Just some updates on what’s going on inside the WWE world and a little look back at Raw.
First and most interesting story is the one of a WWE fan making threats of blowing up WWE’s headquarters.
This is an emotionally disturbed person who was very upset about the release of former WWE Diva, Mickie James. The man has been arrested and is no longer aloud to contact any WWE employees, is not aloud near the WWE headquarters in Stamford and is not aloud to WWE events.
In other news, the Monday night wars is over as TNA moves back to Thursday nights as there ratings on Mondays just didn’t hold well in the US, in fact the last Mondays show got the lowest ever rating on Spike TV.
I’m sure Tommy will give you more news on the move back to Thursdays in one of his later Blogs.
Bret Heart is also showing interest in staying with the WWE longer, as he is really enjoying the work and being back with the fans.
He is currently scheduled to make his last Raw appearance from Toronto on May 17th. Although Bret doesn’t see himself carrying on after that date he said. “At the same time I wouldn't rule anything out if I can play a useful role. It’s not like I’m doing much these days”
Now onto last nights Raw an overall good show. I’m looking forward to seeing where we are heading with the current storylines. I think Edge and Randy will make a great set of matches and Orton’s Viper persona is growing more and more popular.
The interesting side to this story is that Edge is complaining about the PG rating and that he wants it to be rated R. I am not really sure what WWE are doing with this, is it there way of slowly removing the PG rating maybe turning things back around, or is it there way of telling us that they know what’s wrong with the shows and are not willing to make things better because they want to lose fans.
I like the idea of Jericho and Miz becoming a team, and starting a story with the Heart Dynasty. These guys are so great on the mic and are great Heel in ring competitors so we should see a great tag teame formed here.
Now a Quick question for my readers, (if I have any.) What do you think should be the name of Chris and Miz’s Tag Team? I have referred to them as The Big Shows Rejects, but leave your ideas in a comment below, the best one I will use to refer to them in future Blogs.
Now onto last nights guest host Wayne Brady when I first heard it was him I was looking forward to it but I was bitterly disappointed as he only had about 3 segments overall. They definitely could have used him more but just left him out most of the show. Usually I would find that to be a bad aspect but when Wayne wasn’t on screen we actually had a proper wrestling show.
I think next week will be an interesting show to see what is coming next in these new storylines.
For more info on WWE HQ threats go to http://www.wrestling-edge.com/wwe-news/wwe-fan-arrested-after-threatening-to-blow-up-wwe-headquarters.html
For other articles go to http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/wrestling/
And for TNA info check out Tommy Clee’s Facebook and mysun page.
Matty.D signing off.
Tuesday, 4 May 2010
Edge wants rated R not rated PG.
Raw
3/5/10
Kicking off Raw last night we had the announcement of the return of the Cutting Edge after an apparent 3 years with out it returning later in the night, and the guest being Randy Orton.
After this we went to Batista. He came down in his usual spot light stared at a random fan before proceeding to the ring to complain as he has nothing better to do. But don’t get me wrong he works well with the crowd so this is a decent promo to kick things off.
He complained about being #1 contender again and then complaining about the last man standing match before reciting the rules to us. (Listen carefully you will hear a fan shout “You suck.”)
Batista claims that the actions of Cena at Extreme Rules were the most embracing moment of Cena’s life.
After that Batista announces that it will be a beat the clock challenge between himself and Cena to decide the stipulation at Over The Limit.
After that he started calling out his opponent The Miz, but received Shames.
Shames proceeded to gloat about how he won his match at Extreme Rules against his opponent, and adds insults to Batista. He then challenges Batista to a match for his #1 contender spot. Batista refuses saying that Shames lost his chance. After some final words Shames makes his way out.
When we head back from the adverts Miz has just got to the ring but is not in ring attire.
He talks about being sucker punched and that he has a doctors note (you heard me right, a doctors note) that says he can not compete. He then moves on to say his replacement is Miz’s NXT rookie Daniel Bryan.
Once Bryan is to the ring Miz has the mic snatched from him by Bryan. Bryan then claims he will make Batista tap out.
The match kicks off and already Bryan had Batista on his toes with a close roll up and then an ankle lock before Batista ducked out the ring.
Once back in Batista takes control.
This was a very good match to me showing why Daniel is the so called best on NXT, always keeping Batista on edge with submissions where ever he could lock one in and pulling that clock out as much as he can, he just didn’t want to give up, every pin he was put in he kicked out.
Bryan locks in a very cool looking Armbar/Crossface almost tapping out the animal but unfortunately he got to the ropes. After that he did some taunting leading to getting a kick to the leg which leads to a Spear and a Batista Bomb, winning with a time of 5:06.
When the match was over Batista gave Bryan another Bomb, he then walked away before turning back and doing it one more time.
Now it was obvious that Batista was going to win but it was a good match showing the skill of Daniel.
We then find out that Chris Jericho will be Cena’s opponent later in the night.
When we return from the break we see Brady back stage chatting with Eve. Then Jillian joins to make a little comical skit.
After Brady and Jillian leave, Eve gets attacked by Maryse.
We then head over to edge talking with a member of staff about what footage he wants to use in his Cutting Edge later on, but anything he asks for the guy says he can’t use it. Oh I wonder why? PG rating perhaps? This is an interesting move for WWE they are actually having Edge subtly tell us that WWE are rubbish as they can’t use hardcore footage, but it doesn’t even stay subtle as they push that further.
He then gets joined by Josh Matthews asking about Randy. Edge then proceeds to put down WWE by saying about the PG rating and how he is rated R! and that he wants to start new age of controversy again! This was answered by a cheer from the crowd because this is what we want.
All I personally have to say to that is “Oh My God! YES! Do that!!”
I really don’t know what they are aiming for with this but if it means coming back to rated R, coming back to the era of TLC, Blood and so on, I am backing Edge all the way, this also shows that WWE knows what’s wrong and that they might (big might) do something about it.
After the Ads we have “the Million Dollar Baby” (equipped with Title) coming to the ring.
Ted talks about his moment last week with Truth before saying he will hire an associate, and that person will slap Truth. This led into John Morrison coming to the ring to face Ted in his first match on Raw.
This match showed some great skill at first with Morrison flying over the ropes to receive, from an area of the crowd a “this is awesome” chant.
Morrison re entered the ring but purposely Ted got counted out. As Ted walked away Morrison got a mic and called him back saying he will restart the match. Ted just ignored him but then Morrison said that if he loses, he will be Ted’s associate. This worked Ted headed back to the ring to kick it off again.
When we come back from the ads Morrison is in a leg scissors. This led into a pretty solid match between the two and did show why these guys are the rising stars with some great moments scattered though out the contest.
This match ended with Ted going for Dream Street but Morrison reversed it into a pin that Ted didn’t even realise he was in. After the 3 count Ted attacks John from behind but luckily he’s saved by R-Truth.
We could see a good story line forming here between Truth & Morrison and Ted and his, to be decide associate.
We head back from the ads and have the man a lot of us wish we couldn’t see John Cena.
Jericho then appears but like Miz, he is not dressed to compete.
He claims that he will not use the same excuse that Miz used and just says that by facing him it would be a waste of his time. Then he brings out his replacement Chris’s NXT rookie, Wade Barrett.
So we start the match with the clock winding down as the two go straight into a mixture of locks. This match showed once again some good skill from the NXT rookie but if it wasn’t for Jericho’s interference this match looked to be one sided. Once Jericho helped, Wade went into just slugging it out and putting fists into Cena while Chris shouts at Cole and King.
At the 2 minutes mark looked like Cena was going to come back just to meet a boot to the face and Wade stays in control. This was really showing how Wade is a good future star of WWE I must say it would be great to get another Brit on the Roster since WWE removed the Burchill’s.
27 seconds left on the clock when Cena made Wade tap out to the STF.
Cena didn’t waste anytime in going to say what the match will be but was interrupted by Shames attacking him and leaving Cena laid out in the ring. It was at this point I was wondering when Wayne Brady was going to start actually doing some Hosting?
Back from the ads and we have the very pretty but not a great wrestler Maryse head to the ring. We then see double as the Belle Twins come down as one is set to wrestle Maryse.
One word now, “snore” because this is another nap section that’s if you had time to close your eyes as the match was over before you would of even had a chance to put your head back.
Maryse then talks some French then introduces her new photo shoot; of coarse this is her lying with the Divas title over the unconscious Eve. It didn’t take long for Eve to come down to the ring but was stopped from getting at Maryse by the Ref.
We come back from the ads to have…. Zack Ryder? …..Really?......REALLY?....Well ok whatever then….
He talks about still being on Raw and why he has Divas sitting by the ring. He calls out Primo but Wayne shows up on the screen and says he would be better off against, you guessed it, Mark Henry.
Un important match of Mark beating on Zack and the girls not so impressed, Zack gets some control but doesn’t take long for Mark to take control again.
World strongest slam and a 1-2-3 and that match is over and the Divas by the ring, Gail and Alicia weren’t impressed, by Zack but gladly left on the Arm of the Worlds Strongest Man.
We then have Chris and Miz talking back stage about Big Show, like a couple of ex boy friends.
Chris then says “lets make a statement” and that he has an idea before they walk off down the hall way. We maybe seeing the formation of a new Tag Team here. The Heart Dynasty vs. The Big Shows Rejects for Over The Limit perhaps.
Ads end and we have Kozlov backstage talking with Brady. They get joined by Santino in an afro wig, he talks about wanting to join the Russian in a tag match but finds out that Regal has already taken that spot. They all leave and Brady says some words to Gold dust. Not a particularly funny moment, I have seen better, they are defiantly not using Brady’s full comedy potential.
When we return from yet another ads break we have Chris & Miz at ring side at the announcers table.
The Heart Dynasty comes down to the ring which is already occupied by there opponent’s, Kozlov and Regal.
As the match goes on Miz and Chris talk about there splitting with Big Show. I actually think that Chris and Miz would have been better on the announcers table than Cole & King.
The match was just a chance to push The Heart Dynasty as they made short work of the Russian and the Brit, as David Heart makes Regal tap to the Sharp Shooter. Straight after The Miz makes his attack but was taken down by David but he couldn’t stop the coming Code Breaker from Jericho, Miz then nails The Skull Crushing Finale on the lifeless David.
We come back from the Ads and we find out next weeks host is Falva Flave. We then have Edge head down the ring for the Cutting Edge. Straight away Jerry was saying about how Edges Rated R ways may not fly in WWE’s new era.
Edge starts talking about explanations, and interestingly he isn’t acting fully Heel nor fully Face, kind of in the middle similar to Randy.
He then talks about the reasons for what he did. Then he is about to introduce Randy when we see Wayne Brady head down to the ring.
Edge seems quite pleased to see him and continues to chat and interview him.
Brady talks about being a fan of WWE for a long time, and that he wants to try and see what it’s like to be a WWE superstar, and proceeds into a little trash talking about previous guest hosts. He is soon interrupted by Randy’s music as he makes his way down to the ring.
Orton comes in and gives his icy stare to both of them before RKOing Brady and then aiming for Edge.
Edge attempts to talk Randy down. He is drowned out mid way by RKO chants. Edge goes on to talk about there former tag team, Rated RKO, and how he wants to start that again, and both of them can pick the bones after Cena and Batista’s match at Over The Limit. Randy just continues to stare so Edge gets frustrated and starts shouting about how its not fare, how he tried to please us and we didn’t really give it all to him, and how Randy cares about nothing but himself and we all get behind him. Edge then says that Randy will join him or he will continue to Spear him week after week. Edge then shouts for Randy to say something but he continues to stare, he then goes for the RKO but is reversed and Big Booted, Edge lines up but as the Spear comes in he meets an RKO.
Randy chants are heard and his music is played as we close out the show.
This was another interesting episode of Raw, showing this time that the WWE may actually be listening to us, the Fans. There making some good storylines and a possible push on that PG rating but that still maybe only a dream.
This has defiantly got me wondering what’s to come and looking forward to next weeks show.
Check out my next blog for more thoughts on this Raw.
This is Matty.D Signing out.
3/5/10
Kicking off Raw last night we had the announcement of the return of the Cutting Edge after an apparent 3 years with out it returning later in the night, and the guest being Randy Orton.
After this we went to Batista. He came down in his usual spot light stared at a random fan before proceeding to the ring to complain as he has nothing better to do. But don’t get me wrong he works well with the crowd so this is a decent promo to kick things off.
He complained about being #1 contender again and then complaining about the last man standing match before reciting the rules to us. (Listen carefully you will hear a fan shout “You suck.”)
Batista claims that the actions of Cena at Extreme Rules were the most embracing moment of Cena’s life.
After that Batista announces that it will be a beat the clock challenge between himself and Cena to decide the stipulation at Over The Limit.
After that he started calling out his opponent The Miz, but received Shames.
Shames proceeded to gloat about how he won his match at Extreme Rules against his opponent, and adds insults to Batista. He then challenges Batista to a match for his #1 contender spot. Batista refuses saying that Shames lost his chance. After some final words Shames makes his way out.
When we head back from the adverts Miz has just got to the ring but is not in ring attire.
He talks about being sucker punched and that he has a doctors note (you heard me right, a doctors note) that says he can not compete. He then moves on to say his replacement is Miz’s NXT rookie Daniel Bryan.
Once Bryan is to the ring Miz has the mic snatched from him by Bryan. Bryan then claims he will make Batista tap out.
The match kicks off and already Bryan had Batista on his toes with a close roll up and then an ankle lock before Batista ducked out the ring.
Once back in Batista takes control.
This was a very good match to me showing why Daniel is the so called best on NXT, always keeping Batista on edge with submissions where ever he could lock one in and pulling that clock out as much as he can, he just didn’t want to give up, every pin he was put in he kicked out.
Bryan locks in a very cool looking Armbar/Crossface almost tapping out the animal but unfortunately he got to the ropes. After that he did some taunting leading to getting a kick to the leg which leads to a Spear and a Batista Bomb, winning with a time of 5:06.
When the match was over Batista gave Bryan another Bomb, he then walked away before turning back and doing it one more time.
Now it was obvious that Batista was going to win but it was a good match showing the skill of Daniel.
We then find out that Chris Jericho will be Cena’s opponent later in the night.
When we return from the break we see Brady back stage chatting with Eve. Then Jillian joins to make a little comical skit.
After Brady and Jillian leave, Eve gets attacked by Maryse.
We then head over to edge talking with a member of staff about what footage he wants to use in his Cutting Edge later on, but anything he asks for the guy says he can’t use it. Oh I wonder why? PG rating perhaps? This is an interesting move for WWE they are actually having Edge subtly tell us that WWE are rubbish as they can’t use hardcore footage, but it doesn’t even stay subtle as they push that further.
He then gets joined by Josh Matthews asking about Randy. Edge then proceeds to put down WWE by saying about the PG rating and how he is rated R! and that he wants to start new age of controversy again! This was answered by a cheer from the crowd because this is what we want.
All I personally have to say to that is “Oh My God! YES! Do that!!”
I really don’t know what they are aiming for with this but if it means coming back to rated R, coming back to the era of TLC, Blood and so on, I am backing Edge all the way, this also shows that WWE knows what’s wrong and that they might (big might) do something about it.
After the Ads we have “the Million Dollar Baby” (equipped with Title) coming to the ring.
Ted talks about his moment last week with Truth before saying he will hire an associate, and that person will slap Truth. This led into John Morrison coming to the ring to face Ted in his first match on Raw.
This match showed some great skill at first with Morrison flying over the ropes to receive, from an area of the crowd a “this is awesome” chant.
Morrison re entered the ring but purposely Ted got counted out. As Ted walked away Morrison got a mic and called him back saying he will restart the match. Ted just ignored him but then Morrison said that if he loses, he will be Ted’s associate. This worked Ted headed back to the ring to kick it off again.
When we come back from the ads Morrison is in a leg scissors. This led into a pretty solid match between the two and did show why these guys are the rising stars with some great moments scattered though out the contest.
This match ended with Ted going for Dream Street but Morrison reversed it into a pin that Ted didn’t even realise he was in. After the 3 count Ted attacks John from behind but luckily he’s saved by R-Truth.
We could see a good story line forming here between Truth & Morrison and Ted and his, to be decide associate.
We head back from the ads and have the man a lot of us wish we couldn’t see John Cena.
Jericho then appears but like Miz, he is not dressed to compete.
He claims that he will not use the same excuse that Miz used and just says that by facing him it would be a waste of his time. Then he brings out his replacement Chris’s NXT rookie, Wade Barrett.
So we start the match with the clock winding down as the two go straight into a mixture of locks. This match showed once again some good skill from the NXT rookie but if it wasn’t for Jericho’s interference this match looked to be one sided. Once Jericho helped, Wade went into just slugging it out and putting fists into Cena while Chris shouts at Cole and King.
At the 2 minutes mark looked like Cena was going to come back just to meet a boot to the face and Wade stays in control. This was really showing how Wade is a good future star of WWE I must say it would be great to get another Brit on the Roster since WWE removed the Burchill’s.
27 seconds left on the clock when Cena made Wade tap out to the STF.
Cena didn’t waste anytime in going to say what the match will be but was interrupted by Shames attacking him and leaving Cena laid out in the ring. It was at this point I was wondering when Wayne Brady was going to start actually doing some Hosting?
Back from the ads and we have the very pretty but not a great wrestler Maryse head to the ring. We then see double as the Belle Twins come down as one is set to wrestle Maryse.
One word now, “snore” because this is another nap section that’s if you had time to close your eyes as the match was over before you would of even had a chance to put your head back.
Maryse then talks some French then introduces her new photo shoot; of coarse this is her lying with the Divas title over the unconscious Eve. It didn’t take long for Eve to come down to the ring but was stopped from getting at Maryse by the Ref.
We come back from the ads to have…. Zack Ryder? …..Really?......REALLY?....Well ok whatever then….
He talks about still being on Raw and why he has Divas sitting by the ring. He calls out Primo but Wayne shows up on the screen and says he would be better off against, you guessed it, Mark Henry.
Un important match of Mark beating on Zack and the girls not so impressed, Zack gets some control but doesn’t take long for Mark to take control again.
World strongest slam and a 1-2-3 and that match is over and the Divas by the ring, Gail and Alicia weren’t impressed, by Zack but gladly left on the Arm of the Worlds Strongest Man.
We then have Chris and Miz talking back stage about Big Show, like a couple of ex boy friends.
Chris then says “lets make a statement” and that he has an idea before they walk off down the hall way. We maybe seeing the formation of a new Tag Team here. The Heart Dynasty vs. The Big Shows Rejects for Over The Limit perhaps.
Ads end and we have Kozlov backstage talking with Brady. They get joined by Santino in an afro wig, he talks about wanting to join the Russian in a tag match but finds out that Regal has already taken that spot. They all leave and Brady says some words to Gold dust. Not a particularly funny moment, I have seen better, they are defiantly not using Brady’s full comedy potential.
When we return from yet another ads break we have Chris & Miz at ring side at the announcers table.
The Heart Dynasty comes down to the ring which is already occupied by there opponent’s, Kozlov and Regal.
As the match goes on Miz and Chris talk about there splitting with Big Show. I actually think that Chris and Miz would have been better on the announcers table than Cole & King.
The match was just a chance to push The Heart Dynasty as they made short work of the Russian and the Brit, as David Heart makes Regal tap to the Sharp Shooter. Straight after The Miz makes his attack but was taken down by David but he couldn’t stop the coming Code Breaker from Jericho, Miz then nails The Skull Crushing Finale on the lifeless David.
We come back from the Ads and we find out next weeks host is Falva Flave. We then have Edge head down the ring for the Cutting Edge. Straight away Jerry was saying about how Edges Rated R ways may not fly in WWE’s new era.
Edge starts talking about explanations, and interestingly he isn’t acting fully Heel nor fully Face, kind of in the middle similar to Randy.
He then talks about the reasons for what he did. Then he is about to introduce Randy when we see Wayne Brady head down to the ring.
Edge seems quite pleased to see him and continues to chat and interview him.
Brady talks about being a fan of WWE for a long time, and that he wants to try and see what it’s like to be a WWE superstar, and proceeds into a little trash talking about previous guest hosts. He is soon interrupted by Randy’s music as he makes his way down to the ring.
Orton comes in and gives his icy stare to both of them before RKOing Brady and then aiming for Edge.
Edge attempts to talk Randy down. He is drowned out mid way by RKO chants. Edge goes on to talk about there former tag team, Rated RKO, and how he wants to start that again, and both of them can pick the bones after Cena and Batista’s match at Over The Limit. Randy just continues to stare so Edge gets frustrated and starts shouting about how its not fare, how he tried to please us and we didn’t really give it all to him, and how Randy cares about nothing but himself and we all get behind him. Edge then says that Randy will join him or he will continue to Spear him week after week. Edge then shouts for Randy to say something but he continues to stare, he then goes for the RKO but is reversed and Big Booted, Edge lines up but as the Spear comes in he meets an RKO.
Randy chants are heard and his music is played as we close out the show.
This was another interesting episode of Raw, showing this time that the WWE may actually be listening to us, the Fans. There making some good storylines and a possible push on that PG rating but that still maybe only a dream.
This has defiantly got me wondering what’s to come and looking forward to next weeks show.
Check out my next blog for more thoughts on this Raw.
This is Matty.D Signing out.
Monday, 3 May 2010
PPV’s May Start Hurting Your Wallet
Recently WWE held an annual shareholders meeting covering a mixture of different aspects of the company.
Vince opened this meeting by talking about people holding Wrestlemania parties; this increases the overall views but hurts overall buys.
Vince said this relates to PPV price increase.
Now I am not sure if it is only taking affect in the USA or going world wide. At the moment we Brits pay around £15 for a Box Office WWE PPV, which is already quite steep for 3 hours of viewing. If this increases I don’t see many people wanting to pay, epically with the lacklustre shows that WWE is currently producing due to there PG rating.
My advice is unless you are a hardcore WWE fan; do not pay to watch it alone. My advice is to try and get an invite to a PPV party or throw one yourself, the more people together the less each will have to pay.
For more from this meeting check out wrestling-edge.com (link at bottom of page).
Don’t forget Raw tonight at 2am guest host “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” star Wayne Bardy.
I’m hoping this will be a funny Raw as Wayne Brady is a ledged of improve comedy as well as a great presenter, actor and singer.
Also we may be looking at Cena vs. Batista yet again, if this match is to happen I see it being samey and boring, I am hoping they add in some partners to make it a Tag match of some kind, maybe Cena and The Heart Dynasty could be a good combo or maybe even work in Wayne for a gimmick match.
I am interested in what we will be seeing from some new fresh story lines tonight as Raw focuses most of there nights around the WWE championship.
Hopefully we will see Orton and Edge continue there feud I think we can see a good few matches out of it, plus any chance to have Randy become the Viper and nail the Rope hung DDT, the Irish whip scoop slam, the RKO in full Viper form and maybe even a punt is always great to see.
Randy is Fast becoming one of those Superstars that you want to see in a match regardless of who he is against as long as he is doing what we all get behind and he is fast becoming a very big fan favourite.
Edge is heading back into a heel state which is preferred by most of his fans and with his in ring skill I see this becoming a great set of matches done well with close calls and nail biting stuff.
If this all comes forth I am looking forward to it and I expect some of the best matches in resent months, also showing that WWE can put on a good show even with a PG rating, although blood would still help improve things in places. But there is no need to flood the ring with it like in some of TNA’s extreme matches such as there Monsters Ball.
For more news head over to http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/wrestling/
For more on the Shareholders meeting check out http://www.wrestling-edge.com/wwe-news/vince-comments-on-wrestling-wwe-network-news-nxts-future-more.html
And for TNA info and thoughts don’t forget to check out Facebook and mysun member Tommy Clee.
This is Matty.D signing off.
Vince opened this meeting by talking about people holding Wrestlemania parties; this increases the overall views but hurts overall buys.
Vince said this relates to PPV price increase.
Now I am not sure if it is only taking affect in the USA or going world wide. At the moment we Brits pay around £15 for a Box Office WWE PPV, which is already quite steep for 3 hours of viewing. If this increases I don’t see many people wanting to pay, epically with the lacklustre shows that WWE is currently producing due to there PG rating.
My advice is unless you are a hardcore WWE fan; do not pay to watch it alone. My advice is to try and get an invite to a PPV party or throw one yourself, the more people together the less each will have to pay.
For more from this meeting check out wrestling-edge.com (link at bottom of page).
Don’t forget Raw tonight at 2am guest host “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” star Wayne Bardy.
I’m hoping this will be a funny Raw as Wayne Brady is a ledged of improve comedy as well as a great presenter, actor and singer.
Also we may be looking at Cena vs. Batista yet again, if this match is to happen I see it being samey and boring, I am hoping they add in some partners to make it a Tag match of some kind, maybe Cena and The Heart Dynasty could be a good combo or maybe even work in Wayne for a gimmick match.
I am interested in what we will be seeing from some new fresh story lines tonight as Raw focuses most of there nights around the WWE championship.
Hopefully we will see Orton and Edge continue there feud I think we can see a good few matches out of it, plus any chance to have Randy become the Viper and nail the Rope hung DDT, the Irish whip scoop slam, the RKO in full Viper form and maybe even a punt is always great to see.
Randy is Fast becoming one of those Superstars that you want to see in a match regardless of who he is against as long as he is doing what we all get behind and he is fast becoming a very big fan favourite.
Edge is heading back into a heel state which is preferred by most of his fans and with his in ring skill I see this becoming a great set of matches done well with close calls and nail biting stuff.
If this all comes forth I am looking forward to it and I expect some of the best matches in resent months, also showing that WWE can put on a good show even with a PG rating, although blood would still help improve things in places. But there is no need to flood the ring with it like in some of TNA’s extreme matches such as there Monsters Ball.
For more news head over to http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/wrestling/
For more on the Shareholders meeting check out http://www.wrestling-edge.com/wwe-news/vince-comments-on-wrestling-wwe-network-news-nxts-future-more.html
And for TNA info and thoughts don’t forget to check out Facebook and mysun member Tommy Clee.
This is Matty.D signing off.
Saturday, 1 May 2010
JTG Stays on SmackDown!
Ok so I have a correction to make. I was informed by my co writer Tommy that JTG has in fact stayed on SmackDown!
During the supplemental draft JTG did move across to Raw, but was later removed from the draft changes and has remained on SmackDown! This means that his promo on SD last night was not un-needed as SmackDown! Is to stay his home.
It does on the other hand make me re think the story line I spoke about before. With JTG staying where he is it changes the routine that this sort of split usually follows, but I do still see him fazing out.
My theory is that JTG and Shad will rival towards a championship most than likely the Intercontinental Championship. We could see them have a #1 contender’s match in the coming weeks on SD, and then a title match at WWE’s latest PPV creation, Over The Limit.
At this point the person who won the #1 contender match could win the Title and continue moving up while the other fazes out, or this person could lose at the PPV causing both to faze out.
Another possibility is that one will get that title shot at Over The Limit but lose do to interference from the other, this would drag out the storyline possibly into Fatal 4 Way. This match would most likely be between the former Cryme Tyme, the champion of that time and fourth not so important superstar. That is if it falls into the 4 way rules.
Once again this is all just my theory and opinions so don’t hold me to it.
That’s all for today so this is Matty.D signing off.
During the supplemental draft JTG did move across to Raw, but was later removed from the draft changes and has remained on SmackDown! This means that his promo on SD last night was not un-needed as SmackDown! Is to stay his home.
It does on the other hand make me re think the story line I spoke about before. With JTG staying where he is it changes the routine that this sort of split usually follows, but I do still see him fazing out.
My theory is that JTG and Shad will rival towards a championship most than likely the Intercontinental Championship. We could see them have a #1 contender’s match in the coming weeks on SD, and then a title match at WWE’s latest PPV creation, Over The Limit.
At this point the person who won the #1 contender match could win the Title and continue moving up while the other fazes out, or this person could lose at the PPV causing both to faze out.
Another possibility is that one will get that title shot at Over The Limit but lose do to interference from the other, this would drag out the storyline possibly into Fatal 4 Way. This match would most likely be between the former Cryme Tyme, the champion of that time and fourth not so important superstar. That is if it falls into the 4 way rules.
Once again this is all just my theory and opinions so don’t hold me to it.
That’s all for today so this is Matty.D signing off.
Big Show SmackDowns! Everyone!
SmackDown!
30/4/10
SmackDown! Run-Down.
SmackDown! Off to a great start with Kofi kicking off with Jericho’s final match before heading over to Raw.
This was a great contest between the two and ended with Kofi kicking off Jericho’s head for the win.
This was followed by a Jack Swagger Promo to show how great he apparently is although it’s just to help the fans get behind him or should I say against him.
We now see Chris backstage talking to an off screen person which was obviously the Big Show this was reviled by his fist entering the screen and into Chris’s face, pushing more on this new face (good guy) Big Show we are seeing and the crowd cheered at that sudden whack.
Moving on we just had to know that Chavo was back on SD by him having a little chat to the crowd. This was interrupted by the Big Red Monster Kane as he made his way to the ring, and choke slammed him to the mat. De Ja Vue I hear you say? Well that’s because it was the scene of WM24 when Kane won the ECW title. Kane welcomes back Chavo and then sets off his usual pyro.
After the Ads we have Shad confirm my theory even more by having a little promo about how it is his time.
We then have the final SmackDown! Match of John Morrison against new SD member Cody Rhodes.
Out of interest who else has notice that the logo on Cody’s boots is the Triforce of Hyrule from Zelda?
This is turning out to be a good match and may be proving me wrong when it comes to Cody fazing out. He is showing strong potential in this match which could push him into a good story line.
It was a good back and forth match with close 2 counts and some good reversals. The whole match was impressive with neither of these superstars showing a bad side as they put all they could into it.
Cody nails the Cross Rhodes on Morrison picking up a win. I definitely see him proving me wrong and actually rising and not fazing out. Either way he should be quite interesting,
Straight after we had Jack say about how great he is, yet again….. We don’t care.
After the ads we have Edges final farewell to the SD crowd. He says his good bye and saying that he loves us so obviously still face for now. After this Christian popped down to the ring and a great sight it was seeing these to former tag team partners in the ring together again, Edge even has to stop and say, “Edge & Christian” but this renewed friendship was not to last long.
Christian talks about there historic past, then leads on to say that what Edge said to us, was a load of crap.
Edge say’s he is a 9 time world champion and asks how many world titles Christian has held. Now although he says none we all know he has held world titles in both TNA and NWA.
After pushing it Edge turns on us finally turning back to heel. Christian then moves on to challenge Edge to match right there and then. Edge refuses but then cheap shots Christian and sets up for a spear, it’s reversed and they end up in a slug fest, this ends with a possible kill switch (un prettier) but is reversed.
Christian then leads the crowd into the chant “Na Na Na Naa, Na Na Naa Na, heeeeyyy Gooodbyye!”
After the ads we see Edge being asked about the previous encounter to have Big Show confront him then lay a fist into his face as well.
It looks like Big Show is getting his fans back by leaving hand prints in all the people we don’t like, and he is really laying into them with these hits, they are looking pretty damn real.
Now its time for a toilet break as we have a short Divas tag match between LayCool and Beth and new SD Diva Kelly.
Once again only two of these divas have skill if you ask me, being Beth and McCool but Layla is showing improvement.
Once again we have Jack saying how great he is and…. We STILL don’t care.
After the ads we have Chris Master’s put on a great little skit with his dancing pecks which was so much better than Jack’s promos.
Next up is Mr.Ziggles coming down and saying his proudest moment was putting Horswaggle in a Sleeper; this just seemed like a time killer as it didn’t have relevance to anything.
We then see the “injury” of Matt Hardy from last week, followed with Matt talking about it back stage to be attacked by McIntyre. De Ja Vue I hear you say again? Well that’s because he did it to R-Truth during his opening storyline.
We then see a boring message from JTG saying that he wants gold, this was boring pointless and hard to understand and since he was drafted to Raw why is he talking to SD crowd about it?
Moving on we have CM Punk come out to have one of his great promos showing why he is so good on the mic and why we all hate him. He is cut short by MVP another great microphone user.
The crowd really enjoyed this and seems to be kicking off a possible good storyline.
MVP makes his way to the ring and then hits Punk causing a fight to break out. MVP gets mauled before Rey Mysterio comes to save the day.
After the break we have a Tag match in action between Rey & MVP and the S.E.S.
Once again we see some great wrestling skill and tag moves and a lot of unwanted chest hair.
We have the crowd chanting and getting behind this match and I must say I am impressed by this as the crowds are usually dull making the show dull regardless of what is happening in the ring, so to have a livelier crowd makes a livelier event.
Rey & MVP came out on top but while cheering the mystery man appears to take Rey down.
After this guess what? Jack wants you to know how great he is again. In the words of my mums fiancée F*** off! But he just wasn’t done he just had to come to the ring to tell us more.
Out of interest again did anyone else notice that he was using a replica World Title belt last week before Extreme Rules?
The crowd wanted to be as load and disrespectful to Jack every time he tried to lisp a sentence to us and they succeeded. I have to say this is a very good thing, it shows that he is becoming someone we love to hate, and the crowd would have really loved doing it. And Jack loved it, because it shows that they know who he is.
He seems to be a lot like JBL in some ways coming out and gloating and bragging, he could turn out to be a very good Heel Champion from this.
Jack is finally shut up by Teddy Long who comes out to cheers of the crowd. He announces that the #1 contender the title is the man who has been leaving a hand print in all the heels, the 7ft giant the Big Show.
Show comes down to the ring to help the crowd in the disrespect of Jack.
Some caned heat was used to start a “Knock Him Out” chant and they soon got it as Big Show laid him out in one punch to close the show.
My thoughts of this show are pretty good. I really enjoyed this show it had some good matches and some great promos kicking us into the new stories leading off the draft.
I really like Big Shows punch being a main move, as before it was performed in a sloppy manna but now seems to be done well, with an awesome sound to the impact, but we still need to see this newer version of the move in a match, it could be done sloppy again.
Cody seems to of kicked off well which I didn’t expect but it is a good thing as he is a great in ring competitor and Jack is getting the crowd to hate him which is showing that we are getting a more lively show and a more active crowd.
Let’s just hope that all this hype is from the crowd and not caned heat coming from the speakers all the time.
This was a great end to the week for WWE and I am looking forward to Raw this Monday night.
For other news check out The Sun website and keep and eye on Facebook member Tommy Clee for his thoughts on TNA.
This is Matty.D signing off.
30/4/10
SmackDown! Run-Down.
SmackDown! Off to a great start with Kofi kicking off with Jericho’s final match before heading over to Raw.
This was a great contest between the two and ended with Kofi kicking off Jericho’s head for the win.
This was followed by a Jack Swagger Promo to show how great he apparently is although it’s just to help the fans get behind him or should I say against him.
We now see Chris backstage talking to an off screen person which was obviously the Big Show this was reviled by his fist entering the screen and into Chris’s face, pushing more on this new face (good guy) Big Show we are seeing and the crowd cheered at that sudden whack.
Moving on we just had to know that Chavo was back on SD by him having a little chat to the crowd. This was interrupted by the Big Red Monster Kane as he made his way to the ring, and choke slammed him to the mat. De Ja Vue I hear you say? Well that’s because it was the scene of WM24 when Kane won the ECW title. Kane welcomes back Chavo and then sets off his usual pyro.
After the Ads we have Shad confirm my theory even more by having a little promo about how it is his time.
We then have the final SmackDown! Match of John Morrison against new SD member Cody Rhodes.
Out of interest who else has notice that the logo on Cody’s boots is the Triforce of Hyrule from Zelda?
This is turning out to be a good match and may be proving me wrong when it comes to Cody fazing out. He is showing strong potential in this match which could push him into a good story line.
It was a good back and forth match with close 2 counts and some good reversals. The whole match was impressive with neither of these superstars showing a bad side as they put all they could into it.
Cody nails the Cross Rhodes on Morrison picking up a win. I definitely see him proving me wrong and actually rising and not fazing out. Either way he should be quite interesting,
Straight after we had Jack say about how great he is, yet again….. We don’t care.
After the ads we have Edges final farewell to the SD crowd. He says his good bye and saying that he loves us so obviously still face for now. After this Christian popped down to the ring and a great sight it was seeing these to former tag team partners in the ring together again, Edge even has to stop and say, “Edge & Christian” but this renewed friendship was not to last long.
Christian talks about there historic past, then leads on to say that what Edge said to us, was a load of crap.
Edge say’s he is a 9 time world champion and asks how many world titles Christian has held. Now although he says none we all know he has held world titles in both TNA and NWA.
After pushing it Edge turns on us finally turning back to heel. Christian then moves on to challenge Edge to match right there and then. Edge refuses but then cheap shots Christian and sets up for a spear, it’s reversed and they end up in a slug fest, this ends with a possible kill switch (un prettier) but is reversed.
Christian then leads the crowd into the chant “Na Na Na Naa, Na Na Naa Na, heeeeyyy Gooodbyye!”
After the ads we see Edge being asked about the previous encounter to have Big Show confront him then lay a fist into his face as well.
It looks like Big Show is getting his fans back by leaving hand prints in all the people we don’t like, and he is really laying into them with these hits, they are looking pretty damn real.
Now its time for a toilet break as we have a short Divas tag match between LayCool and Beth and new SD Diva Kelly.
Once again only two of these divas have skill if you ask me, being Beth and McCool but Layla is showing improvement.
Once again we have Jack saying how great he is and…. We STILL don’t care.
After the ads we have Chris Master’s put on a great little skit with his dancing pecks which was so much better than Jack’s promos.
Next up is Mr.Ziggles coming down and saying his proudest moment was putting Horswaggle in a Sleeper; this just seemed like a time killer as it didn’t have relevance to anything.
We then see the “injury” of Matt Hardy from last week, followed with Matt talking about it back stage to be attacked by McIntyre. De Ja Vue I hear you say again? Well that’s because he did it to R-Truth during his opening storyline.
We then see a boring message from JTG saying that he wants gold, this was boring pointless and hard to understand and since he was drafted to Raw why is he talking to SD crowd about it?
Moving on we have CM Punk come out to have one of his great promos showing why he is so good on the mic and why we all hate him. He is cut short by MVP another great microphone user.
The crowd really enjoyed this and seems to be kicking off a possible good storyline.
MVP makes his way to the ring and then hits Punk causing a fight to break out. MVP gets mauled before Rey Mysterio comes to save the day.
After the break we have a Tag match in action between Rey & MVP and the S.E.S.
Once again we see some great wrestling skill and tag moves and a lot of unwanted chest hair.
We have the crowd chanting and getting behind this match and I must say I am impressed by this as the crowds are usually dull making the show dull regardless of what is happening in the ring, so to have a livelier crowd makes a livelier event.
Rey & MVP came out on top but while cheering the mystery man appears to take Rey down.
After this guess what? Jack wants you to know how great he is again. In the words of my mums fiancée F*** off! But he just wasn’t done he just had to come to the ring to tell us more.
Out of interest again did anyone else notice that he was using a replica World Title belt last week before Extreme Rules?
The crowd wanted to be as load and disrespectful to Jack every time he tried to lisp a sentence to us and they succeeded. I have to say this is a very good thing, it shows that he is becoming someone we love to hate, and the crowd would have really loved doing it. And Jack loved it, because it shows that they know who he is.
He seems to be a lot like JBL in some ways coming out and gloating and bragging, he could turn out to be a very good Heel Champion from this.
Jack is finally shut up by Teddy Long who comes out to cheers of the crowd. He announces that the #1 contender the title is the man who has been leaving a hand print in all the heels, the 7ft giant the Big Show.
Show comes down to the ring to help the crowd in the disrespect of Jack.
Some caned heat was used to start a “Knock Him Out” chant and they soon got it as Big Show laid him out in one punch to close the show.
My thoughts of this show are pretty good. I really enjoyed this show it had some good matches and some great promos kicking us into the new stories leading off the draft.
I really like Big Shows punch being a main move, as before it was performed in a sloppy manna but now seems to be done well, with an awesome sound to the impact, but we still need to see this newer version of the move in a match, it could be done sloppy again.
Cody seems to of kicked off well which I didn’t expect but it is a good thing as he is a great in ring competitor and Jack is getting the crowd to hate him which is showing that we are getting a more lively show and a more active crowd.
Let’s just hope that all this hype is from the crowd and not caned heat coming from the speakers all the time.
This was a great end to the week for WWE and I am looking forward to Raw this Monday night.
For other news check out The Sun website and keep and eye on Facebook member Tommy Clee for his thoughts on TNA.
This is Matty.D signing off.
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