December 13 , 2004 Monday Night RAW results The December 13 , 2004 Edition of RAW is a Professional wrestling television show of the WWE ' s RAW brand , which took place on December 13 , 2004 at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville , Alabama . Summary . When Eric Bischoff took a four - week vacation , he couldn ’ t have possibly imagined that Raw would end up in such utter chaos . Bischoff made his return to Raw Monday night , and his first priority was setting straight the World Heavyweight Championship controversy . While Edge , Triple H and Chris Benoit fought amongst themselves over who should be champion , the General Manager of Raw said they would have to wait until the end of the show to hear his final decision . Throughout the evening all three competitors made their cases to Bischoff as to what should happen to the World Heavyweight Championship . While Triple H and Edge lobbied for Bischoff to simply hand them the World Heavyweight Championship , Benoit felt that there should be a Triple Threat rematch to declare a winner . At night ’ s end , Bischoff went to the ring to make his decision . After Triple H said that a win for Evolution would be a win for himself , Bischoff said that he would put that comment to the test . Bischoff announced that the World Heavyweight Championship would remain vacated until New Year ’ s Revolution on Jan . 9 , 2005 in San Juan , Puerto Rico . Triple H , Edge , Benoit , Chris Jericho , Randy Orton and Batista were the participants in the third - ever Elimination Chamber match . Upon hearing the news all of the combatants got a head start on New Year ’ s Revolution as a big seven - man battle raged on , with Ric Flair joining the fracas . Earlier in the evening the monster Gene Snitsky interrupted Christy , Melina and Maria when they were trying to entertain the Huntsville , Ala . , crowd and distribute shirts to the fans . Snitsky came down saying that he doesn ’ t want everyone to be afraid of him . Snitsky confessed that he likes to have fun , too . He asked Christy to show him how the T - Shirt launcher worked , and then he snapped , grabbing the 2004 Diva Search winner by the throat . Before he could do any serious damage , Lita came out and warned Snitsky that instead of picking on women every week , he ’ ll soon have to fight someone his own size as her husband , Kane , would be returning soon . With that , Snitsky ran up the ramp after Lita but was stopped by a towering wall of fire . Every time he would try to advance , the barrier of flame stopped him . One man who didn ' t seem to be stopped was Batista . While Triple H wanted to tell Eric Bischoff that he should be the champion , Batista urged “ The Game ” to show him that he should be champ instead . The two faced off against Benoit and Jericho in a tag team rematch from last week ’ s Raw . Jericho was able to hit the Lionsault on Batista setting up Benoit ’ s flying headbutt . The Crippler then locked in the Sharpshooter , but Triple H made the save only to be locked into the Crippler Crossface . Batista soon recovered , though , and punished Benoit with a thunderous spinebuster to get the win . Mick Foley made a rare Raw appearance . In fact , it was his first Raw appearance in eight months . He came out with his newest children ’ s book , Tales from Wrescal Lane , but his main objective was to inform the Raw crowd that he would be making a brief jump over to SmackDown ! The news wasn ’ t very pleasing to the Raw crowd until Foley explained it was only so that he could go overseas to entertain the nation ’ s brave men and women serving in the armed forces . As Foley went on , he was interrupted by Muhammad Hassan and his manager Khosrow Daivari as they went on a tirade about how unfairly they ’ ve been treated in the United States . Foley challenged them to step into the ring , which he called Foley Island , but Hassan stated that he would not fight someone he did not respect . After their verbal dispute last week on Raw , Edge and Orton finally got to settle their differences inside the ring in a classic match . Both Superstars took turns getting the upper hand , until Edge went for his patented spear . Orton went for the RKO , Edge tried to reverse it into the Edgecution , but the wily Orton countered that into the RKO for the win . In other action , Maven scored an upset pinfall over Shelton Benjamin during a six - man tag match . Maven joined forces with Christian and Tyson Tomko and took on Benjamin and the World Tag Team Champions , Eugene and William Regal . Maven was able to roll up Benjamin and used the ropes for leverage leaving a shocked Benjamin in the middle of the ring after the pin . Also , Trish Stratus warned Lita that she is hungry to get her Women ' s Championship back , and Simon Dean signed a contract and officially joined the Raw brand as an active Superstar .