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WWE house show
February 10, 2008
Ariake, Japan
Report by Christopher Charlton, PWTorch.com reader

Went to the Raw house show in Ariake last night. It was an enjoyable show, much better than expected, with a fairly large and vocal crowd. WWE TV over here is about three weeks behind the rest of the world so there was lots of shilling for the Rumble.
 
(1) HARDCORE HOLLY & CODY RHODES beat LANCE CADE & TREVOR MURDOCH
 
Holly got a good reception and won with the Alabama Slam. 
 
(2) CHARLIE HASS beat D.H. SMITH
 
Charlie Hass with the win after having his first mask taken off, but finding a second one and rallying with a German suplex. One has to wonder, if he gets stronger whilst wearing a mask, why he doesn't wear one all the time, but anyway. Decent match.
 
(3) JEFF HARDY beat SNITSKY
 
Jeff got a huge pop, as expected. He went out into the crowd to shake hands, and made friends with a cosplayer dressed up as him. Twist of Fate and Swanton for the win.
 
(4) CARLITO beat BRIAN KENDRICK
 
Nice finishing sequence saw Kendrick going for Sliced Bread but it being countered into the Backstabber.
 
(5) RIC FLAIR beat MR. KENNEDY
 
Kennedy was getting over pretty well, and got annoyed at the fans for trying to say his name along with him. Everybody loved Flair, natch. Figure 4 did Kennedy in.
 
Candice Michelle came out at intermission to give away some T-shirts and give a prize to a competition winner.
 
(6) BETH PHOENIX beat MICKIE JAMES
 
Val Venis was the special guest referee, but didn't really get involved. Decent match, Phoenix won with that thing she does.
 
(7) RANDY ORTON beat CHRIS JERICHO
 
Really, really good match. Everybody knew Orton was going to win (it was a title match) but really bought into the false finishes. Orton won with the RKO, then tried to punt Jericho, who countered with the Code Breaker.
 
(8) DX beat WILLIAM REGAL & UMAGA
 
DX, obviously, got a big reception. Triple H sang 'Turning Japanese' and danced about a bit, which was vaguely embarrassing. He put a slight lack of laughs down to the language barrier. As expected, a fun tag match to send people home happy (but not before being profoundly disturbed by William Regal's bare buttocks). DX won with a Sweet Chin/ Pedigree combo, then went and greeted the fans in the floor seats.
 
The show was pretty long at nearly three hours. No Cena, JBL or (most disappointingly) Marella, but it was a really fun show, definitely better than the last time I saw WWE live. The crowd was decent, owing in part to Monday being a national holiday.

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