"Michelle McCool is so ridiculously thin that the WWE divas title belt didn’t come close to being tight enough around her waist. That means the title doesn’t fit her literally or figuratively."

Lol! That just sums it up. I needn't say more. On another note, I always thought Vickie couldn't act to save her life, but after seeing last night's segment, you've got to give it her, she nailed the facial expression. Her look was just priceless, at least she wasn't shrieking and I finished watching the show with my eardrums still intact. But those two have really put me off the word 'baby'.

At least for the first time ever, I see myself making a dash for the kitchen to make a sandwich during a triple H match on a PPV at Summer Slam. Oh well!

Edge-Taker is going to be fantastic...has a chance to be one of the best Hell In A Cell matches ever.

Great Khali? Bad...If you combined Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels and Chris Jericho into one person, that person's combined in-ring excellence could make the Great Khali look good. Triple H is pretty good in-ring (not on the level of those three, but pretty good), but he has little chance of making the Great Stiff look good.

Woot, first post. Insomnia finally pays off.

Oh, what's that, Edge is facing Undertaker again? This match holds no intrigue for me. Everyone saw the build coming from a mile away. If they ever want to have a decent fued with Taker again they'll book him into a storyline that DOESN'T involve him dominating his opponent for months before being forced off of TV only to make a glorious comeback, defeat his opponent, and then repeat the angle with someone else.

So let's see, you have the chance to kickstart a wrestler who showed a lot of promise but had a sudden decline in his pushes by putting him where he belongs in the World Title picture (MVP), to kickstart a wrestler who has been in some great fueds and who you know can perform, but has been fairly quiet since returning (Show), to kickstart a wrestler who had an amazing first run followed by a mediocre run on Raw (Kennedy), to kickstart a wrestler who has been on the verge of getting a Title run for the past year (Jeff), or to kickstart a wrestler who was rocketed up to the main event before becoming a jobber to the stars (Umaga), and instead you decide to kickstart a wrestler who does nothing but walk slowly and chop people, and who has never managed to get over with the fans. Great idea. My only question is how they're going to make Khali getting beat by Trips believable. No one Triple H's size has ever gotten Khali into a position where he'd be open to a Pedigree without a weapon, I see Triple H's win coming with some sort of weapon shot.

You'd think they would look at the final draft of the show and say to themselves, "hmm, we've got two main event caliber wrestlers appearing on a segment which will most likely produce some great lines, and then they're in a battle royal for a chance at the Title. Maybe we should give the shot to one of them instead of the 7 ft tall monster who couldn't cut a promo to save his life and still isn't over with the fans."

Killings has always been one of my favorite wrestlers. Personally, I think playing up a rivalry with Cena would be too cliche. Just put him in there with some more talented guys and let him do his thing. Hopefully they push him decently in either the tag or U.S. divisions, he'll be an asset to either one.

I'm not surprised that the Great Khali won and I'm not terribly disappointed either. Ever since the draft, Triple H has been taking a backseat to Edge over Smackdown and that's good. We have already seen Triple H dominating a show as a champion so it's nice to see others getting the attention instead while HHH plays a more subdued role. A match between Great Khali & HHH speaks for itself and does not need much build up. On the other hand, a match with any of the others in the battle royal would need (or deserves to have) more build up and hence, more air time. I expect Summerslam to close with the Hell in a Cell so it makes perfect sense for HHH to have a less significant match against Khali. A match with Hardy would have been far too significant to be wasted as the third or fourth undercard at Summerslam.

FYI...R. Killings was in WWE once as a rapper called K-Kwik

RESPONSE FROM KEVIN ECK: Yes. He was teamed with Road Dogg. He never got much of a push and I wasn't overly impressed with him at the time. I liked him a lot more as "The Truth" in TNA.

I am not sure what you mean by being interested in seeing what Killings can do in WWE. He has been there before, under the K-Kwik gimmick where it was him and Road Dog being a terrible hip-hop tag-team.

Khali needs to just leave. I keep waiting for his legs to snap when taking a bump because he clearly doesn't seem to know how to fall without twisting his body in an awkward manner.

I agree that Mitchell is the best manager in the business right now. Awesome on the mic, great interaction with the crowd and wrestlers, and just has that look that he is professional yet creepy at the same time. The problem is that if he manages Kane, it basically makes Kane and Abyss even more alike then they already were.

RESPONSE FROM KEVIN ECK: As I stated on the previous post, I remember Killings in WWE with Road Dogg. He definitely wasn't ready for any kind of significant push then. Once he developed "The Truth" character in TNA, then I started thinking aout where he could take that character in WWE. Just so there is no more confusion, I will add in a reference to K-Kwik in the post.

I understand the thinking of wanting to save a Hardy/HHH feud for later until Hardy has proven himself again, but considering SummerSlam is supposed to be one of the 4 prestige PPVs on the calendar, booking Great Khali as the challenger is pretty weak. No one in their right mind thinks he has a shot of winning, and as you said, his aura has been destroyed with too many losses (and hasn't been restored to any degree, since he just returned from his time in India).
The only thing this result has going for it is the element of surprise, as the VIP lounge segment seemed to be setting up Hardy as the winner, and the crowd was popping when it was down to hardy and khali, in anticipation of a Hardy win. The short-term surprise is far outweighed by the thought of the next few weeks of attempts by the WWE to build this feud to something palatable. Good luck.

RESPONSE FROM KEVIN ECK: It was a surprise, but not a good one. The crowd did seem to be anticipating a Hardy win, and they seemed deflated not just that he lost, but because of who he lost to.

Thats just a mind blowing decision to have Khali win the battle royal.

Are they just trying to lose ratings and buy rates?

Hopefully Khali fails a drug test between now and Summer Slam.

Eck- What do you make of Shelton Benjamin randomly winning the US title? Between Henry, Kingston, and Shelton having titles, and bringing back Killings and D-Lo Brown doesn't it seem like the WWE is trying to push all these black guys at once just to make people forget about the PS Hayes incident?

RESPONSE FROM KEVIN ECK: I do think there is an initiative to push African-Americans, but I don't think it's entirely related to the Hayes-Henry incident. I think WWE is trying to increase viewership in an important demographic.

Seriously....The Great Khali? they gotta be kidding me. He has all the charisma of a brick wall and the only thing he's got going for him is his 7 foot size. If they wanted to have Triple H fight a monster they should have either picked the Big Show or Umaga. Khali is both verbally and athletically challenged i'm not sure why they hell they pushed this guy as far as they did in the WWE. Every match he's in turns out to be a giant borefest. Anyway, i'm done tearing him a new one so on to other things.

I like the fact that they're gonna pit MVP and Jeff Hardy against each other but they really should do something with Umaga and Kennedy. I really think a Kennedy-Umaga feud should have sparked but that got thrown out the window after they had Kennedy get his carcass kicked around by Umaga in an earlier match. Lack of creativity or just plain laziness on the part of the "genius" WWE creative team I guess. Although I really don't like Vickie ad probably never will, I was pretty delighted when she gave Edge that evil laugh after she told him he is booked in a match against Taker at Summerslam; it really was golden.

Hardy or Kennedy should have won. I kind of expected MVP to run in and eliminate hardy.

Kevin, does the new BRian Kendrick kinda remind you of Brian Pillman only smaller?

Michelle McCool is so thin I could mix her in a pot of spaghetti and still not know the difference. I hear she has a lot of heat on her because she is trying to show the diva's the WWE way of doing things and rest seem to think her relationship with the Undertaker had something to do with winning the Diva's title. Based on experience I thought maybe the stap would have been put on Victoria. I really like Maryse though and maybe if the belt was on her, Victoria could have helped her along since both are heels.
I loved the way Vicki appeared to tease Edge along then lowering the boom. Hell In A Cell-Undertaker vs. Edge. About the only type of match we haven't seen these two in.
I would have much rather seen Jeff Hardy win the right to face HHH at Summerslam. But with Jeff coming of a suspension I can see WWE holding off on that til Jeff can prove he has his act together.
The MVP Lounge was ok and I thought MVP really Jeff a little tense there then he snapped by pushing down MVP. I can see a storyline between these two really heating up quickly. This could actually be the top storyline on Smackdown right now with Vickie/Edge starting to cool down some.

Oh, BTW, as if naming a Title a "Divas" Title didn't do enough to devalue it right from the start, and giving it to someone who was infinitely less experienced than her competitor didn't do enough to devalue it, now you're going to have her defend it aginst someone who's career highlight up to this point has been doing intermission vignettes? This Title is quickly becoming the laughingstock of WWE, and that's saying a lot considering this is the same promotion that gave a Title to a leprechaun.

Edge’s acting is PRICELESS…I love to hate him…good work Edge, what would the company do without you!
Edge and Taker would be a great match that will carry the entire company therefore we can have something to look back on concerning 2008
The HHH/Khali match is something that we are just gonna have to swallow. I does make since on the already stacked Summer Slam Card. Let us allow HHH to go through the roster to build up some momentum on Smackdown. It really should have been a main event TV match though. They probably should have let Kozlov into the battle royal to win a match against HHH.
A MVP/HHH feud would be nice. It’s sad they buried him after the U.S. title loss…not sure why. I can’t wait until the company turns him face. The real life references made between Hardy and MVP is something that the company should run with all the time. A program between the two is soon to come
Umaga and Kennedy would be a good program to keep them busy and save them for big matches.
Killings will not make a huge difference in the company. The company overreacted to the race comments. Put Benjamin and Kingston mid title vs. mid card title match. If neither are made interesting they will both loose their titles soon.

I liked The Great Khali's title reign last year (even though I knew it would be short-lived) so I am always glad to see him in title matches (and no, I am not from India, so spare us the racial remarks). The fact that this match has such low expectations, it should shift the focus to Edge/Taker and RAW's title match, but truthfully, HHH probably has a dozen ideas for this match, so I would not be surprised if it were the most talked-about match of the night.

RESPONSE FROM KEVIN ECK: I'm assuming you are directing the "racial remarks" comment at me, and I take offense to that. Khali is regarded as something of a national hero in India. He is not so highly regarded by wrestling fans in the U.S. due to his lack of in-ring ability. Therefore, there is nothing racist about my what I wrote. Think before you make an off-handed remark about something as serious as racism.

"Khali is regarded as something of a national hero in India".
Beg to differ on that. I am an Indian. Khali in India is liked a lot by young kids for his enormous size and gentle disposition in real life. Add to it the hype created by idiotic news channels who know nothing of kayfabe. While the kids know it is all a show, the elderly channel heads think that Khali's title reign was a legitimate one.
However a national hero he is not thought of.
Personally I prefer Sonjay Dutt and the legendary Dara Singh.

RESPONSE FROM KEVIN ECK: Thank you for offering your perspective on Khali. Perhaps I should have said that "Khali is portrayed as something of a national hero in India."

Hey Kevin, I went to the ECW/Smackdown tapings on Tuesday and had a pretty decent time. The Khali win really deflated the crowd, but the Edge vs HHH dark match really left us happy.

I'm not sure how much you pay attention to FCW, but they have a guy down there by the name of Sheamus. He had a dark match against "R-Truth" which ended up being one of the best matches of the night. Sheamus has talent on the mic, generating heat before the match, and talent in the ring. Here's hoping we get to see this guy on TV soon, maybe in a feud with Finlay to ge thim started.

While no one wants to see HHH/Khali, from a realistic standpoint, there was no other viable alternative. Let's be real here, there is no way HHH was going to drop the strap at SummerSlam, so there was no reason to have MVP or Hardy job here. Their upcoming feud should push them both to new heights. The Big Show has been an afterthought since his match with Mayweather, and Umaga has jobbed to HHH too many times already for it to be a headlining match. As bad is the match will probably be, Undertaker/Edge, MVP/Hardy, and HBK/Y2J (which has 5 star potential) should do more than enough to ease the sting.

the cruiser title should totaly be brought back now that there are a couple of smaller guys i would like to see battle for it. and Brian Kendrick with his body gaurd would be a perfect heel to win it and hold onto it. and it could all run into a great return of Helms.

I don't have any problem with HHH going against a lesser opponent, given that Undertaker is back and there are other stellar matches on the card. And Hell in A Cell with Edge has potential to be the best match of the year. Of course I would have had, Edge and Guerrero re-unite, Triple H and Edge fight it out at Summerslam - in Hell in a Cell - and Undertaker return then at end of match to screw Edge. I don't like the fact Undertaker is back at Guerrero's request, even though she is GM. Fans would have bought him turning up without her for sure.

I would have preferred Big Show or Kennedy winning. It still goes to show how little value the US title has when Shelton Benjamin was not included in that match. Perhaps Kendrick will get involved in a feud with him.....or Kozlov - where do you see Kozlov in the Smackdown ranks?

Still at least WWE is being unpredictable.....though Khali winning is not the good kind

"the cruiser title should totaly be brought back now that there are a couple of smaller guys i would like to see battle for it"

I agree. I have always preferred the smaller guys to the body-buidling types. Cruiserweight-types put great entertaining, athletic matches. The cruiserweights definately warrant a title over the divas.

Even though we have seen Taker/Edge before, I have recently come to appreciate the many great Cell matches Undertaker has been in and I don't think this one will disappoint.

In response to "think before you make an off-handed remark about something as serious as racism," your first paragraph stated that "no one wants to see (Khali vs. HHH) – well, except perhaps for The Great Khali’s many fans in his native India."

While I would not call your statement racist, just "racial" (racism would have to imply superiority; racial indicates differences), it insists that the only people who want to see Khali in a title hunt reside in India. There are some fans in the US, such as myself, who like seeing The Great Khali in a title match (especially against a champion he has never wrestled before), so rest assured that I thoroughly thought through my statement first and I stand by it.

RESPONSE FROM KEVIN ECK: We can play semantics, but I don't think you should throw around the word "racial" either. What I wrote wasn't racial. It was sarcastic. I'll explain it again, and this will be the final word on the subject I've already wasted too much time on it: The consensus among wrestling fans is that Khali isn't very good. However, he is portrayed as a national hero in India. Thus, the comment that no one wants to see him face Triple H except his many fans in India.

Here's an analogy: David Hasselhoff is thought of as a joke in the U.S., but apparently he's a megastar in Germany. Now, if I said no one wants to hear Hasselhoff sing except for his many fans in Germany, is that racial?

That was a rhetorical question, by the way. Let's move on.

How dare u insult the Hoff. He is a legend. Ok back to wrestling. I cant take Shelton Benjamin seriously as a US champion, he has lost to too many mid carders in the last few years. I love Koffy I think him as ic champion is great. Thoughts on summer slam. Triple H and Kali, cant see it being a classic but at least it is a new feud. Although we have seen taker and edge a lot, this was built up nicely if a bit predictable but should be a good match. hbk and jericho speaks for its self. My grudge at the minute at wwe is why is mr kennedy and mvp with their obvious talent being so badly wasted by the smackdown writers.

sean michaels fan = hasselhoff fan .

RESPONSE FROM KEVIN ECK: Nah, I'm more of a Rick Springfield guy.

Kevin - I should have known . But I wonder if it's because of his music , or daytime soap appearances .