WWE Royal Rumble Preview\Predictions Podcast

This month we talk about alot of news regarding HHH, WM27 rumored matches and the actual Royal Rumble match.




www.evolvedgaming.net/Podcasts/ThisIsWrestling/TIW-Royal-Rumble-Preview.wma

TNA Genesis Preview\Predictions

TNA Genesis can be on paper one of the worst cards in a long time, but I do think some of these matches can be good enough, sadly, it is all about the story and the angles at the moment, and even some of those angles are just bad, can TNA pull a decent upset with the Immortal "pressure"? Probably not.

#1 Contender for the TNA Title

Mr. Anderson vs. Matt Morgan:

The on-going angle of Anderson and his concussion may gave Immortal some heat, but the matchup between Morgan and Anderson is just bad.

On top of the fact that I really do not understand how TNA is even trying to hint of giving Morgan another title shot after the last two horrible matches between him and Hardy.

Winner:

Ken Anderson.

TNA Television Championship Match – If AJ Styles loses he is out of Immortal\Fortune

Champion Douglas Williams vs. A.J. Styles:

TNA got a weird track record of giving and taking titles from wrestlers in recent weeks, and with the angle of Styles leaving Fortune (if he losesw), it only looks like a decent way to turn Style face again and perhaps go against Immortal sometimes this year. I could be wrong obviously and Styles will regain the title, but then, what was the point of giving it to Williams? Just to have a horrible way to “motivate” Immortal members to step up their game (as a story\angle that is)? Really bad creative call if this will actually be the case.

Winner:

Williams, leading to AJ Styles to a be excluded from Fortune and give him a Face turn.

TNA Tag Team Champions Motor City Machine Guns vs. Beer Money:

With the big angle for Immortal, I cannot see TNA removing Beer Money from Immortal\Fortune, and with the really lackluster title reign of MCMG, It would be quite logical to give Beer Money the titles and perhaps, get a decent feud against someone else than MCMG and Generation Me.

Winners:

Beer Money.

TNA X Division Championship

Champion Jay Lethal vs. Kazarian:

The weird decision to give Lethal the title just to give Kazarian a Face person to take the title away from him is really odd to me. I do not think Kazarian will be out of Furtune since he will not be a good Face, and there is no reason TNA will remove Kazarian from Fortune just to push him as a singles heel competitor.

Winner:

Kazarian.

Brother Ray vs. Brother Devon:

This entire feud was just bad since day one, it was predictable and disappointing, both Devon and Ray are not good alone, TNA tried to push Ray and Devon as single competitors for a few times, and all of those tries failed miserably.

Winner:

I would choose Devon, just to give him the “last word” on the very heel segments and momentum for Ray.

Rob Van Dam vs. Jeff Hardy's handpicked opponent:

It would be interesting who TNA got in mind for this match, also since Anderson will probably pick up the win, I wonder how TNA will give RVD “his chance” to face Hardy as promised, the actual match is not really interesting, but more of the direction TNA will go with.

Winner:

RVD. Unless TNA is going with a different angle\new feud for RVD.

Jeff Jarrett vs. Kurt Angle In An "Exhibition":

I am not sure if this match is official or not, and since it looks like the reports of who it is might be a spoiler, for now, I will just talk about the general direction of this match.

This whole MMA challenges with Jarret is not bad with the actual mma parts of it, as it was leading to the last PPV, but TNA is dragging those segments way too much. It is pretty obvious in a first glance who will win this, but with the fact that Samoa Joe lost to Jarret and the big Immortal angle, it would be interesting to see, even though it is pretty clear that Angle will win.

Winner:

Kurt Angle.

Conclusion:

TNA has to exclude someone from Fortune\Immortal to do send a message and keep the major angle going, from all wrestlers, Styles is the only one who can work as a face pretty decent, and for that, TNA might put Styles against Hardy (which is having a lot of problems lately with this allegations for his drug bust a few years ago) for the title.

Tna genesis preview/Recap of recent events in wwe podcast

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TLC Preview\Prediction article

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.

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

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.

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.