Smackdown! overall didn't work well for me this week.

We did get 2 good tag team matches (Kidman/London vs. the Basham Brothers and Rey Mysterio/Spike Dudley vs. The Dudley Boys - though we could see Spike's heel turn a mile away), but the rest...?

Eddie Guerrero's promo was again too long in my books. It stopped being entertaining for me once they started the bits with Kurt Angle's stuff. Angle-Haas was okay... but the opening match lived down to an opinion I read about WWE wrestlers just going through the motions... Rob Van Dam in the ring looks too limited in his moveset now, almost routine.

When they brought out a midget dressed as the Undertaker, it lost my interest from them doing the same thing too often already. Orlando Jordan: the new Virgil? Yawn...

I just got my latest comic stack. It was far more interesting to me.

It seems that Smackdown! gave Sakoda his walking papers this week.

I can't really call this a tremendous loss, because he didn't really do anything to stick out... he was just yet another "punch and kick" man for the fed, with only the facts that he was Asian and smaller in stature to distinguish him.

I can't give too much fault to RAW this week... with the exception of the Rosey - Tyson Tomko match (Rosey looked good, Tomko didn't) and the Kane squash, every match was solid or like William Regal - HHH added heat to a story.

What did hurt the show was the entire Lita bit and match creation (Til Death Do Us Part? Why not make it an equally cheesy Marriage License on a Pole match?), and the fact that through errors in his promo and dull work in the final match, Randy Orton still didn't sell himself as a potential World title level competitor.

It's rare these days that I'll post about wrestling on weekends... the B-shows (Velocity and Heat) are generally squash matches, over-redundant recaps of the big shows (why bother with Experience? We get those recaps already!), and a few matches from the folks who don't draw enough interest for RAW or Smackdown!.

(Notice how a JBL World Title squash was off SD!)

Still, I do have to admit: Rosey's new costume looks much better on Heat than the old t-shirt thing.

More interesting stuff from my Archives: I spoke of the time Mark Jindrak and Sean O'Haire won the WCW Tag Team championship, and how I felt it wasn't yet their time.

Shades of my recent comment about Randy Orton!

The ironic thing is that both Jindrak and O'Haire were briefly back on the Smackdown! roster together - at least until O'Haire was released a week later.

(Not that Jindrak is being used well right now...)

Door Closes on Hart House (linked from Bret Hart's Calgary Sun Column)

I often don't agree with Bret's views (and I'm Canadian, so throw out the USA/Canada debate!) but this is indeed the end of a historic period of wrestling history.

I finally added an Archive here. Ironic, since I was just checking out my first posts in 2000... I spoke of doing it then. 4 years... must be a record!

I put it in since I also just changed the comment system. The new one allows for Trackback - similar I believe to Permalink. If I'm doing that, it makes sense to actually have the stuff you link to viewable.

It took a bit of recoding and testing, so anyone checking it out in the last hour must have had an interesting experience, to say the least.