This week, taking out the WWE pay-per-view Breaking Point and the whole “new Montreal Screw Job,” the biggest news inside the WWE probably has to be the return on Batista. It was rumored that Batista was going to retire Monday night, but fooled everyone, including Randy Orton and myself. Fooled me enough to the fact that one of my roommates doesn’t even want to watch Monday Night Raw because I was upset about Batista not retiring.

Monday night opened up with Lilian Garcia introducing Batista and he came out with his arm in the sling. He talked about thanking the fans and wanting to say his goodbyes, and “Voices” by Rev Theory played throughout the arena and the former WWE Champion came out. Orton buried Batista saying that no one cares about him retiring (which made me happy and such) and Batista said he knows something that Orton doesn’t know. Surprise surprise Batista is healed and attacked Orton. Batista’s huge news was that he’s going to Smackdown and he’s facing Orton in Raw’s main event in a No Holds Barred match.

The match that these two men had been half the time in their match at Extreme Rules inside the Steel Cage for the WWE Championship, this match only lasted four minutes. What a surprise, and a great way for me to go to bed in a poor attitude.

Then for the first time in a long time, I watched most of Smackdown on Friday night and Batista came out and said he was happy to be back on the blue show, the ‘A’ show, and commented that “…yes, I did just say that…,” referring to calling the Friday night show the ‘A’ show. Chris Jericho came out and put a huge smile across my face. Chris Jericho came out and said that he’s the face of Smackdown and Smackdown was his show, and then Batista said that he’s facing Jericho in the main event, and then gave him a spine buster.

In the main event, Jericho lost to Batista, which made me glad on the fact I was watching NWA/WCW Capital Combat 1990 from May 1990 when NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair retained his title against United States Heavyweight Champion Lex Luger inside a Steel Cage by disqualification.

But in Batista’s return back from his injury, he was in the main event on WWE’s two biggest shows and defeating both brands biggest heels. Most people, I am sure, are happy about such. For me, I am not, because I never been a fan of Batista, and if people remembered my first article for Camel Clutch Blog, I’ve never been on Batista’s bandwagon. This is Eric Darsie from Minnesota, listening to Granny on Bryan and Vinny Show on the Figure Four Daily podcast (Wrestling Observer–http://www.wrestlingobserver.com/), goodbye!

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Bob Barker wasn’t the only news on WWE RAW last night. WWE superstar Batista will be returning to WWE RAW next week. Batista is scheduled to make a career altering announcement. Speculation is running rampant from a WWE WrestleMania challenge to retirement. My guess is that we are all setting ourselves up for a big pro wrestling disappointment.

I can’t remember the last time a pro wrestling surprise delivered. Every time TNA Wrestling or the WWE teases a surprise, the fans start going nuts. Names like Goldberg, Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan, Ultimate Warrior, N.W.O., The Rock, and “Stone Cold” Steve Austin start getting thrown around. Unfortunately none of those names have ever been delivered so why do fans keep falling for it?

This is why I hate the pro wrestling surprise. There is no way that these surprises can ever deliver. Obviously Batista isn’t coming back next week to announce his retirement. Sure, he may come out on WWE RAW and make the announcement. Yet, we all know that isn’t the case. So what could he possibly say or do that will satisfy our expectations for the big surprise? I don’t think there is anything.

WCW fell into this trap and are a great example of the boy who cried wolf. WCW teased and had some great surprises when WCW Nitro first came on the air. New stars or angles were happening every week. Eventually it burnt out, yet WCW kept promoting big surprises. By the end, this worked against WCW. The surprise angle actually had a negative impact at the end because so many fans felt screwed over multiple times and refused to give these angles any of their time.

TNA Wrestling may be the worst of the worst in the current era of pro wrestling. TNA Wrestling promotes surprises virtually every week. For one thing, most of their core audience already knows what this surprise is due to spoilers. Secondly, TNA Wrestling rarely ever pays off on the surprise when they say they will. It should be no surprise (no pun intended) that the architect of many of those failed WCW surprises is running the show in TNA Wrestling today.

So let’s just stop with the pro wrestling surprises already. Whether it is Batista or a former champion showing up on TNA, they always disappoint. The only interesting career altering announcement Batista can make is that he will stay injury-free for three months or refund everyone’s money who bought WrestleMania 25. Other than that, please don’t waste my time anymore on these ridiculous pro wrestling surprises that don’t deliver.

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