-Our show opens with Hogan claiming that he and Sting "almost came to blows" last week.  I guess if you widen the definition of "almost coming to blows" to include "having a baseball bat pointed at your throat" then yeah, they totally "almost came to blows." Hats off to you, "Heel Turn" sign guy.  I'm with you. -So last week Sting and Hogan "almost came to blows" and then this week Hogan apologizes to Sting and kisses his feet and everything is peachy again. -Hogan says a title shot isn't going to be handed to Sting nor is it going to be handed to Matt Morgan.  What IS going to be handed to both men is a match tonight to decide who gets a title shot.  This is why TNA can't have nice things. -Not only that but Sabin has finally returned after 11 months and he's in a match with a shot at the X title on the line with Xema Ion who just lost an X title match and Sonjay "Best Wrestler Ever to Go Abso...

So this is a fairly momentous occasion.  This past two weeks or so I was unexpectedly coerced back into the fake fighting universe by a somewhat serendipitous confluence of events.  It wasn’t the first time I decided to tune into WrestleMania out of sheer morbid curiosity--Stephen and I convened for last year’s WM as well but mostly because it was a stacked card and also because it was in Miami and because THE ROCK, THAT’S WHY.  This year it was much more about morbid curiosity than genuine interest.   Then, the next night, something happened.  Raw was WAR again, if only for one night.  Apparently, the oodles of European and Northeastern smarks that tend to convene every year at the one wrestling event that seems worth paying money for anymore (if for no other reason than to cross it off your list of things to do before you die) stuck around to make this year’s “Post-Mania Raw” as special as last year’s.  And boy did they outdo themselves. ...