Thursday, June 26, 2003

The good things from tonight's Smackdown!:


I'm glad Orlando Jordan is getting a promotional push. Unlike Shelton Benjamin's debut on Heat, Orlando actually shows ring charisma right away. He doesn't yet have a character, and we have yet to see if he has any skill on the mic, but that will hopefully be worked out.


The debut of Ultimo Dragon was good too. His ring entrance needs to grow on me a bit, but I think it will. His finisher (a flip-over reverse DDT, I think) also looked impressive. Add to that possible feuds with Billy Kidman, and we may have some excellent ring-work to come.


The bad: I've heard of morale in the lockerroom being at a major low, and I can understand it. In the last hour, most of the time was taken up on Vince McMahon and his issues with Zack Gowan and Mr. America. The final match got nearly a half-hour - even the debut of Ultimo Dragon got barely 10 minutes. How many guys had to sit around and twiddle their thumbs when they could have had more deserved exposure?

Monday, June 23, 2003

RAW from Madison Square Garden finished a few minutes ago. WWE indeed loaded up the show: 8 matches, a great tribute for Mick Foley... and the end of the Kane gimmick, to reveal: the new Missing Link?


There were some serious glaring flaws in the show though. Why have Maven get a 5-second squash over Christopher Nowinski? Why bring out Sargeant Slaughter only to job him out? (Why bring him out at all, actually).


I'm hoping that Smackdown! is better this week. This show ran hot and cold for me.