Posted on Jul 22, 2003 By Anthony DeBlasi                     <<BACK TO NEWSBOARD

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Last night's Raw scored a 4.2 rating, off of hours of a 4.0 and 4.4. The overrum scored a 5.2. The rating is up from last week's 3.85. Interestingly, the HBK/Jericho match saw the biggest "jump" in ratings during the show, going from 4.3 to a 4.6. However, while the overrun did a whopping 5.2, the actual beginning of the Kane/RVD match was a 4.5. Thus, it's hard to say whether it was the Kane storyline that did the huge number, or fans were tuning into Stripperella, which scored around a 1 rating last night. Here are your Dark Matches and Heat tapings. Remember, Heat will air in Velocity's spot this weekend due to Velocity airing Sunday before the PPV.  Dark Match: Mark Jindrak and Garrison Cade def. Sean Shocker Evans & KJ Sakoda  Heat Spoilers: La Resistance def. the Dudleyz by DQ after Bubba and D-Von put one of them through a table.  Goldust def. Steven Richards w/ Victoria Christian def. Zula Rodney Mack (with Theodore Long) def. Maven Off Camera Notes from Raw: Coach got booed when he came out, The King got cheered. Two idiots from the new show The Mullets were in attendance, along with the guy who played J. Peterman in Seinfeld (or at least it was his look-alike; he interfered in the Dudleyz/Resistance match), and from what I heard from the people around me, Mr. Belding from Saved By the Bell was in a luxury suite. Rob Reiner was there again. Ric Flair got some good heat by running down the Lakers. Then he lost some of it by giving a "Whooo!!!" which the crowd happily joined in. Boy, it was cool seeing The Nature Boy up close. Chris Jericho got some good heat as well by running down the people of L.A. in general by calling us fat, lazy, Ass Clowns (I'm paraphrasing). After the Y2J-HBK match, Shawn Michaels stayed on the mat for a few minutes after Jericho left. When he rose to his feet, he received a tremendous ovation, then high-fived the fans along the rails as he left. I got to touch hands with HBK. The crowd was live throughout the match.  The "boring" chants started approximately 26 seconds into the Jindrak match, but to show what a great night of wrestling it was, they only surfaced again when Lance Storm came out. After Raw ended: Two stretchers were brought out for RVD and Linda McMahon. Linda was strapped on and taken away. Coach was getting the derision of the crowd since he walked over to help after the two were already laid out. RVD stayed down for about 10 minutes while the medics looked at him, then kicked away the stretcher and staggered to his feet. The crowd didn't leave until everyone left the stage.