RAW 2.6.2006 - News & Notes

It was announced that next week's RAW will feature John Cena v. Edge....AGAIN! This will mark the third time this match has been on TV in only 15 days. The WWE really needs to mix up the matches a little bit better.

It was also announced that next week's match will feature a guest referee. That promted Jim Duggan to come out and claim he was going to be the referee (don't worry, he won't be). His attendance at RAW was little more than to call Lita a HO....AGAIN!

This week's RAW included the start of an 8-man 'Road to Wrestlemania' tournament. The 4 first round matches that aired on RAW included the following: Chris Masters def. Kane, RVD def. Carlito, Triple H def. Ric Flair, and Big Show def. Shelton Benjamin. The original match was supposed to be Big Show v. Shawn Michaels, but Vince came out before the start of the match and announced that next week's RAW will feature a retirement party for Shawn Michaels where Vince was going to force him to retire. Therefore, since Shawn wouldn't be around long enough to be at Wrestlemania, Shelton would take his spot in the tournament.

Next week's tournament matches will be Masters v. RVD, and Triple H v. Big Show...AGAIN!

They had a WWE.com poll where the fans would pick who they wanted to see win the tournament. RVD won the poll with 45%.

By the way - Triple H is winning the tournament. It's pretty much a lock.

During the Big Show / Shelton match Big Show started yelling at Shelton's Mama and she got so scared that she passed out and had to be carried out on a stretcher. The announcers were trying to sell it as her having a heart attack. I hope that they're not killing off her character. She's a big help to Shelton's character.

Backstage Trish introduced Mickie James to her 'date'. He looked like some Joe Schmo local jobber.

They showed the GoDaddy.com commercial that ABC supposedly rejected for the super Bowl. It didn't seem all that offensive. It just showed Candice crawling around on some old guy's desk.

The main event was Edge & Lita v. Cena & Maria and whoever's team won would get to pick the guest referee for next week's 1-on-1 match. Cena and Maria won so Cena announced that Mick Foley would be the referee. The choice was pretty obvious since there are strong rumors going around saying that Edge will face off against Foley at Wrestlemania.

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