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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

WWE Slammy Awards, TLC PPV Results, TNA Final Resolution Preview, ROH Recap, & More - December 16, 2009

Welcome to the “wow, was that one boring and bad three hours of Raw” edition of The Wrestling List. I have been very entertained listening to audio shows this week with people just ripping that Raw show apart cause it really was bad. You know me, I’m optimistic but this was bad. LOL. First, let’s start with the PPV results from Sunday night.

WWE held their TLC PPV Sunday night from San Antonio, Texas. The dark match before the show was CM Punk and R Truth. That concerns me having Punk on the dark match. My concerns got worse after watching Raw. Truth ended up pinning Punk. The PPV started and Christian defeated Shelton Benjamin in the ladder match to retain the ECW title. Christian was cut open pretty badly during the match at one point and the match was stopped so officials could stop the bleeding. You may be thinking, what is that about? Well, WWE is really pushing that PG rating and they do not do blood anymore. So, they are going to do what they can to prevent it. That is why there was no blood probably for the first time ever in the Cell matches lately. Cena was cut open accidentally a few months ago and refs were down there immediately cleaning him up while the cameras tried to stay off of it. Drew McIntyre defeated John Morrison to win the Intercontinental title when he won with the DDT for the win. Vince McMahon was shown backstage congratulating Drew. Michelle McCool defeated Mickie James to retain the Women's championship when Michelle pinned her with a big boot. Next was the tables match for the WWE title. When I saw where this match was on the card, my first thought was that they might do the title change and then do what Cena teased a few weeks ago and have Cena finish the show by winning the title back in a rematch. So, Cena defends the WWE title against Sheamus. The finish had Cena holding Sheamus up on the turnbuckle looking to hit the adjustment through the table. Sheamus got out of it but Cena then tried a superplex. Sheamus countered and shoved Cena off the turnbuckle and through the table. Yep, new WWE champion, Sheamus. Guess what? No rematch though. I thought for sure that was what they were going to do but didn't. Next was the World title chairs match with Undertaker defending against Batista. Yeah, the finish to this was weak. The finish had Batista hitting a low blow on Taker and then nailed him with the chair. Batista gets the pinfall and wins the World title. Well, for a moment. Teddy Long arrives and declares that even though chairs are able to be used in this match, an obvious low blow is not legal. So, he restarts the match. Batista charged at Undertaker but Undertaker put his foot up into the chair. Batista then gets nailed again with the chair. Undertaker picks up Batista for the tombstone and wins the match. Yeah, I thought they booked this match lame as far as the finish. So, you can use brutality of chairs but that is off limits. Just kind of lame to me. Next was the match with Randy Orton and Kofi Kingston. The finish had Kofi going for the trouble in paradise but Orton countered into the RKO. Orton gets the pinfall. The show finished with the TLC match between DX and JeriShow. Sounds like this was a really good match. The finish had Shawn nailing superkicks and then DX shoved the ladder over sending Big Show to the floor. Triple H then held the ladder so Shawn could climb it for the win. DX wins the tag team titles.

Oh, where do I start with this bad edition of Raw? Let us not forget that this was a three hour Slammy Award special. How could this show be so bad? There are some nights where I’ll watch the show and think maybe I’m the only one that thought this show was bad. Monday night, I knew that I wasn’t the only one that didn’t like the show. It just didn’t make any sense all around. The matches were strange, the finishes were bizarre, and the Slammy stuff was just mostly annoying. What are you thinking WWE? This was a bad show. I wouldn’t even call it bad. Last night, the adjective that popped into my head was annoying. This was an annoying show. There was a really funny and ironic segment in this show that summed it up. Vince McMahon and Dennis Miller are on the stage. Vince was making comments and the crowd was not reacting at all. They really weren’t reacting to Miller either. Vince then asks the crowd if “they passed away before the show” and ripped on the crowd for being bad. They’re not a bad crowd. They got a bad show. Here is one of my points too. We had three hours of TV. Yet, we were having these matches that were barely going three minutes. I couldn’t believe that they had Punk and Cena go so short. They had such a good match the last time and I was looking forward to the follow up. Then, Punk basically gets squashed and it was the most annoyed that I’ve felt over a match finish in a long time. On Sunday night, Punk is wrestling dark matches and Monday night he was getting squashed. Anyway, let’s go into the recap of events. Dennis Miller was guest host. Yeah, this just didn’t work for me. The Superstar Of The Year award was decided by a tournament which should have been a lot more fun than it was. The four in it were Undertaker, CM Punk, John Cena, and Randy Orton. Cena took on Punk first and Punk controlled the very beginning. Suddenly, Cena hooks the STF and Punk gets to the ropes. Then, Cena pulls Punk back to the middle and taps out. Punk gets squashed. Cena got on the mic and apologized for letting anyone down Sunday night. He said that his road to WrestleMania began now and was saying that he would not lose another match until he won back the WWE title. Undertaker faces Randy Orton later on and the two ended up on the floor. Legacy arrived and distracted Taker. Taker kept being tempted to go after them. He then turns into a RKO on the floor. Orton then rolls into the ring and beats the count. After the match, all of Legacy attacked Undertaker. He took them all out including laying out Orton with a chokeslam. That gets us to the tournament final. Cena vs. Orton. There was a moment that made no sense to me. Orton ends up nailing his DDT off the apron on to the floor. Then, he PICKS UP Cena and rolls him in the ring. From a logic standpoint, I’m thinking that the count is at five, why would you pick the guy up and put him in the ring? Get the countout win like you did earlier!! LOL. This booking just made no sense. Cena made his comeback and won with the adjustment. Then, Sheamus walked out and faced off with him from the stage. Then, we had these other matches on the show that barely got any kind of time. DX took on JeriShow after they demanded their rematch for tonight. The match barely happened. As the match started, Shawn got down behind the referee. Triple H shoved the referee who fell over Shawn and then the ref called for the DQ. The story was that DX had gotten disqualified and now Jericho’s only chance at the tag team titles was out the door. Speaking of out of the door, Jericho was taken by a lot of the talent from the ring and kicked out of the building sending him back to Smackdown. Christian, Kane, and Khali teamed together to defeated the team of Regal, Kozlov, and Jackson. Kane and Khali are suddenly friends while it is clear that Kozlov’s push is forever gone as he got pinned by a Khali chop. Kofi Kingston is set to take on Cody Rhodes. The match goes on and then Dibiase interferes. Evan Bourne makes the save. Dennis Miller then declares it a tag team match. Cody wins with the crossrhodes on Bourne for the win. Then, we have the seven on seven divas tag team match which was basically a one on one match. Mickie James and Rosa went at it with Mickie winning with a DDT. It was over quick. We had Miz, McIntyre, and Ryder taking on Morrison, Tatsu, and Mark Henry. Tatsu got the win when he pinned Ryder. Ok, the Slammy Awards portion. Yawn for the most part. Tag Team of the Year was JeriShow which was not much of a surprise and deservedly so. They beat out DX, The Hart Dynasty, and Legacy. Breakout Star of the Year goes to Sheamus as he won over Tatsu, McIntyre, and Abraham Washington. Yeah, it would have been ridiculous if anyone else had won it considering he is WWE champion. Diva of the Year went to Maria which was fan voted. Surprised about that. During her speech, she was interrupted by Batista saying that he should be awarded the screwjob of the year award for what happened at TLC. Yes, they spoofed the Taylor Swift/Kanye West thing months after it happened. It didn’t work at all with Batista being the one to do it. It just looked goofy. Ok, here comes a good moment in the show. Match of the Year presented by Triple H. Shawn Michaels vs. The Undertaker (WrestleMania 25) wins over Team Raw vs. Team Smackdown (Bragging Rights), Hardy vs. Edge ladder match and Punk cashing in the MITB (Extreme Rules), Cena vs. Orton I Quit match (Breaking Point). Yeah, this was the easiest decision ever on that one. Shawn accepts the award with Triple H saying that he had the unfortunate task of trying to follow that match and couldn’t. Shawn lays out the challenge to Undertaker for WrestleMania 26 saying that he knows he can beat Undertaker. So, there is the tease. Speaking of teases, let’s get right to the other one. Dennis Miller and Vince McMahon are on stage together and Vince presents the Raw co-host of the year category with Bob Barker winning over Shaq, The Osbournes, and Seth Green. Vince asks about who people would like to see as a future guest host. Dennis Miller brings up the name Bret Hart. Vince says the same old line of the last time Bret was there, Bret screwed Bret. Actually, the last time that Bret was there was for the Hall Of Fame but anyway. J Miller asked the fans what they thought and there were cheers. Vince walked off. It sure does look like we may be seeing Bret Hart in the near future on WWE TV. They went way too far with that tease for it not to happen. The Shocker of the Year award went to Jeff Hardy being retired by CM Punk which won over Sheamus putting Cuban through a table, Batista turning on Rey, and Orton DDT’ing Stephanie. Extreme Moment of the Year went to Jeff Hardy’s dive off of the ladder through the table on Punk which won over Triple H’s home invasion of Orton, Kofi’s dive on to Orton on the table at MSG, and Show throwing Cena through the light. Matt Hardy accepted the award. Carlito eventually nailed Matt and then went into a pretty funny acceptance speech. Masters hooks the masterlock from behind on Carlito and then Matt punches Carlito. We’re not done though. Here comes the really bad stuff. The oily dancing guy, Abraham Washington, and Tony Atlas present the Oh My Moment of the Year. Wow, this was bad. It was really bad. It had Atlas doing his laugh through the whole segment laughing at Johnson. Michael Cole getting sick on Jericho won over Masters doing his pectoral muscle dance, Shawn Michaels superkicking the little girl, and Santino’s Thanksgiving where he kept getting pies in the face except for the one he got on Vickie. Cole runs up the ramp like he just won an academy award and jumps all over Johnson. I am not making this up. LOL. Then, he takes some little shots at JR which I’m sure he was told to say. This segment here was the final straw on this show with just how horrible that it was.

Other notes from Raw.
I am going to say this right now. If Bret Hart ends up being the guest host on January 4, you cannot tell me that they aren’t paying attention to TNA’s live three hour Impact. Yeah, they would just coincidentally put Bret on that night. Remember last week when they said that it was Jericho’s last match on Raw? Then, we get to this week and he walks out to get the first award. I get tired of the whole last match on Raw thing cause all three brands are on Raw all the time. How nasty looking was that crossrhodes by Cody on Bourne? Wow, that Abraham Washington segment was terrible. Is that gimmick getting anywhere on ECW? I think that segment would fit into that word I said previously which was annoying. Why didn’t Undertaker get a trophy too for being a part of the WrestleMania 25 match? LOL. I thought that would have been cool to have them both come out to accept it and face off. Then, you still could have had Shawn set up the challenge. Wasn’t it strange to see some of the guys that were escorting Jericho out? It isn’t like they were all Raw guys. Why are ECW guys kicking him out? LOL. If you’re wondering what Striker’s mistake was on commentary that he didn’t want to say was, he mentioned on the TLC PPV that the Intercontinental title hadn’t changed hands in 20 years in Texas. He really looked silly when the title had changed hands at WrestleMania this year in Houston. Have you noticed that WWE is starting to rotate the same “did you know” stats? Ok, I laughed a lot at the DX Christmas segment. That was funny. Triple H accidentally taking out Shawn’s built ladder match set was hilarious especially with the uh oh look on Triple H’s face. They were playing off of the similar segment last year where Shawn couldn’t get the Elimination Chamber set together for his kids in time for Christmas. This year had the point of Shawn saying that he had finished it 11 days early. So, Triple H looks to calm Shawn down and sits him down in the chair in a DX snuggie (!!!!) to watch a DVD. Shawn spits out his drink when he realizes that the match is of Triple H beating up Shawn. Hornswoggle shows up giving them gift cards to the WWE shop website. He plugs his own DX merchandise and they go for him. Hornswoggle escapes and Triple H is accidentally beating up Shawn in the snuggie instead of Hornswoggle. Triple H ran when he realized what he had done. This was a funny segment and much funnier than the one from last week.

Johnny Damon will be the guest host on next week’s Raw.

If there is a WWE show that you need to watch every year, it is the Tribute To The Troops this Saturday on NBC. The show was recently recorded from over in the Middle East with the superstars entertaining and meeting the troops. The special is always amazingly produced with matches and great segments set to music. This is a show that you should go out of your way to watch whether it is live or recording to watch it later. It is incredible. Tribute To The Troops airs on Saturday at 8pm central time on NBC.

WWE released some of their most recent PPV buy numbers and they did see increases. The Breaking Point buys was down from last year's Unforgiven PPV. 225,000 buys last year and the buys this year was around 200,000. The Cell PPV replaced No Mercy and did more buys than last year with this year getting 300,000 buys compared with 261,000 for No Mercy last year. Bragging Rights did 200,000 buys which was up from the Cyber Sunday PPV last year that it replaced which did 153,000 buys.

This is over a week old now but here are the results of last week’s Ring Of Honor on HDNet show. Jim Cornette opened the show announcing that there would be a Pick Six Contender Series. He picked out the top twelve competitors in ROH to face each other in matches. The top six would then get the opportunity at the title and also get a $2500 bonus from HDNet. If you lose, you’re out of the title picture. He announces the six matches which are Delirious vs. Kenny King, Colt Cabana vs. Claudio Castagnoli, Roderick Strong vs. Davey Richards, Sonjay Dutt vs. the returning Tyler Black, Mark Briscoe vs. Jay Briscoe, and Kenny Omega against Chris Hero. These matches will take place over future episodes. Cornette took notice that Austin Aries didn’t bother showing up at the meeting but then Aries arrived. Aries ripped on Cornette and then Cornette fired back saying that this tournament was taking place because he was tired of Aries hand picking easy opponents to defeat. Aries stood up to Cornette telling him that he would face anyone of Cornette’s choosing in the main event. Cornette took him up on it and put him in the ring with Kenny Omega, Davey Richards, and Roderick Strong in a four way match for the ROH title. That match took place which was a fun one. Strong and Richards had an intense face off and went at it for a bit. Strong went to pin Richards after hitting a powerbomb. Then, Aries snuck in and nailed Strong. Aries pinned Richards and retains the ROH title. As the show was about to go off the air, Tyler Black appeared up on the ramp making sure that Aries knew that he was back. In other action, The Briscoes defeated El Generico and Kevin Steen in a number one contenders match for the tag team titles. This was a really fun one with a lot of nasty moves. Jay hit the Jaydriller on Steen leaving Mark to pin Steen for the win. There was a segment where Steve Corino talked about coming back to Ring Of Honor since they now had national TV and he wants to be on TV. LOL. Fun show.

TNA holds their Final Resolution PPV on Sunday night and here is the lineup. AJ Styles defends the TNA title against Daniels. Desmond Wolfe takes on Kurt Angle in the three degrees of pain match. Last man standing match with Bobby Lashley taking on Scott Steiner. Team 3D, Rhino, and Jesse Neal takes on Matt Morgan, Hernandez, Suicide, and Pope in an elimination match. In a feast or fired match, the loser will be fired from the company. ODB defends the knockouts title against Tara.

That is it for this week. Take care and God bless!!

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