Hey guys - I’m back for my second column, thanks for all the replies I got to “The Turn of HBK”, it’s great for a fifteen year old first time writer to see he’s made an impact on so many people. Thanks a bunch! On the January 9, 2005 New Year's Revolution PPV, we saw a defense of the World Tag Team Titles ? it was Christian and Tyson Tomko challenging William Regal and his ‘pupil’ Eugene Dinsmore for the Tag Titles. It was almost the end of the match, Eugene was getting wound up for his finishing moves, and he attempted a dropkick. The move led him to hyperextend his leg muscle, rupturing a patella tendon. He was to be out of action, and, consequently, out of RAW, for several months.

A few weeks before WrestleMania 21, we started to see promos acted out for the Hollywood stage. Eugene’s promo was a parody of Forest Gump, in which Eugene ended up knocking out a poor defenseless woman at the bus stop after re-enacting one of his favourite WrestleMania moments. At WrestleMania 21, the Biggest Stage of Them All, we saw Eugene return ? not to action, but simply to say hi to everyone, and remind them how cool midgets are. Of course, you can never just cut a promo without being interrupted. A wrestler wanting to make his own ‘WrestleMania moment’ going by the name of Muhammad Hassan, who has now been dropped from the WWE roster, came out and attacked Eugene, putting the Camel Clutch submission hold onto him. The Immortal Hulk Hogan came out and made the save, cut his poses, and Eugene was already out of there.

On the July 25, 2005 edition of WWE RAW, The opening match was to be the Kurt Angle invitational match, which had yet to be won by anyone. Matt Striker, the runaway teacher, had tried and failed twice in the two preceding weeks. Kurt Angle looked eager to fight anyone, and looked extremely eager to fight RAW Diva Christy Hemme when she came out. Angle thought that she would be his opponent, but no such luck. She was just out to announce the return of none other than Eugene Dinsmore to the RAW community.

Kurt Angle was seemingly toying with Eugene, but when he applied the Ankle Lock with 15 seconds left, all was lost once again. Eugene’s match had been a failure. Those were the thoughts in my mind until Eugene countered the submission and threw Angle out of the ring. With only ten seconds to go, and not even enough time for Angle to get in the ring and pin Eugene, the match was over. The bell rang, and Christy hopped into the ring to congratulate Eugene, who was ecstatic. She placed the gold medal around Eugene’s neck, and they celebrated and walked off. All the while, Angle wasn’t too happy at losing his prize possession.

On the August 1, 2005 edition of RAW, which is yet to come, we see the Eugene Invitational ? which is Eugene’s own version of the Angle Invitational match. As HHH is still busted up from his match with Batista at Vengeance, Kurt Angle has been left on his own. And so it looks as if we’re going to see a Eugene v Angle match at SummerSlam. Eugene, unfortunately, is probably going to have to job to Angle so that the top heel on RAW can get his gold medal back. I’m presuming that Angle is going to take the road to a feud with Triple H afterwards, so we now need somewhere for Eugene to go.

The tag titles make anyone who hold them look worthless, and he’s already held them, so I doubt he’s going in that direction. He can no longer feud with the now-heel William Regal, because Regal has gone to SmackDown! via the blockbuster midnight trade. He’s not a high carder, so a WWE title is out of the option (and probably will be forever). And so I see him going for an Intercontinental Title shot. A Eugene-Carlito feud would be nice, and after having a look at the RAW roster, it’s pretty much the only way I see him going.

If you’ve stuck with me this far, then thanks again, and it’d be great if you guys could comment and give me your opinions on what Eugene’s gonna do next. So long!

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