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Knowing the WWE fans, when Lita does turn face, the fans will forget about her slut-ness after two weeks. I doubt it. Until Lita publicly apologizes to Matt, or Matt publicly announces that he's no longer angry at Lita, they fans will continue to hate her from now until the end of her career. She might as well face the fact that she sealed her own coffin when she allowed the Edge/Lita/Matt angle to go forward. Matt has repeatedly claimed to forgive Lita for her actions, just not Edge's actions. By publicly, I assume his home web-site counts. Lita was getting the chants before they even went with the Matt storyline. It's been her character for the past two years, she just happened to imitate her art a little too closely.

It really depends which version of the Undertaker shows up because their smackdown match on the 4th of july was an great match. If it's the puro/mmataker, then you will get a good match out of it. I wouldn't be surprised to see them put Hogan/Cena together against TBS/Kane as a SUPER TAG TEAM match and use that to build up to Cena/Hogan match later down the road, although I don't think Hogan would want to share the spotlight. The Raw side of things appeared secure a couple weeks ago but with Angle going over to Smackdown and Edge taking the title...it's sort of up in the air. Cena/Edge/Michaels/HHH could happen, I really feel like the Cena/Triple H deal will not occur. I also can't honestly see Edge going into WM as the champion of the main event title match. I still don't understand why WWE isn't trying to talk Hogan into working with Orton for Mania. It would make perfect sense. What do they do with the IC title? A part of me fears they will keep the title on Flair and he will defend it against Masters. As for the rumble? It was seemingly dead set for Orton or HHH to win but now Undertaker and Mysterio have crept up to the "could win" sentiments. The Mania programs should bet setting up but it looks like they don't even know what to book for the rumble. Batista's injury and Cena's heel heat really fucked WWE's plans.

They might as well just completely model him after Mike Tyson. Constantly talk and threaten and then crush opponents. Then before Mania, have him goof off and act up and lose to Funaki. Nah, they would bring Fred Ottoman back or something.

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HIAC was the draw, not Undertaker or Orton.

Angle had almost zero direction on Smackdown after the Mania program with Shawn had briefly expired and was lumped into a idiotic feud with Booker T involving his urges to have primal sex with Sharmell. To make things worse, the matches weren't worth nothing and it was a complete waste of Angle's time and value.

Finally, SOMEONE who actually makes sense. I applaud you(no pun intended). It's questionable to say that Angle was the "best" option in terms of who could have been brought over to Smackdown (Hunter and Shawn would have been just as significant). The problem with Angle returning to Smackdown is he just left Smackdown a few months ago. While his character has been tweaked, he hasn't changed all that much and despite the lost of Batista and Eddie, Smackdown is still the same show. In fact, the lone difference is that Booker T is a heel now. Angle was getting lost in the Raw shuffle and this will allow him to be the focus of the show, which is what he wants in addition to a world title reign. While the quality can be found for Angle on Smackdown with Benoit, JBL, Mysterio, Taker, Hardy, The cruisers (Knoble, London, Kendrick, Nunzio) and Orton... it's still limited. Shawn could have been a fresh breath for the show as he has been on Raw since the start and him winning the title could have offered more for Smackdown because that opens alot of potential. The verdict on Angle's move to smackdown can't be determined until a month or so when we can get a clear view of the intentions behind this decision.

essentially they are putting each other over.

Also, could we do something about NFL head coaches named Mike? 1/2 the Mike's were fired last year but they are already coming back.

That hire just makes me think Green Bay is just trying to make it easier for Brett to retire.

Having the hottest angle in OVW which is getting rave reviews in addition to some of his best in-ring work of his career sided with Paul Heyman's strongest seal of approval and making a decent living off it isn't a bad place to be. I'm sure he misses his 60 minute classics with Joe but I don't think he is complaining.

The funny thing is if it was a veteran like the Taker, he would have said, "not feeling it" and held the belt til Mania. While if it was Austin, he would have just left with the belt and been in Texas getting hammered. Cena's a team player. He'll regret that someday. If Cena hadn't been half assing it for the last six months or so, this wouldn't be an issue. And please, lets not just knee-jerk blame this on Vince and the writers. The fans saw how Cena's ringwork had fallen apart. The fans could give two shits about his ringwork, his ring-work wasn't much to marvel at during his peak levels. The fans turned on him because of how stale he became and how phony he really was.

Isn't the general consensus amongst most fans and workers that Bubba is a giant prick? When the Dudley's were let go, it was said that Devon was "universally praised as a nice guy". Bubba got no such praise. Bubba is a prick, and has been for years. Considering the fact that Bubba worships the ground Paul E. Heyman walks on, this isn't surprising news.

It's a big risk to plan a main event for your biggest show of the year around a guy who has been prone to any possible injury and is still recovering from injury by the time the show arrives. With Batista's recent string of injuries, he would break his wrist twisting a water bottle. They put the title on Angle because he's credible and they need a name on SD, along with the fact he was getting lost in the shuffle on Raw. Angle Vs Batista would make a good Summer Slam program.

I really just want to know WHY Kurt was able to go over to smackdown and win the title? Or will they just use the lame "Vince let me" and they can make it look like Angle was running from Shawn (despte the fact Angle wanted to kill shawn last week) or that this was another way of Vince screwing shawn by not giving him the chance to take the decisive victory over Angle.

It's funny because they did this on Raw with Carlito and Masters, while not the ideal options for main eventers, they have firmly cemeted those two as main eventers. On Smackdown, they just cycled through but now with deaths and injuries, the roster depth is depleted. What does this mean? JBL back in the main event by April at the latest unless they can finally wake up. Here is the very short list of legitimate SD main eventers Angle-Mysterio-Orton-Taker-JBL-Benoit. Obviously Benoit is busy with the mid-card and WWE is too scared to ride the Mysterio express and are intent on making Orton look as weak as possible. JBL was a tremendous failure with the main event...

If they wanted a way to talk Benoit into staying around, throwing him another world title match at Mania wouldn't hurt. However, I believe it'll be Angle/Taker or Angle/Mysterio or even Angle/Orton before Benoit/Angle.

At least Stevie Richards wasn't in it. I mean, STEVIE RICHARDS?

Works for me. First time I'll watch Smackdown since I can't remember. Why couldn't they just go TUNE IN TO SEE A NEW WORLD CHAMPION THIS FRIDAY ON SMACKDOWN? Aren't they always complaining that SD's ratings are low because of spoilers?

Angle Vs Rey and Angle Vs Undertaker are more likely before Benoit Vs Angle.

Way to get lazy, WWE and do emergency booking. A tournament wasn't worth putting effort into? an un-hyped battle royal and slapping the title on your "oh shit, we dont have anyone left, bring over our ace in the hole", that is pure creative genius there.

very original. You are only the 5th person to suggest it in the last 12 hours.

someone is coming from under the bed...

Chicken legs.

Considering the show has like 10 minutes left at max, Edge isn't much of a performer.