Welcome to the “did that Mickie James interview segment with Josh Mathews scream retro 1980’s WWF Superstars Saturday mornings or what?” edition of The Wrestling List.
Tonight’s Raw was “guest hosted” by ZZ Top. Yeah, that wasn’t near as entertaining as Seth Green last week. The main event was John Cena teaming with Triple H against all three members of Legacy. Orton went for the punt on Cena but he avoided it. Cena then rolled up Orton to get the pin. Cena and Triple H then shook hands after the match. In other action. Kofi Kingston, MVP, and Primo defeated the team of Jack Swagger, Carlito, and Big Show. Primo and Carlito did go at it for a bit in the match. Show accidentally speared Carlito and then Kofi took Show out of the ring. Primo then pinned Carlito with a springboard legdrop. Show then came back into the ring and attacked everyone including Swagger. Show picked Kofi up by one hand and lifted him into the ring and left him laying. Mark Henry got his rematch with Chris Jericho. Jericho ended up nailing Henry with a couple chair shots on the floor causing the DQ. Henry caught the third attempt and shoved Jericho over the table. The fight ended up in the ring again and Jericho’s codebreaker attempt was countered into the world’s strongest slam. Later, Jericho ran into Priceless as he left the building. They mocked him over having to find a partner and the beating that he taken. Jericho then messed with their heads leaving them worried about who he might choose for Sunday. Mickie James was interviewed by Josh Mathews. Good promo by Mickie where she talked about how the only win that Maryse had on her was a silly swimsuit match. Miz interrupted ripping on Mickie and talking big on Maryse. Mickie hit him with a line of that she had scored a pinfall on Maryse while Miz hasn’t been able to score at all. Maryse then walked up on the set and sprayed Mickie in the eyes with some sort of spray leaving Mickie hurting. The ZZ Top legs match took place with Alicia Fox and Rosa Mendes getting a win on Kelly Kelly and Gail Kim when Alicia pinned Kelly despite her legs being in the ropes. Jerry Lawler took on Brian Kendrick and defeated him with a punch. Yep, the punch took out Kendrick. A sharp dressed man match took place with Hornswoggle against Chavo Guerrero. It was a ZZ Top theme named tuxedo match. Chavo ended up with a tux where the pants were sewed together making him have a hard time moving. Hornswoggle got the win. Santino Marella hung out performing with ZZ Top backstage all night including him wearing a beard. The segments were just kind of ehhh.
Other notes from Raw. Wow, did anyone have flashbacks to Superstars and Wrestling Challenge from the 80’s watching Josh Mathews interview Mickie James on the podium? That brought back memories. Yeah, I don’t think that fans of the Jim Cornette/Paul E. Dangerously tuxedo match from the 1989 Great American Bash have anything to be concerned about with tonight’s tuxedo match topping that one. LOL. Not a chance. By the way, that 1989 match has to be the best tuxedo match of all time. So, WWE is now selling advertising of matches now. Dave and Busters were the sponsor of the six man tag team match with the logo being on the screen at times including for the match graphics.
Last week’s Smackdown had a main event of Jeff Hardy and Rey Mysterio taking on Chris Jericho and Dolph Ziggler. CM Punk was on commentary. Earlier in the night, Punk and Hardy had words over their different lifestyle choices with Punk taking shots at Hardy’s. The finish of this match had Hardy throwing Jericho toward Punk. Punk moved and then shoved Jericho into Hardy knocking Hardy into the steps. That caused the DQ. Jericho then hooked on the walls of Jericho on Hardy as Punk looked on. John Morrison got a pinfall victory on CM Punk earlier in the night. Morrison offered a handshake after the match but Punk didn’t accept it and walked out. Edge was interviewed about his surgery. He talked of his accomplishments and how he always rose above challenges. However, he said that he wasn’t sure he’d be able to come back from this one and said that his career might be over. He said that this was the hardest injury to come back from and he was going to fight to come back. Jericho walked to the ring stopping the interview up on the screen. Jericho said that he was tired of hearing Edge sounding pathetic and that Edge didn’t care about WWE or about him. Jericho said that Edge’s only accomplishments were a bunch of injuries while he had never been injured. Edge was annoyed throughout much of Jericho’s comments and then said that he didn’t need the attack on his character or his accomplishments but said he will use those words as motivation to come back. Edge said he will prove everyone wrong when he returns. The Hart Dynasty won a six person tag match against Cryme Tyme and Eve when Natalya pinned Eve following a nasty spinning clothesline. Kane defeated R Truth when Truth jumped off the top turnbuckle only to catch a boot in the face from Kane leading to the win for Kane. Khali arrived afterwards and Kane was hit from behind by Truth. Kane did make it out of there before Khali got to him though. Layla came to the ring in a Dwayne Wade jersey dancing for the Miami crowd. She has a NBA championship ring as being part of the team as a dancer. Ricky Ortiz made his way to the ring with rally towels giving her inspiration for the dance. She wasn’t having any of it. I thought this segment was kind of odd cause Layla has been a heel.
Shaquille O’Neal will be the “guest host” of Raw next week. Ok, this should be fun. Shaq is a long time fan and it should be good.
WWE is stepping things up for SummerSlam adding a Fan Axxess to the weekend. Axxess has always just been done for WrestleMania but now SummerSlam will get one as well. I’m all for it as I think fans need to have extra stuff like that to attend especially when SummerSlam is such a huge event.
Taz finally debuted last night for TNA at the Victory Road PPV. This wasn’t a surprise to anyone that has been following the storyline. He got involved in the Sting/Samoa Joe match. The Main Event Mafia held all the titles at the end of the night last night. Well, except for the X-Division title which wasn’t defended.
Bobby Lashley was interviewed on ESPN Radio last week by Brandon Tierney where he announced that he has signed with TNA.
Big win for Brock Lesnar at UFC 100. He defeated Frank Mir to become the undisputed UFC champion in the second round by TKO. Afterwards, he stirred some controversy by telling the fans they were number one. Brings back memories of WrestleMania XX, doesn’t it? LOL. He ripped on the fans too when he was interviewed and UFC sponsors. Lesnar is really getting all kinds of attention in UFC and the PPV was said to do something around 1.2 million buys. That is a BIG number.
Guns N’ Roses song for Seth Green’s entrance from last week didn’t make it to WWE AM Raw on Saturday night. The song was replaced by some generic music. Guess they didn’t want to pay the money for it twice.
The editing on WWE 24/7 Classics On Demand is starting to get to be too much. I get that they are marketing more toward kids again but the editing on blood is too much. What am I talking about? I’m sure you’ve seen clips on TV on current WWE programming where they’ll be replaying an attack or something that resulted in blood. The screen goes black and white so they don’t show the blood. They are now doing this on WWE 24/7 Classic On Demand. Old footage has been edited to go black and white when showing a bloody camera angle of a match. I have noticed this happening from time to time but my breaking point with it was that they did this on the 1989 Great American Bash that is currently airing on the service. There are parts of the Flair/Funk match where the screen goes black and white to not show the blood. This is ridiculous. They were marketing to kids when I was little at the time when this match happened. I never thought anything of it. It is wrestling. What do you expect? It happens. Here is my problem with it as I just say if there is something in a show On Demand that had a big amount of blood, put a graphic at the beginning to warn of it. They do it with the ECW shows mentioning viewer discretion in watching it. Why don’t you do that with the others as well instead of going black and white and ruining the original footage? I’m big on wanting to leave original footage as it is. I want to see old shows in their original form. I don’t like music edits but I, of course, understand why they have to be done. However, I don’t understand why music is ok in one show but it is edited in another one. That’s a different story though. Turning moments of matches to black and white is very annoying. Put up a viewer discretion graphic and let the footage go.
The PPV name changing continues. Cyber Sunday changed to Annihilation and then back to Cyber Sunday. Now, it has been changed to WWE Bragging Rights.
The WWE Night Of Champions PPV is this Sunday night and here is the lineup. Randy Orton defends the WWE title against Triple H and John Cena. CM Punk defends the World title against Jeff Hardy. Intercontinental Champion Rey Mysterio defends against Dolph Ziggler. ECW Champion Tommy Dreamer defends against Christian. Unified Tag Team Champion Chris Jericho will pick a partner and they’ll defend the belts against Ted Dibiase and Cody Rhodes. Maryse defends the Divas championship against Mickie James. Six pack challenge for the US title with Kofi Kingston defending against Big Show, Carlito, Jack Swagger, MVP, and The Miz.
Have a great week!! Take care and God bless!!!
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