WWE Raw 6-7-04
Recap of Triple H defeating Chris Benoit to earn a title shot. Trish winning the Women's Championship. Eugene beating Kane!

Opening Montage

YOUR Hosts: Jim Ross & Jerry 'The King' Lawler
Tonight Christian v Edge for the Intercontinental Championship, and Y2J will team with Chris Benoit to face Randy Orton and Triple H. short video recap of the Orton/Y2J encounter from backstage at Backlash.
Trish Stratus def Molly Holly via Pinfall (Heel Finisher with foot on the ropes) to retain the WWE Women's Championship
Molly locks up with Trish who pulls the wig off of Molly. Molly gets furious and begions to dismantle Trish with suplexes, clotheslines, and punches (oh my!). Trish manages to get in a bit of offense before Molly takes her down near the corner. Molly goes up for the Molly-Go-Round, and Trish moves! Trish with a snap neckbreaker on Molly. Molly knocks Trish back down and goes up top, only for Trish to bring her down with the handstand 'rana. Trish goes for the Stratusfaction, but Molly counters into a back suplex. Trish rolls to the side and is down. Molly goes over to make the cover and Trish rolls her up with a school-girl and puts her feet up on the top rope to hold her down for the pinfall.
Hirohito def Orlando Jordan via Pinfall (The Rising Sun ¹)
Orlando Jordan tries to use the unstoppable offense of punhing, punching, and more punching to try and ground Hirohito. But it doesn't work and Hirohito gets a springboard dropkick on Jordan to take control. Jordan tries a charge after throwing Hirohito into the corner, but is met with a dropkick to the ankle. In a real neat spot, OJ's head bounces off the middle turnbuckle. Hirohito back in control with a series of kicks to the upper body, and a roundhouse kick that dumps OJ to the outside. Jordan is reeling, and just barely makes it back in before the ref gets to 10. While he is trying to gain his bearings, Hirohito hits a running baseball slide to the same ankle he had dropkicked earlier. Jordan is barely able to stand, and Hirohito takes advantage to hit The Rising Sun. He rolls into the cover and gets the pinfall to win his Debut match on RAW.

A rolling snare drum beat much like what you would hear before a firing squad in the movies palys over the arena's soundsystem. The lights go out and a giant letter T appears in red in the center of the ring. JR and the King are both confused as to what is going on.
Edge def Christian via Pinfall (Edge-cution) to retain the Intercontinental Championship
Christian comes down to the ring and waits for Edge to make his entrance. While he is waiting, the ominous black bird from Smackdown and Nitro shows up on the Titan-Tron when Edge's music starts playing. Edge comes out, and JR points up at the Titan-Tron. Edge is confused by what he sees. King and JR go off on a tangent about how things are really beginning to get weird on Raw, and over on both Smackdown and Nitro as well. They speculate that this could be nothing more than a misdirected promo that is not being filtered out for the right show to have it, but it just seems odd that it is affecting all three shows.

Meanwhile, in the ring, Christian and Edge have begun their match. Christian is in firm control after having attacked Edge on the ramp during the mysterious promo. Christian goes to the inverted drop neckbreaker, but only gets two off of it. Christian is showing signs of getting frustrated already, but manages to take Edge down again with a cross body block off the ropes. Edge rolls to the outside following the cross body block by Christian. Edge gets right back in the ring and starts punching Christian, trying to gain some sort of opening. Christian gets a hangman's neckbreaker to stop that though. He tosses Edge into the ropes, and Edge responds with a spear! Both men are down, and Edge is the first to his feet. Dropkick to Christian, and Edge is cooking with gas! Halo take-down, and that gets two for Edge. He goes for the Edge-cution, but Christian reverses it into a Northern Lights Suplex. That gets two. Edge chops away and tosses Christian into the ropes. Christian springs off looking for a flying forearm, but Edge ducks. Christian back up and walks right into a kick to the stomach. And it's KICK, WHAM, PLANT with the Edge-cution, and the win for Edge.
Nitro Nugget:
The strange bird promo from Nitro is shown, as is RVD/Mysterio's tag team victory and Lance Storm winning the ECW Television Championship. Hype for the matches at The Great American Bash this coming Sunday! Matches include Rey Mysterio v Matt Hardy v1 v Steven Richards v Lance Storm for the ECW Television Championship, and RVD v Rene Dupree for the ECW Heavyweight Championship.
Eugene def Val Venis via Pinfall (Palsy-Plex)
Just before Eugene comes out, the bird reappears, this time it shows up on the ring itself! Then the arena is bathed in blue lights as the bird begins to change shape and becomes a sword. The sword then bursts into flames, and the image disappears. The Titan-Tron goes completely black and then three phrases show on the Titan-Tron: "He's coming;" "And he's not alone;" & "Pray for your immortal souls."

Eugene is backstage and refuses to come out to the ring saying that it is 'haunted,' but William Regal convinces him to go on ahead to the ring and he will be perfectly safe. He tells Eugene that he has it on good advice that what happened is nothing more than a little piece of a light show designed for the local basketball team. And there is nothing to fear because it was nothing more than a light show.

Val is in the ring, and waiting for Eugene, who finally comes down rather slowly, looking all over the place to make sure he is okay. Val even greets him outside the ring to assure him that he'll be okay. Val rolls in and Eugene follows, as he does the bell rings. Eugene pops up and begins to pound on Val. He whips Val into the corner and catches him with a sleeper hold when Val bounces out off the turnbuckles. Val does everything he can to try and escape but can't. He finally manages to coax his way close enough to reach the ropes. Eugene breaks the hold and begins to chop away at Val. Val attempts a clothesline, but misses and Eugene hits the Palsy-Plex out of nowhere. The ref counts the pin, and Eugene takes off to the back to get out of the ring. He runs into Regal at the top of the ramp and you can hear Eugene telling Regal that the ring is haunted as they pass by JR and the King.
Smackdown Low Down
Nova winning the Cruiserweight Championship, Charlie Haas' first run in with Rico, and The FBi retaining the Tag Team Titles recap last week, this week Booker T defend his WWE Championship against Rikishi and Sean O'Haire takes on JBL! The Low Down logo is replaced by the mysterious bird as the Smackdown Low Down ends.
Y2J & Chris Benoit def Randy Orton & Triple H via DQ (Batista-ference)
Benoit and Orton start. Benoit chops Orton to the point that it looks like he's about to draw blood. Orton goes for the RKO, but Benoit reverses into the Rolling Germans. Triple H tags in and hits Benoit with a running kneelift. Benoit rolls back into his corner and tags in Jericho who hits and enziguri on Triple H. Y2J goes for the Lionsault, but misses and Triple H tags in Orton who hits his over-the-back backbreaker (that move really needs a name) to get a two count. Jericho tags in Benoit who reels off a series of snap suplexes on Orton and is getting ready to go for the Diving Headbutt when Triple H pushes him off the ropes. Batista comes down to the ring at this point and helps Orton get back to his feet. Benoit makes it back into the ring with some help from Triple H, but Benoit dumps Batista and goes after Orton. He tags in Jericho who hits the Breakdown on Orton, and Triple H breaks up the pinfall. HHH goes to beat on Jericho some more, and that brings in Benoit who tosses Triple H off the ropes and locks in a Crippler Crossface. While he has the hold, Jericho locks the Walls of Jericho on Orton. Batista comes in and puts Chris Jericho out with a DAVE Bomb, and that is enough for the DQ, but Batista goes after Benoit who then locks the Crippler Crossface in on Batista. Batista fights his way to his feet with the hold still locked in, and then uses his size to force Benoit into a modified powerbomb. Evolution stands tall over Benoit and Jericho as the show ends.
¹The Rising Sun is a springboard moonsault (similar to a Lionsault) that ends in a flowing reverse DDT.