The SmarK RAW Supershow Rant – 06.25.12
Live from Fort Wayne, IN
Your hosts are Michael Cole & Jerry Lawler
Meanwhile, AJ is still crazy and talking to herself. Don’t care, I’d still hit it, I’ve been with crazier and survived.
Vickie Guerrero is this week’s GM, and announces that a permanent replacement will be named at RAW 1000.
Daniel Bryan v. Kane v. CM Punk
This is elimination rules and is obviously non-title. The latest obnoxious thing from WWE is running Twitter polls. Kane dominates both guys to start, but they put him down with stereo kicks as we’re back to “TRENDING WORLDWIDE! TRENDING WORLDWIDE!” bullshit again. Guess Vince must have woke up this morning and decided he loves Twitter again. Kane gets dumped, but still fights off both guys, and we take a break. Back with Kane beating on everyone in the corner, but he goes up and Bryan tries to bring him down, before settling for a rollup on Punk that gets two. Punk and Bryan hit Kane with a double suplex and Punk makes the comeback on Bryan, and then backdrops Bryan onto Kane outside. Back in, Punk springboards in, but Bryan blocks it and tries the Yes Lock. Punk catapults out of that and gets two, but Kane boots him down for two. Sideslam gets two. Kane gets the flying clothesline and goes to finish, but AJ skips out and Kane Goes 2 Sleep at 10:02. Bryan quickly kicks Punk out cold at 10:15 for the win. Not sure what the point of elimination rules was, but if it sets up another Punk-Bryan PPV match then it’s all good. ***
Meanwhile, Alberto Del Rio tries to woo Vickie, but Dolph cockblocks him. Vickie makes a #1 contender on a pole match between them to settle things. Seriously? We’re back to “blank on a pole” matches again?
Big Show v. Brodus Clay
So much for that ban from RAW. Michael Cole explains that Vickie has overturned Big Johnny’s ruling, so Brodus is back on RAW. Slugfest to start, but Show kicks him in the knee and goes to work immediately. Show wraps it around the post and follows with a pump splash, but Clay makes the comeback. A slam backfires and Show gets the anticlimactic pin at 2:22 to end the undefeated streak. Dude got nothing here. DUD What’s even more annoying is that they’re playing the “WHO CAN END THE BIG SHOW’S REIGN OF TERROR?” card, but John Cena just beat him! So they’re telling the story backwards again.
Bob Barker shares his memories of hosting RAW.
Meanwhile, Kane shares his feelings with AJ: He’s just not boyfriend material, and he likes to eviscerate people and even he thinks she’s mentally unstable.
US title: Santino Marella v. Jack Swagger
Apparently Santino has been champion for FIVE MONTHS now. That’s crazy, especially since he’s had something like 2 title defenses in that time. Swagger pounds away in the corner, but runs away from a potential cobra strike. He manages to hit a slam for two, but Santino puts him down with a backdrop suplex. Santino makes the comeback and finishes with the Cobra at 2:35 to retain. *
John Cena is out to make stupid Star Wars references and a historic announcement, but Chris Jericho returns to interrupt him. Cena announces that he’s anticipating Big Show getting the belt any day now, so he’s entering himself into Money In The Bank so he can win it first. Jericho thinks he’s an arrogant jackass and also enters himself into the match. Vickie comes out and points out that neither guy can just enter himself into the match, but then she enters Cena, Jericho, Kane and Show into the match anyway, because only WWE former champions can enter. Doesn’t that kind of defeat the entire purpose of the match?
Heath Slater v. Sid
Perhaps, in retrospect, saying that he ruled the world was a bad move. Sid’s looking like an old redneck now and isn’t moving too well. Slater manages to get him down by attacking the knee, but he walks into a clothesline and legdrop. Powerbomb finishes at 1:30. Pretty tepid reaction for Sid, actually, but they’re definitely doing the right nostalgia by sticking to the 90s instead of the usual 70s and 80s guys.
Contract On A Pole: Alberto Del Rio v. Dolph Ziggler
Ziggler makes a run for the pole, but ADR brings him down and gets a backbreaker. They both fail to get to the pole and ADR slingshots Ziggler into the corner, but he tries to climb instead. They both climb in the corner and Del Rio brings him down with a samoan drop off the top. This thing is just dying here. Ziggler climbs again and gets the contract, but Del Rio knocks it out of his hands and they fight for it on the mat as Cole says you have to “control it”. This match is stupid. Roberto tries to steal it, so Ziggler kicks it out of the ring and they tumble out together. Finally Sheamus comes out and announces that he’ll fight both of them on Friday. What a giant waste of time this all was. DUD
Divas battle royale:
Speaking of wastes of time, AJ wins at 1:30, eliminating Vickie. I hate to say I’m getting sick of AJ, but it might be happening.
Chris Jericho v. John Cena
Eh, I’m done with this show tonight. They get in one more shit finish, with Big Show coming in for the DQ and beating up Cena because he’s a big meanie.
The Pulse:
So Charlie Sheen will be tweeting during RAW 1000. That’s something, right? Right?
I was hoping that when the camera panned away from AJ, it would be revealed that she was talking to action figures.
ReplyDeleteNice attention to detail with her looking up when practicing her Kane bit.
I guess Scott didn't like this too much. I just checked out the Sid match and good god is he still awesome.
ReplyDeleteSeriously AJ is awesome right?! I mean, she has gotten so awesome in the last few weeks
ReplyDeleteI don't blame you for getting sick of AJ-gate, but she's making this better than it probably should be; watching her go from scared to amused to angry against Vicki was trainwreck-hot fascinating.
ReplyDeleteI just watched the master and ruler of the world. Bow before the fucking man. The rest of the show can go die.
ReplyDeleteDidn't see the show, but Psycho FUCKING Sid! I'm gonna watch just for the 90's guy. Shit, I hope they have a 90's guy squash Heath every week til WWE '13 comes out. Next week I hope for: Razor Ramon! Not gonna happen but damn I wish Scott Hall would get clean. That E60 was downright depressing to watch and as someone who was not only a Razor Ramon fun and also just someone who doesn't like to see ANYONE live that like, I hope he finds something to save him.
ReplyDeleteThat aside, I'd like to see more '90's guy who they don't use all that often.
Sorry, love AJ, not at all sick of her.
ReplyDeleteThe show was meh though. I don't like where the MitB is heading AT ALL...I can't see any scenario where Kane or Jericho win, which means it's either Show or Cena that will win then crush Punk for the title, and I hate both of those. I feel like if you're going to keep the title on Punk for nearly a year, you should do something worthwhile when you take it off of him...give it to a guy not firmly established as a permanent main eventer (Bryan, who is close, and Ziggler, who is farther) or as part of a huge angle (Cena heel turn, for example). My fear is all we're getting is Cena wins MitB, heroically challenges Punk for Summerslam ala RVD, then beats him for the title and we get Cena VS Show and Cena VS ADR and crap like that for the next few months, which will make me not even want to watch anymore.
Of course if Cena wants to stay true to his character, he'll wait until Punk retains in an Iron Man match, then immediately cash in after, beat him for the title, then bizarrely act like he did nothing wrong while WWE continues to treat him as a superface. Like when Rey Mysterio won the title to start the show and then had to defend it the same night against a fresh Cena, and at no point did role model Cena say "Hey, that's not fair, wait til next week".
After watching Sid I had to watch the Sid-HBK match from IYH. Shawn Michaels was such a prick.
ReplyDeletea week ago Zbyszko went on f4online and said Hall was doing great.. then he no shows a card the other night and now the Meltz is saying he's like near-death.. we'll see..
ReplyDeleteHas AJ skipped the shark?
ReplyDeleteI thought the show had two decent things about it. Those both happened things happened in the opening match and those things were the match itself and the fact that they're doing CM Punk vs. Daniel Bryan again.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise, this show was the shits. Cena's big announcement was something TNA used to do as desperation for people to watch the show. Cena announcing him into the MITB match is not a big deal. To make matters worse, Cena's promo was revolting. Bryan Gewirtz should be nominated worst booker of the year for all the abysmal promos he's written this year.
Not even the Rock, who used to be witty, cool and collective on the mic, could get over the bowel movement content this guy was writing. And Vince McMahon could be given the worst filler of the year because he allows this to go on his program. Seriously, I know McMahon is a genius, but he needs to stop giving creative input. His ideas/stuff he allows to go on this show is appalling and I am becoming contrite to admit to anyone that I actually watch this.
Let's see what else happened. Oh, Swagger came one step close to being fired. Dolph Ziggler and Del Rio had a 3-stoogers-esque match that screamed Vince Russo and solved nothing. There was a Divas match that I skipped because if WWE doesn't care about it, why should I? Jericho had an anti-climatic return. And of all people, the Big Show, who is one or two years retired defeated the undefeated Brodus Clay.
This show need major changes. Let's start with obnoxious Michael Cole who hasn't gotten anything over with his commentary since he turned heel. He needs to go or at least become a consistent, reliable PBP guy who tries to get things serious instead of being Vince McMahon's mouthpiece. I'm one of the biggest Jerry Lawler fans, but he's got to go too. He adds nothing to the product except lame one-liners.
Let's also change up the format of the show. It's the same exact design every show. There's nothing exciting happening. It feels like you've watched it all before. Do something different. Change up where things go. Despite its flaws, Attitude Era Raws always had you on the edge of your seat, anticipating something to happen. This show, on the other hand, feels like you can telegraph everything.
Let's also give these midcarders something to do. Get them into some actual programs. Let them talk on the mic and develop their characters. If you're lacking depth in your mid-card, look at how much talent you really have on your roster that you don't use and put them on Raw.
And finally, cut down on the comedy. I mean I'm not anti-comedy when it comes to wrestling; in fact, some of my favorite moments in wrestling had comedy in them. I'm sick of bad comedy and that's what Raw's bombarded with - comedy that makes Date Movie seem funny.
What's Rick Bognar doing these days? Maybe "Big Daddy Cool" can do a run-in for old time's sake!
ReplyDeleteDamn straight! He still has HALF the brain of any other Superstar!
ReplyDeleteThe most depressing moment of this evening was that even the master and ruler of the world can show the signs of aging. Honestly I always thought Sid would look young forever.
ReplyDeleteMakes you wonder if she'll go the way of The Rock someday...
ReplyDeleteKinda like Dark Helmet playing with the figures in Spaceballs?
ReplyDelete"Eh, I’m done with this show tonight."
ReplyDeleteSeriously, I hope they keep doing Punk/Bryan in the opening segment so I can just switch the channel.
I'm sticking with Impact and STOLEN torrents of old stuff.
I think the most telling thing about how ass-backwards the long-term planning here is that they're big angle for show #1000 is announcing a new general manager. Because no one gives a shit about that shit anymore.
ReplyDeleteAt least Big Johnny wasn't on the show this week.
Vince has a lot of nerve promoting the upcoming Raw as the 1000th episode. The last three or four years have been repeats for the most part.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, Scott, if you're getting nothing out of this, why do it? I'm being 100-percent serious here--just let someone else do the recap and get about 3/4 of the page hits. I'm sorry, but I love the AJ/Bryan/Punk/Kane thing and love the fact that it gets multiple segments...and I could give two flying F's about the Styles/Carter hoarding a drug addict angle. Too many people are making the whole "Raw sucks, but I keep watching it, hoping something will change" argument. I just wish the people that were all like "screw this, I'm watching Impact" would reserve their comments for ACTUAL Impact posts instead of clogging the posting board for people that want to intelligently and fairly discuss Raw.
ReplyDeleteSorry, gang, I was thoroughly entertained by the triple threat match, the Ziggler-Del Rio match, the bikini battle royal, Brodus Clay's determination to hang with a main eventer, and Jericho's speech annihilating Cena. Those who disagree, feel free to write a scathing rebuttal on the Impact thread. Get a friggin life, guys.
"Cena announces that he’s anticipating Big Show getting the belt any day now, so he’s entering himself into Money In The Bank so he can win it first."
ReplyDeleteWay to bury CM Punk.
Yeah, I do agree that the mid-card acts and angles need more mic time. A person like Brodus Clay, who has a ton of support already, could be solidified as an upper mid-card act if he was allowed to voice his opinions and displeasure at Big Show on a more consistent basis. I find myself drawn to guys like Heath Slater just because he's given a chance to show personality these days. Imagine what it could do to guys on the cusp of getting and staying "over" with fans.
ReplyDeleteNever. And as I said on the Raw thread... Some girls are just petite. It's not like she's 5'9" and looking like that. She's like 5'3" on her tippy toes. I have a thing for petite women, though (anybody with silicone and you're just risking a wrist sprain in my opinion). I also have a thing for Puerto Rican women. And I also have a thing for geeky women. AJ is all of these. I was a very happy guy when she was parading around tonight.
ReplyDeleteI see what you tried to do there.
ReplyDeleteIf the cashing in after the Ironman match thing happens and turns Cena heel, that could be worth it.
ReplyDeleteScott left out critical details: Cena wants in because he knows Big Show wants in and in his current mode, Big Show would massacre Punk first chance he gets and cause even more chaos if he was world champion.
ReplyDeleteWhich ironicallyu shoud be evoked at the PPV and the bullshit about Punk not getting to headline the PPVs: Punk goes on early before the Raw MITB match and specifically states that he and Bryan are opening the show with their match so that Punk can get the fuck out of town once it ends so that he can't be hit with someone cashing in the briefcase after he pins Bryan.
That said; they really need to bring back Randy Orton as a heel and put him in the Raw MITB match so he can win and FINALLY give us Orton vs Punk.
Bryan can win AJ and maybe feud with Seamus some more.
Ziggler-Del Rio, you actually want to call that a match? What the one move off the top and then a bunch of inability to "control" the clipboard just to end with the whole thing being a waste of time because the they BOTH get to be in the title match anyway (you know, because the champion just randomly decided so)?
ReplyDeleteIf you like women's wrestling more power to you. The rest of the world just gets porn online, I have no need to get it from a PG television show nor have I had that need since...ever.
Get a friggin' life? Dude...it's a wrestling blog. I'd love to be positive about the product. But the product fucking sucks right now outside of ONE angle. And really it's not even the angle that people are excited about but the potential for GREAT WRESTLING that could come of it.
We did fairly and intelligently discuss Raw. It fucking blows. That's fair. If they want us to praise it, try not sucking.
You don't care about the AJ/Dixie stuff? Neither does anyone else. Good thing they keep it to like 10 minutes a show instead of ruining the entire 2 hours with the horseshit like they're doing with AJ.
The last Impact ended with Dixie/AJ Styles, the last Raw ended with Show looking FIERCE AND BIG AND SCARY...again...for the 20th push in a decade. Same difference in terms of nonsense.
If a man with half a brain is the master and ruler of the world, what does that say about us?
ReplyDeleteThat would such an awesome thing for a heel to do. Ensure his match was first on the card so he could avoid the money in the bank. Especially when coupled with a deserving champion, who everyone knows can beat the heel, has to win the money in the bank to get a shot.
ReplyDeleteI remember another great pussy heel angle that someone on here suggested once was two heels working together for one to win the title, and then trade rematches between each other because of the rematch clauses.
ah but you see he wouldnt turn heel, Punk would be the heel for having Cena's title in the first place
ReplyDeleteyou bite your tongue. PEOPLE POWER!
ReplyDeleteSomething WWE should look into is having John Cena do his segment and/or match in the first hour and keep him off the rest of the show and just bring him back out for the dark match.
ReplyDeleteThe kids and women don't give a fuck when they see him just as long as they do and I'm sure their only there TO SEE John Cena, so why risk the ratings death and just get that black hole of charisma off the TV ASAP.
To trot her her out every week is over exposure.
ReplyDeleteAgain, The CM Punk title reign will be remembered with AJ.
Isn't it funny how you can be watching one of the Divas for months (or sometimes years) and not realize how f'n hot they are? I had that experience with Rosa Mendes and AJ most recently, and it's hard to imagine a time when I didn't think they were smokin' hot.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, the reason I bring this up is GOD DAMN MAXINE IS FINE AND I DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE IT AND I HAVE BEEN HALF-ASSEDLY FOLLOWING NXT AKA THE MAXINE/KAITLYN/DERRICK BATEMAN SHOW FOR LIKE A YEAR SO I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT HAPPENED.
That is all.
Oh yeah, I thought Scott was being too hard on the show and AJ is still awesome and blah blah blah... YEEEAAAHHH MAXINE BAYBEE!!!
Vince saw Star Wars for the first time ever over the weekend and decided, "We HAVE to work that into our program."
ReplyDeleteCutting edge pop culture at its finest.
Has anybody pitched a John-John Binks shirt to Barbershop Window yet? Because that needs to be a thing.
ReplyDeleteAn xx on a pole match just ended for no reason... what was entertaining about that?
ReplyDeleteAnd they gave away a possible money match Down the road of Clay vs. Show for no reason.
The battle royale has shown how pathetic women's wrestling has become as I don't even think the announcers knew who half the entrants were.
And promoting Cena in the MITB as this huge, major announcement will make people not believe it just a little more the next time they cry wolf and try to get an announcement over. It was also sad that they had Cena say their biggest demographic is 9-year-olds when that's not even close to the truth.
Punk, Bryan, Kane and AJ Did a good job with their angle and Vicki was great at getting heat as usual in the first segment, and who doesn't love Sid?
But the WWE is killing their business with these awful shows where they make everything meaningless in the long run (like no. 1 contenders matches just ending because the champion said so).
As an aside, since when do wrestlers have music played when they interfere in matches? That never used to happen, and in the context of a match it doesn't make sense to allow for a distraction like that.
There were positives on this show
I seriously doubt she consideres breast reduction.
ReplyDeleteI'll agree in that this was a pessimistic recap right from the get go, which is surprising considering the show kicked off with a good match based around one of the more interesting angles happening right now. Seeing Sid come out was pretty awesome, though clearly not for Scott?
ReplyDeleteRick Bogner was fake Razor! We have Kane to be Fake Diesel haha.
ReplyDeleteDamn that sucks to hear. It's really hard to see a guy living like that. Especially one I grew up watching and thinking he was the greatest.
ReplyDeleteI wish Shelton Benjamin was a former WWE champion. I'm actually intrigued by what they're doing with the Money in the Bank match this year, but it definitely needs someone to fill the high-risk void and a surprise entrant would be fun. RVD? Jeff Hardy? Ultimate Warrior?
ReplyDeleteDoesn't get high-riskier than that last one.
Why did Vince think that "Contract On A Pole" debacle was a good idea?
ReplyDeleteCan anyone here honestly think of ONE good "Item On A Pole" match ever? As boring as the scaffold match was, there's at least been one good scaffold match in history (Rock N' Roll Express vs. Midnight Express at Starrcade '87 obviously). Meanwhile, there's been a grand total of ZERO good "Item On A Pole" matches in history. It ranks alongside the "Kennel From Hell" and the "Punjabi Prison Match" on the "Stipulation Matches That Should Never Ever Take Place Again" list.
Also gotta agree with you Scott about AJ, the amount of airtime she got tonight was borderline overkill. Not even Trish Stratus got that much airtime in a single episode.
It's especially pointless to give her this much airtime since her push is obviously going to disappear faster than Natalya, Eve and Tamina's pushes did.
And if you think that Star Wars reference was outdated, just watch next week's show, where Vince will instruct John Cena to make a "Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" reference.
And finally, if they're so hard up on filling airtime, why don't they just make "Are You Serious?" a regular weekly segment already? Hell, Puppet H would probably get them better ratings than the real Triple H.
I was expecting a Kane mask, a Yes Shirt, and a can of Pepsi
ReplyDeleteI wish they would continue a Vicki vs AJ thing. Love both women, and think they would be great together in a "who's the Alpha bitch?" feud.
ReplyDeleteAlso I wish that Smackdown we could have had a Foley/AJ segment seeing how Foley's been three different personalities (4 if you count plain old Foley). It would have been funny to see them play off of each other.
No fucking way on EARTH Big Johnny isn't announced as the permanent GM on Raw 1000.
ReplyDeleteBecause we're WWE, so eat a dick.
i didnt want to be "that guy" but yeah, Bognar was Razor.
ReplyDeletePOW! Right in the kisser! POW Right in the kisser!
ReplyDeleteYou know it's funny, the only thing about him that looked even remotely older was his face. The guy is still in awesome shape. It's almost as if he found a magic youth elixir that doesn't work only from the neck up.
ReplyDeleteThat we're not twice the man he is!
ReplyDeleteI think the idea of having Cena announce himself in MITB was to put over how important that MITB *is.* If Cena wants in, it's going to be treated like a bigger deal than it alread is.
ReplyDeleteNot half a brain. Half the brain of Scott Hall.
ReplyDeleteReally? He looked like the untalented brother of Harley Race to me.
ReplyDelete"Can anyone here honestly think of ONE good "Item On A Pole" match ever?"
ReplyDeleteJim Duggan vs Ted DiBiase Cage, Glove on a Pole Tuxedo Matchhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PXTFqWVfQc
haha I only knew that because I was 100% sure that Kane was fake Diesel.
ReplyDeleteSometimes the smark in me wants to be "that guy", but I hate it when somebody is "that guy" to me
ReplyDeleteSo I just wait until someone else becomes "that guy"
I gotta as far as being an onscreen personality goes, Vicki has really become unbearable. She's been doing the same schtick for 3 years. "EXCUSE ME!" is all she's got. But she gets great heat for Ziggler so I can't complain.
ReplyDeleteI really hope you were being facetious about the 87 scaffold when the 86 one was miles better.
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For the fans at home:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhGF4C_GjQY
*spittake*
ReplyDeleteLoved the Duggan-DiBiase feud when I was growing up. Hopefully WWE cranks out a few DVD featuring their Mid-South work now that they have the library. I wanna see Ted KOing people with the "loaded" black glove again.
ReplyDeleteyeah, it's same as with most stuff in the WWE in recent years. beat that one trick pony until it's dead.
ReplyDeleteManny Fernandez and Abdullah the Butcher had an (and I shit you not) Sombrero on a Pole Match at Starrcade 85 that was pretty good- maybe not ****, but pretty violent and bloody (In an Abdullah match? Shocking!)... as a newer fan at the time, it blew my mind when I saw it on video because the WWF was not doing that type of bloody brawl that the NWA loved- in the lower midcard no less.
ReplyDeleteAnd she is pretty tiny, so the shoulder tatoo would cover her entire body.
ReplyDeleteIf WWE don't trust Del Rio enough to be in the main event on his own why don't they try him in the midcard until he gets over?
ReplyDeleteWhy don't let it play out and see where it..........................nah fuck this company.
ReplyDelete"... and FINALLY give us Orton vs Punk."
ReplyDeleteAre you implying that they've never feuded before, or just not with Orton as the heel and Punk as the face? Because they feuded last year, even had a match at "WM27".
"As an aside, since when do wrestlers have music played when they interfere in matches?"
ReplyDeleteThat's been going on for a good fifteen years now.
WWE midcard aka Hell
ReplyDeleteDiet Double Dew!
ReplyDeleteYou know it would be kind of funny to see Kane come out as fake Diesel
ReplyDeleteI was forced to watch the Bachelorette last night. That show has great heels -- really perfected the art of the douchebag guy you want to root against.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to me that outside of Bryan/Punk/AJ....Raw has no momentum. And I can't believe they haven't killed the Big Show/Cena angle...it's not working.
You think that's bad? Remember the time I got a salmon helmet from Mohammed while wearing a toga?
ReplyDeleteNailz vs. Big Boss Man Nightstick on a pole match gets my vote...not that the wrestling part of it was all that great, but it worked as a feud and storyline ender.
ReplyDeleteTwo ladder matches and Punk vs Bryan at the PPV? Not bad really.
ReplyDeleteOn a totally unrelated not they had an article on EW.com about who would play the role of Finnick in Catching Fire. It's a shame The Rock is to old for the role because he would have been perfect.
Count me in as one of those who think we're being oversaturated with AJ. I loved the initial angle with her and Daniel Bryan as a couple but now it's getting to be too much. She poked her pretty little head into FIVE different segments tonight.
ReplyDeleteBy comparison, The Rock, during his hottest period, had maybe 3 (walk into arena, promo, match)!
Typical WWE...have something hot, squeeze it dry until it sucks.
Ok this is why youtube is my favorite site besides achem... another tube that shall go nameless...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_bekr0y8n4
I have been watching Raw's from 1997-2001 on Monday Nights. Seems like a good idea.
ReplyDeleteI'm fine with all the AJ stuff. She can actually act and I am interested in her.
ReplyDeleteI think they are doing a test run with Dolph as a face, having him fight heels the past two weeks on RAW.
Sid didn't quite get the monstrous reaction that some on here thought, but it was cool to see him again.
Really hope we are getting Cena/Punk at SummerSlam, that's a match that would get me interested in both of their characters again. They have great chemistry and a good dynamic with each other.
Why is it obvious AJ's push will end? If anything tonight showed me they are committed to pushing her.
ReplyDeleteIt's the softball.
ReplyDeleteThey promoted the Cena announcement on Twitter, not all over TV, I think they will be ok.
ReplyDeleteI watched Impact, that AJ/Dixie stuff was god awful and definitely took up at least 4-5 segments.
ReplyDelete"Speaking of wastes of time, AJ wins at 1:30, eliminating Vickie. I hate to say I’m getting sick of AJ, but it might be happening."
ReplyDeleteBLASPHEMY!!!
I'm pretty sure people would just run out and interfere... I remember rare times like when Austin interfered to help Foley get his first title, but usually people would just run or walk out (a la Vince at WM 17) til about a year or two ago it seems, and now everyone gets an entrance during a match, which makes no sense.
ReplyDeleteI think they all have a chip implanted in them, and there's a sensor at the Gorilla Position that automatically cues the music when they pass.
ReplyDeleteTHANK YOU.
ReplyDeleteWWE is like one of those chicks who wears too much victoria secret lotion or body spray to cover up the fact that they smell like dick.
never in moderation.
I am not saying you specifically but didn't people want them to beat Yes into the ground when that first got popular and when they didn't they were burying it?
ReplyDeleteI think the signs of JERICHO aging was more depressing to me. Sid just looks like he can't afford cycles of steroids anymore.
ReplyDeleteOnce AJ has some kind of on-screen meeting with John Cena, who will make a bunch of terrible jokes about her craziness, she's done.
ReplyDeleteAnd that encounter is coming. Count on it.
If she came skipping out dressed in sexy versions of Kane's opponents it would be interesting. I'm just waiting to see what she does when she finally snaps..
ReplyDelete..or that it was all a sham and she just wanted to side with the World champ.
And I'm pretty sure her hairline won't receede that far in 10 years.
ReplyDeleteI wont go on record sayin i was apart of the Yes bandwagon, but if it got Bryan more time on the mic, run with it.
ReplyDeleteThis AJ thing isnt helping anyone. Not even AJ, the backlash is gonna start sooner or later.
so what you are saying is because you like it, you would prefer to read reviews that mimic your simplistic tastes. Well there are other blogs and sites....
ReplyDeleteI love how "intelligently and fairly" equals "exactly how I think"
I concur. Her push already exceeds that of Natalya and Tamina's combined, and is approaching Eve if you factor out Eve's "bitch assistant" run.
ReplyDeleteIs there anything in WWE that SK is NOT sick of? I mean, I get it, there is a lot that WWE does wrong and it's frustrating. But at the same time, this is far from a Dark Age--- Punk has been champ since last fall having great matches all over the place, Bryan freakin' Danielson has become a top featured star, the AJ storyline has been really entertaining, Wrestlemania was pretty damn good while Extreme Rules and MITB '11 were all-time greats, and mixed in with all the crap we do get a solid amount of good wrestling on both shows every week. Again, I'm with everyone that WWE should be a LOT better, but good lord Scott, it's nowhere near the shitfest that one would think it is from reading your reviews. So if you hate watching this TV show so much, perhaps you should just stop watching the TV show?
ReplyDeleteThere's a difference between pushing someone/something (see AJ the last few weeks) and beating something into the ground (see AJ last night).
ReplyDeleteHorrible show, I'm sure Gewirtz was beating off during Cena's Star Wars promo. At least Russo wasn't a nerd. Smiling Sheamus and Smiling CM Punk are awful. They literally should switch all the faces and heels on the show. Think about that for a minute.
ReplyDeleteTalk about gold. Want to make Cena a face again? Have him start drilling AJ because he likes crazy chicks & he's newly single.
ReplyDeleteHe should have been given a lengthy IC or US title run LAST YEAR, instead of taking the belt off Punk.
ReplyDeleteHow will that make him face? The guy many of the fans hate hooking up with the girl the fans like?
ReplyDeleteIf anything, it'll make AJ an unintentional heel.
Yeah, it's kind of weird that Vader got a bigger pop than Sid.
ReplyDeleteI guess it was just a crowd thing.
Like the action-figures!
ReplyDeleteFirst Vader. Now Sid. If next week Meng appears and gives Slater the Tongan Death Grip I will buy every WWE PPV from now until the end of the year.
ReplyDeleteOr at least I'll buy MiTB.
EXACTLY. Therein lies the problem. Just like when Rey had to wrestle twice in one night when he won the title, the second against a fresh Cena. That's a total heel move, but they just acted like it wasn't.
ReplyDeleteCareful, buddy. You're treading logical waters here.
ReplyDeleteYeah....but it's not too different from anyone else's attitude here, so not sure where you're going with this.
ReplyDeleteNot working, how? Ratings have been up the last two weeks.
ReplyDeleteI was wrong about a Sid reaction. I thought he would have gotten a better reaction.
ReplyDeleteScott, I know this is your blog and you can have whatever opinion you want but I would like for your review to reflect my own personal thoughts on Raw. If you can't do this then you should just stop because I can't find any other reviews out there.
ReplyDeletePlus, you hurt my feelings when you talk bad about the product.
I was too. I popped big for him but the crowd sure didn't.
ReplyDeleteIt was bound to be hated by the internet, but Cena got some genuine laughs out of the live crowd with his Star Wars promo, most notably when delivering the McYoda dialogue. Everyone is calling it dated, but the analogy worked (kind of, to be more parallel Show would have had to turn face at the last second and help Cena beat Lauranitis, but it didn't need to be perfect) and the original trilogy has established itself as timeless so I don't think that criticism really holds up. The Rock could have given that promo (working in his catchphrases, of course: turn the Millennium Falcon sideways...etc...) and no one would have said a thing against it.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking during the Make-A-Wish segment, what would have happened if kid #300 had been a smark who, on the Today Show, wished for Cena "to turn heel already"?
Maybe it's the repetition of the same people coming out and doing the same stuff every week to the point where some people may not be sure if they are watching the live broadcast or last week's on DVR. I can see why someone would get tired of even the good characters like AJ with this being the case.
ReplyDeleteThought that opening three-way was excellent, way better than the PPV match they did. Had it at like ***3/4 myself. Just non-stop action in a literal sense, one slick sequence after another, no rest, just great stuff. Rest of the show was very bleh though I did like Jericho returning and questioning Cena as the face a bit and it was atleast mildly amusing to see Sid again. Heath Slater is reaching legendary jobber status, dude bumps and sells really well too.
ReplyDeleteBecause The Rock would have delivered it in a natural, entertaining way without pausing to laugh at his own jokes.
ReplyDeleteI actually think the Cena promo last night was WORSE than the Ace Ventura one a few weeks ago. An embarrassment of the highest magnitude.
ReplyDeleteNo, the show (Raw in particular) sucks as badly as it ever has. Outside a handful of entertaining performers (and there has always been that), we're getting godawful storylines (anything that doesn't involve AJ) and the most boring, predictable crap imaginable.
ReplyDeletePlus John Cena is the focal point of the company and is the worst main event character I've ever seen. There is nothing about his character I enjoy.
Smackdown is pretty damn good though.
As bad as Monday Night Raw is (and it is a terrible TV show by any measure): AJ Lee is terrific. She is the best female character/performer (not talking about wrestling, but portraying a character) WWE has had since the heyday of the Mickie James/Trish Stratus feud.
ReplyDeleteThat cena promo was one of the worst pieces of shit they have ever tried to pass off as entertainment. If I wanted to see comedy I wouldn't watch a wrestling show and vice versa. Overall I agree the product has some good points but that show was garbage.
ReplyDeleteSee to me the biggest problem with the aj angle is that she's a bad actress. Its hammy crap but of course she's not an actress so I don't blame her at all. I'm over this angle too.
ReplyDeleteOne negative side effect of so much AJ was having "Let's start it up!" playing on an infinite loop in my head today.
ReplyDeleteWHERE THE FUCK IS EVE? Why did we waste MONTHS of development making her into a giant heel and then just have her drop off the face of the earth? And what the fuck was the point of all the Teddy Long stuff for that matter?
ReplyDeleteYeah I swear I must be the only adr fan on this blog. But damn the wwe has fucked his push up so bad. They keep sticking him in hot feuds that no one wants him in. Tossing him in with punk and cena didnt do him any favors and no one wanted him to face shaemus over db. He should have been brought up slower or protected better.
ReplyDeleteI know it's a shitfest because Impact made me remember what anticipating a TV show every week could be like again, and this ain't it.
ReplyDeletea Yes Shirt
ReplyDeleteClose to the edge, down by the river.
In WWE, Meng is called Haku.
ReplyDeleteHow many people predicted it would be Sid? When they said it was a RAW main eventer who hadn't been on in over 15 years, my mind start churning and he was the only person I came up with. Then, with Lillian said, "2-time former WWE champion," that sealed it. Slater talking about being the ruler of the world (which was a non sequitur if ever there was one) put it over the top.
ReplyDeleteSo wait, I need to get a "friggin life" if I thought raw sucked because it was the exact same shit as the last two weeks except for cenas terrible star wars promo. And you're a call it like you see it maverick that thinks the big show is a main eventer and liked the bikini battle royale. Wow you have great taste
ReplyDeleteHow many 9 yeat
ReplyDeleteI DVR'd and watched Impact last week for the first time in years, after hearing it'd gotten a lot better (and watching some Joseph Parks clips online--- funny stuff), and...yeeesh. Bunch of 3 minute matches and some bullshit angle with Dixie Carter that would have put any of the Johnny Ace wrestlecrap to shame. Again, I agree that WWE has lots of structural problems. But the good stuff from a typical Raw/Smackdown is way better than anything I saw on Impact last week.
ReplyDeleteI read on 411mania that Eve is shooting a reality show.
ReplyDeleteFollowing normal diva on reality show history - we'll likely never see her again.
ReplyDeleteLast week's show wasn't indicative of the quality increase as of late.
ReplyDeleteI can't like this statement enough.
ReplyDeleteWhere's Chin to get on his high horse and tell us that wrestling isn't marketed towards us anymore?
ReplyDeleteThat's what turned Eve heel.
ReplyDelete"instead of being Vince McMahon's mouthpiece"
ReplyDeleteThat's precisely *why* Cole has the lead announcing job in the first place.
If your own joke makes you laugh and you allow yourself to do so, that is natural, far more so than Rock's promo-by-numbers delivery.
ReplyDeleteI think I'm alone in that I much prefer "comedy" Cena doing Jim Carrey impressions and rambling Star Wars jokes to "serious" Cena giving these unearned dead-eyed military stares and lecturing us about the adverse affects of bullying.
ReplyDeleteThe material had a lot of potential (WWE Superstars compared to Star Wars Characters is like a Cracked article waiting to happen.) But I *did* think it'd have been nice if it were CM Punk telling the joke, though. Remember when he made a Men's Wearhouse reference about John Laurinaitis? "You're going to like the way you look." Cracked me up.
Yeah some reality show about "stars" going through boot camp or something.
ReplyDeleteNo, you need to get a friggin life because you know it sucks but you keep coming back for more. That's insanity.
ReplyDeleteIf you say so. But the product isn't to your liking. It hasn't been for years. The company has told you, many, many times that the product is no longer for you. But you keep coming back and are constantly disappointed. How many ways can they tell you that they don't care about you or your opinions?
ReplyDeleteYou're in a very abusive relationship. Have been for years. And you still haven't twigged to that fact.
I don't get it, why are people upset he called the show a boring piece of shit, it was
ReplyDeleteDo 9 year olds get Star Wars references?
ReplyDeleteEh...I dvr the show and breeze through it in an hour or so. Its no skin off my ass to kill 50 minutes on a monday night. No different than watching a ball game between two shit teams, just something to put on in the background. Plus I like good wrestling and more often than not raw has some solid matches, the triple threat match last night for instance.
ReplyDeleteTherein lies the wwes problem
ReplyDeleteYeah but rocks deliver blows cenas out of the water. There is a reason one guy is opening 100 million dollar movies and the other guy is traveling around the country like a circus animal for 1/10 the money
ReplyDeleteBut at least YouTube doesn't have viruses, spyware and trojans like that other tube site does.
ReplyDeleteI do say so! Lol
ReplyDeleteI look at wrestling as a sport and I watch it as a fan like I would watch basketball or baseball. Its obvious that you think of it as a tv show, and that's cool too. But in sports when your team sucks you still follow them and the league. For instance I'm a 49ers fan and have been disgusted by the team since they cut jeff garcia. I hated many recent coaches and I hate the quarterback so much I couldn't enjoy the teams success last season because he was getting some undue credit. But I still follow the team and watch the nfl.
Some poster made a brillant comparison between vince and al davis. Vince has lost what touch he once had and the product has suffered. But still theres tons of world class pro wrestling they put out, even on raw and smackdown. If I like wrestling why shouldn't I watch it. And if they try to pass off some garbage as entertainment why shouldn't I say it sucks.
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ReplyDeleteI look at wrestling as a sport and I watch it as a fan like I would watch basketball or baseball."
I don't get it, Jobber. Is it a sport or is it a carny act?
Hate to break it to you, it's not a sport. Not that it's not competitive, but every part of it relies on the whims of a man you can't stand, and frankly, by every indication can't stand you. That is not a sport, where "anything can happen." Hasn't been in about a generation.
Your football analogy doesn't play within the WWF confines. It could play in the vaster "wrestling" universe...49ers could equal the WWF, but then the Saints would be Impact. Marlins could be ROH. (I'm out of NFL teams to compare...anyone got another?)
I don't know. I work 50 hours a week. And I'm not alone. What I am alone in, apparently, is the idea that my time is much more valuable than to waste on something that is not only giving me no enjoyment, but in fact the opposite - it's giving me grief. Who needs that?
More importantly, why do you?
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ReplyDeletebreeze through it in an hour or so"
That's alot more time than I would expect out of someone who dislikes the product. But I suppose I'm not the sort to put something I don't care for on, even if it's background noise. My time, my money and my emotions are worth more than that. Aren't yours?
well I haven't watched Raw in years, which is why I don't comment on the show. I come to this blog for talk about wrestling of the past, DVD reviews, etc. However it struck me as odd for someone, whether John or you to bitch out others, including Scott for not being positive enough and agreeing with you that the show isn't that bad. Then you basically say love it or leave it, which is fine, because I did leave it, but I think you both miss the irony of bitching on a blog about how annoying everyone is, then telling those same folks to not watch if they don't like Raw. Um...there are other blogs where I'm sure there are plenty of fanboys that cheerlead whatever is on WWE programming.
ReplyDeleteTo quote WWF circa 1999 "Get it?"
I think Dan has taken on that role (or created a different screenname).
ReplyDeleteThere should be about 40 likes for this statement.
ReplyDeleteNo. Well...that's not fair.
ReplyDeleteSix year old's don't. And they've watched the original trilogy even.
I would think so. All us Gen Xers are busy making sure our kids watch the original trilogy (but not the prequels). There are Lego Star Wars games, lots of Lego sets, Star Wars action figures, etc. My daughter's 1st/2nd grade class had some boys that had Lego Star Wars sticker sets and who played Star Wars at recess. I don't think the reference is lost on most 9 year olds, particularly those that would watch wrestling.
ReplyDelete'Tis some genius stuff, for sure!
ReplyDeleteHis wife not having to put up with crap like that should be payment enough in the divorce.
ReplyDeleteEve turned heel because she two timed Ryder and then let her real intentions be known. Cena's role couldve been played by anybody and she wouldve been a heel.
ReplyDeleteLast week's show was the first clunker in two months, mostly because they wanted to get every person in the BFG series a match, thus every match was a rushed 3 minute piece of garbage.
ReplyDeleteRght here!
ReplyDeleteIt's not a high horse it's called reality. You guys are watching a PG TELEVISION SHOW and expecting fucking Sopranos.
Keep going with that and keep being disappointed.
I choose to view it as a children's show (which it is no matter how much you fucking hate it) and thus it's pretty damn good considering the alternative is Phineas and Ferb.
Jesus, Russo must have wet dreams about this match. They just kept piling gimmick on top of gimmick. There's something like 5 different gimmicks attached to the fucking thing. It's awesome, but entirely gratuitous.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if it was any worse, or it's just more offensive that it wasn't any better. As much shit as he gets, I don't think Cena gets enough for spewing this shit week after week. You can't tell me that he doesn't have enough stroke to say no to this. We always assume he's *just* a sell-out whore, but he actually seems like he's genuinely enjoying delivering these lines. And if he's not, he does have the power to say no. I think it's entirely possible that he's not as much a whore as he just has an awful mind for the business, and thinks what he's doing is brilliant.
ReplyDeleteChin Wins
ReplyDeleteIt costs me nothing to watch raw. If there was no dvr i probably wouldn't watch it. But there is so i do. I can skip whats shitty and watch good stuff like the triple threat or that sheamus vs ziggler match on smackdown. Last nights raw blew. More of it sucked than was good. Doesnt mean I cant watch next week
ReplyDeleteI'm a big ADR apologist myself.
ReplyDeleteI caught on to him last year in the midst of his big push and thought it was really refreshing to see a different kind of character. To your point, no one wants him in those high profile feuds because, as this blog will attest, the character isnt different anymore but just stale and repetitive.
Agreed he shouldve been brought up slower and protected better. What could have been -- the greatest Hispanic star since Eddie Guerrero.
No. I'm referring to the pessimistic people that come here to trash everything in sight when it comes to Raw under the guise of "I'm hoping it will get better and that's why I keep watching" and then leave a troll like remark to the effect of, "See you guys Thursday for Impact, the good wrestling show." I'm just tired of the pessimism. Too many people biotching.
ReplyDeleteThe Big Show is a main eventer. His very first match was in a PPV main event back in 1995.
That's fair, it was probably longer than a total of 10 minutes. I'm not completely sure because as that segment was dying I was getting anxious to flip over to watch Lebron drive half the world insane, lol.
ReplyDeleteSo on that point I'll concede, though I still don't think the end of Impact was any more ridiculous or draining than seeing Big Show get pushed...again...
Fuck I didn't realize you were just trolling me this whole time lol. Plus why would I care how many hours a week you work. I've got a awesome job. Some weeks I can come in late, take a long lunch and leave early, other times I have to work way more than 50 hours. Either way I have time to fuck off and watch sports. Wrestling is a sport, its just horribly promoted.
ReplyDeleteIn fact I'm bored at work right now so please tell me why someone can't watch and enjoy wwe for the wrestling and not also shit on garbage angle. I love the nba but I think the refs suck, david stern is an ass, and the media coverage is racist. But I still love basketball
I'm not saying "love it or leave it." I'm saying don't trash everything in sight, cloud the blog with endless pessimism, and then say "TNA rulz". But if a fan cannot extract any enjoyment out of watching, then the fan SHOULD stop watching for their own mental health. And that same fan shouldn't knock people like me just because I do find things to enjoy about the show.
ReplyDeleteI also come to the blog for many of the same reasons you do. The fact is that I firmly believe that this blog has the most intelligent fans, so I'll keep going. But we'd be blind or have an IQ less than 70 not to have noticed Scott's descent into negativity regarding the product ever since the Cena-Lesnar match. Scott's heart is just not in it.
Maybe so, but when a product is as consistently terrible as TNA has been over the years, it can't expect many second chances to convert new fans. And that's not a criticism of anyone who's been praising Impact recently. That's just my observation about where TNA is right now--- they need to get really good and really consistent for awhile before anyone cares, because there just isn't any built-in goodwill with fans like myself who have dropped in over the years.
ReplyDeleteHa! WWE WISHES it could be like Phineas and Ferb!
ReplyDeleteToo bad Sid didn't appear during a MSG show.
ReplyDelete"I enjoy the blog waaay more than the product, so I just stick with the blog." Exactly. The product did nothing for me for a good couple years, so I just read writers that entertained me like Keith and Rick Scaia. These days, I do get things out of it and I find myself entertained by about half the show. Therefore, I watch it again.
ReplyDeleteIt was funny to see Cena drop that line in front of an audience that had even less kids than usual, though. Clearly, there is a large portion of the audience that doesn't want to take the hint and I'm one of them.
I don't know, he got a pretty decent reaction considering they were in Fort Wayne Indiana, multiply the pop by ten, you've got MSG
ReplyDeleteI don't like either of those Cenas, but give me serious, sanctimonious Cena over comedy Cena any day.
ReplyDeleteWhat? I disagree completely.
ReplyDeleteInteresting sports analogy. I can respect that. But to be a true fan (and you'd have to be a true fan for sticking with the Niners for the past decade) and a typical homer (like 95-percent of sports fans), you still find the good in the product, right? Even though Alex Smith is five piles of dog crap, it's still nice to see Willis and Vernon Davis out there.
ReplyDeleteAs an aside, I can't believe they're still keeping f'n Alex f'n Smith. I swear to God, he is ruining that franchise. Those final drives of their latest season showed his ineptness in all its glory. I thought it made all the sense in the world for Peyton to go to San Fran. #sadface
I know these are odd choices, but Jim Harbaugh and Steve Young are my favorite QBs of all time. So I definitely have a soft spot for the Niners...other than Alex Smith.
I suppose it's trolling. Here I thought we were discussing things. Gonna have to go back to my urbandictionary and re-look up trolling.
ReplyDeleteJohn, thats the best answer I've gotten so far.
ReplyDeleteBut I'm still curious why you haven't taken the hint. Is it stubbornness? Are you hoping Vince will die and it will all turn around? (It won't.) Is it brand loyalty? (I don't get that either, but at least I can respect that.) But I don't see the point of having loyalty to something that has ZERO loyalty to you. They don't even HIDE that fact.
I thought the pole match was entertaining for the high impact moves the wrestlers were using, the scramble for the clipboard, and Sheamus's "screw it, I'll just take you both on" after Del Rio and Ziggs had busted their butts. I thought it was a cute ending.
ReplyDeleteYou can do whatever you like, no one is stopping you, nor even trying to. It certainly does cost you something to watch Raw. It costs you time and apparently aggravation. To me, these days, those are more precious than money.
ReplyDeleteI just want to know why.
You watch your show, you get filled with anger, resentment and bile. You come here to vent about it. Rinse, repeat for the past...shit, I stopped watching back in 02, with the NWO. Why do you do it when you have so many other options. (More options than anyone has had at any point in history.) Options that bring you enjoyment. Because for all your protests, I haven't read anything from you that screams enjoyment.
My opinion of the product? Watching Guerrero and Benoyt hugging it out at...was it WM20? 21?...was a great moment. But totally not worth all the shit that came before or after.
I would debate you on this, but it would take up two days of my time only for you to never refute any of my points, start cussing and namecalling on a blog, and generally acting like you're Mr. Cool even though...you're cussing and ranting at me on a blog.
ReplyDeleteBelieve me, Chin does not win. Chin has run people off this blog with the way he calls people trolls and how he cuts into people on a friggin blog. And then he'll call others immature. I wish he would ignore my posts.
ReplyDeleteLifetime Niners fan. Peyton didn't want to come to SF, they tried, he wasn't interested.
ReplyDeleteAlex played huge against the Saints and was the reason they won that game. The defense carried the team most of the season and Alex was pretty dreadful against the Giants in the NFC Championship, but they have the defense and running game where they just need competent quarterback play. Smith gave them that last season, and hopefully he can do it again this year.
I don't take the hint because so many of the performers are in my age range right now and have clearly been influenced by the same things I have. They still connect with me. I relate to them. I feel like guys like Punk, Bryan, and Ziggler resemble some of my high school and college friends back in the day. The overall tone of the show scares me at times, but there's still plenty of wrestlers/performers who are kicking some serious tail.
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ReplyDeleteBecause they feuded last year, even had a match at "WM27"."
Or, in WWESpeak, "it's been two years, so for the first time ever..."
The saints defense was historicaly bad. He played like shit against nyg. We are going 7-9 this year. Can't win consistently with out a qb
ReplyDeleteYeah, I know they tried. But still. Peyton would've been starting for a team that was one win away from the Super Bowl. He could just step right in and start winning, which I feel like he deserves considering he carried that Colts franchise to 10+ win seasons for a decade. I guess we can blame Elway and whatever Kool-aid he served Manning.
ReplyDeleteI also thought it'd make sense on a karmic level. Niner fans didn't get to enjoy the last two years of the GOAT Joe Montana's career, but at least they could enjoy the last two or three years of a legend like Peyton.
Right. There are plenty of things to like or even love about the current product (I'm digging about half the angles right now). Has it not been apparent to everyone on the blog that the whole Lesnar-Cena match from Extreme Rules destroyed Scott's enthusiasm for the WWE? Read a review from before that show and then any review after it. And if you can't extract enjoyment out of a show, then it's better not to watch it for your own personal health (maybe just stick to recommended YouTube clips of the show). Due to territory wars and being on the Chicago Bears side of things, I don't watch all of those Monday and Sunday Night Football games featuring the Packers because I know it will only make me upset if I watch and I'll start throwing stuff or punching walls.
ReplyDeleteMost of my ranting was on the hit-and-run pessimism of some of the people who comment, though. I just feel like that if you're going to do that, save it for the Impact thread where I won't read it.
Alex smith is the fucking bane of my existence. Montana to young to garcia to smith? This is going to be his 8th season with the team. They should have cut him when they fired mike Nolan. He has the weakest arm of any starting qb. If the 49ers had even a below average qb they would have made the playoffs the last four years. Matt moore or mark sanchez are better than him. Fuck id rather they signed cooper manning. Last year was such a fluke run. No chance at the playoffs with this bum behind the wheel. When they invented the wounded duck pass they invented alex Smith
ReplyDeleteI find it much more fascinating that your racial prejudices keep you from enjoying the highest quality basketball in the world. Then again maybe you just like hanging around playgrounds
ReplyDeleteScary thought: What if this is Cena ad-libbing?
ReplyDeleteBret: "Sid, you know I beat you!"
ReplyDeleteSid: "I don't know shit, little man!"
The Cooper comment had my lol'ing. I am in complete agreement that they should've let him go after they let Nolan go. As a Bears fan, I was ecstatic when they let go of Rex Grossman after keeping him one year too long. But then I realize the Niners have kept Smith 7 years too long, and I have no idea how you have kept your sanity. Sometimes the draft is like a lottery, and when the Niners needed a QB that year, they essentially lost the lottery with Smith being the highest rated choice. Yet, they keep hanging onto that losing lottery ticket.
ReplyDeleteI remember the announcers for the Giants-Niners game last year were wondering what was going on with Smith and why he was playing so poorly at the end. And I was yelling at my TV, "Because he's Alex Smith, that's why."
And I'm right there with you on the Garcia thing as well. I think he went to 3 straight pro bowls and was very much a true 49er. They let him go. Wasn't it closed to something like 5 years later that he led the Bucs to the playoffs? He could've been the QB for five more years!
I generally like all the Niner skill position players and defensive stalwarts. But it may come down to more winning despite their QB.
"Get a friggin' life? Dude...it's a wrestling blog. I'd love to be positive about the product. But the product fucking sucks right now outside of ONE angle. And really it's not even the angle that people are excited about but the potential for GREAT WRESTLING that could come of it.
ReplyDeleteWe did fairly and intelligently discuss Raw. It fucking blows. That's fair. If they want us to praise it, try not sucking."
Why should they bother to do that? You've proven you'll watch regardless. I see no reason to put any effort into it.
...I'm speechless. You can tell a great deal about a man with the way he carries a conversation.
ReplyDeleteShe's doing a show about stars going through boot camp that's hosted by former Presidential candidate Wesley Clark and features Sarah Palin's husband Todd as one of the contestants.
ReplyDeleteThey're still using the humiliating Teddy stuff to get Cesaro over, so there's that. Although they should probably pay that off on Smackdown now that Teddy isn't under Big Johnny's thumb.
They need to have AJ talking to herself one week and have R-Truth come up and warn Lil' Jimmy that bitch be crazy.
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