[WWE] Homecoming Extra Videos, Smackdown Early Preview Features Piper vs. Orton

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– WWE.com has posted a list of the “Unlimited” video coverage of RAW between commercials and following last night’s show:

Unlimited video 1: Todd Grisham interviews the WWE Legends
Unlimited video 2: The WWE Iron Man Match continues
Unlimited video 3: Angle vs. HBK continues
Unlimited video 4: Grisham interviews the RAW announce team
Unlimited video 5: The McMahons get helped to the back
Unlimited video 6: The Ladder Match continues
Unlimited video 7: RAW announcers discuss the Ladder Match
Unlimited video 8: The most creative sign in the crowd
Unlimited video 9: Triple H & Flair vs. Carlito & Masters continues
Unlimited video 10: Triple H continues to attack Flair
Unlimited video 11: The Fink introduces the WWE Legends
Unlimited video 12: Eugene meets the WWE Legends
Unlimited video 13: Cole, Tazz and Long are announced
Unlimited video 14: JBL interview
Unlimited video 15: Mean Gene makes his entrance
Unlimited video 16: Hulk Hogan’s ovation
Unlimited video 17: RAW & SmackDown Superstars battle

For these videos, click here.

– Also on WWE.com, it has been announced that Roddy Piper will face Randy Orton one-on-one this week on Friday Night Smackdown. Piper will have RAW superstar Mick Foley in his corner, with Randy having his dad Bob in his. Here’s the full preview:

Last stop before No Mercy
October 7, 2005

Two weeks ago, a seemingly ill Eddie Guerrero stole Batista’s thunder during a match with MNM. Last week, Eddie struck again when he hit The Animal with a chair after their tag-team match with L.O.D. While it seemed like an accident, Eddie has a history of lying, cheating, and stealing. Just two days before their meeting for the World Heavyweight Championship at No Mercy, will the relationship between Guerrero and Batista continue to be a bumpy one?

The Handicap Casket Match pitting Randy and “Cowboy” Bob Orton against the Undertaker at No Mercy is only days away. Yet, Randy will attempt to gain pay-per-view momentum by adding another legend to his list: Roddy Piper. “The Rowdy One” didn’t take kindly to the RKO he received at WWE Homecoming, and the wily veteran is sure to have a few tricks up his sleeve to level the playing field with his younger opponent. Piper will also have Mick Foley in his corner. “Cowboy” Bob and Piper used to be good friends, but the elder Orton’s allegiances seem to be firmly in his son’s camp. What will happen when “The Legend Killer” battles an unpredictable Legend on SmackDown?

Also last week, JBL got a measure of revenge on Rey Mysterio when he and Ken Kennedy defeated Rey and Hardcore Holly. Will Mysterio have an answer before their match at No Mercy?

Three more big matches were made for No Mercy last Friday night: A Fatal Four Way for the United States Championship, L.O.D. & Christy vs. MNM, and Simon Dean vs. Bobby Lashley. Will General Manager Theodore Long have any more additions to announce?

Don’t miss all this and more this Friday night at 8/7 CT as Friday Night SmackDown makes its final stop before No Mercy.

– Also, here’s the early RAW preview for next week, from WWE.com:

Why, Triple H, why?
October 10, 2005

Triple H and Ric Flair have stood side by side for years. The 16-time World Champion Flair has even called Triple H the greatest professional wrestler of all time and his best friend. But Ric Flair has also called him the Cerebral Assassin more times than he can count, and the Cerebral Assassin took him out last week on RAW. After saving Triple H from being blasted with a sledgehammer at the hands of Chris Masters, Ric Flair had his skull bashed in with that very same sledgehammer. Triple H then beat Flair to a pulp, dragging him up the ramp and backstage until finally tossing him in a limo, asking him the question, “What were you thinking?” the whole time. No one can know for sure what Triple H meant by that question, but hopefully he will give everyone some answers Monday night on RAW.

Plus, after WWE Champion John Cena defeated RAW General Manager Eric Bischoff to retain the championship, SmackDown General Manager Theodore Long sent his SmackDown troops to the ring, “gangsta style”. During WWE Homecoming last week, Bischoff refused to allow Long’s SmackDown match to take place. Long retaliated by sending out his SmackDown Superstars to the ring to beat on Cena and Angle. Moments later, though, the RAW locker room emptied out to even the odds. What will be RAW’s response to SmackDown’s antics last week?

Don’t miss all this and more this week on RAW at 9/8 CT on the USA Network.

Matthew Michaels is editor emeritus of Pulse Wrestling, and has been since the site launched.