Overview:
Raw opens with a promo for the CM Punk, Triple H and Kevin Nash feud. The promo shows all the backstory that has happened since Summerslam. Leading into Raw itself with Punk making his entrance into the arena. Punk then goes on about is issues with Nash and Triple H. Then Punk called Triple H but got Nash instead, where Punk insults Nash and calls him Super Shredder...HA! Nash then says he could beat Punk, eventually leading to Nash walking to the ring which leads to Triple H's entrance. Nash then trys to force Triple H to make him have a match with Punk, where Triple H finds out who started this whole mess. Triple H, then reveals this was all Nash's plan and crap, that he broke in and sent himself the text. Ironically this leads to Triple H siding with CM Punk. Nash then thinks it's about the push from Smackdown, all leading to Triple H firing Kevin Nash while Punk laughs at him.
John Laurniatis, then meets Kevin Nash at his car and they leave arena. Following that Air Boom makes their entrance to face Jinhder Mahal and Great Khali. Evan Bourne is dominated and cut off from Kofi for the opening minutes of the match. Kofi Kingston gets tagged in, and leads to Jinder and Khali having tag team issues. Khali hits Jinder with another chop Kofi gets Evan tagged back in and lands an Airbourne for the pinfall. Following the match, Kelly Kelly comes down to join commentary while Eve was ready to face Beth Phoenix as Natalya also joined commentary. Beth dominates Eve while Kelly argues with Natalya. Beth hits a Glam Slam somewhere during the match and beats Eve. After the match Natalya jumps Kelly Kelly before joining Beth in the ring.
We come back to Raw and we have Drew McIntyre talking with Christian before Alberto Del Rio shows up. They then start talking about John Cena, where they're now actting all buddy, ironically I don't remember when they ever liked each other in the script. The next match is R-Truth vs CM Punk, while R-Truth is accompanied by the Miz as they head to the ring. R-Truth comes to ring questioning what makes CM Punk different from him, while the crowd mocks him continously before finally the Miz joins him. Miz then talks on about Triple H, and says Truth & himself will face Air Boom at Night of Champions for the Tag Team Championships. The match opens up with the guys grappling about with Punk dominating the early minutes. R-Truth gets out of Punk's holds and locks in a few of his own before Punk tries and a successful early counter as R-Truth goes outside of the ring. Punk follows up with a Suicide Dive, but takes his eye off of R-Truth for meer seconds to tell off Miz as the match goes back into the ring. R-Truth takes back the match and throws Punk outside the ring where Miz hits a sneaky Chop Block to Punk's left knee. R-Truth get Punk back in the ring and works on the knee, for the next few minutes. This ends with Punk getting some non-successful roll ups before R-Truth knocks him down a peg. Punk begins battling out leading into the final mintues, where Punk unleashes everything on R-Truth and tries to end the match before Miz interferes where he's throw out of the match allowing Punk to truly end it with the GTS. After the match Triple H hits the ring, as Punk still questions Triple H and Nash. Triple H retorts to saying the match has been changed to a NO-DQ match, I'd perfer maybe "I Quit", "Last Man Standing" or "Hell in a Cell." Following Triple H's stipulation Punk asks him to accept his stipulation, if Punk wins Triple H re-signs. Backstage Wade Barrett chats with Tyler Reks and Curt Hawkins, before Del Rio shows up. Barrett and Del Rio then chat up about John Cena and such.
The next match is David Otunga and Michael McGillicuty challenging Jerry "the King" Lawler to a tag team match. His tag team partner was none other than the Long Island Iced-Z, Zac Ryder! Following the announcement we got clips of Zac's youtube show and I laughed cause they were my favorite moments! As Zac makes his entrance he chose his Broski of the week while Cole is a douche and talks smack about Youtubers, uh does this remind you of anyone if so check RDM's blog. Anyways Ryder is beaten down by Otunga and McGillicuty for the early mintues before tagging in Lawler who hits a quick flying fist then tags in Ryder who hits the Rough Ryder and grabs the win! Backstage Del Rio, continues to look for someone to fight Cena for him and that was Dolph Ziggler but he turns him down as the Bella Twins show up. Then Del Rio, gets under Ziggler's skin before leaving him as we cut to Orton showing up on Raw.
Randy Orton makes his entrance in the arena, as he awaits his opponent Heath Slater. Orton pummels Heath in the opening minutes, and practically just makes him is bitch for this match. Orton just demolished Slater with practically move he had but the Punt! Then backstage Zac Ryder is chatting up with John Cena for Z True Story, while Cena then makes a joke towards the Rock. After the joke Cena, heads to the ring. Once John Cena hit the ring, he cuts straight to Alberto Del Rio and his fear of him. Then Ricardo Rodriguez comes out to announce WWE Champion Alberto Del Rio's entrance, where he stays up by the car to avoid Cena. Del Rio then talks about sidelining Rey Mysterio, then chats about Night of Champions. Hell if Cena wasn't No. 1 Contender, I'd cheer Del Rio or Punk if it was Punk instead. Anyways Cena is attacked by Barrett, Swagger, Ziggler and Christian before being saved by A-ry, Sheamus and John Morrison as Smackdown GM Teddy Long shows up to make an 8-Man Tag Team Elmination Match for our Main Event. OH MY GOD, THESE SUPERSHOWS ARE BECOMING AMAZING CLUSTER FUCKS OF RANDOM AWESOMENESS!
The match starts off with A-Ry and Barrett for each team. Morrison and Ziggler get tagged in and the match steps up a notch as Morrison cleans out the other team. Swagger tags himself in and locks his Ankle Lock on Morrison while Ziggler locked in a Sleeper, Morrison eventually taps out. While Morrison leaves the ring, Vickie Guerrero comes down to ringside. After a commerical break the team of Barrett, Ziggler, Swagger and Christian have A-Ry cut off from the others. A-Ry makes a small break but is unsuccessful to get in tag, while Ziggler and Swagger have more issues. Swagger then eliminates A-Ry via submission leaving just Sheamus and Cena. Swagger tags out and Barrett jumps in, a battle of the UK'ers begins. Sheamus dominates Barrett before missing the Brogue Kick but hits it a second time eliminating Barrett. Christian tries to pin Sheamus after a Spear and fails. Christian slaps Sheamus in the face and the two are counted out of the match as they brawl outside. Now the match comes down to Cena facing Ziggler and Swagger. Cena takes them on amazingly and goes nuts before the numbers get him. Swagger and Ziggler now are teaming quite well to beat Cena at this point. The crowd goes crazy into the "Let's Go Cena" and "Cena Sucks" chants, I actually think it's cause everyone loves Dolph! Cena powers out and hits Spin-Out Powerbombs on the both of them leading into a double 5-Knuckle Shuffle. Ziggler tags in and the two argue leading to Cena hitting the AA on Ziggler and eliminates as Swagger trys to make Cena tap. Cena counters to the STF and get Swagger to submit as Del Rio trys to sneak attack Cena and falls into Cena's AA as the night ends.
Review:
Well Raw opened up great but had a slow start for the 1st of its matches. As for the opening promo, when Punk called Kevin Nash the Super Shredder it was like the highlight of the night and I enjoyed it. Then skipping the Tag Team Champions' match and the Divas' match, we come to the CM Punk/R-Truth match and it was good. It could've been better maybe but I don't ever expect too much from R-Truth at times. Just the fact that Punk still won the match due to the Miz helping R-Truth was great. It was completely a good showing!
Now we get to the second highlight of the night, which is the tag team match with Jerry "the King" Lawler and Zac Ryder. That was a great match but just having Ryder on Raw is great television. The Orton match could've been better but they saved Ziggler for the Main Event which was a good idea, I like Ziggler he's one of my favorites in the business no matter what I used to think about him. Now as for the third and final highlight, it was the Main Event!
The whole night Del Rio kept asking guys to help him beat down Cena and it seemed most weren't going to help Del Rio so I thought Dolph Ziggler was the sorry sap to fall for Del Rio's tricks. Ironically all the guys grouped up and attack Cena, leading to his allies to come to his save and Teddy to troll out and make a match. At first I didn't see it being Elimination style at all but it happened and it made the whole match even better! Ironically the way the avoid have the guys from the UK having feuds is annoy to me I want these guys to just brawl like I know they can. Also the fact that want to push Ziggler to go solo and maybe face is cool too, just some of the eliminations it the match were bad. I got to say A-Ry after Morrison was completely a jobber to him than the rookie, along with that Sheamus and Christian both were counted out was a pain in the ass. Anyways the match was a great Elimination for live tv and I couldn't hope for too much more unless it went for like 20 to 30 minutes. Finally by the end of the night I had to rate this Raw a 4-Star Rating for the opening promo, Ryder's match and the amazing Main Event!
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Monday, September 5, 2011
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 19, 2011
WWE SmackDown 8/19
Overview:
SmackDown starts with a small clipshow of Summerslam and Randy Orton, winning the World Heavyweight Championship. Following the clipshow, Teddy Long welcomes Randy Orton as the new Champion, while he enters the arena. Orton, takes the mic from Teddy and starts on about Christian. He goes on for how he lost respect for Christian, for his complaining and whining. Teddy then announces the Main Event tonight is a 20-Man Battle Royal to decide the new Number 1 Contender. Soon they're interrupted by Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase, as Cody talks about random B.S. Cody, then continues his rant about he wants the World Title too, before passing the mic to Ted. DiBiase then talks about Orton, before getting hit with the RKO. Teddy then says Cody is taking Ted's place in tonight's opening match against Ezekiel Jackson and it's a re-match for the Intercontinental Championship.
The Intercontinental Championship match, starts and Jackson overpowers Cody from the start. Cody eventually makes a good break, and begins to work on Jackson for a short period, before Jackson takes charge again. The match spills outside shortly as steps come into play, leading to Jackson getting his knee hurt and falling into a Cross Rhodes. Cody, gets the pin and retains the championship.
Zac Ryder, then comes to see Teddy Long. There Zac Ryder, tells Teddy long Alberto Del Rio is gonna be on Smackdown, along with that Zac Ryder says he'll win the Battle Royal. Aksana interrupts Zac Ryder, and then continues Teddy Long. Then following the promo, they show a Justin Gabriel promo leading into his match with Tyson Kidd. Gabriel shows the crowd why Tyson is a jobber and ends the match with a 450 Splash followed up with a pin for the win. Following the match Matt Striker has an interview with the Great Khali and Jinder Mahal, about the 20-Man Battle Royal.
After the commerical break, Albert Del Rio makes his SmackDown return as the Undisputed WWE Champion. Del Rio, talks of how this arena was where he made his debut and how he defeated Rey Mysterio his first night then how he beat Rey on Raw this past week, ironically he isn't boo'ed he's cheered! Then we get clips from the WWE Championship match this past week on Raw. After the clips are shown, Del Rio makes an open challenge to the SmackDown roster that is answered by Daniel Bryan.
The match opens up with Daniel taking a quick lead into the match. Del Rio, counters Bryan and begins working on his back and arms. Del Rio, goes for pinfalls and submissions as Bryan works his way out. The two brawl it out from ringpost to ringpost, before Del Rio hits a flying armbreaker from the second rope. Del Rio, continus on Bryan's arm before getting countered. During this time I learn that Daniel Bryan has a Youtube Channel. After learning this Del Rio, reverses Bryan and continues assualting the arms. Bryan breaks away again and get Del Rio in a few minor signatures of his arsenal, leading to the suicide dive/ knee to the face. They fight back into the ring, leading to a super back-to-belly suplex, where Daniel countered into a falling crossbody. After a short commerical break, we cut back to Daniel Bryan assualting Del Rio. Bryan hits kicks and a missile dropkick, followed up by more kicks! Bryan hits his reverse naked choke, before Del Rio locks Bryan in the Cross Armbar/breaker making him submit again within a week. As soon as the match ends, Del Rio continues to assualt Bryan's arm before Sin Cara shows up to make a save. Del Rio, runs away as the Match Replay hits.
Following the match, we get a short interview with Mark Henry. We says how he shouldn't be in the Battle Royal and just handed the Number 1 Contender spot. Along with that we get some clips of Summerslam, where he slammed Sheamus through the barricade to win his match via count-out. After another break we return to a Divas Tag Team Match! Kelly Kelly and AJ faced off with Natalya and Alicia Fox, where AJ & Natalya started off the match. AJ, gets worked on by both Natalya and Alicia. They really seem to be putting on a good beating to AJ. Kelly Kelly eventually gets tagged in and gets the win, while Natalya and AJ battle outside. After the match Natalya and Alicia argue it out before Natalya locks in a Sharpshooter.
Before, the 20-Man Battle Royal we get another re-cap of Summerslam Fan Acess. Then that's followed by Randy Orton making another entrance before joining commentary. The Battle Royal, slowly begins to start as most of the competitors are already in the ring. There I can already see, Sin Cara, Jinder Mahal, Khali, Zac Ryder, William Regal, Ted, Rhodes, and others before being joined my Wade Barret, Mark Henry and Sheamus. Henry makes quick eliminations to Trent Baretta and Yoshi Tatsu. Barrett throws Johny Curtis out next, followed by Sin Cara getting out Zac Ryder. Jackson, quickly gets Cody Rhodes out, before Khali gets ride of Jackson. Shortly after Khali faces down Mark Henry, before Henry removes Khali. Henry, leaves ring before Sheamus can eliminate him, leading to Sheamus Brogue Kicking Heath Slater out.
We come down to Usos', Tyson Kid, Sin Cara, Jinder Mahal, Wade Barrett, Justin Gabriel, Ted DiBiase, Sheamus, and Mark Henry. Sin Cara, eliminates Gabriel followed by Sheamus getting out both the Usos'. Mark Henry, comes back and wrecks the other remain guys. Eventually we get down to Henry, Barrett, Sheamus and Sin Cara. The others group attack Mark Henry, before they turn on each other. Sheamus kicks Barrett out, then gets thrown out by Henry. Sin Cara and Mark Henry battle it out for awhile before, Sin Cara is eliminated. Mark Henry is then delcared the Number 1 Contender while facing down Orton.
Review:
Okay well these week's SmackDown makes us think it's going to be a great freakin' Card for the night, but they don't! We only get one amazing match, and 2 other matches that could've been better. The best match on the card was the rematch from last week of Mr. Money of the Bank, Daniel Bryan vs Undisputed WWE Champion, Alberto Del Rio. That was the most impressive match, on the whole freakin' card. Del Rio and Bryan are having a great set of matches. They need to market Del Rio/Bryan at Night of Champions instead of Del Rio/Cena. Their series is a great marketing idea.
Other than that the Intercontinental Championship sucked, they need to amazingly step up the resurrection to that title. Along with that the Battle Royal, shouldn't of ended up with Mark Henry winning. I seriously, think Mark Henry shouldn't have won, and either Sheamus or Wade Barrett would of been better. If they choose to step up the matches they need guys that can work these matches. The Orton/Christian series was great could've ended alil better, just like Bryan/Del Rio have been in recent weeks. So this SmackDown, was like dead center at 3 Stars. Also stay tuned for the live SmackDown on the 30th!
SmackDown starts with a small clipshow of Summerslam and Randy Orton, winning the World Heavyweight Championship. Following the clipshow, Teddy Long welcomes Randy Orton as the new Champion, while he enters the arena. Orton, takes the mic from Teddy and starts on about Christian. He goes on for how he lost respect for Christian, for his complaining and whining. Teddy then announces the Main Event tonight is a 20-Man Battle Royal to decide the new Number 1 Contender. Soon they're interrupted by Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase, as Cody talks about random B.S. Cody, then continues his rant about he wants the World Title too, before passing the mic to Ted. DiBiase then talks about Orton, before getting hit with the RKO. Teddy then says Cody is taking Ted's place in tonight's opening match against Ezekiel Jackson and it's a re-match for the Intercontinental Championship.
The Intercontinental Championship match, starts and Jackson overpowers Cody from the start. Cody eventually makes a good break, and begins to work on Jackson for a short period, before Jackson takes charge again. The match spills outside shortly as steps come into play, leading to Jackson getting his knee hurt and falling into a Cross Rhodes. Cody, gets the pin and retains the championship.
Zac Ryder, then comes to see Teddy Long. There Zac Ryder, tells Teddy long Alberto Del Rio is gonna be on Smackdown, along with that Zac Ryder says he'll win the Battle Royal. Aksana interrupts Zac Ryder, and then continues Teddy Long. Then following the promo, they show a Justin Gabriel promo leading into his match with Tyson Kidd. Gabriel shows the crowd why Tyson is a jobber and ends the match with a 450 Splash followed up with a pin for the win. Following the match Matt Striker has an interview with the Great Khali and Jinder Mahal, about the 20-Man Battle Royal.
After the commerical break, Albert Del Rio makes his SmackDown return as the Undisputed WWE Champion. Del Rio, talks of how this arena was where he made his debut and how he defeated Rey Mysterio his first night then how he beat Rey on Raw this past week, ironically he isn't boo'ed he's cheered! Then we get clips from the WWE Championship match this past week on Raw. After the clips are shown, Del Rio makes an open challenge to the SmackDown roster that is answered by Daniel Bryan.
The match opens up with Daniel taking a quick lead into the match. Del Rio, counters Bryan and begins working on his back and arms. Del Rio, goes for pinfalls and submissions as Bryan works his way out. The two brawl it out from ringpost to ringpost, before Del Rio hits a flying armbreaker from the second rope. Del Rio, continus on Bryan's arm before getting countered. During this time I learn that Daniel Bryan has a Youtube Channel. After learning this Del Rio, reverses Bryan and continues assualting the arms. Bryan breaks away again and get Del Rio in a few minor signatures of his arsenal, leading to the suicide dive/ knee to the face. They fight back into the ring, leading to a super back-to-belly suplex, where Daniel countered into a falling crossbody. After a short commerical break, we cut back to Daniel Bryan assualting Del Rio. Bryan hits kicks and a missile dropkick, followed up by more kicks! Bryan hits his reverse naked choke, before Del Rio locks Bryan in the Cross Armbar/breaker making him submit again within a week. As soon as the match ends, Del Rio continues to assualt Bryan's arm before Sin Cara shows up to make a save. Del Rio, runs away as the Match Replay hits.
Following the match, we get a short interview with Mark Henry. We says how he shouldn't be in the Battle Royal and just handed the Number 1 Contender spot. Along with that we get some clips of Summerslam, where he slammed Sheamus through the barricade to win his match via count-out. After another break we return to a Divas Tag Team Match! Kelly Kelly and AJ faced off with Natalya and Alicia Fox, where AJ & Natalya started off the match. AJ, gets worked on by both Natalya and Alicia. They really seem to be putting on a good beating to AJ. Kelly Kelly eventually gets tagged in and gets the win, while Natalya and AJ battle outside. After the match Natalya and Alicia argue it out before Natalya locks in a Sharpshooter.
Before, the 20-Man Battle Royal we get another re-cap of Summerslam Fan Acess. Then that's followed by Randy Orton making another entrance before joining commentary. The Battle Royal, slowly begins to start as most of the competitors are already in the ring. There I can already see, Sin Cara, Jinder Mahal, Khali, Zac Ryder, William Regal, Ted, Rhodes, and others before being joined my Wade Barret, Mark Henry and Sheamus. Henry makes quick eliminations to Trent Baretta and Yoshi Tatsu. Barrett throws Johny Curtis out next, followed by Sin Cara getting out Zac Ryder. Jackson, quickly gets Cody Rhodes out, before Khali gets ride of Jackson. Shortly after Khali faces down Mark Henry, before Henry removes Khali. Henry, leaves ring before Sheamus can eliminate him, leading to Sheamus Brogue Kicking Heath Slater out.
We come down to Usos', Tyson Kid, Sin Cara, Jinder Mahal, Wade Barrett, Justin Gabriel, Ted DiBiase, Sheamus, and Mark Henry. Sin Cara, eliminates Gabriel followed by Sheamus getting out both the Usos'. Mark Henry, comes back and wrecks the other remain guys. Eventually we get down to Henry, Barrett, Sheamus and Sin Cara. The others group attack Mark Henry, before they turn on each other. Sheamus kicks Barrett out, then gets thrown out by Henry. Sin Cara and Mark Henry battle it out for awhile before, Sin Cara is eliminated. Mark Henry is then delcared the Number 1 Contender while facing down Orton.
Review:
Okay well these week's SmackDown makes us think it's going to be a great freakin' Card for the night, but they don't! We only get one amazing match, and 2 other matches that could've been better. The best match on the card was the rematch from last week of Mr. Money of the Bank, Daniel Bryan vs Undisputed WWE Champion, Alberto Del Rio. That was the most impressive match, on the whole freakin' card. Del Rio and Bryan are having a great set of matches. They need to market Del Rio/Bryan at Night of Champions instead of Del Rio/Cena. Their series is a great marketing idea.
Other than that the Intercontinental Championship sucked, they need to amazingly step up the resurrection to that title. Along with that the Battle Royal, shouldn't of ended up with Mark Henry winning. I seriously, think Mark Henry shouldn't have won, and either Sheamus or Wade Barrett would of been better. If they choose to step up the matches they need guys that can work these matches. The Orton/Christian series was great could've ended alil better, just like Bryan/Del Rio have been in recent weeks. So this SmackDown, was like dead center at 3 Stars. Also stay tuned for the live SmackDown on the 30th!
Sunday, August 14, 2011
WWE SummerSlam 2011
Overview:
Summerslam opens with the National Anthem played by Tool's Adam Jones, which was pretty damn good compared to other instrumental verisons I heard. Then we cut to the opening Summerslam promo about tonight's PPV. We flash to the CM Punk vs John Cena promo for the Undisputed WWE Championship, actually it was most of the opening promo. As the opening pryo shoots off in the background we can see the Miz's AWESOME blow up sign meaning Miz vs Rey Mysterio is the opening match. Actually it became a 6-Man Tag Team Match.
The opening match was The Miz, R-Truth and Alberto Del Rio taking on the team of Kofi Kingston, John Morrison and Rey Mysterio. Kofi and Miz start it off, leading to John Morrison soon tagging in. Eventually they switch Miz for R-Truth and Morrison brawls about with R-Truth. The match moves slow at times, and Team Miz works on Kofi for awhile working on his head. Kofi tags in Rey and Miz tags in R-Truth, the match really speeds up and Rey picks up the win with a 619 when Kofi and Morrison suicide dive onto Miz & Del Rio.
After the match, Punk runs into John Laurinaitis then into Stephanie McMahon where she tries to wish him. Punk reluctantly waves her off since she offers him a hand shake where he quotes "I know where that hand has been!" Then we transition over to the Sheamus vs Mark Henry promo. Where I'm like damn this match better be amazing, leading to the match itself.
Sheamus and Mark Henry, brawl it out in the opening minutes. Sheamus, quickly beats Mark Henry down on to his knees before Mark Henry flings Sheamus out of the ring. Mark Henry then beats down, Sheamus for awhile hitting a couple of slams. Mark, finallys goes a body splashes where Sheamus rolls out of the way and begins taking back the match. Sheamus hits a shoulder block then a flying shoulder block, where he follows through into a Brogue Kick that knocks Henry from the ring. As the match spills outside Mark Henry regains himself and powerslams Sheamus through the barricade, knocking him out to win via count-out.
Josh Matthews then holds an interview with Christian, asking him about what he meant on SmackDown this pass friday. Then Christian rants about Cowboys and Aliens which I agreed with that it's slightly overrated even thou it seems to be a good movie. Followed by Cee Lo Green singing the theme "Bright Lights, Bigger City" for Summerslam. Then he followed with "Forget You!" as the Bella Twins, Alicia Fox and Rosa Mendes were background dancers.
Next on the Card was the Divas' Championship match with Kelly Kelly accompanied to the ring with Eve, as Beth Phoenix was accompanied by Natalya. Kelly tries to use her agility until Beth got a good hold of her. Beth slams Kelly about and locks several holds onto her. Kelly eventually reverses Beth Phoenix and turns the Glam Slam into a roll up and wins, retaining the Divas' Championship. Backstage Stephanie is seen leaving John Cena's locker room, leading to R-Truth hanging out with Jimmy Hart who wants to manage him.
The third match is Wade Barrett vs Daniel Bryan, as we get clips from last months Money in the Bank where Bryan won. The match starts off with Bryan getting in some hits and Barrett reversing a few. Byran hits a Dropkick, and Barret hits a couple knees before Bryan gets in another dropkick. Bryan impress the crowd with several moves and counters before getting hit with a side-slam. Barrett now in control begins working on Bryan's back. Barrett ties Bryan in the ropes to continue his assault on the back while going for another pinfall. The match spills to the apron then to ringside, Bryan gets Barrett into the ring and hits a flying Dropkick. Byran proceeds with the multiple kicks to the chest and head, leading to Barrett breaking away and landing a Big Boot. Bryan counters into the LeBell Lock, as Barrett gets the rope. The two then climb up a turnbuckle fighting each other, leading to Barrett knocking off Bryan and hitting a Wasteland for the win.
Now we come to the next match which is our first World Championship match, that is the World Heavyweight Championship match. The promo is played for the match history leading into the PPV. Then they play up how this match is a No Holds Barred match, and Christian's quote from SmackDown ending the promo. Christian hits the ring first, and then annoucnes his insurance policy is Edge. Edge then talks about Christian's first lost to Orton, followed by all the other losses. Edge then, gets to Christian's win via the DQ and how he became a little bitch again before leaving him. Randy Orton then makes his entrance, to makes his way to the ring.
The match, finally begins and Orton starts hitting Christian in the head and gut. Orton tries to get Christian in a corner but Christian fights out hitting an European Uppercut. Christian goes for some rope chokes and Orton counters for DDT before getting thrown outside. They spill outside and head to the announce tables, Christian grabs the title thou and jumps into the crowd. Orton beats Christian down in the crowd and pulls him back into the ring. Eventually Christian goes for a kendo stick, after reversing Orton and hits him several times with it. Christian tries for a couple pinfalls, as Orton goes for a roll up. Christian tries to go for a second rope move, falling into a Dropkick and Orton's Powerslam. Orton gets some move signatures in while reversing a KillSwitch. Orton tries for the Punt and Christian sides out, and goes to pull Orton in crotch first into the turnbuckle before reversing another move.
Then finally we got some tables, as Orton Superplexes Christian into a table. The match spills outside again, after Christian reverses the RKO and begins using the steel steps on Orton. Christian then drags Orton to the announce tables again now setting up Orton for a RKO on it, where Orton reverses it into his own RKO breaking the Spanish Announce Table. Both of them crawl back into the ring where Christian hits a KillSwitch on Orton, with Orton breaking out of a 2-count pin. Christian then goes for a Con-Chair-Toe, that Orton spins out of the way. He then hits Christian to the apron sending him through the other table, with Orton throwing in more weapons into the ring. We now had steps, a trash can, kendo sticks and a table that Orton Powerslammed Christian through. He follows up with a DDT onto a trash can, and a RKO on the steps for the pin. Orton, once again becomes the World Heavyweight Champion.
After the World Heavyweight Championship match, we get to see the Fan Acess. They show stuff like Sheamus on Conan Tonight, WWE with the Be a Star program and some Be a Star party. The whole promo wraps up with Stephanie talking with Triple H, in his referee gear on somewhere backstage near the locker rooms. With the Undisputed WWE Championship promo following, it's still the same NFL-like promo!
We now come to the Main Event as WWE COO and Special Guest Referee, Triple H makes his entrance. The first of the WWE Champions to enter was CM Punk, as the crowd exploded for him, Booker T even quotes Punk as being "Stone Cold Mad!" Cena followed out next as "Cena Sucks" chants exploded from the crowd. Before the match starts Triple H pats them down looking for weapons, the crowd still chanting for Punk and "Cena Sucks!". They tie it up, CM Punk takes some control with a quick cover. For the first few minutes the match is at a stand-off, they're matched quite equally. Cena goes for another cover, while being unsuccessful but continued to maintain leverage over Punk. Punk, breaks away and takes down Cena locking him in a rear naked choke, then a side head-lock. Cena counters, and the match stays technical with some suplexes following. Punk gets in a Big Boot, and follows up with knee attacks to the gut. Cena tries for a STF, getting it countered with him rolling out to the apron and Punk dropkicks him off.
Cena rolls back into the ring as Punk goes for a few pinfalls. Punk continues to wear down Cena with some submission holds. Cena powers out with a Side Slam, and a some Shoulder Blocks, as Punk tries for a Knee and Bulldog combo leading to a Spin-Out Powerbomb. Cena follows with the 5-Knuckle Shuffle but reversed, then countered Punk into a STF, where Punk returns with an Anaconda Vice variation. Cena breaks out and spins it into a STF, with Punk countering it into the original Anaconda Vice then back to Cena with a Crossface. Cena eventually is thrown outside with Punk flying out with a Suicide Dive, leading to an almost double count-out which Triple H stops by throwing them back in. Cena and Punk brawl it out and leads to several counters and almost pinfalls. Cena gets in a STF, and Punk reaches the ropes, the two then begin to hit the other with their Finishers. Eventually Cena hits the Attitude Adjustment on Punk with only a 2-Count pin, Punk follows up by hitting a GTS and 2-Count pin. Punk goes for a Elbow Drop and another pin, as fans shout "Randy Savage!" Cena goes for a Fisherman Possum Pin, Punk breaks away for another GTS, and gets the pin with Triple H not noticing Cena's foot on the rope.
Punk celebrates at ringside, circling the ring as the fans cheer for him. Punk then re-enters the ring where Triple raises Punk's arm in victory. As Punk celebrates his victory, Kevin Nash enters the ring and hits Punk with the JackKnife Powerbomb and leaves through the crowd as Alberto Del Rio runs to the ring to cash in the Money in the Bank. Del Rio, quickly pins CM Punk and is delcared the WWE Champion, as Triple H is left clueless to Kevin Nash's return.
Review:
Well this Summerslam obviously left me a little bit stunned, I didn't think they'd cash the MitB on Punk. I didn't think Nash would appear at all, but I'm loving it! Kevin Nash, is one of my favorites in the business along with his JackKnife PowerBomb being one of my favortie Powerbomb variations. But anyways the early matches on the card didn't truely impress me, until Kelly Kelly retaining the title was slightly shocking. I'm guessing they want to prolong her defeat a little longer. The Sheamus vs Mark Henry match could've gone maybe a few more extra minutes and not be count-out. The way now to end this is like a TV-airred rivalry ending as like a Main Event on SmackDown sometime near the next PPV. Now the Wade Barrett and Daniel Bryan match was actually a better pace than the last three. The result too, I didn't see coming. The way Daniel actually dominated Barrett in the match was good, and Barretts way back to victory was well played. The battle on the turnbuckle was amazing leading the finale, with Barrett hitting WasteLand.
As for the Main Events they went off amazingly. Starting with the No Holds Barred Match for the World Heavyweight Championship, Christian put on a good showing with countering Orton at key points. The way Orton dominated thou in the match was quite expected, and like the Viper of old. Now to sort of knock the match, at several times during the match Christian took alot of damage like a RKO through the Announce Table, going through another two set of tables, then smashed onto a trash can and finally RKO'ed on the Steps. Realistical he'd been knocked out or really sore, if this wasn't PG. It's like he just didn't play the part right. Orton win the title thou was great, but now more complaints will grow saying this is overkill with Orton holding the Championship yet again.
Now for the WWE Championship match! The stand-off moments in the opening minutes really set the pace for the match. That was a key point in making this match better to enjoy. Then as the match continued over time, it began playing back and forth with proper amounts of reversals and counters. The submission reversals, were some of the best I've seen in awhile. When Triple H threw them back in stopping the 10 count really got the crowd going as Cena and Punk got to their feet leading into the closing minutes. As the match dwindled down to it's final minutes, it made me think they might give the title back to Cena to lead into Del Rio cashing in tonight or tomorrow on maybe Rey or something. The whole Cena winning, actually became firm in my mind when Triple H missed Cena's foot on the rope when Punk won. I thought like several others the match would be restarted. However it didn't and Kevin Nash came out, JackKnifing Powerbombed Punk allow Del Rio to make the steal. This really annoyed me to an extent. I didn't want Punk to get cashed in on, I rather it be Cena cause at least then I could cheer him over Del Rio, cause now the storyline can go any way. When the WWE writers make a change up like this you never can really tell right away how it'll turn out.
Like right now we got Del Rio vs Rey Mysterio tomorrow, with both Punk and Cena out of a rematch. Along with that Punk is now going to be gunning for Nash, as Triple H searches for the reason why Nash did that. So now everything is all in the air, and I'm rating this Summerslam instead of using 5-Star Ratings, it's going to be 10-Stars and that score is 6-Stars out of 10! My reason is cause the Main Events brought in a good showing along with the unexpected results to Divas' Championship and Barrett/Dainels match. If the opening matches had a little more to them and better results I could've rated this 7 out of 10, but since they flopped it's a 6! Stay tuned for tomorrow, when I report Raw's overview, results and review!
Summerslam opens with the National Anthem played by Tool's Adam Jones, which was pretty damn good compared to other instrumental verisons I heard. Then we cut to the opening Summerslam promo about tonight's PPV. We flash to the CM Punk vs John Cena promo for the Undisputed WWE Championship, actually it was most of the opening promo. As the opening pryo shoots off in the background we can see the Miz's AWESOME blow up sign meaning Miz vs Rey Mysterio is the opening match. Actually it became a 6-Man Tag Team Match.
The opening match was The Miz, R-Truth and Alberto Del Rio taking on the team of Kofi Kingston, John Morrison and Rey Mysterio. Kofi and Miz start it off, leading to John Morrison soon tagging in. Eventually they switch Miz for R-Truth and Morrison brawls about with R-Truth. The match moves slow at times, and Team Miz works on Kofi for awhile working on his head. Kofi tags in Rey and Miz tags in R-Truth, the match really speeds up and Rey picks up the win with a 619 when Kofi and Morrison suicide dive onto Miz & Del Rio.
After the match, Punk runs into John Laurinaitis then into Stephanie McMahon where she tries to wish him. Punk reluctantly waves her off since she offers him a hand shake where he quotes "I know where that hand has been!" Then we transition over to the Sheamus vs Mark Henry promo. Where I'm like damn this match better be amazing, leading to the match itself.
Sheamus and Mark Henry, brawl it out in the opening minutes. Sheamus, quickly beats Mark Henry down on to his knees before Mark Henry flings Sheamus out of the ring. Mark Henry then beats down, Sheamus for awhile hitting a couple of slams. Mark, finallys goes a body splashes where Sheamus rolls out of the way and begins taking back the match. Sheamus hits a shoulder block then a flying shoulder block, where he follows through into a Brogue Kick that knocks Henry from the ring. As the match spills outside Mark Henry regains himself and powerslams Sheamus through the barricade, knocking him out to win via count-out.
Josh Matthews then holds an interview with Christian, asking him about what he meant on SmackDown this pass friday. Then Christian rants about Cowboys and Aliens which I agreed with that it's slightly overrated even thou it seems to be a good movie. Followed by Cee Lo Green singing the theme "Bright Lights, Bigger City" for Summerslam. Then he followed with "Forget You!" as the Bella Twins, Alicia Fox and Rosa Mendes were background dancers.
Next on the Card was the Divas' Championship match with Kelly Kelly accompanied to the ring with Eve, as Beth Phoenix was accompanied by Natalya. Kelly tries to use her agility until Beth got a good hold of her. Beth slams Kelly about and locks several holds onto her. Kelly eventually reverses Beth Phoenix and turns the Glam Slam into a roll up and wins, retaining the Divas' Championship. Backstage Stephanie is seen leaving John Cena's locker room, leading to R-Truth hanging out with Jimmy Hart who wants to manage him.
The third match is Wade Barrett vs Daniel Bryan, as we get clips from last months Money in the Bank where Bryan won. The match starts off with Bryan getting in some hits and Barrett reversing a few. Byran hits a Dropkick, and Barret hits a couple knees before Bryan gets in another dropkick. Bryan impress the crowd with several moves and counters before getting hit with a side-slam. Barrett now in control begins working on Bryan's back. Barrett ties Bryan in the ropes to continue his assault on the back while going for another pinfall. The match spills to the apron then to ringside, Bryan gets Barrett into the ring and hits a flying Dropkick. Byran proceeds with the multiple kicks to the chest and head, leading to Barrett breaking away and landing a Big Boot. Bryan counters into the LeBell Lock, as Barrett gets the rope. The two then climb up a turnbuckle fighting each other, leading to Barrett knocking off Bryan and hitting a Wasteland for the win.
Now we come to the next match which is our first World Championship match, that is the World Heavyweight Championship match. The promo is played for the match history leading into the PPV. Then they play up how this match is a No Holds Barred match, and Christian's quote from SmackDown ending the promo. Christian hits the ring first, and then annoucnes his insurance policy is Edge. Edge then talks about Christian's first lost to Orton, followed by all the other losses. Edge then, gets to Christian's win via the DQ and how he became a little bitch again before leaving him. Randy Orton then makes his entrance, to makes his way to the ring.
The match, finally begins and Orton starts hitting Christian in the head and gut. Orton tries to get Christian in a corner but Christian fights out hitting an European Uppercut. Christian goes for some rope chokes and Orton counters for DDT before getting thrown outside. They spill outside and head to the announce tables, Christian grabs the title thou and jumps into the crowd. Orton beats Christian down in the crowd and pulls him back into the ring. Eventually Christian goes for a kendo stick, after reversing Orton and hits him several times with it. Christian tries for a couple pinfalls, as Orton goes for a roll up. Christian tries to go for a second rope move, falling into a Dropkick and Orton's Powerslam. Orton gets some move signatures in while reversing a KillSwitch. Orton tries for the Punt and Christian sides out, and goes to pull Orton in crotch first into the turnbuckle before reversing another move.
Then finally we got some tables, as Orton Superplexes Christian into a table. The match spills outside again, after Christian reverses the RKO and begins using the steel steps on Orton. Christian then drags Orton to the announce tables again now setting up Orton for a RKO on it, where Orton reverses it into his own RKO breaking the Spanish Announce Table. Both of them crawl back into the ring where Christian hits a KillSwitch on Orton, with Orton breaking out of a 2-count pin. Christian then goes for a Con-Chair-Toe, that Orton spins out of the way. He then hits Christian to the apron sending him through the other table, with Orton throwing in more weapons into the ring. We now had steps, a trash can, kendo sticks and a table that Orton Powerslammed Christian through. He follows up with a DDT onto a trash can, and a RKO on the steps for the pin. Orton, once again becomes the World Heavyweight Champion.
After the World Heavyweight Championship match, we get to see the Fan Acess. They show stuff like Sheamus on Conan Tonight, WWE with the Be a Star program and some Be a Star party. The whole promo wraps up with Stephanie talking with Triple H, in his referee gear on somewhere backstage near the locker rooms. With the Undisputed WWE Championship promo following, it's still the same NFL-like promo!
We now come to the Main Event as WWE COO and Special Guest Referee, Triple H makes his entrance. The first of the WWE Champions to enter was CM Punk, as the crowd exploded for him, Booker T even quotes Punk as being "Stone Cold Mad!" Cena followed out next as "Cena Sucks" chants exploded from the crowd. Before the match starts Triple H pats them down looking for weapons, the crowd still chanting for Punk and "Cena Sucks!". They tie it up, CM Punk takes some control with a quick cover. For the first few minutes the match is at a stand-off, they're matched quite equally. Cena goes for another cover, while being unsuccessful but continued to maintain leverage over Punk. Punk, breaks away and takes down Cena locking him in a rear naked choke, then a side head-lock. Cena counters, and the match stays technical with some suplexes following. Punk gets in a Big Boot, and follows up with knee attacks to the gut. Cena tries for a STF, getting it countered with him rolling out to the apron and Punk dropkicks him off.
Cena rolls back into the ring as Punk goes for a few pinfalls. Punk continues to wear down Cena with some submission holds. Cena powers out with a Side Slam, and a some Shoulder Blocks, as Punk tries for a Knee and Bulldog combo leading to a Spin-Out Powerbomb. Cena follows with the 5-Knuckle Shuffle but reversed, then countered Punk into a STF, where Punk returns with an Anaconda Vice variation. Cena breaks out and spins it into a STF, with Punk countering it into the original Anaconda Vice then back to Cena with a Crossface. Cena eventually is thrown outside with Punk flying out with a Suicide Dive, leading to an almost double count-out which Triple H stops by throwing them back in. Cena and Punk brawl it out and leads to several counters and almost pinfalls. Cena gets in a STF, and Punk reaches the ropes, the two then begin to hit the other with their Finishers. Eventually Cena hits the Attitude Adjustment on Punk with only a 2-Count pin, Punk follows up by hitting a GTS and 2-Count pin. Punk goes for a Elbow Drop and another pin, as fans shout "Randy Savage!" Cena goes for a Fisherman Possum Pin, Punk breaks away for another GTS, and gets the pin with Triple H not noticing Cena's foot on the rope.
Punk celebrates at ringside, circling the ring as the fans cheer for him. Punk then re-enters the ring where Triple raises Punk's arm in victory. As Punk celebrates his victory, Kevin Nash enters the ring and hits Punk with the JackKnife Powerbomb and leaves through the crowd as Alberto Del Rio runs to the ring to cash in the Money in the Bank. Del Rio, quickly pins CM Punk and is delcared the WWE Champion, as Triple H is left clueless to Kevin Nash's return.
Review:
Well this Summerslam obviously left me a little bit stunned, I didn't think they'd cash the MitB on Punk. I didn't think Nash would appear at all, but I'm loving it! Kevin Nash, is one of my favorites in the business along with his JackKnife PowerBomb being one of my favortie Powerbomb variations. But anyways the early matches on the card didn't truely impress me, until Kelly Kelly retaining the title was slightly shocking. I'm guessing they want to prolong her defeat a little longer. The Sheamus vs Mark Henry match could've gone maybe a few more extra minutes and not be count-out. The way now to end this is like a TV-airred rivalry ending as like a Main Event on SmackDown sometime near the next PPV. Now the Wade Barrett and Daniel Bryan match was actually a better pace than the last three. The result too, I didn't see coming. The way Daniel actually dominated Barrett in the match was good, and Barretts way back to victory was well played. The battle on the turnbuckle was amazing leading the finale, with Barrett hitting WasteLand.
As for the Main Events they went off amazingly. Starting with the No Holds Barred Match for the World Heavyweight Championship, Christian put on a good showing with countering Orton at key points. The way Orton dominated thou in the match was quite expected, and like the Viper of old. Now to sort of knock the match, at several times during the match Christian took alot of damage like a RKO through the Announce Table, going through another two set of tables, then smashed onto a trash can and finally RKO'ed on the Steps. Realistical he'd been knocked out or really sore, if this wasn't PG. It's like he just didn't play the part right. Orton win the title thou was great, but now more complaints will grow saying this is overkill with Orton holding the Championship yet again.
Now for the WWE Championship match! The stand-off moments in the opening minutes really set the pace for the match. That was a key point in making this match better to enjoy. Then as the match continued over time, it began playing back and forth with proper amounts of reversals and counters. The submission reversals, were some of the best I've seen in awhile. When Triple H threw them back in stopping the 10 count really got the crowd going as Cena and Punk got to their feet leading into the closing minutes. As the match dwindled down to it's final minutes, it made me think they might give the title back to Cena to lead into Del Rio cashing in tonight or tomorrow on maybe Rey or something. The whole Cena winning, actually became firm in my mind when Triple H missed Cena's foot on the rope when Punk won. I thought like several others the match would be restarted. However it didn't and Kevin Nash came out, JackKnifing Powerbombed Punk allow Del Rio to make the steal. This really annoyed me to an extent. I didn't want Punk to get cashed in on, I rather it be Cena cause at least then I could cheer him over Del Rio, cause now the storyline can go any way. When the WWE writers make a change up like this you never can really tell right away how it'll turn out.
Like right now we got Del Rio vs Rey Mysterio tomorrow, with both Punk and Cena out of a rematch. Along with that Punk is now going to be gunning for Nash, as Triple H searches for the reason why Nash did that. So now everything is all in the air, and I'm rating this Summerslam instead of using 5-Star Ratings, it's going to be 10-Stars and that score is 6-Stars out of 10! My reason is cause the Main Events brought in a good showing along with the unexpected results to Divas' Championship and Barrett/Dainels match. If the opening matches had a little more to them and better results I could've rated this 7 out of 10, but since they flopped it's a 6! Stay tuned for tomorrow, when I report Raw's overview, results and review!
Friday, August 12, 2011
WWE Friday Night SmackDown 8/12
OverviewSmackDown opens with for once the opening credit promo crap with Green's Do You Know the Enemy. Followed by WWE COO Triple H, coming out to talk about this weekend's Summerslam along with the Main Event. Then he goes on about loving to be in Vince's shoes running WWE. He follows up with announcing an Intercontinental Championship match, Ezekiel Jackson vs Cody Rhodes; a MitB Holder vs MitB Holder match, and matches for the World Heavyweight Champion competitors. Christian then interrupts Triple H, before he can announce Christian's opponent. Christian comes to the ring and says he's going to sue the WWE cause Randy Orton is unstable and he shouldn't be in a No Holds Barred match with him. Triple H retorts by saying the match is still gonna happen and schools Christian about how contracts work. Christian has a breakdown about Randy Orton's history with Triple H, where Triple H schools him again. Christian flips again where Triple H reveals that Sheamus is to face Christian tonight. Thus it was Game Over and we cut to Commerical!
We come back to World Heavyweight Champion, Christian vs Sheamus for our opening match. Sheamus quickly takes down Christian and applies a Outlaw Stomp, before the match spills outside the ring. Christian pushes Sheamus into the turnbuckle post a couple of time and beings working on the right shoulder. Sheamus breaks out beings putting a hurting on Christian, hitting several of his minor signature moves. Before being able to hit the Brogue Kick, Christian splits from the ring and Sheamus wins via a stupid count-out.
Next match is a Divas Tag Match, Beth Phoenix and Natalya against AJ and Kaitlyn. AJ & Kaitlyn are easily jobbed out since they're rookies. AJ is hit with the Glam Slam and Kaitlyn locked in a Sharpshooter. Then we get a quick promo for Raw's MitB Holder Alberto Del Rio facing SmackDown's MitB Holder Daniel Bryan.
SmackDown shows a promo for Sin Cara, then we cut to Zack Ryder and Teddy Long chatting. They're soon interrupted by Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase, followed by Aksana coming in to hit on Teddy. Eventually we come to a promo for Mark Henry being the most dominate superstar right now. After the promo, Johnny Curtis finds out his debut match is against Mark Henry. Leading into Sin Cara's return to SmackDown where he beats Tyson Kid.
Next match is the MitB Holder vs MitB Holder match. Daniel Bryan really puts on a show with Alberto Del Rio. Bryan did most of the work in the match before Del Rio locked in an Armbrecker. Bryan taps out to it and is attacked by Wade Barrett, where Barrett hit Bryan with a Wasteland. After a commerical break, we come to the Intercontinental Championship match and let me spoil this now cause I knew this since the taping, Cody Rhodes wins. Anyways Jackson, dominates the first few minutes before Cody and Ted begin playing games, leading to Cody's victory.
After the Incontinental Championship match, and Commerical Break we get the NFL-like promo for John Cena vs CM Punk at Summerslam. Following the promo, we get a run down of the Summerslam Matches. Then Randy Orton, has an interview with Matt Striker about the upcoming No Holds Barred match at Summerslam. Then we come to Mark Henry vs Johnny Curtis, where Mark Henry just overpowers Curtis. After the match Sheamus, comes to Curtis' save before Mark Henry could break his leg.
Finally we get to our Main Event, Randy Orton vs the Great Khali. Orton tries getting a few punches and Khali just flings Orton all about the ring. Khali, hits a Khali Chop, into the Vice Grip to the shoulder where Orton reverses the hold. Orton traps Khali in the ropes and gets in several kicks. A few mintues later Orton comes out of no where and lands a RKO on Khali and gets the pin. Christian comes out after the match to say at Summerslam everything is going to change, when it gets to the No Holds Barred match. Does this mean Tomko is back or something else?
Review:
Well this SmackDown sucked the matches weren't anything to compare to the Raw matches. Nothing really got good enough to amp the crowd up for Summerslam it seemed. There weren't any matches on the card worth mentioning, or really talking about. Hell the Intercontinental Championship match was pretty dumbed down, I mean it didn't seem really enough to how Cody won or that he won. The Divas' Tag Match could of been much better if they didn't job AJ and Kaitlyn. I mean they're barely even using AJ or Kaitlyn correctly at all, these two Divas could actually be good in the division and to job them for being rookies doesn't help Natalya or Beth rep as being dominate either. As a result this SmackDown only equals about 2 out of 5!
We come back to World Heavyweight Champion, Christian vs Sheamus for our opening match. Sheamus quickly takes down Christian and applies a Outlaw Stomp, before the match spills outside the ring. Christian pushes Sheamus into the turnbuckle post a couple of time and beings working on the right shoulder. Sheamus breaks out beings putting a hurting on Christian, hitting several of his minor signature moves. Before being able to hit the Brogue Kick, Christian splits from the ring and Sheamus wins via a stupid count-out.
Next match is a Divas Tag Match, Beth Phoenix and Natalya against AJ and Kaitlyn. AJ & Kaitlyn are easily jobbed out since they're rookies. AJ is hit with the Glam Slam and Kaitlyn locked in a Sharpshooter. Then we get a quick promo for Raw's MitB Holder Alberto Del Rio facing SmackDown's MitB Holder Daniel Bryan.
SmackDown shows a promo for Sin Cara, then we cut to Zack Ryder and Teddy Long chatting. They're soon interrupted by Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase, followed by Aksana coming in to hit on Teddy. Eventually we come to a promo for Mark Henry being the most dominate superstar right now. After the promo, Johnny Curtis finds out his debut match is against Mark Henry. Leading into Sin Cara's return to SmackDown where he beats Tyson Kid.
Next match is the MitB Holder vs MitB Holder match. Daniel Bryan really puts on a show with Alberto Del Rio. Bryan did most of the work in the match before Del Rio locked in an Armbrecker. Bryan taps out to it and is attacked by Wade Barrett, where Barrett hit Bryan with a Wasteland. After a commerical break, we come to the Intercontinental Championship match and let me spoil this now cause I knew this since the taping, Cody Rhodes wins. Anyways Jackson, dominates the first few minutes before Cody and Ted begin playing games, leading to Cody's victory.
After the Incontinental Championship match, and Commerical Break we get the NFL-like promo for John Cena vs CM Punk at Summerslam. Following the promo, we get a run down of the Summerslam Matches. Then Randy Orton, has an interview with Matt Striker about the upcoming No Holds Barred match at Summerslam. Then we come to Mark Henry vs Johnny Curtis, where Mark Henry just overpowers Curtis. After the match Sheamus, comes to Curtis' save before Mark Henry could break his leg.
Finally we get to our Main Event, Randy Orton vs the Great Khali. Orton tries getting a few punches and Khali just flings Orton all about the ring. Khali, hits a Khali Chop, into the Vice Grip to the shoulder where Orton reverses the hold. Orton traps Khali in the ropes and gets in several kicks. A few mintues later Orton comes out of no where and lands a RKO on Khali and gets the pin. Christian comes out after the match to say at Summerslam everything is going to change, when it gets to the No Holds Barred match. Does this mean Tomko is back or something else?
Review:
Well this SmackDown sucked the matches weren't anything to compare to the Raw matches. Nothing really got good enough to amp the crowd up for Summerslam it seemed. There weren't any matches on the card worth mentioning, or really talking about. Hell the Intercontinental Championship match was pretty dumbed down, I mean it didn't seem really enough to how Cody won or that he won. The Divas' Tag Match could of been much better if they didn't job AJ and Kaitlyn. I mean they're barely even using AJ or Kaitlyn correctly at all, these two Divas could actually be good in the division and to job them for being rookies doesn't help Natalya or Beth rep as being dominate either. As a result this SmackDown only equals about 2 out of 5!
Monday, August 8, 2011
WWE Monday Night Raw 8/8
Overview:
Raw starts off with WWE COO Triple H, coming down to the ring to cut a promo for the upcoming Main Event at Summerslam this weekend. The Main Event in which John Cena will face CM Punk to decide who is the Undisputed WWE Champion. Triple H, talks of change in the WWE and his take over, this gets the crowd popping. Triple H, then calls for a special guest enforcer/referee for that Main Event which is himself. Next he goes on about the official contract signing, and the matches for tonight. The opening match: John Cena vs Mystery Man, as we go to our first commerical!
We return to Raw with the announcement of who Cena's opponent is, which is Jack Swagger?! Yeah, Cena vs Swagger is the opening match on the card, who booked this crap? Anyways, the match opens with Jack Swagger going collegiate wrestling lead on Cena before it turns to several Suplexes from Cena. Then transitioning to a game of power between the two. Swagger eventually "over powers" Cena, then out of nowhere Cena hits the Attitude Adjustment for the win. Following the match a promo for Rey Mysterio vs the Miz is played.
Scott Stanford tries to hold an interview, then get interrupted by Albert Del Rio. Del Rio calls out CM Punk to a match. Following the interview, they recap the Morrison/R-Truth rivalry leading to R-Truth having an interview with Josh Matthews. R-Truth responds by ranting about random ass things! His gimmick is like if you're really tripping on acid or lsd. Coming up next, is the match promoted earlier!
Match two begins, with Rey Mysterio getting blind sided by the Miz. Miz beats him into the WWE Logo on the entrance ramp, he then goes to the ring and complains about being in a match at Summerslam. He then, wants to be claimed the winner of the match by forfeit. Triple H, tells a referee that the Miz will be in another match against Kofi Kingston. The two brawl it out, leading to commerical break following a suicide dive from Kingston onto the Miz.
They cut back from the break and the Miz is now dominating Kofi, with a headlock. Kofi breaks out and the match flips back and forth for awhile, mostly leading to Miz continuing to dominate the match. They try to hit several signatures on each other for sometime leading to multiple reversals. Miz, finally locks on the Skull Crushing Finale onto Kofi and picks up the win. Backstage, Punk runs into Josh Matthews for a quick interview on the Summerslam match and declaring Del Rio is his opponent tonight.
Del Rio, makes his entrance followed by CM Punk's entrance, the crowd explodes for Punk as shirts and signs are all about the crowd. Del Rio, overtakes Punk fast soon leading to a quick counter. Del Rio fights back and works on Punk's arm, before Punk gets Del Rio out of the ring. Punk lands the Knee & Bulldog combo, the clothesline followed by Del Rio reversing the GTS. Del Rio goes for the Armbreaker before falling into another GTS and losing the match to WWE Champion, CM Punk!
We come to a Divas match the Glamazon, Beth Phoenix vs Eve, debuting a new edition of her theme song. Beth trys to overpower Eve, while Eve bouces about for awhile. After a few minutes Beth gets Eve down throwing her into the guard rail, then slamming down by her hair. Eve boches at one small point and it's noticed, leading it her gaining the up hand before heading into a Glam Slam. Beth takes the match, followed by a talk of how Kelly Kelly and Eve ruin the Divas division. Soon Kelly, hits Beth from behind with the Divas Title and runs to check on Eve. Followed by the promo for Morrison vs R-Truth.
Before we can even get to Morrison vs R-Truth, we get Perfection! Dolph Ziggler, with Vikki Guerrero faces Alex Riley, a battle with Downstait themes, yea! A-Ry quickly goes for a cover, until Dolph takes him down a peg. Ziggler goes for a Sleeper Hold, and A-Ry gets out countering with a Spinebuster before getting the win via DQ. After the match he sucker punches Ziggler into Vikki leading to them arguing.
Following the short lived match of A-Ry and Ziggler, we come back to a recap of the Cena/Punk feud for the WWE Championship. The recap is pretty commical cause they added a narrator that made it seem like something for the NFL. Leading to the commentary cast going over the card for Summerslam, with the John Morrison vs R-Truth match beginning shortly after. We cut back from the break with John Morrison's entrance and the match itself. Morrison quickly puts a beating on Truth. The fight goes outside the ring, almost costing Morrison the match. R-Truth finds away around the assault and lands a Shut Up for the win.
For the last segment of Raw, we learn Rey Mysterio will face the WWE Champion at next weeks Raw for the Title. Then followed by a short interview with the World Heavyweight Champion, cutting to the contract signing. Triple H and John Laurinaitis already stood in the ring, awaiting for CM Punk and Cena's entrance. We quickly cut to Punk dissing Triple on movies, then a video on Facebook from The Rock. It's another great moment where the Rock trashes Cena again and then talks about people who hate Cena. The crowd just eats it up, along with Triple H and Punk. Cena then responds with BS about how he loves entertaining the fans and gives a shout out to the new G.I. Joe movie. Cena even goes on about being the modern day Hulk Hogan, which he freakin' is and he admits his defeat!
Then Cena rants about him and his fans, how he never turns his back on them and how Punk "changed" his persona. This is where Triple H comes in, along with Laurinaitis and recent fired employees. Now the crowd really got behind Punk, as he talked how Cena is raised above everyone else. That's where we learned about the entire grudge Punk had for Cena. Punk shortly after declares how he'll take the WWE Championship away from Cena at Summerslam, leading to him signing the contract. Cena then talks on how alot rides on Punk, for if he loses at Summerslam. That now Punk needs to back up everything he says, or everything is over for Punk while Cena signs the contract. Eventually Cena, wants to brawl and Punk agrees until Laurinaitis steps in and is kicked by Punk with then Triple H forcing Punk out of the ring.
Review:
Alright well this Raw had ok matches, they were short and sweet. The promo at the end was great between CM Punk and Cena again. I mostly enjoyed the Divas Match and Del Rio vs Punk match. The Miz vs Kofi along with the Morrison vs R-Truth were mostly one-way fights, just the end of Morrison/R-Truth was out of the blue sort of. The best parts of the Del Rio/Punk match were Del Rio's quick work on Punk's arm and the double-counter into the GTS. However the Diva's match is the shortest on the card to have an official pin fall finish, along with that I love how they're turning Beth back into the Glamazon. Having Beth return to being the dominate Glamazon again is a great marketing device to the Diva's Division. Also the ass shot on Eve was good which lead into the final minute of the match.
Now as for the end segment with the Contract Signing! The Rock, clip was good it's always a great thing to see Cena trashed. Then as for Punk's grudge with Cena was great too. The character they're building for Punk is the new age Austin by going against the management. Hell the way he finally made Cena call himself the modern day Hogan was great, I mean it admitted the reasons why Cena is hated now! So as for my rating this was a good 4-star Raw leading into Summerslam. CM Punk is becoming the crowds new fan favorite, he points out how the system is just keeping C-Nation onto top like Hulkamania was. So just keep marketing Punk and I'll be happy. Stay tuned for this Friday Night SmackDown!
Raw starts off with WWE COO Triple H, coming down to the ring to cut a promo for the upcoming Main Event at Summerslam this weekend. The Main Event in which John Cena will face CM Punk to decide who is the Undisputed WWE Champion. Triple H, talks of change in the WWE and his take over, this gets the crowd popping. Triple H, then calls for a special guest enforcer/referee for that Main Event which is himself. Next he goes on about the official contract signing, and the matches for tonight. The opening match: John Cena vs Mystery Man, as we go to our first commerical!
We return to Raw with the announcement of who Cena's opponent is, which is Jack Swagger?! Yeah, Cena vs Swagger is the opening match on the card, who booked this crap? Anyways, the match opens with Jack Swagger going collegiate wrestling lead on Cena before it turns to several Suplexes from Cena. Then transitioning to a game of power between the two. Swagger eventually "over powers" Cena, then out of nowhere Cena hits the Attitude Adjustment for the win. Following the match a promo for Rey Mysterio vs the Miz is played.
Scott Stanford tries to hold an interview, then get interrupted by Albert Del Rio. Del Rio calls out CM Punk to a match. Following the interview, they recap the Morrison/R-Truth rivalry leading to R-Truth having an interview with Josh Matthews. R-Truth responds by ranting about random ass things! His gimmick is like if you're really tripping on acid or lsd. Coming up next, is the match promoted earlier!
Match two begins, with Rey Mysterio getting blind sided by the Miz. Miz beats him into the WWE Logo on the entrance ramp, he then goes to the ring and complains about being in a match at Summerslam. He then, wants to be claimed the winner of the match by forfeit. Triple H, tells a referee that the Miz will be in another match against Kofi Kingston. The two brawl it out, leading to commerical break following a suicide dive from Kingston onto the Miz.
They cut back from the break and the Miz is now dominating Kofi, with a headlock. Kofi breaks out and the match flips back and forth for awhile, mostly leading to Miz continuing to dominate the match. They try to hit several signatures on each other for sometime leading to multiple reversals. Miz, finally locks on the Skull Crushing Finale onto Kofi and picks up the win. Backstage, Punk runs into Josh Matthews for a quick interview on the Summerslam match and declaring Del Rio is his opponent tonight.
Del Rio, makes his entrance followed by CM Punk's entrance, the crowd explodes for Punk as shirts and signs are all about the crowd. Del Rio, overtakes Punk fast soon leading to a quick counter. Del Rio fights back and works on Punk's arm, before Punk gets Del Rio out of the ring. Punk lands the Knee & Bulldog combo, the clothesline followed by Del Rio reversing the GTS. Del Rio goes for the Armbreaker before falling into another GTS and losing the match to WWE Champion, CM Punk!
We come to a Divas match the Glamazon, Beth Phoenix vs Eve, debuting a new edition of her theme song. Beth trys to overpower Eve, while Eve bouces about for awhile. After a few minutes Beth gets Eve down throwing her into the guard rail, then slamming down by her hair. Eve boches at one small point and it's noticed, leading it her gaining the up hand before heading into a Glam Slam. Beth takes the match, followed by a talk of how Kelly Kelly and Eve ruin the Divas division. Soon Kelly, hits Beth from behind with the Divas Title and runs to check on Eve. Followed by the promo for Morrison vs R-Truth.
Before we can even get to Morrison vs R-Truth, we get Perfection! Dolph Ziggler, with Vikki Guerrero faces Alex Riley, a battle with Downstait themes, yea! A-Ry quickly goes for a cover, until Dolph takes him down a peg. Ziggler goes for a Sleeper Hold, and A-Ry gets out countering with a Spinebuster before getting the win via DQ. After the match he sucker punches Ziggler into Vikki leading to them arguing.
Following the short lived match of A-Ry and Ziggler, we come back to a recap of the Cena/Punk feud for the WWE Championship. The recap is pretty commical cause they added a narrator that made it seem like something for the NFL. Leading to the commentary cast going over the card for Summerslam, with the John Morrison vs R-Truth match beginning shortly after. We cut back from the break with John Morrison's entrance and the match itself. Morrison quickly puts a beating on Truth. The fight goes outside the ring, almost costing Morrison the match. R-Truth finds away around the assault and lands a Shut Up for the win.
For the last segment of Raw, we learn Rey Mysterio will face the WWE Champion at next weeks Raw for the Title. Then followed by a short interview with the World Heavyweight Champion, cutting to the contract signing. Triple H and John Laurinaitis already stood in the ring, awaiting for CM Punk and Cena's entrance. We quickly cut to Punk dissing Triple on movies, then a video on Facebook from The Rock. It's another great moment where the Rock trashes Cena again and then talks about people who hate Cena. The crowd just eats it up, along with Triple H and Punk. Cena then responds with BS about how he loves entertaining the fans and gives a shout out to the new G.I. Joe movie. Cena even goes on about being the modern day Hulk Hogan, which he freakin' is and he admits his defeat!
Then Cena rants about him and his fans, how he never turns his back on them and how Punk "changed" his persona. This is where Triple H comes in, along with Laurinaitis and recent fired employees. Now the crowd really got behind Punk, as he talked how Cena is raised above everyone else. That's where we learned about the entire grudge Punk had for Cena. Punk shortly after declares how he'll take the WWE Championship away from Cena at Summerslam, leading to him signing the contract. Cena then talks on how alot rides on Punk, for if he loses at Summerslam. That now Punk needs to back up everything he says, or everything is over for Punk while Cena signs the contract. Eventually Cena, wants to brawl and Punk agrees until Laurinaitis steps in and is kicked by Punk with then Triple H forcing Punk out of the ring.
Review:
Alright well this Raw had ok matches, they were short and sweet. The promo at the end was great between CM Punk and Cena again. I mostly enjoyed the Divas Match and Del Rio vs Punk match. The Miz vs Kofi along with the Morrison vs R-Truth were mostly one-way fights, just the end of Morrison/R-Truth was out of the blue sort of. The best parts of the Del Rio/Punk match were Del Rio's quick work on Punk's arm and the double-counter into the GTS. However the Diva's match is the shortest on the card to have an official pin fall finish, along with that I love how they're turning Beth back into the Glamazon. Having Beth return to being the dominate Glamazon again is a great marketing device to the Diva's Division. Also the ass shot on Eve was good which lead into the final minute of the match.
Now as for the end segment with the Contract Signing! The Rock, clip was good it's always a great thing to see Cena trashed. Then as for Punk's grudge with Cena was great too. The character they're building for Punk is the new age Austin by going against the management. Hell the way he finally made Cena call himself the modern day Hogan was great, I mean it admitted the reasons why Cena is hated now! So as for my rating this was a good 4-star Raw leading into Summerslam. CM Punk is becoming the crowds new fan favorite, he points out how the system is just keeping C-Nation onto top like Hulkamania was. So just keep marketing Punk and I'll be happy. Stay tuned for this Friday Night SmackDown!
Monday, August 1, 2011
WWE Monday Night Raw 8/1
OVERVIEW:
Raw opened up to a promo video reviewing the Money in the Bank, and then end result to Mysterio vs Cena for the WWE Championship on last week's Raw. Following that they promoted Punk and the Cult of Personality. Leading right into the intro of Raw and CM Punk's entrance.
The crowd was mixed to entrance, the god damn C-Nation ruined the whole moment. Following the entrance, they cut a promo with Punk shouting "The Champ is Here!" Punk then revealed why he chose to stay, saying he's here to make it fun again and he's the Best in the World. Then Triple H soon came out, the crowd exploded! Triple H, then followed with why Punk was resigned along with JR, cause it was good for business. "Smug, Overrated, Attention Seeking Guy that puts too much stock in his own hype!" Triple H's view on CM Punk, and the crowd then switched for Punk. It's like this crowd was bipolar or something, they couldn't make up their minds. Hell then a battle of Egos ensued between Triple H and Punk. Until the "Pipe Bomb" went off.
Up next was some hype for a tag team match, Rey Mysterio & John Morrison vs the Miz & R-Truth and the Diva's Number 1 Contender Battle Royal. Leading to the first commerical break, of the night. We cut back to most of the Divas in the ring and Kelly Kelly joining commentary with JR, King and Cole. The match went fast as usual, and the new Contender for Kelly's Championship was the Glamazon, Beth Phoenix. Who then proceed to beat down Kelly following her victory. Leading to more hype for the tag team match, with a promo with Miz and R-Truth.
After the 2nd or 3rd commerical break we come back to a short promo with Josh Matthews and John Cena. Leading in to the tag match mentioned earlier, that lead into yet another commerical break. So far we had alot of hype, promos and commericals and no wrestling! Finally the match, began with Miz and Morrison, then a tag leading to another commerical break! This match began to suck and it probably was because R-Truth was in it or nothing fancy was really happening. The crowd was exploding thou mostly for Morrison, sadly thou his team lost and Miz & R-Truth won.
Following the Tag Match, Josh interviews Triple H about the earlier promo with Punk and the WWE Championship issue. Next we got a promo for Sheamus vs Mark Henry on Smackdown this week, and leading to US Champion Dolph Ziggler & Vikki Guerrero coming down to the ring. While on the name tag it promoted the release of his new edition of "I Am Perfection" on Itunes! Dolph then cut a promo about being one of the best right now on the roster, and pretty much giving an open challenge to which then Alex Riley came out to interrupt him. Riley then starts to tell Ziggler to kick Vikki aside and go his own way, the result being Dolph leaving the ring. As we cut to promotions for the WWE Championship Controversy and another Tag Team Match, New Nexus vs Santino & Zac Ryder!
This tag team match was better for the fact Long Island Iced-Z, Zac Ryder was in it. The crowd really wants him, the were exploding when he got tagged in. Then Michael Cole trashed Youtube, youtubers and Broskis everywhere! When will WWE fire Cole, he's the biggest tool in the freaking world. He's like some other tool I know who said a certain group of youtubers' had low quality videos. Just go check out Projektrdm's blog to find out who I mean. Anyways Ryder and Santino lost and we went into another boring set of commericals.
We come back to then a recap of the encounter between Triple H and CM Punk from about an hour prior. Then cutting to Punk in an interview with Josh Matthews, leading to a match with Alberto Del Rio against Evan Bourne. Leading to a fast pase match and Evan Bourne tapping out.
Finally we get to the end of the show and the commentary reveals a poll on who should be the real WWE Champion and it showed Cena 54% to Punk 46%. Leading to Triple H coming out to reveal what he's going to about the controversy, and then John Laurinaitis came out say John Cena should be striped of the title. John Cena then came out to tell off Laurinatis, creating more entertainment between the arugement. Laurinaitis left shortly when Cena said he'd punch him in the face. Triple H then said Punk was resigned when he came with contract signed and said my favorite quote "Now Hit My Music!" following into Punk also interrupting Triple H and John Cena. Then Triple H made the edict Cena vs Punk at Summerslam to see who will be the Undisputed WWE Champion, while taking his leave. Following with a face-off between our two Champion, with their music playing back and forth in a war of themes.
Review:
My review on this is that this was like that one TNA Impact where no wrestling happened, but at least had alot more better promos. The matches didn't really impress me, along with the fact being John Morrison and Zac Ryder were the only reasons those matches had large reactions until they lost. The opening promo was pretty good, have the battle of Egos. Especially when Punk tried calling out Triple H, lead to the whole Pipe Bomb jokes. Then the final edict to settle this issue was pretty good when Punk and Cena had that stand-off with the Theme War.
Other things to note were the Michael Cole's remarks toward Youtube. I know it's all fake but being a Youtuber and have to be told your videos are shit within about 2 weeks you get tired of hearing it. I seriously grown tired of Cole's bitching gimmick it's so bad he needs to be taken off air. Along with that I'm loving the whole spamming of Downstait themes like "I Came to Play", "Say it to My Face", and "I am Perfection(V2)"! But now this being the third Raw since Triple H's take over and having some bad or okay matches really made this Raw a 2.5 out of 5 Stars. That's all for now, but check in for more Raw Overviews/Reviews and other shows.
Raw opened up to a promo video reviewing the Money in the Bank, and then end result to Mysterio vs Cena for the WWE Championship on last week's Raw. Following that they promoted Punk and the Cult of Personality. Leading right into the intro of Raw and CM Punk's entrance.
The crowd was mixed to entrance, the god damn C-Nation ruined the whole moment. Following the entrance, they cut a promo with Punk shouting "The Champ is Here!" Punk then revealed why he chose to stay, saying he's here to make it fun again and he's the Best in the World. Then Triple H soon came out, the crowd exploded! Triple H, then followed with why Punk was resigned along with JR, cause it was good for business. "Smug, Overrated, Attention Seeking Guy that puts too much stock in his own hype!" Triple H's view on CM Punk, and the crowd then switched for Punk. It's like this crowd was bipolar or something, they couldn't make up their minds. Hell then a battle of Egos ensued between Triple H and Punk. Until the "Pipe Bomb" went off.
Up next was some hype for a tag team match, Rey Mysterio & John Morrison vs the Miz & R-Truth and the Diva's Number 1 Contender Battle Royal. Leading to the first commerical break, of the night. We cut back to most of the Divas in the ring and Kelly Kelly joining commentary with JR, King and Cole. The match went fast as usual, and the new Contender for Kelly's Championship was the Glamazon, Beth Phoenix. Who then proceed to beat down Kelly following her victory. Leading to more hype for the tag team match, with a promo with Miz and R-Truth.
After the 2nd or 3rd commerical break we come back to a short promo with Josh Matthews and John Cena. Leading in to the tag match mentioned earlier, that lead into yet another commerical break. So far we had alot of hype, promos and commericals and no wrestling! Finally the match, began with Miz and Morrison, then a tag leading to another commerical break! This match began to suck and it probably was because R-Truth was in it or nothing fancy was really happening. The crowd was exploding thou mostly for Morrison, sadly thou his team lost and Miz & R-Truth won.
Following the Tag Match, Josh interviews Triple H about the earlier promo with Punk and the WWE Championship issue. Next we got a promo for Sheamus vs Mark Henry on Smackdown this week, and leading to US Champion Dolph Ziggler & Vikki Guerrero coming down to the ring. While on the name tag it promoted the release of his new edition of "I Am Perfection" on Itunes! Dolph then cut a promo about being one of the best right now on the roster, and pretty much giving an open challenge to which then Alex Riley came out to interrupt him. Riley then starts to tell Ziggler to kick Vikki aside and go his own way, the result being Dolph leaving the ring. As we cut to promotions for the WWE Championship Controversy and another Tag Team Match, New Nexus vs Santino & Zac Ryder!
This tag team match was better for the fact Long Island Iced-Z, Zac Ryder was in it. The crowd really wants him, the were exploding when he got tagged in. Then Michael Cole trashed Youtube, youtubers and Broskis everywhere! When will WWE fire Cole, he's the biggest tool in the freaking world. He's like some other tool I know who said a certain group of youtubers' had low quality videos. Just go check out Projektrdm's blog to find out who I mean. Anyways Ryder and Santino lost and we went into another boring set of commericals.
We come back to then a recap of the encounter between Triple H and CM Punk from about an hour prior. Then cutting to Punk in an interview with Josh Matthews, leading to a match with Alberto Del Rio against Evan Bourne. Leading to a fast pase match and Evan Bourne tapping out.
Finally we get to the end of the show and the commentary reveals a poll on who should be the real WWE Champion and it showed Cena 54% to Punk 46%. Leading to Triple H coming out to reveal what he's going to about the controversy, and then John Laurinaitis came out say John Cena should be striped of the title. John Cena then came out to tell off Laurinatis, creating more entertainment between the arugement. Laurinaitis left shortly when Cena said he'd punch him in the face. Triple H then said Punk was resigned when he came with contract signed and said my favorite quote "Now Hit My Music!" following into Punk also interrupting Triple H and John Cena. Then Triple H made the edict Cena vs Punk at Summerslam to see who will be the Undisputed WWE Champion, while taking his leave. Following with a face-off between our two Champion, with their music playing back and forth in a war of themes.
Review:
My review on this is that this was like that one TNA Impact where no wrestling happened, but at least had alot more better promos. The matches didn't really impress me, along with the fact being John Morrison and Zac Ryder were the only reasons those matches had large reactions until they lost. The opening promo was pretty good, have the battle of Egos. Especially when Punk tried calling out Triple H, lead to the whole Pipe Bomb jokes. Then the final edict to settle this issue was pretty good when Punk and Cena had that stand-off with the Theme War.
Other things to note were the Michael Cole's remarks toward Youtube. I know it's all fake but being a Youtuber and have to be told your videos are shit within about 2 weeks you get tired of hearing it. I seriously grown tired of Cole's bitching gimmick it's so bad he needs to be taken off air. Along with that I'm loving the whole spamming of Downstait themes like "I Came to Play", "Say it to My Face", and "I am Perfection(V2)"! But now this being the third Raw since Triple H's take over and having some bad or okay matches really made this Raw a 2.5 out of 5 Stars. That's all for now, but check in for more Raw Overviews/Reviews and other shows.
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