What you didn't see at Raw, Update on Hector Garza and Wresting at football games
January 25 2005 at 5:30 PM
- Hector Garza, now back in Mexico, spoke to El Norte about his recent arrest in the U.S. He told the publication that he didn't know it was illegal to travel with steroids and, had he known, he would have left them in Mexico. He says that he was using them as treatment for a leg injury.
He also claimed that corrections officers at the Harris Country Jail (where he was being held) taunted him with "Mexicans take steroids" chants, forced him to strip search everytime he was scheduled to meet with an attorney, and then only let him meet with his attorney for a short time.
He noted that TNA has contacted him and asked him to send some paperwork to them so that they can work on getting him back to the U.S. to work.
- Philadelphia Eagles' DE Derrick Burgess did the Ric Flair strut after sacking Michael Vick during the NFC championship game yesterday. Philadelphia WR Freddie Mitchell was also carrying a replica title belt on his shoulder after the game ended.
- Rob Van Dam posted the following about his knee on his website, robvandam.com. He will likely have surgery on his knee soon:
"So what's new? Well, yeah...I do have a bit of a knee problem. I'll fix the problem and be back on television as soon as I can. In the meantime, Scrubs might be the best thing to watch."
"So hey, did I mention my knee's f***** up? I'll let you know as soon as I find out more info. Sorry, Rey Rey! We'll get those titles back!"
- Thanks to Brad Simons for this:
Sunday Night Heat:
Chris Masters beat Chris Simpson (not sure if this will make it to Heat or if it was a dark match). This match was pretty bad. At one point Masters went to drop an elbow on Simpson and somehow he totally messed up and Masters’s ass landed on Simpson’s head. The crowd reacted with a big OOOOOO.
Victoria beat Molly Holly. Victoria got a big pop when she did that thing where she shakes her ass.
Hurricane and Rosie beat two local guys.
Simon Dean beat local guy. Simon was so much better in ECW!
Shelton Benjamin beat Rhino. The crowd started a loud chant of ECW and Rhino told them to shut up.
I have not watched Heat in about 5 years—it doesn’t look like I am missing much!
After Raw:
Randy Orton went around the ring hurt and was shaking people’s hands in the front row when Eric Bischoff came to the ring and announced a six man tag between Orton & Chris Jericho & Chris Benoit vs. HHH & Batista & Edge. The funny thing was after the Flair match, Orton acted like he was exhausted, but as soon as Bischoff came to the ring one minute later and announced the match he immediately dropped the exhausted bit. It really didn’t matter at that point because half the crowd left anyway.
Orton-Jericho-Benoit beat HHH-Batista-Edge. The best part was just before the match HHH and Batista were messing around with some guy at ringside and HHH took the guy’s hat a placed it in Batista’s tights and then put it back on the guys head which got a chuckle from what was left of the crowd.
Biggest pops of the night:
1. Jim Ross—Last time I heard a pop like that was for Steve Austin a few years back.
2. Batista---This guy was over huge with this crowd.
3. Randy Orton
4. Victoria for the booty shake.
5. Local guy who lost to Simon Dean. When they announced he was from Oklahoma City the crowd went nuts. You would have thought The Rock was in the ring.
The biggest pop of the night actually went to a video they played just before Raw to promote WrestleMania 21. It contained highlights from past WrestleManias.
Top heels:
1. HHH - During the Jim Ross interview, this guy got crazy heat from the crowd.
2. Muhammad Hassan – There were people around us who left during the match because they didn’t like this guy’s gimmick.
3. Edge
4. Flair-when he talked about the Sooners losing 55-19.
5. Simon Dean for insulting as he put it “the slobs of Oklahoma City.”