09/14/09 Monday Night Raw Results and Captures

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- Batista opens the show while still wearing his arm brace. Before he makes the announcement he wants to say thank you to the fans. He says it’s been a rough year with the injuries, and this isn’t how he wanted to come back, but he’s come back to say good bye. He wants to say thank you for letting him have the time of his life in the ring. He says there have been rumors about his retirement, but…I HEAR VOICES…out comes Orton to the surprise of absolutely no one. Orton says he’s not very happy about losing the WWE Title last night, but what cheers him up is knowing that Dave is retiring. He asks if this is how it ends? The big bad animal going out with a whimper. He says whatever big goodbye speech he has he can save, because nobody cares. Orton asks why he waited so long, and tells him to admit that he’s not retiring because of his health but because of Orton. He says that it was him who put him on the shelf, and tells him to hang his head and cry like he was going to before he came out. Batista laughs, and Orton asks what is so funny. Batista says the funny things are that Orton is very predictable, and the other is that he knows something that Orton doesn’t. Batista rips his arm brace, and clotheslines Orton over the top to the floor. Batista says he’s not here to announce his retirement, but to announce that he’s going to Smackdown. Before he goes though he got Trish Stratus to give him one more match on Raw, and it’s a no holds barred match with Orton tonight.

No Holds Barred Match: Randy Orton vs. Batista
Orton goes for a chair at the bell, but Batista is able to stop that and fire him back inside. Orton catches Batista for the hangman’s DDT, but Batista comes right in and powers Orton into the corner. Orton fights out with an uppercut, but Batista answers with a clothesline sending Orton to the floor. Orton looks for weapons under the ring, but comes up empty and instead eats a clothesline from Batista. Back inside Orton goes to the eyes, and hits the inverted backbreaker. Orton’s signature stomps are followed by a kneedrop as he heads back outside looking for plunder. A steel chair is Orton’s weapon of choice, but he walks into a spear from Batista which sends him right back outside. Batista fires Orton into the announce table, and then over the table into King and Cole. Batista drops Orton across the barricade, and then chokes him out with his boot. Batista sends Orton flying into the ringsteps, and then chokes out Orton some more. Back inside the action goes, but Orton goes for an RKO. Batista counters into a slam, and Orton bails this time looking to head to the back. John Cena is there to stop that from happening, and he meets him with a clothesline on the ramp. Cena sends Orton back inside where Batista delivers a spinebuster, and the Batista Bomb makes the pinfall academic at 5:01. Predictible, yet still fairly entertaining as it was kept short and had no downtime at all. Nice job to establish Batista before sending him to Smackdown, and continue the Cena-Orton feud heading to Hell in a Cell. Simple yet effective.
Winner: Batista