[Mr. Nerfect]

I personally liked SmackDown! better this week. I disagree with snakeboss' analysis, though. Cena is better than Batista both promo-wise and ring-wise if you want to get technical. Batista seems the more "real" to me, though, and I like the way Tazz put him over on SD!.

Michael Cole: What would you do if you had to get into a match with Batista?

Tazz: Retire. I'm serious.

That was awesome. I wish they spent more time putting over the fact Batista holds the belt that has been defended in the main event of WrestleMania for the past two years over the WWE Championship, and the fact Batista eliminated John Cena from the Royal Rumble earlier this year.

Jericho/Cena is shaping up to be a good feud. As soon as Cena came to RAW, I lost interest in the Cena/Christian potential feud. I became enthralled with the prospect of a Jericho/Cena feud, though. I loved the way Cena seemed a little bit more "disrespectful" around Jericho this time, but he wasn't all thuggish looking for a fight around him. It was almost as if Cena understood why Jericho turned against him, which makes a lot of sense since he's WWE Champion.

I'm often seen saying negative things about Cena on these boards, and it's not because I don't like the guy. I am personally entertained by most of his matches, and his promos are excellent. I just disagree with the "if Cena loses the WWE Title or switches brands, the company will die!" arguement.

The promo between Jericho and Cena on RAW was fantastic, but for some reason there's still something I can't place about Cena's charatcer. He feels to "marketed" to me. I dunno, but when he goes "Real recognising real!" I just scoff. No doubt he's talented, but it doesn't feel like anything in his career has ever been "real". It feels to me like the WWE said "hey this guy is funny, let's give him the title". Maybe it's because I missed out on SD! for about a year when Cena was just starting up his character, but when Cena said "Real recognising real!" I was hoping for Jericho to just snap and tell Cena he isn't real, he's a entity of marketing and flavour of the month music, and that Jericho is real, and has been for most of his career when he has be held back, held down, won titles, been stripped of them and replaced with a dog leading up to his only WrestleMania main event. I would have marked out of Jericho has come out and said that Cena is cheap, and if the fans get behind HIM, they are stupid, because Cena hasn't had a tough career at all.

But yeah, I like the way Jericho sort of snapped into reality in the promo, and one way or another it will be good for Y2J and his character.

SmackDown!'s got Eddie vs. Rey, which is an awesome feud, but I just hope it doesn't go the way of Katie Vick. It makes sense Eddie knows some of Rey's secrets, and I can easily see him using them for some kind of professional blackmail against Rey Mysterio, leading to Eddie getting a free pin over Mysterio at The Great American Bash, but I think they should let the true story be the matches between the two. At Summerslam, Eddie vs. Rey in a Steel Cage Match or something is a must, and I can easily see it being one of the greatest ends to a blood-feud ever. The loser of the match would really seem lost, as they wouldn't have any other programs established on the roster, so that stigma will follow them for a while. It's been a while since the loser of a feud actually seems like a loser, and that could really be a good thing.

The one beef I have with SD! is that they keep editting crowd reactions. It makes me sad to see a face come out to no reaction, then have fake cheers come over the top while you cans ee the crowd sitting in their hands. Let the crowd cheer who they want. I wish the best to Funaki, but if he comes out to zero reaction, it makes me feel better than having Funaki come out to ghost cheers.