Last RAW of 2012

I can't believe what I saw just a little while ago. What is WWE doing? They must think this is funny/entertaining. What is entertaining about a 89 year old woman giving birth to a Irish little person??!?!? Sorry I meant baby new year. OMFG. I let a lot of things slide. Last week, Santa got hit by a car. I let that slide, because it was Christmas. But this....I think it broke me. I'm having trouble getting through the rest of RAW. What a way to end 2012. Thank God it's new year's eve. I think I need to start drinking....ALOT.
See ya'll in 2013.

Happy Holidays

From all of us, Merry Christmas, Happy Hoildays and Happy New Year.

Wrestling Obscurity: Mordecai

I bought my wife the WWE encyclopedia 2nd edition for her birthday. But of course I look through it too. I was flipping the pages and I came across a character that I've been trying to remember for YEARS. Mordecai; also known as Kevin Thorn. Mordecai looked like he stepped right out of a comic book. Even the name sounds like a comic book character. I believe he was on a crusade to rid the world of sin/sinners. Mordecai had a very short run from April 2004 to July 2004. 3 months. I'm not sure why they dropped the character so fast, but they did. Not to worry; Kevin would return as Kevin Thorn the vampire in ECW. A wrestling vampire...not as bad as a wrestling dentist, but not great. But it did last longer than Mordecai.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VogWUUaQZsw

Best matches of the 2012

2012 is almost over. Can't say that this year has had too many great matches, but then again I've been watching mostly TNA and WWE. Hopefully I can watch more ROH and New Japan in 2013. But here is PWI's list of best matches of the year.
http://www.profightdb.com/top-rated-matches.html?year=2012

TLC Review

I got some predictions wrong. There's a shocker, but I got most of them right. The bad news was no titles changed hands on a PPV. Sigh. But the good news was we had some pretty good matches. Not a bad way to end 2012. I didn't think that a TLC match that can end on a pinfall or submission would be good but I'm glad I was wrong. It was very good. But I am glad that they didn't make it the last match though. Speaking of which that was a pretty good ladder match between Cena and Ziggler. Looks like they almost, ALMOST took a page out of ROH ladder match book. By that I mean that there was actual wrestling in a ladder match. You don't see that too often in WWE ladder matches. I'd give the PPV a grade of B

WWE TLC predictions

TLC is almost upon us. I'll be watching it and hopefully it will be worth it i.e. some titles change hands. Let's see what we've got (looking at card). I only see 6 matches not including the pre-show match. So there's going to be some filler...oh goodie. Maybe the Rock will make an appearence...? I doubt that, but that would make things better...kinda. Anyway prediction time:

1. Wade Barrett def Kofi Kingston
2. Rhode Scholars def Mysterio/Cara
3. Antonio def. R-Truth
4. Ziggler def. Cena
5. Big Show def. Sheameus
6. Ryback et.al def Shield
7. Tamina to win battle royal


I seriously hope they used my idea I just posted cause it's not looking like a good PPV to end 2012, but we will soon see.

An idea for TLC PPV

I seriously doubt this is going to happen but I had what I think is a good idea. Of course depending on the booking of the show. But what if Dolph cashed in his MITB on the Big Show or Sheameus before the Cena/Ziggler ladder match. Then Dolph would be the new champion. But then the PPV would be short one match. I gotcha covered. The powers to be i.e. Booker T or Mr. McMahon would make Dolph defend his title against John Cena in a ladder match.

Again this probably won't happen, but WWE has to do something exciting to this PPV because the "main event" is lame. No title is on the line...nothing is on the line. Hell No/Ryback vs. Shield in a TLC match were you can win via pinfall or submission...? That's not a main event, that's a mid card match. Did I mention that match was lame...? I did. Oh sorry, but it bears repeating.

TLC predictions coming soon.

ROH iPPV this weekend

ROH Final Battle 2012 is this weekend see full card below:
http://www.rohwrestling.com/live/events/2012/dec/16/final-battle-2012-nyc
Tickets are still on sale...i think. But everyone can check it out on iPPV. It should be epic.

TNA reducing PPVs in 2013

TNA is planning on cutting 2 PPVs from 2013 schedule. Full article below.
http://www.examiner.com/article/tna-wrestling-to-reduce-pay-per-view-schedule

Wrestling Obscurity: Blonde Shelton Benjamin

I've mentioned a change of hairstyles before on WO. Here is another one. Shelton Benjamin has not faded into obscurity. He has had a great career with great matches and insane spots. But there was a time were Shelton was calling himself the "Gold Standard" I don't think that made alot of since. Kinda like Billy Gunn calling himself the "The One" Billy Gunn. Both names just seem odd to me. But of course if you are the gold standard you have to have gold or blonde hair. Which means that a black man has to walk around with blonde hair....hmmm. And I think I'm supposed to take him seriously. I didn't. Not sure if too many people did either. But I guess it's not as bad as having a stand up comedian play your mother on TV. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ses8rE7mr6A

NTWA: Edge Spears Jeff Hardy

When people think about TLC, they probably think Hardy's, E&C's, and the Dudleys's epic TLC matches. Defintely hard to top those matches because of all of the crazy spots that happened. All three teams reinvented the ladder match and brought it to new heights. This spot is possibly the craziest and most awesome in TLC history.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrjjlXdO39s

CM Punk has surgery

CM Punk had surgery on his knee. He won't be able to compete at TLC. But WWE has a back up plan.
http://www.wwe.com/shows/wwetlc/2012/mr-mcmahon-issues-statement-regarding-injured-punk-wwe-tlc-26073769
http://www.inquisitr.com/424753/cm-punk-surgery-wwe-wrestler-expected-to-make-full-recovery/

TNA 2012

I can only describe TNA 2012 as a ying/yang. Why do I say that? Because somethings have been really good or really bad. Really good ideas; cashing in the X-division belt for a shot at the Heavyweight belt. Austin becoming champion. Making RVD X-division champion. Making Samoa Joe TV champion.  BFG series. Open fight night, and gut check.
Now the really bad ideas: AJ Styles/Claire storyline, Aces & Eights, Madison Rayne crushing on Earl, Eric Young marrying ODB. Still no real X-division.
I also don't understand why Hogan has to decide an opponent for a champion. Just 1 opponent? Why not have 3 or 4 way matches?
As you can see TNA has done some creative things in the past year. But sometimes...alot of times the good is overshadowed by the bad. And there has been a lot of bad...oh boy. But there has been a lot of good too. So I think TNA is on a good track, they just need to do less stupid stuff. How hard can that be?

Chris Jericho 2012

This will be a short entry. Chris came back in a strange way first there was the creepy promo. You remember. The one with the kids. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjCPNGlGUf8
That was...different. But that's ok. The first RAW of the year Jericho came back. What is he going to do? What is he going to say? Nothing....and would continue to say nothing for a couple of weeks. And when he FINALLY said something. He stated that he was going to win the Royal Rumble. But did he? Nope. He had a match at WM for the WWE title. Did he win? Nope. He was in a MITB ladder match. Surely he would wi...nope. What the hell?!?! Well he did beat Ziggler at SummerSlam..oh goodie....
I'm not sure why Chris came back, I thought something would happen. He had some good matches. He was in some ok storylines, but nothing spectacular but he didn't win a title. As a fan I was disappointed in his return. Hopefully he won't be like certain stars who show up whenever they want to.

WWE 2012 Continued

This year has not been a good year for John Cena. Defintely a lot of failures and short comings. Now we're at the end of the year and John finds himself in a storyline with AJ and Vicki and...Dolph? Which I don't think makes any sense. How could AJ be fired for an inapropriate affair and then the person who takes her place is Vicki, who could be biased toward a certain wrestler ie. Dolph because they've had a relationship for years now? Is there a TNA writter on WWE staff, or do the 2 companies trade writers every now and then. I'm getting off track, back to Cena. Like I said, John hasn't really done much this year. And I mean that as far as lossing big matches, unable to cash in MITB for a title, and being stuck in bad story lines.

That brings me to Kane. Who started off 2012 as the "Devil's favorite demon" that wanted us to embrace hate, bring John Cena over to the "darkside." and made Zack Ryder's life hell. That was all well and good. I really did enjoy that storyline, but somewhere along the way. The devil's favorite demon got into a "relationship" with AJ Lee....? Which led to a feud with D. Bryant and eventually both Kane and D. Bryant went to anger managment and became the tag team champions.....? Huh? What?
Remember when I said D Bryant was acting like Daffy Duck, well I guess Kane is the Bugs Bunny in this analogy. So in 2012 Kane went from a demonic mad man terroizing Zack, Eve, and John Cena to 1/2 of a comedy duo that resemble looney tune characters....words escape me.  I think I need a drink a nice STRONG drink.

Next up Chris Jericho 2012, and TNA 2012

WWE 2012

2012 is almost over, soon a new year will be here. But before 2013 gets here let's look back on WWE in the past year. This year hasn't been as good as 2011. I'm sad to say. 2011 had some really good matches and moments. 2012...well there were good matches and some great matches, but as far as entertainment. I think this has been a slow year. Which it didn't start out that way. It had great potential. Case in point this clip from Monday Night Raw a year ago.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cm+punk+daniel+bryan+zack+ryder&oq=cm+punk+da&gs_l=youtube.3.1.0l10.27046.33843.0.36421.12.11.1.0.0.0.328.1734.2-6j1.7.0...0.0...1ac.1.lvf5bCXETdM
You had CM Punk as champion, which is all well and good, but then there were the other 2. The underdogs who you could get behind, cheer on and believe in. Zack Ryder made the US championship mean something again. And Daniel Bryant, just on his wrestling ability alone deserved to be champion. Fast forward 12 months. Where are they now? CM Punk is now heel.  Preaching,whinning, and demanding respect. Zack Ryder is back where he was 2 years ago. And D. Bryant as evolved or devolved into a version of Daffy Duck. Just replace rabbit season/duck season with yes and no, and you'll see what I mean.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rabbit+season+duck+season&oq=rabbit+season&gs_l=youtube.3.0.0l10.665086.669523.0.672304.15.10.1.4.5.0.282.1377.0j1j5.6.0...0.0...1ac.1.tNElFW_ZHV0
What the heck happened?

Next time I'll talk about John Cena and Kane.