Monday, May 29, 2006
The evolution of the new ECW continued tonight on RAW when it was announced that Kurt Angle was moving from SmackDown! to ECW. Paul Heyman was given two draft picks from Mr. McMahon from the WWE roster (one from RAW and one from SmackDown!). He chose RVD from RAW and Kurt Angle from SD!. An interesting choice. RVD was a given but the Angle move really surprised me. I know that this is a WWE endorsed ECW and moving from a WWE brand to ECW is more of a lateral move, but I was shocked. Angle has always been outspoken about his lack of respect for ECW. I'm going to have a hard time believing that Angle is overjoyed to be in ECW. It'll be an interesting journey. The real question is what does WWE have in store for SD!? An anemic SmackDown! roster just became that much more anemic. Maybe there are plans to merge RAW and SD! back together. They could go back to running two prime time shows per week using the same bunch of characters. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
What can I say about Kane facing off with Kane tonight? Absurd yet peversely entertaining. I wonder if Brian Lee is under the mask? Or maybe it's Brian Lee's younger brother who was scarred for life when his older brother started a fire in the Lee family home during their childhood...
Had a moment of enlightenment during this week's RAW. They had a tag match where Beth Phoenix and Torrie Wilson, accompanied by Trish Stratus, faced off against Victoria and Candice Michelle who were accompanied by Mickie James. It suddenly struck me that all the babyfaces were blonde and all the heels were dark haired. Is there some subliminal message in there about certain women of certain hair colours?
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