Tonight's Smackdown had some slow points, but overall was a great show.

Not just because of TLC 3. A near 30-minute, PPV-calibre match. It wasn't the best of the TLC bouts, but it had more than its fair share of great spots.

No, it was also a great show for two big reasons:

1. Tajiri debuted! He hasn't had the opportunity to wrestle yet, but that will happen soon enough.

   
   I can see a great series of matches with him and Chris Jericho down the line. After all, he's a lackey for William Regal, and Regal has issues with Y2J...



2. Steve Blackman not hesitating to dance was wild enough... but Trish Stratus doing the worm (put it back in your pants, perverts!) was a pure laugh out loud moment.

Today is a sad day for wrestling fans all over the world: it's the second anniversary of Owen Hart's death at the Kemper Arena, during that year's Over the Edge PPV.

Wrestleline has links to many resources about Owen here. I couldn't do them better myself.

With a night's sleep between me and Judgment Day, here are some thoughts:

• Proof of how unpopular X-Pac is: nobody even gave a "Whoo!" when he did a chop.


• Was there even a point to the Chyna/Lita match? It furthered no storylines, it just continued Chyna's stint as "division killer"


• Can we now STOP having Austin/Undertaker matches? Rick Scaia on Wrestleline was kinder, just saying it "didn't click" for the opening minutes; what I saw was that these two can't put on an interesting match anymore.


• The cameras missing the finish of the match now makes three times that's happened in the last two months. It was sloppy on TV, but inexcusable on pay per view.

  
  It made me think the WCW production crew are now working WWF events.

Not a bad PPV (WCW Uncensored 95 & 96 still have that beat), but still pretty mediocre.