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Hate to be a spoiler for those planning to catch the replay, but Jeff Hardy put on an awesome 16-minute match with a very heel-like C.M. Punk to take home the World Heavyweight Title, putting on the second-best match of the night and saving an otherwise lackluster PPV outing.

With Punk and Hardy in the ring, the energy was up, the acrobatics were amazing and the match was nonstop action and entertainment. The win places Hardy in a position he’s long deserved: as a singles champ in the WWE. It’s a position he left the company for a stint in TNA over, in order to prove he had singles match potential in him after a period in which he and his brother Matt were among the best era of tag team wrestling the WWE has ever seen.

There will be no job hauling commercial furniture now for Hardy, whose championship victory left the whole crowd going home with a good feeling about them, and helping to establish Punk as a heel for the first time in his career.

Right now, Chris Jericho is obviously, or at least arguably, the best heel in the WWE today. Throughout 2008, he paired up with Shawn Michaels and others to give Match of the Year candidate after Match of the Year candidate. Jericho is outstanding.

So what’s his reward? A pair of Dansko shoes? A Rolex? A shot at the WWE title?

Nope. Instead, Y2J is now a unified tag team champion with, of all people, The Big Show. Thanks, Night of Champions 2009… don’t do us anymore favors, OK?

Paul “Big Show” Wight was at one time a promising talent but he’s blown opportunity after opportunity to really take the reins and become a mega-star. Instead, a lack of intensity and lackadaisical performances have peppered his career. And Jericho’s reward for being a stud is to be this guy’s partner?

Some sad way of saying, “Thanks,” Vinnie Mac!

Former Buffy the Vampire Slayer cast member and Austin Powers co-star Seth Green will “guest host” RAW tonight. I guess the WWE needs the help of some NJ junk removal program to get this problem taken care of.

Green’s funny, don’t misunderstand; I don’t hate him. But I just don’t think RAW needs this kind of stunt to pull better ratings; what they need are better storylines, better booking and better talent. How simple is that?

But, yeah, I’ll still watch.

Even though Brock Lesnar’s best opponent is with a rival company right now, UFC President Dana White is already talking dreamily about matching Brock Lesnar, the UFC Heavyweight Champ and world’s biggest jerk, up against the best pound-for-pound MMA fighter on the market right now, Fedor Emelianenko. He’s been more hyped than diet supplements on a WWE broadcast.

Said White:

“This whole Fedor thing has been going on and on and on…I keep saying this and that about him and he keeps waiting. Eventually, Fedor’s going to be here. I want Fedor. I want him to come to the UFC and everything else…[Lesnar] just became the heavyweight champion…We’ll end up getting that deal done. And then we’ll do Brock vs. Fedor, and it’ll be a huge fight.”

Right now, with the black eye Lesnar’s unsportsmanlike conduct gave UFC this weekend, I’d be looking for someone to unseat him as quickly as possible if I were Dana White, also.

Former WWE Heavyweight Champion and current UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar may be a Minnesotan these days (he is originally from South Dakota), but his current status following his brutal victory over Frank Mir at UFC 100 Saturday night ought to be, “national embarrassment.”

Lesnar showed absolutely no sportsmanship in the mauling he perpetrated on Mir; Mir was down, bloody and unconscious fairly early in the second round, but that didn’t stop Lesnar from unleashing a barrage of additional, unnecessary and nearly-mutilating blows to the face on his fallen and helpless opponent. Lesnar is to blame for doing it, but even more to blame are the referees who allowed it.

Following his vicious victory, Lesnar flipped off the crowd with both hands, complained about Bud Light not offering him any personal endorsement money, and crassly bragged about “getting on top of” his wife later than night. He did every bad thing one could possibly do to give UFC a black eye, save for downing a bunch of phentermine diet pills in front of fight commission officials. So there’s that. It was a display completely lacking not only in sportsmanship, but in humanity or any recognizable level of manners. Lesnar’s antics made Mike Tyson’s ear-biting incident look like a choir-boy prank.

It also didn’t help that in an earlier fight, another UFC fighter named Henderson took a cheap-shot swing at a clearly knocked-out opponent and then went on to brag that such brutality was necessary to “shut him up.” Whatever. Last I checked, unconscious men don’t talk.

To make matters worse, after the UFC owner read Lesnar the riot act following the crass display, when Lesnar apologized at a press conference, rather than taking responsibility for his own vulgarity, Lesnar blamed his deviltry on his WWE background.

Sorry, Brock, that doesn’t wash; the WWE may be over the top, but people know it’s a drama for adults where real injuries occur only when mistakes happen. The rest is show-biz storytelling. You were in WWE for only about a year; you’ve been Brock Lesnar all your life.

Be a man, Brock, and admit that it’s your own fault you’re a jerk.