The WWE Draft Raw special was last night. Interesting moves and Smackdown is hurting now. They really have no main eventers left. Edge and Chris Jericho were moved to Raw along with John Morrison. Well, Big Show can obviously main event as he was moved to Smackdown but that show is going to be hurting for drawing power especially with Undertaker taking time off. Let's go over the results of it. Here are the moves that happened on Raw last night. Going over to Raw are Edge, Chris Jericho, John Morrison, and R-Truth. Smackdown gets Big Show, Kelly Kelly, Kofi Kingston, and Christian. Now, the WWE Supplemental Draft was held today with the results being posted throughout the day. Raw added The Great Khali and Ranjin Singh, The Hart Dynasty, Ezekiel Jackson, and Goldust. Smackdown added Chavo Guerrero, Cody Rhodes, Chris Masters, Hornswoggle, Rosa Mendes, and MVP. They really didn't leave much reason to watch Smackdown for me. I was really hoping that MVP would get moved back to Smackdown cause the move to Raw was terrible for him. Hopefully, he can get his momentum going again on Smackdown. I like the move of Kofi to Smackdown as maybe that will get some focus on him as well. Raw was so up and down as far as his push. Cody Rhodes is a good name to move over as well and get him a fresh start. Christian is a guy that should get pushed but we'll have to wait and see. With Raw, they just added a bunch more talent including Edge, Jericho, and Morrison. Morrison kind of has me concerned cause I've seen too much talent moved over to Raw and then just don't get used like they were. Examples are MVP and Mark Henry. I was really hoping for a move for Mark Henry too but that didn't happen. I am kind of concerned as well over The Hart Dynasty but I expected that they might get moved to Raw. WWE really needs to push them and they are really getting over as babyfaces. Khali, Goldust, and Truth will now be on the show that focuses more on entertainment than wrestling. I throw Truth into that mix cause, well, they did blow him up on the stage last week. LOL. Interesting that WWE originally posted that JTG had been moved to Raw and then took it off of there. So, JTG is still on Smackdown.
As far as the overall Raw show, it was a good show. I enjoyed the tag title match with The Hart Dynasty winning the belts with Bret in their corner to a big pop from the fans. Then, Show knocks out Miz afterwards. We had Batista defeating Sheamus and Randy Orton in the triple threat match to decide the number one contender for the WWE title. Orton was poised to win and then Edge hit Orton with a spear and walked out. That cost Orton the match. So, does that make Edge a heel now or is he just going to go after everyone like Orton does? Every draft show always has to have a battle royal and it was fine. I'm happy to see Dibiase win it. I'm hoping they really turn things on with him. Funny segment with him and Truth where Truth realized that Dibiase wanted "a Virgil" just like his dad. Swagger got his win back on Morrison. I liked the "we want Mickie" chants during the divas match last night. Raw was held in Richmond which is the hometown of Mickie James. The chant was loud when it happened.
As far as TNA Impact, I liked that show as well. It wasn't at the level of last week's show of course. One thing that I liked about watching Impact on delay last night was the ability to fast forward right through Orlando Jordan. They are pushing more adult content that I don't like obviously but I expect that. Some solid action on the show and it kept my attention. The idea of fans voting to help determine the wrestler rankings is a cool idea. That was announced last night by Eric Bischoff. Samoa Joe comes out and destroys Kazarian. Very nice. Still have the destroyer happening and wrecking havoc. I liked the Shannon Moore/Kazarian match. The tag match with Hardy and Jarrett against Sting and AJ was good. I liked the knockouts match and the brawl afterwards between Tara and Angelina. Not crazy about the Abyss/Flair match to end the show. I've said that I don't like Abyss being the new Dave Sullivan of 2010. Hogan announced that next week we'd find out who Flair's Hall Of Fame ring would be presented to as a result of Abyss winning the match. I liked the Jesse Neal angle with Matt Morgan last night. Not sure why it grabbed me but it did. So, we're setting up a Team 3D/Band feud after 3D finished off Waltman backstage putting him through a table and leaving him bleeding. Nash and Hall told the camera that they would be bringing someone next week to even up the odds against 3D and Neal. Maybe Anderson is getting back on a roll. Really enjoyed most of his promo with Pope last night.
Extreme Rules sounded like a solid show. What was excepted to be good was good. CM Punk and Rey Mysterio was the match of the night according to many. I was surprised to hear that Swagger beat Orton cause WWE has been booking Swagger to lose to EVERYONE. LOL. Nice to see Sheamus getting the win over Triple H. Edge gets his win over Jericho in the cage. Cena defeats Batista to retain the title in the last man standing match.
When did they break up Cryme Tyme??!!! LOL. I really need to watch Smackdown more. I had no idea that they were feuding with each other until last week and NO ONE has been talking about it on any of the audio shows that I listen to.
I did watch the last WWE match of Mickie James on Friday night. She loses to Layla in a tag match and then gets released days later.
I have to say that Drew McIntyre's entrance and theme music is awesome!! Just too bad that I can't get interested in the character.
WWE Classics On Demand has been airing the old Best Of The WWF Coliseum Videos. They are running one of them every month. Fun to see those again and I remember renting those in video stores way back in the day.
Speaking Of Classics On Demand, it is getting hard to figure out what programming will be airing on the service. That just seems bizarre to me that you would go out of your way to make it hard for subscribers to learn what they are getting every month. That is why I quit doing the preview every month cause I have no idea what all will be airing. May is going to be "Pass the Mic" month which is going to focus on the biggest talkers in wrestling history. A Piper's Pit focused show will be airing along with the Hall Of Fame profile being on Bobby Heenan. I really look forward to seeing what kind of programming that they use focusing on Heenan. Prime Time Wrestling is currently up to August 1988 with the episodes being shown. I love it as these are the shows building up to SummerSlam 1988. I definitely remember all of that fondly and how excited that I was as a kid for that show. It was the first PPV that I ever got as I figured out what in the world a pay per view concept was. Before that, I had just waited for the videos to show up in the video store.
Have a great week!! Take care and God bless!!
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