Naitch

Gotta love that Chris 'Benniott' guy. I think Benniott has alot of potential and could be a pretty big player in the wrestling business. If he is half as good as Dinnammityte Kidd then he'll be a hell of a wrestler.

Ok, so the Raw that I missed turns out to be the Raw that Ric F'n Flair Elbow Drops an apple. That is just bloody typical. I know the show is repeated but it just wouldn't be the same as watching it live.

Your gimmick sucks.

Stan Hansen begs to differ. http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/6963/hansenlariatkawada7hr.gif Ok strictly speaking that isn't actually a Clothesline, it is of course a Lariat. A Clothesline is where the guy doing it remains stationary and simply raises his arm for the other wrestler to run into, a lariat is when the guy doing it moves forward with his arm raised. Or something like that anyway.

If you're going to use that pretty silly argument then you could make an argument that Hogan has earned the right not to job to people because hes the biggest star in wrestling history. Michaels isn't!

They'll probably go the usual route of having a heel (Triple H of course) beat the Champion, in this case Cena, probably at Survivor Series in a triple threat match or something and have the heel say that the former Champion will never ever get another title shot. So Cena wins the Rumble and gets a title shot, leading to the blockbuster, huge, bigger than Andre vs. Hogan and Rock vs. Austin combined main event of Cena vs. HHH at Wrestlemania.

Raw was back to being pretty bad this week but anyway I'll give my review of it, complete with what I watched during the 15,000 ad breaks Raw takes. Michaels always looks so horrible in a suit. I know the new WWE policy is for their stars to wear suits to work, but Michaels seriously looks his age when wearing one. He looks like a school chemistry teacher or something. Did Shawn Michaels actually have the audacity to call someone an 'egomaniac'? Even if it was possibly just tongue in cheek, that irony smells very ironic. Michaels takes yet another cheapshot at Hogan. Yeah very mature Shawn. He beat you in the back and he beat you clean in the middle of the ring and you ain't ever getting that win back. Get over it. I hate those stupid frigging facial expressions Michaels makes when another guy is talking. At least try and take him seriously Shawn, at least try and put the other guy over you moron. Masters makes his entrance and I swear you could hear the cockroaches fart. No one cares about this guy, so stop trying to push him you idiots. After having to sit through Shawn Michaels and Chris Masters in the opening minutes of Raw, Ric F'n Flair runs down the ramp and wakes me the hell up. I beg Ric to Elbow Drop an apple, but alas he doesn't do it. I hope they keep him face and don't do the whole 'Flair turns face but swerves everyone badly by turning on a guy and rejoining HHH' that has been done 500 times. Stop doing the strut Michaels. See Ric Flair can wear a suit and even manages to make a pink shirt look stylish and I even hate that men wear pink these days. I turned to the MTV awards things on VH1 at this point. When the hell did Kelly Clarkson become so hot? Masters/Carlito vs. Michaels/Flair is announced. Well one out of four isn't bad. Hey a jobber match. I don't mind jobber matches, even if it is Big Show involved. Was it really worth moving Big Show to Raw from Smackdown though because he has done absolutely nothing on Raw and was at least in the upper mid card/main event on Smackdown. Those jobbers bump around like freaks for Show. SNITSKY alert! SNITSKY alert! SNITSKY uses a foreign object better than anyone in wrestling history has ever used a foreign object. It makes me happy that Show is at least feuding with someone who can carry his worthless ass. Fans chant 'You suck' at SNITSKY as my urge for violence grows and I want to slap the piss out of each one of those fans. Another ad break. Hey 'Hogan Knows Best' was on VH1, thats the first time I've seen it on over here. Brooke has the same orange, leathery skin as her old man. So does his wife. And Nick. I do agree with Hulk though, a 16 year old girl shouldn't be going out with a 22 year old man. My paint starts to peel off my walls at this point. I turn back to Raw and realise why this is. Torrie Wilson is speaking. Stop talking dammit. Torrie is looking really haggard. Why the hell are these two even still hired? They released The Dudleys and kept these two. God I love Ashley. Ashley actually has a really good promo voice and really should be a manager. She even sells the Widows Peak well. I'm predicting Ashley as the new Trish. Speaking of Trish, she is recovered from injury, why isn't she on my TV kicking ladies in the head, then verbally abusing them? I bloody hate ad breaks. I turn back to VH1 and Hogan moral crusader is talking sex and it creeps me out. Hulk Hogan-dishing out leg drops one overage guy at a time. They own a sunbed. This doesn't surprise me. Cade and Murdoch are my new favourite tag team. Murdoch just looks so damn old school. Chris Masters doesn't look like no damn wrestler, Murdoch looks like a wrestler should look. I just hope they don't go the gay cowboy/Deliverance route with them and just make them into an old school, southern ass kicking tag team. Some generic, crappy nu metal band I have never heard of play I song I don't know. Edge criticises independent wrestling, as I start to count the number of wrestlers on the indys better than Edge. I stopped counting at about 30. Lita looks even more haggard than Torrie. She has a really, really bad boob job. She tells Matt Hardy he'll never get any of her again. Ah, who the hell cares? Even Dory Funk has had some of that. I agree with Hogan. This guy is a jerk. His wife calls him 'Terry'. Kayfabe dammit, there could be wrestling fans watching. I wouldn't be surprised if Ric actually bladed instead of just pouring food colouring or something over himself. Edge looks kinda roided up. Can he still uses that Money in the Bank contract or what? Why didn't they save a street fight for PPV? A tie up? A frigging tie up. You're supposed to hate each other, start punching each other. Punch each other harder you wusses. This would have been the perfect time to bring in Dusty on commentary and have them fight in the mens bathroom. Nothing says hatred like a tin foil bin lid to the head. Hogan finishes a number of sentences without using the words 'brother' or 'dude'. I dislike Nick already. Hogan's t-shirt freaks me out-'Its not a bald spot. Its a solar panel for a sex machine.' Edge actually kinda looks like he hates Matt, but Matt is horrible at conveying emotion. Lita does have a nice arse though. They gimmicked that electrical equipment way too much. JR does his fake injury 'This is real folks' voice. I hate when they do these angles. They've done them for years, only it comes out sounding something like this 'This is a tragedy folks, their careers may be over, they may be seriously injured. But up next Trish vs. Terri in a bra and panties pudding match! Followed by The Godfather vs. Naked Mideon!' Cena seems to be really over with teenage girls. This is a good thing for Vince. Wrestling promotions should target teenage girls as much as possible because they will make them a ton of money. Cena is however the kind of over which will die out pretty quickly. It is only a matter of time before people start turning on him more and more. Angle needs to either wear the Team Angle tracksuit or dress like he did when he was feuding with Eddie Guerrero early last year. His beatdown of Cena last week was great, he always does a great beatdown. He tells Cena he has more wrestling ability in his pinky finger than Cena does in his entire body. Nothing says merciless badass like using the word 'pinky'. Cena implies Angle is gay, which might well be the single most creative, original, intelligent insult he has ever come up with. Bravo sir, you have never ever used that one before. Can anyone understand what Jay Z is saying in that Reebok ad? Ah dammit. They take Flair out of the main event. Tomko's music hits and the pop is deafening. At least it must be because I can't hear ****. When the hell was the last time Hurricane and Rosey defended those belts? If it wasn't for Cade/Murdoch coming in I would just retire the tag titles altogether. Tomko vs. Rosey will attract millions of viewers to Raw alright. You could almost hear all the people at home phoning their friends to tell them it was Tomko vs. Rosey on Raw. Tomko remains the worst wrestler in the WWE. JR should learn that the guys you assumed attacked the other guy are never the guys who did it. THIS is the main event? Seriously though, CHRIS MASTERS is in the main event of Raw. Dear God, they must be joking. I bloody hate, hate, hate the Michaels kip up thing he does. I've hated that bloody thing for years. For a guy with a 'history of back problems' who gets his ass kicked the whole match, he can damn sure kip up easily enough. Ric Flair runs down the ramp and Flair can still go. Even if he is 56 I'd rather watch him wrestle than a large number of the WWE roster. Holy crap, Flair will put over anyone. I wonder if Michaels will do the same next week. Its all well and good trying to get Masters over, but NO ONE gives a crap about this guy. It just is not working. Raw did indeed go back to being bad once again. On the plus side, Ric Flair was on it again and HHH was not. Enjoy a HHH free Raw while you can.

For about the last hour or so of Raw I was kinda switching back and forth between Raw and 'The Boondock Saints', which is probably about the 5th time I've seen that film. Bloody great it is too, well except for the 'Irish' accents. I have no idea what those were. Even with the negatives of Raw and Raw has got a lot of them, one positive for me is that Chris Jericho is the top heel and not HHH. Hell I'd take Todd Grisham over HHH as top heel on Raw and you know Grisham could make it work too. Jericho, however is simply cannon fodder for Cena at Summerslam, until HHH eventually comes back and wins the belt so enjoy it while it lasts. SNITSKY is in the opening match and all is right with the world. With a beginning like that, I start to think that this Raw will be the greatest of all time. However SNITSKY is but a mere mortal and even he can't work miracles to save the opening tag match from being pretty boring. They need to just hurry up and have Masters put down Big Show with The Masterlock. I don't particularly like Masters, but Big Show not being able to escape from it would give the move a lot of legitimacy. Also I guess they've completely forgotten about Benjamin's feud with Carlito, which leaves them both pretty much nothing to do at Summerslam. I guess they'll go back to the feud next week if they can remember/be arsed. Poor Kurt. How the mighty have fallen. From wrestling for the WWE Title at 2 Wrestlemanias and being a multiple time Champion to getting beat up by the 'special' guy and Old Man Tatanka, the fat Indian. I hated Tatanka in 1993, so it was pretty painful to watch the guy last night. On a positive note, Christy Hemme looked good in that outfit. Still going bald though. Carlito and Jericho have pretty good on screen chemistry, but I wish they'd stop putting Carlito in so many matches. Vince comes out and says he doesn't let his ego get in the way of good business decisions. I guess he forgot about the Invasion angle. He could have made a ton of money off that angle, which for years a lot of fans were looking forward too and could have potentially been the biggest angle in wrestling history, but he let his hatred of WCW get in the way of good business and they squashed WCW every night for 6 months. I thought for a second he was talking about Brock Lesnar, but to my disappointment it turned out to be Matt Hardy. Matt should watch some Randy Savage in his feuds with Jake Roberts or Ric Flair to get some tips on how to be mucho pissed off in his promos. With Savage you got the sense that he legitimately HATED Roberts or Flair and that he legitimately wanted to kill them, whereas Matt cuts a pretty bad promo without any real intensity. Crowd reaction really wasn't that great either, which I was surprised at for a second, until I remembered that it was only Matt Hardy, the less popular Hardy Boy. Looking at this whole angle from an ordinary fans point of view, a fan who doesn't have internet access, which makes up a huge majority of the WWE audience, there are so many plotholes in this angle that it isn't even funny. I would seriously get a headache if I tried to list the plotholes in this Edge/Lita/Matt/Kane feud and I think for an ordinary fan it has got to be very confusing. I hate worked shoot promos and I only wish Bill Watts was in charge so he could beat the piss out of the creative team for allowing Matt to call Lita 'Amy Dumas' and Edge 'Adam Copeland. That should be a major no no in wrestling and these 'shoot' comments are one of the reason why wrestling has lost all its magic. A few weeks ago I gave them a couple of weeks before they messed up the Edge/Matt feud and they've already done it. Like I've said already unless they're fighting in the men's bathroom with Dusty Rhodes on commentary I really couldn't give a crap. They are really messing up Kerwin White so far. I was one of the few people who thought that it could be great and so far they haven't done enough with him. We need some vignettes quick and we need the debut of La(rry) Parka wearing a smoking jacket and loafers, with mask of course, in order to save Kerwin. Hell La Parka would save the WWE as a whole. It saddens me that a guy as talented as Val Venis is reduced to jobber levels. Rob Conway gets zero reaction and the crowd craps all over the match which is a shame because Conway is actually really good. He could have done with some vignettes too before he debuted this new character. That bloody entrance music of his has been stuck in my head since last night. Hulk Hogan has been done a million times and done much better than Michaels did it last night. Hell everyone on earth can do Hulk Hogan impressions, I know I for one have done it many times. I guess I was the only one who didn't raise so much as a smile during this segment. Michaels tries to be serious at the end, but its hard to be serious wearing a fake tache and with half your face covered in fake tan. I did however love the Superkicking the camera bit, he needs to do that more often. The little video package he had was pretty good, even though I was never or will ever be a a fan of Michaels. I liked him saying that he wanted to be remembered as the greatest wrestler ever, well mission failed Shawn. Shawn Michaels will never ever ever be the greatest in ring performer of all time. Never. Whilst I personally didn't find the segment that funny, the crowd did and that presents a major problem. Seriously, are they trying to turn Hogan heel or what? Most of what Michaels said about Hogan and said about himself is the truth. Michaels has busted his ass for years (well except when he would fake injuries to avoid doing jobs or that time he lost his smile), while Hogan was too busy making a lot of money and posing and the fans will start to think that Michaels is telling the truth. If Hogan comes out next week and does the same old crappy promo he has been doing for years, then I can really see the fans boo the guy. I know that he will most probably get a big pop because he is Hulk Hogan, but I think he will get boos as well. I didn't see most of the main event because 'The Boondock Saints' was on, but as I said I like Jericho as the top heel. However I can't believe that they're really going through with Austin vs. McMahon version 1128236. I liked Bischoff slapping Cena, but Bischoff is no Vince and Cena is roughly 1 million times worse than Austin was. Can't creative come up with anything new? Vince will continue to hire Hollywood writers who don't like wrestling, there is nothing we can do about that but why in the hell doesn't he sign good writers, instead of some girl who wrote some crappy show on Nickelodeon. Ok that little review sounded really negative again, but there you go.

Bret called out Goldberg and promised to beat him in a quick time. Goldberg enters the ring, Spears Bret, but knocks himself out on the chest plate and Bret pins him.

Meh, aside from Akio, who they were using horribly anyway, none of those releases bother me at all. I am surprised that Mr Torrie Wilson was released though.

Dean Malenko is a Jericholic. Are you one too?- http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/9150/1998052m0371ps.jpg The most elite security team on earth- http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/2112/1998092p0034ff.jpg Well can you blame the guy?- http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/9529/1999114t0013vr.jpg You and thousands of others pal- http://img298.imageshack.us/img298/6531/2000034m0027jv.jpg

WCW tries to bury Ric Flair- http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/7696/1998123p0131wr.jpg WCW tries to bury Ric Flair- http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/2459/1998124m0028fb.jpg WCW tries to bury Ric Flair...again- http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/8074/1999044m0026xf.jpg Um yeah, are you sensing a pattern here?- http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/9635/2000062m0071ze.jpg

Dominating Raw since 1999- http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/t/tripleh/07.jpg Irony at its most ironic- http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/j/jakeroberts/18.jpg Bring back these men- http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/m/meanstreetposse/03.jpg 'The Beer Drinkinest, Cane Swingingest...'- http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/s/sandman/14.jpg Would you mess with this man? http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/s/stanhansen/06.jpg Yeah just look at the picture- http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/t/trishstratus/36.jpg

What a hunk- http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/d/deanmalenko/03.jpg Yeah I got nothing to say here- http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/d/dustyrhodes/11.jpg Pray you don't run into this man JBL- http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/t/tracysmothers/03.jpg My hero- http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/g/genesnitsky/13.jpg

Arn Anderson-A Real Man's Man http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/a/arn/21.jpg One of these people doesn't fit- http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/f/fourhorsemen/03.jpg Bet you didn't like Batista when he was dressed like this- http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/b/batista/12.jpg Soon to be jobbing on a Heat/Velocity near you- http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/c/cmpunk/06.jpg This man would steal your wife- http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/r/rickrude/12.jpg

The Greatest...and Muhammad Ali- http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/00/aliflair.jpg http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/03/rockflair.jpg My personal favourite Four Horsemen line up- http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/f/fourhorsemen/04.jpg Ric Flair signs the contract to job to Hogan in 827 straight PPVs- http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/05/hoganflairturner.jpg