The Rock’s Still Got it!

Last night the world saw what we thought would never happen, John Cena the most controversial Superstar in Sports Entertainment tagged with, The Rock, the most Electrifying man in all Sports Entertainment.

After 7 years FINALLY! The Rock has come back! Back in his Brahma ball tights, padded up and boots tied the Rock was ready to step back into the squared circle and perform again for the millions, AND MILLIONS of fans world wide. And guess what? He still got it!

Rocky didn’t miss a step throughout, a perfect performance from the future Hall of Famer.

Unfortunately though, this was all the event was about and was what everyone wanted to see, this brought a dead crowd for most other matches bar one other.

The event started with a pretty decent opening contest between Dolph Ziggler and John Morrison for the US Championship in what may have been Morrison’s last match in the WWE.

Morrison’s contract apparently ends in just 2 weeks and he still hasn’t resigned with WWE, he has also been taken out of all up and coming tour dates.

We may be seeing John take a walk to Dixie Carter’s TNA, epically since he didn’t come away with US Title.

The crowd made it known though that they wanted Zack Ryder.

This lead into an interesting and reasonable contest between Divas Beth Phoenix and Eve, the ring was surrounded by most of the other Divas as this match was a Lumberjill match but other than a couple moments they weren’t really needed.

The two women performed very well and the finish was a great one for a Divas match. We saw Beth glam slam Eve from the turnbuckle in a more high risk move than usual for a Divas contest.

The Divas continue their slow improvement and there storylines are becoming more interesting to watch, not to mention that Sex Appeal is also getting higher. More reviling clothing is coming back and the use of Sexier taunts and kinkier moves coming into play more often e.g. Eve shaking her booty before her standing moonsault and Kelly’s personal version of the Stick Face, it’s not overly needed but I’m not going to complain.

We then had a classic Rock promo from backstage, promoting the main match of the night which the crowd were buzzing for.

Next we lead into the classic Survivor Series match up, 5 on 5 elimination tag, Team Barrett vs. Team Orton.

The match started pretty strong but only for the first elimination which was Dolph Ziggler, we then lead into a typical team work moment and Kofi and Sin Cara went and jumped over the top rope onto Jack Swagger and Hunico. Unfortunately Sin Cara did not make it over the rope properly and injured himself in the process.

He ruptured his Patella Tendon and will be now out for 6 to 9 months, where this will leave the Hunico story is now a bit of a mystery.

As soon as that happened the match fell apart as all choreography that was planned was basically thrown out the window as Sin Cara had  to leave the match, and all the superstars had to improvise to get to a point that they could continue on with the original plan, which wasn’t until a lot later.

The momentum dropped drastically and the pace slowed killing the crowd in the process.

Respect to all the superstars though for keeping the match going the best they could but it really did bring down the show.

The choreography seemed to return when the match was down to Kofi, Orton and Sheamus vs. Barrett, Swagger, Rhodes and Hunico.

Even so the match still didn’t liven the crowd back up.

Kofi was soon eliminated followed by Sheamus by DQ for not breaking a 5 count on the ropes. Before leaving he booted Swagger for him to be eliminated leaving Randy in a 3 on 1 situation.

Hunico was out next after jumping off the top ropes and being caught in an RKO, but Barrett and Rhodes took advantage and picked up the win.

The ring was then “reinforced” for Big Show and Mark Henry’s rematch for the World Title. Nowhere near as impressive as before, the match was dull and bought “boring” chants from the crowd.

It ended in DQ as Mark Henry struck Show with a low blow.

It didn’t end there as Mark attempted to break Show’s leg in a steel chair as he did at Money in the Bank. He did not succeed this time as Show was able to move out the way in time. After getting the upper hand Mark found his leg trapped in the steel chair and Big Show stomps on it.

What could be next in this storyline as it I feel it has run its course? Not to mention with Mark having his leg smashed could we see him unable to defend the title?

After a humorous promo from R-Truth and The Miz we lead into the second biggest match of the night, CM Punk vs. Alberto Del Rio.

The crowd was buzzing for this one and CM Punk got the same reaction from the crowd as he did back at Money in the Bank, and to make things even more interesting CM Punk had his own personal ring announcer, the legend that is, The Fink.

The match livened the crowd back up and CM Punk and Del Rio put on a great one on one contest showing that Punk is still the best in the world.

The match had some close calls at the end but it was the Anaconda Vice on Del Rio that gave Punk the win and the WWE Championship.

Big celebration for Punk as the crowd went wild and Punk jumped into the fans twice in celebration.

Next the time had come for the main event, The Rock, John Cena, never before, never again.

Rocky was last out and the crowd went nuts and the focus was completely on him almost throughout. Rocky could have been tagged with Vickie Guerrero and facing Santino and Hornswoggle and the match would have still got the same reaction.

The Rock started the match and absolutely dominated Miz and Truth as he threw the two around the ring in classic fashion proving that he still got what it takes to perform in a WWE ring.

When Cena was tagged in the crowd was not best pleased, all they wanted was Rocky.

Cena was in the ring for a while mainly getting dominated by Miz and Truth after his good start.

Cena got his usual reaction from the crowd, a mixture of “You can’t wrestle”, “Let’s go Cena, Cena Sucks” and “We want Rocky”.

When Rocky was tagged back in the crowd went wild again, Rocky continued to pull out his classic moves, DDT, signature punches, a Rock bottom and a Sharp Shooter.

It all came to an end with the spine buster and the most electrifying move in all Sports Entertainment, the Peoples Elbow.

After the Pin the Rock celebrated in the ring and Cena clapped half way up the rump.

Rocky signals for the music to be turned down and calls Cena back in the ring. The two take turns taunting to get the obvious reactions from the crowd, boo’s for Cena, cheers for Rock.

A stare down came and the two spoke to each other but it all came down to a Rock Bottom on Cena to end the show.

Overall the show was pretty bland, the only matches worth watching in the end was Cena, Rock and the WWE Championship match. Other than that nothing really great happened. The injury to Sin Cara was a big factor in this because if he hadn’t got hurt we may have had a more full and exciting Survivor Series match that would of kept the show going. Not to mention all the firkin Twitter updates that kept popping up were unnecessary and annoying as hell.

I rate the event 4 out of 5 stars.

Questions for you.

What did you think of the event?

What do you think is next in the storylines for CM Punk, Rocky, John Cena, Mark Henry and Big Show?

Do you think the Rock’s still got it?

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

A Quiet Hell in a Cell

Last night’s Hell in a Cell PPV lacked the buzz that makes a PPV exciting, the crowd was dead through most of the event only cheering and booing at key moments. Due to this lack of enthusiasm matches that were good came across dull and boring, on top of this lack of buzz were the bland Hell in a Cell matches, ever since the PG rule was made Hell in a Cells just haven’t come across well at all.

The show kicked off with a very solid match between Sheamus and Christian, Sheamus was shown as a very forceful competitor as Christian at first struggled to take the Great White down and kept his distance till he got his chance to get the momentum in his favour. When the match slowed the crowd became quiet and caused the match to become dull.

After some big time moves Sheamus took the win with the Bro Kick.

Before that match started between the entrances of Sheamus and Christian R-Truth and The Miz showed up in the crowd with tickets and was getting their seats for the show. John Laurinaitis and some Security came down and removed the two from the crowd and you knew that wouldn’t be the last you will see of them.

Sin Cara vs. Sin Cara was next in line and the match was a good one, the two showed what Mexican wrestling is all about and I hope we see more from these two in the future, whether it be as Sin Cara’s or other names. Unfortunately though the crowd didn’t feel my liking for this match and stayed quiet once again and also some “boring” chants started.

Those on Twitter and I seemed to be enjoying the match so for the crowd to react in such a way really ruined it.

The Blue Sin Cara picked up the win.

A match for the WWE Tag Team Titles between AirBoom and the Team of Jack Swagger and Dolph Ziggler was after the Sin Cara’s match, it did liven the crowd a bit more but not enough to keep them going for the rest of the show. They put on a great back and forth match that showed the development of both teams well.

AirBoom was able to pick up the win and keep the Tag belts to the anger of Vicki Guerrero.

Later in the show Triple H is told that someone is causing problems in the locker rooms, armed with security Triple H and John Laurinaitis head in to find the Miz and R-Truth beating on Kofi and Evan in a ransacked locker room.

The security took Truth and Miz away while Triple H shouts at John.

After the Tag match we had the first of two Hell in a Cell matches, Randy Orton vs. Mark Henry. First way to describe this match is “Worst Hell in a Cell match ever”; it was to short and didn’t make enough use of weapons or the Cell itself.

Randy did nail Mark with the RKO but shockingly Mark kicked out of the pin after. The ending from there didn’t hold together well either as Mark turns a Punt attempt into the World’s Strongest slam to pick up the win.

It was the post-match that was more exciting and I think it should have been included in the match before the Cell was raised. After the match was won the Cell was raised and Mark celebrated, he then grabbed a chair in an attempt to break Randy’s leg like he had done to others before him.

Randy was able to save himself though moving his Chair clasped leg out the way at the last minute, Randy then used the chair viciously on the fleeing Mark Henry.

We moved into a Promo from Cody Rhodes next, in the promo he bagged the old Intercontinental Championship and revealed a new belt. It was in the design of the classic Title with up to date WWE logos and a great looking White Leather strap. It looks brilliant a real classic, this is the type of change we like. Now they need to do the same thing for the WWE Championship, it would be great to bring back a classic designed updated Belt, I personally like the classic look of belts and not the flashy ones like the Spinner US Championship of the past or the Current WWE Championship, and I really don’t like the current design of the Tag belts.

After Cody revealed the belt John Laurinaitis appeared to make an impromptu match for the new Title. Cody was forced to defend the belt against John Morrison and with no time to prepare he had to do it in the suit he was wearing. It was a good match and Cody did come away still holding the Title.

Next was another better than usual Divas match between Kelly Kelly and Beth Phoenix, the match came across well and Kelly continues to show improvement, the end of the match though seemed a bit messed up.

Kelly looked to be taking the win but Beth kicked out literally as the Refs hand was about to hit the mat for 3, the crowd were unsure whether it was a win or a loss. Natalya then got on the apron to have a go at the Ref. Why complain? Beth just kicked out that’s a good thing. I am going to guess that Nat was meant to jump up before or during the Pin, if it wasn’t for Beth kicking out the match would end in the wrong way. Eve then went after Natalya but she was foiled. Beth then locked in the unique and painful looking submission move that Natalya has been using over the last couple of shows. After Kelly screamed in pain and grabbed the ropes Beth let her go, the Ref turned his back to tell Beth off and Natalya hit Kelly with mic she was holding, a Glam Slam later and Beth Phoenix finally wins the Divas Title.

 Last match of the night, the Triple Threat Hell in a Cell for the WWE title, this one was more interesting than the previous but still didn’t live up to past Hell in a Cell matches.

The match went well and was rough but not as rough as we would have liked, mid-way through it wasn’t looking good for Alberto Del Rio so Ricardo took out the Ref outside the Cell, Unlocked the Cell door and came in with a Steel Pipe. He was stopped by Cena and forcefully removed from the Cell. Alberto had got the pipe though and used it on Cena. Leaving him outside the Cell, Del Rio then locked himself into the Cell and threw the Key away under the ring.

CM Punk and Del Rio fought for the win and no matter how much Cena tried he could break his way back in. With Cena out of the loop we was guaranteed a new Champion and that was Del Rio after Punk had been hit across the head with the Steel pipe, as soon as the Cell was raised though Cena was on Del Rio.

All Hell did then break loose. Two hooded men appeared from nowhere and stared beating on Cena, Del Rio and Punk. The two men were soon revealed to be Truth and Miz.

As Triple H and Laurinaitis came to the ring the Cell was lowered so no one could get in to stop the anarchy as Miz and Truth were now beating on the Refs that were in the ring as well as striking camera men who were also inside.

Almost the whole WWE locker room came down in an attempt to break into the Cell but all they could do was stand there and shake the cage as Miz and Truth continued beat on anyone inside the Cell.

Cops appeared as well to arrest the two of them as a man with bolt cutters broke through the chain holding the door. As soon as the door was open Truth and Miz held up their hands and went down onto their knees and gave themselves up.

Triple H in a rage was determined to get at the two as the cops handcuffed them. Trips did break free from being held back and beat on Truth and Miz pushing Laurinaitis out of the way to do so.

When he was finally held back the two men were removed and the show ended.

The ending of the show was the best part of the whole night but it did come 20 minutes earlier than it should have. We paid for a 3 hour show and we got a 2 hour and 40 minute show, WWE owe us 20 minutes worth of Entertainment.

Tonight’s Raw should prove to be interesting and I wonder how the storylines will develop heading into Vengeance and towards Survivor Series.

I give this PPV 2.5 out of 5 stars. If the crowd was livelier and the Cell matches were more exciting and had more substance I would of given a higher rating.

Questions for you

What did you think?

What do you think is next?

What is your favourite Hell in a Cell match from the past?

Tune in for tonight’s Raw and for now this is Matty.D signing off.

Hell in a Cell this Sunday!

That’s right WWE’s next PPV is already here. We have had only 2 weeks between Night of Champs and Hell in a Cell yet a lot has happened between then and now.

That being said let’s look at the matches for Hell in a Cell as well as other storyline developments.

Kelly Kelly vs. Beth Phoenix

That’s right these two are going against each other yet again. We have had some better Divas matches as of lately from Beth, Kelly and Natalya so hopefully we will have another good match and maybe this time Beth can get the job done and take the Divas Championship.

Sheamus vs. Christian

Over the past two weeks these two have been getting into each other’s faces and after Christian did some more moaning to Triple H, Trips booked Christian into a match with Sheamus for this Sunday.

On the lead up Sheamus has been fighting for the Intercontinental Championship against Cody Rhodes but every time it looked like Sheamus was going to win Christian came to the ring and cost Sheamus the match.

This should be a heated and good mid card match.

Sin Cara vs. Sin Cara

That’s right, after weeks of waiting the original Sin Cara came back to our screens and has lead towards the predicted Sin Cara vs. Sin Cara match.

On the lead up the Face Sin Cara has been starting matches but getting taken out and replaced by the Heel Sin Cara while the Ref’s back is turned near the end of most matches.

On SmackDown the Face Sin Cara won his match with ease and impressively against Heath Slater. After the win the Heel Sin Cara appeared on the big screen, he removed his mask to reveal a new black Sin Cara mask under it.

I actually can’t pick a favourite at the moment, when the Black Sin Cara first came in he did seem to perform well but since the original Blue Sin Cara returned he has shown great improvement.

Booker T did mention something on SmackDown during a Sin Cara match witch could be interesting, what if the two Sin Cara’s joined forces? If those two did join up they could make a great improvement to the Tag matches. Maybe Evan Bourn and Kofi Kingston vs. the Sin Cara’s is somewhere down the road? Let’s see what happens at Hell in a Cell first though.

World Heavyweight Championship

Hell in a Cell

Mark Henry vs. Randy Orton

Randy Orton will get his rematch this Sunday in the Devils playground. I think it’s still going to be Mark Henry that walks away with the World Title; he has had a good push and is still dominating.

If Randy’s match from last year against Sheamus is anything to go by we should be in for a good match this Sunday.

I predict Mark will win then at Raw or SmackDown he will claim that no one can beat him, this will lead into the return of a missing star, (possibly Undertaker) who will be the one to knock Mark off his high horse.

WWE Championship

Hell in a Cell

John Cena vs. CM Punk vs. Alberto Del Rio

After Night of Champs Triple H announced that both CM Punk and Alberto Del Rio are entitled to their rematches, Del Rio gets his rematch from losing to John Cena and Punk gets his rematch from losing the WWE Title after Del Rio cashed in his money in the bank.

This match could go in any direction and for me it’s hard to predict. The Triple H COO storyline has made space from this story and is growing legs of its own so depending on what happens Monday we shouldn’t see the stories cross paths to much.

Other Stories and news

The Rebel Alliance

A rebel alliance is forming in the WWE. David Otunga as the brains of the operation, with the help of EVP John Laurinaitis has bought together a group of unhappy superstars. Christian, Cody Rhodes, Dolph Ziggler, Jack Swagger and Vicki Guerrero have all banded together and are hatching a plan to possibly over throw COO Triple H or at least make life very hard for him. They will apparently put their plan in motion this Monday on Raw; we may see something happen at Hell in a Cell as well.

I’m thinking this may lead to a match at Survivor Series, the rebels vs. Triple H’s own created team. My guess for Triple H’s team is Evan Bourn, Kofi Kingston, Mason Ryan, Zack Ryder and Sheamus. The reason I picked Evan and Kofi is because they have been colliding with the now working team of Jack and Dolph, Zack Ryder because he has been climbing the ranks and working well with Kofi and Evan also colliding with Jack and Dolph, Sheamus due to his current feuds with Christian and Cody and lastly Mason Ryan, who has just recently come back to our screens, he came down as the 3^rd person in Dolph and Jacks team during a tag match against Kofi, Evan and Zack. Unfortunately for Dolph and Jack when Mason was tagged in he turned on his team mates then left for Zack to pick up the win. This signals the former Gladiators turn from Heel to Face, I hope he has had more training so we should see some great matches from him, he can’t act very well though so I hope he doesn’t cut many promos if any.

John Cena and the Rock Team up!

The other Survivor Series tag match that’s in the pipe line will apparently include The Rock and John Cena on the same team.

Recently the Rock has shown on his facebook pictures of himself training as well as a promo picture of him and John Cena for the coming match.

The tag line to this match is “Never before, never again.” The storyline leading to this could prove to be interesting and regardless this match should be awesome.

Things to think about is who will be their team mates and who will they be facing?

Stone Cold vs. CM Punk possibilities?

Recently the Sun posted an article where Stone Cold had spoken about a final match and if he had that match he would want to face CM Punk. To read about that click HERE and keep your fingers crossed for this to happen.

Questions for you.

Any predictions for Hell in a Cell?

What do you think is going to happen with this forming band of rebels?

Who do you think will be with Cena and Rocky on Team Bring it? And who will they be facing?

Do you think Stone Cold and CM Punk will face off one day?

Night Of Champs this Sunday

Well I know I haven’t posted in a while, and I know my last blog wasn’t my best, but I have been slightly side tracked as the NFL season is back so I am spending a lot of time on that side of my life. But don’t worry this doesn’t mean I’m stopping, I will still write blogs it just might not be as much.

So I am not leaving you with no blog this week as its Night Of Champions this Sunday and we have a full match card to review.

So let’s have a rundown of the matches to be hitting the ring this Sunday at Night of Champs.

Intercontinental Championship

Cody Rhodes vs. Ted DiBiase

This match is quite new to the card as it only came about from this week’s SmackDown show where Ted ambushed Cody as a fan in a paper bag. The two were working together over recent weeks but Cody was the dictator controlling things. After Cody turned on Ted it was obvious where the story was going.

With the recent ambush on SmackDown it has marked yet another character turn as Ted is now Face.

I don’t see this being the best match of the night but should be sure to entertain; I predict Ted will come out new Champ.

Divas Championship

Beth Phoenix vs. Kelly Kelly

The Divas of Doom have been pushing hard to make the Divas division better and it is happening just very slowly. The top Divas are still Beth and Natalya, amongst all current active Divas in the WWE you can’t get better than these two. Kelly Kelly still needs to work on her moves to make a match between Beth and Kelly great instead of acceptable. WWE need to take the Divas more seriously and focus on giving the ones who are still “messy” in the ring some proper training. They should bring back Fit Finlay, he trained most of the Divas from yesteryear including Lita and Trish Stratus not to mention current TNA Knockout Tara AKA Victoria as well as others.

This won’t be a great match but should help the division improve.

I really want Beth to come out as champion from this match.

WWE Tag Team Championships

Evan Bourn & Kofi Kingston (AirBoom) vs. The Miz & R-Truth

The Tag Division is really improving and this match is great proof of that. Kofi and Even were already at the forefront both being great stars in the singles division, as well as Truth and Miz, so what better way to raise the Tag Titles than to throw the four of them in the mix in what should a great match up at Night Of Champs. From there they can bring in the lower Tag Teams to help boost their status and make some interesting matches.

Not to fussed on who wins the match as the story should go forward well regardless, I just hope for a great match.

US Championship Fatal 4 Way

Dolph Ziggler vs. Alex Riley vs. John Morrison vs. Jack Swagger

Fatal 4 ways always promise to excite and I don’t see this one being any different, all four stars are great in ring performers, I’m looking forward to seeing how A-Ry has developed, I’m looking forward to John Morrison flying around the ring and outside the ring with his parkour style and Jack Swagger and Dolph should bring forward mat wrestling and Submissions.

My support will be on Alex but I don’t mind seeing Morrison win this either. I think that Jack and Dolph’s recent problems about Vicki will be there down fall.

WWE Championship

Alberto Del Rio vs. John Cena

To be honest with you guys, I am really not bothered about this match. I am already bored of Del Rio and the only reason he was given the belt was so he would be champion during the Mexican tour, and John Cena is John Cena, he is always the one going for the WWE Title, why not do something different for once? Stick Cena in a different storyline and leave some other Superstars to fight over the belt for once. This story is already bland and boring and I feel the match maybe the same.

On the other hand though there have been some great matches leading towards the PPV, most notable being the 8 man tag match on Raw a couple weeks ago, which of course Cena won.

I’m not bothered but that match may just surprise me.

World Heavyweight Championship

Randy Orton vs. Mark Henry

Randy and Mark have had a great lead up to this match, Randy always comes to impress and Mark has been improving greatly over the past couple months. I think we should be in for an interesting match or should I say fight as things really blew up on this week’s SmackDown. With the show being in Toronto Canada we had Edge make a special appearance and hosted a special Cutting Edge where he interviewed both Mark and Randy. The two men were given a no contact rule for the duration of the Cutting Edge so Mark and Randy were not allowed to touch each other. Edge and Randy both gave Mark some probing questions about Marks long career and why he still hasn’t won a WWE World Title.

The Heat rose in the ring and Edge pointed out that the no contact rule was only during the Cutting Edge, while saying this he moved the stalls out the way and headed out the ring before proceeding to say, “That the Cutting Edge is now officially over.” As soon as that was said Edge left and Mark and Randy went into a Brawl, Theodore Long called on a load of mid and low card Superstars to help split the two but it was no good. In the end all the mid and low carders got floored and Randy received a Worlds Strongest Slam leaving Mark as the only man standing. He posed with the World Title and that’s where the show closed. It defiantly looks like Mark will be the winner this Sunday.

CM Punk vs. Triple H

No DQ

This will obviously be the main match of the show and the new ruling is if Triple H loses he resigns as COO. I personally don’t want that to happen, the storylines and direction of things have really improved since Triple H has been bought to the forefront. If he does lose I hope he sticks around as Superstar and not management.

The Kevin Nash side of this story has sort of fizzled out due to the fact that he was unable to wrestle. WWE have released Nash from his contract according to the WWE Website but anything could happen still, you never know we may see him interfere in this match.

With the DQ rule in place the match is open to more possibilities almost anything could happen. I am hoping for the same sort of match that we got for Christian vs. Randy in there great match from SummerSlam.

Sin Cara vs. Sin Cara??

This is an unconfirmed match, it may not even happen on this PPV, but it’s something that has to be mention as the real Sin Cara has now returned for the potential match to come.

After the Heel Sin Cara lost to Daniel Bryan by DQ on this week’s SmackDown the Sin Cara music played and the Face Sin Cara came to the ring in the usual fashion. The two had a standoff and it was obvious that the match may be around the corner.

Questions For You.

What are your predictions?

Can you see the difference between Sin Cara and Sin Cara?

What match you most looking forward to?

That’s all for now, until Monday this is Matty.D signing off.