Overview:
SmackDown opens with John Lauriniatis talk about Triple H firing the Miz and R-Truth in front of the SmackDown Roster. Then he cuts right to introducing Mark Henry, shortly after Triple H gets on the scene. After Triple H tries to like congradulate Mark Henry, Christian shows up and somehow to weasel into getting a World Heavyweight Championship match tonight. Triple H just hands him the match, and makes it a Lumberjack Match and winner will face Randy Orton at Hell in a Cell.
The first match on the card is Sheamus vs Heath Slater. This match is already going in one man's favor. Sheamus, just practically beats the hell out of Slater. Then randomly Slater gets one up on him before falling to his demise. The Great White, just destroys the loser. Following the match, backstage Great Khali runs into Christian and they chat it up. This is probably the only time Khali has ever spoke this much english during his whole WWE Career!
Next match is Wade Barrett against Justin Gabriel! Barrett brawls about, beating Gabriel down as the match goes in and out of the ring. Gabriel fights back with a few dives, kicks and a STO. As Gabriel takes his eyes off Barrett, Barrett recovers Boots him in the Head following up with Wasteland. These first few match are seemingly just plain out squash matches.
After a break, Matt Striker has an interview with Randy Orton about his loss. Orton goes on thou to saying he'll get the Championship back. Following the interview, we get a promo for Hell in a Cell. Backstage Christian talks with Ezekiel Jackson about being World Heavyweight Champion. Christian is trying to get support from the Lumberjacks the Lumberjack match tonight. We then get to the Divas' match of the night, it was a Tag Team match. Beth Phoenix and Natalya are squashing yet again Kaitlyn and AJ. Beth and Natalya, just beat the hell out of Kaitlyn in opening minutes. Aj flies into the match starts doing work on Beth, before falling to a Glam Slam yet again as Kaitlyn checks on AJ following the match.
Eventually we get another Randy Orton/Cody Rhodes match. They brawl about and the match is a complete brawl. Rhodes, uses his mask on Orton and Orton replies by doing the same to Rhodes. Due to Orton using the mask he gets DQ'ed, following that he attacks Cody and just beats him down. Orton assaults Cody with his mask, hits him with the ring as WWE edits all the amazing blood Cody spewed from the attack leaving us with a random RKO on the announce table. After that Christian tries to suck up to Sheamus, for the Lumberjack match. Christian even gives Sheamus a potatoe, just it's not an Irish one its an Idaho Potatoe!
The next match is Great Khali facing off with Jinder Mahal. In the opening minutes, Jinder somehow manages to get Khali down. Eventually Khali fights back and quickly finishes off Jinder with his Two Handed Chokeslam. Following Khali destroying Jinder, we get Sin Cara facing off with Daniel Bryan. The match has the original Sin Cara(Mystico) battling with Daniel until, the second Sin Cara(Hunico) knocks Sin Cara out and replaces him while winning the match. It quickly jumps to Christian running into Zac Ryder and trying to win him over. Then randomly Ryder gets a call from Hugh Jackman saying Orton's in!
We get to the Usos' facing off with Air Boom. The Usos' beat down Evan Bourne in the opening minutes which seems the usual for him. Eventually Kofi is tagged in and things get going. Kofi hits one of the bros with a Trouble in Paradise leading to Evan hitting Airbourne for the win. Then before the main event got start we got the Zac Ryder and Hugh Jackman from Raw. The promo even used Decade Stock Music, such as my favorite "Fight in the Man".
Finally we get to the Lumberjack Match for the World Heavyweight Championship! The match starts with Christian trying to getting away from Mark Henry. Christian tries to play cat and mouse but the Lumberjacks stop him. Henry brawls about and beats Christian down, he mostly uses submission holds to wear him down. Christian fights back and almost gets Mark Henry down just he couldn't manage the KillSwitch on him. The fight spills outside and the whole roster swarms Mark Henry, just he destroys anyone who was in his way. Christian then tries to get out of the match and Sheamus throws him back into the ring and right into Mark Henry hitting him with a World's Strongest Slam for the win. After the match Orton rushes Henry going into SmackDown's final minutes of the night.
Review:
SmackDown was completely a squash night. The matches were completely able to predict, and figure out all the outcomes even without the known spoilers. Since the matches were so easy to judge and predict it became an issue to really enjoy most of the matches. Ironically even thou they weren't amazing matches, I enjoyed Sheamus beating down Slater, Air Boom/the Usos' match and the Main Event where Henry fought the whole roster. Those few matches just barely got me into the whole episode of SmackDown. Hell if Sheamus wasn't so awesome at kicking everyone's ass the start of the show would've been boring. Then Air Boom was great cause it's just help to set-up Air Boom as a good tag team while still trying to get the Usos' some airtime. Now Mark Henry vs the Lumberjacks was great, for some reason I would've enjoyed Henry losing just for the fact he destroyed the roster last week and it'd be pay back. Another pure plus for the show was Kaitlyn and Zac Ryder, Kaitlyn is one of my favorite Divas in the WWE and Ryder is just Ryder! Making this edition of Smackdown equal out to a mildly great 3-Star Rating; Woo Woo Woo, You Know It!
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Friday, September 23, 2011
Sunday, September 18, 2011
WWE Night of Champions
Overview:
The Night of Champions opening promo sets up the whole night. The PPV starts right off with the WWE Tag Team Championship Match, Air Boom vs Awesome Truth. Awesome Truth entered the arena singing "What's Up? You Suck!" The Match opens up with Air Boom, actually making me believe they're good together. I actually think that this match was just to set them up. Anyways Air Boom kicks the crap out of Awesome Truth leading both members suicide diving out onto Awesome Truth. Eventually Miz and R-Truth begin to isolate Evan Bourne, and begin to pick up some steam. Evan gets a chance and tags Kofi in hitting the Boom Drop and SOS on Miz. Miz, kicks out fast and goes for the Man-tastic/Snapmare Driver. Kofi tries to get a break for Evan and Evan tags in. Evan just blasts Awesome Truth down and for Miz almost wins the match, but for once the dirty tactics go against them and the referee misses them completely leading to Awesome Truth to get DQ'ed. Awesome Truth then attack the ref, leading out to WWE Promos.
Backstage Awesome Truth runs into Matt Strike for an interview about striking the referee. They respond with them thinking everyone is against them. Back at ringside, we go right to the Intercontinental Championship match, Cody Rhodes defending against Ted DiBiase. They tie it up and DiBiase is showing why he's the son of the Million Dollar Man, but Cody reverses into using Hardcore Holly moves. Cody Rhodes, eventually manages to start laying a beating to Ted, that's when the match became slower. Ted makes a break, and slams Cody about. Ted rips off Cody's mask and tries to smash him in the face, but Cody slides and rolls him up for the pinfall. Following the match we get more WWE Promos and commericals.
We get to see the spanish commentary group leading into a random entrance for Christian. He rants for one more match then pisses off Buffalo about talking crap of their Football team. Eventually Sheamus shows up and makes his way to the ring. Sheamus then calls out Christian for another match before laying out Christian with the Brogue Kick. Following that promo, we got the Fatal 4-Way for the United States Championship. During entrance Vickie Guerrero enters with Dolph Ziggler the current champion but goes to Jack Swagger's corner. Swagger and A-Ry get Morrison and Ziggler out to start the match. Eventually things get hectic with Morrison, Swagger and Ziggler brawling in the ring. While Ziggler and Swagger fight over Vickie, A-Ry tries to steal the match but Vickie saves the match by getting Swagger's foot on the rope. We later on get the Tower of Terror, with all the guys being thrown from a turnbuckle. Towards the end of the match Swagger locks the Ankle Lock on Riley, Ziggler locks Morrison in the Sleeper, leading to Swagger beating down A-Ry and Morriosn. After Swagger hit a Gut-Wrench Powerbomb on Morrison, Ziggler slides in and pins Morrison. Backstage Vickie Guerrero runs into Striker for an interview, leading to her kissing him.
We come to the World Heavyweight Championship match, Randy Orton and Mark Henry face off in the ring. Orton makes some ways to fight Henry, but he charges back over powering Orton. Most of the match has Henry beating down Orton with him trying to fight back. Orton eventually hits several DDTs, before Mark Henry like injures Orton's leg making Orton unable to use the RKO with Henry flipping him into the World's Strongest Slam. Mark Henry wins the match and first World Championship, the crowd isn't really approving even thou most people wanted him to evenutally win it. Mark gets the mic and goes on how he will continue to dominate.
Backstage Alberto Del Rio walks around with John Lauriniatis talking about the WWE Championship. As Del Rio walked away CM Punk shows up and confronts him about how he talks load of crap. After the little run we get the Divas' Championship match. Kelly Kelly accompanied by Eve, as Beth Phoenix enters with Natalya with her hometown exploding for her. Kelly uses her speed against Beth and is caught for a spanking. Sometime afterward Eve and Natalya fight at ringside, and Kelly almost catches Beth with a roll up. Beth then begins picking apart Kelly Kelly further. Somehow as Beth tries for a Powerbomb, Kelly finally rolls up Beth for a pinfall.
Before the WWE Championship we get a promo of Champions of the ages. The promo eventually cuts to Alberto Del Rio cashing in on CM Punk. Then Cena bashing Del Rio on not being a great WWE Champion. Finally we cut to the entrances with Del Rio arguing with Ricardo about where was the car, as Cena enters with the car. Before the match starts they argue over crap and such, with Cena bashing Del Rio again. The match kicks off with Cena making Del Rio run about. Del Rio, and Cena get brawling as the referee kicks Ricardo out. Cena and Del Rio continue to conflict with each other leading to get points that get the crowd really going. Del Rio at one point hits his Super Enzuigiri on Cena, following that Del Rio begins working on Cena. the finally ends with Cena locking Del Rio in a STF for the win. Super Cena is our reigning WWE Champion yet again!
Now we come to the Main Even finally the NO DQ match, CM Punk vs WWE COO Triple H. Punk attacks Triple H before he gets into the ring, leading to them quickly fight near the announce tables. Triple H almost Pedigrees, Punk on the table and Punk runs into the ring. The battle in the ring and back to ringside, Triple H uses the ring post and Punk uses the steps. As Punk goes off a Bulldog Triple H pushes into the crowd where they fight their too. They spill over to the entrance ramp, where Triple H tries for another Pedigree. Punk countered it and goes for a Double Axe Handle, he follows up with dragging the match back to the ring. A Punk brings a chair into the match, Triple H lands a Spinebuster and throws Punk out of the ring. Outside Triple H works on Punks knee while they battle near the Spanish announce table.
Punk, hits Triple H with Diving Elbow Drop breaking the Spanish announce table. As both men try to get into the ring Awesome Truth attacks them and beats them down. Miz hits Triple H with the Skull Crushing Finale, R-Truh hits Punk with Shut Up trying to help Punk win the match. After Triple H, kicked out Awesome Truth attack the referee then Punk and Triple H attack them. Triple H then hits Punk with the Pedigree, without a referee to count a pin. Punk hits a GTS and R-Truth interferes again, with Punk hit him with a GTS. John Lauriniatis calls in Kevin Nash who comes in and attacks both Triple H and CM Punk. Kevin Nash eventually Jacknife Powerbombs Punk then he goes back to Triple H but Triple H knocks him out with the Sledgehammer. Triple H gets another Pedigree, the third of the night allowing him to pick up the win finale. After the match Triple H throws a "Suck It" at Punk!
Review:
Alright well the Pay-Per-View was pretty great and it could've been better. The opening matches were actually great. The whole way to promote the new guys or the best work horses on the card. The Tag Team match tried to improve or show how Air Boom can be a great tag team. Now as for the second match I wanted Ted DiBiase to beat Cody Rhodes so he could finally be somebody again. Just the endding to the first two matches sucked, a DQ and a stupid roll up. The third match was amazing, that Fatal 4-Way could've maybe stole the show if it went longer and was near to the main events. Also the outcome of the match was great, Ziggler retained and it made me a happy camper cause Ziggler is the man!
The rest of the night was much better and slightly sadder. The World Heavyweight Championship seemed like Orton might some how beat Henry, yet he sadly didn't. Henry just mostly beat down Orton and beat the crap out of him, which was like how the Divas' match went just ended like Orton's should've. Now as for that having Beth losing in her hometown pissed me off. I wanted the Glamazon to destroy Kelly Kelly at Night of Champions in Buffalo! Following that Super Cena jumped back to being King of the Mountain in the WWE, and for once I can approve this cause I just don't like Del Rio that much. Now finally we get to the Main Event! Triple H and Punk beat the crap out of each other, then Awesome Truth kicked their ass and finally Kevin Nash came out of nowhere to end the match! With all this happening it made the night really enjoyable. Somethings to point out are Ziggler's the man, Henry is a Champion finally, Beth got screwed, Super Cena is back and Triple H showed Punk why he is the Game! End resulting being, Night of Champions was a 7.5 out of 10-Star Rating!
The Night of Champions opening promo sets up the whole night. The PPV starts right off with the WWE Tag Team Championship Match, Air Boom vs Awesome Truth. Awesome Truth entered the arena singing "What's Up? You Suck!" The Match opens up with Air Boom, actually making me believe they're good together. I actually think that this match was just to set them up. Anyways Air Boom kicks the crap out of Awesome Truth leading both members suicide diving out onto Awesome Truth. Eventually Miz and R-Truth begin to isolate Evan Bourne, and begin to pick up some steam. Evan gets a chance and tags Kofi in hitting the Boom Drop and SOS on Miz. Miz, kicks out fast and goes for the Man-tastic/Snapmare Driver. Kofi tries to get a break for Evan and Evan tags in. Evan just blasts Awesome Truth down and for Miz almost wins the match, but for once the dirty tactics go against them and the referee misses them completely leading to Awesome Truth to get DQ'ed. Awesome Truth then attack the ref, leading out to WWE Promos.
Backstage Awesome Truth runs into Matt Strike for an interview about striking the referee. They respond with them thinking everyone is against them. Back at ringside, we go right to the Intercontinental Championship match, Cody Rhodes defending against Ted DiBiase. They tie it up and DiBiase is showing why he's the son of the Million Dollar Man, but Cody reverses into using Hardcore Holly moves. Cody Rhodes, eventually manages to start laying a beating to Ted, that's when the match became slower. Ted makes a break, and slams Cody about. Ted rips off Cody's mask and tries to smash him in the face, but Cody slides and rolls him up for the pinfall. Following the match we get more WWE Promos and commericals.
We get to see the spanish commentary group leading into a random entrance for Christian. He rants for one more match then pisses off Buffalo about talking crap of their Football team. Eventually Sheamus shows up and makes his way to the ring. Sheamus then calls out Christian for another match before laying out Christian with the Brogue Kick. Following that promo, we got the Fatal 4-Way for the United States Championship. During entrance Vickie Guerrero enters with Dolph Ziggler the current champion but goes to Jack Swagger's corner. Swagger and A-Ry get Morrison and Ziggler out to start the match. Eventually things get hectic with Morrison, Swagger and Ziggler brawling in the ring. While Ziggler and Swagger fight over Vickie, A-Ry tries to steal the match but Vickie saves the match by getting Swagger's foot on the rope. We later on get the Tower of Terror, with all the guys being thrown from a turnbuckle. Towards the end of the match Swagger locks the Ankle Lock on Riley, Ziggler locks Morrison in the Sleeper, leading to Swagger beating down A-Ry and Morriosn. After Swagger hit a Gut-Wrench Powerbomb on Morrison, Ziggler slides in and pins Morrison. Backstage Vickie Guerrero runs into Striker for an interview, leading to her kissing him.
We come to the World Heavyweight Championship match, Randy Orton and Mark Henry face off in the ring. Orton makes some ways to fight Henry, but he charges back over powering Orton. Most of the match has Henry beating down Orton with him trying to fight back. Orton eventually hits several DDTs, before Mark Henry like injures Orton's leg making Orton unable to use the RKO with Henry flipping him into the World's Strongest Slam. Mark Henry wins the match and first World Championship, the crowd isn't really approving even thou most people wanted him to evenutally win it. Mark gets the mic and goes on how he will continue to dominate.
Backstage Alberto Del Rio walks around with John Lauriniatis talking about the WWE Championship. As Del Rio walked away CM Punk shows up and confronts him about how he talks load of crap. After the little run we get the Divas' Championship match. Kelly Kelly accompanied by Eve, as Beth Phoenix enters with Natalya with her hometown exploding for her. Kelly uses her speed against Beth and is caught for a spanking. Sometime afterward Eve and Natalya fight at ringside, and Kelly almost catches Beth with a roll up. Beth then begins picking apart Kelly Kelly further. Somehow as Beth tries for a Powerbomb, Kelly finally rolls up Beth for a pinfall.
Before the WWE Championship we get a promo of Champions of the ages. The promo eventually cuts to Alberto Del Rio cashing in on CM Punk. Then Cena bashing Del Rio on not being a great WWE Champion. Finally we cut to the entrances with Del Rio arguing with Ricardo about where was the car, as Cena enters with the car. Before the match starts they argue over crap and such, with Cena bashing Del Rio again. The match kicks off with Cena making Del Rio run about. Del Rio, and Cena get brawling as the referee kicks Ricardo out. Cena and Del Rio continue to conflict with each other leading to get points that get the crowd really going. Del Rio at one point hits his Super Enzuigiri on Cena, following that Del Rio begins working on Cena. the finally ends with Cena locking Del Rio in a STF for the win. Super Cena is our reigning WWE Champion yet again!
Now we come to the Main Even finally the NO DQ match, CM Punk vs WWE COO Triple H. Punk attacks Triple H before he gets into the ring, leading to them quickly fight near the announce tables. Triple H almost Pedigrees, Punk on the table and Punk runs into the ring. The battle in the ring and back to ringside, Triple H uses the ring post and Punk uses the steps. As Punk goes off a Bulldog Triple H pushes into the crowd where they fight their too. They spill over to the entrance ramp, where Triple H tries for another Pedigree. Punk countered it and goes for a Double Axe Handle, he follows up with dragging the match back to the ring. A Punk brings a chair into the match, Triple H lands a Spinebuster and throws Punk out of the ring. Outside Triple H works on Punks knee while they battle near the Spanish announce table.
Punk, hits Triple H with Diving Elbow Drop breaking the Spanish announce table. As both men try to get into the ring Awesome Truth attacks them and beats them down. Miz hits Triple H with the Skull Crushing Finale, R-Truh hits Punk with Shut Up trying to help Punk win the match. After Triple H, kicked out Awesome Truth attack the referee then Punk and Triple H attack them. Triple H then hits Punk with the Pedigree, without a referee to count a pin. Punk hits a GTS and R-Truth interferes again, with Punk hit him with a GTS. John Lauriniatis calls in Kevin Nash who comes in and attacks both Triple H and CM Punk. Kevin Nash eventually Jacknife Powerbombs Punk then he goes back to Triple H but Triple H knocks him out with the Sledgehammer. Triple H gets another Pedigree, the third of the night allowing him to pick up the win finale. After the match Triple H throws a "Suck It" at Punk!
Review:
Alright well the Pay-Per-View was pretty great and it could've been better. The opening matches were actually great. The whole way to promote the new guys or the best work horses on the card. The Tag Team match tried to improve or show how Air Boom can be a great tag team. Now as for the second match I wanted Ted DiBiase to beat Cody Rhodes so he could finally be somebody again. Just the endding to the first two matches sucked, a DQ and a stupid roll up. The third match was amazing, that Fatal 4-Way could've maybe stole the show if it went longer and was near to the main events. Also the outcome of the match was great, Ziggler retained and it made me a happy camper cause Ziggler is the man!
The rest of the night was much better and slightly sadder. The World Heavyweight Championship seemed like Orton might some how beat Henry, yet he sadly didn't. Henry just mostly beat down Orton and beat the crap out of him, which was like how the Divas' match went just ended like Orton's should've. Now as for that having Beth losing in her hometown pissed me off. I wanted the Glamazon to destroy Kelly Kelly at Night of Champions in Buffalo! Following that Super Cena jumped back to being King of the Mountain in the WWE, and for once I can approve this cause I just don't like Del Rio that much. Now finally we get to the Main Event! Triple H and Punk beat the crap out of each other, then Awesome Truth kicked their ass and finally Kevin Nash came out of nowhere to end the match! With all this happening it made the night really enjoyable. Somethings to point out are Ziggler's the man, Henry is a Champion finally, Beth got screwed, Super Cena is back and Triple H showed Punk why he is the Game! End resulting being, Night of Champions was a 7.5 out of 10-Star Rating!
Friday, September 9, 2011
WWE Smackdown 9/9
Overview:
Smackdown opens with a huge promo featuring Mark Henry's domination of Smackdown before the intro starts up. Henry then starts the show by talking about his victories over Kane and Big Show, along with his Hall of Pain. Then Henry is cut off by Zac Ryder, and tries to make him a Broski while announcing that theres a no contact rule for him and Orton. Henry orders Ryder back into the ring, then asks him who'll win at Night of Champions where he tries to get out of the question. Ryder tries to get out of the way but is hit with a World's Strongest Slam. Ezekiel Jackson then makes his entrance to face Henry in the opening match.
Jackson and Ezekiel, face off and go for a power struggle clash. The two brawl about and Jackson tries to lock a Tourture Rack in, but fails. The match goes outside where Henry uses the ring to beat up Jackson. Henry then starts to lay it into Jackson and hits off a fast World's Strongest Slamto pick up the pinfall. After the match Randy Orton vs Cody Rhodes is promoted as Teddy Long runs into Aksana again. Then following the Aksana and Teddy Long, confrontation Sin Cara makes his entrance.
The Sin Cara match, is him beating down Tyson Kidd while the commentary talk about his dirty attack to Daniel Bryan. Sin Cara just mostly dominates Tyson Kidd in his usual way. The match is just plain boring cause the moves are just the same each week. After the match Josh Matthews has an interview with Sin Cara, who can now speak english! If anyone doesn't know this Sin Cara isn't Mystico he was recently replaced by Hunico due to the suspension. Then Bryan comes out and calls out Sin Cara for a rematch next week before being attacked and locked into his LaBell Lock.
When coming back to Smackdown a promo for Cody Rhodes, before Matt Strike has an interview with Randy Orton about facing Cody tonight. Following the interview, Kelly Kelly makes her entrance and awaits Natalya's entrance whose accompanied by Beth Phoenix. This Divas match is oddly out matched even thou Kelly Kelly gives Natalya a run for money in the opening minutes. Natalya beats down Kelly Kelly, but Kelly manages to get a roll up for the win and swiftly exits the ring.
Christian comes out and starts complaining about his match on Raw last week and the Steel Cage on Smackdown the following night. Then Christian continues to complain about how he wants another match until Sheamus cuts him off. Sheamus then intimidates Christian completely to leave, while Wade Barrett makes his entrance. Yeah another battle of the UK'ers! They tie it up and stuggle before they began to brawl about the ring. The pace flips back and forth between the two, with Wade Barrett eventually over powering Sheamus for awhile. Then when Sheamus finally begins to get momentum Christian interferes, Sheamus brawls out and hits Wade with the Brogue Kick. Before Sheamus can hit the Celtic Cross on Christian, he breaks from the hold and runs from the ring.
Air Boom then makes their entrance to face Jinder Mahal and the Great Khali. The match is pretty much the same as before, Evan got his ass beat down. Then Kofi appears and starts brawling about hitting his moves on Jinder. The match the ends the same as usual Khali and Jinder screw up cost them the match. Following, the match the entrances for Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton occur for the Champion vs Champion match for tonight's Main Event. Cody shot a quick promo thou before about Orton and Ted DiBiase. He ranted about stupid crap to practically force out Orton.
The match starts out with Orton beats Cody about in the opening minutes. Through out the match Orton just dominates Cody. Sometime later on in the match Cody actually tries to make a good come back. After a commerical break Cody is still maintaining the lead on Orton. Eventually Orton, makes a break from Cody and connects several moves on his old friend. Cody tries to his kick but misses and falls for a RKO. Following the match Mark henry makes his way down to the ring. Henry slams Orton down then, places a chair on his throat and sits down on him while taunting him.
Review:
Smackdown was slightly horrible, cause I didn't catch much of my attention. I thought the matches could've been greatly better. The promos also weren't even watchable at most times. Like this was just barely reaching a 3-Star Rating, and like probably hit a 2.5-Star Rating. The matches that are worth mentioning as the better matches were Barrett/Sheamus and Orton/Rhodes. Those two seemed to be great matches, just every time Barrett/Sheamus meet they've always ended horribly. I want the UK'ers to beat the living hell out of them. As for the matches that could've been greater should've been Henry/Jackson and Kelly/Natalya. My biggest complaints were they seemed too short and didn't have alot of counters or reversals. The Henry/Jackson match I wanted a battle of monsters not a Fat Strong man overpowering a Dominating guy like Jackson. As for the Divas, Kelly gave Natalya a run for her money earlier on but it didn't switch back and forth to gain a pop from the crowd. I really want the Divas to really step it up and be enough to rival some of the better Divas matches of yesterday. That's why this SmackDown hit a low of 2.5-Stars!
Smackdown opens with a huge promo featuring Mark Henry's domination of Smackdown before the intro starts up. Henry then starts the show by talking about his victories over Kane and Big Show, along with his Hall of Pain. Then Henry is cut off by Zac Ryder, and tries to make him a Broski while announcing that theres a no contact rule for him and Orton. Henry orders Ryder back into the ring, then asks him who'll win at Night of Champions where he tries to get out of the question. Ryder tries to get out of the way but is hit with a World's Strongest Slam. Ezekiel Jackson then makes his entrance to face Henry in the opening match.
Jackson and Ezekiel, face off and go for a power struggle clash. The two brawl about and Jackson tries to lock a Tourture Rack in, but fails. The match goes outside where Henry uses the ring to beat up Jackson. Henry then starts to lay it into Jackson and hits off a fast World's Strongest Slamto pick up the pinfall. After the match Randy Orton vs Cody Rhodes is promoted as Teddy Long runs into Aksana again. Then following the Aksana and Teddy Long, confrontation Sin Cara makes his entrance.
The Sin Cara match, is him beating down Tyson Kidd while the commentary talk about his dirty attack to Daniel Bryan. Sin Cara just mostly dominates Tyson Kidd in his usual way. The match is just plain boring cause the moves are just the same each week. After the match Josh Matthews has an interview with Sin Cara, who can now speak english! If anyone doesn't know this Sin Cara isn't Mystico he was recently replaced by Hunico due to the suspension. Then Bryan comes out and calls out Sin Cara for a rematch next week before being attacked and locked into his LaBell Lock.
When coming back to Smackdown a promo for Cody Rhodes, before Matt Strike has an interview with Randy Orton about facing Cody tonight. Following the interview, Kelly Kelly makes her entrance and awaits Natalya's entrance whose accompanied by Beth Phoenix. This Divas match is oddly out matched even thou Kelly Kelly gives Natalya a run for money in the opening minutes. Natalya beats down Kelly Kelly, but Kelly manages to get a roll up for the win and swiftly exits the ring.
Christian comes out and starts complaining about his match on Raw last week and the Steel Cage on Smackdown the following night. Then Christian continues to complain about how he wants another match until Sheamus cuts him off. Sheamus then intimidates Christian completely to leave, while Wade Barrett makes his entrance. Yeah another battle of the UK'ers! They tie it up and stuggle before they began to brawl about the ring. The pace flips back and forth between the two, with Wade Barrett eventually over powering Sheamus for awhile. Then when Sheamus finally begins to get momentum Christian interferes, Sheamus brawls out and hits Wade with the Brogue Kick. Before Sheamus can hit the Celtic Cross on Christian, he breaks from the hold and runs from the ring.
Air Boom then makes their entrance to face Jinder Mahal and the Great Khali. The match is pretty much the same as before, Evan got his ass beat down. Then Kofi appears and starts brawling about hitting his moves on Jinder. The match the ends the same as usual Khali and Jinder screw up cost them the match. Following, the match the entrances for Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton occur for the Champion vs Champion match for tonight's Main Event. Cody shot a quick promo thou before about Orton and Ted DiBiase. He ranted about stupid crap to practically force out Orton.
The match starts out with Orton beats Cody about in the opening minutes. Through out the match Orton just dominates Cody. Sometime later on in the match Cody actually tries to make a good come back. After a commerical break Cody is still maintaining the lead on Orton. Eventually Orton, makes a break from Cody and connects several moves on his old friend. Cody tries to his kick but misses and falls for a RKO. Following the match Mark henry makes his way down to the ring. Henry slams Orton down then, places a chair on his throat and sits down on him while taunting him.
Review:
Smackdown was slightly horrible, cause I didn't catch much of my attention. I thought the matches could've been greatly better. The promos also weren't even watchable at most times. Like this was just barely reaching a 3-Star Rating, and like probably hit a 2.5-Star Rating. The matches that are worth mentioning as the better matches were Barrett/Sheamus and Orton/Rhodes. Those two seemed to be great matches, just every time Barrett/Sheamus meet they've always ended horribly. I want the UK'ers to beat the living hell out of them. As for the matches that could've been greater should've been Henry/Jackson and Kelly/Natalya. My biggest complaints were they seemed too short and didn't have alot of counters or reversals. The Henry/Jackson match I wanted a battle of monsters not a Fat Strong man overpowering a Dominating guy like Jackson. As for the Divas, Kelly gave Natalya a run for her money earlier on but it didn't switch back and forth to gain a pop from the crowd. I really want the Divas to really step it up and be enough to rival some of the better Divas matches of yesterday. That's why this SmackDown hit a low of 2.5-Stars!
Monday, September 5, 2011
WWE Raw 9/5
Overview:
Raw opens with a promo for the CM Punk, Triple H and Kevin Nash feud. The promo shows all the backstory that has happened since Summerslam. Leading into Raw itself with Punk making his entrance into the arena. Punk then goes on about is issues with Nash and Triple H. Then Punk called Triple H but got Nash instead, where Punk insults Nash and calls him Super Shredder...HA! Nash then says he could beat Punk, eventually leading to Nash walking to the ring which leads to Triple H's entrance. Nash then trys to force Triple H to make him have a match with Punk, where Triple H finds out who started this whole mess. Triple H, then reveals this was all Nash's plan and crap, that he broke in and sent himself the text. Ironically this leads to Triple H siding with CM Punk. Nash then thinks it's about the push from Smackdown, all leading to Triple H firing Kevin Nash while Punk laughs at him.
John Laurniatis, then meets Kevin Nash at his car and they leave arena. Following that Air Boom makes their entrance to face Jinhder Mahal and Great Khali. Evan Bourne is dominated and cut off from Kofi for the opening minutes of the match. Kofi Kingston gets tagged in, and leads to Jinder and Khali having tag team issues. Khali hits Jinder with another chop Kofi gets Evan tagged back in and lands an Airbourne for the pinfall. Following the match, Kelly Kelly comes down to join commentary while Eve was ready to face Beth Phoenix as Natalya also joined commentary. Beth dominates Eve while Kelly argues with Natalya. Beth hits a Glam Slam somewhere during the match and beats Eve. After the match Natalya jumps Kelly Kelly before joining Beth in the ring.
We come back to Raw and we have Drew McIntyre talking with Christian before Alberto Del Rio shows up. They then start talking about John Cena, where they're now actting all buddy, ironically I don't remember when they ever liked each other in the script. The next match is R-Truth vs CM Punk, while R-Truth is accompanied by the Miz as they head to the ring. R-Truth comes to ring questioning what makes CM Punk different from him, while the crowd mocks him continously before finally the Miz joins him. Miz then talks on about Triple H, and says Truth & himself will face Air Boom at Night of Champions for the Tag Team Championships. The match opens up with the guys grappling about with Punk dominating the early minutes. R-Truth gets out of Punk's holds and locks in a few of his own before Punk tries and a successful early counter as R-Truth goes outside of the ring. Punk follows up with a Suicide Dive, but takes his eye off of R-Truth for meer seconds to tell off Miz as the match goes back into the ring. R-Truth takes back the match and throws Punk outside the ring where Miz hits a sneaky Chop Block to Punk's left knee. R-Truth get Punk back in the ring and works on the knee, for the next few minutes. This ends with Punk getting some non-successful roll ups before R-Truth knocks him down a peg. Punk begins battling out leading into the final mintues, where Punk unleashes everything on R-Truth and tries to end the match before Miz interferes where he's throw out of the match allowing Punk to truly end it with the GTS. After the match Triple H hits the ring, as Punk still questions Triple H and Nash. Triple H retorts to saying the match has been changed to a NO-DQ match, I'd perfer maybe "I Quit", "Last Man Standing" or "Hell in a Cell." Following Triple H's stipulation Punk asks him to accept his stipulation, if Punk wins Triple H re-signs. Backstage Wade Barrett chats with Tyler Reks and Curt Hawkins, before Del Rio shows up. Barrett and Del Rio then chat up about John Cena and such.
The next match is David Otunga and Michael McGillicuty challenging Jerry "the King" Lawler to a tag team match. His tag team partner was none other than the Long Island Iced-Z, Zac Ryder! Following the announcement we got clips of Zac's youtube show and I laughed cause they were my favorite moments! As Zac makes his entrance he chose his Broski of the week while Cole is a douche and talks smack about Youtubers, uh does this remind you of anyone if so check RDM's blog. Anyways Ryder is beaten down by Otunga and McGillicuty for the early mintues before tagging in Lawler who hits a quick flying fist then tags in Ryder who hits the Rough Ryder and grabs the win! Backstage Del Rio, continues to look for someone to fight Cena for him and that was Dolph Ziggler but he turns him down as the Bella Twins show up. Then Del Rio, gets under Ziggler's skin before leaving him as we cut to Orton showing up on Raw.
Randy Orton makes his entrance in the arena, as he awaits his opponent Heath Slater. Orton pummels Heath in the opening minutes, and practically just makes him is bitch for this match. Orton just demolished Slater with practically move he had but the Punt! Then backstage Zac Ryder is chatting up with John Cena for Z True Story, while Cena then makes a joke towards the Rock. After the joke Cena, heads to the ring. Once John Cena hit the ring, he cuts straight to Alberto Del Rio and his fear of him. Then Ricardo Rodriguez comes out to announce WWE Champion Alberto Del Rio's entrance, where he stays up by the car to avoid Cena. Del Rio then talks about sidelining Rey Mysterio, then chats about Night of Champions. Hell if Cena wasn't No. 1 Contender, I'd cheer Del Rio or Punk if it was Punk instead. Anyways Cena is attacked by Barrett, Swagger, Ziggler and Christian before being saved by A-ry, Sheamus and John Morrison as Smackdown GM Teddy Long shows up to make an 8-Man Tag Team Elmination Match for our Main Event. OH MY GOD, THESE SUPERSHOWS ARE BECOMING AMAZING CLUSTER FUCKS OF RANDOM AWESOMENESS!
The match starts off with A-Ry and Barrett for each team. Morrison and Ziggler get tagged in and the match steps up a notch as Morrison cleans out the other team. Swagger tags himself in and locks his Ankle Lock on Morrison while Ziggler locked in a Sleeper, Morrison eventually taps out. While Morrison leaves the ring, Vickie Guerrero comes down to ringside. After a commerical break the team of Barrett, Ziggler, Swagger and Christian have A-Ry cut off from the others. A-Ry makes a small break but is unsuccessful to get in tag, while Ziggler and Swagger have more issues. Swagger then eliminates A-Ry via submission leaving just Sheamus and Cena. Swagger tags out and Barrett jumps in, a battle of the UK'ers begins. Sheamus dominates Barrett before missing the Brogue Kick but hits it a second time eliminating Barrett. Christian tries to pin Sheamus after a Spear and fails. Christian slaps Sheamus in the face and the two are counted out of the match as they brawl outside. Now the match comes down to Cena facing Ziggler and Swagger. Cena takes them on amazingly and goes nuts before the numbers get him. Swagger and Ziggler now are teaming quite well to beat Cena at this point. The crowd goes crazy into the "Let's Go Cena" and "Cena Sucks" chants, I actually think it's cause everyone loves Dolph! Cena powers out and hits Spin-Out Powerbombs on the both of them leading into a double 5-Knuckle Shuffle. Ziggler tags in and the two argue leading to Cena hitting the AA on Ziggler and eliminates as Swagger trys to make Cena tap. Cena counters to the STF and get Swagger to submit as Del Rio trys to sneak attack Cena and falls into Cena's AA as the night ends.
Review:
Well Raw opened up great but had a slow start for the 1st of its matches. As for the opening promo, when Punk called Kevin Nash the Super Shredder it was like the highlight of the night and I enjoyed it. Then skipping the Tag Team Champions' match and the Divas' match, we come to the CM Punk/R-Truth match and it was good. It could've been better maybe but I don't ever expect too much from R-Truth at times. Just the fact that Punk still won the match due to the Miz helping R-Truth was great. It was completely a good showing!
Now we get to the second highlight of the night, which is the tag team match with Jerry "the King" Lawler and Zac Ryder. That was a great match but just having Ryder on Raw is great television. The Orton match could've been better but they saved Ziggler for the Main Event which was a good idea, I like Ziggler he's one of my favorites in the business no matter what I used to think about him. Now as for the third and final highlight, it was the Main Event!
The whole night Del Rio kept asking guys to help him beat down Cena and it seemed most weren't going to help Del Rio so I thought Dolph Ziggler was the sorry sap to fall for Del Rio's tricks. Ironically all the guys grouped up and attack Cena, leading to his allies to come to his save and Teddy to troll out and make a match. At first I didn't see it being Elimination style at all but it happened and it made the whole match even better! Ironically the way the avoid have the guys from the UK having feuds is annoy to me I want these guys to just brawl like I know they can. Also the fact that want to push Ziggler to go solo and maybe face is cool too, just some of the eliminations it the match were bad. I got to say A-Ry after Morrison was completely a jobber to him than the rookie, along with that Sheamus and Christian both were counted out was a pain in the ass. Anyways the match was a great Elimination for live tv and I couldn't hope for too much more unless it went for like 20 to 30 minutes. Finally by the end of the night I had to rate this Raw a 4-Star Rating for the opening promo, Ryder's match and the amazing Main Event!
Raw opens with a promo for the CM Punk, Triple H and Kevin Nash feud. The promo shows all the backstory that has happened since Summerslam. Leading into Raw itself with Punk making his entrance into the arena. Punk then goes on about is issues with Nash and Triple H. Then Punk called Triple H but got Nash instead, where Punk insults Nash and calls him Super Shredder...HA! Nash then says he could beat Punk, eventually leading to Nash walking to the ring which leads to Triple H's entrance. Nash then trys to force Triple H to make him have a match with Punk, where Triple H finds out who started this whole mess. Triple H, then reveals this was all Nash's plan and crap, that he broke in and sent himself the text. Ironically this leads to Triple H siding with CM Punk. Nash then thinks it's about the push from Smackdown, all leading to Triple H firing Kevin Nash while Punk laughs at him.
John Laurniatis, then meets Kevin Nash at his car and they leave arena. Following that Air Boom makes their entrance to face Jinhder Mahal and Great Khali. Evan Bourne is dominated and cut off from Kofi for the opening minutes of the match. Kofi Kingston gets tagged in, and leads to Jinder and Khali having tag team issues. Khali hits Jinder with another chop Kofi gets Evan tagged back in and lands an Airbourne for the pinfall. Following the match, Kelly Kelly comes down to join commentary while Eve was ready to face Beth Phoenix as Natalya also joined commentary. Beth dominates Eve while Kelly argues with Natalya. Beth hits a Glam Slam somewhere during the match and beats Eve. After the match Natalya jumps Kelly Kelly before joining Beth in the ring.
We come back to Raw and we have Drew McIntyre talking with Christian before Alberto Del Rio shows up. They then start talking about John Cena, where they're now actting all buddy, ironically I don't remember when they ever liked each other in the script. The next match is R-Truth vs CM Punk, while R-Truth is accompanied by the Miz as they head to the ring. R-Truth comes to ring questioning what makes CM Punk different from him, while the crowd mocks him continously before finally the Miz joins him. Miz then talks on about Triple H, and says Truth & himself will face Air Boom at Night of Champions for the Tag Team Championships. The match opens up with the guys grappling about with Punk dominating the early minutes. R-Truth gets out of Punk's holds and locks in a few of his own before Punk tries and a successful early counter as R-Truth goes outside of the ring. Punk follows up with a Suicide Dive, but takes his eye off of R-Truth for meer seconds to tell off Miz as the match goes back into the ring. R-Truth takes back the match and throws Punk outside the ring where Miz hits a sneaky Chop Block to Punk's left knee. R-Truth get Punk back in the ring and works on the knee, for the next few minutes. This ends with Punk getting some non-successful roll ups before R-Truth knocks him down a peg. Punk begins battling out leading into the final mintues, where Punk unleashes everything on R-Truth and tries to end the match before Miz interferes where he's throw out of the match allowing Punk to truly end it with the GTS. After the match Triple H hits the ring, as Punk still questions Triple H and Nash. Triple H retorts to saying the match has been changed to a NO-DQ match, I'd perfer maybe "I Quit", "Last Man Standing" or "Hell in a Cell." Following Triple H's stipulation Punk asks him to accept his stipulation, if Punk wins Triple H re-signs. Backstage Wade Barrett chats with Tyler Reks and Curt Hawkins, before Del Rio shows up. Barrett and Del Rio then chat up about John Cena and such.
The next match is David Otunga and Michael McGillicuty challenging Jerry "the King" Lawler to a tag team match. His tag team partner was none other than the Long Island Iced-Z, Zac Ryder! Following the announcement we got clips of Zac's youtube show and I laughed cause they were my favorite moments! As Zac makes his entrance he chose his Broski of the week while Cole is a douche and talks smack about Youtubers, uh does this remind you of anyone if so check RDM's blog. Anyways Ryder is beaten down by Otunga and McGillicuty for the early mintues before tagging in Lawler who hits a quick flying fist then tags in Ryder who hits the Rough Ryder and grabs the win! Backstage Del Rio, continues to look for someone to fight Cena for him and that was Dolph Ziggler but he turns him down as the Bella Twins show up. Then Del Rio, gets under Ziggler's skin before leaving him as we cut to Orton showing up on Raw.
Randy Orton makes his entrance in the arena, as he awaits his opponent Heath Slater. Orton pummels Heath in the opening minutes, and practically just makes him is bitch for this match. Orton just demolished Slater with practically move he had but the Punt! Then backstage Zac Ryder is chatting up with John Cena for Z True Story, while Cena then makes a joke towards the Rock. After the joke Cena, heads to the ring. Once John Cena hit the ring, he cuts straight to Alberto Del Rio and his fear of him. Then Ricardo Rodriguez comes out to announce WWE Champion Alberto Del Rio's entrance, where he stays up by the car to avoid Cena. Del Rio then talks about sidelining Rey Mysterio, then chats about Night of Champions. Hell if Cena wasn't No. 1 Contender, I'd cheer Del Rio or Punk if it was Punk instead. Anyways Cena is attacked by Barrett, Swagger, Ziggler and Christian before being saved by A-ry, Sheamus and John Morrison as Smackdown GM Teddy Long shows up to make an 8-Man Tag Team Elmination Match for our Main Event. OH MY GOD, THESE SUPERSHOWS ARE BECOMING AMAZING CLUSTER FUCKS OF RANDOM AWESOMENESS!
The match starts off with A-Ry and Barrett for each team. Morrison and Ziggler get tagged in and the match steps up a notch as Morrison cleans out the other team. Swagger tags himself in and locks his Ankle Lock on Morrison while Ziggler locked in a Sleeper, Morrison eventually taps out. While Morrison leaves the ring, Vickie Guerrero comes down to ringside. After a commerical break the team of Barrett, Ziggler, Swagger and Christian have A-Ry cut off from the others. A-Ry makes a small break but is unsuccessful to get in tag, while Ziggler and Swagger have more issues. Swagger then eliminates A-Ry via submission leaving just Sheamus and Cena. Swagger tags out and Barrett jumps in, a battle of the UK'ers begins. Sheamus dominates Barrett before missing the Brogue Kick but hits it a second time eliminating Barrett. Christian tries to pin Sheamus after a Spear and fails. Christian slaps Sheamus in the face and the two are counted out of the match as they brawl outside. Now the match comes down to Cena facing Ziggler and Swagger. Cena takes them on amazingly and goes nuts before the numbers get him. Swagger and Ziggler now are teaming quite well to beat Cena at this point. The crowd goes crazy into the "Let's Go Cena" and "Cena Sucks" chants, I actually think it's cause everyone loves Dolph! Cena powers out and hits Spin-Out Powerbombs on the both of them leading into a double 5-Knuckle Shuffle. Ziggler tags in and the two argue leading to Cena hitting the AA on Ziggler and eliminates as Swagger trys to make Cena tap. Cena counters to the STF and get Swagger to submit as Del Rio trys to sneak attack Cena and falls into Cena's AA as the night ends.
Review:
Well Raw opened up great but had a slow start for the 1st of its matches. As for the opening promo, when Punk called Kevin Nash the Super Shredder it was like the highlight of the night and I enjoyed it. Then skipping the Tag Team Champions' match and the Divas' match, we come to the CM Punk/R-Truth match and it was good. It could've been better maybe but I don't ever expect too much from R-Truth at times. Just the fact that Punk still won the match due to the Miz helping R-Truth was great. It was completely a good showing!
Now we get to the second highlight of the night, which is the tag team match with Jerry "the King" Lawler and Zac Ryder. That was a great match but just having Ryder on Raw is great television. The Orton match could've been better but they saved Ziggler for the Main Event which was a good idea, I like Ziggler he's one of my favorites in the business no matter what I used to think about him. Now as for the third and final highlight, it was the Main Event!
The whole night Del Rio kept asking guys to help him beat down Cena and it seemed most weren't going to help Del Rio so I thought Dolph Ziggler was the sorry sap to fall for Del Rio's tricks. Ironically all the guys grouped up and attack Cena, leading to his allies to come to his save and Teddy to troll out and make a match. At first I didn't see it being Elimination style at all but it happened and it made the whole match even better! Ironically the way the avoid have the guys from the UK having feuds is annoy to me I want these guys to just brawl like I know they can. Also the fact that want to push Ziggler to go solo and maybe face is cool too, just some of the eliminations it the match were bad. I got to say A-Ry after Morrison was completely a jobber to him than the rookie, along with that Sheamus and Christian both were counted out was a pain in the ass. Anyways the match was a great Elimination for live tv and I couldn't hope for too much more unless it went for like 20 to 30 minutes. Finally by the end of the night I had to rate this Raw a 4-Star Rating for the opening promo, Ryder's match and the amazing Main Event!
Monday, August 22, 2011
WWE Raw 8/22
Overview:
Raw starts with the WWE Champion, Alberto Del Rio making his entrance into the arena. During his entrance we get, clips of last week's title match when Del Rio defeated Rey Mysterio and leading into Cena coming to the ring. It is at this time we learn, Rey has got an injury and will be out for sometime. Ironically Alberta, Canada isn't to welcoming to Del Rio, as Cena quickly interrupts him. Cena goes on about Del Rio and Destiny, then introduces himself to Del Rio. Cena proclaims, he'll defeat Alberto and take the title back. CM Punk, then makes his entrance, calls Cena a re-run wanting a rematch for the title. Then Punk goes on how he should be No. 1 Contender, and how Cena has balls to ask for a shot first. Del Rio, then rants how it's his time. Punk then goes on about how he's getting screwed. CM Punk, then goes on how someone wants Del Rio to be the Champ, maybe it's the writing that has been on the walls since Del Rio was at Mania. Anyways Cena and Punk argue about their rematches, until WWE COO Triple H appears and settles things. Triple H, says Del Rio got the first match on the card and how he calls the shots for title matches. Where he states Del Rio will face whoever wins the third match between Punk and Cena.
After a commerical break, we discover who Del Rio will face it's John Morrison. The match opens up with them taking shots at one another. During the first five minutes or so it all stays in the ring, until leading outside the ring when John Morrison attempts a moonsault and misses. Following that it goes to another commerical break, coming back to them battle back into the ring. At this time Morrison is hitting several moves and counters, before finally leading to Del Rio's victory. As Morrison went for a Starship Pain, Del Rio yanked Morrison from the turnbuckle and threw him into the ring post before locking in the Cross Armbreaker for the submission win. Then following the match Del Rio continued to assualt Morrison's arm, in the Cross Armbreaker before finally releasing the hold to proclaim his victory.
The next match on the card was a Divas' match, Eve Torres vs Nikki Bella. Kelly Kelly and Brie Bella stood at ringside. The Bellas, tried some Twin Magic to help Nikki overpower Eve. Nikki, doesn't do much before Eve hit's her few signatures. As Eve attempts a Moonsault and pin the Brie distracts here leading to a counter which fails. Eventually Eve, makes a comeback and hits a Spinning Neckbreaker & Pin Combo for the win. After the match Kelly Kelly attacks Brie hitting here K2. Backstage, Kevin Nash enters the arena and greats some of the stage hands, leading to a commerical for the Live: Super SmackDown next tuesday.
We come back, to Raw with Vickie Guerrero saying she's now managing Jack Swagger too as he'll be facing Alex Riley in a rematch. They tie it up, and Jack comes out on top using his college-wrestling background. A-Ry counters with an amazing SpineBuster, as Ziggler comes down to ring side to argue with Vickie. During the arguement Jack reverses A-Ry and makes a comeback. Eventually thou Jack focuses too much on them arguing at ring side leading to A-Ry getting a roll up for the win. Backstage, Triple H heads back to the arena to confront Nash.
Triple H, comes back to the ring as clips of Summerslam are shown. Triple H then asks Kevin Nash to come out and face him. Nash, agrees and makes his way to the ring without a theme, yet again. Nash say he thought he was doing Triple H a solid and said, he'd apolizige to Punk but now changed his mind after last weeks words. Triple H, says he fight Nash and call him out since he doesn't work in WWE. Then Triple H asks him to leave where they're interrupted by Punk. Who is still trying to figure out who sent the text message, my answer still is John Laurinaitis. Punk then says how his going to cross the line, like Nash does before saying he's gonna kick Nash's ass. Triple H tries to pull Punk aside, and Punk pushes him away then calls him out. Triple H, then say he'd still fight Punk before Nash slugged him forcing Triple H to get Nash out of the arena.
Backstage, Triple H and Nash continue to argue about what he did before Nash leaves. Back ring side, we get a Tag Team Championship match! Kofi Kingston and Evan Bourne team up to face the Champions, Otunga and McGillicutty. I serious can't believe any of these stupid teams should hold the tag titles, they're too half-assed not like BEER MONEY!! Well Evan and McGillicutty start the match, Bourne & Kofi begin to quickly take the lead with their high-flying offensive. The Tag Champs make a comeback through dirty tatics as usual cause they amazingly suck. The Champs being to eventually use old school tag team moves to beatdown Kofi, it was like something from the 80s. Bourne gets tagged in and he starts bringing the heat leading to him hitting an Air Bourne to win his first Championship with Kofi as his tag-partner.
After the match Josh Matthews gets a short interview with the New Tag Team Champions. Kofi and Evan get a surprise victory party, before we pan to Triple H who hears that Nash got into a car accident. The person who tells him is John Laurinaitis, so something is fishy here. The next match starts off with nothing, Santino got attacked by both Miz and R-Truth. The two then go on about ranting of conspiracies in the WWE, and go on about how they'll take opportunities from anyone.
With the main event starting, Del Rio and John Laurinaitis sat at ring side to watch the match. Cena and Punk tie it up fast, leading to several counters. The match, has as very fast pace leading several amazing moves. The crowd, eats this match while Cena and Punk try going for their finishers. Punk tried, a GTS and gets locked in the STF before hitting another GTS but only getting a 2-Count. Cena gets back up to go for an Attitude Adjustment, Punk goes for several elbows before finally falling into the AA. The battle heads to the turnbuckle, and Punk goes for a crossbody reversed into a AA clutch before rolling out into a Roundhouse Kick. As Punk goes for the GTS, Nash appears and comes to ring before falling into Cena's AA losing the match to him. Following Cena's win, Del Rio jumps Cena and beats him down while Laurinaitis tries to pull Del Rio off Cena. Del Rio slides through and jumps Cena again as it goes off air.
Review:
The opening promo, was alright and pretty good. I enjoyed the back and forth remarks of Cena and Punk. I enjoyed their arguement over the Number 1 Contendership, because Punk likes to point out how Cena's always Number 1 Contender. That was the best point of the arguement. The promo could've played out better but this had to stay PG. Anyways onto the opening matches, they weren't impressive at all nothing stood out. The Morrison/Del Rio match could've been played out longer, I mean it could've been almost as good as the past Del Rio/Bryan matches. It could've been the second best match of the night actually it still was, but that was just cause everything else sucked amazingly.
Following the Del Rio/Morrison match, the Diva match was worse than the past few in recent weeks and the A-Ry match was just another joke. The Tag Team Championship match was completely out of the blue but was worth it I guess, since Bourne and Kofi are better work horses. The main event was good, and the ending was completely foreshadowing since Laurinaitis is our new ASS Clown. Cena/Punk III, was great fast pace and enjoyable for 20 to 25minute match, it wasn't as good as Match I or II but it cut it well enough being it be live tv. Since practically the opening match and main event made the card and the few promos with Punk were good enough to get a large pop it made this Raw a good 3.5 Star rating. I really look forward to the "re-signing" of Kevin Nash and this rivalry with CM Punk, along with Laurinaitis undermining Triple's H at every corner it seems.
Raw starts with the WWE Champion, Alberto Del Rio making his entrance into the arena. During his entrance we get, clips of last week's title match when Del Rio defeated Rey Mysterio and leading into Cena coming to the ring. It is at this time we learn, Rey has got an injury and will be out for sometime. Ironically Alberta, Canada isn't to welcoming to Del Rio, as Cena quickly interrupts him. Cena goes on about Del Rio and Destiny, then introduces himself to Del Rio. Cena proclaims, he'll defeat Alberto and take the title back. CM Punk, then makes his entrance, calls Cena a re-run wanting a rematch for the title. Then Punk goes on how he should be No. 1 Contender, and how Cena has balls to ask for a shot first. Del Rio, then rants how it's his time. Punk then goes on about how he's getting screwed. CM Punk, then goes on how someone wants Del Rio to be the Champ, maybe it's the writing that has been on the walls since Del Rio was at Mania. Anyways Cena and Punk argue about their rematches, until WWE COO Triple H appears and settles things. Triple H, says Del Rio got the first match on the card and how he calls the shots for title matches. Where he states Del Rio will face whoever wins the third match between Punk and Cena.
After a commerical break, we discover who Del Rio will face it's John Morrison. The match opens up with them taking shots at one another. During the first five minutes or so it all stays in the ring, until leading outside the ring when John Morrison attempts a moonsault and misses. Following that it goes to another commerical break, coming back to them battle back into the ring. At this time Morrison is hitting several moves and counters, before finally leading to Del Rio's victory. As Morrison went for a Starship Pain, Del Rio yanked Morrison from the turnbuckle and threw him into the ring post before locking in the Cross Armbreaker for the submission win. Then following the match Del Rio continued to assualt Morrison's arm, in the Cross Armbreaker before finally releasing the hold to proclaim his victory.
The next match on the card was a Divas' match, Eve Torres vs Nikki Bella. Kelly Kelly and Brie Bella stood at ringside. The Bellas, tried some Twin Magic to help Nikki overpower Eve. Nikki, doesn't do much before Eve hit's her few signatures. As Eve attempts a Moonsault and pin the Brie distracts here leading to a counter which fails. Eventually Eve, makes a comeback and hits a Spinning Neckbreaker & Pin Combo for the win. After the match Kelly Kelly attacks Brie hitting here K2. Backstage, Kevin Nash enters the arena and greats some of the stage hands, leading to a commerical for the Live: Super SmackDown next tuesday.
We come back, to Raw with Vickie Guerrero saying she's now managing Jack Swagger too as he'll be facing Alex Riley in a rematch. They tie it up, and Jack comes out on top using his college-wrestling background. A-Ry counters with an amazing SpineBuster, as Ziggler comes down to ring side to argue with Vickie. During the arguement Jack reverses A-Ry and makes a comeback. Eventually thou Jack focuses too much on them arguing at ring side leading to A-Ry getting a roll up for the win. Backstage, Triple H heads back to the arena to confront Nash.
Triple H, comes back to the ring as clips of Summerslam are shown. Triple H then asks Kevin Nash to come out and face him. Nash, agrees and makes his way to the ring without a theme, yet again. Nash say he thought he was doing Triple H a solid and said, he'd apolizige to Punk but now changed his mind after last weeks words. Triple H, says he fight Nash and call him out since he doesn't work in WWE. Then Triple H asks him to leave where they're interrupted by Punk. Who is still trying to figure out who sent the text message, my answer still is John Laurinaitis. Punk then says how his going to cross the line, like Nash does before saying he's gonna kick Nash's ass. Triple H tries to pull Punk aside, and Punk pushes him away then calls him out. Triple H, then say he'd still fight Punk before Nash slugged him forcing Triple H to get Nash out of the arena.
Backstage, Triple H and Nash continue to argue about what he did before Nash leaves. Back ring side, we get a Tag Team Championship match! Kofi Kingston and Evan Bourne team up to face the Champions, Otunga and McGillicutty. I serious can't believe any of these stupid teams should hold the tag titles, they're too half-assed not like BEER MONEY!! Well Evan and McGillicutty start the match, Bourne & Kofi begin to quickly take the lead with their high-flying offensive. The Tag Champs make a comeback through dirty tatics as usual cause they amazingly suck. The Champs being to eventually use old school tag team moves to beatdown Kofi, it was like something from the 80s. Bourne gets tagged in and he starts bringing the heat leading to him hitting an Air Bourne to win his first Championship with Kofi as his tag-partner.
After the match Josh Matthews gets a short interview with the New Tag Team Champions. Kofi and Evan get a surprise victory party, before we pan to Triple H who hears that Nash got into a car accident. The person who tells him is John Laurinaitis, so something is fishy here. The next match starts off with nothing, Santino got attacked by both Miz and R-Truth. The two then go on about ranting of conspiracies in the WWE, and go on about how they'll take opportunities from anyone.
With the main event starting, Del Rio and John Laurinaitis sat at ring side to watch the match. Cena and Punk tie it up fast, leading to several counters. The match, has as very fast pace leading several amazing moves. The crowd, eats this match while Cena and Punk try going for their finishers. Punk tried, a GTS and gets locked in the STF before hitting another GTS but only getting a 2-Count. Cena gets back up to go for an Attitude Adjustment, Punk goes for several elbows before finally falling into the AA. The battle heads to the turnbuckle, and Punk goes for a crossbody reversed into a AA clutch before rolling out into a Roundhouse Kick. As Punk goes for the GTS, Nash appears and comes to ring before falling into Cena's AA losing the match to him. Following Cena's win, Del Rio jumps Cena and beats him down while Laurinaitis tries to pull Del Rio off Cena. Del Rio slides through and jumps Cena again as it goes off air.
Review:
The opening promo, was alright and pretty good. I enjoyed the back and forth remarks of Cena and Punk. I enjoyed their arguement over the Number 1 Contendership, because Punk likes to point out how Cena's always Number 1 Contender. That was the best point of the arguement. The promo could've played out better but this had to stay PG. Anyways onto the opening matches, they weren't impressive at all nothing stood out. The Morrison/Del Rio match could've been played out longer, I mean it could've been almost as good as the past Del Rio/Bryan matches. It could've been the second best match of the night actually it still was, but that was just cause everything else sucked amazingly.
Following the Del Rio/Morrison match, the Diva match was worse than the past few in recent weeks and the A-Ry match was just another joke. The Tag Team Championship match was completely out of the blue but was worth it I guess, since Bourne and Kofi are better work horses. The main event was good, and the ending was completely foreshadowing since Laurinaitis is our new ASS Clown. Cena/Punk III, was great fast pace and enjoyable for 20 to 25minute match, it wasn't as good as Match I or II but it cut it well enough being it be live tv. Since practically the opening match and main event made the card and the few promos with Punk were good enough to get a large pop it made this Raw a good 3.5 Star rating. I really look forward to the "re-signing" of Kevin Nash and this rivalry with CM Punk, along with Laurinaitis undermining Triple's H at every corner it seems.
Friday, August 19, 2011
WWE SmackDown 8/19
Overview:
SmackDown starts with a small clipshow of Summerslam and Randy Orton, winning the World Heavyweight Championship. Following the clipshow, Teddy Long welcomes Randy Orton as the new Champion, while he enters the arena. Orton, takes the mic from Teddy and starts on about Christian. He goes on for how he lost respect for Christian, for his complaining and whining. Teddy then announces the Main Event tonight is a 20-Man Battle Royal to decide the new Number 1 Contender. Soon they're interrupted by Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase, as Cody talks about random B.S. Cody, then continues his rant about he wants the World Title too, before passing the mic to Ted. DiBiase then talks about Orton, before getting hit with the RKO. Teddy then says Cody is taking Ted's place in tonight's opening match against Ezekiel Jackson and it's a re-match for the Intercontinental Championship.
The Intercontinental Championship match, starts and Jackson overpowers Cody from the start. Cody eventually makes a good break, and begins to work on Jackson for a short period, before Jackson takes charge again. The match spills outside shortly as steps come into play, leading to Jackson getting his knee hurt and falling into a Cross Rhodes. Cody, gets the pin and retains the championship.
Zac Ryder, then comes to see Teddy Long. There Zac Ryder, tells Teddy long Alberto Del Rio is gonna be on Smackdown, along with that Zac Ryder says he'll win the Battle Royal. Aksana interrupts Zac Ryder, and then continues Teddy Long. Then following the promo, they show a Justin Gabriel promo leading into his match with Tyson Kidd. Gabriel shows the crowd why Tyson is a jobber and ends the match with a 450 Splash followed up with a pin for the win. Following the match Matt Striker has an interview with the Great Khali and Jinder Mahal, about the 20-Man Battle Royal.
After the commerical break, Albert Del Rio makes his SmackDown return as the Undisputed WWE Champion. Del Rio, talks of how this arena was where he made his debut and how he defeated Rey Mysterio his first night then how he beat Rey on Raw this past week, ironically he isn't boo'ed he's cheered! Then we get clips from the WWE Championship match this past week on Raw. After the clips are shown, Del Rio makes an open challenge to the SmackDown roster that is answered by Daniel Bryan.
The match opens up with Daniel taking a quick lead into the match. Del Rio, counters Bryan and begins working on his back and arms. Del Rio, goes for pinfalls and submissions as Bryan works his way out. The two brawl it out from ringpost to ringpost, before Del Rio hits a flying armbreaker from the second rope. Del Rio, continus on Bryan's arm before getting countered. During this time I learn that Daniel Bryan has a Youtube Channel. After learning this Del Rio, reverses Bryan and continues assualting the arms. Bryan breaks away again and get Del Rio in a few minor signatures of his arsenal, leading to the suicide dive/ knee to the face. They fight back into the ring, leading to a super back-to-belly suplex, where Daniel countered into a falling crossbody. After a short commerical break, we cut back to Daniel Bryan assualting Del Rio. Bryan hits kicks and a missile dropkick, followed up by more kicks! Bryan hits his reverse naked choke, before Del Rio locks Bryan in the Cross Armbar/breaker making him submit again within a week. As soon as the match ends, Del Rio continues to assualt Bryan's arm before Sin Cara shows up to make a save. Del Rio, runs away as the Match Replay hits.
Following the match, we get a short interview with Mark Henry. We says how he shouldn't be in the Battle Royal and just handed the Number 1 Contender spot. Along with that we get some clips of Summerslam, where he slammed Sheamus through the barricade to win his match via count-out. After another break we return to a Divas Tag Team Match! Kelly Kelly and AJ faced off with Natalya and Alicia Fox, where AJ & Natalya started off the match. AJ, gets worked on by both Natalya and Alicia. They really seem to be putting on a good beating to AJ. Kelly Kelly eventually gets tagged in and gets the win, while Natalya and AJ battle outside. After the match Natalya and Alicia argue it out before Natalya locks in a Sharpshooter.
Before, the 20-Man Battle Royal we get another re-cap of Summerslam Fan Acess. Then that's followed by Randy Orton making another entrance before joining commentary. The Battle Royal, slowly begins to start as most of the competitors are already in the ring. There I can already see, Sin Cara, Jinder Mahal, Khali, Zac Ryder, William Regal, Ted, Rhodes, and others before being joined my Wade Barret, Mark Henry and Sheamus. Henry makes quick eliminations to Trent Baretta and Yoshi Tatsu. Barrett throws Johny Curtis out next, followed by Sin Cara getting out Zac Ryder. Jackson, quickly gets Cody Rhodes out, before Khali gets ride of Jackson. Shortly after Khali faces down Mark Henry, before Henry removes Khali. Henry, leaves ring before Sheamus can eliminate him, leading to Sheamus Brogue Kicking Heath Slater out.
We come down to Usos', Tyson Kid, Sin Cara, Jinder Mahal, Wade Barrett, Justin Gabriel, Ted DiBiase, Sheamus, and Mark Henry. Sin Cara, eliminates Gabriel followed by Sheamus getting out both the Usos'. Mark Henry, comes back and wrecks the other remain guys. Eventually we get down to Henry, Barrett, Sheamus and Sin Cara. The others group attack Mark Henry, before they turn on each other. Sheamus kicks Barrett out, then gets thrown out by Henry. Sin Cara and Mark Henry battle it out for awhile before, Sin Cara is eliminated. Mark Henry is then delcared the Number 1 Contender while facing down Orton.
Review:
Okay well these week's SmackDown makes us think it's going to be a great freakin' Card for the night, but they don't! We only get one amazing match, and 2 other matches that could've been better. The best match on the card was the rematch from last week of Mr. Money of the Bank, Daniel Bryan vs Undisputed WWE Champion, Alberto Del Rio. That was the most impressive match, on the whole freakin' card. Del Rio and Bryan are having a great set of matches. They need to market Del Rio/Bryan at Night of Champions instead of Del Rio/Cena. Their series is a great marketing idea.
Other than that the Intercontinental Championship sucked, they need to amazingly step up the resurrection to that title. Along with that the Battle Royal, shouldn't of ended up with Mark Henry winning. I seriously, think Mark Henry shouldn't have won, and either Sheamus or Wade Barrett would of been better. If they choose to step up the matches they need guys that can work these matches. The Orton/Christian series was great could've ended alil better, just like Bryan/Del Rio have been in recent weeks. So this SmackDown, was like dead center at 3 Stars. Also stay tuned for the live SmackDown on the 30th!
SmackDown starts with a small clipshow of Summerslam and Randy Orton, winning the World Heavyweight Championship. Following the clipshow, Teddy Long welcomes Randy Orton as the new Champion, while he enters the arena. Orton, takes the mic from Teddy and starts on about Christian. He goes on for how he lost respect for Christian, for his complaining and whining. Teddy then announces the Main Event tonight is a 20-Man Battle Royal to decide the new Number 1 Contender. Soon they're interrupted by Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase, as Cody talks about random B.S. Cody, then continues his rant about he wants the World Title too, before passing the mic to Ted. DiBiase then talks about Orton, before getting hit with the RKO. Teddy then says Cody is taking Ted's place in tonight's opening match against Ezekiel Jackson and it's a re-match for the Intercontinental Championship.
The Intercontinental Championship match, starts and Jackson overpowers Cody from the start. Cody eventually makes a good break, and begins to work on Jackson for a short period, before Jackson takes charge again. The match spills outside shortly as steps come into play, leading to Jackson getting his knee hurt and falling into a Cross Rhodes. Cody, gets the pin and retains the championship.
Zac Ryder, then comes to see Teddy Long. There Zac Ryder, tells Teddy long Alberto Del Rio is gonna be on Smackdown, along with that Zac Ryder says he'll win the Battle Royal. Aksana interrupts Zac Ryder, and then continues Teddy Long. Then following the promo, they show a Justin Gabriel promo leading into his match with Tyson Kidd. Gabriel shows the crowd why Tyson is a jobber and ends the match with a 450 Splash followed up with a pin for the win. Following the match Matt Striker has an interview with the Great Khali and Jinder Mahal, about the 20-Man Battle Royal.
After the commerical break, Albert Del Rio makes his SmackDown return as the Undisputed WWE Champion. Del Rio, talks of how this arena was where he made his debut and how he defeated Rey Mysterio his first night then how he beat Rey on Raw this past week, ironically he isn't boo'ed he's cheered! Then we get clips from the WWE Championship match this past week on Raw. After the clips are shown, Del Rio makes an open challenge to the SmackDown roster that is answered by Daniel Bryan.
The match opens up with Daniel taking a quick lead into the match. Del Rio, counters Bryan and begins working on his back and arms. Del Rio, goes for pinfalls and submissions as Bryan works his way out. The two brawl it out from ringpost to ringpost, before Del Rio hits a flying armbreaker from the second rope. Del Rio, continus on Bryan's arm before getting countered. During this time I learn that Daniel Bryan has a Youtube Channel. After learning this Del Rio, reverses Bryan and continues assualting the arms. Bryan breaks away again and get Del Rio in a few minor signatures of his arsenal, leading to the suicide dive/ knee to the face. They fight back into the ring, leading to a super back-to-belly suplex, where Daniel countered into a falling crossbody. After a short commerical break, we cut back to Daniel Bryan assualting Del Rio. Bryan hits kicks and a missile dropkick, followed up by more kicks! Bryan hits his reverse naked choke, before Del Rio locks Bryan in the Cross Armbar/breaker making him submit again within a week. As soon as the match ends, Del Rio continues to assualt Bryan's arm before Sin Cara shows up to make a save. Del Rio, runs away as the Match Replay hits.
Following the match, we get a short interview with Mark Henry. We says how he shouldn't be in the Battle Royal and just handed the Number 1 Contender spot. Along with that we get some clips of Summerslam, where he slammed Sheamus through the barricade to win his match via count-out. After another break we return to a Divas Tag Team Match! Kelly Kelly and AJ faced off with Natalya and Alicia Fox, where AJ & Natalya started off the match. AJ, gets worked on by both Natalya and Alicia. They really seem to be putting on a good beating to AJ. Kelly Kelly eventually gets tagged in and gets the win, while Natalya and AJ battle outside. After the match Natalya and Alicia argue it out before Natalya locks in a Sharpshooter.
Before, the 20-Man Battle Royal we get another re-cap of Summerslam Fan Acess. Then that's followed by Randy Orton making another entrance before joining commentary. The Battle Royal, slowly begins to start as most of the competitors are already in the ring. There I can already see, Sin Cara, Jinder Mahal, Khali, Zac Ryder, William Regal, Ted, Rhodes, and others before being joined my Wade Barret, Mark Henry and Sheamus. Henry makes quick eliminations to Trent Baretta and Yoshi Tatsu. Barrett throws Johny Curtis out next, followed by Sin Cara getting out Zac Ryder. Jackson, quickly gets Cody Rhodes out, before Khali gets ride of Jackson. Shortly after Khali faces down Mark Henry, before Henry removes Khali. Henry, leaves ring before Sheamus can eliminate him, leading to Sheamus Brogue Kicking Heath Slater out.
We come down to Usos', Tyson Kid, Sin Cara, Jinder Mahal, Wade Barrett, Justin Gabriel, Ted DiBiase, Sheamus, and Mark Henry. Sin Cara, eliminates Gabriel followed by Sheamus getting out both the Usos'. Mark Henry, comes back and wrecks the other remain guys. Eventually we get down to Henry, Barrett, Sheamus and Sin Cara. The others group attack Mark Henry, before they turn on each other. Sheamus kicks Barrett out, then gets thrown out by Henry. Sin Cara and Mark Henry battle it out for awhile before, Sin Cara is eliminated. Mark Henry is then delcared the Number 1 Contender while facing down Orton.
Review:
Okay well these week's SmackDown makes us think it's going to be a great freakin' Card for the night, but they don't! We only get one amazing match, and 2 other matches that could've been better. The best match on the card was the rematch from last week of Mr. Money of the Bank, Daniel Bryan vs Undisputed WWE Champion, Alberto Del Rio. That was the most impressive match, on the whole freakin' card. Del Rio and Bryan are having a great set of matches. They need to market Del Rio/Bryan at Night of Champions instead of Del Rio/Cena. Their series is a great marketing idea.
Other than that the Intercontinental Championship sucked, they need to amazingly step up the resurrection to that title. Along with that the Battle Royal, shouldn't of ended up with Mark Henry winning. I seriously, think Mark Henry shouldn't have won, and either Sheamus or Wade Barrett would of been better. If they choose to step up the matches they need guys that can work these matches. The Orton/Christian series was great could've ended alil better, just like Bryan/Del Rio have been in recent weeks. So this SmackDown, was like dead center at 3 Stars. Also stay tuned for the live SmackDown on the 30th!
Sunday, August 14, 2011
WWE SummerSlam 2011
Overview:
Summerslam opens with the National Anthem played by Tool's Adam Jones, which was pretty damn good compared to other instrumental verisons I heard. Then we cut to the opening Summerslam promo about tonight's PPV. We flash to the CM Punk vs John Cena promo for the Undisputed WWE Championship, actually it was most of the opening promo. As the opening pryo shoots off in the background we can see the Miz's AWESOME blow up sign meaning Miz vs Rey Mysterio is the opening match. Actually it became a 6-Man Tag Team Match.
The opening match was The Miz, R-Truth and Alberto Del Rio taking on the team of Kofi Kingston, John Morrison and Rey Mysterio. Kofi and Miz start it off, leading to John Morrison soon tagging in. Eventually they switch Miz for R-Truth and Morrison brawls about with R-Truth. The match moves slow at times, and Team Miz works on Kofi for awhile working on his head. Kofi tags in Rey and Miz tags in R-Truth, the match really speeds up and Rey picks up the win with a 619 when Kofi and Morrison suicide dive onto Miz & Del Rio.
After the match, Punk runs into John Laurinaitis then into Stephanie McMahon where she tries to wish him. Punk reluctantly waves her off since she offers him a hand shake where he quotes "I know where that hand has been!" Then we transition over to the Sheamus vs Mark Henry promo. Where I'm like damn this match better be amazing, leading to the match itself.
Sheamus and Mark Henry, brawl it out in the opening minutes. Sheamus, quickly beats Mark Henry down on to his knees before Mark Henry flings Sheamus out of the ring. Mark Henry then beats down, Sheamus for awhile hitting a couple of slams. Mark, finallys goes a body splashes where Sheamus rolls out of the way and begins taking back the match. Sheamus hits a shoulder block then a flying shoulder block, where he follows through into a Brogue Kick that knocks Henry from the ring. As the match spills outside Mark Henry regains himself and powerslams Sheamus through the barricade, knocking him out to win via count-out.
Josh Matthews then holds an interview with Christian, asking him about what he meant on SmackDown this pass friday. Then Christian rants about Cowboys and Aliens which I agreed with that it's slightly overrated even thou it seems to be a good movie. Followed by Cee Lo Green singing the theme "Bright Lights, Bigger City" for Summerslam. Then he followed with "Forget You!" as the Bella Twins, Alicia Fox and Rosa Mendes were background dancers.
Next on the Card was the Divas' Championship match with Kelly Kelly accompanied to the ring with Eve, as Beth Phoenix was accompanied by Natalya. Kelly tries to use her agility until Beth got a good hold of her. Beth slams Kelly about and locks several holds onto her. Kelly eventually reverses Beth Phoenix and turns the Glam Slam into a roll up and wins, retaining the Divas' Championship. Backstage Stephanie is seen leaving John Cena's locker room, leading to R-Truth hanging out with Jimmy Hart who wants to manage him.
The third match is Wade Barrett vs Daniel Bryan, as we get clips from last months Money in the Bank where Bryan won. The match starts off with Bryan getting in some hits and Barrett reversing a few. Byran hits a Dropkick, and Barret hits a couple knees before Bryan gets in another dropkick. Bryan impress the crowd with several moves and counters before getting hit with a side-slam. Barrett now in control begins working on Bryan's back. Barrett ties Bryan in the ropes to continue his assault on the back while going for another pinfall. The match spills to the apron then to ringside, Bryan gets Barrett into the ring and hits a flying Dropkick. Byran proceeds with the multiple kicks to the chest and head, leading to Barrett breaking away and landing a Big Boot. Bryan counters into the LeBell Lock, as Barrett gets the rope. The two then climb up a turnbuckle fighting each other, leading to Barrett knocking off Bryan and hitting a Wasteland for the win.
Now we come to the next match which is our first World Championship match, that is the World Heavyweight Championship match. The promo is played for the match history leading into the PPV. Then they play up how this match is a No Holds Barred match, and Christian's quote from SmackDown ending the promo. Christian hits the ring first, and then annoucnes his insurance policy is Edge. Edge then talks about Christian's first lost to Orton, followed by all the other losses. Edge then, gets to Christian's win via the DQ and how he became a little bitch again before leaving him. Randy Orton then makes his entrance, to makes his way to the ring.
The match, finally begins and Orton starts hitting Christian in the head and gut. Orton tries to get Christian in a corner but Christian fights out hitting an European Uppercut. Christian goes for some rope chokes and Orton counters for DDT before getting thrown outside. They spill outside and head to the announce tables, Christian grabs the title thou and jumps into the crowd. Orton beats Christian down in the crowd and pulls him back into the ring. Eventually Christian goes for a kendo stick, after reversing Orton and hits him several times with it. Christian tries for a couple pinfalls, as Orton goes for a roll up. Christian tries to go for a second rope move, falling into a Dropkick and Orton's Powerslam. Orton gets some move signatures in while reversing a KillSwitch. Orton tries for the Punt and Christian sides out, and goes to pull Orton in crotch first into the turnbuckle before reversing another move.
Then finally we got some tables, as Orton Superplexes Christian into a table. The match spills outside again, after Christian reverses the RKO and begins using the steel steps on Orton. Christian then drags Orton to the announce tables again now setting up Orton for a RKO on it, where Orton reverses it into his own RKO breaking the Spanish Announce Table. Both of them crawl back into the ring where Christian hits a KillSwitch on Orton, with Orton breaking out of a 2-count pin. Christian then goes for a Con-Chair-Toe, that Orton spins out of the way. He then hits Christian to the apron sending him through the other table, with Orton throwing in more weapons into the ring. We now had steps, a trash can, kendo sticks and a table that Orton Powerslammed Christian through. He follows up with a DDT onto a trash can, and a RKO on the steps for the pin. Orton, once again becomes the World Heavyweight Champion.
After the World Heavyweight Championship match, we get to see the Fan Acess. They show stuff like Sheamus on Conan Tonight, WWE with the Be a Star program and some Be a Star party. The whole promo wraps up with Stephanie talking with Triple H, in his referee gear on somewhere backstage near the locker rooms. With the Undisputed WWE Championship promo following, it's still the same NFL-like promo!
We now come to the Main Event as WWE COO and Special Guest Referee, Triple H makes his entrance. The first of the WWE Champions to enter was CM Punk, as the crowd exploded for him, Booker T even quotes Punk as being "Stone Cold Mad!" Cena followed out next as "Cena Sucks" chants exploded from the crowd. Before the match starts Triple H pats them down looking for weapons, the crowd still chanting for Punk and "Cena Sucks!". They tie it up, CM Punk takes some control with a quick cover. For the first few minutes the match is at a stand-off, they're matched quite equally. Cena goes for another cover, while being unsuccessful but continued to maintain leverage over Punk. Punk, breaks away and takes down Cena locking him in a rear naked choke, then a side head-lock. Cena counters, and the match stays technical with some suplexes following. Punk gets in a Big Boot, and follows up with knee attacks to the gut. Cena tries for a STF, getting it countered with him rolling out to the apron and Punk dropkicks him off.
Cena rolls back into the ring as Punk goes for a few pinfalls. Punk continues to wear down Cena with some submission holds. Cena powers out with a Side Slam, and a some Shoulder Blocks, as Punk tries for a Knee and Bulldog combo leading to a Spin-Out Powerbomb. Cena follows with the 5-Knuckle Shuffle but reversed, then countered Punk into a STF, where Punk returns with an Anaconda Vice variation. Cena breaks out and spins it into a STF, with Punk countering it into the original Anaconda Vice then back to Cena with a Crossface. Cena eventually is thrown outside with Punk flying out with a Suicide Dive, leading to an almost double count-out which Triple H stops by throwing them back in. Cena and Punk brawl it out and leads to several counters and almost pinfalls. Cena gets in a STF, and Punk reaches the ropes, the two then begin to hit the other with their Finishers. Eventually Cena hits the Attitude Adjustment on Punk with only a 2-Count pin, Punk follows up by hitting a GTS and 2-Count pin. Punk goes for a Elbow Drop and another pin, as fans shout "Randy Savage!" Cena goes for a Fisherman Possum Pin, Punk breaks away for another GTS, and gets the pin with Triple H not noticing Cena's foot on the rope.
Punk celebrates at ringside, circling the ring as the fans cheer for him. Punk then re-enters the ring where Triple raises Punk's arm in victory. As Punk celebrates his victory, Kevin Nash enters the ring and hits Punk with the JackKnife Powerbomb and leaves through the crowd as Alberto Del Rio runs to the ring to cash in the Money in the Bank. Del Rio, quickly pins CM Punk and is delcared the WWE Champion, as Triple H is left clueless to Kevin Nash's return.
Review:
Well this Summerslam obviously left me a little bit stunned, I didn't think they'd cash the MitB on Punk. I didn't think Nash would appear at all, but I'm loving it! Kevin Nash, is one of my favorites in the business along with his JackKnife PowerBomb being one of my favortie Powerbomb variations. But anyways the early matches on the card didn't truely impress me, until Kelly Kelly retaining the title was slightly shocking. I'm guessing they want to prolong her defeat a little longer. The Sheamus vs Mark Henry match could've gone maybe a few more extra minutes and not be count-out. The way now to end this is like a TV-airred rivalry ending as like a Main Event on SmackDown sometime near the next PPV. Now the Wade Barrett and Daniel Bryan match was actually a better pace than the last three. The result too, I didn't see coming. The way Daniel actually dominated Barrett in the match was good, and Barretts way back to victory was well played. The battle on the turnbuckle was amazing leading the finale, with Barrett hitting WasteLand.
As for the Main Events they went off amazingly. Starting with the No Holds Barred Match for the World Heavyweight Championship, Christian put on a good showing with countering Orton at key points. The way Orton dominated thou in the match was quite expected, and like the Viper of old. Now to sort of knock the match, at several times during the match Christian took alot of damage like a RKO through the Announce Table, going through another two set of tables, then smashed onto a trash can and finally RKO'ed on the Steps. Realistical he'd been knocked out or really sore, if this wasn't PG. It's like he just didn't play the part right. Orton win the title thou was great, but now more complaints will grow saying this is overkill with Orton holding the Championship yet again.
Now for the WWE Championship match! The stand-off moments in the opening minutes really set the pace for the match. That was a key point in making this match better to enjoy. Then as the match continued over time, it began playing back and forth with proper amounts of reversals and counters. The submission reversals, were some of the best I've seen in awhile. When Triple H threw them back in stopping the 10 count really got the crowd going as Cena and Punk got to their feet leading into the closing minutes. As the match dwindled down to it's final minutes, it made me think they might give the title back to Cena to lead into Del Rio cashing in tonight or tomorrow on maybe Rey or something. The whole Cena winning, actually became firm in my mind when Triple H missed Cena's foot on the rope when Punk won. I thought like several others the match would be restarted. However it didn't and Kevin Nash came out, JackKnifing Powerbombed Punk allow Del Rio to make the steal. This really annoyed me to an extent. I didn't want Punk to get cashed in on, I rather it be Cena cause at least then I could cheer him over Del Rio, cause now the storyline can go any way. When the WWE writers make a change up like this you never can really tell right away how it'll turn out.
Like right now we got Del Rio vs Rey Mysterio tomorrow, with both Punk and Cena out of a rematch. Along with that Punk is now going to be gunning for Nash, as Triple H searches for the reason why Nash did that. So now everything is all in the air, and I'm rating this Summerslam instead of using 5-Star Ratings, it's going to be 10-Stars and that score is 6-Stars out of 10! My reason is cause the Main Events brought in a good showing along with the unexpected results to Divas' Championship and Barrett/Dainels match. If the opening matches had a little more to them and better results I could've rated this 7 out of 10, but since they flopped it's a 6! Stay tuned for tomorrow, when I report Raw's overview, results and review!
Summerslam opens with the National Anthem played by Tool's Adam Jones, which was pretty damn good compared to other instrumental verisons I heard. Then we cut to the opening Summerslam promo about tonight's PPV. We flash to the CM Punk vs John Cena promo for the Undisputed WWE Championship, actually it was most of the opening promo. As the opening pryo shoots off in the background we can see the Miz's AWESOME blow up sign meaning Miz vs Rey Mysterio is the opening match. Actually it became a 6-Man Tag Team Match.
The opening match was The Miz, R-Truth and Alberto Del Rio taking on the team of Kofi Kingston, John Morrison and Rey Mysterio. Kofi and Miz start it off, leading to John Morrison soon tagging in. Eventually they switch Miz for R-Truth and Morrison brawls about with R-Truth. The match moves slow at times, and Team Miz works on Kofi for awhile working on his head. Kofi tags in Rey and Miz tags in R-Truth, the match really speeds up and Rey picks up the win with a 619 when Kofi and Morrison suicide dive onto Miz & Del Rio.
After the match, Punk runs into John Laurinaitis then into Stephanie McMahon where she tries to wish him. Punk reluctantly waves her off since she offers him a hand shake where he quotes "I know where that hand has been!" Then we transition over to the Sheamus vs Mark Henry promo. Where I'm like damn this match better be amazing, leading to the match itself.
Sheamus and Mark Henry, brawl it out in the opening minutes. Sheamus, quickly beats Mark Henry down on to his knees before Mark Henry flings Sheamus out of the ring. Mark Henry then beats down, Sheamus for awhile hitting a couple of slams. Mark, finallys goes a body splashes where Sheamus rolls out of the way and begins taking back the match. Sheamus hits a shoulder block then a flying shoulder block, where he follows through into a Brogue Kick that knocks Henry from the ring. As the match spills outside Mark Henry regains himself and powerslams Sheamus through the barricade, knocking him out to win via count-out.
Josh Matthews then holds an interview with Christian, asking him about what he meant on SmackDown this pass friday. Then Christian rants about Cowboys and Aliens which I agreed with that it's slightly overrated even thou it seems to be a good movie. Followed by Cee Lo Green singing the theme "Bright Lights, Bigger City" for Summerslam. Then he followed with "Forget You!" as the Bella Twins, Alicia Fox and Rosa Mendes were background dancers.
Next on the Card was the Divas' Championship match with Kelly Kelly accompanied to the ring with Eve, as Beth Phoenix was accompanied by Natalya. Kelly tries to use her agility until Beth got a good hold of her. Beth slams Kelly about and locks several holds onto her. Kelly eventually reverses Beth Phoenix and turns the Glam Slam into a roll up and wins, retaining the Divas' Championship. Backstage Stephanie is seen leaving John Cena's locker room, leading to R-Truth hanging out with Jimmy Hart who wants to manage him.
The third match is Wade Barrett vs Daniel Bryan, as we get clips from last months Money in the Bank where Bryan won. The match starts off with Bryan getting in some hits and Barrett reversing a few. Byran hits a Dropkick, and Barret hits a couple knees before Bryan gets in another dropkick. Bryan impress the crowd with several moves and counters before getting hit with a side-slam. Barrett now in control begins working on Bryan's back. Barrett ties Bryan in the ropes to continue his assault on the back while going for another pinfall. The match spills to the apron then to ringside, Bryan gets Barrett into the ring and hits a flying Dropkick. Byran proceeds with the multiple kicks to the chest and head, leading to Barrett breaking away and landing a Big Boot. Bryan counters into the LeBell Lock, as Barrett gets the rope. The two then climb up a turnbuckle fighting each other, leading to Barrett knocking off Bryan and hitting a Wasteland for the win.
Now we come to the next match which is our first World Championship match, that is the World Heavyweight Championship match. The promo is played for the match history leading into the PPV. Then they play up how this match is a No Holds Barred match, and Christian's quote from SmackDown ending the promo. Christian hits the ring first, and then annoucnes his insurance policy is Edge. Edge then talks about Christian's first lost to Orton, followed by all the other losses. Edge then, gets to Christian's win via the DQ and how he became a little bitch again before leaving him. Randy Orton then makes his entrance, to makes his way to the ring.
The match, finally begins and Orton starts hitting Christian in the head and gut. Orton tries to get Christian in a corner but Christian fights out hitting an European Uppercut. Christian goes for some rope chokes and Orton counters for DDT before getting thrown outside. They spill outside and head to the announce tables, Christian grabs the title thou and jumps into the crowd. Orton beats Christian down in the crowd and pulls him back into the ring. Eventually Christian goes for a kendo stick, after reversing Orton and hits him several times with it. Christian tries for a couple pinfalls, as Orton goes for a roll up. Christian tries to go for a second rope move, falling into a Dropkick and Orton's Powerslam. Orton gets some move signatures in while reversing a KillSwitch. Orton tries for the Punt and Christian sides out, and goes to pull Orton in crotch first into the turnbuckle before reversing another move.
Then finally we got some tables, as Orton Superplexes Christian into a table. The match spills outside again, after Christian reverses the RKO and begins using the steel steps on Orton. Christian then drags Orton to the announce tables again now setting up Orton for a RKO on it, where Orton reverses it into his own RKO breaking the Spanish Announce Table. Both of them crawl back into the ring where Christian hits a KillSwitch on Orton, with Orton breaking out of a 2-count pin. Christian then goes for a Con-Chair-Toe, that Orton spins out of the way. He then hits Christian to the apron sending him through the other table, with Orton throwing in more weapons into the ring. We now had steps, a trash can, kendo sticks and a table that Orton Powerslammed Christian through. He follows up with a DDT onto a trash can, and a RKO on the steps for the pin. Orton, once again becomes the World Heavyweight Champion.
After the World Heavyweight Championship match, we get to see the Fan Acess. They show stuff like Sheamus on Conan Tonight, WWE with the Be a Star program and some Be a Star party. The whole promo wraps up with Stephanie talking with Triple H, in his referee gear on somewhere backstage near the locker rooms. With the Undisputed WWE Championship promo following, it's still the same NFL-like promo!
We now come to the Main Event as WWE COO and Special Guest Referee, Triple H makes his entrance. The first of the WWE Champions to enter was CM Punk, as the crowd exploded for him, Booker T even quotes Punk as being "Stone Cold Mad!" Cena followed out next as "Cena Sucks" chants exploded from the crowd. Before the match starts Triple H pats them down looking for weapons, the crowd still chanting for Punk and "Cena Sucks!". They tie it up, CM Punk takes some control with a quick cover. For the first few minutes the match is at a stand-off, they're matched quite equally. Cena goes for another cover, while being unsuccessful but continued to maintain leverage over Punk. Punk, breaks away and takes down Cena locking him in a rear naked choke, then a side head-lock. Cena counters, and the match stays technical with some suplexes following. Punk gets in a Big Boot, and follows up with knee attacks to the gut. Cena tries for a STF, getting it countered with him rolling out to the apron and Punk dropkicks him off.
Cena rolls back into the ring as Punk goes for a few pinfalls. Punk continues to wear down Cena with some submission holds. Cena powers out with a Side Slam, and a some Shoulder Blocks, as Punk tries for a Knee and Bulldog combo leading to a Spin-Out Powerbomb. Cena follows with the 5-Knuckle Shuffle but reversed, then countered Punk into a STF, where Punk returns with an Anaconda Vice variation. Cena breaks out and spins it into a STF, with Punk countering it into the original Anaconda Vice then back to Cena with a Crossface. Cena eventually is thrown outside with Punk flying out with a Suicide Dive, leading to an almost double count-out which Triple H stops by throwing them back in. Cena and Punk brawl it out and leads to several counters and almost pinfalls. Cena gets in a STF, and Punk reaches the ropes, the two then begin to hit the other with their Finishers. Eventually Cena hits the Attitude Adjustment on Punk with only a 2-Count pin, Punk follows up by hitting a GTS and 2-Count pin. Punk goes for a Elbow Drop and another pin, as fans shout "Randy Savage!" Cena goes for a Fisherman Possum Pin, Punk breaks away for another GTS, and gets the pin with Triple H not noticing Cena's foot on the rope.
Punk celebrates at ringside, circling the ring as the fans cheer for him. Punk then re-enters the ring where Triple raises Punk's arm in victory. As Punk celebrates his victory, Kevin Nash enters the ring and hits Punk with the JackKnife Powerbomb and leaves through the crowd as Alberto Del Rio runs to the ring to cash in the Money in the Bank. Del Rio, quickly pins CM Punk and is delcared the WWE Champion, as Triple H is left clueless to Kevin Nash's return.
Review:
Well this Summerslam obviously left me a little bit stunned, I didn't think they'd cash the MitB on Punk. I didn't think Nash would appear at all, but I'm loving it! Kevin Nash, is one of my favorites in the business along with his JackKnife PowerBomb being one of my favortie Powerbomb variations. But anyways the early matches on the card didn't truely impress me, until Kelly Kelly retaining the title was slightly shocking. I'm guessing they want to prolong her defeat a little longer. The Sheamus vs Mark Henry match could've gone maybe a few more extra minutes and not be count-out. The way now to end this is like a TV-airred rivalry ending as like a Main Event on SmackDown sometime near the next PPV. Now the Wade Barrett and Daniel Bryan match was actually a better pace than the last three. The result too, I didn't see coming. The way Daniel actually dominated Barrett in the match was good, and Barretts way back to victory was well played. The battle on the turnbuckle was amazing leading the finale, with Barrett hitting WasteLand.
As for the Main Events they went off amazingly. Starting with the No Holds Barred Match for the World Heavyweight Championship, Christian put on a good showing with countering Orton at key points. The way Orton dominated thou in the match was quite expected, and like the Viper of old. Now to sort of knock the match, at several times during the match Christian took alot of damage like a RKO through the Announce Table, going through another two set of tables, then smashed onto a trash can and finally RKO'ed on the Steps. Realistical he'd been knocked out or really sore, if this wasn't PG. It's like he just didn't play the part right. Orton win the title thou was great, but now more complaints will grow saying this is overkill with Orton holding the Championship yet again.
Now for the WWE Championship match! The stand-off moments in the opening minutes really set the pace for the match. That was a key point in making this match better to enjoy. Then as the match continued over time, it began playing back and forth with proper amounts of reversals and counters. The submission reversals, were some of the best I've seen in awhile. When Triple H threw them back in stopping the 10 count really got the crowd going as Cena and Punk got to their feet leading into the closing minutes. As the match dwindled down to it's final minutes, it made me think they might give the title back to Cena to lead into Del Rio cashing in tonight or tomorrow on maybe Rey or something. The whole Cena winning, actually became firm in my mind when Triple H missed Cena's foot on the rope when Punk won. I thought like several others the match would be restarted. However it didn't and Kevin Nash came out, JackKnifing Powerbombed Punk allow Del Rio to make the steal. This really annoyed me to an extent. I didn't want Punk to get cashed in on, I rather it be Cena cause at least then I could cheer him over Del Rio, cause now the storyline can go any way. When the WWE writers make a change up like this you never can really tell right away how it'll turn out.
Like right now we got Del Rio vs Rey Mysterio tomorrow, with both Punk and Cena out of a rematch. Along with that Punk is now going to be gunning for Nash, as Triple H searches for the reason why Nash did that. So now everything is all in the air, and I'm rating this Summerslam instead of using 5-Star Ratings, it's going to be 10-Stars and that score is 6-Stars out of 10! My reason is cause the Main Events brought in a good showing along with the unexpected results to Divas' Championship and Barrett/Dainels match. If the opening matches had a little more to them and better results I could've rated this 7 out of 10, but since they flopped it's a 6! Stay tuned for tomorrow, when I report Raw's overview, results and review!
Friday, August 12, 2011
WWE Friday Night SmackDown 8/12
OverviewSmackDown opens with for once the opening credit promo crap with Green's Do You Know the Enemy. Followed by WWE COO Triple H, coming out to talk about this weekend's Summerslam along with the Main Event. Then he goes on about loving to be in Vince's shoes running WWE. He follows up with announcing an Intercontinental Championship match, Ezekiel Jackson vs Cody Rhodes; a MitB Holder vs MitB Holder match, and matches for the World Heavyweight Champion competitors. Christian then interrupts Triple H, before he can announce Christian's opponent. Christian comes to the ring and says he's going to sue the WWE cause Randy Orton is unstable and he shouldn't be in a No Holds Barred match with him. Triple H retorts by saying the match is still gonna happen and schools Christian about how contracts work. Christian has a breakdown about Randy Orton's history with Triple H, where Triple H schools him again. Christian flips again where Triple H reveals that Sheamus is to face Christian tonight. Thus it was Game Over and we cut to Commerical!
We come back to World Heavyweight Champion, Christian vs Sheamus for our opening match. Sheamus quickly takes down Christian and applies a Outlaw Stomp, before the match spills outside the ring. Christian pushes Sheamus into the turnbuckle post a couple of time and beings working on the right shoulder. Sheamus breaks out beings putting a hurting on Christian, hitting several of his minor signature moves. Before being able to hit the Brogue Kick, Christian splits from the ring and Sheamus wins via a stupid count-out.
Next match is a Divas Tag Match, Beth Phoenix and Natalya against AJ and Kaitlyn. AJ & Kaitlyn are easily jobbed out since they're rookies. AJ is hit with the Glam Slam and Kaitlyn locked in a Sharpshooter. Then we get a quick promo for Raw's MitB Holder Alberto Del Rio facing SmackDown's MitB Holder Daniel Bryan.
SmackDown shows a promo for Sin Cara, then we cut to Zack Ryder and Teddy Long chatting. They're soon interrupted by Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase, followed by Aksana coming in to hit on Teddy. Eventually we come to a promo for Mark Henry being the most dominate superstar right now. After the promo, Johnny Curtis finds out his debut match is against Mark Henry. Leading into Sin Cara's return to SmackDown where he beats Tyson Kid.
Next match is the MitB Holder vs MitB Holder match. Daniel Bryan really puts on a show with Alberto Del Rio. Bryan did most of the work in the match before Del Rio locked in an Armbrecker. Bryan taps out to it and is attacked by Wade Barrett, where Barrett hit Bryan with a Wasteland. After a commerical break, we come to the Intercontinental Championship match and let me spoil this now cause I knew this since the taping, Cody Rhodes wins. Anyways Jackson, dominates the first few minutes before Cody and Ted begin playing games, leading to Cody's victory.
After the Incontinental Championship match, and Commerical Break we get the NFL-like promo for John Cena vs CM Punk at Summerslam. Following the promo, we get a run down of the Summerslam Matches. Then Randy Orton, has an interview with Matt Striker about the upcoming No Holds Barred match at Summerslam. Then we come to Mark Henry vs Johnny Curtis, where Mark Henry just overpowers Curtis. After the match Sheamus, comes to Curtis' save before Mark Henry could break his leg.
Finally we get to our Main Event, Randy Orton vs the Great Khali. Orton tries getting a few punches and Khali just flings Orton all about the ring. Khali, hits a Khali Chop, into the Vice Grip to the shoulder where Orton reverses the hold. Orton traps Khali in the ropes and gets in several kicks. A few mintues later Orton comes out of no where and lands a RKO on Khali and gets the pin. Christian comes out after the match to say at Summerslam everything is going to change, when it gets to the No Holds Barred match. Does this mean Tomko is back or something else?
Review:
Well this SmackDown sucked the matches weren't anything to compare to the Raw matches. Nothing really got good enough to amp the crowd up for Summerslam it seemed. There weren't any matches on the card worth mentioning, or really talking about. Hell the Intercontinental Championship match was pretty dumbed down, I mean it didn't seem really enough to how Cody won or that he won. The Divas' Tag Match could of been much better if they didn't job AJ and Kaitlyn. I mean they're barely even using AJ or Kaitlyn correctly at all, these two Divas could actually be good in the division and to job them for being rookies doesn't help Natalya or Beth rep as being dominate either. As a result this SmackDown only equals about 2 out of 5!
We come back to World Heavyweight Champion, Christian vs Sheamus for our opening match. Sheamus quickly takes down Christian and applies a Outlaw Stomp, before the match spills outside the ring. Christian pushes Sheamus into the turnbuckle post a couple of time and beings working on the right shoulder. Sheamus breaks out beings putting a hurting on Christian, hitting several of his minor signature moves. Before being able to hit the Brogue Kick, Christian splits from the ring and Sheamus wins via a stupid count-out.
Next match is a Divas Tag Match, Beth Phoenix and Natalya against AJ and Kaitlyn. AJ & Kaitlyn are easily jobbed out since they're rookies. AJ is hit with the Glam Slam and Kaitlyn locked in a Sharpshooter. Then we get a quick promo for Raw's MitB Holder Alberto Del Rio facing SmackDown's MitB Holder Daniel Bryan.
SmackDown shows a promo for Sin Cara, then we cut to Zack Ryder and Teddy Long chatting. They're soon interrupted by Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase, followed by Aksana coming in to hit on Teddy. Eventually we come to a promo for Mark Henry being the most dominate superstar right now. After the promo, Johnny Curtis finds out his debut match is against Mark Henry. Leading into Sin Cara's return to SmackDown where he beats Tyson Kid.
Next match is the MitB Holder vs MitB Holder match. Daniel Bryan really puts on a show with Alberto Del Rio. Bryan did most of the work in the match before Del Rio locked in an Armbrecker. Bryan taps out to it and is attacked by Wade Barrett, where Barrett hit Bryan with a Wasteland. After a commerical break, we come to the Intercontinental Championship match and let me spoil this now cause I knew this since the taping, Cody Rhodes wins. Anyways Jackson, dominates the first few minutes before Cody and Ted begin playing games, leading to Cody's victory.
After the Incontinental Championship match, and Commerical Break we get the NFL-like promo for John Cena vs CM Punk at Summerslam. Following the promo, we get a run down of the Summerslam Matches. Then Randy Orton, has an interview with Matt Striker about the upcoming No Holds Barred match at Summerslam. Then we come to Mark Henry vs Johnny Curtis, where Mark Henry just overpowers Curtis. After the match Sheamus, comes to Curtis' save before Mark Henry could break his leg.
Finally we get to our Main Event, Randy Orton vs the Great Khali. Orton tries getting a few punches and Khali just flings Orton all about the ring. Khali, hits a Khali Chop, into the Vice Grip to the shoulder where Orton reverses the hold. Orton traps Khali in the ropes and gets in several kicks. A few mintues later Orton comes out of no where and lands a RKO on Khali and gets the pin. Christian comes out after the match to say at Summerslam everything is going to change, when it gets to the No Holds Barred match. Does this mean Tomko is back or something else?
Review:
Well this SmackDown sucked the matches weren't anything to compare to the Raw matches. Nothing really got good enough to amp the crowd up for Summerslam it seemed. There weren't any matches on the card worth mentioning, or really talking about. Hell the Intercontinental Championship match was pretty dumbed down, I mean it didn't seem really enough to how Cody won or that he won. The Divas' Tag Match could of been much better if they didn't job AJ and Kaitlyn. I mean they're barely even using AJ or Kaitlyn correctly at all, these two Divas could actually be good in the division and to job them for being rookies doesn't help Natalya or Beth rep as being dominate either. As a result this SmackDown only equals about 2 out of 5!
Friday, August 5, 2011
WWE Friday Night SmackDown 8/5
OVERVIEW:
Smackdown opens up to a quick 9 minute match between Sheamus and the Great Khali. For half of it Khali is slightly dominating the match by overpowering Sheamus. Eventually Khali locks him in the Vice-Grip, but Sheamus finds away out and hits a Brogue Kick on Khali following with a pin. After the match a promo for a tag-team match with Randy Orton & John Morrison facing off against Christian & R-Truth, is displayed before cutting to commerical.
We come back to Smackdown, to a Divas Match. AJ makes her way to the ring, awaiting Natalya entrance it's a match between mentor and student I guess. It starts being pretty techinical with reversal after reversal, nothing too impressive just yet. Natalya quickly locks in the Sharpshooter and AJ taps out in secs, then Natalya puts a bigger beating onto AJ at ringside. Following the beat, Natalya then says she sides with Beth Phoenix on her beatdown to Kelly Kelly on Raw this week. Also tonight we got a State of the Showski Address from the one and only Long Island Iced-Z, ZAC RYDER!
After another commerical break, Matt Striker has an interview with Randy Orton over last weeks match with R-Truth, where Orton beat Truth down with a chair and hit 2 RKOs onto the announce table. Orton replies how he was just unleashing agression and will do the same to Christian at Summerslam. Then we cut to Justin Gabriel's return to South Africa meeting the fans and such. I'm guessing they're planning to turn him back to being a face! Following the promo, Wade Barrett comes down to ringside to join commentary to watch an upcoming Daniel Bryan match.
Tyson Kid is already in the ring, while Daniel Bryan makes his entrance with new theme. The match is pretty techinical, while Barrett bitches about Bryan and his finishing move. Somehow the match turns in Tyson's favor as they go to a commerical break, when returning from the break it's still in Tyson's favor. Tyson is mostly working on Byran's knees locking in Indian Death-Locks. Byran breaks out, goes to the turnbuckle and drops a Dropkick, thus the tide changes. Then it flips back and forth for awhile, until Bryan hits a Roundhouse Kick and his new submission finisher.
We come to the State of the Showski Address with Zac Ryder, just Tony Chimmel doesn't give Ryder a good introduction. Shortly after starting Ezekiel Jackson, comes out and joins him in the ring, followed by Cody Rhodes and Ted Dibiase. Then they aruge about how Ted Dibiase is used and such, followed by General Manager Theodore Long to come out and announce Ezekiel Jackson vs Zac Ryder. Ryder, easily then gets jobbed out by tapping out to Jackson's Torture Rack. Then we cut to "the new" Aksana debut on Smackdown, as she introduces herself to GM Long.
Mark Henry makes his way to the ring for a match to face off with Vladimir Kozlov, who was recently released from his contract today. Mark quickly beats Vladimir, then wraps Vladimir's ankle in a steel chair before slamming down on it. Sheamus flys down to the ring with a chair in hand, chasing out Mark as a strecher comes out for Vladimir. Following the match, backstage John Morrison is flying about demoing some free-running for tonight's main-event.
Sheamus runs into Tod Grisham, for an interview. Sheamus talks how he's going to take out Mark Henry like how he took out Big Show and Kane. Following the interview come back to David Otunga, Micheal McGillicuty & JTG coming to the ring for a 6-Man Tag Match, their opponents are Trent Barreta, & the Uso's. The match isn't too great, and is having a slow start. At the sametime Booker T put on his Twitter "Michael Cole is a TOOL", remind you of anyone?(Check RDM's Blog Again!) Back to the match during that time, all hell breaks loose between all 6 Men leading to McGuillicuty and Otunga taking out Barreta for the win.
Just great a new Johnny Curtis promo, leading to his debut next week. Followed by the Raw Rebound, at this time you should probably go re-read Raw 8/1 review to help fill in the blanks. After the Raw Rebound, we cut to an interview with Christian the World Heavyweight Champion. He talks of how Smackdown has a conspiracy , where then R-Truth appears and talks about Lil' Jimmys leading into Orton's enterance and another commerical break.
After the break we come to Morrison and the opposing teams' entrances. Orton and R-Truth start off the match. Soon each tag out switching to Morrison and Christian, the pace of the match gets better. A commerical break occurs and we come back to Morrison and R-Truth. Morrison is really taking a beating from R-Truth and Christian, until Morrison hits a Ride the Wave. Orton and Christian get tagged in and the pace really picked up. Orton hits some signatures along with Christian, Morrison and R-Truth battle outside, leading to Christian hitting the KillSwitch and getting the pin for his team.
Review:
Alright well this Smackdown started off with some okay matches, and had good results. The way they're promoting Sheamus now as like Hogan/HHH persona, is good by having go up against Khali, then going over to Natalya dominating AJ and siding with Beth on her actions on RAW. Then the few following promos really being to help the upcoming Summerslam and Justin Gaberial as a face. Following the Daniel Bryan match the next couple of matches, kind of suck. They don't really catch my attention.
It's not until the Main Event that Smackdown ends on somewhat of a good note. The tag-team match is great, the brawling and the promoting for the Summerslam match for the World Heavyweight Championship are really amped. The result could've gone almost either way for sometime it felt. Overall this was practically an ok SmackDown, the opening matches really helped with the storylines WWE are making. I'm enjoying how the dominate Divas are taking out the "Barbie Dolls" and enjoying Sheamus face-turn. The Daniel Bryan vs Wade Barrett is becoming a great plot or I hope it will be. I'm hoping that this Summerslam will actually turn out great, with the matches being promoting like Sheamus vs Mark Henry, Cena vs Punk for the WWE Championship, and Orton vs Christian for the World Heavyweight Championship in a No-Holds Barred match. Hell I hope I won't come out swearing to this upcoming PPV next Sunday!
Smackdown opens up to a quick 9 minute match between Sheamus and the Great Khali. For half of it Khali is slightly dominating the match by overpowering Sheamus. Eventually Khali locks him in the Vice-Grip, but Sheamus finds away out and hits a Brogue Kick on Khali following with a pin. After the match a promo for a tag-team match with Randy Orton & John Morrison facing off against Christian & R-Truth, is displayed before cutting to commerical.
We come back to Smackdown, to a Divas Match. AJ makes her way to the ring, awaiting Natalya entrance it's a match between mentor and student I guess. It starts being pretty techinical with reversal after reversal, nothing too impressive just yet. Natalya quickly locks in the Sharpshooter and AJ taps out in secs, then Natalya puts a bigger beating onto AJ at ringside. Following the beat, Natalya then says she sides with Beth Phoenix on her beatdown to Kelly Kelly on Raw this week. Also tonight we got a State of the Showski Address from the one and only Long Island Iced-Z, ZAC RYDER!
After another commerical break, Matt Striker has an interview with Randy Orton over last weeks match with R-Truth, where Orton beat Truth down with a chair and hit 2 RKOs onto the announce table. Orton replies how he was just unleashing agression and will do the same to Christian at Summerslam. Then we cut to Justin Gabriel's return to South Africa meeting the fans and such. I'm guessing they're planning to turn him back to being a face! Following the promo, Wade Barrett comes down to ringside to join commentary to watch an upcoming Daniel Bryan match.
Tyson Kid is already in the ring, while Daniel Bryan makes his entrance with new theme. The match is pretty techinical, while Barrett bitches about Bryan and his finishing move. Somehow the match turns in Tyson's favor as they go to a commerical break, when returning from the break it's still in Tyson's favor. Tyson is mostly working on Byran's knees locking in Indian Death-Locks. Byran breaks out, goes to the turnbuckle and drops a Dropkick, thus the tide changes. Then it flips back and forth for awhile, until Bryan hits a Roundhouse Kick and his new submission finisher.
We come to the State of the Showski Address with Zac Ryder, just Tony Chimmel doesn't give Ryder a good introduction. Shortly after starting Ezekiel Jackson, comes out and joins him in the ring, followed by Cody Rhodes and Ted Dibiase. Then they aruge about how Ted Dibiase is used and such, followed by General Manager Theodore Long to come out and announce Ezekiel Jackson vs Zac Ryder. Ryder, easily then gets jobbed out by tapping out to Jackson's Torture Rack. Then we cut to "the new" Aksana debut on Smackdown, as she introduces herself to GM Long.
Mark Henry makes his way to the ring for a match to face off with Vladimir Kozlov, who was recently released from his contract today. Mark quickly beats Vladimir, then wraps Vladimir's ankle in a steel chair before slamming down on it. Sheamus flys down to the ring with a chair in hand, chasing out Mark as a strecher comes out for Vladimir. Following the match, backstage John Morrison is flying about demoing some free-running for tonight's main-event.
Sheamus runs into Tod Grisham, for an interview. Sheamus talks how he's going to take out Mark Henry like how he took out Big Show and Kane. Following the interview come back to David Otunga, Micheal McGillicuty & JTG coming to the ring for a 6-Man Tag Match, their opponents are Trent Barreta, & the Uso's. The match isn't too great, and is having a slow start. At the sametime Booker T put on his Twitter "Michael Cole is a TOOL", remind you of anyone?(Check RDM's Blog Again!) Back to the match during that time, all hell breaks loose between all 6 Men leading to McGuillicuty and Otunga taking out Barreta for the win.
Just great a new Johnny Curtis promo, leading to his debut next week. Followed by the Raw Rebound, at this time you should probably go re-read Raw 8/1 review to help fill in the blanks. After the Raw Rebound, we cut to an interview with Christian the World Heavyweight Champion. He talks of how Smackdown has a conspiracy , where then R-Truth appears and talks about Lil' Jimmys leading into Orton's enterance and another commerical break.
After the break we come to Morrison and the opposing teams' entrances. Orton and R-Truth start off the match. Soon each tag out switching to Morrison and Christian, the pace of the match gets better. A commerical break occurs and we come back to Morrison and R-Truth. Morrison is really taking a beating from R-Truth and Christian, until Morrison hits a Ride the Wave. Orton and Christian get tagged in and the pace really picked up. Orton hits some signatures along with Christian, Morrison and R-Truth battle outside, leading to Christian hitting the KillSwitch and getting the pin for his team.
Review:
Alright well this Smackdown started off with some okay matches, and had good results. The way they're promoting Sheamus now as like Hogan/HHH persona, is good by having go up against Khali, then going over to Natalya dominating AJ and siding with Beth on her actions on RAW. Then the few following promos really being to help the upcoming Summerslam and Justin Gaberial as a face. Following the Daniel Bryan match the next couple of matches, kind of suck. They don't really catch my attention.
It's not until the Main Event that Smackdown ends on somewhat of a good note. The tag-team match is great, the brawling and the promoting for the Summerslam match for the World Heavyweight Championship are really amped. The result could've gone almost either way for sometime it felt. Overall this was practically an ok SmackDown, the opening matches really helped with the storylines WWE are making. I'm enjoying how the dominate Divas are taking out the "Barbie Dolls" and enjoying Sheamus face-turn. The Daniel Bryan vs Wade Barrett is becoming a great plot or I hope it will be. I'm hoping that this Summerslam will actually turn out great, with the matches being promoting like Sheamus vs Mark Henry, Cena vs Punk for the WWE Championship, and Orton vs Christian for the World Heavyweight Championship in a No-Holds Barred match. Hell I hope I won't come out swearing to this upcoming PPV next Sunday!
Monday, August 1, 2011
WWE Monday Night Raw 8/1
OVERVIEW:
Raw opened up to a promo video reviewing the Money in the Bank, and then end result to Mysterio vs Cena for the WWE Championship on last week's Raw. Following that they promoted Punk and the Cult of Personality. Leading right into the intro of Raw and CM Punk's entrance.
The crowd was mixed to entrance, the god damn C-Nation ruined the whole moment. Following the entrance, they cut a promo with Punk shouting "The Champ is Here!" Punk then revealed why he chose to stay, saying he's here to make it fun again and he's the Best in the World. Then Triple H soon came out, the crowd exploded! Triple H, then followed with why Punk was resigned along with JR, cause it was good for business. "Smug, Overrated, Attention Seeking Guy that puts too much stock in his own hype!" Triple H's view on CM Punk, and the crowd then switched for Punk. It's like this crowd was bipolar or something, they couldn't make up their minds. Hell then a battle of Egos ensued between Triple H and Punk. Until the "Pipe Bomb" went off.
Up next was some hype for a tag team match, Rey Mysterio & John Morrison vs the Miz & R-Truth and the Diva's Number 1 Contender Battle Royal. Leading to the first commerical break, of the night. We cut back to most of the Divas in the ring and Kelly Kelly joining commentary with JR, King and Cole. The match went fast as usual, and the new Contender for Kelly's Championship was the Glamazon, Beth Phoenix. Who then proceed to beat down Kelly following her victory. Leading to more hype for the tag team match, with a promo with Miz and R-Truth.
After the 2nd or 3rd commerical break we come back to a short promo with Josh Matthews and John Cena. Leading in to the tag match mentioned earlier, that lead into yet another commerical break. So far we had alot of hype, promos and commericals and no wrestling! Finally the match, began with Miz and Morrison, then a tag leading to another commerical break! This match began to suck and it probably was because R-Truth was in it or nothing fancy was really happening. The crowd was exploding thou mostly for Morrison, sadly thou his team lost and Miz & R-Truth won.
Following the Tag Match, Josh interviews Triple H about the earlier promo with Punk and the WWE Championship issue. Next we got a promo for Sheamus vs Mark Henry on Smackdown this week, and leading to US Champion Dolph Ziggler & Vikki Guerrero coming down to the ring. While on the name tag it promoted the release of his new edition of "I Am Perfection" on Itunes! Dolph then cut a promo about being one of the best right now on the roster, and pretty much giving an open challenge to which then Alex Riley came out to interrupt him. Riley then starts to tell Ziggler to kick Vikki aside and go his own way, the result being Dolph leaving the ring. As we cut to promotions for the WWE Championship Controversy and another Tag Team Match, New Nexus vs Santino & Zac Ryder!
This tag team match was better for the fact Long Island Iced-Z, Zac Ryder was in it. The crowd really wants him, the were exploding when he got tagged in. Then Michael Cole trashed Youtube, youtubers and Broskis everywhere! When will WWE fire Cole, he's the biggest tool in the freaking world. He's like some other tool I know who said a certain group of youtubers' had low quality videos. Just go check out Projektrdm's blog to find out who I mean. Anyways Ryder and Santino lost and we went into another boring set of commericals.
We come back to then a recap of the encounter between Triple H and CM Punk from about an hour prior. Then cutting to Punk in an interview with Josh Matthews, leading to a match with Alberto Del Rio against Evan Bourne. Leading to a fast pase match and Evan Bourne tapping out.
Finally we get to the end of the show and the commentary reveals a poll on who should be the real WWE Champion and it showed Cena 54% to Punk 46%. Leading to Triple H coming out to reveal what he's going to about the controversy, and then John Laurinaitis came out say John Cena should be striped of the title. John Cena then came out to tell off Laurinatis, creating more entertainment between the arugement. Laurinaitis left shortly when Cena said he'd punch him in the face. Triple H then said Punk was resigned when he came with contract signed and said my favorite quote "Now Hit My Music!" following into Punk also interrupting Triple H and John Cena. Then Triple H made the edict Cena vs Punk at Summerslam to see who will be the Undisputed WWE Champion, while taking his leave. Following with a face-off between our two Champion, with their music playing back and forth in a war of themes.
Review:
My review on this is that this was like that one TNA Impact where no wrestling happened, but at least had alot more better promos. The matches didn't really impress me, along with the fact being John Morrison and Zac Ryder were the only reasons those matches had large reactions until they lost. The opening promo was pretty good, have the battle of Egos. Especially when Punk tried calling out Triple H, lead to the whole Pipe Bomb jokes. Then the final edict to settle this issue was pretty good when Punk and Cena had that stand-off with the Theme War.
Other things to note were the Michael Cole's remarks toward Youtube. I know it's all fake but being a Youtuber and have to be told your videos are shit within about 2 weeks you get tired of hearing it. I seriously grown tired of Cole's bitching gimmick it's so bad he needs to be taken off air. Along with that I'm loving the whole spamming of Downstait themes like "I Came to Play", "Say it to My Face", and "I am Perfection(V2)"! But now this being the third Raw since Triple H's take over and having some bad or okay matches really made this Raw a 2.5 out of 5 Stars. That's all for now, but check in for more Raw Overviews/Reviews and other shows.
Raw opened up to a promo video reviewing the Money in the Bank, and then end result to Mysterio vs Cena for the WWE Championship on last week's Raw. Following that they promoted Punk and the Cult of Personality. Leading right into the intro of Raw and CM Punk's entrance.
The crowd was mixed to entrance, the god damn C-Nation ruined the whole moment. Following the entrance, they cut a promo with Punk shouting "The Champ is Here!" Punk then revealed why he chose to stay, saying he's here to make it fun again and he's the Best in the World. Then Triple H soon came out, the crowd exploded! Triple H, then followed with why Punk was resigned along with JR, cause it was good for business. "Smug, Overrated, Attention Seeking Guy that puts too much stock in his own hype!" Triple H's view on CM Punk, and the crowd then switched for Punk. It's like this crowd was bipolar or something, they couldn't make up their minds. Hell then a battle of Egos ensued between Triple H and Punk. Until the "Pipe Bomb" went off.
Up next was some hype for a tag team match, Rey Mysterio & John Morrison vs the Miz & R-Truth and the Diva's Number 1 Contender Battle Royal. Leading to the first commerical break, of the night. We cut back to most of the Divas in the ring and Kelly Kelly joining commentary with JR, King and Cole. The match went fast as usual, and the new Contender for Kelly's Championship was the Glamazon, Beth Phoenix. Who then proceed to beat down Kelly following her victory. Leading to more hype for the tag team match, with a promo with Miz and R-Truth.
After the 2nd or 3rd commerical break we come back to a short promo with Josh Matthews and John Cena. Leading in to the tag match mentioned earlier, that lead into yet another commerical break. So far we had alot of hype, promos and commericals and no wrestling! Finally the match, began with Miz and Morrison, then a tag leading to another commerical break! This match began to suck and it probably was because R-Truth was in it or nothing fancy was really happening. The crowd was exploding thou mostly for Morrison, sadly thou his team lost and Miz & R-Truth won.
Following the Tag Match, Josh interviews Triple H about the earlier promo with Punk and the WWE Championship issue. Next we got a promo for Sheamus vs Mark Henry on Smackdown this week, and leading to US Champion Dolph Ziggler & Vikki Guerrero coming down to the ring. While on the name tag it promoted the release of his new edition of "I Am Perfection" on Itunes! Dolph then cut a promo about being one of the best right now on the roster, and pretty much giving an open challenge to which then Alex Riley came out to interrupt him. Riley then starts to tell Ziggler to kick Vikki aside and go his own way, the result being Dolph leaving the ring. As we cut to promotions for the WWE Championship Controversy and another Tag Team Match, New Nexus vs Santino & Zac Ryder!
This tag team match was better for the fact Long Island Iced-Z, Zac Ryder was in it. The crowd really wants him, the were exploding when he got tagged in. Then Michael Cole trashed Youtube, youtubers and Broskis everywhere! When will WWE fire Cole, he's the biggest tool in the freaking world. He's like some other tool I know who said a certain group of youtubers' had low quality videos. Just go check out Projektrdm's blog to find out who I mean. Anyways Ryder and Santino lost and we went into another boring set of commericals.
We come back to then a recap of the encounter between Triple H and CM Punk from about an hour prior. Then cutting to Punk in an interview with Josh Matthews, leading to a match with Alberto Del Rio against Evan Bourne. Leading to a fast pase match and Evan Bourne tapping out.
Finally we get to the end of the show and the commentary reveals a poll on who should be the real WWE Champion and it showed Cena 54% to Punk 46%. Leading to Triple H coming out to reveal what he's going to about the controversy, and then John Laurinaitis came out say John Cena should be striped of the title. John Cena then came out to tell off Laurinatis, creating more entertainment between the arugement. Laurinaitis left shortly when Cena said he'd punch him in the face. Triple H then said Punk was resigned when he came with contract signed and said my favorite quote "Now Hit My Music!" following into Punk also interrupting Triple H and John Cena. Then Triple H made the edict Cena vs Punk at Summerslam to see who will be the Undisputed WWE Champion, while taking his leave. Following with a face-off between our two Champion, with their music playing back and forth in a war of themes.
Review:
My review on this is that this was like that one TNA Impact where no wrestling happened, but at least had alot more better promos. The matches didn't really impress me, along with the fact being John Morrison and Zac Ryder were the only reasons those matches had large reactions until they lost. The opening promo was pretty good, have the battle of Egos. Especially when Punk tried calling out Triple H, lead to the whole Pipe Bomb jokes. Then the final edict to settle this issue was pretty good when Punk and Cena had that stand-off with the Theme War.
Other things to note were the Michael Cole's remarks toward Youtube. I know it's all fake but being a Youtuber and have to be told your videos are shit within about 2 weeks you get tired of hearing it. I seriously grown tired of Cole's bitching gimmick it's so bad he needs to be taken off air. Along with that I'm loving the whole spamming of Downstait themes like "I Came to Play", "Say it to My Face", and "I am Perfection(V2)"! But now this being the third Raw since Triple H's take over and having some bad or okay matches really made this Raw a 2.5 out of 5 Stars. That's all for now, but check in for more Raw Overviews/Reviews and other shows.
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