2007 Raw Deal World Championships
by Barron Vangor Toth
Raw Deal co-designer

Their lives have led to this moment.

Will this be the most important day in the lives of these sixteen participants as they compete in the 6th annual Raw Deal World Championships in four rounds of All Axxess and four rounds of Afterburn?

All Axxess Results:

4-0

Muhdrumi bin Mohd (Evolution)

3-1

Alvaro Benitez (Leader of the Peepulation)
Rob Drexler (Andre the Giant)
Darren Patching (JBL)
Andre Segarra (Bobby the Brain Heenan)

2-2

Will Alessi (Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase)
James Kandziolka (Teddy Long)
Anthony Ogden (Ken Kennedy)
Jason Perry (Mr. Pay-Per-View)
Ric Pitman (Ken Kennedy)
Cheong Zhenxiong (Teddy Long)

1-3

Mike Bauman (Ken Kennedy)
Mark LaRoche (Ken Kennedy)
Anthony Lurty (Eddie Guerrero)
Rob Maslen (Ken Kennedy)

0-4

Albert Rubio (Jake the Snake)

Five guys picked Ken Kennedy thinking him the optimal choice for All Axxess and all five couldn’t be more wrong as the net result was a losing record for the Superstar with no one getting more wins than losses. One participant told me that he saw the Revolution era of the game going through three distinct phases of evolution: in the first, Ken Kennedy was a solid choice as people started getting used to the new cards so Andre Segarra was able to a capitalize on that at the Canadian Qualifier; in the second, here at the World Championships, decks had evolved more and started integrating Revolution more effectively and more ferociously, which left many previously “obvious” Superstars in the dust; and now we’re in the third stage of evolution, the day after the World Championships as people bring decks to the next level with even more Revolution integration to completely dominate anything that came before. I have to say, he made a lot of sense.

Afterburn Results:

4-0

James Kandziolka (Andre the Giant)

3-1

Rob Drexler (Rob Van Dam)
Muhdrumi bin Mohd (Evolution)
Ric Pitman (Rowdy Roddy Piper)
Cheong Zhenxiong (Mr. Pay-Per-View)

2-2

Mike Bauman (Home Team)
Alvaro Benitez (Rob Van Dam)
Anthony Ogden (Edge)
Darren Patching (JBL)
Albert Rubio (Vincent McMahon)
Andre Segarra (Spirit Squad)

1-3

Will Alessi (Boogeyman)
Mark LaRoche (Big Freak’n Machine)
Rob Maslen (Mr. Pay-Per-View)
Jason Perry (Rowdy Roddy Piper)

0-4

Anthony Lurty (Mr. Pay-Per-View)

So who are the Top 4?

7-1

Muhdrumi bin Mohd (All Axxess: Evolution / Afterburn: Evolution)

6-2

Rob Drexler (All Axxess: Andre the Giant / Afterburn: Rob Van Dam)
James Kandziolka (All Axxess: Teddy Long / Afterburn: Andre the Giant)

With the top player scheduled to face the fourth and the second fighting the third, we knew it would be Rob Drexler vs. James Kandziolka. But who would step up from the 5-3’s to face Muhdrumi?

That fortunate final competitor turned out to be Lethal Lottery winner Darren Patching with his two JBL designs.

World Championship Top 4

All Axxess
Muhdrumi bin Mohd (Evolution) defeated Darren Patching (JBL)
Rob Drexler (Andre the Giant) defeated James Kandziolka (Teddy Long)

Afterburn
Muhdrumi bin Mohd (Evolution) defeated Darren Patching (JBL)
Rob Drexler (Rob Van Dam) defeated James Kandziolka (Andre the Giant)

Finals

All Axxess
Muhdrumi bin Mohd (Evolution) defeated Rob Drexler (Andre the Giant)

Afterburn
Muhdrumi bin Mohd (Evolution) defeated Rob Drexler (Rob Van Dam)

NEW RAW DEAL WORLD CHAMPION
The current Singaporean Champion:

Muhdrumi bin Mohd

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