If the SD's only been run on TV within 10 days, can I still talk about it? ;-) Ok..gonna combine a couple of weeks here. For starters, many thanks to JR for handing me the biggest laugh of the night last week when he informed us that Triple H had physically intervened. Right...as opposed to all those times when he spiritually intervened. Thanks for the clarification, Jim.
On the subject of laughs, I love..as in love MVP on the kiss cam - that's some of the best wrestling I've seen him do lately! Maybe a mixed tag match is what he needs :-) More seriously, MVP is another talent I think gets underused; he's wicked fun to watch, he's athletic, he sells brilliantly (don't believe me? Watch this year's No Way Out), and he can be a heck of a comedian, yet he's always stuck in the same storyline: blathering about his contract. I sometimes think that contract killed his career (btw, who is his agent - Scott Boras? ;-) ). I'd love to see MVP in a high profile feud that didn't involve bling.
Sorry, but I'm having a witchy moment re: divas. Yeah, I picked MM to win. Yeah, I picked up the $2.50 return for my buck, but ya know, sometimes I hate being right. Seriously, she's done nothing for the last two months. Nothing to advance the prestige of the Divas title. Nothing to impress the h*ll out of me (like before the GAB when she was facing Natalya). Nothing. If that's all that's going to happen during her reign, give the belt to somebody else. She was supposed to carry the belt with pride and bring dignity to it. Well, the carrying part we've seen (hard to hip shake w/ 15 pounds around your waist, ain't it?) But as for making me respect the title, sorry...no. I don't think any better of the butterfly belt than I did the day it debuted: a lot like a Victoria's Secret store: a little too nauseatingly pink, a little too suggestive of who you're sleeping with and not enough of who you're slapping around. And now, who is left for the All-American girl next downer to face? She's beaten most of the divas in miniscule matches that meant nothing. This does nothing but make the Diva division look weak. Intelligent. Really brilliant. That's the way to bolster ratings! If the Divas division is going to keep earning respect, that title needs to stand for something and mean something more than a cute smile. (To ruminate upon: how come dudes always end up attacking MM? First Chuck Palumbo, now Festus...what gives?)
Hopping off my collapsible footstool, its really nice to see Kane getting a higher profile feud (not so nice to see him lose to Mysterio though). As I've said before, I love Kane and I'm waiting for him to get a belt again. Don't care if he has to go evil to do it. He's one of the few who can make evil hilarious..maybe that should be hellarious..wink.
And speaking of higher profiles, I really like seeing so much of Jeff Hardy. First, I just plain a$$ love so many opportunities to watch him do Whisper in the Wind. Second, he's so close to climbing that one last rung he needs; I hope he gets it done. The feud with Triple H was good; I'd love to see a lengthy one with the Undertaker. Not only would working with UT be great for Jeff in terms of polish, but if it keeps giving us matches of the caliber we saw last SD, they can keep it going straight through 'til Wrestlemania and I'll watch!
Side note to Kozlov...sweetie, on the mic, make sure your "w's" sound like 'v'. That's how Russians do it. Speciba.
(c) BE 2008