Raw almost puts me to sleep

You know, for a history making 900th episode of Raw you would expect something special or spectacular. That wasn’t the case Monday night as the show failed to grasp me and almost put me to sleep; nothing really excited me or really entertained me. It was also only a 2 hour show where I was expecting 3 hours of show.

We started the show with Brett Hart.
He came to the ring to talk to the crowd but during his moment Kane came to the ring. Kane spoke about how Taker took out the ledged of Shawn Michaels at Wrestlemania 26. Kane claimed he wanted to take out his own icon. He went after Brett close to choke slamming him when the Tag Champs the Hart Dynasty came to the rescue. Unfortunately the two was not able to take the big man down as Kane cleared them from the ring. He then focused back on Brett but a Gong sounded and the lights went out. When the lights came back The Undertaker was standing in the ring. Kane decided to leave the ring instead of face his foe.
The GM Chimed in and said he wanted to see an Icon taken out as well. So he made a match for later in the night, but not Kane vs. Brett, he made the match of The Undertaker vs. Brett.

Later in the night we were set for the match. Brett stood in the ring and watched as we witnessed the Undertakers famous entrance.
As the two prepared to battle Wade Barrett came out. Earlier in the night Wade said he would do something unforgettable, and this was his attempt.
He came to the ring but was attacked by Taker. While that was happening the lights went out. When they arose Kane was in the ring, Taker and Kane ended up locking throats but the lights went out again, this time when they arose the Nexus were around the ring. Taker was able to keep them at bay but while the commotion ensued the lights went out yet again. This time when the light arose Nexus were in control as Wade had Taker over his shoulders ready to slam him to the mat which is what soon followed.
After the slam Gabriel nailed the 450 splash.
Honestly I didn’t think much of the segment and it was hard to follow and was hard to take in. The announcers said that Kane may be in control of the light changes.

The main event of the show was a 5 on 5 elimination tag match. The Nexus took on an all star team of Sheamus, Randy Orton, Edge, Chris Jericho and John Cena.
Earlier in the night Jericho once again said he would leave if he does not win the WWE title. This may be a strong possibility.
Jericho argued with Cena to be the starter in the match, to save the team falling apart Cena allowed Jericho the spot, unfortunately Jericho had no intention of sticking around as he left the match almost immediately soon followed by Edge, leaving only Orton, Sheamus and Cena to fight the match.
The match then moved on, first eliminated was Sheamus by Heath Slater, Cena then stepped up but was eliminated by Gabriel and his 450 Splash. Orton then in quick succession eliminated both Gabriel and Tarver but he was then eliminated by Barrett who won the match over all and stood tall.

Other matches didn’t quite amaze me either, there was one that looked promising but then didn’t live up to my expectations.
That match was a triple threat tag team match which included the three finalists of NXT. Kaval teamed with Daniel Bryan, which at first thought could have been a dream team. Kofi teamed with his Rookie McGillicutty and Miz teamed with Alex Riley.
The match on paper looked to be great; epically the idea of having Bryan and Kaval on the same team, but it didn’t meet expectations.
Miz and Riley took the win.

We had LayCool vs. Melina and Eve. Melina won in a short match that didn’t do much for anyone. After the match LayCool challenged Melina to a title unification match at NOC. Melina accepted so she will be facing one of the members of LayCool for the combining of the two belts.
Apparently this is something they want to do with all titles in the coming year. They have already combined the Tag next will be the Women’s and Divas titles. US and Intercontinental will be combined and lastly the World and WWE title which will most probably happen at Wrestlemania 27. If this is all to happen it should interesting to see how the storylines are going to develop.

We had a No.1 contender match for the Tag Titles as Morrison and R-Truth take on the recently developing team of Cody Rhodes and Drew McIntyre.
The match ended on a double DQ so we still do not have a No.1 contender but it may mean a triple threat tag match.

Jack Swagger defeated Evan Bourn, after the match Alberto Del Rio came down to make another impression by attacking Bourn, Mark Henry came to Bourns aid and chased Del Rio out.

Punk cut a promo of insults for the fans before the final match of the night. He was interrupted by Big Show who ended up giving an almighty Chop to Punks to chest.

Overall, a low night that didn’t scream historic. The show was just like any other but was boring and slow. It seams that WWE maybe losing there edge again and they need to think about ways of mixing things up and putting a more exciting spin on the current stories.

That’s all for now till my NXT blog where hopefully I will be telling you that Kaval is the winner and Next Break Out Star.

Matty.D signing off.

Another Former WWE Star Passes

Start off on another sad note as yet another former WWE star passes away. Former Diva Gertrude Vachon, better know for her in ring name Luna Vachon was found dead at 10am Friday morning. She died at the age of 48.
I am unfamiliar with her work during WWE as she was a performer before my time of watching.
My deepest condolences to Luna’s family and friends.

This weeks SmackDown! Wasn’t very amazing, although we saw the return of the Undertaker we didn’t get to see him in action. At the end of the show Kane and Undertaker cut a promo, hinting towards Taker vs. Kane at NOC.
Although that is all we saw of Taker it was a good promo, its something that both Kane and Taker are very good at.

At the start of the show Kane took on Rey but this time it was under Kane’s rule of no DQ.
The match didn’t last that long and wasn’t too great either, Kane made short work of the smaller man.
After the match Alberto Del Rio came down and also attacked Rey targeting his injured arm. After slamming Rey’s arm in a steal chair he locked in his Arm Bar.
This may be to remove Rey from our screens and give him a break.

Later on Alberto made short work of a local competitor to help push him up the ranks and make him look good in the process.

CM Punk went up against JTG. JTG is just a failing competitor now neither he nor Shad have made anything of them selves since splitting, they were better off together.
Punk ended it with the GTS and the anaconda vice.
Punk then had the S.E.S on there knees in the ring and told them to be better or they are gone. This angle will most probably be used as the reason for Serena’s leaving.
She was present at this show as it was recorded earlier in the week before the decision was made for her release.
I wish her well and hope to see her wrestling again soon, (with a full head of hair I hope).
Later Luke Gallows took on the Big Show, CM Punk watched back stage to see his S.E.S member win but unfortunately Big Shows right hand met Luck Gallows face with an almighty smack allowing Show to pick up the win.

Kofi battled with Dolph once again but this time if Dolph is disqualified, he loses the title.
Now usually seeing the same two Superstars wrestle every week against each other can get quite samey and repetitive, but that doesn’t seem to be the case with these two, it was a good match in fact id say bet match of the night.
Kofi won but not by, DQ, pin, or Submission, thanks to Vicki keeping Dolph outside the ring Kofi won via count out, but Dolph there for is able to keep his belt.

The last match to mention is Jack Swagger vs. MVP in a Senior Invitational. It was an interesting and unique contest as it was done in the style of proper wrestling. The rules were the first to get five take downs wins.
If MVP won Swagger would have to pay for MVP’s Summer Block Party, and if Swagger won he would host MVP’s VIP lounge for one night.
Swagger took an early lead going three to zero; MVP became frustrated and slapped Swagger getting himself instantly disqualified. Swagger didn’t let it end there though, he attacked MVP and locked in his ankle lock outside the ring.

We did see LayCool back stage with there Rookie Kaval, LayCool spoke more about seeing Melina on Raw.
Hornswoggle reviled LayCool’s plan to Teddy Long in the form of charades.
What LayCool are going to do is still unknown to us.

Raw I believe will be a 3 hour special and will have stars from all over the WWE universe; we will most probably have a lot of the extra hour used to show old footage of Raw.

Make sure to tune to Raw for the historic episode.

Matty.D Signing off.

Short NXT Blog

Well this blog will be very short as NXT didn’t really have much happen, well at least nothing that could use a long rundown.

Show started with the rookies cutting promos to help push there characters, it lead into Kaval challenging “Dashing” Cody Rhodes. Cody declined the challenge as according to him Kaval is not on his level.
As Cody denied Kaval, MVP stepped up to make a challenge as he is on Cody’s level, Cody this time accepted.

We then moved into a trivia quiz for three rookies, a good segment if you like quizzes but otherwise it was unneeded. Kaval won the quiz and there for had won a big piece on wwe.com.

The last part of the show was the very long match between Cody and MVP. It was used to fill the rest of the show and most probably save any rookie matches, such as triple threat, till next weeks final.
The match wasn’t bad but it wasn’t great either. I’ve seen better matches of great length, so I found my self getting a bit bored, but that may have been to the fact that I had just worked a nightshift and was rather tiered.
Cody won after a lot of back and forth, but he nailed the Alabama Slam and the Cross Rhodes to pick up the 1-2-3.

The show ended there.
As you can see a short blog for a not so active show.

In other news Stephanie McMahon and Paul Levesque (Triple H) recently had there third child, a baby girl, a name has not been reported. So congrats to them.
Trips must be feeling a bit out numbered now though as he now has three daughters, he is the only man of the house hold.

Well that’s all for now don’t forget to watch SmackDown! Tonight to see Undertakers return to the show and also see the other stories develop.

Matty.D singing off.

6 Pack Challenge at Night of Champs

This weeks Raw was its usual, up and down show with highs and lows.
The show started with Sheamus. He came to the ring to speak his usual drivel and also insult the younger WWE fans. He compared Randy Orton to a spoiled child and claimed that Orton did not deserve another title shot.
The GM soon chimed in to show some favouritism towards Sheamus. The GM had a throne brought out, he then said that Sheamus would sit in that throne and watch the night’s action, at the end of the night Sheamus can then select his opponent for NOC.

Sheamus took his seat on the throne and got ready to watch the first match of the night.
R-Truth went head to head with Edge in a good opening contest. Edge came out the winner after dodging a kick and landing the Spear. The match was very back and forth, I hope they use Truth more often in big matches.
After the match Edge cut a little promo giving reasons why he should get the shot at the WWE championship.

Chris Jericho then went against a slightly injured Great Khali. Through out the match Jericho targeted Khali’s injured leg. After a less than amazing bout Jericho locked in the Walls of Jericho and made Khali tap.
He also cut a promo about his reasons for getting the shot.

We then took a break from that storyline to have a boring Divas contest.
Melina took on Jillian Hall. Melina of cores won.
After the contest LayCool appeared on the big screen to announce that they will be at Raw next week for the 900th episode, I am interested in where this story is going, I’m guessing that we may see one member of LayCool take on Melina for the Divas title at NOC, that way LayCool can have an official title each.

Next the Nexus was bought out. The GM announced that he was impressed with them last week and there ban on competing for titles was now lifted. Wade then looked to Sheamus and said, “Our truce is over.”

We then had Miz vs. Cena in another good contest showing Miz’s continuing development.
The match was back and forth but Miz ended up winning by DQ as Daniel Bryan came to the ring and attacked Miz. Cena then smiled and left Bryan to do as he wished. Bryan got in the ring and locked in his very deadly looking cross face. It took 4 or 5 refs to pry the enraged man off.

We then saw Santino and Vladimir beat the Usos. We also saw the development of Tamina having feelings for Santino in a lame storyline.

We then had an excellent three way match as Randy Orton, John Morrison and Ted DiBase butted heads. Some of Morrison’s kicks didn’t look to great but that was about the only fault I saw.
Orton once again shone through as he nailed an RKO to a flying Morrison to take the win. Once he was standing tall DiBase came in for the attack but also fell to the RKO.

The Celtic warrior had decided to leave during the last match. Back stage he said he has decided who he will face.
He returned to the ring and said that he will defend his championship tonight instead of NOC against his challenger…. Zack Ryder…. That’s right.
He beat him very quickly retaining his title. He then announced that according to contract he doesn’t have to defend the title for another 30 days. All seemed good for Sheamus, a bye for NOC easy he thinks, wrong.
Wade Barrett came to the ring and reminded Sheamus of what Wade won after NXT. A title shot of his choice at a PPV of his choosing, and he announced that Sheamus will take Wade on at NOC for the WWE title.
The GM soon chimed announcing that Sheamus will not just defend against Wade but also against four others in a 6 pack challenge.
He then reviled the rest of the opponents, Edge, Chris Jericho, John Cena, and Randy Orton.
All the men stood in the ring, Wade then realised he was in a very familiar situation but he was on the other side of the coin.
Wade found himself surrounded by the rest of the men, he tried to talk himself out of it but wasn’t successful as he was mauled by the group and thrown out the ring by Sheamus. Sheamus then turned into a Code Breaker that led Jericho into a Spear, which led Edge into an Attitude Adjustment, and then ended on an RKO to Cena to leave Orton standing tall once again.

I think this is going to be one hell of a match but I do wish it was a Championship Scramble and not a 6 Pack Challenge.

Like I said before, it was a high and low show.

Next week we see the historic 900th episode with stars from SmackDown! And Raw coming together for a Super Show so make sure to tune in as they make history.

On other news shockingly S.E.S Diva Serena has been released.
Wrestling Edge posted the following:
While specific details surrounding Serena’s abrupt departure from WWE have yet to be disclosed, it said that she was let go in a disciplinary measure. The Pro Wrestling Torch cryptically notes that she was not “living out” her Straight Edge Society persona in public.
The decision to cut the six-time Ohio Valley Wrestling Women’s Champion was actually made a few days ago, but word had not surfaced until Monday night.
It would appear that an official announcement has not yet been made by WWE as she’s due to make an appearance on this week’s edition of Friday Night SmackDown, which was taped last Wednesday. She accompanies Luke Gallows to the ring for a match against Big Show.
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So it looks like Fridays SmackDown! Will be the last we see of Serena. Weather or not she will be resigned in the future is unknown, maybe we will see her move to TNA as it looks like she can wrestle from what we saw the week before and her history at OVW and FCW I just hope when we see her again she will have her hair back.

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

Alberto Del Rio Debuts!

This weeks SmackDown! Saw the debut of new star Alberto Del Rio. Over the past few weeks we have been seeing promo clips to push his character and style, (if you’re like me you either muted the TV during these promos, or fast forwarded the segment.)

We kicked off with Rey Mysterio cutting a promo to be soon interrupted by Alberto. This is good way to push him up the ladder fast; by going for the big stars he will rise quicker to becoming a big superstar as well.
After sharing words Rey challenged Del Rio for later in the night witch Del Rio accepted.

Last match of the night was Del Rio vs. Rey, through out the show this match was mentioned to really get us interested.
Del Rio I would say is, a Spanish cross between Eddie Guerrero and JBL, the reason I say that is because he flaunts his money around like JBL, and enters the ring driving a fancy car like Eddie.
The match was actually quite good and I see a lot of potential from this new up and comer, he showed good moves and great style.
The match went on going back and forth, in the end Del Rio locked in an Arm Bar but the way he locked it in was very stylish and well performed. A good finisher. The Arm Bar itself didn’t look to menacing but the way he got to it was what stood out. Rey tapped out to the lock giving the win to Del Rio making it impressive debut. After the match Del Rio locked the Arm Bar in again to show more on his Heel side.

The Intercontinental championship match from SummerSlam had a re do as Dolph and Kofi go head to head once again.
The match was going well until the cougar Vicki Guerrero got involved and actually got Dolph disqualified, of cores that means that Dolph gets to keep his title.
Post match Dolph beat on Kofi, then doing the Zig Zag before locking in his Sleeper hold. When it looked like he was all done and went to leave he returned to the ring once more and gave Kofi a hard stamp over the neck, it looked so real that I actually rewound to look at it again.

Serena of the S.E.S had her SmackDown! In ring debut as she tagged with fellow S.E.S member Luke Gallows. Before this match Punk told the two that if they lost they would be both out of the group.
They went up against the team of Kelly Kelly and Big Show. Serena and Kelly started in the ring first and Serena showed great skill, Gallows and Show didn’t see much action as they just fell over the ropes during a typical moment. Serena picked up the win.

Kane told us the reasons for the Undertaker attack which is basically the same storyline as every other time they have butted heads, the only difference is this time Kane has the World Title and the upper hand.

There was further development of the Drew, Cody tag team as Drew went head to head with Christian and Cody watched from the announcers table.
Drew didn’t come out the winner this time and lost to a quick crucifix pin by Christian. After the match Drew and Cody beat on Christian showing them selves as a strong alliance. Matt Hardy came limping to Christian’s aid but he was soon eradicated as well.

Not an amazing show but was of a reasonable level. I look forward to seeing what else Del Rio has to bring to the show and see where his story will go.

The next PPV is Night of Champions so over the next few shows we should see strong focus on all titles, may even see the Nexus on Raw looking to Gold.

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

And then there were three.

This weeks NXT saw a double elimination and some great matches.

The show started with the rookies having there say about a personally selected subject. All the rookies did well and all looked to be in good moods, but one of the moods was about to change as the first elimination of the night was announced next.

The first elimination was “Showtime” Percy Watson. He gave good farewell speech and then went on his way.

We then had 3 great matches, Zack Ryder took on Michael McGillicutty, and Ryder won. Husky Harris and Kaval butted heads again in the best match out of the night, Kaval finally was able to get his solo win and take one over the big man.
And lastly Kofi Kingston took on Alex Riley, with Kofi taking the win.

We then had the last elimination of the night. Husky Harris was the man to take the last spot and be waving us goodbye. Cody Rhodes was not happy about his rookie’s elimination and was very vocal about it. He shouted at the crowd and the pros before coming down to the rookies insulting them all. When Cody got to Kaval he started to fight him and Husky assisted, MVP and Kofi came flying down to help, once MVP and Kofi had beaten Cody and Husky off Kaval, Kaval climbed the top rope and jumped sky high and landed feet first on Husky. He then stood with his lovely diva Pros and MVP and Kofi stared down Husky and Cody forcing them to walk away.

So that leaves three rookies for the final in 2 weeks time. Although there can be only one winner I see, Kaval, Husky, Percy, Alex, and McGillicutty all getting permanent contracts in the near future.

So who will win? Kaval, Riley or McGillicutty. When the voting, is open get in to make sure your favourite rookie becomes your next Break Out Star.

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

Raw and Ugly New Tag Belts Revealed.

Now the sunshine may have gone here in England, but SummerSlams beams of light shone through to last nights Raw.

The main and almost only focus of the show was what was going to happen with the Nexus.
We started the show with a promo from the Nexus telling us “what doesn’t kill us only makes us stronger.”
Cena then came out and cracked jokes and made fun of each member of the Nexus individually.
The GM soon chimed in putting the Nexus in a series of matches against the seven members of team WWE, rules being that the rest of the Nexus can’t interfere in the matches, and the Nexus can choose who goes against whom, except for Wade who will face Jericho in the first match of the night. Wade then announced that if any member of the Nexus loses they are exiled from the team, Otunga then said that the same will go for Wade as well.

Wade then goes head to head with Jericho in good opening contest, Jericho and Wade was both on form. Jericho looked to come close to the win on a few occasions but it was Wade who took the victory.

Next Michael Tarver took on former Nexus member Daniel Bryan. The match was great, Daniel Bryan is so good in that ring, and I enjoy watching him wrestle more and more each time.
Bryan was in control through out and looked to take the win when Miz and his current NXT rookie Alex Riley came flying to the ring, they distracted Bryan which allowed Tarver to take the win.
After the match the three men, Tarver, Miz and Riley fought Bryan outside the ring, Miz then did his Skull Crushing Finale to Bryan onto his Brief Case. Now usually the superstar receiving the Skull Crushing Finale puts there hands in the way of there face at the last moment to avoid injury, but still letting the move look effective, Daniel Bryan though decided to take that brief case head on, it made it look more devastating and a lot more impressive, respect to Bryan for taking the hit.

Before the matches continued we had a segment from the guest hosts, the stars of the new film Going the Distance. They bought out the Hart Dynasty, while the team was in the ring the GM chimed, Cole announced that the unified tag titles will now just be known as the WWE Tag Team Championships, he then introduced Bret Hart to present the Hart Dynasty with the new Tag Team title belts.
My first opinion of these new belts are…. ok I will be honest, I think there horrid, the colour is awful, the design doesn’t look good, and they don’t look no where near as nice as the original World Tag and WWE Tag belts. I have hated the design of previous belts before though, such as the current WWE championship, but they have grown on me, or should I say I have got used to seeing said belt.
While the Dynasty posed with there belts and there Uncle, the Nexus came on the screen to say that they have chose Bret’s opponent for the night, Justin Gabriel.

Justin Gabriel comes to the ring and waits for Bret but the GM had other ideas. He chimed and Cole made another announcement. Apparently the GM doesn’t like Bret and never wants him to wrestle on Raw again, the crowd did not approve of this but there boo’s soon turned to cheers as Bret’s replacement was revealed to be, The Viper Randy Orton.
Orton and Gabriel had a hell of a match and Orton was in control threw out, Orton was on fire from start to finish and the crowd were on there feet almost all the way threw as Orton knows how to pump us all up.
Orton was coiled to strike with an RKO when his snake senses tingled, he span round to face Sheamus, he jumped from the ring and attacked the Irishmen and the two fought into the crowd, while that was happening the Ref started his count out and quickly got to 10 allowing Gabriel to take the win.
When Orton heard that he had lost he jumped to the ring and nailed an RKO on Gabriel, he then went back out of the outside and wailed on Sheamus with a steel chair, Orton then started to leave when he ran back and nailed the RKO on the barley standing jar of mayonnaise.

The next Nexus match was a tag team match. David Otunga and Skip Sheffield teamed to take on R-Truth and John Morrison.
The two big men of the Nexus prevailed, beating down the two popular superstars.

We took a moment out of the Nexus story for a Divas match, nothing to special there.

Heath Slater then took on Edge, another great match but Nexus winning by a count out yet again as Heath dodged a spear by getting in the ring just before the Ref hit 10.

Lastly we had Darren Young vs. John Cena. Before the match the Nexus appeared at the top of the ramp, they didn’t get involved they just stood and observed.
The match went well and Darren Young showed real skill. Unfortunately for Darren he ended up locked into the STF and was forced to tap making him the first and only member of the Nexus to lose.
As soon as it was over the rest of the Nexus ran to the ring and surrounded it. Cena stood ready to fight but realised that the Nexus had left an opening for him to leave; Cena left the ring and headed up the ramp. The Nexus stayed and surrounded there own team mate before pouncing and beating him like they have done too many others before. It looks like Young is the first to be booted from the Nexus.

Where will the story go now? Will Miz join the Nexus? Or will Nexus continue to fall apart? And what roll will Nexus have at Night Of Champions? Only time will tell.

Matty.D signing off.

Daniel Bryan is BACK!

Last night, in my eyes, saw a brilliant PPV. The sun website described the event as lukewarm but I really did not agree.

The main subject of the night was of cores the Nexus vs. Team WWE.
To kick off the PPV we had Kofi vs. Dolph for the IC Title, a good match which looked to Dolph winning as he locked in his sleeper hold, but for some reason Nexus made them selves known by coming in and attacking both men, once Dolph was removed from the ring the team beat on Kofi and Wade did his finisher. All this was to set an example for Team WWE.

During the show we had Jericho and Edge talk to Miz backstage to make a final attempt at convincing him into joining the match.

Later, before Orton vs. Sheamus, Miz came out to cut an excellent promo and also announcing that he is joining the team.

Last match of the night was Nexus vs. Team WWE. Nexus came out first and stood waiting as each member of Team WWE came down the ramp. Just as the last man, the Miz, came out of the entrance Cena started on the microphone and announcing that they have found someone better. The man Cena announced and came out of that entrance I didn’t even consider, so I was jumping for joy when Daniel Bryan came out to join the team.
The match that followed was absolutely brilliant, Daniel Bryan was first in with Darren Young, Bryan eliminated Young in under a minute with a painful looking submission wowing me and the crowd, and showing why he is the best wrestler ever to perform in the independent circuit.
Next was Tarver eliminated by Morrison but next in was the big man Skip Sheffield, who was able to eliminate both Morrison and R-Truth.
Bret then had his chance to show what he has to bring to this match as he fought with Heath Slater, the 52 year old man who has suffered a stroke years before looked good as he nailed some classic wrestling moves, unfortunately when he hooked in the Sharp Shooter Skip was able to get a Tag in, and a chair had been slid into the ring, Bret took the chair and wailed on Skip getting him self disqualified to the boo’s of the crowd.
Jericho and Edge was then able to take out the meat head with a Code Breaker and a Spear.
Jericho then took out Otunga with the Walls of Jericho and continued to be on Fire as he beat on Heath slamming him over the announcers table, once back in the ring though Jericho collided with Cena on the apron allowing Heath to eliminate Jericho, Edge and Cena argued about who will get in the ring which ended up being Edge but he didn’t last long as Heath quickly rolled him up also.
Edge and Jericho took out there anger on Cena outside the ring before leaving.
That just left Bryan and Cena vs. Heath, Wade and Justin.
Cena ended up getting a beating and almost getting eliminated on a few occasions but was able to stay strong. Cena was finally able to tag in Bryan who went nuts on Heath with Kicks and flips and other amazing moves, he was the Sun in this SummerSlam and if storylines and contracts go well, he is a future World Champion.
Heath was about to eliminate Bryan with a quick roll up but Bryan was able to twist it into another submission and was able to eliminate Slater in an almost MMA style move.
While enticing Gabriel or Wade into the ring, Miz came flying down and hit Bryan in the back of the head while the Ref was busy and had his back turn. Barrett took his chance to pin Bryan eliminating him.
This left Cena to take on the final two Nexus members. Gabriel and Barrett worked as a unit to inflict more pain on Cena including a DDT on the concrete outside the ring after the mats were pulled up.
It looked to be all over as Gabriel climbed the top rope for his 450 Splash. He flew, he span, and he missed as Cena rolled away, Cena then pinned Gabriel eliminating him turning this match to one on one.
Cena didn’t take long to lock in the STF finishing the match and winning it for WWE.

It was a great match at the end of a great show.

The other matches were pretty great as well. Well 2 out of the 3 were great, the Divas match of cores was the lowest point, nothing to special and after Melina won the championship LayCool came down for a interesting promo and to end up fighting Melina.

Orton and Sheamus put on a great match but with a not so great ending. After a hell of a match Sheamus gets himself disqualified, an enraged Orton is able to get the upper hand and nails an RKO on Sheamus across the announcers table. This would have been the perfect moment for Miz to cash in but due to the other storyline he didn’t take the chance even with the crowd chanting “We want Miz!”

Kane and Rey put on a reasonable match with an expected ending.
Kane beat Rey retaining the World Title, Kane then moved to putting Rey in the coffin but Undertaker appeared inside. Taker looked pail and with the lack of eye liner made him look ill, obviously playing on his recent vegetative state, he also acted ill and weak. He climbed to the ring and looked to Rey but after Rey pleaded his innocents taker turned to Kane. He locked on Kane’s throat, Kane showed a smile as he took Takers throat and over powered Takers hand releasing his grip, Kane then took Undertaker into a Tombstone pile driver setting the stage for there future storyline.

Overall I thought this was a brilliant show and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I give SummerSlam a 4.5 out 5 stars.

I am really looking forward to Raw tonight, I hope we see Daniel Bryans career pushed further and possibly lead to a US Championship shot. Also I want to see where the Nexus will be heading now that they have been knocked down a peg, maybe Miz will become a new member to the team?

Raw tonight at 2am don’t miss it!

Matty.D signing off.

Lance Cade dead at 29

Well before we talk about SmackDown! And SummerSlam, we have some saddening news as another former WWE superstar has unfortunately died of heart failure, at the young age of 29.
Lance McNaught AKA Lance Cade died this week; WWE was informed Friday by Lances farther.
My deepest condolences go out to Lance’s friends and family.
To read more on this click the link to The Sun website at the bottom of the page.

Anyway let’s get to a more cheery subject of this weeks SmackDown! The final show before SummerSlam.

The main subject of the show was the World Title story combined with the Intercontinental Title story.
We started the show with Vicki Guerrero and Dolph Ziggler announcing there holiday to celebrate Dolph’s win of the Intercontinental Championship. This announcement was interrupted by the former champ Kofi Kingston.
Teddy Long soon appeared telling Dolph and Vicki to cancel the holiday as Dolph will be defending the title at SummerSlam against Kofi, just as I predicted, then he also said that Dolph would be in action against the #1 contender to the World Title, Rey Mysterio. Vicki then said that Kofi would have to take on Kane which Kofi agreed to.

Kofi and Kane then went head to head in great opening contest, Kane picked up the win after Kofi kicked the ring post missing the trouble in paradise, Kane was then able to Choke Slam Kofi from the top rope, then nail the Tombstone Pile Driver to finish it off.

The last match of the night was Rey vs. Dolph another great contest, during the match Kane came to the ring with a casket and stood by the ring with it waiting for the match to end so he could strike.
Rey was able to take the win with a quick roll up; as soon as Rey had won Kane took his chance and jumped to the ring where the two brawled. Kane ended up falling into the casket but like Rey last week was quick to jump straight back out.

At SummerSlam either Kane or Rey will end up in that casket but I bet it will be Undertakers hand that puts someone in. Obvious choice would of cores be Kane but Rey is still an option, how WWE takes the story may still be in the air.

Another story focus was the developing relationship between Cody and Drew, Cody took on Christian and later Drew took on Matt Hardy.
Before Cody’s match Drew spoke to him backstage showing signs of a future possible tag team.
Cody beat Christian in a good match and Drew was able to take down Matt, during Drew’s match he came close to breaking Matt’s foot as he jammed it between the two parts of the Steel Steps before stamping on it.

Big Show defeated three local wrestlers to give him a push before SummerSlam, S.E.S watched on at the top of the ramp and shared words after the match.
Jack Swagger seems to have fallen back to a middle level character as he took on MVP. MVP took the win with a quick roll up.


Let’s look at the final match card for SummerSlam:

Divas Championship:
Alicia Fox vs. Melina

Big Show vs. the S.E.S

Intercontinental Championship:
Dolph Ziggler vs. Kofi Kingston

Team WWE vs. The Nexus

World Heavyweight Championship:
Kane vs. Rey Mysterio

WWE Championship:
Randy Orton vs. Sheamus

We may see some more matches added on the night and I wouldn’t be surprised as some sort of Divas contest was created as well.

It’s looking to be a good event and hopefully will be a fun show.

SummerSlam will be on SkyBoxOffice and SkyBoxOfficeHD Sunday night/Monday Morning at 1am.

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

Lance Cade story:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/wrestling/3095070/Ex-WWE-star-Lance-Cade-dead-at-29.html

Out of Luck.

Before I start I know that some of you didn’t agree with last weeks NXT blog, but remember we are all entitled to our own opinions and mine was different from yours.

Any way this week saw an interesting NXT with a great rookie match.

The show started with a new NXT challenge. The challenge was a power of the punch challenge. The crowd didn’t quite get behind it but it didn’t last long. Alex Riley won the challenge and won the prize of appearing on Raw with out the rest of the rookies, it will be a good way to push his character.

During an ad break Miz and Morrison shared words in regards to the SummerSlam situation, it lead into the main event of the night being created, Miz vs. Morrison.

We then had the best match of the night as we see another 6 man tag match, a return match from Mondays Raw.
The match was a lot better than Raw’s match. The main man once again was Kaval but all the rookies shone in this match, it was a shame that we were losing yet another one later in the night.
We saw Lucky fly over the top rope in an awesome flying cross body, and Kaval did his usual kung fu style moves and locked in an interesting submission move on McGillicutty. All things went off track there as all the rookies fought and cleared the ring so Kaval can finish the match and receive his first win of the season.

Next was the main event as Miz took on John Morrison.
A great contest showing how good these rising stars are, unfortunately it doesn’t show any unity so if Miz ends up on team WWE at SummerSlam he most probably won’t gel well with his team mates.
Miz won after Morrison missed a kick to Miz and receiving a Skull Crashing Finale.

Last thing we saw of the show was the NXT poll, here are the results.

1. Kaval
2. Michael McGillicutty
3. “Showtime” Percy Watson
4. Husky Harris
5. Alex Riley
6. Lucky Cannon

As you can see we waved goodbye to the man who didn’t get to lucky this time round but he does claim it won’t be the last we see of him. It’s a shame to lose him after his performance earlier on in the night.
Before the show closed off Matt Stryker announced that next week will be a double elimination, so make sure to get your vote in to save the Rookie you don’t want to see go.

That’s all on NXT, last show before SummerSlam will be SmackDown! Tonight at 10pm on SkySports3 and SkySports3HD.

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

The Battle before the War!

Before I get into this weeks Raw I would like to bring your attention to an article from the Sun.
The Sun recently had an interview with the leader of the Attitude Era, Stone Cold Steve Austin. In the interview Austin praises WWE for there PG rating.
To read that article, click the link at the bottom of the page.

Now lets move on to Raw which saw the final steps to SummerSlam.
The main focus was Team WWE still trying to hold together.
The show started with a promo from Bret Hart, Chris Jericho and Edge as Bret attempted to convince the two back onto the team but it lead to small fight, this was interrupted by Natalya as she came to get Bret’s help as the Hart Dynasty was getting beaten backstage by the Nexus which was show on the big screen, eliminating two potential replacements.

Later on Mark Henry looked to be another, potential replacement but as soon as Nexus knew of this they went to work to remove him from that list attacking Mark as he got to the ring for his match against Ted DiBiase.

R-Truth and Morrison showed union as they defeated lower stars William Regal and Zack Ryder. A good match Morrison really shined with a new back flip manoeuvre and for the first time in weeks was able to actually land Star Ship Pain flush instead of missing completely.

The Great Khali was meant to face Wade Barrett but Khali was attacked on route to the ring eliminating him from the SummerSlam match.

Before the final match of the night Nexus cut a promo, the usual stuff there, and we saw Miz approach Cena and Bret making him a possible replacement, before we witnessed Bret Hart and Cena vs. Edge and Jericho.
The match was more of a 2 on 1 as Hart didn’t get tagged in. Through out the match we saw Jericho and Edge throw Cena to the wolves just chucking him through the ropes to the awaiting Nexus who beat him before throwing him back in to the ring to be thrown out again.
Jericho was then thrown out but the Nexus didn’t touch him. Then, in the match, inadvertently, Jericho hit Barrett who was on the ringside, so the next time Jericho was outside he received a beating before the angry Nexus set there sites on Hart and Cena. All of them filled the ring when Morrison and Truth slid in beside Cena and Hart.
Edge and Chris were making there way up the ramp when they stopped and finally had another change of heart running back to the ring and standing tall with the rest of the team showing there reuniting to team WWE.
It was then that the brawl started and the crowd erupted making the arena shake, even the cameras shook as they almost caused an earthquake.
The Nexus ended up fleeing through the crowd as team WWE stood tall and the crowd chanted “you suck” at the Nexus as they stood looking back ending what was overall a good show.

Around all this we did see other matches and story development.

US Champ, Money in the Bank winner, and Awesome one, The Miz, took on the High Flying Evan Bourn in great contest, The Miz took the win after his Skull Crushing Finale.

Melina defeated Alicia Fox earning herself a Divas championship shot at SummerSlam.

And we saw an unneeded summer swim suit match, although the Divas did look very sexy there was no real wrestling involved, and it was a chance for them to just run around looking pretty.
Santino was special ref for this match.

The WWE Championship story continued to move forward as Sheamus has a face to face with Orton, this lead into a fight and Sheamus coming close to being punted. Once Orton had left the ring Sheamus stayed to watch the next match.
That match was the stars of NXT season 2 in a 6 man tag match. Kaval, “Showtime” Percy Watson and Lucky Canon faced Alex Riley, Michael McGillicutty, and apparent Steve Austin favourite Husky Harris.
The match was of reasonable level but the crowd just wanted one star to shine as they chanted, “We want Low Ki!” of cores referring to Kaval’s former in ring name.
Unfortunately even with the back up from the fans, Kaval still fell victim to Husky Harris and lost the match.
It was after the match that the awaiting Sheamus took his chance to attack the rookies and laying an explanation point on Kaval nailing his power bomb on the lower star.

Overall this was great show that I enjoyed; at SummerSlam I believe the Great Khali’s replacement will end up being The Miz, but there is a possibility it could be someone else. We may see the unveiling of a fan favourite who has been absent but I would not be sure who that would be.

Any thoughts feel free to drop me a message or leave a comment below.

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

Stone Cold Interview:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/wrestling/3089667/Austin-praises-new-PG-WWE.html

Mr. Ziggles takes the IC Title!

Last nights SmackDown! Saw Dolph Ziggler hit a milestone in his Carrere as he took the Intercontinental Championship from Kofi Kingston in a good match. Unfortunately in storyline he won the title on unfair terms. During the match Vicki jumped in the ring causing the distraction to the Ref, and for Dolph to take advantage and pick up the win.
During Dolph’s celebrations we saw the Dark side of Kofi as he viciously attacked Dolph smashing him into the announcers table and repeatedly banging his head on the steel steps before leaving him in a heap on the floor.
I am guessing we will see the rematch at SummerSlam next Sunday.

We also saw a turn in the road for the Kane storyline.
At the beginning of the night Rey came out to plead his case, he also said he knew who the real attacker was, but before he could revile that person Drew McIntyre came out for his say on the subject.
The two spoke which lead to a match being scheduled for the end of the night between the two.
The two fought in the last match of the night in a very good contest. Drew seemed to have most control dominating over the smaller man and his “injury”.
It made me wonder why he isn’t in a World Title position if he can dominate the former champ? Well my question was soon answered as Rey was able to nab a roll up for the win.
As Rey was about to revile the real attacker yet again he was interrupted by the Big Red Machine Kane. Kane came to the ring pushing a casket, as Rey looked on he was thumped from behind by the Scotsman who then made his exit to avoid the World Champion as he climbed in the ring.
Rey was able to escape Kane but almost jumped in the casket in the process before leaping out and running up the ramp. It was then when he finally was able to tell us who the real attacker is.
Now we could all guess who was going to say, we had all figured out weeks ago who it would end up being.
Rey announced that the real attacker was the man who was trying to get the revenge, Kane.
The interesting thing now is where is the story going to go? How will they bring Taker back in? And if it is Kane why (in storyline) did Taker say Rey Mysterio when he opened his eyes? I just hope we do get the answers to these questions.

Another match was added to the SummerSlam card last night, as the S.E.S will take on The Big Show in a 3 on 1 handicap match.
To get us ready for this we had a promo from the S.E.S as CM Punk showed his authority over the other members of the team, this of cores may lead to his demise as the team may eventually turn on Punk in a future story to be built up.
After that moment we had the S.E.S go against MVP, JTG, and Chris Masters. The S.E.S won after a short match building the team up for SummerSlam, this was obvious to happen because what team can beat the Big Show 3 on 1, if they cant beat 3 normal guys.

We saw one of the worst backstage moments from LayCool last night, as they had to decide who is going to be champ, backstage they argued in front of Teddy Long until Michelle finally gave in her title. Then they started to argue about who is the champ pulling the remaining belt between them till it broke down the middle.
It was then that all the people watching should of said “Bull S**t!” as there is no way that gold and leather would just break like that. They then ran off with the split belt.

The other match of the night was the rising star “Dashing” Cody Rhodes vs. Matt Hardy.
Good match that got the show started, the match ended in a Cross Rhodes as Cody took the win.

Overall a pretty solid show, glad to see Dolph with a belt regardless of how he won it, good to see Kofi continuing to evolve but I don’t want WWE to drop the ball like they have before, and I wish that the Kane story had another twist in it that wasn’t so obvious, and maybe change up the ending of it so its not just a Taker vs. Kane match to bring it to close.

That’s all for now, see you Tuesday for the Raw review.

Matty.D Signing off.

Kiss Kiss

NXT this week saw a brand new NXT challenge. That’s right LayCool hosted a kissing challenge! But no the rookies didn’t have to kiss Layla or McCool, no they had to kiss a rather large women, with moles and other things on her face, complete with a unibrow, named Margarita.
Now you may think “oh no another rubbish segment from the WWE humiliating there stars!” But the segment wasn’t as bad as it was original made out to be.
LayCool performed well and so did the rookies making the segment quite funny, I was laughing through most of it as each rookie went in for a kiss with the lady. The segment showed there ability to perform in unpleasant situations.

After the opening segment we led into the first match of the night. Husky Harris vs. Kaval.
The match wasn’t too great this time; in fact it was the worst performance I’ve seen from Kaval since joining NXT. He also messed up not just one move, but three. When climbing up Husky early on Kaval slightly muffed up, (this may have been due to Husky), when he jumped the top rope to be caught by Husky he didn’t let go of the top rope in time, then later when jumping to the second rope in the corner he missed and landed on the bottom rope.
Regardless of all of his errors this week I still say he should be number one.

We had a backstage moment where Lucky Cannon and Michael McGillicutty argued about who should get to face The Miz. This led into The Miz and Kofi arguing via the big screen in another funny moment as well. I do feel that Kofi is evolving as a superstar.
Lucky Cannon later went against Michael McGillicutty to decide who would get the Miz at the end of the night.
McGillicutty won after a short fight nailing his impressive looking finisher that looks better and better every time he does it.

We then had “Showtime” Percy Watson vs. Alex Riley. I would say this may have been the best match of the night, Alex Riley picked up the win.

Lastly we had McGillicutty vs. Miz in another good match making me like McGillicutty more than before, but I still agree with Miz. Miz picked up the win after the Skull Crushing Finale and bringing McGillicutty’s win streak to an end and bringing an end to the show.

In other news Chris Jericho spoke about the Nexus and other Wrestling subjects in a Radio interview.
To read more about that go to:
http://www.wrestling-edge.com/wwe-news/chris-jericho-speaks-on-nexus-his-new-dvd-and-more.html

Also Vince comments on WWE’s latest earnings which are lower than before yet again, Vince seems to be making lame excuses about the economy and even blaming the Volcano that erupted this year, instead of admitting to the fact that they are facing competition from TNA, and that the PG rating has pulled the shows down. I just wonder how long it will be till Vince realises the real issues and makes changes for the better.
To read more on that go to:
http://www.wrestling-edge.com/wwe-news/recent-wwe-pay-per-view-buys-wwe-reports-earnings-vince-comments.html

Tonight’s SmackDown! Will see Kofi Kingston take on Dolph Ziggler with the Intercontinental Championship on the line. I see Dolph winning so we can see the rematch at SummerSlam.

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

Team Raw/WWE continues to crumble.

Last night saw the Raw that was recorded last week.
By knowing this you can see the effects on the wrestlers and the crowd. You could tell that some superstars had already been in action just from looking at them, and as the crowd had already sat through 2 to 3 hours of wrestling they didn’t have that much of a buzz as they usually do.
Regardless of all that though, we did see some good matches, the story pushed forward, and a return of a cretin favourite Diva.

We started with Edge coming to the ring to challenge Wade Barrett to a match, one on one, and with no outside inference as he wanted to take things into his own hands.
R-Truth came to the ring to try and talk Edge around saying that they need to work as a team, and if he is not going to listen to Cena he should listen to him.
The Raw GM soon chimed in making Edge vs. Wade a reality to happen right then.

The match was going well until Wade signalled the rest of the Nexus to the ring. They got to the ring causing Edge to leap the barrier and run away through the crowd.
Later backstage Edge has an argument with Cena about not coming to help, but of coarse Cena said about Edge not wanting help so he stayed where he was.
It was then that Edge quit the Team.
Cena was then confronted by Chris Jericho, there little spat lead to the creation of a loser leaves the Team match later in the night.

We saw a 6 diva Tag Match first before Jericho and Cena faced off, the match ended after Alicia Fox got the pin. The match was better than other Divas matches especially since 4 out of the 6 can actually wrestle.
After the win Alicia started to boast about how in one way or another she has beaten all the Divas on Raw, and that she is the best. It was then that we saw the return of the former MNM girl, Melina.
She came to the ring and beat on Alicia before nailing her finisher and screaming “I’m back!”

We then had John Cena vs. Chris Jericho and I must say I was impressed by this match. I also hold more respect for the two for being able to do two matches in one night and remembering two routines.
Match was long and impressive, it ended with Jericho going for the Walls but it got twisted into the STF once again, but before Cena could lock it in Jericho tapped to prevent himself from coming to harm.
Jericho then went to leave but Cena called him back. He said that he didn’t want Jericho to leave the team and tried to convince him to stay; he even stooped as low to actually call Jericho the best in the world.
It seemed to of worked and Jericho looked to stay when he changed his mind and walked away.

Once backstage Jericho and Edge showed respect for each other for both leaving the team also giving each other a hug.
It was then that back out in the arena the GM chimed and made a match for next week.
Edge and Jericho vs. Cena and Bret Hart.

Another sign of crumbling was when Nexus showed respect to the Great Khali while backstage.
Khali faced Ted DiBiase later and won after a little help from the Nexus as they came to the ring and distracted Ted so Khali could take advantage, Khali locked in a move we haven’t seen in a while, the Khali Vice Grip, and won the match. After it was over Khali seemed to show some sort of appreciation to the Nexus.

To end the show we had the best match of the night in my eyes.
Randy Orton went head to head with US Champ and Money in the Bank holder, The Miz.
Miz was able to really shine in this match and it was great push for him to be a WWE Title contender although I still think he will be the first to lose when cashing in his contract, epically if it’s on Orton.
The WWE Champ Sheamus appeared during the match watching from a distance as Orton came closer to his victory.
Orton was able to nail what we had all been waiting for, the RKO that got him the win.
He was in calibration when the Celtic Warrior took his chance and went to the ring but before he could enter Orton’s snake like senses went off and he quickly faced Sheamus in coiled position on the mat making Sheamus think twice.

Overall a good show epically since it was the second show in one night. I don’t suggest they should do this sort of thing often though as its better to keep the crowd, and the superstars fresh and to avoid any confusion to the fans in the arena.

I think a good storyline, and strong possibility, is over the next two shows Cena brings his team together and replaces the two empty spaces with the help of Bret Hart, maybe adding the Hart Dynasty.
Also Edge and Jericho may make there own team to lead then before SummerSlam the Cena team and the Edge/Jericho team go head to head to decide who faces the Nexus.

Also I see Orton winning the WWE Title and then Miz attempt to cash in, he would then fail and keep his contract for another day or be RKO’d and be the first to lose after cashing in.

Remember those are just my predictions and thoughts and I know I may be in no way right in fact most likely wrong.
But what are your thoughts? What do you think is going to happen? Let me know in the comments below.

That’s all for now, see ya Friday for the NXT report.

Matty.D signing off.