Last night’s Raw broadcast went exactly as expected. Vince McMahon confronted an actor who played the part of Enos S. Kroenke, the owner of the Denver Nuggets, and the five-on-five Lakers-versus-Nuggets faces-versus-heels main event closed out the show but left much to be desired. Read more…
Sunday night brought WWE fans the eleventh annual Judgment Day pay-per-view event, featuring a stacked card with three main events. Was justice served?
No Way Out 2009: 2/5: .400
All-Time: 11/18: 0.611
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Shocking doesn’t do justice in describing Sunday’s No Way Out pay per view. In a definite ‘foot-in-mouth’ moment, I was wrong with nearly all of my predictions. In a pay-per-view that looked absolutely horrid on paper, the WWE roster and creative team developed a thrilling, edge-of-your-seat (no pun intended) show. Read more…
The “Slammy Awards” are the perfect answer to monotonous wrestling programming, as instead of seeing the same match-ups in the ring week after week, wrestling fans are treated to a mock-awards show that features wrestling personalities presenting and receiving awards in-character. The Slammy Awards returned on Monday Night Raw and it was the first time an award of the type was given in eleven years. Read more…
BOSTON: November 23, 2008 was a big night for Boston sports-entertainment fans. World Wrestling Entertainment made its pay-per-view event return to the TD Banknorth Garden with their twenty-second annual Survivor Series extravaganza. The night marked two other returns, with former world champions Edge and John Cena both returning to in-ring competition. Both Edge and Cena left the Garden with gold around their waste. Read more…
Last night, I said that Jericho’s World Championship win would get viewers to tune into Raw. While I cannot say for now if this is true, as it is a bit soon to check for ratings information, I can say that at least one person tuned into Raw for once: Me.
While I missed the beginning of Raw, I did catch Adamle’s awkward-sounding announcements for the main events of Raw for tonight and next week. I probably missed a great introduction promo by Chris Jericho, but I have been entertained with nearly everything I have seen since the beginning moments. Read more…
A mere three hours ago, I posted a quick write-up regarding tonight’s Unforgiven show and my predictions for the card. I did not get this pay-per-view, nor could I find a working stream in order to watch it. Therefore, I have decided to give a quick recap of results and my thoughts on the near future of WWE programming.
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As a wrestling fan of over 10 years, one would think that I would have ordered a Pay-Per-View by now. Unfortunately, anyone who shares that belief would be incorrect. August 2008 was no different than any other August, as I did not order WWE’s main summer event, SummerSlam. Thanks to the magic of newsgroups, however, I was able to view this event today and bring you the results.
The first match on the SummerSlam 2008 card was Jeff Hardy versus Montel Vontavious Porter: two United States Championship contenders in a match at a “big four” pay-per-view event with the actual champion left off of the card. Supposedly the original plan was to have a title match between Shelton and Kennedy, but with Kennedy becoming injured they decided to change the match to Hardy vs MVP. Apparently a Triple Threat was out of the question.
ECW
August 12, 2008
Norfolk, Virginia
The show starts off with Matt Striker on color commentary, which is a great idea. Striker is a solid heel and has remarkable promo skills, and it is a great idea to put him in the commentary slot to complement the rather bland Todd Grisham. (Give him time.) WWE needs a solid heel/face commentary team like the good old days of Ross and Lawler. Since Lawler is getting older and nearing the end of his career, Vince McMahon probaly wants him to go out as a fan favorite, but these days people cheer for whomever they want, good guy or not. The heel/face combo adds extra entertainment value.
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