Raw Deal - Raw recap for December 20, 1999

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Backstage, Triple H and WWF co-owner Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley think the WWF locker room have no holiday spirit, and that they will have to give them. As they talk, The Mean Street Posse (Rodney, Pete Gas, Joey Abs) stand behind them in tuxedos. Triple H says the McMahon-Helmsley coalition will give until it hurts, and that it will be "a very Raw Christmas show." Rodney is then commanded by Stephanie to get her some water.

Before the next match, "Road Dogg" Jesse James lets Test and the fans know that he and "Bad Ass" Billy Gunn are the WWF tag team champions of the world, then Billy Gunn tries to attack Test from behind. Test sees it coming and hits him with a right hand, starting the next match.

The New Age Outlaws ("Road Dogg" Jesse James and "Bad Ass" Billy Gunn) beat Test in a 2-on-1 handicap match after removing Test's face cover and hitting him with a Fameasser. During the match, Edge, Christian and The Hardy Boyz (Jeff and Matt Hardy) are seen watching the match on a monitor backstage.

Backstage, Triple H and WWF co-owner Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley are seen laughing and wishing Test a merry Christmas. Edge, Christian and The Hardy Boyz (Jeff and Matt Hardy) show up after being brought in by The Mean Street Posse (Rodney, Pete Gas, Joey Abs), tired of fighting each other and wanting Triple H and Stephanie to stop the games. Triple H proposes a match between the team of Edge and Matt Hardy and the team of Christian and Jeff Hardy, then wishes them a merry Christmas.

Kurt Angle is seen talking to Triple H and WWF co-owner Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley backstage. Triple H says it is time to step up to the next level and test the 3 I's by facing Viscera. After Triple H asks Kurt Angle if he has any more ostrich jerky left, Stephanie asks "Why Viscera?" Triple H and The Mean Street Posse (Rodney, Pete Gas, Joey Abs) mock Stephanie calling Kurt Angle cute last week before Triple H tells the Posse to shut up.

Christian and Jeff Hardy beat Edge and Matt Hardy. Matt is helped up, apparently suffering a broken nose.

Backstage, Triple H and WWF co-owner Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley make fun of both teams in the last match, then The Mean Street Posse (Rodney, Pete Gas, Joey Abs) bring in Mae Young and The Fabulous Moolah. Stephanie thanks them for being a part of their family for generation. Triple H teases giving Mae Young a bottle of wine, but gives Mae and Moolah a better gift: a Triple Threat Match against the teams of The Dudley Boyz (Buh Buh Ray and D-Von Dudley) and The Acolytes (Faarooq and Bradshaw). Moolah calls Stephanie a disgrace to the McMahon family before she and Mae leave. Triple H calls them a disgradce to Depends undergarments, then makes fun of Jim Ross' voice when he says the match will be a slobberknocker. This gives Stephanie the idea of giving a gift to Jim Ross, much to J.R.'s displeasure on commentary.

WWF Chairman Vince McMahon and The Rock are listed as part of the top 10 entertainers of the year in the newest issue of Entertainment Weekly.

Triple H and WWF co-owner Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley show up. Stephanie asks Jim Ross to come to the ring. He does, thinking they are going to fire him. Stephanie says she and Triple H are the greatest entertainers of 1999, not The Rock and WWF Chairman Vince McMahon, and Triple H says Entertainment Weekly missed the boat by a few weeks. He then says the place looks a little festive, but seems to be lacking in drection. He demands that Kevin Dunn (one of the producers) "put it up now." The two screens to the sides of the TitanTron are replaced with images of Stephanie on the left screen and Triple H on the right screen. He says that this is the type of picture that a magazine like Entertainment Weekly should grace their magazines with. Triple H then confronts Jim Ross on his comments about Stephanie and getting slapped in the face for it. Stephanie says she is not bothered by it anymore and she has forgiven him, saying she knows he didn't mean to insult her or hurt her feelings, then said it felt good to slap him that way. Triple H then gets on his knees behind Jim Ross, then Stephanie pushes Jim Ross over him. Triple H is about to break Jim Ross' arm again when Mankind shows up. Mankind quotes Popeye, saying "I've have all I can stands, and I can't stands no more!" He stood backstage and watched Triple H on Mae Young, The Fabulous Moolah and Jim Ross, and dares him to pick on someone his own size. He has stood silent until now, and tonight, he tells Triple H to his face that the McMahon-Helmsley era "kinda sucks." As for Stephanie, if she has the gall to defame the good name of Santa Claus with the Santa hat she is wearing, then he knows Santa goes around saying "ho, ho, ho," then says he is not exactly the ho he had in mind. Triple H wants to go at it with Mankind, who asks if Stephanie is really holding him back and Stephanie whispers something in Triple H's ear. Triple H says Stephanie has given him an idea, and says that if Mankind wants to stick his nose in business it does not belong in, then tonight, if he wants a fight, he will be in a Boiler Room Match. Mankind anticipates that it is with Triple H, but Triple H refuses to tell him who his opponent is, saying it may or may not be against him, but that Mankind will get his ass kicked one way or another. Stephanie wishes Mankind a meryr Christmas, then slaps Mankind in the face.

Before the next match, Kurt Angle wishes the crowd a merry Christmas, and as the holiday season is fast approaching, he has an incredible idea for a New Year's resolution. He has had success his entire life - including in the WWF - because he follows the 3 I's - intensity, integrity and intelligence - and says that if everyone follows them, they can accomplish anything they want to and have the happiest new year imaginable and possible. WWF co-owner Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley is then seen being upset with Triple H for booking the next match, telling him he did not have to do this./

Kurt Angle beats Viscera. During the match, "The Lethal Weapon" Steve Blackman shows up and hits Viscera in the back with a Kendo stick as ther referee is not looking, and allows Angle to get the win. Backstage, Triple H thinks WWF co-owner Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley had something to with Blackman interfering in the match.

Before the next match, The Dudley Boyz (Buh Buh Ray and D-Von Dudley) warn Mar Young and The Fabulous Moolah that the Dudley Commandments - thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not kill, and thou shalt not mess with the Dudley Boyz 0 still apply to "two old bags" such as them, then attack them before they finish mentioning the Dudley Commandments. "Sexual Chocolate" Mark Henry is seen cheering Mae and Moolah on backstage as The Acolytes (Faarooq and Bradshaw) show up.

The Dudley Boyz (Buh Buh Ray and D-Von Dudley) beat The Acolytes (Faarooq and Bradshaw) and the team of Mae Young and The Fabulous Moolah. During the match, The Acolytes show more class by refusing to beat on Mae and Moolah while The Dudley Boyz lay waste to them. After the match, a brawl breaks out between all three teams, and "Sexual Chocolate" Mark Henry runs in to go after the Dudleys. He then checks on Mae Young after the match.

Triple H hands WWF co-owner Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley a gift, which Triple H says will reveal Mankind's opponent in the Boiler Room Brawl. Inside is a Santa Claus figurine.

Michael Cole interviews Mankind, who is not happy about having to fight Santa Claus and wonders what he has to prove what a tough guy he is against Santa. He asks if he has to slap him in his rosy cheeks, kick him in his dimples or put a big boot to his red nose. He considers giving Santa a knee to his round belly and watch it shake like a bowl of jelly. As Mankind wonders whether or not he should take tyhe match, Rodney then meets up with him, then Pete Gas and Joey Abs attack him and toss him into the boiler room. Mankind then meets Santa, and proposes that he turns his back so that Santa can leave the boiler room peacefully and win the match. He then gets attacked by three Santa Clauses with more malevolent intentions, but fights them off with frying pans. He then runs into two more, who also want to fight him, and these two Santas turn out to be The New Age Outlaws ("Road Dogg" Jesse James and "Bad Ass" Billy Gunn). Mankind fight them off , and is about to take a glass window pane to Billy Gunn when a sixth Santa smashes the glass into Mankind's face. The sixth Santa is Triple H, who leaves the boiler room and beats Mankind in a Boiler Room Brawl.

Backstage, Triple H, WWF co-owner Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley and The Mean Street Posse (Rodney, Pete Gas, Joey Abs) are wathing what just happened to Mankind when Al Snow shows up and demands a match with The Rock, wanting a Brahma Bullrope match to make The Rock pay for sticking his nose between him and Mankind. Triple H tells him never to come into their office and demand anything again, then gives him the match.

WAR ZONE

Chris Jericho beats The Godfather. During the match, Chyna shows up at ringside. When the hos get on the apron, Chyna gets on the apron and hits The Godfather with a low blow, allowing Jericho to get the win.

Triple H and WWF co-owner Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley talk with B.B. and Terri Runnels. B.B. will be with Val Venis, while Terri will be with Hardcore Holly as part as a Holiday Topless Top Rope Match, in which both women have to remove an article of clothing every time their man is thrown over the top rope. This keeps going until one woman is topless, which makes their man the loser. As an incentive, the winner gets a shot at the WWF Intercontinental Championship.

Before the next match, Val Venis says women are a lot like Christmas trees: they smell good, they're pretty to look at, but they never really feel special until he plugs them in and lights them up. After Hardcore Holly and Crash Holly show up, Triple H arrives and welcomes everyone to the first-ever Holiday Topless Top Rope Match.

Hardcore Holly beats Val Venis in a Holiday Topless Top Rope Match. During the match, both men go over the top rope, and both B.B. and Terri Runnels are forced by Triple H to take off their dresses or else they will be fired. Val Venis is then thrown over the top rope, and B.B. is told to remove her bra or else she will be fired. She take it off, but Triple H gets right in front of her and blocks the view for everybody. Triple H then calls everyone a bunch of idiots, saying he is the only one to get the show.

Before the next match, The Rock tells Al Snow has left him with two choices. The first is that he bow out and walk up the ramp so that Al Snow wins, and the second choice is stepping down from the ropes, stepping into the ring, and whipping his monkey ass all over Houston, Texas.

Al Snow beats The Rock in a Brahma Bullrope Match. During the match, referee Tim White gets crotched with the bullrope, then The Rock hits Tim White with the cowbell when he tries to hit Al Snow with it. Snow then grabs a steel chair outside of the ring, then swings it at him only for The Rock to duck i t and hit Snow with The Rock Bottom. After that, The New Age Outlaws ("Road Dogg" Jesse James' and "Bad Ass" Billy Gunn) show up, and The Rock fights them off. When The Rock goes for a People's Elbow, however, Road Dogg hits The Rock in the back of the head with a steel chair. Al Snow goes for a pinfall, but The Rock kicks out just before three. Road Dogg runs into the ring and falls victim to a Rock Bottom, but Billy Gunn hits the Fameasser on The Rock, and this time The Rock does not kick out.

Backstage, The Mean Street Posse (Rodney, Pete Gas, Joey Abs) are seeing what is happening on a television set when they knock water into Triple H's blue jeans and onto one of WWF co-owner Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley's shoes. Instead of going ballistic, Triple H gets them out of the room by giving them a 3-on-2 hanidcpa match against two members of Too Cool (Grandmaster Sexay, Scotty 2 Hotty, Rikishi Phatu), and threatens to give them handicap matches against The Acolytes (Faarooq and Bradshaw) every day for a year if they ever spill water on him again.

Tori begs for Triple H and WWF co-owner Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley to stop messing with her and Kane. Triple H mends the fence by puttin Kane in a match against Big Show for the WWF Championship, and if Kane loses, then Tori has to spend the holidays with X-Pac.

Before the next match, The Mean Street Posse (Rodney, Pete Gas, Joey Abs) find out that their 3-on-2 handicap match against Too Cool (Grandmaster Sexay, Scotty 2 Hotty, Rikishi Phatu) is a six-man tag match. The Posse are livid.

Too Cool (Grandmaster Sexay, Scotty 2 Hotty, Rikishi Phatu) beat The Mean Street Posse (Rodney, Pete Gas, Joey Abs).

Triple H and WWF co-owner Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley laugh about the previous match, saying that will teach The Mean Street Posse (Rodney, Pete Gas, Joey Abs) not to make the mistake of spilling water on them, then says the next match will be loaded with mistakes.

Before the next match, Triple H and WWF co-owner Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley show up and watch the match from an armchair on the stage.

Kane beats Big Show by disqualification after Big Show hits Kane with a steel chair...almost. Triple H tells referee Mike Chioda to restart the match, as it is no-disqualification, and asks that the match be continued. Both men then wrestle to a count-out at ringside, but WWF co-owner Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley says there are no count-outs, and Triple H then makes the match Falls Count Anywhere as Kane and Big Show fight in the crowd. Shortly after this, The New Age Outlaws ("Road Dogg" Jesse James and "Bad Ass" Billy Gunn) show up and distract Kane long enough for Big Show to powerbomb Kane through a commentary table and retain the WWF Championship against Kane. After the match, The New Age Outlaws carry Tori to the stage, then Triple H says this has been a lot of fun for him and Stephanie, and wishes the world a very Raw Christmas.