Ok guys just an update of what’s going on in the WWE/wrestling world.
Start off by talking about the start of a new wrestling promotion called EVE Pro Wrestling. EVE standing for: Energy Victory Excellence. It’s a European Wrestling Promotion and is an all female roster.
Now I know what you’re thinking, it’s just another reason for us guys to look at women in next to nothing but that’s not the case.
This is a legitimate pro wrestling company focusing on women who can actually wrestle and not just stand around and look pretty.
There first show was over the weekend at Sudbury, Suffolk and apparently went very well.
For more news on this check out: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/wrestling/2970232/Pro-Wrestling-Eve-review.html
And there official site: http://www.evewrestling.com/
On other things WWE’s recent SmackDown! Ratings in the US was at an all time low this past Friday.
All I’m hoping is that WWE takes the hint and starts changing things, but this may take a while as Vince and the WWE have a lot of there top superstars convinced that PG is the way to be, but it does look like they are getting the message as WWE’s creative team has made a lot of re writes recently with the NXT and SmackDown! Tapings so let’s hope that the changes help things along.
WWE is also planning on using twitter more, having more talent use it and promote it more on shows. The downside is they want to use it to promote WWE storylines and less personal use. I don’t agree with that as I follow wrestlers on there to see what the person has to say, not the character they are portraying.
Last thing is that Triple H should be returning some time soon as he is booked to wrestle in Kentucky on 12th of July for Raw, so we hope to see him make his way back to our screens over the coming month.
That’s all for today Matty.D signing off.
Thursday, 13 May 2010
Tuesday, 11 May 2010
US Championship to Canada!
Last nights Raw saw Miz take on Tyson Kid, and if Tyson won, a member of the Heart family got a chance to go foe the United States Championship. Which member of the family though was to be decided by the Miz. He selected WWE Hall Of Famer Bret Heart. So in Toronto (not Montréal, I know I got it wrong in the previous blog) next week on a commercial free Raw Bret will be taking on the Miz to hopefully take the US title into the Canadian camp.
I don’t see this being a good match, as Bret’s Mania match was a big downer to the event. The outcome of this match though is up in the air because as I recall the next Raw is booked to be Bret’s final show before his contract expires. If Bret wins it may mean he has renewed his contract and will be sticking around for a while longer. Another possibility if he wins is he will bid us a farewell and vacate the title, or find a loophole and pass it on to one of the members of the Heart Dynasty. I wouldn’t expect Bret to lose this match due to it being Bret’s final show and it being based in Canada but you never know what WWE will do next.
My opinion on this is id rather Miz keeps his title, as Bret is no longer in 100% wrestling condition it would be a bit pointless of him holding the title, if Bret does win I hope it to be something we can all get behind and a possible good storyline to come off of it.
On other news The Sun has done article on Triple H agreeing with the change to a PG rating, I do understand where he is coming from but I do feel it is partly the influence of the McMahon side of his family. To read more on this I will post a link at the bottom of the page.
In some older news which you may already have heard, is the Great Khali is heading back to India and plans on opening a Wrestling school. Also on another subject the numbers from Wrestlemania PPV apparently didn’t measure up to last year as sales for the show dropped 12%, although Vince has given his thoughts on why this is I do not 100% agree with them, but we will all have different opinions on it, my personal thoughts is its due to a PG rating, the fans that like a show with more edge may not have wanted to pay out for the show, the kids who they are aiming there PG product at may not have been able to convince there parents to pay out the hefty price for just 4 hours of wrestling on TV. The last reason that Vince did pick up on is the dedicated fans like myself threw Wrestlemania parties.
That’s all for this Blog for more news, and deeper looks into some of the subjects above head over to: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/wrestling/
Also check out http://www.wrestling-edge.com/
And don’t forget to keep an eye on Tommy for his thoughts on TNA.
If you missed last nights Raw, not to worry check out my previous Blog called “Excuse Me!” for a run down of the event. I may stop with the run downs of Raw and SmackDown! Though due to it taking so long to write and not sure if anyone is to bothered about reading back the show. If you feel differently let me know otherwise I will just focus on Blogs more like this one.
Matty.D signing off.
I don’t see this being a good match, as Bret’s Mania match was a big downer to the event. The outcome of this match though is up in the air because as I recall the next Raw is booked to be Bret’s final show before his contract expires. If Bret wins it may mean he has renewed his contract and will be sticking around for a while longer. Another possibility if he wins is he will bid us a farewell and vacate the title, or find a loophole and pass it on to one of the members of the Heart Dynasty. I wouldn’t expect Bret to lose this match due to it being Bret’s final show and it being based in Canada but you never know what WWE will do next.
My opinion on this is id rather Miz keeps his title, as Bret is no longer in 100% wrestling condition it would be a bit pointless of him holding the title, if Bret does win I hope it to be something we can all get behind and a possible good storyline to come off of it.
On other news The Sun has done article on Triple H agreeing with the change to a PG rating, I do understand where he is coming from but I do feel it is partly the influence of the McMahon side of his family. To read more on this I will post a link at the bottom of the page.
In some older news which you may already have heard, is the Great Khali is heading back to India and plans on opening a Wrestling school. Also on another subject the numbers from Wrestlemania PPV apparently didn’t measure up to last year as sales for the show dropped 12%, although Vince has given his thoughts on why this is I do not 100% agree with them, but we will all have different opinions on it, my personal thoughts is its due to a PG rating, the fans that like a show with more edge may not have wanted to pay out for the show, the kids who they are aiming there PG product at may not have been able to convince there parents to pay out the hefty price for just 4 hours of wrestling on TV. The last reason that Vince did pick up on is the dedicated fans like myself threw Wrestlemania parties.
That’s all for this Blog for more news, and deeper looks into some of the subjects above head over to: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/wrestling/
Also check out http://www.wrestling-edge.com/
And don’t forget to keep an eye on Tommy for his thoughts on TNA.
If you missed last nights Raw, not to worry check out my previous Blog called “Excuse Me!” for a run down of the event. I may stop with the run downs of Raw and SmackDown! Though due to it taking so long to write and not sure if anyone is to bothered about reading back the show. If you feel differently let me know otherwise I will just focus on Blogs more like this one.
Matty.D signing off.
Excuse Me!!
Sorry that there has been no in depth look at some of the pieces from SmackDown! But I have been busy recently.
I will make it up to you on the next blog with an update of the latest things going on in the wrestling world and some of my thoughts about recent events after this run down of Raw.
I may make this the last time I do a full run down as they take so long to write, but I will keep up with the news and thoughts from other blogs.
Anyway lets move on to Raw.
It starts off with a look back at Edge and Randy’s stories to our current point, really showing how they are pushing these two men and there storylines.
I do love these flashbacks WWE do the best work on them.
Once we come off the look back we have Randy making his way to the ring. Randy starts off by telling us why he didn’t join back up with Edge last week, but for some reason is interrupted by Meat Loaf.
Once Meat Loaf is to the ring he starts giving Randy praise and then plugging his new album. He says that one of the tracks should be Randy’s new theme song. Meat Loaf asks if he would like to hear it. Randy agrees but doesn’t look impressed what so ever. As Meat Loaf starts to sing Randy becomes annoyed and goes to walk away, Meat Loaf keeps calling at him and talking about his songs in attempt to impress the Viper and to stop him from leaving.
After so long Randy finally shuts him up with an RKO which some of the crowd was calling for.
After that Edge comes out and he asks if Randy has a problem with Celebrities since he likes to RKO them all. But Edge agrees with him in the dislike of Celbs.
Edge then says that he has “tweeted” the WWE and from now on the guests have no power over matches. He moves on to announce that he felt that Raw should have a permanent general manger and introduces his ex wife, Vickie Guerrero as new GM of Raw.
She comes out to her usual “excuse me” then leads on to reprimand Randy.
Randy gets called a bully and that he will find out what it feels like, so later in the night Randy would meet Edge and a partner of his choice in a handicap match.
This was an interesting opening segment and does it mean the end of guest hosts?
After the ads we have Chris Jericho coming to the ring for a match and if he wins it, he and Miz get a Unified Tag Title match at Over The Limit.
David Heart Smith comes to the ring accompanied by the lovely Natalya who was carrying one of D. H .Smith’s belts.
This was a short match with nothing to special, Chris winning after a Code Breaker, this means that Jericho and Miz will be going for the Tag Titles at Over The Limit.
We then cut backstage to see Edge talking to Batista, we don’t hear any talking but Cole and King are wondering whether or not Edge is trying to recruit him.
We then hear about Cena and Batista, and the stipulation being reviled later in the night. A clip of our guest host, Flavor Flave, before cutting to the ads.
After the Ads we have R-Truth coming out with Flavor singing “What’s Up!?!”
Already I’m thinking what a mug this guy is. There is some typical guest host chat and plugging of endorsements before we move on to R-Truth vs. William Regal who was wondering back and forth by the ring while R-Truth and Flavor spoke to the crowd.
Just as the match started it was interrupted by the recently reunited team of Carlito and Primo, as a heel team. When they were done they left the ring and headed up the ramp. We find out why they attacked R-Truth, as they got to the top of the ramp they are joined by Ted DiBiase, they shake hands with him before leaving and Ted looks on pleased with what’s happened.
After the Ads and we have a scene of Maryse learning some Jujitsu to match up with Eve’s skills but doesn’t do well and slaps the trainer, this all seems boring and un needed and badly performed.
We then cut to Randy back stage being questioned by Josh Matthews. He asks the Viper if he is concerned about whom Edge picks as his partner. He says he is not concerned, but would like Vickie at ring side as tonight will be a night she will never forget.
After another ads break we have Zack Ryder talking to us and Divas sitting by the ring again.
His opponent this week would be Evan Bourn. I thought this would a good contest as Evan is one of my favourite superstars on the Raw roster, I just wish he was pushed into bigger and better storylines instead of wasting time with people like Zack Ryder.
Nothing overly interesting happened in this match though. Near the end we see one of the Divas who was at ring side, Alicia Fox, decided to jump up and try to stop the Shooting Star Press, but Diva number two, Gail Kim, stopped her. After Evan takes the win he walks off with Gail on his arm.
Adverts roll then we come back to have John Cena come out to a crowd that’s happy to see him.
John starts off by thanking Shames for interrupting him last week as it gave him a week to think about the stipulation at Over The Limit.
He runs down the things he could chose for the match but there cowardly matches.
After some blabbing he finally announces that the match at Over The Limit would be, an I Quit match.
He then thanks Shames again and asks for him to come out so he can thank him in person.
Shames appears but doesn’t come to the ring, he says that if he comes down Cena wont live to see Over The Limit. Cena calls him down anyway and Shames obliges to this but before he gets to the ring Batista runs out the crowd. After a beat down he throws Cena to Shames who gives him a Big Boot. Just as Batista is setting up a Batista Bomb Cena gets a hand from the world strongest man Mark Henry, he clears the ring and checks on Cena as Batista heads out.
We then cut to Edge and Vicki chatting back stage, they talk about being friends. Edge moves on to ask Vicki to be at ring side tonight, Vicki refuses but Edge brings her around and she agrees to do so.
We move on to the other half of the Heart Dynasty vs. The Miz. If Tyson wins a member of the Heart Family gets a shot at Miz’s United States Title.
This was short match again and nothing special, Tyson wins via a quick roll up. The Miz then says that Tyson shouldn’t be so happy as he didn’t personally win anything and the stipulation is that Miz decides who he will defend his title against out of the Heart Family. He says it won’t be Tyson, it won’t be David, and it won’t even be Natalya, you can all see what’s coming next, he picks Bret Heart, so next week on Raw we have Miz vs Bret for the US title.
We then cut to Batista backstage who gets told by Josh Matthews that he has a match with Mark Henry later on in the night.
After the ads we have the NXT rookies in the ring for a 8 on 4 tag match against the crazy team of, John Morrison, Yoshi Tatsu, Santino Marella and Golddust.
This match was done under typical tag rules.The match was nothing special again, we saw Yoshi and Morrison face off against a few of the Rookies, then it all came to an end when Daniel Bryan got tagged in and so did Santino, Daniel picks up the win by a quick roll up. We didn’t even see half the Rookies in action nor did we see goldy boy take to the ring.
We now move on to a plug from our guest host again who gets interrupted by the Russian and the Italian, Kozlov and Santino we then soon add a Brit to the mix, William Regal. This is quite funny as Regal is enticed into a little rapping segment.
A quick run down of the matches for Over The Limit before we move on to Batista vs. Mark Henry. Once in the ring Batista gets a chair and sits down in the ring as we head to a break.
When we return, Batista is still sitting comfortable in the ring as Mark heads down. Just as Mark goes to get in the ring the Animal pounces he then takes the chair and goes to work on him.
Batista locks in a very painful looking submission hold on Mark, a load of refs try to stop him but can’t, Batista holds it until the point that Mark passes out.
Once done Batista leaves Mark in a heap in the ring, and heads out.
When we return we have Randy come to the ring for his match. We then have Edge accompanied by Vickie come out; they stay at the top of ramp as they introduce his tag team partner, Ted DiBiase.
This match was nothing to get overly excited about, we saw Randy do what he does best like we all want to see. Randy wins after R-Truth comes down to distract Ted. Once all over Randy locks sights onto Vicki.
He falls to the mat and coils to strike. He slithers out of the ring eyes not leaving Vicki. Vicki try’s her best to talk him down but just ends up breaking into cries until she shouts that she resigns and runs away, an RKO is planted on Edge who was about to attack Randy. I’m guessing from this, that the guest hosts will continue on.
Final thoughts of this show are low. I didn’t think much of this show as the matches were to short, and just seemed to bore me. I think they need to work on doing some longer more gripping matches again like on SmackDown! Friday and cutting down on the promos and backstage segments as they take up to much time.
Next weeks Raw will be commercial free, I believe it will be from Montréal and if that is so it should be Bret’s last appearance on Raw before his contact is up.
That’s all for now Matty.D Signing out.
I will make it up to you on the next blog with an update of the latest things going on in the wrestling world and some of my thoughts about recent events after this run down of Raw.
I may make this the last time I do a full run down as they take so long to write, but I will keep up with the news and thoughts from other blogs.
Anyway lets move on to Raw.
It starts off with a look back at Edge and Randy’s stories to our current point, really showing how they are pushing these two men and there storylines.
I do love these flashbacks WWE do the best work on them.
Once we come off the look back we have Randy making his way to the ring. Randy starts off by telling us why he didn’t join back up with Edge last week, but for some reason is interrupted by Meat Loaf.
Once Meat Loaf is to the ring he starts giving Randy praise and then plugging his new album. He says that one of the tracks should be Randy’s new theme song. Meat Loaf asks if he would like to hear it. Randy agrees but doesn’t look impressed what so ever. As Meat Loaf starts to sing Randy becomes annoyed and goes to walk away, Meat Loaf keeps calling at him and talking about his songs in attempt to impress the Viper and to stop him from leaving.
After so long Randy finally shuts him up with an RKO which some of the crowd was calling for.
After that Edge comes out and he asks if Randy has a problem with Celebrities since he likes to RKO them all. But Edge agrees with him in the dislike of Celbs.
Edge then says that he has “tweeted” the WWE and from now on the guests have no power over matches. He moves on to announce that he felt that Raw should have a permanent general manger and introduces his ex wife, Vickie Guerrero as new GM of Raw.
She comes out to her usual “excuse me” then leads on to reprimand Randy.
Randy gets called a bully and that he will find out what it feels like, so later in the night Randy would meet Edge and a partner of his choice in a handicap match.
This was an interesting opening segment and does it mean the end of guest hosts?
After the ads we have Chris Jericho coming to the ring for a match and if he wins it, he and Miz get a Unified Tag Title match at Over The Limit.
David Heart Smith comes to the ring accompanied by the lovely Natalya who was carrying one of D. H .Smith’s belts.
This was a short match with nothing to special, Chris winning after a Code Breaker, this means that Jericho and Miz will be going for the Tag Titles at Over The Limit.
We then cut backstage to see Edge talking to Batista, we don’t hear any talking but Cole and King are wondering whether or not Edge is trying to recruit him.
We then hear about Cena and Batista, and the stipulation being reviled later in the night. A clip of our guest host, Flavor Flave, before cutting to the ads.
After the Ads we have R-Truth coming out with Flavor singing “What’s Up!?!”
Already I’m thinking what a mug this guy is. There is some typical guest host chat and plugging of endorsements before we move on to R-Truth vs. William Regal who was wondering back and forth by the ring while R-Truth and Flavor spoke to the crowd.
Just as the match started it was interrupted by the recently reunited team of Carlito and Primo, as a heel team. When they were done they left the ring and headed up the ramp. We find out why they attacked R-Truth, as they got to the top of the ramp they are joined by Ted DiBiase, they shake hands with him before leaving and Ted looks on pleased with what’s happened.
After the Ads and we have a scene of Maryse learning some Jujitsu to match up with Eve’s skills but doesn’t do well and slaps the trainer, this all seems boring and un needed and badly performed.
We then cut to Randy back stage being questioned by Josh Matthews. He asks the Viper if he is concerned about whom Edge picks as his partner. He says he is not concerned, but would like Vickie at ring side as tonight will be a night she will never forget.
After another ads break we have Zack Ryder talking to us and Divas sitting by the ring again.
His opponent this week would be Evan Bourn. I thought this would a good contest as Evan is one of my favourite superstars on the Raw roster, I just wish he was pushed into bigger and better storylines instead of wasting time with people like Zack Ryder.
Nothing overly interesting happened in this match though. Near the end we see one of the Divas who was at ring side, Alicia Fox, decided to jump up and try to stop the Shooting Star Press, but Diva number two, Gail Kim, stopped her. After Evan takes the win he walks off with Gail on his arm.
Adverts roll then we come back to have John Cena come out to a crowd that’s happy to see him.
John starts off by thanking Shames for interrupting him last week as it gave him a week to think about the stipulation at Over The Limit.
He runs down the things he could chose for the match but there cowardly matches.
After some blabbing he finally announces that the match at Over The Limit would be, an I Quit match.
He then thanks Shames again and asks for him to come out so he can thank him in person.
Shames appears but doesn’t come to the ring, he says that if he comes down Cena wont live to see Over The Limit. Cena calls him down anyway and Shames obliges to this but before he gets to the ring Batista runs out the crowd. After a beat down he throws Cena to Shames who gives him a Big Boot. Just as Batista is setting up a Batista Bomb Cena gets a hand from the world strongest man Mark Henry, he clears the ring and checks on Cena as Batista heads out.
We then cut to Edge and Vicki chatting back stage, they talk about being friends. Edge moves on to ask Vicki to be at ring side tonight, Vicki refuses but Edge brings her around and she agrees to do so.
We move on to the other half of the Heart Dynasty vs. The Miz. If Tyson wins a member of the Heart Family gets a shot at Miz’s United States Title.
This was short match again and nothing special, Tyson wins via a quick roll up. The Miz then says that Tyson shouldn’t be so happy as he didn’t personally win anything and the stipulation is that Miz decides who he will defend his title against out of the Heart Family. He says it won’t be Tyson, it won’t be David, and it won’t even be Natalya, you can all see what’s coming next, he picks Bret Heart, so next week on Raw we have Miz vs Bret for the US title.
We then cut to Batista backstage who gets told by Josh Matthews that he has a match with Mark Henry later on in the night.
After the ads we have the NXT rookies in the ring for a 8 on 4 tag match against the crazy team of, John Morrison, Yoshi Tatsu, Santino Marella and Golddust.
This match was done under typical tag rules.The match was nothing special again, we saw Yoshi and Morrison face off against a few of the Rookies, then it all came to an end when Daniel Bryan got tagged in and so did Santino, Daniel picks up the win by a quick roll up. We didn’t even see half the Rookies in action nor did we see goldy boy take to the ring.
We now move on to a plug from our guest host again who gets interrupted by the Russian and the Italian, Kozlov and Santino we then soon add a Brit to the mix, William Regal. This is quite funny as Regal is enticed into a little rapping segment.
A quick run down of the matches for Over The Limit before we move on to Batista vs. Mark Henry. Once in the ring Batista gets a chair and sits down in the ring as we head to a break.
When we return, Batista is still sitting comfortable in the ring as Mark heads down. Just as Mark goes to get in the ring the Animal pounces he then takes the chair and goes to work on him.
Batista locks in a very painful looking submission hold on Mark, a load of refs try to stop him but can’t, Batista holds it until the point that Mark passes out.
Once done Batista leaves Mark in a heap in the ring, and heads out.
When we return we have Randy come to the ring for his match. We then have Edge accompanied by Vickie come out; they stay at the top of ramp as they introduce his tag team partner, Ted DiBiase.
This match was nothing to get overly excited about, we saw Randy do what he does best like we all want to see. Randy wins after R-Truth comes down to distract Ted. Once all over Randy locks sights onto Vicki.
He falls to the mat and coils to strike. He slithers out of the ring eyes not leaving Vicki. Vicki try’s her best to talk him down but just ends up breaking into cries until she shouts that she resigns and runs away, an RKO is planted on Edge who was about to attack Randy. I’m guessing from this, that the guest hosts will continue on.
Final thoughts of this show are low. I didn’t think much of this show as the matches were to short, and just seemed to bore me. I think they need to work on doing some longer more gripping matches again like on SmackDown! Friday and cutting down on the promos and backstage segments as they take up to much time.
Next weeks Raw will be commercial free, I believe it will be from Montréal and if that is so it should be Bret’s last appearance on Raw before his contact is up.
That’s all for now Matty.D Signing out.
Saturday, 8 May 2010
McIntyre Fired!!
Kicking off SmackDown! Is Matt Hardy, he wonders to the ring acting quite angry and injured. He grabs a mic and moves on to show a tape of him getting injured by McIntyre and Ziggler, this was followed up by the attack from last week backstage.
Matt then proceeds to talk about McIntyre but this was cut short as McIntyre made his way down to the ring.
McIntyre starts talking about how Vince McMahon thinks he is the future of WWE. Matt Hardy doesn’t back down and calls Drew to the ring. They enter a slug fest just throwing punches as the crowd chant Hardy and refs try to split the two.
Once Matt’s back is turned McIntyre makes a sneak attack and just lays into Matt and the refs struggle to retain him.
Teddy comes out and calls for Drew to stop when he doesn’t listen Teddy suspends him, when he still doesn’t stop he is striped of the Intercontinental Title, he still continues so Teddy moves on to a straight up firing.
McIntyre is removed from the building and Matt is left with a medic by the ring. McIntyre says that he will go to Vince and knowing him he will and we may see Teddy be the one fired.
This was a brilliant opening segment to open with, had me and Paul cringing at some of the hits we saw.
When we come back from the ads Josh Matthews is questioning Teddy but he can’t seem to answer questions straight and seems worried, most probably playing on the fact that Vince may now fire him.
We then head to MVP making his way to the ring for a one on one fight against Festus, I mean Luke Gallows.
This was a great contest; I didn’t see either of these to falter through out the match.
MVP does well to get the Crowd behind him as he starts Balling. As he goes for the Playmaker Serena jumps up for the distraction, this works for a minute but MVP takes control for the win as simultaneously Rey jumped into view and nails punk before running back through the crowd.
When we come back from the ads CM Punk and the S.E.S are in the ring and Punk starts calling Rey a coward for attacking from behind, he then moves on to call out Rey.
Rey comes out and says that he was giving Punk a taste of his own medicine doing what the mystery man has been doing. He asks who the man is where he is going to attack from next.
Punk starts denying it and saying Rey is delusional, and that there is no mystery man. Rey reverses the argument and says how Punk is delusional and that he is here to shave Punks head. Punk says that he beat Rey at Extreme Rules and that he can not do so, but Rey comes back by stating he beat Punk at Wrestlemania, so it’s one to one. Rey and Punk agree to one more match, CM Punk loses he shaves head if Rey loses he joins the S.E.S.
Rey then continues to say why wait till Over the Limit, but Punk refuses. Rey moves on to agree with Punk on what the S.E.S stands for but we do not like the messenger and that he should lead by example and shave his head but Punk is apparently to good for that because he is better than everyone.
Rey starts trying to turn Luke and Serena against him, as he does we see the wheels turning in there heads but no switching sides yet. Rey ends this great promo by saying that there is no escape from the 619.
After the ads we have a snore segment as we head into a Divas Tag Match between LayCool and Kelly Kelly and partner Tiffany.
I could see how this was going to go but I wanted to see some improvement from these Divas.
Michelle seems to show her usual dominance in this match against Tiffany until Matt Stryker’s English love muffing Layla is tagged in and Kelly Joins from the other side, this lead into a bit of mess until LayCool take the win. There is potential from all these divas but WWE just don’t want to push them to there full extent.
After this we see Teddy tell us how we will decide a new Intercontinental Champion. He announces that we will be having a Tournament between, Dolph, Kofi, Cody and Christian. Kofi vs. Dolph and Cody vs. Christian set to happen later in the night. The winners of these matches will go head to head next week to crown a new champion.
After a little ad break we have the first part of this Tournament between Dolph and Kofi.
This was another great contest between these two; I do love how WWE superstars are showing how they can put on a good match regardless of the restrictions WWE has put in place.
We saw some great moves in this contest from both superstars and these two knew how to make them look good.
It ended with a close 2 count that lead into the sleeper from Dolph, when we thought it was all over for Kofi he gets free and is able to nail the Trouble in Paradise and get the 3.
I love how the WWE have started using the close 2 counts more frequently after big moves; it puts us on the edge of our seats as we actually don’t know when a match will end making it more unpredictable.
When we return from the adverts we head into the second match in the Intercontinental Championship Tournament, Christian vs. Cody Rhodes. Christian’s NXT rookie Heath Slater is at ringside for this contest as well.
I really enjoyed this match, both of these superstars are growing on me and I can see them moving into some good storylines.
Cody is showing great potential for the future as is Christian as well, regardless of who wins I still see them both moving up in the ranks.
This match is quite explosive in WWE standards; we see a top rope Superplex, reversals and close 2 counts.
We see this end on Christian pulling off the Killswitch to take the win; this was the best match of the night a great contest. I am really looking forward to next weeks final match Christian vs. Kofi Kingston, but I do see Vince rehiring Drew and adding him to the match.
We now have some looks back at Big Show from last week, and the incidence between McIntyre and Hardy earlier in the night.
After that we have Jack Swagger come down to the ring, with mic in hand the crowd begin to boo but quite down when he starts talking. This crowd isn’t as riled up as the last time; this crowd just had the odd boo’s but didn’t really get behind it which was a shame. While Jack babbled on we went to a short break when we came back he was still going. At this point the crowd started to chant you suck but instead of keeping it up they went quite again when he spoke.
Jack was finally made quite by the explosion of Kane’s pyro as he heads to the ring.
Not long into this match we have the Big Shows music and he heads down to the ring sporting a new suit and looking quite snazzy. He joins Matt and Todd at the Announcers table.
Big Show stays neutral on the table being nice to Matt and Todd as well as complementing both Kane and Jack’s in ring ability’s.
The match comes to an end as Jack Swagger used an exposed turn buckle for longer than a 5 count. The crowd chant Big Show as Swagger steps towards Show, he thinks twice though and turns round but meets Kane’s boot. Kane clears the table but ends being thrown into the stairs. When he turns from Kane he is caught by Big Show and sent through the announcers table. Big Show takes the World Title and gets in the ring and posses with it making a statement. This ends off a very good show.
My final thoughts of this night are very good, WWE are evolving well even with this PG rating but it should still be removed but hey, they are doing ok.
I love the close calls they are putting into matches making things a lot less predictable and more gripping.
I am looking forward to next weeks show and I am starting to enjoy SmackDown! More and more each week.
I will do another Blog soon with a more in depth look at the events from the night.
This is Matty.D signing off.
Matt then proceeds to talk about McIntyre but this was cut short as McIntyre made his way down to the ring.
McIntyre starts talking about how Vince McMahon thinks he is the future of WWE. Matt Hardy doesn’t back down and calls Drew to the ring. They enter a slug fest just throwing punches as the crowd chant Hardy and refs try to split the two.
Once Matt’s back is turned McIntyre makes a sneak attack and just lays into Matt and the refs struggle to retain him.
Teddy comes out and calls for Drew to stop when he doesn’t listen Teddy suspends him, when he still doesn’t stop he is striped of the Intercontinental Title, he still continues so Teddy moves on to a straight up firing.
McIntyre is removed from the building and Matt is left with a medic by the ring. McIntyre says that he will go to Vince and knowing him he will and we may see Teddy be the one fired.
This was a brilliant opening segment to open with, had me and Paul cringing at some of the hits we saw.
When we come back from the ads Josh Matthews is questioning Teddy but he can’t seem to answer questions straight and seems worried, most probably playing on the fact that Vince may now fire him.
We then head to MVP making his way to the ring for a one on one fight against Festus, I mean Luke Gallows.
This was a great contest; I didn’t see either of these to falter through out the match.
MVP does well to get the Crowd behind him as he starts Balling. As he goes for the Playmaker Serena jumps up for the distraction, this works for a minute but MVP takes control for the win as simultaneously Rey jumped into view and nails punk before running back through the crowd.
When we come back from the ads CM Punk and the S.E.S are in the ring and Punk starts calling Rey a coward for attacking from behind, he then moves on to call out Rey.
Rey comes out and says that he was giving Punk a taste of his own medicine doing what the mystery man has been doing. He asks who the man is where he is going to attack from next.
Punk starts denying it and saying Rey is delusional, and that there is no mystery man. Rey reverses the argument and says how Punk is delusional and that he is here to shave Punks head. Punk says that he beat Rey at Extreme Rules and that he can not do so, but Rey comes back by stating he beat Punk at Wrestlemania, so it’s one to one. Rey and Punk agree to one more match, CM Punk loses he shaves head if Rey loses he joins the S.E.S.
Rey then continues to say why wait till Over the Limit, but Punk refuses. Rey moves on to agree with Punk on what the S.E.S stands for but we do not like the messenger and that he should lead by example and shave his head but Punk is apparently to good for that because he is better than everyone.
Rey starts trying to turn Luke and Serena against him, as he does we see the wheels turning in there heads but no switching sides yet. Rey ends this great promo by saying that there is no escape from the 619.
After the ads we have a snore segment as we head into a Divas Tag Match between LayCool and Kelly Kelly and partner Tiffany.
I could see how this was going to go but I wanted to see some improvement from these Divas.
Michelle seems to show her usual dominance in this match against Tiffany until Matt Stryker’s English love muffing Layla is tagged in and Kelly Joins from the other side, this lead into a bit of mess until LayCool take the win. There is potential from all these divas but WWE just don’t want to push them to there full extent.
After this we see Teddy tell us how we will decide a new Intercontinental Champion. He announces that we will be having a Tournament between, Dolph, Kofi, Cody and Christian. Kofi vs. Dolph and Cody vs. Christian set to happen later in the night. The winners of these matches will go head to head next week to crown a new champion.
After a little ad break we have the first part of this Tournament between Dolph and Kofi.
This was another great contest between these two; I do love how WWE superstars are showing how they can put on a good match regardless of the restrictions WWE has put in place.
We saw some great moves in this contest from both superstars and these two knew how to make them look good.
It ended with a close 2 count that lead into the sleeper from Dolph, when we thought it was all over for Kofi he gets free and is able to nail the Trouble in Paradise and get the 3.
I love how the WWE have started using the close 2 counts more frequently after big moves; it puts us on the edge of our seats as we actually don’t know when a match will end making it more unpredictable.
When we return from the adverts we head into the second match in the Intercontinental Championship Tournament, Christian vs. Cody Rhodes. Christian’s NXT rookie Heath Slater is at ringside for this contest as well.
I really enjoyed this match, both of these superstars are growing on me and I can see them moving into some good storylines.
Cody is showing great potential for the future as is Christian as well, regardless of who wins I still see them both moving up in the ranks.
This match is quite explosive in WWE standards; we see a top rope Superplex, reversals and close 2 counts.
We see this end on Christian pulling off the Killswitch to take the win; this was the best match of the night a great contest. I am really looking forward to next weeks final match Christian vs. Kofi Kingston, but I do see Vince rehiring Drew and adding him to the match.
We now have some looks back at Big Show from last week, and the incidence between McIntyre and Hardy earlier in the night.
After that we have Jack Swagger come down to the ring, with mic in hand the crowd begin to boo but quite down when he starts talking. This crowd isn’t as riled up as the last time; this crowd just had the odd boo’s but didn’t really get behind it which was a shame. While Jack babbled on we went to a short break when we came back he was still going. At this point the crowd started to chant you suck but instead of keeping it up they went quite again when he spoke.
Jack was finally made quite by the explosion of Kane’s pyro as he heads to the ring.
Not long into this match we have the Big Shows music and he heads down to the ring sporting a new suit and looking quite snazzy. He joins Matt and Todd at the Announcers table.
Big Show stays neutral on the table being nice to Matt and Todd as well as complementing both Kane and Jack’s in ring ability’s.
The match comes to an end as Jack Swagger used an exposed turn buckle for longer than a 5 count. The crowd chant Big Show as Swagger steps towards Show, he thinks twice though and turns round but meets Kane’s boot. Kane clears the table but ends being thrown into the stairs. When he turns from Kane he is caught by Big Show and sent through the announcers table. Big Show takes the World Title and gets in the ring and posses with it making a statement. This ends off a very good show.
My final thoughts of this night are very good, WWE are evolving well even with this PG rating but it should still be removed but hey, they are doing ok.
I love the close calls they are putting into matches making things a lot less predictable and more gripping.
I am looking forward to next weeks show and I am starting to enjoy SmackDown! More and more each week.
I will do another Blog soon with a more in depth look at the events from the night.
This is Matty.D signing off.
Thursday, 6 May 2010
Orton Vs. Edge added
Update’s for the upcoming PPV, Over The Limit.
Randy Orton Vs Edge has been added to the card I see this being an interesting contest.
Cena Vs Batista is still looking like The Animals last PPV for a while, suspicion is that the stipulation will be loser leaves show match; this would bring an end to the story and gives Batista an easy way of leaving.
Batista has spoke about doing other things such as movies but it wouldn’t mean the end of his wrestling career, he will most probably make a return in the future. He has said that he would not go to TNA as they could not provide the same payment as WWE where he is earning several million a year.
Beth Phoenix suffered a minor injury during a recording of Superstars during the week, she will be out of action through most of the Mexican tour, but isn’t expected to miss much after that.
Now this is a important blog for me as this is my 10th blog, I have never put so much effort into something like this before so to do 10 in about a week and a half is quite a accomplishment for me.
I do hope I am getting some readers and that those readers are enjoying these blogs.
Matty.D signing out.
Randy Orton Vs Edge has been added to the card I see this being an interesting contest.
Cena Vs Batista is still looking like The Animals last PPV for a while, suspicion is that the stipulation will be loser leaves show match; this would bring an end to the story and gives Batista an easy way of leaving.
Batista has spoke about doing other things such as movies but it wouldn’t mean the end of his wrestling career, he will most probably make a return in the future. He has said that he would not go to TNA as they could not provide the same payment as WWE where he is earning several million a year.
Beth Phoenix suffered a minor injury during a recording of Superstars during the week, she will be out of action through most of the Mexican tour, but isn’t expected to miss much after that.
Now this is a important blog for me as this is my 10th blog, I have never put so much effort into something like this before so to do 10 in about a week and a half is quite a accomplishment for me.
I do hope I am getting some readers and that those readers are enjoying these blogs.
Matty.D signing out.
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