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At a time when cynics are denouncing WWE as being at its most predictable, one man still finds a way to keep us guessing. Twice in one night, the man with three monikers and two theme songs somehow gave two unpredictable performances in the scripted drama that is Monday Night Raw.

Most fans who've been watching the WWE for years have seen just about every ending there is to a match: the clean finish, the double KO, the victory by count out among others.

But in Raw's opening match, in a three-on-two handicap, Texas-Tornado, double-title match (Did Vince just make that up?) The Game managed to engineer a new ending: the "I outpinned you by one second! Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah!" finish. Let's recap on how this unique finish came about:

Perhaps exhausted after hitting the Pedigree on John Cena (the second of the match), Triple H was slow to make a cover. While he was rolling The Champ onto his back, Shelton Benjamin draped an arm over the fallen RVD to pick up the duke and regain the Intercontinental title! (Did anyone see that coming?)

Though he didn't walk away with the WWE title, Triple H (and four fellow wrestlers) put on a good match. That, I think, is more important than a WWE title change for a weekly episode of Raw, where matches are shorter than pay-per-views.

Again the King of Kings would steal the show, this time in Raw's main event.

The bout saw Shawn Michaels vs. the Spirit Squad's Kenny with Shane McMahon as the guest referee. After the match ended, Shane O'Mac held the fallen Michaels and ordered the Cerebral Assassin to ram a sledgehammer into the skull of the Heartbreak Kid.

As a coup de grace, Triple H held Michaels' face and barked, "I want you to see this coming!" He drove the hammer and Michaels ducked! The Game instead struck the boss' son! Was it an accident? Were they in cahoots? Who knows? Man, that's good wrestling! True the "inadvertent" hit has been done before, but never this well.

The mark of a good wrestler is keeping your audience interested. You keep your audience interested by not being predictable (Ahem! The Undertaker! Ahem!). No one on either roster does that better than the ten-time champ, Triple H.

But like I said earlier, wrestling is at its most predictable. If you read the dirt sheets or have seen the crotch chops on Raw, then you know that a Degeneration X reunion is looming. Hopefully, the Monarch of the Mat will find a way to make this unnecessary return interesting.

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