Roddy Piper was on WWE’s Smackdown tonight. It originated from Nashville and was taped on Tuesday. This marks the second time that Piper has been in Nashville that Tommy did not get to see him, but that would be assholish for me to say that.

I don’t know if He’d really have wanted to see Piper tonight though. He was wrestling Rikishi, and I didn’t really expect the match to go to a pinfall, but I think Piper would have been much more convincing had he kept the kilt and t-shirt on as he wrestled. He’s more out of shape than Ric Flair. It’s not like he was ever the biggest of the wrestlers, but a pot-bellied, pasty skinned fighting a Samoan is not something that I want to watch on my wrestling programs. In his recent autobiography Piper made disparaging comments about Rikishi, to the effect that watching a 300 lb man rub his buttocks on another man’s face was not his idea of wrestling, but who is his first feud with when returning to the WWE? He almost took the aforementioned stink-face. I know they’re playing off Piper’s history with Snuka here, but...

Another thing that strikes me about this episode of Smackdown is the return and slutification of Rena Mero, aka Sable. She left the then WWF under a cloud of accusations of sexual harassment from management and their trying to force sexual angles on her, one of which was a lesbian angle, all of which she sued over. Now what is she doing in the WWE? taking part in a lesbian angle and showing even more skin. Not exactly a model of integrity there.