The Katz Files – Arnie Katz
My Weekly RAW (6/1) Notebook
The Kingfish Arnie Katz highlights the major developments and discusses what they mean.
A Note from the Kingfish
Trying new things is part of the fun of doing a column like that. As an experiment, I am overhauling the format of the Notebooks to highlight the key points instead of embedding them in a recap.
There are lots of recaps, so no one who wants one will go without,. On the other hand, there’s very little intelligent analysis; that’s the aspect I’ll stress in the Notebook series.
Batista versus Orton
The RAW books have pulled off a pretty neat trick. They have extracted the McMahon family, including Triple H, from the feud with Randy Orton and replaced them with the brand’s current lead babyface, Dave Batista. With Triple H on the sidelines and none of the other McMahons qualified to work a main event against The Animal, the switch to Batista was a card-saving masterstroke.