RESULTS: Monday Night Raw May 5, 1997

KING OF THE RING REPORT

Dok Hendriks is in the Event Center, wearing a King of the Ring t-shirt and looking excited!

Dok: Hellooooo fans! Smilin' Dok here to give you the rundown of the King of the Ring tournament, coming out next month! A lot of suprises came out of Qualify 97 last night.... and I'm sure a lot more will come from the King of the Ring.

Footage is shown of Diesel, holding aloft the crown at last years King of the Ring tournament in Milwaukee.

Dok: FIRST, last years winner, and former World Champion Diesel will take on the man that beat the World Champion last night.... I'm talking about the Giant! IS HE the uncrowned champion? Diesel is looking to become the first two-time winner of the crown... but we MAY have a GIANT king!

Bret Hart and Sting are shown... then Stevie's suicide dive over the top rope onto the Warrior... through a table is shown!

Dok: Either Bret Hart or Sting will face Stevie Ray. Ray beat the Warrior by count-out last night in what I would call an upset! Stevie could have the advantage over Sting OR Bret Hart after tonights match, because a LOT could be taken out of these two superstars.

Images of JoBo... then Razor are shown. Razor's image dissolves into a shot of him shaven and as Mr. Scott Hall.

Dok: Here's two men that didn't even have to WRESTLE to get in! JoBo's opponent, Lucifer Graves DIDN'T SHOW UP!!! And Razor's opponent... the Machine, stepped aside to let him pass! Who could have predicted THAT!?

Flash Funk hits his 360 splash on Corey Major, then Stone Cold is shown fighting Stardom in a wild match, defeating him with the sharpshooter.

Dok: And rounding out the first round, Flash Funk will face Stone Cold Steve Austin. Stone Cold is standing by... and he has a LOT to talk about!

STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN

Austin is backstage near some audio equipment. He's got his black vest on and is holding a crowbar.

Austin: Terry Taylor and Taylor Tech, Sabrina done gave you a LAST WARNING to stay out of our business. And that's exactly what you'd best do, if you know what's good for your health. I went and done gave Derrick Stardom what he deserved, and if that bow-tied piece of trash wants some more of this when they put his neck back together, then I'll open up a vintage bottle of whoop ass on him and send him back to the emergency ward, mumbling my name and askin' me not to hurt him no more!

Austin: The bottom line IS... Stone Cold Steve Austin... Brian F'N Pillman, and Sabrina Savage are their OWN damn unit now... and we don't need little briefcase totin', suit-wearin' stiffs to come in and tell us how to do business. My business ain't punchin' addin' machines or pulling down menus in computers. My business is kickin' ass, son.... and business is good.

Austin: Now at the King of the Ring, I got that fluorescent wearin-fag$#%, Flash Funk in the ring... and it's only him and some other jack-ass that's standing in my way to beatin' the HELL out of Bret Hart. Hitman, you're gonna be lucky enough just to get past Sting tonight. There ain't neither one of you that can put on a leglock like Stone Cold Steve Austin, and that's the bottom line. So you know... I just may come down there to make SURE that that pink and black greaseball wins his match, cause I wanna kick his ass at the King of the Ring.

Austin: And speakin' of ass-kickin, that brings me to the Blizzard Adrien Blades, the stupidest piece of trash that ever done set foot in the WWF. He goes and gets his ass whooped by Lucifer Graves, then wants to yell at me and Brian Pillman? Son, I don't know what your beef is... but when you bring it to Stone Cold, you'll find out that I'm the damn butcher, and I'll chop you up just because I want to. You wanna bad-mouth Brian Pillman... then son, you bad mouth me... and you do that... and I'll knock the taste right out of YOUR mouth.

Austin: Y'see... what I'm gonna do right now... is go check my calendar... and see just when that 7'2 sunny-deprived SAP comes back to the WWF. Because what I'm gonna do... I'm gonna find him and bust him in the face the second he steps foot into the arena. If you think 22 days was a long time, I'm gonna shove his retirement papers down his throat so far, he's gonna have to bend over to sign 'em. And that's the bottom line.... because STONE COLD SAID SO!!!