It's time, once again, for Online World of Wrestling's One Man Round Table, where nobody's opinion counts but mine! I have to make a few quick comments about NWA: Total Nonstop Action and how pleased I am with their product recently. Even though I don't agree with some of their policies regarding their contracted talent (and they ARE taking measures to remedy that situation), I still think TNA is taking a lot of big steps towards competing with the WWE. The whole Impact taping atmosphere is incredible, and the few shows that I have had the opportunity to see on tape have been dynamite Television. The production and entertainment value of Impact far surpasses that of RAW and Smackdown! right now. TNA is just fresh enough to resemble pro-wrestling, yet still appear different in an industry that has been around for over 100 years. As far as promotional wars go, I think things are just starting to heat up. If TNA can keep up the pace, they will be knocking on Vince's door soon enough.

I am really annoyed by this idiotic "RAW Diva Search" contest the WWE is currently running, or as I like to call it "WWE Loose Enough" har har; I guess it's just another excuse to make another DVD in three months. Every time they use valuable RAW programming time to plug the darn thing, it kills the crowd and you almost hear the entire country go CLICK to another channel. Yet they still move on with it. It wouldn't bother me so much if they hadn't already done it before, and completely botched it when it was over. Does anybody remember Jaime Koeppe? She won the first Diva Search contest, participated in a "Diva Shoot" and was never heard from again! Koeppe seemed pretty cool to me (hell she is Canadian) and I was looking forward to watching her progress in training. But a few months after the contest, someone discovered that she had done a nude photo shoot on some low-class Internet porn site and those pictures began popping up everywhere. I don't know if that had anything to do with Koeppe's disappearance but far be it from Vince to be upset that people saw one of his Diva's naked. Maybe it was that Vince didn't benefit financially from it. Regardless, I hope they pick someone decent from this crop of women who isn't just a cheap piece of meat like Torrie or Stacy. Why do I feel like a nieve mouse reaching for the cheese?

Ring of Honor hit another home run this past week with their "Reborn: Completion" show. Doug Williams put on a clinic as usual and captured the vacant Pure Wrestling title. CM Punk and Ricky Steamboat hashed out their issues and Steamboat "made a man" out of Punk in the end. The six-man tag main event was punctuated by the return of Low Ki to ROH. If you still haven't checked out Ring of Honor, I have to encourage you to get your hands on at least one show, because it's the best thing going today.

Ready or not, here it comes. RAW is gearing up to bring us a monumental Iron Man Match between Chris Benoit and Triple H for the World Heavyweight title this week. Although, I don't think it will be on the same level athletically as the Kurt Angle vs Brock Lesnar Iron Man match from Smackdown! last year, it will probably still get over a lot more. The one thing that surprises me is that they're only giving it one week of promotion. I guess the outcome to this match will determine t he main event for SummerSlam. I'll go on record as saying that if Triple H is involved in the main event, I'll be pissed! It is the right time, and most importantly the right PLACE to have a Canadian vs Canadian main event. Chris Benoit vs Chris Jericho, or even Chris Benoit vs a heel-turned Edge. If you tease a Jericho heel turn, and then let them loose at SummerSlam and have Benoit win, and then shake hands with Jericho, it will make Benoit strong, and bring Jericho back as an established main-eventer. Similar to the whole Hitman vs Bulldog match at SummerSlam 92. Anyway that's my Canadian-influenced opinion.

Everyone is getting so fed up and frustrated with Smackdown! right now. I feel horrible about it. Smackdown! is still a great brand in my opinion. Eddy Guerrero is my favorite wrestler, and JBL (in my opinion) is one of the more superior heels in recent WWE history. John Cena's character is on the verge of being enormous. As much as I hate the Undertaker, his storylines are ALWAYS extremely well planned and produced. One of the mindless sheep in the Chat Room was ranting about how the WWE should just drop Smackdown! all together. I think my readers are intelligent enough to figure out why that is a horrible idea without me explaining it.

Okay it's time to play a little game that I like to call "Free Agent", where I transplant various Superstars from Rosters or Promotions and put them where I think they could live up to their potential the best. First of all I would take Kid Kash away from TNA (even though I think he is gone already) and put him on the Smackdown! roster to add a heel flavour to the Cruiserweight division. Kid Kash doesn't have any history with most of the Cruiserweights and would mesh well with pretty well with just about all of them. The emphasis on his character would play well with WWE storyline writers. I would also take Abyss away from TNA and put him on RAW. TNA does not know how to promote a "big man" yet. He can work a great match, and WWE can develop his character better than TNA is right now. I'd like to transplant Nunzio, Akio and Shannon Moore to the TNA X-Division just because they are being horribly misused on Smackdown!. In addition to that, I would love to see Rhyno hit the TNA scene and Gore his way to main event status again. Mordecai (who has been recently scrapped) should be traded to RAW and team with Tyson Tomko, whom he has spent the last two years teaming with in OVW. When Randy Orton's character has run its course on RAW, I want to see him switched to Smackdown! to add star-power.

{continued) I thought about this one long and hard, but I have decided to put Chris Jericho on Smackdown!, he has no chance in hell of getting anywhere on RAW right now but on Smackdown! he could work with Rob Van Dam, Eddy Guerrero, JBL, John Cena, Booker T, Rene Dupree, Kenzo Suzuki, Charlie Haas the list goes on and on. There hasn't even been a decent Y2J vs Kurt Angle feud, or Y2J vs Undertaker. Maven should go to Combat Zone Wrestling just so I can see him job to some of the Ultra-violent stars. Whenever I see Trent Acid, I think of how great he would be if he could get signed by WWE and make a good first impression. If the writing and booking team got behind him he could be a great asset to either roster. As for the women, I think it's about time Cheerleader Melissa gave up the California Indy Circuit and sign with RAW to light the Woman's division on fire. Last but not least, pull Paul London off Smackdown! and put him back in Ring of Honor where he belongs!

And FINALLY, this weeks IDIOT OF THE WEEK award goes to Nina Alvarado for sending me an email saying "the site bio in question is all wrong.. Stephanie McMahon is very much single and not married to HHH.. the only reason for a "marriage" is that it was staged and created to hide HHH's homosexuality that's rumored in this business" -- thanks Nina for the countless hours of laughter you gave me!

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