After a crazy couple of weeks, things have slowed down a bit in the wrestling world.
Last night's Raw was an enjoyable show especially for a holiday show. A lot of times the holiday shows aren't that good because the ratings are usually lower on them. I felt bad for WWE for the technical problems that they were having at the beginning of the show. All I could think was that it had to be chaos backstage trying to figure out what was going on. This company rarely ever has technical problems so things are going to happen like that from time to time. The real bummer was that the R Truth segment looked pretty entertaining. We did get to hear a lot of it despite the audio and video being out of sync. The stuff with the "fan" was pretty good stuff. Truth and Cena had a good back and forth all night including the match. Truth later threw a drink in the fan's face on the way out of the building. Cena went over to the guy and wiped his face off helping him out. Yeah, obviously a plant in the crowd but it was interesting all night. I really like Truth as a heel. All eyes on Alex Riley. He has had two big weeks in a row with his brawls with Miz. Great stuff and the crowd is eating it up. The reaction was even bigger this week after the brawl was finished with the fans cheering Riley. I was stunned last week over the way that Kharma was booked but then understood more when the news came out that she is pregnant. No, this is not some storyline and is the real deal. Wishing her all the best with her pregnancy. She did a really good speech on wanting to get into WWE and her road to get there. The speech was finished by The Bellas who came out and stirred things up. I loved the finish of it with Kharma saying that she'd be back in a year and hoped that The Bellas were there too. I've said this before but I really like the Bellas as heels. Kharma has a ready made program for when she returns. However, this is WWE so I'd be amazed if they even remember this or care when she comes back. Remember Edge not going after the person that took him out and his reaction to creative of, uh, shouldn't I be going after that person now? Solid matches with Ziggler taking on Kofi and also with Rey and CM Punk.
Other notes from Raw. Again, I just know that Vince McMahon and Kevin Dunn must have been losing their mind during that first ten minutes of the show. Really nice Memorial Day video played to open the show. They always do something really classy for Memorial Day. Anyone else find it as strange as me to just have Cole and Lawler suddenly just letting bygones be bygones and commentating next to each other again?
A news story got out last night from PWInsider.com. Every week, the site has ongoing live spoilers from the TNA Impact tapings. Last night, a story broke that their TNA correspondent that sends in the Impact spoilers as they happen was ejected from the building and also from Universal Studios. He was ejected for…..posting spoilers. To say that it stirred up a hornets nest online would be an understatement. Apparently, someone there did not like the fact that spoilers were being sent out. Why this is suddenly a big deal? I don't know. Spoilers have been a part of the business for a VERY long time now. Just curious if TNA realizes that it is 2011. Ugh, this company. I could rant about so many things with them right now but I'm just going to leave it at "ugh, this company".
Mick Foley posted on Twitter during Raw about how Alex Riley was his new favorite wrestler. Interesting that he was commenting so much about WWE programming on Monday night. However, this begs the question. If he was commenting on TNA at that time, it would be during the Impact tapings and would he be thrown out of the building as well?
THQ announced today that they are not going to be making any more of the Smackdown vs. Raw video games. Instead, the next series will be simply by year such as NBA 2K11 or things like that. WWE '12 is the name of the new game and there will be a lot of changes to the gaming. Probably a good idea as there is not near as much buzz on those games as there used to be. I think that is why there was that genuine excitement of the WWE All Stars game cause it was just so different.
Talk about a cool match to see on WWE Classics On Demand this month. The Undertaker vs. Unabomb from Smoky Mountain Wrestling in 1995. Unabomb is of course Glen Jacobs who would go on to be Kane. Just a cool match to see those two face off that early on knowing how their careers would soon be tied together. Lots of good stuff in that Smoky Mountain shorties category including a couple of Chris Candido matches which brings Tammy Sytch on to the screen as well. That was when I first became a fan of Tammy Sytch was watching Smoky Mountain tapes back in the day.
I watched the WWE Film, The Chaperone which is one of their most recent releases. The movie stars Triple H and I have to say that I really enjoyed it. I had heard that it was one of their better efforts and I give this movie a big thumbs up. Triple H plays the character of Ray. Ray spent seven years in prison after a robbery. It was part of a group effort though but the others escaped leaving him to take the fall as the driver. The movie begins with Ray being a free man. His goal upon leaving is to get his family back including his wife and daughter. Will Ray be able to stay on the straight and narrow or fall back into his own habits of trouble? Lots of good action, drama, and comedy in this movie. Triple H does really well in his role and I really liked the cast all around. When I saw the promos for this movie during Raw, it looked like it could be a fun movie. It was.
I am currently reading the Death of WCW book. It is a good read so far. A lot of the stories I already know but there are more details that I am learning about the company including back in the 90's build. I'm about 100 pages in.
That is all I have for this week. I still have some things on the horizon of ideas for editions of the List. Some are typed up and some will be done in the future. Hopefully, they'll be things that you'll enjoy reading. Have a great week!! Take care and God bless!!
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