Monday Night Raw July 10, 2000 (WCW Buys WWF)

The July 10, 2000 Edition of WWF Monday night Raw was held at San Jose Arena in San Jose, California. It was the final WWF event to be held before the company went out of business.

Episode Summery
Before the Show started Lillian Garcia sang the National Anthem, and there was a “Dark Match” where X-Pac would lose the WWF Light Heavyweight Title to Funaki.

Opening
The show opened with a simulcast-on WCW Nitro on TNT with Ted Turner announcing that he had bought out WCW’s main competition. They then play the Monday Night Raw is War Intro package.

Fallowing the intro, the camera would fix on the commentators Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler who would give a message from Vince McMahon who “couldn’t make it to the event this evening” thanking the fans for their years of loyalty to the company. They then tell the viewers that every match tonight will be for a title, and that Raw is going to make sure to go out with a bang.

WWF World Tag Team Championship match.
The match is between Champions Edge and Christian, the Hardy Boyz, The APA, and Too Cool in an elimination fatal four-way tag team match. Edge and Christian retain the Tag Titles. (Over All Match Length 8:43)

The WWF Women Championship Match
The WWF Women Championship was defended in a 4-way elimination No-DQ women’s match. Between Champion Stephanie McMahon (with Pat Patterson, and Gerald Brisco), Jacqueline, Lita and the returning Ivory. (Over All Match Length 4:01)

Lita was first the first women to be eliminated. Stephanie McMahon would pin her, after Lita was attacked by Pat Patterson, and Gerald Brisco. (0:50) Jacqueline would then be eliminated by Stephanie McMahon in similar fashion as Lita was with the aid of Patterson and Brisco. (2:16)

Patterson and Brisco would then attack Ivory. Chyna would then come to the ring and run off both Patterson and Brisco, allowing Ivory to defeat Stephanie to win the Women’s Title.

After the match Chyna would hit Stephanie with a Gorilla press slam.

(Note. Stephanie was the only member of the McMahon Family to be apart of the final episode of Raw.)

WWF Hardcore Title Battle Royal.
Won by Crash Holly, after eliminating Rikishi. The match consisted of the majority of the WWF roster. (Over All Match Length 5:30) The match also included Champion Steve Blackman, Test, Kane, Albert, Steven Richards, Val Venis, Big Boss Man, Mark Henry, Viscera, Hardcore Holly, Crash, Gangrel, Al Snow, and William Regal.

Following the Battle Royal Backstage Segment.

Stephanie McMahon finds Triple H in the locker room, and ask him what were they going to do now that “Daddy’s” Company belonged to Turner? Triple H would say “We? There is only me.” Before walking out. Leaving Stephanie shocked. Godfather would then walk up to her and hand her a business card, saying “I’m always looking for new Girls.”

WWF Intercontinental Championship and WWF European Championship Unification Match
The match is between European Champion Chris Jericho and Intercontinental Champ Kurt Angle. Angle would beat Jericho by his submission the Angle-Lock to unite the two WWF titles. (Over All Match Length 9:46)

The Wrestling Observer's Dave Meltzer would later say "if the WWF had done more matches like the Angle vs Jericho match they would still be in business today."

Main Event, WWF World Heavyweight Championship Match.
Champion the Rock defending the title against Triple H. (Over All Match Length 9:51) It seemed that the Rock was going to retain his Championship, over Triple H, but then the nWo’s music hit. Hulk Hogan, and Kevin Nash begin heading to the ring. The Rock and Triple H prepares to fight the WCW invaders. Nash and Hogan surround the ring, but before they enter Triple H hits the Rock with his finisher the pedigree. Triple H pins and defeat the Rock for the WWF title, and then Hogan and Nash raise his hands in victory. X-Pac (a former member of the nWo when he was apart of WCW), and Chyna (Triple H’s real-life girlfriend) come to the ring with black spray paint. The final scene of the Raw, during the final WWF event is Triple H spraying N W O on the WWF title.