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Santino's promo has The Bret Hart, Mantuar, SaveUs_222, Andre the French Giant, and is a thing of beauty.

Best part of Raw time.

Yeah, the Brunette has this.

The one in the middle might be a guy.

Hmmm...who was that DDP/Christian Cage looking agent backstage?

Umaga needs the braids back, ASAP.

Hardcore Holly defends Abused Rookies... Triple H defends Short Wrestlers...

They sell it as a "joke" match but 2 months ago Hornswaggle/Umaga would've been Champion Vs. Champion.

"What does CM in CM Punk Stand for?" Morrison explained this, actually. "Chases Men".

This Beth Phoenix looks, talks, and wrestles like complete shit, by the way. From what I've seen on her Raw promos and matches at Unforgiven/No Mercy, which were awful.

Can we just have Bulldog's theme please. And long tights for Harry. And, you know, his actual name. How many takes did they give Candice and Beth there...

Smith is a little indecisive but I don't hate this match.

This "D.H." name needs to go.

Hardcore Holly & Cody Rhodes now are tied with Hardcore Holly & Charlie Haas and Hardcore Holly & Billy Gunn for dullest tag team combinations. With Bodacious Bob Holly & Bombastic Bart Gunn in a close fourth.

Since Mickie is much more over than Cade or Murdoch, I don't see why anyone should complain about her doing an angle with them. Anything that gets a talented but unover team a response is a good thing.

Okay that Jeff/Shelton toy commercial bugged me when Jeff fell an estimated 100 feet to the ring.

An angle where Hardcore Holly sticks up for a mis-treated rookie is great.

Oh no, backstage bullies!

Triple H should punish Grisham up for drinking the bottled water. Grisham on all fours using porn lines will bump the ratings.

Ugh for Murdoch losing to London's sloppy-ass flippy SSP.

"WWE really dropped the ball with ODB." You can catch her against Jazz on Women's Extreme Wrestling on PPV this month. With a pretty bad-ass ring announcer, heh.

Oh God Lawler is pulling out all the written scripts tonight: "First title reign May 2005...!" "4th longest tag title reign in WWE...!" Dig Murdoch's new gear.

"modern fans." I've been watching since 1989, and while not everything on TV was great, the squash matches didn't involve the likes of Black Bart, Sam Houston, and Rocky King. In some cases it was tough to tell who the jobber was. That was my issue, not the squash matches. There was nothing better in the day than hours of All-American Wrestling, Superstars, Challenge, Power Hour, Main Event, or Worldwide. But they'd keep the BAD a lot shorter.

"Kurt Angle was never the central figure in any period of WWF/E" Are you kidding? Angle was a heel. He's the #2 top heel OF THE ENTIRE DECADE in WWE behind Triple H. Of course he wasn't the "central figure", that's what babyfaces are for. Look at the two biggest PPVs of the year - Royal Rumble and WrestleMania. I define a "Main Event" as a World Championship bout, BTW. As WWE does. MAIN EVENT - Rumble 2001 RUNNER UP - Rumble 2002 MAIN EVENT - Rumble 2003 MAIN EVENT - WrestleMania 2003 FINAL THREE - Rumble 2004 MAIN EVENT - WrestleMania 2004 Super Hyped Up Match - WrestleMania 2005 MAIN EVENT - Rumble 2006 MAIN EVENT - WrestleMania 2006 Looking at the used-to-be-important SUMMERSLAM PPV, as well: MAIN EVENT - SummerSlam 2000 MAIN EVENT - SummerSlam 2001 MAIN EVENT - SummerSlam 2003 Quite the resume. If Triple H didn't revolve around the title in 2000 and 2002-03 for so long, Kurt Angle is the biggest WWE heel of the past 2 decades. Angle is eons better than Sting. In-ring work, microphone skills, entertainment value, delivering in big-time matches, and bringing out good matches in babyfaces. Sting was an exciting worker, but the heels he was with usually brought the best out in him, not vice versa. Without The Great Muta, Ric Flair, Big Van Vader, Rick Rude, etc. to play off, we got the real Sting, a somewhat exciting guy that did the same 5 moves and was never the same. Sting was also much better pre-knee surgery, look at his stuff with Flair and Muta in the 80's for proof of this. I like Sting, but comparing him to Angle's body of work is ludicrous.

I can't imagine sitting through that atrocious first hour of WCW 12/28 back in 1985. Black Bart, Rocky King, and Sam Houston having long competitive matches = No Thank You