NXT now, The Nexus

Last nights Raw was a good one indeed, and has moved the storylines along and set us up for the Money in the Bank Ladder Match as we now know Raw’s 8 participants that were announced by Rob Zombie during the show, but I will get to that soon.

Let’s start off with the great promo at the begging of the show between Sheamus, Cena and Michael Cole who was receiving e-mails from the GM.
Sheamus came out first mainly to gloat about his win again and being the WWE champion, he even used Cena’s own quote “The Champ is here!”
He then moved from gloating to insulting Cena.
In the end Cena came to the ring.
Cena comes out to ask for “help” and talks about the NXT rookies now called the Nexus.
He then pointed out to Sheamus that they will most probably go after him next and also referred to him as the human jar of mayonnaise, and a giant block of cream cheese, the hole thing really made me chuckle.
He then says he wants to team with Sheamus to take on the Nexus and then calls the team out, it was then that the laptop, now perched on a pedestal for Michael Cole to stand at, dinged to notify us of an e-mail. Cole stood and went to the laptop and read the e-mail out.
The e-mail said that the Raw GM will wait till next week to take action on the Nexus giving Wade Barrett time to present his case to WWE officials.
He then moves on to say that if any member of the Nexus make contact with any WWE superstar that person would be terminated, and if any WWE superstar make contact with the Nexus that superstar would be suspended.

Cena continued on saying how the plan is ruined, but the night is not lost then moved into some jokes and lead into proposing a WWE championship match right at that moment.
“Ding” the laptop went off. Cole reads that Sheamus will be up against Mark Henry.
Cena then did some more comedy which was great, “Ding” another e-mail.
Cole reads about Money in the Bank, and that the participants will be reviled later on tonight.
The GM then said he would like to demonstrate. Sheamus then turns to leave when we hear the booming sounds of the Steel Cage music and the lights flashing and a cage is lowered into view.
Few more dings and Cole reads that Sheamus will defend the title at MITB, in a steel cage against John Cena.

A great opening promo to start the show excellent way to open the show getting the crowd pumped.

Now onto the Nexus, through out the night Superstars were asked by Josh Matthews what they thought of the group’s actions most saying they don’t agree with it, and the usual response you would expect.
When interviewing the Nexus, Skip Sheffield attacked a crew man working back stage; at that point Josh went quite.
We then had Jerry Lawler in the ring speaking about a new DVD coming out for Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat. After the announcement Ricky came out to his fans, Jerry then called a load of other Hall of Famers to congratulate the Dragon, now it was pretty obvious that these guys were out here for something else, as they do not usually do this sort of thing for a DVD.
The Nexus came out, now with there own entrance music, and surrounded the ring. The Nexus worked like a group of Predators surrounding its prey.
They couldn’t get in the ring as each time one did he was beaten off by the legends, they in the end started picking off the Hall of Famers one by one by grabbing one by the legs, dragging him out, and beating him down out side before doing it again until there was only three left.
It was then that the Nexus was able to make a full strike jumping to the ring beating down the rest of the legends. They then focused on Ricky in the ring, Skip did his clothesline and Justin did his 450 splash, then leaving the Hall of Famer in the ring.
Now you might be thinking “how did these guys get away with it?” well it’s because the Hall of Famers are not current WWE superstars so the Nexus team can not be terminated for there actions and of cause could not be stopped either.

Also if you watched the show you may have noticed that the leader of the Nexus Wade Barrett was not with them, reason being is he is over here in England as his work visa has run out so until he can get that renewed he is over here in jolly old England, also the storyline with Drew McIntyre has some truth as his work visa has also ended, people suspected he would stay in the states using a green card as he is married to WWE Diva, Tiffany, but that may not be so as Tiffany posted on twitter that she is missing someone very special.

Well back to the show, the other main focus was the Money in the Bank, during the night Rob Zombie had a small segment to pop his CD and to announce the superstars entering the MITBLM.
Those superstars being:

Randy Orton
The Miz
R-Truth
Chris Jericho
Evan Bourn
Ted DiBiase
John Morrison
Edge

After he announced Edge, Edge appeared on the screen, they had some words shared and Edge played a video to show what he did back in 2005/06 when he won the money in the bank at Wrestlemania 21 and cashed it in on a broken Cena at New Years Revolution.
It was after we saw that, the GM e-mailed us and made an 8 man tag match.
At the end of the night we had Edge, Chris Jericho, Miz and Ted vs. R-Truth, John Morrison, Evan Bourn and Randy Orton. And it was one hell of a match showing why each one of those superstars is in the MITBLM.
The match ended almost the moment Randy came in the ring as he RKO’d Ted and won the match. It was then that all the superstars brawled with the ladders getting us in the mood for the up coming event, it was Randy who stood tall and was able to climb the ladder and unhooked the suit case that was hanging above the ring, he posed on the ladder with the case and the show closed.

Other things we saw during the night is the Hart Dynasty get beaten on by the Uso’s instead of the match that they was scheduled to have.

Sheamus beat Mark Henry in a lacklustre contest.

And Divas tagged together in a short reasonable match, Alicia Fox and Maryse defeating Eve and Gail Kim.

On other news The Undertaker and Michelle McCool have apparently gotten married recently in a small ceremony with close friends and family. So congratulations to them.

One last thing a shout out to Tommy Clee, my number one reader, he is going through a kidney transplant this week so lets all wish him well and I hope to see him back on his feet very soon.

Matty.D signing off.

Drew Deported!

Well Theodore Long is back in charge of SmackDown! And it was a pretty cracking show.

To start the show we had Teddy and Vickie in there office talking to us. They spoke about the up coming event, Money In The Bank, and about Rey Mysterio and his title defence at MITB. Teddy then spoke on how he is back in charge of SmackDown! Due to Vince being out of action.
Drew then appeared to try and intimidate Teddy but to no avail; it was then when Teddy told Drew that he is reinstating Matt Hardy and that Drew will be facing him that night.

Later in the night we saw Drew vs. Matt in a brilliant match, in fact it was Matt’s best match in months.
The match went on for a substantial amount of time and I loved it. The best moment of the match was when Drew was about to stomp Matt’s head into the steal steps when Matt sprang to life scooping Drew’s leg causing him to land back first on the steps with a nice bang.
Once back in the ring after a few more moves Matt was able to get the Twist of Fate in and win the match.
Once all over Teddy appeared on the big screen to let Drew know his visa has run out and that he is to be deported back to Scotland. Drew then went into panic as security came down to remove him.
Best match of the night by far.

Other moments saw Jack Swagger go up against the Big Show, Jack said he was going to make Show suffer like he suffered on Sunday.
Not the greatest match in the world, Show was in control for most of it, Jack turns it around in the end reversing the Big Shows choke slam into an ankle lock in a lame attempt to be like Kurt Angle. Big Show did get to the ropes but Jack did not let up and held the hold even after the DQ and the bell rang, he kept hold causing show to thrive in pain.
Once Jack had let go Big Show laid in the ring hurting as Jack looks back on his work, Big Show attempts to stand but does not succeed. Big Shows acting at this point was pretty lame and very unbelievable.

Cody Rhodes also cut a great promo about being the most handsome man in WWE as voted by the fans. Cody Rhodes showed great skills on the microphone showing he is a well rounded superstar, I see great things in his future.

Kofi Kingston teamed up with MVP and Christian to take on Vance Archer and Kurt Hawking teamed with Dolph Ziggler. Pretty good contest MVP, Kofi and Christian took the win. This was possibly sowing some seeds for a Dolph, Kofi storyline with the title in the middle.

Kelly Kelly defeated Rosa Mendes in a very, very short match.

Last match was CM Punk vs. Kane in a No DQ match.
This match was more of a beating as Kane just wanted to hurt Punk, luckily Punk had the S.E.S to prevent that as Gallows and the Masked Man, (who has now got ring attire) helped Punk live another day. After a few minutes of fighting Kane Choke Slammed Gallows though the announcers table as Punk headed out the through the crowd. Kane took pursuit and so did the camera men as we watched them head into the lobby of the arena. They fought there for a little while, Kane chucking Punk around until Punk fell through some doors to the outside, when he got back on his feet he started run away into the night. Kane just watched as Punk ran and the show closed.

In other news we have matches announced for Money In the Bank so far are the World Title Match between Rey Mysterio and Jack Swagger and a SmackDown! MINTB match with 8 superstars to still be decided.
Since there is a SmackDown! MINTB match I’m cure there will be a Raw one.
Other matched we may see made are Kofi vs. Dolph for the Intercontinental Championship, and Kelly Kelly and Tiffany against LayCool for the co Women’s Championship.
Also advertisements say that Money In the Bank will be on SkySports1 and 1HD which shocked me after Vince said about raising prices of PPV’s. That is 3 out of 4 PPV of this season to be on SkySports and not on BoxOffice.

That’s all for now Matty.D signing off.

NXT. Lawsuit against WWE, and more.

NXT this week saw some good matches again form these rising stars, and some of them impress me more and more each week.

In the first match we saw The Miz and rookie Alex Riley, go against MVP and rookie “Showtime” Percy Watson. Alex Riley once again showed how he is good as an in ring performer, and so did Percy, unfortunately I do not like Percy’s persona fully. Some of it I like but most of it is quite silly and stupid.
The Miz and Riley took the win in a good contest.

The second match was Michael McGillicutty vs. Titus O’Neil. Not a very good match this time, all though McGillicutty is son of Mr. Perfect he is no way perfect. Titus has a good background to him, he worked to be where he is which is great but in the ring he didn’t really impress. During the match Titus and Michael messed up a possible good move, the match ended with Michael doing his finisher, which didn’t look as impressive as when he did it last week, and picked up the win.

Next match was my favourite of show as it was a David vs. Goliath situation as the 5’3 Kaval met the 7’0 Eli Cottenwood.
The match was brilliant as Kaval flew all over the ring; I think he spent more time in the air than he did on the ground. After a great set of moves Eli got hold of Kaval and literally just threw him to the ground to then pick up the win.
Kaval is my top rookie at the moment, even though he hasn’t won any matches yet and has LayCool as his Pros.

Lastly we saw Cody Rhodes go against Lucky Cannon, in the first Pro vs. Rookie match of the new season. The match was also a 5 minute challenge as last week Cody said Lucky would be Lucky, to last more than 5 minutes with Cody in the ring. The match was impressive but more on Cody than Lucky. Lucky was being controlled most of the match by Cody but Lucky did look to almost beat Cody although he was being thrown about. Cody picked up the win 1:02 still on the clock.

Before the show ended we had all the rookies’ final statement before next week’s polls.
Each rookie had 45 seconds to say why they are the next breakout star. People that stood out on the microphone were, Alex Riley, Titus O’Neil, Lucky Cannon and Percy Watson.
When Matt Stryker got to the last rookie, Husky Harris, Husky said he didn’t need 45 seconds before hitting Matt squarely on the back and then jumping on him while he was down before walking away. Obviously he is following the footsteps of his Pro and his actions the week before.

My NXT Poll:

1. Kaval
2. Alex Riley
3. “Showtime” Percy Watson
4. Husky Harris
5. Eli Cottenwood
6. Lucky Cannon
7. Titus O’Neil
8. Michael McGillicutty

In other news Owen Hart’s widow is sewing WWE for the use of Owen Hart in DVD’s and other publications.
I have read threw two articles on the subject and my thoughts are that she is just wanting money as she has attempted to sue WWE in the past.
She sued the WWE back in 1999 after the death of Owen and won a nice settlement of $18million.
She also attempted to sue the company about the release of the DVD on the Hart Family back in March, it was quickly thrown out of court and the DVD was released, also Martha was made to pay WWE legal fees.

For more on the sewing of WWE go to:
http://www.wrestling-edge.com/wwe-news/details-on-martha-hart%E2%80%99s-lawsuit-against-wwe-what-she-wants-more.html
or
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/wrestling/3026487/Bret-Hart-has-left-WWE-at-the-same-time-as-the-widow-of-his-brother-Owen-announced-she-is-suing-the-company.html

Also Bret has now left the WWE but apparently the reason is in no relation to the lawsuit. It is to do with his insurance. The Suns article goes more in depth on that subject.

When we watch SmackDown! Tonight we will most probably not be seeing our new World Champion Rey Myestrio as he has asked for the week off to take his Family on Holiday to Hawaii.

And lastly quite a funny bit of news about former WWE and TNA star, Lisa Varon, AKA Tara or Victoria, had her car broken into outside her house, stolen was a set of custom wheels worth $3000.
The thief’s then went to a custom dealership to find out how to fit them on his own car. The Dealership that he went to was called, Black Widow Customs. And guess who owns that Dealership, none other than Lisa the person he stole from.
The employees at her shop recognized the wheels and called the police. The thief was arrested.
In laymen terms the guy got PWNED!!!!

SmackDown! On tonight at 10 on SkySports4 and SkSports4HD.

Matty.D singing off.

NXT Taking Charge.

Last nights Raw was an interesting one.
It started with Vince telling us basically that Bret Hart is fired as GM of Raw. He then said that the new GM is an anonymous person who will give there instructions by e-mailing a laptop sitting with Michael Cole at the announcers table. When the new GM wants to make announcements or changes he sends an e-mail then Cole is to stand and read it out to us.
After that first announcement from Vince the first e-mail came through, the e-mail from the new secret GM plainly stated that the NXT Season 1 rookies are now all hired to the Raw roster.

After the first announcement Sheamus came to the ring went on to say how he did not want to win the WWE Championship the way he did at Fatal 4 Way. Just as he is about to hand the belt to Vince he changes his tune keeps the belt and pretty much brags and thanks the NXT rookies.
Next to join the promo was John Cena, he comes down and says he is glad that the NXT rookies have been hired because he doesn’t have to constantly be wondering if they are going to attack, he now knows they will attack. He then moves on to say as he is the former champion he has a rematch for the title and challenges Sheamus for that night.
It was then that another e-mail came in and Cole announced that the match will happen, with special guest referee Vince McMahon. It was not to be Guest Ref though it was more of a special enforcer but I will get to that.

Natalya was scheduled to have her first one on one match on Raw since the draft against the new Diva, Tamina, this match went on for a few minutes and was looking good when the NXT rookies came flying down to the ring. They beat up the Harts and left them in a heap on the outside of the ring.
The NXT rookies then, one by one, apologised for all the different things they have done as well as apologising to the WWE, John Cena, the WWE Universe, and more and stated that it was nothing personal.

This apology wasn’t sincere as during the main event of Sheamus vs. John Cena the rookies came to the ring again.
By the way, the match was going well before NXT showed up, and I thought it was good contest, but like I said before Vince was not the Ref he was on the outside of the ring and there was a normal Ref in the ring, so technically he was a special enforcer.
But back to the rookies, they came down and Sheamus legged it out through the crowd before the rookies could get to him, after he got away the rookies focused there attention on John Cena again, beating him up then throwing him over the announcers table into the empty chairs on the other side as Cole and King had already ran away when the rookies showed up.
The rookies then got in the ring and stood tall; Vince grabbed a microphone and started to praise the rookies for what they just did, (obviously just kissing ass so he doesn’t get hurt himself) the rookies stood and looked like they was about to attack but then smiled as if they was joking and Vince said that it scared him, then the rookies smiles went and they surrounded the chairman, no smiles this time as they beat on him, slammed him about, and Gabriel done the 450 splash on him, they then left Vince broken in the ring, the show closed with a camera man calling for aid to help Vince.

The whole storyline has taken an interesting turn, and left me with some questions, like, who is the anonymous GM? Or what will be Vince’s response to the last attack? Is the new GM working with the NXT rookies? Is the new GM Daniel Bryan? So many questions we want answers to, we will just have to wait to find out what we all want to know.
Rumours floating around is that Triple H maybe the man to come back and save us from the NXT rookies, also there has been another push to bring back Daniel Bryan as the animal loving foundation known as PETA, sent a letter to Vince saying how they would like him back on Raw (mainly because Bryan is a vegan).

The rest of the night was pretty good, best match of the night once again was the high flying Evan Bourn vs. Chris Jericho, this time though Jericho said if he loses he would leave the WWE forever. Well do not worry you Jericho-holics he won the match and is staying on our screens, for now at least anyway.

We had Eve tag with the Great Khali to take on Alicia Fox and Primo, the Divas side of the match was good but once Primo and Khali was in it was just a beat down. Also Alicia left half way through the match.

Ted DiBiase fired his former body guard Virgil and now has the French Canadian Maryse on his arm. He was meant to go against John Morrison but he hired Zack Ryder to replace him, both Ryder and Morrison had there rookies with them. Morrison took the win after Star Ship pain, personally I think Morrison needs to work on his finisher as he never seems to land it properly and makes it look very poor.

Randy Orton was cutting a promo when The Miz came to interrupt him, when Miz was about to say he was Awesome he kicked Randy in the gut and started to brawl with him, Randy did get the upper hand when all of a sudden Edge came in and speared Randy. He then took the microphone, and said “Now the real fun begins.”

Last thing to mention is guest hosts will continue but it maybe now every other week instead of every week. Next week we see rock star and horror film director Rob Zombie visit Raw.

That’s all for now, NXT will be this Thursday for us Brits, so Blog for that will be Frinday.

Matty.D signing off.

Fatal End for 3 Champions

Last night saw the first ever Fatal 4 Way Pay-Per-View and I must say it was actually pretty good.

Before I get onto the main matches of the night I would like to talk about my favourite match of the night. This match was a non booked match between Chris Jericho and Evan Bourn. It started with a Promo from Chris Jericho which maybe planting the seeds for a storyline that may lead to his departure.
We then had the match and I thought it was brilliant; I really enjoyed the match and even found myself almost jumping out of my seat because I wanted Evan to win so badly. Evan did eventually take the win after an amazing looking Air Bourn, to Jericho’s back.
Another reason I loved this match is because it is another push for Evan Bourn. In the wrestling world there are certain people you can go up against that will make you look good regardless of weather you win or lose, one of those people is Chris Jericho, so it should have helped Evan jump up the ranks more.
After the show Jericho posted this on his twitter:
“Had the best match I’ve had in months tonight. Bourne is the real deal…and I must destroy him.”

I have also recently read the Suns review of the show and they agree, Evan vs. Chris was the best match of the night.

Other good matches was the Scotsman known as Drew McIntyre vs. Kofi Kingston for the Intercontinental Championship, and the last Fatal 4 Way was a great contest until it was ruined by a another attack form the NXT rookies.

The reason I found the Intercontinental Championship match good, was because of the way they got Teddy Long and Matt Hardy involved.
Before the match Drew made Teddy come to the ring and told him that he is to sit and watch, and when (if) Drew wins, Teddy must hand Drew the title. So Teddy did sit at ring side and watched the match and supported Kofi as the match went on. The match itself was good, Drew and Kofi put on a good little contest. During the match the Ref was taken out of action. Drew then nailed Kofi with his double arm DDT and went for the cover, but had no ref to count it. He called Teddy to the ring, pulled the shirt off of the Ref and gave it to Teddy, and the ordered him to count the pin. Teddy stuck the shirt on, and started to count, but when we thought it was going to be all over Teddy stopped at 2 and did not let his hand hit the mat for 3. As Drew became angry the crowd roared as Matt Hardy came through the crowd got in the ring and put Drew into a Twist of Fate, then legged it, Kofi then hit Drew with a trouble in paradise and covered him for Teddy to count the 1, 2, 3.

The other good match was the main Fatal 4 Way for the WWE Championship. It was good until the ending anyway.
The match was going well and was looking like the best 4 way of the night when the NXT rookies showed up.
The rooks came through the backstage area and attacked some superstars watching the match on a TV; they then ransacked the area before heading out the arena floor. As the match slowed we heard noises from the top of the stage as the rookies came through, they ran to the ring and beat on Cena. They then attacked Randy and Edge on the outside of the ring, it was at this point when Sheamus stole the match pinning the lifeless John Cena then running away through the crowd.
After the rookies beat on Cena some more, Sheamus showed up at the top of the ramp holding his newly “won” title. The rooks then ran up the ramp and chased Sheamus out, leaving us looking at the sprawled bodies of Cena, Orton and Edge. The show then came to close.
This ending to the match really didn’t do well for me or most others watching, it left asking “is that it?” also the show ended at least 25 to 35 minutes before its actual scheduled end time. I am glad it wasn’t a BoxOffice show as I would complain that I got a 2 and a half hour show when I paid for a 3 hour show.
This was a bad ending to a good show and a good match.

The rest of the matches were not as good as the ones I have just gone through but they weren’t overly bad either.

We had the Divas championship change hands in there match. The match itself though was a bit slow and looked overlay choreographed, but it did have its highs as it was longer than most matches using the Divas, and there was some good moves, such as when Alicia Fox was in a chin lock from Eve and then hooked at the legs by Gail Kim to be Boston Crabbed, the move was sold well and looked quite painful, I felt a bit sorry for Alicia actually.
Alicia was the victor of this match as she stole the pin after Eve had done a moonsault on Maryse.

The World Heavyweight match had interference from Kane; he came down to the ring during the match pushing a casket and picked CM Punk to be the man to go in it. Kane grabbed Punk and threw him in the casket by the neck, before he was able to shut the lid Gallows came in and stopped Kane. Punk and Gallows then legged it back stage, (obviously Punk was more concerned about his own well being than the world title), after that Rey nailed the 619 on Swagger and picked up the win. I must admit I didn’t see Rey coming out the victor but its good to see the belt in different hands and as Rey hasn’t held the title since Wrestlemania 22 its nice to see him back with it. The odd thing was Big Show didn’t seem to do much in the match as it seemed he was taken out early, maybe due to injury but I’m not to sure.

R-Truth and Miz’s match seemed to be quite boring; Miz walks away with the title again.

We also had a 6 person tag match added to the card as The Hart Dynasty took on The Uso’s and Tamina.
It was an ok match, the Uso’s look like they should be a good team. The match ended with the two Divas of the match going at it, and going at it well, these two look like the best in ring skilled Divas at this present moment. The match ended with the Hart Dynasty taking the win after Tamina missed her flying body press, and getting hit by Natalya’s spinning clothesline.

Overall I give Fatal 4 Way a 3.5 out 5.

Tonight’s Raw looks to have no guest host, which if you ask me is a good thing, John Cena should be on the hunt for the NXT rookies and most probably Sheamus.
We may end up seeing the unlikely team of Cena, Orton and Edge formed over time depending on how the storyline goes.

That should be all for now Raw tonight at 2am SkySports3 and SkySports3HD.

Matty.D signing off.

Fatal 4 Way This Sunday.

Well SmackDown! Wasn’t too great. I was tired when watching it though so that may have had effect on my opinion.

The main focus of the night was the match between Drew McIntyre and Teddy Long. Threw out the night we saw clips of Drew leading up to this point showing us the story of why this match is going to happen.
When we got to the match Teddy came dressed in a suit, straight away you knew he wasn’t going to be too physical. The following was Drew humiliating Teddy, instead of beating him up, he made Teddy get on his knees and apologize and say that Drew is the chosen one, then he was made to crawl to the middle of the ring and lay on his back so Drew could pin him. The whole segment didn’t do much for me and I felt uncomfortable watching it.
After the pin Teddy went to walk away but Drew grabbed him and was going to DDT him when Kofi came down to his aid, but he was stopped by Drew’s personal security, which he had waiting by the ring, Drew pounded on Kofi until Matt Hardy came threw the crowd and jumped Drew, but he was also grabbed and pounded on, Drew got them both in the ring and DDT’d them both to end the segment.

The other main storyline of the night was the Fatal 4 Way competitors and Kane. The night started off with CM Punk in the ring talking about Undertaker. He was insulting the dead man in an obvious attempt to provoke the big red monster.
During Punks rant about Undertaker the lights went out, when they rose the Undertaker was standing in the ring, or at least that’s what we was meant to believe, after some scared acting from Punk this man was reviled to be Luke Gallows, Punk puts on the hat and does the Taker bow then puts the hat on the floor and stomps it. It was then that Kane had seen enough and was heading down; he got attacked from behind before he even made it to the ring by Jack Swagger, and he was then beaten on by Punk, Jack, Gallows and the mystery man.
The S.E.S held Kane to the floor and Jack did three of his big body slams, after he had done those Rey, and Big Show came down to clear the ring. When we think all is ok Rey 619’s Kane followed by a choke slam from Show.
Big Show shouts at Kane before the end of the segment.

At the end of the night we had Rey and Show tag against Punk and Jack, a pretty good match but nothing special, ended in a pretty bad way as Jack got pinned after a simple move from Rey.
Once all over Kane came down to the ring and proceeded to lay every one out, he even gave Rey a Tombstone Pile Driver.
Kane then talks to them all about how Sunday will be a fatal night for the guilty party, and then bows to a coffin at the top if the ramp.

Personally I think they need to change this story up or start bringing it to close as its been similar events on every show. Kane accuses people about the Undertaker lays some people out and that’s it, the only difference this week is everyone else got a shot in first before the moment where Kane laid them all out. They need to pick it up and move to the next part of the story and do it fast before everyone gets bored of it.

Other matches included MVP teaming with Christian to take on there attackers over the last two weeks, Vance Archer and Curt Hawkins. The match was ok, I guess, but I did not like Vance’s finisher, it involved to much work from the opponent, its as if the opponent does the finisher to them self, you clearly see them move into it, which is a very bad aspect of a move.

We saw JTG go against Chavo, a good match I did enjoy, I’m pretty shocked at JTG still being around and not Shad. JTG is doing well as a solo competitor even with the Crym Tyme persona.
JTG won this match and won it well.

We then saw Layla vs. Kelly Kelly, not a great match, no where near as good as some more recent matches we have been seeing. Kelly Kelly grabbed the win.

The last match before the main event was Dolph Ziggler w/ Vickie Guerrero vs. Chris Masters.
I personally really like these two superstars and with the right storylines and backing they could easily be title contenders. Also Vickie is becoming a really good manger, she is someone us fans love to hate, and Dolph can use that to get into a title shot.
The match was a good one we saw the sleeper hold vs. the master lock.
Dolph won the match after the Zig Zag.

Like I said before, the show was just ok; nothing to special, I think they need to start moving the stories along a bit faster or it becomes repetitive fast.

Allow me to wrap this up with the current match card for Fatal 4 Way.

WWE Championship Fatal 4 Way:
Jack Swagger vs. Rey Mysterio vs. Big Show vs. CM Punk

World Title Fatal 4 Way:
John Cena vs. Randy Orton vs. Edge vs. Sheamus

US Championship Match:
R-Truth vs. The Miz

Intercontinental Championship Match:
Kofi Kingston vs. Drew McIntyre

Divas Title Fatal 4 Way:
Eve vs. Gail Kim vs. Maryse vs. Alicia Fox

We should also see the NXT storyline moved on as the rookies want there answer this Sunday. Things could get interesting, but WWE may want to throw in some surprises as that is what TNA do to keep there fans on there toes and it works.

Fatal 4 Way is on SkySports2 and SkySports2HD at 1am this Sunday Night/Monday Morning so try not to miss it.

Matty.D signing off.

NXT S2 Ep2

Well this week saw NXT season 2’s second episode and once again I was impressed with these rookies.
My favourite rookies this week was Alex Riley, and Kaval. They went head to head this week in a brilliant match that I truly enjoyed. The match was performed in such a way that we were able to see what both superstars have to offer. We saw Kaval in control for one half of the match, and Alex in control of the other; this showed what both rookies can do as the punching bag, and the guy doing the punching. Kaval really stood out for me; he has some great moves and great style. He uses a kung fu style and high flying manoeuvres. Alex Riley still stands out for me with his style and attitude, but like I said we needed to see what he was like in the ring, and after watching his match I was still impressed. Alex Riley won this match after rolling out the way of Kaval’s very high flying stomp, and was able to nail a TKO to win the match.

We also saw a rookies and pros tag match as Kofi Kingston tagged with his rookie, Michael McGillicutty, and we saw Mark Henry tag with Lucky Cannon. This match didn’t impress me as much as the previous one and these rookies didn’t stand out like some others have for me. This match ended with Kofi and Mcgillicutty’s hands held high. Mcgillicutty’s finisher was a fast neck breaker that looked very good.
After the match words from Cody Rhodes made a match to be scheduled for next week between Cody and Lucky Cannon. After that was done Cody hit Matt Stryker in the back of the head before walking away.

For other news on the likes of Batista, Booker T, and more check out Wrestling Edge.

Matty.D signing off.

NXT Run wild again.

Well let’s start at the most talked about subject in the WWE at the moment, Bryan Danielson.
The Sun has now done an article on the subject talking about the possibilities for his release.
Already WWE have put his leaving into story line, Wade Barrett on Raw said that Bryan had some remorse and because of that, Bryan will not be back.
Of cores this gives WWE the opening to hiring him back under Bryan Danielson, not Daniel Bryan, and also brings him back as a contracted superstar to go against the NXT rookies.
Its all still in the air, we are waiting to here some solid information on the release, like weather or not it was a complaint that caused this, if so who was it that complained, and is there any chance of seeing him back on WWE TV?

Last nights Raw saw the NXT storyline furthered along and I can sense a War is brewing, the night started with Wade Barrett in the ring, he says he was asked by Raw GM Bret Hart to come to the ring and apologise, Wade calls the rest of the rooks down to the ring, who make there way through the crowd. They all get in the ring, and Wade asks each one to apologise and each one says no, with a reason.
Brett then appeared to answer the NXT demands. The rooks that lost Season 1 of NXT wanted to be given full contracts, and private locker rooms. Brett then denied them the request and blew Wade’s chances in WWE by firing him, they were then asked to leave before being removed for trespassing.

Later on the NXT rooks was coming through the crowd to do another attack. John Cena was in the ring talking about the NXT invasion and referred to them as Radicals when this occurred. The NXT rooks was on there way down when defence straight away jumped in the ring in the form of Jerry Lawler, and the defence kept growing as Pros came down to fight the rooks, the Rookies fought the Pros, and more Pros kept coming, including the members of the WWE Championship match at Fatal 4 Way.
After that the night went on. Before the last match of the night (Cena with Randy vs. Edge and Sheamus) Brett had all the Superstars stand guard on the stage. I loved the way Cena came out and saluted them as if they were soldiers, and some of the Face superstars saluted back.
The match went on which was a great match and it showed that Randy is in shape for Fatal 4 Way, it was cut short when the lights went out in the arena, the screen showed the NXT rookies ransacking the backstage area, then we see them carrying Brett Hart through to a limo, they chuck him in the back seat and shut the door and tell the driver to go. At first I thought kidnap story but all that happened was the limo ran into other cars in the parking lot (shaking up Brett). The rooks then pulled Brett from the car and left him in a heap closing the show.

Other matches of the night was a Fatal 4 Way match for the US Championship, it was a good match other than the blatant miss of Morrison’s Star Ship Pain, The Miz took advantage and was able to take back the Championship.
It was announced later on that R-Truth is invoking his rematch clause, so he will be going one on one with Miz at Fatal 4 Way.

We also had a Divas match between the team of Maryse and Alicia Fox vs. Eve and Gail Kim. These 4 will be going in a Fatal 4 Way for the Divas title at F4W.
The match was pretty boring, we didn’t even see Gail Kim in action, but Eve did pick up the win.

We also saw our guest, Mark Feuerstein, and his one time co star in his show Royal Pains, Big Show, team up to take on Ted and Virgil.
Big Show and Mark won. After the match we saw Ted fire Virgil.

Evan Bourn continues to be pushed as he goes up against Chris Jericho. Evan won by DQ, after the bell ring he makes a statement by laying Air Bourn on Jericho.

And we also had Santino vs. Regal with special Ref Kozlov. Santino wins with a hand full of tights.

A good show and I am looking forward to the rest of the NXT story. They want the answer to there demands by Sunday.
I am wondering how its going to follow on. As the WWE Pro’s out number the Rooks, does it mean that the Rooks will get new recruits? Maybe team with the Season 2 rookies? Although that may ruin the second season. Or really drag the story out and they take on the rookies that are eliminated form NXT. There is also word of a rookies Money in the Bank match at MINB. Do not know weather it will be season 1 or 2 rookies, but will it be part of the new storyline? So many questions, lets wait for them to be answered.

Matty.D signing off.

Bryan Danielson Fired

Before I get onto last nights SmackDown! I just want to inform you all of the release of Bryan Danielson.

It was posted on wwe.com that he was released on June 11th.
After the first announcement of the release, speculation was that it is all part of a storyline, and its part of the angle of keeping things off the norm.
Later WWE said it is a legit release, and not a storyline. It is said that he was fired for the choking of ring announcer, Justin Roberts, during the NXT invasion angle on Raw.
Word is that someone important complained about the scene, saying that kids watching could think its fun to choke people with ties. Who ever it was that complained must have a lot of power.
WWE does want Bryan back.

Now for my personal opinion.
Who ever it was that complained needs to get the stick out of there ass, because if kids could think its fun to choke someone with a tie what is stopping a kid from thinking a body slam is fun? Or a submission move? Or hitting someone in the arm or back with a chair or kendo stick? You might as well cancel all of WWE if you think a simple tie choking is bad. This is similar to people blaming video games and movies for some violence or crimes. If WWE hadn’t focused on the kids they wouldn’t have even had this issue in the first place anyway.
To have Bryan fired over something this small is very petty of said person with power, and also very stupid of the WWE to fire the best NXT rookie they have.
Fingers crossed Bryan is rehired and we see him again soon, otherwise I wish him well in his future endeavours, and if WWE do not re hire him he should go to TNA, don’t let his talent go to waste and do it just to spite the WWE.

Anyway lets move on to last nights SmackDown!. The main focus of the night was the Fatal 4 Way storyline combined with Kane’s revenge storyline.
It started with Rey talking about F4W; Jack Swagger soon joined him followed by Punk and the S.E.S then the Big Show.
While they continued to go on about F4W, Kane appeared on the screen to accuse the 4 of them, and to show that the guilty person will end up in a coffin.
We then had the first match and in my eyes the best match of the night, Jack Swagger vs. Rey Mysterio. This match went on for quite a while, longer than most matches on SD! Or Raw theses days. The match was gripping and very well performed.
After Rey got the win Swagger started beating on Rey, Kane then came down and choke slammed them both.
Later in the night Punk went up against Big Show, that match ended with the S.E.S all attacking Big Show, Kane once again came down and choke slammed all of them, Punk, Gallows and the Mystery Man followed by Big Show.

Other matches included Layla vs. Tiffany in an ok Divas match. Layla picked up the win.
We saw another look back at the NXT invasion.
Christian faced Dolph Ziggler, who was accompanied by Vickie Guerrero. Christian won but did got beaten up by Curt Hawkings and Vance Archer after the match, before being put in Dolph’s sleeper hold.

We also had Drew McIntyre come out and announce that Matt Hardy is now suspended form, not just SmackDown!, but from all WWE programming. Kofi came down and beat on Drew. Back stage Drew tells Teddy that next week will be Drew McIntyre vs. Teddy Long.

Overall I thought this was a good show, and also me and my mums fiancé, Paul, have had some ideas over the storylines.

First idea was that Undertaker was taken out by the NXT Season 1 rookies, another, idea is, it was Kane himself (witch is the most obvious option), or Kane did it but doesn’t know he done it, maybe playing along the lines of a split personality which could also be a good way of bringing back the mask.
All those are just ideas both me and Paul may be completely wrong (which seems most likely).

Anyway that is all for now Matty.D signing off.

NXT Season 2 Begins

Well what can I say? I thought it was a great start to the new season with a great ending.

We saw all the rookies get introduced by there pros before we went into some matches for the night.
We saw Morrison Tag with Rookie, Eli, to go up against Zack Ryder, and his Rookie, Titus. Morrison and Eli picked up the win after a pretty good match.
We had MVP and Rookie Percy, against Cody Rhodes and his Rookie, Husky. MVP and Percy picked up the win in another good match.

Later in the night we looked back at the slaughter that occurred on Raw by the NXT Season 1 rookies.
When we at home and the people in the arena watched this, the Rookies and Pros were in the ring. Pros on one side and Rookies on the other. After the look back, Matt Stryker asked the rookies there thoughts. After that the Rookies was welcomed into the new season by all the Pros beating on them, making a statement to the old rookies, and the new.

This was a great way to kick things off for the new season and a good way of progressing the story.
While on the subject of the Rookie story, apparently the story spilled into FCW, WWE’s development programme.

Here is the article from Wrestling Edge on the FCW show.
The NXT invasion storyline continued at last night’s WWE developmental show in Florida. The main event was scheduled to be The Miz and Daniel Bryan vs. Christian and Heath Slater but that didn’t happen. The Miz’s music played before the match but nobody came out. Christian came out next and talked about what happened on RAW, then called out Heath Slater. Slater talked about how everything was good to start off on NXT but then Christian wouldn’t give him the answers so they lost the competition.
Daniel Bryan then ran out and attacked Christian from behind. The Miz came down next and fought off the Rookies with Christian. Miz proposes that they do a Pros vs. Rookies match. Miz cut a babyface promo with Christian and worked the match as a face.
The ending came when Miz and Christian were about to hit their finishers on the Rookies. All of the Season 1 Rookies rushed the ring and beat down Miz and Christian. The Rookies tore down the FCW ring before Bryan kicked Miz in the head and Slater hit the Killswitch on Christian. The Rookies left with the Pros laid out.
*********************************************************************

So that is straight from Wrestling Edge. Apparently WWE my keep doing more storylines like this, which are not to WWE norm and also being more realistic, so watch this space me thinks.
Back to last nights NXT. Other than the storyline development there was a look at the new Rookies.
Now we saw some good stuff from the two Rookies that got in the ring, and in my eyes the one that stood out was Husky Harris. I was very impressed by him, and I like the fact he is not a muscle man, he looks like just some fat guy, but then he gets in that ring and he is wrestler and a good one at that.
Percy got beat on but did show skill, I loved his DDT finisher but not to sure about his style.
Eli showed promise as someone who may literally walk over everyone, and Titus did a good job also.

Another person that is standing out to me is the Miz’s Rookie, Alex Riley. Something about him really stands out, I find him quite funny, I like his better than everyone attitude, and his personality in general, I just hope his in ring skill is as good as everything else. Oh and he said he is allergic to Matt Stryker which I thought was brilliant.

On other new Evan Bourn should be getting a big push into a main eventer. This is in an attempt to show that smaller guys can main event, but we all ready know this, it’s the WWE that need the convincing. Let’s hope that WWE will stay committed to this choice.
WWE will apparently push the younger and new stars as they have come to the realisation that there big named superstars, such as Edge, Triple H, Undertaker and more will not be around forever.

Well I believe that is all for now Matty.D signing off.

Just a quick few bits.

First off, it is said that Survivor Series will be happening this year, sometime in November, and tickets go on sale this Friday.

After Raw’s shocking conclusion, the world has been a buzz, twitter went nuts with questions and discussion, and the fans leavening the arena were all a buzz over the closing moments.

Miami may be the home of Wrestlemania in 2012.

SmackDown! Will be live on October 1st when they make the move to SyFy in the USA, so the start time will be pushed back for us that night in the UK.

Worry has been going around the web about the Undertaker, even the sun was getting calls from worried fans, and Google was getting a high number of searches relating to the topic.
Like I said in a previous blog there is nothing to worry about, it’s just an injury and this is there way of taking him out of story.

From Wrestling Edge:
Trish Stratus talked to The Wrestler/Inside Wrestling magazine recently about working with WWE again. She said: “I always want to do something that is challenging and impactful, no matter what I do … Absolutely, I’d go back—but only if I could do something that makes a difference.”

Word is that Triple H will be back in August in time for SummerSlam.

And that’s all for now Matty.D signing off.

PG Massacre on Raw.

Well Raw was a viewers choice night, great idea and did work well for most, unfortunately for me I could not make votes through most of the night, I was guessing this was due to the amount of people on the site voting and it overloaded it.
But anyway regardless of the downside of not being able to vote most of the night, the show was brilliant, yes this was mainly due to the shocking end but I will get to that.

Let’s just go through the show from the beginning.
We started off with the 2 general Managers talking about the night ahead when Randy Orton came down, and demanded to have Edge in a match, even though he had his arm in a sling.
The mangers agreed and asked the crowd to decide how they would face each other, we had some options, but the crowd decided with them going against each other in a match, with the stipulation of Edges arm tied behind his back.
This happened later on in the night and it was a short lived contest, it ended with Edge being disqualified, because Edge freed his tied arm and started beating on the injured Orton, Edge then lied up for the Spear but was stopped by a kick from Randy who then kicked Edge out the ring, Randy then came out to continue fighting Edge, but Edge was ready with a chair and used it to focus more on the injured shoulder, something tells me from the way this story is going, Randy may not make it to F4W.

After the opening segment we had the Big Show vs. Chris Jericho, viewers choices were, Over the Top Rope Challenge, Body Slam Contest, or a Submission match. The WWE universe went for the body slam contest but it wouldn’t have mattered as Show gave us all three, he slammed Chris, made him submit, and then threw him over the top rope.

The next match was The Hart Dynasty vs. The Uso’s, or The Dudebusters or The Great Khali and Hornswggle, of cores the world went for the gimmick team of Khali and Hornswaggle. The Harts won that. After the end of the match the Uso’s came down but got cleared out of the ring this time so Harts stood tall.

We then saw Kozlov vs. Santino and the thanks to the fans it was a Dance contest, and shockingly Kozolv could dance and dance good, he took that win with ease, Kozlov dance is a must see.

Maryse won a Divas battle royal chosen by the fans.

Kane had a backstage moment accusing Sheamus of taking out the Undertaker, after an ad break the fans put Kane in a match with the Ginger man.
Kane won due to Sheamus getting himself counted out and walking away, this left Kane extremely frustrated.

We then had the Miz vs. R-Truth with partners that we decided, for R-Truth we gave him John Morrison, and for Miz we gave him Zack Ryder.
Match went well it ended with Miz nailing the Skull Crushing Finale.

Next up was Drew McIntyre vs. A) Goldust, B) Yoshi Tatsu, or C) a mystery opponent, who was only shown as a shadow and looked to be some crazy man.
We went for an ad break and when we returned it was reviled to be the mystery man, the shadow then threw up the V1 sign and it hit me that the mystery man was, Matt Hardy. When Matt got to the ring Drew straight away grabbed a microphone, and complained but Teddy Long was quick to explain to Drew that Matt is suspended from SmackDown!, not Raw.
This was a great match; finely seeing Matt Hardy get his hands on the Scotsman was a great thing.
Matt won after a smooth Twist of Fate, after the pin Matt continued to beat on Drew, Drew was able to slip from his hands and get away from the ring to safety and Matt stood holding some of Drew’s hair.

We had the final segment from the A-Team before we saw the main event. Through out the night we have had some silly, but quite funny, scenes from Rampage Jackson and Sharlto Copley.
I am not going to say much on the subject just watch it if you’re interested in guest hosts, because I just think they are a waste of time now.

Last thing is the big ending, John Cena vs. Rey Mystreio or Jack Swagger or CM Punk.
CM Punk was chosen so him, and the S.E.S, came to the ring and started the match.
It was all going fine and dandy, typical match other than the fact that Punk kept sliding out of the ring to fix his mask as Cena was aiming to remove it.
All of a sudden during the match NXT season 1 winner Wade Barret came out at the top of the ramp and walked slowly to the ring, on his arm he had band on that yellow and black N on it.
John Cena, started shouting at him, we then saw the eliminated NXT rookies coming out through the crowd all wearing the same arm bands.
They came in a beat the hell out of Punk and Gallows; they then got in the ring and surrounded Cena, The following I would describe as a PG rated massacre, it was like a scene from a war film, or game, but instead of weapons and death it was just a beat down with PG wrestling.
The reason I say massacre is because they didn’t just beat on Cena, when done there they started destroying the ring area, they pulled the ring apart, the barriers, flipped the Announcers table, even beating up Matt Stryker, The King, the ring announcer, the time keeper, any one that came to stop them was beaten up, just full on any one and anything had to be beaten or destroyed.
They then came back into the ring and beat up Cena more before finally leaving the area which looked like a warzone.

We all have said that WWE is predictable and samey, but not in a million years did I see that coming, epically to the magnitude we saw as well.
I was stunned and shocked by it and just didn’t know what to think. All I know I loved it, it was different, it was a change, and it just blew everything wide open. What will be next for this story? Will they destroy NXT, or SmackDown!? I will be watching this very closely to see what is going to be next form the NXT season 1 rookies.

That’s all for now I will do a second blog later in the night or tomorrow with more details on things in the WWE.

Matty.D signing off.

The End of Undertaker?

I know I may have scared some of you last night, (epically TJ, sorry bro) when I put a facebook status plainly saying, “The end of Undertaker???”
Now I do not think there is any need to panic as it should be all storyline, but let me fill you in.

Basically when SmackDown! Started we saw Teddy Long saying that Undertaker was found in a vegetated state over the memorial weekend, it was said that he was attacked in some way.
Now not to worry this is not true, if it was there would be a bigger effect over the WWE universe, and it would have been bigger news over the last week. Undertaker is just injured. During his match the week before with Rey Mysterio, Undertaker suffered a concussion, a broken orbital bone and a broken nose.
So all the following should just be storyline.
We see the hooded men of the Ministry of Darkness, come down to the ring with a coffin to the sound of there demonic music. Once at the ring Fire exploded and Kane came down to the ring for a brilliant promo.
He stood in the ring and spoke about how he had found Taker, and that Taker will not be back, in Kane’s words, “my brother will rise from the dead no more.” This all seems to be a bit much but it’s a good way of pushing Kane’s character.
Kane vows to find the one that had done this to Undertaker, and get revenge, he then proceeds to perform very well acting emotional and sad.
Through out the night Kane threatens many people on the Roster, from CM Punk to Rey Mysterio and Big Show as well as others.
Teddy Long creates a Battle Royal at the end of the night to decide who will replace the Undertaker in the Fatal 4 Way match at F4W. Now all signs point towards the winner being Kane, and through out the Royal, Kane was eliminating the most people. It in the end came down to Rey and Kane, they rallied back and forth for a while, having some close calls, but in the end Rey was able to pull Kane over the top rope.
I am disappointed by this as I really wanted Kane to get in and to put him as a World Title contender.
I do not know weather or not they will continue the storyline or cut it short, but I am thinking that Kane will get involved in the World Title match at F4W.

The rest of SmackDown! Was like it usually is. After Kane’s opening promo Swagger came to the ring sporting a Sooners jersey, the reason for that is due to the Sooners being rivals to the location they was in. Swagger went up against MVP in a pretty solid bout.
Swagger won the match, during the after math, the team of Kurt Hawkins and Vance Archer came out to beat on the fallen MVP in another attempt to make an impact.

We had Drew McIntyre vs. Kofi Kingston for the Intercontinental Championship, another great bout; during the match we had Matt Hardy appear in the crowd, although he is suspended there was nothing wrong with him buying a ticket, and sitting in the front row. He just sat and watched until the closing moments of the match, where he attempted to jump the barrier to get involved in the match after Drew attempted to hit him, but was stopped by security, but it was enough to distract Drew costing him the match. Once it was over it looked like Matt was going to walk away so the security let him be, but Matt ran past them, over the barrier, and into the ring, to nail Drew with a Twist of Fate before running away through the crowd, security hot on his tail.
We saw an Ok Divas match between the improving, Kelly Kelly, and the lame Rosa Mendes. Kelly showed improvement in this match and she looks to be the next Diva to go for the Women’s Title, although I see her needing a partner as she will most probably have to face both members of LayCool.
The match went on longer than usual WWE Divas matches, at the end of it Kelly took the win with her finisher, which was performed a lot better than pervious times.
LayCool watched the match form the top of the ramp. I am enjoying this story I am wondering what will be next for the WWE Divas.

Overall a good show and the Undertaker situation has put a spanner in the works and has made the story more interesting I just hope WWE work well with it.

That’s all from me Matty.D signing off.

Englishmen win’s NXT!

I will try and keep this one brief.

Start off last nights NXT saw the big Brit Wade Barret win as the new WWE break out star. So we will be seeing him go after a Championship, at a PPV in the near future, word has it that he could tag with his Pro Chris Jericho, and head for the Unified Tag Titles, the other options that are of suspicion to happen is, Wade could go for the US Champion, R-Truth or Kofi the Intercontinental Champion, but only time will tell.

Justin Gabriel may be still getting a spot on the main Roster, possibly tagging with his Pro Matt Hardy, or some other superstar that can work well on the microphone as that is the area that Gabriel lacks in, with a different superstar who is good on the mic, Gabriel can take the chance to learn from them and improve on his promo work.

NXT season 2 has been announced and here is the line up of pro/rookie partnerships.

NXT Rookie - WWE Pro

Husky Harris - Cody Rhodes
Eli Cottonwood - John Morrison
Percy Watson - MVP
Titus O’Neil - Zach Ryder
Kaval - LayCool
Lucky Cannon - Mark Henry
Mike McGillicutty - Kofi Kingston
Alex Riley - The Miz

Now most of these people will go over your head, but there are some big names here.
Mike McGillicutty, is actually Joe Henning, son of Mr. Perfect, so he is a 3rd Generation star.
Husky Harris is a 3rd Gen star, son of Mike Rotunda, aka I.R.S, and he is of cores being mentored, by 2nd Gen star, Cody Rhodes.
And Kaval, better known as Low Ki, is a former TNA star, I would say he has the most potential of winning this if he hadn’t been given two Divas as his Pros, yes they are the best Divas at the current time in WWE, but they are not good enough to be the Mentors to someone like Kaval. If this show was on during the Attitude Era it would have been interesting, we could of seen Kaval being mentored by someone like Trish Startus, Lita or Chyna, but with today’s divas this is a bad choice by WWE, but I could be proved wrong, LayCools promo work is absolutely brilliant so maybe we will see it rub off on Kaval.

My favourites from what I have seen at the moment are, Alex Riley, Kaval, and Titus O’Neil, I am judging that on the Rookies not the Pros.

The biggest plus side to NXT season 2 will be the fact that we will have control over who goes through, the Pros will still make the picks but that will only be 50% of the vote, the other 50% will be the viewers watching at home.

NXT season 2 starts next week so make sure to tune in as I see it being a very interesting show.

SmackDown! Tonight will see Kofi defend his Title against Drew McIntyre, we should also some more development on the World Title Storyline.
SmackDown! Will be on at 10 on SkySports3 and SkySports3HD.

Blog will be some time tomorrow.

Matty.D signing off.

Randy Still Injured

Last nights Raw had the guest host of Ashton Kutcher although it seems he was never actually at the arena for the show. All his segments were shown on the titiantron, and he never made an appearance in front of the crowd. It is believed that all his segments were recorded over the weekend in LA.

When Raw got started a fight was already going between Evan Bourn and Edge. Apparently before Raw came on the air, Edge came out and said that Raw hasn’t started but he was going to stand in the ring and say what he wanted, and nobody could stop him. This was when Evan Bourn came out in attempt to make a name for himself, and to challenge Edge for his spot at Fatal 4 Way, and that is when the fight ensued and it all came on the air.
The little bout went on for a while, Evan got control of the fight but Edge rolled out the way of the Shooting Star press and took Evan out with a great looking spear.
Edge then talks about F4W when Randy Orton made his way down.
Randy locks sights on Edge and he never moves his gaze. In the end to shut Edges rambling Randy nails an RKO.
At this point you would think the Viper is fit to fight but that is not the case.
After the opening segment it was reviled that Randy would tag with John Cena to take on Edge and Sheamus.
Later in the night Edge slams a door into Randy’s injured arm to take him out of the match leaving John to get a replacement.
The reason for Randy being taken out is due to him still being too injured to wrestle, so we shouldn’t see him do much on the lead up to F4W. Also he is apparently going to be having surgery on the injured arm, as his shoulder is a reoccurring problem.
Due to Randy being out of action we saw Evan Bourn take his place in the tag match to help push his character, and I must say it’s about damn time. He is, in my eyes, the best high flyer WWE has at this present time, and he needs to be pushed up the ladder, and what better way of doing it than tagging him with the #1 fan favourite, and WWE champ, John Cena.
The match itself was very well preformed, but unfortunately Evan was just used as a beat up character for most of the match, but when he was in control, he was on fire and when he was being beaten on he made every move he received look good.
The match came to a close when Cena got tagged in. He laid a twisting Attitude Adjustment on Sheamus to line him up for Evan, and the twist just made the AA look that little bit better. Evan was then tagged in and he flew off the top rope to land an amazing looking Shooting Star Press. The crowd ate this match up and it was a classic.
I see Evan hopefully riding up the ranks in the locker room and we should soon him with a belt around his waist.
Another hope is if Randy can not take part at F4W, Evan will be the replacement. We could see history made if Evan can win, and take his first WWE Title.

Also on Raw we saw R-Truth take on Jericho in a sloppy non title match, Santino and Eve tag to face William Regal and Maryse in a mediocre battle which saw Kozlov turn on his former partner William , we then had Bret come down to announce that next weeks Raw will be a 3 hour special with SmackDown! And Raw stars and that it will be a viewers choice night, he was soon joined by Mr. McMahon who just came down to congratulate Brett on becoming the new GM of Raw.

We then headed into the Miz taking on Daniel Bryan who thanks to Ashton Kutcher (storyline) was put into a one night contract.
The match was impressive, and threw out the match Cole was insulting Bryan.
The match came to a close when Bryan was able to put Miz in a painful submission hold, which was then reversed into a pin by Miz, which was revered yet again by Bryan to pin Miz, and win the match.
After the match Miz beat on Bryan. Outside the ring Miz tried to make Bryan apologise to Cole, but instead we saw Bryan throw Miz into Cole.
It should be interesting to see where this storyline is going to go.

We then had the latest tag team the Uso’s in the ring talking about how they were making a name for them selves.
The crowd didn’t think much of this and I felt uncomfortable watching this promo as they just didn’t feel right behind a microphone.
After there Promo the Heart Dynasty come flying down the ramp to get pay back against the newbie’s. At first the Hearts had control but the Uso’s soon got back into control. There was one move that I liked which was a toss up by one man caught into a Samoan drop by the other. They all then climbed to the top ropes to do there 3 body presses but this didn’t look as impressive as before, as one member of the group looked to of just fell onto David Heart before the others had even jumped.
I defiantly think this group needs a lot of work.

Before the big tag match we had Alicia Fox betray Zack Ryder for the recoding of Ashton Kutcher.

That’s all for Raw just a quick look into what else has been going on.

Apparently Undertaker is 50/50 for Fatal 4 Way, as he is suffering an injury. Talks are that Kane may take Takers spot in the match at F4W, if it’s not Rey Mysterio.
I personally would want Kane entered into this match and to even win, as he hasn’t been in a world title position since he removed his mask, the closest he got was the ECW title. Either way it looks like neither F4W matches for the World Title, and WWE Title will stay the same, unless these injuries from Randy and Taker are overcame.

Also According to Kevin Pike, Batista has set his sights on the UFC, if this is so I wish him good luck in this endeavour.

Well that all from me Matty.D signing off.