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This week Raw has cleared the dog poop out of the USA Network to reclaim its regular Monday night spot. The show was live from the Rabobank Arena in Bakersfield, California.

In case you'd forgotten, Donald Trump showed up on Raw last week to extend a Billion Dollar Challenge to Mister McMahon. Each will select someone to represent him in the ring, and the loser will get his head shaved.

As the live show began, Mister McMahon headed down the ramp as only he can. A barber pole and barber chair awaited him in the ring. Mister McMahon had obviously given the scenario of shaving Donald Trump's head a great deal of thought. He was going to give him a Brittany (and was kind enough to provide a picture of K-Fed's ex, Bald Brittany). Mister McManic gleefully announced that in one week's time, Trump would have to provide the name of his representative.

Meanwhile, Mister McMahon introduced the person who would represent him in the ring--the unstoppable, Umaga. Armando the Mouthpiece accepted on behalf of Umaga. (Why do I think Trump will pick the Great Khali?)

In order to bestow prestige on Umaga for his upcoming match, tonight he will get a crack at Jeff Hardy's IC Title.

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(1) Intercontinental Title Match: Jeff Hardy vs. Umaga. The match was underway when the show came back from commercial. (Periodically, the sound has been bad tonight; it sounds like its coming from inside a tin can.) Chants for Hardy from the crowd, but he was facing an uphill battle. Unfortunately for Jeff, Umaga's victory was a decisive one.

Your new Intercontinental Champion--Umaga.

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Mick Foley promoted his new book "Hardcore Diaries," available at fine bookstores on March 6. He said if Winston Churchill could have three biographies, so could he. Besides, he added, who did Churchill ever beat?

(2) Tag Team Match: Ric Flair & Carlito (w/Torrie) vs. Lance Cade & Trevor Murdock. Carlito was isolated in the wrong corner and getting a beating from Team Redneck for a good portion of the match. Hot tag to Flair, who immediately started serving up chops. Low blow by Flair to Murdoch when the ref wasn't looking. Back cracker by Carlito and Flair and Carlito won. They made a good team.

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Todd Grisham's guests were tag champs Shawn Michaels and John Cena. He asked about their big win at last night's pay-per-view, but they had their own agenda. HBK reiterated that he had Cena's back. Until WrestleMania, that is. Then they had dueling promos for their respective videos and Cena was a brilliant salesman. However, when the Thong Guy showed up and HBK super kicked him, it was a service to all mankind.

Edge and Orton were strategizing in their dressing room.

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(3) Money In The Bank Qualifying Match: Edge vs. Rob Van Dam. These two are previous winners of the Golden Briefcase Award.

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Van Dam was in fine form and had lots of support from the crowd. As the match wound down, Edge countered a Rolling Thunder with a slam, which was amazing to watch. RVD crotched Edge on the ropes, then side-kicked him to the floor and RVD followed him to the outside. Back in the ring they collided in mid-air. Pinning attempts by each. RVD went up top and was about to take a leap when Randy Orton ran out and distracted Van Dam. That gave Edge the opportunity to spear Van Dam and pin him for the win and a chance to win the Money in the Bank Match at WrestleMania.

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(4) Women's Title Match: Melina vs. Mickie James. Short skirts, skin-tight pants and lots of cleav-vaage, as usual. The match was somewhat sloppy, but Melina managed to get the win and become the new Women's Champ.

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Grisham tried to interview Mickie about her loss, and she slapped the taste out of his mouth. Well, she'd warned him that she didn't want to talk about it.

(5) Rory & Robbie vs. Great Khali. Yeah, like either Robbie or Rory had a snowball's chance in hell to get anything but squashed in this match. Lots of technically proficient clubbering from Khali. Khali put a foot on Robbie's (or Rory's) chest and made the pin.

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In case you missed the hilarity earlier in the show, there was a recap of the different hair styles McMahon had in mind for Donald Trump, as well as the introduction of his representative, Umaga. I still say Trump is likely to pick Khali.

Jonathan Coachman was about to discuss something with Kenny Dykstra when Khali walked up and told Coach he wanted better competition. Or something like that.

Ron Simmons walked up, looked WAY up at Khali, and said--what else--"DAMN."

Diva Ashley is the latest "Playboy" cover girl. Last week when the cover was revealed, she'd taken off her top to reveal--ta da--Playboy Bunny pasties. What did you expect? A turtleneck sweater?

Melina was chewing out the new interview guy for making her wait for Ashley's video to air before interviewing her, the more important new Women's Champ. Champion Bee-yotch.

Joining Dusty Rhodes in the 2007 Hall of Fame will be the late, great Curt Hennig.

John Cena was headed to the ring for his match with Randy Orton.

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(6) John Cena vs. Randy Orton. Orton was about to use a steel chair and risk disqualification as the show went to commercial.

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To the delight of the crowd, Cena was giving Orton "what for." DDT by Orton, but Cena kicked out of the pin. Orton kept going for covers and Cena kept kicking out. Long submision hold, which Cena reversed. Then Cena geared up for the Five Knuckle Shuffle and waited too long. Cena pushed away Orton's RKO. He was about to go for the pin when Edge came out. You know the rest. Beat down. ConChairToe. But Shawn Michaels came running out and made good use of the chair. He nearly bashed Cena with it, too, but had second thoughts. After all, he had made a promise.

Next week these four will face off in tag action.

Good show tonight. If they can keep this up every week, I may be tempted to order WrestleMania.