Thursday, August 22, 2013

Wrestling Obscurity: Randy Orton's relationship with the McMahons/Hemsleys

If you're reading this, I'm sure you saw RAW Monday night. I may have been one of the few who chuckled when Triple H said there was no love losed between him and Orton. Besides Randy being kicked out of Evolution and feuding with HHH. There was another feud between those two in which HHH invaded Randy's home, Randy Orton DDTed Stephanie, and Randy kicked Vince McMahon in the head. And in return HHH gave Orton, 2 concussions(I think) and a broken collar bone (unintentionally). Like HHH said there is a lot of water under that bridge. That is an understatement. But I guess ALL can be forgiven in the name of "business."

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Monday, August 19, 2013

A real WWE Summerslam review

Time for a REAL review of last night's Summerslam PPV.  I think the PPV started off slow. The inferno match wasn't all that great. It was kinda slow actually. I give the Wyatt Family credit for coming up with an idea of how to get past the ring of fire. But other than that the match was dull.

RVD vs. Dean Ambrose, The Shield interferenced. There's a shocker and Ambrose is still champion. Again I'm shocked and in awe. An average match at best.

Del Rio vs. Christan was really good. I didn't care for the outcome, but that's cause I wanted Christian to win, but that's what happens I guess.

Rhodes vs. Damien, was surprisingly well done. I don't give Cody enough credit when it comes to wrestling, but he can really do a great job more often than not. I was surprised he won, but it won't be the last match between these two. They will probably put the MITB breifcase up for grabs; maybe a ladder match...?

Brie vs. Natalya, despite what the crowd said the match wasn't bad, but it had no real good story behind it. Brie slapped Natalya, Natyala slapped Brie and that is it. No title, no stipulation, no emotional investment in the match and that's why it was "boring."

CM Punk vs. Brock Lesnar. One word; WOW. Match of the year? It's got my vote. But you know what was odd about this match. Even though the match was no DQ. They really didn't use a lot of weapons. I guess they didn't have to, but it wasn't until the last 1/3 of the match a chair was introduced. No kindo stick, no tables, hell they didn't even break the announce table English or Spainsh. Not a complaint, just struck me as a little strange.

Aj/Big E vs. Dolph Ziggler/Katyln. Another average match, at best. I'm not all that intrested in AJ's revenge against Dolph thing, so this match was just average. And it didn't help that this match followed Lesnar vs. Punk. I mean how do you top that?? Which brings us to the main event.

Daniel Bryan vs. John Cena. Great match; I was really expecting a lot from this match and I got it. Very good match, and maybe a contender for match of the year. I was surprised that DB won, I just was expecting that. I was happy that it happend, but then the night took a turn.

D Bryan vs. Randy Orton. WTF?!?! I'm really confused about Randy and Triple H's relationship. I know they were part of Evolution, but that was like 7-8 years ago. I mean....what? why? I can't find the words. But that does make me want to watch RAW tonight. It can't get here soon enough. It should be exciting.

Overall the PPV was great. There were a few matches that were average, but the alot of good to great matches. An excellent main event, and an ending that people will be talking about for a while.
Summerslam, I give it a grade of A.

Sunday, August 18, 2013

WWE Summerslam review

I couldn't go to bed before I wrote something about the events of tonight's Summerslam PPV. I'll start off by saying that this was better than WM. And that does happen from time to time. Summerslam was just a better show. It had better matches, and it didn't feel like it had a lot of filler. Were as WM, seems to have ALOT of filler. I'm looking at you you P.Diddy. Anyway,  I'm not going to go into detail about all the PPV tonight. I'll post that later. Just wanted to say in short that this was a great PPV. Well worth the money and I don't say that alot.  The very end surprised the hell out of me and I'm still confused about those events. I have watched it 3 times now on my DVR and each time I get more and more confused.  But that's a quick review. I'll post my full review tomorrow...I hope.

WWE SummerSlam predictions

It's prediction time again. This years' SummerSlam is almost here. We'll see how it turns out. I'm a little skeptical because I don't think that any titles will change hands and you know how I feel about that. But I have  been wrong before. So we'll see what happens, but here are my predictions.

Ambrose def. RVD
Brie Bella def. Natayla
Damien def. Rhodes
Dolph Ziggler/Katlyn def. Big E/AJ
Bray Wyatt def. Kane
Christian def. Alberto del Rio
CM Punk def. Brock Lesnar
John Cena def. Daniel Bryant

Wrestling Week Review

This has been a very interesting week in wrestling. Darren Young (Fred Douglas) announced that he is a gay man. Which is cool. I guess I'll have to start cheering the Primetime players. Which I will unless they start blowing that stupid whistle, in which case I will start booing them again. Gay or straight, the whistle has got to go.  Kurt Angle enters a rehab clinic, which caught me by surprise. But hopefully he gets the help he needs. Speaking of TNA, Brooke Hogan was released from TNA....? Which I assume is true. I see it all over the internet. So it must be true....right? If it is that is very strange. But I guess TNA is still making budget cuts, but that is a hell of a cut. Seeing that she is the daughter of Hulk Hogan. I wouldn't think that she would be the one who got fired.
And to finish off the week we've got SummerSlam today, and ROH iPPV yesterday. We'll see how SummerSlam goes, but like I said at the beginning. It has been a very interesting week in wrestling.

I almost forgot, that Bully Ray regained the TNA title. Just when you think they are rapping up this whole Aces & 8s thing. They breathe new life into it. What's next? A knockout is going to join Aces and 8s. They'd never do that....right? Right?