This weeks edition of WWE Monday Night RAW featured the much-hyped “one night only” (yeah, right) return of DX, as well as an appearance by “Stone Cold” Steve Austin. The WWE has kind of kicked the RAW storylines that have been running since Cyber Sunday to the curb in favor of this “novelty” episode. Never the less, I suppose it has been one of the more anticipated shows in recent memory. The most disappointing thing to me? It is pretty obvious that Chris Jericho will not be making his return for another couple weeks - it would make no sense to have him debut before Survivor Series.

Join me after the jump for more RAW thoughts, including the Santino/”Stone Cold” showdown.

Before I discuss RAW, I thought I’d get a couple misc. things off my chest. First off, the wrestling world lost a great performer and legend this week when The Fabulous Moolah passed away. Besides being a pioneer in women’s wrestling, she also starred in many memorable WWE moments in the last two decades – including Mae Young’s delivery of Mark Henry’s ... Hand? R.I.P. Moolah – a true wrestling legend!

On a lighter (I think) note – the dunderhead by the name of Harry Smith. Yes, The British Bulldog’s son. That’s right, the son of a man who died of a heart attack which was more than likely caused by years and years of steroid abuse. Well, this week, Harry Smith was suspended after failing the WWE’s drug testing. How freaking stupid can you possibly be? There are men who would give their left arm to be a superstar in the WWE, and here is the son of a legend who squanders it by making the same mistakes his father did – mistakes that ultimately killed him. Do you have no respect? No appreciation for the business? I know Harry put in his time to get to where he is, I’m not saying he got there because of who he is (although I might not rule it out completely), but to just throw it away? Disgusting. You’ll be joining Teddy Hart in the unemployment line soon. If I were the WWE I’d send ol’ Harry a message and send him back to the training territories.

Oh, and Chris Masters was suspended for the 2nd time earning him a grand 60-day suspension. What a waste of space Masters is. It’s a shame that the WWE crushed the heat he had with the Master Lock Challenge by having Lashley break it. It’s been all downhill since then. But all things considered, he’s a waste to have on the payroll.

RAW opened with the DX segment. It contained the usual “breaking down the 4th wall” type of “out of character” tidbits that Triple H and Shawn are so notable for exploiting. Case in point, how could you not love shameless merchandise plugs or Triple H’s use of the show’s run sheet to explain to Hornswoggle when he is scheduled to appear. Wait – Hornswoggle? Yeah, Hornswoggle. The leprechaun, The Boogeyman AND The Great Khali all joined DX in the ring in an attempt to gain honorary membership. My instinct is to trash the segment, but when you really think about it, it’s not unlike past DX segments – especially the “new” DX. So I suppose it was bearable. My one gripe is that when The Coach broke up the little gathering, he was “big chopped” by The Great Khali. What does Coach do? He rolls out of the ring and stands right back up again! We are talking about a Great Khali chop – the big chop that put The Undertaker out for months at one point. And Jonathan Coachmen got right back up and walked to the back? Way to think that one through, guys.

The matches on tonights show left a lot to be desired and I was surprised to hear that there would be an inter-promotional tag team match featuring Mr. Kennedy and Finlay vs. Rey Rey and Jeff Hardy. Speaking of Jeff, did anyone else see that Jeff Hardy video montage set to music and wonder if something horrible had happened to him? So very random.

Kelly Kelly has definitely gotten implants. Yowza! She took a squashing from Beth Phoenix. Why not put Mickie James back into the title picture with Candice Michelle sidelined? When you have a wrestler as good as Phoenix fighting a wrestler as bad as Kelly the poor match quality is glaringly obvious. In another squash, Carlito opted out of a match with some no-name jobber (for reasons baffling and unknown), only to introduce Snitsky as his replacement. Snitsky crushed the jobber and then Carlito for good measure. If they start a Carlito/Snitsky fued, I will use every one of those matches and segments to go to the bathroom.

The Cody Rhodes saga continues along at a snails pace. He and Hardcore Holly are friends now – they fought Murdoch and Cade. And why the hell are they trying to insinuate that a hottie like Mickie James could ever be interested in the chinless wonder, Trevor Murdoch. I don’t get it. There is nothing exciting about that pairing for me, and should this cause a rift in Murdoch and Cade’s relationship, I would not want to see them feud either.

Are you ready for the WORST moment of the night? The WWE’s second to last match featured The World’s Greatest Tag Team against Super Crazy ... and “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan. Really? Are you kidding me? What has happened to the logical ordering of matches from worst to best? Why would you stick the best match (the inter-promo tag match) at mid-card and put this Crap Fest right before the main event? I can only imagine that something ran much shorter than they expected and they had a spot to fill. It is the ONLY reasonable explanation. The best moment of the night goes to “Stone Cold” Steve Austin and the return of the beer truck. I make no secrets about my distaste for the Austin character during the ‘90s. I hated watching Austin because of this “one-trick pony good guy” persona they had saddled him with. It was the same crap week in and week out. I eventually turned around during Austin’s Alliance heel turn, but hate watching him as a face. The Rock was very much a one-trick pony as well, but at least he was constantly changing up between good guy and bad guy. When Austin was hosing down Santino and the (very sexy) Maria with the beer, it brought back a lot of “attitude era” memories. I’d love to see Austin get back in the ring for a couple matches. I think it would mean big ratings for the WWE. Did anyone else see the first row get hosed down with beer before Austin could grab the hose? I hope it was Luke Perry.

In case you didn’t hear, Triple H is being buried (although I’m sure it’s his choice) in the Survivor Series card as a team captain of a traditional Survivor Series matchup vs. Team Umaga (or Umanga, as I like to call him). Among the participants in that match are The Hardys, MVP, Finlay and Big Daddy V. I can’t possibly begin to call the outcome of the Orton/Michaels WWE Championship match at Survivor Series. Michaels is my favorite wrestler of all time, so I have to hope that he will get one more shot at a long title run, but I’m not sure I see the belt coming off Orton so quickly. Plus, Michaels keeps getting the upper hand on Orton every week, including this week when HBK got the superkick and pin on the champ. Somehow I don’t see this translating into a win at Survivor Series. Although, Michaels is now the underdog as WWE.com has just announced that he will be banned from using “Sweet Chin Music” in the SS match - doing so will result in a DQ.

And as I said in the beginning, “Jericho Watch ‘07” continues. This week’s garbled computer promo featured a “The Code is the Answer” message which follows last week’s “Break the Code” message. Something tells me that if there WERE a code in these promos, the masses of fans would have already broken them. And honestly, enough people know that it’s Jericho that I don’t think they are motivated enough to put in the effort. It will happen when it happens. And when it does, I’ll be here to talk about it. Until next time ...