A Messy Night Of Champs

Last night’s PPV was a pretty average show; the last match of the night though was just a mess and couldn’t seem to pull its self together.

The night kicked off with a pretty good Tag match with controversy and conspiracy.

The match started well and Kofi and Evan were wearing matching colours. During the match the Ref made a couple mistakes that he won’t soon forget.

During the match Evan clapped his hand to cover up that he didn’t tag and jumped in the ring. The Ref “heard” the clap and assumed it was a tag and allowed Evan into the match, Miz and Truth though were in an up roar over the sly move by AirBoom. Later in the match the Ref’s back was turned when Miz tagged Truth in, when the Ref turned around he straight away halted Truth and sent him back on the apron as he didn’t “see” a tag, while the Ref was busy with Truth Miz nailed The Skull Crushing Finale on Evan and made the cover, it should have been the end and AwesomeTruth should be the winners but as the Ref was still preoccupied with Truth he missed the Pin completely, by the time he turned around he only counted to 1 when Evan kicked out.

That was the last straw for Miz and Truth as Miz shouted at the Ref and eventually hit him. Truth then helped the Ref back up just to slap him back to the Mat, the two were obviously disqualified.

A little later backstage the two voiced their anger in a short interview promo.

Next we had a pretty average contest between Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase. Cody won after having his masked removed by Ted. Ted attempted to hit Cody but ended up being rolled into a pin losing the match.

Cody Retains the Intercontinental Championship.

We had a short promo from Christian once again demanding another match for the world title; shockingly the crowd seemed to agree. The Great White Sheamus then came to the ring and supported Christian as long as Sheamus got the first shot at the belt after Christian had won it. Sheamus then chanted one more match along with the crowd before nailing Christian with a bro kick.

Next was, in my opinion the best match of the night, a Fatal 4 Way for the US Championship. All 4 men came to impress and they didn’t disappoint, great moves and close calls throughout. There were moments that it looked like all the competing superstars were going to win but each time there was a kick out or it was foiled by another competitor.

In the end Jack Swagger nailed a Jack Knife power bomb on John Morrison, as he was going for the cover Dolph shoved Jack out the way and took the pin to retain his US Title.

Next was Mark Henry vs. Randy Orton in another average match, there was nothing to really get excited about. Couple close calls but in the end Randy was foiled with a keyfab leg injury allowing Mark to take the win and the World Title. Josh Matthews then came down and “interviewed” Mark. Mark just took the mic and said how he is not losing the title, how he will take on all comers and not run from no body.

I think this is all hinting towards the Undertaker being the one to come and knock Mark off his pedestal and roll the story towards Mania, all though id prefer to see someone else take on Taker at Mania. Mark has improved but not enough to make an amazing Mania match for Taker.

Up next was the Divas match, one that actually had the crowd cheering loudly, the reason being is Night Of Champs was in Buffalo, Beth Phoenix’s home town. The arena was on her side and it’s been a long time since crowd got this loud over a Divas match.

This actually was a good match, one of the better matches from the Divas that we have seen in quite a while. The crowd went with some “Kelly Sucks” chants but even so Kelly actually didn’t do too bad in this match, she showed some great development. It was great match for both these women.

During the match we had something that we rarely see from Women in the WWE, Beth Phoenix took Kelly to the top rope and a Superplexed her to the Mat, a great moment for the Divas in the WWE, it shows the slight changes as the Divas Division improves. After the Superpelx Kelly kicked out the pin, Beth then went for the Glamslam but it was reversed into a quick roll up and Kelly won the match, a huge upset for the fans in Buffalo as well as Beth herself and me.

A surprisingly good WWE Championship match was next, before the match even started though Del Rio came to the ring absent a car; he got to the ring and started shouting at Ricardo about where his keys were. John Cena’s music the played and he appeared driving Del Rio’s Yellow Ferrari.

We then had Ricardo introduce Del Rio, followed by Cena humorously introducing himself.

The match was actually better than expected; it really showed why Cena is always the one going for the Title and why Del Rio currently has the title. After a great back and forth contest Cena finally pulled off the win causing Del Rio to tap to the STF. Cena wins the WWE Title for the 10^th time.

Next was the highly anticipated no DQ match between CM Punk and Triple H. Unfortunately this match didn’t live up to expectations, it was a mess and I don’t know if anyone knows what the point of it all was.

The match kicked off with Punk hitting Triple H off the apron during his entrance just after the water spit.

The two men then fought around the ring in typical Triple H style. The match continued on inside the ring and outside, up through the crowd and by titontron. All this should have really got the crowd going but the cheers seemed to die down and the crowd didn’t seem to be feeling the vibe.

The match kept going strong for the first half of it, the use of a Steel chair came in and the announcers table became a target. Punk pulled off an amazing move, jumping from the turnbuckle onto Triple H who was lying across the Spanish announcers table. The two slowly crawled themselves back into the ring while the replay of the Holy Shit moment was shown, once in the ring things started to become messy.

The Miz and R-Truth come to the ring and didn’t beat up just one of the two men but both of them. They then dragged Punk over Triple H and demanded the Ref count the Pin, Triple H kicked out at the count of 2 to the disbelief of Truth and Miz.

Miz started Shouting at the Ref, Miz pointing at himself saying “Do you know who I am?” and the Ref just came back with the same response pointing at his shirt emphasizing that he is a WWE Official. The two really got in each other’s faces, the sort of thing you don’t usually see from a referee. Miz then shoved the Ref not once but twice, before finally throwing a punch which was shockingly reversed by the Ref and Miz received a punch instead. Not the smartest move by Referee Scot Armstrong as he then got a beat down by both Miz and Truth.

John Laurinaitis then made his way to ring side calling for someone from out the back to follow. In the ring Punk and Triple H had finally got themselves back on their feet and they beat on Truth and Miz clearing them out the ring.

Punk then received a Pedigree from Triple H and it looked to be all over, that is if we had a Ref about. A Ref did then run down the ramp towards the ring where Triple H was now covering Punk but John Laurinaitis stopped him and told him to attend to Scot Armstrong the fallen referee instead. Triple H confused about not getting a Ref to count the pin started calling to John to get the Ref in the ring, when Triple H turned back he ended up in a GTS, it was when Punk went for the Pin that John then sent the ref in the ring, by now I think we was all like “what the hell is going on?”

Ref counted 1 then 2 then R-Truth who was still down at ringside pulled Punk off of Triple H and out the ring. Truth also received a GTS for his troubles.

Punk crawls back towards the ring, John Laurinaitis continues to attend to Scot Armstrong, and Triple H slowly rises. Punk jumps off the ropes and lands into a kick and yet another Pedigree, Triple H goes for the cover but shockingly Punk was able to kick out.

John Laurinaitis seeing this turns away from the ring on his phone, next thing you know the apparently fired Kevin Nash made his way through the crowd and into the ring where he takes down both Punk and Triple H, he then beats on Triple H and goes for his signature Powerbomb. Punk then jumps back into the fray stopping it and beats on Nash. Nash gets the upper hand and Powerbombs Punk.

(Struggling to keep up? Because it wasn’t easy for me either.) Leaving Punk in the ring Nash goes back after Triple H. Nash clears the still standing announcers table being careful not to break any equipment, when he turns back he gets a face full of Sledge Hammer which Triple H had grabbed from under the ring while out of shot.

The crowd now did sound to be going wild even though I don’t think anyone knew what the hell was going on.  Chants collided as Triple H was cheered for as well as CM Punk. Once back in the ring Triple H nailed Punk with a 3^rd and final Pedigree and winning the match.

Now to piece it together, Truth and Miz obviously don’t want Triple H to be COO, that would be why they got Punk to cover Triple H in there attack, the question then is why did Truth then pull Punk off of Triple H later in the match?

John Laurinaitis didn’t want someone to win this match, most probably Triple H but it wasn’t 100% clear to us. John is also likely to be in cahoots with Nash as it was obvious the person that John was meant to be texting on his Phone was Nash. Nash has beef with both Punk and Triple H but wanted a certain outcome as well, first impressions is he wants Triple H to lose as Triple H seemed to be Nash’s main target when he enters the ring.

Will questions be answered on tonight’s Raw? And what will happen between now and Hell in a Cell which is only 2 weeks away?

Let’s hope tonight’s Raw will have some answers and expect to see the first matches for Hell in a Cell announced tonight.

It will be yet another Super Show which seems to be the way Raw has been for the last few weeks for no real reason.

Also on tonight’s Raw we will have a guest star. Hugh Jackman, better known as Logan or Wolverine from the X-Men movie series, will be on the show, he will most probably be promoting his new movie Real Steel.

Questions for you.

Did you make any sense of the final match?

What match stood out for you?

Any predictions on where any of the storylines are heading?

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

SummerSlam Shines!

Last night’s SummerSlam event was the best WWE PPV of the year! It had everything you could ask for, great action and promos, an amazing set of matches, a controversial moment, the return of a star and a screwing of a Champ.

The night kicked off with a 6-Man tag match. John Morrison, Rey Mysterio and Kofi Kingston took on Alberto Del Rio, R-Truth and the Miz in a great opening contest which saw Rey pick up the 3 count.

This lead into a much better than usual Big Man match between the now Face Sheamus, who the crowd just loves, and the Angry Black Man Mark Henry.

The match was won by Mark as he slammed Sheamus through the barricade in great Pro Wrestling fashion, Mark was able to crawl his way back into the ring for the Ref to count out Sheamus.

We then moved into a stellar performance from Cee Lo Green as he performed both the SummerSlam theme song “Bright Lights, Bigger City.” And “Forget you.”

Music performances usually get a bad rep and Wrestling shows but Cee Lo bought it hard and performed brilliantly. Also they didn’t take up too much time it was perfectly placed.

After Cee Lo had left our screens we moved it another surprisingly good match between Kelly Kelly and Beth Phoenix. For a WWE Divas match this was actually a great performance from both Kelly and Beth. My support was on Beth (obviously), but Kelly ended up picking up the win by reversing the Glam Slam into a pin. I don’t see this being the end of this rivalry, expect to see more from Beth, Natalya, Eve and Kelly and let’s hope for more improvement in the Divas division.

We then had an appearance by Jimmy Heart back stage as he talks with R-Truth about conspiracy in a great promo.

This lead into NXT Season 1 stars Daniel Bryan vs. Wade Barrett. Yet another brilliant match, Bryan and Wade didn’t pull any punches as the match looked as real as could possibly get, fists were flying and so were knees and feet, I’m amazed that someone didn’t lose a tooth.

Wade Barrett picked up the win but you can’t deny the fact that both of these guys are the future of Wrestling.

We then moved into main event number one, Christian vs. Orton. Before the match even started Christian bought out his “insurance policy”, a man he was going to have in his corner to help him retain his World Title, that man was Edge.

Edges music played, and the crowd blew the roof as Edge made his way to the ring. Edge wasn’t around for long though as he basically called Christian, “A whiney little Bitch” before leaving Christian to fend for himself.

Randy then emerged and we headed into my favourite match of the night. It was a no DQ match the way it should be. They fought in the ring, they fought out of the ring, and they fought in the crowd. What else did we see in the match? Kendo sticks, Tables, Trash Cans, Steel Chairs and Steel Steps not to mention that neither of them were pulling there punches. For a PG rated show this match pushed that limit as far as it could. The match was spectacular and entertaining but was rather dangerous as at a couple of times during the match it had looked that Randy may have been injured, regardless though the man pushed on through. I felt I was watching the attitude era again, just with a lot less blood and like I’ve said before Blood isn’t needed to make a match like this great.

Randy picked up the win by catching Christian as he comes off the turnbuckle into an RKO on the Steel Steps that were lying in the ring. Randy looked to have hit his head hard on the steps in the process but he got the 3 count that regained him the World Heavyweight Championship. I loved this match so much that I’m actually watching it again as I write this.

Now before I talk about main event number 2 I just want to let you know that Triple H’s wife Stephanie McMahon was back stage and throughout the night it looked that Trips and Steph may have been conspiring to have Cena win. That didn’t really be the case though as the match went forward without a hitch, (kinder like I predicted.)

Triple H did a fine job as your everyday WWE referee. You know a Ref is doing a good job when you forget he is even there and that was the case with Triple H. That was at least until both Punk and Cena were lying outside the ring close to a double count out. Trips didn’t want things to end that way so he threw each one of them back in the ring and got the match to keep going. The match was another brilliant one and was at the same level as Punk vs Cena at MitB. The ending though had its controversy. The GTS was nailed on Cena and Punk took the pin, Triple H counted the 3 count and not seeing that Cena’s foot was on the bottom rope gave Punk the win. Something that even a normal ref has done before. Cena had a small protest with Triple H but left Punk to celebrate.

Triple H held up Punks hand in victory but Punk kept his eyes on Triple up until he left the ring. What happened next though just left us all in shock.

Quietly through the crowd came the big man Kevin Nash, he clotheslined Punk then nailed a Jack Knife power bomb leaving Punk in the middle of the ring. Triple H was at the top of the ramp and he looked on in awe, he then walked back down to confront Nash but he was already on his way back through the crowd.

In the background Del Rio appeared, a Ref by his side and MitB briefcase in hand, that’s right not only has Punk been nailed by Nash but gets screwed by Del Rio as he pins Punk after a swift kick in seconds taking the WWE Championship.

Triple H looked to of just lost control and didn’t know what was going on, Punk gets attacked by Nash then screwed by Del Rio and Trips is standing there trying to make sense of it all.

This ending has left us all with questions, and I’m sure we will be watching Raw tonight to try and find the answers.

The prediction amongst my friends is that Kevin Nash is working for Del Rio and that he is playing a body guard role. I think that could be interesting but I actually think I’d prefer to have Nash as new singles competitor but I guess only time will tell.

I give SummerSlam a full 5 out 5 stars!

Matty.D signing off.

Vince Got Punked at Money in the Bank!

Well last night’s PPV blew the roof, sent in the air, past the clouds and landed on the moon! That’s how good it was. Most of that reason for that is of course was the final 30 to 45 minutes of the show.

History was made as CM Punk left the building and apparently the company with the WWE championship.

The build up to this match was brilliant, creative, realistic and interesting. As soon as the World Title match had finished up the crowd was going nuts, chants for CM Punk were running through the arena, signs for Punk held up all over the place, a banner was dropped down that said “If Punk Loses we Riot!”, it bought back memories of a sign for RVD vs. Cena at ECW’s One Night Stand.

We had the VT for the match build up and the crowd were still going wild. When Punk came out you wouldn’t have been able to hear yourself think as the crowd blew up even loader. CM Punk basked in his cheers, building up the crowd more and more loving every moment. Cena’s music then played and the crowd switched to some of the loudest boo’s ever heard in Pro-Wrestling.

All this lead into a highly fuelled up and down, back and forth match, close calls, big moves and suspense. It lasted over half an hour, there were so many great moments and it really did show why CM Punk is the best, but it did also show why Cena is good at what he does.

Vince McMahon and John Laurinaitis came to the ring near the end and watched from the side lines. When Cena locked in the STF for 3^rd time in the match Vince started calling for the bell, John Laurinaitis headed towards the time keeper but Cena let go of the STF slid out the ring and gave Laurinaitis a punch sending him the floor, he then shouted at Vince, “Not this way, not this way.” When back in the ring Cena fell victim to the GTS, the 3 count was made and CM Punk won the WWE championship. Vince was furious and took a headset from the announcers table and called for Del Rio to cash in his Money in the Bank Contract which he won earlier in the night. Del Rio came but before he could officially cash in he was knocked out by Punk who then left through the roaring Crowd with the WWE championship. A great way to end the show.

Now although that was the best part of the PPV, and was the main reason it was so good, there were some great Ladder matches as well. The SmackDown! Match that opened the show though was better than the Raw, it seemed more stable and choreographed than the Raw that seemed more messy.

The SmackDown! Side had a great match to open the show, highflying moments big moves and more, not to mention of course a deserving winner. My pick of the match Daniel Bryan was the winner. I was rather pleased.

Later on the Raw side saw Del Rio win in a less impressive match, still good but was messy, little mistakes were spotted every now and again.

Before the WWE Title match we had the World Title match that had an extra stipulation that was if Randy was disqualified he loses the belt. That became the result as Christian spat in Randy’s face sending him in a frenzy, beating on Christian to the edge of a 5 count until he kicked Christian in the balls.

Christian was awarded the belt but Randy went after Christian beating on him and RKO’ing Christian on the Spanish announcers table. As he was leaving he came back and did it again. Another tremendous match between these two men.

The only other matches were the Divas match that I didn’t really pay attention to and the Big Show vs. Mark Henry which was reasonable. Nevertheless those two matches don’t take away from how good this event was, it will go down in history, it will be spoken about for weeks, months, years!

I give this PPV a solid 5 stars out of 5!

WWE must have something good to come, as I say let’s hope they don’t drop the ball. Raw tonight should be an interesting one, what will be the outcome of Punk leaving? Will there be a new belt? Will Punk surface in a few months on a rival brand with the WWE Championship? (I wouldn’t have thought so.) But the way this storyline has gone almost anything is possible.

Links

Here are some links you might be interested in:

CM Punk talks to GQ.

The Sun Wrestling’s Money in the Bank review.

Questions for you.

So what’s next?

Where do you think the belt could go if anywhere?

Any predictions?

Well that’s all for now, don’t forget to watch Raw tonight.

Matty.D Signing off.