tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51727593134783646412024-02-20T18:37:41.109-08:00Zom's World of WrestlingZomIIXChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687275306466433149noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5172759313478364641.post-2341965170623426502012-02-16T04:25:00.003-08:002012-02-16T04:41:15.893-08:002/13/2012 Elimination Chamber Go-Home Show, featuring Eve's TnA<strong><u><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Elimination Chamber Debate</span></u></strong><br />
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Unfortunately, I kid you not, RAW opens with not only another talking segment, but this time, its a freaking debate involving the six superstars from Sunday's Elimination Chamber match... <br />
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CM Punk's reaction explains it all. Who gives a fuck honestly?<br />
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But for those who do... <br />
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Up on the titantron they explain to the viewers at home that John Larinigitis (one of these days I'll figure out how to spell that word correctly) kept his job via WWE.com, but good ol' Mr Excitement himself can't help but come out and reintroduce himself to the live crowd, before disappearing backstage just as quick. <br />
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Punk decides to once again crack jokes on J.Ace regarding blackmail and naked animal sex pics, (WWE PG be damned) as Ziggler and Truth trade insults at one another regarding spiders, and dolphins. Truth was somewhat comical here... probally because he took a look at his last year of his career before coming out for this segment. <br />
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Miz interrupts and once again preaches that he was in the main event of Wrestlemania 27, and buzzer be damned he gets out every single line of his promo and personally I loved every second of his over run response. It displayed a certain I dont give a fuck about the rules attitude. <br />
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Eventually King moves onto Jericho, who decides to actually do what a debate is designed for an present information to support your cause. Or at least that's what I think debates are supposed to be for, I never really gave a damn about them in school and I didn't really care about this one here tonight. <br />
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Jericho mentions that back in 2010, he went into an Elimination Chamber match as a challenger, and walked out a Champion... with a little assist from Shawn Michaels, but none the less he leaves out the part about losing said championship to Jack freaking Swagger only a month later, this leads to him leaving from behind his podium and once again turning his attention to Punk. <br />
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Because we all know that (the people at the arena) paid to see their favorite superstars chit chatting for 15 minutes without even a single punch thrown, Kofi Kingston finally puts an end to this "non violent" debate with a sweet Trouble in Paradise to Jericho leading into the first match of the night.<br />
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<strong><u><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Jericho def. Kingston via pinfall</span></u></strong><br />
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Standard match, nothing overly special here... With this loss, I am afraid that Kingston is now tied with Miz in "best chance to lose in 6th place" on Sunday<br />
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<strong><u><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Orton def. Big Show via disqualification following Daniel Bryan interferance</span></u></strong><br />
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Orton botches his own finisher during this one and recieves the subsequent "You fucked up" chant from the crowd. Wonder if Big Show will get blamed for this one?<br />
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Daniel Bryan, however finally does something truly <u>heelish</u> by hitting both Orton AND Show with the title belt while smiling... all heel moves... but then again, he's been booed for weeks so a "heel" turn doesn't really matter at this point. <br />
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<strong><u>*Spoiler Alert for Smackdown*</u></strong> <span style="background-color: black; color: black;">Orton out, Santino Marella in, after Orton suffered concussion from said title shot to the head. More support for Bryan because he is doing whatever he can, even including injuring superstars (in storyline) to keep his championship. </span><br />
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<strong><u><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Shawn Micheals / Triple H promo feat. Undertaker cutting his hair</span></u></strong><br />
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Another Triple H promo that goes way longer than it needs to as he repeats several key lines and loses the impact every time each repeated word is said (see what I did there?) <br />
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Shawn calls Hunter a coward for declining Taker's challenge. HHH claims Michaels just wants him to accept and beat Taker because deep down Shawn is mad he couldn't beat Taker himself... <br />
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Taker interrupts on the titantron with another video message and is shown cutting his trademark "wig from two weeks ago" black hair, and a possible tease at the return of the Big Evil / American Bad Ass character. <br />
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What started as me yawning over the repeated promos from last year, I am now extremely interested in where this goes.<br />
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<strong><u><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Truth def. Ziggler via roll-up pinfall</span></u></strong><br />
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Ziggler proceeds to care more about "showing off" then winning the match and proceeds to do sit-ups instead of going for the win, so Truth steals a win by rolling him up. Nothing special here, other than the battle of the one-ups. <br />
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<strong><u><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Tamina <em>(who is apparently now using her last name)</em> Snuka def. Brie Bella via pinfall</span></u></strong><br />
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Tamina fights off both Brie in the ring and Nikki on the ring ropes as Beth Phoenix sits on commentary. <br />
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She actually hits a series of genuine wrestling moves including a properly executed Superfly Splash in one of the longest non PPV Divas matches in a long time. At least this time she properly tucked her leg back for the Splash.<br />
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<strong><em>Tamina Snuka vs. Beth Phoenix for the Divas Championship is announced for this Sunday</em></strong><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;"><strong><u>Following a Rock "promoting Journey 2" video promo... </u></strong><strong><u>Cena and Kane deal with botches, bitches, and Zack Ryder</u></strong></span></span><br />
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In what was another botch of the evening... They cut to Eve and Kane way to early and show Eve (who is supposed to be screaming and being thrown into the ambulance against her will) leisurely walking into position as Kane actually had to get tapped on the shoulder by the script holder for his cue to actually start the segment. As if this storyline doesn't make Kane look stupid enough now you got botches he can't control. <br />
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Cena fights off Kane, Kane retreats to the driver seat, and Eve jumps out of both the ambulance, and her top, into Cena's awaiting arms and mouth, as Kane drives off, with Ryder looking disgusted nearby. <br />
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We return from commercial to see Ryder rolling away as Eve apologizes for not being completely topless in the previous segment (not really) and putting him into the "friend zone" before he rolls off again without saying a word<br />
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<strong><u><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">CM Punk def. The Miz via submission</span></u></strong><br />
<em>*personal note* Because potentially injuring your fellow superstars due to your botches earns you a main event match the following week... take notes Tyler Reks</em><br />
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Punk kind of dominates this match without making Miz out to be a jobber, hits his top rope Savage elbow drop, attempts the GTS, gets countered by Miz into a SCF, which in turn gets countered into the Anaconda Vice for the win. <br />
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As I stated earlier that with Kingston losing to Jericho it knocked him into that "6th place" spot for Sunday's PPV with Miz only slightly ahead due to Punk having to look strong being that he IS the WWE Champion. <br />
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<strong><u><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Cena gets main event time to talk about bitches, broskis, more botches, and breaking kayfabe</span></u></strong><br />
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Cena claims that Eve kissing him was part of Kane's plan all along... if so, can Kane beat the shit out of me for a couple of weeks? Please?<br />
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After once again teasing the audience with a heel turn and earning himself some <em>"We All Hate You" </em>and <em>"Fruity Pebbles"</em> chants Ryder rolls out the stage and proceeds to botch selling his neck injury by dropping one of his crutches off his knees and attempting to reach for it way to quickly if his neck was really broken. <br />
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After slowly making it to the ring while obviously forgetting what injuries he was supposed to be selling, he climbs, Broski slaps Cena (see what I did there?) and once again gets BLOCKED (twice, in one night by Cena... damn) only this time its after Ryder tries to punch him, so it was deserved.<br />
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After tripping back onto his ass, and doing more injury selling Ryder gets himself back into his wheelchair, as Kane appears on the titantron and cuts what I can only assume is his final HATE promo leading into this Sunday's Ambulance match. <br />
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However, as it finishes, Cena (off-camera) goes to grab a microphone to respond only for Kane to appear behind Ryder and push the Long Island Iced Z off the stage onto the concrete which I admit even looked tough to watch because of the way Ryder's ankles dragged underneath the chair<br />
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<em>*personal note* Jeezus WWE we get it, Ryder gave you guys horrible ratings during that one main event a few weeks ago, but 3 or 4 injury angles in a row... not to mention you not only force the guy to move his Youtube show over to your stupid WWE channel, but you also disable the comments that allowed for everyone to voice their support the guy... enough is enough</em><br />
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Eve comes out, with her top still unbuttoned (I'm sorry, I notice these things) and does her best duckface impression, flashing the camera a little ass crack as she kneels down to check on Ryder.<br />
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Cena gives the "oh shit a serious injury just happened <strong>X</strong> sign" and the EMTs attempt to figure out how to work a stretcher as one of the fans in the front row wearing a Rey Mysterio mask attempts to take pictures of Eve's cleavage. <br />
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Considering there is only four matches on the card for this Sunday's Pay-Per View, this show actually did a good job of selling the three that RAW is responsible for... its only unfortunate that <strong>there's only four goddam matches on the card </strong>and so much underused talent backstage. But knowing WWE, they will probally add 1 or 2... or as we saw at the Royal Rumble <strong>THREE</strong> unannounced matches just to fill up the usual average seven match card<br />
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As I sign off I make a prediction that an unannounced United States Championship as well as a Tag Team Championship will take place... the only problem I see is... I haven't watched Superstars or NXT enough lately to give a damn about who a possible challenger for either title would be. After all Ryder is technically the #1 contender until he loses his rematch...ZomIIXChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687275306466433149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5172759313478364641.post-86466892613893377492012-01-30T23:56:00.000-08:002012-01-31T00:02:48.425-08:001-31-12 IMO The Greatest RAW of 2012, thus far (+Royal Rumble results)<strong><u>Opening Promo w/ Punk, Laurinitis, Bryan, and Sheamus</u></strong><br />
<strong><em>"You've somehow figured out a way to both suck and blow at the same time" - CM Punk</em></strong><br />
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Typical Punk promo ragging on Laurinitis and repeating almost everything he has said over the last couple of weeks, however this time good ol Johnny Ace was corpsin like a champ, clearly smiling on camera when he should've been mad... apparently since tonight is Johnny's final night as GM he has made an IWC's wet dream come true in the form of a CM Punk vs. Daniel Bryan main event Champion vs. Champion match for the 10 pm hour. (G_d forbid an actual wrestling match takes place in the final segment...) <br />
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2012's Royal Rumble winner Sheamus comes out to a better pop than what he got last night when he won the damn match and does the typical "who will I challenge?" tease while looking at both of the champs. (With the rumors going around that the Jericho/Punk match will be at Wrestlemania for the WWE championship, and the historic unluck of last years Sheamus/Bryan US title match being pushed off the card into the dark match... and being quite good... one could only assume...<br />
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<strong><u>Competitors for the RAW Elimination Chamber announced</u></strong><br />
<em>(WWE Champion Punk v. Kingston v. Miz v. Truth v. Jericho v. Ziggler)</em><br />
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<strong><u>Mike Tyson announced for WWE HoF 2012</u></strong> <br />
Congrats to Mike Tyson as the newest nominee of the WWE's Celebrity Hall of Fame, my only comment on this is, at least he actually got physical in the ring and out while promoting the company in some way... unlike Drew Carey.<br />
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<strong><u>Orton d. Ziggler (w/ Barrett watching from the luxury box)</u></strong><br />
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Overall great match, crowd was on fire... some say this was a burial for Ziggler, but think about it this way, Ziggler got off some near falls on Orton and Orton JUST returned from an injury angle and he's clearly resuming his feud with Barrett so its not like Ziggler is losing anything beneficial except maybe a little ego by losing to 2 Smackdown stars... i mean its not like hes...<br />
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<strong><u>Tyler Reks gets demolished by Brodus Clay (accompanied of course by the bootylicious Naomi and Cameryn) </u></strong><br />
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Another week... another Funkasaurus squash... If my memory serves correctly, Clay has destroyed nearly the entire NXT roster minus the actual NXT rookies so perhaps in a week or two he will actually start facing "real" superstars? <br />
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*Clay's Victim List Thus Far - Tyler Reks, Curt Hawkins, Drew McIntyre, JTG, Tyson Kidd, Vickie Guerrero & William Regal (informal dance-off). <br />
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<strong><u>Punk d. Bryan w/ Jericho interference on Punk (Champion v. Champion match)</u></strong><br />
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As stated earlier this match was one of those IWC dream matches that personally would've benefited from being on PPV with a huge buildup leaning back to the rivalry these two had back in Ring of Honor, alas we get a WWE version of their mini feud. <br />
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With Punk as the clear face, and Bryan being the slimy little heelish face who has now kept his championship 3 times without actually winning a match, and this being the WWE Champion's show, who would possibly win this match... if you guessed the fans you'd be correct.<br />
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Neither man would give to the other, and this match seemed to go on for a while, all until Chris Jericho ran down to the ring, tossed Bryan into the guard wall and gave Punk a Codebreaker all while staring him down. As I said earlier about the rumored WWE Championship between the two at Wrestlemania it becomes all the more obvious who will be facing who at WM28. <br />
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<strong><u>Kingston d. Miz w/ Truth on commentary</u></strong><br />
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As I was watching this match I started to think how unfortunate Kingston has been over the last couple of months thanks to his bonehead tag team partner Evan Bourne getting himself suspended not once but twice for smoking whatever the hell it was.<br />
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As such with Truth on commentary and Miz currently feuding with him, I leaned over to my friend and told him that I would hope Kingston gets a victory here considering he's in the Chamber match and he needs some buildup to some how make sure he isn't the obvious choice for 6th place finisher... <br />
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and win he did with an amazing Trouble in Paradise out of nowhere (one of those moves that I just love because of the sound effect provided by the speaker or whatever SFX it is in the boots of Kingston) <br />
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<strong><u>Beth Phoenix d. Eve Torres for the Divas Championship</u></strong>... <em>in about 20 seconds... </em><br />
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After Phoenix's dominant victory during the 8 divas tag match the previous night, Kharma's resurgence in the rumble, and Eve's current situation with the entire Kane situation... I expected Kharma to make her appearance during this segment... <br />
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Alas instead of the psycho woman, we get the psycho Kane, cutting another big word filled promo on the titantron and then doing his teleport thing appearing behind Eve and attempting to stalk her until an angry John Cena makes the save and sends Kane on the defensive run after three metal stair shots and an attempted AA through the announcer table. <br />
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<strong><u>Laurinitis, Triple H... and THE UNDERTAKER (holy shit!) closing promo</u></strong><br />
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<strong><em>"You even put chap stick on for it? Comon man, you honestly think I would let you put those lips anywhere near me, I don't know where those have been, you should get some personal help for that"</em> - <em>Triple H</em></strong><br />
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What started as a fairly comedic segment between HHH and Ace with Trips trying to decide how to make Laryngitis prove he wanted to keep his job, quickly turned into an almost exact duplicate of Undertaker's return promo from last year's 2-21-11 vignette... <br />
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Only this time it was Taker interupting Triple H's return by stopping him from firing Johnny Ace and getting an amazing pop, slow walking down to the ring as he always does and staring at the Wrestlemania marque without saying a word... only this time Triple H did not respond by looking at the marque himself and instead he simply exited the ring and walked away leaving the show to end with Taker in the ring alone.<br />
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I predict now that what Triple H said about him putting his "personal thoughts" behind him and being allowed to take over GM of Raw once more will conflict with his wanting to challenge Undertaker once more. As such this will lead to the rumored Career vs. Streak II at this year's Wrestlemania.<br />
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Tonight's show was amazing, and the follow up to the Royal Rumble and the subsequent start to the build-up to Elimination Chamber makes me love this time of year for promos.ZomIIXChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687275306466433149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5172759313478364641.post-80778097725434367632011-11-22T02:40:00.000-08:002011-11-22T02:57:09.149-08:0011/21/11 - Post Survivor Series RAW, new feuds galore.<strong>Opening Segment - </strong><br />
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CM Punk, the NEW WWE Champion did his usual awesome promo, but was cut off by John Laringitis once more and instead of giving the so called WWE fans, and not the universe as Punk stated what they wanted... (Ryder v. Ziggler for the US Title that is) the GM instead criss crossed the matchups and gave us Ryder v. Del Rio next, and Punk v. Ziggler as the 10pm Main Event. <br />
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You might be asking yourself, why 10 pm instead of the final match of the evening, well you see... even without the WWE Championship, John Cena still gets the main event time slot to cut a promo. <br />
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<strong>Zack Ryder v. Alberto Del Rio</strong><br />
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While it was amazing to see Ryder cut off R-Rod from introducing Del Rio, I immediately knew (as should anyone else with a sense of typical PPV aftermath RAWs) that Ryder was about to be destroyed by an angry Del Rio still upset from losing his WWE Championship last night to CM Punk and destroyed he was, luckily they did not do an injury angle so perhaps Ryder will get revenge next week. <br />
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<strong>Santino Marella v. Cody Rhodes </strong><br />
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Cody wearing kneepads? Cody not wearing a mask? Cody winning matches? Yes x3! As it seems Orton is now moving on to feuding with Wade Barrett, Cody practically squashes poor Santino and then proceeds to call out Booker T on his constant downgrading commentary toward him... as we know for months Rhodes was having his baggers give ol Book a paper bag every time he came out to the ring with his "masked" gimmick, one could technically say Rhodes started it... but who cares? It seems the plans for a Booker T in ring feud with Rhodes is now officially on<br />
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<strong>Kofi Kingston v. Wade Barrett</strong><br />
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With no partner to have a tag team match with, Kingston goes one on one with Barrett, the victor of last nights Survivor Series elimination tag match... a solid nice win for the former Nexus leader and a staredown of sorts between him and Orton who sat ringside for the match... I can only assume this is the start of the next #1 Contender feud for Smackdown as Big Show technically still holds that spot after last nights low blow finish. <br />
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<strong>Sheamus v. Jack Swagger </strong><br />
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Am I the only one who hates how they are now not only calling Sheamus "The Great White" on commentary but now its in his minitron? I mean just a year ago they were using that as an insult for the guy... (remember Jar of Mayo?) now suddenly its ok? WWE is such hypocrites. Solid match between these two with very little to say on my behalf. <br />
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<strong>Big Show cuts a promo on Mark Henry - </strong><br />
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As I said earlier, Henry causes a DQ for himself when he kicked Show in the "groin" (lol how Show couldn't say balls) during their championship match last night which totally killed the moment, and either the crowd wasn't paying much attention or Show honestly didn't rev up the crowd as well as he could'veZomIIXChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687275306466433149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5172759313478364641.post-85936307474395558112011-03-21T23:52:00.000-07:002011-03-21T23:52:07.580-07:003/21/11 Another Road to Wrestlemania joke?... this time a crossroad?<strong>Triple H officially concludes Ted DiBiase's RAW burial - </strong><br />
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While it was refreshing to see Ted on Smackdown last week even in a losing effort putting up a great fight against Rey Mysterio. Tonight officially saw that small effort destroyed as during a failed effort to destroy Triple H by himself (remember the last time he destroyed Trips was with his Legacy teammates) Trips left him pedigreed through a table and buried further down the totem pole once more. Not good IMO for a retiring star to destroy the rising stars who will eventually take his place, or perhaps this is clue that DiBiase might be on his way out after Wrestlemania? <br />
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<strong>Randy Orton v. Rey Mysterio, will the heels be waiting to strike? - </strong><br />
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From the moment they announced this regardless of it being a "Wrestlemania rewind" I immediately thought of the fact that this match is Face v. Face and there is no way WWE is stupid enough to have either one of them lose to the other clean. And boy was I ever right. While I half expected Rhodes to attack Mysterio and <br />
Punk to attack Orton, only one of the two occured (unless the other occured during the commercial and was<br />
unseen at home) Instead we see teases all night that "<strong>Orton's family is in the tourbus..."</strong> so of course one has to remember that Punk has a habit of going after people's families (as does Orton) so that was the path they took. <br />
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<strong>Eve v. Maryse & Micheal Cole??? -</strong><br />
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Once again shitting on the divas match, Cole interrupts the two on microphone to announce he has yet another embarassing revelation about Lawler tonight, however this time, after winning the match Eve goes after Cole (and I hope she actually gets in on his beatdown eventually) and has to be escorted away by security... Now this Cole segment sucked and was actually less entertaining tham Maryse' sexy outfit and <br />
her little jerk and twitches she did in a verbal smacktalk battle against Eve. Bravo Cole! make us hate you even more so it feels so much better when you get EVERYTHING coming your way at Wrestlemania, but boo at your lack of ability to sell a promo. <br />
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<strong>Corre def. Marella/Koslov but gets chased off by the ShowKane alliance - </strong><br />
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There were rumors as to who Corre would face at Wrestlemania, and now that answer seems a little obvious. However one has to wonder, why has Undertaker not gone after neither Wade Barrett or Kane (are we just supposed to forget that they were the reason he got buried alive in the first place?) <br />
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<strong>Miz attempts to re-write history, could he do me a favor and give me back my time wasted watching his segment? -</strong><br />
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Stupid stupid stupid segment and poor attempt at Miz trying to make himself relevant once again. While it was somewhat awesome to see that Cena was not actually home but in the arena and the subsequent brawl that broke out, the stupidity of Miz simply turning the belt's W symbol upside down instead of debuting an actual NEW WWE Championship (which would have redeemed him instantly in my books) absolutlely gave this one to Cena regardless of the destruction of Alex Riley post promo (not like hes tough or anything on the "ladder")ZomIIXChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687275306466433149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5172759313478364641.post-60283132580675518912011-03-17T03:24:00.000-07:002011-03-17T03:25:53.546-07:003/14/11 The Road to Wrestlemania hits a few potholes...<strong><span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Miz DESTROYS Khali, and a steel chair...</span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">For someone who was seemingly fired, (as if anyone who gets fired in WWE storyline actually stays away for long) it sure looked like someone who looked exactly like the "fired" Alex Riley was helping his old "employer" during this impromtu opening bout pitting the WWE Champion against The Great "Botch"li. However, it was quite interesting to see Miz's chair assault post match literally impale the back of the Punjabi Playboy as a trinkle of blood dripped down his back and interesting enough the camera zoomed in on it. </span><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Sheamus defeats Daniel Bryan and ends the "King of the Ring" curse?</span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">As much as the announcers were playing off of the "curse" that was affecting the 2010 KoTR, I fail to remember anyone besides the human jar of mayonaise having THIS bad of a losing streak following their tournament victory. But alas, as stated last week Sheamus put his career on the line for another shot at the United States championship, and this time he actually won with a midair brougue kick reversing Daniel Bryan's "vintage" flying dropkick. It is almost a given that the rematch clause will be cashed in for Wrestlemania so here's hoping these two have a great match on the grandest stage of them all, because we all know what happened to Sheamus last year. </span><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Cole reveals a secret guest from Lawler's past... Grandmaster Sexay???</span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">I honestly forgot that Grandmaster, (or is it Grandmasta?) Sexay was actually Jerry Lawler's son as when he was actually popular back in the day (as a member of Too Cool) he never aluded to it at all that he was the son of "the King" but unfortunately even though the former tag team champion came out to his own music, the sheer fact that he came out as a request of Micheal Cole to talk about Jerry immediately turns him heel in storyline. (not to mention it looks wierd seeing a guy who looks to be in his 50s doing the dances that he did back in day with the look of a 20 year old) </span><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Cole v Ross exhibition cancelled by Jack Swagger a real painful ankle lock... seriously</span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Just as Brian Christopher/Lawler (or whatever you want to call him) gets done insulting his "father" Cole continued with the onslaught of insults until he was finally interrupted by a return from Jim Ross (at least since Old School RAW we haven't seen Good Ol' JR) who basically demands Cole stop his verbal assault on King and calls him a rat bastard for even bringing King's family into this feud. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">However, after now becoming the target of Cole's verbal rage, JR removes his coat in an attempt to challenge his former colleague to a brawl only to be interrupted by Jack Swagger attacking King outside the ring. The All American proceeds to put both King and JR into the ankle lock and as we now know, he twisted JR's leg a little too far as the trademark "good god almighty" call out from JR was actually for real. Afterwards, Cole grabs JR's now injured leg and performs his own version of the ankle lock to close ths segment. </span><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Vickie v. Trish ends exactly as I predicted last week... with one minor change. </span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">While I half expected Vickie to win with the assistance of Lay Cool, announcing thr match was a NO DQ prior just opened the door for the chaos to slowly but surely begin. First with Ziggler, then with Morrison, followed up the the obvious Lay Cool run in. Vickie gets the win after a loaded ankle brace knockout kick from Michelle to Trish. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Now, prior to this match we were shown a Snooki and Vickie backstage encounter where Miss Guerrero was on the recieving end of a guidette slap (which actually looked like it hurt!) so after her pinfall victory and subsequent hiring, as her first act of business Vickie makes a match for Wrestlemania pitting her man... err i mean business partner Dolph Ziggler and her two bodyguards Lay Cool against John Morrison, Trish Stratus, and you guessed it... Snooki!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">I guess they totally forgot Kelly Kelly has some beef with the trio from Elimination Chamber as well. </span><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Randy Orton v. CM Punk is now simply a singles match... Mason Ryan recieves the developmental kick. </span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: black;"></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Honestly I am glad that most of the original remaining Nexus members became the Corre on Smackdown because the New Nexus has been a failure ever since its conversion, and now it seems that the Wrestlemania match is not only going to be a singles match (as every Nexus member lost their match against Orton) but it seems like every member has been written off due to punt kick. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">At least we know who Jericho will be feuding with when, and if, he ever makes his return to WWE. </span><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: red; color: black;">The Rock v. Cena continues... Rock remains on top, by questionable means</span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: black;"></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">I wont go into much detail, Rock had an awesome promo his first week, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Cena replied perfectly the week after, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Rock had an awesome second promo the week after, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Cena's second response was kind of funny but failed in some respect, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">and now this past week Rock's third promo kind of went a little stale. So the score is 2-1 Rock. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Considering Cena said he was done with the distractions will he respond this coming monday night? And if he does, lets hope he doesnt plan on giving Rock another "pearl necklace" (shudders) </span>ZomIIXChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687275306466433149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5172759313478364641.post-9742943083381359262011-03-07T22:35:00.000-08:002011-03-08T02:12:03.668-08:003/7/11 - The Final Knockout, Ziggler RAW-bound, Sheamus' final chance<strong><span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Undertaker vs. Triple H now a No-Holds Barred Match</span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">The last no-holds-barred match featured Undertaker vs. Kane back a few months at the Bragging Rights PPV, and the lack of blood and weapons seriously hindered this match for what it could've been, granted they did brawl in and around the ring. One can only hope the "trademark" sledgehammer makes its appearance in the hands of "The Game" </span><br />
<strong><span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Dolph Ziggler now on RAW? Vickie vs. Trish set for next week </span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: red;"></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Good to see <em>the former World Heavyweight Champion</em> back on WWE TV, however it seems he is still alongside his betrayer Vickie Guerrero, now as a "business partner." And of course, whenever a returning/debuting star makes their appearance its quite obvious their opponent will be crushed. Unfortunately for us tonight, that opponent was John Morrison. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Now, heres a guy who should, like Dolph be a legitimate champion by now, but with bigger "veterans" on their shows they are simply tossed aside for the Edge's and John Cena's. However in this exchange a RAW superstar who has been kicking ass for the last couple months is pinned cleanly by a Smackdown superstar who has been fired for the last two weeks. Way to destroy JoMo's momentum</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">However, that was not the only thing that came out of this travesty. Apparently Vickie will have a match against another recent returning superstar in the form of Trish Stratus next week and only if she wins will she be allowed to join the RAW brand along with her "business partner." It's quite obvious IMO that Vickie has no chance in hell of winning this match without cheating, and if Dolph and Vickie can come to RAW why not Lay-cool? </span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: red;">Sheamus losing streak, risks career next week for... <em>United States Championship?</em></span></span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: red;"></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Speaking of killing momentum, King of the Ring 2010 Sheamus has basically been working on his own "streak" of sorts over the last couple weeks... a losing streak. And after "apparently" injuring himself by crushing his ankle into the announcers table, he accepted a countout defeat against Daniel Bryan. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">As Bryan was celebrating Sheamus challenged the US Champion for his title next week and put his career at risk. This close to Wrestlemania and no United States title match set, I would assume the Human Jar of Mayo will actually win next week and give Bryan his re-match at the show of shows.</span><br />
<strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: red;">Cole buries the Diva Division some more, starts an Austin chant, and brings out... <em>JBL?</em></span></span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">If WWE expects us to take the Diva Division seriously, having Michael Cole bad mouth the women during the matches and downright interrupt them on the microphone to draw attention to himself is not the way to go. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">And quite frankly, wasn't this entire Cole Lawler feud started when Cole claimed Lawler hogged the spotlight, however, its perfectly alright for Cole to do the same? </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Now, on last Friday's Smackdown, Cole revealed that his referee was "flamboyant" and "awesome" and while the first word immediately sounds like "Goldust" or "Zack Ryder" the second immediately sounds like Cole's man crush and current WWE Champion The Miz." However, this appears to have been a red herring, as after starting an Austin chant (knowing full well Austin was here tonight for "some reason") out comes the former "longest reigning WWE Champion John Bradshaw Layfield. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">(I say longest reigning WWE, because the spinner belt was not used in WWF) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">But this "poor choice" is short lived as Austin indeed comes out soon enough, gives the "self made millionaire" a stunner, pours beer all over himself, JBL, and Cole and signs the contract for Wrestlemania making himself the referee. Now it seems, the only remaining spots to fill will be "who will be in Lawler's corner?" and "who will be the special guest commentator?" As we all know Cole and Lawler alongside Josh Matthews 3 man the PPV booths, someone would have to take their places during that match. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Could it be possible? Will Good Ol' J.R. return for one night as well? </span><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: red; color: black;">The Main Event! Another Battle Rap from Cena? (excuse me "hip-hop")</span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">For someone who said they would only do the entire thuganomics thing for "one night only" he seems to have again lied to his fans. However, I will give him credit for the "I Bring It... via satellite" joke, as that was kind of a let down last week. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">However, all this time Cena and Rock have been going back and forth and poor unlucky Miz has been stuck in the middle. Now I was perfectly fine with him knocking the taste out of Cena's mouth with two belt shots and a Skull Crushing Finale... however, for someone who hates both Cena and Rock, why give them the pleasure of doing a crappy version of their signature move? </span>ZomIIXChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687275306466433149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5172759313478364641.post-66123218192297523792011-03-01T03:06:00.000-08:002011-03-01T03:06:53.380-08:002/28/11 I always called Wrestling a Male soap opera, tonight I am proven correct!<strong><span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Triple H and Undertaker set for Wrestlemania, Sheamus gets (literally) buried -</span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: black;"></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">While it was anticipating to wait one week to hear Triple H's reasoning for challenging the Undertaker at Wrestlemania, it was kind of selfish in my opinion to ignore that fact that your "friend" Shawn Micheals, not only lost twice against The Phenom, but lost his career doing so. But instead, Triple H aludes to his answer that he gave in his WWE Mag interview stating that he "no longer has to be competing for a championship" to be considered the best, however by basically saying HE will be the one to end the streak, HBK's reasoning the previous year is basically thrown under a bus. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Obviously, one assumed that when Triple H finally made his return he would go after Sheamus (as he was the one who put him on the injured list last April at Extreme Rules) so instead of going after him, Sheamus came after Triple H himself and got a low blow and a pedigree through a table for his trouble. So it looks like that feud won't be picked up</span><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: red; color: black;">The Rock's response to Thuganomics, if only the Cenation knew - </span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: black;"></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Everyone applauded Cena for reponding to The Rock last week with his old school rap, but nobody bothered to think why Rock targetted him in the first place, so, as Rock mentioned during his return promo, Cena started insulting Rock when he left for Hollywood, and now Rock is basically returning the favor on live television without his little Cenation knowing exactly what their hero said. In my opinion, Rock is winning this one. </span><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Punk and Orton set for Wrestlemania, and the Nexus loses another member - </span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: black;"></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">It is unfortunate that I once again have to admit that Randy Orton's face turn is really starting to go stale on me, almost to a point that like Cena, I want him heel again... however, it seems that face or not Orton (excuse my use of it) "vintage" punt remains as part of his repertoir. Tonight's victim, Michael McG. </span><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Cole and Lawler set for Wrestlemania, Swagger gets a Wrestlemania redemption? Not - </span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: black;"></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">So Cole actually accepted Lawler's Wrestlemania challenge... however, it was on his terms. One being, he gets a trainer in his corner, and the second being that there will be a special referee. The trainer, was Jack Swagger. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">So it seems from Money in the Bank winner, to World Heavyweight Champion. The All-American American is now a manager for a filler match. Nice. (sarcasm) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">However, they did not reveal the special referee. One can only assume it will be another Cole lackey. </span><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: red; color: black;">John Cena def. Alex Riley in a cage match, by walking out the door...? - </span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: black;"></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">If you are going to announce that "the only way to win this match is to ESCAPE the cage" why allow someone to simply walk out the front door? They did that shit with Randy Orton winning the Royal Rumble #1 Contender qualifier when Wade Barrett with a "busted arm" attempted to climb out the cage and failed, and Orton simply walked out the door. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Tonight it was the same thing, however, both Cena and Riley continued to climb the cage even when one of them went toward the open door and failed.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">IMO, the cage door should be chained and locked. The entire point of a cage match is to incapacitate your opponent long enough to climb out, (or rather that was how it is on the video games lol) but instead Cena defeats Miz in a test of strength and pushes his way out of the cage door and wins the match. Adios Alex Riley, perhaps he too will stay off TV for a week. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"></span></span><br />
<strong><span style="background-color: red; color: black;">One might wonder why I titled this entry as such, well in my opinion tonight's episode was a complete filler of talking and storyling to set up more heat for the Wrestlemania matches, as I said to someone on Facebook, if this was my old show "24" this episode feels like one in between the death of one bad guy and the introduction of a new one. </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Nothing more than a furthering of a storyline and little to no action. Perhaps next week we will see more.</span></strong>ZomIIXChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687275306466433149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5172759313478364641.post-43495134690702241182011-02-25T23:46:00.000-08:002011-02-25T23:46:35.433-08:002/25/11 Goodbye Vickie! Welcome back Cody!<span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>(Rey Mysterio </strong>def. Kane <strong><em>via pinfall)</em></strong></span></span><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: blue; color: black;">Cody Rhodes is no longer dashing... now he's just sadistic -</span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue; color: black;">I am actually a fan of Cody destroying Rey slowly and eventually defeating him at Wrestlemania, but unfortunately Rey wasn't victorious in his previous feud against Del Rio so by pattern Rey is due for a victory. However,\with the high press involved with the signing of Mistico now known as "Sin Cara" perhaps we might see his debut as close as Wrestlemania as a way of causing his loss without a clean finish. The future rivalry between Del Rio, Mysterio and Sin Cara is something to look onto the horizon for. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>(The Big Show </strong>def Wade Barrett <strong><em>via countout)</em></strong></span></span><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">The Big "Stable Destroyer" Show <em>- </em></span></span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue; color: black;">First the Straight Edge Society, now the Corre, why build a force of guys into a group of destruction only to have them be demolished by one man? It makes no sense for the purpose they are supposed to be serving. I mean granted the storyline has been dropped with Barrett and the former Nexus burying Undertaker back at Bragging Rights. At one time the idea was for Barrett/Jackson to fight Taker/Show at Wrestlemania assuming Taker wasn't 100%. But now with Taker obviously being challenged/accepting Triple H's silent proposal. Another idea has been scrapped. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue; color: black;">At least they won the titles from Vladimir "Botch"-lov at the pay per view. Sorry Santino, your cobra is only entertaining for so long before it gets beyond ridiculus. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>(Rosa Mendes </strong>def. Layla <strong><em>via DQ)</em></strong></span></span><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: blue; color: black;">More tension for Lay-Cool... perhaps a Wrestlemania breakup? - </span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue; color: black;">After several weeks of kicking Layla in the face, this time McCool interfered in her partner's match in plain sight of the ref, causing a disqualification. But the WTF face Layla was giving was crushed when she embraced her tag team partner and they left the ring together. I said it last year, I predict these two are broken up by Extreme Rules, because we all know a singles Divas match won't take place (they usually do a pointless Battle Royale for all the undercard guys as well as the Divas) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>(Edge & Kelly Kelly </strong>def Drew McIntyre & Vickie Guerrero <strong><em>via pinfall)</em></strong></span></span><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: blue; color: black;">First Dolph, now Vickie Guerrero - </span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue; color: black;">Funny how unless your name is John Cena, being fired in storyline actually keeps you off television for a week. However, considering the outcome of the above match, the Smackdown Consultant has officially been fired as well by Teddy Long. While I half expect Del Rio to win at Wrestlemania perhaps, the two firings will show up a few weeks down the road and cause Edge's defeat some how. Either directly or indirectly. </span>ZomIIXChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687275306466433149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5172759313478364641.post-7103502030565594182011-02-22T04:01:00.000-08:002011-02-22T04:01:29.021-08:002/21/11 - Two returns, one expected, one surprising. Road to Wrestlemania is imminent<strong>First off, Elimination Chamber results - </strong><br />
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Edge <em>def. Rey Mysterio, Kane, Drew McIntyre, Big Show, & Wade Barrett </em>for the World Championship<br />
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John Cena <em>def. CM Punk, John Morrison, Sheamus, Randy Orton, and R-Truth </em>for the #1 Contendership for WWE Championship<br />
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The Miz <em>def. Jerry "The King" Lawler </em>for the WWE Championship<br />
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The Corre <em>def. Santino Marella & Vladimir Koslov </em>for the WWE Tag Team Championship<br />
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Alberto Del Rio <em>def. Kofi Kingston </em><br />
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<strong>Edge is the first champion to retain his championship inside a Chamber match - </strong><br />
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Congratulations to Edge for being the first champion to actually defend his championship sucessfully in the Elimination Chamber, and a loud "YEEES" for Christian making his long awaited return to save his former tag team partner from an Alberto Del Rio assault. Unfortunately I can't say the same for Kofi Kingston, who not only almost had his arm broken at the PPV, was then seriously demolished on RAW tonight when he attempted to get a measure of revenge against the #1 Contender for the Heavyweight Championship. Perhaps WWE will give us our long awaited Edge vs. Christian match at Wrestlemania in the form of a Triple Threat? IMO that makes this match that more exciting. '<br />
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<strong>Cena brings back Thuganomics for one night, wins and loses the WWE Tag Team </strong><strong>Championship - </strong><br />
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I hate to admit it, but it was a breath of fresh air to hear Thug Cena on the mic tonight and not the corny fruity pebbles guy that Rock clearly hit spot on last week during his promo. However, while teaming with the Miz, for some odd reason Miz scored a pinfall on Justin Gabriel when Heath Slater CLEARLY could have broken it up. However, the entire suspected set up in my eyes was smashed as Cena went for an AA on Gabriel in the rematch, Miz sliped in and hit his SCF on Cena and rolled out of the ring to allow Gabriel to score their newly won and lost championships back. And so, the mind games begin once again for Cena to basically get his ass kicked for the remaining weeks to Wrestlemania and pull a victory out of his ass and defeat the bad guy... (again)<br />
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<strong>Cole's Tasteless Promo - </strong><br />
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First off, I don't even know her name, but for now I will say RIP "Queen Mother" Lawler. However, my expected finish to King's match last night did not come to fruitition. While I long suspected King and Cole would be fighting at Wrestlemania, the only question that needed to be answered was ... Why? So I honestly expected Cole to screw King last night, but instead Miz won clean. However tonight in what I consider an extremely tasteless comment, Cole insulted King's recently passed on mother and nearly got his teeth knocked out only to run like a "yellow bellied" pussy ironically while wearing a yellow shirt. Great to see King will most likely get his match, but the stip is still up in the air as Cole never officially accepted King's challenge<br />
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<strong>2-21-11 Has finally arrived - </strong><br />
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And with it, came the Phenom, the Undertaker making his glorious return (again) to WWE, and this time appearing on RAW instead of Smackdown. Why? One may ask, well simple. Immediately after hitting the ring and doing his vintage hat removal, rolled eyes effect. The King of Kings Triple H made HIS glorious return to RAW and without even saying anything the two WWE main eventers stared at the Wrestlemania sign, aimed their signature taunts at one another and set us up for an obvious Taker vs. Triple H match at the Show of Shows. <br />
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While it was not Sting (who everyone, including myself had hoped for) Triple H's reasoning does make alot of sense, and with Shawn Michaels being present for the Hall of Fame, what's to stop him from showing up during this match? <br />
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I changed my format a little in how i reported tonight's blog entry, let me know what you think. And with that my friends enjoy your week. <br />
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(I apologize for not finishing last week's entry... won't happen again)ZomIIXChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687275306466433149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5172759313478364641.post-18961322987408287722011-02-15T03:56:00.000-08:002011-02-17T02:13:50.912-08:002/14/11 The Most Electrifying Man in Sports Entertainment returns!<strong>CM Punk def.</strong> John Cena<strong> <em>via pinfall</em></strong><br />
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Funny to see Punk protecting his loins after almost every exchange as a nod to last weeks DQ Victory following Cena' lowblowing him, but in the end, Punk got his revenge slightly by having one of his lackies pass him first a chair (from under the ring) to distract the ref with removing it from the ring, and then a wrench to which he knocked Cena out with to score the legitimate pinfall victory<br />
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<strong>Edge </strong>to be stripped of the World Heavyweight Championship on Friday<br />
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As per Vickie Guerrero's mandate, if Edge used the spear in his match last friday he would lose the match and his championship, however as the special referee, Vickie refused to count any of Edge's pin attempts on her boyfriend, Dolph Ziggler. At one point Vickie mocked the Rated R super star and even attempted a spear of her own to her ex-husband only to run into him like a brick wall and fall outside the ring, however she wasn't knocked out, only hurt. Edge proceeded to use the spear in the clear eye of the fallen Vickie and call down Clay Matthews in a ref shirt to count the 3. However, in accordance to her own ruling, Vickie stated that Edge will be stripped of the title on Friday as he clearly broke her rules during that match. <br />
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<strong>Randy Orton def. </strong>King Sheamus <strong><em>via pinfall</em></strong><br />
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Prior to this match Sheamus brogue kicked Mark Henry twice in retaliation for last weeks mind games beatdown. Thats all well and all but then, following a superplex Randy Orton springs up as if it never happened and proceeds to hit Sheamus with an RKO for the clean victory. <br />
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<strong>John Morrison & R-Truth def. </strong>David Otunga & McG <strong><em>via pinfall</em></strong><br />
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What was supposed to be a Morrison vs. Truth match (face vs. face, really?) turned into a tag match as both former tag team buddies wanted equal revenge on the New Nexus following the attacks from last week. And sure enough they got it, with Morrison showing some awesome aggression and Truth doing his crazy acrobatics. <br />
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<strong>The Miz def. </strong>Daniel Bryan <strong><em>via pinfall</em></strong><br />
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Another great match! Whether it was the flying dropkick from the toprope, to the flying knee from the apron to the barricade, followed up by the flying powerbomb. These two are amazing in the ring as rivals. But alas you can't have the secondary champion defeating the show's primary champion the week before the pay per view, so alas Bryan does NOT score the upset victory and recieves an SCF for his efforts.<br />
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<strong>Eve Torres def. </strong>Natalya <strong><em>via pinfall</em></strong><br />
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Well so much for not having a face vs. face match eh? These two ladies are interesting in the ring together, as one is a grappler and the other an acrobat, their in ring chemistry came off almost a little too much sexier than intended. However, this match was silently changed into a lumberjill match in order to further the face 5 vs the heel 5 divas of RAW. During the scuffle, Maryse lost a pump and it became Melina's weapon as the brawl spilled backstage. The match ended with both ladies hooking each other's leg for a pin but the ref counted the victory for Eve. <br />
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<strong>Promotions, Name Drops, and a stupid comedy segment</strong><br />
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With all the matches done for the night , and about 15 minutes left to go before the show ended we find the girl who will be co-starring in the Chaperone standing in the ring with a mic. She mentions who she is and that starring in the movie is none other than "The Game" Triple H. However, instead of Trips coming out (and "finally" returning to WWE TV) instead we get The Great Khali, Hornswoggle, some cute shots of couples in the audience and the WWE Backstage kissing (<strong><em>William Regal kissing Zack Ryder wtf?)...</em></strong> and even an unintentional funny moment when the candy box that Hornswoggle presented her came open and all the chocolates fell to the ground. <br />
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<strong>And Last... but certainly not least!!!</strong><br />
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Justin Roberts tries with all his might to hold back an ear to ear grin as he announces for everyone to welcome the host of Wrestlemania 27... and section by section the lights go off, a titantron effect of lightning eventually turns the screen bright white, then darkness once more... <br />
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<span style="background-color: red;"><strong>And suddenly, The Rock's old theme begins to play and out comes the great one, Mr. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson to a thunderous reaction!!!</strong></span><br />
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Now its worth noting that The People's Champion did get into the ring and proceed to deliver the promo of promos, in which he asked the WWE Universe how they went from <strong><em>the powerful </em>Austin 3:16 <em>to the iconic </em>Do you smell what the rock is cooking? <em>to.... </em>You cant see me?</strong><br />
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He also mentions that when he left WWE 7 years ago, someone who he thought was a cool guy started talking trash about The Rock, and that man's name was <strong>John Cena</strong>. <br />
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For the entire return I will link to a video that starts the 3 parter. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BII1rjoHdeU&feature=player_embedded">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BII1rjoHdeU&feature=player_embedded</a><br />
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Now, finally, this week is the go home show to the Elimination Chamber and with the return of The Great One and his subsequent calling out of Cena, do I hope Cena wins and faces Miz at Wrestlemania? No. But unfortunately, that's what WWE probally wants because lord help us if a Wrestlemania main event goes by without Cena involved in it. <br />
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However, I do hope the true victorious one, is John Morrison because damnit I want to see the former tag team partners go at it at the Show of Shows. And speaking of former tag team partners, if Edge some how does regain his championship, one can only hope Christian returns soon enough and makes the World Heavyweight Championship a triple threat, because prior to his injury he WAS feuding with Alberto Del Rio.ZomIIXChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687275306466433149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5172759313478364641.post-53430531812006658692011-02-08T03:16:00.000-08:002011-02-08T03:16:00.086-08:002/7/11 Truth pulls a Metallica, McMahon returns, and a dream (match) is crushed<strong><span style="background-color: lime; color: black;">Vincent Kennedy McMahon returns to WWE TV - </span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: lime; color: black;">I honestly forgot I even put this event in my entry title until I was re-reading... without even mentioning what took him off TV in the first place... (Nexus beatdown) McMahon is all smiles as he promises a <strong>Guest Host</strong> for <strong>Wrestlemania 27 </strong>will be announced next week... and this one will be "epic" </span><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: lime; color: black;">CM Punk attacks on Orton explained <em>-</em> </span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: lime; color: black;">I must say it was quite nice to go almost 3 years in the past to dig up the footage of when Orton and Legacy cost Punk his WHC without even the opportunity to defend it in a match at Unforgiven 2008. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: lime; color: black;">Unfortunately, the tables are turned now, whereas Punk was a face then and Orton was heel. So I have no idea who I am supposed to be rooting for. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: lime; color: black;">Either way, Punk and Nexus stormed the ring and beat down Orton but not before he got in a kick and headbutt seemingly breaking Punk's nose as the blood was a flowing. </span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: lime;">R-Truth def. Mason Ryan <em>via DQ - </em></span></span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: lime; color: black;">According to Cena later in the show, Truth must have been partying a little too much after the Superbowl victory for Green Bay as after his traditional entrance rap, Truth asked the crowd in his typical fashion... GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN..... WHAT'S UP!? Unfortunately for Truth, they were in Milwaukee. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: lime; color: black;">And it almost seemed that in a crowd swerve they started to chant for Ryan (heel) only because Truth (face) screwed up their city name. Thank god there wasn't a riot. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: lime; color: black;">The finish came when Ryan locked in some wierd leg over his head submission and actually won via tapout, but refused to let go of the hold and even went for a chair before the ref reversed his decision.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: lime; color: black;">Eve, Tamina, and Gail Kim def. Melina, and the Bella Twins (who are now heel apparently) - </span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: lime; color: black;">I honestly turned my head away from this match to start writing this and as usual even though they were a part of the team, the Bellas didn't actually have any ring time (kind of funny considering a few weeks ago Gail was in their position) </span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: lime;">John Morrison def. Michael Maclacutty... MacGuyver... oh fuck it McG. <em>via pinfall - </em></span></span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: lime; color: black;">Standard match, good to see Morrison winning again... however after his victory Punk blind sided him with some spray into the eyes and a roundhouse kick to the skull. So apparently kicks to the skull isn't just strictly an Orton thing. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: lime;"><strong>Daniel Bryan & Jerry Lawler def. </strong>Ted DiBiase & The Miz</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: lime; color: black;">Top of the hour ratings grab with this one, and it started with a back and forth between the #1 Contender and the WWE Champion about their upcoming match at the Elimination Chamber PPV. While Miz compared himself to a young Lawler about his great abilities on the mic (which indeed he does have) he insulted the Hall of Famer by mentioning that he has something he never will... a WWE Championship...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: lime; color: black;">Do I think Lawler will win at EC 2011? Hell no! but do I expect him to lose clean? Hell no! So i half expect whoever causes Lawler to lose at the PPV will be his opponent at Wrestlemania. While it is unfortunate that "The King" might indeed retire without actually winning a Championship, its not like he wont leave behind a legacy. </span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: lime;">Sheamus fought <strike>David Otunga</strike> Mark Henry <em>to a no contest -</em></span></span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: lime; color: black;">Pointless segment with Henry basically being tricked into destroying Sheamus when Justin Roberts came up to King Sheamus as he was walking to the ring and asked for his opinion on comments (we never heard him say) that Mark Henry said backstage. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: lime; color: black;">Sheamus basically called out "Sexual Chocolate" err i mean "The World's Strongest Jobber" on his lack of championship reigns over his career time, and rather than Otunga even getting his match started Henry came down to the ring. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: lime; color: black;">As the first contender against Triple H when HE FINALLY makes his return... this guy seriously needs to stop losing to midcarders in squashes and regular matches... FFS he was a WWE Champion... abeit by cheap methods, he was still a champion and now hes in comedy segments. </span><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: lime; color: black;">Another 2-21-11 Video Airs - </span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: lime; color: black;">Well, the rumor of Sting has most definately been put to rest with this second version of the video we saw last week... while the video was similar they added one crucial change, the music that played during the promo for Shawn Michaels and Undertaker at last year's Wrestlemania. And with one obviously retired from wrestling and going into the hall of fame, who else in that equation wears a black trenchcoat?</span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: lime;">CM Punk def. John Cena <em>via DQ (for the second time in a row these two have fought) - </em></span></span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: lime; color: black;">Knowing well that Punk planned on destroying him like all others in the #1 Contendership Chamber match, Cena got himself intentionally DQ'd via low blow and proceeded to fend off the obvious Nexus onslaught when King got up from ringside and handed him a steel chair. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: lime; color: black;">So basically John Cena is the only one who will be 100% going into the chamber... yawn... I hope to god he doesn't win, but unfortunately all the little kiddies wanna see Cena win the championship again... </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: lime; color: black;"><strong>That does it for this week's episode of Monday Night RAW... have a great week! </strong></span>ZomIIXChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687275306466433149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5172759313478364641.post-20223747657542208162011-02-01T03:01:00.000-08:002011-02-01T03:06:44.464-08:001/31/11 Del Rio wins Royal Rumble, plus a few surprises planned?<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Tonight on RAW had its ups and downs, ironically following an eventful Royal Rumble, one would think they would touch on the storylines that have apparently begun on this "Road to Wrestlemania" </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: red;"><strong>Alberto Del Rio</strong> is the 2011 Royal Rumble Winner! </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">(and I kid you not, Santino Marella is the second place runner up) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red;"></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Announcing his intention to challenge Edge for his World Championship at Wrestlemania, one can only assume that Smackdown's elimination chamber will either produce a third challenger causing a triple threat, or a completely new champion, giving Edge a rematch clause anyways. Now my early prediction for this scenario includes a returning Christian (who you all may remember was feuding with Del Rio before his injury last year) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">During the WWE Championship match, The Miz was knocked out by an RKO and the Nexus (without Punk) ran to ringside to distract Orton as Riley slipped inside the ring. However, Orton turned around, and proceeded to toss Riley into the Nexus taking them all out, however Punk slipped from under the ring and proceeded to give Orton a G.T.S.knocking him out and dragging the unconscious arm of the WWE Champion over the challenger for the 3 count victory. </span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: red;">Wrestlemania Feud : <em>Randy Orton v. CM Punk </em></span></span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Now, during the opening bout between tag team champions and the challengers Husky Harris and McG, Orton ran out (nearly knocking down the camera man) and proceeded to punt Harris in the skull while being pleaded with by Punk not to. But that was not all, during the RAW Rumble later on in the show, Orton came out <strong>7th</strong> and immediately went after Punk, getting him eliminated before being knocked out by R-Truth. (really?) </span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: red;">Wrestlemania Feud 2 : <em>John Cena v. The Miz </em></span></span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">While not even being a part of Rumble (basically coming down with Alex Riley, who was) Riley ran back down to the ring after being eliminated, and distracted Cena while Miz came from behind and tossed him out. During the RAW Rumble however, everyone (good or bad) seemed to attack Cena, including at one point, Jerry Lawler. While Cena was on the ropes Sheamus sidestepped and tossed Lawler into Cena knocking him off the apron... but alas, as Sheamus went for his brogue kick on Lawler, The King sidestepped and Cena jumped up and pulled the top rope down and Sheamus went flying over and out.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">And with that, two elimination chamber pay-per-view matches have been decided...</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: red;"><strong>The Miz (c) vs. </strong>Jerry "The King" Lawler <strong><em>for the WWE Championship </em></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;"><strong><em>and</em></strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red;"></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: black;"><strong>John Cena vs. Sheamus vs. CM Punk vs. Randy Orton vs. John Morrison vs. R-Truth </strong></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: black;"><strong><em>in the RAW Elimination Chamber #1 Contendership Match</em></strong></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red;"></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Now my early picks for winning this match (as it is the final match until Wrestlemania) are either </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">John Morrison (because he is just so damn cool to watch) </span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">or John Cena (basically because of the feud that started at the Rumble) </span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Orton and Punk I see going at it and causing each other's elimination, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">whereas Truth doesnt have a shot in hell of main eventing Wrestlemania at this moment. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Sheamus I see being eliminated by a returning Triple H which leads to...</span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: red;">Wrestlemania Feud #3 <em>Triple H vs. Sheamus</em></span></span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: red;"></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">As for King, I highly expect King not to win this match, but not to lose cleanly either. I half expect Michael "Miz's other bitch" Cole to get involved much like he did during the TLC match they had back in December and once again cost his broadcast ally the championship. This of course will lead to... </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: red;"><strong>Wrestlemania Feud #4 <em>Jerry "The King" Lawler vs. Michael Cole</em></strong> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Some other notes from last nights episode include the un-official break up of Ted DiBiase and Maryse, as after insulting Lawler for taking the seventh spot in the RAW Rumble, DiBiase proceeded to hold Maryse as a human shield as Lawler went to punch him. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">She proceeded to turn around, slap him silly, check her nails and walk off.... and then Lawler punched DiBiase anyways (which looked like it actually connected IMO) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">The Great Khali made his triumphant return last night at the Royal Rumble and didn't waste any time botching it up during a comedic segment in which Khali and Mark Henry (I guess) won a dance off against the Usos, after the GM rang in saying that it was physically unfair for the brothers to face Henry and Khali. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">After finishing their lame excuse for dancing, the Usos (who I guess lost by the amounts of cheering for Khali's failed double wave) proceeded to attack the 800+ pound duo and were quickly laid out, but Khali apparently wasn't told in his language this wasn't a match and he went for a pin anyways. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">And finally, a video promo was aired twice showing a person wearing a dark trenchcoat walking through a thunderstorm and the fiery red numbers showing the date 2 21 11... Obviously a debut teaser for someone either coming into WWE or returning (Undertaker???)... now the style of the video and the irony that the previous night we saw the returns of two former WCW turned WWE guys Booker T and Kevin Nash (as Diesel) one HAS to think that hell as frozen over and </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">perhaps... just perhaps... </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Sting will finally join the WWE.</span>ZomIIXChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687275306466433149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5172759313478364641.post-31263338695412226212011-01-25T05:46:00.000-08:002011-01-25T05:47:02.931-08:001/24/11 All Hell Breaks Loose! Its Royal Rumble Time!<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Hello again all you fabulous people, its time for this week edition of the RAW report with your host. Well obviously you know who your host is or else you wouldn't be here... Anywho, here we go...</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: red;"><strong>Edge </strong>def. Jack Swagger, Drew McIntyre, and Tyson Kidd <em>in an over the top rope exhibition</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Edge came out with bruised ribs from last weeks Nexus... err I mean former Nexus... err I mean Corre beatdown...oh who gives a crap... a bunch of guys destroyed Edge in the ring, and now hes wearing a bandage to prove it. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">After trying to start his <strong>Champion v. Champion </strong>match NOW instead of later, the GM rings in, much to Edge's dismay (as you may remember before he left RAW most recently he destroyed the computer after it gave him so much grief) and assigned the exhibition with the prestigious Rumble Spot #40 on the line for the winner. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">However, considering Edge defeated all of his opponents does that mean he enters at #40 now? </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: red;"><strong>Mason Ryan</strong> officially keeps his FCW name, and apparently even botches promos like his "counterpart" Dave Batista. When handed the mic to say a "few words" Mason didn't wait for the crowd to die down, and Punk had to repeat what his "enforcer" just said. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Punk insulted The Corre, (which I apologize for last week's ignorance, apparently Corre isnt supposed to have an american meaning, it is apparently an old english word) and Barrett brought his group out confirming that Smackdown superstars were indeed on RAW tonight to promote the upcoming PPV. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">The GM makes a match tonight, <strong>CM Punk v. Wade Barrett </strong>with <strong>John Cena </strong>as special referee, and which ever "captain" loses, their entire group is out of the rumble. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: red;"><strong>Alberto Del Rio & Sheamus def. </strong>Mark Henry & John Morrison <em>via submission</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Morrison and Sheamus continued their ongoing feud by fighting each other to the outside of the ring, while Del Rio managed to get Henry to tap out to his arm bar submission... </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: red;"><strong>Natalya def. </strong>Melina <em>for the Divas Championship via submission </em></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">The long awaited Divas Championship match is given to us tonight, and not at the PPV (or will it?) and Natalya basically has to break the flexible little minx Melina in half to get her to tap out to the Sharpshooter. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: red;">However, more Smackdown superstars make their presence known in the form of Lay-Cool coming out and basically explaining that after <strong>losing </strong>the championship at Survivor Series, Lay-Cool technically never had their rematch so at the Royal Rumble... it will be <strong>Natalya vs. one member of Lay-Cool. <em>for the Divas Championship</em></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: red;">Backstage, the New Nexus is seen talking without Punk regarding how Barrett's group is going solo and their strict job is to help Punk win... yet the gaps involved worry Harris thinking that they may not be brought out quick enough to prevent Punk from being eliminated... to which Punk replies that he had to sacrifice his own personal well being to defeat John Cena... but yet he <strong>did defeat John Cena. </strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: red;"><strong>Edge def. </strong>The Miz <em>via disqualification </em></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Great match, too many commercials, Ziggler, who acts professional up until the very end eventually grabs Edge's feet and pulls him into the ring corner causing the DQ...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Ziggler and Miz beat up on Edge until Randy Orton makes the save and goes after Miz while Edge goes after Ziggler. Chaos breaks out in the ring, and several RKOs lay out Ziggler and Riley, and a knee shot from the briefcase takes out Orton as Miz grabs his championship and bails.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: red;"><strong>Maryse, Ted DiBiase, and Alicia Fox def. </strong>Brie Bella, Nikki Bella, and Daniel Bryan <em>via pinfall</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Maryse breaks her own personal losing streak, and by default DiBiase's by picking up the victory by pinning one of the Bellas as the other distracted Bryan from breaking up the pin by kissing him. It seems Alicia has been given the Gail Kim treatment as I swear I never saw her even enter the ring before the match was over... Now IMO were the Bellas actually wrestling in swim suits or is that what you consider wrestling attire?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Speaking of Gail Kim, a backstage segment airs right after this match showing the Bellas upset with one another, and Michael Tarver once again hanging out backstage (whats his deal?) Now, TBH when they showed Daniel Bryan's dressing room and the coincedence that Tarver was present during the Teddy Long storyline last week, I half expected to find D Bryan face down (and suspect Tarver even more) but alas...The Bellas dont find Bryan unconcious, instead they find him kissing Gail Kim... and a brawl breaks out between the ladies as Bryan tries to restrain them. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Quite a hilarious comment is made to the internet trolls as Gail Kim stated she felt sorry for the Bellas <em>as they haven't had much to do since the Guest Host thing ended...</em> Bravo Kim, bravo!</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: red;"><strong>Husky Harris & Michael McGullicuty def. </strong>Santino Marella & Vladimir Koslov <em>via pinfall</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Apparently this match is to decide if the New Nexus is qualified to challenge for the Tag Titles, and several distractions later, they pick up the victory... </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Now this match was clearly put on as the penultimate as a way for the Nexus to pick up microphones right after and start hyping the main event and put over their leader CM Punk even more... which it seems is Otunga's only thing he is actually good at lately </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: red;"><strong>Wade Barrett and CM Punk </strong><em>fought to a double disqualification </em></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">One of Cena's first acts as special ref for this match was removing the "bad guys" from ringside, to which without them even doing anything Cena throws the Nexus out from ringside... and the place goes crazy... </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">But he isn't done yet ... not by far... as even thought Barrett mentioned no further hostility against Cena and that he has actually come to respect him and hopes Cena respects him back, Cena removes the Corre from ringside as well... </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Now before the match bell even rings, Cena proceeds to slap and torment both guys in an attempt to get one of them to hit him and get themselves disqualified. But instead the two men go at it, until Cena calls for the bell and explains to the time keeper that it the match will end in a Double DQ for excessive swearing on a PG show... (<strong><em>another nod to the internet trolls that said OMG CENA just said ASS a few weeks ago</em></strong>) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">But the RAW GM announces that due to Cena's abuse of power, <strong>Both groups </strong>will be in the Rumble... and almost as if a gunshot is heard, both groups run down the ring to protect their leaders and turn their eyes toward Cena, who prepares to get outnumbered rather quickly... Until the locker room empties to the sound of the Big Show's theme and all hell breaks loose as Cole tries to hype the Rumble as much as he can before mid action the show ends. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">I personally won't be ordering the PPV this weekend, as I will be working. >o< but I honestly can hope for several things to occur...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">1. Triple H makes his return eliminating Sheamus re-igniting their feud from last year...</span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">2. Amazing Kong makes her debut during the Divas match, or possibly the Rumble idk</span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">3. Jericho has been rather talkative lately on the social networking sites saying "he wont be back in WWE for a while" so it might be shocking to see him return</span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">4. Christian has been reported as being sidelined until post Wrestlemania, so my dream Edge v. Christian match is out the window. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">5. John Morrison might win, to put forth my other dream Wrestlemania match... hopefully</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: red;"><strong>I have expect all champions to retain their titles... </strong>unless the Divas championship ends in a screwjob due to a debuting Kong alligning herself with Lay-Cool </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">And with that, I wish you all a happy week, and Ill see you next monday!</span>ZomIIXChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687275306466433149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5172759313478364641.post-21209827597248697362011-01-21T23:14:00.000-08:002011-01-21T23:15:09.863-08:001/21/11 Barrett's Nexus gets a new name, but forgets to spell-check it<span style="background-color: blue;">Calling themselves the "Core" but spelling it C-O-R-R-E Barrett allows each of his members to introduce themselves to the crowd, and emphasizes that this new group is about individuality and not one particular leader (ex. Barrett) will be in direct benefit. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;">Teddy Long comes out and announces that he is not some stupid computer and he has authority ... and bla bla bla... "if you try to pull a Nexus... you'll be removed from the show..." And then only a few minutes later during the first match... Long is mysteriously shown unconscious backstage with the list of suspects standing around him. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;">Dolph Ziggler, Vickie Guerrero, and the returning Michael Tarver. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;">Now I say suspects because the situation is all too evident that someone intentionally did this to Long as Cole reveals that "someone overheard the medics, and they are saying that Long suffered blunt trauma to the head."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;">Which leads me to think that either Tarver did it, and he will re-group with his former Nexus brethren some time in the future, or Vickie herself did it in order to assume complete control over Smackdown with Long removed from duty. Either way, lets just hope that someone doesnt go around for the next couple of weeks accusing everyone and then turn around and admit it was actually him/her self. (ala Kane v. Taker coma storyline) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;">Either way, as Vickie returns to "her" office, she finds the Core (i refuse to spell it the improper way) waiting for her to basically say they were not responsible and Vickie informs them that one of their group will face Edge tonight, and to do "what they are known for" </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;"><strong>Alberto Del Rio def. </strong>R-Truth <em>via submission</em></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;">Continuing their cross brand feud, this would be the third match between these two over the last couple of weeks, and the first won by submission. It almost seems IMO that ADR caught Truth in his armbar a little too close to the ropes, and Truth could've grabbed the bottom rope but would've had to stress his caught arm, so instead he takes the smart route and taps out to save himself for the Rumble. Now some time around the middle of the match, ADR pulled off that enziguri (sp?) kick to the back of Truth's head and I have to say my god what a sound effect it gave off... you'd have thought his neck was broken </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;"><strong>Beth Phoenix def. </strong>Layla <em>via pinfall</em></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;">Standard divas match of Smackdown standards, however it ended so quickly Michelle McCool didn't even have time to get involved... After one submission reveral Phoenix lifted Layla up and slammed her down onto her own elbow, which she may or may not have injured, as she was favoring it after the match. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;"><strong>Rey Mysterio def. </strong>Cody Rhodes <em>via pinfall </em></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;">I honestly jumped ahead of my replay of this match, as this matchup doesnt intrigue me at all... mainly because I am not a fan of the John Cena of Smackdown, and Cody Rhodes' gimmick is actually starting to wear off on me </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;">However, a 619 to the face of Rhodes leaves him holding his hands over it to cover it and doesnt even attempt to kick out of such a weak looking dead man slam. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;"><strong>Jack Swagger def. </strong>Kofi Kingston <em>in an amateur wrestling challenge 10 to 9 </em></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;">Swagger scored 3 takedowns, but Kofi broke from all of them. Bringing the score 6-3 as you get 2 points for a takedown, and 1 for breaking free.. However, Swagger stalled and demanded a recount as he apparently had a fourth takedown that wasn't counted... so upon ref decision the score was made 8-4. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;">Swagger then took Kofi down once again and proceeded to taunt "Kof" as he kept calling him while slapping him the back of the head to bring the score to 10-4. However, Kofi turned off the offensive and proceeded to take down Swagger for two and hold him down for a numerous amount of seconds scoring 5 points... and somewhere at this point I lost all idea on how the actual scoring system works, but the match ended as such with Swagger defeating the Intercontinental Champion in a meaningless match.... and recieved a trouble in paradise for his efforts. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;">So intentionally, even though Swagger kind of cheated, Kofi did hit the winner after losing, showing just how unmodest he can be... but yet the people cheer and they play his music... and in a rare occasion, I agree with Cole. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;"><strong>Drew McIntyre def. </strong>Trent Baretta <em>via pinfall</em></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;">This match is a continuation of the "is he good or bad hearted" storyline that seems to be what Drew is involved in the last couple of weeks... and just as it seems Baretta has the upper hand by going to the top rope, Drew climbs the inner ropes and launches Barretta over head in a modified suplex for the win... and instead of continuing to beat Barreta down... (as he has done in recent weeks post match) he actually offers his hand to his opponent... (take that Kofi!) only to be punched in the face by Trent. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;">Now almost as if a switch was pulled this instantly infuriates McIntyre and he proceeds to unleash a flurry of punches on Barreta until Kelly Kelly runs down (or walks as fast as she could in that dress of hers) to the ring and orders Drew to stop, but instead of talking to him, she walks past and tends to Barreta</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;">Now, clearly this is a night of bad spelling as someone added another R to the name of Barrett's group, and for the life of me I cannot remember if Trent's last name has two Rs or two Ts, or both. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;"><strong>The Miz </strong>shows up on Smackdown to hype the <em>Champion vs. Champion match</em> next week on RAW. <strong>Edge </strong>arrives and orders Miz to leave his ring and leave his show. Miz respectfully obliges but Riley refuses and gets a spear for his efforts. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;"><strong>The Corre </strong>debuts their new titantron and theme song (well actually Barrett used it briefly last week as what I thought was his solo theme but meh) and Justin Gabriel is the opponent choosen to face Edge. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;"><strong>Justin Gabriel def. </strong>Edge <em>via pinfall </em></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;">During this match Ziggler was on commentary and some time during the constant off topic arguing that Cole and Striker were going on about, Ziggler basically tells them both to shut the hell up so he can concentrate on his opponent. Amen Dolph! Amen!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;">During the middle of the match, Edge was down and Gabriel ascended to the top rope to perform his finisher, but Edge awoke and it almost seemed as if Gabriel did not have a back up plan as he attempted a cross body only to be slammed to the mat by an Edge reversal </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;">Attempting to kick Edge from the apron, Gabriel gets his leg caught by Edge reversed into a neckbreaker on the top rope and literally busts his ass on the edge of the apron. Now attempting to perfect what Gabriel tried earlier. Edge ascends to the toprope and proceeds to connect with a crossbody... however he goes for the pin and only scores 2. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;">Gabriel rolls into the corner to collect himself and Edge goes into spear position, however the other Core members start distracting Edge from various directions, first Barrett from behind Gabriel, who gets restrained by the referee to then Slater getting hit by Edge only then taking an unseen clothesline from Ezekial as the ref had his back turned and didn't see it dealing with Barrett. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;">Now, this does not end the show, as the Core re-enters the ring to celebrate with their victorious member and proceed to surround the Champion ala Nexus. First another killer clothesline (is that his new finisher?) from Ezekial, followed by a Sweetness from Slater. A Wasteland from Barrett and the "icing on the cake" 450 Splash from Gabriel. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;">As Vickie smiles from ringside, Ziggler enters the ring, and places a foot over Edge's unconscious body </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue;">Have a great weekend! (I swear I will think of a unique sign off soon enough lol) </span>ZomIIXChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687275306466433149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5172759313478364641.post-53546372880797248252011-01-17T23:33:00.000-08:002011-01-17T23:41:39.467-08:001/17/2011 FCW Champion debuts on RAW!!! and joins the Nexus<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">1/17/2011 FCW Champion debuts on RAW!!! and joins the Nexus </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Hello again, my prestigious readers. Tonight we saw the "return" of John Cena (for the month of January) and with him, his lame jokes, his corny humor, and at least he cracked a joke at the PG rating. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Although Cena, and almost everyone else on the show mentioned they were entering the Rumble this year... there could only be so many in the 30-man match... or could there? As the match has officially been increased to a 40-man match, one has to think... just how many special returns and/or debuts will there be this year? </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Now of course, this is also to include the Nexus... as during a brawl between New Nexus and Cena. The GM rang in and told Punk that if any of the Nexus members interferred in their match tonight, they would be removed from the Rumble. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Marella & Koslov d. </strong>The Usos <em>via pinfall <u>for the TAG TEAM Championship</u></em></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">With the cobra... nuff said. Until WWE removes the fact that the Tag Division has become a joke , why not let the #1 Joke of a wrestler hold onto the belt. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>John Morrison </strong>d. Daniel Bryan <em>via pinfall</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">In a rare occasion, WWE actually gives us a great match pairing without the usage of the "good" guy versus "bad." Besides the amazing counters each wrestler kept unleashing against one another, it took a running knee to keep D Bryan down for the count. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Now its worth noting however, that during commentary of this match Michael Cole starts mentioning that the <em>relationship between Daniel Bryan and the Bella Twins is something he considers strange</em> to which I thought to myself... "OK Cole you are basically saying a man hanging out with two women is strange..." now homosexual jokes aside... later on Cole redeemed himself a little bit by saying he had <em>gone to heaven</em> by having to sit between Melina and Eve during the Divas match. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Natalya d. </strong>Maryse <em>via submission</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">During this match as well, we saw a crappy job Melina can do as a heel commentator and a gigantic backside that Eve Torres has when wearing a tight dress. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Now after Maryse lost she began to insult Cole in french until DiBiase came out as unmotivated as he could be and tries to calm her down. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">She calls him a loser, and basically says that his <em>curse</em> is affecting her as well, to which DiBiase claims <strong>HE</strong> will win the Royal Rumble and challenges anyone to a <em>over the top rope challenge... </em>Yeah, good luck DiBiase you can barely win any matches since being broken up from Legacy and now you think you can be a main eventer at Wrestlemania? HAH</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Mark Henry </strong>d. Ted DiBiase <em>in an over-the-top-rope challenge</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Now, as Henry's music starts to play one thinks this segment is over, but soon William Regal leads the charge with an entire army of midcarders as they attempt to prove they will win the Royal Rumble...(by eliminating Mark Henry...?) which notably includes the former Nexus member Darren Young... who hasn't really been seen on RAW since his failed comeback the RAW before Night of Champions. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Now this turned out to be a pointless battle royal, until Sheamus or rather <strong>King</strong> Sheamus ran down to the ring and proceeded to eliminate everyone else except Henry who manages instead to eliminate the englishman... now this proves two things IMO... Sheamus will be <em>in the Royal Rumble</em> going after the championship opportunity like everyone else, and <strong>Triple H </strong>will be one of the "returns" I mentioned about earlier. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Randy Orton d. </strong>Dolph Ziggler <em>in a Contender vs. Contender match via pinfall</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Vickie is SUCH a heat magnet... Afterall, Justin Roberts announced she was coming out and the crowd did not even boo or hiss that loudly but the moment she opened her mouth... the booing was outrageous!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Ziggler managed to hold his own against Orton and for a moment it even looked like Orton would pass out from the sleeper hold but alas one of those out of nowhere RKO's and this one is finished. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">However, The Miz and Alex Riley proceed to jump Orton and beat the holy hell out of him, and even toss Jerry Lawler over the barricades into the audience when he, once again, gets in the WWE Champion's face. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>The Miz vs. Edge </strong>is announced for next week in a <em>Champion vs. Champion match</em> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>John Cena </strong>d. CM Punk <em>via disqualication</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Now I have said it time and time again </strong>Cena needs to stop winning all of his damn matches, and this one I actually thought might be the first time Cena would actually tap out to a submission move that Punk was using ... now I am not actually sure if its called the Anaconda Vise that Punk was known to use, as I havent actually seen him use it... </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">But apparently even SuperCena refuses to pass out as well... and Cena makes it the ropes, reverses a couple of moves and eventually goes for the Super Hulk Hogan Leg Drop off the top rope... which actually connects... and yet Punk (thank god!) kicks out... and at this point we are well into overtime here on the east coast and I am beginning to wonder just what it will take to end this epic confrontation... until my answer is revealed in the form of <em>a mystery audience member</em> who enters the ring and quite frankly looks so damn similar to Batista I actually thought it WAS Batista. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Turns out this man's name is <strong>Mason Ryan</strong> and down in WWE Developmental he is currently the <strong>FCW Champion</strong>... and sure enough this man proceeds to first kick Punk in the face, scoring the win for Cena... and then demolishing Cena as well... before taking his Nexus armband from the <em>ankle </em>of Punk and pledging his allegience to the group... </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">So as we saw on Friday night, <strong>Big Zeke </strong>has joined Wade Barrett and his <strong>Exiled </strong>crew, while this big man has joined New Nexus... clearly we are heading for a showdown... and at least two of the combinations of strength and leadership will be matched...</span>ZomIIXChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687275306466433149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5172759313478364641.post-87646972315046867832011-01-12T23:32:00.000-08:002011-01-17T23:38:48.212-08:00Special #1 - The unintentional fail that the Nexus has become.<strong><u><span style="background-color: yellow; color: black;">A group of rookies becomes a dominant force... </span></u></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: black;">Wade Barrett - Wins NXT in June 2010, shows up on RAW as a brand new member of the roster on June 7th, 2010 and announces that a "change" is coming and something "epic" will occur tonight. The rest is history. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: black;">During John Cena and CM Punk's main event that night, the other NXT rookies surrounded the ring, hopped the barricade, beat up everyone, security, announcers, Luke Gallows, destroyed the ring, both above and below, ripped up floor pads.. choked Justin Roberts with a tie, and demolished John Cena with all their individual finishers. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: black;">Now for the next couple of weeks, the Nexus, like the sharks they were being compared to, would surround the ring as they did during their unofficial debut as a group and proceed to deliver "beatings" to anyone they basically decided to, from hall of famers, to other RAW roster members, to General Managers, and even the WWE CEO Vincent K. McMahon. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: black;">Their interference in Cena's match was not unique as for the next couple weeks, it seemed like Nexus was screwing with Cena personally and even cost him a few victories on PPV, by first causing him to lose his WWE Championship at Fatal 4 Way, and then preventing him from recapturing it at Money in the Bank the following month. </span><br />
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<strong><u><span style="background-color: yellow; color: black;">Now, this is where it all starts to go down hill... </span></u></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: black;">SummerSlam 2010.. Nexus versus Team WWE (which stupidly shouldve been called Team RAW because they're were no members of Smackdown on the team as at the time Nexus had clearly only interfered during RAW matches) and what should've been a victory to SHOW how dominant they really were turned into an embarassing loss, as "Superman" Cena managed once again to "beat the odds" by surviving a outside the ring concrete DDT, dodging out of the way of Gabriel's 450 Splash, pinning him, and then making Wade Barrett tap out. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: black;">Now I know WWE wants the little kiddies to believe what is going on is real, and they try to make it seem as literal as you can for a PG show, but seriously... t<strong>ry</strong> running your head into a wall of concrete... <strong>DONT DO IT !!!</strong> and see if you don't wake up in a hospital a few hours later wondering why you feel stupid all of a sudden from loss of brain cells. What im alluding to is, the finish of the SummerSlam main event shouldve seen Nexus defeat WWE and prove they were indeed dominant as they had so claimed over the past weeks. </span><br />
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<strong><u><span style="background-color: yellow; color: black;">Daniel Bryan gets fired, returns, wins US Championship... Darren Young gets removed and forgotten...</span></u></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: black;">But instead, what we got out of that loss was a storyline of weeding out the weak links in the group and through that, the beatdown and removal of Darren Young from the group. Now he did re-debut seemingly as a face when he came down to the ring and mentioned "you think you can get away with what you did to me?" not once but twice (the guy started talking while his theme was still playing so he had to repeat himself, a botch on his part) and instead of getting the "exiled guy gets his revenge storyline" we saw Darren recieve a RKO for distracting Barrett and his replacement as a "C" show performer on Superstars or dark matches prior to RAW shows. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: black;">With Daniel Bryan gone from the very beginning following the "tie incident" his re-debut has undoubtly given him much better success than any one member of the Nexus has yet to achieve. The guy returns from being FIRED to go on to become the United States champion by making the current WWE Champion tap out. And since then he has managed to defend that belt on numerous occasions and is now a pro on the show that made him a WWE Star. </span><br />
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<strong><u><span style="background-color: yellow; color: black;">Skip Sheffield ankle injury... Michael Tarver groin injury... Rotunda Jr. and Hennig Jr. join Nexus... (what you didn't think you'd seen the last of these 2nd gen superstars?) </span></u></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: black;">Unfortunately, what also slowed down the momentum of the Nexus, was actual injury. Skip Sheffield broke his ankle in a house show and was silently dropped from the group when he was obviously unable to make television appearances... (why he couldn't just come to the ring in crutches? or did WWE think that would make Nexus look weak... after SummerSlam... it wouldn't have mattered) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: black;">Now of course there was another injury later on, but fortunately, we saw the mercenaries from NXT 2 Michael McGillicuty, and Husky Harris join the faction after they cost Cena his match at Hell in a Cell, which as we knew the stipulation going into that match... John Cena was now a member of the Nexus. A babyface superstar... the FACE of the WWE as he is called, and every child in the audience and at home watching WWE's hero... was now forced to work for the enemy... but alas, instead of conforming to their ways, Cena proceeded to fight the evil from within... and when Tarver injured his groin he was written off by being the first and only victim of Cena's internal destruction of Nexus. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: black;">Now of course for those who dont know Michael McGillicuty's real name is Joe Henning, the son of Curt Hennig the late Mr. Perfect. And Husky Harris, whose real name is Windham Rotunda, is the son of Mike Rotunda, the former Irwin R. Schyster. So despite not winning NXT 2 these two "rookies" were not going anywhere as being 2nd gen superstars has its advantages in a company such as WWE. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: black;">Now as we know now, Barrett would recieve multiple WWE Championship opportunities over the last couple months and in-directly made every "original" Nexus member (not removed from the group) a champion before himself. I speak of which of David Otunga, Justin Gabriel, and Heath Slater. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: black;">Now, as we know, he forced Otunga to relinquish the title the night after he won it simply because he was partnered with Cena who was doing everything he could to prevent Barrett from becoming dominant. So all Otunga's victory led to was more static between the two... but nonetheless, Barrett DID make him a champion in the first place by giving him that opportunity. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: black;">So as we saw on this past weeks RAW, Punk has christened his NEW NEXUS by keeping Michael McGillicuty and Husky Harris, as well as David Otunga... (so obviously his static between himself and Barrett remained intact as he would rather inflict pain upon himself than abandon the stable) and seemingly eliminated Gabriel and Slater as they refused to follow his direction and walked out on the Jesus Christ wannabe. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: black;">According to the spoilers for this week's Smackdown however, during his debut match against the Big Show... Heath Slater and Justin Gabriel run down to the ring to assist their former leader... until Ezekial Jackson makes his big smackdown debut and runs down to supposedly make the save for Show... however... he instead joins in on the beating and the four seemingly form a group that night. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: black;">Now here's where I start asking questions... as I said at the very beginning... Punk was a part of the match when Nexus debuted and was beatdown while not as severe as John Cena (all the finishers) he was indeed beat down outside the ring by all eight dudes... Is he indeed going to "lead" them or IMO like he did on monday, proceed to enact his revenge slowly and surely until a mutiny evolves. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: black;">And what about Otunga, as I said... Barrett MADE him a champion... and yet he sides with Punk, only to get a hellatious beating from the Big Show... to which if I was Otunga, as well as the other two... I would be thinking "what in the hell am I doing this for? to be part a faction that has completely lost its steam from our debut and instead of going after the 'big picture' has now become a civil war?" </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: black;">I do hope this faction fixes itself and becomes the dominant force it once was, pre-Summerslam... because damn WWE if they ruin what could've been a great storyline. </span>ZomIIXChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687275306466433149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5172759313478364641.post-29651065676803262952011-01-10T23:46:00.000-08:002011-01-17T23:40:28.980-08:001/10/2011 #3 New-Nexus Appears! The First HOF Inductee for 2011 is announced! and John Cena pulls a Mae Young<strong><span style="background-color: red; color: black;">1/10/2011 #3 New-Nexus Appears! The First HOF Inductee for 2011 is announced! and John Cena pulls a Mae Young</span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Following last weeks actions on the top of the cell, CM Punk walks out to the ring debuting a new version of the Nexus titantron and his former Straight Edge Society theme, complete with new icon and shirt to sell at the stands... Horray for marketing ! Punk mentions that in order to be a part of "his" new faction, (which is funny considering HE is the newest member of THEIR faction) the previous Nexus members are going to need to pass sacrificial tests tonight. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">McGullicuty is 1st, and he proceeds to take every other member of Nexus' finisher following up with the GTS from Punk... and the wierdness begins as instead of leaving him dead center in the middle of the ring as has been Nexus way, they carry him out together like hes a martyr. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">This rematch from last week was quite comical to me, because it had 2 guys who I barely understand as it is, I speak of course about R-Truth who always sounds out of breath during his entrance rap, and Ricardo Rodriguez, who I have never been able to understand since ADR's debut.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">However, like last week's Smackdown, Ricardo manages to interfere and help his master by keeping R-Truth outside the ring long enough, and was given a right hand for his efforts. After the match Alberto cut a terrible promo that I think was meant for commercial break because it was so horrible I wish I had not seen it. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">2nd on Punk's list of sacrifices is Husky Harris, and his sacrifice involves giving up his stupid name. No just kidding. But in reality something a little more comical wouldve sufficed, instead we watch as Otunga, Slater, and Gabriel each whip Husky 3 times with a leather belt followed up by a berserk Punk whipping him multiple times. Even at this point Jerry Lawler starts basically saying "WTF" over commentary, and personally I agree</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Daniel Bryan & Mark Henry d. </strong>Ted DiBiase & Tyson Kidd <em>via pinfall </em></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">This match was a rematch from Superstars last week (or for those who dont watch Superstars this could technically be considered a repeat match) that I truly believe was meant to be on RAW in the first place but was booted in favor of the more anticipated WWE Championship match. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Now, its worth noting that all this match proved tonight was that the burial of Ted DiBiase continues and Tyson Kidd has now joined the hearse... Jackson Andrews was once again not at ringside, and Kidd gets beat by Mark "doomed to be midcard for life" Henry... I must say though that it was refreshing seeing the dresses that the Bella Twins wore at ringside, only sucks that we came back from commercial and both teams were already in the ring and we didnt get to see more of them. (Wow! did I actually just say I wanted to see more of the Bellas?) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">A clip mentioning Wade Barrett's move over to Smackdown is aired, and Big Show himself comes to the ring to declare his intent to knock out Barrett much like HE was knocked out of Nexus. The NewNexus arrrives on the scene and while Punk, Gabriel, and Slater stand at the top of the ramp, Otunga walks down and gets into the ring with Show. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">He proceeds to slap him and stand back with open arms almost accepting that he is about to get beat. Of course Big Show obliges and beats the living hell out of Otunga finishing him with a chokeslam and a knockout punch without Otunga even getting to his feet. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">I guess you could consider this <em>Round 4</em> between these two in their neverending side feud over who will be #1 Contender. Either way, like every Morrison match he flips around , hurts himself, gets nearly beat... then pulls a miracle victory out of his shaman pants and defeats the englishman, who apparantly now has the <strong>King </strong>name added to his titantron. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Backstage Punk hands the two remaining Old Nexus members a Kendo stick and orders them to attack each other until he tells them to stop, but they hesitate and refuse. So Punk himself demands they hit HIM with the Kendo sticks until he says... but instead the two former tag team champions seemingly quit New Nexus... dropping the Kendo sticks and walking out to a huge cheering reaction from the crowd.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">No idea where this storyline is going, but the amount of people being exiled from the Nexus is starting to equal those in the group, perhaps a Old Nexus v. New Nexus showdown is in the works? After all Skip Sheffield is due back pretty soon and it has been reported that Michael Tarver is down in FCW working off the ring rust due to his groin injury that is now healed.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: red; color: black;">The First 2011 Hall of Fame Nominee is... SHAWN MICHAELS </span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Now according to the preview for RAW tonight, it was mentioned that former wrestler now backstage guy Arn Anderson will be one of them inductees for the 2011 HOF, however... in passing on commentary Lawler mentions that they will publically announce the first inductee tonight and will blow the roof off the building!! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Sure enough, it wasn't Arn Anderson... it was mother effin Shawn "Heartbreak Kid" Michaels... and the people go crazy as a video package airs covering his career leading up to his retirement match at last years Wrestlemania. But thats not all... as the HBK music starts to play Shawn himself comes out to a rather mediocre reaction considering the situation and without even saying a word gets into the ring and grabs a mic to start talking... until...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Alberto Del Rio... yes Alberto Del Rio decides to interrupt the occasion and spit more crap about becoming the winner of the Royal Rumble and becoming the next "Mr. Wrestlemania" to which Shawn... still without saying a word proceeds to give ADR a Sweet Chin Music and leaves in silence... and ill admit I was clapping the entire segment</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">After a rather questionable segment with CM Punk threatening to jump off the top of the titantron, he in fact was never planning on doing this but again all for a crowd reaction... (some of which really were screaming "Jump" i swear)... the New Nexus (jeezus i am already tired of using that name) comes down to the ring obviously without Slater and Gabriel and Punk proceeds to state that Cena IS not in the arena again due to the injuries he sustained. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">However, Cena appears on the titantron, cuts a good promo and even curses without a censor bleep which was actually quite refreshing. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">The main event tag match announced by the GM earlier after a rather questionable email segment speaking of how Cole is the greatest and more handsome commentator ever, was rather obvious imo. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Miz is afraid of Orton 1 on 1 and Orton used this to keep Miz in his corner as Lawler went up for his <em>vintage </em>flying elbow drop and covered Alex Riley for the 3 count. It was wierd because this episode ran rather long and at 11:04 PM usually the time that the show ends, they went and took a commercial break. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Sucks when shows like TNA Impact have to keep us watching for another hour (into the former TNA Reaction show) to see a main event conclusion. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Once again, as always have a great week and thanks for reading!</span>ZomIIXChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687275306466433149noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5172759313478364641.post-84961619026282140112011-01-07T18:21:00.000-08:002011-01-17T23:39:37.122-08:001/7/11 - Stipulation Week on WWE TV Continues!<span style="background-color: blue; color: black;">1/7/11 - Entry #2 : Stipulation Week on WWE TV Continues!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue; color: black;">Hello again, current and future readers, I take this opportunity to welcome you to the very FIRST Smackdown review of this blog, and because this week on WWE was "quote, unquote" the First Shows of the New Year it looks like they tried to start the year off as perfect as they could in the ratings calculator. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue; color: black;">As I mentioned in my first ever RAW review (and post) I very rarely review NXT, Superstars, or Impact UNLESS something major takes place that is worth noting. And unfortunately, this week on NXT, something did.</span><br />
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<strong><u><span style="background-color: blue; color: black;">Keeping your Champions relevant, Novak is eliminated from NXT after being traded for Byron Saxton. </span></u></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue; color: black;">However, that wasn't the shocker of the night, is was more of the way it was handled. The very first match of the evening didnt feature the Rookies, it actually was a Over the Top Battle Royal featuring the Pros with the stakes that whoever won, would be allowed to "trade their rookie for another." Now, comically, as Alberto Del Rio walked down to the ring, his personal ring announcer Ricardo Rodriguez offered to take his place in the match. Now, in my mind I thought "<em>wow! the WWE in-ring debut of Chimaera"</em> which for those who dont know is the name of the persona Ricardo uses on the Independent scene. (thank you Solomonster) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue; color: black;">Now of course I say it was <strong>comical</strong> that he entered the ring as his ring announcer persona and was proceeded to be put in one of the longest spin cycles ever performed by Daniel Bryan and swiftly eliminated. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue; color: black;">However, the winner of the battle royal, was <strong>Dolph Ziggler. </strong>And almost immediately I knew that <strong>if he decided to trade Novak</strong> for someone else it was because Novak was definately being eliminated and they needed to give the <strong>current Intercontinental </strong>champion someone else in order to stay as relevant as possible. To which I was right, Dolph traded Novak for Byron Saxton and Novak was eliminated at the end of the show. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue; color: black;">It is questionable why this match was held on Superstars instead of RAW but I assume it was because the timeframe was absorbed by the extended WWE Championship match that went on for almost 30 minutes. It is worth noting however, that Tyson's bodyguard Jackson Andrews was not at ring side so I am curious to find out why. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue; color: black;">Onto Smackdown, and just like RAW, the first match of the night was the first main event...</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: blue;">This match was everything one would expect to get from a Last Man Standing Match. Outside the ring brawling, audience stalking and street fighting, and backstage pursuit and hardcore moments. However stupid WWE decides to send us to commercial break while both competitors are backstage, and when we come back they are ringside. I understand its NOT that important but the brawling involved in between attempted count downs is what makes the suspense of this particular match nail biting and exciting. Now, I half expected a Kane victory when he choke slammed Edge through the announce table, (even with the "OOOOOOH" face by Matt Striker who kneeled down to continue commentary) alas, a One Man <strong>Con-chair-to</strong> to the knee of Kane forced the Big Red Monster to become unable to stand and the Champion retains. <strong>At least, there was no goddam duct tape involved... </strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue; color: black;">So you remember how I mentioned that clearly keeping face time for your champions is important, well clearly I was wrong... or was I? As yet another opportunity for the IC title is given to Kofi due to Vickie's interference during the triple threat match last week. Now, due to Vickie's interference, I agree with this decision... but then again... I think "Dolph v. Kofi" again!? Alas, after utilizing the very same move Kofi won his second reign against Drew McIntyre at Over the Limit followed up by a leaping crossbody from the toprope, Kofi defeats Ziggler and wins his third reign as Intercontinental Champion... unfortunately, Vickie doesnt take this lightly and opens up her big mouth. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue; color: black;">Stating that Teddy Long is AWOL tonight, and that she is "acting General Manager" she forces Kofi to immediately defend the championship against Ziggler who caught Kingston in a Zig Zag off the top rope while Kofi was celebrating. Now one would think "screwjob" in the back of their mind, but not tonight as Kofi pulls an amazing Trouble In Paradise out of oblivion and KO's Ziggler for the second win of the night. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue; color: black;">Now, I thought it was rather shitty how John Morrison's treatment as #1 Contender went on Monday... sure he lost his FIRST opportunity at the WWE Championship but to not even allow him to be involved in the Cage Match later that night is a highway robbery...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue; color: black;">However Kane's shot tonight was his "rematch" clause from TLC and therefore by losing another contender HAS to be determined, and indeed it will as the match is announced as </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: blue;"><u>"Dashing" Cody Rhodes v. Big Show v. Drew McIntyre</u><em><u> </u>in a triple threat #1 Contenders match for the World Heavyweight Championship</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue; color: black;">However prior to this match we had two backstage segments, one of which I thought showed the breakup of Vickie and Ziggler after he called her a "bonehead" for ordering the rematch and she retaliated by calling him a "two-time loser..." </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue; color: black;">The second segment however, showed more of a "tweening" Drew McIntyre talking with Kelly Kelly about his upcoming opportunity at the "big one" </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue; color: black;">Unfortunately, and mind you remember what I said earlier about <strong>keeping your champions relevant</strong> Vickie comes out and changes the match from a Triple Threat to a Fatal 4 Way and re-introduces Dolph Ziggler as the fourth competitor, and he goes on to the win the entire thing!</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: blue;"><strong>Dolph Ziggler def. </strong>Cody Rhodes, Big Show, and Drew McIntyre <em>in a Fatal 4 Way #1 Contender's Match for the World Heavyweight Championship</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue; color: black;">During this match, several things of note occured... Big Show dominated, Drew McIntyre got knocked out of the ring and couldnt get back in and multiple attempts saw him being hit once more to the ground by every other competitor. Big Show dominated again... until... <strong>Wade Barrett </strong>made his Smackdown debut and attacked the steamrolling Show to stop his rampage in the ring. This allowed the three others to "team" up on Show and take him down... However a distraction by Ziggler to Rhodes by pointing out Show re-entering the ring, turned Rhodes back to Ziggler who proceeded to hit the Zig Zag for the pin </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue; color: black;">Now if this was a graph one could show several high points for Ziggler over the past few weeks. There would be multiple slopes and multiple peaks. His two loss streak to a <em>rehired</em> Cena gave him great exposure as a potential main eventer, he trades his rookie away the night that rookie gets eliminated, he loses the midcard championship title ONLY to win an opporunity at the main event title. To that I say... its about damn time we get a fresh face in the main event picture... Now will it be Edge v. Ziggler @ Royal Rumble or will Ziggler recieve the John Morrison treatment and lose on network television and be dropped back down the ladder for Kane to recieve another title shot? Only time will tell. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue; color: black;">As for Drew McIntyre... his "face" turn is completed tonight as he runs out to protect Kelly Kelly who gets distracted at ringside by Layla, Styles Clashed by Michelle McCool, pinned and beaten up some more after the match was done. Now, about this I say... about damn time something FRESH. (I originally re-started watching Smackdown around the time in 2009 when McIntyre debuted)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue; color: black;">IMO I am tired of the Cena of Smackdown always defeating the big guys or coming from behind hitting two moves and winning the match... I know its a show... and bla bla bla... theres filler in each match, a punch here a kick there... but with Mysterio its always the same... get demolished the entire match then hit one move and win. Sound familiar? </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: blue;">Alas, tonight was ... wait for it... wait for it... <strong>FRESH</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue; color: black;">So there you have it. A New #1 Contender for the WHC, a New Intercontinental Champion, a Victory for the Heel in a "feud conclusion" match, a face turn for a long time heel... (take that Cena! no wait... wrong direction damit) and a new storyline for Wade "Mufasa" Barrett, the ousted former leader of Nexus. Something that was left in limbo after being "thrown to the stampede by CM "Scar" Punk" </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: blue; color: black;">This week IMO was amazing on Television and I hope the following weeks continue to suceed like this. </span>ZomIIXChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687275306466433149noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5172759313478364641.post-29303309944090605972011-01-03T20:21:00.000-08:002011-01-07T18:24:01.040-08:001/3/2011 "Blog #1: A Week Filled with Stipulation Main Events"<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">1/3/2011 "Blog #1: A Week Filled with Stipulation Main Events"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">A healthy welcome to my future and current readers, and a Happy New Year. I raise my glass as a toast to new beginnings and fresh starts to this wonderful new year. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Monday Night RAW starts off with a bang. As Michael Cole opens the broadcast mentioning that both John Cena and Jerry Lawler will not be on the program tonight. Cena suffered a real hip injury last week in a live event cage match while fighting Wade Barrett, as well as in story got beatdown by a CM Punk's led Nexus. Whereas Jerry Lawler fresh off his defeat of The Miz with John Morrison's assistance was jumped by Miz from the crowd as Micheal "and I quote" Cole was reading yet another email from the "anonymous GM" </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">In a wierd yet welcomed start to the first RAW of a new year, we got the first of two main events right off the bat. Several awesome spots between the former tag team partners. With JoMo eliminating a chance of Alex Riley getting involved in the match by kneeing him in the nose while propped up on the audience barricade, it seemed that we might just have a new champion seeing as The Miz has only sucessfully defended his championship when someone else gets involved. But unfortunately during the commercial or perhaps when I wasn't paying attention a table got set up close to the ring and JoMo attempted to Starship Pain while Miz was laying on the table. Alas Miz moved, JoMo threw himself through the table and took a Skull Crushing Finale for the loss. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Brie Bella was thrown to the floor by Maryse who turned her back as Nikki Bella pulled her sister under the ring and switched places. This allowed Nikki to turn defense into offense on Maryse who tagged Melina in. Nikki would tag Natalya who would connect with a "Discus Clothesline" (ala Matt Morgan lol) and tag out to Eve Torres who would use a spinning neckbreaker for the pin. Nothing special about this match but it was worth noting that during commercial a rather stupidly comedic ad featuring John Cena aired advertising Gillette and the death of a poor bathroom trash can. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Is it just me, or is this comedic tag team already tiring me out? I understand WWE hasn't cared about the Tag Division for months but this is getting ridiculus</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Its wierd that Alberto Del Rio was just recently involved in a World Championship match and now he is fighting mid carders in the US Title Division on a completely different show. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Nothing special about this match, but on a rather personal comedic note, I discovered ala camera fail that Alberto Del Rio doesnt actually honk the horn of the "car" he is driving but it is apparently a part of his entrance theme. Lame</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">A commercial advertising Smackdown airs mentioning a <strong>Last Man Standing </strong>match pitting <strong>Edge (c) v. Kane</strong> as well as a <strong>2 out of 3 Falls </strong>match pitting <strong>Alberto Del Rio v. Rey Mysterio</strong> for Friday Night. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">We learn that the leadership of Nexus is in doubt as Wade Barrett makes his appearance for the first time since being buried by John Cena at the TLC PPV, and is challenged for the leader position by CM Punk who joined the faction last week. With Morrison losing earlier in the night, a <strong>Triple Threat Cage </strong>match is announced by the GM pitting <strong>Randy Orton v. King Sheamus v. Wade Barrett/CM Punk</strong> and between the two of them they must decide on who represents Nexus in the match. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">Backstage, Punk lets Barrett know he wants him to take the spot to "prove" he is able to lead Nexus properly as a dominant force. But should he lose tonight, he is out of the group and Punk himself will take over as leader. As Barrett turns to leave for the ring, Punk shakes the hands of the other five guys, who smirk as if they are planning something</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">During the match, Wade Barrett jumps off the toprope onto the waiting knees of Sheamus and holds his arm as if he hurt it during the landing, as he attempts to climb the cage however, CM Punk runs down to ringside and climbs to the top of the cage offering his hand to help the "Leader" out. But as Barrett reaches his arm out, CM instead rips of the Nexus armband and kicks Barrett off the cage. Leading Sheamus to use his brogue kick on the bare knuckle brawler. Calling for the cage door to be open, it looks as if Sheamus is going to walk out of RAW the new #1 Contender... however as he stumbles toward the door he takes an RKO and Orton slowly walks out of the cage and down the steps to the WWE Championship Match at Royal Rumble</span><br />
<span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="background-color: red; color: black;">As this is my first summary/blog on this new site, I will explain my format real quick. I watch RAW live and post usually within 10-15 minutes of it concluding, however for NXT, Smackdown, and even TNA Impact I watch those usually on Friday night on Youtube depending on how great the quality of the upload is. I do not usually review those on a blog as it makes no sense with the spoilers and results being well known prior to me viewing. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red; color: black;">And with that, I wish everyone a happy first week of January 2011. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: red;"></span>ZomIIXChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687275306466433149noreply@blogger.com1