WWE MONDAY NIGHT RAW

Historical 800th Episode
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Monday, September 22, 2008 - Cincinnatti, OH: US Bank Arena

source: WWE.com - Backstage, Adamle complained to Shane McMahon about embarrasing him in front of everyone when he overruled his decision to suspend CM Punk for slapping Orton. Shane was in the process of reassuring the RAW GM when Kane barged in and walks up to them. His eyes on Adamle, Kane addresses "Shane-O", slowly turning his head before adding, 'long time no see'. Adamle asks Kane what's on his mind, and Kane tells him he appreciates being served Evan Bourne tonight, but it's not good enough - he wants Rey. Adamle let's Kane know he's already booked Kane vs Rey for No Mercy, then asks Kane to leave. Kane turns to go, stops, turns to Shane and asks him to say hi to his mom for him before leaving on a wicked dirty laugh.

"Kane knows your Mom?" Adamle asks Shane. Shane looks down and reaches up to scrath the side of his face.

"Um, just a bit of history there. If you call tombstoning her head into a steel grate and then trying to torture her just a little bit more by electrocuting my testicles with a car battery, then yeah, Kane knows her." Priceless!

And so it was that Evan Bourne found himself bounding down the ramp toward a ring full of The Big Red Monster. Michael Cole noted Kane was looking to feast on Bourne tonight, Jerry Lawler added he actually doesn't like looking Kane in the eyes.

Match starts with Bourne leapfrogging over the advancing Kane then catching The Big Guy with a roundkick high on the shoulder. As the ref cautions Bourne, Kane laughs it off and advances again, this time Bourne's enzuigiri connects with the side of Kane's face. 'Play time's over' as Kane sets in earnest to dismantle Evan Bourne.

Kane traps Bourne against the ropes but Bourne fights back with kicks and punches until Kane connects with a punch to the gut. Kane lifts the scrapper who wriggles free to deliver a sliding kick to Kane's knee. Bourne continues to punish Kane's knee until Kane kicks back, doubling Bourne over. Kane goes for a leg drop, Bourne moves out of the way and Kane lands hard. As Kane starst to regain his legs, Bourne delivers a flying side kick to Kane's head, and another to Kane's chest as he sits up.

Evan works to keep Kane on the mat, but the Monster won't cooperate, flicking Bourne off him to rise and reach down to lift gritty grappler. Bourne punches up at Kane and connects, sending Kane stumbling back. Bourne's next kick catches Kane high in the thigh then Bourne goes for the crucifix, but something goes wrong, and Evan finds himself back on the mat with a glimpse of Kane looming over him before receiving a well aimed punch to the face. Evan rolls to the corner where Kane grabs him up and whips him across the ring into the corner, but finds the where-with-all to stop the charging Monster with a boot to the middle followed up with a flying double boot to the face that has Kane stumbling.

Bourne grabs Kane by the wrist and attempts to whip HIM into the corner, but Kane balks, whipping Bourne in instead and follows only to get another boot. Snarling, Kane lifts Evan out of the corner and attempts to slam him on the top rope, but Bourne ends up landing on the ring apron, jarring his shoulder up into Kane's nose. Kane attempts a big boot but gets hung up on the top rope and Bourne slips back into the ring to seize the advantage, pounding Kane high upon the back and sending the big man crashing to the floor outside the ring. Kane gets to his feet to meet a shooting star press from Bourne and both men are down on the floor. As the ref begins a count out, Kane slips back into the ring while Evan takes to the ropes to execute his double knee drive, taking Kane down for a count of two.

Kane scrambles up as Evan springs off the rope, this time Kane catches him mid air, tosses him up and lams him with an upper cut to the the throat. Stalking over to the writhing Bourne, Kane grabs him by the hair to pull him over to the corner post and begins to whale on the hapless youth. The ref breaks it up, getting between Kane and Bourne, while Kane paces. Reaching down, Kane pulls Evan up again to whip him into opposite corner; Bourne uses the momentum to go for the tilt-a-whirl that Kane catches and turns into a backbreaker over his knee. Kane powers Evan into two more backbreakers, then flips him up over his shoulder and charges across the ring to ram Bourne's back into the ring post. As the ref cautions, Kane turns to slams Bourne down to the mat ring center, squats and snarls into the prone man's face, asking if that isn't what he wanted. Evan gets up as Kane walks away and charges, but Kane grasps him about the throat to lift him up and send him crashing to the mat with a chokeslam.

"Did you see the height on that chokeslam?!" Michael Cole asks as Kane reaches down to roll Evan onto his back and takes the winning pin.

Kane rises, looking down at the motionless Bourne, then slowly walks toward the ropes. He stops, looks back, then moves to straddle the kid grabbing him by the jaw. Kane handles Bourne roughly, pulling him up by the jaw and upper arm - Mysterio hits the ring for the save punching up into Kane's face until Kane pushes him away. Rey bounces off the ropes and ducks a swing from Kane to turn and connect with a boot to Big Red's face - twice. Amped, Rey bounces off the rope in an attempt to launch a back flip into Kane, but meets the underside of Kane's boot in his chest and crumble to the mat.

Kane lands on his knees on Rey's outstreched arms and begins to rain blows about his head and face as he yells at him. He gets up and leans down to ask Rey how he liked that, slaps his hand around Rey's throat and lifts him from the floor high up into a thunderous chokeslam. Leaning down over the motionless Mysterio, Kane calls him a coward, straightens, turns and takes his sweet time leaving the ring as the ref rushes to assist Rey.