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RAW is WAR: 3/9/2001

RAW is WAR was live from the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. As the show kicked off, the Undertaker rolled down to the ring! The Dead Man was answering a challenge laid down earlier in the day by Alliance member Test. The two behemoths started pounding on each other from the get-go, and eventually, Test was able to take the Taker down to the mat. Undertaker was able to gain his footing, however, and took Test into the corner. Test fended Taker off again, and took him to the mat once again. As Test went to finish off the Dead Man, Taker reversed the move into a submission hold. Test was able to break free after grabbing the ropes, but Taker continued to build his offensive momentum. Taker then went to hit his Last Ride when Steven Richards superkicked Taker from behind! Steven exited the ring as Test nailed Taker with a big boot to the face!

In footage shot earlier in the day, Christian told an arena guard that he would beat The Rock later, when two people came up to him saying it was so cool to see Edge's brother. After the couple told Christian they were going to be in the front row, he told the guard to get them out of the front row so his real fans could see him win later.

In the back, Steven Richards made a hasty exit as Michael Cole asked him what was going on.

Steven said that Taker was responsible for the dismantling of the Right to Censor, so Steven was challenging Taker to a match on SmackDown!

In William Regal's office, the commissioner warned Tajiri to watch out for Torrie Wilson. Regal also told Tajiri that if he found a partner, he could face the Dudley Boyz in a No. 1 contender match for the Federation Tag Team Championships! Then the Big Show walked in and volunteered his services!

As Stone Cold and Debra arrived in the arena, the rest of the Alliance waited and surprised the Rattlesnake! Stephanie told Austin that he was inspiring, and that it was great to see what Austin did to the Bladewolf's bat. Austin said that he threw Bladewolf's bat in the river for the whole Alliance. Austin asked if anyone had seen Bladewolf lately, and Stephanie said no. She also added that the Alliance had a huge surprise planned for Stone Cold later in the night!

In a match that would determine the No. 1 contenders for the World Wrestling Federation Tag Team Championship, the Big Show teamed with Tajiri to face the Dudley Boyz. The Japanese Buzzsaw took it to both Dudleys at the beginning of the match, but after a double team, Tajiri found himself the victim of a Dudley beating. As that went on, Torrie Wilson came to ringside with a very concerned look on her face. When Tajiri was able to make the tag, Big Show entered the ring and nearly decimated the Dudleys.

Tajiri made a blind tag and went to hit Bubba with the Green Mist, but he accidentally hit the Show! When he rolled out of the ring, he knocked Torrie over and out! In the ring, the Dudleys won after hitting Tajiri with a 3D! When the match ended, Big Show carried Torrie to the back for medical attention, and the Dudleys got out a table! Bubba nailed Tajiri through the table with a powerbomb, but the Dudleys were chased out of the ring when the Big Show ran back down to assist Tajiri!

In the locker room, Christian polished the King of the Ring trophy when Shane McMahon and Booker T entered. Shane told Christian that he had a proposition - Shane and Booker would go to ringside with Christian to make sure everything was fair, and after Christian won, he would offer Booker T the first title shot on SmackDown! Christian eagerly agreed.

In Stone Cold's dressing room, Stephanie entered the room and Austin nearly jumped out of his skin! Austin told Steph that she needed to knock, because she scared Debra half to death. Stephanie aplogized, and told Austin that his surprise was getting nearer. Austin told Stephanie that Debra was asking if Bladewolf was anywhere nearby, and Stephanie told everyone not to worry, because Bladewolf wouldn't show his face. As Austin went to drink a beer, he cracked it open and nearly jumped out of his skin again!

Shawn Stasiak, accompanied by Stacy Keibler, took on Spike Dudley, who was joined at ringside by Molly Holly.

Stasiak used his size advantage over Spike as Keibler cheered on from ringside. When Spike went to nail Shawn, Stacy grabbed his ankle, causing him to fall. Spike go t back up though, and pinned Stasiak after nailing him with a Dudley Dog! After the match, Stacy started pushing Spike around! So Molly got in the ring and started pounding on Stacy!

As Christian prepared for his match against The Rock, Edge entered the room and told Christian that it would be totally cool if Christian won the WCW Title. Christian agreed and said that he didn't want Edge to come to ringside, because he wanted to win the title on his own. Christian then told Edge that he realized how wrong he was to keep holding the King of the Ring trophy, and gave it to his brother. Christian added that after he won the WCW Title, which is more prestigious than the Intercontinental Title, he and Edge would still be brothers, no matter what!

In the back, Perry Saturn told Hurricane Helms that he needed help finding Moppy's kidnapper. The Hurricane examined the ransom note and deduced that Matt Hardy had something to do with Moppy's disappearance. Helms said that his "Hurri-sense" was telling him that Matt Hardy was not what he seemed.

Booker T then made his way to the ring and grabbed a microphone to be the guest ring announcer for the WCW Championship match. The Book the introduced the special guest timekeeper - WCW Owner Shane McMahon.

Booker then introduced the challenger, Toronto's own Christian. Finally, Booker introduced the WCW Champion, The Rock! Before the match began, Booker T and Shane both hit Rock with some cheap shots. Christian got Rock back in the ring, and the match was underway. As the match went on, The Rock was continually a victim of outside interference by Booker and Shane. The Rock kept coming back, doing his best to overcome the beating he was taking from three men. Booker T slid the WCW Title belt into the ring, and when Christian went to hit Rock with it, the champion ducked it and started pounding on Christian. The Rock locked Christian in a sharp shooter when Shane interfered once again. Christian made a cover, but The Rock was shockingly able to kick out at two. The Rock got up and hit Christian with a Rock Bottom and made the pin to retain the WCW Championship!

When the match ended, The Rock called Booker T into the ring, and when Rock started pounding on him, Shane came in and hit him from behind! Then, the APA entered the ring and ran off both Booker and Shane!

Outside Stone Cold's locker room, Stephanie and Debra got ready to go pick up Austin's surprise. When they found out it was ready, Debra stuck her head in the door and told Austin not to come out until they told him to.

Stephanie then made her way out to the ring.

The Princess told the Canadian crowd that they were backwards - for example, Canadians shouldn't celebrate Labour Day, because Canada is the laziest country in the world! Steph said that no worked harder than Americans, and the hardest working one is Stone Cold Steve Austin! Then, the most paranoid SOB in sports-entertainment walked out to the ring. Stephanie then showed Stone Cold his surprise - a brand new pickup truck! In the parking area, Debra showed off the features of Austin's new truck and then asked Stone Cold to come back to take her in a ride in it! Austin and Stephanie hurried their way to the back.

When they got there, Austin said that he loved his new truck! As he admired it, the Bladewolf jumped out of a production truck and hit Austin from behind with a steel pipe, knocking him out! He ties Austin up with a chain that had cinder block attached to it, tossing Austin into the back of the truck.

"You're going on a ride, Austin. On the highway to hell! And I'll take you there myself. " Bladewolf said as he shuts the door of the back and gets into the driver's seat of the truck then drives off with Austin in the trunk!


In an Intergender Tag Team match, Matt Hardy and Lita took on Ivory and the Hurricane. When Matt went to hit the Hurricane with a legdrop, Perry Saturn ran to ringside and grabbed him! That allowed the Hurricane to make the pin on Matt! After the match ended, Saturn attacked Helms, and demanded to know where Moppy was!

In the back hallway, Edge tried to console his brother when Lance Storm came up and said that both of them were pathetic. Edge told Storm that he was pathetic, and he wouldn't have to worry about any shenanigans later, because Edge would straight-up beat his ass!

Christian just sat by and stared at the ceiling.

In the Alliance dressing room, Stephanie called the "Canadian Police" and described Austin's truck when suddenly, footage appeared on the television of the Bladewolf and Stone Cold. Bladewolf parked the car and started speaking to Austin, who was blindfolded and chained up.

"Sorry it was a bumpy ride, Austin, but your nice new truck can handle it." Bladewolf said as he drags the slowly waking up Austin out of the truck, sitting him on the edge of the truck. "Now that stunt you pulled last week, throwing my bat off the bridge. The bat can be replaced, it's the fact you stole from me is why this is happening to you. No one steals from me without getting an ass whooping for it. But you know what, it gave me a great idea to do something special just for you. You wanna know what I did? I spent two days trying to find the perfect spot for you. I'll show you what the hell I'm talking about."

He drags Austin out of the truck and to the side of the bridge and takes off Austin's blindfold, revealing a long drop and a stream of water below them.

"You thought it was funny throwing my bat off the bridge?" Bladewolf asks before he smacks Austin on the head.

"Think about this, Wolf!" Austin told him.

"Oh I have." Bladewolf said darkly. "In case you haven't already noticed for the past four years, my soul is already damned to Hell and the Devil, and I will not regret what I am going to do to you tonight."

"I'm sorry." Austin said.

"What?" Bladewolf raised an eyebrow.

"I'm sorry." Austin said it louder.

"What?" Bladewolf asked mockingly.

"I'm sorry!" Austin shouted.

"What?" Bladewolf asked again.

"I SAID I'M SORRY!" Austin shouted louder.

"Oh no, no, no, this is what you wanted, right? You knew what you were getting yourself into when you injured me then screwed me out of my match at SummerSlam when I had you beaten." Bladewolf said. "Now listen, what you did to my bat...I'm going to do the same to you."

Bladewolf started lifting Austin to put him over the bridge.

"No! You crazy son of a bitch!" Austin shouted as he tried to get out of this but he was chained up with cinder block attached to the chain. Bladewolf stops and holds Austin down. "You don't wanna do this!"

"Oh but I really do, Austin." Bladewolf nods. "I'm pissed off so much I will not listen to reason or whatever. All I care about is making you suffer more hell than ypu've ever suffered in your entire, worthless life." He then pauses and looks from the bridge and Austin. "What am I saying? i don' want to do this."

"Thank you." Austin said in relief.

"You're right, Austin." Bladewolf nods. "I can't do this."

"It's over, please take the chains off." Austin said.

Bladewolf nods before a dark smirk comes onto his lips. "This bridge...is NOT high enough for a good drop. Let's go, Austin, we have anothe rride to go through."

"NO!" Austin yelled as he was placed in the back of the truck. Bladewolf got into the driver's seat and drove off somewhere.

Back at the arena, Stephanie demanded that the members of the Alliance get moving so someone could help Stone Cold!


Edge put his Intercontinental Championship on the line against fellow Canadian Lance Storm. Edge retained his championship after a physical bout. After the match, Storm went to assault Edge with a steel chair when Christian ran down to the ring with a chair of his own, running off Storm. The two brothers embraced, and then Christian gave Edge his King of the Ring trophy. As Edge stood there, Christian wound up and smacked Edge over the head with his chair! Then Christian screamed at Edge and threw the trophy at him! As Edge lie in pain, Christian kept pounding on his brother with the chair!

The main event on RAW pitted Hardcore Champion Rob Van Dam and Rhyno against the returning Jeff Hardy and Chris Jericho. Early in the match, Jericho tagged in Jeff Hardy, who was immediately pounded on by RVD. But, even with his sore ribs, Jeff made it to the top rope and hit RVD with a Swanton Bomb! Even though he had took down Van Dam, Hardy hurt himself in the process. Finally, Jeff was able to tag in Jericho, who took out Rhyno but then was attacked by RVD! Jericho reversed on of Van Dam's holds, however, and pinned Van Dam for the win!

At a different, higher, bridge in Toronto, Bladewolf shows up with Austin and brings him close to the edge of it and he nods in satisfaction.

"i'm sorry! I'm sorry for what I did to your bat! Please! there has to be some humanity within you!" Austin begged, the WWF Champion blindfolded again.

"No, there is no form of it right now. All I care about is making you suffer until the end of time itself." Bladewolf growls as he leans close to Austin.

Back in the arena, Debra heads to the ring and grabs a microphone, the woman beginning to cry as she pleads. "Bladewolf, please! he's the love of my life!"

Back at the bridge, Bladewolf shakes his head. "Alright Austin, time's up. I'm going to do what anyone in my position with nothing else to lose would do. Beg for me. Show me how you beg for your pathetic life. Cry for me. Cry like the little bitch you are."

"I'm sorry, this has all been a big misunderstanding." Austin said.

Bladewolf shakes his head. "Oh no, let's not call it that. You attacked me, my brothers, injure Kane's arm months ago, you play a hoax on my sister-in-law. You hurt anybody because you think you can, well guess what, Austin? You can't because I say otherwise. You know something, Austin... you are really pathetic. You call yourself the baddest son of a bitch in the WWF. you're just a whiny little bitch who begs like a pussy. I'll tell you what, there's something I want, even more than my bat. I want my rematch for the WWF title."

"You got it." Austin agreed right away, looking away, muttering.

"What?" Bladewolf raised an eyebrow.

"You got it, you got a rematch with me for the title." Austin said.

Bladewolf grabs Austin's chin and turned the Rattlesnake's head to him. "I also want to name the day and place for it."

"Okay, you got that as well. What day and where should it be?" Austin asks.

Bladewolf smirks. "September 23, Unforgiven in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The very event you beat me in 1998 to win your first WWF Championship. Do we have a deal?"

"You got it all. WWF Title match, Unforgiven." Austin nods. "Now take these chains off and let me go! I gave you what you wanted! What more do you want?!"

"Alright, hey, I got what I wanted and that's all that matters. But you know what, Austin?" Bladewolf chuckles as he looks over the edge of the brodge before shaking his head and looks back at Austin. "Have a nice swim."

He pushes him and Austin falls...INTO A KIDDIE POOL!

Austin spit the water out and takes off the blindfold to see what happaned and he shouted curses at Bladewolf but couldn't get him due to the chains and the cinder block.

"What? I'll see you at Unforgiven, Austin. Sorry, I don't have the keys on me, but if Harry Houdini can get out of those chains, so can you. Later, Austin." Bladewolf said and walked to the truck, gets in and drives off but not before he gives Austin the middle finger then drives off, laughing.


Yeah, I loved writing this segment. Bladewolf using mind games again to make Austin agree to a rematch between him and Bladewolf at Unforgiven with the WWF Championship on the line.