NXT once again showed little to get interested over with a slow show with some ok matches and another pointless task.
I was wondering since when was it that being a wrestler involved going into the crowd to sell programs? You’re a wrestler to wrestle, to perform.
We are watching NXT to see the next big thing, to see who will be the next WWE superstar to follow our next possible champions, not to see who will be your next merchandise salesmen.
On other news Triple H will be working on his new movie from WWE studios, if you haven’t heard about it, it will be called the “The Chaperone” and the story will be about an ex-con having to chaperone his daughters’ school trip. It’s set to be a family comedy film obviously to fit in with the PG rating so that little kiddies can go see their fave superstar in his latest film. From the sounds of things it will be similar to Vin Diesel’s “The Pacifier” and Ice Cubes (Nick Persons) “Are We There Yet?”
Now onto some of my personal opinions about the splitting Tag Teams, Cryme Tyme and Legacy.
Cryme Tyme recently imploded after a match when Shad turned on JTG. Now I see this following the usual routine that this sort of split follows. We have already seen the first few steps of this routine being a build up to a match at the next PPV in this case it was Extreme Rules. The winner of this match doesn’t affect the story so in this case it was JTG, who was still dressed in the usual clothes and same music where Shad was sporting a new look with new music and on pervious shows dressed in a suit. This is signalling his move to bigger and better things and JTG stays behind. During the Supplemental draft JTG is moved to Raw ending the story between them. Now we should see one faze out and the other rise. As Shad is the one showing the potential it looks like he will be the one to move on and JTG may soon be just be a memory.
On the Legacy side they have split a bit more subtly as they just drifted apart. Already we see Ted getting the bigger push and story as he is using the Million Dollar Title to continue on. Cody gets moved to SmackDown! Where we will most probably see him Faze out.
Of cores I may be completely wrong but this is just my opinion.
If you have any thoughts let me know and keep and eye on my Blog for a Run-Down of tonight’s SmackDown!
Matty.D Signing off.
Friday 30 April 2010
Thursday 29 April 2010
Batista Going Hollywood!
A Mid Week Update
Well we are 4 days off of “Extreme” Rules and already I believe most of the world has forgotten about it because it was just not in the Extreme category.
But during that event there was a mystery man under the ring ready to interfere in CM Punks match when the rest of the Straight Edge Society was banned from ring side by the referee.
The question is who is this bald man that was hiding under the ring at Extreme Rules and who also interfered in Punks match on Raw?
Most rumours and speculation say it’s Joey Mercury, former member of MNM who left after a ladder to the face thanks to the Hardy Boys back in 2006, to see that clip check out the link at the bottom of the page. The idea of Joey coming back WWE makes sense as he is most likely not wanting another injury of such magnitude, and with WWE using a PG rating he may find it a better choice for his own well being.
Other ideas for the mystery man are Low Ki, and Christopher Daniels. These are people I’m not familiar with from the TNA side, so I looked up a couple of videos and I must say both Low Ki and Christopher Daniels would be great additions to the WWE locker room. Let’s hope that we find out who it is on tomorrow nights SmackDown! Either that or they are going to pull the story out for a few weeks making us all desperate to find out.
On the Raw side of things apparently Batista is planning on leaving the WWE’s spot light for one of a Hollywood persuasion.
Rumours had it that Extreme Rules would have been his last PPV but after becoming the #1 contender to Cena’s WWE Championship its looks like he has one more PPV match left in him at Over The Limit, after that he intends on moving on to films and follow in the foot steps of The Rock.
What ever he chooses to do I wish him good luck but it will be a shame to see him leave the Squared Circle.
That’s all the news I have for you this week check out the links at the bottom and for any other news check out http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/wrestling/
Matty.D signing off
Joey Mercury ladder to the face
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6YrpeT2vUw
Low Ki
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HljUnRsK6c
Christopher Daniels
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-htjBX0Xko
Well we are 4 days off of “Extreme” Rules and already I believe most of the world has forgotten about it because it was just not in the Extreme category.
But during that event there was a mystery man under the ring ready to interfere in CM Punks match when the rest of the Straight Edge Society was banned from ring side by the referee.
The question is who is this bald man that was hiding under the ring at Extreme Rules and who also interfered in Punks match on Raw?
Most rumours and speculation say it’s Joey Mercury, former member of MNM who left after a ladder to the face thanks to the Hardy Boys back in 2006, to see that clip check out the link at the bottom of the page. The idea of Joey coming back WWE makes sense as he is most likely not wanting another injury of such magnitude, and with WWE using a PG rating he may find it a better choice for his own well being.
Other ideas for the mystery man are Low Ki, and Christopher Daniels. These are people I’m not familiar with from the TNA side, so I looked up a couple of videos and I must say both Low Ki and Christopher Daniels would be great additions to the WWE locker room. Let’s hope that we find out who it is on tomorrow nights SmackDown! Either that or they are going to pull the story out for a few weeks making us all desperate to find out.
On the Raw side of things apparently Batista is planning on leaving the WWE’s spot light for one of a Hollywood persuasion.
Rumours had it that Extreme Rules would have been his last PPV but after becoming the #1 contender to Cena’s WWE Championship its looks like he has one more PPV match left in him at Over The Limit, after that he intends on moving on to films and follow in the foot steps of The Rock.
What ever he chooses to do I wish him good luck but it will be a shame to see him leave the Squared Circle.
That’s all the news I have for you this week check out the links at the bottom and for any other news check out http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/wrestling/
Matty.D signing off
Joey Mercury ladder to the face
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6YrpeT2vUw
Low Ki
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HljUnRsK6c
Christopher Daniels
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-htjBX0Xko
Tuesday 27 April 2010
Rated "R"aw
RAW 26/4/10
A Run down and review of last nights Raw
Raw started off to a good start with ShowMiz going up against the Heart Dynasty, kicked off with Miz’s great mic work followed by Bret Heart with a rebuttal. This followed into a great contest between the teams that had the crowd going nuts. I must say I haven’t seen a WWE crowd that pumped in a long time. It came to some close calls and a little help from Bret before Tyson Kid locked in the sharp shooter, leading to a tap out from the Miz.
During the ads Big Show turned on Miz with a nice big fist to the head that actually looked pretty damn painful.
Great start to Raw and one of the better Tag matches that I have seen in quite a while.
This lead into the typical rubbish from the commentators this time talking about Triple H. And hey Matt Stryker, we have seen Trips decimated a lot worst than that and still come back from it, so stop talking out of your backside and get off that microphone geeze! This guy is awful.
Up next was the usual toilet break section as we had a Raw vs SmackDown! Divas tag match for a draft pick.
Eve & Maryse vs LayCool
Interesting chant during this match as the crowd (from what I can tell) chanted “we want Mickie” and personally I agree, they also need to bring back Katie Lee but what are the chances of WWE listening to what the fans actually want.
Once again this match is its typical snore fest. These Divas have so much to offer (at least two of them anyway, Michelle and Eve) and the WWE do not allow them the chance to use there full potential
Maryse ends up pinned by Michelle meaning SmackDown! Got the first so called “random” draft pick of Divas resulting in Kelly Kelly making her way to the Blue ring of SmackDown!
Next up is another draft pick match, Evan Bourn vs. CM punk.
This seemed to be a bit of a mess as some of Evans moves missed or just didn’t look well performed so this was quite rough around the edges.
This ended as you may have predicted interference from the new mystery man (who we are all guessing is Joey Mercury) messing up the Shooting star press. CM Punk took advantage and took the win and SmackDownds! Second draft pick being the 7ft baldy known as the Big Show, this is obviously the end of ShowMiz as a tag team with no continuing story line.
More drivel from the commentator’s next leading into Show back stage with Teddy Long. From the looks of things Show maybe taking a face turn as he is becoming an upbeat character.
Next the Celtic “needs a tan” Warrior made his way to the ring to tell us that he has ended Triple H’s carrier.
As he moves on to talk about wanting the WWE championship back Rev Theory blasts through the arena and Randy makes his way to the ring.
Orton and Shames argue and as Shames go’s to leave we see the over rated Cena make his appearance.
Cena makes a good skit about the fact that there is no guest host, and this was actually being quite a chuckle.
This great promo ends with Cena saying that he gets to choose who challenges him and that it has to be earned and creates a #1 contender match for later in the night.
Orton almost gets kicked then Shames is close to an RKO but ducks out the ring before he could meet the mat.
10 men enter the ring for a SDvRAW battle royal for 3 draft picks, this was a solid match ending with Ted and Rey fighting around the ropes with a lot of skinning the cat and hanging on by the skin of there teeth but resulting in Rey’s elimination.
3 draft picks earned from this for Raw. 1st John Morrison 2nd R-Truth so they may be deciding to continue there tag team but time can only tell. 3rdly is the rated R superstar Edge.
Y2J comes out and complains about Edge and follows on to call out Heath Slater of NXT to apologize for him beating the so called best at what he does. Heath apologizes for Edge beating him and then introduces Christian as Y2J’s opponent for another pick.
I found this match average at best but I do not think the crowd agreed with me as they definitely came at full force, the crowd for the hole night were loud, chanting and really getting into the show which is a big improvement to the usual sit down and watch hush that comes across the arenas in past events, the crowd had a voice for once and they need to start using it.
This ended with Chris putting on the walls but Christian was able to reach the ropes but he soon met a Code Breaker and Jericho earns SmackDown! Yet another pick. Before we see who it is Chris beats on Heath.
The draft pick is Kofi and he runs to the ring and nails Jericho with a Trouble in Paradise in attempt to make some sort of statement.
Now that John Morrison had been drafted to Raw he now represented them and went up against Swagger for another pick.
Straight away I was wondering if we were going to see Swagger lose yet again, either way I saw this being a good little bout but I was quite wrong.
The match started slow and couldn’t find the acceleration. It seemed to kill the spirit of the crowd as they sat in silence, it was if the crowd had all there drinks spiked with a sleeping pill.
This concluded with Swagger earning another Pick for SmackDown! And that is being Christian.
Next weeks guest host is announced as Wayne Brady, I know him as the singing funny man of the US version of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”
R-Truth and Ted have a priceless moment back stage after that, once again a good little promo.
We end up with a gimmick match between Dolph and the Mini DX mascot Hornswoggle and ends with Dolph getting counted out but with Dolph non to happy he puts Horns to sleep. Draft pick being Chris Jericho.
After the ads we have a surprise visit from the child hater Batista shouting and complaining about how he should be #1 contender and being pretty damn angry.
Shames makes his way down followed by Orton, already you can see where this is heading.
Cena shows up and creates what you would of expected a Triple Threat.
Orton was a Viper, Batista was an Animal and Shames was a Warrior making this a pretty good match which had the crowd more active again.
This ended with a shocking attack from Edge on Orton allowing Batista to pick up the win.
This was a better than usual show for Raw, and I did enjoy it all the way through but WWE still need to step up to match up with TNA.
The draft is once again all pre determined but this has opened up to new story lines, I guess we will wait and see what’s coming next.
A Run down and review of last nights Raw
Raw started off to a good start with ShowMiz going up against the Heart Dynasty, kicked off with Miz’s great mic work followed by Bret Heart with a rebuttal. This followed into a great contest between the teams that had the crowd going nuts. I must say I haven’t seen a WWE crowd that pumped in a long time. It came to some close calls and a little help from Bret before Tyson Kid locked in the sharp shooter, leading to a tap out from the Miz.
During the ads Big Show turned on Miz with a nice big fist to the head that actually looked pretty damn painful.
Great start to Raw and one of the better Tag matches that I have seen in quite a while.
This lead into the typical rubbish from the commentators this time talking about Triple H. And hey Matt Stryker, we have seen Trips decimated a lot worst than that and still come back from it, so stop talking out of your backside and get off that microphone geeze! This guy is awful.
Up next was the usual toilet break section as we had a Raw vs SmackDown! Divas tag match for a draft pick.
Eve & Maryse vs LayCool
Interesting chant during this match as the crowd (from what I can tell) chanted “we want Mickie” and personally I agree, they also need to bring back Katie Lee but what are the chances of WWE listening to what the fans actually want.
Once again this match is its typical snore fest. These Divas have so much to offer (at least two of them anyway, Michelle and Eve) and the WWE do not allow them the chance to use there full potential
Maryse ends up pinned by Michelle meaning SmackDown! Got the first so called “random” draft pick of Divas resulting in Kelly Kelly making her way to the Blue ring of SmackDown!
Next up is another draft pick match, Evan Bourn vs. CM punk.
This seemed to be a bit of a mess as some of Evans moves missed or just didn’t look well performed so this was quite rough around the edges.
This ended as you may have predicted interference from the new mystery man (who we are all guessing is Joey Mercury) messing up the Shooting star press. CM Punk took advantage and took the win and SmackDownds! Second draft pick being the 7ft baldy known as the Big Show, this is obviously the end of ShowMiz as a tag team with no continuing story line.
More drivel from the commentator’s next leading into Show back stage with Teddy Long. From the looks of things Show maybe taking a face turn as he is becoming an upbeat character.
Next the Celtic “needs a tan” Warrior made his way to the ring to tell us that he has ended Triple H’s carrier.
As he moves on to talk about wanting the WWE championship back Rev Theory blasts through the arena and Randy makes his way to the ring.
Orton and Shames argue and as Shames go’s to leave we see the over rated Cena make his appearance.
Cena makes a good skit about the fact that there is no guest host, and this was actually being quite a chuckle.
This great promo ends with Cena saying that he gets to choose who challenges him and that it has to be earned and creates a #1 contender match for later in the night.
Orton almost gets kicked then Shames is close to an RKO but ducks out the ring before he could meet the mat.
10 men enter the ring for a SDvRAW battle royal for 3 draft picks, this was a solid match ending with Ted and Rey fighting around the ropes with a lot of skinning the cat and hanging on by the skin of there teeth but resulting in Rey’s elimination.
3 draft picks earned from this for Raw. 1st John Morrison 2nd R-Truth so they may be deciding to continue there tag team but time can only tell. 3rdly is the rated R superstar Edge.
Y2J comes out and complains about Edge and follows on to call out Heath Slater of NXT to apologize for him beating the so called best at what he does. Heath apologizes for Edge beating him and then introduces Christian as Y2J’s opponent for another pick.
I found this match average at best but I do not think the crowd agreed with me as they definitely came at full force, the crowd for the hole night were loud, chanting and really getting into the show which is a big improvement to the usual sit down and watch hush that comes across the arenas in past events, the crowd had a voice for once and they need to start using it.
This ended with Chris putting on the walls but Christian was able to reach the ropes but he soon met a Code Breaker and Jericho earns SmackDown! Yet another pick. Before we see who it is Chris beats on Heath.
The draft pick is Kofi and he runs to the ring and nails Jericho with a Trouble in Paradise in attempt to make some sort of statement.
Now that John Morrison had been drafted to Raw he now represented them and went up against Swagger for another pick.
Straight away I was wondering if we were going to see Swagger lose yet again, either way I saw this being a good little bout but I was quite wrong.
The match started slow and couldn’t find the acceleration. It seemed to kill the spirit of the crowd as they sat in silence, it was if the crowd had all there drinks spiked with a sleeping pill.
This concluded with Swagger earning another Pick for SmackDown! And that is being Christian.
Next weeks guest host is announced as Wayne Brady, I know him as the singing funny man of the US version of “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”
R-Truth and Ted have a priceless moment back stage after that, once again a good little promo.
We end up with a gimmick match between Dolph and the Mini DX mascot Hornswoggle and ends with Dolph getting counted out but with Dolph non to happy he puts Horns to sleep. Draft pick being Chris Jericho.
After the ads we have a surprise visit from the child hater Batista shouting and complaining about how he should be #1 contender and being pretty damn angry.
Shames makes his way down followed by Orton, already you can see where this is heading.
Cena shows up and creates what you would of expected a Triple Threat.
Orton was a Viper, Batista was an Animal and Shames was a Warrior making this a pretty good match which had the crowd more active again.
This ended with a shocking attack from Edge on Orton allowing Batista to pick up the win.
This was a better than usual show for Raw, and I did enjoy it all the way through but WWE still need to step up to match up with TNA.
The draft is once again all pre determined but this has opened up to new story lines, I guess we will wait and see what’s coming next.
"Extreme" Rules?
So it was “Extreme” Rules last night. Unfortunately it lacked in Extreme from start to finish.
The new PG rating that WWE is pushing is really making a right mess of things.
The night was all in all pretty bland but did push good storylines and wrestling ability, the issue is this event was called Extreme Rules not Wrestling Rules.
The event dipped and rose through out the night, having some matches which seemed to just bore the crowd and us watching in the blog chat.
You know you must be doing something wrong when the highlights of the night was, the KFC double down (which looks damn tasty), a divas match being more entertaining and more Extreme than the Extreme rules match and the street fight put together and Batista starting his new storyline with the 7 year old girl in the front row who apparently hates him, but not to worry he took the time let her know he hated her to.
Overall I give the event 7/10 because although it was meant to be Extreme it was still a pretty solid wrestling show.
WWE need to work on the PPV’s that are atempting to be hardcore in anyway as they do not fulfil the Hardcore nature due to there PG rating.
They say anything goes, but do not hit someone in the head with a steel chair, they say anything can happen, but your not aloud to bleed, if there any sign of blood the ref is in there with his Latex gloves to get rid of it. Now come on since when was wrestling like that? What happened to the days where they would be in a Hell In A Cell with blood running down there face, ladders, tables, bins, chairs, and hammers, now that was the good old days.
WWE sort it out or TNA will run right on over your.
The new PG rating that WWE is pushing is really making a right mess of things.
The night was all in all pretty bland but did push good storylines and wrestling ability, the issue is this event was called Extreme Rules not Wrestling Rules.
The event dipped and rose through out the night, having some matches which seemed to just bore the crowd and us watching in the blog chat.
You know you must be doing something wrong when the highlights of the night was, the KFC double down (which looks damn tasty), a divas match being more entertaining and more Extreme than the Extreme rules match and the street fight put together and Batista starting his new storyline with the 7 year old girl in the front row who apparently hates him, but not to worry he took the time let her know he hated her to.
Overall I give the event 7/10 because although it was meant to be Extreme it was still a pretty solid wrestling show.
WWE need to work on the PPV’s that are atempting to be hardcore in anyway as they do not fulfil the Hardcore nature due to there PG rating.
They say anything goes, but do not hit someone in the head with a steel chair, they say anything can happen, but your not aloud to bleed, if there any sign of blood the ref is in there with his Latex gloves to get rid of it. Now come on since when was wrestling like that? What happened to the days where they would be in a Hell In A Cell with blood running down there face, ladders, tables, bins, chairs, and hammers, now that was the good old days.
WWE sort it out or TNA will run right on over your.
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