Speaking of Alberto, he’s in the news again -for beating up a wrestling Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle at an indy show for “disrespecting” Paige.
It was all a big misunderstanding - the turtle only said she was “beautiful.”
Who’s up for another championship tournament?
The first WWE UK Champion will be decided in a tournament next month featuring 16 stars from the British indy scene, airing live on the Network, with commentary by Michael Cole and Nigel McGuinness.
I’m not liking Total Nonstop Deletion as much as I did Delete vs Decay. They have a fake crowd. They have a fake snarky crowd. That offends me. Snarks cannot be scripted.
I also wish the announcers wouldn’t refer to Trickweeed as the alter ego of Jeff Hardy. It’s like they’re indulging him.
Whoah, things just got surreal. The Rock and Old Express is helping the Hardy’s shoot their opponents with Roman Candles. Abyss says “Not again!” Greg Helms is telling Jeff Hardy “I can see all your merchandise on the clearance rack because NOBODY WANTS IT!” Hahahahhahahha OK I take it back, this shit is awesome.
Overall, there were some really good parts to Total Nonstop Deletion, but 2 hours is perhaps too much of a dose of the Broken stuff all at once.
Also, I think it may have suffered from too much hype–inviting the best of all of time and space, and you end up with the Rock and Roll Express and a couple of apparently indy teams I’m not familiar with. And not that I expected the New Day, Wyatts, or even the Young Bucks, but I was kind of hoping for more than Hornswoggle.
Decay literally killing jobbers might have been more impressive if I was unaware of Lucha Underground.
They couldn’t even get the entire DCC to appear, just James Storm.
Is the Lashley/Edwards match still in progress? They just kind of vanished after the volcano exploded.
Where does TNA go with the tag team division after this? The Helms Dynasty is literally buried (I laughed, even though HHH-hate jokes are a little too 2003), the DCC mostly seems to exist to make James Storm regret not staying with NXT, and I don’t think Decay can challenge anymore–if having Abyss disemboweled and Crazy Steve thrown into a volcano doesn’t end a feud, I’m not sure what does. The Bravado Brothers came out OK, but I don’t even know who they are or if they’re ever coming back.
It’ll be just like Max & Sam from Supernatural. They get tortured, disemboweled, eviscerated, their bones shattered, heads twisted around, and suffer all sorts of crippling wounds, but they get better by next episode.
The pairing of Spud and Hornswoggle made for some hilarity, and the Rock and Old Express still knows how to put on a show. I’m pretty sure Helms can’t use the “Hurricane” moniker any more, but his reincarnation makes sense in the Hardy mythos. Decay deserves credit for keeping things crazy. All in all, it’s just silly fun, and they made the most of what little they had to work with.
This sounds like a terrible idea in reality, but a great idea for marketing.
I mean, what are they going to do with the champion? Fastpass him to the main roster? Keep him on the Network? Send him to NXT?
From what I’m reading, this looks like an attempt by WWE to compete with the British indies. ITV is getting ready to relaunch wrestling on World of Sport with Jim Ross on commentary, and WCPW has been getting a lot of attention with the show it’s been streaming on YouTube (they even had Cody Rhodes vs. Broken Matt Hardy a few weeks ago). Maybe this leads to another weekly show that shoots in the UK and airs on the Network?
That fits well with what I was saying about it being for marketing.
If WWE keeps this as a running promotion, located in the UK with a UK belt featuring UK wrestlers, and does nothing with them but keep them on this show on the Network…it could be huge.
I’m sure smarks would be clamoring for them to get callups and be on the roster, but if WWE is smart they’ll say no and keep them on this show.
With occasional / regular visits from NXT and MR Brits, hopefully. Having Shaemus, Balor, Gallagher showing up once in a blue moon to put someone over and bring eyeballs would be good.
And as a model for other markets sufficient to support it, sure. WWE China could be huge if it really took off.
And then of course, some of those locally trained wrestlers will be creating their own Indy promotions…
OK, but I want overly pompous British announcers.
“I say, that Damo chap is rather corpulent, is he not?”
“Yes, he has more chins than the Hong Kong phone book.”
Well, we’ve already got Nigel McGuinness on commentary - let’s see if we can get William Regal, Jack Gallagher, and the ghost of Lord Alfred Hayes to round out the table. 
Who’s going to take Nigel’s place as grand poobah of RoH? Will they bring Truth Martini back for the position?
The world must have said it’s been too long…
Went to Universal for a few hours today and, whaddya know, there’s goddamn Izzy and her goddamn family walking by us almost as soon as we walk in.
Dad was wearing a TLC shirt, pretty sure Izzy was wearing a Bayley shirt (probably because she’s not allowed in public without it).
In the grand scheme of things, I wonder how many other people I’ve seen over and over again at Universal and just not noticed because they don’t stand out like she does…
And just like that, it’s time for Roadblock 2: The Legend of Hunter’s Gold.
Here are some predictions;
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Roman Reigns vs. Kevin Owens for the Spicy Nacho Championship. The fact that this isn’t a title-for-title match all but telegraphs that Owens is going to retain. Triple H will possibly get involved at some point in order to resurrect that feud in time for the Rumble/WrestleMania season.
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Sasha “I only win the title on Raw” Banks vs. Charlotte “I only win the title on PPVs” Flair, 30-minute ironman match for the ladies’ championship. Hopefully Sasha wins this one so we can end this feud.
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The New Day vs. Sheamus & Cesaro for the tag titles. New Day has now broken Demolition’s record, thus satisfying Vince’s petty lust for vengeance against anyone who publicly crosses him (as Ax & Smash have done by joining the concussion class-action against WWE). That means they can lose now. Sheamsaro wins.
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Seth Rollins vs. Chris Jericho. Gonna go with Seth here. Y2J’s current run is coming to a close, and he ought to be putting Seth over to build him up for 'Mania.
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Rich Swann vs. TJ Perkins vs. The Brian Kendrick for the cruiserweight title. Swann retains here.
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Sami Zayn vs. BROWN STRONGMAN, 10-minute time limit. Time limit matches pretty much never happen these days, so I’m guessing the time limit is gonna work into the finish. Either it goes to a draw just before Sami can get the pin, or he taps just before the time runs out. Either way, Sami’s jobbing in this one.
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Rusev vs. Colin Cassady. Cass wins because of something about Enzo trying to fuck Lana yet again.
Is the network looking low-rez for anybody else besides me?
nm, refresh fixed it
Larry Howard is a preshow host?
Woot! Neville has an evil beard and going all heel in the CW division! Welcome back!
KO vs Roman reminded me of the fight between Seth Rogen and Jay Chou in Green Hornet. KO makes being obnoxious a superpower. He tickles me when he mocks Roman and does that OOOOOF yell. That was the best match of the night IMO. The 2/3 SHIELD makes me not hate Roman so much. 
Eh, that PPV was pretty much a bomb IMO.
Highlights:
- Sheamsaro finally ending New Day’s reign (and Sheamus becoming a Triple Crown Champion in the process)
- Neville’s heel turn
- Sasha fighting on after getting her nose busted
- Jericho attacking Kevin in order to get Roman DQed so Kevin got the win
- The post-ME beatdown
The rest of it was a chore to sit through, and just left me wanting more 205 Live and looking forward to the debut of the UK division.