Michaels and Big Show sort of mentioned it last night during RAW but yeah it's really Bischoff trying to one-up T. Lo and keep RAW as the dominant show
As for not feeling the PPV, I think that's how a lot of people feel due to Eddie's death. They missed a week of hype for the PPV, respectfully though. And it's hard to hype 4 matches (5 after last night's 'kidnapping') and really since they claim Batisita is injured, but have him show up and play an unstoppable force, it's hard to tell if he will be in the match or not.