This week's Raw was example number 3 billion and 22 why The Rock is great and Triple H is not. They both had a match against a small, low-card guy and the matches couldn't have been more different.

Triple H squashed Maven in a match that really had no story behind it and seemed to serve little purpose outside glorifying HHH's ego. Then Al Snow ran in to save Maven and got immediately Pedigreed. HHH is not feuding with either of these people, and probably won't even remember they exist next week.

The Rock wrestled the Hurricane, in a match that has been building for three weeks now. Not only did Rock sell huge for Hurricane and take just about all of his offense, including his preposterous chokeslam, but he actually jobbed! Sure, it was a rollup upon being distracted by Steve Austin, but that makes perfect sense. Rock is fighting Austin at Wrestlemania, not Hurricane. So he put over a guy that had basically vanished from Raw until Rocky came back, and built up his Wrestlemania feud in the process. Oh, and the match was really excellent.

Triple H squashed a pair of jobbers after his Wrestlemania opponent had "left the building" or some such, building up absolutely nothing. Early in the show, Booker T actually got to beat up both Flair and HHH in response to their racist comments of this week and last, but HHH couldn't let the last image of him on this show be him getting his ass handed to him. He had to make sure everyone knows that he is in fact better than the black man, just like he said.

Maybe HHH is going to lose the belt to Booker at Wrestlemania. Now that Booker's gotten the best of him on not one but two occasions, I'm not so sure. The show should be great regardless, as Jericho vs. Michaels is now official, to go along with Rock vs. Austin, Rey Mysterio vs. Matt Hardy and probably Brock Lesnar vs. Chris Benoit. Hell, Hogan vs. Vince should be fun, too.  ¶ joe | 2:19 AM |