RAW 2.20.2006 - News & Notes

A Diva battle royale was held to determine the #1 contender for Trish's title. The match was awful and Candice Michelle won. It looks like she only won the match so they can capitalize on her recent Super Bowl commercial and upcoming Playboy spread. I don't see her winning the title though.

Edge wrestled Hacksaw Jim Duggan on RAW. Coach was right when he said that Duggan looked like he had taken too many shots to the head. Duggan kept yelling 'Ho', giving the thumbs up, and poking his tongue out of the corner of his mouth. Edge won and later smashed Duggan in the balls with a 2x4.

RAW marked the end of Ric Flair's IC title run at the hands of Shelton Benjamin. The end of the match consisted of Shelton's mama faking a heart attack to distract the referee to enable Shelton to hit Flair with an oxygen tank and pin him.

Carlito made some sort of announcement that he had an idea for Wrestlemania 22. He said that his idea was going to be 'money in the bank'. Maybe they're going to put up another 'Money in the bank' title shot like they did at Wrestlemania 21.

It was announced that Eddie Guererro would be the 2nd inductee to the WWE's Hall Of Fame this year. More inductees should be announce in the upcoming weeks.

As revenge for refusing to retire last week, Vince made a 4-on-1 match between 4 of the 5 members of the Spirit Squad versus Shawn Michaels. This was my first time seeing the Spirit Squad wrestle and judging by their athletic ability on RAW they have very bright futures ahead of them. At one point in the match one of the Spirit Squad members pulled a mini trampoline from under the ring and used it to give HBK a devastating clothesline. The end of the match saw HBK get the DQ win when all 5 Spirit Squad members beat Shawn down. That prompted Marty Jannetty to come out of the crowd to make the save.

Vince would later announce that he was going to 'reward' Jannetty with a full-time contract next week. The only catch was that Jannetty had to join the 'Kiss My Ass Club'.

As predicted, Triple H defeated Big Show and RVD in the finals of the Road to Wrestlemania Tournament. That means the RAW main event for Wrestlemania 22 is Cena v. HHH.

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