Monday's RAW was a fanboy mark-out dream. From the various invasions of WCW talent, to Mike Awesome winning the Hardcore title, to Tajiri premiering the green mist!

There were two major negatives though; one by fed choice, the other due to thought Nazi "protection" by TSN censors.

When DDP attacked the Takers, the camera went long, as they often do when it's simulated that a woman is hurt - but this time, they did it the instant Page ran in with a chair. They didn't even wait to find out what would happen!

This after embarassing flubs with the "bleep" button; when Edge called Billy Gunn "Billy Bitch-cakes"... never mind the stupid decisions to bleep the word bitch, but they kept missing it and bleeping out the word cakes. Oohh... my sense of morals is warped now... not.

The major fed-decision negative was letting X-Pac win the Light Heavyweight title. Granted, the fans cheer for any opportunity he gets pounded on - but if there's anyone not deserving of a title belt, it's him.

I got home a few minutes ago from watching the King of the Ring PPV. Initial thoughts: some matches with solid wrestling, some mistakes in booking, some surprises...

- and the crowd was silent for most of it.

The crowd only popped for the street fight (Shane and Kurt really busted their butts for a solid hardcore match), and for the surprise appearance of Booker T... but except for on a few high spots, there was no other crowd heat at all the rest of the night.

Right away the fact that the tournament was so truncated was painful. 3 matches, the Finals happening at the start of the second hour. The King of the Ring is one of the WWF's "big five" concept events; this watered it down way too much.

Like Kurt Angle's win last year, this finish was too predictable. The only thing in question was whether Rhyno or Edge would win; once the winner of their match was decided, we knew who'd be the new King.

DDP's brawl with the Undertaker proved unsatisfying. Nothing resolved, no furthering of a storyline.

Austin winning in a casual way took the steam out from what had been a solid match until then, thanks to the Canadian Chrisses.

To borrow a review style from Rick Scaia, I give this show a Thumbs Middle, slightly up from a Thumbs Down because of the lack of heat.