On the heels of Sunday's PPV as well as RAW and ECW this past week there is quite a bit to talk about in terms of movement in the WWE. First off, the big news of the week is the return of Shawn Micahels to TV. Micahels comes back and will get involved in an angle with current WWE Champ Randy Orton, who "put Shawn out of action" a few months ago, even though Shawn left for much needed knee surgery.

The return of Micahels is a much needed boost for the company right now. He really does open the door for them to do a number of things. For one, he can team at any point and time (and trust me, he will) with Triple H for a quick series of matches as DX with Orton and Umaga. It's important to the company to keep the DX thing alive and well, as they still sell tons of merchandise with the DX stuff all over it, and would like to keep that going.

They also as stated above will push a series of matches with Micahels and Orton, starting with HBK being the overwhelming choice to take on Orton at Cyber Sunday in about three weeks. Micahels and former WWE Champ John Cena had two of the best matches of the year back when they fought at WM 23 and again on RAW in London about a month later. Micahels still has what it takes to give anyone a good match, and Orton has looked strong as of late, so I expect nothing less than a solid round of matches between HBK and Orton.

The remainder of RAW to me was a bit lackluster, as any time I have to sit through matches with the following wrestlers, I'm pretty much bored - Val Venis, the Highlanders, and then they threw us a six-womens tag match to boot. Too much jobber like wrestling here, despite the fact I did enjoy the Jeff Hardy-Ken Kennedy match, and was entertained by the end segment with Micahels coming out and going after Orton, that was very well done.

On to ECW, where the story of the week was the TV return of John Morrison, who I guess creative still loves because it took him one whole night on TV to beat the ECW Champ C.M. Punk clean with a reverse superplex. I have no idea as to why they do stuff like that. First off, how about starting him out against someone that him beating would be totally passable - such as Tommy Dreamer or Ballas Mahoney? Then why would you allow him to pin the champ clean? If nothing else, make it a double DQ with a pull apart for fans to want to see more, not a clean pin of a champ that gets less push than any I think I have ever seen.

They will announce the ECW title match for Cyber Sunday at noon today, and one would think you'll have either Big Daddy V or Morrison vs Punk with "extreme rules" as one of the stips and the one the fans will want to see picked for the match.

Posted by Matt Loede on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 5:50 AM | Permalink