elnino14 Posted July 24, 2009 Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 I remember when they bought WCW, that the talk was the video archives were really the only thing that McMahon was interested in (over the bragging rights of actually buying the competition) and these continuous DVD releases really prove that. Has anyone seen the Macho Man one, it is one I had a passing interest in at one stage. Haven't seen the Macho Man one, but everyone likes it. It's a series of matches with very little biography. So if you're looking for Macho Man matches than it's a great dvd. Also they didn't bury Macho Man, like they did to the Warrior. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted July 24, 2009 Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 That's because Randy Savage knew how to wrestle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elnino14 Posted July 24, 2009 Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 That's because Randy Savage knew how to wrestle. True, but you never know what McMahon might do when he's got heat with you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted July 24, 2009 Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 Well, hey, Stephanie was pretty damn hot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxPower Posted July 24, 2009 Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 It's a tough one isn't it, McMahon has done some pretty horrendous story lines, a lot including his own family, so it's a bit rich him holding a grudge. That being said, you just dip in to the boss' underage daughter........ And yes, Randy did know how to wrestle. I guess I would have liked some more commentary (even from others) on what it was like to wrestle him, but just matches would do I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted July 24, 2009 Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 I would love to hear thoughts from guys like Steamboat, Hogan and DDP, but the odds aganist that are staggering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuaveStar Posted July 27, 2009 Report Share Posted July 27, 2009 So Big Show. Was Y2J's partner, that was really disappointing, I'm glad I slept through tht PPV, as that was all I was interested in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kscriv Posted July 27, 2009 Report Share Posted July 27, 2009 Even the spoiler tag cannot contain that spoiler it would appear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elnino14 Posted July 29, 2009 Report Share Posted July 29, 2009 Watched the PPV, heres what I thought: You can also get it here with all the bells and whistles: http://thegeekdive.blogspot.com/2009/07/wwe-review-night-of-champions-2009.html Night of Champions 2009 Chris Jericho/???? vs. Priceless: Really one of the angles that I found most intriguing just flew out the window. It was a rather lame pick, don’t you think. Sure it caught me by surprise, I don’t think anybody really expected the pick to be who it was and I really didn’t like it. But Big Show brought it in the match showing that he can mesh well with Jericho as a partner and that he can play a good beatdown or cleaning house segment. The match was a little slow as to be expected, Big Show and Jericho dominated at first, showing off some fun little tag-team moves that involved Big Show using his size to pick up, throw, or whip Jericho into their opponents. The match was a tough one to play out, because both teams were essentially heels, but they noticed that the crowd favored Jericho, so the match played out as if Jericho/Show team were faces. The ending was hot, fast-paced, and exciting. While it wasn’t a great match…it was a decent start to the show, with a hot ending, and a showcase for the new make-shit team. ** ½ CM Punk Interview: Punk cuts another fantastic snobby, preachy lecture on the crowd cementing himself as one of the best heels in the company. Hopefully they keep it up because his character is becoming awesome and more multi-dimensional. Christian vs. Tommy Dreamer: A pretty sufficient match, Christian looked like he led the match, and thus was able to keep it pretty high intensity and nicely paced. It really was never boring, but just over-all inconsequential (which is how I’ve felt about the ECW brand in general). Nonetheless, Tommy Dreamer was able to keep up with Christian and they had a nice match with some fun reversals sprinkled throughout to show the knowledge the two have of each other. ** ½ US Title Six Pack Challenge Melee of Doom: So I guess it’s a new rule that you’re only allowed to be in one title match each night, because they swiftly took Big Show out of this match and replaced him with Primo. Primo makes more sense in this match anyways. This match involves lots of cool MOVES~! and not much else. They played up a couple of rivalries, mainly the Colon feud and the Swagger vs. MVP rivalry, but the match at its core sense was a quick-paced spotfest. There were a couple of times where the timing was off, but overall it succeeded in what it set out to do, providing a quick-paced high octane, balls to the walls, lots of near-falls match-up. Fun but no story and ultimately inconsequential. ** ¾ Orton cut an interview: that added nothing to the PPV. Thanks, Orton! Melina vs. Michelle McCool: Michelle McCool has grown on me over the years, she’s obviously gotten better in wrestling, and in terms of charisma and character, she’s also become one of the prime divas in the WWE. Honestly nobody ever expects much from these women’s matches, and they’re used primarily as a cooler between more prominent matches, but this match was a fun little ditty where both women tried to go beyond the norm in terms of typical Women’s matches. It doesn’t have the best pacing and the crowd doesn’t give a shit, but still if you watched it, you got some decent timekiller. The basic story is that, McCool really gets rocked in this match for most of it, and only makes small cheap shots throughout, barely getting through the match by the edge of her nail. It puts over both women, Melina as a confident, maybe overconfident, passionate wrestler, and McCool as the sniveling cheap heel. ** ½ Randy Orton vs. Triple H vs. John Cena: I found it very strange that this was going on so early, I was almost positive that this would have main-evented the evening. The match itself was actually better than I expected and while not incredibly innovative, it told a fun story and I had no clue where they were going to go with it. Ultimately the story that started off was pretty typical for triple threat matches, John Cena and Triple H uniting to take on the greater evil of Orton, Orton banking on the two faces to get in each others way, which happened a few times, Orton taking advantage every time it happened. What was different was how the match ultimately came around full circle with Cena and HHH ending up on the same side again. Since this has never really happened before it forced a new, creative ending. It’s quite confusing, but it also adds intrigue to see how they proceed from here, probably something lame like a rematch with another referee but we’ll see. Admittedly the best parts of the match were during the second half with HHH and Cena going at it, I’ve grown to hate Orton because he paces his matches so slowly, and in this match, every time he got involved the pacing slammed on the brake and almost caused a wreck. It’s really grating on me, but HHH and Cena kept up the entertainment factor with a ton of reversals and Orton did his part sneaking in quick moves near the end. Overall, a decent match with a fun story, and a creative, although inconclusive, ending. *** Mickie James vs. Maryse: This wasn’t very good at all, and that’s too bad, because I had thought Maryse was better. She impressed me a couple of times in a couple of matches before. But this one was not meant to be. Mickie James seemed to be on but Maryse’s timing was off, her maneuvers looked ugly, and the pacing was all over the place. ½ * Dolph Ziggler vs. Rey Mysterio: This was Ziggler’s test match, if Ziggler impressed here WWE management would continue his big push. For me, Ziggler didn’t impress. Certainly he was okay, but you just don’t have okay matches with Mysterio. The match was slow paced, and Ziggler used a ton of headlocks and full nelsons, slowing the match way down too often. The high spots were high and they had a little story going where Ziggler was getting some huge moves, each one bigger than the one before, but nothing seemed to work but in between all that was boredom. By the end the crowd only popped a couple of times and popped for the typical finish. Yay? I wouldn’t say Ziggler is done, he’s not, he just needs a lot more experience and hopefully with that experience he’ll become more like Edge and less like Randy Orton. ** ½ CM Punk vs. Jeff Hardy: I was really looking forward to this match, as not only did it have a great build to the match, it also had two great characters and a couple of entertaining wrestlers. Unfortunately, the show had killed me by this point, and things didn’t seem to click in this match, at least not as well as they should have. Punk I felt was excellent though, his mannerisms, his cocky attitude, it all fit his persona. As the match got further and further along and Hardy kept hanging in there, Punk was less cocky and more shocked and desperate. It was a decent match with a nice groove (I don’t agree with the ultimate decision) but it took a little bit to get going. That might be to how dead the crowd was, or how much lackluster “stuff” came before, but it just was not as good as I was hoping. *** ¼ But wait a minute…. REWIND: So after cooling off, I gave this match a re-watch. It held up much better without all the crap that preceded. It was better than I had first said. It wasn’t nearly as slow as I first thought and the pacing was actually just right. They didn’t seem rushed and really took their time to tell the story. Punk is still awesome in the match, he’s working double-time and really taking to the coda that less is more. The slaps, the jeers, the awesome facial reactions, all that mattered much more than MOVES~!. Cm Punk really is a huge boon in the company as he gets over characters and the story of the match, with this one telling the story of a cocky, overconfident CM Punk trying to prove a point. But it takes two to tango, and Jeff did fine as his usual consistently entertaining self, pulling in huge hope-spots and perfect timing on the comebacks. The end-game was okay, not the greatest, I actually would have liked Much better than I initially thought. *** ¾ Final Thoughts: I didn’t like this show, it was just tough to get through. If you really narrow it down there’s only one match that’s worth watching and that was the main event. The rest of the card was offensively bad, it wasn’t good either, just bland and kind of boring. Some of the other PPVs this year have had not so great cards but one or two really good matches. Ultimately, I wouldn’t recommend it. 5/10 Top WWE PPV Matches of 09: 1. HBK vs. Undertaker (Mania 25) - **** ½ 2. Jericho vs. Rey (The Bash 09) - **** ¼ 3. Raw Elimination Chamber (No Way Out 09) - **** ¼ 4. Jeff Hardy vs. Edge (Extreme Rules) - **** 5. Edge vs. Cena (Backlash 09) - *** ¾ 6. Mysterio vs. Jericho (Judgment Day 09) - *** ¾ 7. CM Punk vs. Jeff Hardy (Night of Champions 09) - *** ¾ 8. Mysterio vs. Jericho (Extreme Rules) - *** ½ 9. Smackdown Elimination Chamber (No Way Out 09) - *** ½ 10. MITB (Mania 25) - *** ½ 11. CM Punk vs. Jeff Hardy (The Bash 09) - *** ¼ 12. Christian vs. Jack Swagger (Backlash) - *** ¼ 13. Randy Orton vs. John Cena vs. HHH (Night of Champions 09) - *** 14. Jeff Hardy vs. Edge (Royal Rumble 09) - *** 15. CM Punk vs. Kane (Backlash) - *** 16. Royal Rumble (Royal Rumble 09) - *** 17. Edge vs. Big Show vs. John Cena (Mania 25) -*** 18. Shane McMahon vs. Randy Orton (No Way Out 09) - *** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuaveStar Posted July 30, 2009 Report Share Posted July 30, 2009 Brian Kendrick has just been fired by WWE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuaveStar Posted July 31, 2009 Report Share Posted July 31, 2009 Dutch Mantel has been let go by TNA. Dutch was a member of the booking team of JJ, Russo and him. With two gone, does this mean it is over for Russo... Fingers crossed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted July 31, 2009 Report Share Posted July 31, 2009 Dutch Mantel has been let go by TNA. Dutch was a member of the booking team of JJ, Russo and him. With two gone, does this mean it is over for Russo... Fingers crossed. No, it means that Russo is running the show by himself now. I'm actually interested to see how bad TNA can get under Russo. I've said it before, he's good for ideas and big picture but he completely fails when it comes down to executing that big picture in the tv shows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuaveStar Posted July 31, 2009 Report Share Posted July 31, 2009 Well, that too. For the moment he is running the show. This couold be his chance to prove that he does know what he's doing now, or that the last rites or whatever the hell it was TNA did with Sting and Abyss was called match. Should be fun, I'll be watching now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 Holy shit! Dr. Ken hit his head hard when they dropped him. For those that missed it Cena picked him up over his head and threw him over the ropes into the lumberjack's arms(a spot they always seem to do with celebs), and they dropped him in mid air and he landed on the back on his head. I hope he didn't get hurt too bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuaveStar Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 I found FCW on youtube, and am really enjoying it. A lot more than WWE and TNA and that's just 3 matches of FCW compared to the past few years of WWE and TNA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted August 7, 2009 Report Share Posted August 7, 2009 I'm pretty certain that at this point WWE is a behind the scenes comedy about a tv show, like 30 Rock or Sports Night. There's a mental barrier somewhere here that I just can't hurdle unless I accept it that way. The entire thing is obviously a TV show, there's cameras and production staff and everything, and those people are really there, they can interact with the actual performers, which make it mind-boggling that on ECW the TV camera would focus on Tiffany having a conversation with a production staff girl with no purpose for this moment to be televised until after it actually happened. For years now backstage segments have been taking place that ignored the presence of the camera man when it was convenient, and it really irks me, its so arbitrary that the wrestlers can only see about half the cameras, it makes the show so utterly phoney. What's even weirder is that when these pointless ninja backstage segments break into brawls we can see other ninja cameramen and production staff helping them. I know they've been doing this stuff for years but at least when its for skits its entertaining, when the whole thing starts out with Tiffany talking to a nobody it makes my mind implode. At least previous hurricane segments had the cameraman running to find the accident AFTER it happened, this one predicted it was going to before it even did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuaveStar Posted August 7, 2009 Report Share Posted August 7, 2009 Well, all the writers bar a few probably worked on shows like the ones you mentioned, so that could be what is happening. I just read something about TNA where someone said with Jarrett gone, most of the actually half decent staff at TNA may quit, as it was only cause of Jarett that they stayed. Which if true, could make things interesting in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuaveStar Posted August 10, 2009 Report Share Posted August 10, 2009 Ricky Ortiz has been let go by WWE. Somewhere Stavros sheds a solitary tear. Anyway, Christian is getting love backstage with his work on ECW, so he may be in the bigger leagues soon, even though he is awesome as the big fish in the small pond in ECW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted August 10, 2009 Report Share Posted August 10, 2009 Ricky Ortiz has been let go by WWE. Somewhere Stavros sheds a solitary tear. God I hated him. I watched his stuff back in the OVW developmental league and he sucked then too. I think he was trying hard and getting better but this is one release I can't argue with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuaveStar Posted August 11, 2009 Report Share Posted August 11, 2009 Watching Raw, and having Sgt Slaughter as guest host was just, meh, the promo he did was fucking awful, not "Oh god, look at him riling up the crowd, what a bastard" awful, I mean "Fucking hell I'm bored. I'm going to go make some toast" awful. So far Raw has been meh, but we have Swagger VS Evan Bourne up next, yay. Bourne Sawgger was ok. So Eugene VS The Calagary Kid. What a shite match, I expected Eugne to win, but then the Calgary Kid did, and unmasked, it was The Miz, who then reminded us he was awesome. Didn't see that coming, was quite good. So a meh raw, as usual then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted August 11, 2009 Report Share Posted August 11, 2009 Ricky Ortiz was a terrible character. He didn't get over as a face or a heel because nobody gave a shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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S-T Posted August 15, 2009 Report Share Posted August 15, 2009 Anyway, Christian is getting love backstage with his work on ECW, so he may be in the bigger leagues soon Christian should have been Jericho's partner. After Jericho's rant on Edge and Edge's face-turn in that interview, having Jericho pick Edge's storyline brother would have been awesome. It would have added spice to the inevitable Edge/Jericho feud. Plus, Jericho & Christian have history as a tag team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George W. Posted August 16, 2009 Report Share Posted August 16, 2009 TNA Star Kurt Angle Arrested, May Miss Hard Justice PPV AngryMarks.com learned from FGB and WrestlingObserver.com today that Kurt Angle was arrested this morning for stalking his girlfriend Rhaka Khan, along with driving on a suspended license and having HGH in his car. "Kurt Angle was arrested this morning on several charges, including driving while operating privilege is suspended, prohibited acts-possession, harrassment and prohibited acts." Police found two bottles of HGH, which Angle claimed he had a prescription for. This may effect his ability to appear at the TNA Hard Justice PPV tomorrow night. We'll have more on this story on tonight's episode of QC Wrestling Radio. Original story from WXPI in Pittsburg is here. Thanks to FightGameBlog.com for their assistance with this report. UPDATE at 7:30 CST: Pulse Wrestling reports that TNA plans to have Kurt arraigned in time for tomorrow's PPV. The creative team is nonetheless working on several alternate booking angles just in case he's not available. Currently the world title match with Sting, Kurt Angle and Matt Morgan in the main event is still the plan. UPDATE at 9:30 CST: The Pittsburgh Post Gazette reports that Kurt Angle has been released on bond. He will have a preliminary hearing on Tuesday 10am in front of Robinson District Judge Carla Swearingen. ~Killa Kev Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuaveStar Posted August 16, 2009 Report Share Posted August 16, 2009 Wow, I can't believe that, Angle is shagging Rhaka Khan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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