ersonality. A lot of people liked her original ditzy backstage interviewer character, and she had that 2007 run with Santino Marella that was really good. She was one of the reasons Santino got over as a comedy character. Maria hasn't been given a whole lot to do since being moved to Smackdown. Her fling with Ziggler had potential but it was torpedoed. Bottom line is, people don't forget you if you actually entertained them. Maria has done that. Not with her wrestling, but just from having a defined character.

Originally posted by lotjxI don't see Bret making his triumph return in Dayton, OH either.

But he won the '93 King of the Ring there!

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Yeah, that's probably not quite enough.

I enjoyed the three-man commentary team, mostly because it seemed to somewhat pull Cole and Lawler out of the perpetual rut they're in by forcing them to answer some of Striker's insightful questions. Interestingly, it seemed to me that Cole and Lawler even seemed uncomfortable by Striker doing that at times, but that could have simply been them playing the characters. I liked Striker's, "you have some history with Mark Henry, King" line, which never would have come up in a million years if Striker wasn't there. On the flip side, though, sometimes the bickering tended to focus the attention on the announcers and their characters as opposed to the wrestlers and storylines; one thing I loved about the Ventura/Gorilla team is that their endless bickering never detracted from the in-ring action and still served to put wrestlers and angles over, and I don't think today's announcers know how to pull that off.

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