Mark Bright recaps the final edition of Smackdown before WWE’s Backlash PPV this Sunday night.

Mark Bright recaps Friday Night Smackdown featuring…well, most of the Raw roster.

Mark Bright takes a look at Ring of Honor’s ‘Final Battle 2008′ DVD.

Disc 2 of Edge’s DVD kicks off with him sat in his “Joey Chair” apologising for the intermission, and plugging disc 2 as his return from injury. He talks about facing Randy Orton, and the upcoming match would prove who carried the Rated RKO tag team a few years later. Then we get a movie trailer about how Edge’s promising career was cut short with his broken neck, and his triumphant return.

Edge v. Randy Orton - WWE Vengeance 2004. The main thing I think about when watching this match is how much better it would be today. That’s not to say this wasn’t a good match, but Edge just wasn’t catching on as a babyface here, and…

Mark Bright recaps the latest edition of Friday Night Smackdown!

Mark Bright looks at some of the matches you should be watching during WrestleMania week.

Mark Bright recaps WWE’s final TV show before WrestleMania 25.

Mark Bright recaps Friday Night Smackdown!

The debut of Ring Of Honor on HDNet is something that I have anticipated for a good while, being a fan of their product over several years. And now that I’m burned out on their show DVDs to the point where I take 3 or 4 sittings to get through one show, even a great show, one hour of Ring Of Honor, or the around 48 minutes it is with commercials taken out, seemed ideal for me as a fan.

A move that ROH were criticised very much for in the leadup to the first taping was replacing long-term announcer Lenny Leonard with HDNet announcer Mike Hogewood. Now, this was a call made by HDNet rather than by Ring Of Honor…

Mark Bright recaps the latest edition of Friday Night Smackdown.

WWE kick into gear with with the hype for WrestleMania on Smackdown.

As anyone who has read my Smackdown reviews on this site will know, I’m a huge fan of Edge. So when the WWE announced they were releasing a three-disc set of his best matches, I couldn’t wait to watch it.

They forego the documentary format here to instead have Edge talking a little (sometimes in character and sometimes not which is a little grating) on each match before the match itself is shown. As big a fan as I am of their great documentaries, I am actually OK with this decision, as Edge still has several years left in him as a top level guy, and really should get the documentary treatment at the end of his career.

Mark Bright recaps Friday night’s edition of Smackdown.