The Big News: Shawn Michaels is doing his best to resist the negative influence of JBL.

Show Analysis:

The show began with a phenomenal video package on Shawn Michaels vs. JBL. These packages are always great to the point it pretty much goes without saying, but this week’s package was particularly effective in putting over last week’s angle.

Chris Jericho and Randy Orton were in the ring to protest what happened last week. They complained that Michaels, in allowing JBL to…

A look ahead to this week’s WWE and TNA TV tapings plus thoughts on the Shawn Michaels-JBL angle.

In the true ‘Oh My God!’ moment of the year in the WWE, Joey Styles punched out JBL during WWE’s Tribute to the Troops tour last week in Iraq.

WWE announce that the participants for the Team HBK vs. Team JBL match at the Survivor Series PPV.

Over the next few weeks, we’re bringing you our very own top 100 wrestlers of 2008.

The concept was simple. Six of our very best writers sat down and discussed names to be put on a preliminary list for the Top 100 Wrestlers of the Year. That preliminary list totalled to around 145 names, stretching from wrestlers in the WWE to TNA to PWG. Those six writers then drew up their own personal Top 100 and from here, the scores of each wrestler were tallied based on their placement in each writers list. It was as simple as that.

Read on to find out who we voted in at 81-90…

Date: 08/04/08 from Knoxville, TN
The Big News: JBL earned a title shot against CM Punk at SummerSlam, while Batista and John Cena captured the tag team titles.
Show Analysis:
Mike Adamle appeared on the stage to start the show. He had reading glasses on so he could consult and read off the script from time to time. That certainly isn’t a great vote of confidence in him. He was booed and there were chants of “you suck.” Adamle talked about a man who wasn’t taken seriously and wasn’t doing a good job. …

In the first ever WWEpreview half-year awards I voted JBL as ‘least improved’ wrestler in the WWE this year. This was due to my feelings that he simply had not improved since his December comeback.
Sure, I agree that some initial ring rust would not have been unheard of, but almost everything JBL has participated in, ring-work wise, has not been up to scratch. Then I went away and thought about it, looked at some of his older work, and thought again.
While many now look back on JBL’s 2004-2006 run, and …

Throughout the weekend ahead of our live Great American Bash coverage on Sunday night, we’re posting our half-year awards, looking at the best and the worst of WWE in the first half of 2008.
So far on we’ve posted our awards for the following (click links to view our picks and reasons for them):
- Worst in-ring performer in the WWE
- Least improved wrestler of the year so far
- Worst WWE PPV of the year so far
- Worst announcer in the WWE (aka The Adamle Award)
Our fifth award is for the Worst …

Throughout the weekend ahead of our live Great American Bash coverage on Sunday night, we’re posting our half-year awards, looking at the best and the worst of WWE in the first half of 2008.
Earlier today we posted our award for the Worst in-ring performer in the WWE, and you can find more to follow throughout the weekend here at WWEPreview.com.
Our second award is for the Least improved wrestler of the year so far:
Phil Lowe: John Cena. A few names entered my head here (Carlito, Mr. Kennedy, Chavo Guerrero for starters), …

Throughout the weekend ahead of our live Great American Bash coverage on Sunday night, we’ll be posting our half-year awards, looking at the best and the worst of WWE in the first half of 2008.
Our first award is for the Worst in-ring performer in the WWE, and you can find more to follow from this evening onwards on the front page here at WWEPreview.com.
Worst in-ring performer in the WWE
Phil Lowe: JBL. I could tolerate his run as a main event guy on Smackdown a few years back, and even though …