The Benoit experiment continues...

Much to my surprise, Benoit retains the title this evening with a little help from his enemy, HHH. After the usual ref bump entertainment, HHH comes out and pedigrees HBK, ensuring Benoit keeps the belt, and I guess, ensuring us that we'll have a HHH/Benoit main event at Bad Blood. The match was excellent and ran 20 minutes, give or take with two commercial breaks. The rest of the show was pretty dire, but as expected, Eugene is going to turn out to be a wrestling prodigy, as he pretty much schooled Regal during their "training" session. Kane must have pooped in someone's shoes, as he's being put into an utterly stupid program with Matt and Lita.(Hey, if it keeps Lita out of the women's title chase, then I'm all for it.)

Next week should be a good show, though:

Batista vs Tajiri
HHH vs Shelton Benjamin
Orton vs Edge, IC belt on the line
Christian vs Jericho (again...)
and the Eugene/Rob Conway match.

Plus I'm sure there will be aftermath of the ME tonight, but next week's show is shaping up as a near PPV quality show. Too bad SD~! can't be this good.