The Mandarin

No contest, I went with the Sensai of Mattitude. He's just been stellar the whole year. Someone mentioned that cruiserweights weren't used very effectively this year. Why would it be different from the last three years? The CW division has always been complained about, ever since WCW's went the tube (1999 or 2000). I personally think Smackdown's division has been pretty good this year. I would have preferred more Matt Hardy title defenses, but what are y' gonna do?

Vince will have you know that Gerald Brisco broke his ankle by stepping on it, contrary to reports that he broke it while falling down from a Bret Hart right jab. Damn Brisco, beatin' on the boss.

Well, it's just the current situation with some tweaking. Nothing that the brass couldn't do after Gail's program with Molly ends. Victoria was red-hot after Survivor Series 2002, and they basically phased her out after Gail came in, which in my opinion, was the wrong thing to do. I find the Women's Division more entertaining than a lot of the stuff on RAW every week. It's not really an insult to the male superstars, because these women work their asses off. God bless Fit Finlay.

God, I hope he does. Nowinski was one of my favorite RAW wrestlers a while back. Seriously, the guy was awesome on the stick.

Mother of God, that's not the whole card, is it? Anyway- Brock/Taker- ***1/2 I liked their other stuff. It should be TV main event quality. Hopefully the stipulation rules are decent. I Quit Match- *, wrestling wise. I think it could be entertaining, somehow. Hopefully. Eddie/Show- **1/2. Hopefully it will be a GOOD comedy match. I don't want to see feces used as a weapon. Remember Cole's last commentating gem when shit was used as a weapon- "Oh no! Here it comes! A Rock Bottom! A Rock Bottom into the dog poop! Into the dog poop! The dog poop! The dog poop! A rock bottom- int- the dog poop!" Angle/Cena- ***3/4 to ****. Since both of these guys are my two favorite wrestlers, I'll probably be on the edge of my seat the whole match. Benoit/A-Train- **3/4. I don't know. When Benoit has a boring opponent, I don't care for the matches at all. Now, when he has an opponent who's decent, I'm hooked. If he was facing Rhyno, maybe I would actually care. But I'm not hyped for the match in the least. Matt Hardy vs. Zach Gowen- **. This really should have ended at SummerSlam. They should have just blown it off. Tajiri vs. Rey Mysterio- ****. Can't wait. Love both these guys, and this should be awesome. If Shelton really is coming back next week (right?) then hopefully we'll see a WGTT match. I doubt it, because there was no time for build up, with Shelton's injury and all. They might put them against the APA. That might not be too bad. SmackDown usually delivers. Hopefully this will be the same.

I'd say Trish is the total package in the Women's Division. She's one of the best, if not the best in the ring, and I'd say she's pretty damn good looking. If it was up to me, Victoria and Molly would be the top female heels on RAW, with Trish playing the top female and Lita close behind. Gail would be Heat fodder for Ivory, and Jazz would show up once in a while. Jackie Gayda wouldn't wrestle, Shaniqua would be on SmackDown (she's good enough for the Women's Division on RAW, but with one ladies' match per week, it's packed enough as it is) and Sable, Torrie, Stacy and Dawn would all be SmackDown valets. ..And I don't know what they could possibly do with Jacqueline. Wasn't she a ref or something for a while? Sorry, I'm sticking with Lil' Naitch.

I almost started one but I figured that if no one had started it by the time the show was coming on, no one cared enough to post in it. I was wondering why, because I wanted to comment on Vince's XFL remarks. For those of you who missed it, there was a Survivor Series commercial. It was football players clashing with wrestlers. Finishers all around here. More fighting. Survivor Series, live on--blah, blah and all that. Then it gets interesting. A limo is shown, with a man wearing binoculars staring onto the field. Binoculars are pulled down to reveal Vince with a great smile on his face. He then comments "Wrestling and football...(long pause)...nah." *limo drives away* To see VINCE HIMSELF insulting the XFL was hilarious. I didn't want to start a whole thread based on that, though. Too bad.

I went Taker/Brock, because I haven't seen the Cactus Jack retirement match.

.. I actually enjoyed Tonight..in This Very Ring.

Plinko. .. Leafs/Flyers. Usually the Leafs make it past the first round. But it was not to be.

It was a tossup between Benoit winning the title, the Bret speech and La Parka becoming a WWE superstar, but I went with La Parka. I'm a huge mark for him, and there's a better chance of Bret coming back and Benoit winning the title than Vince ever hiring La Parka. I had to give the P Man some looovvve.

I just wanted to say this diary is awesome. It's actually what got me to addicted to this site. Keep up the spiffy work.

Is it just me or was there no Velocidential thread last night?

This match won't be the main event, right? I mean, it looks like Steph/Vince is getting more TV time.

Don't say that, you might give Tommy Dreamer hope. Tommy looks like a sensible guy, I'm sure he's understood by now that he's going nowhere in this company. I have a feeling the reason Tommy was crying after the Hardcore Title became extinct wasn't because of ECW's history. "Goodbye, TV time." JR: "Spanky, a third generation...er..second.. .. Is there any way to link him to Kevin Bacon?"

Actually putting him on Smackdown would be a start. Don't say that, you might give Tommy Dreamer hope. Hey, Michael Shane owes his X Division title to being the cousin of Shawn Michaels. If Spanky promoted that he was trained by Shawn himself, he could be Euro title material right now.

Remember that time Rico beat Ric Flair? I actually thought that Rico had a bright future after that. There's not too much hope for him now.

You never know. Hey, three years ago nobody saw Stephanie McMahon becoming the top star of SmackDown, and look where daddy's little girl is now.

Um, I just noticed Shelton is on the list under Angle. Whoops, I'll edit that.

Nevermind. Sorry.

Kurt Angle John Cena Edge Eddie Guerrero Chris Jericho Brock Lesnar Trish Stratus Rob Van Dam WGTT (Charlie and Shelton, Shelton and Charlie, whichever way you prefer it) If I could pick 15, the other five I add would be Hurricane, Kane, Christian, Victoria and Rey Mysterio.