Raw Last Night

Sucked.

And it had such potential too, with Shawn Michaels vs. Batista, Chris Jericho vs. CM Punk, and the build to Cyber Sunday off to a great start.

But it was so promo heavy - and not even good promo heavy, not even Chris Jericho and Michaels were really at their best - I actually stopped watching after the Batista-Michaels match and the Jackass nonsense with Johnny Knoxville.

There were some things that were decent - Haas Hogan, as Charlie Haas' continuance of his impression gimmick, was OK, and Michaels-Batista was not a bad match by any means; but even Santino, and JBL's promo - usually such strong features - lacked their usual lustre.

Hopefully Ari and I will have some more material to discuss tomorrow on ITVR, but it's looking like it might be a short broadcast. Although Lance Cade was released today, and the reasoning behind that after his involvement in a top-tier feud these last months should be interesting to hear about and discuss in the coming hours and days.

Oh well ... the wrestling life goes on; tune in tomorrow as promised for ITVR, and later in the week for my "Ring of Hell" book review. Take care all and hope YOUR two hours between 9 and 11 last night were better wasted than ours. :P A disappointing, midway between PPVs Raw.

(Although with only 3 weeks between PPVs this time they should have been building like cray-zeh ...)