Just a few random thoughts from WWE programming this week. Trying to get the wheels in motion over here.
RAW
-Nice to see Mickie James with the belt again, even if the win sorta' came out of nowhere. Almost seemed like it happened to to have something noteworthy happen on the trip to London.
-This whole Chris-Jericho-getting-involved-with-(Dave)-Batista-and-Shawn-
Michaels-for-no-reason angle is getting on my nerves. Jericho is the IC champ, so why is he bothering to get in the middle of this beef that has nothing whatsoever to do with him? It's like everyone involved in that angle is caught somewhere between face and heel, and the writers have no idea what to do with any of them.
At first, Batista seemed like the logical heel, right? Pissed off that Michaels retired Flair - his "mentor," apparently - Batista was just acting like a selfish prick and the fans were clearly beginning to turn on him. Now, this could have evolved into a decent little feud, but after Michaels and Batista had the same exact conversation on Raw, Smackdown, and then Raw again the next week, it was obvious that something else needed to be added.
So Jericho is thrown into the mix for some inexplicable reason. Why would the IC Champ even care about what these two main-eventers were doing. Shouldn't he be protecting his belt against potentially legitimate mid-card threats like, I don't know . . . Mr. Kennedy? Umaga?
Now, the fans have no idea who the heel is. Is it Jericho because he's getting in other people's business? Is it Batista, due to his unjustified prick-like nature, or is it Michaels, the shortcut-taking, backstabbing ladder-climber? Chances are, this match at Backlash will end with some Jericho interference, and the fans won't give a shit.
-Good to see some revitalization of the stagnant tag division with Santino and Carlito getting a win over London/Kendrick. Post-match establishment of Santino/Carltio as a team was very welcome. In other tag news: please don't break up Cade/Murdoch. Such a bad idea. A good idea would be to just have them feud with London/Kendick. Maybe even throw Crime Time into the mix and have some good big-team-on-big-team matches along with big-team-on-small-team bouts.
-Paul Birchill took enough time off from ogling his sister to defeat Hacksaw. Awesome.
-Regal and Orton was an excellent way to keep Regal strong even though he succumbed to the ever-brilliant RKO. The suplex Orton received was just insanity. Always good to see Regal in action.
-Main event was OK. Everyone beating everyone down at the end was OK. Seeing HHH get his ass beat was OK.
ECW
-ECW is now officially worth watching because of Mike Adamle. The former American Gladiators host really has his work cut out for him. Amazing how brilliant Taz(z) sounded comparatively.
-In other ECW news, Kofi Kingston is getting clean pins over the likes of Domino and got the pin in that eight-man tag match that contained every notable ECW star. Wonder if this is part of the E's new kid-intensive direction. Unsure how I feel about Kofi . . . they should turn him heel. Make him a huge pothead and have a feud with Punk.
-Mike Knox got a win over Colin Delaney. Good to see Knox slowly slipping down into "all future endeavors" territory.
-Undertaker and Kane (unsurprisingly) got the win over Miz & Morrison. Didn't see that one coming!
Smackdown
-Show/Mark Henry happened. Khali came out and attempted to make a Big Show beatdown look feasible. This match was brought to you in part by Tivo! Fast forward through life!
-MVP/Dreamer was OK. Matt Hardy on commentary was meh. He needs to do something about that hairline and its recession.
-Chavo/Jamie Noble was meh. Chavo's new bodyguard, Bam Neely (being billed as a former border patrol agent!), came in and delivered a weak-looking slam to the vulnerable Jamie Noble. Whatever. The (recently) former ECW champion beating a C-level wrestler? Exciting.
-Cherry/Victoria was surprisingly decent, although I saw the Cherry surprise victory coming a mile away. Victoria's trash-talking made this match, really.
-Vladimir Kozlov came out, defeated Local Indie Worker Leroy Kincaid, and left. Love the fact that Kozlov has no entrance theme, though.
-Main was lame. Edge and his cronies did the "we paid for front row tickets" gimmick, which of course led to 'Taker yanking him out of his seat, Chavo and Neely running down to the ring, yadda yadda. Hawkins, Ryder, Chavo, and Neely all got beatdowns from 'Taker and Batista, letting Edge slink away like usual. Oh, Batista and undertaker had a useless match that was just a setup for the post-match shenanigans.
-Smackdown was the worst show this week, Raw was the best, and Mike Adamle is on ECW.
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