Triple H turned 40 on July 27, and after this week’s Monday Night Raw broadcast ended, his father-in-law, World Wrestling Entertainment chairman Vince McMahon, had a surprise for The Game a.k.a. The Cerebral Assassin.
Below are some clips of the cake surprise attack posted on YouTube by fans who attended this week’s Raw, which was held in Washington, D.C. and featured National Basketball Association superstar Shaquille O’Neal of the Cleveland Cavaliers as guest host. Check out my previous blog entry for Shaq’s encounter with The Big Show.
Stop reading if you haven’t seen this week’s Monday Night Raw and don’t want spoilers.
The moment it was announced that National Basketball Association superstar Shaquille O’Neal of the Cleveland Cavaliers was going to be the guest host on World Wrestling Entertainment’s Monday Night Raw, you had to know he was going to square off against “the world’s largest athlete,” The Big Show.
Well, Raw didn’t disappoint, and Shaq, a huge pro wrestling fan (in more ways than one, heh), was very entertaining and looked like he felt right at home. Maybe we’ll see him involved in WrestleMania 26 next year.
UPDATE:Added video clip of ESPN.com interview. Found it via Kevin Eck’s Ring Posts pro wrestling blog for The Baltimore Sun.
Unbelievably, next week’s edition of Monday Night Raw might be in danger of being canceled. It turns out that the same venue has been double booked for World Wrestling Entertainment and Game 4 of the National Basketball Association’s Western Conference finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and Denver Nuggets.
Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers are scheduled to be at the Pepsi Center in Denver next Monday night.
Problem is, so are John Cena and a bunch of wrestlers — and they called it first.
World Wrestling Entertainment said it is booked at the arena for an episode of Monday Night Raw, the same night the Nuggets are slated to host the Lakers in Game 4 of the Western Conference finals.
Let’s hope this scheduling mix-up will be quickly resolved.
Too bad this isn’t just a wrestling storyline involving the WWE Superstars from the Raw brand. Imagine Kobe having to wrestle WWE champ Randy Orton for the right to use the Pepsi Center — or Big Show chokeslamming the Nuggets’ Carmelo Anthony LOL
Here’s a clip of ESPNews anchor Jonathan Coachman interviewing WWE chairman Vince McMahon. As wrestling fans would know, Coachman a.k.a. Coach once worked for McMahon in WWE as a color commentator, even wrestling as a heel in some matches.
