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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.

As new proof of the roster remix making both Raw and Smackdown must-see TV again, one need look no further than last week’s Smackdown and this week’s Raw. With both world titles around the waist of Smackdown wrestlers after the WWE Draft, it came as a pleasant surprise when C.M. Punk showed up on Smackdown to win out of nowhere and take the World Heavyweight Championship off of Edge and bring it over to Raw, while Triple H stays on Smackdown with the WWE Title.

It’s especially poetic because, both times Edge won the strap as a Money In the Bank winner, he won it in ambush fashion, just as Punk did to him. And to prove it was no trick of indoor lighting, Punk showed up on Raw with the world title around his waist and ready to take on all comers.

The result is that sometthing really important and can’t-miss happened last week on Smackdown, which makes the show essential viewing once again; and the other result is that Raw has a new title, a new champ, and a whole new set of rivalries and fueds to work with.

What could be better, for ratings, in the long term? I mean, what more could they do, give away a million dollars per episode? That’d never happen! Ha!