Can't wait for HBK/Shelton tomorrow night, with this and Benoit/Orton on Friday night, WWE TV is good these days.

Masters will be Edge's partner and Flair's will be Cena's.

Kane vs. Carlito!? Hmm... Rowe's in for a tough task of trying to put over that match in his review.

Sounds decent. Looks like WWE can head on the right track - and just in time for WM.

I just have to grit my teeth and remind myself that Shelton's mama means that Shelton isn't being buried anymore.

Anything that will get him over again, and winning matches.

Actually I take my word back on Master's being Edge's partner and Flair being Cena's. Edge/HHH vs Cena/Show is better plus they can get the IC title off of Flair in a match vs Masters or whatever.

I honestly don't care about this show anymore now that Angle's gone. Smackdown on the other hand, is awesome as of late. Benoit/Orton will definately rock.

No doubt SD has been great these past weeks. Good cage match, solid Benoit/Orton matches from the first week, then a great Benoit/Orton match on 1/13, then two fun solid matches last week with Finlay/Hardy and Henry/Rey. Now this week with Benoit/Orton in a no holds barred match. Imagine if Eddie were here...I just want the undercard to be given more exposure. That way the card as a whole is more filled out.

Anyway, can't wait for HBK/Shelton II. I hope Shelton's momma doesn't fuck with it too much, but then again it's good to know that Shelton's actually going over this time.

I can see Masters as IC champ. But then again, I've been saying that since he debuted. I'm a little surprised he's been titleless for far.

I like Masters about half the time. I'll have to see how he does with a decent title reign to decide how I feel about him.

My wife hates him because there's nothing to his character. She groans everytime he comes on TV, and it's not the good groan, either.

If I've said it once, I'll say it again. Masters is awful and belongs nowhere near a title.

I think Masters continues to improve.

And My wife likes him, I think. She does his entrance everytime he does it. She just did it, being silly the first time, but got my ass laughing so hard that now she just keeps doing it.

Oh, make no mistake about it. Me and my friends take great pride in goofing on the guy every possible chance..................I just don't think he should be in a title picture at all. Unless it's in the tag division....

I think he's a serviceable wrestler with a lot of room to improve, but I do agree that he needs a character, period. He's extremely bland.

It should also be mentioned that he has ZERO mic skills and the fact that he's been pushed down everyone's throat since day one doesn't help much.

Actually, that brings me to one of my biggest beefs with the WWE. They ALWAYS run out these rookies like they're hot shit and then bury them a month later. Even worse is when they keep going without development, like Carlito (who can't wrestle) and Masters (who has no character) and MNM (who I just inexplicably can't stand). My point is, make them earn their way up the ladder. It doesn't make sense to make them look invincible and then break them in half two weeks later.

I actually think Masters is pretty good on the mic. I wouldn't call him great, but I definitely wouldn't call him bad.

I think he mainly lacks in his in-ring charisma. Meaning when he talks when he is in the ring, he sucks. He just randomly yells out "Who's the Man" and stupid shit like that.

And nothing pisses me off more than anything wrestler shouting out their finisher when they are gonna go for it. "Its Masterlock time!" is fuckin stupid. Someone else recently did it in TNA before a brainbuster, and I don't know why, but it just pisses me off.

Especially when they bring guys up the way they did with Carlito and Masters. Both barely wrestled (Carlito beat Cena in his first match, won a title, then lost it immediately after his first defense. Masters didn't wrestle at all and did the fucking Masterlock challenge). This is why years ago it helped to have jobbers in wrestling. Although I'm not convinced that Carlito or Masters will ever get better.

MNM on the other hand is a travesty. They just use them at their own will. They had them put over the new LOD only to have them beat them for the titles again and cut Heidenreich. Then they drop the titles to Rey and a injured Batista only to beat them for it again for no apparent reason. Plus, MNM have actually shown improvement since their debuts. A decent amount actually. I can't say that Carlito and Masters are even worthy of being in important matches at this point and they've BOTH wrestled in a PPV main event.

Exactly. Unless you're absolutely positive that they're the next great thing, don't pump them up so well at the beginning.

Curt Hennig: "..and now you're gonna' see a Perfect Plex!"

Thank God Warrior didn't do that. He'd probably cut a 30 second promo of nonsense before his splash.

Really? Yes, there could be more to him, but his character is an old school character. Right now that's one of the best things going for him.

Followed by 30 seconds to set-up and do the splash.

I was just wondering... has WWE announced the Rumble participants? They've only mentioned about 6-7 on Raw, and Smackdown I don't even remember. And the PPV is THIS week. That's WCW levels of "hurry the fuck up and fill up the card" booking.

We probably won't see a full list until after Smackdown, I assume.

Welcome to WWE 2006................where they just do whatever in the fuck.

::Vomits into bucket::

I'm sure it will be a fine, DUD rating, especially if it goes 15 minutes due to Carlito trying to go for a cover every time he does a low impact move.

I long for the days of the Event Center where people would declare and talk about the Rumble in front of a green screen with their cartoonish logo plastered behind them.

You're preaching to the choir brother..............

The Event Centers ruled. (tempted to post Tugboat's promo from Royal Rumble '91) Dammit, that was the worst promo I've ever heard, and I've seen Hogan's from WM IV and VI.

Anywhere online that I can watch, listen, or read these promos? :D

Ends with a Chokeslam, or some sort of DQ, or may be...mayyyy be Carlito can get the small package on Kane an pin him.