Return of Kevin Federline, Double Dose of John Cena: WWE RAW Results, 12-18-06

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30-Man Battle Royal: Winner gets a WWE title shot later tonight
It eventually came down to five heels against DX. Things seemed to go the traditional ‘face makes comeback’ way with Triple H disposing of Chris Masters, but surprisingly enough, Triple H got tossed to the floor in short order. HBK ended up side stepping Johnny Nitro to eliminate him leaving us with a final four of Garrison Cade, HBK, Randy Orton & Edge.

HBK cleaned house and ramped up the crowd but got briefly distracted by Edge just long enough for HBK to get plastered with a Cade lariat. Cade celebrated and Orton tossed him out. Edge was out on the outside while Orton went for an RKO on HBK. Michaels blocked the RKO and caught Orton charging him to eliminate him. HBK thought he had the battle royal won, but Edge came in from nowhere to dump Michaels over the top and win the title shot later tonight.
Winner: Edge

Todd Grisham was in the back with Edge. Edge put over how he was going to foil WWE’s plans for New Year’s Revolution by beating WWE Champion John Cena later tonight. Randy Orton came in to congratulate him. Edge said he was setting his sights higher than the Tag titles tonight and walked off. Orton looked a little upset.

Maria was in the back with Chris Masters. She asked him about the Torrie Wilson stuff last week. Masters said Maria shouldn’t be afraid. He said Carlito was the person who spat in his face first before he got his ‘pay back’. He said this week, Carlito would experience what his girlfriend experienced last week, the Master Lock.

Chris Masters v. Carlito
Carlito jumped Masters during his entrance and beat him down the aisle and the two fought around the ring until Carlito hit a flying forearm that sent both men into the crowd. The two fought through the crowd until Masters took a TV camera and swung it into Carlito’s head, busting him open. Masters high tailed it out of the arena shortly thereafter. Carlito was incredibly pissed off after hitting the ring post with the ring.
Winner: No Contest

The World’s Greatest Tag Team & Johnny Nitro v. The Hardy Boyz
Both Hardy Boyz walked very gingerly to the ring. Eventually,

Matt whipped Haas to the corner and Jeff came in and hit the leap frog senton into the corner. Jeff and Matt tossed out the WGTT before Matt picked up his brother and tossed him to the outside, sending him crashing into their opponents. Matt quickly followed up with a top rope moonsault to the floor. The crowd chanted ‘holy sh_t’ as we went to commercial.

Shelton tagged in and went back to the half crab while yanking away at Jeff’s hair. Jeff eventually fought back and hit a wheel kick before finally tagging in Matt. Matt cleaned house on the World's Greatest Tag Team, hitting the clothesline/bulldog combo. Matt hit the side effect on both Shelton and Haas, before going for a cover on Benjamin, but Haas broke it up. Matt tossed Haas to the outside and went for the twist of fate on Benjamin. Haas recovered quickly while Johnny Nitro assaulted Jeff Hardy on the outside. Haas leapt up on the apron and brained Matt in the head. Shelton rolled up Matt and held the tights to score the pin fall.
Winners: Johnny Nitro & The World’s Greatest Tag Team via pin fall

Todd Grisham was in the back with Umaga and Estrada in the back. Girsham asked him who he’d rather Umaga face next week. Estrada said it didn’t make a difference. He said nobody on earth could stop the Samoan Bulldozer, Umaga. He said if you really had to choose though, they’d choose Cena. Estrada said there were two reasons. He said Umaga could beat Cena easier than he could beat Edge. The second was to get revenge for Cena’s beat down on him last week.Melina was in the back walking around with Johnny Nitro. They walked around and saw Kevin Federline. Nitro said if he does to Cena what he did to Hardy, K-Fed will have no problems ‘bitchifying’ John Cena next week. K-Fed said he was here to address America. Melina said he was brave and gave him a hug.

JR was live with Sylvester Stallone. He asked him about his Rocky movie. Stallone said he wanted to have a certain emotional goodbye for his character. Stallone said the character was fairly biographical for him and maybe he was in denial. King asked him about a concept like The Contender in the WWE. Stallone said people didn’t understand their ability to absorb punishment and they are incredibly underrated as athletes. Stallone said he knew because he was in the ring with Hulk Hogan early on in his career. He said he had nothing but respect for it.

King asked him about what he thought about celebrities wrestling like K-Fed. Stallone said K-Fed would struggle to beat Cena’s wardrobe and that it was a death wish. King thanked Stallone and Stallone in return thanked King.

Kenny Dykstra v. Ric Flair
Flair came right at Kenny chopping away at his chest in the early going. After a criss-cross, Kenny was able to dump Flair to the floor where he went out and hit a nice suplex. Dykstra tossed Flair’s body into the ring and put the boots to him on the mat and even threw in a choke or two for good measure.

Flair went to land his atomic knee drop, but Kenny rolled out of the way and rolled Flair up for a clean pin fall win.
Winner: Kenny via pin fall

WWE Championship: John Cena v. Edge
A lot of back and forth - and then with the referee down, Randy Orton ran down and RKO’d the hell out of Cena before tossing the official back into the ring. Edge crawled over to make the cover, but DX showed up out of nowhere. While HBK took care of Orton on the outside, Triple H loaded Edge up for the pedigree and nailed him with it. He draped Cena over Edge’s body and the referee counted Edge’s shoulders to the mat.
Winner and STILL WWE Champion: John Cena via pin fall

After the match, John Cena went up and thanked DX for having his back. Edge and Orton looked on from the ring irate.

Cryme Tyme came down to the ring. They got on the mic. They bashed the World’s Greatest Tag Team for ‘hatin’” on them. They brought out a President Bush impersonator and after some jokes, punked him out and took off on their way to the back. The crowd seemed to enjoy it.

Non-Title Match: Mickie James v. Victoria
Victoria pretty much squashed Mickie James here. She opened up the match by pretty much taking James’ head off with a big boot. She laid the boots to James in the corner and took some vicious shots at her on the mat. She gathered the women’s champion and flung her to the opposite corner but missed the follow up.

James went for a Tornado DDT off the second rope, but Victoria just picked her up and tossed her back first to the mat. Victoria picked up James and set up the Widow’s Peak and connected. She made the cover shortly thereafter for the win.
Winner: Victoria via pin fall

JR was in the ring and introduced Kevin Federline. K-Fed got on the stick and says JR gave a nice introduction, but says that knows that he can’t stand him. He said he’s really not who he’s portrayed as that it’s just an invention of the media that everyone has bought into. He tells the crowd that the real Kevin Federline never backs down from a challenge. He said just like he’s done before, he’ll shock the world and defeat John Cena. He said he’d be the one laughing on New Year’s Day. Before he leaves, he tells John Cena that he DOES want some. In fact, he’s coming to get some.