Smackdown! was an effective tease toward Wrestlemania in my book.

From the matches the brand is providing, it's hard to guess who'll go over. Both John Cena and Big Show dominated their matches, so it's hard to figure which one will win. I have a hunch that Cena won't win yet though; he's super over with the fans, but I don't quite think he's ready for a title run just yet.

Likewise Eddie's World title defense. True, he came off as dominent... but without a direct physical confrontation with Kurt Angle. I'm hoping Eddie wins, but your guess is as good as mine.

There's no clean winner for the Cruiserweight open yet, but they were really effective in building it up. My only gripe: Funaki, often a JTTS (and Albert) is in it, but very talented Paul London isn't. Why, I don't know.

The big question mark right now is like Monday Lesnar / Goldberg. Many people are reporting that Brock is leaving after 'mania too, but with his reported desire of trying football - a sport he's never been involved in - I'm not jumping the gun, in case it was more a matter of working us all.

Allegedly he and Rena Mero are now an item. Why do I keep picturing Brock now in the Dustin Hoffmann role in The Graduate?

RAW was good at keeping the results of the biggest matches planned for Wrestlemania close to the vest. We don't know the victor from the triple threat World title match (though we all don't expect Triple H to win), we don't really know if the Undertaker or Kane will win, or Lesnar / Goldberg.

It's a given the Rock n' Sock Connection will win their match since they were beaten down, and Chris Jericho might (unless Trish will turn heel on him?) .

I still don't know (let's be honest: I don't care) who'll win the Playboy evening gown match... and though clues lead me to think Victoria will retain the woman's title, I wouldn't be shocked if she gets her head shaved. It would make more sense with her craziness gimmick.

I had a bit of a shock yesterday:

Many folks heard about Rob Feinstein, one of the owners of the Ring of Honor wrestling promotion. He was caught in a child porn-type sting, trying to hook up with what he thought was a young boy to have sex with.

That in itself was pretty repulsive. What I learned yesterday (please correct me if I'm wrong) is that he is the guy behind RF Video, the tape service that has brought ECW and puroresu to many.

Yeesh!

I just read that Hercules Hernandez - real name Raymond Hernandez - died in his sleep this weekend. He was 46.

No cause has yet been given for his death, but he was a man who took steroids for a large part of his career. I saw him here in Montreal in 1992 in Ray Rougeau's promotion as Loup Garou (translation: werewolf), and we could see how much flab he now had as he'd got off 'roids.

Regardless of the causes, he was a part of the wrestling landscape of the late 80s - early 90s. He will be missed.