Don't Let the Door Hit You Where the Good Lord Split You. - 
by copygodd
I wish I couldn't see them.
Tonight marked the end of RAW's five-year run on Lifetime for Men, otherwise known as Spike TV. And what a long, strange five years it's been. I just hope that the show's return to the USA Network means a return to the RAW of old. Because tonight's episode would've been more at home on my local cable access channel.
Vince McMahon opens the show by promising a championship match, but first he has a few announcements to make. He starts by thanking Spike TV for five great years. And how does Spike repay him? But bleeping out ten seconds of his speech, then continuing to censor the show throughout the rest of the broadcast. Jebus, who's running Spike's dump button? Pig Vomit? I kept expecting JR to starting enunciating "W-ENNNN-B-C." Audio dropouts, "Technical Difficulties" screens, you name it, if there were a way for Spike to ruin the broadcast, they tried it. Unfortunately, if they really wanted to ruin it, all they needed to do was let the show run uninterrupted. Yes, it was that bad.
Kurt Angle interrupts Vince to complain about not being in the championship match at next week's Homecoming event on USA. Angle says since he beat Cena at Unforgiven, he deserves the title shot. Vince says Angle makes a good point, and seems ready to grant Angle the match, when he's interrupted by HBK. "Hold on a second, Moneybags," HBK says. And it's all downhill from there. Eventually, after a bit of verbal sparring with Angle ("I beat you first!" "I beat you worse!"), Vince makes a 30-minute Iron Man match for next week's Homecoming special on USA. The person who scores the most pinfalls in 30 minutes wins the match and whatever's behind Curtain #3.
Both men satisfied, Vince introduces the championship match he'd alluded to earlier: Trish Stratus versus Victoria.
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