Eugene~! Eugene~!

Every once in a while, Vince McMahon's writers manage to do something right. Tonight, they did almost an entire show right. By far, the highlight of tonight's Raw was the in-ring debut of Nick "Eugene" Dinsmore. Eugene was initially presented as a basic cliched disabled character, but in the last few weeks, they shifted over to making him into a savant-like character, and tonight, it paid off. Eugene put on an old school wrestling clinic against Rob Conway, and I found myself wondering if it was 1981 again. Hopefully they'll do something good with this, as they teased a William Regal face turn tonight.

The rest of the show was good, save the opening non-event between HHH and Shelton Benjamin, interrupted by HBK. DAVE beat Tajiri, then went a bit insane on him afterwards. Randy Orton retained the IC belt due to outside help from Flair. Poor Val Venis got dragged into the Kane/Matt/Lita storyline, but Trish got an amazing and hilarious heel spot out of it, as she got Lita to freak out thinking Kane was coming. Funny stuff. And in the Main Event, Jericho got Christian to tap to the Walls of Jericho after Christian abandoned Trish in the ring when Jericho had HER in the Walls. Good stuff, and next week promises to be just as good, as there will be a 20-man mini-Royal Rumble to determine the #1 contender. They're really just blowing Smackdown away.