This was a pretty huge week in wrestling. Acting COO Triple H not only announced that he'll be returning to the ring at Night of Champions to square off against CM Punk, but also said that Smackdown Superstars will be fixtures on Raw for the foreseeable future. This means that we'll get to see more cross-promotional matches, like that amazing Champion vs. Champion bout between Randy Orton and Dolph Ziggler last Monday.
Think about it, pretty soon we might be seeing Ziggler go up against Cody Rhodes. Or CM Punk going one-on-one with Daniel Bryan. How's about Justin Gabriel vs. Evan Bourne, in a battle between the 450 Splash and the Shooting Star Press?
Tuesday's live Super Smackdown special also gave us a nifty match between Sin Cara and Daniel Brian. The masked luchador was victorious, and decimated Bryan with a kick to the head, post-match. Apparently, WWE creative is setting up a Sin Cara vs. Sin Cara program between the original (Mistico, who was suspended after Money In the Bank for violating the company's famed Wellness Policy) and the current donner of the mask (Hunico, who will be portrayed as an impostor). I'm actually looking forward to this. It harks back to that Taker Vs. Taker angle the WWE had in the mid-90s.
But the coolest thing about wrestling this week had something to do with Kevin Nash. I know, he's a bit rusty on the mic and he's looking a bit doughy these days, but when he first came down the ramp at the start of Monday's Raw, I damn near creamed my jeans. It's because he came out to an updated version of the NWO theme. Really, really cool.
It made me think about the weekends I spent in the late 90s watching WCW Nitro, when it was still showing at nights on the Cartoon Network/TNT, and how more than a decade later, I still spend an oddly significant amount of time during weekends watching greasy men in shiny briefs violently hug each other.