WWE continues to flounder as they have for the past year. This week, as we lead into Cyber Sunday, we see more build up for the various matches on the card. The show opened with Mr. Kennedy cutting a promo – probably his worst promo in recent memory – and ended with every possible contender for the Main Event of Cyber Sunday in the ring.

The show continues to be little more than a 2 hour commercial for the upcoming Pay-Per-View and/or WWE merchandise.

On the plus side, we saw the debut of D.H. Smith, the son of “British Bulldog” Davey Boy Smith. He needs work, but I have the feeling he may be the start of the long rumored “New Hart Foundation” (and this show DESPERATELY needs a stable).

The Diva search and Hornswaggle nonsense continued…which is the biggest reason I’ve ever seen in the history of wrestling to change the channel.

A good 10 minutes were wasted on a Women’s Championship match, including fake injury finish, and finally we had our Main Event where Mr. Kennedy, Shawn Michaels, Jeff Hardy, and Randy Orten squared off. It was nice to see these four guys face off against each other. The match had good energy, and was probably the most entertaining of the night (which is should have been – it is the Main Event) after all. There wasn nothing surprising in the match, however. Mr. Kennedy and Jeff Hardy (the two guys that will be going at it over the IC title) spent most of their time focuses on each other, while Shawn Michaels and Randy Orton focused on killing each other in the ring. The saddest part is that I can already tell you the results of Cyber Sunday’s Main Event based on the finish of this match.

Shawn Michaels will win the fans votes – then he will be beaten by Randy Orton. Why? Because he’s knocked Orton out 3 weeks in a row…but when it counts, the WWE will give to Orton. That’s how these things have worked for years. Don’t they think we’ve figured it out by now?

The biggest problem with the WWE product right now is that nothing “important” happens on the television show anymore. It’s not like it was back in the Monday Night War days, when the WWE was struggling to get ratings. Back then you could see the World Title change hand on free-tv, but those days are gone. The closest thing WWE had to a rival now is TNA Wrestling on Spike, and the two are hardly “at war”. The WWE needs a good shake up, and if it doesn’t happen soon, this life-long wrestling fan may have to say goodbye.

Grade: D