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Shannon Moore is a great wrestler, I hope WWE doesn't make him a lackey again. He either belongs as a decent cruiserweight contender/future champ, or a tag wrestler. I would prefer tag team, since Smackdown (and Raw for that matter) are lacking in teams.
Raw: Big Show+Kane (tag champs that rarely defend the titles. They might as well get rid of the titles on Raw, people wouldn't really notice much.)
Val Venis+Viscera (boring...they need to fire Viscera already)
Chris Masters+Carlito (they need to fire Masters, push Carlito in singles again)
Spirit Squad (their gimmick isn't that great, and they aren't that talented. I wonder what WWE was thinking when they decided to put them on WWE tv)
Smackdown: MNM as decent champs.
Gymini (have been on Smackdown 2 or 3 times so far since their debut several MONTHS ago)
Mexicools (talented, but the whole lawnmower gimmick needs to go.)
Kendrick+London (usually on Velocity)
Nunzio+Vito (they only team sometimes, since Nunzio does cruiserweight matches more often than tag)
TNA has many teams, and most of them are talented. WWE needs to use tag teams more often, and actually care about the divisions on each show. WWE tag teams have been pretty poor for quite a while now.
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The tag team divisions in the WWE isn't as good as it is supposed to be. You have a few decent tag teams in Smackdown, such as MNM, the Mexicools, and London and Kendrick, but if you look at it, the divisions in the WWE just plain stink, most especially in RAW. IMO, a big reason why this is the case, is that the WWE just seems it is okay to just put two decent individual superstars together and call them a "tag-team" (examples: Kane+Big Show, Masters+Carlito, Val Venis+Viscera, Matt Hardy+miscellaneous). If they kept Cade and Murdoch as a tag-team instead of splitting them up to singles action, RAW's tag team division might look a little better, IMO. I kinda missed the days when tag-team action was a lot better, with teams such as the Legion of Doom, the Hart Foundation, the Nasty Boys. Even a few years ago, when they had Edge and Christian, the Hardy Boyz, and the New Age Outlaws, it was still pretty darn good. TNA has tag-teams like AMW, Team 3D (aka the Dudley Boys), the Naturals, Team Canada members, and the James Gang (formerly the New Age Outlaws). WWEs tag teams can't really compete with them.
When it comes to Shannon Moore, if they use him in the WWE, he would make a pretty good Cruserweight champion IMO. He could have some pretty good matches with Gregory Helms and Kid Kash, as well as many others in the Cruserweight division. This would really make this division a lot more interesting, and hopefully give it the respect it deserves. Right now, Gregory Helms looks like he's actually delivering as the Cruserweight champ, but that won't really mean much unless that division gets some respect. It angers me everytime I think about how the WWE underutilizes some of these cruserweights.
At least they got rid of their Juniors division though.
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Smackdown was an okay show last night. Spoilers... in case you missed it or whatever.
Matt Hardy and Finlay qualified for Money in the Bank. The last Smackdown MITB qualifier will happen next week, with a battle royal. I bet Lashley gets in it, and wins it. Another possible choice is Jericho, some rumors have surfaced that he might do MITB this year. I think Lashley in it is more likely though.
I hate how WWE is pushing Finlay with the feud with Lashley. Finlay is an okay brawler, but other than that, he is garbage.
I'm thinking Rob Van Dam or Bobby Lashley (if he is in it) will win the match at Wrestlemania. Rumors of RVD winning it, then using the shot at the ECW PPV this year are going around. I certainly hope RVD doesn't win it. To me, RVD is just overrated. A bunch of kicks, a frog splash and a few basic moves is BORING! Plus the whole pointing thing and saying "RVD" many times, is just lame.
In TNA news, they had their first official house show last night in Detroit. Not alot of interesting things to report on it though. Jerry Lynn made his return to wrestling action, and lost to Bobby Rude of Team Canada. Detroit's own Insane Clown Posse wrestled and beat Eric Young+Petey Williams of Team Canada. Christian Cage beat Jeff Jarrett in the main event.
Other results for it: Shark Boy beat Simon Diamond, Chris Sabin beat Alex Shelley, Sabu beat Abyss (street fight), Rhino beat A1, Samoa Joe beat AJ Styles, America's Most Wanted beat The Naturals.
The crowd was 3700, which I believe was a sellout.
I hope this is the start of more TNA shows out of Orlando. At the end of this month, TNA will basically be doing more house shows as well. Under the UWF promotion (run by ex-WWE ref Dave Hebner), which will take place in Virginia at the end of March and parts of April. I'm pretty sure it will be alot of TNA stars on the UWF shows, along with Jeff Hardy and some others.
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Several more Wrestlemania matches have been announced:
-Booker T vs Boogey Man (Eh, it's just horrible how Booker is stuck in this dumb feud with Boogey Man. I was hoping the feud would end at Saturday Night's Main Event)
-Women's champ Trish Stratus vs Mickie James (Now this should be good, as both are decent female wrestlers. The feud is actually one of the better women feuds in a while for WWE.)
-Torrie Wilson vs Candice Michelle in a "Playboy pillow fight" (What a waste of card space this match will be.)
So, as of today, there is 11 Wrestlemania matches. I somehow think there might be either a Smackdown tag title match, or some other thrown together match as the 12th and final match. Cruiserweight title match is most likely out, since Gregory Helms is hurt at the moment.
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Saturday Nights Main Event was a pretty decent show, but it honestly wasn't as good as I hoped it would be.
First off, why was the main event vs main event match the opening match of the card? I would have thought it would be more appropriate to have that on the top of the card. But during the match, Cena noticably was being booed on. This has been happening for months, and I wonder why the WWE keeps trying to push him. But a major gripe that I have is that by Smackdown losing the match, they just devalued their main event, since it was a 3-on-2 match. I guess that since Smackdown has been beating Raw in a lot of interpromotional stuff lately, the WWE figured Raw should win this match.
The Street Fight didn't live close to the hype. The highlight of that match was when Shane got super-plexed to the tables. The rest of the match was just alright for me. The ending sucked though. It's kinda getting old that they have to use the "sharpshooter" as WWE's symbol of "getting screwed". That is just a huge disrespect to Bret Hart.
The highlight of that show was probably the beer drinking contest. Whenever you put Stone Cold Steve Austin in the microphone, it is usually an interesting moment. JBL is imo, probably one of the better speakers in the WWE, so this was definitely a genius move putting him with Austin in this segment.
Another WWE note, I think it sucks Finlay is in the money in the bank ladder match. True he is probably better than some of the young guys there, but I would've thought there would've given other people a shot. I'm guessing they are going to put Lashley in the match and have him win the battle royal on Friday, so he can continue the feud with Finlay in Wrestlemania.
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| Rob1981 wrote: | | Rumors of RVD winning it, then using the shot at the ECW PPV this year are going around. I certainly hope RVD doesn't win it. To me, RVD is just overrated. A bunch of kicks, a frog splash and a few basic moves is BORING! Plus the whole pointing thing and saying "RVD" many times, is just lame. |
I was actually pondering that also, that RVD will win the MIB match and cash it in the One Night Stand PPV. As far as your other comments about RVD, I totally DISAGREE! In fact, it's about time that he's getting a decent push instead of jobbing to Randy Orton like they had him doing a couple of years ago. There ain't many in the business that I have seen that can do what RVD does as an athlete. He's fast, he's a high flying risk taker, and he's extremely flexible, which makes him a whole lot of fun to watch. Backflips and summersaults are NOT basic moves. True his finishing move is only a frog splash, but it's probably the best frog splash in the business because he gets so much elevation. I bet if you have seen a lot of his early ECW matches, you would not be calling him overrated. 
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| Quote: | | He's fast, he's a high flying risk taker, and he's extremely flexible, which makes him a whole lot of fun to watch. Backflips and summersaults are NOT basic moves. |
Ok, they may not be "basic" but he is still repetitive. His move list is predictable and almost the same each and every time. If you want to consider him a "high flying risk taker" for doing the same turnbuckles, go ahead. I consider a risk taker, the X division wrestlers in TNA. Look at any Ultimate X match (or most X division matches between 2 talents), and you will see much more risk taking than RVD has ever done I bet.
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| Rob1981 wrote: | | Ok, they may not be "basic" but he is still repetitive. His move list is predictable and almost the same each and every time. If you want to consider him a "high flying risk taker" for doing the same turnbuckles, go ahead. I consider a risk taker, the X division wrestlers in TNA. Look at any Ultimate X match (or most X division matches between 2 talents), and you will see much more risk taking than RVD has ever done I bet. |
As far as RVD's move list being kinda predictable, I'll give you that. But that's more WWE's fault than his because there ain't really much you can do in the WWE. If you look at most of WWE's wrestlers, even the good ones, a lot of their high impact moves seem to be "repetitive" and "predictable". Plus, with some of the people they have him wrestle (like Ric Flair, Snitsky, etc), he has to be limited to some things.
It's true that you do see a lot of risk taking in TNA's Ultimate X and X-division matches, but I wouldn't say that it is more risk taking than anything that RVD has EVER done. Maybe recently in the WWE, but I wouldn't say EVER. Back in his old ECW days, they had him jumping off balconies and he continually re-invented himself and helped re-invent hardcore wrestling. Nobody has ever seen the "Van-Terminator" until he has done it, and when he did it, he flew lengthwise diagonally across the ring, unlike Shane McMahon's cheap imitation of the move when he just flew on a turnbuckle next to the one he was on. You should also take a look at the matches he had with Jeff Hardy during the Alliance invasions. Thats when a lot of people really started to notice him.
I know you have a right to your opinion, but from what I have seen from RVD in the past, and the fact that he's been held down for a while, I think it's wrong to call him overrated.
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WWE limits the movesets of wrestlers, and that certainly should change. But I still think RVD wouldn't be impressive, if WWE gave him free will to do whatever he wanted.
Anyway, onto Hall of Fame news. William Perry (of NFL fame) is being inducted into the Celebrity Hall of fame this year. I was hoping Pete Rose was the first and only inductee to that part of the HOF. Perry was in the WM 2 battle royal (and I believe that's his only WWF appearance ever). At least with Rose, he appeared several times. I would've thought Mr. T or someone that has appeared more than once, would be in the hall. Not some NFL player.
In other WWE news, POD will be at Wrestlemania to perform Rey Mysterio's theme. Michelle Williams of Destiny's Child fame, will be singing "America the Beautiful".
In return news, Test has resigned with WWE. In my opinion, he isn't that talented. His gimmicks in the past have been horrible, and he is just a boring wrestler.
Onto a little TNA DVD news. Apparently, a Christian Cage DVD is coming out sometime this year. What is with TNA? Cage hasn't been in TNA long, so the DVD won't have much to it. I think TNA is making a mistake by putting out a Cage DVD this soon.
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| Rob1981 wrote: | | WWE limits the movesets of wrestlers, and that certainly should change. But I still think RVD wouldn't be impressive, if WWE gave him free will to do whatever he wanted. |
I'm sure that during the MIB ladder match in WM, that the WWE is gonna give some more lee-way to showcase the ability of real talents of wrestlers such as RVD and Shelton Benjamin. If the MIB ladder match is gonna be the showstealer of that card, it's gonna be because of those two. Maybe after this match, hopefully some of your opinions will change about RVD.
| Quote: | In return news, Test has resigned with WWE. In my opinion, he isn't that talented. His gimmicks in the past have been horrible, and he is just a boring wrestler.
Onto a little TNA DVD news. Apparently, a Christian Cage DVD is coming out sometime this year. What is with TNA? Cage hasn't been in TNA long, so the DVD won't have much to it. I think TNA is making a mistake by putting out a Cage DVD this soon. |
I agree, Test really wasn't that talented when he there the first time around. But, I think the only reason why they kinda gave him a push with a few runs with the IC title was probably because he was big and tall.
I agree with the Cage DVD being put out too soon. I guess that TNA feels that he is just so over with the fans, that they feel they have to put out the DVD sooner rather than later. Besides, I'm sure there will be more stuff other than TNA footage that will be on there, like probably some of the stuff that he did in Calgary before he broke into the WWF. Of course, common sense should say that they can't use any of the stuff he did in the WWE, even though some of the TLC matches that he was a part of was classic.
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I somehow don't think TNA will get Christian footage from his early days. I'm not TNA DVD expect, but I'm thinking none of them include non-TNA footage.
Lockdown has some matches known so far:
-Christian Cage vs Abyss (Basically proves TNA has not much in the main event picture. I doubt Abyss will win, and I doubt he will ever win the world title)
-Sting's Team (Sting+others) vs Jeff Jarrett+Scott Steiner+others (A War Games style match, plus it has weapons hanging from the cage)
My bet is it will be Sting, Team 3-D and whoever else against Jeff Jarrett, Scott Steiner, AMW and some Team Canada members. I'm thinking Lex Luger might be brought in for this. Lex has talked about TNA in recent online interviews, and he seems to be in shape from the sounds of it, as well. While I'm not a fan of Luger or Goldberg, I would prefer Luger.
-Samoa Joe vs Sabu (Should be a good match, and hopefully Sabu does the job.)
*All matches at Lockdown will be in a cage.
In WWE news, Booker T vs Boogey Man is now Booker T+Sharmell vs Boogey Man. It's almost a given, that Boogey Man will will (since most of the time, faces win at WM, with only some exceptions). Sharmell just needs to go, she is annoying and worthless. I hope Booker T gets put into a decent feud with a decent wrestler, after WM is over.
The Money in the Bank is finalized now: Shelton Benjamin vs Rob Van Dam vs Ric Flair vs Bobby Lashley vs Matt Hardy vs Finlay. My bet is RVD or Lashley. I would rather it be Lashley...
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Raw preview for tonight:
-Big Show vs Chris Masters in a "Masterlock challenge"
-WWE champ John Cena vs Vince McMahon
Looks like crap to me. I'm sick of Vince taking up airtime in matches. He can be just fine as a non-wrestler. Leave the wrestling up to the trained wrestlers. There is more than enough wrestlers in WWE, people like Vince, Shane and so on shouldn't be in matches. I'm hoping after Wrestlemania, the McMahons go off TV for a while.
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What happened to the others that post about wrestling?
Anyways, in WWE video game news: Smackdown vs Raw 2007 is coming out later this year. It's for PS2, PS3, PSP and Xbox 360. You didn't read wrong, it somehow will be on 360. I wonder how much Microsoft shelled out to make it onto their system. The previous wrestling games for Xbox have sucked, so I guess Microsoft now gets the Smackdown series as well. Unless it's a one time deal. It being on PS2 and PS3 is just dumb, since most people will probably buy it for the new PS3.
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I actually got to catch the last hour of the WWE HOF induction last night. Yes, I chose to watch that over TNA Impact. It had some really decent highlights. Eddie Guerrero's induction was pretty emotional, but it did take up a lot of that last hour. Chavo's speech about Eddie probably made a lot of people cry. I was kinda expecting a little more from Bret Hart's induction though. I thought Austin would've said more about Bret, and talked a little more about their rivalry, but he didn't. The fans chanting "Austin-Hogan" overshadowed Austin's induction of Bret a little bit. It's definitely nice to see Bret in the HOF though. I saw his DVD, and he had some awesome matches during his career. Surprisingly, he did have some nice things to say about the WWE and thanked Vince. He also said a few nice things to his fans and to some of the wrestlers during his speech, particularly the end. I actually just caught the first couple of hrs in WWE.com.
As far as Wrestlemania tonight, I'm still pondering whether or not to order it (and not just follow it on the Internet). I probably will order it, but here are my predictions (winners in bold)...
Candice vs Torrie
Boogeyman vs Booker T and Sharmell
Even though Boogeyman is undefeated, I believe it wouldn't be right to disrespect the more talented and accomplished performer in Wrestlemania.
Trish Stratus (c) vs Mickie James
If it's Trish's time to lose, this will be it. Mickie James is actually one of the chicks that has some talent. If Mickie doesn't win the belt, the end will probably be weird, possibly with a DQ somewhere.
Kane and Big Show (c.) vs Carlito and Masters
It's time to lose the belts. Kane and Big Show shouldn't even be a tag-team and should go back into singles competition.
Chris Benoit (c.) vs JBL
Benoit should keep the belt today, but this feud will probably continue and he probably will eventually lose it to JBL in the near future.
Edge vs Mick Foley
Could be one of the surprising sleepers.
Undertaker vs Mark Henry
Not much buildup, but the match may be okay. Mark Henry will have his victories against Taker, but not in WM with the win streak on the line.
Money in the Bank RVD
I'm thinking though, at one point in the match Ric Flair is going to come extremely close to winning.
Vince McMahon vs Shawn Michaels
This match is gonna be weird, with a lot of run-ins. And no, Bret Hart wouldn't be one of them.
Angle (c.) vs Orton vs Mysterio
Will be the show stealer. It'd be nice if Angle wins, but he probably won't. Should be the real main event, but probably wouldn't be. Will lead to a huge celebration in the end, I bet.
Cena (c.) vs HHH
Should be academic. But I'm thinking Cena will really make this a good match and really show a lot more than what he has shown in the past. I don't think he (or HHH for that matter) will let HHH carry the whole match. It's Wrestlemania, either of these guys don't wanna disappoint the WWE fans.
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I agree with most of your picks, except for these ones:
Big Show and Kane will win I bet. Even though they aren't a tag team much, WM is usually about the faces winning. Carlito+Masters have had their problems, so I'm betting the official breakup takes place tonight.
Mick Foley over Edge. I somehow don't think WWE has enough faith in Edge. His short title reign was proof of that. He is a great wrestler, but I somehow think Foley will win.
Money in the Bank: RVD or Bobby Lashley probably.
Mysterio if he does win (which he probably will), will just be stupid. He wouldn't even be in the main event now, if Eddie hadn't died. That might be a little offensive, but it's the truth. Rey is talented, but certainly shouldn't be in the main event this way. The whole "dedicating to Eddie" garbage was not needed one bit. Granted, they hardly mention Eddie (compared to before), but they still do. The fact Rey gets Eddie chants to "help" him out in matches to get strength back, is just simply wrong.
WWE could've done the same thing with Benoit or Chavo, but didn't. Rey and Eddie were feuding at the time, so Rey gets the push? That's just dumb WWE logic, if you ask me.
MNM are the Smackdown tag champs, and they have NO Wrestlemania match. That's simply wrong. Mexicools vs MNM vs Noble+Kash would've been great for WM.
Lastly, I hope this is the last WM match ever for Vince McMahon (and any McMahon for that matter). While they are good on the mic, the ring work isn't that great. Shane is basically a big bump type of wrestler, while Vince is just boring.
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