Ladies and gentleman, your 2008 King of The Ring, Wil . . . WTF! Are you kidding me?  

Actually, this is the coolest thing WWE has done in a long while. I’m sure that some of you will disagree, but think about it. WWE surprised us—well, me anyway, and that’s a good thing.   Plus, Regal is good on the ring and on the mic. The only thing, I think, that’s ever kept him from getting over more as an active wrestler is that he doesn’t have the traditional look that Vince goes for. That is, until, as I pointed out last week, he grew this really cool hair. Now he’s shooting straight to the top, and it you can’t tell me that Vince didn’t take note of my endorsement.

We also now have three pretty good heels on RAW: Regal, Orton, and JBL.   The King, the Legend Killer and the Tycoon.   RAW hasn’t had a really good heel faction in awhile, and I think these three could form a hell of a coalition. With Regal as GM, they could run wild over WWE for a bit and eventually Flair could come to the rescue as the new General Manager.

So, after making fun of it for two weeks, Clinton, Obama, and McCain all actually made taped appearances on RAW. Hil Rod?   Can you smell what Barack is cooking?   (Yes, it smells like elitism.) And the McCainiacs.   Is it okay if I don’t vote for anyone now? As much as I love wrestling, I don’t really think I want my next president to appear on the show. It wouldn’t be so bad, maybe, if I thought they actually enjoyed and watched wrestling too. But it’s obviously just a ploy, by all three of them, to appeal to what they all still see as a fat, uneducated, beer swigging demographic (sure, I fit two out of three of those criteria, but I’m trying to make a point here.)   Also, I don’t really mean that joke I made about Obama earlier, but given the chance to take a cheap shot for an easy laugh, I’ll take it.

The match between “Hillary” and “Obama” was sort of funny in its absurdity. I might be in the minority here, but I don’t mind for RAW to be even more of a spectacle than it usually is on occasion. I can live with this sort of thing, even enjoy it, as long as it doesn’t happen too often.  

In another news, it seems that Michael Hayes has made another stupid, racially charged remark that has landed him a sixty day suspension without pay. As horrible as that is, at least he didn’t sing “Bad Street U.S.A” again, which, unfortunately used to be one of my favorite songs when I was in about sixth grade. I was not what you would call part of the “in” crowd.