Event: WWE Monday Night RAW
Airdate: Monday, March 23rd, 2009 (USA Network)
Location: The Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo.
Results by 411Mania.com

“Yes, sir, we promised you a great main event…”

We start the show with Ric Flair already in the ring after making his entrance off-camera. Hell of a way to start the show, that's for sure. Big pop for Naitch as he's introduced and gives the crowd a couple of "WHOOOOOO!!"s. He calls out Jericho right away, saying that on behalf of "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka and Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat, he accepts Jericho's challenge for the 3-on-1 handicap match at WrestleMania and he adds that the Nature Boy will be honored to be standing in their corner. He says that he can't compete, but he'll be only too happy to stand in the ring with three great legends and to hold their hands high after they beat him up and shut him up.

Jericho shows up on the Tron and says that he's heard all he's needed to hear. He says that he was a child when he watched the first WrestleMania and he remembers seeing Steamboat, Snuka and Piper when they were in their primes. He says that that was 25 years ago and that no one could have imagined that in 25 years, Jericho would be a bigger star than any of them. He says that he's going to explain just what it is that Flair has signed the legends up for. He asks Flair if he thinks that it's going to be like the movie "The Wrestler" and that this isn't a movie, it's real. He says that Mickey Rourke has the luxury of having the director yell out "Cut" and to sit in his trailer to have a cappucino to think about how he blew the Oscar, but they don't. He says that no one cares about Ric Flair anymore and that he's going to show them just how dire the legends' predicament has become. He shows up at the top of the ramp to MASSIVE boos, saying that he knew all along that the legends would accept his challenge. He says that the legends would accept it because they're afraid that if they stay out of the spotlight for too long that they'll be forgotten and washed-up. He says that they're afraid that they'll end up a nameless, faceless nobody like the hypocrites filling the arena. He adds that it's better to be a nobody than to drag their names through the mud a million times over. He says that it's going to be a vicious, disturbing and uncomfortable beatdown at WrestleMania and that all Flair will be able to do is stand at ringside with tears streaming down his face, begging for Jericho to stop. He says that Mickey Rourke will be at ringside to see what he's started and what he's done to these legends. He tells Flair that on April 5th, all of the accomplishments of the legends will be forgotten and they'll be remembered as washed-up has-beens that were beaten up, humiliated and euthanized by Chris Jericho.