Raw is live from San Antonio TX

Jim Ross and Jerry “The King” Lawler are broadcasting

A Replay of Raw 2 weeks ago is shown where Mick Foley had a match with Randy Orton and Foley walked out of the building.

Austin’s future will be decided tonight in CT

Randy Orton walks out to Foleys music, calls Mick a coward and wants Lillian to announce him the winner of the match they had 2 weeks ago, After Lillian announces him the winner he says he is the new hardcore legend. Booker T walks out and Challenges Randy for the IC belt, Mark Henry attacks Booker T from behind, Orton accepts the challenge.

Bischoff confronts Mark Henry and Teddy Long about there attack on Booker T and Teddy tells Eric he wants to collect on the favor from Survivor Series, Eric Tells Teddy next week he can have anything he wants.

RVD vs. Scott Steiner

Steiner scoop slams RVD, Steiner Trish whips RVD into the corner, Van Dam tries for the early pin, Steiner knocks RVD from getting ready to do the Five Star Frog Splash, Steiner does the belly to belly suplex from the second rope, Steiner tries to pin RVD.

Steiner tosses Van Dam outside the ring, Steiner tosses RVD back in the ring and goes for the pin, to no avail, Steiner does some push ups in the ring, allowing Van dam to recover and get the Rolling thunder on Steiner, RVD fights off Steiner’s Attempts at gaining control of the match, Van Dam does the five star Frog splash and the pin.

HBK moment


The Coach is in Stanford CT to report the meeting for Austin’s return. Linda McMahon is lobbying for Austin’s return; Vince is lobbying against his return.

SmackDown visits Iraq montage is shown.

Back on Raw crowd is yelling USA as commercial starts.

Raw Returns with the Dudley’s in the ring against 2 new comers or 2 jobbers, Flair is announced the special Referee for the match after five or ten minutes Flair DQ's the Dudley’s for using a clenched fist. The Dudley’s beat Flair down only to be beaten down by Batista who saves Flair.

Another HBK moment is shown as Raw goes to commercial.

Bischoff is shown talking to the refs in back and tells them to start enforcing the rules a little more.

Coach is shown with Vince again talking about not letting Austin return.

Next Trish ,Lita and Stacy are shown backstage in Christmas outfits being interviewed by Terri about there match later on when All the sudden Austin’s back end drives into Raw where Terri and the Lita , Trish and Stacy are, Austin tells Terri he awaiting the phone call about tonight meaning if he is allowed to return to Raw tonight.

Raw returns with Austin sitting in his truck drinking beer waiting for the call

Randy Orton vs. Booker T is next

Not a lot happened, just Kane interfered and destroyed Booker T after Booker was distracted and Orton pinned Booker T Raw.

Raw returns with Austin sitting in his truck drinking beer waiting for the call

Raw returns from commercial showing the HBK moment again

Linda McMahon is outside the board of Directors office and discusses her thoughts on Austin’s possible return

Jericho is shown backstage giving Trish a gift she doesn't accept and walks off after telling Chris off., Raw goes to commercial

Raw returns with Austin still sitting in his truck, he gets a call but it is not the call he was expecting.

The six women Happy Holidays match is about to begin Miss Jackie, Victoria, and Molly are already in the ring, Stacy goes to attack Victoria but she tags in Molly, as Stacy tags in Lita, Lita goes for the pin but Miss Jackie interferes. Lita tags in Trish. Trish gets the pin on Molly as Trish, Stacy and Lita leave the ring Victoria helps up Molly but knocks her back down and shockingly holds the women’s title(I think they are slowly turning Victoria face) instead of being a heel

Austin is shown in his truck and he gets the call and he is offered his job back but not on his terms Austin tells them to shove it and drives off. Raw gores to commercial

HBK vs. Triple H starts as RAW returns

HBK puts Triple in a Headlock, punches back and forth between each other, Flair and Triple H are outside the ring when Shawn does the Springboard cross body elbow tie back and forth again Michaels goes for arm drag, Triple H corners Shan Shawn puts Triple H in the sleeper. Fast forward a few moves and holds Michaels Wins but loses in a tie when the replay is shown both Triple H and Shawn’s arms were down

Not agreeing Shan beats up Eric and Eric fires him but Austin rehires him when Austin walked to the ring to say there is a new sheriff on Raw as Raw ends