Me too. 
Was going to say something about the obvious end-game of the Titus-Crews thing, which is when Crews turns on him, when it dawned on me that they actually made me a little bit interested in something Titus is doing for perhaps the first time ever.
And how long were Sheamus and Cesaro just hanging onto the side of the cage, as if they were waiting for the Hardys to just about make it out before landing?
(And who was that amazon with the pigtails in the front row at the end of the match? I swear, I half-expected her to make a run-in at some point.)
I don’t know why I had it in my head that the Hardy’s retained. :smack:
*BAHWANNANNAAAAAAN
BAAANNNNHHH*
Mack and Mundo finish their insane All Night Long match, resumed from last week. Cueto, with lust for violence in his eyes, announces it will be a Falls Count Anywhere! Mack again defies gravity and moves like somebody half his size. Mundo’s new lackey Ricky Mandel, formerly one of the Disciples of Death, does a run-in, now looking like X-Pac. Sexy Star punks him out and the two exeunt. Mack slams Mundo through a metal garbage can, but Mundo kicks out. When it seems like Mack has finally got Mundo on the ropes metaphorically speaking, Taya runs in after months of MIA and helps Mundo get the pin.
High Priest Cueto emerges and announces the debut of the Cueto Cup, a big gold bowl with tassels. He says there will be a tournament for it, and the winner gets to compete against the winner of the match between the current LU champion (Mundo) vs Ray Mysterio Jr, that same night/taping session.
Backstage, Mundo has gotten out of the shower, wearing just a towel, and discusses his win with X-Pac II, who acts as smart as a bag of hammers. Taya enters and passes along Cueto’s announcement that Mundo will take on Mysterio. Mundo decides he needs to train intensively for it and instructs Pac II to warm up the car. He’s about to leave when Taya tells him “Wait! You’re not wearing any pants!” Mundo ponders this and says nobly, “No time for that!”
Trios championship match: The Reptile Tribe - Pindar, Vibora and evil ophidian queen Kobra Moon vs Aerostar, El Dragon Azteca Jr and Drago. Vibora has a big snake head mask, and he apparently shouldn’t take any hits to the face, lest he lose it. He’s like a young Undertaker with flowery tattoos. Drago wound up turning on his teammates by spraying poison mist in Aerostar’s face, leading to them losing the titles to the Reptile Tribe, which he then joined. Kobra Moon controlled his reptilian mind with her queen genes I guess.
Backstage, Puma is fretting over his eventual match with A Thousand Deaths. Vampiro’s astral form appears in his mirror and gives him an infernal pep talk. (Vampiro has an extra personality that’s evil and can appear in spectral form and possess people and stuff while his good side calls matches with Matt Stryker. Just roll with it.) He reminded Puma of how MM put him in a coffin, killed his mentor Konnan (actually, he’s now in Impact, but that could be a worse fate), and advised him to do the same.
Prince Puma vs Mil Muertes in a street fight - These two have had some classic matches, but there was no buildup for this. Guess it’s gotten to iPhone 1 status, no longer supported. Nevertheless, Puma is still fucking amazing. Near the end, Catrina jumps in the rings and smacks Puma with the magic rock and lays him out. However, Vampiro jumps to the ring and gives Puma a brick, which he smashes onto MM’s noggin and gets the pin.
*BAHWANNANNAAAAAAN
BAAANNNNHHH*
Is it just me, or did LU episodes get darker after the mid-season break? Not plot-wise, but as if my TV brightness levels got turned way down. I understand the idea, but these last couple episodes are so dark that it’s distracting in a hard-to-see way.
I think they use some kind of reddish color filters, similar to how Rodriguez did it in Dusk Till Dawn. It makes Dario Cueto look more devilish, and makes viewers think of heat and blood. The Mack does look a lot darker, now that you mention it. They also rarely use spotlights, at least in comparison to how WWE does lighting.
Vince Russo apologizesto Jim Cornette.
Point goes to Russo this round.
The Seattle wrestling scene is suddenly exploding outward. DEFY just announced a talent-sharing agreement with Crash, the new lucha promotion Konnan has been running out of Tijuana, and Crash is going to start running events in Seattle.
If Rey Mysterio actually shows up in Washington Hall, I may shit myself.
I ordered my Jim Cornette face shirt today, but I didn’t do it through his website. He only had PayPal as a payment option, so I ripped the design and made a shirt through bluecotton.com and saved a couple of bucks.
Sorry Jim. If you had just made your web technology a little more current, you’d have been $20 richer.
Caught a big of NXT 132 playing on the network, then went back to watch more of it.
They likely had it playing because the main event was the tournament final between Seth Rollins and Jinder Mahal for the first ever NXT championship.
Interesting to see Jason Jordan teaming with “Tom Dalton” (Tyler Breeze).
Not many people can out-BS Jim Cornette, but Kenny Bolin is a grandmaster. He leaves Cornette speechless with his outrageous lies and stories. He was a manager on OVW. I’ve never seen those shows, but I bet he stole heat from the entire roster.
Back from vacation, seems like I missed a pretty good PPV and subsequent RAW/SD.
Oh well, it’s not like anything truly groundbreaking happens.
Although to take my thunder back…
While walking through Sea-Tac airport (the worst airport I’ve been in in ages holy shit) Ms. Cups and I are 90% sure we talked by Cedric Alexander. He looked like him, was dressed like him and he paused for just a hot second to linger on Ms. Cups’ “Royal Rumble” shirt.
Clearly you didn’t stop for lunch at Ivar’s. 
I knew my boy Elias Samson was destined for greatness. He pinned former “Mr. Everything” Dean Ambrose on RAM, despite Miz’s brazen attempts to interfere in the match. He had the entire audience screaming and howling at him with his pre-match crooning like Elvis in his heyday, and the millions of Samsonites continued their adoring acclimations through his and Dean’s match, even though the acoustics made their Ns sound like NT, so their chants sounded like “You can’t sing” and “You can’t wrestle.”
It won’t be long until the figurative lover of Delilah is wearing gold, to go along with his numerous gold Grammy statues. Even legendary Chris Jericho’s rock-and-roll stardom will pale in comparison to Samson when his Delegation of Drifters floods the arenas.
The only restaurant in there that looked decent, that wasn’t horribly expensive, was a microbrew looking place.
Other than that there was a whole lotta nothin.
I wasn’t able to stay up for all of RAW, but I enjoyed what I saw. Coupled with last weeks, I think we’ve had a good lil string.
Anyone else think “From the makers of ‘I’m not a good guy, I’m not a bad guy, I’m THE guy’ comes the next tagline sensation! Introducing: We don’t raise the bar, we ARE the bar”.
Find it in stores everywhere this fall
OK, with all the possible first round matches for the Cuerto Cup, did we need to see The Mack again? And way too competitive a match for someone who spent the past two episodes competing for the championship.
I hope nobody stopped watching after the Drago/Aerostar match…
I don’t care, Mack always puts on good matches. Plus, it’s cool to see the lesser used talent show their skills. Plus, Saltador kept in character with the rabbit punches and hop attacks without looking silly. Mack advances in the Cueto Cup tourney.
Aerostar and Drago worked another great match, with the venomous Kobra Moon making hissing sounds in the corner. Drago advances.
Cage talks to Dario in his office. He wears the Golem Glove that sparkles with mystic energy. Dario insists he visit Senor Delgado, a very powerful politician, whom in an earlier storyline alluded that he would be taking over Cage’s body when the stars align or something.
Texano vs Famous B – B laid down on the mat and offered to let Tex win in exchange for being his manager. Matt Stryker remarked “What is this, the Finger Poke of Doom?” Vampiro replied “I was in a company that did that. They’re not around any more.” Tex decided to give B a powerbomb first, then got the win.
More promos for the impending Johnny Mundo vs Ray Mysterio match, with Ray cast as the god of luchas. I like the way LU makes him a giant, whereas WWE made him a little guy in a giant’s world. LU just seems to have a better handle on how to make matches epic by backing them up with mythology.
Pentagon Dark destroyed his opponent Argenis to advance as well. Argenis did a Jack Gallagher type move where he perched himself on the corner with a headstand. PD just kicked him in the face. LU takes some subtle digs at WWE memes every once in a while.
As dzeiger noted, Cage paid the visit to Delgado after the closing credits, and the Glove apparently had a mind of its own and preferred that Cage remain its host. Delgado however, thinks he’s still calling the shots and tells Cage he doesn’t have a choice because he’s just a man. The gruesome glove attacks. Cage then finds himself standing over Delgado’s headless body, the glove holding the remains of the head in a bloody pulp. Cage then growls “No. I’m a MACHINE!”
Have loved that move, but Jack has over-used it a bit. I’m just waiting for the heel to simply grab his foot and yank him off the turnbuckle.