Monday, 3 October 2011

A Quiet Hell in a Cell


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

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

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

Sin Cara vs. Sin Cara was next in line and the match was a good one, the two showed what Mexican wrestling is all about and I hope we see more from these two in the future, whether it be as Sin Cara’s or other names. Unfortunately though the crowd didn’t feel my liking for this match and stayed quiet once again and also some “boring” chants started.
Those on Twitter and I seemed to be enjoying the match so for the crowd to react in such a way really ruined it.
The Blue Sin Cara picked up the win.

A match for the WWE Tag Team Titles between AirBoom and the Team of Jack Swagger and Dolph Ziggler was after the Sin Cara’s match, it did liven the crowd a bit more but not enough to keep them going for the rest of the show. They put on a great back and forth match that showed the development of both teams well.
AirBoom was able to pick up the win and keep the Tag belts to the anger of Vicki Guerrero.
Later in the show Triple H is told that someone is causing problems in the locker rooms, armed with security Triple H and John Laurinaitis head in to find the Miz and R-Truth beating on Kofi and Evan in a ransacked locker room.
The security took Truth and Miz away while Triple H shouts at John.

After the Tag match we had the first of two Hell in a Cell matches, Randy Orton vs. Mark Henry. First way to describe this match is “Worst Hell in a Cell match ever”; it was to short and didn’t make enough use of weapons or the Cell itself.
Randy did nail Mark with the RKO but shockingly Mark kicked out of the pin after. The ending from there didn’t hold together well either as Mark turns a Punt attempt into the World’s Strongest slam to pick up the win.
It was the post-match that was more exciting and I think it should have been included in the match before the Cell was raised. After the match was won the Cell was raised and Mark celebrated, he then grabbed a chair in an attempt to break Randy’s leg like he had done to others before him.
Randy was able to save himself though moving his Chair clasped leg out the way at the last minute, Randy then used the chair viciously on the fleeing Mark Henry.

We moved into a Promo from Cody Rhodes next, in the promo he bagged the old Intercontinental Championship and revealed a new belt. It was in the design of the classic Title with up to date WWE logos and a great looking White Leather strap. It looks brilliant a real classic, this is the type of change we like. Now they need to do the same thing for the WWE Championship, it would be great to bring back a classic designed updated Belt, I personally like the classic look of belts and not the flashy ones like the Spinner US Championship of the past or the Current WWE Championship, and I really don’t like the current design of the Tag belts.
After Cody revealed the belt John Laurinaitis appeared to make an impromptu match for the new Title. Cody was forced to defend the belt against John Morrison and with no time to prepare he had to do it in the suit he was wearing. It was a good match and Cody did come away still holding the Title.

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

 Last match of the night, the Triple Threat Hell in a Cell for the WWE title, this one was more interesting than the previous but still didn’t live up to past Hell in a Cell matches.
The match went well and was rough but not as rough as we would have liked, mid-way through it wasn’t looking good for Alberto Del Rio so Ricardo took out the Ref outside the Cell, Unlocked the Cell door and came in with a Steel Pipe. He was stopped by Cena and forcefully removed from the Cell. Alberto had got the pipe though and used it on Cena. Leaving him outside the Cell, Del Rio then locked himself into the Cell and threw the Key away under the ring.
CM Punk and Del Rio fought for the win and no matter how much Cena tried he could break his way back in. With Cena out of the loop we was guaranteed a new Champion and that was Del Rio after Punk had been hit across the head with the Steel pipe, as soon as the Cell was raised though Cena was on Del Rio.

All Hell did then break loose. Two hooded men appeared from nowhere and stared beating on Cena, Del Rio and Punk. The two men were soon revealed to be Truth and Miz.
As Triple H and Laurinaitis came to the ring the Cell was lowered so no one could get in to stop the anarchy as Miz and Truth were now beating on the Refs that were in the ring as well as striking camera men who were also inside.
Almost the whole WWE locker room came down in an attempt to break into the Cell but all they could do was stand there and shake the cage as Miz and Truth continued beat on anyone inside the Cell.
Cops appeared as well to arrest the two of them as a man with bolt cutters broke through the chain holding the door. As soon as the door was open Truth and Miz held up their hands and went down onto their knees and gave themselves up.
Triple H in a rage was determined to get at the two as the cops handcuffed them. Trips did break free from being held back and beat on Truth and Miz pushing Laurinaitis out of the way to do so.
When he was finally held back the two men were removed and the show ended.

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

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

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

Questions for you

What did you think?

What do you think is next?

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

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

Saturday, 1 October 2011

Hell in a Cell this Sunday!



That’s right WWE’s next PPV is already here. We have had only 2 weeks between Night of Champs and Hell in a Cell yet a lot has happened between then and now.
That being said let’s look at the matches for Hell in a Cell as well as other storyline developments.

Kelly Kelly vs. Beth Phoenix

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





Sheamus vs. Christian

Over the past two weeks these two have been getting into each other’s faces and after Christian did some more moaning to Triple H, Trips booked Christian into a match with Sheamus for this Sunday.
On the lead up Sheamus has been fighting for the Intercontinental Championship against Cody Rhodes but every time it looked like Sheamus was going to win Christian came to the ring and cost Sheamus the match.
This should be a heated and good mid card match.

Sin Cara vs. Sin Cara

That’s right, after weeks of waiting the original Sin Cara came back to our screens and has lead towards the predicted Sin Cara vs. Sin Cara match.
On the lead up the Face Sin Cara has been starting matches but getting taken out and replaced by the Heel Sin Cara while the Ref’s back is turned near the end of most matches.
On SmackDown the Face Sin Cara won his match with ease and impressively against Heath Slater. After the win the Heel Sin Cara appeared on the big screen, he removed his mask to reveal a new black Sin Cara mask under it.
I actually can’t pick a favourite at the moment, when the Black Sin Cara first came in he did seem to perform well but since the original Blue Sin Cara returned he has shown great improvement.
Booker T did mention something on SmackDown during a Sin Cara match witch could be interesting, what if the two Sin Cara’s joined forces? If those two did join up they could make a great improvement to the Tag matches. Maybe Evan Bourn and Kofi Kingston vs. the Sin Cara’s is somewhere down the road? Let’s see what happens at Hell in a Cell first though.

World Heavyweight Championship
Hell in a Cell
Mark Henry vs. Randy Orton

Randy Orton will get his rematch this Sunday in the Devils playground. I think it’s still going to be Mark Henry that walks away with the World Title; he has had a good push and is still dominating.
If Randy’s match from last year against Sheamus is anything to go by we should be in for a good match this Sunday.
I predict Mark will win then at Raw or SmackDown he will claim that no one can beat him, this will lead into the return of a missing star, (possibly Undertaker) who will be the one to knock Mark off his high horse.

WWE Championship
Hell in a Cell
John Cena vs. CM Punk vs. Alberto Del Rio

After Night of Champs Triple H announced that both CM Punk and Alberto Del Rio are entitled to their rematches, Del Rio gets his rematch from losing to John Cena and Punk gets his rematch from losing the WWE Title after Del Rio cashed in his money in the bank.
This match could go in any direction and for me it’s hard to predict. The Triple H COO storyline has made space from this story and is growing legs of its own so depending on what happens Monday we shouldn’t see the stories cross paths to much.

Other Stories and news

The Rebel Alliance

A rebel alliance is forming in the WWE. David Otunga as the brains of the operation, with the help of EVP John Laurinaitis has bought together a group of unhappy superstars. Christian, Cody Rhodes, Dolph Ziggler, Jack Swagger and Vicki Guerrero have all banded together and are hatching a plan to possibly over throw COO Triple H or at least make life very hard for him. They will apparently put their plan in motion this Monday on Raw; we may see something happen at Hell in a Cell as well.
I’m thinking this may lead to a match at Survivor Series, the rebels vs. Triple H’s own created team. My guess for Triple H’s team is Evan Bourn, Kofi Kingston, Mason Ryan, Zack Ryder and Sheamus. The reason I picked Evan and Kofi is because they have been colliding with the now working team of Jack and Dolph, Zack Ryder because he has been climbing the ranks and working well with Kofi and Evan also colliding with Jack and Dolph, Sheamus due to his current feuds with Christian and Cody and lastly Mason Ryan, who has just recently come back to our screens, he came down as the 3rd person in Dolph and Jacks team during a tag match against Kofi, Evan and Zack. Unfortunately for Dolph and Jack when Mason was tagged in he turned on his team mates then left for Zack to pick up the win. This signals the former Gladiators turn from Heel to Face, I hope he has had more training so we should see some great matches from him, he can’t act very well though so I hope he doesn’t cut many promos if any.

John Cena and the Rock Team up!

The other Survivor Series tag match that’s in the pipe line will apparently include The Rock and John Cena on the same team.
Recently the Rock has shown on his facebook pictures of himself training as well as a promo picture of him and John Cena for the coming match.
The tag line to this match is “Never before, never again.” The storyline leading to this could prove to be interesting and regardless this match should be awesome.
Things to think about is who will be their team mates and who will they be facing?






Stone Cold vs. CM Punk possibilities?

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

Questions for you.

Any predictions for Hell in a Cell?

What do you think is going to happen with this forming band of rebels?
Who do you think will be with Cena and Rocky on Team Bring it? And who will they be facing?

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


Monday, 19 September 2011

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 10th 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 3rd 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.

Saturday, 17 September 2011

Night Of Champs this Sunday



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

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

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

Intercontinental Championship
Cody Rhodes vs. Ted DiBiase

This match is quite new to the card as it only came about from this week’s SmackDown show where Ted ambushed Cody as a fan in a paper bag. The two were working together over recent weeks but Cody was the dictator controlling things. After Cody turned on Ted it was obvious where the story was going.
With the recent ambush on SmackDown it has marked yet another character turn as Ted is now Face.
I don’t see this being the best match of the night but should be sure to entertain; I predict Ted will come out new Champ.

Divas Championship
Beth Phoenix vs. Kelly Kelly

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

WWE Tag Team Championships
Evan Bourn & Kofi Kingston (AirBoom) vs. The Miz & R-Truth

The Tag Division is really improving and this match is great proof of that. Kofi and Even were already at the forefront both being great stars in the singles division, as well as Truth and Miz, so what better way to raise the Tag Titles than to throw the four of them in the mix in what should a great match up at Night Of Champs. From there they can bring in the lower Tag Teams to help boost their status and make some interesting matches.
Not to fussed on who wins the match as the story should go forward well regardless, I just hope for a great match.

US Championship Fatal 4 Way
Dolph Ziggler vs. Alex Riley vs. John Morrison vs. Jack Swagger

Fatal 4 ways always promise to excite and I don’t see this one being any different, all four stars are great in ring performers, I’m looking forward to seeing how A-Ry has developed, I’m looking forward to John Morrison flying around the ring and outside the ring with his parkour style and Jack Swagger and Dolph should bring forward mat wrestling and Submissions.
My support will be on Alex but I don’t mind seeing Morrison win this either. I think that Jack and Dolph’s recent problems about Vicki will be there down fall.

WWE Championship
Alberto Del Rio vs. John Cena

To be honest with you guys, I am really not bothered about this match. I am already bored of Del Rio and the only reason he was given the belt was so he would be champion during the Mexican tour, and John Cena is John Cena, he is always the one going for the WWE Title, why not do something different for once? Stick Cena in a different storyline and leave some other Superstars to fight over the belt for once. This story is already bland and boring and I feel the match maybe the same.
On the other hand though there have been some great matches leading towards the PPV, most notable being the 8 man tag match on Raw a couple weeks ago, which of course Cena won.
I’m not bothered but that match may just surprise me.

World Heavyweight Championship
Randy Orton vs. Mark Henry

Randy and Mark have had a great lead up to this match, Randy always comes to impress and Mark has been improving greatly over the past couple months. I think we should be in for an interesting match or should I say fight as things really blew up on this week’s SmackDown. With the show being in Toronto Canada we had Edge make a special appearance and hosted a special Cutting Edge where he interviewed both Mark and Randy. The two men were given a no contact rule for the duration of the Cutting Edge so Mark and Randy were not allowed to touch each other. Edge and Randy both gave Mark some probing questions about Marks long career and why he still hasn’t won a WWE World Title.
The Heat rose in the ring and Edge pointed out that the no contact rule was only during the Cutting Edge, while saying this he moved the stalls out the way and headed out the ring before proceeding to say, “That the Cutting Edge is now officially over.” As soon as that was said Edge left and Mark and Randy went into a Brawl, Theodore Long called on a load of mid and low card Superstars to help split the two but it was no good. In the end all the mid and low carders got floored and Randy received a Worlds Strongest Slam leaving Mark as the only man standing. He posed with the World Title and that’s where the show closed. It defiantly looks like Mark will be the winner this Sunday.

CM Punk vs. Triple H
No DQ

This will obviously be the main match of the show and the new ruling is if Triple H loses he resigns as COO. I personally don’t want that to happen, the storylines and direction of things have really improved since Triple H has been bought to the forefront. If he does lose I hope he sticks around as Superstar and not management.
The Kevin Nash side of this story has sort of fizzled out due to the fact that he was unable to wrestle. WWE have released Nash from his contract according to the WWE Website but anything could happen still, you never know we may see him interfere in this match.
With the DQ rule in place the match is open to more possibilities almost anything could happen. I am hoping for the same sort of match that we got for Christian vs. Randy in there great match from SummerSlam.

Sin Cara vs. Sin Cara??

This is an unconfirmed match, it may not even happen on this PPV, but it’s something that has to be mention as the real Sin Cara has now returned for the potential match to come.
After the Heel Sin Cara lost to Daniel Bryan by DQ on this week’s SmackDown the Sin Cara music played and the Face Sin Cara came to the ring in the usual fashion. The two had a standoff and it was obvious that the match may be around the corner.

Questions For You.


What are your predictions?

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

What match you most looking forward to?

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

Wednesday, 31 August 2011

WWE’s “Super” Shows


Well Monday and Tuesday this week saw a “Raw Super Show” and a Live “Super SmackDown!” Both shows included great matches and great story telling.

Both shows saw Superstars from across WWE but of course the main story across both shows was the CM Punk, Triple H and Kevin Nash storyline.

Nash, Punk and Hunter

On the Raw show we had Kevin Nash announce that John Laurinaitis had signed him to a very lucrative contract, it was then that the match was finally made for Night Of Champions to have Kevin Nash face CM Punk. Oddly though at the end of Raw Triple H changed that match to CM Punk vs. Triple H.
On SmackDown! we had yet another interesting and brilliant contract signing for that match between Punk and Triple H, addressing the issue and pushing the story further.
In Story Triple H was saying how he wants to take things into his own hands and that it’s not business any more but it is personal. Punk was trying to push on the fact that he wants change in the WWE to make things better, something that will help the company if we get it.
The match was signed and Nash came to the ring and struck down both Punk and Triple H before leaving the arena.

Now in reality Nash apparently had a problem of some sort in his physical making him unfit to compete in a match, we may not see him compete at all in this return. I’m not sure how true that report is and it may still all be part of the storyline but for now it looks like Triple H vs. CM Punk at Night Of Champions with the possibility of Nash getting involved. Either way it should be good.

CM Punk did have a match on Raw against The Miz but it ended on R-Truth coming to Miz’s rescue that helps push on their possible Tag Team. Great match to.

Del Rio and Cena

Over both these shows we had the absence of WWE Champion Alberto Del Rio, and you would have thought that when you do Super Shows you should have your Champion.  He was not missed though. His opponent for Night Of Champs was of course on both shows because John Cena is almost always on WWE TV. On Raw he ended up taking on Christian and Mark Henry, while tagged to the unlikely partner of Sheamus. It was another great match that ended the Raw show. On SmackDown Cena took on Englishman Wade Barrett in an entertaining kick start to the SmackDown show.

Mark Henry

Over recent weeks Mark Henry has had a great push and both Raw and SmackDown this week was no exception of this, he did well in the previously mentioned tag match and on SmackDown he made himself known after another great World Championship match between Randy Orton and Christian which Randy won.
Mark came to the ring got himself into the Cage after Randy’s victory, a brawl started but Mark got the upper hand laid out the Viper. Mark then took the Championship and posed over Randy, will this be the result at Night Of Champs?
This push on Mark has come across brilliantly and his Heel character has developed well. This may be because WWE are considering Mark as Undertakers opponent at Mania next year.
Taker is meant to be making his return at Vengeance to start his storyline to Mania, but to be honest even with Mark’s big push I would still prefer a bigger star to be Undertakers opponent at Mania, especially as this maybe his last Wrestlemania also he has already faced Mark at Mania in match that wasn’t the best.

Randy Orton

Randy Orton was able to shine on both shows this week, on Raw he took on US Champ Dolph Ziggler in a great match but it ended with a slightly dodgy looking RKO. And as previously mentioned he had an Epic match once again with Christian, to this point none of their matches have been bad and they always come to impress. Can he win at Night Of Champs though against the big man?

Sin Cara and Sin Cara

Left Místico, Right Incognito
Now if you don’t know all ready or you just haven’t realised, the Sin Cara we have been watching is not the one we were originally introduced to.
The first Sin Cara we watched was Mexican Luchador Místico, he was Sin Cara between the original debut and Money in the Bank.
After Money in the Bank it was announced that Místico had failed the WWE wellness programme and therefore he was suspended.
After a few weeks of absence Sin Cara was announced to be making his return, the Sin Cara that we got though, which is the one we have now, is Mexican Luchador Incognito.
Now out of the two I prefer Incognito, he may be bulkier but he seems to perform very well in the ring, better than Místico in my opinion.

So jump forward to this week, on Raw Sin Cara number 2 took on Jack Swagger and won. On SmackDown he took on Money in the Bank winner Daniel Bryan and won again both matches being good. At the end of the SmackDown match Sin Cara offered his hand in show of good sportsmanship to Daniel Bryan, after he kicked Bryan round the head marking the heel turn of Sin Cara, or at least this version of Sin Cara.
The possible outcomes to all this maybe a Sin Cara vs. Sin Cara match. It would be slightly odd but if the story pans out we could end up in a great Luchador match.

Tagging up

Tag champs AirBoom, AKA Evan Bourn and Kofi Kingston defended their titles against former champs David Otunga and Michael McGillicutty who have now been branded as a boring tag team, I do not agree, I still feel that they have a classic style and great tag chemistry. With WWE branding them as boring doesn’t help either of these young stars climb to be top performers.

So to sum up the two shows were great, SmackDown has recently been struggling in the ratings so let’s hope that the Super Show helped boost its ratings because the last thing people want is the loss of SmackDown.

Questions for you

Where do you think the Punk, Nash and Triple H Story is heading?

How would you feel about Mark vs. Taker at Mania?

Which Sin Cara do you prefer, that’s if you noticed?
Do you agree with WWE that Otunga and McGillicutty are boring?

I know that isn’t my best blog, I struggled to write this as I just didn’t know where to start, there is so much going on right now that I couldn’t get my bearings. I am hoping I can be more clear headed for my next blog.

For now this is Matty.D signing off.

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