The Monday night I decide to call it an early night, RAW finishes as strong as possible.
Oh Drax, what have you done?
Moments before Kofi Kingston was to sign the contract for a WWE Title match with Daniel Bryan at Fastlane, Vince McMahon came out and gave the shot to Kevin Owens instead. Big E and Xavier Woods objected strenuously; Kofi merely hung his head, very sad.
I like Kevin Owens as much as the next guy, but if the end result of this isn’t Kofi getting his WWE Title match at WrestleMania instead, fuck this fucking company.
I was cheering because this means Kofi at WrestleMania. I just hope he gets the singles match, rather than a 3 or 4 way.
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I think this might be a way of making Kofi vs DBD happen at WM instead of Fastlane. Supposedly, Vince thought RAW and SD had gotten stale, which is why he keeps calling up NXT stars at random and brought back KO and RR to stir shit up.
While I’m glad that Ricochet, Black, Ciampa and Gargano are getting prime time pay, Vince is going to ruin them while trying to turn them into marketable names. We’ll see Aleister Black Molasses, Gargano Cheese Bites, Ricochet Fidget Spinners, and Ciampionship belts.
This is also, I’ve been told, the first week that Bruce Pritchard was in charge of creative. I can’t imagine he would have THAT much say in changing things this quickly, but he might have had a hand in some of the storytelling (i.e. pushing Kofi to Mania).
Did ya’ll see how good Matt Hardy looked last night?!? If that’s not a reason for all wrestlers to get 6 months off every other year or so then I don’t know what else is.
The word going around is that Vince was booking the WM mid-card and saw no talent he felt strongly about. Of course, being Vince, he blames it on the talent, not on the person constantly burying the talent. He’s jobbed out the Raw Tag Team champions two weeks in a row, despite having The Ascension chowing down on catering in the back. You can tell from the booking VM is gobsmacked by the reaction Kofi is getting. How does a competent boss not know he’s sitting on that? Joe, Styles, Andrade, etcetera and so on are all but lost (though I really like R-Truth getting some shine with another belt that’s been degraded to obscurity).
ETA: In addition to Matt Hardy looking in his best shape in at least a decade if not longer, Kevin Owens is also down a good 20-25 lbs.
Meanwhile…Ronda Rousey is showing what a shitbag she is on Twitter.
Dishing the dirt in shoot interviews is obviously not a career killer. Pritchard is more restrained than most, but he’s said enough to torque off some folks.
Depends on your standard, I guess. Jim Cornette’s co-host once asked if there was anyone he worked with that was just a little…off. Cornette equivocated a while, then admitted that she has just described the entire business.
That said, I have never heard a mean word about Mick Foley. He has a falling-out with Ric Flair when the Nature Boy didn’t handle Mick’s “homeless” character well during Ric’s tenure as lead booker, and Ric was subsequently upset that Foley didn’t join the WWE crew in Flair’s 2008 retirement fete, but that’s as bad as I’ve heard.
Eh, Flair has pulled a lot of shit in his life and gotten a million chances. I’m not surprised that there are people in the business who dislike him. I’ve never been a particularly big fan of his and for that matter, I’ve been pretty tired of him for the last 15 years or so. But the fucker went through every dime he ever had and needs to keep making more, so WWE keeps giving him more payouts rather than allowing him to die penniless.
Ted Dibiase is a stand-up guy by all accounts, as long as you can put up with his evangelism.
From my brief personal encounters with them, I’d say that John Morrison, Cody Rhodes, and Joey Ryan are good guys.
If there was one guy I’d maybe amend my statement for…it’s Foley. He seems to be one of the good ones
The reason Ted is such an evangelist NOW is because he was going terrible things THEN. He’s said as much himself and it part of his overall message.
I would say the modern day wrestlers are definitely better than the older guys in terms of behavior, but I’ll still stick by my statement.
Michael Che and Colin Jost from SNL Weekend Update were on RAW last night. Normally, celebrity guests are pandering and lame, but Che and Jost seemed to “get it.” Jost took on the douchebag role who went around mouthing off backstage. “That’s easy. I can do that. You know this is fake, right?” Then, a surly Brawn Stroman held him up in the supervillain choke hold 3 feet off the ground.
STC, why the hate now? You and the missus got to go to free shows and meet & greet backstage. I don’t recall you having a bad word to say about the wrestlers you met until now.
This RAW left me flat, mostly because of HHH and Stephanie. Both those segments went FAR too long. Also, listening to Viktor told me why The Ascension aren’t getting a push. He was soooo bad that I thought he had to be trying to be bad. Please let him have been trying to be bad. And did we really need to see another Natalya vs Ruby Riott match?
We never got meet & greets actually…and really only Impact was free. Although I do see what you mean. It’s probably because it’s never really come up too much before. I still love the product, but it seems like every wrestler is dating every other one and they’re only together because they cheated on each other and it’s all dirty. Honestly, it’s probably because cheating on a relationship is a trigger for me and I automatically think lesser of people who participate in that (No it’s not from Mrs. Cups…it’s the girls before her).
I don’t really bat an eyelash when an Uso gets pulled over for drinking, I think, “what a moron!” But when Tom Phillips is cheating on his fiancee I think “what a careless asshole!” I dunno…i’ts just a thing with me I guess.
Not to mention the Rhonda/Becky/Charlotte thing is SO MUCH OVERBOOKING.
Beauty kills the beast. King Kong Bundy passes away at 61.
He’ll always be remembered for being Uncle Irwin on Married with Children. Al Bundy was an homage to King Kong Bundy, but on the show he was part of the Wanker clan. Oh yeah, he was an awesome heel to Hulk Hogan and also teamed with the late Big John Studd in some fun big-man tag team matches against Andre and Hillbilly Jim.
Bundy was one of my favorites. Something about him just made me laugh. I think it was his borderline crassness, like any moment he was going to let out a typhoon fart in somebody’s face.
I remember in GCW he would talk trash to the Road Warriors. “You say you’re from Chicago? You look like you’re from San Francisco!”