WWE Championship - Tables Match
The Miz (c) vs. Randy Orton
With the lackluster title reign of The Miz and the neck injury that Randy Orton suffers, it feels like this feud could have been better to say the least, while I do think Orton could have pushed the Miz to better segments, the writing and performance by the Miz was really boring and similar to what he did before, which is not a positive thing to say the least. It will be interesting to see what direction the WWE will go with this title reign, especially when we will get to the Number 1 contenders match.
WWE World Heavyweight Championship - TLC Match
Kane (c) vs. Edge vs. Rey Mysterio vs. Alberto Del Rio
The fact that Rey Mysterio is very injury prone in the past couple of weeks really hurt Alberto Del Rio's push in a way since the WWE wanted to push more 1 on 1 matches, but since Rey was injured in his shoulder again in recent weeks, WWE decided to make this a F4W for the title, and by that, it makes the booking a lot more easier to change the title from the champion since he could lose the title without giving him the lose\pin. On the other hand though, it could make things a lot easier to retain Kane with the title after a chaotic situation booking wise to end it in a good way.
Chairs Match
John Cena vs. Wade Barrett
While there is a good way to look at things for this match, the decision to not make this make this match “If cena wins he is rehired, if not he is fired for good” kinnda premise, it would be very obvious of the result, and while it may be almost obvious to a lot of people that John Cena will pick up the win and “destroy” Barret, I would also give the other theory, that perhaps the WWE want to give Barret a big singles win over someone with a main event status to build him as a singles competitor when eventually Nexus will be disbanded.
WWE Intercontinental Championship - Ladder Match
Dolph Ziggler (c) vs. Kofi Kingston vs. Jack Swagger
Just like the F4W, making a certain match a three way instead of one on one could definitely help the booking, but I wonder why the hell the WWE couldn’t put Kaval in the match aswell, he had a title match against Ziggler at the last PPV, granted, he was injured in his ankle, but you could always replace him at the last second with a certain attack angle by Ziggler or someone else.
#1 Contendership for the WWE Championship - Ladder Match
Sheamus vs. John Morrison
The actual match is really not that interesting, their past two matches had a lot of botches, and Morrison's gimmick is really fading and while I do think they could have some good spots for big moves, I fear this match could be disappointing. The result of the match is more fascinating to me than the actual match since the result of this match could lead into Morrison Vs Miz feud leading with an assumption that the WWE want to give Miz the title for another month or so before Royal Rumble, or even Elimination Chamber, but Orton will pick up the win, it would make sense that Sheamus will be victorious, but with the talks of turning Morrison Heel, Morrison Vs Orton to build him good could also work.
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Saturday, December 18, 2010
This Is Wrestling Podcast: TLC Preview Show
This week verkk and jay look at the upcoming TLC 2010 ppv and run down the news of the past few weeks.
http://www.evolvedgaming.net/Podcasts/ThisIsWrestling/TIWTLC.mp3
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Reasons why TNA is bad at the moment
The big TNA angle regarding ‘Immortal’ and the big heel turn, made TNA even more mediocre with its booking and decisions.
‘Immortal and Fortune’:
While I think giving the title to Jeff Hardy was good, Hardy's mic skills are really lackluster and disappointing, even back when he was with the WWE, it was not his big attraction, and I think for that element, it may have cost him from becoming the WHC\WWE champion for a while.
On top of Hardy's bad mic skills, Fortune started to really become a bad group with its wrestling, and while I do not like comparing TNA and WWE usually, the major thing that me and my partner Jay from our podcast, is that the storylines and angles are quite good, but the actual wrestling from both Fortune and Nexus is really average at best. Don’t get me wrong, AJ Styles is really good, and Beer Money had some decent matches since forming ‘Fortune’, but as a whole, the matches were bad, and this could akin to the fact that ‘Fortune’ had a big feud with EV2, which could be the main issue since a lot of EV2's wrestlers are not active or just rusty on top of the really bad segments.
Speaking about ‘Fortune’ with anything good related to angles, the decision to turn Matt Morgan face was a terrible for TNA and their ‘Face’ roster, giving Morgan TWO freaking title shots gives me a headache, even though it is obvious that TNA needed a “job” feud to establish Hardy as the champion.
Turning Douglas Williams face was a weird decision, but fair. The bigger problem I have with it, is that both Morgan and Williams shouldn’t have been in ‘Fortune’ to being with, and it’s almost like TNA wanted to turn someone against ‘Fortune’ to start something. But for the news\reports people who are trying to be updated, TNA thought about turning AJ Face and do a big Hardy Vs AJ feud, but again, it would not make sense to throw such a big feud for Hardy with his first “title defense” feud, and obviously, that is why RVD “lost his chance” for a title show, and why Anderson is out of action.
Mid-card and Tag Team:
While I do think the MCMGuns are great and talented, their ‘Face’ run is annoying to watch, their taunts (nothing against Detroit, its more about the actual taunts and not what it means) are cheesy, and their move-set really started to be bad with its ‘Face’ direction, especially around the Team 3D match last month.
Speaking of Team 3D, the main decision to separate Devon and Rey was bad, they had a really bad banter feud between them when Jessy Neal was in the picture and it was just abysmal to watch and listen. I understand TNA wanted to do something different, but as most people know, both Devon and Rey are not very good individually, and it hurts the mid-card TV time with really boring segments and almost no wrestling.
Another big reason the tag team division is pretty bad at the moment is the poor teaming of wrestlers, and while it’s not new, Ink Inc are really bad, they got no charisma and Neal is just a bad wrestler, and I'm not even talking about the wasted money for Moore. On top of Ink Inc, the really awful decision to turn Generation Me heels only lead to frustrating heel matches for them instead of doing their great matches and moves they used to do beforehand.
X-Division? What is that?
After the big (and pretty bad) feud between Jay Lethal and Ric Flair, it was reported that TNA want to elevate Jay Lethal to the main event status, but behold, TNA realized Lethal is not a main event star and they just now realized he will always be an X-Division wrestler with some good potential that will always be marked with his bad gimmicks and move sets\finishers.
Unlike Lethal, “Robbie E” is still a young and somewhat fresh wrestler that showed some good moves, but the moronic “Jersey Shore” esque gimmick hurts him and TNA because he got a lot of athleticism and solid wrestling moves.
Kendrick Who?
Brian Kendrick is a solid light\high-flying wrestler, and the decision to stick him with EV2 was poor and uncharacteristic of TNA to realize that Kendrick can be a good wrestler when needed, and not focus on his bad gimmicks.
Conclusion:
The main reason TNA is disappointing (to be gentle) at the moment is the (it’s like that for years) bad creative decisions that TNA have made in the past month and a half or so. On top of keeping wrestlers like Angle out of TV to sell a stupid angle with Jeff Jarret, and keeping good wrestlers out of TV to push idiotic angles like Jordan and Young teaming up on TV just made everything worse to begin with, and the on-going Rhino\RVD\Dreamer story is just a horrible thing to show for proper wrestling fans. Stop it TNA.
‘Immortal and Fortune’:
While I think giving the title to Jeff Hardy was good, Hardy's mic skills are really lackluster and disappointing, even back when he was with the WWE, it was not his big attraction, and I think for that element, it may have cost him from becoming the WHC\WWE champion for a while.
On top of Hardy's bad mic skills, Fortune started to really become a bad group with its wrestling, and while I do not like comparing TNA and WWE usually, the major thing that me and my partner Jay from our podcast, is that the storylines and angles are quite good, but the actual wrestling from both Fortune and Nexus is really average at best. Don’t get me wrong, AJ Styles is really good, and Beer Money had some decent matches since forming ‘Fortune’, but as a whole, the matches were bad, and this could akin to the fact that ‘Fortune’ had a big feud with EV2, which could be the main issue since a lot of EV2's wrestlers are not active or just rusty on top of the really bad segments.
Speaking about ‘Fortune’ with anything good related to angles, the decision to turn Matt Morgan face was a terrible for TNA and their ‘Face’ roster, giving Morgan TWO freaking title shots gives me a headache, even though it is obvious that TNA needed a “job” feud to establish Hardy as the champion.
Turning Douglas Williams face was a weird decision, but fair. The bigger problem I have with it, is that both Morgan and Williams shouldn’t have been in ‘Fortune’ to being with, and it’s almost like TNA wanted to turn someone against ‘Fortune’ to start something. But for the news\reports people who are trying to be updated, TNA thought about turning AJ Face and do a big Hardy Vs AJ feud, but again, it would not make sense to throw such a big feud for Hardy with his first “title defense” feud, and obviously, that is why RVD “lost his chance” for a title show, and why Anderson is out of action.
Mid-card and Tag Team:
While I do think the MCMGuns are great and talented, their ‘Face’ run is annoying to watch, their taunts (nothing against Detroit, its more about the actual taunts and not what it means) are cheesy, and their move-set really started to be bad with its ‘Face’ direction, especially around the Team 3D match last month.
Speaking of Team 3D, the main decision to separate Devon and Rey was bad, they had a really bad banter feud between them when Jessy Neal was in the picture and it was just abysmal to watch and listen. I understand TNA wanted to do something different, but as most people know, both Devon and Rey are not very good individually, and it hurts the mid-card TV time with really boring segments and almost no wrestling.
Another big reason the tag team division is pretty bad at the moment is the poor teaming of wrestlers, and while it’s not new, Ink Inc are really bad, they got no charisma and Neal is just a bad wrestler, and I'm not even talking about the wasted money for Moore. On top of Ink Inc, the really awful decision to turn Generation Me heels only lead to frustrating heel matches for them instead of doing their great matches and moves they used to do beforehand.
X-Division? What is that?
After the big (and pretty bad) feud between Jay Lethal and Ric Flair, it was reported that TNA want to elevate Jay Lethal to the main event status, but behold, TNA realized Lethal is not a main event star and they just now realized he will always be an X-Division wrestler with some good potential that will always be marked with his bad gimmicks and move sets\finishers.
Unlike Lethal, “Robbie E” is still a young and somewhat fresh wrestler that showed some good moves, but the moronic “Jersey Shore” esque gimmick hurts him and TNA because he got a lot of athleticism and solid wrestling moves.
Kendrick Who?
Brian Kendrick is a solid light\high-flying wrestler, and the decision to stick him with EV2 was poor and uncharacteristic of TNA to realize that Kendrick can be a good wrestler when needed, and not focus on his bad gimmicks.
Conclusion:
The main reason TNA is disappointing (to be gentle) at the moment is the (it’s like that for years) bad creative decisions that TNA have made in the past month and a half or so. On top of keeping wrestlers like Angle out of TV to sell a stupid angle with Jeff Jarret, and keeping good wrestlers out of TV to push idiotic angles like Jordan and Young teaming up on TV just made everything worse to begin with, and the on-going Rhino\RVD\Dreamer story is just a horrible thing to show for proper wrestling fans. Stop it TNA.
TNA Final Resolution preview\predictions article
TNA Final Resolution Preview\Predicstions:
* Submission Match: Samoa Joe vs. Jeff Jarrett:
While Jarret's segments were pretty bad, the actual wrestling was good if not great, and while I am not a big fan of Samoa Joe, he is a good submission wrestler. This could be a very good match for proper wrestling fans, but I fear that the ‘heel’ role of Jarret will lead to numerous ‘heel’ moments that will stop the fluidity of the match.
Winner:
Samoa Joe, simply because Joe has tapped and “jobbed” to Jarret with the storyline for quite a while now, so TNA cannot afford Joe to lose on a PPV, but they still gave Jarret the big ‘heel’ momentum for Immortal.
* Casket Match: Abyss vs. The Pope
To be honest, just like the last PPV, anything related to Abyss or The Pope for that matter is just not interesting, but I would take a guess and call Abyss as the winner to give some momentum for Immortal.
* First Blood Match: RVD vs. Rhino
Another pretty bad feud that went nowhere but boring, while the banter between Tommy Dreamer, RVD and Rhino was not that bad, the booking side of things were just bad. Potentially, this could be a decent match for some old-school EC(W) matches, but I fear it won't be as good as it might be on paper.
Winner: RVD, mainly since Rhino is on TNA per appearance since his contract expired (unless it is a big job) on the last PPV.
* #1 Contender’s Match: Beer Money vs. Ink Inc.
Beer Money is a very good tag team for TNA right now, and even with the whole disappointing Fortune\Immortal angle, they are still very talented and always gives a good show, but sadly, Ink Inc. is just a bad tag team, Jessy Neal is very lackluster with its moveset and his “gimmick” while Shannon Moore is just decent at best, besides a good move every once in a while.
Winners:
It could totally go for Inc Ink Vs GenMe or Beer Money Vs MCMG (again), and since this match is before the big title match, I would guess (and hope) for Beer Money and for Fortunes to at some points would have all titles to dominate even more.
* TNA X-Division Title Match: Robbie E. © vs. Jay Lethal (Cookie In A
Cage Suspended Above The Ring):
While the stipulation is just idiotic, cancelling “Cookie” from the match could do just good for Robbie E since he is a very talented wrestler, and it could finally show his true skills against a very veteran (In TNA) Jay Lethal.
Without Cookie, this could be one of the most fascinating matches of the PPV, let's hope there won’t be too much stupid taunts to go with it.
* TV Title Match: AJ Styles © vs. Douglas Williams:
On paper, this is the match of the PPV and for TNA in a long time.
The ‘face’ (and unnecessary) turn of Douglas Williams was ok, but the crowd reaction was not the most impressive thing, but in the end, TNA needs decent ‘Faces’ to go against Fortune, and I think, that it would go for Immortal Vs (Team) Dixie eventually to disband Immortal.
Winner:
AJ Styles, just because I think TNA will not drop the title to someone who held the X-Division title for so long no too long ago, and the fact that they will want more momentum for Immortal.
* Full Metal Mayhem Tag Team Title Match: The Motor City Machineguns
© vs. Generation Me :
I’ve said this before, but the ‘heel’ turn of GenMe was weird, but they are still very talented, and this match also could potentially be really good, hopefully, it will not go for a very ‘heel’ booking since both Genme and the MCMG are very fast and fun to watch.
Winners:
As mentioned above, it's a tough guess since I'm not sure if TNA will really drop the titles from the guns after two major feuds since they had the titles.
MCMG.
* TNA World Title Match: Jeff Hardy © vs. Matt Morgan (Mr. Anderson Is Special Referee):
Just like last month, the only reason TNA gave Morgan the second title shot and continued the storyline is to give people like Anderson, Angle and maybe even RVD to sell\finish their current storylines and give Hardy a big\long and proper feud against someone more stable than Morgan.
Just throwing it out there, I wouldn't be surprised if TNA would turn Anderson heel and basically cross Morgan, sicne Anderson said the bigger guy will win, meaning Immortal, not necessarily Morgan. Besides the fact that it is still a job feud (and to build Morgan with the ‘face’ turn obviously).
Winner:
Jeff Hardy, with a ‘heel’ turn of Anderson.
* Submission Match: Samoa Joe vs. Jeff Jarrett:
While Jarret's segments were pretty bad, the actual wrestling was good if not great, and while I am not a big fan of Samoa Joe, he is a good submission wrestler. This could be a very good match for proper wrestling fans, but I fear that the ‘heel’ role of Jarret will lead to numerous ‘heel’ moments that will stop the fluidity of the match.
Winner:
Samoa Joe, simply because Joe has tapped and “jobbed” to Jarret with the storyline for quite a while now, so TNA cannot afford Joe to lose on a PPV, but they still gave Jarret the big ‘heel’ momentum for Immortal.
* Casket Match: Abyss vs. The Pope
To be honest, just like the last PPV, anything related to Abyss or The Pope for that matter is just not interesting, but I would take a guess and call Abyss as the winner to give some momentum for Immortal.
* First Blood Match: RVD vs. Rhino
Another pretty bad feud that went nowhere but boring, while the banter between Tommy Dreamer, RVD and Rhino was not that bad, the booking side of things were just bad. Potentially, this could be a decent match for some old-school EC(W) matches, but I fear it won't be as good as it might be on paper.
Winner: RVD, mainly since Rhino is on TNA per appearance since his contract expired (unless it is a big job) on the last PPV.
* #1 Contender’s Match: Beer Money vs. Ink Inc.
Beer Money is a very good tag team for TNA right now, and even with the whole disappointing Fortune\Immortal angle, they are still very talented and always gives a good show, but sadly, Ink Inc. is just a bad tag team, Jessy Neal is very lackluster with its moveset and his “gimmick” while Shannon Moore is just decent at best, besides a good move every once in a while.
Winners:
It could totally go for Inc Ink Vs GenMe or Beer Money Vs MCMG (again), and since this match is before the big title match, I would guess (and hope) for Beer Money and for Fortunes to at some points would have all titles to dominate even more.
* TNA X-Division Title Match: Robbie E. © vs. Jay Lethal (Cookie In A
Cage Suspended Above The Ring):
While the stipulation is just idiotic, cancelling “Cookie” from the match could do just good for Robbie E since he is a very talented wrestler, and it could finally show his true skills against a very veteran (In TNA) Jay Lethal.
Without Cookie, this could be one of the most fascinating matches of the PPV, let's hope there won’t be too much stupid taunts to go with it.
* TV Title Match: AJ Styles © vs. Douglas Williams:
On paper, this is the match of the PPV and for TNA in a long time.
The ‘face’ (and unnecessary) turn of Douglas Williams was ok, but the crowd reaction was not the most impressive thing, but in the end, TNA needs decent ‘Faces’ to go against Fortune, and I think, that it would go for Immortal Vs (Team) Dixie eventually to disband Immortal.
Winner:
AJ Styles, just because I think TNA will not drop the title to someone who held the X-Division title for so long no too long ago, and the fact that they will want more momentum for Immortal.
* Full Metal Mayhem Tag Team Title Match: The Motor City Machineguns
© vs. Generation Me :
I’ve said this before, but the ‘heel’ turn of GenMe was weird, but they are still very talented, and this match also could potentially be really good, hopefully, it will not go for a very ‘heel’ booking since both Genme and the MCMG are very fast and fun to watch.
Winners:
As mentioned above, it's a tough guess since I'm not sure if TNA will really drop the titles from the guns after two major feuds since they had the titles.
MCMG.
* TNA World Title Match: Jeff Hardy © vs. Matt Morgan (Mr. Anderson Is Special Referee):
Just like last month, the only reason TNA gave Morgan the second title shot and continued the storyline is to give people like Anderson, Angle and maybe even RVD to sell\finish their current storylines and give Hardy a big\long and proper feud against someone more stable than Morgan.
Just throwing it out there, I wouldn't be surprised if TNA would turn Anderson heel and basically cross Morgan, sicne Anderson said the bigger guy will win, meaning Immortal, not necessarily Morgan. Besides the fact that it is still a job feud (and to build Morgan with the ‘face’ turn obviously).
Winner:
Jeff Hardy, with a ‘heel’ turn of Anderson.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
This Is Wrestling Podcast EP 9.0
This week we recap the survivor series, raw and look at the upcoming smackdown show.
http://www.evolvedgaming.net/Podcasts/ThisIsWrestling/ThisIsWrestling9.0.mp3
Saturday, November 6, 2010
TNA Turning Point Preview\Predictions
TNA Turning Point Preview\Predictions:
Jeff Jarrett vs. Samoa Joe:
It's hard to really pick the winner since Jarret has been on a heel momentum since the Immortal reveal. With attacking Angle, Joe and Morgan, it looks like it will be a clean win for Joe despite the push for Jarret just to give something for Joe to go with these days and start hopefully a new feud with someone, perhaps against someone In Immortal\Fortune.
Winner:
Samoa Joe in a clean victory.
* RVD vs. Tommy Dreamer:
Well, RVD's recent “Paranoid” angle is garbage, just garbage, I do not care about EV2 or RVD for that matter, so I really have no interest in what will happen here. I can totally see a heel turn of Tommy Dreamer on RVD and costing the EV2 match as well.
Winner:
Tommy Dreamer with a victory and turning heel on RVD.
* EV2.0 vs. Fortune (A member of the losing team will be fired.):
The initial plan was to end the Fortune Vs EV2 story at the last PPV, but for some odd reason, TNA has decided to drag this crapshoot of a story even longer. On the positive note, I can almost guarantee that atleast one person from EV2 will be out of TNA soon. It was reported that the contract of Rhino has ended recently and there is no plan at the moment from TNA to give him a new offer so that leaves Rhino out of TNA for a while. Also, it was reported that TNA did not have anything (thank god) creative for Sabu, and that leads to another one who will not be back to TNA in a while.
Winners:
Fortune. Sabu\Rhino\Stevie being fired, Fortune attacking Raven afterwards and finishing EV2 for good.
* Fan's Are The Lumberjacks Match: The Pope vs. Abyss:
This could be the worst match in TNA for a couple of years, there is nothing good that can come out of this match, and on that note, I think Abyss will win just because TNA will not stop the Immortal momentum to give a win to Pope that had a lot of backstage heat for a while now.
* X-Division Title Match: Jay Lethal © vs. Robbie E w/Cookie:
Potentially, this could be the match of the night, but sadly, the moronic Jersey Shore esque character stops this match from being great, Robbie E got a lot of talent, atleast from what we saw so far from him, but his taunt, and some of this moves are just moronic to the point that it is deluding his actual talent and his stupid gimmick. On top of that, Lethal only had the title for two months or so, and It wouldn’t make sense to let him drop the title after only one and a half feud.
Winner:
Jay Lethal.
* TNA Tag Team Title Match: The Motor City Machine Guns © vs. Team 3D (If Team 3D wins, they retire champs):
Ever had to wonder why TNA or any wrestling company for that matter tease a retirement but it never really happenes? Well, unless I am totally reading the creative side wrong, Team 3D just re-singed their contracts with TNA, and unless they will be agents\development agents backstage, I cannot see how Team 3D will not pick up the win, it just doesn’t make any sense to tease something like that and not turning heel Team 3D if they will pick up the titles.
Winners:
Team 3D and turning heel since “they fooled” MCMG that they are retiring.
* TNA World Title Match: Jeff Hardy © vs. Matt Morgan:
What more can you really say about this match? It was supposed to be Anderson Vs Hardy, but then TNA remembered and realized they cannot give their big face to job the first title match of Hardy, they need to build up this match more, and after a few more matches, even if Hardy will still retain, it would make more sense. Matt Morgan as a heel was boring, stale and annoying, now as a face? It will be even more moronic.
This is obviously as mentioned a jobbing match since it is the first title defense of Hardy since becoming heel, and there is no chance that Hardy will drop the title to Morgan. Interestingly enough, AJ Styles was supposed to do the face turn instead of Morgan, but TNA felt it would not go well, I say, it could have been great to see Styles face again, instead of suffering with another over-rated boring wrestler as Matt Morgan.
Winner:
Jeff Hardy.
P.S.
If Matt Morgan picks up the win and THE TITLE (not a no DQ win) I will stop watching and covering TNA.
Jeff Jarrett vs. Samoa Joe:
It's hard to really pick the winner since Jarret has been on a heel momentum since the Immortal reveal. With attacking Angle, Joe and Morgan, it looks like it will be a clean win for Joe despite the push for Jarret just to give something for Joe to go with these days and start hopefully a new feud with someone, perhaps against someone In Immortal\Fortune.
Winner:
Samoa Joe in a clean victory.
* RVD vs. Tommy Dreamer:
Well, RVD's recent “Paranoid” angle is garbage, just garbage, I do not care about EV2 or RVD for that matter, so I really have no interest in what will happen here. I can totally see a heel turn of Tommy Dreamer on RVD and costing the EV2 match as well.
Winner:
Tommy Dreamer with a victory and turning heel on RVD.
* EV2.0 vs. Fortune (A member of the losing team will be fired.):
The initial plan was to end the Fortune Vs EV2 story at the last PPV, but for some odd reason, TNA has decided to drag this crapshoot of a story even longer. On the positive note, I can almost guarantee that atleast one person from EV2 will be out of TNA soon. It was reported that the contract of Rhino has ended recently and there is no plan at the moment from TNA to give him a new offer so that leaves Rhino out of TNA for a while. Also, it was reported that TNA did not have anything (thank god) creative for Sabu, and that leads to another one who will not be back to TNA in a while.
Winners:
Fortune. Sabu\Rhino\Stevie being fired, Fortune attacking Raven afterwards and finishing EV2 for good.
* Fan's Are The Lumberjacks Match: The Pope vs. Abyss:
This could be the worst match in TNA for a couple of years, there is nothing good that can come out of this match, and on that note, I think Abyss will win just because TNA will not stop the Immortal momentum to give a win to Pope that had a lot of backstage heat for a while now.
* X-Division Title Match: Jay Lethal © vs. Robbie E w/Cookie:
Potentially, this could be the match of the night, but sadly, the moronic Jersey Shore esque character stops this match from being great, Robbie E got a lot of talent, atleast from what we saw so far from him, but his taunt, and some of this moves are just moronic to the point that it is deluding his actual talent and his stupid gimmick. On top of that, Lethal only had the title for two months or so, and It wouldn’t make sense to let him drop the title after only one and a half feud.
Winner:
Jay Lethal.
* TNA Tag Team Title Match: The Motor City Machine Guns © vs. Team 3D (If Team 3D wins, they retire champs):
Ever had to wonder why TNA or any wrestling company for that matter tease a retirement but it never really happenes? Well, unless I am totally reading the creative side wrong, Team 3D just re-singed their contracts with TNA, and unless they will be agents\development agents backstage, I cannot see how Team 3D will not pick up the win, it just doesn’t make any sense to tease something like that and not turning heel Team 3D if they will pick up the titles.
Winners:
Team 3D and turning heel since “they fooled” MCMG that they are retiring.
* TNA World Title Match: Jeff Hardy © vs. Matt Morgan:
What more can you really say about this match? It was supposed to be Anderson Vs Hardy, but then TNA remembered and realized they cannot give their big face to job the first title match of Hardy, they need to build up this match more, and after a few more matches, even if Hardy will still retain, it would make more sense. Matt Morgan as a heel was boring, stale and annoying, now as a face? It will be even more moronic.
This is obviously as mentioned a jobbing match since it is the first title defense of Hardy since becoming heel, and there is no chance that Hardy will drop the title to Morgan. Interestingly enough, AJ Styles was supposed to do the face turn instead of Morgan, but TNA felt it would not go well, I say, it could have been great to see Styles face again, instead of suffering with another over-rated boring wrestler as Matt Morgan.
Winner:
Jeff Hardy.
P.S.
If Matt Morgan picks up the win and THE TITLE (not a no DQ win) I will stop watching and covering TNA.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
This Week In Wrestling (Week of October 24)
WWE:
Ziggler\Bryan:
The almost anticipated match between Ziggler and Bryan at Bragging Rights came to a pretty positive reaction from me, and with the win of Bryan against Ziggler also on this week on Raw and SD!, with three out of three wins for Bryan, it looks like the feud is definitely continuing towards Survivor Series, and to be honest, it could lead to a great Team Ziggler vs Team Bryan “Survivor Series” match. Cannot wait to see what will happen next, as mentioned by me on our podcast, I really love cross-brand matches, and this still could lead to the unification of the titles.
Cody\Drew:
After losing the Tag Team titles on Bragging Rights, Cody and Drew lost to Big Show and Kofi Kingston this week on SD! And that lead to a supposed break up, even if there is still a chance it was just a creative decision to lead them into a jobbing re-match against Slater and Gabriel at Survivor Series or just as a weekly jobbing match. I actually enjoyed the duo as champions, but the Nexus stuff can and lead to more interesting things creatively.
Kane\Undertaker:
With the help of Nexus, Kane finished the feud with Undertaker (for now) after Undertaker had to go through a shoulder surgery, on top of the fact that there are a lot of rumors that The Undertaker is thinking about retiring after the upcoming Wrestlemania (27). Which could lead eventually to a Kane Vs Taker at Wm27 or the other reports saying Cena as a big heel, Sheamus and yes, Wade Barret, and if he will pick up the title eventually, with the rumors that Vince want to unify the WHC\WWE titles, Barret Vs Taker could be very interesting, my guess that it would be Cena, but It is hard to predict since Cena so far is very down the middle with the heel turn, which will get to that next.
Wondering what is next for Kane? Well, at this week at SD!, we saw Edge becoming the N1C status after picking the win against Rey Mysterio and Alberto Del Rio in a Triple Threat Way in a decent match, with his somewhat solid crown reaction to his face turn, and his big momentum that he got from winning (with Rey) the match between Team SD! against Team Raw at Bragging Rights, it looks like Edge could be the perfect fit for SD! in his current shape, even if I am not sure if the WWE will drop the title from Kane this early after getting the huge win over Taker in this feud.
Nexus\Barret\Cena\Orton:
The fantastic split creative booking to retain Orton and his title for one more month since it was reported that the WWE wanted to give Barret the title to him at Bragging Rights. The smart yet problematic booking gave something quite new (even though some thought it was bad since people wanted a proper heel turn from cena, including myself) to what we got to expect from the WWE, and with the big stipulation that was made during this week's Raw to put Barret Vs Orton with Cena as the special guest referee was a decent way to really put the whole angle of the heel turn to a test by the WWE. Besides the premise of putting Cena as special guest referee, the main stipulation says that if Cena does not give Barret the title, he will be fired, but if he will (the proper heel turn), Cena will not be in Nexus anymore. Now the only way Orton could retain the title is if Cena want to take some time off, especially since he is filming another WWE (*sigh) film, but to be honest, it looks like Barret will pick up the title, and lead Cena to be heel without Nexus, which is the perfect thing for my opinion.
TNA:
Pope\Abyss:
Well, with the attack of Abyss on Pope during the recent show, it looks like the feud will happen eventually, perhaps a match in Turning Point (November 7), and to be honest, this sounds like a horrible idea, two really un-charismatic over-rated “wrestlers” with such a weird gap between the styles could only hurt.
Team 3D's match at Turning Point? Ah… Not Really…
With the recent re-signing of Team 3D with TNA, and with the reports that not a lot of people within the company were happy with that move, and with a “retirement” match at Turning Point against the MCMG, it looks another heel turn of Team 3D when they will pick the titles and go with another feud with MCMG. Since both Generation ME (which are horrible as heels, they look like they are 15, they cannot convey anything heel regarding mic skills) and Beer Money will not get another feud against the (pretty bad\boring) MCMG face title run, it looks like another classic heel Team 3D feud in the making.
Really? “Robbie E”?
The “Jersey Shore” esque character that is being run by TNA is the most pathetic gimmicks I have ever seen, and the fact that TNA gave Jay Lethal the OK to go with the abysmal “Randy Savage” face gimmick just shows that TNA cannot control their creative side into a minimum with some sanity. “Robbie” might have potential, but this horrendous gimmick will only hurt him and since he will eventually pick the X-Division title from Lethal, I hope this crap will end soon.
RVD and his paranoia quest?
The whole RVD\EV2\Hardy crap is getting really bad, this week, it was just… bad… the match between RVD and Raven against Williams and Aj Styles lead into another moment of big momentum to Fortune going to Turning Point to another useless “last match” against EV2. What does hold for RVD? Hopefully, a release from TNA.
Fortune issues?
With the weird moment by Williams and the whole face turn (?) by Matt Morgan that lead into an attack of Jarret (picking the win against Morgan who was covering the “concussion” of Anderson) and Fortune, I still think Fortune will continue to be dominant in TNA, but it is unknown what will happen with this faction alongside “Immortals”.
Jarret Eh?
With the big heel turn of Immortals, Jarret had a few decent heel moments against Angle, Joe and Morgan, leading to a match between him and Joe, it looks like Jarret will probably lose to Joe, but will stay at the top of the Immortals faction.
Anderson Vs Hardy @ Turning Point? Really?
This sounds like a horrible match in the making, and since we all know Hardy will retain, it looks almost useless to give a title shot to someone like Anderson so early, same for RVD.
Ziggler\Bryan:
The almost anticipated match between Ziggler and Bryan at Bragging Rights came to a pretty positive reaction from me, and with the win of Bryan against Ziggler also on this week on Raw and SD!, with three out of three wins for Bryan, it looks like the feud is definitely continuing towards Survivor Series, and to be honest, it could lead to a great Team Ziggler vs Team Bryan “Survivor Series” match. Cannot wait to see what will happen next, as mentioned by me on our podcast, I really love cross-brand matches, and this still could lead to the unification of the titles.
Cody\Drew:
After losing the Tag Team titles on Bragging Rights, Cody and Drew lost to Big Show and Kofi Kingston this week on SD! And that lead to a supposed break up, even if there is still a chance it was just a creative decision to lead them into a jobbing re-match against Slater and Gabriel at Survivor Series or just as a weekly jobbing match. I actually enjoyed the duo as champions, but the Nexus stuff can and lead to more interesting things creatively.
Kane\Undertaker:
With the help of Nexus, Kane finished the feud with Undertaker (for now) after Undertaker had to go through a shoulder surgery, on top of the fact that there are a lot of rumors that The Undertaker is thinking about retiring after the upcoming Wrestlemania (27). Which could lead eventually to a Kane Vs Taker at Wm27 or the other reports saying Cena as a big heel, Sheamus and yes, Wade Barret, and if he will pick up the title eventually, with the rumors that Vince want to unify the WHC\WWE titles, Barret Vs Taker could be very interesting, my guess that it would be Cena, but It is hard to predict since Cena so far is very down the middle with the heel turn, which will get to that next.
Wondering what is next for Kane? Well, at this week at SD!, we saw Edge becoming the N1C status after picking the win against Rey Mysterio and Alberto Del Rio in a Triple Threat Way in a decent match, with his somewhat solid crown reaction to his face turn, and his big momentum that he got from winning (with Rey) the match between Team SD! against Team Raw at Bragging Rights, it looks like Edge could be the perfect fit for SD! in his current shape, even if I am not sure if the WWE will drop the title from Kane this early after getting the huge win over Taker in this feud.
Nexus\Barret\Cena\Orton:
The fantastic split creative booking to retain Orton and his title for one more month since it was reported that the WWE wanted to give Barret the title to him at Bragging Rights. The smart yet problematic booking gave something quite new (even though some thought it was bad since people wanted a proper heel turn from cena, including myself) to what we got to expect from the WWE, and with the big stipulation that was made during this week's Raw to put Barret Vs Orton with Cena as the special guest referee was a decent way to really put the whole angle of the heel turn to a test by the WWE. Besides the premise of putting Cena as special guest referee, the main stipulation says that if Cena does not give Barret the title, he will be fired, but if he will (the proper heel turn), Cena will not be in Nexus anymore. Now the only way Orton could retain the title is if Cena want to take some time off, especially since he is filming another WWE (*sigh) film, but to be honest, it looks like Barret will pick up the title, and lead Cena to be heel without Nexus, which is the perfect thing for my opinion.
TNA:
Pope\Abyss:
Well, with the attack of Abyss on Pope during the recent show, it looks like the feud will happen eventually, perhaps a match in Turning Point (November 7), and to be honest, this sounds like a horrible idea, two really un-charismatic over-rated “wrestlers” with such a weird gap between the styles could only hurt.
Team 3D's match at Turning Point? Ah… Not Really…
With the recent re-signing of Team 3D with TNA, and with the reports that not a lot of people within the company were happy with that move, and with a “retirement” match at Turning Point against the MCMG, it looks another heel turn of Team 3D when they will pick the titles and go with another feud with MCMG. Since both Generation ME (which are horrible as heels, they look like they are 15, they cannot convey anything heel regarding mic skills) and Beer Money will not get another feud against the (pretty bad\boring) MCMG face title run, it looks like another classic heel Team 3D feud in the making.
Really? “Robbie E”?
The “Jersey Shore” esque character that is being run by TNA is the most pathetic gimmicks I have ever seen, and the fact that TNA gave Jay Lethal the OK to go with the abysmal “Randy Savage” face gimmick just shows that TNA cannot control their creative side into a minimum with some sanity. “Robbie” might have potential, but this horrendous gimmick will only hurt him and since he will eventually pick the X-Division title from Lethal, I hope this crap will end soon.
RVD and his paranoia quest?
The whole RVD\EV2\Hardy crap is getting really bad, this week, it was just… bad… the match between RVD and Raven against Williams and Aj Styles lead into another moment of big momentum to Fortune going to Turning Point to another useless “last match” against EV2. What does hold for RVD? Hopefully, a release from TNA.
Fortune issues?
With the weird moment by Williams and the whole face turn (?) by Matt Morgan that lead into an attack of Jarret (picking the win against Morgan who was covering the “concussion” of Anderson) and Fortune, I still think Fortune will continue to be dominant in TNA, but it is unknown what will happen with this faction alongside “Immortals”.
Jarret Eh?
With the big heel turn of Immortals, Jarret had a few decent heel moments against Angle, Joe and Morgan, leading to a match between him and Joe, it looks like Jarret will probably lose to Joe, but will stay at the top of the Immortals faction.
Anderson Vs Hardy @ Turning Point? Really?
This sounds like a horrible match in the making, and since we all know Hardy will retain, it looks almost useless to give a title shot to someone like Anderson so early, same for RVD.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Bragging Rights Preview\Predictions
Bragging Rights 2010 Preview\Predictions:
Daniel Bryan (US Champion) Vs Dolph Ziggler (INC Champion):
Well, it started this week on Monday night Raw, and I thought it was the moment when they will announce the unification of the titles, but as of this writing, it’s not the case, so I would throw a guess that Bryan will pick up the win since the WWE love to give him victories in actual PPV but loosing in weekly shows, even if he had some sort of momentum this week on Raw.
Winner:
Daniel Bryan. If the Titles will be unified as a the last minute thing, I would say Bryan will pick the win for sure, otherwise, it's really 50\50.
RAW vs. SmackDown! - 7 vs. 7 Tag Team Match:
The Miz, C.M. Punk, Sheamus, John Morrison, R-Truth, Santino Marella, Ezekiel Jackson vs. Big Show, Rey Mysterio, Jack Swagger, Alberto Del Rio, Edge, Tyler Reks, Kofi Kingston:
Well, the first thing I will say is that I really enjoy Survivor Series esque matches with X on X, it usually got fast paced moments with decent bookings.
Just like last year, Vince McMahon wanted to push SD! Because of their move to the MyNetwork network and he wanted to push the brand more that the somewhat stabilized brand that is Raw, and once again, a year after, SD! Has moved to the SyFy network recently, and if you haven't read the reports, Mcmahon want to push SD! Again to try to compete with Raw for ratings and a better direction to the feuds.
First thing first, the fact that Cm Punk and Sheamus are in there just shows that the WWE do not have anything for both of them, after the S.E.S run of Punk (and it was reported that the creative team did not have anything for Punk on SD!) and the title run for Sheamus, they needed two uprising stars to be on the card, but not main eventers. Even if there is a big push for The Miz, he is still considered an uprising star and not a main-event kind of guy at status at the moment. On that point, putting Marella is a first eliminated pathetic joke to me, also I am sick of Truth being stuck with the horrible face run that Morrison is going for a while now.
Interestingly, Ezekiel Jackson just returned after a long injury, and this could be the big upset for the match facing Big Show, even if we saw Big Show eliminating “Big Zeke” this past Monday night on Raw, it could be what was the direction that the WWE wanted to go with putting Henry in this match but had to bail at the last second last week.
On the other side, SD! Got some really strong talent going into the match, Edge (That was moved to SD! due to the brand push) that had nothing for a while now besides the pretty bad storyline with the Raw GM, and I pretty much called it that he will not be in the title picture for a while, atleast not on Raw, so, from that it was obvious that he will go to SD!.
Besides Edge though, it is a weird mix of two really over-rated face superstars, meaning Rey Mysterio (That is getting any attention because he is very popular in general and with the Latino crowed specifically), and Big Show that was not really doing anything impressive for a while, all his feuds were pretty boring, mainly the feud with S.E.S., and that leads me to the biggest point for the reason SD! will pick the win, Alberto Del Rio is being pushed heavily, Jack Swagger had a decent run as a heel champion, Kofi Kingston that had a few decent feuds as of late, and even though I do not really take much for him personally, he got a lot more going than someone like Marella or even Truth. But the most interesting decision is to put Tyler Reks there (instead of the weird thing that happened on SD! with Kaval), I was very impressed with him when he was on ECW, and even though his gimmick was appalling, he is a really good wrestler.
Team SD! decimated Team Raw this past Friday, and it looks like for me, that it is still the hard push for SD! to win, even though It does not make any sense that Team SD! will win, you sort of expect from that creative push for Team SD! to basically be dominated at the PPV after being very dominant on the weekly shows, but I still think that the result will be towards SD!.
Winners:
It would be an easy thing to say Raw will win after what happened this week on Monday night Raw with the SD! Invasion and especially after what happened on SD!, but I think the talent is definitely better on the SD! Team, and I would put my bet on SD! Even if the WWE is used doing the “big momentum usually leading to the other side winning”.
Champion Randy Orton vs. Wade Barrett )W\ John Cena):
Well, it’s hard to really say what will be the direction of this match will be, my gut reaction says this will be a win (with the help of cena somehow) to Barret leading him for a long title run, and that leading to a big Cena (well, we need him to finally turn heel and not play around booking wise) face turn again taking the title against Barret in a big PPV, perhaps a Royal Rumble type of PPV.
But as some might see, this could be a decent opportunity to continue the semi face semi heel booking for Cena with an accidental mistake by Cena, leading Orton to retain the title and bring the tension between Barret and Cena to another level with Nexus, of course this could be the proper way to start Cena as a heel once and for all and stop this middle crap. Even with the win of Orton against Kane this week on SD!, I feel like it is more a momentum push that the WWE is giving Orton as a “face”\champion rather than giving a hint towards a certain direction for the result\booking.
Winner: Wade Barret with the first proper heel action by Cena.
WHC Champion Kane (W\Paul Bearer Vs Undertaker) – Buried Alive Match:
To be honest, I have almost no interest in this feud\match, the whole story from day one was absolutely horrendous, and the gut feeling I have is that Undertaker will take the win after losing two big PPV's (In a row) and giving Kane the momentum, it was also reported that Taker should have one last title run before retiring\taking a big break, and with WM is a bit more than half a year away, I think this feud needs to have its last match at the next PPV (Survivor Series) so I’m not sure if that feud will go in a weird team Taker vs. Team Kane, or just a rematch for Kane.
Winner:
Undertaker picking the title and going for one last title run.
Daniel Bryan (US Champion) Vs Dolph Ziggler (INC Champion):
Well, it started this week on Monday night Raw, and I thought it was the moment when they will announce the unification of the titles, but as of this writing, it’s not the case, so I would throw a guess that Bryan will pick up the win since the WWE love to give him victories in actual PPV but loosing in weekly shows, even if he had some sort of momentum this week on Raw.
Winner:
Daniel Bryan. If the Titles will be unified as a the last minute thing, I would say Bryan will pick the win for sure, otherwise, it's really 50\50.
RAW vs. SmackDown! - 7 vs. 7 Tag Team Match:
The Miz, C.M. Punk, Sheamus, John Morrison, R-Truth, Santino Marella, Ezekiel Jackson vs. Big Show, Rey Mysterio, Jack Swagger, Alberto Del Rio, Edge, Tyler Reks, Kofi Kingston:
Well, the first thing I will say is that I really enjoy Survivor Series esque matches with X on X, it usually got fast paced moments with decent bookings.
Just like last year, Vince McMahon wanted to push SD! Because of their move to the MyNetwork network and he wanted to push the brand more that the somewhat stabilized brand that is Raw, and once again, a year after, SD! Has moved to the SyFy network recently, and if you haven't read the reports, Mcmahon want to push SD! Again to try to compete with Raw for ratings and a better direction to the feuds.
First thing first, the fact that Cm Punk and Sheamus are in there just shows that the WWE do not have anything for both of them, after the S.E.S run of Punk (and it was reported that the creative team did not have anything for Punk on SD!) and the title run for Sheamus, they needed two uprising stars to be on the card, but not main eventers. Even if there is a big push for The Miz, he is still considered an uprising star and not a main-event kind of guy at status at the moment. On that point, putting Marella is a first eliminated pathetic joke to me, also I am sick of Truth being stuck with the horrible face run that Morrison is going for a while now.
Interestingly, Ezekiel Jackson just returned after a long injury, and this could be the big upset for the match facing Big Show, even if we saw Big Show eliminating “Big Zeke” this past Monday night on Raw, it could be what was the direction that the WWE wanted to go with putting Henry in this match but had to bail at the last second last week.
On the other side, SD! Got some really strong talent going into the match, Edge (That was moved to SD! due to the brand push) that had nothing for a while now besides the pretty bad storyline with the Raw GM, and I pretty much called it that he will not be in the title picture for a while, atleast not on Raw, so, from that it was obvious that he will go to SD!.
Besides Edge though, it is a weird mix of two really over-rated face superstars, meaning Rey Mysterio (That is getting any attention because he is very popular in general and with the Latino crowed specifically), and Big Show that was not really doing anything impressive for a while, all his feuds were pretty boring, mainly the feud with S.E.S., and that leads me to the biggest point for the reason SD! will pick the win, Alberto Del Rio is being pushed heavily, Jack Swagger had a decent run as a heel champion, Kofi Kingston that had a few decent feuds as of late, and even though I do not really take much for him personally, he got a lot more going than someone like Marella or even Truth. But the most interesting decision is to put Tyler Reks there (instead of the weird thing that happened on SD! with Kaval), I was very impressed with him when he was on ECW, and even though his gimmick was appalling, he is a really good wrestler.
Team SD! decimated Team Raw this past Friday, and it looks like for me, that it is still the hard push for SD! to win, even though It does not make any sense that Team SD! will win, you sort of expect from that creative push for Team SD! to basically be dominated at the PPV after being very dominant on the weekly shows, but I still think that the result will be towards SD!.
Winners:
It would be an easy thing to say Raw will win after what happened this week on Monday night Raw with the SD! Invasion and especially after what happened on SD!, but I think the talent is definitely better on the SD! Team, and I would put my bet on SD! Even if the WWE is used doing the “big momentum usually leading to the other side winning”.
Champion Randy Orton vs. Wade Barrett )W\ John Cena):
Well, it’s hard to really say what will be the direction of this match will be, my gut reaction says this will be a win (with the help of cena somehow) to Barret leading him for a long title run, and that leading to a big Cena (well, we need him to finally turn heel and not play around booking wise) face turn again taking the title against Barret in a big PPV, perhaps a Royal Rumble type of PPV.
But as some might see, this could be a decent opportunity to continue the semi face semi heel booking for Cena with an accidental mistake by Cena, leading Orton to retain the title and bring the tension between Barret and Cena to another level with Nexus, of course this could be the proper way to start Cena as a heel once and for all and stop this middle crap. Even with the win of Orton against Kane this week on SD!, I feel like it is more a momentum push that the WWE is giving Orton as a “face”\champion rather than giving a hint towards a certain direction for the result\booking.
Winner: Wade Barret with the first proper heel action by Cena.
WHC Champion Kane (W\Paul Bearer Vs Undertaker) – Buried Alive Match:
To be honest, I have almost no interest in this feud\match, the whole story from day one was absolutely horrendous, and the gut feeling I have is that Undertaker will take the win after losing two big PPV's (In a row) and giving Kane the momentum, it was also reported that Taker should have one last title run before retiring\taking a big break, and with WM is a bit more than half a year away, I think this feud needs to have its last match at the next PPV (Survivor Series) so I’m not sure if that feud will go in a weird team Taker vs. Team Kane, or just a rematch for Kane.
Winner:
Undertaker picking the title and going for one last title run.
Bragging Rights Preview Podcast
Its that time again, another ppv another podcast!
This time Verkk and Jay are both here.
Undertaker vs Kane again you ask? HELL YEAH!
http://evolvedgaming.net/Podcasts/ThisIsWrestling/BRPreview.mp3
Saturday, October 2, 2010
WWE Hell In A Cell Preview Podcast
http://www.evolvedgaming.net/Podcasts/ThisIsWrestling/TIW-HIAC.mp3
Verkk previews this weekends Hell In A Cell PPV.
Another undertaker/kane match? MAKE IT STOP!!!!
Monday, September 20, 2010
This Is Wrestling Night Of Champions Recap
Click Here
http://www.evolvedgaming.net/Podcasts/ThisIsWrestling/TIW-NOC.mp3
Verkk recaps night of champions, who took the wwe title? Did the undertaker kane match suck? Why are you asking such dumb questions!
Sunday, September 19, 2010
WWE Night of Champions Preview\Predictions
WWE Championship Six Pack Challenge
Sheamus (c) vs. Wade Barrett vs. Edge vs. Randy Orton vs. John Cena:
Booking wise, since the match was announced that it will be an elimination match, there are two major ways it could go:
1:
The Orton Vs Sheamus feud will continue, leading either Orton picking up the title, or it will lead to Sheamus pinning Orton (“for the first time”) and from that, it will go on to a bigger and longer feud (i.e. Orton vs Cena).
2:
The most obvious wrestlers will be eliminated first, meaning Orton, Sheamus and Cena, all of them will be eliminated, leading to Edge, Barret and Y2J for the pickup, I don’t think the WWE will give Barret the title, but I think it could lead to a feud if Y2J (not sure what's his status with WWE in recent weeks since his contract expired) picks up the title.
Even though it can happen, I don’t think Sheamus should retain, giving Sheamus the “lucky” title run was enough for what it was worth, the WWE need something new, Orton as a face champion could be really interesting, also someone like Edge picking the title from nowhere could work aswell.
World Heavyweight Championship Match
Kane (c) vs. The Undertaker:
This feud was terrible since day one, there is a reason why both Kane and Undertaker do not do segments as much if any, the whole tone of the feud was interesting on paper, but the execution of the writing and the “acting” was really bad.
My guess is that Kane will pick up the win, attack Taker afterwards, and it will give Kane a big feud until Taker will be back full time for a title run.
United States Championship Match
The Miz (c) vs. Daniel Bryan:
Even though I was high on Bryan for his story as a whole, wrestling wise, I was not impressed with what I saw so far, and his character is really boring, but hey, as long as he get the title off The Miz, im fine.
Speaking of boring characters, The Miz is very appreciated backstage, and it looks like he will get a main event push soon (that is why he will drop the title), rumors are saying a long feud with Orton (well get to that) or someone else, in the end, I don’t want that to happen, but it’s not up to me, the match will probably be very classic “Face losing” leading Bryan hitting his submission at the end, Bryan will pick up the title, and probably will go to a feud with someone stabilized.
Intercontinental Championship Match
Dolph Ziggler (c) vs. Kofi Kingston:
Well, it is pretty obvious to me, that Ziggler will retain the title, but something will happen, story wise, with Vickie, my guess is that Vickie will try to interfere, Ziggler\Vickie will fight, leading to them “breaking up”, and in the end, Ziggler will pick up the win regardless (I would assume in a “dirty” way).
WWE Tag Team Championship Match
The Hart Dynasty (c) vs. TBA:
Well… since HD got their titles, they had almost no TV time besides a few awful matches against the USO's, my guess that this match will be a gauntlet match featuring:
USO, Hawkings\Archer, Cody\Drew that will lead to victory for HD for these three matches, but the last match will be a new faction, perhaps even Nexus that will pick up the titles and end this terrible run.
Big Show vs. CM Punk:
While I do think this match can be (and probably will be) horrible, I believe this is the end of S.E.S, that faction was going for way too long for my taste, the actual wrestlers were not good, and CM Punk was boring for a lot of that run, on the other hand, this feud was really bad since the beginning, so hopefully, this is the end for everything, SES and this feud, my guess it will end with Big Show picking up the win, punk finally shake big show's hand, Luke\Joey come to attack Big Show, and Punk does a face turn to save Big Show.
Sheamus (c) vs. Wade Barrett vs. Edge vs. Randy Orton vs. John Cena:
Booking wise, since the match was announced that it will be an elimination match, there are two major ways it could go:
1:
The Orton Vs Sheamus feud will continue, leading either Orton picking up the title, or it will lead to Sheamus pinning Orton (“for the first time”) and from that, it will go on to a bigger and longer feud (i.e. Orton vs Cena).
2:
The most obvious wrestlers will be eliminated first, meaning Orton, Sheamus and Cena, all of them will be eliminated, leading to Edge, Barret and Y2J for the pickup, I don’t think the WWE will give Barret the title, but I think it could lead to a feud if Y2J (not sure what's his status with WWE in recent weeks since his contract expired) picks up the title.
Even though it can happen, I don’t think Sheamus should retain, giving Sheamus the “lucky” title run was enough for what it was worth, the WWE need something new, Orton as a face champion could be really interesting, also someone like Edge picking the title from nowhere could work aswell.
World Heavyweight Championship Match
Kane (c) vs. The Undertaker:
This feud was terrible since day one, there is a reason why both Kane and Undertaker do not do segments as much if any, the whole tone of the feud was interesting on paper, but the execution of the writing and the “acting” was really bad.
My guess is that Kane will pick up the win, attack Taker afterwards, and it will give Kane a big feud until Taker will be back full time for a title run.
United States Championship Match
The Miz (c) vs. Daniel Bryan:
Even though I was high on Bryan for his story as a whole, wrestling wise, I was not impressed with what I saw so far, and his character is really boring, but hey, as long as he get the title off The Miz, im fine.
Speaking of boring characters, The Miz is very appreciated backstage, and it looks like he will get a main event push soon (that is why he will drop the title), rumors are saying a long feud with Orton (well get to that) or someone else, in the end, I don’t want that to happen, but it’s not up to me, the match will probably be very classic “Face losing” leading Bryan hitting his submission at the end, Bryan will pick up the title, and probably will go to a feud with someone stabilized.
Intercontinental Championship Match
Dolph Ziggler (c) vs. Kofi Kingston:
Well, it is pretty obvious to me, that Ziggler will retain the title, but something will happen, story wise, with Vickie, my guess is that Vickie will try to interfere, Ziggler\Vickie will fight, leading to them “breaking up”, and in the end, Ziggler will pick up the win regardless (I would assume in a “dirty” way).
WWE Tag Team Championship Match
The Hart Dynasty (c) vs. TBA:
Well… since HD got their titles, they had almost no TV time besides a few awful matches against the USO's, my guess that this match will be a gauntlet match featuring:
USO, Hawkings\Archer, Cody\Drew that will lead to victory for HD for these three matches, but the last match will be a new faction, perhaps even Nexus that will pick up the titles and end this terrible run.
Big Show vs. CM Punk:
While I do think this match can be (and probably will be) horrible, I believe this is the end of S.E.S, that faction was going for way too long for my taste, the actual wrestlers were not good, and CM Punk was boring for a lot of that run, on the other hand, this feud was really bad since the beginning, so hopefully, this is the end for everything, SES and this feud, my guess it will end with Big Show picking up the win, punk finally shake big show's hand, Luke\Joey come to attack Big Show, and Punk does a face turn to save Big Show.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
TNA No Surrender Preview\Predictions
SEMI-FINAL MATCHS
Mr. Anderson vs. The Pope and Kurt Angle vs. Jeff Hardy:
Well, I was super disappointed that Hardy Vs Angle was not the main event at BFG, but the two major things already did not make sense, firstly, TNA went with Anderson Pope since they had problems before, and also the fact that Angle defeated both Pope and Anderson, does not help the credibility, on the other hand, when Angle wins his match against Hardy, it will resolve into that again, unless something happens and it will wound up to a four way (Abyss attacking all four in the two matches or something like that).
Winners: Anderson and Kurt Angle. Reason? Anderson and Angle had decent matches when Anderson was a heel, it would be more interesting to see a tweener going against Angle.
TNA WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH
Motor City Machineguns (c) vs. Desmond Wolfe and Magnus:
Potentially, this could be the match of the PPV, but sadly, the MCMG lately have become really annoying with their taunts and the really boring face moves, and its disappointing since they have great move set and fluid moves that usually you don’t see very often.
The horrible gimmick and setup of Wolfe and Magnus does not detract from the potential of both of them to become something great, even though Wolfe could have been in the title scene for sure, his heat backstage led him to tag team, which Is not bad, since it could give him some positive points.
It is a great rivalry on paper, but Wolfe and Magnus will not pick a victory just yet, my guess it will end either clean victory to the Guns, or it will end very cheesy like it used to happen in the past, just to keep the rivalry going, which is the plan anyway.
Winners: No Contest.
I-QUIT MATCH
AJ Styles vs. Tommy Dreamer:
Since Tommy Dreamer signed and wrestled in TNA, he lost all the matches so far, meaning the “character momentum” is there, but booking wise, it is an odd thing to see him loose constantly, and with Fortune leading the way to dominance, story wise, I would take a hit and say AJ will win(not clean obviously, especially with Flair).
It could totally go to a different place, meaning Dreamer winning, leading all fortune to take attack Dreamer, Nexus style (ohh god, what have I become), leading to Fortune proud of the three members of Ecw that were taken out (another angle that can happen in the Sabu match since Abyss\Rhino will end quite brutal, you would assume right?).
Winner: Aj Styles with the option of Dreamer if they will go with an attack angle, perhaps if the other matches will end with Ecw loosing.
X DIVISION CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH
Sabu vs. (c) Douglas Williams:
One of the weirdest booking I have seen in a long time, TNA could definitely put Kendrick against Williams and perhaps even give the title to Kendrick, which will lead for Brian to prove himself to ECW, especially after the last Impact.
Instead they went with Sabu, and sure, he looks ok shape and ring rust wise, but it is obvious that Williams will pick up the win, cause if not, I am going to be very pissed to give someone like Sabu that title, instead of so many worthy and hungry talents.
Winner: Douglas Williams.
TAG TEAM MATCH
Sting and Kevin Nash vs. Jeff Jarrett and Samoa Joe:
As one would wonder, what is the direction of this angle as a whole, since we know Hogan\Bischoff will stay at the company, and since they will not do any angle where Hogan\Bischoff will “quit” as a story to “stop” Sting\Nash.
It’s hard to understand where this is going, and the way they portrayed Joe's “rescue” (meaning cheesy and bad), I would take a guess that the heels will pick a victory with Jarret accidently attacking Joe (or vice versa) and that is leading to a feud between them.
Winners: Sting and Nash.
FALLS COUNT ANYWHERE MATCH
Abyss vs. "The War Machine" Rhino:
A though one to predict, TNA is really pushing Abyss towards 10\10\10 and the whole (horrible) heel run, and the fact that the whole ECW (Ahm, i'm sorry, EV2.0) hopefully won’t last long, or atleast not in full capacity when we will see Rhino and Foley as tag team champions or Tommy Dreamer as the whc champion or anything unfitting like Sabu winning the X Division title.. Oh wait...
Winner: Abyss. Unless I am totally wrong on the angle and they will drag it down from Abyss's stand point and maybe start to reveal\hint at other people or something like that.
Mr. Anderson vs. The Pope and Kurt Angle vs. Jeff Hardy:
Well, I was super disappointed that Hardy Vs Angle was not the main event at BFG, but the two major things already did not make sense, firstly, TNA went with Anderson Pope since they had problems before, and also the fact that Angle defeated both Pope and Anderson, does not help the credibility, on the other hand, when Angle wins his match against Hardy, it will resolve into that again, unless something happens and it will wound up to a four way (Abyss attacking all four in the two matches or something like that).
Winners: Anderson and Kurt Angle. Reason? Anderson and Angle had decent matches when Anderson was a heel, it would be more interesting to see a tweener going against Angle.
TNA WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH
Motor City Machineguns (c) vs. Desmond Wolfe and Magnus:
Potentially, this could be the match of the PPV, but sadly, the MCMG lately have become really annoying with their taunts and the really boring face moves, and its disappointing since they have great move set and fluid moves that usually you don’t see very often.
The horrible gimmick and setup of Wolfe and Magnus does not detract from the potential of both of them to become something great, even though Wolfe could have been in the title scene for sure, his heat backstage led him to tag team, which Is not bad, since it could give him some positive points.
It is a great rivalry on paper, but Wolfe and Magnus will not pick a victory just yet, my guess it will end either clean victory to the Guns, or it will end very cheesy like it used to happen in the past, just to keep the rivalry going, which is the plan anyway.
Winners: No Contest.
I-QUIT MATCH
AJ Styles vs. Tommy Dreamer:
Since Tommy Dreamer signed and wrestled in TNA, he lost all the matches so far, meaning the “character momentum” is there, but booking wise, it is an odd thing to see him loose constantly, and with Fortune leading the way to dominance, story wise, I would take a hit and say AJ will win(not clean obviously, especially with Flair).
It could totally go to a different place, meaning Dreamer winning, leading all fortune to take attack Dreamer, Nexus style (ohh god, what have I become), leading to Fortune proud of the three members of Ecw that were taken out (another angle that can happen in the Sabu match since Abyss\Rhino will end quite brutal, you would assume right?).
Winner: Aj Styles with the option of Dreamer if they will go with an attack angle, perhaps if the other matches will end with Ecw loosing.
X DIVISION CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH
Sabu vs. (c) Douglas Williams:
One of the weirdest booking I have seen in a long time, TNA could definitely put Kendrick against Williams and perhaps even give the title to Kendrick, which will lead for Brian to prove himself to ECW, especially after the last Impact.
Instead they went with Sabu, and sure, he looks ok shape and ring rust wise, but it is obvious that Williams will pick up the win, cause if not, I am going to be very pissed to give someone like Sabu that title, instead of so many worthy and hungry talents.
Winner: Douglas Williams.
TAG TEAM MATCH
Sting and Kevin Nash vs. Jeff Jarrett and Samoa Joe:
As one would wonder, what is the direction of this angle as a whole, since we know Hogan\Bischoff will stay at the company, and since they will not do any angle where Hogan\Bischoff will “quit” as a story to “stop” Sting\Nash.
It’s hard to understand where this is going, and the way they portrayed Joe's “rescue” (meaning cheesy and bad), I would take a guess that the heels will pick a victory with Jarret accidently attacking Joe (or vice versa) and that is leading to a feud between them.
Winners: Sting and Nash.
FALLS COUNT ANYWHERE MATCH
Abyss vs. "The War Machine" Rhino:
A though one to predict, TNA is really pushing Abyss towards 10\10\10 and the whole (horrible) heel run, and the fact that the whole ECW (Ahm, i'm sorry, EV2.0) hopefully won’t last long, or atleast not in full capacity when we will see Rhino and Foley as tag team champions or Tommy Dreamer as the whc champion or anything unfitting like Sabu winning the X Division title.. Oh wait...
Winner: Abyss. Unless I am totally wrong on the angle and they will drag it down from Abyss's stand point and maybe start to reveal\hint at other people or something like that.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
WWE SummerSlam Preview
WWE SummerSlam Preview:
Handicap match: Big Show vs. Straight Edge Society (C.M. Punk, Luke Gallows & Joseph Mercury):
It’s a tough choice, on one hand, Big Show got a lot of points for basically “humiliating” and “expsoning” joey mercury, but on the other hand, the heel run of SES was pretty decent with attacks on some of SD!'s main faces, my guess, Big Show with perhaps help from someone (im not sure if Handicap match is automatically a no-dq match in the WWE).
* Intercontinental championship: Dolph Ziggler (C) vs. Kofi Kingston:
It’s an easy choice, Ziggler will win after Vickie will interruft, the referee will ban her, it will distract Kofi, Ziggler attacking from behind with his finisher\submission move for the win.
* World Championship: Kane (C) vs. Rey Mysterio:
I want to say it will be Kane clean, but with all the talks of bringing\teasing Taker at some capacity, I think it will end in a no contest with both men are out, count to 10 and its over, after the match is over, Taker on the titantron revealing the attacker, assuming it is Kane since they teased a proper heel turn.
* WWE Championship: Sheamus (C) vs. Randy Orton:
Sheamus had a decent run as a heel champion on Raw, and with the horrible Miz teases, Orton was in a huge roll, but also Sheamus at points, my guess that Orton will pick up the win get the title, leading the Miz for coming to cash in, for some odd reason, Sheamus distracting\attacking Miz, and that leading Orton for the RKO ending the segment with a big momentum for Orton.
* Elimination Tag Match: Team WWE (John Cena, Bret Hart, Chris Jericho, Edge, John
Morrison, R-Truth & one more) vs. Team Nexus (Wade Barrett, Heath Slater, David Otunga, Darren Young, Justin Gabriel, Skip Sheffield & Michael Tarver) in an elimination tag match:
Toughest choice I think, first of all, im calling (as I did on Twitter) that Bryan Daniels or whatever he is called to be the 7th member, since it has been 90days+- and that is leading for the end of the period of his odd suspension, also it would lead him for massive face push. On that note, I would take a guess the wwe is pleased with Nexus, but from reports, only Barret made impact, meaning the will let “team wwe” take the win but give Barret the major momentum push from it, perhaps cashing the opertuinity at one of the titles (in that case, Kane picks up the win and then after the whole Taker announcing its him, Barret comes and get the title).
Most anticipated match?
WWE vs Nexus.
Potential to be a good match?
Sheamus vs Orton, not sure if the actual wrestling will be good, hoping it will be.
Handicap match: Big Show vs. Straight Edge Society (C.M. Punk, Luke Gallows & Joseph Mercury):
It’s a tough choice, on one hand, Big Show got a lot of points for basically “humiliating” and “expsoning” joey mercury, but on the other hand, the heel run of SES was pretty decent with attacks on some of SD!'s main faces, my guess, Big Show with perhaps help from someone (im not sure if Handicap match is automatically a no-dq match in the WWE).
* Intercontinental championship: Dolph Ziggler (C) vs. Kofi Kingston:
It’s an easy choice, Ziggler will win after Vickie will interruft, the referee will ban her, it will distract Kofi, Ziggler attacking from behind with his finisher\submission move for the win.
* World Championship: Kane (C) vs. Rey Mysterio:
I want to say it will be Kane clean, but with all the talks of bringing\teasing Taker at some capacity, I think it will end in a no contest with both men are out, count to 10 and its over, after the match is over, Taker on the titantron revealing the attacker, assuming it is Kane since they teased a proper heel turn.
* WWE Championship: Sheamus (C) vs. Randy Orton:
Sheamus had a decent run as a heel champion on Raw, and with the horrible Miz teases, Orton was in a huge roll, but also Sheamus at points, my guess that Orton will pick up the win get the title, leading the Miz for coming to cash in, for some odd reason, Sheamus distracting\attacking Miz, and that leading Orton for the RKO ending the segment with a big momentum for Orton.
* Elimination Tag Match: Team WWE (John Cena, Bret Hart, Chris Jericho, Edge, John
Morrison, R-Truth & one more) vs. Team Nexus (Wade Barrett, Heath Slater, David Otunga, Darren Young, Justin Gabriel, Skip Sheffield & Michael Tarver) in an elimination tag match:
Toughest choice I think, first of all, im calling (as I did on Twitter) that Bryan Daniels or whatever he is called to be the 7th member, since it has been 90days+- and that is leading for the end of the period of his odd suspension, also it would lead him for massive face push. On that note, I would take a guess the wwe is pleased with Nexus, but from reports, only Barret made impact, meaning the will let “team wwe” take the win but give Barret the major momentum push from it, perhaps cashing the opertuinity at one of the titles (in that case, Kane picks up the win and then after the whole Taker announcing its him, Barret comes and get the title).
Most anticipated match?
WWE vs Nexus.
Potential to be a good match?
Sheamus vs Orton, not sure if the actual wrestling will be good, hoping it will be.
Monday, June 21, 2010
This Is Wrestling Podcast EP 8.0
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Saturday, June 12, 2010
This Is Wrestling Podcast EP 7.0
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Saturday, June 5, 2010
This Is Wrestling Podcast EP 6.0
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Undertaker is dead!!!1111
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Sunday, May 30, 2010
This is wrestling Podcast EP 5.0
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
This is wrestling Podcast EP 4.0
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Friday, May 7, 2010
This is wrestling Podcast EP 3.0
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Friday, April 30, 2010
This is wrestling Podcast EP 2.0
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
This is wrestling Podcast EP 1.0
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Monday, April 12, 2010
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Saturday, April 10, 2010
This is wrestling Podcast EP 0.1
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