Maybe I’m just slap-happy, but that was the funniest sentence that I’ve read in ages
Also the “learn the wrestlers real name” is a very fun game
A surprise visit from The Rock can be fun. It was short enough that he didn’t get too goofy and he didn’t wrestle, so that was good.
A hot-dog cart.
Where did they even find that? And those condiments smell so bad…to just have them all over you? Ew.
I’ve read from people that they don’t like the DA progression because it’s sophomoric and less “lunatic fringe” and more “child prankster”, but it’s TVPG! What do you want him to do? Kill a guy? I love the random silliness of it and it makes me wonder what he’s gonna do next.
Apparently those “Brock is too sick/tired/lazy/hurt to do PPVs” is real now that we have a new direction for Cena at Hell in a Cell. Ambrose has to win that match right? There’s no way they can have a Cena Rollins match…right?
Props to my girlfriend who thought it was a weird thing to say when HHH said “The champ is here amirite? Oh sorry, that must be awkward for you”. She thought it was oddly out of place, and had an inkling something would happen. Good job WWE for bringing Rock back, good job WWE workers for not spoiling it. Surprises are fun.
Fuck Kathy Lee and Hoda
That was actually a fun RAW last night.
Dean Ambrose stole the show, of course. I like how he doesn’t waste time on the mike going into Shakespearean dialogue on how he’s going to destroy his adversary. He just decides to turn everybody’s life upside down and raise hell.
The Rock came out of the blue, but it was good to have him back. He milked in every cheap pop he could find in his promo, and seemed to have good chemistry with Rusev and Lana. When he told her she was beautiful, Lana’s face was like, “As if!” Rusev fell right into his “It doesn’t matter what you think” trap like a true straight. I hope this doesn’t wind up being a lengthy way to promote his new movie, and it seems like they’re just going to drop the Big Show’s angle like a hot potato. Some times Vince’s last-minute decisions actually pay off.
Seth is using his cackling villain laugh big time. It works because it doesn’t work. He’s a runty weasel who thinks he’s The Chosen One. Bree Bella actually said she’d like to work with Seth so they can be Prince and Princess of the Authority. That should be an interesting “love triangle” angle if they decide to work in her rl relationship with John Cena.
If there’s a God, Dean Ambrose will win against Cena at HIAC so he and Rollins can surpass the classic Undertaker vs. Mankind HIAC match. They already blew all other lumberjack matches in existence away, so now they can become the new masters of HIAC.
For some reason Cody Rhodes reminds me of the Green Goblin. He is a big fan of Spider-man and says he rips off his monologues from SM’s writers. I could see him squatting on the winged jet ski and throwing pumpkin bombs.
The Prince and Princess of Authority…I like it! Does that mean that they will push out Kane and RKO from the Authority? Because I’m soooooo bored with the both of them.
It may be part of the character, but Rollins is starting to bug me now because he’s acting all tough, but once someone hits him he runs away. He’s not even sly and baiting a trap, he’s just running. It would work out so much better if he was baiting traps so that he at least looks smart.
I actually thought when Rock said Lana was pretty, that she gave a super-cute (a word I don’t use to describe the siberian street-walker) little “awww shucks” look
I think HHH was snarking that Cena was no longer WWE champion.
Actually, it’s Soviet Street Walker. If she was Siberian, she’d be wearing polar bear fur.
Just wanted to get you all excited for Monday’s Raw and the upcoming PPV. I’ll spoiler things for those of you who want to experience these developments as they happen, unsullied. Raw is first.
[spoiler]On next week’s Raw, we’ll have not one but two guests: Somebody from Real Housewives of Atlanta, and–and this is the one I know we’re all looking forward to–TODD CHRISLEY, of CHRISLEY KNOWS BEST!!!
Are you as excited as I am?[/spoiler]
[spoiler]And, per Smackdown spoilers, they’ve set the stip for Cena-Ambrose: a “no holds barred contract” on a pole match.
Welcome back, Russo.[/spoiler]
A what?
Oh, you mean…[SPOILER]A no-holds-barred “contract on a pole” match. Also, is the contract supposed to be for a match on the same night? If not, then why bother making the contract match HIAC?
I couldn’t figure out what a “no-holds-barred contract” meant. Maybe the winner got to star in the sequel to Hogan’s first film?[/SPOILER]
I would mercilessly boo that Todd Chrisley guy out of the fucking building and chant “Who Fucking Cares” and “Go Home Chrisley” at the top of my voice until they threw me out.
Goddamn it Vince, senile much? Looking for even lower ratings?
(yeah yeah, I know, it’s a Network deal…)
Apparently,…
Not only is the winner’s match against Seth Rollins in Hell In A Cell on the same night, but according to what may be a prematurely leaked local announcement, the loser is also in a HIAC match that night…against Randy Orton
Honestly, I’m not sure. I agree yours makes more sense, but the smackdown spoilers I saw couldn’t be arsed w/ punctuation, of course. Bottom line, we’re having a pole match at HIAC.
That’s actually been the rumor pretty much since we’ve been getting HIAC rumors. Joy.
God knows that’s what he deserves, and hopefully that’s what he’ll get. I’m only a little bit concerned because a) Atlanta is not a terribly smarky town and b) he’s a local boy.
Geez, how come Enzo has gotten so SAWFT? I don’t think he pulled one offensive move vs. the Vaudevillains. He acted like he was distracted and they pinned him like nothing. I thought maybe the French guys were supposed to do some kind of distraction, mais ils étaient absents.
Titus wins over Zayn. Doesn’t that throw a wrench in #1 contender Zayn vs Neville? Maybe it was to give Titus some heat back for getting bunny-punked. It sets up a Titus/Neville match for next week, which Neville should win, but who knows. Sometimes major leaguers get sent back to the minors to refresh their skill set, but the Slater/Gator angle isn’t doing Titus any favors. He can’t really grow from that. Just ask Mahal and McEntire.
Sasha’s looking good. I like the way she does that “talk to the hand” pose when the audience jeers her. I wonder if she watched a lot of Real Housewives of Atlanta shows to get the sassy black woman personna.
I was actually just coming on to talk about NXT!
Overall I think it was a boring show, nothing really happened and the matches weren’t all that good either. I remember thining “Enzo is wrestling? I haven’t seen him in a ring since Takeover” maybe they want to push the Vaudevillians into the title picture, so they’re putting them over the popular talent?
Sasha is a decent character, and not a horrible wrestler. Becky is a good worker who can make anyone look good, so kudos to her looking good in a loss. Although I have to say, any divas match without Bayley is just…lacking
What a boooorrrrriiiinnnnggggg main event. Just a squash with long stretches of sleepers and bear hugs. It only got halfway interesting towards the end, and I predicted Neville coming out the moment they announced the damn match.
Next week I predict a Sasha match v Bayley, and a Lucha Dragons/Villians match
I know this isn’t WWE news, but all the same, I thought I’d let anyone who might be interested know that Lucha Underground, the new English-language show from AAA (one of the big two wrestling promotions in Mexico) is going to be debuting on October 29th on the El Rey Network. (If you have DirecTV or Comcast, you should have El Rey - they’re co-owners along with founder Robert Rodriguez.) I’ve deliberately avoided reading spoilers since the show was taped a few weeks ago, but it’s my understanding that AAA is running it as a quasi-independent promotion with its own championships and storyline independent from the Spanish-language headline shows, but that its roster will consist mostly of main roster talent and a few luchador-style wrestlers from the American indie leagues.
For me as a teenager watching WCW in the '90s, it was mindblowing when they first started bringing in the Mexican wrestlers in a big way, and aside from Kallisto and Sin Cara the style is pretty much completely absent from WWE these days, so I’m definitely looking forward to seeing it.
It told a decent story, but damn was that an ugly match.
You could tell that Titus was pretty much done at the end. He could not have continued the match much longer without it being really obvious.
Looks like we won’t be seeing Big Dave anytime soon.
He’s apparently tapped to play a (maybe THE) villian in the next Bond movie
Which is kind of a bummer for me because towards the end of his run I was really enjoying him
Welp, there have been some former WWE stars that have better careers in Hollywood, like Robert Maillet, who used to be Kurgon. Kevin Nash, George “The Animal” Steele, and Andre the Giant have all had memorable movie roles. Wrasslers figure out ways to get the audience to react to them, and they have to be good at memorizing lines, using their voices effectively, and improvising on the spot, so they’re pretty much trained actors already.
Roddy Piper starred in a few classic B movies such as Hell Comes to Frogtown and They Live. Here he talks about his acting experiences, and quotes some Shakespeare.
Well, the good news is we’re getting Ambrose vs. Rollins in Hell In A Cell, in the ME of the show of that same name. This is a match that ought to easily run away with the show - and with all the buildup and teasing they’ve done between these two for months, it’s one Ambrose needs to win, because right now he’s pretty much in the position Daniel Bryan was in last year where he has the potential to become the next big fan favorite.
The bad news is, we’ll also be getting Cena vs. Orton for like the millionth time. You’d think they’d have learned their lesson after their match at the Royal Rumble had the crowd chanting “YOU BOTH SUCK!”, but apparently this is the default feud they fall back on whenever they can’t think of anything else.
In the WWEs defense (something I seem to be saying a lot) what else were they gonna do with Cena and RKO? Cena has no current feud going other than the one he was thrown in since his SUPPOSED feud is off the map for the next 6 months, Randall has no feud either because…reasons?..and both are primetime players who should be on PPVs. Besides, this is a way to end the rivalries and have Rollins and RKO start to feud, Ambrose and…um…someone (Wyatt? maybe?) and then Cena and…Trips? I guess?
I dunno…any suggestions?
Ambrose and Rollins should NEVER end their feud.
I want to see Ambrose totter around punch drunk while Rollins taunts him. I want to see Ambrose hang off the top of HIAC by his toes and then spring back to paste Rollins in the yapper. I want to see the WWE locker room empty out to try to interfere by orders of the Authority and Ambrose to make the cage collapse on top of them. I want to see Rollins scamper off while Kane and Orton get buried underfoot and Ambrose leave steamers on their chests. I want Ambrollins to headline WM 31, 32, 33, all the way to 100. I want to see them in wheelchairs strangling each other with their dialysis tubes. MORE HATE! MORE BACKSTABBING!! FEUD FEUD FEUUUUUUUDDDDD!!!
Anyway, that’s my suggestion.