I like all of these but I'll go with Madagascar.

I'm a few days late but I watched last week's episode of Smackdown, though I mostly had it on as background noise.  I think maybe since they're on Fox in prime time the network has been forcing them to put on a better show.  I wouldn't say it was a great show but I've seen a lot worse from them.  The draft room reactions were corny and matches ending in DQ suck, but I'm glad that Baley destroyed those inflatable fucks!

I just read what happened in the main event at Hell In A Cell and I'm reminded of when they decided to introduce disqualifications to the WWE version of ECW.  And from the sounds of it the Rollins-Wyatt match got the same reaction as the infamous Big Show-Batista ECW match, at least at the end.

I was a hardcore wrestling fan that had to watch from start to finish.  Eventually I felt that it started to go downhill, probably after the Invasion angle.  I had hopes when they said they were going to bring back ECW since both One Night Stand PPVs were good, but then I saw the show on Sci-Fi.  I also had hope when it was announced that Hogan and Bischoff were going to TNA, but then we saw how that turned out.  I keep hoping for the best with wrestling but they end up dropping the ball. 

But with that said I'll probably always be a wrestling fan, just not as hardcore.  Before the whole show would be worth watching to me, and if you told me years ago that there would be the WWE Network and at least five hours of of new wrestling every week, I'd need to change my underwear.  Now it doesn't get me nearly as excited, but even if the overall product doesn't interest me I find there's at least one thing that's worth watching.  The women's tag match on Smackdown last week was good IMO.  I don't know that I'll watch the whole show this Friday, but I'll probably give part of it a watch at least.

I watched the Friday debut of Smackdown on Fox which was supposed to be a big deal since it's in primetime on a big network.  What a disappointment.  It was the typical rare appearance of The Rock where he belittles the guy that shows up regularly and beats him down with his signature moves and makes him look weak.  The rest of the show with the exception of the women's tag match wasn't all that great either.  And even though I'm a fan of Lesnar, a squash match for the title on the Fox primetime debut show was dumb at best.  It says a lot too when they have to make a big deal of bringing in someone from the UFC to be a threat to Brock when they can't make anyone on their regular roster one.

I didn't watch last nights show and I don't know what the controversy was, but it's pathetic what has become of his company.  Look at all of the other wrestling companies Vince McMahon put out of business.  Yes, several of those other companies had bad business practices, but he didn't become the number one promoter by being a total idiot.  Yet for how long they've been able to book competent shows, even with the likes of Paul Heyman working for him.  It's sad.