Impact & Smackdown Review Late This Evening

After getting caught up in the NFL Draft nonsense last night I will be posting an Impact review as well as hopefully a Smackdown review later this evening. In the mean time, enjoy this beautiful picture of one of wrestling's most underrated superstars.

I wish the Vikings would have drafted him instead of Christian Ponder.

Terry Funk Markout Moment #2

Is there anything better than a Terry Funk promo?

Leapin' Lanny: Master of FROLF

4/25/11 RAW REVIEW: DRAFTAMANIA

RAW begins with a 20 man over the top battle royal on the Draft Edition of Monday Night Raw. The winning team wins the first draft pick in the draft.

I thought about typing out the order of elimination and realized how awkward that is and how when it all comes down to it all anyone cares about is who wins. This isn't the Royal Rumble after all. The final four contestants are Batista Lite and Evan Bourne for RAW and Big Show and Kofi Kingston for Smackdown. Bourne and Kingston have a neat little sequence with some athletic moves. Would be nice if they would have just let those two wrestle a match for the draft pick instead of this battle royal. Kingston and Big Show eliminate Batista Lite last to earn the first draft pick.

Here comes the flippy Draft graphic. I wish it was like the mushroom slot game in Super Mario Brothers and wherever it stopped is what you got. Who doesn't want to see Beth Phoenix as a #1 pick?

The graphic stops on John Cena who has been drafted to Smackdown. Cole is very angry about this. I'm not sure why. What is it to him? He's on both shows. I don't get it. Cena comes out and puts on his Smackdown shirt.

The Did You Know graphic comes up after commercial letting us know that the WWE Superstars Slingshot App (Angry Birds with WWE wrestlers) is the #1 kids game app in Egypt, Belgium, Jordan, Turkey, and India. I would have figured Cut The Head Off the Infidel would have been the top app in Egypt and Jordan so this is a rather large shocker to me.

Next we have an interview with Cena. Cena cuts a Sci Fi inspired promo that actually was midly amusing. He lost me with the Dennis Rodman stuff. Who talks about Dennis Rodman anymore? Heh. Maybe it really is 1999 like he said.

The Miz interrupts Cena's interview and essentially says how happy he is that Cena won't be around on RAW anymore. Cena just stares off into space all wide eyed. Probably thinking about Dennis Rodman some more.

We find out that Michael Cole will be facing Jim Ross in a match later tonight. Ought to be a slobberknocker..

A recap of the John Morrison/R-Truth situation is replayed. I'm glad they pried R-Truth from the main event but man, this heel push seems legitimate, they even set the mood of the video recap with some Blackhawk Down like music. I was hoping some "skinnies" were going to hop out with AKs and blow R-Truth away but no such luck.

And now we get the treat of R-Truth getting some mic time. R-Truth screams out Raleigh, North Carolina. The fans obviously for the most part missed RAW last week as they began to cheer until R-Truth tells them to shut up. R-Truth tells the crowd that the "What?" chant is pissing him off. I agree with him. They also bleeped out "pissing." Good old PG TV.

R-Truth says that he's done doing things for the fans. Apparently his rapping was for the fans, the dancing as well. He should have just done that for himself. I wonder if K Kwick was for the fans?

Gettin' Rowdy?

Truth now starts talking to an invisible child named Jimmy. Little does he know that Jimmy has hated pro wrestling since his favorite wrestler, Rick Martel, blew out his knee in that match with Booker T at SuperBrawl VIII. Little Jimmy will always love The Model.

John Morrison interrupts R-Truth's mic time by drilling him from behind. Not exactly a very nice move by a babyface, but no matter. He knocks him down on the ramp and starts pounding on him until the referee squad breaks them up. Morrison breaks away from the ref goon squad a couple more times to give R-Truth a few more shots.

Another promo is shown for Awesome Kong's new character with the dolls.With the exception of Kelly Kelly (bathe her and bring her to me) I kind of wish a large African American woman would pop off their heads. We finally see her face and that her name is going to be Kharma.

Next up is a divas draft pick match with Eve vs. Layla. Michelle McCool comes down separately signifying LayCool is still having issues. After a few seconds Michael Cole starts talking on the mic in the middle of the divas match. Eve wins the match with a quick roll up and Michelle gets the crap kicked out of her by Layla. Both women scream and cry while Cole continues to talk about how he's a real athlete and is going to put on a clinic by dissecting Jim Ross tonight.

I dissected a fetal pig in high school and I imagine that was a lot less gross than it would be to dissect Jim Ross. It would answer the question as to whether or not bbq sauce truly does run through his veins.

The draft graphic comes up and Rey Mysterio is coming to RAW. Zack Ryder approves of this by fist pumping to his heart's content. Woo Woo Woo! Rey Rey comes out with his pyro and puts on a RAW T-shirt.

After commercial we cut backstage to Cody Rhodes who is asked about his reaction to Rey Mysterio being drafted to RAW. Cody cuts another nice promo. Considering his pedigree it shouldn't be a surprise that Cody is doing this well but I'm pleasantly surprised at how good he is on the mic on a weekly basis.

We cut to the ring and out comes Kofi Kingston to face Sheamus with a draft pick at stake. Sheamus and Kofi next to each other is scary. They should have called his match Ebony and Ivory. The two work a decent match that Kofi wins after two consecutive Trouble in Paradises.

Off to the draft graphic. Randy Orton is going to Smackdown. John Cena is pumped about this. Albert Del Rio seems annoyed. Orton comes out and gets tossed his Smackdown T-shirt.

And now the moment you've all been waiting for, Michael Cole vs. Jim Ross. Booker comes out for color commentary. The bell rings and
we're underway.

Cole makes fun of JR's weight and slaps his belly. Cole dances around and JR throws a few punches that Cole dodges. Cole grabs JR's hat and puts it on. This displeases JR. Cole stomps on his hat. Cole gets towled off and does a push up. When will this end?

JR pushes Cole down. Cole calls for a timeout. Jack Swagger towels him off. Now he's having some water. I bet John Morrison is pissed about that. Cole attempts to slam JR and JR falls on top of him. JR must have given him a potato shot as he immediately checks his lip and mouth. Not intentional, but funny none the less. I guess that's a bit of payoff.

Swagger beats up JR and gets him in the ankle lock. Cole is bleeding pretty good from the mouth. Cole decides Swagger should take his belt off. Cole whips JR while Swagger has the ankle lock on. Lawler cleans house and knocks everyone out of the ring, giving Cole a quick few smacks with the belt on his way out.

Michael Cole runs out like he tore his anus and the Raw General Manager has a message. Josh tells us that the match at Extreme Rules will now be a Country Whipping Match. Yeehaww! JR has Cole's blood on his face and his first. I think JR caught Cole's tooth pretty good. Its bleeding pretty nicely.

The Miz and Alex Riley are backstage. Riley turns the W on the microphone upside down. Miz cuts a decent promo. I'm hoping birth-a-tainment trended on Twitter last night. Miz says that if he does get drafted to Smackdown that Monday Night RAW would be canceled within one month.

Angry Miz Girl loves Birth-a-tainment. Still wants your soul

Randy Orton is now facing Dolph Ziggler in a match with two draft picks at stake. Poor Dolph Ziggler. After getting that big repackage last week he doesn't even get an entrance to the ring. Did he color his hair for this? Orton is victorious via RKO and Smackdown gets two more picks.

Before the picks could be announced CM Punk comes out. He lets everyone know that the most important man on television has something to say. And how. He tells Randy that he's going to beat him with everything available at their Last Man Standing match. Randy says he's going to knock Punk unconscious. Unconscious sleep.

Is there any other kind? Great job, Randall. The worst part is that if the rumors are true about Punk considering leaving he will no doubt do the job to Orton again. Bah.

After the commercial break we find out that Mark Henry has been drafted to Smackdown. Wee. Sin Cara has been drafted to Smackdown as well. I can probably shut off the TV now that I know where Mark Henry is going.

Wade Barrett vs. Rey Mysterio is next for two draft picks. Mysterio wins after a short solid match after hitting the 619 and a big splash. Nothing fancy but solid work as always from Rey.

Big Show ends up being the first pick taken by RAW with the two draft picks. They manage to find a RAW T-shirt big enough for Show. More than likely a red tablecloth.

The next pick for RAW is Alberto Del Rio! Alberto is shown talking to Roberto and is very intensely talking about his destiny. Poor Brodus Clay keeps asking, "Sir, what about me?" Why, you've been drafted to FCW, Brodus. Its a very special place for rising superstars such as yourself.

Our resident player and the Smackdown General Manager Teddy Long comes out. He announces that the main event tonight for the last draft pick will be a 6 man tag team match. From RAW it will be CM Punk, Alberto Del Rio, and The Miz vs. Christian, Mark Henry, and John Cena from Smackdown.

And we're underway. The match is your basic 6 man tag until out of nowhere Mark Henry turns on Christian and Cena by clotheslining Cena and dropping Christian on the steps with a gorilla press. I'm sure we'll get some sort of explanation on Smackdown as to why. Booker says its because he got paid. By Alberto Del Rio? I got nothing.

After Henry levels Cena, Miz slinks in and hits the Skull Crushing Finale for the win for Team RAW. The heels celebrate. CM Punk's facial expressions crack me up. Him and Alberto kiss each other on the cheek. Funny stuff.

And here comes the last draft pick of the night. John Cena is drafted back to RAW. Oh the humanity. Cena cleans house on the heels and puts on his RAW T-shirt. I guess you can confidently say you won't see that on the NFL Draft.

Overall I thought they made some good changes and attempted to balance out the roster the best they could. Not a bad RAW at all.

Chris Jericho Voted Off DWTS

That's right folks, Jericho was voted off but Kristie Alley is still there

2011 WWE Draft

Picks from Monday night:

1.John Cena to Smackdown.
2. Rey Mysterio to Raw.
3. Randy Orton to Smackdown.
4. Mark Henry to Smackdown.
5. Sin Cara to Smackdown.
6. Big Show to Raw.
7. Alberto Del Rio to Raw.
8. John Cena drafted back to Raw

Picks from today:

9. Daniel Bryan to Smackdown

10. Jack Sawgger to Raw

11. The Great Khali and Ranjin Singh to Smackdown

12. Jimmy Uso to Smackdown

13. Kelly Kelly to Raw

14. JTG to Raw

15. Alicia Fox to Smackdown

16. William Regal to Smackdown

17. Yoshi Tatsu to Smackdown

18. Drew McIntyre to Raw

19. Natalya to Smackdown

20. Curt Hawkins to Raw

21. Chris Masters to Raw

22. Jey Uso to Smackdown

23. Kofi Kingston to Raw

24. Ted DiBiase to Smackdown

25. Tyson Kidd to Smackdown

26. Tamina to Smackdown

27. Tyler Reks to Raw

28.Alex Riley to Smackdown

29. Neth Phoenix to Raw

30. Sheamus to Smackdown

Rumor Mill: CM Punk Leaving?

I'm attempting to not hyperventilate as the news going around today is that CM Punk has yet to sign his new WWE contract and is exploring his options.

The only good thing that could come of this is Vince coming to his senses and realizing he needs to keep Punk at any means necessary. From everything I've read, Punk has been a company guy who's busted his ass on the road and always has done what has been told of him. He's more than ready to be over as a huge heel but for some reason they keep him just out of that main event status.

CM Punk leaving would be awful. The most likely move would be for him to go to TNA and I have no doubt they would find a way to screw that up. They have the WCW disease and they would find a way to marginalize him and make him far less than he could be.

A dream situation for any purist would be for Punk to go back to Ring of Honor where he would no doubt be phenomenal and be able to wrestle great, long matches. Realistically though, after making WWE type money, I have a hard time believing he would go back to wrestling that few of shows for a lot less money, but who knows. Rumor has it he is burnt out.

So, dear readers, what are your thoughts? I'm mortified to be honest. My hope is that this is all a nightmare and that Punk has one of the major titles around his waist soon to go along with a contract extension.

Friday Night Cliffnotes

We kick off Friday Night Smackdown with the recently knighted, Sir Michael Cole coming out with his own entrance. The Cole-Mine has been transformed to “The Royal Cole-Mine”, along with his own throne. Cody Rhodes then makes his way down to the ring. First off, I would like to say that I really like Cody’s titan tron graphics. It flashes old time newspaper headlines, “GROTESQUE”, “CODY RHODES: The Deformed Superstar LASHES OUT!”, “DISFIGURED!”. It was a whole elephant man feel to it.

Cody says that everyone can see that he wears a mask, but he wears for protection. Whereas, Rey Mysterio wears a mask because he is hiding something, and that he is ashamed of himself. He also says that the audience is wearing masks as well, and that he can see the look of despair on our faces from knowing that our lives are miserable. That look is actually from knowing that we have to watch a Kane & Big Show vs. Heath Slater & Justin Gabriel tag match.

We are not to worry, because Cody has a remedy for everyone: Paper Bag with eyes and mouth holes cut out of them! Then everyone in the first couple of rows got handed a paper bag mask. This was awesome and was a very Rick Rude-ish move. Now if they could only just get Cody some kneepads. Rey wins the match, but Cody beats him down and hits “Cross Rhodes” on him and puts and paper bag over Rey’s head.

Mysterio’s music hit and he comes out for a Wrestlemania 27 Rewind match. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Wrestlemania the big pay off show where feuds come to an end. Rey and Cody are still going, Edge and Alberto would still be going if it wasn’t for a neck injury, Lawler and Cole is still going, Orton and Punk are still going. I would assume that these programs will finally end at Extreme Rules, but then that was the point of Wrestlemania 27?

I also noticed that there is a gentleman is the front row wearing a Corre t-shirt. Really….really, I have a idea that is similar to “To Catch A Predator”. We set up a merch table and only offer The Corre and R-Truth items. Then who ever buys something from this table gets a “special” backstage pass that leads them to the “showers”. The Germans know what I’m talking about. In all seriousness, who buys a Corre T-shirt?

We then get a backstage segment with The Corre. They joke about who’s the leader. Don’t care. We then get a beautiful people…um I mean, LayCool segment. They are still taking therapy. Cool say that maybe Lay isn’t flawless, and makes her cry. She then apologizes to Lay and then attacks her.

Next up is Michael Cole in the ring with his Booker T robe on. He shows the clip from Raw of him getting knighted and having JR kiss his feet. He then introduces Jack Swagger for a basic squash match against Trent Barreta. One thing that really pisses me off is that Cole had spent the first half of this show just doing play by play.  He acted like the old Michael Cole but with little heel comments here and there. That was until now, because it appears someone flipped the switch and he is “super annoying heel” mode. Swagger wins with an ankle lock.

There is a clip shown of The Big Show at the Nickelodeon Kid Choice Awards. This leads in to the Tag Team Title match. Big Show hits a choke slam on Heath Slater to wins the titles. That’s right, Big Show and Kane are the new tag champs, but hey it’s better than Slater and Gabriel.

Backstage they tease a Corre break up. Slater and Gabriel blame Ezekiel Jackson.  Next up is Drew McIntyre vs Chris Masters………… sorry about the pause there, I just had to double check that I’m not watching “WWE Superstars”. McIntyre hits the “Future Shock DDT” on Masters for the win. Michael is back to being normal again and doing play by play.

They show a video recap of R-Truth smoking before the match between Kofi Kingston and Wade Barrett for the Intercontinental Championship. Ezekiel Jackson is ringside and half way into the match he accidentally hits Wade while trying to hit Kofi. Wade gets pissed and tells him to leave. Barrett manages to pull out the win against Kofi.

The Alberto’s Retirement Party For Edge is about to start, but you already know that. The World Title in hanging above the ring. Alberto says that he has brought Edge four presents. The first one is a grandfather clock, so that he can watch his life tick away. The second is a pack of Depends and a bed pan, because I guess with a neck injury you sometimes poop your pants. The third present is fat chick dressed up as Lita. The fourth and final present is a motorized scooter.

Edge’s music hits and he comes out. He is sporting a new Edge farewell tour t-shirt, on the back it says “Done it all, Won it all”. He says the Alberto looks surprised to see me, and he says that he RSVP’ed on Facebook. Alberto sends Brodus to beat up Edge, but Brodus is attacked by Christian with a ladder. Christian also takes out Alberto. He then takes the ladder in to the ring and gets the World Title.

Overall it was a pretty good show, and Alberto is the man. I also dare say that Smackdown is better than Raw, but you already know that!

TNA Review 4/21/11: The Letdown After Lockdown

I'm grading tonight's Impact on a high curve because Lockdown was a very solid PPV. In order to truly compete they have to hit the ground running the week after when it comes to TV. Here we go.

The show starts with a video montage of Lockdown starting with Jarret v. Angle. The doctor says that their training and conditioning kept them from being seriously hurt. If you saw the power bomb/rana type abortion that they attempted at one point you might think otherwise. Kurt is lucky to be walking and talking after that one.

The next clips they show is from the Fortune vs. Immortal main event. Daniels crossbody off the cage was pretty wicked. They also showed the return of AJ Styes.

Video of the World Title match was next with the Hogan metal pipe incident. They teasted a Hulk Hogan Sting match at the end of that one. It gave me indigestion. Its not 1997. No one wants to see that.

With that we're off to the Impact Zone. AJ Styles does the Batman entrance this week. There is a steel cage set up and there are weapons inside all over the place. AJ cuts a promo about Bully Ray and challenges him to face him like a man. Bully's music hits. I gush about it all the time but I love Buh Buh's heel work. He's great on the mic.

Bully calls himself a warrior. Not sure if he meant that in the Jim Hellwig kind of way or the 79' Streeet Gang classic. Bully says he's going to go take care of AJ's wife. Ray refuses to get into the cage until Christopher Daniels comes down and throws him in. AJ starts beating on Ray.

Gunner comes out and starts brawling with Christopher Daniels. They brawl backstage while AJ continues to beat on Bully Ray. AJ gets ready to put Bully Ray through a table from the top of the cage but Bully rolls out of the way before AJ could jump. That was a fun segment to be honest. Bully is definitely over as a heel even with that crappy Universal Studios crowd.

Immortal's music fires up and Rob Terry and Murphy come out. They kick out the poor little ring crew. What exactly makes Rob Terry a "Freak?" Rob Terry challenge Beer Money to a match in the cage for payback for injuring Flair. Beer Money's music hits and it appears we have a match.

Taz and Tenay talk about how Roode injured Ric Flair's shoulder at Lockdown and that he will need surgery for a torn rotator cuff.

Beer Money gets the win after a short back and forth match with their finish. You would have never known the match was in a cage as it wasn't a factor at any point.

We cut to Jeff and Karen Jarrett in a horse drawn carriage dressed in white. He says he's going to make her Queen of the Mountain and that they're going to make the royal wedding look silly. Karen says that being married to Jeff Jarrett is like waking up every morning and its Christmas Day. I'd be pissed off if I woke up every morning and my present was a middle aged southerner with a bad haircut and a worse history of gimmicks.

Hulk Hogan is shown walking backstage with a pipe. His music hits when we come back from commercial and he comes down to the ring. Hogan calls out RVD. Its sad this wasn't taped on 4/20. It would have been fun to see Rob attempt to cut a promo after having some of the rocket fuel weed a man of his smoking acumen probably has for such a special occasion. Anyway, Hogan says that Rob is "a few french fries short of a happy meal." Couldn't think of anything more clever than that eh? There was better writing on Thunder in Paradise.

Hogan says RVD is going to pay for his mistake of not joining Immortal. Ugh, RVD says "Hey Hulk, remember when you weren't such a heel?" Jesus Tapdancing Christ. Why the fuck do they think its cool to use insider talk? Lame Lame Lame. I'm going to once again blame Russo for this because I know how much he used to love to do that in WCW. Absolutely convinced he has a montage of all his kayfabe breaking moments that he jerks off to regularly.

RVD says that everyone kind of wishes Hogan would just get out of the business. Very true. Hogan says RVD is on borrowed time. Hogan says RVD is never going to be anything but a "mid card" player. Ugh. Fucking stop. Don't they understand this ruins the mystique and its annoying?

Stings music hits. Please don't make Sting break kayfabe too. They're going to start building eventually to a Hogan Sting match. I just know it. Gross. Sting immediately does use some insider jargon, meh, and defends RVD and says that RVD will be facing him in the main event at Sacrifice.

Hogan asks if Sting is as high as RVD. Only Snoop Dogg is from what I know. Hogan says he wants some weed too because he wants to be delusional and a fruit cake out here. Freudian slip? Sting says he has a clause in his contract that he can choose his opponent if he is the world champion. Hogan mentions something about a yin yang. He must be thinking of his old pal Ed Leslie, The Zodiac. Yes! No! Yes! No!

Hogan says RVD is going to have to wrestle Abyss tonight and that Hulk will be in Abyss' corner. He says Sting is going to be wrestling the man with the biggest chip on his shoulder in TNA. Bully Ray? No, Matt Hardy. Gross. Hulk says Matt is going to get revenge for what Sting did to his brother. I wasn't aware that Sting gave Jeff that CVS pharmacy he had in his trailer that he tried to take all at once before Victory Road.

Backstage Kurt Angle is looking for Karen and Jeff. I hope he doesn't plan on cooking them a subpar meal again. That would be so cold hearted. One of the backstage guys says that he saw them in a horse and carriage earlier.

We cut backstage to Madison and Tara fighting while brushing their hair. Madison says that Tara is the reason she lost at Lockdown. Apparently they'll be wrestling for the Knockout tag titles tonight though.

Now we see Eric Young petting the horses. Angle comes up to him and Young starts going full tilt crazy. I loved the line about the horses being named Sid and Mongo, his two favorite horseman. I legitimately laughed pretty hard at that one. It turns out Eric is feeding the horses beans and Kurt says they'll shit all over if Eric keeps doing that. This gives Kurt an idea. I do love some good poop humor.

Next up is the Knockouts Tag Team Championship match. Eh. Tara and Madison lose when Hernandez and Anarchia distract the ref allowing Sarita and Rosita to win. I'm going to appear more and more sexist as time goes on but my God are these Knockouts matches for the most part awful.

Yay, its time for the Coronation of Queen of the Mountain, Mrs. Karen Jarrett. I know this is hard to believe, but since we've already had a celebration or two that Kurt has spoiled I have the feeling the writing team may be running out of ideas for this one. Mick Foley once said that WCW saw a money making feud as a problem that needed to be dealt with. TNA has taken that ball and ran for many touchdowns with it.

Karen does have a glorious rack, I can say that. Jeff gives Karen her crown and immediately afterward a bunch of horse crap falls down on Karen. The horror. Karen flips out. Jeff takes off his coat in an attempt to wipe things up. Out comes Kurt who Angle Slams Jarrett right into the throne. Angle grabs the mic and berates Karen and tells her he has more plans for her. Kurt says his mistress is coming to get Karen.

Hogan is shown backstage giving Abyss a pep talk. Now he confronts Mr. Anderson. He accuses Mr. Anderson of knowing whats going on with The Network. Mr. Anderson says it couldn't be him because he constantly gets screwed.

Next up is RVD and Abyss. Match starts and eventually RVD hits a springboard kick to the face of Abyss that legitimately messes up his teeth from what I've read. Poor fella is going to have to have corrective oral surgery but still worked the tapings this week. Tough dude. You can see the blood coming from his mouth afterward.

After some foolishness with Hogan's pipe, RVD gets nailed in the gut with it by Abyss who follows up with the Black Hole Slam for the pin. Abyss starts beating on RVD after the match until Crimson makes the save giving Abyss a spear. I'll say it again, Abyss is a tough dude to keep bumping after RVD smashed his teeth.

Sting is shown backstage telling Jason Hervey (Just a guess) that he's fighting to get Jeff Hardy back on TNA because he's one of the greatest of all time. Funny enough some people actually believe he is one of the greatest. Pffft. Sting says its going to be showtime against Matt Hardy.

Matt Hardy is shown backstage with Jeff's Diva Title. Matt says Sting threw that Diva Title down like it was meaningless. I wish Sting would have gone one better and thrown it in a river ala Stone Cold so we'd never have to see the stupid thing again. I figured Jeff would have pawned it by now to pay for legal fees but then again what kind of self respecting pawn shop owner would pay any more than a few bucks for it?

Matt Morgan comes out to the ring. Apparently he wants to be in the World Title picture now. That's definitely not crowded. Matt says his time is now. Scott Steiner's music hits. Steiner tells everyone that he wakes up every morning in a good mood and something happens, that never fails, and that pisses him off.
Haha. I love Steiner promos. Steiner says if he had Matt's genetics he'd shoot himself. No, he'd kill himself than he'd hang himself. Haha. They should have Scott Steiner mic hour just to see how nonsensical he can get.

Steiner says Matt will never be as ripped as Steiner. Matt says he does. Steiner calls him a disrespectful piece of shit. Matt tells him to take the bass out of his voice. Haha. Scott says the line starts behind him. Matt says he respects Steiner and sticks out his hand for a handshake. Scott kicks him in the nuts. Steiner then does a maneuver very reminiscent of a Mic Check. He then puts Matt in the Steiner Recliner. Break his back, make him humble, Scott.

Its now main event time for the World Heavyweight Title. Out comes Matt with the Diva Belt. Sting wrestles the entire match in a t-shirt. Perhaps he got the fat sucked out of his pecks like Rocky back in the day? Sting eventually wins the match with the Scorpion Death Drop.

Afterward Mr. Anderson runs out and Mic Checks Sting. He then picks up Matt Hardy and does the same. Anderson says he's not going anywhere anytime soon. Neat.

And now it's time for the cheesiest part of TNA, the backstage reactions. Karen is screaming bloody murder. They've had a long time to get cleaned up and they haven't. She's scared of whoever Kurt's mistress is.

Hulk is shown talking on his cell phone to Mr. Anderson, okay, probably just leaving a message. Hogan says Anderson is smarter than he looks. Yawn. Hogan utters the epic line about The Network coming at him like a double fisted Kangaroo. Heh, what does that even mean.

Now its Mr. Anderson talking to Jason Hervey. This is so bad. Mr. Anderson said he wouldn't piss on someone's head if it was on fire.

Now we cut to Sting. He's mad.

That will do it for this week. This show annoyed me. It was a real solid PPV and except for a few interesting spots Impact was pretty blah. The insider talk stuff has to end. So fucking stupid.

Jay Lethal Released From TNA

This is a damn shame. Jay Lethal is a very talented wrestler in the ring and on the mic. His program with Flair will always be one of my favorite moments in TNA and wrestling history. However, I think that he will do better now that he is gone from TNA. They get ride of Jay Lethal, but they have money to waste on bringing in cast members of the Jersey Shore. Let's do a littel math shall we: $15,000 to bring in JWoww for one time + $7,000 to bring in Angelina for one shitty match. That's $22,000 that could be wisely spent on talented wrestler. Sadly, TNA use that money to get on TMZ for one minute. I just hope that we get to see a return to Ring of Honor, because god knows that WWE is too stupid to sign him.

Side Note: In the Amazing Red vs Jay Lethal match, Don West is high on crystal meth

Mascarite Dorado = Holy Shit

Cornette Thursdays

4/18/11 RAW REVIEW: SMOKE EM' IF YOU GOT EM'

Good Evening everyone. I know, I'm late again. I'll make up for it with my good looks and rapist wit. I know what I said.

RAW is coming from London Town on this fine evening and my oh my, Britain is in for a treat because here comes R-Truth. He sounds like DMX to an uncomfortable degree. R-Truth does his best DJ Ran (remember him Nitro watchers?) and asks London to make some noise.

Truth tells us he's going to preach the Gospel right now. Nothing clears out a room faster than "I'd like to talk to you about Jesus." I was hoping he was going to go there but instead he babbled about how he had problems but now he's in line to become champion. Geh, even the Brits do the annoying "WHAT?" chant. Steve Austin deserves a swift nut punch for getting that so over. On a positive note, I just spotted a Zack Ryder = Ratings sign. Good stuff.

Anywho, after R-Truth gives his spiel John Morrison's music hits. This should be interesting. Morrison says that R-Truth was lucky to get through the three people he did considering what kind of shape he's in. I'm scared to see where they're going with this. Morrison shows footage of R-Truth sucking down some water from last week. How dare him?

Morrison tells R-Truth he looks great for an athlete that smokes. Oh man. Of all the things Morrison could rip on R-Truth for, his rapping, his in ring ability, his nappy little braids, its going to be his smoking habits? Low blow Morrison, nobody gives you crap for letting everyone team your girlfriend.

Truth tells Morrison that he's just trying to get into his head so he can take his match and become WWE Champion. Truth connected some serious dots there considering that wasn't mentioned at all. Morrison says okay, lets do that. Truth says that these people in London do not want to see "me and you" wrestle tonight. That's half true.

Here comes a referee and we're underway. Whole lot of arm drags and headlock takedowns. Cole's gimmick takes away from the matches. Its bush league and reminds me of watching a cruiserweight match from WCW while Tony Schiavone rambles about Big Bubba joining the nWo. Focus on the task at hand kids.

After slamming Truth to the canvas Morrison hits Starship Pain to get the pin. That certainly upgraded the main event even though it was the most awkward reaching angle I've seen in some time. I guess I don't care since the result was getting R-Truth off of PPV hopefully.

R-Truth then beats up on a celebrating Morrison solidifying his heel turn. We've all been so excited for this to finally happen. I couldn't keep a straight face typing that. He asks for a smoke which he receives. Looks like a Marb Light. Truth puffs away as Morrison roles around. Somebody yells, "Would somebody please think of the children?" I can't tell if they meant that in regards to the smoking or R-Truth getting so much camera time. This shit writes itself.

Next up we have Evan Borne in the ring and Vickie Guerraro comes out. She announces the new and improved Dolph Ziggler. Oh, Dolph's hair is brown now. That 12 dollar box of hair dye is bound to make him not be terrible anymore. Cole says that the rumor flying around the locker room is that he has a new attitude. This is the worst repackage ever. The best part about it is that he looks like a larger version of poor Evan Borne.

The two work a pretty decent match, short but sweet, mostly due to Borne's skill set. He misses a Shooting Star Press which allows Dolph to hit the Zig Zag for the 3 count. If they wanted to repackage his gimmick they should have given him a name that doesn't sound like a second tier Bond villain. That's right, not even first tier. Like Odd Job or Baron Samedi.

We learn that Michael Cole will be knighted tonight. Great, more time and a segment wasted on that. We learn that Sin Cara is going to be wrestling Alex Riley tonight. That sounds botchamaniatastic.

They showed a video of Edge's retirement and an overview of his career. Needed more Gangrel. I miss that pot bellied vampire. No I don't. It is revealed that Alberto Del Rio is going to throw a retirement party for Edge on Smackdown. That sounds like a nice gesture.

The Miz comes out with Alex Riley. So anyone else notice that The Miz is ripping off Jericho's most recent Bockwinkel inspired heel gimmick and not hiding it at all? No? Well I have. He takes a chair, sits down, and says that he will not leave until the Raw General Manager fixes the main event at Extreme Rules. Little did The Miz know that The Anonymous Raw General Manager was not in the building and was having dinner with The Network of TNA fame. I heard there was an argument about who was lamer.

Sin Cara's music hits. It sounds more and more like Enya to me every day. This is a bad thing. This time Sin Cara's trampoline does not malfunction and he springboards into the ring with some pyro. Cena's music hits and apparently this is now a tag team match. Uh oh, its not good news for your character when they're trying to give you the Cena rub, especially considering Cena's crowd pop was as mixed as ever.

Cole received an email from the Anonymous Raw General Manager on his I Pad. It read, "There is no pay off for this whole thing. The joke is on you, the fans! Ha Ha Ha." No, it read that there will indeed be a tag team match.

Basic tag match with some decent spots. The finish wasn't exactly clean as Sin Cara hit a springboard moonsault and only seemed to land his index finger on Riley. The index finger was far more than Riley could handle though and he succumbs to the maneuver.

Angry Miz Girl did not like this segment, wants your soul

Yay, a graphic is shown and CM Punk is wrestling tonight. Sure its against Randy Orton but its better than nothing.

Next up we have a Divas match. Eve comes out and is going to be wrestling Nikki Bella. The only thing that could make this worthwhile is nudity and chocolate pudding and we're not going to get either. So in the mean time, lets talk about something worthwhile, and that's how tasty saltwater taffy is. If I had my druthers I'd be enjoying some right now. The brunette won.

Next is the Knighting of Sir Michael Cole. Sure would be nice if this was getting over an actual wrestler instead of an announcer. Here comes "The Queen." I wonder how much they paid this lady. I guess it doesn't matter, I'd probably do it for 100 dollars and the promise of a Daniel Bryan push. And if they let me keep the dress...

This whole segment was an attempt to insult your intelligence and taste. Michael Cole having yellow athletes foot fungus seemed like it would have fit better in a direct to DVD release of Freddy Got Fingered 2.

Next up is Santino taking on Sheamus. This was a boring short match that was borderline squash. Sheamus must have to dress up like Michael Jackson used to to keep that pasty, ivory, milky skin out of the sun. He's practically florescent.

Next up is our main event, CM Punk vs. Randy Orton. The crowd was very split on these two even with CM Punk playing it up for heel heat. I can say with quite a bit of honesty that this match was just as good as their match at Wrestlemania. There wasn't a wasted move in it. Orton got the win with a roll up. The New Nexus came down and beat up on Orton. Mason Riley freaks out and gets ready to punt Orton. Punk convinces Batista Lite that he should be able to do it instead. Punk runs at Orton who was playing possum and hits the RKO and runs out of the ring as we fade to black.

I'm hoping with the draft next week that that feud is done so Punk can move on to bigger things. He's the best heel they have (Not even close, Miz) by a long distance.

Separated At Birth: Sheamus & Casper

Zack Ryder still .... Awesome....again

Separated at Birth: Marc Mero + Little Richard = Little Mero

Now I know that I might be just mailing this one in, because Johnny B. Badd was suppose to be a Little Richard look-a-like, but what do you expect, it's 4/20

Sloooow Mooootion

The Great Sasuke Sings Karaoke

Chikara King of Trios 2011 produced more than great wrestling this weekend, it produced some incredibly surreal moments.

My friend Arik Cannon (name drop) informed me of the existence of this video as he saw it with his own two eyes after wrestling Sasuke, Dick Togo, and Jinsei Shinsaki with his Team Minnesota cohorts. (123 Kid and Darin Corbin)

The Great Sasuke doesn't even look at the screen. He is a karaoke master. Unbelievable stuff.

Just Another Music Monday

Good Morning Everybody!!! We will be kickin off this rightous week with a deep cut off of "Piledriver – The Wrestling Album 2" featuring all of the WWF Superstars. Also, remember to listen throughout day for the "Phrase that Pays" and you could win two tickets to In Your House 16: Canadian Stampede. Be there or be square

4/15/11 Smackdown Review: Edge's Send Off

The show starts with a video of Edge and how he will be forfeiting the World Heavyweight Championship due to his retirement.

After that we immediately get to Mr. Ricardo Rodriguez which of course means the arrival of Alberto Del Rio. Alberto lets us know his name. Del Rio says that when Edge had to retire that the WWE lost a hero. Del Rio said he didn't want it to be like this, but said that he would gladly accept the World Heavyweight Championship. I do like this move. The best kind of heel feels that what they're doing is actually right and you get the feeling from that small promo that Alberto truly believes he should be given the title.

Teddy Long's music hits and he comes out to the ring, no doubt to call Alberto a player. Ha! Second sentence. There it is. Teddy says that no one will be presented the title. Ha! Player! That's twice. Teddy informs Alberto he will be facing the winner of a 20 man over the top battle royal at Extreme Rules. Alberto thinks this is just fine. I kid, he's quite upset and feels he should be the champion right now. He gets so mad he starts speaking Spanish. He mentions it being a conspiracy. That's the second show that I think has made Chris Jericho frown this week. Player! That's three.

We come back from commercial and Ezekial Jackson is already in the ring and The Corre has stopped by to do commentary. Lot of gold on those jabronis, jeez. Ezekial is set to wrestle Kofi Kingston. Ezekial dominates most of the match with power moves, none of them being a Pearl River Plunge surprisingly.

Booker says that the rolls on the back of Ezekial Jackson's neck look like a Tsunami. Too soon Booker! Oh wait, we're the guys who posted the pictures of Earthquake and Typhoon a few days after that. Carry on!

Ezekial throws Kofi onto The Corre at ringside. This seems to piss off Wade Barrett who appears to try to get at Ezekial but causes the ref to be distracted long enough for Ezekial to hit a Uranage for the pin on Kofi. Sad to see Kofi get squashed like that. Ezekial grabs the microphone afterward. They shouldn't have let him do that. He channels Porky Pig as he lets the crowd and The Corre know that he is the "Pe..pe..pe..personification of domination."

We cut to LayCools couples therapy session. Hopefully we're all in the trust tree. Lay said they should be like Bert and Ernie, or Thelma and Louise. They always reminded me more of Grover and Elmo with mild retardation and a muddy English accent. Michelle McCool leaves the session. My giving a shit meter didn't budge at all during that one.

The Angel of Music, err Cody Rhodes is now in the ring. I shouldn't rip on Cody so much, I actually like him, even if he doesn't wear knee pads. He cuts a promo about how empty inside he is after beating Rey at Wrestlemania. Maybe he should take up yoga, Asian cooking, walking, wine tasting?

Cody actually cuts a really good promo. He plays the insecure freak card really well. Perhaps he's channeling memories of his father peeling off that polka dotted singlet in front of him after matches and then hitting the shower. That would do it for me.

Rey runs out and they start brawling. Rey hits a 619 to the belly and Cody runs off. I hope these two continue feuding and they get Dusty more involved.

A video for Awesome Kong is up next. Its a large black woman flicking the head off a blonde headed doll. I know that's supposed to be creepy but its exactly what I plan on doing after this review is written. Don't judge me.

Rey is still in the ring ready to go and Drew McIntyre makes his way out for their match. Michael Cole mentions that what Cody Rhodes was doing was almost Phantom of the Opera like. Just a tad. I'm hoping next week he enters by swinging in on a chandelier.

The match starts. Cole mentions that McIntyre is still seething about
not having a match at Wrestlemania. It must suck to be the only one angry about something. Rey and Drew get under way. Drew hits a bunch of power moves on Rey and is frustrated when Rey kicks out. The camera zooms in on McIntyre almost pouting after swinging Rey into the outside barrier. Its okay little buddy.

The match continues to go back and forth until Rey has a nice float behind into the 619 and a big splash for the win. This was a very solid match in my opinion that was pretty fun to watch. Rey doesn't have the physical tools he used to but he still knows how to work a great match.

Back from commercial Edge is shown walking into the arena. Dean Malenko is the first to greet him backstage and shake his hand. Always nice to see a rare on camera appearance for Dean these days. Kane stares at Edge and eventually shakes his hand. It was cute.

Edge then comes out to a large pop. I won't be snarky about any of this as it was a nice moment. Edge asked if he could come out just one last time, which he did with his pyro. He acknowledged his mom at ringside as well and thanks the fans for everything. He leaves the belt lying in the middle of the ring and walks out.

Alberto and Edge run into each other backstage. Alberto sticks out his hand and smirks. Edge refuses to shake it. Alberto winks and seems amused.

Next is a divas match. Kelly Kelly's body may be flawless. Mother of God. It won't save this match though. LayCool now comes out as it appears Layla will be wrestling Kelly Kelly. I may grab a beverage. I think I'll settle for a Sprite since I'm still sort of ill. Maybe I should run to the store and get some Ginger Ale. Probably would take too long..

Anyway, Kelly Kelly dominates the match and eventually wins with a roll up when Michelle McCool throws Layla back into the ring after she rolled out. They argue. I'd like this segment a lot better if they started violently making out. Instead Michelle pushes down Layla. This day may be forever burned into your soul as "Where were you when LayCool broke up?" I was in my house with the flu sipping a Sprite. Pretty unforgettable.

Now we see a video highlight of Undertaker vs. Triple H at Wrestlemania with WWE superstars giving comments. Even CM Punk is shown. I'm going through some serious CM Punk withdrawl. I'll be pissed if he doesn't do something on RAW.

When I first watched the Undertaker Triple H match I was kind of snotty about it. After rewatching it I thought they told a really good story. It was not historically good, but it was definitely very good.

Finally we have our main event 20 Man Battle Royal to determine who will face Alberto Del Rio. They're really going to be scraping the bottom of the barrel to find 20 guys for this. Kane and Big Show get to come out separately while everyone else gets to start in the ring.

JTG is the first to be eliminated. Trent Barreta is next. Who? Big Show then punches Heath Slater in the face and eliminates him. Big Show then eliminates himself and Ezekial Jackson with a clothesline. Rey eliminates Cody with a springboard drop kick. Rey then gets Curt Hawkins with a headscissors. King Hippo, err Brodus Clay gets going next and eliminates Drew McIntyre. Chavo jumps on his back and Hippo shrugs him off. Kane is obviously not a big Mike Tyson's Punch Out fan as he eliminates Brodus.

Back from commercial we see Wade Barrett eliminate Kofi Kingston. Christian sends Tyler Reks out and then goes after poor Yoshi Tatsu. I had money on Yoshi. The Corre double teams Kane and eliminates him. Barrett eliminates Masters before he can put anyone completely in a Full Nelson. This displeases me. Gabriel eliminates Barrett. So much strife in The Corre right now. I haven't been this upset since the Latino World Order dissolved.

Rey eliminates Justin Gabriel next with another head scissors. Swagger throws out Rey after Cole plays human shield for the 619. Suddenly scenes from the movie The Bodyguard are running through my head. And I..Will Always Love You. I may be delirious.

Its down to Christian and Swagger. Swagger cinches in the ankle lock. Christian escapes. Alberto starts pulling on Christian's foot. He kicks him off and sends Swagger over the ropes in the process. It was an obvious but nice touch to have the sentimental favorite win. Edge comes down and congratulates him. Alberto stands on the announce table and points at the belt and then motions to his chest like he's hungry.

Christian grabs the mic and him and Edge do their old tag team posing bit. The whole roster comes out to give Edge applause. Big Show comes down as Edge is bawling his eyes out at this point and gives him a hug. Rey and Chavo follow suit.

Triple H's music then hits which is a bit of a surprise. He comes down and the two embrace and Edge is losing it in the ring as Hunter talks to him. Pretty crazy moment.

Edge gets back on the microphone and thanks everyone he can think of. The crowd started chanting Hall of Fame. It will definitely be sad to see Edge go.

My goal with these reviews was to try to put a humorous spin on the shows but I have to say I was incredibly impressed with this episode of Smackdown. They did a great job sending Edge out and put on a solid show otherwise.

Chris Hero: Illegal Australian Alien

Terry Funk Mark Out Moment #1

4/14 Impact Review: Better Late Than Never

This weeks episode is entitled "Hogan's Law" which is probably a lot like Murphy's Law, and since this is TNA, something terrible is bound to happen. Here we go..

The show starts with Immortal coming to the ring. Gunner is holding the TV Title in his teeth for some strange reason. Somebody obviously told him that looked neat. Hogan then proceeds to call out Mr. Anderson, who pulled the swerve last week by not joining Immortal. Mr. Anderson refers to Immortal as sheep swinging from Hulk Hogan's nuts. That kind of imagery is so vivid. Anderson said he won't step in line. Immortal then decides to beat the tar out of Anderson. Tenay mentions something about Gang Warfare when Anderson gets beaten down and I was hoping DOA and The Nation were going to come out and start brawling. Hogan just called himself one bad mamajama. Somewhere Chris Jericho is annoyed.

The cameras then cut to Velvet and Winter yelling at each other. I'm sure that it has something to do with She-Festus. Winter says She-Festus can make her own decisions. I think you have to blink in order to make your own decisions.

Immortal is backstage cheering about beating up on one guy. It looks like an awkward celebration. Bischoff gets a call from The Network. They want to do a best two out of three series match Fortune vs. Immortal with the winner getting a man advantage at Lockdown. This kind of stuff annoys the crap out of me. The Network. Why does every Russo product (I know its you, you douche bag) have to have this higher power that is secretive and everyone must answer to it. He tried this garbage in WCW and it was awful. WWE is currently doing it with the Anonymous Raw General Manager. How dumb do they think fans are? Lame.

Crimson vs. Jesse Neal vs. Doug Williams vs. Orlando Jordan was next.
All their tag team partners are at ringside. Shannon Moore kept flexing which annoyed Scott Steiner because only he is allowed to flex apparently. He proceeds to beat up Shannon through the crowd and Jesse follows. Abyss then came out and beat up on Crimson. He rips off a piece of guard rail and chokeslams Crimson on it. Mike Tenay screams, "The guard rail, the steel, the concrete!" Pick one Mike. Orlando Jordan hits "The Gender Bender" for the pin on Doug Williams while all this foolishness is going on.

I know Orlando Jordan is trying something different but instead of thinking bisexual or transvestite when I see him on TV I immediately think of Buffalo Bill dancing in front of the mirror in the kimono instead. Possibly that says more about me than it does anyone. Shit..

The camera then cuts to Bully Ray giving RVD some crap for playing video games. Ray tells RVD that Hogan is going to make RVD an offer he shouldn't refuse. They make a marijuana reference about less seeds being better. Seeds are annoying.

Next up is Matt Hardy vs. Kazarian. Abyss, Flair, and Bully Ray accompany Matt to ringside. Kazarian comes out with Beer Money and Christopher Daniels. Earl Hebner then dismisses everyone from ringside.

Kazarian and Hardy wrestle a decent match but certainly nothing fantastic. Hardy bumps the ref in order to lock up Kazarian in "The Ice Pick" after a back and forth match. Its called "The Ice Pick" because Matt Hardy is "Coldblooded." Get it?

Mike Tenay lets us know that Hulk Hogan has decided that Mr. Anderson is going to run the "Immortal gauntlet." Tazz says that sucks for Mr. Anderson. It will probably end up sucking for us too.

Madison and Tara come out. She hasn't been able to sleep this week. If she could have done things differently she would have ran over Mickey James one more time. Tara objects to this. Madison starts yelling at Tara. Mickey James comes out.

"Hardcore Country" sounds like one of those CDs full of country hits you can get from an infomercial. I'm just saying. Mickey cuts a decent promo about how she's going to beat up Madison at Lockdown. She's better on the mic than most of the females, that I'll give her.

Next up is the 3 man tag match between Matt Morgan, Kurt Angle, and Samoa Joe vs. Jeff Jarrett, Hernandez, and Pope Dinero. The match was to get the heels some heat before Lockdown and it was effective at least in that purpose even though it was kind of a mess. Pope ended up pinning Joe after hitting him with the brass knuckles. Angle ends up chasing The Jarretts out of the arena until Karen decides she has forgotten her purse and decides her maniac ex-husband is not as scary as possibly not having her lip gloss. Jeff speeds away leaving Karen to Angle who says that Jeff is a coward and that Karen sucks at picking husbands. Touche, Kurt. Touche.

Next up we had the fight for RVD's soul. Hogan, playing the roll of the mini shoulder devil is saying join us, and Sting is playing the roll of the mini shoulder angel saying don't. RVD is non committal and decides to go backstage, no doubt to toke up to get the shoulder devil and angel to hopefully go away. Who can blame him. Stinger lays out Bischoff with the death drop. Hogan cowers.

James Storm came out to face Abyss. Storm is pinned clean in about 3 minutes, meaning Immortal wins the man advantage at Lockdown.

More stupid backstage crap with Bischoff talking to The Network and being upset. He wants to know who is working with The Network and they won't reveal it to him. I started up a "Fire Russo" chant at home.

Next up is Velvet calling out She-Festus. She-Festus does not disappoint and comes out. Velvet shoves her. She-Festus stares. She-Festus gives Velvet two horrible bumps. I think the first one was supposed to involve the chair but she missed. The next one was a DDT on the chair. My pulse during this probably was similar to She-Festus because I could have cared less.

Next up is the Immortal Gauntlet. First up was Murphy, who got Mic Checked after a few moments of working Anderson's knee. Basically the same thing happened to the second entrant, Rob Terry. Third up is Gunner who has managed to take the TV belt out of his mouth for long enough to get beat by Mr. Anderson rather quickly.

Next up is Bully Ray. I love the guy. They really should push him more as a heel. He can cut a promo, he works in the ring well. If TNA was smart they'd continue to push him. Anderson and Bully brawl until Bully knocks out the referee. They take the fight out to the stage where Bully gets ready to do the same power bomb bump to Anderson that they did with AJ Styles. Hogan hobbles out and says he wants to power bomb him instead. Does Hogan know how to do a power bomb? Sting makes the save with the baseball bat. Abyss comes out and gets more baseball bat from Sting for his trouble.

They end the show with the standard cut back/reactions backstage after the show. Fortune says that everything will end Sunday. RVD doesn't say anything. Anderson babbles about how he still hates Sting. Hogan says Immortal is going to break Sting in half.

Overall it wasn't an awful show and they did their best to set up Lockdown. Here's hoping its better than Victory Road. It shouldn't be difficult at all to be better than Victory Road.

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Double Feature: 1) Cornette Thursdays 2) Breaking News: Shawn Michaels Was A Dick

This will be a a new feature on Wrestling Gold called "Cornette Thursdays". This is meant to showcase the best mind in the all of wrestling. Every Thursday we will bring the finest moments of Jim Cornette's career, inside and outside of the ring. We will kick off this week with a clip from Cornette's YouShoot Interview where he talks about Vader.

After watching that video I came to the conclusion that Shawn Michaels was a dick in the 90's. Naturally, I had to watch that match from Summerslam 96' again. There are two main dick moments in this match. F1rst is the incident that Cornette mentions in the video above. The second one is where the cameraman tries to get a close up of Shawn laying outside of the ring. What does Shawn do?  He pushes the cameraman away. That's not a very babyface-ish thing to do. (yelling and kicking Vader in the head happens at the 4:25 mark, and the cameraman push happens at the 4:58 mark)

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Breaking News: Zack Ryder still awesome

I mean come on, let's just replace R-Truth with Zack Ryder. I don't know who over at WWE has a big hard-on for R-Truth, but it needs to stop. Clearly, Ryder is not really given alot of opportunities to shine, but he makes his own opportunities. The YouTube videos that he posts are great and you can tell that he doesn't have a bunch of writers telling what to say. So, let's get R-Truth demoted to working dark matches before Raw, and let someone that will bust his ass to get over.

(Disclaimer: Paid for by the Get Zack Ryder Air Time Committee and authorized by the

R-Truth: Over Rated Committee.)

Larry Sweeney Passes Away

It has been reported that Alex "Larry Sweeney" Whybrow was found dead today. Not much is known besides it appears he hung himself in a wrestling school. Sweeney worked in Ring of Honor for 3 years from 06' to 09'. It was in ROH where he would go on to form Sweet 'n' Sour Inc. The stable consisted of many talented wrestlers such as, Davey Richards, Eddie Edwards, Sara Del Rey, and Chris Hero. He was a major talent and was very gifted on the mic. I just wish that this modern day Bobby Heenan could've got the help that he needed.

Gail Kim Engaged To Celeb Chef

Gail Kim just got engaged to Robert Irvine. Robert was the host of Dinner: Impossible on the Food Network. I thought this was some kind of humor joke when I first found out about this. Gail is 34 years young and Robert is 45 years old. Now, I understand that he is a "celebrity" chef, but really .... really.Keep in mind that in 2007, Gail was listed on Forbes' Top 40 List of "America's Most Eligible Bacheloretted"

Scott Hall Overdoses, Not Dead Yet

Scott Hall has apparently overdosed on something and has been taken to a local hospital. I think this might be news. I'm not entirely sure.
I dropped the ball huge by not having the poll question be what it was that Scott overdosed on. My vote is for the cocaine, with some sort of muscle relaxer trailing by just a nose.

Separated at Birth: Festus & Angelina Lover

If CM Punk can save Festus, he can save Angelina Love. Idea, what better time than now that the new Nextus is gone to reform the Straight Edge Society.