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It was an overdue comic moment.

It has become almost an annual event for WWE Chairman Vince McMahon to insert himself into the WWE storyline and, in a raw display of Raw power, insist someone he’s looking to mess over join “the club.” In this case, of course, the club in question is the Vince McMahon Kiss My Ass Club, in which Vinnie Mac drops trou on national TV and invites some WWE superstar to literally kiss his bare behind.

Past victims have included Shawn Michaels, William Regal and others. This year, the victim is Hornswaggle, the midget wrestler who was chosen to be revealed as Vince’s “bastard child” in a storyline from late last summer. It has become tradition for McMahon to find new ways every week to make Hornswaggle’s life difficult, and for Hornswaggle to somehow survive each encounter with his “father’s wrath.”

So far, Regal is the only superstar to willingly kiss McMahon’s rear, though an unconscious Shawn Michaels did the dead last year. In this week’s Raw, Hornswaggle found a new twist on the situation. McMahon offered up his rump, and Hornswaggle didn’t kiss it … he bit it, and didn’t let go for several seconds.

It was a hilarious low-brow comedic moment and a better payoff of the gag-inducing gag than has been offered up previously. The only question now is, does Vince have a Medicare advantage after being bitten by a midget, or will he spend his own fortune on the medical bills and rabies shots to follow? Heh.

OK, here’s where the night takes a bad turn.

We all get the David vs. Goliath allusion, but it’s a gimmick that’s been done to death, and definitely the wrong direction for a monster like the Great Khali. Khali has the potential to get more over with the fans than Andre the Giant, because Khali is younger, bigger, and in much better physical shape than Andre ever was. But to do it right, they can’t jerk him into meaningless storylines like this; that’s how they wasted the wrestling career of The Big Show.

The pre-match pep talk from Vinnie Mac to Hornswaggle was good fun, but the match itself just didn’t come off well. Next to the Great Khali, Hornswaggle looked even tinier, like a midget on hoodia. The match itself was mostly ring intros, some crowd interaction when the “We want Shaq” chant filled the arena; and that was a fun tease, because Shaq is one of the few folks who has the height and weight to maybe put together a good “wrestler vs. athlete” match, but if they do something like that, it’ll be a WrestleMania, not Survivor Series.

The match itself was too predictable, with Hornswaggle unable to even make Khali blink, but striking the Midge down effortlessly when Hornswaggle started getting a bit of action in against Khali’s manager. Then, even more predictably, the save comes in the form of a Finlay run-in, which sets up a feud between Khali and Finlay, which is what this was all about to begin with. And since Finlay is the most boring wrestler on earth, that is ALSO a program that holds no interest for me.

Now, a Khali-Undertaker program… THAT would be something.

WINNER: The Great Khali (via DQ)
RATING: 2.2 (out of 10)