights from the press conference earlier. If you missed it, catch the full detailed report elsewhere on the site.

- We're backstage with William Regal and Todd Grisham. Regal says tonight's RAW main event will be Mr. Kennedy and Randy Orton vs. John Cena and Triple H. Chris Jericho walks up and tells Regal he wants to be in the Money in the Bank match. Regal says tonight, Jericho will have to qualify against a man who has already qualified, Jeff Hardy. Regal says that match is next. Jericho cracks jokes before making his exit.

Money in the Bank Qualifier: Jeff Hardy vs. Chris Jericho
Jericho must win this match to make it to WrestleMania. The WWE Intercontinental Champion comes out first to his new theme music.

Hardy and Jericho lock it up to start the match and Jericho takes Hardy down with a shoulder. They go back and forth,a ll over the place until Hardy ends up on the mat. Springboard kick missed by Y2J and Hardy climbs up top and lands a cross body block on Jericho, pins him but Y2J rolls over and gets a 2 count on Hardy. Jericho with a big suplex followed by an elbow drop and 2 count on Hardy.

Hardy catches Jericho and slingshots him over the top rope. Running baseball slide by Hardy misses Jericho on the outside. Both men get back in the ring and come face to face as we go to commercial.

Back from commercial and Jericho has Hardy on the mat. Hardy gets up but gets caught by a big knee to the stomach and a 2 count by Jericho. Jericho taunts Hardy, with little kicks to the head. Big knife edge chops send Hardy back into the turnbuckle and the ropes. Both men go for a cross body in mid-air and collide. Both are now down.

Hardy and Y2J get up and Jericho gets dropped by a flying clothesline. Jericho misses an attack in the corner and gets hung up on the turnbuckle. Double dropkick in the ribs by Hardy and a 2 count on Jericho. Jericho with a big clothesline on Hardy now and a 2 count. Knees and elbows to the head of Hardy and Jericho whips him into the corner but Hardy climbs to the top. Jericho comes from behind and knocks Hardy off balance. Hardy knocks Y2J to the mat and hits a Swanton Bomb on a standing Jericho but only gets a 2 count.

Chris Jericho locks on the Walls of Jericho in the middle of the ring but Hardy manages to get to the ropes. Off the ropes and Hardy catches Jericho in a face first suplex. Hardy goes to the top rope and goes for the Swanton but Jericho misses. Lionsault by Jericho and another 2 count as Hardy kicks out. Hardy rolls Jericho up in a cradle for another 2 count. Jericho counters the Twist of Fate, tries for the Walls of Jericho but gets rolled up by Hardy for a near fall. Jericho rolls it back over into another pinfall and gets the 1-2-3 on Hardy.

Winner: Chris Jericho

After the match, Jericho and Hardy congratulate each other on a good match and point to the WrestleMania 24 banner hanging from the rafters.

- Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler show a clip of the beating Hornswoggle took last Monday night. They say that Vince McMahon will be out tonight to apologize to Hornswoggle. We cut to Vince McMahon backstage, getting ready to come out, as we go to commercial.

- Back from commercial and Mr. McMahon is making his way to the ring. Jim Ross says that Hornswoggle is still under a doctor's care. Vince says we're about to hear something from him we've never heard before. He has an admission to make, he says he made a mistake, for the first time in his life.

Vince says that was last week when he allowed his son to be put in jeopardy. Vince says Hornswoggle had the belt-whipping he gave him coming, but what JBL did to Hornswoggle, he didn't have coming. Vince tells Hornswoggle he knows he is watching and he apologizes. Vince says he isn't the only one who is going to apologize tonight and says JBL is going to do the same thing tonight. Vince orders JBL out and out comes the self-proclaimed Wrestling God.

JBL comes out to the ring, looking a little ashamed and embarrassed. Vince tells JBL he should beat the hell out of him infront of everyone right now. Vince demands an explanation and says JBL was there simply to control Finlay, not to harm Hornswoggle. Vince demands an apology, right now. JBL hesitates for a minute before saying he is sorry. He's sorry he didn't do it sooner, because he has it on very good advice that Hornswoggle is not Vince's son.

JBL says this scheme goes all the way to the top of WWE, all the way to Vince's family. JBL tells Vince Hornswoggle is not his son, he is Finlay's son. Vince says he always wondered how he could produce something like Hornswoggle. JBL says Hornswoggle had no idea what was going on, but Finlay knew the whole thing, the whole time. JBL says he has documentation and Vince says he wants proof or JBL will get a beating worse than Hornswoggle did. JBL says he will give him proof, but if you want proof look in Finlay's guilty eyes. JBL says the next time Finlay is in a WWE ring, he will make him admit it. JBL drops the mic, his music hits and he goes to the back. Vince drops his mic as well and walks off in disgust.

- Triple H is backstage when John Cena enters the locker room. The Game says they could play all buddy buddy for the match tonight, but they don't like each other. Triple H says he wants to win tonight, and tells Cena to try not to get beat. Cena says he feels the same way and tells Triple H he don't have to watch his back tonight, but he certainly needs to watch his own. We go to commercial.

Umaga vs. DH Smith
Umaga comes out first followed by DH Smith, making his RAW return. Umaga charges Smith early on but Smith fights back. A big kick by Umaga sends DH to the outside. Umaga follows with chops and throws DH back in the ring.

Umaga climbs to the top rope and hits a huge splash onto DH Smith, who is down on the mat. Umaga drags him to the turnbuckle and nails DH with fists to the head. Running Samoan splash by Umaga to DH who is down in the corner. Umaga hits DH with the Samoan Spike and gets the pinfall on DH in a squash.

Winner: Umaga

- Backstage is William Regal, Katie Lea and Paul Burchill. They watch Umaga and say he is mean, sick. Regal says he is perfect. Regal has a letter from Vickie Guerrero asking him to send a RAW Superstar to face a SmackDown Superstar at WrestleMania for Brand Superiority. Regal says he will send Umaga to represent RAW. Katie Lea tells Regal that Burchill should go represent RAW. Regal says he has liked Paul for a long time, but he needs to show him more. Paul says he definitely will. Paul says anytime Regal wants to have more of these chats with him and his sister, they're open for it. Paul says especially his sister, and tells Regal she likes him.

- Commercial announces Layla and Santino Marella vs. Kelly Kelly and Kofi Kingston for tomorrow night's ECW Sci-Fi.

Lance Cade vs. Shawn Michaels
Lance Cade is waiting in the ring as we come back from commercial. The music hits and out comes The Heartbreak Kid.

Cade and Michaels start the match off with a series of back and forth spots and a 2 count by Cade. Lance grounds HBK in the center of the ring, applying pressure to the neck. The fans get behind HBK and he rallies to his feet and fights back with chops. Big kick to the head by Cade and HBK is down. Cade throws HBK into the turnbuckle but gets caught by a big boot to the face followed by more chops.

Cade overpowers Michals and drops him with a modified chokeslam move. Cade misses HBK from the top and is now down. HBK climbs to the top and hits his top rope elbow drop. HBK locks on the figure four leg lock but Trevor Murdoch comes in, breaks the hold and attacks Michaels. Cade and Murdoch double team Michaels and go to hit their High and Low move but get caught by a set of Sweet Chin Music from Michaels.

Winner by DQ: Shawn Michaels

After the match, HBK looks like he hurt his nose where he broke it at No Way Out. Ric Flair's music hits and out comes The Nature Boy.

After the match, HBK looks like he hurt his nose where he broke it at No Way Out. Ric Flair's music hits and out comes The Nature Boy. Flair and Michaels embrace as Naitch takes the mic. Flair tells Michaels he is absolutely incredible and he was honored to have HBK introduce him into the Hall of Fame last week on RAW. HBK says nobody deserves it more than Flair. Flair says this will be a magical weekend in his career. He says there's only one thing that could make this even bigger, and that would be if he could wrestle Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania. Flair tells Michaels he wants to wrestle him at WrestleMania. HBK tells him he knows how he feels about him, but you know about Vince's stipulation on Flair's career. HBK says he could never imagine a day in this business with Flair, but he won't be known as the guy who ended Ric Flair's career. He says he can't take it and he doesn't want it. Flair says that isn't where he was going. Flair asks, is that a given, he will end his career? Flair wants to make it more clear, and says all the words HBK spoke about Flair last week means nothing unless HBK gives him the match he wants at WrestleMania. Flair says Ric Flair vs. Shawn Michaels, that's really cool. HBK tells Flair it would be his honor to face him at WrestleMania. They shake hands and embrace as Flair's music hits. Ric Flair vs. Shawn Michaels is on for WrestleMania 24.

- We cut to a video of NBA Superstar Shaq commenting on Mayweather vs. Big Show. Shaq predicts Show's nose will get broke again and says Show talks too much. Shaq says Mayweather can't be beaten. Shaq puts over both guys and says it might be one of the best unorthodox matches in WWE history.

- Mike Adamle is ringside and cuts to a video of the next 2008 WWE Hall of Fame inductees, Peter Maivia and Rocky Johnson. The video contains comments from Vince, The Rock, Pat Patterson and others talking about Maivai. The video for Rocky Johnson, The Rock's father, contains comments from the same people. The confirmed list for the 2008 WWE Hall of Fame now looks like Ric Flair, Rocky Johnson and Peter Maivia. The Rock will be inducting both men into the Hall of Fame, as confirmed by WWE.

- A graphic for the Bunny Mania match shows for WrestleMania 24. The match will be Candice and Maria vs. Beth Phoenix and Melina. We go to a video preview of Maria and her Playboy shoot.

Mr. Kennedy and Randy Orton vs. John Cena and Triple H
Orton and Kennedy are out first, followed by Triple H. Cena's music hits and he comes out to another mixed reaction. The bell sounds and Cena attacks Orton. We go to commercial shortly after this.

Back from commercial and Triple H has Kennedy in the ring, in control. Kennedy blocks an attack in the turnbuckle. Cena gets tagged in and hits Kennedy with a series of rights and lefts. Cena taunts Triple H with a "you can't see me" and HHH responds with a DX chop. Kennedy comes from behind with a low blow on Triple H. Orton gets tagged in and goes to work on The Game with kicks and stomps.

Orton gets a 2 count on Triple H as Kennedy is tagged back in. Kennedy takes it to The Game in the turnbuckle and we get a little bit of double team from the heels. They've been focusing on the knee and thigh of Triple H. Triple H goes down in the turnbuckle and gets hit by a huge running kick from Kennedy. 2 count on Triple H.

Orton in the ring now and he has Triple H grounded to the mat with a chinlock. Orton taunts Cena as Cena distracts the referee and Kennedy chokes Triple H on the outside. Orton drops HHH face first, hard, onto the canvas but only gets a 2 count. Kennedy comes back in and they double team The Game again. Triple H gets slung in the corner but hits Kennedy with a big boot. Triple H crawls towards Cena, but Orton gets tagged in first and blocks the tag. Orton goes back to work on Triple H and starts stalking him.

Triple H blocks the RKO and tags in Cena right when Orton tags in Kennedy. Cena comes in and cleans house of Kennedy, with a series of high impact moves. Cena hits the Five Knuckle Shuffle. A FU on Kennedy is interrupted by Orton. Cena trips Kennedy and locks on the STFU and Kennedy taps out.

Cena and Triple H come face to face in the ring. Kennedy comes from behind and hits the Mic Check on John Cena, laying him out as Triple H just looked on. Triple H looks at Cena who is down on the mat.

Winners: John Cena and Triple H

After the match, Kennedy's music hits as Triple H watches him leave the arena area. Triple H stands tall over John Cena as RAW goes off the air.

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