Oh, before I forget: Carlo Colon's gimmick name is Carlito Carribean Cool, not Carlo Colon Cool as I called him before. I still think it's really something they'll play for laughs...

Smackdown! was definitely a step in the right direction... not counting the suck factor of Billy Gunn on the show, the wrestling matches were entertaining, and they even had story elements that weren't dumb: the storyline with Billy Kidman concerned about injuring more opponents than Chavo comes to mind.

I also liked the nod to continuity having Torrie Wilson concerned about the returning Big Show.

Kurt Angle and Eddie Guerrero had a tremendous match, and the cheap victory leaves the door open for future matches. I'm a bit disappointed at how Eddie is getting pushed down the card though: the former WWE champion starting a feud with mid-carder Luther Reigns? Bad form, WWE.

RAW surprised me tonight: I think this was the first episode in a long time I didn't fall asleep on!

There were a few things that upset me (Randy Orton's new generic music, Kane bringing out fake Matt Hardys, all physical jokes) but there was a lot of good stuff.

It goes without saying that the actual wrestling was a major plus. What matches didn't have the highest workrate still told stories to lead toward Unforgiven.

I'm a little disappointed how Shawn Michaels' return is being written in (tying into the Lita-Kane crap instead of having him directly come after Kane for what he did), but they've slotted him into a match with some weight behind it.

I also liked the Highlight Reel. Edge's potential heel turn is still being slowly built to, and the return of Christian showed a logical growth from storylines, and can add another feud for Jericho.

I think it was less than a year ago I was railing about how bad RAW was. I'm glad they've improved - and compared to last week, they stepped up.

I wonder if WWE will offer Roulan Gartner an invitation to wrestle for them, now that he's retiring from amateur competition?

Heidenreich might work - provided that they don't let him do anything in the ring past 2-3 minutes...

Carlo Colon (son of Carlos maybe?) coming in as Carlito Colon Cool... his gimmick reminds me of the old Razor Ramon one. At least he can authentically be Hispanic! Someone (I think it was Rick Scaia) made a good point: this gimmick will ultimately lead to him turning face.

This is my Andy Rooney-style Sunday post... just fragments of wrestling thought.