Jeff Jarrett did what Shane Douglas couldn't, and that's give the strongest shoot-style interview ever in the WWF. And he did a darn good job of it. The material was strong enough to carry it despite Jarrett's mediocre delivery. Of course, how are they going to put him in the mix now? Is he gonna get on the house mic everytime he jobs and complain about the booking? Ok, one thing that didn't sit well was his choice of words in referring to Ahmend Johnson. I think he could have criticized his unintelligibility in the ring without mentioning race, and to include "black man" in a list with drug addict and clown is not right.

Owen Hart vs. Shawn Michaels was a great match that was too short and had a crappy ending but it was better than the typical, DX run-in, Foundation run-in, ring the bell so at least they're trying. Michaels has really redeemed himself for sitting on the sidelines for so much of this year in the past two months, putting on very good performances on the Ground Zero and One Night Only PPVs, and possibly his best performance ever when he really put his body on the line at Badd Blood.

Yoshihiro Tajiri vs. TAKA Michinoku was a great little match. They beat the crap out of each other and both guys looked good. When's TAKA gonna do his moonsault outside the ring? It's a great move that he used all the time in Japan that I haven't seen once yet in his WWF tenure. The lightheavyweight tournament starts in two weeks (and the week after RAW will be right here in my hometown so I'm really hoping to see either of these guys live) and who else doesn't already see the final being Brian Christopher vs. TAKA? I'm trying to think of who will be in it and the best I can come up with is an 8-man tournament with Jerry Lynn vs. Christopher and another re-match of Tajiri vs. TAKA as the semi-final matches. The other four guys to job in the first round could be Scott Taylor and/or some Mexicans. They should haved postponed the tournament until there's more stability in the division because, for example, one week Pantera's cutting it up with TAKA in the WWF and the next he's in WCW. If the fans can't follow it they won't care.

Ok, hands up, who's already tired of the new Marc Mero? Come on, I want the Wild Man, the shooting star press, the good husband. So, he has a problem with pretending to "be with" Kimberly in WCW but he doesn't have a problem with pretending to be a complete asshole to his wife in the WWF? Um, match was ok-ish.

This weeks CKaine segment was hard to watch being such a Mick Foley fan but he took a couple of nasty bumps that were a guilty pleasure to watch. The post-show Mankind interview was cool but I just can't get excited about Kane versus anybody.

Alright, the jobbers are shooting, the inmates truly are running the asylum. Bad Ass Billy Gunn? Can we get over the ass fetish guys? I really do like Brian Armstrong, in WCW you could see the cool shark's tooth tatoo he has around his neck, but this gimmick's going nowhere. And the booking was really stupid because just weeks ago the Headbangers were the WWF tag team champions and now they're jobbers to the jobbers to the stars.

Hey, didn't the Godwinns look like they dressed up as a pair of Cactus Jacks? I have to admit it's an improvement on the overalls. What can I say about this cluster of a match? At least they gave us three crappy gangs at once so we didn't have to suffer through them individually.

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