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Ah yes, the WWE. I have not picked a good time to write about it, as since a strong Wrestlemania show this year, the quality has severely declined…Leave it to WWE creative to drop the biggest money angle they had in Hardy v. Edge since the Invasion storyline of 2002. No one cares anymore, but people might (ahem) forgive if they pull off a show stealer at this Sunday’s Unforgiven…Daniel Puder, the most recent WWE Tough Enough winner, has been shown the door. His 4 year, $250,000 per year contract was obviously only guaranteed for the first year. Another failure by WWE…I tried to watch Raw last night (Sept 12/05) but couldn’t do it after about 20 minutes. I don’t care for Chris Masters and the tag team division is a disaster. I’m just not into the characters and I miss Chris Jericho already…The internet hates Randy Orton, but not this guy. He can work and is great on the mic…Loved the handing of the “retirement fund” cheque to the Undertaker on last week's Smackdown. The only thing missing was a toll free number to make a donation. Can I get a receipt for tax purposes?...Another WWE creative mishandle: Christian. He wasn’t even on the show last week, and now they’ve had to pull his best-selling “Captain Charisma” shirt because they didn’t copyright the slogan. The new shirts WWE want fans to vote on stink. They need to get Christian on a roll and, at the very least, put the U.S. title strap on him before the year’s out. He’s in the top 5 as far as being over with the fans the company has…Smackdown does seem to be picking up steam and may become the show to watch over Raw; a decent show last week with reports last night’s taping was excellent as well. But watching a taped program just doesn’t have the same feel to it. Could you imagine watching a 5 day old NHL game and knowing what the results are?…One thing WWE has done right is put together good DVD collections. I’m looking forward to the Bret Hart as well as the Jake Roberts 3 disc set later this year, who was my favourite performer when I was just a wee lad…How come Bob Holly still has a job? He doesn’t draw money and all he does is injure people…When Raw debuts on the USA network October 3, a “Night of Champions” show is being promoted with Mick Foley, Steve Austin and Hulk Hogan making appearances. Anything but the current product is alright by me…Ok, Kurt Angle is still the man and I like John Cena, they should have a good match at this Sunday's PPV. There, I’m not always this grumpy :)