The Shoot: Professional Wrestling's Weekly Recap

Hardy back on top!; Diesel heads to RAW; Lashley makes the save!

Well after taking a week off last week to go on vacation with my wife and daughter, The Shoot returns this week following a decent Night of Champions PPV from WWE.

TNA, in the mean time, continues to muddle everything and leave most of us scratching our heads regularly.

WWE

Well I guess WWE is making their move to keep their top babyface under contract. Jeff Hardy's win last night definitely qualifies as surprising, considering all of us know that his contract is on its last legs. But this definitely raises eyebrows.

Maybe the company and Hardy have finally come to terms and Hardy is going to be given a lengthy world title run.

I would expect the feud with CM Punk to continue at least through SummerSlam! And while I know many Bleacher Creatures seem to dislike these guys, there is no doubt this is the top feud in the business right now.

They are successfully making Hardy even more over while turning CM Punk into the "unintentional" heel, which makes him 10x more intriguing then he ever was as a face.

As for the rest of Smackdown! I thought Big Show joining with Chris Jericho was kind of silly personally. I don't see any reason for Big Show to be doing tag team wrestling. This is just another case of WWE creative not figuring out anything to do with their influx of talent, so they just throw them together and make a tag team.

I like the Dolph Ziggler and Rey Mysterio feud and I was glad they held off putting the strap on Ziggler's waist, at least for one more PPV.

Mysterio always does a solid job of putting others over because of his solid work rate and ability in the ring. And of course, Rey Rey is already as over as he could be, so this does not hurt him any in the slightest.

ECW seems stuck in a funk now that Swagger, Bourne, Henry, and the Hart Dynasty have moved on.

I am really curious who they think should step up to face Christian next for the ECW Championship. Vladimir Kozlov has a solid heel champion feel to him and Shelton Benjamin could fit the mold as well, but other than these two guys, it is slim pickins on Tuesday Nights.

Over on the flagship on Monday Nights, I really don't know where the RAW writers are going to go at this point.

I am hoping that they bring Shawn Michaels back and have him challenge Randy Orton for SummerSlam! but I don't think that is very likely at all. HBK would provide some freshness, but I imagine we will see the same old Orton vs. John Cena vs. Triple H boredom we have been getting.

I also cannot seem to get into Kofi Kingston even though every Internet fan and their mother swears by this guy. I just don't see anything from him that seems fresh and I think that the United State Championship would be better suited on the waist of MVP or Jack Swagger.

Tonight's RAW should be very interesting with Shaq coming to the nation's capital for an appearance as guest host.

I really hope we see HBK make his return tonight, just seems like the kind of spice the show could use.

TNA

I have said it before and I will keep saying it until they fix it.

What a mess this company has become.

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