Braun Stroman looks like that guy from Bloodsport and Revenge of the Nerds.
I know it’s wrestling, and the reason if “just because”. But why does an aged wrestler who’s had one WWE match, which he lost, get a title shot? Shouldn’t one have to earn the right for a title shot? sigh I’ve hated this aspect of wrestling for 4 decades - smack the champ, get a title shot.
It’s probably a fence-mending gesture to regain that tiny bit of WCW loyalist audience. I’m guessing with Seth now having to defend twice on NoC, he’ll lose the belt to Sting, who can finally earn his place in WWE history. Then Seth will get it back later.
Zahra fired? I guess WWE really has changed their ways. They don’t capitalize on shame anymore.
I didn’t know Charlotte was married to Bram. She has another ex-husband, Riki Johnson, who was involved in a fight with her and her dad in 2008. Here’s more details on Bram’s little incident..
No wonder Fark.com has a category just for Florida.
Just think, the most interesting thing I had to say before this morning was a line from Bray Wyatt’s promo last night: “We signify the end times. We no longer walk among you in disguise.”
Wait a minute. Ashley Fleihr, aka Charlotte Flair, is on her second husband at the age of 29, and is separated from him? Wow, I guess she really is like her old man.
Hmm, arrested in 2008 for assaulting a police officer, sentenced to 45 days but given supervised probation. Yup, Ric Flair’s daughter.
When does she start partying and whipping out her crotch like her old man?
Jimmy Snuka has been charged with third degree murder and involuntary manslaughter in the 1982 death of his girlfriend Nancy Argentino. He was released on a $10,000 bond.
If he gets the Hogan treatment we’ll soon be seeing Tamina in the Impact Zone.
They stopped referring to her by her last name after the prosecutor first reopened the case last year. It would be ridiculous if they tried to punish or bury her because of something that happened when she was 4 years old.
Eh, Tamina will be released in the next round anyway.
Mother of Og, is there an alignment of planets or something that brings bad karma for wrestlers?
Well, this is Vince McMahon we’re talking about here.
“GOTTA PROTECT THE BRAND, PAL!”
“Now get R-Truth out there shucking and jiving. That’s always funny!”
Just bought our Rumble tickets!
Unfortunately they are waaayyyy in the nosebleeds, so I’m actually kind of worried that I won’t be able to see anything because of the lights (in fact I’m sure we won’t), but I can’t pass up the chance to BE there right?
Short NXT last night. Jordan and Gables came off looking strong, and they’re getting good on the mike, like an Abbot & Costello-type duo.
Corey Graves comes off like JBL Jr sometimes, especially when he heaps effluvious amounts of praise on heels that suck. Rich Brennan should have quoted a line from Cujo during the Eva Mannekin match, “You can’t polish a turd.”
Baron’s actually figured out how to sell, so maybe’s there’s hope for him yet.
I’ve seen Tomaso Ciampa in RoH, and he was actually a pretty big deal there. Maybe not on Samoa Joe/Kevin (Steen) Owens level, but pretty close. It just seems like NXT could have promoted him better than having him be background scenery for Tyler Breeze’s tantrum, but maybe he and Gargano will pull off a few surprise upsets in the tournament.
If any of you remembers Crunchy Frog, he was the Doper who “bit the bullet” for everybody and watched the bad movies nobody wanted to see but were curious about what they missed. I’ll do the same for Smackdown.
Good to have the Dudleyz back, but WWE is focusing too much on tables. They’ve run the table meme into the ground, dug it back it up, rigged its dead, rotten skeletal body like a marionette, and shoved it in everybody’s faces. “Look! This is a TABLE! Don’t you want to see the Dudleyz put somebody through it? TABLE? REMEMBER HOW MUCH YOU LIKE IT WHEN THEY PUT SOMEBODY THROUGH A TABLE??? MARK OUT DAMN YOU!!!”
That’s what it felt like when New-hoo Day-hee did their promo with a bubble-wrapped table. It led to the DBs coming out and voicing their objections, followed by PTP who said they shouldn’t be left out of tag team gold discussion. They squared off with the DBs as ND did commentary. OK, we get it. Xavier Woods talks a lot and he deserves to be shut up. ND sucked away too much attention, and the Dudleyz beat the PTP while they flapped their gums. It may have been a good match, I dunno. Rich Brennan kept getting shouted down every time he tried to call the action.
Another wrestling meme that won’t die… the taped ribs. Cesaro wore them last night and sold pain so he could put over Sheamus, like he did everybody else on the roster. Every time it seems like Cesaro is about to enjoy a surge, he gets slapped back down.
One unintentionally awkward segue: After Stardust and Ascension beat down Neville, the camera switched backstage to a closeup of Jojo smiling, like she was happy to see Neville in dire straits. Actually, she was about to interview Cesaro before his match.
The soap opera of Lana-Zig-Summer Rae continued on Miz TV. Summer adopted the Jerry Springer guest personna as she wore a black eye courtesy of Meybelline and cried mascara-streamed tears. She showed footage of Dolph kissing her when she used to be Fandango’s ho, inspiring Lana to slap her out of her chair.
What do you to say Summer Rae when she has two black eyes? Nothing. You already told the stupid bitch twice.
Eternal clowns Bo Dallas and R Troof had a match. Bo no longer uses the stupid running bulldog as a finisher. Now he uses a variation of “Vintage” Randy Orton, where he hangs the opponent by his feet off the second rope, holds him by the neck, then does a corkscrew twist instead of a straight drop. The camera then did a closeup, and you can Bo’s resemblance to his rl brother Bray. His long hair hung in strands over his grim face, and then he broke out into a Joker grin and hit Troof with the finisher again. Then he did his triumphant run around the ring.
The Divas had a thing where PCB stood behind Charlotte and cheered her on. The Bellas (and Fox) showed up to talk about how Brie is about to break the record for longest title reign. Charlotte said (I think) that she petitioned The Authority for a title match against Brie before the deadline. This made the Bellas (and Fox) upset, so they went to have a bitchfest over ice cream. Charlotte then faced Tamina in a match, but it just felt… awkward. Tamina looked a bit shell-shocked, and it just seemed like a bad idea to have her work considering her family situation.
The show closed out with New-hoo Day-hee versus Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose. I was anticipating a massive clusterfuck, with both teams involved in other feuds. I don’t think these guys have worked together that much before, probably not since The Shield obliterated Kofi when he was a jobber. Even though ND dominated much of the match, it was obvious they weren’t on the same level with Reigns and Ambrose. (I like RR again. What can I say?) Ambrose and Reigns spent the last couple minutes of the match kicking ass and taking names, Dean with his suicide dives and rebound clotheslines, Reigns with his out-of-nowhere SUperman punches. In the end, Xavier broke up a pin to cause a DDQ, so they demolished him with a Shield-style power bomb.
R & A then got on the mike over Xavier’s prone body and called out the Wyatts. Luke Harper appeared out of the darkness on the big screen, whistling a tune. Bray appeared next to him, said “We’re not playing your game. You’re playing ours. We’ll meet you at Night of Champions.” Braun then appeared in the black sheep mask, took it off, and said “Run.” BEE BOP a vooom DEPP!
Eh, I watch TNA Impact, but I figure there probably isn’t a whole lot of interest.
Apparently they decided to condense an entire invasion storyline into about 3 weeks, probably due to the September Destination America deadline.
Short form, Dixie has agreed to put up her majority stake in TNA against Jarrett’s minority stake in the company in some sort of match in a couple weeks.
Personally, I’m hoping for a double-DQ, with both sides removed from the company…
EC3, who seems pretty unconcerned with it all despite being the TNA champion, beat Matt Hardy, meaning that Jeff Hardy is now his indentured servant.
Oh, and the Beautiful People reunited for no real discernible reason. I mean, Velvet was having a problem with the Dollhouse, but Gail Kim was regularly beating multiple Dollhouse members in handicap matches, Brooke is still Knockout champion–so I’m not sure why she needed even more backup.
Your monthly NXT house show report, although honestly nothing too terribly interesting happened:
First match had Solomon Crowe who was wearing these godawful shorts that rode WAY high, like over his belly button high. He looked liked he was wearing granny panties, it was weird. That being said, he was surprisingly over with the crowd. He was wrestling against Elais Sampson, so maybe the cure for the common crowe is to just have him face jobbers so that the crowd HAS to cheer for him
We had a promo from a guy named Hugo Knox who was basically a SUPER JACKED version of Vega from the Street Fighter series. He had a massive British accent but was like, a bit too “street British” and not “proper British”. He bragged about being a former model (I believe it) and his music was really techno-y and he almost came off as a gay Chippendale’s dancer even though I think they were going for male model (which I know is Breeze, but this was less Zoolander and more “serious” male model)
Nia Jaxx played heel this week (she’s been both for us)
They apparently had a legit first round of the Tag Team Tournament for us because they had camera guys around the ring. It was the HYPE BROS vs Alexander Wolfe (German guy) and some Hawaiian dude who’s name I didn’t catch but I think it’s Noah (Noa?) something. Spoiler Alert: Hype’s won.
Tye still remains over for the house crowd
Breeze faced Baron Corbin for the comedy match of the night. They ran around the ring, wore each others clothes, did a spot UNDER the ring where even the ref got into it. It really was quite funny. Breeze won because he turned the End of Days into a flip and then did the Beauty Shot. Corbin is great with the fans when he heels it up
JJ and Bagels played heel (again…I hope they don’t turn 'em) to the Vaudevillians.
Main Event was Bayley taking on Emma. This was cool for us because we’ve never seen Emma before and earlier in the night she interrupted Bayley during a promo. Unfortunately for the girls the crowd was DEAD. I think this was for two reasons: They wore themselves out a bit during the previous match with the Vaudes, but also they have practically no ventilation at the Orlando Armory so it’s crazy hot the entire show. I think the crowd was overheated and tired and thirsty (no soda machines like in Cocoa Beach) and just kinda wanted to go home.
Still a great night as always. We have the Full Sail taping next week and we got our tickets for the next house show in early October! Still can’t beat a fun night of wrestling for 10 bucks a ticket amirite?
I want to like it, but every time I watch, I get bored after 5 minutes. TNA used to be really good, but now it’s like they’re just going through the motions.
WWE announced this morning that there’ll be a six-man tag at Night of Champions - the Wyatt Family vs. the trio of Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose, and a partner to be named later.
Commence wild speculation on who the Third Man will be. Erik Rowan would make sense, but AFAIK he’s not cleared to return to the ring yet. It’d be pretty cool if Rollins and his former partners were able to put their differences aside for one night, but he already has to wrestle Sting and Cena on this show and I can’t see him pulling triple duty. Who does that leave? Orton? A returning Kane? Demon Finn Balor? Roman’s countryman, Samoa Joe? Someone from NXT who isn’t on the radar yet?
I think Samoa Joe would be a good choice, being a beefy brawler and having good merchandise sales. Plus, he wasn’t around when the Shield shit on everybody when they were heels.
I wonder if the other stars don’t think Braun has properly paid his dues? He’s only worked a few matches in NXT house shows, but he hasn’t sucked in prime time. Dean and Roman may be selling for him big time, but he definitely doesn’t need help dangling them like tennis shoes from power lines. Maybe he’ll take big bump at NoC.
Cesaro. To take the pin.
There is a photo making the rounds that supposedly was posted to WWE.com very briefly before being pulled. Don’t click on the spoiler box if you don’t want to know!
Baron Corbin.
Photo can be seen here: