The Katz Files – Arnie Katz
Highs & Lows of the Wrestling (3/22) Week! Matter!
The Kingfish Arnie Katz spends his Saturday morning reviewing the peaks and valleys of the last seven days!
High: A little romance is often good counterpoint to all the antagonism and blood – and the Jay Lethal-SoCal Val courtship certainly falls into that category. They have even cast an impediment in the form of Sonjay Dutt, just to make sure that tings don’t go too smoothly.
Low: The actual Val-Lethal romance story is awful. The dumb jokes undercut the romance and, generally, make the conversations sound like disjointed gibberish. Why have Lethal act like a tight-fisted lout if SoCal Val isn’t going to do anything but simper about what a good time she’s having.
High: Big Show looks so much better now than he did before his hiatus. He looks much more like The World’s Largest Athlete than a Big Fat Guy.
Low: Big Show in a tight tee-shirt doesn’t really help build that “fit” image. He still needs a lot of abdominal crunches.
High: Paul London and Brian Kendrick, WWE’s best babyface tag team, got back into action after another run of hard luck injuries kept them from working together for too long.
Low: Feeding a potential championship tag team to Umaga for a one-against-two handicap squash pretty much destroys whatever lingering reputation that Kendrick and London may have had from their run on Smackdown
Low: The actual stipulation was not very exciting. It’s a funny thing about stops: they raise the ante on a match, unless they are too grandiose, in which case they hurt credibility.
High: The reconciliation between Christian Cage and Rhino gave fans a “feel good” moment in the ring – and a guy who’ll work hard in the four-on-four match at Lockdown.
Low: What’s the use of having stips if the promotion plans to ignore them. At the very same time as they are pushing the Samoa Joe retirement stip, they simply ignored the fact that Tea, 3D was supposed to leave TNA after their pay per view loss. I wouldn’t want them to leave, but they shouldn’t have set the stipulation if they didn’t want to abide by it.
That’s it for today. I’ll be back tomorrow with another installment of the Internet’s fastest-rising daily wrestling column.
– Arnie Katz
Crossfire4@cox.net
(3/23/08)
This is column number 7 in a row in the current daily series.
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