Smackdown will have a new home this fall. News came out yesterday from a Los Angeles Times article that Smackdown will be moving to SyFy and continue its usual 7-9pm time slot on Friday nights. I can't say that I'm surprised by the move as My Network has had trouble money wise from the beginning. Smackdown has been their only original network programming for a long while now. There is talk today that SyFy is going to cancel NXT later in the year and WWE is already trying to find a new home for it. Smackdown will start on SyFy in October is what it is sounding like.
Raw was in London last night and guest hosted by David Hasselfhoff. I have to say that I thought he did a good job. He was solid with his lines including him rattling off stipulations without any stumble. I did pop for him driving KITT out into the building with the Knight Rider theme being played too. It is amazing with how big that Hasselhoff is overseas. Ok, the Baywatch divas match was cheesy but I did chuckle at the Baywatch effect of the entrances with the slow motion running. LOL. Santino running out to the same effect as special referee was the funniest part of it. Add Hornswoggle to it later on. It was an all right comedy segment. I had a feeling that we'd see a new Divas champion on this show with the build to Eve and Maryse. They also like to change titles on the UK Raw shows over the years. Plus, they put that Divas championship graphic up there which they don't use all the time and that put the stamp on it that we were about to see a title change. Eve is the new Divas champion. When The Hart Dynasty arrived with Bret to step up to ShoMiz, I was hoping that we'd see another title change. However, I knew better than for us to have two title changes on Raw. I did enjoy the segment with Bret stepping up for The Hart Dynasty. I was surprised by the result however with Miz defeating DH Smith in a one on one match. If Smith had won, they would have gotten a tag title shot at Extreme Rules. Since Miz won, Bret now has to declare ShoMiz as the greatest tag team of all time on next week's Raw. I really thought this was paint by numbers booking with what the result would be until the result happened. LOL. Really thought Smith would win. I hope to see The Hart Dynasty win the belts soon. Bret got a big ovation in London when he arrived. I was happy to see that crowd get such a surprise as Bret was probably more popular overseas back in the day than he was here in the US. They LOVED him overseas. Wow, John Cena got a very mixed reaction in the UK. They are not big Cena fans in London. The setup with he and Batista facing off was fine during the Cena/Otunga match. Then, Cena got Batista later during the Orton/Batista match. Swagger attacked Orton leading to a DQ in that match. Cena then took the opportunity to hook the STF on to Batista who was on the mat after taking a RKO. Evan Bourne and Carlito was a random match to have on the show. When I saw Bourne walk out, my first thought as always is who is he going to job to. Then, I saw Carlito and thought, wow, he may have a chance of winning this week.
I watched TNA Impact on and off last night. TNA did a fireball spot that looked really good toward the end of the show where James Storm blew a fireball into Jeff Hardy's face. It wasn't shown on TV and you have to go to TNA's website to see the incident. I have not seen it yet but I heard that the Kazarian and Shannon Moore match was good. There was one thing that I couldn't stand on Impact in the Jarrett/Sting segment to open the show. I liked most of the segment but this one part just made me cringe. You have two guys up there hiding in the rafters from one another trying to sneak up on each other. Yet, each of them should be able to look at the camera guy and think, hmm, wonder what he is pointing at? LOL. Then, Sting gives a shhh quiet kind of look at the camera to top it off as he sneaks up on Jarrett. I thought that whole part was so lame. One of those deals where you shouldn't have the camera being noticed. They did an angle in the parking lot where someone ran over Abyss with a car. I've already heard people today comparing it to the hummer in WCW. LOL. We never did find out who was driving that hummer!! Remember when it showed up again in 2000? It was this feeling of, not this again??!! LOL.
Sad news to tell about from last week. Chris Kanyon passed away which is being reported as a suicide. Kanyon's biggest wrestling run was obviously in the late 90's in WCW. One thing that I remember about Kanyon was how he was someone that interacted with the fans online. I was on AOL back in 1996 and there were several wrestlers that had their own place on there with message boards where they would interact with fans. Kanyon was playing the character of Mortis at the time and was always answering fan questions. It was him, Chris Jericho, and Kimberly Page that were on there. I really enjoyed reading their comments to fans. Suicide is always awful to hear about and my thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends in this very difficult time.
I watched the post Impact show online last night. Fun to see them showing some house show footage from the last week. I also have to laugh at Don West with his Deal Of The Week. I say laugh because that guy can sell, sell, sell. He does such a great job in selling merchandise which goes back to his sports card selling days. He will make you believe that this is the most amazing deal ever and by the end you'll be thinking, I think I'd better order this. Look at all the stuff I get for this amount of money. LOL. West has done a great job in stepping up the TNA merchandise and there being a lot of great options of unique collectibles.
Maria's first CD is now available on iTunes for the price of $3.99. I believe it has four songs on it.
This week is the TNA Lockdown PPV in St. Louis. Sunday is the PPV and features this lineup. All matches will take place in a steel cage. TNA champion AJ Styles defends against The Pope. In Lethal Lockdown, Team Hogan of Abyss, RVD, Jeff Hardy, and Jeff Jarrett take on Team Flair of Sting, Beer Money, and Desmond Wolfe. RVD takes on James Storm for the advantage in Lethal Lockdown. Team 3D takes on Scott Hall and Sean Waltman. Kurt Angle vs. Mr. Anderson. TNA Knockouts Champion Angelina Love teams with Tara to take on Knockouts Tag Team Champions The Beautiful People in a match with all the titles on the line. TNA X-Division Champion Doug Williams takes on Kaz and Shannon Moore. Kevin Nash takes on Eric Young.
The WWE Hart and Soul DVD that was recently released looks very good as far as that documentary preview shows. I still get this major feeling of sadness when they show Owen Hart's tombstone on there. Just takes you back to that sad and awful day. I really look forward to seeing the documentary portion as it looks well produced. The match lineup for the DVD was disappointing to me. I was hoping that WWE would dip more into that Stampede library that they have. Plus, there are a lot of matches on this set that have been released on DVD multiple times. I was hoping for more rare stuff. I have a feeling that the documentary will make up for that match lineup though.
Wishing you a great rest of the week!! Take care and God bless!!
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