Did I Just Watch Raw or an Episode of WWF Superstars With Vince Russo In Charge?

    Raw began easily enough with Chris Jericho talking about the angle from the night before and how it was the Cock-Eyed Kid Shawn Michael’s fault Whisper (Shawn’s wife formerly the Nitro Girl Whisper) got clocked. Then it took a turn for the worse.     Batista, main event star, squashes Paul Burchill. WWE has been bringing back the lost art of the TV squash match. Remember the days when all WWE TV was squash matches with the occasional main event of Bret Hart against the Repo Man? If that doesn’t spell ratings I don’t know what does.
    Don’t get me wrong, I’m not comparing Batista to Bret Hart or Paul Burchill to the Repo Man. I’m just wondering why WWE can’t put matches on TV that mean something and don’t squash young, interesting talent.
    Speaking of wasted talent, WWE had one of their main event stars beat the tag champions. Haven’t we seen this before? DiBiase and Rhodes had such bright futures not even three weeks ago. They were on the cusp of starting what would seemingly be an interesting feud with Cryme Tyme. Then they lost the titles to the tired pairing of opponents (Cena-Batista), won them back a week later, then lost to one guy on Monday night. Apparently DiBiase and Rhodes are on the career roller coaster of misguided booking.
    The Internet wrestling media are always talking about how JBL has a spot because he is friends with Vince. Doesn’t Vince see that his friend sucks? Doesn’t Vince see that JBL is not in any better shape against Jamie Noble than he was the night of a million balloons? JBL is not even remotely enjoyable to watch, actually almost painful. We’ve seen fat wrestlers before in WWE. I enjoyed watching Earthquake, Typhoon/Tugboat and Yokosuna. Hell, I even enjoy watching Jerry Blackwell on old AWA more than I do watching JBL. JBL has a lot of money and obviously doesn’t want to work out. He needs to get liposuction and then I still think he would suck, but it’s a start.
    The Championship Scramble sounds as exciting as the Reverse Battle Royal or the Rat on a Pole Match in TNA. Who honestly thought it was a good idea to book this? If you have to explain the rules more than once, it’s probably too convoluted and more than likely stupid. There is a reason TNA can’t get better ratings than ECW and it’s matches like the Scramble. WWE, wake up before The Goon challenges Santino Marella next week on Superstars.