Ok, now that I can get back onto GAF.. final thoughts.
Shelton/Y2J was about a **** match.. not MOTY stuff, but very solid. It was typical work from them.. some nice chains stuff with reversals... really dramatic moment with Shelton in the Walls.. some nice spots.. in particular there was this one where they were both barely hanging on the turnbuckle.. shelton got knocked off, but stayed on the edge of the apron so Y2J hit a Rana that sent them both to the floor... and the above mentioned superplex that I didnt describe as well as I should have.. they were battling on the top rope, and Shelton got knocked off.. Y2J was about to come off the top rope to nail him, when shelton sprung up jumped to the top rope (one jump) grabbed Y2J and nailed the superplex.. It was insanely fast. Crowd was confused.. they wanted to root for Y2J, but he was being the heel... and none of them wanted to root against Shelton.. this is why you dont book faces against each other unless you have completely turned one of them.
Tag Team - imagine watching the Raw tag division in a series of 5 minute matches. Yeah, it wasnt pretty.
Mabel/Kane - very short match, overbooked to hell, but with a couple of nice power spots.. Viscera sit down choke slamming Kane.. Kane coming off the top rope to the outside... not the type of match I enjoy, but about as good as can be expected.. call it a * and be happy it wasnt as bad as it could have been. The crowd was into Viscera pretty well, but the Matt Hardy chants overshadowed a big chunk of this one too.
Benoit/Edge was about a *** match. They both took some crazy bumps, and Benoit sold like a champ to get Edge over as a legit threat, but the crowd was more intrested in Matt Hardy than either of the guys in the ring... until the last few minutes when Benoit was taking a pounding and it was pretty obvious it was coming to an end.. they got behind Benoit pretty big.
Egomaniacs/Arabs.. Well, HBK and Davari can wrestle... Davari did his modified surfboard move (which I assume is the Magic Carpet he did in RoH).. but this match started as Hogan beating the crap out of people.. then HBK played face in peril.. then Hogan came back out and did his schtick... had the led drop stopped, so HBK came in and his his finisher instead (since Hogan cant do his).. and then Hogan pinned Davari... **, if I was 12 I would have gone nuts and likely labeled this MOTY.
HHH/Batista. Much better match than WM... but I dont get why they book Batista to be unstopable on Raw and then make him look like a little bitch in the PPV's.. they did the same stuff.. HHH goes on extended offensive runs, then Batista comes to life and destroyes him.
Overall, it was a decent show.. the highlight however was a promo cut by a guy not even on the card... so that probably says alot about the actual content of the PPV. It doesnt help that they frontloaded the entire thing with the best matches... Shelton/Y2J and Benoit /Edge were the best matches by far and they were over with relatively early... which sorta deflated the rest of the show. Unless you were a Hogan mark, then you likely messed all over yourself when he came out and had his match.
