Welcome to the "we need to build more stars so let's put the titles on the two top established guys that we already have" edition of The Wrestling List.
WWE and TNA were the focal point of something last Tuesday night. However, they were the focal point of fan anger. Why Tuesday? Well, this was the night that Smackdown was taped in Orlando while TNA was also taping Impact in Orlando. I won't yet get into the Impact deal since it hasn't aired but my goodness I just don't understand that company. So, let's get to WWE. If you watched Smackdown, you know that Christian's world title reign last all but two days. I'm saying two days cause that was when it was actually taped. The match was good. However, fans were furious over Christian's title reign being ended so quickly. Fans vented on Twitter and also lit up WWE through other social networking. The anger was definitely noticed by WWE and Joey Styles even commented on his Twitter saying: "When sending hate tweets to myself or @WWE because of @Christian4Peeps, @RandyOrton and the World Heavyweight Championship, please be PG ;)". Randy Orton commented on his Twitter saying: "Biggest change from Raw to Smackdown…Ignorance x Jealousy + Spoilers = entertaining tweets!! Keep em coming!!". WWE is said to be shocked over the outrage and also kind of annoyed at it. The talk appears to be that Christian was never planned to be a long term champion and that the change of Del Rio to Raw altered their plans and resulted in giving Christian that feel good championship winning moment. Ok, here is my thing with this. How much have we talked about the young guys lately? Even so much with WWE mentioning it in their conference calls. In one week, we had the belt go back to Cena on Raw. Then, the belt goes to Orton on Smackdown. The two top established guys in the company have both titles now. What does that accomplish?
Monday's Raw. Just don't have much to say about it. It was just kind of there for me. The main event was solid with Miz defeating Del Rio and Mysterio to get the title shot at Extreme Rules. Cena also won a match earlier in the night against Alex Riley. It was just there for me. Been there done that. R Truth continues his heel turn and it's turned into a conspiracy against him kind of deal with the storyline where he is getting overlooked. Kharma laid out what I believe was her first "face" diva as Eve attacked Kharma as Kharma stood in the ring with Eve and Kelly. Kelly then ran away. One problem that I see with Kharma is that WWE has decimated the women's division so much that I just don't see anyone that should be able to be a strong opponent against her. She is this monster heel and they don't have a strong opponent on the other side for her. Even if she was a face, she wouldn't have a strong heel to go against either. The last one would probably have been Michelle McCool as far as someone believable as a stronger opponent. Now, Michelle is gone though. Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler. This is going on so long and the segments are so long as well. Every time that a Cole segment comes on, I just tend to zone out. It's just boring. I think it would be fine if Cole was just a character but he's a commentator. We listen to him for the whole show giving his thoughts so why do we need long promo segments from him as well. They just have Cole dominating these shows way too much. The payoff of the crowd getting to see him get beat up isn't even fun anymore. It isn't for me anyway. Just bores me.
Other notes from Raw. I loved the Bellas hiding and then running away from Kharma. I thought that was great. That is what you should do instead of just standing there in fear. Especially if you have a good minute before she gets to the ring to do anything. Can't really think of anything else to say about this show that I haven't already said.
Significant news out of TNA last week and those letters really are the news. TNA is rebranding itself. They will now be referring to themselves as Impact Wrestling. The domain has been bought for the website and the change will be coming soon. I can't say that I blame them for this cause it is hard to take a company very seriously that has those initials. Although there are other reasons to not take the company seriously but I'll refrain. I don't know why they thought those letters would be good and was anyone thinking about marketing that thing in the future when they created the name? Impact Wrestling will be something to get used to and I was thinking about whether it would hurt what they're already built as far as a name. Maybe a little bit but I still don't think many people know they're out there. When you see a TNA clip on TV, people not in the know about wrestling will refer to it as WWE when it isn't. I like having letters for a company name but this is the plan going forward. I just want the company to do more "wrestling" with the name change. On a side note, I did watch about five minutes of the show last week and I felt a headache arriving on the scene and changed the channel.
Hulk Hogan still needs to get off of Twitter. Some fan took him to task about not jobbing much to other talent and Hogan brought up that he had jobbed to Kidman three times back in WCW. That is true but then another fan brought up to him about not wanting to job to Shawn Michaels. Hogan tweeted saying "Vince is the only man that makes thoeszdecisions,that came from him.hbk didn't want to job not me. By,over it. HH". He didn't bring up the fact that Shawn wanted to do a three match series with Hogan that year. Shawn pitched having Hogan win the first one, Shawn winning the second, and then Hogan winning the third. Instead, Hogan wanted to win all three. It ended up being one match and Hogan won. Shawn then ranted a little on Raw the next night after SummerSlam about the experience. LOL.
The WrestleMania XXVII DVD and Blu-ray release is this week and it has already been reported that there are a couple of music changes. Johnny Cash's song for the Undertaker's entrance has been replaced as has the Metallica entrance for Triple H. Just how much has Metallica got to charge for WWE to cut them out of two big entrances in the history of the company. I'm referring to the Sandman from the first ECW One Night Stand in 2005 where the music was replaced on the DVD release. Then again, the DVD had a JBL commentary track on it so it was fitting to make that DVD worse. Strange though to see music replaced on a WrestleMania DVD as that hasn't happened in years. I thought that maybe WWE had worked out a deal with the rights where they could use it on live shows but also include on DVD. I guess I was wrong. Wrong in this instance anyway for sure. So, if you pick up your WrestleMania set, don't be surprised to see music changes. Really takes a lot of kick out of those entrances.
Good month to be a WWE Classics On Demand subscriber. The shorties section for May is all about Smoky Mountain Wrestling. I am really excited about watching this stuff. I've watched some of it over the years of course but didn't have weekly access to it. So, the shorties section is going to be various Smoky Mountain matches. In this is a treat for fans, especially Shawn Michaels fans. There is a match included in there from 1995 where Shawn went to Smoky Mountain as then WWF Intercontinental champion and took on Buddy Landell. The match was never released on video as the company went out of business not long afterward. So, now here it is for Classics subscribers.
Wishing you all a great week!! Take care and God bless!!
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