Off-air Notes: What you didn't see on RAW last night
Submitted by Ben Johnson on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 at 3:26 AM EST


• Thanks to Adam Lunau for the following report:
  
  Hey guys! I just got back from RAW and I thought I'd pass along some things that weren't on the show. I'm not that great at crowd estimates so I won't offer one but there were some sections on the upper bowls that were tarped off.
  
  
  Dark Matches & Heat Tapings:
  
  Chuck Palumbo beat Bobby Rude. Rude was announced as being from nearby Medicine Hat Alberta to establish himself as a face. Match was fairly long and crowd was into it as the first match of the night. Pulumbo won with the discus punch.
  
  Lance Storm beat Stevie Richards. Obvious huge pop for Storm as he was the local boy. Good heat for the match and Storm won with the single leg crab. This may be a heat match as Al Snow and new host Todd Grisham came out to Snow's music before the match.
  
  Rob Conway beat Rosey. This was announced as Hurricane vs Conway but Rosey started the match and it went from there. Usual "heels use the flag" bit while the ref is distracted for the win.
  
  Shelton Benjamin beat Rhyno. Yes how the mighty have fallen. Face a 16 time champ on PPV on Sunday and main event Heat on Monday. Decent match. Crowd cheered Rhyno as he made his entrance as no one knew if he was heel or face today. Solid match that had Shelton win with the "Slop Drop". Rhyno looked fairly shook up afterwards and needed help to the back.
  
  After the Show
  
  Edge got on the mic and talked about how this was his 10th time winning the tag titles and he hasn't had a better partner than Benoit. He then said that everyone wants to get out of the Saddledome and "watch Calgary kick Vancouver's ass" in reference to the big hockey game in Vancouver tonight. That got the biggest reaction of the night believe it or not. Benoit then called out Evolution to take care of unfinished business. After a long pause HHH came out and said that he could beat both Benoit and Edge at the same time because he's American. He then said he may have tapped but he still didn't have to deal with being Canadian. Trips then left. Benoit's music then hit and they posed for a while and Lillian thanked us all for coming.
  
  
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