Ray Traylor (the Big Bossman) dead at 42

I can't give him a better eulogy than Rick Scaia did.

I just watched a match from the NOAH promotion in Japan thanks to Bit Torrent: Heavy Kenta Kobashi versus Akira Taue.

I don't speak Japanese, so I'm not sure which guy was which. I just know that one of them was in pretty bad shape to me. I think it was safe to say both these guys were in the Super Heavyweight class.

Most of the match was limited to punches/slaps/kicks or power bombs - but seeing large men perform moonsaults, tope suicida and planchas was amazing. Much like the way Vader wowed us with moonsaults years ago, these were amazing to see.

Who lost the Diva Search? Either way, the true losers are us fans. We're the ones who had to have valuable time wasted on that crap. The red-headed spaz won too.

Vince McMahon's announcement was for the alleged fan interactivity for the Taboo Tuesday PPV. I don't see that as something earth shattering...

Are they making Kane a face now? The whole thing of Gene Shnitsky coming off heelish doesn't really ring true... after all, Kane was setting him up to "Pillmanize" his neck first.

I'm still puzzling this out: how could The Big Show make fans go crazy on Smackdown! without use of the heat machine? I guess that absence does make the heart grow fonder...

Gangrel and Viscera are very likely back for the short term, until The Undertaker destroys them. As Rick Scaia says, they won't be back long enough for folks to remember how bad Mabel / Viscera sucks.

'KweeRico''s return wasn't really a surprise to me. As soon as Charlie Haas was getting beat down, it telegraphed Rico's appearance.

Maybe I'm just sick and twisted, but: did Heidenreich's skit with Michael Cole make you think Cole was being sodomized?