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Too bad they went two hours.

Lita vs Trish to open the show... so much for that "hot match"
to get the crowd going.  Trish is decent; but, DAMN, Lita drags
EVERYTHING down... wrestling, skits, and she's damn ugly,
to boot.  Could J.R. tell me if a "blatant" choke is more effective
than a "rear nekkid" choke"?  And they end with that shitty "face
gets distracted by someone outside the ring, and gets rolled up"
finish... ENOUGH of that already!  It's getting as old as the belt
shot (more on that later).  And even worse, Kane does it from
the Titantron... geesh, Lita, they usually have to walk down to
ringside... you ARE a fucking waste!  Match rating: 3/4*.

Orton talks... like HHH-lite.  Benjamin comes out... and has
absolutely no mic presence.  He talks, and no one cares.  Not
a main-event voice, at all.  And good-fucking God, Orton, do
NOT go there!  That "uppity" and "you people" shit was just
about the most offensive thing I've heard (nice that some Cali
dumbfuck had a sign with a huge Swastika going on in the
background during all this... coincidence, or is WWE planting
this shit?) in quite a while.  It was embarrassing to the business,
and SHOULD be embarrassing to all its fans, who SHOULD
e-bomb wwe.com for all they're worth to voice their displeasure
at this offensive dialogue.  It has NO place in wrestling, or in any
other venue.

Eric wants to embarrass Eugene out of wrestling... Regal shows
some internal conflict.  Nice job by Regal, and this is setting up
to be a super storyline.

Kane kills Venis; Kane kills Hardy... please, God, let Kane
kill Lita.  No such luck.  She screams and screeches (in her
manly-man low tenor tone).  Her acting is on par with most
junior high school drama classes.  Kane's isn't much better.
And he is Benoit's next title challenger?  Ugh... Match rating: DUD.

Smackdown the vote!  Yeah, baby, just what this country
needs... thousands of drunk fratboys and room-temperature
IQ'ed hicks selecting the leader of the free world... God help
us all...

Edge/Benoit vs Orton/Batista.  Finally!  A wrestling match that
doesn't SUCK!  Although this wasn't up to par with tag matches
over the previous month.  Batista just wasn't on his game tonight.
He missed a double-team, seemed ultra loose when in the ring
(and he was suspiciously NOT involved too long at any one time),
and just whiffed on so much stuff in the battle royal later in the
night.  Edge is a definite step below Orton and about 5 steps
below Benoit.  Why does everything else on the card look so
loose and wussy-ish after you watch Benoit lay in a few chops
during the course of a match?  :)  Good ending to the match,
despite the presence of the infamous belt to the face (again),
although Benoit is having to alter the crossface slightly to
accommodate the overly-roided stiffs he's applying the hold
to.  Match rating:  **3/4.

Eugene!  In the ring!  And Coach brings on the cheap heat.
Ultra-cheap heat.  "Life Goes On" reference, and yet another
crass planted sign ("Retard Strength").  Eugene cries and leaves,
and then...

THE ROOOOOOOOOOOOOCK!

Wow.  The scale hasn't been built yet to measure the difference
in charisma between Rock and the Rest of the Wrestling World.
Crowd went wild... Hell, I went wild.  Rock has "it".  Rock has
the ability to handle the mic... then has the ability to elevate the
OTHERS he's talking with on the mic.  "Screw the Coach" and
"Popcorn fart"... Rock got two catchphrases over in 30 seconds
while J.R. is still working on getting CLB or CBL or BLT over
for Christian after, what, 4-5 months now?  Hilarious line with
Eugene naming HHH as his favorite wrestler (priceless Rock
reaction)... man, even when he's not around he's keeping the
rest of the crew down.  Cade runs in (who?), Rock and Eugene
clear house, crowd is happy.  Fun, fun segment.

Battle Royal.  Only 3 matches and a battle royal... that gets
interrupted by commercial every 3 minutes (it seemed)?  Not
much to talk about until the final 8, when Kane finally gets to
look monsterish (hello?  He's being wasted with this Lita/Matt
Hardy crap and NOW we're supposed to look at him as a
serious challenger to the world title?).  He faces off with Batista,
he throws puches, Batista is doing something strange with his
arm... not sure what it is; but whatever it is, Kane is well out
of harm's way *rolls eyes*.  Man, what was it with Batista
tonight... he get so juiced up that he couldn't perform?  Edge
then does his thing (and looks shitty).  Down to HHH and Kane...
and hello HBK and thank you WWE for totally shitting on a
battle royal main event.  OK, HBK interferes to cost HHH the
match; but does he have to be the one to physically throw Aytch
over the ropes?  He couldn't simply do a super kick and let Kane
do the final deed to win the match and LOOK like he won???
Yeah, fuck you, HHH and fuck your little butt-buddy, there...
Rock was right, you ARE hiding the strudel backstage.  No rating.

And there you are... Benoit vs Kane at Bad Blood.  One decent
match, one hilarious skit, and an OK-ish battle royal until the finish.
A big letdown from the last few weeks.

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--- Internet Rex 2.29