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Makeshift tag team of Carlito and Masters, evidently the only type of tag team there is left on Raw .

He'll have the Mexicools shipped over from Smackdown just so he can kick their asses. And gets frustrated when he learns that Art Barr and Louie Spiccoli are dead.

Until truth spends 25 million telling people how tobacco companies spend millions telling people they gave 125,000 to charity.

Oh dear god, poor Chavo. edit: well at least he didn't say Chavo was a murderer.

This should be Goldust with Sharmell with Booker going crazy when he sees it.

I was more pleased to see the return of Test.

Since few creative decsisons make any sense these days, I'll do a crazy prediction and say that Lita turns on Edge and joins up with a heel Cena. Unlikely to happen I know, since its a main event angle before Wrestlemania without HHH.

If this was ECW Spike Dudley would have squashed Snitsky. And then New Jack would have beat the shit out him just because.

Hey! You don't say that about Gene Snitsky.

Vam Dam to get the biggest face chants tonight.

Vince: You want have career suicide Shawn? *Whips something out from under the ring* "BREAK THIS FLOWERPOT!"

Career suicide? What, he's facing Kane?

I really wonder how Shawn would like with shorter, Christian-like (no pun, Jay Reso) hair.

Ugh, considering how well they've handled Lashley for the past couple of months (performances at Survivor Series, World Title Battle Royal,) I'd prefer they build him up again before squashing Booker. Hell stick JBL against him, after the Boogeyman feud, he's got nothing to lose anyway.

Dude, what Edge did was tame compared to some of the shit people pull in this weird-ass world of professional wrestling. And it's not like he forced Lita to sign a contract at gunpoint that she'd cheat on Matt. Should Lita be fired also? Yeah, but only because she completely sucks in the ring at this point, (not that that condition has affected the likes of Ashley, Torrie, or Candace).

Reported in the Royal Rumble thread.

A highly exciting initial title win eventually ending with a loss in forgetable afterthought match on a big PPV to a face the fans will likely not get behind? I'd say its a fair assesment.

I'm not sure which of these four stories I should be the most depressed about.

Heenan would work for Perfect.

Well given how Cena is WWE champ again and HHH was made to look very strong in the Rumble... well draw your own conclusions. Edit: Beaten to it.

Undertaker has to fit into the scenario somewhere though. They should have just had Orton win the fucking RR if they're going to do that. The only thing that would prove is that even if you lose the Royal Rumble, you can still get to the main event at WM ahead of the guy who eliminated you. Something like that would severely cripple the importance of the actual Rumble match, and it's something that is just stupid enough for the WWE to do. I don't see Angle vs. Orton happening though. I can't imagine them having both title matches be Face defending against Heel. I'm still assuming a bit of a worse case scenario, that being Henry vs. Undertaker at WM XXII, with the idea mentioned earlier about Henry interfering in the Taker/Angle match at NWO.

In regards if they do decide to screw Mysterio over in regards to the Wrestlemania title shot in favor of Orton, here is the smark worst case scenario: RKO will bitch or find some way to get a No 1. contender's match. It becomes Randy vs. Rey at No Way Out Orton wins when Booker finally pays back the favor and interferes. Creative will lamely make it up to Mysterio with a US Title match against Booker at Wrestlemania. Mysterio wins, with some dedication to Eddie which won't seem to be worth all that much. We'll be stuck with Angle vs. Orton in the main. But just speculation on my part.

How has this Rumble been quality wise?

Heh, HHH is number one ten years after he was number 1 in his first Rumble back in 96.

There must be an encounter between him and Booker tonight, just to see T's (and possibly Sharmell's) reaction to dealing with Goldust again.