I hope so. Despite seeing them in NXT for years, I was never that much of a fan of the Jersey Boys, so my heart wouldn’t break if they broke up.
I would actually be kind of an asshole about it and laugh because they were this super popular team that everyone seemed to love…but won absolutely nothing. Never were NXT champs, never were RAW champs, they were never nothing. Just a gimmick.
I gotta be honest about Enzo. I honestly thought he would have a Bobby Heenan’esque career.
But for all his talk about pages and pages of promo material, we only ever get the same goddamn page and I (and I think the audience) are tiring of it. He ran the whole ‘cup o’
haters’ thing into the ground. Now perhaps that was Vince and the writers pushing him to say it again, but it got old damn fast and they never moved on.
I still think he can recover, but we need to see more originality and less running his mouth until he becomes incoherent and endlessly repeating the same lines.
Catchphrases last. “Cup o’ Haters” isn’t a catchphrase.
Lucha Underground returns tonight at 8ET, for those interested. All-night-long match between Mundo and Willie Mack.
I also noticed that my Dish Network on-screen program guide is incorrect, it has one of the previous all-night-long episodes listed in that timeslot, I’m guessing it’s just confusion with episode titles. So if, like me, your DVR is set to record New episodes, it may miss it without manual intervention.
*BAHAWAAAAHHHH
BANNNHHHH*
Season 3 finally resumes!
Only 1 match tonight, Johnny Mundo vs The Mack All Night Long. Whoever has the most pinfalls by night’s end wins the LU title.
To me at least, this was a bit of a letdown… not because of Mundo and Mack, but because the episode didn’t have the behind-the-scenes skullduggery and black magic that they usually have. But, it wasn’t just Mundo and Mack tearing up the ring all night. PJ Black, Son of Havoc and Sexy Star all did run-ins. PJ, to distract Mack into thinking he was Mundo running away while the real Mundo was under the ring gathering plundah. Son of Havoc, to rescue Mack from PJ’s interference, and Sexy, masquerading as one of the band members, did a 20-foot dive from the platform onto Mundo & Black. I think Jack Evans also did a run-in, but he wasn’t on screen for too long.
Favorite spot: they rip off/honor Stone Cold Steve Austin. Mack uses the Stunner (which eloquent announcer Matt Stryker calls the three-quarter spin breaker or something) and Mundo sells like Wile E. Coyote falling off a cliff. Another favorite spot: Mack is laid out, Son of Havoc breaks into Dario’s office and gets a couple cans of Modelo, and pours them on Mack’s face, and he revives, ready to kick more ass.
Both contestants have 3 pins by the end of the show, and it seems like Mack is about to get his 4th pin, but time runs out just before the end of the three count. Dario comes out and announces the match will resume next week. This will also go All Night Long, but will stop at one pin.
Matt Stryker has gotten more Shakespearean in his commentary, and waxes more eloquence about the epicness of it all. Vampiro gets into the souls and motivations of the performers. Far cry from JBL squawking about black helicopters.
*BAHAWAAAAHHHH
BANNNHHHH*
I thought Sasha on 205 Live would be a step down for her, but she’s adding some fire to the Dar/Swann feud. She and Alicia Fooooooox had a dialogue exchange where Fox criticized her weave, and Sasha responded “I can see yo track, boo boo!”
Tom Phillips commented he didn’t know what a track was. I used to work with some raucous black ladies, and I remember one of them shouting to another “You got yo dress cut up all the way to yo cootah!” Based on that, I’m going with crotch-area grooming.
Just watched the Cornette-Hayes-Bischoff Table for 3.
Amusing.
Cornette ranted on his podcast this week about how they cut about an hour of the shoot from the version that aired. I’d love to see the too-hot-for-TV stuff.
In other news, WWE is apparently interested in signing Dalton Castle. If he’s allowed to keep his gimmick, I could see him being huge in NXT, but I fear that he’d get relegated to Tyler Breeze comedy-jobber status on the main roster.
I thought Bischoff’s comment to Cornette that “your stooges got it wrong” would lead to some fireworks, but they remained civil.
I watched a few eps of Mid-South that had Cornette and the Midnight Express in them, and just by himself he made the show ten times more interesting.
Good for Dalton Castle. Wonder if he’ll bring The Boys with him?
Cornette addressed that as well a few weeks ago when he was recapping his 'Mania weekend; the summation of it was something along the lines of “I’m their guest, so I’m going to swallow my pride and be civil”.
Now if they’d somehow booked a Table For 3 with him, Vince Russo, and Joey Ryan, I imagine he’d have had a much harder time staying on the rails. 
“Good news, TM61; Creative just found something for you!”
Oh God no! Run TM61! Run back to Australia and/or The Kanto Region while you still can.
I see nothing but abject failure if Dalton Castle comes in and brings with him The Boys.
Who do we think is winning this Sunday? I got:
Finn
Sheamusaro
Miz
Alexa
Aries
And let’s go with Charlotte because, why not?
Sasha wins too, but that much doesn’t count
No shit? :rolleyes: What was he expecting? A simple, uncut 40 minute meeting?
Well, Cornette did suggest a 3-way Cornette-Bischoff-Russo match for Wrestlemania. Make it a no-DQ hardcore weapons and cage match and I’m in. Don’t even book a finish. Just give them 10 minutes to beat the crap out of each other (Bishchoff will win anyway) then pick up the pieces and hose off the canvas.
I realize now I think I mixed brands/PPVs. I have no idea what’s even happening on Sunday apparently
Well of course “The Boys” will be jobbers, but at least WWE would give them names. It bugs me that RoH has kept them nameless, even if they are essentially human props/kayfabe boy toys for a flamboyant homosexual archetype. They have souls and I want to know their names!
On to ER predix:
1 Roman Reigns vs. Seth Rollins vs. Finn Bálor vs. Bray Wyatt vs. Samoa Joe – Roman, to pair up the only two to beat UT at WM.
2 Dean Ambrose © vs. The Miz (with Maryse) – Miz will somehow trick Dean into DQing himself, win the title, and ride the heat wave of a tainted win.
3 Alexa Bliss © vs. Bayley – Bay Leaf, so Nia Jax can step up.
4 The Hardy Boyz (Jeff and Matt Hardy) © vs. Cesaro and Sheamus – Cezheamus, because the Hardyz have been winning on TV. Jeff can miss a 50-ft Swan Dive, driving he and Matt to madness so they can reinvent themselves as The Fragmented Hardys or something. Of course, I’ve been saying that ever since they came back, so…
5 Neville © vs. Austin Aries – Hard to say. Normally, 3rd time would be the charm for AA, but the formula is that Neville’s loss on TV means a win on the following PPV. However, AA will be milking the hurt leg angle, leaving the door open for a tainted win. So, Neville.
6 Rich Swann and Sasha Banks vs. Noam Dar and Alicia Fox – Swann and Banks b/c Swann lost on [del]TV[/del] Internet.
Time for me to steal some of Sir T-Cups’ “I ran into this guy and that guy at Disneyworld today” thunder.
I was at work today, covering the self-checkout station for the cashier’s break, when I noticed a guy checking out who was wearing a DEFY shirt. I asked him if he was a fan, and it turned out he was a little more than a fan - it was Matt Farmer, co-owner/commentator for DEFY, former NWA Pacific Northwest champion, wrestling historian, and podcaster.
He was pretty cool about it - shook my hand, told me they’d been out yesterday scouting more venues in the area for future shows, said I’m going to love the stuff they’ve got coming up.
My quick ER predictions;
Fatal five-way: Joe
Tag titles: Sheamsaro
IC title: Miz
Women’s title: Bayley
Cruiserweight match: Aries
Tag match: Rich/Banks
I hate when I forget that there is a PPV tonight.
Pre show Kallisto vs Crews - Liked, bc the longer match showed both guys have mad skillz, and the finisher was hilarious.
Miz vs Dean - Liked, bc of the facial expressions
Swann/Banks vs Dar/Fox - Liked, bc Dar cracks me up
Bailey vs Bliss - Turd. Bailey’s too sweet and non-violent to use the stick? Puh-leeze. I think they realized this was stinking up the joint, so they called it short.
Hardyz vs Cezheamus - OK, but I think cage matches are dull and stupid. How can it be so hard to just flop over the edge and fall to victory?
AA vs Neville - Neville looked his most badassed ever. He is a living Berni Wrightson drawing.
5-way: Marked out big time. Each guy looked terrific and they told a great story.
Probably leading to Bayley snapping and going heel. Would be interesting but I don’t think it would fly and they have too many heels on that roster as it is.
I missed the pre-show, I’ll have to watch it tomorrow.
I agree with you on cage matches. It just looks so stupid when people have to climb up and down so slowly. The proof of that is watching Cesaro and Shaemus in the background at the end of that match, kind of slowing to increase the tension when both could have just dropped.
Both of you at 50%. I’d stay away from sports betting if I were you.
Granted, but personally it doesn’t bother me nearly as much as when the referee just plain damn opens the cage door to let people out. I don’t remember that ever being done back in the '80s or '90s - it just seems to kill the entire premise of the match, and/or serve as the promotion admitting that they don’t think one or more of the performers is physically capable of climbing out to escape.
Better than average show overall. (Well, Bayley/Alexa was a dud.) The five-way and Hardys/Sheamsaro tied for MOTN in my opinion - Joe vs. Brock should be entertaining, and I’m curious to see what effect losing the titles has on Matt’s CONDEESHIN.
Actually, I got 4 out of 6. You’re not living up to your username. 