News from this week's RAW from Chicago, Illinois:

Dark Matches:

- Pro Wrestling NOAH Global Honored Crown champ (and former ROH champ) Takeshi Morishima defeated Charlie Haas in a dark match priot to RAW. Morishima was accompanied to ringside by a Pro Wrestling NOAH representative as well as Harley Race.

- William Regal defeated local wrestler Jake Hager

Live Notes:

- There were a lot of CM Punk chants before Raw

- The Chicago Cubs were ringside and were booed when they were introduced on television

- WWE announced a Raw taping in Chicago for January 19th, 2009

After RAW Went Off The Air:

- JBL came back out and challenged CM Punk to a World title match right then and there. Punk won a short match.