You know the drill.

For Benoit/Jericho AND Kane/Snitsky tonight, I see some non-finishes.

Also expect a quick video of Martin Luther King to open the show narrated by Vince McMahon.

They really need to stop doing PPV rematches a week after the PPV.

I doubt they'll do the MLK thing with Vince. It'll be a deep thoughts segment with Steph where she finds some way to relate Vince to MLK like she did with the 9-11 events.

They've done it every year since the Attitude era began, so I see them doing something about MLK. Maybe not with Vince voice over, but it's like a tradition (like blowing their wod with PPV caliber matches on TV).

Honestly, considering that Benoit/Jericho woundn't be on PPV especially at this point........I'm not bitching one bit about that match. Also, for the Kane/Snitsky match.......I think they're done on PPV for a while anyway.....so I see no problem with this.

The randomness of Benoit/Jericho though makes me suspicious though. I don't buy into the "WWE wants to please the crowd" crap, because WWE rarely does that, unless they book themselves against the well.

Grr... nothing else mentioned for tonight, except the obvious and the matches announced last week. Oh well, Benoit v. Jericho will be good until some screwy non-finish.

I'm not going into Benoit/Jericho with high hopes either. WWE better surprise me and make it a clean finish dammit...

Damn you guys are wishing for a lot. I'm just hoping that they actually give Jericho/Benoit time in this one.

I expect Benoit/Jericho will be 2:00 before someone runs in and destroys them, because lord knows Jericho can't be booked better than a midcarder, and Benoit has been shoved down the card. (Made the part abut Benoit up)

I'm thinking it turns into a tag match when Evolution attacks them right at the start of the match or something.

I'm so changing the channel if that fucking happens.

One positive for RAW tonight: Toronto crowds are EVIL! Expect dead crowds, booing faces (shitting all over "hometown boy" Edge), and all other wacky stuff.

Ahhhh, I forgot that RAW was in bizarro land this week.....

I just remember watching a few weeks ago and the main event was like Benoit and someone vs. Batista and Triple H.

JR: This might be the biggest main event Raw has ever seen!!!

I seriously turned the tv off in disgust at that. What made it so much bigger than the other 30 times that match has happened this year?

A FEW YEARS ago? Benoit has only been on RAW for a year now.

Sorry meant weeks.

MLK Video Opens... I told you. Too bad no Vince McMahon voice over.

Why not? A well executed HHH/Batista vs Jericho/Benoit match is better that a bastardized 2 minute Jericho/Benoit match for my money. But yea, the match went off without a hitch. Interesting finish.

What a horrible show.

My thoughts on the show...

The Good:
Jericho vs. Benoit - Pretty fun match, although Jericho going over clean after becoming job boy is a little weird. I expected something in storyline developement.

Batista vs. Viscera - Mainly because Batista is a fucking BEAST, and the crowd is really getting into him.

Kane chokeslamming Trish; Chokeslamming Snitsky off the stage - I'm a mark, but damn some cool moments. Kane finally sbhuts Trish's big mouth, and (if the camera angle didn't suck), the Chokeslam to Hell was fucking sweet. Too bad the camera men are retards and did close ups of SNITSKY AND KANE ASKING EACH OTHER IF THEY ARE OK.

The Bad:

Everything else.

Here's my thoughts on last night's show....

Well, apparently they thought it was necessessary to do something with Jericho/Hassan and Hassan didn't even interfere in Jericho's match?!?!! I'm not complaining, because I was glad it went clean........I just don't understand why they even brought out Hassan if they weren't starting a feud with him? They even had to bring him out and do his schtick in Canada where he had to make up bullshit against Canada just so he was heel. Also, why weren't they claiming that they were in bizzaro land when he was booed? Well, we all know the answers to that question, so basically it's a long way of me saying that I fucking hated the entire segment.

Also, the Y2J/Benoit match was good and still a little on the short side. I thought they did well together(when DON'T they..) and I was pleasantly surprised when they weren't all chummy after the match......and then shook hands. Could they be thinking of doing this again on PPV maybe? We can all hope can't we?

The Kane/Snitsky match was pretty much run of the mill for those two and the end chokeslam spot was pretty cool. My only problem with it, is why are they still fighting? Kane beat him, and they blew it off only to do this? I guess they are going to milk this feud for everything they can since there is nothing for either of them to do otherwise, and they invested a lot of time and effort into this angle.

Bautista/Viscera was a total guy forced into being a face(Bautista) because the crowd hates the other guy so much(Viscera...why does he have a job?). But it did it's part, except for the fact that Bautista did look like he almost got hurt on the botched availanche by Big Vis. Oh well, it was short so I guess I shouldn't complain.

The rest of the show however....was utter shit.

I have to disagree on the Viscera comment. How does the crowd hate him? He gets about zero reaction, even when he's on Heat and heat (no pun intended) can be piped in. (see also: Mark Henry 2002).

Well, without knowing it....you are agreeing with me. Viscera is one of the wrestlers that have no heat because everyone hates him.....so thus making Bautista the face by default.

Oh... different POV. I was thinking the fans didn't care about Viscera, rather than hating him. So, how does this lead to Wrestlemania?

Triple H vs. Randy Orton, or Triple H vs. Batista? (hopes to God not a Triple Threat... again)

They probablly will go Triplw Threat, only because they've built up Orton vs HHH so much. I mean, it's a pretty good rule of thumb that Vince likes to set his Mania main event way before Mania is even close, and it was obviously Orton/Trips, but this Batista thing is really a gold mine dropped in their laps. They'd be fools not to at take advantage of it. But then again, this is the same fed with necrophilia angles.

I read somewhere (a.k.a I forgot the source) the plan is Orton vs. Undertaker in an Interpromotional Legend vs. Legend Killer Match, and Batista vs. Triple H for the Title.

ORton is turning heel?

That would be awesome. I know Taker would go over, but I wouldn't care, cause we'd get heel Orton back. Plus then we get Trips/Batista. Awesome stuff.

I'm not believing Taker/Orton until it's announced. For some reason, I think we'll get Batista vs. Orton vs. Triple H at Mania...

Sunday Night Heat Matches:
1. Rhyno vs. Steven Richards
2. Tajiri vs. ??? (I think it's Wavell Starr, a.k.a Tatanka 2K5)
3. Val Venis vs. Simon Dean

Sounds quite poopy. Rhyno/Richards might be good, but the rest looks craptastic (Nova had his balls cut off, so don't expect something special with Venis)

We still can hope, can't we?

No, you aren't. Venis vs. Dean will suck and there's nothing you can do about it. Now if you'll excuse me... (gets a needle)

I'll probably give my opinions on Smackdown tomorrow, since I'm taping it because I've met my quota of wrestling today (KOTR 93) and don't feel like watching it now.

Ugh, Smackdown was boring tonight (or at least the first hour was, I'd had enough by 9). The Bashams vs Eddie/Booker T was good enough but the rest of the show was flat.

Hopefully Orton and HHH co-lose your loser-leaves-town match, Rowe. :D

LoL. Don't worry, the winner of the match gets severly depushed after the pay-per-view.

Hopefully this time London/Moore won't stink up the ring, and that the match is lnoger than 3:00. Haas vs. Suzuki... ehh... Holly in a squash means nothing either.

What's been with Hardcore Holly getting squash matches every week on Velocity. Are they trying to tank that show as well.

Velocity almost always has had a squash match every week. It's better than a match where Paul London gets squashed by someone like Suzuki again, and gives Holly something to do.