Overview:
A day removed from Hell in a Cell, and Raw starts with promote 12-Man Tag Team match for tonight's Main Event. Following that we get Randy Orton facing off with Drew McIntyre, and Orton just destroys McIntyre in the opening minutes. McIntyre, fights back with a Big Boot and rope hung chokes. McIntyre follows up with brawling tactics, until Orton begins to hit his signatures. Orton follows through with the RKO, picking up the pinfall and win. After the match as McIntyre, tries getting up Orton hits him with another RKO as Mark Henry makes his way to the ringside. Orton flies right out to him and the two brawl about as security separates them, Henry breaks free and jumps Orton and Orton replies in the same way. Orton even goes to pushing Henry into the crowd, before allowing security to do their job.
After the first break, we return to Henry standing in the ring pacing about awaiting his opponent for the night. During that time as Henry waits for John Morrison we get told that Big Show is returning to Smackdown this Friday. Morrison starts off with working on Henry's knee, leading to him grounding Henry fast. Morrison lands the Knee Smash and Starship Pain but can't manage the pinfall. Henry kicks out, and goes right for the World's Strongest Slam and wins. Following the match Henry hits the World's Strongest Slam on Morrison again and cuts a promo about how he's done with Orton along with calling out Big Show. Backstage, John Lauriniatis holds another meeting with the disgruntled WWE Superstars like Vickie Guerrero and her Stable, Christian, and Alberto Del Rio to name a few.
Now in ring all the guys that were backstage with Lauriniatis, are in the ring. The whole group is Alberto Del Rio, Christian, Cody Rhodes, David Otunga, Vickie Guerrero, Dolph Ziggler, and Jack Swagger. Del Rio, starts off since he's the new WWE Champion so he has to rant about defeating Cena and Punk along with Awesome Truth attacking him. Christian follows up about WWE COO Triple H, then he passes it off to Rhodes, and it goes on like this for awhile. When it finally gets to Vickie the crowd just boo's her none stop as usual before passing it someone no one cares about Otunga! Triple H finally shows up and chews them out for being the whining losers they are and for them to do their job.
Next match on the card is a Divas' Tag Team match with Kelly Kelly and Eve facing Beth Phoenix and Natalya, AGAIN! Kelly and Phoenix start the match and brawl outside leading to Eve and Natalya to get involved. This all leads to the match becoming a No-Contest, while Kelly destroys Phoenix! Backstage Triple H, talks with Lauriniatis about Miz and R-Truth from last night, along with when Triple H hitting Lauriniatis. Triple H, even then chews out Lauriniatis yet again it's like Lauriniatis loves doing the same crap each week!
After a commerical break, we come to a promo for Fast Five then a match with Jinder Mahal and Santino Marella. Mahal just beats Santino with knees, until falling into the Cobra. Santino picks up the win and swiftly exits the ring leaving Mahal feuding in the ring. Following a short break, we see a brief promo for Brodus Clay whose soon to have his return to tv. Then we get the scenes of Miz and R-Truth attacking everyone in the WWE Championship, Hell in a Cell match. Following the scenes from last night, we get the Youtube video of Miz and R-Truth apologizing along with them sueing Triple H. Before heading into the commerical break, the 12-Man Tag Team match begins! CM Punk, John Cena, Sheamus, Mason Ryan, and Air Boom facing Dolph Ziggler, Jack Swagger, David Otunga, Cody Rhodes, Alberto Del Rio and Christian with Vickie Guerrero. This hopefully won't suck for a main event.
The 12-Man Tag begins with Sheamus and Mason over powering the opposite team. The match flips back and forth, for awhile. During a the match Del Rio dropkicks Kofi in the back of the head which looked badass. The match continues, and Air Boom get involved for match leading to Bourne almost winning the match for their team. Vickie puts Swagger's leg on the rope breaking the count but leads to her getting kicked out. The match continues with alot more of reversals and great moments to the match. The whole match ends when everyone gets involved hitting their finishers on each other, and thus allows Sheamus to pick up the pinfall on Ziggler.
Following the main event we get this huge promo thing about does everyone trust Triple H as COO. The ringside is filled by Raw, Smackdown and Referee rosters along with Jerry "the King" Lawler's return. Triple H makes his entrance and talks about him running the business the way he knows how to. Someone tries to cut him off and he tells them to shut up, that person was Wade Barrett. Triple H then responds on how Wade Barrett was once a problem to the WWE. Chioda then explains how the referees fear coming to their jobs; before Beth Phoenix cuts in about who'll look out for the Divas? The King even, agrees with how everything is coming out of control and how knows someone doesn't want him in charge. Then everyone votes for no confidence in him, leading to the whole roster leaving even the announcers and camera-men go except Jim Ross who was the very last. Lauriniatis comes out for a brief minute then leaves, while the crowd cheers for Triple H.
Review:
This Raw began great and ended pretty great. Almost all of the matches were great matches on the card, a first in a good while in which I've seen. The 12-Man Tag Team match was the best on the whole card, and is the only thing I plan to talk about here along with the "No Confidence" vote. The main event match, was great my only issue was no Zac Ryder! They replaced Ryder for Ryan, which it's like hey look Batista V2 he's awesome and cool so we'll push him and not Ryder. Anyways the match was fast paced and Cole even quoted the match was like Fast and Furious and it was. The way they mostly marketed team Ziggler rather team Cena, even thou Cena's team had several good faces. The only members from Cena's team, that wrestled the most were Air Boom, Punk and Sheamus ironically Ryan nor Cena was given enough time in the match which isn't a issue. So when looking at the match it was performed greatly as it tried to market its best wrestlers. As for the 'No Confidence' thing it was stupid and all foreseeable that Triple H would be walked out on. Just it was bad that none of the better 'Face' Superstars even appeared at the meeting to support him. It just look stupid and boring, cause it was foreseeable! WWE could of made it such a better promo if they took the damn time to plan this. That's why this end promo of the night killed my actual rating as it became 4 out of 5-Stars!
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Monday, October 3, 2011
Sunday, October 2, 2011
WWE Hell in a Cell
Overview:
Hell in a Cell, opens with a cool promo for the event. Following that we, pan to the commentary team introducing themselves while Christian makes his entrance. During this time the camera team shows Miz and R-Truth coming to the front row with tickets. Before Sheamus can make his entrance Laurinaitis and his security team come to kick out Miz and R-Truth out. Then the opening match was allowed to begin, Sheamus and Christian tie it up. Sheamus gets an early lead, as Christian tries to bolt from the ring. Sometime later Christian knocks Sheamus out of the ring from the tope rope. Christian drags Sheamus back in, and begins to wear him down. Sheamus powers out, leading to him countering an early KillSwitch. Following that the two soon to begin brawling about from ring-post to ring-post, leading to Sheamus landing the Shoulder Block! As Sheamus, goes for a Brogue Kick on Christian just he bails from the ring leading to an outside Spear then another in the ring. Sheamus breaks the pinfall, and leads to him landing the Brogue Kick followed by the pinfall.
After the match, Mark Henry backstage has an interview with Matt Striker about the upcoming match tonight. We then cut to Sin Cara(Mystico) vs Sin Cara(Hunaco) a match that is quite boring. The opening minutes of the match are boring cause of the damn Sin Cara lighting, and they're very tactical in their wrestling. Eventually these two luchadores starting like luchadores can! Sin Cara(Hunaco) being bigger and stronger, lands a powerbomb and attempts another one leading to Sin Cara(Mystico) getting a roll-up pinfall. Backstage, CM Punk is confronted by David Otunga where Punk insults him several times.
Next up we got a Tag Team Championship match, with Air Boom facing Dolph Ziggler and Jack Swagger accompanied by Vickie Guerrero. The match begins with Air Boom, beating Swagger and Ziggler about until they use dirty tactics. The match has great points to it and ironically making a match that should be the sub main-event on a Raw. The match almost ends with Ziggler assisting Swagger for a Super-Powerbomb, just Kofi Kingston gets Ziggler out of the ring leading to Bourne hitting the Frankensteiner. Following the Frankensteiner, he goes right into a pinfall roll up for the win.
The fourth match on the card is the World Heavyweight Championship, Hell in a Cell match. Mark Henry and Randy Orton start off the match brawling with each other. Orton, begins trying to ground Mark Henry and slam him off the cell. Henry powers out and being slamming Orton all about the Cell and ring. During the match Henry tries throwing the stairs at Orton, which gets the crowd popping. Henry continues to weardown Orton, for awhile leading to him locking a few Bearhugs in. Henry then drags Orton outside to try and hit a World's Strongest Slam on the steps, but Orton climbs up the cage leading to him fighting out. Back inside the ring Orton, beings to hitting off his signatures followed by him setting up the RKO. Orton, hits the RKO with Henry managing to kickout of a 2-Count pinfall. With the RKO unsuccessful, Orton begins to prep the Punt Kick but falls into the World's Strongest Slam, allowing Henry to pick up the win. After the match ends, Henry instead of walking away tries to cause more damage on Orton with another World's Strongest Slam, and the chair on the knee. Orton slides out of the way and hits him with the chair several times, before Henry kicks him in the gut and runs away.
Backstage Alberto Del Rio, has an interview with Josh Matthews about his upcoming Hell in a Cell match tonight. Following the interview, we get Cody Rhodes coming out to cut a promo. Rhodes during the promo throws the Intercontinental Championship in a paper and un-vales the classic Intercontinental Championship as the new and current Championship. Ironically, this makes Rhodes look badass at this moment to bring back the retro belt! Laurinaitis, then comes out to interupting him to tell him he's defending it against John Morrison. Rhodes, isn't ready for the match and Morrison is just dominating him. Rhodes bails from the ring and begins trying to get counted out. Rhodes, begins to ground Morrison for awhile even locking in the Figure 4-Leglock. Morrison fights out and begins taking it to Rhodes eventually leading to Rhodes blocking and avoiding Morrison signature and finisher. Following those reverses, Rhodes rolls up Morrison for the pinfall.
Laurinaitis comes rushing into Triple H's office, telling him stuff is going down. They go rushing from the office into Air Boom's locker room where Miz and R-Truth are attacking them. Security removes them as Triple H chews out Laurinaitis. After that we cut to Beth Phoenix with Natalya making her entrance to face Kelly Kelly accompanied by Eve for the Divas' Championship. The match starts with Kelly Kelly hitting Phoenix with Lou Thez Presses' and Sentons. Phoenix powers out and ties Kelly up in the turnbuckle followed by a Dragon Sleeper. Phoenix then begins to grind her elbow and knee on Kelly's back. Eventually Kelly and Phoenix battle about in several roll-ups, as Phoenix tries for the Glam Slam. As Kelly begins to get fight out, where Natalya beats down Eve. Back inside the ring, Phoenix locks Kelly in Natalya's new submission, while the refree breaks the hold due to Kelly reaching the ropes as Natalya hits Kelly with the microphone. The ref doesn't notice this and Phoenix follows straight into the Glam Slam and pinfall.
As we come to the WWE Championship, Hell in a Cell we get the promo that lead to this Triple Threat Match. The promo begins with CM Punk winning at Money in the Bank, then Del Rio cashing in his Money in the Bank contract at Summerslam, followed by Cena getting the title back at Night of Champions and finally Triple H making this match. The match opens with Cena and Punk trying to corner Del Rio. Cena and Punk then are left in the ring to start battling each other trying to lock in their finishers. Following that CM Punk hits a suicide dive, on both Cena and Del Rio. Punk and Del Rio, then begin to brawl in the ring as Punk gets out the first weapon of the night. Cena then starts battling with Punk outside before Del Rio joins the fray. Now Cena and Del Rio battle in ring as Cena hits the 5 Knuckle Shuffle, and soon is kicked by Punk. After that Punk hits Cena with a neckbreaker and Del Rio with a DDT, while busting out a table.
Following Cena reversing Punk, Del Rio attacks Cena bringing him back into the ring. As Cena fights back, Punk gets involved in the match again. Del Rio manages to get headlock on Punk as Cena the both for a Leg Drop. Cena goes for an AA on Del Rio, but fails as Punk comes to the save knocking Del Rio out of the ring. Cena and Punk go punch for punch, until Del Rio flies in with a chair. Then Del Rio sentons onto Cena and Punk, which was the stupidest part of the night so far. Eventually, Cena hits an AA on Punk, Del Rio breaks the pinfall while Del Rio tries to lock the Armbar on Cena and Punk saves the match; that ends with Punk hitting a GTS on Cena and Del Rio saving the match. Del Rio takes over the match and begins dismantling Cena. As Del Rio turns to Punk, Punk fights back. Cena explodes back into the match, only leading to Punk reversing him.
As Punk goes to Elbow Drop Cena like he did to Del Rio earlier, Del Rio pushes Punk off the top rope and into the table. Del Rio then falls into the STF, and Ricardo breaks into the match leading to Del Rio getting and locking Cena out of the cell. Del Rio now works on Punk, as Punk is now the underdog. Outside of the cell, Cena begins to come too, while inside Punk fights back. While Del Rio and Punk battle for the Championship, Cena tries breaking into the cell as Del Rio hits Punk with the pipe he used on Cena. This all leads to Del Rio being able to win the Championship, and as the cell rises Cena jumps Del Rio. While this happens Miz and R-Truth slide in attacking everyone in the cells area as the cage closes down. The whole roster rushes to the cell and try to get in, while Awesome Truth destroy the refs, Cena, Punk, Del Rio and Ricardo. Eventually the cell is broke open and every rushes Miz and R-Truth, while they get arrested and Triple H jumps them before being carried away by superstars and security.
Review:
Well I can start off by saying that everything but the end of the Pay-Per View was great! That end with Miz and R-Truth, coming out was boring as hell cause the roster didn't get a chance to beat the hell out of them. Like it would've been better if the roster bursted in to destroy those two. The end was just too much like a crappy episode of Raw. Anyways as for the matches, I think the top 3 matches on the card were the Triple Threat Hell in a Cell, the Tag Team match and Sheamus vs Christian. Sin Cara vs Sin Cara would've made it if the lighting was the Gold and Blue for Sin Cara. The whole Triple Threat was amazing and could've ended better with Punk winning, but alright Del Rio it's still an ok ending just due to the reversal rate and counters. The other Hell in a Cell match wasn't the greatest and was quite boring, not enough action or wrestling along with the sad endding of Orton losing!
As for the other matches I did enjoy the Sheamus/Christian match, Tag Team Match and Sin Cara vs Sin Cara. Those three had great points that establish their divisions. Sheamus and Christian brawled about leading to two amazing Spears and the Brogue Kick. Following that we jump to Sin Cara vs Sin Cara, these two luchadores just amazed the hell out of me. My issue was that they didn't go over edge with showing off their talent. Mystico and Hunaco could've brought down the house, just they didn't! The Air Boom/Perfect Americans match was amazing, if anyone doesn't know who the Perfect Americans are they're Ziggler and Swagger. That tag team match was good and great should get a rematch on Raw that's how enjoyable I found it.
The bottom two matches were Rhodes/Morrison for the Intercontinental Championship, and Kelly/Phoenix for the Divas' Championship. Since Rhodes/Morrison was unannounced and it was John Morrison instead of Ted DiBiase I got annoyed. I'm annoyed cause DiBiase is getting crushed, just atleast we know Morrison is out of his trouble due to Melina. So I guess that's good for MoFo's out their! As for the Divas match, it was a great Divas' match but I didn't think Natalya really need to use the Mic on Kelly Kelly to help Phoenix. That was just a low blow for Divas' and yet really violent since Divas' barely use weapons! Anyways as a result if I'm still using the 10-Star rating this would be a nice 8.5-Star rating for Hell in a Cell!
Hell in a Cell, opens with a cool promo for the event. Following that we, pan to the commentary team introducing themselves while Christian makes his entrance. During this time the camera team shows Miz and R-Truth coming to the front row with tickets. Before Sheamus can make his entrance Laurinaitis and his security team come to kick out Miz and R-Truth out. Then the opening match was allowed to begin, Sheamus and Christian tie it up. Sheamus gets an early lead, as Christian tries to bolt from the ring. Sometime later Christian knocks Sheamus out of the ring from the tope rope. Christian drags Sheamus back in, and begins to wear him down. Sheamus powers out, leading to him countering an early KillSwitch. Following that the two soon to begin brawling about from ring-post to ring-post, leading to Sheamus landing the Shoulder Block! As Sheamus, goes for a Brogue Kick on Christian just he bails from the ring leading to an outside Spear then another in the ring. Sheamus breaks the pinfall, and leads to him landing the Brogue Kick followed by the pinfall.
After the match, Mark Henry backstage has an interview with Matt Striker about the upcoming match tonight. We then cut to Sin Cara(Mystico) vs Sin Cara(Hunaco) a match that is quite boring. The opening minutes of the match are boring cause of the damn Sin Cara lighting, and they're very tactical in their wrestling. Eventually these two luchadores starting like luchadores can! Sin Cara(Hunaco) being bigger and stronger, lands a powerbomb and attempts another one leading to Sin Cara(Mystico) getting a roll-up pinfall. Backstage, CM Punk is confronted by David Otunga where Punk insults him several times.
Next up we got a Tag Team Championship match, with Air Boom facing Dolph Ziggler and Jack Swagger accompanied by Vickie Guerrero. The match begins with Air Boom, beating Swagger and Ziggler about until they use dirty tactics. The match has great points to it and ironically making a match that should be the sub main-event on a Raw. The match almost ends with Ziggler assisting Swagger for a Super-Powerbomb, just Kofi Kingston gets Ziggler out of the ring leading to Bourne hitting the Frankensteiner. Following the Frankensteiner, he goes right into a pinfall roll up for the win.
The fourth match on the card is the World Heavyweight Championship, Hell in a Cell match. Mark Henry and Randy Orton start off the match brawling with each other. Orton, begins trying to ground Mark Henry and slam him off the cell. Henry powers out and being slamming Orton all about the Cell and ring. During the match Henry tries throwing the stairs at Orton, which gets the crowd popping. Henry continues to weardown Orton, for awhile leading to him locking a few Bearhugs in. Henry then drags Orton outside to try and hit a World's Strongest Slam on the steps, but Orton climbs up the cage leading to him fighting out. Back inside the ring Orton, beings to hitting off his signatures followed by him setting up the RKO. Orton, hits the RKO with Henry managing to kickout of a 2-Count pinfall. With the RKO unsuccessful, Orton begins to prep the Punt Kick but falls into the World's Strongest Slam, allowing Henry to pick up the win. After the match ends, Henry instead of walking away tries to cause more damage on Orton with another World's Strongest Slam, and the chair on the knee. Orton slides out of the way and hits him with the chair several times, before Henry kicks him in the gut and runs away.
Backstage Alberto Del Rio, has an interview with Josh Matthews about his upcoming Hell in a Cell match tonight. Following the interview, we get Cody Rhodes coming out to cut a promo. Rhodes during the promo throws the Intercontinental Championship in a paper and un-vales the classic Intercontinental Championship as the new and current Championship. Ironically, this makes Rhodes look badass at this moment to bring back the retro belt! Laurinaitis, then comes out to interupting him to tell him he's defending it against John Morrison. Rhodes, isn't ready for the match and Morrison is just dominating him. Rhodes bails from the ring and begins trying to get counted out. Rhodes, begins to ground Morrison for awhile even locking in the Figure 4-Leglock. Morrison fights out and begins taking it to Rhodes eventually leading to Rhodes blocking and avoiding Morrison signature and finisher. Following those reverses, Rhodes rolls up Morrison for the pinfall.
Laurinaitis comes rushing into Triple H's office, telling him stuff is going down. They go rushing from the office into Air Boom's locker room where Miz and R-Truth are attacking them. Security removes them as Triple H chews out Laurinaitis. After that we cut to Beth Phoenix with Natalya making her entrance to face Kelly Kelly accompanied by Eve for the Divas' Championship. The match starts with Kelly Kelly hitting Phoenix with Lou Thez Presses' and Sentons. Phoenix powers out and ties Kelly up in the turnbuckle followed by a Dragon Sleeper. Phoenix then begins to grind her elbow and knee on Kelly's back. Eventually Kelly and Phoenix battle about in several roll-ups, as Phoenix tries for the Glam Slam. As Kelly begins to get fight out, where Natalya beats down Eve. Back inside the ring, Phoenix locks Kelly in Natalya's new submission, while the refree breaks the hold due to Kelly reaching the ropes as Natalya hits Kelly with the microphone. The ref doesn't notice this and Phoenix follows straight into the Glam Slam and pinfall.
As we come to the WWE Championship, Hell in a Cell we get the promo that lead to this Triple Threat Match. The promo begins with CM Punk winning at Money in the Bank, then Del Rio cashing in his Money in the Bank contract at Summerslam, followed by Cena getting the title back at Night of Champions and finally Triple H making this match. The match opens with Cena and Punk trying to corner Del Rio. Cena and Punk then are left in the ring to start battling each other trying to lock in their finishers. Following that CM Punk hits a suicide dive, on both Cena and Del Rio. Punk and Del Rio, then begin to brawl in the ring as Punk gets out the first weapon of the night. Cena then starts battling with Punk outside before Del Rio joins the fray. Now Cena and Del Rio battle in ring as Cena hits the 5 Knuckle Shuffle, and soon is kicked by Punk. After that Punk hits Cena with a neckbreaker and Del Rio with a DDT, while busting out a table.
Following Cena reversing Punk, Del Rio attacks Cena bringing him back into the ring. As Cena fights back, Punk gets involved in the match again. Del Rio manages to get headlock on Punk as Cena the both for a Leg Drop. Cena goes for an AA on Del Rio, but fails as Punk comes to the save knocking Del Rio out of the ring. Cena and Punk go punch for punch, until Del Rio flies in with a chair. Then Del Rio sentons onto Cena and Punk, which was the stupidest part of the night so far. Eventually, Cena hits an AA on Punk, Del Rio breaks the pinfall while Del Rio tries to lock the Armbar on Cena and Punk saves the match; that ends with Punk hitting a GTS on Cena and Del Rio saving the match. Del Rio takes over the match and begins dismantling Cena. As Del Rio turns to Punk, Punk fights back. Cena explodes back into the match, only leading to Punk reversing him.
As Punk goes to Elbow Drop Cena like he did to Del Rio earlier, Del Rio pushes Punk off the top rope and into the table. Del Rio then falls into the STF, and Ricardo breaks into the match leading to Del Rio getting and locking Cena out of the cell. Del Rio now works on Punk, as Punk is now the underdog. Outside of the cell, Cena begins to come too, while inside Punk fights back. While Del Rio and Punk battle for the Championship, Cena tries breaking into the cell as Del Rio hits Punk with the pipe he used on Cena. This all leads to Del Rio being able to win the Championship, and as the cell rises Cena jumps Del Rio. While this happens Miz and R-Truth slide in attacking everyone in the cells area as the cage closes down. The whole roster rushes to the cell and try to get in, while Awesome Truth destroy the refs, Cena, Punk, Del Rio and Ricardo. Eventually the cell is broke open and every rushes Miz and R-Truth, while they get arrested and Triple H jumps them before being carried away by superstars and security.
Review:
Well I can start off by saying that everything but the end of the Pay-Per View was great! That end with Miz and R-Truth, coming out was boring as hell cause the roster didn't get a chance to beat the hell out of them. Like it would've been better if the roster bursted in to destroy those two. The end was just too much like a crappy episode of Raw. Anyways as for the matches, I think the top 3 matches on the card were the Triple Threat Hell in a Cell, the Tag Team match and Sheamus vs Christian. Sin Cara vs Sin Cara would've made it if the lighting was the Gold and Blue for Sin Cara. The whole Triple Threat was amazing and could've ended better with Punk winning, but alright Del Rio it's still an ok ending just due to the reversal rate and counters. The other Hell in a Cell match wasn't the greatest and was quite boring, not enough action or wrestling along with the sad endding of Orton losing!
As for the other matches I did enjoy the Sheamus/Christian match, Tag Team Match and Sin Cara vs Sin Cara. Those three had great points that establish their divisions. Sheamus and Christian brawled about leading to two amazing Spears and the Brogue Kick. Following that we jump to Sin Cara vs Sin Cara, these two luchadores just amazed the hell out of me. My issue was that they didn't go over edge with showing off their talent. Mystico and Hunaco could've brought down the house, just they didn't! The Air Boom/Perfect Americans match was amazing, if anyone doesn't know who the Perfect Americans are they're Ziggler and Swagger. That tag team match was good and great should get a rematch on Raw that's how enjoyable I found it.
The bottom two matches were Rhodes/Morrison for the Intercontinental Championship, and Kelly/Phoenix for the Divas' Championship. Since Rhodes/Morrison was unannounced and it was John Morrison instead of Ted DiBiase I got annoyed. I'm annoyed cause DiBiase is getting crushed, just atleast we know Morrison is out of his trouble due to Melina. So I guess that's good for MoFo's out their! As for the Divas match, it was a great Divas' match but I didn't think Natalya really need to use the Mic on Kelly Kelly to help Phoenix. That was just a low blow for Divas' and yet really violent since Divas' barely use weapons! Anyways as a result if I'm still using the 10-Star rating this would be a nice 8.5-Star rating for Hell in a Cell!
Friday, September 30, 2011
WWE SmackDown 9/30
Overview:
Smackdown, opens up with Booker T making his entrance and welcoming everyone to it. Then he introduces the World Heavyweight Champion, Mark Henry and tries to get on his good side. He ends up getting on his bad side thou, cause Henry well is against the world. Henry then goes on about defeating Randy Orton and will beat him at Hell in a Cell, along with members of the 'Hall of Pain.' Then Henry argues with Booker T, over how Orton will beat or lose at Hell in a Cell. Following that Mark Henry gets ready to face the Great Khali. The match opens with Khali beating down Henry with clubbing fists, and kicks. Eventually Henry, grounds Khali and hits several big splashes. Khali tries to fight back and fail, while falling into the World's Strongest Slam. After Henry beats Khali he then goes to crush Khali's knee with the steel chair and body splash.
Backstage, Khali is on a stretcher as Jinder Mahal confronts them. Following that Air Boom makes their entrance, with a match for Evan Bourne to face Jack Swagger. Swagger is joined by Vickie Guerrero and Dolph Ziggler. The match is pretty good, Evan is seemingly to get a better push. During the match Ziggler tries to interfere, but fails and is attacked by Kofi Kingston, while the ref looks at the fight outside Vickie then interferes helping Swagger. From the interferance, Swagger locks the Ankle Lock on Evan making him tap out. Then breaking news, at Hell in a Cell it will be Sin Cara vs Sin Cara!
The next match is Sin Cara(Mystico) facing off with Heath Slater. In the opening minutes he botches a moves and quickly follows up with his finisher. Then the fake Sin Cara(Hunaco) reveils himself, as the Black and Silver Sin Cara. After that we get a promo for tonights Intercontinental Championship match, Cody Rhodes defending against Sheamus due to Raw's Battle Royal ending with the interferance from Christian. Following the promo we get a commerical break and return to a promo for WWE COO Triple H's recent issues, then all the superstars are in a meeting with John Lauriniatis talking about their greivances. Next we get a Divas' Match with Kelly Kelly facing Natalya, as Beth Phoenix join commentary. The match beings with Kelly elbowing Natalya, and Natalya not getting any counters. Soon Natalya begins to wear Kelly Kelly down, but Kelly lands a roll-up pinfall. After the match Beth Phoenix hits Kelly with a Glam Slam and Natalya hits her with the new submission.
Following the Divas' match we come to the Intercontinental Championship match. Just before the match gets started, Cody Rhodes rants about the injustice that has been given to him and talks smack about Sheamus. During Sheamus' entrance he talks about how he'll beat Rhodes for the title tonight. The match finally gets going and Sheamus overpowers Rhodes. Sheamus just beats him down in the opening minutes, until Rhodes exits and tries to re-enter the ring. Sheamus gets him back in and continues to assault him. Somehow Rhodes, manages to fight out of the assualt and lands a Beautiful Disaster kick on him heading into the commerical break. Coming back from the break Rhodes is maintaining to wear down Sheamus by working on his "injured" shoulder. Sheamus fights back leading to powerslams, diving shoulder block, and finally the Brogue Kick, but misses it. Sheamus recovers and tries for the Celtic Cross, but Christian hits the ring and hits Sheamus with the KillSwitch. The match ends via a DQ, while Rhodes retains the title.
Long Island Iced-Z, Zac Ryder shows up and is a match against JTG of all people. The match is pretty boring starting off since they have JTG out wrestling Ryder. Eventually Ryder, fights out and gets the crowd backing him up. Ryder hits the Broski Boot, and follows up with the Rough Ryder for the win! Woo Woo Woo, You Know It! Backstage Triple H runs into Lauriniatis, and tells him off about his backstabbing ways. Just Lauriniatis tries to say he stands by Triple H, but we know he's not so serious. After another break, we get the stupid Hell in a Cell promo that has been spammed since after Night of Champions and we're read off the matches.
Following the Hell in a Cell promo, Matt Striker has an interview with Randy Orton about his upcoming match with Mark Henry this sunday. Orton is furious with Henry's earlier statements and swears he'll hit a RKO on him. Along with that Orton swears he'll end Henry's reign as World Heavyweight Champion leading into tonight's main event. The main event thou is Christian vs Orton, where it starts off with them countering one another. Eventually the turns to Christian's favor as he begins to dominate him. After a short break, we return to Christian still beating Orton. Soon Orton fights back, with Christian managing some reversals. Christian hits a Spear and only gets a 2-Count pinfall; while Christian goes for the KillSwitch, Orton reverses and lands the Rope-Hung DDT. Two then fight outside the ring, leading into a double count-out draw. While Orton tries to RKO Christian on the announce table, Rhodes comes to the save, then Sheamus comes to Orton's save. That all leads to Henry coming down to hit Orton with the World's Strongest Slam, which he does but when trying to destroy him with a chair Orton kip up hitting a RKO to end the night!
Review:
Well Smackdown was alright, and had alright matches. Just the matchs were all predictable. The opening match was good, just I wanted it to go longer since it was a battle of Goliaths'. Following that we get Evan Bourne facing Swagger, I'd perfer it end via Swagger's Gut-Wrench Powerbomb instead of the Ankle Lock. The Ankle Lock just doesn't really fit Swagger since he can't match up to Angle. Following that we get a crappy Sin Cara match and crappy Divas' match. Recently these matches just bore the hell out of me! The Intercontinental Championship, was one of the best on the card. It was really enjoyable, the whole fact that Sheamus destroyed him and how Christian jumped him seemlessly, following that we got a Zac Ryder match! Anytime Zac Ryder is on any show it just adds to my Rating! Well anyways the main event was good, along with the final minutes with the brawls and Orton hitting the RKO in his hometown. With that all being said, SmackDown was great match were played out mostly correct. The key issues with it were mostly the first few opening matches and the end results, actually most of the results hurt the rating for tonight. So I got to go with gut wrenching guess of like 3.5-Star Rating!
Smackdown, opens up with Booker T making his entrance and welcoming everyone to it. Then he introduces the World Heavyweight Champion, Mark Henry and tries to get on his good side. He ends up getting on his bad side thou, cause Henry well is against the world. Henry then goes on about defeating Randy Orton and will beat him at Hell in a Cell, along with members of the 'Hall of Pain.' Then Henry argues with Booker T, over how Orton will beat or lose at Hell in a Cell. Following that Mark Henry gets ready to face the Great Khali. The match opens with Khali beating down Henry with clubbing fists, and kicks. Eventually Henry, grounds Khali and hits several big splashes. Khali tries to fight back and fail, while falling into the World's Strongest Slam. After Henry beats Khali he then goes to crush Khali's knee with the steel chair and body splash.
Backstage, Khali is on a stretcher as Jinder Mahal confronts them. Following that Air Boom makes their entrance, with a match for Evan Bourne to face Jack Swagger. Swagger is joined by Vickie Guerrero and Dolph Ziggler. The match is pretty good, Evan is seemingly to get a better push. During the match Ziggler tries to interfere, but fails and is attacked by Kofi Kingston, while the ref looks at the fight outside Vickie then interferes helping Swagger. From the interferance, Swagger locks the Ankle Lock on Evan making him tap out. Then breaking news, at Hell in a Cell it will be Sin Cara vs Sin Cara!
The next match is Sin Cara(Mystico) facing off with Heath Slater. In the opening minutes he botches a moves and quickly follows up with his finisher. Then the fake Sin Cara(Hunaco) reveils himself, as the Black and Silver Sin Cara. After that we get a promo for tonights Intercontinental Championship match, Cody Rhodes defending against Sheamus due to Raw's Battle Royal ending with the interferance from Christian. Following the promo we get a commerical break and return to a promo for WWE COO Triple H's recent issues, then all the superstars are in a meeting with John Lauriniatis talking about their greivances. Next we get a Divas' Match with Kelly Kelly facing Natalya, as Beth Phoenix join commentary. The match beings with Kelly elbowing Natalya, and Natalya not getting any counters. Soon Natalya begins to wear Kelly Kelly down, but Kelly lands a roll-up pinfall. After the match Beth Phoenix hits Kelly with a Glam Slam and Natalya hits her with the new submission.
Following the Divas' match we come to the Intercontinental Championship match. Just before the match gets started, Cody Rhodes rants about the injustice that has been given to him and talks smack about Sheamus. During Sheamus' entrance he talks about how he'll beat Rhodes for the title tonight. The match finally gets going and Sheamus overpowers Rhodes. Sheamus just beats him down in the opening minutes, until Rhodes exits and tries to re-enter the ring. Sheamus gets him back in and continues to assault him. Somehow Rhodes, manages to fight out of the assualt and lands a Beautiful Disaster kick on him heading into the commerical break. Coming back from the break Rhodes is maintaining to wear down Sheamus by working on his "injured" shoulder. Sheamus fights back leading to powerslams, diving shoulder block, and finally the Brogue Kick, but misses it. Sheamus recovers and tries for the Celtic Cross, but Christian hits the ring and hits Sheamus with the KillSwitch. The match ends via a DQ, while Rhodes retains the title.
Long Island Iced-Z, Zac Ryder shows up and is a match against JTG of all people. The match is pretty boring starting off since they have JTG out wrestling Ryder. Eventually Ryder, fights out and gets the crowd backing him up. Ryder hits the Broski Boot, and follows up with the Rough Ryder for the win! Woo Woo Woo, You Know It! Backstage Triple H runs into Lauriniatis, and tells him off about his backstabbing ways. Just Lauriniatis tries to say he stands by Triple H, but we know he's not so serious. After another break, we get the stupid Hell in a Cell promo that has been spammed since after Night of Champions and we're read off the matches.
Following the Hell in a Cell promo, Matt Striker has an interview with Randy Orton about his upcoming match with Mark Henry this sunday. Orton is furious with Henry's earlier statements and swears he'll hit a RKO on him. Along with that Orton swears he'll end Henry's reign as World Heavyweight Champion leading into tonight's main event. The main event thou is Christian vs Orton, where it starts off with them countering one another. Eventually the turns to Christian's favor as he begins to dominate him. After a short break, we return to Christian still beating Orton. Soon Orton fights back, with Christian managing some reversals. Christian hits a Spear and only gets a 2-Count pinfall; while Christian goes for the KillSwitch, Orton reverses and lands the Rope-Hung DDT. Two then fight outside the ring, leading into a double count-out draw. While Orton tries to RKO Christian on the announce table, Rhodes comes to the save, then Sheamus comes to Orton's save. That all leads to Henry coming down to hit Orton with the World's Strongest Slam, which he does but when trying to destroy him with a chair Orton kip up hitting a RKO to end the night!
Review:
Well Smackdown was alright, and had alright matches. Just the matchs were all predictable. The opening match was good, just I wanted it to go longer since it was a battle of Goliaths'. Following that we get Evan Bourne facing Swagger, I'd perfer it end via Swagger's Gut-Wrench Powerbomb instead of the Ankle Lock. The Ankle Lock just doesn't really fit Swagger since he can't match up to Angle. Following that we get a crappy Sin Cara match and crappy Divas' match. Recently these matches just bore the hell out of me! The Intercontinental Championship, was one of the best on the card. It was really enjoyable, the whole fact that Sheamus destroyed him and how Christian jumped him seemlessly, following that we got a Zac Ryder match! Anytime Zac Ryder is on any show it just adds to my Rating! Well anyways the main event was good, along with the final minutes with the brawls and Orton hitting the RKO in his hometown. With that all being said, SmackDown was great match were played out mostly correct. The key issues with it were mostly the first few opening matches and the end results, actually most of the results hurt the rating for tonight. So I got to go with gut wrenching guess of like 3.5-Star Rating!
Friday, September 23, 2011
WWE SmackDown 9/23
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!
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!
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
WWE Raw 9/19
Overview:
Punk enters the arena and talks about his histroy at this arena along with last night's match. He talks about Awesome Truth interfering, as Triple H soon comes out to confront him. Triple H then talks about 10-Ten WWE Champion John Cena and Alberto Del Rio's rematch along with Punk's rematch. Triple H then says that because of the two rematches at hand, there will be a Triple Threat Hell in a Cell for the WWE Championship at the next Pay-Per-View. Following that Triple H says he'll go to war with Punk one more time. Punk then talks about conspiracies while John Lauriniatis comes out to interrupt Punk and Triple H. Punk, then points out Lauriniatis is pulling all the strings now which we all know he is doing that. Triple H then tells off John Lauriniatis, and how he'll get to the bottom of this BS. Triple H also ensues that someone will get fired!
Raw's first match on the card is an 8-Man Tag Team match. The teams were Sheamus, Justin Gabrial, Air Boom against Christian, Wade Barrett, David Otunga, and McGillicuty. Sheamus' team begins to do most the work in the opening seconds before Christian's team begins to isolate Evan Bourne from his team. Team Christian is tagging in and out making an effective team. Evan tags in Sheamus and that leads to all 8 men getting involved, leading to Sheamus picking up the win for his team by destroying David Otunga sending a message to Christian. This 8-Man Tag Team match, is short and sweet, that could've gone a few more minutes. Backstage Alberto Del Rio, tries to tell Triple H how to do his job and Triple H puts him in his place.
Our second match has Alberto Del Rio, being announced out by Ricardo. His opponent is none other that John.....MORRISON! Had you going there for a minute. Anyways Del Rio goes right to work on Morrison's arm making him tap out to the Cross Armbreaker armbar within mere minutes from the match beginning. After that we cut right to a commerical break, following the break thou we return to Hugh Jackman coming out to promote "Real Steel" and tries to get the crowd pumped. Just he's cut off by Vickie Guererro who tries to hit on him with Ziggler right behind her. Ziggler then tries to show off and boast about winning at Night of Champions to Jackmam. Ziggler then starts mouthing off more to him and says he has a guy to face Ziggler, where Jackman then runs backstage as people chant for Zac Ryder. Along with that Awesome Truth arrives and runs into Lauriniatis.
We comeback to Raw with Sin Cara(Mystico) facing off with Cody Rhodes, with Sin Cara(Hunico) showing up too. Cody bails from the ring and the two Sin Caras battle about. It is amazing bount of ariel attacks, leaving Sin Cara(Mystico) on top for the night. Then backstage Awesome Truth try to suck up to Triple H and then he fines them for the attack on the referee. Following that he puts Awesome Truth in a match against Cena and Punk. After a short break JR finds out Randy Orton invoked his rematch at Hell in a Cell before introducing Mark Henry the World Heavyweight Champion for their interview. They talk about how no one believed in Mark Henry, or how no one apoligized to him when he finally made it. Mark Henry then tries assaulting JR where Jerry "the King" Lawler comes to the save. The King tries to fight back against Mark Henry and fails big time, as in leading to him getting slammed through the announce table.
While Jerry "the King" Lawler is helped backstaged, Kelly Kelly and Eve make their way to the ring. Their opponents are Natalya and Beth Pheonix who beat down Eve in the opening minutes of the match. Somehow this match ends with barely any tags, while Eve steals the win with a roll up on Natalya. Backstage Hugh Jackman confronts Zac Ryder calls him delusional and out of his mind. After a commerical break, Dolph Ziggler awaits in the ring with Vickie Guerrero as Zac Ryder and Hugh Jackman enter the arena. Ryder gets an early lead, but Dolph begins to dominate Ryder. Ziggler continues to assault Ryder, with him geting in some majorily needed shots. Vickie Guerrero gets kicked from ringside, and Hugh sucker punches Ziggler letting Ryder land a Rough Ryder to pick up the win.
Backstage Vickie watches a promo for Jack Swagger before running into him. They talk Vickie's new stable and Dolph slulks in his defeat. Then CM Punk and Cena run into each other and talk about stuff they got in common. Cena talks about how him and CM Punk are making history this year, along with Punk saying to be a WWE Champion to be fired. After that we get a promo for Hell in the Cell in general. The promo, just clips almost the best moments together to set up the Pay-Per View. Now we get to the Main Event, where Awesome Truth tell Cleaveland it sucks. Uh, Miz don't you live in Cleaveland?! Whatever, Cena and Punk burst on the scene and the match gets rolling.
Cena and Miz start it off, with Punk and R-Truth quickly tagging in. Before the break it's back to Cena and Miz, and when we return Cena is isolated from Punk. Eventually Punk gets in along with R-Truth leading to him getting a GTS on R-Truth. After the match, Triple H comes out and fires Awesome Truth which leads to the Raw Roster throwing them out of the building.
Review:
Alright well this Raw was alright and fine, I didn't have many issues with it at all. I enjoyed the whole 8-Man Tag Team match, which like I said was short and sweet, but could've maybe gone longer. Del Rio, slaughtering Morrison was fun cause well it was random and no one really cares for Morrison these days. The promos for Sin Cara vs Sin Cara is stepping up and becoming better I can't wait to see these two go at it in the near future. Then Mark Henry interview and Diva Match is skipable and ok, while Zac Ryder, Hugh Jackman, Vickie Guerrero, and Dolph Ziggler stole the whole show. Zac Ryder and Dolph Ziggler are the best at wrestling and entertaining, also since they're friends they'll be able to put on better matches. As for the Main Event it was all foreseeable except Awesome Truth being fired ironically, just made it "WOW" and "LMAO" watching them freak out! Anyways this left me saying that this Raw hit a 3.5-Star Rating.
Punk enters the arena and talks about his histroy at this arena along with last night's match. He talks about Awesome Truth interfering, as Triple H soon comes out to confront him. Triple H then talks about 10-Ten WWE Champion John Cena and Alberto Del Rio's rematch along with Punk's rematch. Triple H then says that because of the two rematches at hand, there will be a Triple Threat Hell in a Cell for the WWE Championship at the next Pay-Per-View. Following that Triple H says he'll go to war with Punk one more time. Punk then talks about conspiracies while John Lauriniatis comes out to interrupt Punk and Triple H. Punk, then points out Lauriniatis is pulling all the strings now which we all know he is doing that. Triple H then tells off John Lauriniatis, and how he'll get to the bottom of this BS. Triple H also ensues that someone will get fired!
Raw's first match on the card is an 8-Man Tag Team match. The teams were Sheamus, Justin Gabrial, Air Boom against Christian, Wade Barrett, David Otunga, and McGillicuty. Sheamus' team begins to do most the work in the opening seconds before Christian's team begins to isolate Evan Bourne from his team. Team Christian is tagging in and out making an effective team. Evan tags in Sheamus and that leads to all 8 men getting involved, leading to Sheamus picking up the win for his team by destroying David Otunga sending a message to Christian. This 8-Man Tag Team match, is short and sweet, that could've gone a few more minutes. Backstage Alberto Del Rio, tries to tell Triple H how to do his job and Triple H puts him in his place.
Our second match has Alberto Del Rio, being announced out by Ricardo. His opponent is none other that John.....MORRISON! Had you going there for a minute. Anyways Del Rio goes right to work on Morrison's arm making him tap out to the Cross Armbreaker armbar within mere minutes from the match beginning. After that we cut right to a commerical break, following the break thou we return to Hugh Jackman coming out to promote "Real Steel" and tries to get the crowd pumped. Just he's cut off by Vickie Guererro who tries to hit on him with Ziggler right behind her. Ziggler then tries to show off and boast about winning at Night of Champions to Jackmam. Ziggler then starts mouthing off more to him and says he has a guy to face Ziggler, where Jackman then runs backstage as people chant for Zac Ryder. Along with that Awesome Truth arrives and runs into Lauriniatis.
We comeback to Raw with Sin Cara(Mystico) facing off with Cody Rhodes, with Sin Cara(Hunico) showing up too. Cody bails from the ring and the two Sin Caras battle about. It is amazing bount of ariel attacks, leaving Sin Cara(Mystico) on top for the night. Then backstage Awesome Truth try to suck up to Triple H and then he fines them for the attack on the referee. Following that he puts Awesome Truth in a match against Cena and Punk. After a short break JR finds out Randy Orton invoked his rematch at Hell in a Cell before introducing Mark Henry the World Heavyweight Champion for their interview. They talk about how no one believed in Mark Henry, or how no one apoligized to him when he finally made it. Mark Henry then tries assaulting JR where Jerry "the King" Lawler comes to the save. The King tries to fight back against Mark Henry and fails big time, as in leading to him getting slammed through the announce table.
While Jerry "the King" Lawler is helped backstaged, Kelly Kelly and Eve make their way to the ring. Their opponents are Natalya and Beth Pheonix who beat down Eve in the opening minutes of the match. Somehow this match ends with barely any tags, while Eve steals the win with a roll up on Natalya. Backstage Hugh Jackman confronts Zac Ryder calls him delusional and out of his mind. After a commerical break, Dolph Ziggler awaits in the ring with Vickie Guerrero as Zac Ryder and Hugh Jackman enter the arena. Ryder gets an early lead, but Dolph begins to dominate Ryder. Ziggler continues to assault Ryder, with him geting in some majorily needed shots. Vickie Guerrero gets kicked from ringside, and Hugh sucker punches Ziggler letting Ryder land a Rough Ryder to pick up the win.
Backstage Vickie watches a promo for Jack Swagger before running into him. They talk Vickie's new stable and Dolph slulks in his defeat. Then CM Punk and Cena run into each other and talk about stuff they got in common. Cena talks about how him and CM Punk are making history this year, along with Punk saying to be a WWE Champion to be fired. After that we get a promo for Hell in the Cell in general. The promo, just clips almost the best moments together to set up the Pay-Per View. Now we get to the Main Event, where Awesome Truth tell Cleaveland it sucks. Uh, Miz don't you live in Cleaveland?! Whatever, Cena and Punk burst on the scene and the match gets rolling.
Cena and Miz start it off, with Punk and R-Truth quickly tagging in. Before the break it's back to Cena and Miz, and when we return Cena is isolated from Punk. Eventually Punk gets in along with R-Truth leading to him getting a GTS on R-Truth. After the match, Triple H comes out and fires Awesome Truth which leads to the Raw Roster throwing them out of the building.
Review:
Alright well this Raw was alright and fine, I didn't have many issues with it at all. I enjoyed the whole 8-Man Tag Team match, which like I said was short and sweet, but could've maybe gone longer. Del Rio, slaughtering Morrison was fun cause well it was random and no one really cares for Morrison these days. The promos for Sin Cara vs Sin Cara is stepping up and becoming better I can't wait to see these two go at it in the near future. Then Mark Henry interview and Diva Match is skipable and ok, while Zac Ryder, Hugh Jackman, Vickie Guerrero, and Dolph Ziggler stole the whole show. Zac Ryder and Dolph Ziggler are the best at wrestling and entertaining, also since they're friends they'll be able to put on better matches. As for the Main Event it was all foreseeable except Awesome Truth being fired ironically, just made it "WOW" and "LMAO" watching them freak out! Anyways this left me saying that this Raw hit a 3.5-Star Rating.
Friday, September 16, 2011
WWE Smackdown 9/16
Overview:
Smackdown opens right up to Edge's return! Also anyone notice that Rated-RRR sign tonight it made me laugh. Edge talks about missing the WWE and shooting that show he does for SyFy. Then Edge cuts to tonight's the Cutting Edge with guest Mark Henry and Randy Orton. Following that statement, Cody Rhodes shows to make a shot on Haven. Edge then tells Cody to quit bitching and blaming! Cody then goes to starting more bull crap on being Intercontinetal Champion, beating Ted DiBiase and Orton on the last Raw before calling Edge a tragedy. Edge retorts about talking how Cody is so boring, before exitting the ring. Rhodes starts ranting before being attacked by Ted DiBiase who leaves Cody in the ring with a Dream Street.
Backstage Sin Cara(Hunico) and Daniel Byran make their way to the ring before the break. After the commerical break we comeback to a promo for the match. The match itself thou opens with a brawl, Byran really being dominating in the opening mintues. Sin Cara fights back leading into another break. Following the break we return with Sin Cara locking Bryan in the Inverted Indian Deathlock as Bryan fights out. Bryan eventually breaks away by catching Sin Cara in face with a kick and elbow. Sin Cara reverses by locking Bryan in a Tree of Woe and attacks Bryan, leading to a DQ victory for Bryan. After the match the real Sin Cara(Mystico) appears and faces off with Hunico who leaves when the crowd sides with the original.
In Teddy Long's office he talks with Zac Ryder about Night of Champions and the World Heavyweight Championship match. After Zac Ryder leaves, Aksana tries hitting on Teddy Long as Trish Stratus walks in. Following this small promo, we cut to AJ with Kaitlyn at ringside facing Beth Pheonix with Natalya. Beth just destroys AJ within a few minutes. Then we get some promos for Night of Champions and Sheamus before cutting to a Tag Team match with Sheamus & Justin Gabrial facing off with Wade Barrett & Christian. In the opening minutes the Barrett and Christian isolate Gabrial off from Sheamus. Finally Sheamus gets in the match and begins to take back the match. Sheamus cleans out Christian before hitting Barrett with the Brogue Kick and tagging in Gabrial for to hit a 450 Splash for the win.
The Great Khali makes his entrance as they show what happened last week before he lays a beating to Heath Slater. Jinder Mahal comes down to the ring, and he's pissed with Khali and I really don't care about what he's saying. Eventually Jinder gets in the ring and attacks Khali with Slater. Khali breaks through and scares off Jinder Mahal while hitting the Double Handed Choke Slam. Next we get the promo for CM Punk vs Triple H in the No Holds Barred match at Night of Champions. After the promo we get to Air Boom's Evan Bourne facing off with Awesome Truth's R-Truth. As Awesome Truth makes their way into the arena, they remix "What's Up?" into "What's Up? Canada Sucks!" while the Miz joins commentary with Kofi who previously joined too.
Evan and R-Truth brawl about with their two different styles. Evan gets Truth down and goes for Air Bourne. Evan misses it and lands right into R-Truth's Shut Up facecrusher. Backstage Edge makes his way to the ring for the Cutting Edge with guests Randy Orton and Mark Henry. Orton starts about how Mark Henry is the World's Strongest Man and how he's trying to make a statement. Orton even says he'll beat Mark Henry at Night of Champions. Then Edge, goes into how Mark Henry has failed several times at getting to the top. Mark Henry then retorts with how he knows and what he does, which is he's coming for the World Heavyweight Championship. Then Edge where says this is the part where I said Teddy said you can't fight during the Cutting Edge, where he cuts to the Cutting Edge is over. Orton and Henry brawl it out while the whole roster races to break the fight. Henry lands the World's Strongest Slam on Orton then battles the rest of the roster. Smackdown ends with Mark Henry holding the Championship high over his head.
Review:
Smackdown started off pretty good,and actually made me really enjoy this episode. The whole intro with Edge's return leading to Cody Rhodes getting attacked by Ted DiBiase was awesome. I really enjoyed that now Ted might finally have a chance cause I've always had a liking for Ted Dibiase. The fact he's been getting crapped on by the WWE is amazingly huge Bull Crap cause I believe Ted is better than Cody. Anyways the opening match with Bryan and Sin Cara(Hunico) was great just shouldn't end with a 5-Count DQ. Following that is the little Sin Cara vs Sin Cara face-off which should've been a brawl if the suits were different. Then Trish Stratus' little show up backstage was cool, then Beth Pheonix destroying AJ was cool but got old. Where as the Tag Team match with Sheamus was awesome cause Sheamus just kicks everyone's ass. As for the end of the night it went all to hell, until the Cutting Edge that's where it got good again. Just it didn't end well for Orton, as he got beat down again along with the roster. That whole brawl was just to keep marketing Mark Henry being the World's Strongest Man! As a result that made this Smackdown just a pure 4-Star Rating, which was great due to recent weeks of failures.
Smackdown opens right up to Edge's return! Also anyone notice that Rated-RRR sign tonight it made me laugh. Edge talks about missing the WWE and shooting that show he does for SyFy. Then Edge cuts to tonight's the Cutting Edge with guest Mark Henry and Randy Orton. Following that statement, Cody Rhodes shows to make a shot on Haven. Edge then tells Cody to quit bitching and blaming! Cody then goes to starting more bull crap on being Intercontinetal Champion, beating Ted DiBiase and Orton on the last Raw before calling Edge a tragedy. Edge retorts about talking how Cody is so boring, before exitting the ring. Rhodes starts ranting before being attacked by Ted DiBiase who leaves Cody in the ring with a Dream Street.
Backstage Sin Cara(Hunico) and Daniel Byran make their way to the ring before the break. After the commerical break we comeback to a promo for the match. The match itself thou opens with a brawl, Byran really being dominating in the opening mintues. Sin Cara fights back leading into another break. Following the break we return with Sin Cara locking Bryan in the Inverted Indian Deathlock as Bryan fights out. Bryan eventually breaks away by catching Sin Cara in face with a kick and elbow. Sin Cara reverses by locking Bryan in a Tree of Woe and attacks Bryan, leading to a DQ victory for Bryan. After the match the real Sin Cara(Mystico) appears and faces off with Hunico who leaves when the crowd sides with the original.
In Teddy Long's office he talks with Zac Ryder about Night of Champions and the World Heavyweight Championship match. After Zac Ryder leaves, Aksana tries hitting on Teddy Long as Trish Stratus walks in. Following this small promo, we cut to AJ with Kaitlyn at ringside facing Beth Pheonix with Natalya. Beth just destroys AJ within a few minutes. Then we get some promos for Night of Champions and Sheamus before cutting to a Tag Team match with Sheamus & Justin Gabrial facing off with Wade Barrett & Christian. In the opening minutes the Barrett and Christian isolate Gabrial off from Sheamus. Finally Sheamus gets in the match and begins to take back the match. Sheamus cleans out Christian before hitting Barrett with the Brogue Kick and tagging in Gabrial for to hit a 450 Splash for the win.
The Great Khali makes his entrance as they show what happened last week before he lays a beating to Heath Slater. Jinder Mahal comes down to the ring, and he's pissed with Khali and I really don't care about what he's saying. Eventually Jinder gets in the ring and attacks Khali with Slater. Khali breaks through and scares off Jinder Mahal while hitting the Double Handed Choke Slam. Next we get the promo for CM Punk vs Triple H in the No Holds Barred match at Night of Champions. After the promo we get to Air Boom's Evan Bourne facing off with Awesome Truth's R-Truth. As Awesome Truth makes their way into the arena, they remix "What's Up?" into "What's Up? Canada Sucks!" while the Miz joins commentary with Kofi who previously joined too.
Evan and R-Truth brawl about with their two different styles. Evan gets Truth down and goes for Air Bourne. Evan misses it and lands right into R-Truth's Shut Up facecrusher. Backstage Edge makes his way to the ring for the Cutting Edge with guests Randy Orton and Mark Henry. Orton starts about how Mark Henry is the World's Strongest Man and how he's trying to make a statement. Orton even says he'll beat Mark Henry at Night of Champions. Then Edge, goes into how Mark Henry has failed several times at getting to the top. Mark Henry then retorts with how he knows and what he does, which is he's coming for the World Heavyweight Championship. Then Edge where says this is the part where I said Teddy said you can't fight during the Cutting Edge, where he cuts to the Cutting Edge is over. Orton and Henry brawl it out while the whole roster races to break the fight. Henry lands the World's Strongest Slam on Orton then battles the rest of the roster. Smackdown ends with Mark Henry holding the Championship high over his head.
Review:
Smackdown started off pretty good,and actually made me really enjoy this episode. The whole intro with Edge's return leading to Cody Rhodes getting attacked by Ted DiBiase was awesome. I really enjoyed that now Ted might finally have a chance cause I've always had a liking for Ted Dibiase. The fact he's been getting crapped on by the WWE is amazingly huge Bull Crap cause I believe Ted is better than Cody. Anyways the opening match with Bryan and Sin Cara(Hunico) was great just shouldn't end with a 5-Count DQ. Following that is the little Sin Cara vs Sin Cara face-off which should've been a brawl if the suits were different. Then Trish Stratus' little show up backstage was cool, then Beth Pheonix destroying AJ was cool but got old. Where as the Tag Team match with Sheamus was awesome cause Sheamus just kicks everyone's ass. As for the end of the night it went all to hell, until the Cutting Edge that's where it got good again. Just it didn't end well for Orton, as he got beat down again along with the roster. That whole brawl was just to keep marketing Mark Henry being the World's Strongest Man! As a result that made this Smackdown just a pure 4-Star Rating, which was great due to recent weeks of failures.
Monday, September 12, 2011
WWE Raw 9/12
Overview:
Raw starts right off with Alberto Del Rio, calling out John Cena about last week. Then Del Rio, continues to go on about how he beat Edge and cost him his career. Following that statement he went on to claim he'll beat Cena at Night of Champions, before being cut off by Bret Hart. Hart claims about how to be a great WWE Championship while Del Rio goes to insult him. Del Rio and Hart then go to face-off, as Cena cuts to the ring. Cena confronts Del Rio, leading to Cena trying to force Del Rio in a match with Bret Hart. As John Laurinaitiis comes out to make a stupid Tag Team match of Del Rio and Ricardo against Cena and Hart.
The first match on the card, is a tag team match of John Morrison and Alex Riley facing off with Jack Swageger and Dolph Ziggler. The match starts with Morrison and Ziggler, they brawl about a bit and Ziggler takes a lead over Morrison. Swagger and A-Ry get tagged in and A-Ry begins to do work. As A-Ry tries to go for a lead, Swagger locks the Ankle Lock but A-Ry counters out sending Swagger into Ziggler. A-Ry recovers and hits a TKO for the pinfall as Ziggler looks on. Following the match team Awesome Truth hold an interview about their upcoming match and WWE COO Triple H. Miz rants about CM Punk, before passing it off to R-Truth while he rants before they come to the entrance ramp and ring.
Second match on the card is Miz vs Kofi Kingston with eachs' partner standing at ringside. They brawl about, and fall outside where the others' partner comes to the save. The match spills back into the ring, and the Miz dominates Kofi all about the ring. Kofi fights back and begins to a make some sort of comeback, while trying to hit a SOS. Miz counters and eventually lands a Skull Crushing Finale on Kofi while grabbing the pinfall. Backstage, Teddy Long makes a Fatal 4-Way for the United States Championship with Ziggler, Swagger, A-Ry and Morrison, before Vickie Guerrero aruges with Kelly Kelly getting her into a match. Also a promo for Jerry "the King" Lawler and mystery partner vs Otunga and McGillicuty.
The rematch is now and Jerry "the King" Lawler selects his partner who is Sheamus this time. Lawler starts off for his team and he doesn't do much, until Sheamus comes in to dominate the match. Sheamus, then Brogue Kicks both Otunga and McGillicuty, while also hitting the Celtic Cross on McGuillicuty to grab the pinfall. That Irish bastard, is a one man wrecking team! For weeks now he's been beating the odds, eventually someone will have his number. While backstage, Del Rio and Ricardo plan out tonight's match.
Now we come to the Tag Team match of Champions, Cena and Hart the ring first with Del Rio and Ricardo following. The opening mintues has Cena toying with Ricardo, as if it's a bull fight with his shirt. Cena chases Del Rio and Ricardo around the ring, while Del Rio is made the legal man. Cena beats up Del Rio, before he tags Ricardo and leaves him to face Cena and Hart. Ricardo is hit with an Additude Adjustment and is locked in a Sharpshooter for the win. Following the Cena match, we come to Kelly Kelly vs Vickie Guerrero. Kelly just quickly beats Vickie as Jack and Dolph argue outside the ring. After the match Beth Phoenix tries to attack Kelly Kelly but is completely unsuccessful.
We get back to an amazing promo for Triple H, with an interview for Mark Henry. Henry talks about this Sunday and how he'll beat Orton, followed by the Smackdown rematch of Champion vs Champion. Orton faces off with Cody Rhodes and once again I feel like Orton will just beat him down like always. The match opens up just like always, Orton takes the lead. Mark Henry tries to come down to ringside, and Orton chases him off before heading back for Rhodes. Henry comes back to the entrance ramp, and gets Orton off his game as Cody fights back. After a break, Rhodes' is still maintain the lead over Orton. Once Orton got his groove back, Henry got closer to the ringside. Eventually Henry distracts the referee, allowing Rhodes to get one over on Orton hitting Cross Rhodes and the getting the pinfall. Following the match Mark Henry beats up Orton with a Steel Chair.
Now we come to the final face-off, Triple H and CM Punk. Punk starts off, about Kevin Nash being fired and the hate for each other. Punk also talks how Triple H is almost as bad as Vince McMahon. Punk then talks about the size of main superstars, while Triple H calls it an excuse for Punk's failures. Triple H then says his opinion doesn't matter it's the fans, that make him. Punk then asks where are the Ice Cream bars, along with the speech of the brass ring and how at his 1st Pay-Per-View he worked with DX in a Survivor Series match. Triple H, then cuts to how Punk needs to know why he respects John Cena, and how the fans work. Just like how the fans have hated him and how he needs to bust his ass. Then he shoots on how the match is going to go down this sunday. Where Punk says he's gonna give back a greater ass kicking and win at Night of Champions while stating their real names at the mics are cut off. Triple H keeps getting pissed with the mic BS and practically hands the Pipebomb to Punk where he smashes him in the face with the mic. Following the cheap shot, Punk leaves the ring.
Review:
The opening promo with Del Rio, Bret Hart, and John Cena was pretty good. I found some great humor with it. The John Laurinaitis interruption thou was a huge pain in the ass since that guy is such an ass! Anyways the matches were alright and okay. They could've been better and much more entertaining seeming that Night of Champions is this Sunday. The opening match is just more set up for Ziggler and Swagger, then following that we get more focus on Awesome Truth. Miz and R-Truth is not a great tag team just cause in recent years R-Truth is becoming annoying mostly within just this year alone. For Jerry "the King" Lawler's match, I wanted him to pick Zac Ryder again just cause Ryder is Awesome! Anyways he got Sheamus, which lead to a giant beatdown for Otunga and McGillicuty in a way only Sheamus can do.
Then as for John Laurinaitis' match he made, that was slightly a joke since we all knew Hart was gonna pick up the win making Ricardo tap out. As for Kelly Kelly's I just wish she would've beat up Vickie a bit longer, just cause who doesn't want Kelly Kelly just taking up sometime each week on Raw or Smackdown?! Anyways for the Smackdown, Champion vs Champion rematch I saw the end of the match coming but knew Cody would still get his ass beat all about the ring. Following the match we get to the final face-off, where it's all talk and hype. The promo was great but didn't have enough heat just hype until the Mic Shot! The cheap shot is really gonna get the War going at Night of Champions. But as for tonight, Raw was just over the top annoying for the fact the matches didn't truly stand out and the promos didn't really create alot of heat and just hype! So I got to give this Raw a 3.5-Stars!
Raw starts right off with Alberto Del Rio, calling out John Cena about last week. Then Del Rio, continues to go on about how he beat Edge and cost him his career. Following that statement he went on to claim he'll beat Cena at Night of Champions, before being cut off by Bret Hart. Hart claims about how to be a great WWE Championship while Del Rio goes to insult him. Del Rio and Hart then go to face-off, as Cena cuts to the ring. Cena confronts Del Rio, leading to Cena trying to force Del Rio in a match with Bret Hart. As John Laurinaitiis comes out to make a stupid Tag Team match of Del Rio and Ricardo against Cena and Hart.
The first match on the card, is a tag team match of John Morrison and Alex Riley facing off with Jack Swageger and Dolph Ziggler. The match starts with Morrison and Ziggler, they brawl about a bit and Ziggler takes a lead over Morrison. Swagger and A-Ry get tagged in and A-Ry begins to do work. As A-Ry tries to go for a lead, Swagger locks the Ankle Lock but A-Ry counters out sending Swagger into Ziggler. A-Ry recovers and hits a TKO for the pinfall as Ziggler looks on. Following the match team Awesome Truth hold an interview about their upcoming match and WWE COO Triple H. Miz rants about CM Punk, before passing it off to R-Truth while he rants before they come to the entrance ramp and ring.
Second match on the card is Miz vs Kofi Kingston with eachs' partner standing at ringside. They brawl about, and fall outside where the others' partner comes to the save. The match spills back into the ring, and the Miz dominates Kofi all about the ring. Kofi fights back and begins to a make some sort of comeback, while trying to hit a SOS. Miz counters and eventually lands a Skull Crushing Finale on Kofi while grabbing the pinfall. Backstage, Teddy Long makes a Fatal 4-Way for the United States Championship with Ziggler, Swagger, A-Ry and Morrison, before Vickie Guerrero aruges with Kelly Kelly getting her into a match. Also a promo for Jerry "the King" Lawler and mystery partner vs Otunga and McGillicuty.
The rematch is now and Jerry "the King" Lawler selects his partner who is Sheamus this time. Lawler starts off for his team and he doesn't do much, until Sheamus comes in to dominate the match. Sheamus, then Brogue Kicks both Otunga and McGillicuty, while also hitting the Celtic Cross on McGuillicuty to grab the pinfall. That Irish bastard, is a one man wrecking team! For weeks now he's been beating the odds, eventually someone will have his number. While backstage, Del Rio and Ricardo plan out tonight's match.
Now we come to the Tag Team match of Champions, Cena and Hart the ring first with Del Rio and Ricardo following. The opening mintues has Cena toying with Ricardo, as if it's a bull fight with his shirt. Cena chases Del Rio and Ricardo around the ring, while Del Rio is made the legal man. Cena beats up Del Rio, before he tags Ricardo and leaves him to face Cena and Hart. Ricardo is hit with an Additude Adjustment and is locked in a Sharpshooter for the win. Following the Cena match, we come to Kelly Kelly vs Vickie Guerrero. Kelly just quickly beats Vickie as Jack and Dolph argue outside the ring. After the match Beth Phoenix tries to attack Kelly Kelly but is completely unsuccessful.
We get back to an amazing promo for Triple H, with an interview for Mark Henry. Henry talks about this Sunday and how he'll beat Orton, followed by the Smackdown rematch of Champion vs Champion. Orton faces off with Cody Rhodes and once again I feel like Orton will just beat him down like always. The match opens up just like always, Orton takes the lead. Mark Henry tries to come down to ringside, and Orton chases him off before heading back for Rhodes. Henry comes back to the entrance ramp, and gets Orton off his game as Cody fights back. After a break, Rhodes' is still maintain the lead over Orton. Once Orton got his groove back, Henry got closer to the ringside. Eventually Henry distracts the referee, allowing Rhodes to get one over on Orton hitting Cross Rhodes and the getting the pinfall. Following the match Mark Henry beats up Orton with a Steel Chair.
Now we come to the final face-off, Triple H and CM Punk. Punk starts off, about Kevin Nash being fired and the hate for each other. Punk also talks how Triple H is almost as bad as Vince McMahon. Punk then talks about the size of main superstars, while Triple H calls it an excuse for Punk's failures. Triple H then says his opinion doesn't matter it's the fans, that make him. Punk then asks where are the Ice Cream bars, along with the speech of the brass ring and how at his 1st Pay-Per-View he worked with DX in a Survivor Series match. Triple H, then cuts to how Punk needs to know why he respects John Cena, and how the fans work. Just like how the fans have hated him and how he needs to bust his ass. Then he shoots on how the match is going to go down this sunday. Where Punk says he's gonna give back a greater ass kicking and win at Night of Champions while stating their real names at the mics are cut off. Triple H keeps getting pissed with the mic BS and practically hands the Pipebomb to Punk where he smashes him in the face with the mic. Following the cheap shot, Punk leaves the ring.
Review:
The opening promo with Del Rio, Bret Hart, and John Cena was pretty good. I found some great humor with it. The John Laurinaitis interruption thou was a huge pain in the ass since that guy is such an ass! Anyways the matches were alright and okay. They could've been better and much more entertaining seeming that Night of Champions is this Sunday. The opening match is just more set up for Ziggler and Swagger, then following that we get more focus on Awesome Truth. Miz and R-Truth is not a great tag team just cause in recent years R-Truth is becoming annoying mostly within just this year alone. For Jerry "the King" Lawler's match, I wanted him to pick Zac Ryder again just cause Ryder is Awesome! Anyways he got Sheamus, which lead to a giant beatdown for Otunga and McGillicuty in a way only Sheamus can do.
Then as for John Laurinaitis' match he made, that was slightly a joke since we all knew Hart was gonna pick up the win making Ricardo tap out. As for Kelly Kelly's I just wish she would've beat up Vickie a bit longer, just cause who doesn't want Kelly Kelly just taking up sometime each week on Raw or Smackdown?! Anyways for the Smackdown, Champion vs Champion rematch I saw the end of the match coming but knew Cody would still get his ass beat all about the ring. Following the match we get to the final face-off, where it's all talk and hype. The promo was great but didn't have enough heat just hype until the Mic Shot! The cheap shot is really gonna get the War going at Night of Champions. But as for tonight, Raw was just over the top annoying for the fact the matches didn't truly stand out and the promos didn't really create alot of heat and just hype! So I got to give this Raw a 3.5-Stars!
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!
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
WWE SuperSmackDown 8/30
Overview:
So before SmackDown begins, Facebook and Commerical Promo notified me that tonight Sin Cara faces Alberto Del Rio, Randy Orton face Christian in a Steel Cage rematch for the World Heavyweight Championship, along John Cena face off with Wade Barrett, and finally a contract signing for Night of Champions between CM Punk and Triple H. After that promo we ge the regular Smackdown intro from Green Day, and it makes me wish I had someone to punch everytime I hear it.
Following the whole SmackDown intro, John Cena bursts onto the stage saying "Is today the right day?!" John Cena hits the ring and cuts a promo, about SuperSmackDown live and the Brand Extension being gone while including WCW shows for fun along with XFL. Then Cena calls out Alberto Del Rio, but instead he got Ricardo Rodriguez leading to Cena punching him in face while Barrett made his entrance. Barrett, the goes to insult Cena and such leading into why he demanded a match with him. Finally this all ends up with a commerical break.
We come back to Cena vs Barrett and the two brawl it out. Cena, gets the quick lead on Barrett by hitting a quick Bulldog and Headlock Takedown. Cena, dominated the match completely endding it with a huge Additude Adjustment and pinfall. After the match Matt Striker had an interview with Mark Henry. Henry goes on about how he'll face the winner of the Steel Cage match. Then he gives his own input on Steel Cage matches along with facing himself. Following the short interview, Sin Cara made his entrance leading into another break.
We comeback to Daniel Byran coming down to the ring and makes me completely wonder why is Bryan facing Sin Cara. Seriously this maybe what Ricardo meant when Del Rio couldn't make it. Anyways the two of them fly about and Daniel goes for a quick pinfall. Daniel locks Sin Cara in several amazing submissions and Sin Cara broke out. They eventually fight about with aerial moves, and swift moves coming down to Sin Cara hitting his aerial combo into the pinfall. After, the match Sin Cara kicked Bryan in the face. Shortly after Matt Striker has an interview with the Tag Team Champions, Air Boom about being tag champs.
Next we get a promo for the Christian and Randy Orton feud of the World Heavyweight Championship. It covered everything since Christian winning the Championship at Capitol Punishment, the No Holds Barred match at Summerslam to now. Then after the promo Christian has an interview, about being World Heavyweight Champion.
We get to a Divas Tag Team Match, where Aksana is special ring announcer. The match is between Beth Phoenix & Natalya facing off with Kelly Kelly & Alicia Fox. Kelly and Natalya start off the match, while Natalya and Beth dominate her fast. Alicia Fox, gets tagged in and gets hit with a Glam Slam as Beth picks up the win. Backstage, Triple H and Teddy Long walk to the ring for the signing.
Teddy Long, is already in the ring and announces Triple H as he makes his entrance. Triple H, goes on about how the WWE Board aloud him to make the exchange from Nash/Punk to Punk/Himself at Night of Champions. Following those brief words, Triple H calls out Punk for the signing. Punk, comes about to question the contract Triple H for the match. Then Triple H, goes on about Punk insulting Triple H and how Triple H approved Punk's theme and shirt, along with the match at Night of Championship leading to how Triple H snapped under the pressure. Punk then goes on how he wants the Cerebral Assassin at Night of Champions and wants the WWE to be better, changing it. Triple H, then calls out Punk saying he just wants to be on top like a martyr. Punk retorts about how he'll be the real change around WWE not Triple H. Triple H, retorts to how if it was Vince he'd have to take a beating but instead Triple H will put a beating on Punk at Night of Champions. After the signing, Kevin Nash arrives and explodes on the scene leading to him booting Punk and shoving Triple H down.
During the break, Kevin Nash blows off Matt Striker for an interview. After that we get the Great Khali facing off with Sheamus. Khali takes down Sheamus fast with several chops leading into a weardown submission. Sheamus breaks out, beats down Khali and preps for a Brogue Kick. Before Sheamus hits the kick Jinder jumps Sheamus leading to them teaming up on Sheamus. They beatdown Sheamus for awhile but somehow he manages to power out hitting the Brogue Kick on Khali and Pale Justice/Celtic Cross on Jinder. Now that was some crazy crap, cause usually a 2-on-1 attack you take the beating not give it.
Finally we get to our Main Event the Steel Cage Match for the World Heavyweight Championship. In the opening minutes Christian makes several attempts to exit the cage, each time Orton stops him from getting out. After a break, we come back to Christian and Orton brawling about the ring, while Christian attempts to get out again. Orton tries to hit a fast RKO and fails, but recovers and lands a few moves. As Orton goes for the Rope Hang DDT, Christian flings him into the Cage and follow with a foot choke before trying to climb out again. Orton trys a Roll Up and falls into a SpineBuster. They fight about for awhile, and end up battling atop the top rope with Orton getting a Superplex in.
Follow another break, Orton was controlling the match throwing Christian into the Cage, before Christian countered minutes later. They battle on the top rope again, and Christian reverses Orton pushing him down while following up with the Frog Splash and a unsuccessful pinfall. Christian then attempts a Spear, countered into a RKO that's countered into the Spear. Then Christian tries to Punt, Orton moves out of way. Then he tries to fake out Orton but fails as Orton starts take back the match. Christian recovers and gets on top the cage, while Orton joins him. They battle atop the cage and back into the ring leading back to the top rope, for a Super RKO and a win. As soon as the match ends Mark Henry comes down to the ring and enters the cage. Orton tries to beatdown Henry but is unsuccessful. Henry beats Orton into the cage, then hits him with a Big Splash, back into the cage and finally the World's Strongest Slam. Mark Henry after beating down Orton, holds up the World Heavyweight Championship.
Review:
Well this live Smackdown could've been better! The opening match was just a beatdown to Barrett, but it was expected. Then the match between Sin Cara and Daniel Bryan, pissed me off cause I expected Sin Cara to face Del Rio. Since it was Bryan I was even more pissed, cause they jobbed Bryan to Sin Cara and having Sin Cara turn heel was stupid it felt. Then following that we got some boring crap until the Contract Signing, that's where everything got amazing. The feud between Triple H and CM Punk is turning out great, and the heat behind it is good especially when you got the Wild Card in this, Kevin Nash. The Sheamus/Khali match could've been a little bit better, but the end beatdown was amazing. To see Sheamus take down both Khali and Jinder, was just pure awesome sauce! Now as for the Main Event that was great, just I would've like no commerical interuption. The match played out amazingly and the reversals were amazing. I enjoyed all the Spear and RKO attempts leading all the way up to the Super RKO, that endded it. I foresaw, Mark Henry appearing at the end of the match and just destroying Orton completely, so I wasn't disappointed my the whole beatdown. Also it couldn't of gotten any better either, since Mark Henry sucks and has a foreseeable onslaught of moves. Ironically this just made tonight's SmackDown a 3.5-Star night!
So before SmackDown begins, Facebook and Commerical Promo notified me that tonight Sin Cara faces Alberto Del Rio, Randy Orton face Christian in a Steel Cage rematch for the World Heavyweight Championship, along John Cena face off with Wade Barrett, and finally a contract signing for Night of Champions between CM Punk and Triple H. After that promo we ge the regular Smackdown intro from Green Day, and it makes me wish I had someone to punch everytime I hear it.
Following the whole SmackDown intro, John Cena bursts onto the stage saying "Is today the right day?!" John Cena hits the ring and cuts a promo, about SuperSmackDown live and the Brand Extension being gone while including WCW shows for fun along with XFL. Then Cena calls out Alberto Del Rio, but instead he got Ricardo Rodriguez leading to Cena punching him in face while Barrett made his entrance. Barrett, the goes to insult Cena and such leading into why he demanded a match with him. Finally this all ends up with a commerical break.
We come back to Cena vs Barrett and the two brawl it out. Cena, gets the quick lead on Barrett by hitting a quick Bulldog and Headlock Takedown. Cena, dominated the match completely endding it with a huge Additude Adjustment and pinfall. After the match Matt Striker had an interview with Mark Henry. Henry goes on about how he'll face the winner of the Steel Cage match. Then he gives his own input on Steel Cage matches along with facing himself. Following the short interview, Sin Cara made his entrance leading into another break.
We comeback to Daniel Byran coming down to the ring and makes me completely wonder why is Bryan facing Sin Cara. Seriously this maybe what Ricardo meant when Del Rio couldn't make it. Anyways the two of them fly about and Daniel goes for a quick pinfall. Daniel locks Sin Cara in several amazing submissions and Sin Cara broke out. They eventually fight about with aerial moves, and swift moves coming down to Sin Cara hitting his aerial combo into the pinfall. After, the match Sin Cara kicked Bryan in the face. Shortly after Matt Striker has an interview with the Tag Team Champions, Air Boom about being tag champs.
Next we get a promo for the Christian and Randy Orton feud of the World Heavyweight Championship. It covered everything since Christian winning the Championship at Capitol Punishment, the No Holds Barred match at Summerslam to now. Then after the promo Christian has an interview, about being World Heavyweight Champion.
We get to a Divas Tag Team Match, where Aksana is special ring announcer. The match is between Beth Phoenix & Natalya facing off with Kelly Kelly & Alicia Fox. Kelly and Natalya start off the match, while Natalya and Beth dominate her fast. Alicia Fox, gets tagged in and gets hit with a Glam Slam as Beth picks up the win. Backstage, Triple H and Teddy Long walk to the ring for the signing.
Teddy Long, is already in the ring and announces Triple H as he makes his entrance. Triple H, goes on about how the WWE Board aloud him to make the exchange from Nash/Punk to Punk/Himself at Night of Champions. Following those brief words, Triple H calls out Punk for the signing. Punk, comes about to question the contract Triple H for the match. Then Triple H, goes on about Punk insulting Triple H and how Triple H approved Punk's theme and shirt, along with the match at Night of Championship leading to how Triple H snapped under the pressure. Punk then goes on how he wants the Cerebral Assassin at Night of Champions and wants the WWE to be better, changing it. Triple H, then calls out Punk saying he just wants to be on top like a martyr. Punk retorts about how he'll be the real change around WWE not Triple H. Triple H, retorts to how if it was Vince he'd have to take a beating but instead Triple H will put a beating on Punk at Night of Champions. After the signing, Kevin Nash arrives and explodes on the scene leading to him booting Punk and shoving Triple H down.
During the break, Kevin Nash blows off Matt Striker for an interview. After that we get the Great Khali facing off with Sheamus. Khali takes down Sheamus fast with several chops leading into a weardown submission. Sheamus breaks out, beats down Khali and preps for a Brogue Kick. Before Sheamus hits the kick Jinder jumps Sheamus leading to them teaming up on Sheamus. They beatdown Sheamus for awhile but somehow he manages to power out hitting the Brogue Kick on Khali and Pale Justice/Celtic Cross on Jinder. Now that was some crazy crap, cause usually a 2-on-1 attack you take the beating not give it.
Finally we get to our Main Event the Steel Cage Match for the World Heavyweight Championship. In the opening minutes Christian makes several attempts to exit the cage, each time Orton stops him from getting out. After a break, we come back to Christian and Orton brawling about the ring, while Christian attempts to get out again. Orton tries to hit a fast RKO and fails, but recovers and lands a few moves. As Orton goes for the Rope Hang DDT, Christian flings him into the Cage and follow with a foot choke before trying to climb out again. Orton trys a Roll Up and falls into a SpineBuster. They fight about for awhile, and end up battling atop the top rope with Orton getting a Superplex in.
Follow another break, Orton was controlling the match throwing Christian into the Cage, before Christian countered minutes later. They battle on the top rope again, and Christian reverses Orton pushing him down while following up with the Frog Splash and a unsuccessful pinfall. Christian then attempts a Spear, countered into a RKO that's countered into the Spear. Then Christian tries to Punt, Orton moves out of way. Then he tries to fake out Orton but fails as Orton starts take back the match. Christian recovers and gets on top the cage, while Orton joins him. They battle atop the cage and back into the ring leading back to the top rope, for a Super RKO and a win. As soon as the match ends Mark Henry comes down to the ring and enters the cage. Orton tries to beatdown Henry but is unsuccessful. Henry beats Orton into the cage, then hits him with a Big Splash, back into the cage and finally the World's Strongest Slam. Mark Henry after beating down Orton, holds up the World Heavyweight Championship.
Review:
Well this live Smackdown could've been better! The opening match was just a beatdown to Barrett, but it was expected. Then the match between Sin Cara and Daniel Bryan, pissed me off cause I expected Sin Cara to face Del Rio. Since it was Bryan I was even more pissed, cause they jobbed Bryan to Sin Cara and having Sin Cara turn heel was stupid it felt. Then following that we got some boring crap until the Contract Signing, that's where everything got amazing. The feud between Triple H and CM Punk is turning out great, and the heat behind it is good especially when you got the Wild Card in this, Kevin Nash. The Sheamus/Khali match could've been a little bit better, but the end beatdown was amazing. To see Sheamus take down both Khali and Jinder, was just pure awesome sauce! Now as for the Main Event that was great, just I would've like no commerical interuption. The match played out amazingly and the reversals were amazing. I enjoyed all the Spear and RKO attempts leading all the way up to the Super RKO, that endded it. I foresaw, Mark Henry appearing at the end of the match and just destroying Orton completely, so I wasn't disappointed my the whole beatdown. Also it couldn't of gotten any better either, since Mark Henry sucks and has a foreseeable onslaught of moves. Ironically this just made tonight's SmackDown a 3.5-Star night!
Monday, August 29, 2011
WWE Raw 8/29
Overview:
Triple H, roars out in the arena to make his point swift. He announces the brands are not technically existing anymore, making Raw and Smackdown Supershows. Then he jumps to the whole issue with Nash and Punk, where Punk interrupts as soon as possible. Eventually this all leads to Nash's entrance which is the NWO Theme, as we learn he was signed to WWE. Then Punk and Nash argue about leading to Triple H making a match at Night of Champions for them to face each other breaking the meaning of Night of Champions. Endding the promo, Orton makes his entrance as we get a upcoming promo for Orton vs Dolph Ziggler.
Randy Orton and Dolph Ziggler, they tie it up and brawl about. The match goes great leading to several counters, and brawling outside the ring. Orton and Ziggler really get the match going, with Orton hitting free fall drop Neckbreaker, and Superplex. While Ziggler, got a Fameasser in and countered the Punt with a Superkick. The match ended with Orton hitting a DDT, Ziggler locking in the Sleeper followed by Orton spinning out into an amazing RKO. Along with that Jack Swagger, watching on.
Following the match, John Cena comes down to the ring and talks about what he'll do Alberto Del Rio. He eventually, lead Cena saying "If you want some come get some!" That leading to Mark Henry coming out to set up more "Supershow-ness" and Henry goes on about he'll face who ever wins the Cage match. After that statement Christian, interrupts while Cena goes to insult them leading to a brawl that makes Sheamus come to Cena's save. Ah what an amazing Team, the Red Ranger and Green Ranger!!! Hint, Hint: I'm buying their shirts soon! Henry and Christian bail from the ring, as John Lauriniatis is confronted by Triple H.
The next match on the card is CM Punk vs the Miz, before the match Miz goes on about Punk and his recent Pipebombs. This week, Punk believes he's a Green Ranger too, while he mocked Miz...lol! They tie it up, with Punk taking the lead. They brawl in the ring facing off with their styles, Miz takes down Punk. For the next minutes following Miz, dominates the match hitting a few of his signature moves. Eventually Punk reverses Miz and takes back the match. Follow Punk hitting a Savage Elbow Drop, and going for the GTS, R-Truth hits the ring leading to a DQ-Win. Miz and R-Truth beat down Punk as Nash comes down to the ring to hit a JackKnife Powerbomb.
Match number 3 is Sin Cara against Jack Swagger. As we all know Sin Cara is going to win cause he makes people job to him. Anyways during the match Jack, grounds Sin Cara and Vickie Guerrero comes down to ringside. That leads Dolph to also come down to the ring and help cost Jack his match while aruging with Vickie. Heck the rivalry over victory is boring and stupid the only good thing out of this is Ziggler either turns solo and becomes WWE Champion or turns face!
Our next match on the card features the new Tag Team Champions Kofi Kingston and Evan Bourne in rematch with Otunga and McGillicuty. We find out Kingston and Bourne, team's name is Air Boom....I just want to say it but I don't want to offensive! Well the match sucks, cause Otunga and McGillicuty do nothing. The end result is Air Boom retaining the Championships. Following the match Otunga attacks Jerry "the King" Lawler, I guess Otunga wasn't happy with the insulting him or his wife.
The Divas' match of the night was Kelly Kelly against Nikki Bella or Brie, I don't know whose who. It's hard to tell them apart unless you see the tattoos which they love to hide. Kelly dominates one of them as the girls hit Twin Magic and gets the win over Kelly Kelly. While Beth Phoenix and Natalya trash Kelly Kelly backstage.
As the Main Event starts, Henry and Christian make their entrances first while a commerical break occurs. Sheamus and John Cena, make their entrances with the crowd exploding for them. Sheamus starts the match and overpowers Christian leading to Mark Henry tagging in. Henry and Christian dominate Sheamus for most of the match, leading to Cena getting tagged in. Cena locks a STF on Christian, while Henry breaks the hold as Sheamus and him slip the fight outside. Christian recovers and lands a Spears, Cena while trying to get the pinfall. Cena breaks out and sends Christian into the Brogue Kick from Sheamus then into the Additude Adjustment. The night ends with us hearing about Triple H facing CM Punk at Night of Champions while Cena and Sheamus stand in the ring together in victory.
Review:
Since the Brand Extension is pretty much dead for now this makes everything amazing. The rosters being combined together gives us better matches, and possible rivalries. The first Raw Supershow, had a good start with the promos and matches. The Orton/Ziggler match went fast pace and the moves made played out great. The RKO finish on Ziggler was a great impact finish. Now jumping straight to Miz/Punk, the match actually had a good start and a mildly great presentation for the continuation, however the end result sucked quite a bit. The DQ finished suck but was predicted, at least Nash coming down to add insult to injury was good. Following that match Raw sucked until the Main Event, the tag team was good, I think it just had the right crowd to support it. The end to the match was my favorite part a Brogue Kick right into the Additude Adjustment, that's just pure awesome-sauce! As a result of the end to the Brand Extension and great presentation of the matches I look forward to tomorrow's SuperSmackDown. So to rate this I say it's 4-Star Raw!
Triple H, roars out in the arena to make his point swift. He announces the brands are not technically existing anymore, making Raw and Smackdown Supershows. Then he jumps to the whole issue with Nash and Punk, where Punk interrupts as soon as possible. Eventually this all leads to Nash's entrance which is the NWO Theme, as we learn he was signed to WWE. Then Punk and Nash argue about leading to Triple H making a match at Night of Champions for them to face each other breaking the meaning of Night of Champions. Endding the promo, Orton makes his entrance as we get a upcoming promo for Orton vs Dolph Ziggler.
Randy Orton and Dolph Ziggler, they tie it up and brawl about. The match goes great leading to several counters, and brawling outside the ring. Orton and Ziggler really get the match going, with Orton hitting free fall drop Neckbreaker, and Superplex. While Ziggler, got a Fameasser in and countered the Punt with a Superkick. The match ended with Orton hitting a DDT, Ziggler locking in the Sleeper followed by Orton spinning out into an amazing RKO. Along with that Jack Swagger, watching on.
Following the match, John Cena comes down to the ring and talks about what he'll do Alberto Del Rio. He eventually, lead Cena saying "If you want some come get some!" That leading to Mark Henry coming out to set up more "Supershow-ness" and Henry goes on about he'll face who ever wins the Cage match. After that statement Christian, interrupts while Cena goes to insult them leading to a brawl that makes Sheamus come to Cena's save. Ah what an amazing Team, the Red Ranger and Green Ranger!!! Hint, Hint: I'm buying their shirts soon! Henry and Christian bail from the ring, as John Lauriniatis is confronted by Triple H.
The next match on the card is CM Punk vs the Miz, before the match Miz goes on about Punk and his recent Pipebombs. This week, Punk believes he's a Green Ranger too, while he mocked Miz...lol! They tie it up, with Punk taking the lead. They brawl in the ring facing off with their styles, Miz takes down Punk. For the next minutes following Miz, dominates the match hitting a few of his signature moves. Eventually Punk reverses Miz and takes back the match. Follow Punk hitting a Savage Elbow Drop, and going for the GTS, R-Truth hits the ring leading to a DQ-Win. Miz and R-Truth beat down Punk as Nash comes down to the ring to hit a JackKnife Powerbomb.
Match number 3 is Sin Cara against Jack Swagger. As we all know Sin Cara is going to win cause he makes people job to him. Anyways during the match Jack, grounds Sin Cara and Vickie Guerrero comes down to ringside. That leads Dolph to also come down to the ring and help cost Jack his match while aruging with Vickie. Heck the rivalry over victory is boring and stupid the only good thing out of this is Ziggler either turns solo and becomes WWE Champion or turns face!
Our next match on the card features the new Tag Team Champions Kofi Kingston and Evan Bourne in rematch with Otunga and McGillicuty. We find out Kingston and Bourne, team's name is Air Boom....I just want to say it but I don't want to offensive! Well the match sucks, cause Otunga and McGillicuty do nothing. The end result is Air Boom retaining the Championships. Following the match Otunga attacks Jerry "the King" Lawler, I guess Otunga wasn't happy with the insulting him or his wife.
The Divas' match of the night was Kelly Kelly against Nikki Bella or Brie, I don't know whose who. It's hard to tell them apart unless you see the tattoos which they love to hide. Kelly dominates one of them as the girls hit Twin Magic and gets the win over Kelly Kelly. While Beth Phoenix and Natalya trash Kelly Kelly backstage.
As the Main Event starts, Henry and Christian make their entrances first while a commerical break occurs. Sheamus and John Cena, make their entrances with the crowd exploding for them. Sheamus starts the match and overpowers Christian leading to Mark Henry tagging in. Henry and Christian dominate Sheamus for most of the match, leading to Cena getting tagged in. Cena locks a STF on Christian, while Henry breaks the hold as Sheamus and him slip the fight outside. Christian recovers and lands a Spears, Cena while trying to get the pinfall. Cena breaks out and sends Christian into the Brogue Kick from Sheamus then into the Additude Adjustment. The night ends with us hearing about Triple H facing CM Punk at Night of Champions while Cena and Sheamus stand in the ring together in victory.
Review:
Since the Brand Extension is pretty much dead for now this makes everything amazing. The rosters being combined together gives us better matches, and possible rivalries. The first Raw Supershow, had a good start with the promos and matches. The Orton/Ziggler match went fast pace and the moves made played out great. The RKO finish on Ziggler was a great impact finish. Now jumping straight to Miz/Punk, the match actually had a good start and a mildly great presentation for the continuation, however the end result sucked quite a bit. The DQ finished suck but was predicted, at least Nash coming down to add insult to injury was good. Following that match Raw sucked until the Main Event, the tag team was good, I think it just had the right crowd to support it. The end to the match was my favorite part a Brogue Kick right into the Additude Adjustment, that's just pure awesome-sauce! As a result of the end to the Brand Extension and great presentation of the matches I look forward to tomorrow's SuperSmackDown. So to rate this I say it's 4-Star Raw!
Saturday, August 27, 2011
WWE SmackDown 8/26
Overview:
SmackDown opens with a re-cap of last week's Battle Royal to decide the No. 1 Contender for the World Heavyweight Championship. Leading to Mark Henry's victory and the stare down that follow, before transitioning right into SmackDown's intro. Still hating GREEN DAY! Anyways we get cut into discovering that the Main Event is Sheamus vs Mark Henry, then we get a special return of Bret "the Hitman" Hart! Hart starts off by saying COO Triple H made him the Special GM before announcing the Live Super SmackDown featuring Raw and Smackdown. Then we here the Main Event is Mark Henry vs Orton, for the World Championship while Christian interrupts him. Christian talks about blaming Edge for his lost, leading up to Christian asking for his rematch. Hart goes on about how Christian is becoming an embarassment, Why don't they just return to calling him a CLB?! This all ends with Bret Hart, making a different match for next week a SteelCage ReMatch! Mark Henry then shows up and argues about his Contendership. Then says he'll face the winner of next week's match as Sheamus cuts in. They brawl about leading into a promo for Orton vs DiBiase.
After the first break, we get Christian facing off against Daniel Bryan. Before the match begins we get a quick promo for Bryan, it shows off how badass he is. The match starts off with some good counters, and Bryan landing a suicide dive. Bryan locks in a Submission and trys rolling it into a pinfall. Christian kicks off and beings fighting back. After a short break, Christian has a headlock on Bryan leading to some counters. Eventually Bryan gets around Christian's offensive and manages to hit his flying dropkick. Bryan follows up with a great offensive uppercuts, kicks and knees. Christian follows up trying to hit a Spear and fails, minutes later Christian trys a KillSwitch and falls into the LaBell Lock. Christian breaks the hold by reaching the ropes, then finally lands a KillSwitch and gets the pinfall.
The next match we get is Wade Barrett against some jobber, following some WWE Vault moment which was a match between Rey Mysterio and Chris Jericho. Maybe that Vault clip is to foreshadow something for next week's SuperSmackDown?! Well instead of facing the jobber, Wade Barrett walks away as we jump straight to the Raw Rebound. The Rebound covers the CM Punk/John Cena match for No. 1 Contendership. As soon as the Raw Rebound ends we cut to Sin Cara facing off with Heath Slater. This match is gonna be amazingly easy to guess, while we find out at SuperSmackDown we'll see Sin Cara face Alberto Del Rio. Anyways, Slater loses to Sin Cara within like 7minutes.
Now we come to the only match I saw from this whole SmackDown while it airred, Randy Orton vs Ted DiBiase. Ironically while writing this thou I barely remember what freakin' happened! As Ted makes his entrance, Cody talks about crap and such on improving Ted's career and Cody being Intercontinental Champion. The match starts with Ted, getting an early advantage before Orton took over. The match flipped back and forther leading to a commerical break. When we got back from the break the match was leaning into its final minutes before Orton hit a RKO and got the pinfall. Following the match Cody Rhodes attacks Ted and bags him!
The Divas' match of the night was Kelly Kelly facing off with Tamina. This match actually was pretty good, Kelly Kelly brawled about with Tamina in the opening minutes. Ironically, it seems Kelly Kelly is now to be some Brawling Barbie?! Anyways she gets the win as we cut to Striker interviewing Jinder Mahal. Jinder, goes on about how Khali failed him last week in the Battle Royal and how Khali is to face Ezekiel Jackson tonight. Khali and Jackson, brawl about and each destroy each other in the 6 minutes or so. Jinder tries to interfere in the match and is struck by Khali by mistake, while Jackson locks Khali in the Touture Rack to win via submission. Jesus Christ, that submission made the crowd along with myself go OMG!
Tod Grisham gets a quick interview Orton on the Cage Match, and Orton goes into quick detail on he'll defeat Christian than Mark Henry. Leading right into promo for Mark Henry and his destructive ways, before finally getting to tonight's Main Event. Mark makes his entrance first followed by Sheamus. They brawl about for the opening minutes of the match and it was great brawling could've been better if it was No Holds Barred! They fight outside the ring and brawl about again leading to Sheamus this time winning via count-out. Following the match they brawl outside the ring and it's better than the whole match was in general it all ends with Mark Henry hitting the World Strongest Slam on Sheamus onto the steel steps.
Review:
Well this SmackDown was able to make over a 3-Star Rating with a 3.5 rating, even thou I missed it during its actual airring. I missed due to getting seriously sick during a car ride home today from NYC. Anyways from what I saw on Youtube originally made me think this SmackDown was shit and then actually waking up & rewatching some parts a few times I was like damn! The first match was great, that vault clip I saw was a great match from a year or so ago and didn't fit in, then Jackson making Khali tap and the Main Event made the whole show. That vault clip, followed by the Wade Barrett promo and Sin Cara match made me thou really hate this SmackDown. The vault clip just didn't need to be shown at all, even thou I love that match it was plain out stupid to air it. I think they only airred due to the fact Jericho, Christian, Edge and Bret Hart are all Canadian!
Anyways the actual matches that happened on SmackDown were good. Christian/Bryan went over good it could've been better but was good enough. Then Jackson/Khali was an amazing piece of brawling monsters, especially the match finish. Ironically putting Jackson/Khali back-to-back with Sheamus/Henry was a great idea, it really had the crowd going. My only disapproval of the Main Event was the count-out victory for Sheamus, hell the match should've been No Holds Barred and ended with World's Strongest Slam on the steps. I mean the end of the night was slightly a let down even thou that adrenaline got pumping, hell I wanted more! Anyways stay tuned for more Wrestling Reviews, and the SuperSmackDown next week!
SmackDown opens with a re-cap of last week's Battle Royal to decide the No. 1 Contender for the World Heavyweight Championship. Leading to Mark Henry's victory and the stare down that follow, before transitioning right into SmackDown's intro. Still hating GREEN DAY! Anyways we get cut into discovering that the Main Event is Sheamus vs Mark Henry, then we get a special return of Bret "the Hitman" Hart! Hart starts off by saying COO Triple H made him the Special GM before announcing the Live Super SmackDown featuring Raw and Smackdown. Then we here the Main Event is Mark Henry vs Orton, for the World Championship while Christian interrupts him. Christian talks about blaming Edge for his lost, leading up to Christian asking for his rematch. Hart goes on about how Christian is becoming an embarassment, Why don't they just return to calling him a CLB?! This all ends with Bret Hart, making a different match for next week a SteelCage ReMatch! Mark Henry then shows up and argues about his Contendership. Then says he'll face the winner of next week's match as Sheamus cuts in. They brawl about leading into a promo for Orton vs DiBiase.
After the first break, we get Christian facing off against Daniel Bryan. Before the match begins we get a quick promo for Bryan, it shows off how badass he is. The match starts off with some good counters, and Bryan landing a suicide dive. Bryan locks in a Submission and trys rolling it into a pinfall. Christian kicks off and beings fighting back. After a short break, Christian has a headlock on Bryan leading to some counters. Eventually Bryan gets around Christian's offensive and manages to hit his flying dropkick. Bryan follows up with a great offensive uppercuts, kicks and knees. Christian follows up trying to hit a Spear and fails, minutes later Christian trys a KillSwitch and falls into the LaBell Lock. Christian breaks the hold by reaching the ropes, then finally lands a KillSwitch and gets the pinfall.
The next match we get is Wade Barrett against some jobber, following some WWE Vault moment which was a match between Rey Mysterio and Chris Jericho. Maybe that Vault clip is to foreshadow something for next week's SuperSmackDown?! Well instead of facing the jobber, Wade Barrett walks away as we jump straight to the Raw Rebound. The Rebound covers the CM Punk/John Cena match for No. 1 Contendership. As soon as the Raw Rebound ends we cut to Sin Cara facing off with Heath Slater. This match is gonna be amazingly easy to guess, while we find out at SuperSmackDown we'll see Sin Cara face Alberto Del Rio. Anyways, Slater loses to Sin Cara within like 7minutes.
Now we come to the only match I saw from this whole SmackDown while it airred, Randy Orton vs Ted DiBiase. Ironically while writing this thou I barely remember what freakin' happened! As Ted makes his entrance, Cody talks about crap and such on improving Ted's career and Cody being Intercontinental Champion. The match starts with Ted, getting an early advantage before Orton took over. The match flipped back and forther leading to a commerical break. When we got back from the break the match was leaning into its final minutes before Orton hit a RKO and got the pinfall. Following the match Cody Rhodes attacks Ted and bags him!
The Divas' match of the night was Kelly Kelly facing off with Tamina. This match actually was pretty good, Kelly Kelly brawled about with Tamina in the opening minutes. Ironically, it seems Kelly Kelly is now to be some Brawling Barbie?! Anyways she gets the win as we cut to Striker interviewing Jinder Mahal. Jinder, goes on about how Khali failed him last week in the Battle Royal and how Khali is to face Ezekiel Jackson tonight. Khali and Jackson, brawl about and each destroy each other in the 6 minutes or so. Jinder tries to interfere in the match and is struck by Khali by mistake, while Jackson locks Khali in the Touture Rack to win via submission. Jesus Christ, that submission made the crowd along with myself go OMG!
Tod Grisham gets a quick interview Orton on the Cage Match, and Orton goes into quick detail on he'll defeat Christian than Mark Henry. Leading right into promo for Mark Henry and his destructive ways, before finally getting to tonight's Main Event. Mark makes his entrance first followed by Sheamus. They brawl about for the opening minutes of the match and it was great brawling could've been better if it was No Holds Barred! They fight outside the ring and brawl about again leading to Sheamus this time winning via count-out. Following the match they brawl outside the ring and it's better than the whole match was in general it all ends with Mark Henry hitting the World Strongest Slam on Sheamus onto the steel steps.
Review:
Well this SmackDown was able to make over a 3-Star Rating with a 3.5 rating, even thou I missed it during its actual airring. I missed due to getting seriously sick during a car ride home today from NYC. Anyways from what I saw on Youtube originally made me think this SmackDown was shit and then actually waking up & rewatching some parts a few times I was like damn! The first match was great, that vault clip I saw was a great match from a year or so ago and didn't fit in, then Jackson making Khali tap and the Main Event made the whole show. That vault clip, followed by the Wade Barrett promo and Sin Cara match made me thou really hate this SmackDown. The vault clip just didn't need to be shown at all, even thou I love that match it was plain out stupid to air it. I think they only airred due to the fact Jericho, Christian, Edge and Bret Hart are all Canadian!
Anyways the actual matches that happened on SmackDown were good. Christian/Bryan went over good it could've been better but was good enough. Then Jackson/Khali was an amazing piece of brawling monsters, especially the match finish. Ironically putting Jackson/Khali back-to-back with Sheamus/Henry was a great idea, it really had the crowd going. My only disapproval of the Main Event was the count-out victory for Sheamus, hell the match should've been No Holds Barred and ended with World's Strongest Slam on the steps. I mean the end of the night was slightly a let down even thou that adrenaline got pumping, hell I wanted more! Anyways stay tuned for more Wrestling Reviews, and the SuperSmackDown next week!
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!
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