RAW on the other hand was good - well, most of it was.

Let's get the negative out of the way first: the bikini competition (with Viscera stinking it up), Chris Masters, the continuing Kane melodrama, and HHH's interview. (He seems to be going for the 'Motorhead Lemmy' look now).

The positives: the bikini contest made an actual storyline set-up for a heel turn by Victoria, HHH was at the middle of the show, not the start, and the Batista/Mohammad Hassan match was brutal and sweet.

The lukewarm: Victoria as a heel now means the least talented person in the ring Christi Hemme is now the only face. While the Chris Benoit-Edge match was good (thanks to Benoit), it continued the new tradition of "screw over the hometown hero". HHH vs. Batista makes no story sense (Batista said he's done with Hunter... now they feud again?).

After watching Smackdown! last week... well, to quote the Rock: "What in the blue Hell was that?"

It wouldn't make sense that the "Creative Team" is using up all their bad ideas before the Draft, but this show was lame. Retarded, even.

We got a bunch of rematches from the Judgment Day PPV, and then after a Battle Royal with a terrific last few minutes (Kurt Angle and Rey Mysterio (Jr.). That explains it), Kurt wins and his dream match is against... Sharmell T.?

Maybe this furthers a storyline, but it's a bad one to begin with.