Since I spent all week on the beach drinking martinis with some of the hottest ladies on the earth I had to wait to watch ECW, Superstars and Smackdown. When my limosuine brought me home from the Carribean I got in bed, turned on my computer and picked out the Best and Worst of the week. At the bottom of this here post, I announce a new feature for this here blog.

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The recipe for a good pay-per-view event is finishing feuds, creating new ones, and some element of surprise. In that respect, Backlash outperformed Wrestlemania by a mile. The Big Show’s run-in to finish the Cena/Edge match puts a period on that sentence and starts a new one. HHH will probably get some time off and when we see him again, he’ll be focused on Batista. Matt and Jeff Hardy can go their separate ways. Whoever the respective world champions feud with next is somewhat a mystery, a true-for-real-honest-to-god push on the restart button. I loved Backlash. Here are some other highlights:

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Well, the good news is that I think someone in the WWE creative department is reading this blog. I don’t know how else everything is falling into place. Is this an “after walking across the desert the first sip of water taste good no matter how stinky it is” situation? I don’t want to think about it too much. I’d rather focus my feelings on this Sunday’s pay-per-view and pretend that we’re about to see a return to glory days for World Wrestling Entertainment. It’s possible.
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The Draft is what hooked me back into this professional wrestling nonsense, so it’s almost like I have to recap the entire thing – but here’s the Big Reveal, folks – I want to recap it. No doubt you are slipping into a stunned state of mind. The video below is a professional-grade look at what went down. Below that is another, in paragraph form.
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