Hello again. You know, it really, really bothers me that it's been almost an entire month since I've been on here. I've just been really caught up with things again as usual. Still, I have a few interesting wrestling-related updates and thoughts, so here it goes.

No Mercy was an enjoyable show last night in my opinion. For a pay-per-view that's often considered "standard" or "average" when it comes to matches and entertainment, I believe this year's show deserves considerably more credit. I think the reason for this was the quality of the matches that were featured, namely Thriple H vs. Jeff Hardy and Shawn Michaels vs. Chris Jericho. I guess that's pretty obvious, with those two matches being the main events  and everything. Still, just because a match is a main event doesn't always mean that the match will deliver, but these two certainly, certainly did. And I knew they would, especially the Hardy-Thriple H bout. Quite frankly, there really isn't too much to say about these matches other than that if you missed the show and have pay-per-view access, you need to order the replay, even if it's just for those two matches. I also participated on the NM live blog, which was the first time I had ever done that. It was pretty interesting, even though my comments never got through =(. I guess I'll join the Raw live blog tonight, too, if I can get around to it.

In SmackDown news, I discovered that I didn't have to switch television providers after all! Turns out that 96% of homes that carry the CW Network also carry MyNetwork TV! So, that was a serious relief for me, because my life is almost always chaodic and half the time I never actually have time to make changes like that, so I was very lucky in that I didn't actually have to do anything. On a couple of side notes, I thought the WrestleMania special was pretty good, even thought I was given the impression that it would be the complete pay-per-view. I guess I was kind of stupid to assume that. Never the less, it's all good because I have WrestleMania 24 on DVD. The SmackDown debut was also a good show, and I especially enjoyed the main event and the opener. It was reminiscent of Saturday Night's Main Event in my view.

Also during my abscence from here, I managed to watch The Rock DVD set, and I really enjoyed it. One thing that kind of bothered me about it, however, was that there weren't any actual comments from The Great One himself. Still, I guess that's to be exspected considering his uber-hectic schedule and all of the non-wrestling related activities he's got going on. I think the one thing on that DVD set that made up for it was the collection of interviews and one-liners. Those are absolute classics to say the least.

I think Raw will be a good show tonight. Jericho's running things so it'll be very interesting to see what he has planned.

So I guess that's about it for now. Cyber Sunday voting has already started apparently, so I'd better jump on that as well.

Until next time,

Michael