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What would be the best out come for this match be? Triple H or Goldberg? Either way, where do they go from here? Who is left to feud with these guys? Or, do they continue this feud since there is no one else lined up for them? Raw has dug themselves into a ditch and it seems like a lose/lose situation.

411's WWE Byte This Report: Acolytes, Hardcore Holly A rather bizarre edition of everyone's favourite internet wrestling Wow, what can be said about today’s Byte This! report? The show has never been, well, orderly – but today’s really took the biscuit… It’s just gone the hour, and its time to chow down and Byte This! Presented today by Josh Matthews and Bradshaw, looking splendid as a (natural?) blonde. Bradshaw begins by pimping his new column, in which he discusses Howard Dean, subtly linking him with the KKK. After that begins a tirade of jokes with an official Blongo Estimation of 10% hitting their mark. We’re joined by Droz, who wants to know how Josh got his job. The eternal funnyman Bradshaw suspects it had something to do with a casting couch. Also, if Josh sucked it would be an improvement. While on the subject of sucky Tough Enough failures, Bradshaw also wants to get rid of Nowinski, who has no ‘balsa’. We’re joined by Tazz as well, and we begin the Byte This! Survivor Series predictions. On Team Angle vs. Team Lesnar - Bradshaw obviously picks his team, as does Droz. Tazz adds a little technical knowledge, observing that with Team Angle, you have the amateur skills of Angle, size and power from Bradshaw, a Japanese style from Benoit, and sheer rage from today’s guest Bob Holly. However, with Team Lesnar, you are getting size and power. Bradshaw adds that it will be a match against ‘Gas Pumps’ and ‘Potato Factories’! If you don’t get that last statement, shoot me an e-mail. On the Undertaker vs. Vince McMahon – both Bradshaw and Droz pick the Deadman, but Tazz believes Vince has finally lost his mind and picks him. On Jamie Noble vs. Tajiri – Droz sides with Noble, Tazz picks Tajiri, while Bradshaw again provides us with an insightful comment, suggesting that Josh go compete in the women’s division. After a short debate, the guys decide to discuss a RAW match and pick Lita vs. Molly Holly. And here begins the first inane portion of the show, where Bradshaw and Tazz spend at least five minutes insulting Molly Holly and her apparent overweightness. Eventually Tazz picks Lita. On Shane McMahon vs. Kane – Tazz goes for the Big Red Machine, and points out that there could be both a father and a son victory on the PPV. Team Austin vs. Team Bischoff. Tazz wants Austin to win, just to see Coach beat up and eventually fired, along with – you guessed it – Josh Matthews. Kevin from Connecticut asks if Bradshaw will ever open a business. He replies he used to run a travel agency but didn’t really like it. Also no chance of opening a wrestling school, as the guys in Louisville are doing a good job. And we have the obligatory OVW namecheck, but with an angle this week, as all of those named have already made it into the WWE! Now, if you have got this far into this week’s Byte This! report, then you should heed this advice. Watch this segment of Byte This! I dare you to comprehend more than a quarter of what Farooq says. He’s obviously drunk off his tits, and goes through the natural progression of a drunkard – here on Byte This! I won’t be able to do it justice, as frankly, I didn’t understand it myself. Nuggets of information gained from this segment, however, are that Bradshaw has bowel movements bigger than Josh while Farooq really wants Bradshaw to call Josh ‘big’. More importantly, the Acolytes will be spending Christmas in Iraq. Farooq gets annoyed that Josh references the fact that he was the first African American World Champion, leading to Bradshaw suggesting Josh is a racist. Up until now, Farooq has been a happy drunk, but now enters the more thoughtful stage, and thanks Bradshaw for being the best partner and friend he’s ever had…ever. Bradshaw wants to get Josh on his knees, and hopes the kid is wearing shin pads. Farooq ends the craziness and leaves the show, while we watch a well made package on Hardcore Holly and are then joined by the man himself. Hardcore Holly expresses his sympathy for Bradshaw having to spend time with Josh, while Bradshaw, obviously referring to his shin pads comment, wants to make Josh squeal. On how he’s feeling, Bob answers that he’s doing well and had a good time in OVW. However, he doesn’t really trust the newcomers, as some of them can’t actually wrestle and he’ll probably end up killing them if they got in the ring. As for another season of Tough Enough, Holly hasn’t heard anything – but would love to do it again. Onto the Tough Enough incident, neither Bradshaw or Holly can understand why he was vilified for bloodying the kid’s nose, as they both had to endure so much more when they were being introduced to the business. Holly feels that today the kids are being pampered, something Al Snow perhaps disagrees with. On Hawk from Tough Enough, Holly believes he’s been ready for WWE as soon as he stepped in the ring, he would have won if he hadn’t quit. On Survivor Series, Holly just wants to get in there with Brock, while Bradshaw promises the rest of the group will stay out of the way when that happens. He would love to be WWE Champion – but Brock is first. His thoughts on Crash Holly are he hates that it happened, but it’s your time, it’s your time. He just hopes he is on the card for WrestleMania XX. On why all the toughest guys are suffering neck injuries, the fans are a lot smarter these days. Whereas before when the wrestlers used to be able to grab a headlock to rest, today that would draw a ‘boring’ chant. You also have to keep doing new and more high-impact stuff to keep the crowd entertained – causing more injuries. The fans don’t realise that the wrestlers have been on the road for ages, and that every night has to be like the first. Holly remembers the older guys saying that they had it more difficult as they used to wrestle for 80 minutes, while the younger guys only have to for eight. But Holly reckons they do more in those 8 minutes than the older guys did in their whole match! Hardcore leaves while Bradshaw jokes that his book has been compared to the Bible. Josh asks about Bradshaw’s former partner Barry Windham, who is now retired, and living with his lovely wife in South Georgia. On whether John Cena is ready for a main event at WrestleMania – Bradshaw says people have really taken a liking to him, but it may be a little too early. Bradshaw then goes into a Nagel-like rant on the Blue Meanie, and his wife – who supposedly had sex with 500 men in one day! On the Smackdown Your Vote campaign, Bradshaw says he is involved to try and help the younger demographic get themselves some representation. Soon the older generation is going to have to transfer its power to the younger, and they are going to have to be ready to take it on. Next week’s unconfirmed guests are Steven Richards and Eddie Guerrero. End of show. Credit: 411

Yes I do. I'd like to know where the future of Raw is headed since we have the Royal Rumble coming up soon. As a fan (oops, am I allowed to admit I'm a fan still?) I'd like to know who the world champion is going to be working with and where the direction the feud is going since that is the main focus of the show.

Does this clown ever add anything useful in his replies?

I'm giving a lot of the credit to the Cena storyline.

Cornette came up with really good feuds and storylines. But, he never had the money to get TV exposure or star power.

I disagree. It would help a ton if they were wrestling fans and knew their history. That is the problem with a lot of the storylines. They ignore the past and act like it never happen. Some storylines would be better if they worked off past feuds and storylines. These writers, consultants, whatever, don't know these guys characters past and present so that will screw up the future.

And that attitude is how you got a broken neck, fuck face!

The problem is Vince and Steph are on air characters. They want so badly to be the main focus of the shows, and since they don't wrestle on the regular they need "good" storylines to keep them active on the shows. If they take themselves off air and let the writing team, Bischoff, Heyman, Cornette and other wrestlers on the roster write and book some of the shows and Vince and Steph over looking all the idea's they like and dislike the shows would be better. They wouldn't be so concern on how THEY can make the shows better by being "non-wrestlers." They could concern themselves with the actual wrestlers being the main focus of the storylines where the wrestlers could tell a story not only through the storyline itself, but in the ring. Strip this product down and get back to basics.

Any Linkin Park song. They all run under a minute, right?

It was bound to happen. Bret, Shawn, Austin, Triple H, they all went through this. Once a wrestler begins to get a little stale, we gut and rip them apart like fish.

Didn't the Rock and Test have to get operations for this as well? I know Rock had something done when he went through his early heel "black pants and shirt" faze.

Someone explain to me how Scott Hall is a better athlete then RVD? Better worker? Yes. Better athlete? No. RVD does somethings in the ring other guys can't do. He never seems to get tired. He never gets injured and the guy can stretch the hell out of his body. That's why Angle (being a true athlete) said that about RVD. Don't try to use the arguement "RVD has got lazy" either.

I turned on Smackdown when the opening credits were rolling. Was there a Crash tribute before?

You know, it's funny someone started a thread about this, because I was thinking the same thing about Kurt Angle last night. When he came out first last night, I wasn't like "YES KURT ANGLE!" It was" Hey, Kurt gets to start the show." Angle being a face has lost something. I always look forward to his matches, but the rest of it bores me. When he comes out to the ring now to do a promo I know it's going to be boring. It's just not the heelish Angle that made me love the guy. Then again, there isn't really anyone at the moment besides Cena who stands out among the rest as something "special and exciting."

Let's see what the latest cards reveal... - Charlie Haas & Shelton Benjamin are set to face the Bashams at upcoming house shows, which indicates a turn for Haas & Benjamin. - Brock Lesnar will be facing Chris Benoit at house shows for the rest of the year. - Test will return to the road starting 11/21. - Steven Richards & Victoria will work a few matches as faces, possibly as a try-out, against Rico & Jackie Gayda. - Nick Dinsmore will start working RAW house shows on 11/28. - Goldberg vs. Kane World Title matches have been scheduled for December house shows. - Kane and Booker T seem to be headed for a feud soon too. Credit: WrestlingObserver.com/411

Damn, she knows how to work the camera. When that reality show "The Simple Life" comes out it's either going to be a huge hit or a huge flop thanks to this Paris tape and the Nicole Richie girl being in rehab after being busted with heroin recently.

Speaking of ignorant people who follow threads. I was reading a review of a Korn/limpbizit show and they said Fred Durst now sports a mo-hawk.

Yeah! No one mention how Bret Hart returns tonight!

Never thought I'd say this, but I was hoping the joke of that link was a naked fat man dancing or something. Chave left me disappointed.

Kurt isn't, has never been, and never will be good enough to make that worth watching. I hear ya. I hope Nathan Jones can carry that worthless lug Kurt Angle.

Please, don't open up that old can of worms again. We all know why there are no credible main event players on Raw. Bad Triple H! However, we're talking about Triple H and Foley pulling off an entertaining match at Mania. Could they and would it be worth it?

I could care less if it's a ***** match in your eyes or a **1/2. Ratings matches by stars mean crap to me. I want to be entertained and I think Foley/Triple H could still do that.

You have two of the biggest names in WWF/E history wrestling at the 20th Wrestlemania for old times sake. As long as it's not over the title and it's not the main event of the show does it really matter who goes over or not as long as we get a good/great match at the biggest PPV of the year? How about the point of having an actual entertaining wrestler on PPV for once? But, if these two can actually put on a great match together shouldn't we be happy since we're suppose to be FANS? And really, who's on Raw that is actually entertaining that you're worried will be left off a 4 hour Wrestlemania PPV because of this match? I'd rather see Triple H Vs Foley then RVD Vs Christian or Dudleys Vs Team French Vanilla.

You have two of the biggest names in WWF/E history wrestling at the 20th Wrestlemania for old times sake. As long as it's not over the title and it's not the main event of the show does it really matter who goes over or not as long as we get a good/great match at the biggest PPV of the year?