Watching Raw on the fly, several observations:
It's nice of them to bring up Mercury's injury. That footage really hits home on the "these mother
ers get hurt a lot" trip. They need to push that shit hard when he returns in the ring, and I hope (but doubt) they will.
I like the fact that Oleg Prudius apparently isn't a Russian-enough name for the WWE, so they have to go with
Victor Vladimir Kozlov. I hope Todd Pettingill gets fired for that
up.
Some long matches tonight, which is nice. Flair gets the "this is how it's done, assholes" award for putting over Kenny "Dyke-stra." I can just hear the cogs turning at WWE writing headquarters over how awesome all the lesbian jokes are gonna be for him.
Of course, that will only happen if he ends up in a feud, but that won't be the case when HHH
s up Flair putting him over this week by squashing him next week.
Speaking of the H's, I particularly like the fact that it took four dudes to take out three H's. The WWE often pushes one dude up in battle royals by having them unexpectedly last quite a long time in the match. That was Lance Cade tonight; here's hoping they follow through. In the meantime, when I saw Johnny get tossed from the ring I screamed at my TV, as I thought it was Y2J for a split second (crap!).
That Cryme Tyme segment was the single worst thing, both from a writing standpoint and a performance standpoint, that has happened on all of television recently (except for Annette Benning on SNL a few weeks back, as she read off the cue cards in a monotone for the whole
ing program). JTG and Shadd clearly (1) suck at live promos, or (2) really hated this segment. Their timing sucked, their delivery awful, and the material they worked with was atrocious. The *only* good thing during this segment was an entire crowd of wrestling fans booing massively upon hearing the name "George W Bush." It reminds me of how bad Foley got heeled in Alabama shortly after the 2004 election when he made a passing remark to having a trunk full of John Kerry bumper stickers.
The WWE should be ashamed of themselves for thinking that segment was either cutting edge or entertaining. At the very least, the crowd shit on it right proper. They shit on it *hard*. You could have heard a pin drop during that segment. On top of everything else, if the WWE paid $50 for that Dubya impersonator, they got ripped off. WORST. IMPERSONATOR. EVER.
Too much Cena, Too much DX...but some good long wrestling matches. Kind of a middle-of-the-road show, if you ask me.
A topic-related did you know: Did you know that "Deuce Shade," one half of OVW Tag Team Champions The Untouchables, is Jimmy Snuka's son?
They have a great gimmick, but the homage to Andrew Dice Clay is 20 years too late.
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