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Monday, September 28, 2009
WWE 24/7 Classics On Demand - October Preview
Halloween will be the theme for the month of October on WWE 24/7 Classics On Demand. I always like that they do that but just wish the variety was a bit more sometimes on the Halloween themed month every year. It also reminds me that I’ve had WWE 24/7 Classics On Demand for three years now cause I got it right at the end of October. It showed up and I scrambled trying to get everything watched before it expired and the November programming arrived. LOL. Three years and it has been worth every bit of the money!! Anyway, here is the preview for October. Big Ones airing include WCW Halloween Havoc 1991 (Luger vs. Simmons – 2 out of 3 Falls for the WCW title), WCW Halloween Havoc 1998 (Goldberg vs. DDP, Hogan vs. Warrior rematch), and WWE Extreme Rules 2009. Old School house shows airing include Los Angeles (January 29, 1989), MSG (July 1, 1991), and Maple Leaf Gardens (March 23, 1986). TV classics airing include ECW (December 1996), NWA (January 1987), World Class (August 1983), Monday Night Wars (Raw and Nitro – February 1998), Monday Night Wars: The Beginning (Raw and Nitro – December 1995), WWF Prime Time Wrestling (May 1988), Mid-Atlantic (January 1982). There are several Halloween themed TV shows airing including the Saturday Night’s Main Event episode from 1985, Prime Time Wrestling from October 1990, ECW from October 2006, and WWE Raw from October 2005. The Hall Of Fame profile will be on Mr. Fuji. The shorties will be matches based on the theme for the month including matches from Demolition, Legion Of Doom, Ultimate Warrior, Papa Shango, Oz, Doink, Boogeyman, and more. Also airing will be the recent Kane DVD release called Twisted, Disturbed. Then, of course we have the fan voting winner. I would have liked to have seen the fan voting poll be between Halloween Havocs but the winner of the fan voting between Royal Rumble 1994, IYH: Buried Alive, and Great American Bash 2004 will air. Looks like a fun month!!
Raw Thoughts, WWE Cell PPV Preview, & More - September 28, 2009
Welcome to the “why has Raw gotten so boring?” edition of The Wrestling List. Has the “guest host” gimmick taken too much attention of the show and left little to the rest of it or is it just boring overall?
Tonight’s Raw was the last Raw before this Sunday’s PPV. The guest host was Rev. Al Sharpton. I just thought tonight’s Raw was dull overall. It is just the same stuff every week with a different guest host. The show opened this week with the VIP Lounge with MVP and Mark Henry. MVP went to announce Sharpton but instead got Jericho and Big Show. Jericho and MVP argued over bigger ways to introduce Sharpton. Al Sharpton was introduced to the crowd. He promoted his education tour and then MVP laid down a challenge for Jericho and Big Show. Jericho mentioned how they had a match already and then had the tag title match on Sunday so they didn’t want it. Sharpton asked the fans if they wanted a tag title match tonight and of course there were big cheers. So, he made the match and it was underway. Jericho and Big Show defending the tag titles against MVP and Mark Henry. The match went for about twenty minutes. Some impressive power spots in the match involving Show against Henry. Show’s distraction led to a codebreaker by Jericho to get the win on MVP to retain the tag team titles. The main event of the night was the gauntlet match with John Cena taking on Jericho, Show, and Randy Orton. Cena faced Jericho first. Jericho hooked the walls and Cena got to the ropes. Jericho wouldn’t let go of the hold and the ref called for the DQ. Lawler put over how this must have been the plan by Orton was to injure Cena. Jericho didn’t let go of the hold until Big Show arrived. Jericho stayed at ringside. Cena eventually got Show up for the adjustment and then Jericho attacked from behind. The doubleteam got going and then Show hooked the clutch. Orton then arrived and slowly made his way to the ring. Cena got back to his feet and the two faced off. Cena pointed up at the Cell above the ring. It started to lower and Cena grabbed Orton where he couldn’t get away till it lowered as he started to run. The door however was left open. Cena challenged Orton to go for it and he did. Cena cut him off from getting out and the two went at it. They did end up outside the Cell. Cena picked up Orton for the adjustment and Orton grabbed the Cell and climbed to the top of it to avoid getting hit with the move. Cena followed and the two battled on top of the Cell. Cena then hit the adjustment on to Orton on top of the Cell. The show ended with Cena standing triumphant on top of the Cell. In other action, Cody Rhodes and Ted Dibiase went to the ring talking about the Cell match against DX and talking about what they would do to DX. DX interrupted doing comedy stuff from up in the top of the lower level of the arena. DX then made their way to the ring and said they weren’t waiting for Sunday. Rhodes and Dibiase bailed out as DX got in the ring. Jack Swagger defeated Evan Bourne following a powerbomb. Swagger was still wearing the stolen US title. Miz made his way to the ring after the match while Swagger was talking trash about Sunday. The two ended up in a fight and then Kofi ran out and grabbed the US title taking it back with him. Mickie James defeated Rosa Mendes who had Alicia Fox in her corner. Mickie won with a spin kick. Hornswoggle and Santino took on the team of Chavo and Masters. The finish had Masters winning with the masterlock submission on Santino. Afterwards, Masters looked to help Chavo and then put the masterlock on Hornswoggle. Chavo looked frustrated and punched Masters to break the hold and left. The rest of the stuff with Sharpton was mostly comedy kind of sketches and then finished off with him singing while the Bellas danced with him.
Other notes from Raw. It really is a bummer that there aren’t more stronger workers for Mickie James to work with on Raw. It really is almost that feeling of let’s just have a round the clock Mickie/Beth feud. I say that in respect to Gail Kim but it appears that WWE isn’t going to push her and that match on Raw a few weeks ago is likely the reason. Jericho was great on the mic tonight but he always is anyway. That did look impressive where Mark Henry caught Big Show running into the corner. Besides the closing angle with Cena and Orton on the Cell, not much to talk about overall on this show.
WWE announced tonight that NFL star, Ben Roethlisberger will guest host next week on Raw.
This Friday will be the 10 year anniversary special of Smackdown. Expect to see some “best of” stuff along with the announced 8 man main event of DX, Undertaker, and John Cena taking on CM Punk and Legacy. I have heard that The Rock has done a pre taped message which will air during the Smackdown anniversary show as well.
Rey Mysterio is back from his wellness policy suspension and will team with Batista on Sunday’s PPV against tag champions, Big Show and Chris Jericho.
It didn’t take long for Jim Cornette to end up somewhere after he and TNA parted ways. Cornette showed up at the Ring Of Honor event over the weekend and appeared on the TV taping.
Lilian Garcia’s farewell last week at Raw continued after the show went off the air. DX and Cena remained and brought Lilian in the ring. She did their catchphrase with them and then DX left. This was a lot of fun. Line of it was Triple H saying “and for the millions….not watching around the world” since they were off the air at that point. LOL. Sign of the night portion of it is the WWE Sign Guy holding up a sign that says “why can’t Chimel leave instead?” “I’ve Had The Time Of My Life” then played in the arena as Lilian waved at the fans. Lillian’s fiancé was brought into the ring and he and Lillan danced in the ring. Afterwards, Lillan made her way around ringside saying goodbye to the fans. Also, Lilian posted on her Twitter account today that she got married today. Big congrats to her and her husband. Wishing them all the best!! Speaking of her Twitter account, she posted this picture of her and the other divas backstage at last week’s Raw: http://twitpic.com/io6u1
I watched the Shotgun Saturday Night episode from January 1997 which is currently airing on WWE 24/7 Classics On Demand (well for one more day anyway). This was fun to watch again and featured the Austin/Terry Funk brawl. I watched this thinking how great it was to just have a heel that didn’t back down. I’ve heard this talked about lately in a lot of wrestling discussions about how most of the heels are all scared now. Austin was different and stood right up to whoever. Yeah, I loved him for it and was a huge fan of his way before his face turn. I loved Funk talking trash to him at the announce table on this show and Austin just saying that he’d better quit talking about him. As Funk got back in the ring, Austin finally got sick of it and got up. He walked right in the ring and stood face to face with Funk. You just don’t have heels doing that anymore. Why can’t we have tough heels anymore? You might remember that Shotgun Saturday Night originally started as a format of matches taped inside of a club type venue. I liked the concept just because it was something different at the time. The format didn’t last long at all. It is still fun to watch and look back on it.
Here is the lineup for the WWE Cell PPV this Sunday. Keep in mind that not all of these matches will take place in the Cell. This isn’t a format like TNA Lockdown. CM Punk defends the World title against The Undertaker in the Cell. John Cena defends the WWE title against Randy Orton in the Cell. Shawn Michaels and Triple H team up to take on Cody Rhodes and Ted Dibiase in the Cell. US Champion Kofi Kingston defends against The Miz and Jack Swagger. Unified Tag Team champions Chris Jericho and Big Show defend against Rey Mysterio and Batista. Intercontinental Champion John Morrison defends against Dolph Ziggler. Mickie James defends the Divas championship against Alicia Fox. This should be a solid show but one thing that I’ve heard discussed a lot is just how to you book three Cell matches on the same show. How you make every one of them exciting? There have been multiple Cell matches on a PPV before as King Of The Ring 1998 featured the Mankind/Undertaker match followed by Austin and Kane. My point being is that how many people talk about Austin and Kane’s Cell match from that night and that involved a title change!! Mankind/Undertaker has always been the story of that show. I’ll be curious to see how these three Cell matches play off of each other on this show.
Wishing all of you a great and safe week!! Take care and God bless!!
Tonight’s Raw was the last Raw before this Sunday’s PPV. The guest host was Rev. Al Sharpton. I just thought tonight’s Raw was dull overall. It is just the same stuff every week with a different guest host. The show opened this week with the VIP Lounge with MVP and Mark Henry. MVP went to announce Sharpton but instead got Jericho and Big Show. Jericho and MVP argued over bigger ways to introduce Sharpton. Al Sharpton was introduced to the crowd. He promoted his education tour and then MVP laid down a challenge for Jericho and Big Show. Jericho mentioned how they had a match already and then had the tag title match on Sunday so they didn’t want it. Sharpton asked the fans if they wanted a tag title match tonight and of course there were big cheers. So, he made the match and it was underway. Jericho and Big Show defending the tag titles against MVP and Mark Henry. The match went for about twenty minutes. Some impressive power spots in the match involving Show against Henry. Show’s distraction led to a codebreaker by Jericho to get the win on MVP to retain the tag team titles. The main event of the night was the gauntlet match with John Cena taking on Jericho, Show, and Randy Orton. Cena faced Jericho first. Jericho hooked the walls and Cena got to the ropes. Jericho wouldn’t let go of the hold and the ref called for the DQ. Lawler put over how this must have been the plan by Orton was to injure Cena. Jericho didn’t let go of the hold until Big Show arrived. Jericho stayed at ringside. Cena eventually got Show up for the adjustment and then Jericho attacked from behind. The doubleteam got going and then Show hooked the clutch. Orton then arrived and slowly made his way to the ring. Cena got back to his feet and the two faced off. Cena pointed up at the Cell above the ring. It started to lower and Cena grabbed Orton where he couldn’t get away till it lowered as he started to run. The door however was left open. Cena challenged Orton to go for it and he did. Cena cut him off from getting out and the two went at it. They did end up outside the Cell. Cena picked up Orton for the adjustment and Orton grabbed the Cell and climbed to the top of it to avoid getting hit with the move. Cena followed and the two battled on top of the Cell. Cena then hit the adjustment on to Orton on top of the Cell. The show ended with Cena standing triumphant on top of the Cell. In other action, Cody Rhodes and Ted Dibiase went to the ring talking about the Cell match against DX and talking about what they would do to DX. DX interrupted doing comedy stuff from up in the top of the lower level of the arena. DX then made their way to the ring and said they weren’t waiting for Sunday. Rhodes and Dibiase bailed out as DX got in the ring. Jack Swagger defeated Evan Bourne following a powerbomb. Swagger was still wearing the stolen US title. Miz made his way to the ring after the match while Swagger was talking trash about Sunday. The two ended up in a fight and then Kofi ran out and grabbed the US title taking it back with him. Mickie James defeated Rosa Mendes who had Alicia Fox in her corner. Mickie won with a spin kick. Hornswoggle and Santino took on the team of Chavo and Masters. The finish had Masters winning with the masterlock submission on Santino. Afterwards, Masters looked to help Chavo and then put the masterlock on Hornswoggle. Chavo looked frustrated and punched Masters to break the hold and left. The rest of the stuff with Sharpton was mostly comedy kind of sketches and then finished off with him singing while the Bellas danced with him.
Other notes from Raw. It really is a bummer that there aren’t more stronger workers for Mickie James to work with on Raw. It really is almost that feeling of let’s just have a round the clock Mickie/Beth feud. I say that in respect to Gail Kim but it appears that WWE isn’t going to push her and that match on Raw a few weeks ago is likely the reason. Jericho was great on the mic tonight but he always is anyway. That did look impressive where Mark Henry caught Big Show running into the corner. Besides the closing angle with Cena and Orton on the Cell, not much to talk about overall on this show.
WWE announced tonight that NFL star, Ben Roethlisberger will guest host next week on Raw.
This Friday will be the 10 year anniversary special of Smackdown. Expect to see some “best of” stuff along with the announced 8 man main event of DX, Undertaker, and John Cena taking on CM Punk and Legacy. I have heard that The Rock has done a pre taped message which will air during the Smackdown anniversary show as well.
Rey Mysterio is back from his wellness policy suspension and will team with Batista on Sunday’s PPV against tag champions, Big Show and Chris Jericho.
It didn’t take long for Jim Cornette to end up somewhere after he and TNA parted ways. Cornette showed up at the Ring Of Honor event over the weekend and appeared on the TV taping.
Lilian Garcia’s farewell last week at Raw continued after the show went off the air. DX and Cena remained and brought Lilian in the ring. She did their catchphrase with them and then DX left. This was a lot of fun. Line of it was Triple H saying “and for the millions….not watching around the world” since they were off the air at that point. LOL. Sign of the night portion of it is the WWE Sign Guy holding up a sign that says “why can’t Chimel leave instead?” “I’ve Had The Time Of My Life” then played in the arena as Lilian waved at the fans. Lillian’s fiancé was brought into the ring and he and Lillan danced in the ring. Afterwards, Lillan made her way around ringside saying goodbye to the fans. Also, Lilian posted on her Twitter account today that she got married today. Big congrats to her and her husband. Wishing them all the best!! Speaking of her Twitter account, she posted this picture of her and the other divas backstage at last week’s Raw: http://twitpic.com/io6u1
I watched the Shotgun Saturday Night episode from January 1997 which is currently airing on WWE 24/7 Classics On Demand (well for one more day anyway). This was fun to watch again and featured the Austin/Terry Funk brawl. I watched this thinking how great it was to just have a heel that didn’t back down. I’ve heard this talked about lately in a lot of wrestling discussions about how most of the heels are all scared now. Austin was different and stood right up to whoever. Yeah, I loved him for it and was a huge fan of his way before his face turn. I loved Funk talking trash to him at the announce table on this show and Austin just saying that he’d better quit talking about him. As Funk got back in the ring, Austin finally got sick of it and got up. He walked right in the ring and stood face to face with Funk. You just don’t have heels doing that anymore. Why can’t we have tough heels anymore? You might remember that Shotgun Saturday Night originally started as a format of matches taped inside of a club type venue. I liked the concept just because it was something different at the time. The format didn’t last long at all. It is still fun to watch and look back on it.
Here is the lineup for the WWE Cell PPV this Sunday. Keep in mind that not all of these matches will take place in the Cell. This isn’t a format like TNA Lockdown. CM Punk defends the World title against The Undertaker in the Cell. John Cena defends the WWE title against Randy Orton in the Cell. Shawn Michaels and Triple H team up to take on Cody Rhodes and Ted Dibiase in the Cell. US Champion Kofi Kingston defends against The Miz and Jack Swagger. Unified Tag Team champions Chris Jericho and Big Show defend against Rey Mysterio and Batista. Intercontinental Champion John Morrison defends against Dolph Ziggler. Mickie James defends the Divas championship against Alicia Fox. This should be a solid show but one thing that I’ve heard discussed a lot is just how to you book three Cell matches on the same show. How you make every one of them exciting? There have been multiple Cell matches on a PPV before as King Of The Ring 1998 featured the Mankind/Undertaker match followed by Austin and Kane. My point being is that how many people talk about Austin and Kane’s Cell match from that night and that involved a title change!! Mankind/Undertaker has always been the story of that show. I’ll be curious to see how these three Cell matches play off of each other on this show.
Wishing all of you a great and safe week!! Take care and God bless!!
Monday, September 21, 2009
Lillian Garcia Farewell, Raw Thoughts, Hulkamania Tour, & More - September 21, 2009
Welcome to the “farewell to Lillian Garcia” edition of The Wrestling List. If you didn’t know, tonight was Lillian’s last night on Raw as her contract is up and she is moving on other things. She has been with WWE since 1999 and has definitely made her mark in WWE over that time. She is greatly going to be missed.
Tonight’s Raw was guest hosted by Cedric The Entertainer. The show opened with Triple H taking on Cody Rhodes. Shawn Michaels and Ted Dibiase were at ringside. Cody ended up on the floor at one point and slapped Shawn. Shawn chased Cody and ended up battling both of Legacy on the floor and they hit him with the high/low. Cody got back in the ring but was about to get hit with a pedigree. Dibiase attacked with a chair to the back causing the DQ followed by a chair to the head. Dibiase hit the dreamstreet and Cody hit the cross-rhodes. Shawn then grabbed the sledgehammer from under the ring and jumped in the ring and Legacy bailed. Randy Orton and John Cena had their contract signing for their WWE title Cell match. Usual trash talking and it was told that this was Orton’s last shot at the title. There was no physicality allowed between the two of them so Orton brought out Show and Jericho. They both attacked Cena. Henry and MVP arrived to help out Cena. Cedric then made a six man tag team main event. Jericho and Show later went and talked to Cedric. A stipulation was added. If Cena, MVP, and Henry win, Orton has to face the three of them in a gauntlet match next week. However, if Orton, Jericho, and Show win, then Cena has to face the three of them in a gauntlet match. The match happened with the finish having Cena lifting Show over the ropes with the adjustment. Henry had Orton up but then Jericho took out Henry from behind. Orton hit a RKO for the win on Henry. That means that Cena will face Orton, Show, and Jericho in a gauntlet match next week. In other action. The stealing of the US title continues. Josh Mathews interviewed The Miz who had stolen the US title last week from Kofil. Kofi jumped in and attacked Miz and took his title back. The Miz defeated Evan Bourne in a match afterwards. Kofi defended the US title against Jack Swagger. Miz made his way out and took the title again. On his way up the ramp, Swagger attacked Miz and took the belt for himself. The match didn’t continue since Swagger left. Mickie James took on Beth Phoenix with the new number one contender for the Divas title, Alicia Fox, watching at ringside. Mickie nailed a press off of the apron to the floor on Beth. She then celebrated and took a swing at Alicia. The distraction led to Beth sending Mickie into the post. She then hit her finisher to pin Mickie. Alicia then made her way into the ring and nailed a scissors kick on to Mickie as she held up the Divas title. Santino Marella was made the comedy sidekick with Cedric. Chavo was sick of the guest hosts and challenged Cedric to a match. Santino helped encourage Cedric to make it happen. The match happened with Santino being assigned as special ref. Cedric was in an outfit that included a mask. Cedric changed places with someone under the ring in the same outfit. He did all the damage and crawled back under there. Hornswoggle crawled out in the same outfit and hit the tadpole splash. Cedric then returned and got the pin on Chavo. All three involved against Chavo then celebrated in the ring.
Other notes from Raw. Great to see Lillian Garcia get to give a big farewell speech and get a classy sendoff before the main event. It’s WWE so you tend to expect that most people won’t get a classy sendoff. She deserved one and got it as she gave a great heartfelt tearful speech. You’ll be missed Lillian!!! I thought Cedric did a solid job tonight. The Bellas got used again as valets for Cedric much like they were for Bob Barker a couple of weeks ago. Umm, wouldn’t you at least try to win the US title first before you stole it if you’re Jack Swagger? I mean you did get the title match after all. I just thought that didn’t make much sense. Just kind of an “ehhh” edition of Raw tonight for me anyway.
Rev. Al Sharpton will be the “guest host” for Raw next in Albany, NY.
Linda McMahon has stepped down as CEO to make a run at a US Senate seat representing Connecticut. This has gotten quite a bit of media coverage and had been talked about for several months now. You can check out her website at: http://www.linda2010.com
The Hulkamania tour in Australia has been making major headlines in the last week. Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff are running the shows and have pulled some big talent on to the show. One of them is including Ric Flair who has agreed to wrestle Hogan two different times. Yep, Flair is coming out of retirement. The tour is going to include four dates with these stars appearing: DDP, Ken Anderson (formerly known as Ken Kennedy), The Godfather, Umaga, Brutus Beefcake, Sean Morley, Lacey Von Erich, The Nasty Boys, Heidenreich, Orlando Jordan, Jimmy Hart, and more. For more info on the tour, here is the link to the official site: http://www.hulkamania.com.au/
AJ Styles won the TNA championship at the No Surrender PPV.
D-Lo Brown announced on last week’s Between The Ropes that he is about to retire from the ring and appears to just be finishing up commitments at this point.
http://www.betweentheropes.com
I watched a match that I had COMPLETELY forgotten about on WWE 24/7 Classics On Demand over the weekend. It was a match from WWF Wrestling Challenge in 1990 between Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart. I’m positive that I haven’t seen that match since the Saturday morning that it aired. It was a short little match which saw Neidhart and Jannety get involved but still it was a lot of fun for history’s sake. I had completely forgotten that they had wrestled a singles match during their tag team days.
Strange editing on WWE 24/7 Classics On Demand this week that I noticed. I'm talking about Bret Hart's music which was the music that he used upon his arrival in WCW. It has been edited out of the WCW Monday Nitro broadcasts but yet I heard it intact on his Hall of Fame profile section in his match between himself and Ric Flair from WCW Souled Out 1998. I'm not complaining obviously!!!
Have a great week. Take care and God bless!!
Tonight’s Raw was guest hosted by Cedric The Entertainer. The show opened with Triple H taking on Cody Rhodes. Shawn Michaels and Ted Dibiase were at ringside. Cody ended up on the floor at one point and slapped Shawn. Shawn chased Cody and ended up battling both of Legacy on the floor and they hit him with the high/low. Cody got back in the ring but was about to get hit with a pedigree. Dibiase attacked with a chair to the back causing the DQ followed by a chair to the head. Dibiase hit the dreamstreet and Cody hit the cross-rhodes. Shawn then grabbed the sledgehammer from under the ring and jumped in the ring and Legacy bailed. Randy Orton and John Cena had their contract signing for their WWE title Cell match. Usual trash talking and it was told that this was Orton’s last shot at the title. There was no physicality allowed between the two of them so Orton brought out Show and Jericho. They both attacked Cena. Henry and MVP arrived to help out Cena. Cedric then made a six man tag team main event. Jericho and Show later went and talked to Cedric. A stipulation was added. If Cena, MVP, and Henry win, Orton has to face the three of them in a gauntlet match next week. However, if Orton, Jericho, and Show win, then Cena has to face the three of them in a gauntlet match. The match happened with the finish having Cena lifting Show over the ropes with the adjustment. Henry had Orton up but then Jericho took out Henry from behind. Orton hit a RKO for the win on Henry. That means that Cena will face Orton, Show, and Jericho in a gauntlet match next week. In other action. The stealing of the US title continues. Josh Mathews interviewed The Miz who had stolen the US title last week from Kofil. Kofi jumped in and attacked Miz and took his title back. The Miz defeated Evan Bourne in a match afterwards. Kofi defended the US title against Jack Swagger. Miz made his way out and took the title again. On his way up the ramp, Swagger attacked Miz and took the belt for himself. The match didn’t continue since Swagger left. Mickie James took on Beth Phoenix with the new number one contender for the Divas title, Alicia Fox, watching at ringside. Mickie nailed a press off of the apron to the floor on Beth. She then celebrated and took a swing at Alicia. The distraction led to Beth sending Mickie into the post. She then hit her finisher to pin Mickie. Alicia then made her way into the ring and nailed a scissors kick on to Mickie as she held up the Divas title. Santino Marella was made the comedy sidekick with Cedric. Chavo was sick of the guest hosts and challenged Cedric to a match. Santino helped encourage Cedric to make it happen. The match happened with Santino being assigned as special ref. Cedric was in an outfit that included a mask. Cedric changed places with someone under the ring in the same outfit. He did all the damage and crawled back under there. Hornswoggle crawled out in the same outfit and hit the tadpole splash. Cedric then returned and got the pin on Chavo. All three involved against Chavo then celebrated in the ring.
Other notes from Raw. Great to see Lillian Garcia get to give a big farewell speech and get a classy sendoff before the main event. It’s WWE so you tend to expect that most people won’t get a classy sendoff. She deserved one and got it as she gave a great heartfelt tearful speech. You’ll be missed Lillian!!! I thought Cedric did a solid job tonight. The Bellas got used again as valets for Cedric much like they were for Bob Barker a couple of weeks ago. Umm, wouldn’t you at least try to win the US title first before you stole it if you’re Jack Swagger? I mean you did get the title match after all. I just thought that didn’t make much sense. Just kind of an “ehhh” edition of Raw tonight for me anyway.
Rev. Al Sharpton will be the “guest host” for Raw next in Albany, NY.
Linda McMahon has stepped down as CEO to make a run at a US Senate seat representing Connecticut. This has gotten quite a bit of media coverage and had been talked about for several months now. You can check out her website at: http://www.linda2010.com
The Hulkamania tour in Australia has been making major headlines in the last week. Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff are running the shows and have pulled some big talent on to the show. One of them is including Ric Flair who has agreed to wrestle Hogan two different times. Yep, Flair is coming out of retirement. The tour is going to include four dates with these stars appearing: DDP, Ken Anderson (formerly known as Ken Kennedy), The Godfather, Umaga, Brutus Beefcake, Sean Morley, Lacey Von Erich, The Nasty Boys, Heidenreich, Orlando Jordan, Jimmy Hart, and more. For more info on the tour, here is the link to the official site: http://www.hulkamania.com.au/
AJ Styles won the TNA championship at the No Surrender PPV.
D-Lo Brown announced on last week’s Between The Ropes that he is about to retire from the ring and appears to just be finishing up commitments at this point.
http://www.betweentheropes.com
I watched a match that I had COMPLETELY forgotten about on WWE 24/7 Classics On Demand over the weekend. It was a match from WWF Wrestling Challenge in 1990 between Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart. I’m positive that I haven’t seen that match since the Saturday morning that it aired. It was a short little match which saw Neidhart and Jannety get involved but still it was a lot of fun for history’s sake. I had completely forgotten that they had wrestled a singles match during their tag team days.
Strange editing on WWE 24/7 Classics On Demand this week that I noticed. I'm talking about Bret Hart's music which was the music that he used upon his arrival in WCW. It has been edited out of the WCW Monday Nitro broadcasts but yet I heard it intact on his Hall of Fame profile section in his match between himself and Ric Flair from WCW Souled Out 1998. I'm not complaining obviously!!!
Have a great week. Take care and God bless!!
Monday, September 14, 2009
Trish Stratus Back On Raw, Breaking Point Results, & More - September 14, 2009
Welcome to the “100% Stratusfied” edition of The Wrestling List. Great to see Trish Stratus back on Raw tonight as the guest host. Long time Trish fan so I was really looking forward to tonight’s show.
The WWE Breaking Point PPV was last night in Montreal and here are the results. The show opened with Big Show and Chris Jericho defeating Mark Henry and MVP to retain the unified tag team titles. Henry was knocked out by a Big Show punch from the apron. Jericho then got the pin on Henry. Kofi Kingston defeated The Miz with the trouble in paradise. Cody Rhodes and Ted Dibiase defeated DX. Triple H was knocked down from a chair shot from Cody away from the ring. The doubleteam on Shawn got going. Shawn was able to come back and fight them off including a superkick to Cody. A couple of minutes later, Shawn’s next superkick attempt on Dibiase was stopped when Cody pulled him low blow style into the post. Cody hooked the figure four on the ringpost. Dibiase then hooked the million dollar dream and Shawn tapped out. Triple H was crawling down the aisle trying to get to the ring but obviously didn’t make it. Kane defeated The Great Khali in the Singapore Cane match after he won with a chokeslam. Christian defeated William Regal with the killswitch to retain the ECW title. John Cena defeated Randy Orton to win the WWE championship in the I Quit match. Orton controlled most of the match. Cena used handcuffs in the finish as well using the handcuffs while hooking the STF. Orton then said I Quit. Here comes your Montreal finish. Ugh. CM Punk defends the World title against the Undertaker in a submission match. Punk tapped out when Undertaker hooked the choke. Teddy Long then arrived saying that Vickie Guererro had banned that move a long time ago and ordered the match to continue. Undertaker went for the last ride but Punk got out of it and nailed Undertaker’s knee. Punk then hooked the anaconda vice and Scott Armstrong immediately called for the bell. Undertaker did not submit though. Armstrong gave the belt to Punk and ran out of the building. Yes, they did ANOTHER Montreal finish.
Ok, just want to speak on the finish of the Punk/Undertaker match. WWE often jokes about how fans can’t get over the Montreal finish from 1997 especially the fans in Canada. The fans appear to be over it. WWE is the ones that KEEP doing the same finish over and over. It’s boring. When you’ve seen the same finish done probably 100 times since the original one happened, do you really care anymore?
Tonight’s WWE Raw had one thing positive for sure going for me tonight. Trish Stratus. Great to see Trish back. If you didn’t somehow know, I’m a long time fan of Trish’s. That girl worked hard to get better and better. She became possibly the best in ring female worker ever. I would argue that one too. So, Trish is the guest host tonight in her hometown of Toronto. The show opens with Batista’s announcement. He thanks the fans and it sounds like he is going for a retirement speech especially based on the fact that he still had a brace on his arm. Randy Orton makes his way to the ring and baits Batista saying that he was retiring cause of him adding to save the speech cause no one cared. Batista then started laughing and said that there was two reasons for it. One was because Orton was so predictable and the second being……that he was taking his brace off. He then hammered Orton and clotheslined him out of the ring. He then announced that he will be going to Smackdown but that Trish had given him one last Raw match which would be against Orton tonight in a no holds barred match. Yeah, Orton wasn’t looking happy and was backing up the ramp stunned after being knocked from the ring. The match takes place to end the show. Orton keeps going for a chair or some sort of weapon to battle with. Batista throws Orton over the announce table at one point. Orton gets back in the ring and his RKO attempt is countered. Orton then bails out and backs up the aisle. Cena’s music hits and he throws Orton back into the ring. Batista hits a spinebuster and Batista bomb for the win. Trish did announce the main event for the Cell PPV saying that it would be Orton against Cena in a Cell for the WWE title. Trish made a number one contenders match for the Divas title. The winner will get a title shot with Mickie James. Alicia Fox defeated Gail Kim with the scissors kick. Mickie was doing commentary at ringside. Later, Beth Phoenix confronts her about being left out of the match. She said that Trish retired cause she was scared of her. Jericho walks in as well as Trish had made a comment about him earlier. They reference their relationship years ago in 2004. She went back at Jericho saying that she was happy he had found a new soulmate, The Big Show. Beth continued to crack on Trish for leaving mentioning her yoga studio. Trish announced a mixed person match with Trish and a partner against Jericho and Beth. Trish’s partner was MVP. Trish and Beth started off in the ring. Trish ended up being shoved off by Jericho during a pin attempt. MVP took Jericho out of the ring. Big Show arrived causing the DQ. Henry got involved too. The brawl was on. Trish got on the mic saying this match wasn’t over and made it a six person match. Jericho tagged out to Beth toward the end. The person in the ring was MVP. LOL. Beth shoved MVP and then he blocked her kick and gave her to Trish. Trish and MVP then did MVP’s ballin’ move which was fun. Trish was tripped bouncing off of the ropes by Big Show. Henry then took out Big Show on the floor. Beth tried to get the advantage and pin Trish but Trish kicked out. Trish gets back on offense and hits the stratusfaction for the pin on Beth. Great stuff. Big pop from the fans on the win. Shawn Michaels faced Ted Dibiase tonight. Triple H and Cody Rhodes were at ringside. Legacy did a promo before it saying how they were the only ones to ever make DX tap out. Shawn was selling his eye injury during the match. Shawn went for the superkick and Cody pulled him down toward the post. Triple H took out Cody. The bell rang upon Cody getting involved for the DQ. The fight was then on as all four guys battled all over ringside. The fight was even for the most part. The fight ended on TV when Triple H threw Cody into a camera guy. Jack Swagger and The Miz defeated Kofi Kingston and Primo. Kofi got distracted by Miz leaving with the US title and Swagger took advantage to get the win. Hornswoggle and Evan Bourne defeated Chavo Guerrero and Carlito. Hornswoggle spit the apple in Chavo’s face and then hit the splash for the win. Afterwards, Chavo said that he was done with this and admitted defeat. I do too!! I admit defeat too!!
Other notes from Raw. Imagine my disappointment when Lillian opens the show saying “welcome back to Raw…..Batista”. LOL. I was expecting Trish and I get Batista. Yeah, disappointed to say the least. LOL. I’m wondering how many people knew that Trish wasn’t blond anymore. She has had her hair color different for a while now if you didn’t know. I loved the reference of Mickie James saying that she was quite the fan of Trish’s back in the day. What a great feud that was!!! Speaking of references, I loved that they remembered the Jericho/Trish relationship. The heel turn by Trish at WrestleMania XX was great stuff. I loved the whole love triangle angle. One of the better storylines and series of matches resulting from it in recent years. I thought it was silly when Lawler said that the camera going down cut their whole feed which was why the commercial happened. If you lose your whole feed due to one camera, you’ve got problems. LOL. Wow, I couldn’t agree with Chavo more. I admit defeat to this feud too. I tap out. I wanted to tap out at week one. They sure are pushing Alicia Fox and really not pushing Gail Kim. I loved seeing Dibiase dropping the old school fist drop made famous by his dad. How funny was Jericho telling Trish that he would face Bob Barker anytime, any place? I’m glad that tag match continued with Trish cause I was thinking, how lame!! We get Trish back and it goes for two minutes. So, I was thrilled that the match kept going. Was I the only one that was SURE that Cena would be Trish's partner again? I was shocked when it was MVP.
A couple of other announcements from Raw. It was announced that DX will face Legacy in the Cell at the PPV. Also, Cedric The Entertainer will be the guest host on Raw next week.
WWE corrected a major mess up last week that was hilarious to follow. PWInsider.com reported last week that WWE had scheduled the Royal Rumble to happen on the same night as the NFL conference games, January 24. Yeah, the second biggest football day of the year. WWE usually avoids that night cause do you really want to go head to head with such important games in such a popular sport? Well, WWE was about to try it. When the story got out, WWE moved the Rumble to the following Sunday, January 31. I don’t know if someone just messed up with the scheduling or what. That would have cost them a TON of PPV buys if they hadn’t moved that.
Lillian Garcia posted on her Twitter account that next week’s Raw will be her last date in working with the company. She is leaving to go do other things including getting married. They had better let her sing the national anthem before that show and let her go out strong. I just hope WWE gives her a classy exit but it is WWE so I doubt that will happen. WWE put out a “want ad” in the industry several months back looking for a replacement basically asking for the personality of another Lillian Garcia.
The Best Of WWE Smackdown DVD hits stores tomorrow. Should be a good DVD and it has a lot of great Smackdown moments from over the years. Wow, Smackdown has been on for ten years now. It has had its ups and downs for sure. The moments showed for sure in that DVD commercial that aired tonight. I will never forget that 9/11 tribute show. WWE was the first organized event after 9/11 that took place if I remember right. The show opened with an INCREDIBLE rendition of the national anthem by Lillian Garcia with the roster of talent out on the ramp paying tribute. The show was just a bunch of matches with no storyline. Just a way to entertain the fans and give us some normalcy. The superstars taped tributes that aired in between matches talking about the events of the week. I’ll always remember Lita’s comments during it saying that she had just taken her first deep breath of the week and hoped that they helped us take our first deep breath. I always remember that cause that night was the first bit of normalcy that I had had since 9/11 which was just two days after the tragedy. It really felt like the first breath that I had taken and I’ll never forget how great that it was just to see The Rock walk out to a big pop from the fans. It was the biggest that I had smiled in days just having something normal going on with something as simple as me sitting and watching wrestling. Lots of great moments on Smackdown over the years for sure and I’m sure that DVD will cover a lot of it.
The match listings have been announced for the new Hulk Hogan DVD that I recently mentioned and I am very excited about it. They are going to be putting more non-national TV matches on it including many house show matches from the 80’s. I'll go over the lineup when the DVD gets close to release.
I watched a WCW Worldwide show on WWE 24/7 yesterday. The main event was Stunning Steve Austin winning the TV title from Beautiful Bobby Eaton from back in 1991. I really enjoyed this show. It has been a LONG time since I have seen that match!! Fun times.
Wishing all of you a great week!! Take care and God bless!!
The WWE Breaking Point PPV was last night in Montreal and here are the results. The show opened with Big Show and Chris Jericho defeating Mark Henry and MVP to retain the unified tag team titles. Henry was knocked out by a Big Show punch from the apron. Jericho then got the pin on Henry. Kofi Kingston defeated The Miz with the trouble in paradise. Cody Rhodes and Ted Dibiase defeated DX. Triple H was knocked down from a chair shot from Cody away from the ring. The doubleteam on Shawn got going. Shawn was able to come back and fight them off including a superkick to Cody. A couple of minutes later, Shawn’s next superkick attempt on Dibiase was stopped when Cody pulled him low blow style into the post. Cody hooked the figure four on the ringpost. Dibiase then hooked the million dollar dream and Shawn tapped out. Triple H was crawling down the aisle trying to get to the ring but obviously didn’t make it. Kane defeated The Great Khali in the Singapore Cane match after he won with a chokeslam. Christian defeated William Regal with the killswitch to retain the ECW title. John Cena defeated Randy Orton to win the WWE championship in the I Quit match. Orton controlled most of the match. Cena used handcuffs in the finish as well using the handcuffs while hooking the STF. Orton then said I Quit. Here comes your Montreal finish. Ugh. CM Punk defends the World title against the Undertaker in a submission match. Punk tapped out when Undertaker hooked the choke. Teddy Long then arrived saying that Vickie Guererro had banned that move a long time ago and ordered the match to continue. Undertaker went for the last ride but Punk got out of it and nailed Undertaker’s knee. Punk then hooked the anaconda vice and Scott Armstrong immediately called for the bell. Undertaker did not submit though. Armstrong gave the belt to Punk and ran out of the building. Yes, they did ANOTHER Montreal finish.
Ok, just want to speak on the finish of the Punk/Undertaker match. WWE often jokes about how fans can’t get over the Montreal finish from 1997 especially the fans in Canada. The fans appear to be over it. WWE is the ones that KEEP doing the same finish over and over. It’s boring. When you’ve seen the same finish done probably 100 times since the original one happened, do you really care anymore?
Tonight’s WWE Raw had one thing positive for sure going for me tonight. Trish Stratus. Great to see Trish back. If you didn’t somehow know, I’m a long time fan of Trish’s. That girl worked hard to get better and better. She became possibly the best in ring female worker ever. I would argue that one too. So, Trish is the guest host tonight in her hometown of Toronto. The show opens with Batista’s announcement. He thanks the fans and it sounds like he is going for a retirement speech especially based on the fact that he still had a brace on his arm. Randy Orton makes his way to the ring and baits Batista saying that he was retiring cause of him adding to save the speech cause no one cared. Batista then started laughing and said that there was two reasons for it. One was because Orton was so predictable and the second being……that he was taking his brace off. He then hammered Orton and clotheslined him out of the ring. He then announced that he will be going to Smackdown but that Trish had given him one last Raw match which would be against Orton tonight in a no holds barred match. Yeah, Orton wasn’t looking happy and was backing up the ramp stunned after being knocked from the ring. The match takes place to end the show. Orton keeps going for a chair or some sort of weapon to battle with. Batista throws Orton over the announce table at one point. Orton gets back in the ring and his RKO attempt is countered. Orton then bails out and backs up the aisle. Cena’s music hits and he throws Orton back into the ring. Batista hits a spinebuster and Batista bomb for the win. Trish did announce the main event for the Cell PPV saying that it would be Orton against Cena in a Cell for the WWE title. Trish made a number one contenders match for the Divas title. The winner will get a title shot with Mickie James. Alicia Fox defeated Gail Kim with the scissors kick. Mickie was doing commentary at ringside. Later, Beth Phoenix confronts her about being left out of the match. She said that Trish retired cause she was scared of her. Jericho walks in as well as Trish had made a comment about him earlier. They reference their relationship years ago in 2004. She went back at Jericho saying that she was happy he had found a new soulmate, The Big Show. Beth continued to crack on Trish for leaving mentioning her yoga studio. Trish announced a mixed person match with Trish and a partner against Jericho and Beth. Trish’s partner was MVP. Trish and Beth started off in the ring. Trish ended up being shoved off by Jericho during a pin attempt. MVP took Jericho out of the ring. Big Show arrived causing the DQ. Henry got involved too. The brawl was on. Trish got on the mic saying this match wasn’t over and made it a six person match. Jericho tagged out to Beth toward the end. The person in the ring was MVP. LOL. Beth shoved MVP and then he blocked her kick and gave her to Trish. Trish and MVP then did MVP’s ballin’ move which was fun. Trish was tripped bouncing off of the ropes by Big Show. Henry then took out Big Show on the floor. Beth tried to get the advantage and pin Trish but Trish kicked out. Trish gets back on offense and hits the stratusfaction for the pin on Beth. Great stuff. Big pop from the fans on the win. Shawn Michaels faced Ted Dibiase tonight. Triple H and Cody Rhodes were at ringside. Legacy did a promo before it saying how they were the only ones to ever make DX tap out. Shawn was selling his eye injury during the match. Shawn went for the superkick and Cody pulled him down toward the post. Triple H took out Cody. The bell rang upon Cody getting involved for the DQ. The fight was then on as all four guys battled all over ringside. The fight was even for the most part. The fight ended on TV when Triple H threw Cody into a camera guy. Jack Swagger and The Miz defeated Kofi Kingston and Primo. Kofi got distracted by Miz leaving with the US title and Swagger took advantage to get the win. Hornswoggle and Evan Bourne defeated Chavo Guerrero and Carlito. Hornswoggle spit the apple in Chavo’s face and then hit the splash for the win. Afterwards, Chavo said that he was done with this and admitted defeat. I do too!! I admit defeat too!!
Other notes from Raw. Imagine my disappointment when Lillian opens the show saying “welcome back to Raw…..Batista”. LOL. I was expecting Trish and I get Batista. Yeah, disappointed to say the least. LOL. I’m wondering how many people knew that Trish wasn’t blond anymore. She has had her hair color different for a while now if you didn’t know. I loved the reference of Mickie James saying that she was quite the fan of Trish’s back in the day. What a great feud that was!!! Speaking of references, I loved that they remembered the Jericho/Trish relationship. The heel turn by Trish at WrestleMania XX was great stuff. I loved the whole love triangle angle. One of the better storylines and series of matches resulting from it in recent years. I thought it was silly when Lawler said that the camera going down cut their whole feed which was why the commercial happened. If you lose your whole feed due to one camera, you’ve got problems. LOL. Wow, I couldn’t agree with Chavo more. I admit defeat to this feud too. I tap out. I wanted to tap out at week one. They sure are pushing Alicia Fox and really not pushing Gail Kim. I loved seeing Dibiase dropping the old school fist drop made famous by his dad. How funny was Jericho telling Trish that he would face Bob Barker anytime, any place? I’m glad that tag match continued with Trish cause I was thinking, how lame!! We get Trish back and it goes for two minutes. So, I was thrilled that the match kept going. Was I the only one that was SURE that Cena would be Trish's partner again? I was shocked when it was MVP.
A couple of other announcements from Raw. It was announced that DX will face Legacy in the Cell at the PPV. Also, Cedric The Entertainer will be the guest host on Raw next week.
WWE corrected a major mess up last week that was hilarious to follow. PWInsider.com reported last week that WWE had scheduled the Royal Rumble to happen on the same night as the NFL conference games, January 24. Yeah, the second biggest football day of the year. WWE usually avoids that night cause do you really want to go head to head with such important games in such a popular sport? Well, WWE was about to try it. When the story got out, WWE moved the Rumble to the following Sunday, January 31. I don’t know if someone just messed up with the scheduling or what. That would have cost them a TON of PPV buys if they hadn’t moved that.
Lillian Garcia posted on her Twitter account that next week’s Raw will be her last date in working with the company. She is leaving to go do other things including getting married. They had better let her sing the national anthem before that show and let her go out strong. I just hope WWE gives her a classy exit but it is WWE so I doubt that will happen. WWE put out a “want ad” in the industry several months back looking for a replacement basically asking for the personality of another Lillian Garcia.
The Best Of WWE Smackdown DVD hits stores tomorrow. Should be a good DVD and it has a lot of great Smackdown moments from over the years. Wow, Smackdown has been on for ten years now. It has had its ups and downs for sure. The moments showed for sure in that DVD commercial that aired tonight. I will never forget that 9/11 tribute show. WWE was the first organized event after 9/11 that took place if I remember right. The show opened with an INCREDIBLE rendition of the national anthem by Lillian Garcia with the roster of talent out on the ramp paying tribute. The show was just a bunch of matches with no storyline. Just a way to entertain the fans and give us some normalcy. The superstars taped tributes that aired in between matches talking about the events of the week. I’ll always remember Lita’s comments during it saying that she had just taken her first deep breath of the week and hoped that they helped us take our first deep breath. I always remember that cause that night was the first bit of normalcy that I had had since 9/11 which was just two days after the tragedy. It really felt like the first breath that I had taken and I’ll never forget how great that it was just to see The Rock walk out to a big pop from the fans. It was the biggest that I had smiled in days just having something normal going on with something as simple as me sitting and watching wrestling. Lots of great moments on Smackdown over the years for sure and I’m sure that DVD will cover a lot of it.
The match listings have been announced for the new Hulk Hogan DVD that I recently mentioned and I am very excited about it. They are going to be putting more non-national TV matches on it including many house show matches from the 80’s. I'll go over the lineup when the DVD gets close to release.
I watched a WCW Worldwide show on WWE 24/7 yesterday. The main event was Stunning Steve Austin winning the TV title from Beautiful Bobby Eaton from back in 1991. I really enjoyed this show. It has been a LONG time since I have seen that match!! Fun times.
Wishing all of you a great week!! Take care and God bless!!
Monday, September 7, 2009
The Price Is Raw Recap, WWE 24/7, Breaking Point Preview, & More - September 7, 2009
Welcome to the “considering Chicago is usually a cheer for the heel type of crowd, I thought they might boo Bob Barker” edition of The Wrestling List.
The Price is Raw was the theme for tonight. Raw’s guest host was Bob Barker. Barker was introduced at the beginning of the show with a very Price Is Right sounding introduction done by Howard Finkel. He introduced the contestants for the opening segment which were Santino Marella, Jillian Hall, IRS, and…..Chris Jericho. Each came from the crowd which included Santino running wild and tripping over the barricade. Jericho walked from the back looking very annoyed to be there. I don’t know why but I found this segment to be funny. I have no idea why!!! LOL. The Smackdown DVD is bid on with Santino bidding $1,465. Jericho is insulted and won’t bid. Jericho ends up saying the number one in his overall comments to Bob and Bob takes that as a bid. Everyone else overbids so Jericho wins. His prize up for grabs is a trip to Hawaii and he has to beat MVP to get it. MVP counters the codebreaker attempt to win the match. The game show part returns later when White Sox player, AJ Pierzynski is brought in to replace Jericho. Santino wins and plays for a hot tub. The Bellas were the Price Is Right girls and Santino wanted them included but they weren’t. LOL. Santino’s opponent was Big Show in a bodyslam contest. Show slammed Santino one handed. Bob then introduced another bodyslam contest opponent which was Mark Henry. Both tried several times to slam the other but Henry legit picked up and slammed Big Show. On to the serious stuff though and less ha ha. John Cena took on Cody Rhodes in the middle of the show. Cody explained that he is sticking with Legacy pointing out how Orton had made him a main eventer and was staying loyal to Orton. Cody tried to hook a figure four but Cena stopped it and countered it into a STF. Orton ran in causing the DQ and then Cena was about to hook the hold on him but Orton slithered out of there. Cena then hit the adjustment on to Cody. The main event was DX taking on Randy Orton and Chris Masters. The opponents for DX were chosen by a Bob Barker spin of the wheel. Triple H and Orton battled over the announce table. Masters hooked Shawn in the masterlock. Triple H broke that up and then Shawn nailed a superkick on Masters. Shawn hooked a figure four on Masters and then Triple H hooked a sharpshooter on to Orton. Masters tapped out. Legacy arrived and pulled Orton out of the sharpshooter. The DX/Legacy fight ended up backstage. Orton avoided it hiding off to the side. Rhodes and Dibiase and DX battled to the parking lot and then Rhodes and Dibiase bailed out stealing a car. Orton talked in the ring and then Cena arrived. The brawl was all over ringside. As Cena got back in the ring, Orton nailed his on the apron DDT. That stopped things quickly. Orton nailed a RKO on to Cena on a chair while he taunted as the show went off the air. In other action, Barker announced Chavo’s opponent would be Evan Bourne. The prize for Chavo if he won would be a brand new car. Hornswoggle got involved squirting Chavo with a super soaker. As Chavo went for him, Bourne rolled him up for the win.
Other notes from Raw. I’m not sure that a comedy show is the kind of show that you want as a “go home” episode before a PPV. I seriously thought that Bob Barker might get booed in Chicago. LOL. He got a nice ovation instead. Speaking of getting booed, how hilarious was it that AJ was getting booed. I love how Chicago is split on the baseball teams. Fun rivalry. Well, at least they found something to do with the Bella twins. Which is worse for Chavo’s future? Getting beaten up by Hornswoggle every week or getting taken down by Bob Barker? Chicago fans loved Chris Jericho tonight. Big pop when he hooked the walls on to MVP. You just had to know that someone was going to use that Happy Gilmore line and Triple H was the one that did it. So, was Bob confused on what a bodyslam is? Did you see the camera guy accidentally take a kick from Triple H on the tag into the ring? Was there any doubt on who was taking the fall in the main event??!! So, Shawn in the masterlock once again on Labor Day. I’m referring to the Raw in Nashville back on Labor Day in 2005 where Shawn was in the masterlock challenge.
The Air Canada Centre website was right. WWE confirmed tonight that Trish Stratus will be the guest host next week on Raw. Woo hoo!!! Happy about that. It will be great to have Trish back for a night. They also promoted a “career altering decision” from Batista next week.
Place your bets now. How long till Lawler says “Bizarro land” next week on Raw in Toronto? LOL. I’ve got one minute and thirty eight seconds.
I haven’t had a chance to watch Smackdown yet so there won’t be any Smackdown recap this week. I will tell you that with Rey’s suspension, the Intercontinental title was moved over to John Morrision. Morrison defeated Rey on the show to win the belt.
Ring Of Honor is losing yet another star. Nigel McGuinness is on his way to WWE as well. This is coming off of the week that it was announced that Brian Danielson had signed with WWE.
I have watched the Rise and Fall of WCW DVD that was recently released. I’ll have a full recap and review of it coming your way soon in a special edition Wrestling List. Overall, I was disappointed with it. I thought a lot of things were left out of the story of what happened. I didn’t think it was particulary biased or anything like The Monday Night Wars DVD so that was an improvement. I’ll post a review of it later on when I get it typed up.
If you have Comcast, there is a free preview going of WWE 24/7 Classics On Demand. Head over to the Sports/Fitness section, click on WWE/UFC and you’ll see Stone Cold Free View. They have quite a few programs in there from the week one update of WWE 24/7 programming including ECW 1996, Mid Atlantic 1981, Stone Cold shorties, WWE 2009 Hall Of Fame ceremony, Bret Hart Hall Of Fame profile stuff including matches, Clash Of The Champions 23, and more. WWE is promoting it as 15 hours of free stuff to watch. Definiltely check it out if you have it!
WWE sure is going to the gimmicks to sell PPV’s. We have the upcoming PPV that will be focused on the Cell matches. Now, WWE has changed the December PPV to be entitled TLC. I assume that both of these shows mean that we’ll be seeing multiple matches with the gimmick in place.
WWE advertised last week that ECW would feature the entire Shawn Michaels/Undertaker match from WrestleMania 25. It did not feature the entire match but instead showed the INCREDIBLE music video package from the WrestleMania special. Glad that they showed that but they definitely did some misleading advertising on that.
The winner of the fan voting for WWE 24/7 Classics On Demand for September was In Your House: Revenge Of The Taker. I thought something that I’d do for the List every month is just take a look at the choices each month and give my thoughts on them. So, your choices for voting for October are Royal Rumble 1994, In Your House: Buried Alive, or the Great American Bash 2004. I’ll start with Royal Rumble 1994. This was definitely a memorable show. This featured the tie finish in the Rumble between Lex Luger and Bret Hart. This was of course leading up to WrestleMania X. This featured the heel turn by Owen Hart on Bret Hart in the tag team title match. All you had to do was tag me. LOL. I always loved that line from Owen. Last but not least as far as memorable goes was the Undertaker taking on Yokozuna for the WWF title in the casket match. This was when about 15 guys beat up The Undertaker and he was finished off. Then, he ascended up with some cool effects tied into the video screen. I’ll never forget watching that show that night with my friends. That gets us to In Your House: Buried Alive from October 1996. This featured the Undertaker vs. Mankind in the first ever Buried Alive match. Solid match and new concept. There is an early Steve Austin/Hunter Hearst Helmsley match in their rivalry. The rest of the show is just kind of blurry to me. Nothing really that spectacular on it. Interesting that WWE.com has Shawn Michaels vs. Goldust listed. That match was a dark match and wasn’t featured on the PPV. Thought that was kind of odd. Shawn does do commentary during the Sid/Vader match which was the match to decide who would face Shawn for the gold at Survivor Series. The Great American Bash 2004 is the one that should NOT be picked. Although, part of me would like to see this match just for the bad of it. LOL. One of my favorite PWInsider post PPV shows is the guys ripping on this show. It was hilarious and had to be much more entertaining that the actual show. The show is headlined by Eddie Guerrero defending the WWE title against JBL. The Undertaker takes on The Dudleys in a Live Free or Die match. Oh wow, this makes me want to go back and listen to that audio show. If I had to pick, I’d pick Royal Rumble 1994. I think that is the better of the three shows.
The WWE Breaking Point PPV is this Sunday on PPV. Here is the lineup for the show. CM Punk defends the World title against The Undertaker in a submission match. Randy Orton defends the WWE title against John Cena in an I Quit match. DX takes on Cody Rhodes and Ted Dibiase in a submissions count anywhere match. Chris Jericho and Big Show defend the Unified tag team titles against MVP and Mark Henry. Intercontinental champion John Morrison defends the title against Dolph Ziggler. The Great Khali takes on Kane in a Singapore Cane match.
Wishing all of you a great week!! Take care and God bless!!
The Price is Raw was the theme for tonight. Raw’s guest host was Bob Barker. Barker was introduced at the beginning of the show with a very Price Is Right sounding introduction done by Howard Finkel. He introduced the contestants for the opening segment which were Santino Marella, Jillian Hall, IRS, and…..Chris Jericho. Each came from the crowd which included Santino running wild and tripping over the barricade. Jericho walked from the back looking very annoyed to be there. I don’t know why but I found this segment to be funny. I have no idea why!!! LOL. The Smackdown DVD is bid on with Santino bidding $1,465. Jericho is insulted and won’t bid. Jericho ends up saying the number one in his overall comments to Bob and Bob takes that as a bid. Everyone else overbids so Jericho wins. His prize up for grabs is a trip to Hawaii and he has to beat MVP to get it. MVP counters the codebreaker attempt to win the match. The game show part returns later when White Sox player, AJ Pierzynski is brought in to replace Jericho. Santino wins and plays for a hot tub. The Bellas were the Price Is Right girls and Santino wanted them included but they weren’t. LOL. Santino’s opponent was Big Show in a bodyslam contest. Show slammed Santino one handed. Bob then introduced another bodyslam contest opponent which was Mark Henry. Both tried several times to slam the other but Henry legit picked up and slammed Big Show. On to the serious stuff though and less ha ha. John Cena took on Cody Rhodes in the middle of the show. Cody explained that he is sticking with Legacy pointing out how Orton had made him a main eventer and was staying loyal to Orton. Cody tried to hook a figure four but Cena stopped it and countered it into a STF. Orton ran in causing the DQ and then Cena was about to hook the hold on him but Orton slithered out of there. Cena then hit the adjustment on to Cody. The main event was DX taking on Randy Orton and Chris Masters. The opponents for DX were chosen by a Bob Barker spin of the wheel. Triple H and Orton battled over the announce table. Masters hooked Shawn in the masterlock. Triple H broke that up and then Shawn nailed a superkick on Masters. Shawn hooked a figure four on Masters and then Triple H hooked a sharpshooter on to Orton. Masters tapped out. Legacy arrived and pulled Orton out of the sharpshooter. The DX/Legacy fight ended up backstage. Orton avoided it hiding off to the side. Rhodes and Dibiase and DX battled to the parking lot and then Rhodes and Dibiase bailed out stealing a car. Orton talked in the ring and then Cena arrived. The brawl was all over ringside. As Cena got back in the ring, Orton nailed his on the apron DDT. That stopped things quickly. Orton nailed a RKO on to Cena on a chair while he taunted as the show went off the air. In other action, Barker announced Chavo’s opponent would be Evan Bourne. The prize for Chavo if he won would be a brand new car. Hornswoggle got involved squirting Chavo with a super soaker. As Chavo went for him, Bourne rolled him up for the win.
Other notes from Raw. I’m not sure that a comedy show is the kind of show that you want as a “go home” episode before a PPV. I seriously thought that Bob Barker might get booed in Chicago. LOL. He got a nice ovation instead. Speaking of getting booed, how hilarious was it that AJ was getting booed. I love how Chicago is split on the baseball teams. Fun rivalry. Well, at least they found something to do with the Bella twins. Which is worse for Chavo’s future? Getting beaten up by Hornswoggle every week or getting taken down by Bob Barker? Chicago fans loved Chris Jericho tonight. Big pop when he hooked the walls on to MVP. You just had to know that someone was going to use that Happy Gilmore line and Triple H was the one that did it. So, was Bob confused on what a bodyslam is? Did you see the camera guy accidentally take a kick from Triple H on the tag into the ring? Was there any doubt on who was taking the fall in the main event??!! So, Shawn in the masterlock once again on Labor Day. I’m referring to the Raw in Nashville back on Labor Day in 2005 where Shawn was in the masterlock challenge.
The Air Canada Centre website was right. WWE confirmed tonight that Trish Stratus will be the guest host next week on Raw. Woo hoo!!! Happy about that. It will be great to have Trish back for a night. They also promoted a “career altering decision” from Batista next week.
Place your bets now. How long till Lawler says “Bizarro land” next week on Raw in Toronto? LOL. I’ve got one minute and thirty eight seconds.
I haven’t had a chance to watch Smackdown yet so there won’t be any Smackdown recap this week. I will tell you that with Rey’s suspension, the Intercontinental title was moved over to John Morrision. Morrison defeated Rey on the show to win the belt.
Ring Of Honor is losing yet another star. Nigel McGuinness is on his way to WWE as well. This is coming off of the week that it was announced that Brian Danielson had signed with WWE.
I have watched the Rise and Fall of WCW DVD that was recently released. I’ll have a full recap and review of it coming your way soon in a special edition Wrestling List. Overall, I was disappointed with it. I thought a lot of things were left out of the story of what happened. I didn’t think it was particulary biased or anything like The Monday Night Wars DVD so that was an improvement. I’ll post a review of it later on when I get it typed up.
If you have Comcast, there is a free preview going of WWE 24/7 Classics On Demand. Head over to the Sports/Fitness section, click on WWE/UFC and you’ll see Stone Cold Free View. They have quite a few programs in there from the week one update of WWE 24/7 programming including ECW 1996, Mid Atlantic 1981, Stone Cold shorties, WWE 2009 Hall Of Fame ceremony, Bret Hart Hall Of Fame profile stuff including matches, Clash Of The Champions 23, and more. WWE is promoting it as 15 hours of free stuff to watch. Definiltely check it out if you have it!
WWE sure is going to the gimmicks to sell PPV’s. We have the upcoming PPV that will be focused on the Cell matches. Now, WWE has changed the December PPV to be entitled TLC. I assume that both of these shows mean that we’ll be seeing multiple matches with the gimmick in place.
WWE advertised last week that ECW would feature the entire Shawn Michaels/Undertaker match from WrestleMania 25. It did not feature the entire match but instead showed the INCREDIBLE music video package from the WrestleMania special. Glad that they showed that but they definitely did some misleading advertising on that.
The winner of the fan voting for WWE 24/7 Classics On Demand for September was In Your House: Revenge Of The Taker. I thought something that I’d do for the List every month is just take a look at the choices each month and give my thoughts on them. So, your choices for voting for October are Royal Rumble 1994, In Your House: Buried Alive, or the Great American Bash 2004. I’ll start with Royal Rumble 1994. This was definitely a memorable show. This featured the tie finish in the Rumble between Lex Luger and Bret Hart. This was of course leading up to WrestleMania X. This featured the heel turn by Owen Hart on Bret Hart in the tag team title match. All you had to do was tag me. LOL. I always loved that line from Owen. Last but not least as far as memorable goes was the Undertaker taking on Yokozuna for the WWF title in the casket match. This was when about 15 guys beat up The Undertaker and he was finished off. Then, he ascended up with some cool effects tied into the video screen. I’ll never forget watching that show that night with my friends. That gets us to In Your House: Buried Alive from October 1996. This featured the Undertaker vs. Mankind in the first ever Buried Alive match. Solid match and new concept. There is an early Steve Austin/Hunter Hearst Helmsley match in their rivalry. The rest of the show is just kind of blurry to me. Nothing really that spectacular on it. Interesting that WWE.com has Shawn Michaels vs. Goldust listed. That match was a dark match and wasn’t featured on the PPV. Thought that was kind of odd. Shawn does do commentary during the Sid/Vader match which was the match to decide who would face Shawn for the gold at Survivor Series. The Great American Bash 2004 is the one that should NOT be picked. Although, part of me would like to see this match just for the bad of it. LOL. One of my favorite PWInsider post PPV shows is the guys ripping on this show. It was hilarious and had to be much more entertaining that the actual show. The show is headlined by Eddie Guerrero defending the WWE title against JBL. The Undertaker takes on The Dudleys in a Live Free or Die match. Oh wow, this makes me want to go back and listen to that audio show. If I had to pick, I’d pick Royal Rumble 1994. I think that is the better of the three shows.
The WWE Breaking Point PPV is this Sunday on PPV. Here is the lineup for the show. CM Punk defends the World title against The Undertaker in a submission match. Randy Orton defends the WWE title against John Cena in an I Quit match. DX takes on Cody Rhodes and Ted Dibiase in a submissions count anywhere match. Chris Jericho and Big Show defend the Unified tag team titles against MVP and Mark Henry. Intercontinental champion John Morrison defends the title against Dolph Ziggler. The Great Khali takes on Kane in a Singapore Cane match.
Wishing all of you a great week!! Take care and God bless!!
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