Are we watching Taboo Tuesday?

as if.

what's with all this shaking hands shit????!?!?!?!? and HUGGING wtf. i bet randy orton is on sinister.

It was nice to see the fans get behind Benoit in the tag title match. I felt sorry for him coming third in the voting.

The Flair three minute handshake thing seems odd as they're either going to have to carry on as if it never happened, have him do ANOTHER fake turn or actually have him become a face, which I don't think they want to do. Maybe they'll have Flair brush it off next week or something.

the chain was a pretty lame weapon though (it was too hard to fake a decent whip!)

I haven't seen the show yet, but the way it turned out seemed OK too. HHH looks like a pussy for needing Edge's help to beat a crippled man, but if he wants to book himself that way I guess it's his business (in every sense of the word).

I thought it was poor - Michaels should have pulled out. The voting all, without exception, went exactly the way I thought it would - I don't really suspect rigging the figures, but they manipulated it on the last Raw the way they wanted (cf Shelton Benjamin), and anyway sometimes it was obvious from the options offered: I was surprised even 10% voted for an aerobics challenge, and I'd like to know how close to zero one or two of the IC challengers came. All the women's stuff was deeply terrible, especially the pillow fight. Possibly not as dull as the dodgeball of another recent PPV, admittedly, but as embarrassingly bad. Triple H is winning with huge help (Batista and Edge to beat someone who could hardly walk!) too often - they need to resestablish his quality with a big solo win or two. He's still good enough to carry that easily, as he has so often before.

With Flair, I wonder if they are thinking of turning him into a face in time for retirement from actual regularish wrestling?

I was surprised by the Kane match - he seemed to offer surprisingly little for someone who does a good job of seeming almost unstoppable most of the time. I thought Snitsky was probably on a one-month contract, but maybe this story has proved popular enough to drag it out another month or so.

this is cliched and obnoxious, but ive just about had it with the wwe. i tuned into raw at a couple intervals on monday and tuned it out quickly after carmella v. christy and some crap involving eugene and bischoff. i can stand the awful angles and that kinda stuff because its par for the course, but the matches have been pretty f'n bad. most of which i attribute to ovw syndrome and the 'wwe style' of spot wrestling. i guess those benoit/eddie/michaels dvd's have an upside and a downside..