Welcome to the "CM Punk plus Chicago equals one of the all time greatest WWE moments" edition of The Wrestling List.
Sunday night was the Money In The Bank PPV and this lived up to every bit of the hype and hope on it. I said it was going to be a big time home field advantage kind of response and it was. CM Punk had chants going for him all night long in anticipation. During the Big Show injury angle, there was a CM Punk chant going as officials checked on Show. The match was set to take place and there was a HUGE CM Punk chant before his music hit. His music and the crowd pops like crazy. Punk had a new shirt on that said "the best in the world" including the date and city on it. This was sold at the show and sold out halfway through the night. Punk just got that crowd in a frenzy every time that he did anything. He would just raise his arms during his entrance and the crowd level would go way up. Just a monster pop. Punk signs all over the crowd. Sitting in the front row was Colt Cabana and Ace Steele. A Colt Cabana chant did break out during the night too. Gotta love that. Chicago is a Ring Of Honor town and has been for a long time. You have that combo in along with fans from all over the country flying in to see this match. It was something special and fans knew that it was going to be that. So, John Cena's music hits and boos just rain in from the crowd. Cena did not even do his normal saluting the crowd as he walked out. There were Cena fans in the house but they were in an up hill battle against this very pro-CM Punk crowd. The crowd atmosphere of this match was just amazing. Off the charts amazing. The finish had Cena hooking on the STF and Vince McMahon along with John Lauranitis made their way to the ring. Vince wanted Lauranitis to ring the bell and I thought, not Montreal AGAIN. LOL. He was stopped and Cena made it clear to Vince that he did not want to win the match that way. When he turned around, he landed right into a GTS from Punk. Punk gets the clean finish and is the new WWE champion. The Chicago crowd goes absolutely crazy. Vince is of course furious and looks completely rattled as his nightmare has come true. Punk is leaving with the title. Vince gets on the headset and demands for Albert Del Rio to come to the ring and cash in the Money In The Bank that he won earlier in the night. Del Rio runs to the ring and Punk knocks him to the mat immediately. Bell never rang to start the match. Punk rolls out with the title, sits on the barrier, and blows a kiss to Vince McMahon. Punk leaves through the crowd with the title as the show goes off the air. Just awesome, awesome stuff. This is the most positive response that I have seen in a very long time for a show and angle. People are just loving the ending of this show and I did too. How many people actually thought that Punk would get the win and take the title? I had thought that Punk might win and then would lose to a Money In The Bank winner.
So, what has happened with CM Punk since then? Well, he has been posting on Twitter. He posted at midnight a picture of the WWE title sitting in his refrigerator. Last night during Raw, he posted pictures of himself at Wrigley Field at the Cubs game. One included the belt laying on top of the Cubs logo while another had him posing with a player along with the championship belt. On Raw, they announced that the tournament was being held to crown a new champion. Punk posted pondering how there could be a new champion "when the champ is here" and had the picture of the belt at Wrigley. So, what is up with Punk? Nobody seems to know. Everything I've heard has him not signing any new agreement. Maybe he'll sign an extension? He has been doing interviews saying that he definitely has no intent of resigning with the company. He has talked about just taking time off. Regardless of what he does, what a way to go out and it has everyone talking. Lots of fans that have quit watching have come back to check out this angle. All of us fans that love CM Punk have just loved how this angle played out. It's almost this feeling of vindication for us as fans who believed in this guy and now we're seeing what we knew he was capable of and what Punk himself knew that he was capable of. Just great stuff.
Good stuff with the Money In The Bank PPV all around. Many saying it was easily the best PPV of the year topping WrestleMania. Del Rio was the Raw MITB winner. Daniel Bryan was the surprise Smackdown MITB winner. Christian won the World title after a DQ finish with Randy Orton. The DQ stip on the match had Christian getting Orton so mad that he nailed the low blow causing the DQ awarding Christian the title.
So, that gets us to last night's Raw. Lots of excitement to see where things went from Money In The Bank. Vince McMahon opens the show saying that he doesn't ever want to hear Punk's name again, that there would be a championship tournament, and that Cena would now be facing the repercussions of last night's defeat. I guess I'll stick with the McMahon thing. The ending of the show had him and Cena with their confrontation. Cena talked of how he did things his way and was not going to be put in the same position as Shawn was put in with Bret. He told him to go ahead and find the next John Cena and he would move including him saying that he would go on to another show, brother. Clear reference at TNA there. Triple H made his way out and cooled things off. Cena left the ring after things turned to a more serious tone. The story is that there was a board of directors meeting and that Vince had been removed from power cause of concerns about the current product. He regrettably told him that the person now in charge was himself. So, now Triple H is in control. He apologized to him and Vince was in tears. Triple H walked away leaving Vince in the ring. Let's move on to the tournament. Solid action. First round had Miz defeating Alex Riley, R Truth defeating Jack Swagger, Kofi Kingston defeating Alberto Del Rio, and Rey Mysterio defeating Dolph Ziggler. The second round had Miz over Kofi and then Rey over Truth. That sets up a tournament final of Miz vs. Rey which did not happen cause of the Vince/Cena deal at the end of the show.
Other notes from Raw. Did you catch Vince accidentally say the words "WWF champion" in the last segment? Whoops! LOL. Even Vince messes up on that. I'm sure TNA appreciated the reference last night. They've got to be thinking after all of these years of taking shots at them, they finally referenced us on TV. Congrats TNA. Now, concentrate on your own product. LOL. WWE has referenced them a few years ago. I do realize that. I really thought that Del Rio was going to cash in MITB on whoever won the tournament final giving Del Rio basically two shots at the title in the same tournament. I still could see that happening.
Anyway, that is it for this week. Wishing you all a great week! Take care and God bless!!
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
CM Punk Continues To Rule Raw - July 12, 2011
Welcome to the "we want ice cream bars" edition of The Wrestling List. Did you hear the pop from that crowd when Punk mentioned that he wanted the return of the WWE ice cream bars with his face on them? They went nuts. I did too. I cracked up at the "we want ice cream" chant a few minutes later.
Let's get right to Raw or as I like to call it, the CM Punk show. CM Punk has revitalized Raw right now and the sad thing is that we're in all likelihood going back to the same dull show after next week when he has left. It has been great TV and it really is such a frustration of that this guy has been so good for so long and we're now seeing WWE actually let him do something in the three weeks before he leaves!! UGH!!!! Anyway, I loved the opening segment with Punk continuing where he started a few weeks ago. John Cena came out and confronted him over everything. They had a good back and forth. It was announced that Punk's demands would be met, a live attempt at a contract signing to close Raw by Vince himself. That is how we closed the show. Punk using all of his leverage against Vince including an insane amount of demands. The great thing was that the crowd was absolutely with him. WWE might want to listen to their audience a little more instead of Vince's typical "I know what they want better than they know" stuff. It is like all of these fans frustration is now being used through CM Punk. John Cena's arrival did not budge the fans much either. Keep in mind that this show was in Boston which is basically Cena's hometown. Punk demanded an apology from Vince and finally got Vince so fired up that he got it. Then, Punk went at Cena saying that Cena needs to quit playing up that he is the underdog all the time because he isn't. He compared it to the Red Sox and the Celtics who are always talked about as being the underdog. Punk told Cena that he isn't the underdog, he is the New York Yankees. He is the dynasty. The story was told that it eventually got to Cena and Cena gave a punch to Punk. It was great stuff and absolutely true. Cena is always pushed as this underdog character and talks of being one. He isn't. He is Superman. He beats everyone handily. Goodness, he was put over the tag team champions one on two again. How many times has that guy beaten everyone in a handicap match? Now, the argument is also made that there are a ton of guys that beat the tag team champions in a handicap match which does nothing for the champions but that is a different story. CM Punk is the heel but fans are getting behind him and his frustrations on why he is leaving. It was great stuff to watch. He wanted apologies to Colt Cabana and Luke Gallows. CM Punk has made Raw must watch when it has not been in many years now. You have to tune in to see what is going to happen next. I have heard that his promo a few weeks ago was not scripted. He was told to go out there and talk about how he felt and it came across great. It shows the difference in scripted and unscripted promos. There is a difference and it keeps all of these wrestlers from sounding the same. I have loved CM Punk's work for many years going back to Ring Of Honor. I remember the excitement of seeing him working that ECW Sci-Fi show at the Hammerstein and that crowd went nuts for him the second he walked out including a large CM Punk chant to start the match. It launched him. It was that feeling of Heyman just launched another guy. Punk was well known in that area due to his ROH matches. From there, he fought his way against the politics in WWE and everything he has said is true. People felt he was the "King of the Indys". He became one of WWE's greatest performers. He has definitely been that recently by far. In the ring, on the mic, and all around. When you are so solidly good, you're going to be able to overcome the politics and he is showing that even more in the last three weeks. Despite not being marketed and pushed as one of the biggest stars, he is so good and over with the fans that he still gets that reaction. Keep in mind that Punk's actual debut was what he said last night and that was being an extra for the John Cena WrestleMania entrance. Completely true story and fans said it at the time that it was a bummer that this was how Punk's debut would end up being. Too good for that. Now, he is going out with him being the absolute talk of the entire industry. Not just WWE. I'm talking everything. There is always that thought of you don't know what you've got till it's gone. Well, WWE is about to learn that. So many of us have said for so long that this guy is their most consistent wrestler that they have. You know what you're going to get out of him. He loves the business. He works as hard as he can. Now, he is likely on his way out unless there is some sort of last minute deal thrown together.
Money In The Bank will be his last appearance for the company taking on John Cena for the WWE title. There is so much anticipation for this match and I'd like to see it just to watch the atmosphere of it. This show is in Chicago. Punk's hometown. Punk always gets huge reactions in Chicago. Keep in mind that Chicago is one of the biggest anti-Cena crowds. They have been for years. That crowd just does not like Cena and it is going to be a crowd feeling of back to the One Night Stand PPV with Cena and RVD where the ECW fans were viciously ripping Cena. I fully expect this Chicago crowd to be very hostile and very pro-Punk. Cena did an interview this morning where he talked about how he is expecting it to be ugly against him.
More on Raw. Was there really much else on the show? LOL. The rest just felt like filler to me. More build to the PPV. Scary moment with the spot with Show, Henry, and McIntyre. McIntyre took a scary bump and was shaken up. His fall did not go as planned but he is said to be ok. The Bellas and Kelly Kelly was odd. So, WWE did a storyline a few years ago with LayCool saying that Mickie James was too big. Now, the Bellas are picking on Kelly for being too skinny. So, which is it WWE? As I said earlier, another set of tag team champions were dismantled by one guy. If you see the tag team champs in a handicap match, always assume that they are about to get beat. It doesn't do much for the tag team champions to always getting beat by one guy. How can you take them serious to beat another tag team when they get beat by one guy?
WWE Ice Cream Bars are also the talk of the wrestling world today. They trended forever on Twitter last night. It was hilarious. I loved the ice cream bars as a kid. I remember that they were hard to find and me and my mom would stock up on them whenever we found them. They were so good. If you want to send some feedback to Good Humor about wanting the WWE Ice Cream Bars to continue, here is the link to send it: https://ssl.unilever.com/goodhumor.com/Contact-Us.aspx
Several wrestlers took to Twitter last week to demand that Arn Anderson be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame next year. This included Randy Orton who got the ball rolling and was followed by Chris Jericho and William Regal.
WWE Classics On Demand is focusing on high flyers for the month of July. Hall of Fame profile is on Jimmy Snuka. The Wrestling's Highest Flyers DVD is currently airing. Shorties section is on John Morrison stuff. The old Coliseum Video on Ricky Steamboat is airing and the new roundtable discussion on the nWo will be showing later this month. Not long after the official 15 year anniversary of the debut of the nWo. Hard to believe it has been 15 years. Speaking of Classics, I did watch the Royal Rumble 2011 last week. Solid show. The Rumble was very enjoyable as always. Going back to the trend of this List, Punk was the highlight of it.
On the NWA show from December 1987 that is currently airing on Classics, it shows the Lex Luger face turn on the Horsemen. It is good stuff. Luger puts over Dusty Rhodes and how much of a competitor that he was at Starrcade. JJ Dillon is seen in the background shaking his head at Luger's comments including Luger saying that JJ is not allowed to get involved anymore. He can accompany but not get involved as it messed up his match strategy. Another segment then shows Luger finally clashing physically with Arn and Tully and also JJ. Eventually, they get the advantage on Luger and put a good beating on him with a figure four leglock. it was good stuff to watch.
Some Ric Flair news. He and Highspots.com have finally finished their long troubles. Highspots announced that Flair has finally paid them the money that Flair owed them from their court settlement. Many fans were upset about Flair not appearing at the TNA Basebrawl show in Brooklyn recently. Flair was advertised as appearing on the show and did do a VIP signing for those VIP ticket holders. Flair was pushed to the live crowd there as making an appearance on the show later on but Flair turned it down and left. Lots of fans very disappointed that Flair did not make an appearance especially after being advertised.
Remember the company that throws fits over spoilers getting out from Impact? TNA. You know, that company? The company that has thrown out people from the Impact tapings for sending spoilers from the show. Well, Hulk Hogan did an interview lately promoting his new video game where he told where his whole storyline was going completely. I won't spoil it but it just blew me away. Now, I'm sure that TNA probably wasn't happy with him doing this but wow.
That is it for this week. This Sunday will be very interesting with how WWE plays out the whole CM Punk storyline. Have a great week. Take care and God bless!!
Let's get right to Raw or as I like to call it, the CM Punk show. CM Punk has revitalized Raw right now and the sad thing is that we're in all likelihood going back to the same dull show after next week when he has left. It has been great TV and it really is such a frustration of that this guy has been so good for so long and we're now seeing WWE actually let him do something in the three weeks before he leaves!! UGH!!!! Anyway, I loved the opening segment with Punk continuing where he started a few weeks ago. John Cena came out and confronted him over everything. They had a good back and forth. It was announced that Punk's demands would be met, a live attempt at a contract signing to close Raw by Vince himself. That is how we closed the show. Punk using all of his leverage against Vince including an insane amount of demands. The great thing was that the crowd was absolutely with him. WWE might want to listen to their audience a little more instead of Vince's typical "I know what they want better than they know" stuff. It is like all of these fans frustration is now being used through CM Punk. John Cena's arrival did not budge the fans much either. Keep in mind that this show was in Boston which is basically Cena's hometown. Punk demanded an apology from Vince and finally got Vince so fired up that he got it. Then, Punk went at Cena saying that Cena needs to quit playing up that he is the underdog all the time because he isn't. He compared it to the Red Sox and the Celtics who are always talked about as being the underdog. Punk told Cena that he isn't the underdog, he is the New York Yankees. He is the dynasty. The story was told that it eventually got to Cena and Cena gave a punch to Punk. It was great stuff and absolutely true. Cena is always pushed as this underdog character and talks of being one. He isn't. He is Superman. He beats everyone handily. Goodness, he was put over the tag team champions one on two again. How many times has that guy beaten everyone in a handicap match? Now, the argument is also made that there are a ton of guys that beat the tag team champions in a handicap match which does nothing for the champions but that is a different story. CM Punk is the heel but fans are getting behind him and his frustrations on why he is leaving. It was great stuff to watch. He wanted apologies to Colt Cabana and Luke Gallows. CM Punk has made Raw must watch when it has not been in many years now. You have to tune in to see what is going to happen next. I have heard that his promo a few weeks ago was not scripted. He was told to go out there and talk about how he felt and it came across great. It shows the difference in scripted and unscripted promos. There is a difference and it keeps all of these wrestlers from sounding the same. I have loved CM Punk's work for many years going back to Ring Of Honor. I remember the excitement of seeing him working that ECW Sci-Fi show at the Hammerstein and that crowd went nuts for him the second he walked out including a large CM Punk chant to start the match. It launched him. It was that feeling of Heyman just launched another guy. Punk was well known in that area due to his ROH matches. From there, he fought his way against the politics in WWE and everything he has said is true. People felt he was the "King of the Indys". He became one of WWE's greatest performers. He has definitely been that recently by far. In the ring, on the mic, and all around. When you are so solidly good, you're going to be able to overcome the politics and he is showing that even more in the last three weeks. Despite not being marketed and pushed as one of the biggest stars, he is so good and over with the fans that he still gets that reaction. Keep in mind that Punk's actual debut was what he said last night and that was being an extra for the John Cena WrestleMania entrance. Completely true story and fans said it at the time that it was a bummer that this was how Punk's debut would end up being. Too good for that. Now, he is going out with him being the absolute talk of the entire industry. Not just WWE. I'm talking everything. There is always that thought of you don't know what you've got till it's gone. Well, WWE is about to learn that. So many of us have said for so long that this guy is their most consistent wrestler that they have. You know what you're going to get out of him. He loves the business. He works as hard as he can. Now, he is likely on his way out unless there is some sort of last minute deal thrown together.
Money In The Bank will be his last appearance for the company taking on John Cena for the WWE title. There is so much anticipation for this match and I'd like to see it just to watch the atmosphere of it. This show is in Chicago. Punk's hometown. Punk always gets huge reactions in Chicago. Keep in mind that Chicago is one of the biggest anti-Cena crowds. They have been for years. That crowd just does not like Cena and it is going to be a crowd feeling of back to the One Night Stand PPV with Cena and RVD where the ECW fans were viciously ripping Cena. I fully expect this Chicago crowd to be very hostile and very pro-Punk. Cena did an interview this morning where he talked about how he is expecting it to be ugly against him.
More on Raw. Was there really much else on the show? LOL. The rest just felt like filler to me. More build to the PPV. Scary moment with the spot with Show, Henry, and McIntyre. McIntyre took a scary bump and was shaken up. His fall did not go as planned but he is said to be ok. The Bellas and Kelly Kelly was odd. So, WWE did a storyline a few years ago with LayCool saying that Mickie James was too big. Now, the Bellas are picking on Kelly for being too skinny. So, which is it WWE? As I said earlier, another set of tag team champions were dismantled by one guy. If you see the tag team champs in a handicap match, always assume that they are about to get beat. It doesn't do much for the tag team champions to always getting beat by one guy. How can you take them serious to beat another tag team when they get beat by one guy?
WWE Ice Cream Bars are also the talk of the wrestling world today. They trended forever on Twitter last night. It was hilarious. I loved the ice cream bars as a kid. I remember that they were hard to find and me and my mom would stock up on them whenever we found them. They were so good. If you want to send some feedback to Good Humor about wanting the WWE Ice Cream Bars to continue, here is the link to send it: https://ssl.unilever.com/goodhumor.com/Contact-Us.aspx
Several wrestlers took to Twitter last week to demand that Arn Anderson be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame next year. This included Randy Orton who got the ball rolling and was followed by Chris Jericho and William Regal.
WWE Classics On Demand is focusing on high flyers for the month of July. Hall of Fame profile is on Jimmy Snuka. The Wrestling's Highest Flyers DVD is currently airing. Shorties section is on John Morrison stuff. The old Coliseum Video on Ricky Steamboat is airing and the new roundtable discussion on the nWo will be showing later this month. Not long after the official 15 year anniversary of the debut of the nWo. Hard to believe it has been 15 years. Speaking of Classics, I did watch the Royal Rumble 2011 last week. Solid show. The Rumble was very enjoyable as always. Going back to the trend of this List, Punk was the highlight of it.
On the NWA show from December 1987 that is currently airing on Classics, it shows the Lex Luger face turn on the Horsemen. It is good stuff. Luger puts over Dusty Rhodes and how much of a competitor that he was at Starrcade. JJ Dillon is seen in the background shaking his head at Luger's comments including Luger saying that JJ is not allowed to get involved anymore. He can accompany but not get involved as it messed up his match strategy. Another segment then shows Luger finally clashing physically with Arn and Tully and also JJ. Eventually, they get the advantage on Luger and put a good beating on him with a figure four leglock. it was good stuff to watch.
Some Ric Flair news. He and Highspots.com have finally finished their long troubles. Highspots announced that Flair has finally paid them the money that Flair owed them from their court settlement. Many fans were upset about Flair not appearing at the TNA Basebrawl show in Brooklyn recently. Flair was advertised as appearing on the show and did do a VIP signing for those VIP ticket holders. Flair was pushed to the live crowd there as making an appearance on the show later on but Flair turned it down and left. Lots of fans very disappointed that Flair did not make an appearance especially after being advertised.
Remember the company that throws fits over spoilers getting out from Impact? TNA. You know, that company? The company that has thrown out people from the Impact tapings for sending spoilers from the show. Well, Hulk Hogan did an interview lately promoting his new video game where he told where his whole storyline was going completely. I won't spoil it but it just blew me away. Now, I'm sure that TNA probably wasn't happy with him doing this but wow.
That is it for this week. This Sunday will be very interesting with how WWE plays out the whole CM Punk storyline. Have a great week. Take care and God bless!!
Friday, July 1, 2011
CM Punk Takes Raw To A Level Not Seen In Ages - July 1, 2011
Welcome to the "CM Punk needs to do a promo like that every week" edition of The Wrestling List. What a promo that was! It was straight out of the attitude era with reacting to it. Fans were abuzz over it and it just great stuff. Let's get right into it.
Monday night's Raw had three moments on it that I found enjoyable. Raw Roulette was the theme for the episode. However, the big buzz of the show came at the end where CM Punk cost John Cena his match against R Truth. Then, he went and sat down on the ramp and did a shoot promo ripping the company apart. It was incredible. He talked of how he didn't dislike Cena like so many do in the back but just realizes that Cena is better at kissing up to Vince than he is. Punk said he is the best they've got but he isn't as good at kissing up as Cena is and Hogan and Dwayne was. He talked about how he had been vilified since day one because Paul Heyman liked him. Punk said that he was a Heyman guy just like Brock Lesnar was. The common thing with him and Lesnar was that he was leaving just like Lesnar did but he was taking the title with unlike Lesnar. Punk ripped on the company for being there and being the workhorse but never being on any of the merchandise. He said he was the best on the mic, best in the ring, and best even on commentary (completely agree on the commentary thing). He talked about leaving and how he was taking the championship with him. He pondered on what he would do next saying that maybe he would go to Ring Of Honor and then said hello to Colt Cabana. He talked about Vince some more saying that unfortunately this company would be no better after Vince was gone because it was being taken over by "his idiotic daughter, his son-in-law, and the rest of his stupid family". When he got to telling a personal story about Vince, his microphone was cut and he said he had been silenced and the show went black. It was awesome!! The crowd started to cheer for him as well. I know I was. I was sitting there with my mouth open and a smile on my face as he kept talking while applauding. Just incredible. That is how you do a promo folks. It definitely got people talking. Many have taken to Twitter to comment on the promo including Stone Cold Steve Austin, Shawn Michaels, Chris Jericho, Mick Foley, Bret Hart, and more.
Stone Cold Steve Austin: "just melted my 52 inch TV with a scorching hot promo…delivery, content, and attitude..one of the best promos I've ever seen."
Shawn Michaels: "Gettin ready 2 head home. 2 words 4 @CMPunk- thata boy. Felt like old times. Anywho, back 2 my normal life, tweet u on touchdown:-)"
Chris Jericho: "Congrats to @cmpunk and Vince McMahon for doing something tonight that hasn't been done in awhile...make history."
Mick Foley: "I have no idea where this @cmpunk thing might go, but I know I'll be watching. Captivating stuff."
Bret Hart: "The best promos are always the ones that sound real"
If you missed the promo, here it is:
Oh, there were other happenings on Raw. Great to see Shawn Michaels on the show. He was in the opening segment and had a face off with Punk and Nexus. He was later in a backstage vignette with Diamond Dallas Page and Booker T which was a promotion for the WCW DVD. Another big highlight which actually woke me up was when Big Show was knocked through the side of the cage by Mark Henry. It looked great and completely caught me off guard. I cracked up at the fans watching it happen in the building. Standing in stunned reaction. Evan Bourne and Sin Cara had a good match. Rey Mysterio teamed with Alex Riley against The Miz and Jack Swagger which was a solid match. Fun ending.
Other notes from Raw. Funny that Punk posted on Twitter before Raw saying "I'm in full 'what are they going to do fire me' mode?" I guess now I know why the ending graphic for Raw was put up unusually early just as the 10:00 hour hit. There would be no end graphic due to the plan to cut to black. I bet Ring Of Honor appreciated that mention on Raw given that they are about to launch syndicated in September. I was wondering if WWE would mention the voting mess-up when the Sin Cara/Bourne match happened. They acknowledged but didn't ever really say, hey, we messed up. They did not mention at all about the Vickie Guerrero match stipulation being messed up. Instead they had Kofi get to pick his match and said that he personally voted for Vickie to be banned last week so wanted that to happen this week. That was another mess-up last week with the voting as that was the winner but the 2 out of 3 falls match was shown as the winner. Voting mess up.
The coroner's report has been released on the passing of Macho Man Randy Savage. Still hard to believe that I'm typing those words. It was due to cardiovascular disease. His brother, Lanny Poffo, has been doing interviews off and on and he told the story of the accident. He said that Savage's wife actually steered the car off the road into the tree. Poffo said that this avoided several people getting hurt that were on the road in that same area at the time. He said that she was a hero for doing what she did to save the other people.
Colt Cabana is someone that really needs to work big to capitalize on his name being mentioned on Raw. And he is. He did an interview with the Miami Herald. Colt talked about Punk's reasoning for wanting to leave WWE and here were some of the comments: “From being laughed at by the trainers in Ohio Valley Wrestling to Paul [Heyman] finally bringing him up and everybody treating him like dirt, telling him he has an attitude problem and calling him the ‘King of the Indies.’ Just looking down on him, he just felt shunned his whole time there. It was a complete struggle. The power of him not really caring because he was ready to leave — I always said the power of not giving a **** is so important. He is really at the point where he just wants to get out of there. It’s too frustrating for him. If he said anything that made anybody mad, what are they going to do to him? Not re-sign him? He doesn’t want to be there. So I think that idea is so powerful. He is so strong in his beliefs with the straight edge lifestyle. By being how strong headed that he is, he was able to have the power to go out on television and say what probably every other wrestler has wanted to say. He made unbelievable television. He made unbelievable history in wrestling. He almost has the ability to change professional wrestling as we know it. It has been so stagnant and vanilla. It kind of shook up the wrestling world because of his real life frustrations.”
To read more of the interview which is definitely worth a read, here you go: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/06/30/2292336/colt-cabana-thanks-friend-wwe.html#ixzz1QsWmhRN8
I watched a little bit of Impact last week. Oh, and I need to say that I messed up on the main event for Destination X. It is instead going to be AJ vs. Daniels instead of having Joe in the mix. He is in another match. Going back to Impact. What is up with Sting? That is just bizarre with what they are doing with him. It's just strange and I don't really like it. I know that Hogan and Bischoff have been raving on Twitter about how great it is. I don't know. Just not my cup of tea but maybe others like it.
Ring Of Honor held their long awaited press conference last week where they talked about the launching on the Sinclair networks across the country. They had talent there to promote the product and took questions from the media. I don't know if there was anything really groundbreaking that was learned that we didn't already know but I do know that I get to see ROH here locally every week so that is a huge plus. On another note, I'm hearing great things about their PPV last week.
That is it for today. Wishing you all a great day. Take care and God bless!!
Monday night's Raw had three moments on it that I found enjoyable. Raw Roulette was the theme for the episode. However, the big buzz of the show came at the end where CM Punk cost John Cena his match against R Truth. Then, he went and sat down on the ramp and did a shoot promo ripping the company apart. It was incredible. He talked of how he didn't dislike Cena like so many do in the back but just realizes that Cena is better at kissing up to Vince than he is. Punk said he is the best they've got but he isn't as good at kissing up as Cena is and Hogan and Dwayne was. He talked about how he had been vilified since day one because Paul Heyman liked him. Punk said that he was a Heyman guy just like Brock Lesnar was. The common thing with him and Lesnar was that he was leaving just like Lesnar did but he was taking the title with unlike Lesnar. Punk ripped on the company for being there and being the workhorse but never being on any of the merchandise. He said he was the best on the mic, best in the ring, and best even on commentary (completely agree on the commentary thing). He talked about leaving and how he was taking the championship with him. He pondered on what he would do next saying that maybe he would go to Ring Of Honor and then said hello to Colt Cabana. He talked about Vince some more saying that unfortunately this company would be no better after Vince was gone because it was being taken over by "his idiotic daughter, his son-in-law, and the rest of his stupid family". When he got to telling a personal story about Vince, his microphone was cut and he said he had been silenced and the show went black. It was awesome!! The crowd started to cheer for him as well. I know I was. I was sitting there with my mouth open and a smile on my face as he kept talking while applauding. Just incredible. That is how you do a promo folks. It definitely got people talking. Many have taken to Twitter to comment on the promo including Stone Cold Steve Austin, Shawn Michaels, Chris Jericho, Mick Foley, Bret Hart, and more.
Stone Cold Steve Austin: "just melted my 52 inch TV with a scorching hot promo…delivery, content, and attitude..one of the best promos I've ever seen."
Shawn Michaels: "Gettin ready 2 head home. 2 words 4 @CMPunk- thata boy. Felt like old times. Anywho, back 2 my normal life, tweet u on touchdown:-)"
Chris Jericho: "Congrats to @cmpunk and Vince McMahon for doing something tonight that hasn't been done in awhile...make history."
Mick Foley: "I have no idea where this @cmpunk thing might go, but I know I'll be watching. Captivating stuff."
Bret Hart: "The best promos are always the ones that sound real"
If you missed the promo, here it is:
Oh, there were other happenings on Raw. Great to see Shawn Michaels on the show. He was in the opening segment and had a face off with Punk and Nexus. He was later in a backstage vignette with Diamond Dallas Page and Booker T which was a promotion for the WCW DVD. Another big highlight which actually woke me up was when Big Show was knocked through the side of the cage by Mark Henry. It looked great and completely caught me off guard. I cracked up at the fans watching it happen in the building. Standing in stunned reaction. Evan Bourne and Sin Cara had a good match. Rey Mysterio teamed with Alex Riley against The Miz and Jack Swagger which was a solid match. Fun ending.
Other notes from Raw. Funny that Punk posted on Twitter before Raw saying "I'm in full 'what are they going to do fire me' mode?" I guess now I know why the ending graphic for Raw was put up unusually early just as the 10:00 hour hit. There would be no end graphic due to the plan to cut to black. I bet Ring Of Honor appreciated that mention on Raw given that they are about to launch syndicated in September. I was wondering if WWE would mention the voting mess-up when the Sin Cara/Bourne match happened. They acknowledged but didn't ever really say, hey, we messed up. They did not mention at all about the Vickie Guerrero match stipulation being messed up. Instead they had Kofi get to pick his match and said that he personally voted for Vickie to be banned last week so wanted that to happen this week. That was another mess-up last week with the voting as that was the winner but the 2 out of 3 falls match was shown as the winner. Voting mess up.
The coroner's report has been released on the passing of Macho Man Randy Savage. Still hard to believe that I'm typing those words. It was due to cardiovascular disease. His brother, Lanny Poffo, has been doing interviews off and on and he told the story of the accident. He said that Savage's wife actually steered the car off the road into the tree. Poffo said that this avoided several people getting hurt that were on the road in that same area at the time. He said that she was a hero for doing what she did to save the other people.
Colt Cabana is someone that really needs to work big to capitalize on his name being mentioned on Raw. And he is. He did an interview with the Miami Herald. Colt talked about Punk's reasoning for wanting to leave WWE and here were some of the comments: “From being laughed at by the trainers in Ohio Valley Wrestling to Paul [Heyman] finally bringing him up and everybody treating him like dirt, telling him he has an attitude problem and calling him the ‘King of the Indies.’ Just looking down on him, he just felt shunned his whole time there. It was a complete struggle. The power of him not really caring because he was ready to leave — I always said the power of not giving a **** is so important. He is really at the point where he just wants to get out of there. It’s too frustrating for him. If he said anything that made anybody mad, what are they going to do to him? Not re-sign him? He doesn’t want to be there. So I think that idea is so powerful. He is so strong in his beliefs with the straight edge lifestyle. By being how strong headed that he is, he was able to have the power to go out on television and say what probably every other wrestler has wanted to say. He made unbelievable television. He made unbelievable history in wrestling. He almost has the ability to change professional wrestling as we know it. It has been so stagnant and vanilla. It kind of shook up the wrestling world because of his real life frustrations.”
To read more of the interview which is definitely worth a read, here you go: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/06/30/2292336/colt-cabana-thanks-friend-wwe.html#ixzz1QsWmhRN8
I watched a little bit of Impact last week. Oh, and I need to say that I messed up on the main event for Destination X. It is instead going to be AJ vs. Daniels instead of having Joe in the mix. He is in another match. Going back to Impact. What is up with Sting? That is just bizarre with what they are doing with him. It's just strange and I don't really like it. I know that Hogan and Bischoff have been raving on Twitter about how great it is. I don't know. Just not my cup of tea but maybe others like it.
Ring Of Honor held their long awaited press conference last week where they talked about the launching on the Sinclair networks across the country. They had talent there to promote the product and took questions from the media. I don't know if there was anything really groundbreaking that was learned that we didn't already know but I do know that I get to see ROH here locally every week so that is a huge plus. On another note, I'm hearing great things about their PPV last week.
That is it for today. Wishing you all a great day. Take care and God bless!!
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