Hawk 34

If by some chance that RKO isn't getting in the MitB, which he will although at this point, I wouldn't be shocked. Orton's basically left with nothing unless he jumps to ECW and joins the New Breed killing months of build. Hence, Orton will be in the MitB. This will be a double finish.

I called it earlier but I'm going with 10 minute draw or double-pin finish here. I'd like to see Carlito since he'd gain from it and can bump but I sense a Flair/Carlito in the Tag Team Battle Royal setting the split up there or perhaps they go over and get a title shot and such.

A lot of people rag about Cena and Edge working each other so often, but I actually enjoy since it gives an old time vibe of an never ending rivalry.

Whitmer/Jacobs was a worked-shoot botch. That was just Mickie whiffing air and crashing hard.

It's funny how last year, the woman's title match had the best build of all the matches and now all the other matches are better built then the Playboy Promotional Match.

Oh, shit.

Maria ain't gettin no push she hangs with Punk.......and everyone in the back HATES Kelly so there goes that. Dating Punk tends to be a curse for women wrestlers...

That might have been intentional but if it wasn't, WWE is really having a shitty day with the feed.

I don't get it. I mean, Maria is obviously the right girl to be pushing of all the non-wrestlers. Even Kelly Kelly is better served. This is just to justify the fucking Diva Search.

It really bothers me that this FCA match gets dumped for a Raw match, while Ashley gets the WM match instead. Ashley could have done a skit with the magazine instead and saved this particular match for the bigger stage.

Shit, even Ashley got a pop.

I'm not saying the marks still don't eat this shit up, just look at Hogan 25 years later or Ric Flair pretty much every week as well as Undertaker. It's just the same old thing. It was a great pop but nothing really gets accomplished with Austin's appearences. At least Hogan works a PPV match or Foley puts someone over in a big way. Austin just drinks beer and shouts catchphases.

It helps when WWE and Miller has a partnership. Budweiser has classy people like Dale Jr. and Jay-Z. Fuck a rassler.

At least we're saved from a promo, for now.

So much for Austin being any different from his last 10 special return spots.

One night back and he already has a new dumb catchphase t-shirt.

Good question. He was GM for a while (the magic contracts). I forget what capacity he was serving in when he got canned. I think he just meant as a wrestler again.

This could add a whole new dynamic to Foley's cheap pops with the local mascots.

Foley with another Kristi Kanyon reference.

Oh, that'd be great. Trick McMahon into thinking he was the referee but isn't yet gets his job back.

Well, that was the backup plan. However, this seems like another stall...

Oh, Bischoff is the new Board of Directors now? Guess not, but that'd be a great spot. He can make random appearences as a thorn in McMahon's side.

Don't forget Kane's return at the Dallas Raw in 2000 after the classic 10 man tag. One of the greatest nights in wrestling.

which is about the whole crowd tonight...so its okay WWE has never telegraphed anything so blatantly as Austin being the referee. Even the dumbest of marks can figure out what's happening, even if they have managed to avoid the many commericals promoting Austin as the guest referee. Just get it over with right since it'll just collapse into a pointless Austin rant and a brawl with Lashley/Umaga. Looks like they'll follow my ideals and get it over with now. Good move.

The streak of good WWE shows looks to be crashing here as this entire show is a stall for the Austin pop and that's not going to be worth anything except to the silly marks. Granted there is still an hour but it just feels like a total stall.