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Hot off the heels of last night’s No Mercy PPV, #1 Contender Batista starts off the show ready to set the date for his title match!
Oct. 6 2008
Seattle, WA
The Raw following No Mercy. Batista defeated JBL the night before to become the #1 contender for the World Heavyweight title held by Chris Jericho. The Animal wasted no time in setting up his rematch by confronting the champ and demanding Jericho set the date for the rematch. Jericho tells him that GM Mike Adamle is away in a meeting with Shane and Stephanie McMahon and has left him (Jericho) in charge. That said, Jericho makes a rematch of Batista vs JBL for the number contendership…again.
Batista responds with two things:
1. He’s the number one contender
2. If Jericho messes with the bull, he’ll get the horn!
Then, he Batista Bombed Jericho!
Later in the show, Jericho is backstage plotting with Randy Orton.
Throughout the show, clips were shown of John Cena’s neck surgery and rehab. Several Superstars had things to say about Cena, including Batista.
Main event time, Jericho is the special referee in the Batista vs. JBL match.
…With Randy Orton as special commentator
…And William Regal as special timekeeper
The deck is stacked against Batista. Jericho counts fast when JBL is in pinning position and sloooow when Batista has the upperhand. William Regal interferes. JBL and Jericho work together to take advantage of Batista.
This is all bad -and then, Batista knocks the two of them out with a double clothesline. But now there’s no one to make the count!
Until Adamle shows up -his meeting must have ended early -and he brings a new ref with him and Batista gets the pin 1-2-3
The GM ends the show with a big Cyber Sunday announcement: It will be Jericho defending his title against Batista at the next ppv and the fans will vote for the special referee.
Randy Orton
Shawn Michaels
or Stone Cold Steve Austin
