MadMatt Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 [B]Note: This is me running only the United States in my personalized TEW 2007 data(and starting in 2009, on TEW 2008), to see what would happen in the world of wrestling if TEW 2007/2008 was left to sim the game world on its own device. Plus, I thought I'd be a nice exercise to attempt to explain the sometimes wacky AI booking[/B] [QUOTE] [B][U]Wrestling Today Issue One-For Week One May 2008[/B][/U] [U]WWE[/U] [B]The Television[/B]: [COLOR=red][B]WWE Raw for Week One May 2008[/B][/COLOR] [I]The Good:[/I] Triple H against John Bradshaw Layfield: The new WWE Champion and JBL have a pretty damn good brawl for the main event. Surprised they don't save this for Judgment Day, but who I am to judge, as it was a perfectly acceptable main event. DH Smith and Lance Cade was a fairly decent battle, with DH Smith scoring the pin. Jillian against Victoria was also a perfectly acceptable woman's match, with Jillian winning. [I]The Bad:[/I] Cody Rhodes and Hardcore Holly against Santino and Carlito. This match was okay, but the fact Rhodes and Holly have been involved in another non title match brings it down slightly. They win over Santino and Carlito, but the would be challengers beat them after the match. This feud must continue. Yay! Ladies and Gentlemen, Domino is on Raw and he wrestles Val Venis! The WWE breaks up no less than six teams in a wacky brand swapping event(more on that later). Still, I bet Val is pleased to get some face time on Raw. If you can't guess who won, you should just give up watching wrestling. [I]The Ugly[/I] Snitsky and JTG. Why? Snitsky wins for the three of you that care. Also the lack of star power on Raw. [I]The Just Plain Pointless[/I] Super Crazy and Charlie Haas was a choice encounter for Raw. Not a bad match, but just I wonder why this match happened when Michaels, Orton, Kennedy, Cena, Umaga, and many others could have wrestled some matches. [COLOR=purple][B]ECW on Sci Fi[/B][/COLOR] [I]The Good[/I] Matt Hardy against Batista was a great main event. Hardy got in some offense and it was good, but the Batista Bomb beat Hardy. Shelton Benjamin also looked good against the Undertaker. Perhaps putting up a fight against the World Heavyweight Champion will finally get Shelton back to he was three years ago. Gogoplata taps Shelton. [I]The Bad[/I] ECW on Sci Fi looks to be ending at the end of the month. Now considering it looks to becoming the third hour of Smackdown, it's for the best, as there was only two ECW wrestlers(Dreamer and Shelton) on the show. Vladimir Koslov and Mark Henry have a match. Mark Henry wins, to put him over as a monster but also kill the Russian out the gate. [I]The Ugly[/I] Nothing really. [I]The Pointless[/I] Chuck Palumbo against Tommy Dreamer. Palumbo wins over the only ECW original left on the roster, but this match served little purpose. [COLOR=blue][B]WWE Smackdown[/COLOR][/B] [I]The Good[/I] Edge against Kane, for what it's worth, was a great match. Kane's ECW Title wasn't on the line, because Edge is a bit above that title. Chavo interferes and hits Kane with a foreign object, no doubt setting up Chavo's last chance(for now) for the title on the third to last episode of ECW. We might as well rename the ECW Title the Western States Heritage Title, because that's how much it's worth. [I]The Bad[/I] MVP and Khali against the Undertaker and The Big Show. Three men in this match were good, one was acceptable all things considered, but something caused this match not to click. Khali claws the Undertaker to make him pass out and it's Khali against the Undertaker at Judgement Day for the World Heavyweight Title. [I]The Ugly[/I] Mike Knox against Vladimir Koslov. Koslov wins against Knox, like that matters. Also the Miz and Elijah Burke. Both are fine workers(Burke shows a lot of potential and Miz has improved over the past year), but these two should never have a match ever again. The Miz wins after John Morrison interferes, to remind us that they are the WWE Tag Team Champions. [I]The Pointless[/I] Nunzio and Dreamer and Shannon Moore against Rory the Highlander. Dreamer and Moore win respectively, as many long time fans no doubt flash back to the heyday of Wrestling Challenge. [B]That Damn Draft:[/B] Okay, all the women got moved over to Raw, which makes sense considering that's where the WWE Women's Title is. Here's the list of all the male competiors who have moved over. To Raw: Curt Hawkins Domino Jesse Kenny Dykstra Kofi Kingston Stevie Richards To Smackdown(and ECW perhaps but let's face it, there may not be an ECW for much longer): Paul London Rory the Highlander Trevor Murdoch. Alone with no less than six teams broken up. The Highlanders, the Rednecks, the other Rednecks, London and Kendrick, The Edgeheads, and the Greasers. I suspect Dykstra, Murdoch, and maybe London to get pushes, the rest will be useless. [U]TNA:[/U] [COLOR=green][B]TNA Impact[/COLOR][/B] [I]The Good:[/I] This show had a match that was greater than anything on Raw, ECW, or Smackdown and that was Abyss against Kurt Angle. A great match that ends with Angle tapping Abyss clean to the Ankle Lock. More on that later. Kaz and Eric Young against Christian and Rhino was a...unique tag team match. Christian and Rhino seem to be heeling it up a little bit but Eric Young goes to the back and Super Eric returns, allowing Kaz and Eric to get the win in this tag team match. Awesome Kong and Gail Kim have a great match for the Knockout's Title, as they've been known to do in the past. Kim uses her speed and nearly punks Kong to win the title. Awesome Bomb scores the pin for Awesome Kong. X-Division wackiness. Petey Williams retained his title in a fatal four way match, against Chris Sabin, Alex Shelley, and Jimmy Rave. The Motor City Machine Guns worked together a little bit but Petey managed to connect with the Canadian Destroyer on Rave, when the two Machine Guns were knocked out on a miscommunication spot. Samoa Joe defending the title against Booker T at Sacrifice. If they're serious about establishing Joe as a champion, this is the way to do it. [I]The Bad:[/I] Rellik is Killer Spelled Backwards against Brother Devon. Why? The Dudleys are fighting, by the way, and it looks like Devon is going to be cast as the babyface in this situation. Black Reign against Matt Morgan. Morgan jobs when Tomko interferes. One of the match at the next Pay Per View is going to be Tomko against Matt Morgan. [I]The Ugly[/I] Nothing really glaring. [I]The Pointless[/I] Once again, nothing, this was a pretty fluid show wrestling rise and all of the matches had a purpose, even if it was in a Vince Russo twisted distortion of reality kind of way. [I]The Russo:[/I] Abyss returning out of the blue has to cover it, most likely to swerve people. The only thing Russo has been ever to correctly do, is to swerve WCW right into the grave. That randomized six man tag lottery match at the Pay Per View. The winner of the fall gets a title shot, but given TNA's track record with contendership matches, having about a million of them, but only delivering on a few. Hell, I think Shannon Moore's still owed a shot at the X-Division Title from his brief stint in the company. [U]Misc Stuff in the World of Wrestling[/U] Vito Thomaselli won the CZW Best of the Best Tournament, over the Necro Butcher in the finals. The entire tournament was said to be a pretty good independent wrestling show. PWG had a show as well, with Bryan Danielson capturing the PWG Title from the Human Tornado. Also, Roderick Strong and Low Ki teamed up to win the PWG Tag Team Titles against Kevin Steen and El Generico. In the WWE's developmental league, Florida Championship Wrestling, Matt Sydal captured the FCW Florida Heavyweight Championship over Jack Hager. Also former ECW competitor Kevin Thorn and Colt Cabana was said to have a pretty fun match on the same card. [/QUOTE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadMatt Posted May 1, 2008 Author Share Posted May 1, 2008 Here's the latest newsletter. [QUOTE] [B][U]Wrestling Today Newsletter Issue Two-For Week Two May 2008[/B]:[/U] [U]WWE[/U] [B][COLOR=red]WWE Raw Report[/COLOR][/B] [I]The Good[/I] Randy Orton and John Cena was your main event. It was a good match, not the best match of the week, but pretty damn good. Both men trade finishers, lots of false finishes, but Orton low blows Cena and hits the RKO for the pin. Orton wants the title back. Kenny Dykstra makes his return to Raw and loses to Shawn Michaels cleaning to the Superkick. More on the booking later, but I'll concede to the fact that it was a pretty fun eight minute match, with Kenny getting a bit of offense before going down to the end. Your King against Val Venis! Venis is on two weeks in a row and loses to William Regal, with the Regal Stretch. Could Val Venis be getting a push or at least constant airtime after years marooned on Heat? Well, a great match, between two highly underpushed workers. [I]Bad:[/I] Carlito/Santino against Rhodes/Holly part 1421. DQ finish this time in favor of the champions, same old ****, title match at Judgement Day, film at eleven. Hey Koji Kingston welcome to Raw, now lose to Lance Cade. I believe this is Kingston's first defeat but Cade has a vicious lariat. He'll be pushed because he has the look. To a lesser extent, Dykstra shouldn't have jobbed to Michaels cleanly on his first match. Domino and Curt Hawkins form a tag team of two guys who were moved to Raw, breaking up established tag teams. They wrestle Cryme Tyme. Umaga enters the ring and murders all four men. Umaga nearly propelled this to the good column but this tag team match was bad. [I]The Ugly[/i] Layla against Beth Phoenix. Yes, this match happened. And the diva beats the wrestler. Layla/Mickie for the title? Hopefully not but who knows with this company as of late. Triple H not being on Raw. He's the god damn WWE Champion people. [I]The Pointless[/I] None [COLOR=purple][B]The Third Hour of Smackdown on Sci Fi[/COLOR][/B] Three more shows, for this show and than it goes off the air. How did this week's show do? Pretty good actually, let's break it down. [I]The Good[/I] The Big Show against Edge was the best match of the week. A great match, which is a bit of surprise. Show is put over as a bit of a killer and I wonder if he's going to have a program over the summer for the title. Choke Slam pins Edge cleanly. ECW Title match got a fair bit of time, a good match. Kane retained, like that was a shock and Chavo has no more title shots, at least for now. Trevor Murdoch and Paul London both make their debuts on SmackdownECW against each other. Murdoch wins with that Code Red move and looks to be a solid mid level star. Maybe Cade and Murdoch breaking up was the best thing for them, as they look to be getting slight mid level singles partners, as opposed to being a low level team. [I]The Bad:[/I] Mark Henry over Tommy Dreamer. What, was Colin Delaney busy? Dreamer continues to get pooped on as Mark Henry's megapush continues. [I]The Ugly[/I] Nothing [I]The Pointless[/I] Nothing. [COLOR=blue][B]WWE Smackdown[/COLOR][/B] [I]The Good[/I] Edge/The Big Show part two. This time, Edge wins, low blowing Show with a chair and Spearing him for the pin. Tiebreaker seems likely down the road, at Judgement Day perhaps. The Miz and John Morrison defend the WWE Tag Team Titles against Chavo Guerrero and Matt Hardy. An odd pairing on the challenger side, but Chavo seems so desperate to win some gold that he'll team up with Matt Hardy. Fifteen minute title match that really ruled but Morrison pins Chavo to retain the titles after his corkscrew neckbreaker. Trevor Murdoch and Finlay beat the ever living hell out of each other for our amusement. Hornswoggle interfered and Murdoch lariated him to death, but Finlay whacked him with the Shillagh to score the pin. Murdoch bled from the nose after this match. Hell, have this match on every week for the next year and I won't complain. The storyline of Khali coming out and killing midcarders to send a message to the Undertaker. Shannon Moore took a really vicious Tree Slam. Taker/Khali at Judgement Day folks. Shannon Moore/Tommy Dreamer seemed pointless to start, but it was a fun match and Dreamer actually scored a win. Maybe Dreamer just isn't allowed to win on ECW, as he's won on Smackdown two weeks in a row. [I]The Bad[/I] Zach Ryder over Jamie Noble. Enough said. Khali smacked them down [I]The Ugly[/I] Nothing glaring. [I]The Pointless[/I] Deuce/Nunzio. I'm sure Deuce won, and Khali attacked them both, but I was getting a drink during this match. [U]TNA:[/U] [COLOR=green][B]TNA Impact[/COLOR][/B] [I]The Good[/I] The second six man tag team match in the main event had some great wrestler. Christian, Sting, and Samoa Joe won over Kurt Angle, Rhino, and Booker T and if you're confused about the pairings of that match, then join the club. Joe chokes Rhino for the win. Afterwards, Booker attacks Joe and lays him out with the Axe Kick. Kaz and AJ Styles, a great match and Styles wins with the Styles Clash, after a series of Guerrero/Malenko style pinfall reversals. [I]The Bad[/I] Black Reign beat Eric Young. The only redeemable part of this match was Christian and Rhino attacking Young after the match, to set up the Christian/Rhino against Eric Young/Kaz match at the Pay Per View. Otherwise, Black Reign showed that he's really deteroriated since the days of Dustin Rhodes. [I]The Ugly[/I] Nothing [I]The Pointless[/I] Shark Boy and Jimmy Rave had a couple of moments, it's a shame that it didn't matter. Rave scored the win. [I]The Russo[/I] The god damn six man tag team matches, with the random pairings, to set up the main event for the Pay Per View. The main event was a good match, but the six man tag match, involving Scott Steiner, Brother Devon, and Abyss against Petey Williams, Robert Roode, and Tomko left me with the impression that this may have been random. Petey Williams loses to the Black Hole Slam. Yes, that's your X-Division Champion. We have new tag team champions. Jay Lethal and Alex Shelley beat LAX for the vacant titles. Why couldn't have been the Motor City Machine Guns against LAX? Because Russo wanted to be cute, that's why. Scott Steiner and Petey Williams attack the new champions, to set up a match at Sacrifice. And speaking of the devil.. [COLOR=green][B]TNA Sacrifice[/B][/COLOR] [I]The Good[/I] Booker T and Samoa Joe was a good match, only brought down slightly by the finish, as Sharmell waffles Joe with a chair for the disqualification, setting up a return match at the next Pay Per View. Joe shakes off the attack but Booker steals the belt. The random lottery six man was fairly good, all things considered. It was Sting, Abyss, and Brother Devon against Kurt Angle, AJ Styles, and Brother Ray, so an excuse to get Team 3D on opposite teams. A bunch of high impact moves, with Styles stealing Angle's pin on Sting with off of an Angle Slam. So Styles/Angle will happen soon, maybe on TV this week for free. Another great tag team match between Kaz and Young against Christian and Rhino. Kaz pins Christian, as Young held off Rhino on the outside. [I]The Bad[/I] Reign and Rellik beat LAX. Remember when LAX was one of the hottest acts in the company? Well, they jobbed once again, with Rellik scoring the pin over Homicide. Days after winning the titles after teaming up for the first time, Jay Lethal and Alex Shelley drop the belts to Scott Steiner and Petey Williams, when Petey connects with the Canadian Destroyer on Lethal for the pin! So new tag team champions, again, the belts went for Tomko/Styles to Young/Kaz to stripped to Lethal/Shelley to Steiner/Petey all in the last month. Robert Roode and Chris Sabin should have been a good match but it was way too short to mean anything. Roode wins with a fisherman suplex, cleanly against Sabin in under five minutes. James Storm against BG James, I'll say that Storm winning was a good thing, but this match dragged on and these two men didn't mess at all. Awesome Kong against Roxxy Laveux was a below average outing for the knockout's division, mostly because no one really bought that Roxxy could beat Kong. [I]The Ugly[/I] Good gravy, that Tomko/Matt Morgan match was bad. Tomko wins with a kick of doom. [I]The Pointless:[/I] I'd love to know why Jimmy Rave/Sonjay Dutt and Jacqueline Moore/Gail Kim got airtime with no build, that could have been given to the Sabin/Roode match. Rave continues his push and Jacqueline beats Gail Kim, which is bizzaro world booking, considering how Gail was giving Awesome Kong a tough time a long time ago. [I]The Russo[/I] Curry Man against Kip James. The fact that this match was made in the first place was perplexing, but the fact that it had a no contest finish was even more baffling. So, it wasn't a bad show, but given the talent TNA has, they could put on some better shows. [U]ROH[/U] Ring of Honor had a show last week, headlined by a four corners survival match between defending champion Nigel McGuinness, retaining his belt over Austin Aries, Erick Stevens, and Joey Matthews, when Nigel forces Stevens to tap. Also, Bryan Danielson and Takeshi Morshima revisted their feud, with Danielson managing to pin the big man with a small package. Other marquee matches featured Chris Hero over Claudio Castganoli with the Hero's Welcome, Ruckus beating Necro Butcher, Jimmy Jacobs over Delirious, and Brent Albright and Adam Pearce over Kevin Steen and El Generico. Also, in what was a battle for the ages, Shane Hagadorn defeated Tank Toland. [U]Indies:[/u] OVW had Nick Dinsmore retaining his OVW Heavyweight Title against Rob Conway at the weakly show last week. JAPW had their monthly show last Tuesday, with TNA wrestler Frankie "Kaz" Kazarian defeating Kenny Omega to capture the JAPW World Heavyweight Title. Other marquee matches featured Samoa Joe defeating AJ Styles in a match that was as great as you'd expect, Rhino pinning Jay Lethal, LAX over Chris Hero and B-Boy to retain the JAPW Tag Team Title, and Teddy Hart beating Archadia to capture the JAPW New Jershy State Title. [/QUOTE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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chopps4312 Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 It'll be nice to see Val get a title shot of any kind. I enjoy those who put their careers into one company. Especially those who have stuck out the bad along with the good. His gimmick was great for the attitude era but he isn't just a gimmick, he's a good wrestler. Let's hope he gets a push like Holly has. The 6 tag teams being broken up i think will be a big mistake. Didn't this happen in the first ever draft with The Hardys and Dudley's? Even in TNA it hasn't worked in the past. AMW, and Triple X. The exception of Daniels before they ran out of storylines for him. It's a great idea if your willing to give both men a push, or gonna get rid of one man. But to break up 6 tag teams? Clearly someone has dropped the ball in the WWE on this one. Does anyone know how to book the X division in TNA? Or any light weight wrestling for that fact? I think TNA and WWE should to Mexico or Japan for someone with experience in lucha libra wrestling. Nigel McGuinness has been great in ROH. It's a shame TNA dropped the ball with him as well. Yet for all they do wrong we the fans continue to tune in. For one they offer an alternative to the WWE and two, they do do many right things. WWE made mistakes, WCW made mistakes, ECW made mistakes. It takes a strong company to fix the wrong both on the screen and behind the scenes. I do believe they can survive at least for the time being. Samoa Joe is still the best damn prospect WWE passed up on. Knowing them, he'd be teamed with the likes of Umaga and washed up in the under card for years just so the competition wouldn't get him. Good job bud, keep it up Go B's in 08-09 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadMatt Posted May 1, 2008 Author Share Posted May 1, 2008 Thanks to everyone who has read or feedbacked so far. Now, on with the latest newsletter. [QUOTE] [B][U]Wrestling Today Newsletter Number Three for Week Three May 2008[/B][/U] [U]WWE[/U] [COLOR=red][B]WWE Raw[/COLOR][/B] [I]The Good[/I] Mr. Kennedy and William Regal had a fun match. A really fun brawl that lead to a no-contest after both of the men beat the ever living snot out of each other. Hey, Umaga taps out clean to John Cena with the STFU. Result was a bit sketchy, but Cena's going to fight Triple H at Summerslam(at least that's the rumor right now, but who knows these days). Meanwhile, Umaga has thrown out an open challenge to anyone in the entire world for Judgement Day. Chris Jericho beats Kenny Dykstra in a non-title match with the Code Breaker. Fine midcard match on Raw, although Dykstra's losing streak continues. Santino and Carlito do not wrestle Cody Rhodes and Hardcore Holly! The fact that Layla did not win the Women's Title. Phew. Jeff Hardy makes his return this Sunday against Randy Orton. Good match, Hardy should be entertaining as usual, until he screws up again. [I]The Bad:[/I] Ron Killings makes his Raw debut and loses cleanly in a tag team match to Santino and Carlito. For the record, his partner was Stevie Richards but it's still better than teaming with Pacman Jones. The actual Layla/Mickie James Women's Title Match was absolutely abyssmal. Maria against Beth Phoenix wasn't much better. At least both of the women's matches at Sacrifice were better. [I]The Ugly[/I] Triple H is not on Raw again and won't be on Judgement Day this Sunday. He's the champion, damnit! Lance Cade getting a shot at the WWE Intercontinental Title at Judgement Day against Chris Jericho. Cade beats Jericho after his match with Kenny. Unless, Vince has lost his mind(again), Jericho's retaining. [I]The Pointless[/I] Hardcore Holly against Charlie Haas. The World Tag Team Champion went over naturally, but Haas's time in the WWE might not be long. [COLOR=purple][B]ECW on Sci Fi[/COLOR][/B] [I]The Good[/I] Dreamer wins, Dreamer wins, Dreamer wins! Well it was against Nunzio, but still... The Miz and John Morrison had another great tag team match with Shannon Moore and Jimmy Wang Yang. I know how much that shocks you but it was a fine match. Non-Title with Miz and Morrison picking up the victory. [I]The Bad[/I] The WWE continues to drop the ball on CM Punk. He teams with the ECW Champion Kane against Gregory Helms and Chavo Guerrero. I don't think one mention was made of Helms making his return from a neck injury. Chavo pins CM Punk. Yes, Chavo, Kane's personal bitch, the man who lost in the quickest match in Wrestlemania history, pinned the Money in the Bank winner, cleanly I might add. Batista and Mark Henry. Batista really got exposed in this match. Two spinebusters win the match for Batista. [I]The Ugly[/I] Where in the hell is Colin Delaney? [I]The Pointless[/I] Nothing. [COLOR=blue][B]WWE Smackdown[/B][/COLOR] [I]The Good[/I] Absolutely nothing, the most worthless two hours of my life. At least Nitro during Russo's reign and TNA on most weeks offered some amusement at some of the more idiotic booking. This show was just might have been a test pattern for two hours. [I]The Bad[/I] What in the hell did Jimmy Wang Yang deserve to earn a shot at the United States Title? He's been in a tag team for the past six months. Matt Hardy cleanly wins with the Twist of Fate in three minutes. Batista/Khali may have been worse than Henry/Batista on ECW. Khali claws Big Dave into submission. Hoo-rah! Taker comes out. Yay! Khali's not getting the title. MVP and the Big Show had a match, mostly with MVP pulling the chicken**** heel act. Edge interferes and chairs Big Show, causing MVP to score the pin. This might have been in the good column, had it set up an Edge/Big Show match for Judgement Day, but that match isn't happening. Shelton Benjamin and Vladimir Koslov. This match happened. Shelton won by disqualification after the Russian mauled him. No one moves up the card. Yay, Smackdown! [I]The Ugly[/I] Festus beating Trevor Murdoch. We need Paul Heyman back to book this show, stat with epic matches like this as the alternative. ECW got cancelled first, how much you want to bet Smackdown's next? [I]The Pointless[/I] A random Triple Threat Match between John Morrison, Elijah Burke, and Chuck Palumbo. Morrison wins. Maybe to set up a future challenger for Kane, but who knows. Oh and by the way, CM Punk and Kane against John Morrison and Miz for the WWE Tag Team Titles at Judgement Day. [B]Judgement Day[/B]: [I]The Good[/I] Hey the Undertaker and Great Khali was a perfectly acceptable World Heavyweight Championship Match. Khali taps to the Gogoplata. I've noticed that Khali's best matches tend to be against the Undertaker. Jeff Hardy and Randy Orton was another great match, although I question the wisdom of putting Jeff Hardy over cleanly over the former WWE Champion. RKO is blocked, low blow, Twist of Fate, Swanton Bomb. Chavo dies for his art against Umaga, taking a vicious Samoan Spike. He may be turning face. Other than killing the brand extension, Shelton Benjamin and Mr. Kennedy was great as well. Kennedy wanted to test himself against the greatest athletes the world has to offer, so Shelton stepped up to the plate and ate the Mic Chick for the pin. The Miz and John Morrison retained their WWE Tag Team Titles against Kane and CM Punk in another great tag team match, when Punk accidentally hits Kane with the Money in the Bank Briefcase and Morrison pins Kane. After the match, they teast Punk cashing up but Miz and Morrision beat up Punk and steal his briefcase. The other World Tag Team Title Match was fine. Holly pinned Santino with the Alabama Slam, so hopefully this feud is finally over but damned if I know who the hell Rhodes and Holly would move onto. [I]The Bad[/I] Mark Henry and Big Show lumbered through ten minutes of non-action before Show managed to Choke Slam Henry for the pin. This really should have been Edge and The Big Show. Nunzio beats Trevor Murdoch? Say what? This would have been under the pointless column had it not been for that baffling booking. I could have sworn that Murdoch would be getting a push of some sorts. They as well have not broken up Cade and Murdoch. Chris Jericho pins Lance Cade with the Code Breaker. No one cared about Cade. [I]The Ugly[/I] Mickie James and Katie Lea Burchill wrestle for the Women's Title. This was actually not a bad match, but this was Katie's first match and the fans did not buy her at all against the champion. If Vince Russo was booking, they would have done something cute like Katie winning the title, but Mickie retains the title, proving that McMahon hasn't lost all of his marbles yet. [I]The Pointless[/I] Shad and Charlie Haas wrestle against each other. Also Brian Kendrick against Jesse. That's what happens when you break up all your tag teams, you get heatless singles matches. Shad and Jesse win these matches by the way. [U]TNA[/U] [COLOR=green][B]TNA Impact[/b][/COLOR] YAY, My favorite program of the week! Let's break it down. [I]The Good:[/I] Sting and AJ Styles will wrestle each other at Slammivesary! I'm surprised that it wasn't Angle and Styles, but hell, Styles pinned Sting in the six man, so that match makes sense and will be a good match. Booker T and Christian Cage have a great match, with Booker winning since he's facing Joe. No King of the Mountain this year, but Joe/Booker after their match at Sacrifice should be a great main event. Of course, it will be even better if it had a finish. Jay Lethal and Chris Sabin wrestled. A great match, with to top of the line X-Division wrestlers, Lethal wins with a cradle, as he might be looking to get that X-Division Title Match. Awesome Kong and Gail Kim had their usual fun Women's Match, which was better than either of the women's matches on Raw this week but this match is dangerously close to being overexposed. Kong wins with the Awesome Bomb. [I]The Bad[/I] Brother Devon in the singles main event of this show. Yes, you read that right. True, he had a match against AJ Styles, but I just can't get over the fact that Devon is wrestling in a singles match main event. And hey, they're breaking up Team 3D, because we know how well that worked in WWE. [I]The Ugly[/I] Nothing [I]The Pointless[/I] Alex Shelley against Lance Hoyt, although it could have been shifted one section up or down if Hoyt had won. Thankfully, Shelley scored the win. [I]The Russo[/I] TNA Tag Team Champions Petey Williams and Scott Steiner against Homicide and Eric Young. Yes, not against LAX or Young and Kaz, Homicide and Eric Young. A bunch of tag teams run out, including the regular partners of the challengers, leading to a brawl. [U]ROH[/U] We understand that Nigel McGuinness will put his ROH World Title on the line against Bryan Danielson at the Death Before Dishonor show in June. More on this show in the coming weeks. [U]Indies[/U] The Kings of Wrestling won the CHIKARA Tag Team Titles against Icoherance. In other big matches on the show, Chuck Taylor defeated Mike Quakenbush, Sabin and Eddie Kingston defeated F.I.S.T(Icarus and Gran Akuma), and El Pantera defeated Larry Sweeney. FIP had a show the same night at Judgement Day. Roderick Strong defeated Erick Stevens in the main event to retain the FIP Title, Nigel McGuinness defeated Bryan Danielson, Brent Albright over Jack Evans, and Jay Briscoe defeated Salvatore Rinauro to capture the Florida State Heritage Title in the top matches of the evening. [/QUOTE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadMatt Posted May 1, 2008 Author Share Posted May 1, 2008 The final newsletter for the month of May. [Quote] [B][U]Wrestling Today Newsletter Number Four for Week Four, May 2008[/B][/U] [U]WWE[/U] [COLOR=red][B]WWE Raw[/COLOR][/B] It may have been one of the best televised shows on some time. [I]The Good[/I] Triple H appears on Raw in a non title match against Umaga. For you people who don't like Triple H, I bet you'll be happy to know that he loses. Sure, JBL interefered, but the Samoan Spike put the Game down for three. JBL beats Triple H to a bloody pulp with a series of chairshots, to set up Hunter's title feud. Shawn Michaels and Randy Orton, these are great men. Michaels connects with the Superkick to score the pin, but these two got a lengthy match for Raw, with a lot of nearfalls. Mr. Kennedy and Kenny Dykstra have another good match, with Kennedy wins. Dykstra jobs again, but at least he's losing to top level Raw competitors and not, Chuck Palumbo like he was on Smackdown. William Regal and DH Smith had a fun, British Style Match. I know this is getting to be old hat, but this was another great match. Regal Stretch submits Smith. Kendrick and Carlito was also fun and Kendrick wins over Carlito. [I]The Bad[/I] With every good show, a litte rain must pour and that Ashley/Maria match was the thunder cloud in tonight's solid addition of Raw. [I]The Ugly[/I] Nothing. [I]The Pointless[/I] Robbie the Highlander against Super Crazy. [COLOR=purple][B]The last ECW on Sci Fi[/B][/COLOR] [I]The Good[/I] Edge and the Big Show should have happened last Sunday damn it. They had a great match here, with Show Choke Slamming Edge to score the pin. If I didn't know any better, they were slowly building Show up for a feud with the Undertaker over the belt through the summer. The Miz and John Morrison against Shannon Moore and Jimmy Wang Yang had another great match between the only two established teams on Smackdown. Tommy Dreamer against Bam Neely only makes this column because Dreamer wins, at least the ECW original is thrown a bone on the final show. [I]The Bad[/I] MVP and The Great Khali against the Undertaker and Batista was the final match in the history of Sci Fi. And it ended in a no contest. Undertaker beats everyone and stands tall, the last man we see as the show fades to black. [I]The Ugly[/I] None [I]The Pointless[/I] None. [COLOR=blue][B]WWE Smackdown[/B][/COLOR] [I]The Good:[/I] COLIN DELANEY SIGHTING! He loses to Chavo but still looks fine as Chavo takes his frustrations out on him for getting beaten up by Kane and Umaga in recent weeks, and wins with a top-rope DDT with Colin getting spiked on his head, the best moment of the show. Finlay's squash of Zach Ryder squeezed into this column, because of Finlay forced this kid to pay his dues by beating the ever living **** out of him. Hornswoggle hits the Tadpole Splash on Ryder after the match. Man, breaking up all those tag teams sure did good. [I]The Bad[/I] The WWE Tag Team Champions getting buried against the makeshift team of The Big Show and Batista. Match was fine, but Miz and Morrison were outmatched, with Show planting Miz with the Choke Slam for the pin. Chuck Palumbo and Festus wrestled each other but at least it was short as the Great Khali comes out and assaults everyone, taking his frustrations out on losing the World Heavyweight Title. This leads to one of the most wretched matches in Smackdown history for later tonight. [I]The Ugly[/I] Kane and the Great Khali. Khali destroys Kane with the Tree Slam, beating the ECW Champion in under five minutes. Non title thankfully, as Khali as ECW Champion may be more wrong than Vince McMahon as ECW Champion. [I]The Pointless[/I] Deuce against Gregory Helms was your "WTF" match of the night, however, Helms did win. [U]TNA[/U] [COLOR=green][B]TNA Impact[/COLOR][/B] [I]The Good[/I]: When the show ended. [I]The Bad[/I] That this show had two hours of airtime. [I]The Ugly[/I] The amount drugs that Vince Russo was on when he wrote this show. [I]The Russo[/I] Oh boy, here we go. Chris Sabin and Petey Williams have a match with the X-Division Title. A good match in theory, but the fact Sabin lost last week to Lethal and getting a title shot boggles the find. Scott Steiner attacks Sabin before the match and throws him in, allowing Petey to hit an easy Canadian Destroyer for the pin in ten seconds, thus depriving us of a good match. Alex Shelley tries to make the save, but Steiner beats him up down, to further bury the Motor City Machine Guns deep under ground. ODB and Gail Kim against Velvet Sky and Angelina Love. This was just plain sad. Three minutes of my life that I'll never get back, some bad selling by the heels. At least Kim and ODB won. Awesome Kong against Tracy Brooks and Roxxy. Kong beats up the two women, good. Tracy gets some offense on Kong, with Kong murdering her equals bad. This match went too long, but Kong managed to hit the Awesome Bomb on Roxxy to score the pin. Tracy Brooks attempted to get some of Kong but she gets destroyed as well, which will somehow lead to a Knockout's Title Match at Slammiversary between Tracy Brooks and Awesome Kong. Yes, I know. Brother Devon, Kip James, BG James, and Robert Roode have a four way match. My theory is that Russo just threw a bunch of the names into a tumbler for the show this week and drew out these four. Devon pins Roode with a reverse DDT. Yes, cleanly, as the James Gang brawl to the back. James Storm and Samoa Joe had a non title match. Granted was a fine match but the booking was baffling. Booker T distracted Joe and Storm hit him with an obviously beer bottle to score the pin. Yes, over the TNA World Champion. The same guy who was feuding with Eric Young over a fake drinking title months ago pinned the unstoppable TNA World Champion by hitting him with a fake glass bottle. Black Reign and Brother Ray against Rhino and Christian Cage was a baffling piece of booking. Black Reign pins Christian cleanly. Once again, Russo had to be on some wacky drugs to come up with this booking. [U]The Indies[/U] Dusty Rhodes...Ric Flair...Harley Race...Jack Brisco....Dory Funk Jr....Lou Thesz....Rob Conway? This past Monday, Rob Conway beat Adam Pearce to capture the NWA World Championship. Also Nick Dinsmore defeated Homicide in the semi-main in what was said to be a great match. [/QUOTE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadMatt Posted May 4, 2008 Author Share Posted May 4, 2008 The first newsletter for the month of June. [QUOTE] [B][U]Wrestling Today Newsletter #5[/B][/U] [U]WWE[/U] [I]The Good[/I] Randy Orton and John Cena have another great match, a hot main event with several nearfalls. Cena taps Orton with the STFU after avoiding the concussion kick. VAL VENIS WINS A MATCH! He beat Kenny Dykstra, who is the resident jobber on Raw. Venis reverses a small package to score the pin. Chris Jericho and William Regal battle for the WWE Intercontinental Title, another rocking match in a set of them on Raw recently. Prolonged Regal Stretch but Jericho fights out. Walls of Jericho blocked. Butterfly Power Bomb avoided, and Code Breaker scores the pin as Jericho retains the title. Melina and Beth Phoenix against Kelly Kelly and Natalya was an odd match, but it worked, mostly because Kelly Kelly was kept out of the ring for ninety five percent of the match, until she was tagged in, to eat the pin from the fisherwoman buster on Beth [I]The Bad[/I] Mr. Kennedy against Jesse. Who thought of this match? Seriously, breaking up all of those tag teams were the worst thing that the WWE did. Kennedy wins with the Mic Check in an anticlimatic match. . [I]The Ugly[/I] Once again, Katie Lea Burchill and Mickie James had a Women's Title Match. Once again, it was heatless, with Mickie winning the belt with her DDT in a by the numbers encounter. [I]The Pointless[/I] Robbie the Highlander and Cody Rhodes wrestled, with no point. [COLOR=blue][B]WWE Smackdown[/COLOR][/B] [I]The Good[/I] The Big Show and Edge do battle once more but it's their usual good match, so I'll cut them some slack for the repetitive nature of this match. Edge cheats like mad, throwing everything in the book at the Big Show, but Show comes back, choke slams Edge and the continued push of the Big Show as a monster continues. ECW might not be on, but Kane is still the champion, and still defending his title, against Matt Hardy, who just happens to be the WWE United States Champion. You might as well unify these two titles, since there's not an ECW, but who knows what's going on with Vince McMahon. With that in mind, it was a great match. Twist of Fate and Legdrop of fthe top rope, but Kane sits up, kills Hardy, making him bump like a pinball and ends with a hellacious Choke Slam. Chavo Guerrero/Tommy Dreamer have a perfectly acceptable midcard match. Dreamer gets a couple of nearfalls but Chavo connects with a brain buster and Frog Splash, scoring the pin on Dreamer. Nunzio beats Trevor Murdoch again, but now that it looks like they are making a bit of a storyline out of this, so I'll let it slide this time. [I]The Bad[/I] Zach Ryder over Jimmy Wang Yang. Yang had a great match but no one cares about Ryder ever since they broke up him and Hawkins. Another tag team that would have been better off remaining together. [I]The Ugly[/I] None [I]The Pointless[/I] Deuce and Shannon Moore wrestled for ten minutes. Of all the names on the unified Smackdown and ECW roster, they put these two out there. [U]TNA[/U] [COLOR=green][B]TNA Impact[/B][/COLOR] [I]The Good[/I] Samoa Joe and AJ Styles+Twenty Minutes=Greatness. Nice to see someone distracted Russo long enough to have this encounter on Impact. Non-Title, and a clean finish with Joe choking Styles out. They save the run in for after the match, as Booker T attacks Joe, helping Styles beat him down, with Sting making the save, setting up the top main matches for Slammiversary. Kurt Angle had a good match and it was against Brother Devon. The Battle of Team 3D continues, with Brother Ray coming up to talk trash to Devon and Angle catches Devon in the Ankle Lock, tapping him out. Christian and Rhino lose to Petey Williams and Scott Steiner, when Steiner pins Christian with a belly to belly suplex off the ropes, solid booking to put the tag team champions over. [I]The Bad[/I] Awesome Kong and Roxxy's match for the Knockout's Title was just not as good the last encounter, because the crowd didn't buy Roxxy in winning, a couple of nearfalls, but Kong pretty much mauled her. Kong connects with the Awesome Bomb on Roxxy. After the match, Tracy Brooks makes the save, well in theory, as Kong beats her up, with a back fist. So these two will be fighting for the Knockout's Title on Sunday, but the title's not going off Kong. [I]The Ugly[/I] Notta [I]The Pointless[/I] [I]The Russo[/I] Christy Hemme beat Jacqueline Moore after James Storm accidentally hit Jackie with the beer bottle. So one week after beating Joe, James Storm is involved in a pointless women's match. This is TNA! Another random team up, with Jay Lethal and Tomko. And they fight! Wooo! Kaz pins Lethal. [B]TNA Slammiversary[/B] [I]The Good[/I] Samoa Joe and Booker T battle for the TNA Championship in another great match, as Joe scores with the Muscle Buster after surviving three Axe Kicks. Joe celebrates with the title as we close the show. Sting might have beat AJ Styles but damn if Styles did not get put over in defeat. He avoided the Stinger Splash, Scorpion Deathlock is held up for over a minute before Styles grabs the ropes, and Scorpion Death Drop is kicked out of at two and a half. Styles goes for a Stinger Splash of his own but Sting avoids and rolls him up for the pin. Alex Shelley and Kurt Angle have a match, with Angle throwing out an open challenge to anyone in the company for being left off the show. Shelley gets a lot of offense against Angle, much like Kaz and Jay Lethal did, but in the end, Angle catches a springboard dropkick and locks the Ankle Lock for the submission. Shelley looked like a star but what they do with him afterwards will see how effective this match will be. Christian and Rhino against Kaz and Eric Young. Another fantastic tag team match, the end with Rhino hitting the Gore to Kaz and Christian pinning him. If they keep booing the TNA tag division like this, they might actually do something with the titles. Awesome Kong beats Tracy Brooks in thirty seconds, once again putting over Kong as a monster and a destroyer. No problems with this. Chris Sabin and Jimmy Rave, as pointless as it might seem, had a perfectly acceptable opener. Rave might be something soon in the X-Division, but right now, Sabin, the multi time former X-Division Champion, Cradle Shocked Rave for the duke. A hot opener. Curry Man wins! Woo, and he pins Robert Roode in a fatal four way match also involving Matt Morgan and Homicide. You know, a Curry Man/Robert Roode feud might not be the worst thing in TNA. [I]The Bad[/I] After that wretched tag team match a couple of weeks ago on Impact, the fact they did ODB and Gail Kim against Velvet-Sky Entertainment once more is rather appaling. ODB scores the pin, as the announcers talk about how she wants another title shot against Awesome Kong. Brother Ray against BG James was a rather odd match, considering these two men are feuding with their former tag team partners. Kip James costs BG James the victory. Maybe BG/Devon vs. Ray/Kip at Victory Road. Yes, I'm sure that match will be thrilling. Book it Vinny Ru! [I]The Ugly[/I] Nothing. [I]The Pointless[/I] Notta. [I]The Russo[/I] Shark Boy/Jay Lethal. Hey, a match between Stone Cold Steve Austin(circa 1998) versus Randy Savage(circa 1988), might have been pretty damn good. These two imitations doing a storyline match, that killed what could have been a potentially fun X-Division match, nearly ruined this entire Pay Per View. Hey, let's give Sonjay Dutt the X-Division Title Shot against Petey Williams when he hasn't been on television for the last month and in fact, lost at the last Pay Per View. Let's have him beat down Petey for most of the match, until Scott Steiner makes the save and allows a Canadian Destroyer for the pin. Petey Williams is still X-Division Champion but as poorly as he's being booked, you might as well call up Ed Ferrara and Madusa while you'll at it Russo. Hell, even bring in Prince Iaukea, he's not doing much these days. Black Reign wins a match against Brother Devon, Tomko, and Hernandez. Once again, Russo's has to draw these matches out of a hat. Has Dustin Rhodes done anything good since his entertaining tag team with Booker T? He pins Tomko, who was on the rise a few months ago. [U]The Indies[/U] Low-Ki is the new IWA: MS Heavyweight Champion, beating Roderick Strong in a match for the vacated title. Also, the Iron Saints captured the IWS: MS Tag Team Championships as well. PWG had a show this past week, with the main event featuring Bryan Danielson successfully defending his PWG Championship against Super Dragon in the main event. Also, in the semi-main event, Austin Aries pinned Rocky Romero. Sadly, it appears that Matt Sydal's reign as FCW Heavyweight Champion will be a short one, as Drew McIntyre pinned him to capture the championship on the monthly FCW show. Also, Johnny Jeter and Kevin Thorn defeated Mighty Mikey and Nick Nemeth, Brad Bradley beat Mike Kruel, and the Puerto Rican Nightmares retained the FCW Tag Team Titles against the team of Colt Cabana and TJ Wilson. OVW also had a monthly show, as Nick Dinsmore retained his OVW Heavyweight Title over Joey Matthews in the main event. Also, new OVW Tag Team Champions as Jacob Duncan and Tommy McNaler defeated the OVW Tag Team Champions Los Locos to capture thte titles. McNaler and Duncan will now be known as "Collateral Damage" TNA's Sonjay Dutt won the CZW World Heavyweight Title, defeating Nick Gage for the title. Also Toby Klein and Ricky Reyes captured the CZW World Tag Team Titles. On this card, the CZW Light Heavyweight Title was discontinued and it is announced that a new championship belt will come up in the upcoming weeks. An odd main event on a wrestling card held in the tri-state area featured Raven and Sylvan Grenier defeat Juventud Guerrera and Rosey. Also in other key matches, Brother Runt defeated Ricky Banderas, Monty Brown defeated Orlando Jordan, Justin Credible defeated Matt Bentley, and Rodney Mack defeated Joey Abs. [/QUOTE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopps4312 Posted May 4, 2008 Share Posted May 4, 2008 Nice to see Vince considering the Val push. In my dynasty i got him to come to TNA where after 7 months of a solid push he just defeated Cage for the title. hopefully he'll get the equal chance here. TNA could be much much worse. I am sad with the current X division road Russo has taken. Booker T/Samoa Joe seemed like a good bout. Always a toss up. Keep up the good work man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadMatt Posted May 4, 2008 Author Share Posted May 4, 2008 Another newsletter! [QUOTE] [B][U]Wrestling Today Newsletter #6 For Week Two, June 2008[/B][/U] [U]WWE[/U] [COLOR=red][B]WWE Raw[/COLOR][/B] [I]The Good:[/I] William Regal and Shawn Michaels, was a really great match. Both of these men can have a good match with a mop(or maybe Snitsky). Superkick puts down Regal, as Shawn Michaels continues his winning streak, maybe back to the WWE Championship. Okay, despite the reptitive nature of the World Tag Team Title Match, it was fine. Rhodes and Holly retained the World Tag Team Titles against Carlito and Santino to the shock of no one when Holly pins Santino with the Alabama Slam. Now can we please get a new tag team match. Mickie James and Beth Phoenix was an awesome little women's match, with the champion winning, despite it being a non-title match. Jillian enters the ring and attacks Mickie, laying her out, setting up the Women's Title Match for Vengeance. [I]The Bad[/I] Snitksy and Jeff Hardy wrestle. This was not the Jeff Hardy of Judgement Day and Snitsky was his usual sucktacular self(bring back the beard, damn it). Roll up scores the win after Snitsky beats down Hardy for most of the match. Curt Hawkins/Mr. Kennedy. This match happened last week, and it happened this week. A wretched match, Kennedy wins. Hoo-ray. Chris Jericho against Domino. Another squash with an obvious result. Code Breaker pins Domino in five minutes [I]The Ugly[/I] Nothing glaring. [I]The Pointless[/I] Kofi Kingston and Stevie Richards against Robbie the Highlander and Paul Burchill. Kofi pins Burchill. Yay! [COLOR=blue][B]WWE Smackdown[/COLOR][/B] [I]The Good[/I] MVP and CM Punk's match in the main event was good, although CM Punk lost again, with a running kick to the corner after the Miz and John Morrison distracted Punk with the briefcase that they stole at Judgement Day. [I]The Bad[/I] Hey, Jesse, welcome back to Smackdown! What was the point of you going over to Raw anyway? The Daltons against The Miz and John Morrison was too short, with the Miz winning with the Reality Check on Jesse. Jimmy Wang Yang and Matt Hardy have another battle for the United States Title and too short to mean anything. Twist of Fate with Yang on the second rope, which was kind of cool. Afterwards, Hardy challenges Kane for the belt for a brand that no longer exists at Vengeance. [I]The Ugly[/I] Batista and the Great Khali had their usual match. Clawhold makes Batista pass out. I wonder if Batista pissed off someone lately, as he's been Khali's bitch lately. [I]The Pointless[/I] Deuce/Chavo Guerrero and Zach Ryder/Nunzio both match matches. Chavo beats Deuce and Ryder pins Nunzio. [COLOR=green][B]TNA Impact[/COLOR][/B] [I]The Good[/I] Samoa Joe and AJ Styles have the second great match for the second week on a row. Joe chokes Styles for the victory but Kurt Angle runs out and attacks Joe, bloodying him with the title belt. Angle wants his return match at Victory Road! Good match, but this had better be the last Joe/Angle match for at least a year, as this match is getting dangerously close to being overplayed. Homicide and Rellik was an interesting match because Rellik is Killer spelled backwards and he wrestled a guy named Homicide. That was great and they had a great match, with Homicide wins with a lariat. Christian and Rhino against the Rock N Rave Infection served its purpose as a squash to get Rhino and Christian over as a dominant set of challengers. Rhino gores Lance Hoyt for the pin! [I]The Bad[/I] Sting and Black Reign might have had a good match, had this been WCW in like 1993 or 1994. Tonight, it was bad, ten minutes of slow brawling. Vertical Suplex is countered into a Scorpion Death Drop for the pin. Afterwards, Booker T attacks Sting. Why? I don't know, but Sting has been laid out with the Axe Kick. [I]The Ugly[/I] The fact that Awesome Kong and Salinas match lasted five minutes. That was about four minutes and thirty seconds longer. Kong did win, but she got too much offense. [I]The Russo[/I] Kaz and Eric Young get a TNA World Tag Team Title Shot against Petey Williams and Scott Steiner. A good idea in theory, but the problem is that they lost at the Pay Per View. Steiner and Petey retain the titles, they beat the losers, wow, that TNA Tag Team Title reign is really paying off for Big Poppa Pump and Little Petey Pump. [U]Television Ratings and Pay Per View Buyrates[/U] Raw for this week received a 3.3 rating(3722400 views), Smackdown received a 1.5 rating(23144350 viewers), and TNA Impact received a 0.9 rating(1015200). TNA Slammiversary's buyrate was 0.73 or 292000 buys. It was up from the Sacrifice Buyrate of 0.68 or 272000 buys. Of course, both TNA shows got spanked by Judgement Day, with it's 1.3 buyrate or 520000 buys. [/QUOTE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadMatt Posted May 7, 2008 Author Share Posted May 7, 2008 Took me a couple of days to get around to writing it, but here's Week Seven of the Wrestling Today Newsletter. [QUOTE] [B][U]Wrestling Today Newsletter for Week Three June 2008[/B][/U] [U]WWE[/U] [COLOR=red][B]WWE Raw[/COLOR][/B] [I]The Good[/I] Triple H and John Bradshaw Layfield had a debate. This is about as amusing as it sounds. They'll fight for the WWE Championship at Vengeance but Hunter used his sledgehammer to chase Layfield off because he's Hunter. Mr. Kennedy and Randy Orton's match was better than expected. Both men are heels, but Kennedy played the defacto face, which is find as Orton is a great heel. RKO puts Kennedy down. Val Venis wins another match. The win streak is at 2-0! This week's victim was Burchill. Brian Kendrick pins Snitsky. Sure it was a fluke pin and Snitsky beat Kendrick up after the match, but still, a win over Snitsky is great as he's useless. He's Kane minus all the ability. Kenny Dykstra and Charlie Haas also had a fun match, although I question this match being on Raw. And hey, Kenny finally wins, his first victory since moving over on Raw. [I]The Bad[/I] Domino and Chris Jericho had another sucktacular match. Jericho's being wasted as WWE Intercontinental Champion, but he would be better served defending against guys like Kennedy, Dykstra, and Venis for example. This is a no contest, leading a title match at Vengeance. I swear I'm not making this match. The wrestling main event was Cody Rhodes and Hardcore Holly against Santino and Carlito. Yes, this God forsanken match again. Cody pins Santino to win the match. If these two teams wrestle one more time I'm shooting my tv. [I]The Ugly[/I] Layla beats Mickie James in a non title match. I don't care if Jillian intereed, this was still bad booking. [I]The Pointless[/I] None [COLOR=blue][B]WWE Smackdown[/COLOR][/B] [I]The Good[/I] Shelton Benjamin and Tommy Dreamer were the only eight minutes of good wrestling on this show. Dreamer gets more offense than usual, but Shelton rolls up Dreamer for the pin. Also, MVP hints that he's going after the World Heavyweight Title, giving the Undertaker a fresh program. [I]The Bad[/I] The Miz pins Finlay. Yes, you read that right, in a tag team match with Mark Henry teaming with Finlay and John Morrison teaming with The Miz. Mark Henry beats the Miz, setting up what I'm sure is going to be an epic feud between these two men. Chuck Palumbo faces Kane for the ECW Title and Matt Hardy defends the WWE United States Title against Festus. Unless the writers have totally lost their minds, they weren't dropping the titles. Indeed Kane chokeslams his way to victory, while Hardy hits the Twist of Fate on Festus for the pin. Khali and Big Show only gets off the "ugly" side of the coin, with Show bodyslamming Khali. Khali still wins with the clawhold of doom but seeing the ring shake was a cool visual. [I]The Ugly[/I] Deuce and Rory sucked and blowed at the same time. Deuce wins, with a running kick to the face that was the only move that looked like it had any contact. Knowing WWE, Deuce will be feuding with the Undertaker over the title by Summerslam. No Edge. That's always sad. [I]The Pointless[/I] Nothing. [U]TNA[/U] [COLOR=green][B]TNA Impact[/COLOR][/B] [I]The Good[/I] Kaz and Eric Young against Christian Cage and Rhino for the number one contendership for the TNA Tag Team Titles opened up the program with a bang. Kaz pins Christian with a double missile dropkick. Brother Devon's singles run continues, but he has a fairly acceptable match with AJ Styles. Styles rolls up Devon out of the corner for the pin. Great hype for Angle and Joe Part VI, even though neither man were in the light. Same goes for Booker and Sting [I]The Bad[/I] Awesome Kong retained her TNA Knockout's Title against Salinas and Gail Kim. Kim and Kong have had some great matches, but the chemistry was knocked off when Salinas was inserted in there. [I]The Ugly[/I] A few of the spots in the six woman tag. In fact, that lands the entire match on here. It was Velvet Skye, Raisha Saed, and Jacqueline Moore against ODB, Tracy Brooks, and Christy Hemme. Actually, I think an ODB/Saeed or even ODB/Jackie match would be pretty decent. This match was not and it showed. Saeed pinned ODB. [I]The Pointless[/I] Sonjay Dutt and Petey Williams continue their heatless feud over the X-Division Championship. Petey retains, a couple of nice moments, film at eleven. [I]The Russo[/I] LAX against Rellik and Reign in the main event. The main event! The main event! LAX wins, but with all the wrestlers who didn't close out the show, having this of all things end it was foolish. No Alex Shelley for the second week in a row after his great match against Kurt Angle. [U]ROH[/U] [B]Ring of Honor Death Before Dishonor Results[/B] Pre-Show Matches: -Shane Hagadorn defeated Jason Blade -Allison Danger defeated Daizee Haze The show itself: -Tyler Black scored a victory in an acceptable opener against Delirious, with help from his fellow Age of the Fall Teammates -Rocky Romero over El Generico with a Tiger Suplex -Jay Briscoe and Austin Aries retained the ROH Tag Team Titles over Jack Evans and Jigsaw of the Vulture Squad when Aries made Jack tap to the Horn of Aries -Kevin Steen pinned Davey Richards with the Package Piledriver. Looks to be a feud between Steen/Generico against Romero/Richards brewing as a result of tonight. -Adam Pearce pinned Claudio Castagnoli with a piledriver -Chris Hero over Matt Cross with the Hero's Welcome -Ruckus defeated Brent Albright by disqualification when Albright refused to release an armbar. -Takeshi Morishima defeated Erick Stevens with the Backdrop. Stevens showed promise, taking the big man off of his feet, but he has a bit to go before he can defeat the former ROH champion. -Roderick Strong pinned Joey Matthews with the Gibson Driver -Nigel McGuinness retained the ROH World Championship against Bryan Danielson with a small package. Overall a pretty great night of wrestling action. Get the DVD when it comes out. [U]The Indies:[/U] JAPW had a show on Thursday Night. Frankie Kazarian's reign as JAPW World Heavyweight Champion was short lived when Samoa Joe ended it with the Muscle Buster. Other top matches featured AJ Styles and Rhino defeating Jack Evans and B-Boy when Rhino pinned Evans, with Evans taking a sick bump off of the Gore, LAX retaining the JAPW World Tag Team Titles against Jay Lethal and Low Ki, and Teddy Hart retaining his JAPW New Jershey State Title over Chuck Taylor. FIP had an average show, main evented by Brent Albright and Bryan Danielson defeating Nigel McGuinness and Tyler Black. Also Roderick Strong retained his FIP Championship against Erick Stevens, Jay Briscoe defeating Jack Evans to retain the Florida Heritage Championship, and Gran Akuma and Jerelle Clark capturing the FIP Tag Team Titles over Kenny King and Jason Blade. The SHIMMER show featured Sara Del Ray defeating Cheerleader Melissa to retain her SHIMMER Championship in the main event. [U]Television Ratings[/U] Raw was down from last week, getting a 3.2 rating(3609600 viewers). Smackdown was unchanged, with a 1.5 rating(2314350 viewers), and Impact also fell a bit this week, with a 0.8 rating(9024000 viewers) [/QUOTE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopps4312 Posted May 7, 2008 Share Posted May 7, 2008 VAL VENIS! He deserves the WWE Title! 2-0! 2-0! 2-0! Goldberg who? Val's streak is 10 times more impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadMatt Posted May 9, 2008 Author Share Posted May 9, 2008 Last issue for June! [QUOTE] [B][U]Wrestling Today Newsletter #8 for Week Four, June 2008[/B][/U] [U]WWE[/U] [COLOR=red][B]WWE Raw for Week Four June 2008[/COLOR][/B] [i]The Good[/I] William Regal and Chris Jericho have another great match for the WWE Intercontinental Title. This should have been the match Jericho had on Sunday and not against Domino. Jericho connects with the Code Breaker for the pin and Domino attacks him to set up the WWE Intercontinental Title Match that no one wants to see for Sunday. Randy Orton ends Val Venis's two match winning streak, but Venis put in a solid performance against the former WWE Champion. Orton connects with the RKO for the pin. Hardcore Holly and Kenny Dykstra have a perfectly acceptable mid card match. Oh and Edge and John Cena in a Raw vs. Smackdown match. The brand extension is already a joke, but we might as well get some good matches. [I]The Bad[/I] Snitsky and John Cena got twelve minutes, about nine of them with a Snitsky beatdown. Cena puts on the STFU for the submission and Edge spears Cena to set up the Raw vs. Smackdown match at Vengeance. Domino's singles push continues, over Mr. Kennedy. Why is Domino being pushed? I don't know, but he challenges for the WWE Intercontinental Title at Vengeance. [I]The Ugly[/I] Layla and Michelle McCool defeated Melina and Beth. Words fail me on how wrong this booking was. [I]The Pointless[/I] A three way between Shad, Curt Hawkins, and Brian Kendrick. Kendrick scores the win but this match was just there. [COLOR=blue][B]WWE Smackdown[/COLOR][/B] [I]The Good[/I] Edge and the Undertaker's main event for the World Heavyweight Championship was a good title defense. It looks like they're only going to have one World title match per Pay Per View(ECW Championship doesn't count), but this was fine. Taker wins with the Tombstone to retain the title in a twenty minute classic match. The Miz and John Morrison retaining their tag team titles against Shannon Moore and Jimmy Wang Yang in another classic tag team match. [I]The Bad[/I] Show/Khali was another sucktacular effort. Show wins with a missile dropkick, when the Choke Slam failed. Okay, that was impressive but a five minute Khali bearhug was grating. Zach Ryder getting a shot at the ECW Championship. I know the championship has fallen but still, Zach Ryder? Kane wins with the Choke Slam, as Matt Hardy watches from the back. Jesse defeated Paul London. What the hell? London continues to be buried deep into the ground. [I]The Ugly[/I] Nothing grating. [I]The Pointless[/I] Tommy Dreamer/Nunzio/Deuce against Elljah Burke/Chuck Palumbo/Gregory Helms. Yes this match happened, on Smackdown! Four minutes with six men just thrown out there to fill up time and Deuce pins Burke with a badly done Superfly Splash. Burke and Paul London need to form a support group of talented athletes who are being buried. [B]WWE Vengeance[/B] I'll admit, I wasn't too thrilled with this Pay Per View going in, but it delivered with some great wrestling on the top half of the card. [i]The Good[/I] John Bradshaw Layfield and Triple H had a fun brawl for the WWE Championship. It was a No Holds Barred Match, which is a bit better than a normal match. Triple H kicked out from the Clothesline From Hell with a steel chair before using the sledgehammer and connecting with the Pedigree for the pin. Hunter celebrates with the title as we get out. Edge and John Cena was a great match, as usual. And Edge wins, beating Cena after sliding down on the F-U. Cena turns around and boom, Spear pins Cena. Kane and Matt Hardy for the ECW Championship was...surprise, a great match. Hardy threw everything he could at Kane, including a Twist of Fate with Kane on the top rope that scored a very close nearfall but in the end, Kane caught Matt Hardy as he came off the top rope. Choke Slam from Hell scores the pin and Kane retains the title. Jeff Hardy and Shelton Benjamin was an insane match. Shelton nearly dies by missing a somersault plancha to the floor, landing on his head. Hardy rolls Shelton into the ring, and connects with the Swanton Bomb for the pin. Jillian and Mickie James for the WWE Women's Title was a perfectly acceptable Women's match. Nice bit of psychology with Mickie working over the throat but Jillian came back and used the ropes to score the pin to retain the title. Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a new WWE Women's Champion. Jillian runs off like a thief in the night with the belt. And the other women's match between Beth Phoenix and Melina was good as well, with Melina scoring the pin with a small package. They packed a lot in five minutes. CM Punk and William Regal had an impressively stiff match, a return battle from the finals of the KOTR tournament this year. Regal has the GTS well scouted and manages to deliver a bridge pin on Punk for the victory! Punk loses again, for all of you keeping track. [I]The Bad[/I] Snitsky and Hardcore Holly was wretched. I mean really bad. Holly won by disqualification when Snitsky beat the ever living **** out of him. Cody Rhodes comes out and Snitsky destroys him as well. Well, there's your World Tag Team Champions. [I]The Ugly[/I] The Miz and Mark Henry...horrid. Miz should be banned from wrestling singles matches ever again with this effort. Henry beats him up and wins with a powerslam. Morrison comes out and he gets beat up. Yes, both sets of tag team champions in one night. [I]The Pointless[/I] Robbie the Highlander vs. Super Crazy and Zach Ryder vs. Jimmy Wang Yang. Crazy and Ryder won these time wasting matches. [U]TNA[/U] [COLOR=green][B]TNA Impact for Week Four June 2008[/COLOR][/B] [I]The Good[/I] The women's stuff was booked well this week. Kong beat Gail Kim and ODB beat Raisha Saed. Next week ODB/Kong for the title. Angle/Joe had some good hype but neither man appeared on the show. Also Chris Sabin and Jay Lethal had a match, that was a good X-Division match, with lots of counters. Sabin wins with the Cradle Shock. [I]The Bad[/I] Nothing really glaring. [I]The Ugly[/I] Oh there was some ugly stuff but the booking threw it right into the "Russo" category. [I]The Pointless[/I] Nothing. [I]The Russo[/I] Rellik and Reign main event another show. Yes, this is the second week in a row! At least Kaz and Eric Young won, and why not, they're challenging for the TNA Tag Team Titles at Victory Road, but Rellik and Reign are the most overpushed wrestlers in TNA today. Christian and Rhino, the team that lost the number one contenders match last week, beat the tag team champions in a non-title match. Petey Williams eats the Gore for the pin. The booking of the TNA Tag Team Tag Division is baffling as of late. What was the point of putting James Storm over the TNA World Champion? This week, he jobs to Abyss, cleanly with the Black Hole Slam. No Alex Shelley for the third week in a row. [U]NWA[/U] Well, I ordered the NWA Pay Per View last Tuesday and I want my 14.95 back. Let's run down(and that term has never been more approiate) the booking for this show, called Up in Flames. -Marty Jannetty defeated Bull Buchanan. I swear to the good lord above this match happened, in 2008. Marty wins with the Rocker Dropper. -Scorpio Sky defeated Hook Bomberry in a indie-tastic match that was a fairly fun spot fest, too bad the crowd was dead. -Alex Shelley(maybe this is why he's been taken off TV, signing a deal with NWA and all) and Brent Albright became the NWA World Tag Team Champions against Los Luchas(Phoenix and Zokre) when Albright made one of the champions submit to the Crowbar. -Dan Maff defeated Mike DiBiase. DiBiase shows some potential, but this match was bad. -Chris Kanyon defeated Joey Ryan in the best match of the night. Kanyon looks to be ready to utilize the NWA as a vehicle to relauch his career. More power to him as he looked great. Flatliner pins Ryan. -Mike Quakenbush and Matt Cross went to a ten minute draw in another indy match but it had some entertaining moments. -Homicide pinned Karl Anderson with a lariat in a fairly decent brawl. -OVW Champion Nick Dinsmore pinned Sonny Siaki. I guess since OVW's developmental deal may be done, they're going to join the NWA. Dinsmore won with a chickenwing suplex into a bridge a great technical match. -Chris Mortetzky(the former Chris Masters) made Chris Hamrick submit to the Masterlock(not called as such by the announcers for copyright reasons). Basic match and the fans recognized the former Masterpiece and offered a fair amount of boos. -Rob Conway pinned Adam Pearce with the Ego Trip to retain the NWA Championship. This a return match from when Conway won the title. Conway cut a promo, saying that he'll be better than Lou Thesz, Jack Brisco, Ric Flair, Harley Race, and Dory Funk Jr combined. We'll see. -Johnny Swinger and Bryan Danielson defeated Seth Delay and David Young. David Young main events a Pay Per View, well isn't that something? This is just a vehicle to showcase Danielson, a bland, uneventful match. Danielson submits Delay with the Cattle Mutillation. The next show will feature the NWA World Title Match between Chris Mortetzky and Rob Conway in a battle that I'm sure could be the main event of any edition of Heat in the world. [U]Ratings[/U] The buyrates for Vengeance and the NWA Pay Per View should be in by next week. Raw's ratings remained the same at 3.2(about 3609600 viewers), as did Smackdown at 1.5(around 2314350 viewers) and Impact also stayed the same with a 0.8 rating(about 9024000 viewers) [/QUOTE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopps4312 Posted May 10, 2008 Share Posted May 10, 2008 I still smell great things for Val. I'm not jumping off the band wagon. Val spells ratings in my book! good Work so far. Enjoy the diary. Any chance you could tell me what Scott Hall is up to if anything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadMatt Posted May 10, 2008 Author Share Posted May 10, 2008 Chopps: Hall is unemployed right now, so he isn't doing much of anything. And now, the first edition of newsletter for July, with the first death of the game :( [QUOTE] [B][U]Wrestling Today Newsletter #9 For Week One July 2008[/B][/U] [U]Another Death Rocks the Wrestling World[/U] Sadly, we regret to report that ROH/CZW main stay Necro Butcher(real name, Dylan Summers), has passed away over last weekend, a little after the last issue went to press, at the age of 33. This talented brawler tore up the independent scene for many years, in ROH, CZW, IWA: MS, and many other promotions. His last bout was a wild double disqualification with Davey Richards at the Ring of Honor, Death Before Dishonor Show. While the actual cause of death is unknown, it's unfortunately been brought up that this could be attributed to pain pills, which is sadly easier to believe then disbelieve in the world of wrestling. Whatever the reason it may be, it's a sad day for the world of wrestling and we, at Wrestling Today Newsletter, extend our sympathies to the family and friends of Necro Butcher. [U]WWE[/U] [COLOR=red][B]WWE Raw[/COLOR][/B] Raw was a bad show, coming off the tails of a really good Vengeance. Let's count the ways shall we. [I]The Good[/I] Jeff Hardy and William Regal had a good match, with Hardy triumphing over the Swanton Bomb, but Randy Orton punks out Jeff Hardy. A rubber match at The Great American Bash, which is logical considering how Orton won one(at Royal Rumble) and how Hardy won one(at Judgment Day). Carlito and DH Smith was a perfectly acceptable little television match. Smith got some nice offense and looked like he might be an Intercontinental Champion in a year or two down the line, but Carlito wins with the Backstabber. [I]The Bad[/I] Cody Rhodes and Kenny Dykstra was an OVW match on Raw. Rhodes wins. Remember when Kenny Dykstra pinned Ric Flair like about five weeks or so in a row? Well, that's in the past as young Mr. Rhodes wins with a DDT! At least he's better than his brother, over on TNA(and not pushed down our throats either). Chris Jericho's streak of ****ty singles matches that are not his fault continues, as he wrestles Curt Hawkins. Maybe the WWE bookers got confused and thought Curt Hennig had magically come back from the dead, but it was generic OVW template number three in there against Jericho. What, did Val Venis have a manicure appointment to keep tonight? Jericho/Venis would have been a better match, and hey, Val is a former WWE Intercontinental Champion. What's worse is Jericho only wins by disqualification, as Hawkins uses a low blow, so this feud must continue. Jillian and Natalya was fine, but the crowd was really dead for this heel versus heel battle for the Women's Title. Jillian retains with a Full Nelson Faceplant. [I]The Ugly[/I] Hardcore Holly and Snitsky was worse than last night. On most nights, Holly's a perfectly acceptable midcard wrestler but Snitsky's just so bad lately. Snitsky squashes Holly pinning him with a kick to the face. He's no Barbarian I'll tell you that much. Michelle McCool and Ashley. Since hardly anyone watched Nitro during that area, there was a promo where Kevin Nash brought out a cardboard cutout of Scott Hall. The cardboard cutout got a bigger reaction than anything else on that show. Well, two Scott Hall cardboard cutouts would have showed more charisma then these two and would have had a better match. Michelle wins, after Ashley nearly landed on her head in a cringe worthy moment. [i]The Pointless[/I] Nothing. [COLOR=blue][B]WWE Smackdown[/COLOR][/B] [I]The Good[/I] MVP and the Undertaker had a great match that sadly wasn't the main event. MVP matches the Undertaker but Taker comes back, battering MVP backwards, so MVP rolls to the outside and grabs the championship belt, before he waffles Taker with it for the disqualification. MVP knocks out the Undertaker with the kick in the corner, putting over that move as a dangerous move! Now that was some smart booking, when's the last time you've seen someone knock the Undertaker unconcious? MVP/Taker is your next World Heavyweight Title feud and I have no problem with this. [I]The Bad[/I] Deuce and Matt Hardy. This match might have been fine, but Deuce blew a couple of spots. Hardy nailed the Twist of Fate out of nowhere for the pin after being dominated the entire match. The singles pushes of both Deuce and Domino on seperate shows is surreal to say the least. Trevor Murdoch and Kane for the ECW Championship. I suppose if Murdoch had not lost to Nunzio all those times, I might have bought him a little more, but he was just a pudgy punching back for Kane, who keeps rolling over the competition with the Choke Slam. Hey Lance Cade welcome to Smackdown. No buildup, just Lance Cade shows up and beats Tommy Dreamer. [I]The Ugly[/I] I've sworn I've seen this match on every Smackdown for the last three months, but Batista and Khali was their usual horrid encounter. Khali wins with his clawhold of doom. [I]The Pointless[/I] Bam Neely/Nunzio. Enough said. [U]TNA[/U] [COLOR=green][B]TNA Impact[/COLOR][/B] This may have been(no joke) the best Television show of the week. MVP/Undertaker was better than anything on this show, but overall, this was a good show. [I]The Good[/I] Scott Steiner cashes in on his Feast or Fired Briefcase in a losing effort to the TNA Champion Samoa Joe. Vicious brawl, with both men suffering busted noses during the course of the match. Joe wins by choking out Scott Steiner, as he goes to Victory Road for his match this week. Kurt Angle and Abyss was another great match, but with a bit of a downer finisher. Angle won with the Ankle Lock but he refuses to release after the bell so the referee reverses the decision. I'll let this slide, because it put over Angle as a killer before his match with Joe. ODB is your new TNA Knockout's Champion and she won the belt in a believable manner against Awesome Kong. Kong battered ODB but she kept fighting, never stopped, and eventually she blew the bigger Awesome Kong up, allowing for a springboard Thesz Press off the top rope, followed by a jack-knife cradle for the pin. Raisha Saied berates Kong after the match for her "failure". The only thing is this match really should have gotten a bit more time and been held off until Victory Road. Young and Kaz against Rhino and Christian happened again, but it was a great tag team match once again, although putting Rhino and Christian over the number one contenders for the tag team titles does show little foresight, unless of course Young and Kaz win the belts at Victory Road. Petey Williams and Sonjay Dutt continued their feud over the X-Division Title, but this match was better, mostly because Petey was allowed to wrestle, without taking a beating and Scott Steiner(who was focusing on his TNA Title Match) not a factor. Sonjay takes a sick bump off the Canadian Destroyer and this is enough for the pin. No Reign! No Rellik! [I]The Bad[/I] Nothing. [I]The Ugly[/I] Nothing [I]The Pointless[/I] Nothing. [I]The Russo[/I] Payton Banks and Tracy Brooks team up. Weren't these two women feuding not that all long ago and they fight Velvet-Sky Entertainment. I'll say this, this was better then Michelle/Ashley, but that's like saying a root canal is better than a gunshot to the testicles. Tracy wins by pinning Angelina Love. This match got five minutes that should have went to the other women's match. [U]ROH[/U] This past Thursday, ROH had "The Necro Butcher Memorial Show". Here's the quick rundown of the matches. -Jason Blade pinned Bobby Dempsey in the pre-show -Ten bell salute at the beginning of the show. -Jay Briscoe and Austin Aries defeated Jack Evans and Jigsaw in a hot opener to retain the ROH Tag Team Titles when Briscoe pins Jigsaw with the Jay Driller -Tank Toland defeated Michael Elgin and Shane Hagadorn in a public workout match -Larry Sweeney defeated El Generico when Generico was attacked on the floor by Tank Toland and Bobby Dempsey, before rolled back where Sweeney scored the easy victory -Rocky Romero pinned Delirious with the Tiger Suplex -Tyler Black pinned Ruckus with a Phoenix Splash in a great high flying battle -Claudio Castagnoli defeated Jimmy Jacobs via disqualification when Jacobs mutillated him with a spike. -Nigel McGuinness defeated Kevin Steen with the Jawbreaker Lariat. The ROH Championship was not on the line. -Bryan Danielson, Matt Cross, and Erick Stevens defeated Takeshi Morishima, Chris Hero, and Joey Matthews when Stevens pins Matthews. -Brent Albright and Adam Pearce defeated Roderick Strong and Davey Richards in a Streetfight. This match went all over the building, with all four wrestlers bleeding, with a variety of weapons. Pearce pinned Richards after a Brent Albright half nelson suplex through a table. A great brawl to close out this show. [U]Indies[/U] Terry Funk has announced he's retiring from wrestling. We'll see how long this one sticks. Florida Championship Wrestling featured Drew McIntyre retaining his Florida Heavyweight Championship over Johnny Jeter in the main event of their monthly show. Also, Mighty Mikey and Nick Nemeth(Spirit Squad reunion~!) defeated Kevin Thorn and Mike Kruel, The Puerto Rican Nightmares(Eric Perez and Eddie Colon) retained their Tag Team Titles against Brad Bradley and Brad Allen, and Colt Cabana defeated Matt Sydal. FIP had a show on Friday Night as well. Brent Albright and Erick Stevens defeated Nigel McGuinness and Tyler Black in the main event when Stevens pinned McGuinness(yes, you read that right). Also, Roderick Strong defeated Bryan Danielson in great match to retain the FIP Championship, Jay Briscoe retained the Florida Heritage Championship over Davey Richards, The Powers That Be(Jerelle Clark and Gran Akuma) retained their FIP Tag Team Titles against Shane Hagadorn and Jason Blade, and Delirious defeated Larry Sweeney in what was said to be a fun little comedy match. Also, ten bell salute for Necro Butcher. Busy weekend for the indies, as PWG had a show. Bryan Danielson defeated Chris Hero to retain the PWG Championship, Austin Aries defeated Claudio Castanoli, Tyler Black, and Rocky Romero in a four way dance, when Aries pinned Claudio with the Horn of Aries and Kevin Steen defeated El Generico by cheating, as these two are feuding in PWG now. [U]Buyrates and Television Ratings[/U] The NWA Pay Per View last week netted 84000 buys, which would translate into a 0.21 buyrate. Needless to say, Vengeance was much better with 532000 buys, which translates into a 1.33 buyrate. Slightly up from Judgement Day last month. Raw was up from last week with a 3.3 rating(approximately 3722400 viewers), Smackdown was up with a 1.7 rating(approximately 1542900 viewers), and Impact was up with a 0.9 rating (approximately 10152000 viewers) [/Quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopps4312 Posted May 11, 2008 Share Posted May 11, 2008 I do believe the Hall cut outs would have added much to the show. And you just wait, the Big Valbolski train is leaving the station soon. Championships galore for him. Good read as always. Keep up the good work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadMatt Posted May 13, 2008 Author Share Posted May 13, 2008 The latest newsletter. [QUOTE] [B][U]Wrestling Today Newsletter Issue Ten for Week Two July 2008[/B][/U] [U]WWE[/U] [COLOR=red][B]Monday Night Raw[/COLOR][/B] [I]The Good[/I] Mr. Kennedy and Randy Orton competed in the main event, but it worked. Orton reverses a fireman's carry by Kennedy into the RKO for the win. After the match, Jeff Hardy runs down but Orton punts him in the head, setting up their match at the Great American Bash. JBL and John Cena brawled for ten minutes of exciting WWE action. And JBL scores the victory, after connecting with the Clothesline from Hell out of the corner. It appears that JBL still has his sights set on the WWE Championship held by Triple H and Cena's momentum appears to be a bit stunted as of late. Val Venis scores a victory over Burchill in a fun midcard match, as Val's career renaissance continues. Chris Jericho and Carlito for the WWE Intercontinental Title was fine enough, as Carlito was better than some of the stiffs that have fought Jericho recently(coughs*Domino). Santino accidentally hits Carlito and Jericho connects with the Code Breaker. Afterwards, Santino and Carlito have words, beginning the slow break up of their team in what I'm sure will be a riveting little feud. [I]The Bad[/I] Curt Hawkins over Super Crazy for the number one contendership for the WWE Intercontinental Title. Hawkins/Jericho at the Great American Bash, sweet mercy shoot me. Kenny Dykstra and Kofi Kingston was your "FCW on Raw" match of the week. Dykstra wins with the Springboard Legdrop. [I]The Ugly[/I] Hey, it's Chris Harris, the worse half of AMW! His debut was about as successful as Ron Killings was(wait, you don't remember that). Cody Rhodes beats him with a DDT. You know, just a year ago, Harris was feuding with Cody's brother in TNA, I'll let you judge whether this was a step up or step down. [I]The Pointless[/I] Notta. [COLOR=blue][B]WWE Smackdown[/COLOR][/B] [I]The Good[/I] The Undertaker and MVP had a good match, second from the top once again. This time, MVP wins by disqualification when the Undertaker whacks him with the chair that MVP brought in the ring. As a result of prematch stipulation, MVP will face the Undertaker for the World Heavyweight Championship at the Great American Bash. [I]The Bad[/I] Khali and Batista...again...I swear this match has happened every week since I started this newsletter or it seemed like it. They battle to a double disqualification when the match was thrown out because of being crap or excessive brutality. Hey he's The Boogeyman and he jobs cleanly to Chavo Guerrero. You know, it would be best for Boogeyman to just beat up geeks and cover them in worms, not put him as an actual wrestler. Chavo wins with the Frog Splash. Deuce defeated Gregory Helms. You know, Helms would be a good challenger at the United States Title level if pushed right, but he's being buried deep under the earth once again. Koslov and Tommy Dreamer team up to face the Miz and John Morrison. Miz pins Dreamer with the Reality Check, after Koslov abandons the match. Koslov's really floundered on Smackdown, but hey, he loves Double Double E. [I]The Ugly[/I] Nothing. [I]The Pointless[/I] Chuck Palumbo beating Nunzio in an extended squash. No Punk. No Hardy. No Big Show. No Kane No Edge. Yet, these two men could have a match. [COLOR=green][B]TNA Impact[/COLOR][/B] [I]The Good[/I] Samoa Joe and Booker T have another great match. Joe wins with the Kokina Clutch and Kurt Angle comes out, to staredown Joe. Once again, these two men have another great match. AJ Styles and Abyss have their usual great match as well. The fact Styles is not on the Pay Per View is an offense. Styles pins Abyss with a super sunset flip power bomb into a backward bridge. [I]The Bad[/I] Kaz and Eric Young against the Rock and Rave Infection really should have been good, but it was dampered by a bit too much Lance Hoyt. Rave gets pinned by Eric Young. [I]The Ugly[/I] Six Woman's Tag was the worst TNA knockout's match ever. It was Velvet Skye, Gail Kim, and Jacqueline Moore against Tracy, Roxxy, and Christy. Gail Kim won with a missile dropkick on Christy. The fact that they could have took out Velvet Skye and Christy, in favor of ODB and Raisha Saed(who are competing for the Knockout's Title at Victory Road), would have made this match useful. [I]The Pointless[/I] Elix Skipper and Hernandez. Skipper's been missing for quite some time and they dig him out to job to Hernadez. [I]The Russo[/I] The booking of the tag team champions. Once again Petey Williams and Scott Steiner lose a non-title match to Christian and Rhino. Rhino pins Petey with the Gore. Again. [B]TNA Victory Road[/B] [I]The Good[/I] Booker T and Sting had a great battle, that was an old school match, with no Russo inspiired booking. The Axe Kick spelled the doom for Sting after he missed the Stinger Splash. The TNA Tag Team Title Match was good, and Scott Steiner and Petey Williams keep their titles against Kaz and Eric Young. Petey Williams hits his Canadian Destroyer on former Team Canada Stable Mate Eric Young for the pin. Abyss and Alex Shelley(making his return) was a last minute edition to the card that really worked all things considered. They borrowed a bit from the Styles/Abyss classics and it worked. Abyss plucked Shelley out of mid air on a springboard and connected with the Black Hole Slam for the pin. Knockout's Title Match was good. ODB retains, pinning Raisha Saeed. After the match, Kong ran out, but ODB wisely ran off with the belt. Robert Roode and Tomko was better than I expected. Roode uses the ropes for leverage and Tomko attacks him. I thought a Curry Man/Roode feud was really going to happen, but Roode/Tomko might not be all that bad after this Pay Per view. [I]The Bad[/I] Nothing [I]The Ugly[/I] That Salinas/Angelina Love match may have been a bit worse than the six woman match on Impact. Salinas won after Homicide and Hernandez interfered on her behalf. [I]The Pointless[/I] Elix Skipper and BG James. James wins with the Pumphandle Slam. No one cares. [I]The Russo[/I] Kurt Angle/Samoa Joe, they had a great mat wrestling match up until the finish. Angle locks Joe in the heel hook, with Joe bleeding and he fought for several minutes, before he passed out. Angle wins the title, right? Wrong, as he refuses to break the hold after the bell so the referee counts to five and reverses the decision. Yes, in 2008, they drag out this finish. Angle snaps and attacks a bunch of officials which I'm sure will set up another Angle/Joe match. And with that in mind, that wasn't even the main event. Rellik and Black Reign against Christian and Rhino was. Yes, Johnny the Bull headlines a Pay Per View. Unprettier pins Rellik after Reign eats the Gore, but if they wanted to be cute and have a match to end the card, Booker/Sting was right there. The random lottery six mans. Stop it, just stop it, Russo. Brother Devon, Jimmy Rave, and Sonjay Dutt defeated Curry Man, Kip James, and Lance Hoyt when Devon pins Curry Man with an elevated brain buster DDT. In the other stupid match, James Storm, Brother Ray, and Jay Lethal defeated LAX and Chris Sabin when Storm pinned Sabin with the Superkick. You know, Brother Ray/Brother Devon was being built up, so why not have that match? LAX against the Rock and Rave Infection perhaps? James Storm against Curry Man? Kip James against a firing squad? No, these matches had to happen. [U]NWA[/U] [B]NWA Day of the Underdog Results[/B] The NWA had their second Pay Per View offering, airing on Tuesday Night. Let's have the results speak for themselves. -Marty Jannetty pinned Phoenix Star -Hook Bombery over Bull Buchanan -Mike DiBiase defeated Zokre -Scorpio Sky pinned Dan Maf. -Sonny Siaki over Joey Ryan -Matt Cross battled Mike Quakenbush to a double countout -Brent Albright and Alex Shelley over Adam Pearce and Bryan Danielson to retain the NWA World Tag Team Titles in the match of the night -Seth Delay pinned David Young -Chris Hamrick over Karl Anderson -Rob Conway and Chris Mordetsky battled to a double countout, Conway retains the Heat er NWA Championship. -Chris Kanyon and Homicide defeated Nick Dinsmore and Johnny Swinger when Kanyon pinned Dinsmore with the Flatliner. The winner of the fall was to get an NWA Championship Match at the August Pay Per View. So yeah, independent wrestling on Pay Per View. [U]Indies[/U] IWA-MS had their latest show on Friday Night, headlined by Low-Ki retaining the IWA-MS Championship over Roderick Strong. Also in other marquee matches, Chris Hero defeated Vito Thomaselli, Jason Hades retained the IWA: MS Lightheavyweight Title over Nate Webb, and Brandon Thomaselli defeated Claudio Castagnoli. [U]Television Ratings:[/U] Raw was back down to a 3.2 rating last week(about 3609600 viewers), Smackdown received a 1.7 again(1542900 viewers), and Impact remained at a 0.9(approximately 10152000 viewers) [/QUOTE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopps4312 Posted May 13, 2008 Share Posted May 13, 2008 The Big Valbowlski is 3-1. Jump on the band wagon people. He will main event in the WWE. Great work with the diary as always. Such a nice touch compared to the other ones on here. Russo=crap i agree. But we all tune in still to see what happens. And look at the bright side. This is rock bottom for them, sooner or later they'll be a better booker than Russo. Indies on PPV? I personally thing that's great. I love wrestling of all kinds, almost as much as the Boston Bruins. Though you gotta think, TNA and WWE monthly, ROH and now Indy promotions? Yeah, it's a lot. But worth it in my eyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadMatt Posted May 13, 2008 Author Share Posted May 13, 2008 It's another new newsletter! [QUOTE] [B][U]Wrestling Today Newsletter Number Eleven for Week Three July 2008[/B][/U] [U]WWE[/U] [COLOR=red][B]WWE Monday Night Raw[/COLOR][/B] [I]The Good[/I] Umaga/Hardcore Holly was an odd match to put in the main event, but it being a Hardcore Match worked, as these two men beat the ever living **** out of each other. Holly beat down Umaga with a variety of weapons but Umaga murders him by throwing him through a table in the corner before hitting a Samoan Spike. Cody Rhodes comes out and also gets Spiked, as Umaga stands tall. Brian Kendrick/Paul Burchill worked well. Kendrick wins, as his mini-push continues, with the Sliced Brea #2. [I]The Bad[/I] The midcard push of Curt Hawkins continues, as he beats another talented, but underpushed wrestler, in DH Smith. This Sunday, Chris Jericho and Curt Hawkins square off for the WWE Intercontinental Championship. Ashley/Mickie James, because Ashley dumps poor Mickie on her head a couple of times. Thankfully, Mickie won with a Mick Kick. JBL vs. Snitsky vs. Mr. Kennedy vs. Cody Rhodes. Okay, whatever. This was a bad match, especially when Snitsky was in the ring, which was ninety percent of the match. Rhodes was pinned by JBL, dying for the first time tonight, but of course, he would also be brutalized by Umaga later tonight. [I]The Ugly[/I] Michelle McCool and Jillian for the Women's Title. Jillian sings. They have a horrid match. Jillian cheats to win. Not one spot was hit. Four Way this Sunday for the Women's Title. [I]The Pointless[/I] JTG and Charlie Haas. You know, Cryme Tyme should really be teaming up, instead of wrestling in singles matches, because we need another tag team besides Santino and Carlito or Cody Rhodes and Hardcore Holly(speaking of which, this Sunday, for the World Tag Team Titles, for the five millionth time) [COLOR=blue][B]WWE Smackdown[/COLOR][/B] [I]The Good[/I] Khali and the Undertaker was a fun brawl, because the Undertaker is a seriously underrated big man. MVP comes out to taunt the Undertaker and Khali attacks him, before locking on the clawhold. Taker fights out but MVP hits Taker with brass knuckles from behind, which sets up a big kick to the face, allowing Khali for the pin. Afterwards, MVP levels Taker with the kick and poses for the World Heavyweight Title, as Smackdown goes off the air. John Morrison and the Big Show was a fun match, as Show plays the powerful giant and Morrison plays the cowardly heel to a tee, working over Show's legs but as Morrison leaps off the top rope, into Big Show's grip. Choke Slam scores the pin. Miz runs out. Choke Slam. Mike Knox runs out. Choke Slam. Elijah Burke runs out. Choke Slam. Shelton Benjamin runs out and hits an inverted bulldog off the top rope, taking Show out! It's announced Shelton/Show will take place at the Great American Bash. [I]The Bad[/I] Chavo/Boogeyman happened again. Once again, it was bad as Chavo wins after an Oklahoma Side Roll. Boogey brings out the worms and Chavo bails. Vladimir Koslov and Chuck Palumbo. Koslov jobs again when Palumbo rolls him up. The guy who loves Double Double E is just a big jobber now. [I]The Ugly[/I] Nothing. [I]The Pointless[/I] Deuce defeats Rory the Highlander and Lance Cade over Shannon Moore. These matches were just filling up time, time that could have been better served to get other wrestlers on the show. [B]WWE Great American Bash 2008[/B] [I]The Good[/I] The Undertaker and MVP was a great main event. MVP really showed that he has a future and should be World Champion in another year or two. This match ended with the Undertaker using the Gogoplata, for the tap out. Jeff Hardy and Randy Orton's Best Two Out of Three Falls was a great match. Orton wins with the RKO for the first fall, Hardy crucifixes Orton for the second fall, and Swanton Bomb for the pin wins Hardy the match. Hardy now looks to have his sights set on the WWE Championship held by Triple H with this victory. That may very well be your Wrestlemania main event for all we know. Matt Hardy defeated Kane, this time with the United States Title on the line. Big night for the Hardy Boyz. Kane beat down Hardy, but Hardy crotched Kane on the top rope, before Hardy brought him down with the Twist of Fate for two. Second Twist of Fate scored the pin and Hardy has beaten Kane. Big Show and Shelton Benjamin. Shelton's ping pong ball offense had some great movements and Show caught Shelton off the springboard, into the Choke Slam. Not as good as the infamous superkick spot, but still fine. Gregory Helms and Chavo Guerrero against Jimmy Wang Yang and Shannon Moore was a fairly fun cruiserweight tag match, if a bit too short. Helms pins Moore with the Shining Wizard. [I]The Bad[/I] Chris Jericho and Curt Hawkins for the WWE Intercontinental Title. Hawkins brought the match down and Jericho tried, I'll give him that. Code Breaker scores the pin as Jericho retains the title once again. Both tag team title matches were short and not that all eventful. The Miz and John Morrison defeated Jesse and Festus to retain the WWE Tag Team Championship when Morrison pins Jesse and the World Tag Team Titles Then, Rhodes and Holly retained the World Tag Team Titles when Rhodes pins Carlito with a roll up after Santino accidentally hits his partner. [I]The Ugly[/I] Mark Henry and Snitsky was so horrid it defined belief and I believe this match violated the brand extension. Henry pins Snitsky with the World's Strongest Slam in five minutes that made me long for Vince Russo's very worse. Okay, let's not get carried away. Three minute, Women's Title Match, also Candice's big return. Jillian retained the title against Natalya, Victoria, and Candice, when she pinned Victoria. This match did nothing for anyone. [I]The Pointless[/I] Mickie James over Katie Lea Burchill and Super Crazy over a Highlander. Woo-hoo! [U]Impact[/U] [COLOR=green][B]TNA Impact[/COLOR][/B] [I]The Good[/I] Six man main event rocked the show. It was AJ Styles, Kurt Angle, and Booker T squaring off against Homicide, Samoa Joe, and Sting, so it made some sense given recent storylines. Sting made Styles tap to the Scorpion Deathlock for the victory, in eighteen minutes of high impact, total non stop action(pardon the puns). [I]The Bad[/I] ODB and Payton Banks for the TNA Knockout's Title showed potential, but was short. ODB retained the title. Black Reign and Brother Devon, Black Reign scores the win after some interference from Rellik. This match was the usual Reign effort in TNA, not that good. [I]The Ugly[/I] Nothing. [I]The Pointless[/I] Nothing. [i]The Russo[/I] LANCE HOYT CHALLENGES FOR THE X-DIVISION TITLE! I swear, Petey Williams gets beat down for most of the match, until Scott Steiner makes the save once again, allowing Petey to score the pin with a roll up and the ropes. Jimmy Rave makes the save, which may or may not lead to a Rock N Rave Infection/Petey Williams and Scott Steiner Tag Team Title feud. I'd rather see Petey/Rave for the X-Division Title, personally. Sonjay Dutt and Jay Lethal might as well have been the Mulkey Brothers, because they lost in three minutes to Christian and Rhino, mustering no offense. Sonjay took a helluva bump off the Gore. X-Division guys+Gore=good bumps, but the booking was rather irritating. Brother Ray and Tomko defeating Eric Young and Kaz. Yes, the former number one contenders to the tag team titles are now the job boys to two men who have never teamed up before. The Tag Team Divisions and the X-Divisions in TNA used to be booked well, but now they are wretched. [U]Indies[/U] Sara Del Ray and Cheerleader Melissa had another great match for the SHIMMER Championship, with Del Ray winning. OVW had their monthly show, headlined by Nick Dinsmore defending his OVW Championship over Joey Matthews. Also, Rob Conway defeated Jamin Olivencia and Collateral Damage(Tommy McNaler and Jacob Duncan) retained the OVW Tag Team Titles over the Mobile Homers(Ted "The Trailer" McNaler and Nine-Fingers Dewey). JAPW also had a monthly show, headlined by Jay Lethal and Jack Evans defeating Low Ki and Chris Hero when Low Ki pins Chris Hero with the Ki Krusher. Also, Samoa Joe retained the JAPW World Championship against AJ Styles with the Muscle Buster and LAX retained their JAPW Tag Team Championships against Rhino and Frankie Kazarian. CHIKARA's monthly show as headlined by Ricochet defeating Jigsaw. Also El Pantera and Mike Quackenbush defeated Larry Sweeney and Claudio Castagnoli and Incoherence(Delirious and Hallowick) defeated F.I.S.T(Icarus and Gran Akuma) [U]Pay Per View Buyrates and Television Ratings[/U] TNA Victory Road's buyrate was down from last month as about 272000 purchased the show. The NWA's buyrate saw a slighty spike this month, as 920000 bought the show, with a 0.23 buyrate. Raw was up from last week with a 3.3 rating(3722400 viewers), Smackdown was down with a 1.5 rating(approximately 2314350 viewers), and TNA received a 0.9 rating(approximately 10152000 viewers), the same as last week [/QUOTE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadMatt Posted May 14, 2008 Author Share Posted May 14, 2008 For the Record, the TNA Impact show detailed in the newsletter received a "D+" in the game. [QUOTE] [B][U]Wrestling Today Newsletter Number Twelve for Week Four July 2007[/B][/U] [U]WWE[/U] [COLOR=red][B]WWE Raw[/B][/COLOR] [I]The Good[/I] Domino, Snitsky, and William Regal against D-Generation X and John Cena. Yes, this may be the only time that Snitsky is in this column or Domino for that matter. The three babyfaces(Michaels, Cena, and Triple H), got under Regal's skin, so he got some goons for this six man tag team match and this was the result. Snitsky pinned Cena with a kick to the head to end a fun brawl, mostly due to Shawn Michaels making everyone look like a star with his bumping. Also, Orton attacks Triple H, as Orton wants the WWE Championship back. Next week, those two men will compete for the title, which is strange, considering Orton lost last night. Hardcore Holly and Kenny Dykstra was a interesting little match, with Holly winning with the Alabama Slam. No problems with this match. Santino and Carlito against Cody Rhodes and Val Venis. JR and the King put Venis over as being on a roll. Venis came out as the mystery partner of Cody Rhodes, as Hardcore Holly was already booked tonight and Santino and Carlito wanted another crack at the World Tag Team Champions. It ends badly when Venis connects with a Fisherman Suplex on Santino for the pin when Carlito accidentally trips him. More friction between Santino and Carlito. Venis's push continues. [I]The Bad[/I] JBL and Mr. Kennedy was off tonight and should not have been the main event. Clothesline from Hell pins Kennedy, in a match that alternated between rest holds and pedestrian brawling, with a couple of high impact moves, but not much. Shad and Curt Hawkins. It only avoided dropping down one column, because the Curt Hawkins push seems to be deflated as Shad wins with a reverse DDT. [I]The Ugly[/I] Ashley over Beth Phoenix. I fear there's a good chance this may lead to an Ashley Women's Title reign. Excuse me while I shudder. [I]The Pointless[/I] Kofi Kingston and Stevie Richards had a match. Kofi won. Time was filled. [COLOR=blue][B]WWE Smackdown[/COLOR][/B] [I]The Good[/I] Edge and the Undertaker had their latest battle and it set up one last Edge push to regain the title from the Undertaker, when Edge pinned the Undertaker with the Spear to win this non title match. Edge/Taker will headline Summerslam, yes the World Heavyweight Title gets another Pay Per View. MVP is kept hot after his title match on Sunday, by beating Batista in another pretty damn good match. Batista hurt his arm and MVP took advantage of the situation, working over Batista. This prevents Batista from hitting the Batista Bomb and MVP throws Batista shoulder first into the post, before hitting the Running Yakuza Kick for the pin. The Miz and John Morrison against Jimmy Wang Yang and Shannon Moore was their usual great tag team match. Yang was shoved off the top rope by Morrison, allowing Miz to score the pin. No mention of Miz and Morrison's storyline by stealing the briefcase of CM Punk, hell CM Punk hasn't been seen since Vengeance. Word is that he's in the dog house because of some politically influenced issue. [I]The Bad[/U] Mark Henry defeated Lance Cade with the World's Strongest Slam. Usual Henry fare but much better than the Snitsky match(of course, that's not saying much) I suspect Henry may be the next World Heavyweight Championship. Vladmir Koslov beats Zach Ryder. These two men really shouldn't be wrestling on network television, especially against each other. [I]The Ugly[/I] Nothing [I]The Pointless[/I] Festus defeated Rory the Highlander. [U]TNA[/U] [COLOR=green][B]TNA Impact[/COLOR][/B] [I]The Good[/I] Nothing. This was the worst episdode of Impact in the entire history of TNA and that's saying a lot. [I]The Bad[/I] Vince Russo isn't underneath an overpass somewhere. [I]The Ugly[/I] Lance Hoyt and Scott Steiner trying to chain wrestle in the main event. That deserves a special mention of its own. [I]The Pointless[/I] Everything on the show. [I]The Russo[/I] The Entire Show, but let's decide to recap what happened. Robert Roode defeats Jay Lethal. Roode dominated Lethal. Lethal got in a brief flurry of offense. Roode pins him cleanly. Lethal's gone from the top star of the X-Division to Funaki in just a couple of months. Salinas pins Roxxy when LAX interfere again. Keep in mind, LAX are supposed to be the babyfaces, yet they cheat to win. The Motor City Machine Guns run out to make the save, fighting off LAX, setting up what I'm sure will be a fine tag team match and I'm pretty sure LAX may have turned heel here, but who knows with the acid that Russo's dripping. ODB, Gail Kim, Raisha Saeed, and Awesome Kong gets three and a half minutes. A fatal four way for the Knockout's Title, which is supposed to set up another Fatal Four Way at whatever the August Pay Per View's called. For it's first six months, the Knockout's Division rocked, but now it's getting worse and worse. And these are four ladies who could have a pretty good four way, if given eight or nine minutes at least. Instead it got three in a half. ODB pins Saeed after Kong accidentally strikes her. The long awaited battle between Team 3D was thrown out on television and it was a no-contest. Yes, both these men brawled and the match just ended after two minutes. The entire lockerroom comes out, brawls. Christian and Rhino defeated Kaz and Eric Young when Rhino pins Eric Young with the Gore in four minutes. Rhino and Christian are turning heel, I think but then Rellik and Reign run out, and attack them. You know, WCW Thunder at the end was better than this particular Impact. In fact, Heroes of Wrestling might have been better than this Impact. Rock N Rave Infection challenge for the TNA Tag Team Titles against Scott Steiner and Petey Williams. This match gets fifteen minutes and it had the horrid chain wrestling, plus more. Scott Steiner pins Rave after Petey hits him with the X-Division Title Belt. Both teams are heels, I think, and Petey was beaten down, playing the babyface roll, yet they used the belt for the pin. The more I watch TNA, the less I understand. And there were skits, involving Kurt Angle and Samoa Joe. Lockdown was great, but this regressed backwards so much. with the wretched nature of some of these skits. You know, most of the TNA roster I enjoy, but with this booking, no one comes across good. Everytime they take one step forward, they take at least five steps back. [U]Indies[/U] CZW had their monthly show. Main event featured Sonjay Dutt defeating Toby Klein to retain the CZW Championship. Also, Ruckus defeated DJ Hyde, The Iron Saints defeated The Messiah and Chuck Taylor, Sabian defeated Nate Hatred to capture the newly created CZW Arena Championship, and Brain Damage defeated Ricky Reyes to retain the CZW Iron Man Title. [U]Television Ratings and Buyrates[/U] WWE's Great American Bash dipped below Vengeance with a 1.29 buyrate, with 516000 people buying the show. Raw was bumped up last week with a 3.5 rating(3948000 viewers), Smackdown was up with a 1.6 rating(2428640 viewers). TNA Impact was down with a 0.8 rating(902400 viewers) [/QUOTE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopps4312 Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 Val being kept off for one week scared me. However even the King and JR realize the awesome push of Val. Two more great additions MadMatt. Keep up the good work. Isn't Val grand?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadMatt Posted May 15, 2008 Author Share Posted May 15, 2008 The first newsletter of August. [QUOTE] [B][U]Wrestling Today Newsletter Issue 13 for Week One August 2008[/B][/U] [U]WWE[/U] [COLOR=red][B]WWE Raw[/COLOR][/B] [I]The Good[/I] Randy Orton and Triple H for the WWE Championship was a damn good match. Orton scores a series of nearfalls but Triple H connected with the Pedigree to retain the championship. It is announced that Triple H will be a part of Summerslam but will not be required to defend the title. An announcement of who his opponents were in the coming week. William Regal and Shawn Michaels have another great match. Both these men work out to entertain the fans, with Michaels ends the match with the Sweet Chin Music, putting Regal down for the victory. Carlito and Santino against Charlie Haas and Kofi Kingston served its purpose, that is to give Carlito and Santino a victory when Carlito hit the Back Stabber on Haas. Next week is Carlito and Santino vs Cody Rhodes and Hardcore Holly Part 3421 or so. Maria and Mickie was a perfectly acceptable woman's match, ending in a no-contest when Beth Phoenix beats them both. She wants her belt back and petitions to get the Women's Title Match at Summerslam. [I]The Bad[/I] Putting Domino over Super Crazy. No, just no, Domino still gets pushed down our throats. [I]The Ugly[/I] Nothing. [I]The Pointless[/I] Shad and Kenny Dyskstra had a two minute match until Snitsky runs out and beats down both me. He wants a title shot. Jericho runs out and brawls with Snitsky, who wipes out Jericho. The WWE Intercontinental Champion gets punked by Snitsky. And Stevie Richards and Paul Burchill had some moments, all three of them. It just seemed to be filling time. [COLOR=blue][B]WWE Smackdown[/COLOR][/B] This was perhaps one of the most nothing happening shows. At least TNA is so bad it was memorable again this week. [I]The Good[/I] The Big Show beats John Morrison, this match was as good as their one from a couple of weeks ago and the best match of the night. Chavo/Nunzio was a perfectly acceptable Cruiserweight Match. Frog Splash ends this match. [i]The Bad[/I] Kane defends the ECW Championship against the Miz. The Miz? Kane connects with the Choke slam to the Miz for the pin in four minutes, in an obvious victory. Mark Henry defeating Elijah Burke. Henry's push continues and Burke's burial also continues. Zach Ryder got way too much offense against Finlay. Finlay whips after Hornswoggle bites Ryder's ankle, allowing Finlay to smack Ryder with the Shillagh. so Finlay needs both the midget and a weapon to defeat Zach Ryder? [I]The Ugly[/I] Nothing. [I]The Pointless[/I] Festus beating Trevor Murdoch. [U]TNA[/U] [COLOR=green][B]TNA Impact[/COLOR][/B] Another wretched show, as the worst run of shows in TNA history continues/ [I]The Good[/I] Er, uh. [I]The Bad[/I] The fact that Vince Russo is not under an overpass somewhere [I]The Ugly[/I] The fact that TNA has a television deal after the last couple of the weeks. [I]The Pointless[/I] Any effort made for anyone to stand out on this piece of **** show. [I]The Russo[/I] Eric Young and Kaz get another shot at the TNA Tag Team Titles? After losing every match for the last month(their last victory was on the Impact before Victory Road against the Rock N Rave Infection for those keeping track). Scott Steiner pins Eric Young to retain the belts. Gail Kim defeating Velvet Skye by disqualification after Angelina Love interfered. So they can't put Gail Kim over cleanly? Kim fights them off, as we fade to a commercial. ODB over Raisha Saeed for the Knockout's Title was the slightly better women's match but too short. ODB retains the belt once again, scoring the pin just as the match got going. Brother Ray and BG James wrestle each other. This might have been a fine match...in 2000. This is 2008 and these two are still wrestling in a high profile match on the card. Ray wins after he uses a low blow and a roll up to pin BG James. Brother Devon comes out and gets in his former partner's face, so this feud continues. Christian and Rhino defeat Rellik and Black Reign via disqualification. Rellik and Reign batter both Christian and Rhino, laying them out. Setting up yet another match between these two teams at Hard Justice. AJ Styles and Tomko against the Rock N Rave Infection. Not exactly a bad match, but makes the list because Lance Hoyt gets another main event slow. Some fun moments between Styles and Rave, but when Hoyt gets in the ring, the entire quality drops. Tomko pins Rave with a Torture Rack into a neckbreaker as Styles leaps onto Hoyt. After the match, Robert Roode attacks Tomko and Abyss gets into it with AJ Styles. And the usual amount of ****ty skits. Yay TNA! [U]NWA[/U] On Thursday, NWA had No Remorse(not to be confused with the TNA Pay Per View in September, No Surrender). Let's look at the results of this show: -Hook Bombery defeated Bull Buchanan -Scorpio Sky and Mike DiBiase over Seth Delay and Dan Maff when DiBiase pinned Delay -NWA World Tag Team Champions Brent Albright and Alex Shelley over Johnny Swinger and Bryan Danielson when Albright makes Swinger submit to an armbar -Marty Jannetty pinned Zokre with the Rocker Dropper -Matt Cross over Mike Quackenbush with a 450 Splash -David Young pinned Chris Hamrick -Karl Anderson defeated Phoenix Star -Adam Pearce defeated Sonny Siaki with the Jumping Piledriver -Homicide pinned Juventud Guerrera with the Gringo Killa in the match of the evening -Chris Morteskzy pinned Nick Dinsmore with a full nelson slam -Chris Kanyon pinned Rob Conway with win the NWA World Championship with the Flatliner Yes, Kanyon is the NWA World Champion! Move over Thesz, Flair, Race, Brisco, Funk...who betta than Kanyon. [U]Indies[/U] Jershey All Pro Wrestling will receive a television show on Tuesday Nights in the Fall Season that will air on the MSG Network. Speaking of JAPW, they had their monthly show on Tuesday Night, headlined by Samoa Joe retaining the JAPW Championship over Homicide with the Muscle Buster. Also, AJ Styles defeated Frankie Kazarian, Jay Lethal defeated Low Ki, Rhino over Eddie Kingston, and Chuck Taylor over Teddy Hart for the JAPW Jershey State title. CHIKARA was headlined by El Pantera over Mike Quackenbush. Also, the Kings of Wrestling defeated F.I.S.T, Chuck Taylor defeated Jigsaw, and Larry Sweeney defeated Ultra Mantis Black. PWG also had a show on Wednesday night, with Bryan Danielson retaining his PWG Championship over Roderick Strong in the main event. Also, Low Ki defeated PAC, Austin Aries defeated Rocky Romero, and Super Dragon and Tyler Black defeated El Generico and Kevin Steen. IWA-MS had an event on Saturday Night, featuring Low-Ki defeating Ruckus to retain the IWA: MS Heavyweight Championship, Roderick Strong over Chris Hero, the Iron Saints over Tyler Black and Tracy Smothers to retain the IWA: MS Tag Team Titles, Jason Hades over Nate Webb to retain the IWA: MS Cruiserweight Title, and Davey Richards over Kevin Steen. On the OVW weekly television, Rob Conway captured the OVW Championship for the fifth time, defeating Nick Dinsmore. Finally, FIP had a show this weekend on Sunday night, headlined by Roderick Strong defeating Tyler Black to retain the FIP Championship. In other big matches, Brent Albright defeated Jack Evans, The Powers That Be defeated Jay Briscoe and Nigel McGuinness to retain the FIP Tag Team Titles, and Bryan Danielson defeated Delirious. [U]Television Ratings[/U] The Raw Rating continues to raise with a 3.6 rating(4060800 viewers). Smackdown remained the same with a 1.6 rating(2428640 viewers). TNA Impact also kept up, with a 0.8 rating(902400 viewers) [/QUOTE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopps4312 Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 I kinda feel left out when Raw decided not to showcase Val in some way. Here i am with my Val action figures, my signed 8x10 of him, My Val towel, my Val t-shirt, my Val life size standee. Geese Vince, Jealous of the man's ability at his age? :o/ Good write up again, keep it up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadMatt Posted May 19, 2008 Author Share Posted May 19, 2008 Another Newsletter! [QUOTE] [B][U]Wrestling Today Newsletter Issue #14 For Week Two August 2008[/B][/U] [U]WWE[/U] [COLOR=red][B]WWE Monday Night Raw[/COLOR][/B] [I]The Good[/I] Umaga and Shawn Michaels was a great brawl. Michaels has pulled some pretty great matches against some pretty below average big man and Umaga is above average. Umaga batters Michaels for most of the match, but Michaels pulls off a comeback, ending with the Sweet Chin Music, putting Umaga down for the count. William Regal and John Cena was another great match. Ever since the KOTR victory this year, Regal's been on fire and Cena met him every step of the way. F-U scores the pin but Cena took his share of knocks on the way down. Santino and Carlito against Cody Rhodes and Hardcore Holly was a fairly decent tag team match, even if it has happened every single week it seems like. Rhodes pins Santino and afterwards, Santino and Carlito get into it, demanding respect from the other. This leads to a match next week. Kenny Dyskstra and Super Crazy put their working shoes on tonight for a fun mid card encounter. Dykstra scores the win after a backslide. [I]The Bad[/I] Curt Hawkins and Chris Jericho for the WWE Intercontinental Champion. Not only does this match get about seven minutes, six of which being Hawkins on offense, but Snitsky runs out to destroy Jericho. Snitsky and Jericho for the WWE Intercontinental Championship at Summerslam. Victoria and Melina had a nice start but was too short and had a screw job finish, a double countout. Speaking of women, Jillian retained her women's title against Natalya in a rather short encounter. [I]The Ugly[/I] Nohting. [I]The Pointless[/I] A rather fluid show leading into Summerslam all things considered. [COLOR=blue][B]WWE Smackdown[/COLOR][/B] [I]The Good[/I] MVP and the Undertaker had a good match up until the finish, which saw Edge run out, causing a no contest. Edge Spears both men and poses with the championship belt. Edge wants his title back and at Summerslam he has a chance against the Undertaker. You can take his face off the milk carton, because CM Punk is back, teaming up with Finlay and Mark Henry in a victory in a six man tag team match against Lance Cade, Chuck Palumbo, and Elijah Burke. This was a fun six man tag team match, given some underutilized talent time to shine. Punk pins Cade with the GTS and it is announced that Punk and Finlay will face the Miz and John Morrison for the WWE Tag Team Champions at Summerslam. [I]The Bad[/I] The Big Show and Batista over the Miz and John Morrison in a non title match. Now granted, Miz and Morrison should not have won, but to make the champions look like total jobbers before a title defense at Summerslam really is questionable booking, especially against a team that has never teamed up before. Batista pins the Miz with the Batista Bomb as Morrision is Choke Slammed. Deuce loses a bid to become WWE United States Champion against Matt Hardy. I'm sure a blind person whose been living in a cave might have been surprised at this booking. Vladmir Koslov over Trevor Murdoch. At this point, Koslov is just another big man in the vein of Snitsky, nothing special, just a guy who will beat jobbers and get jobbed to the bigger name stars. Next. [I]The Ugly[/I] Nothing. [I]The Pointless[/I] I question pointing either of the former Major Brothers on television at this point, as Zach Ryder pins Tommy Dreamer. The sound you heard were millions of people around the world getting up and taking a bathroom break. [U]TNA[/U] [COLOR=green][B]TNA Impact[/COLOR][/B] After the last two weeks, TNA returns with a couple of good matches, but still the problems that plague TNA every week continue. [I]The Good[/I] Sting and Samoa Joe defeating Christian and Rhino was a fantastic, star studded tag team main event. Joe looked like a star and considering he's the champion, that would be the best booking. Joe pins Rhino with the Muscle Buster. BG James, Curry Man, and James Storm. I feared this was the return of Vince Russo's random match generator and I was prepared to go off on a rant, but this match was actually pretty good, in an odd way. Storm pins BG James with the Superkick, but there was some wacky comedy stuff between Curry and the Cowboy. That might not be a bad feud, but who knows what's going to be set up in TNA. [I]The Bad[/I] Nothing. [I]The Ugly[/I] Boy, Velvet Skye and Christy Hemme, that match was a five star classic, of course there is a negative sign in front of those stars. Velvet pins Christy. [I]The Pointless[/I] Nothing. [I]The Russo[/I] Eric Young and Kaz against Scott Steiner and Petey Williams for the TNA Tag Team Titles. Once again, Young and Kaz are having a running contest with Santino and Carlito for most failed bids to become tag team champions. This a memo to TNA and to WWE, to get a new tag team title feud. The same story is with Petey Williams pinning Kaz with the Canadian Destroyer. Abyss and Tomko was mostly due to the fact that this Robert Roode and Tomko feud has got me scratching my head who the babyface was. Tomko(a heel) is fighting a face in Abyss, but he gets cost a match by another heel(Robert Roode). Those two men will have a match at Hard Justice. I'm sure it'd be a fun brawl, but it just doesn't seem like it's going anywhere, just being put on a treadmill Jay Lethal and Brother Ray against the Rock N Rave Infection. I could have sworn that Ray was the heel in this battle of Team 3D feud, but then again, who knows. Lethal pins Hoyt to win the match. [B]TNA Hard Justice[/B] [I]The Good[/I] Sure it wasn't the main event, but Kurt Angle and Samoa Joe had a great match for the TNA Championship. Now, these two men should never get in the ring again for at least a year. Joe pins Angle with the Muscle Buster to retain the title, after seventeen minutes of great mat wrestling. The Lockdown match was the best one between the two, but this was a close second. AJ Styles and Abyss had their usual fun speed against power battle. Styles won after the Styles Clash off the second rope. Abyss just seems to exist in TNA these days. X-Division Title Match involving Petey Williams, Sonjay Dutt, and Chris Sabin. Sabin inserted into this match spiced up the Dutt/Williams dynamic, giving it a good match. And Petey wins with the Canadian Destroyer to retain the championship, over Sabin. Alex Shelley defeated Hernandez. Yes, you read that right, Shelley scored a victory on TNA Pay Per View. Homicide ran out and attacked Shelley, but Sabin made the save. The Motor City Machine Guns and LAX should have a good feud. Eric Young defeating Kip James, mostly because Kip James lost. [I]The Bad[/I] Scott Steiner making Kaz his personal bitch in a four minute squash. This would have went in the Russo column, but the finish was clean, but damn Kaz didn't get any offense. Steiner's after the TNA Championship again. [I]The Ugly[/I] Robert Roode and Tomko should have had a fun match, but it was chalked full of restholds and bad brawling. Roode wins with the Pay Off. Tomko jobs. Next [I]The Pointless[/I] Gail Kim against Ms. Payton Banks. Kim wins, just to fill time. Also, Curry Man against Consequences Creed. Creed hasn't been seen in quite some time and he just gets dragged out to job to the Spice Rack. Curry's good, but hell, have him defeat someone who matters a bit more. [I]The Russo[/I] Rellik and Reign against Christian Cage and Rhino headlines the second Pay Per View in a row. This like the time where Goldberg fought Kronik in the main event of a WCW Pay Per View, with Rellik and Reign playing the roll of Kronik. Still, WCW didn't do it twice in a row. Rhino pins Rellik with the Gore. The Knockout's Division, the mighty have in fact fallen. ODB retains the title against some women in a heatless match. It's Raisha Saaed, Angelina Love, and Salinas, with Love getting pinned. This got five minutes. Should have swapped Gail Kim in there and eliminated the other Knockout's Match, to give this more time and a better match. [U]The Indies[/U] SHIMMER featured Sara Del Ray defeating Daizee Haze to retain the SHIMMER Championship. [U]Television Ratings and Pay Per View Buyrates[/U] The NWA Pay Per View was bought by about 100000 people, which translates into a 0.25 buyrate. Raw remained the same this week with a 3.6 rating((4060800 viewers). Smackdown remained the same with a 1.6 rating(2428640 viewers). Impact rose with a 0.9 rating(1015200 viewers) [/QUOTE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadMatt Posted May 19, 2008 Author Share Posted May 19, 2008 Another Newsletter. Wooo! [QUOTE] [B][U]Wrestling Today Newsletter Issue #15 For Week Three August 2008[/B][/U] [U]WWE[/U] [COLOR=red][B]WWE Monday Night Raw[/COLOR][/B] As a go home show for Summerslam, this was rather poor, with one good match, one okay one, and a bunch of ****. [I]The Good[/I] Umaga and Jeff Hardy had their usual great match, with Umaga bulldozing Hardy for the victory, despite Hardy's best efforts. Vicious Samoan Spike kills Jeff Hardy dead for the pin. Melina and Beth Phoenix was acceptable enough. Melina wins, but neither of these women will be receiving a women's title shot. [I]The Bad[/I] Snitsky and John Cena. Cena's had some great matches, especially brawls, but Snitsky wasn't one of them. Snitsky beat down down Cena for most of the match, Cena made a comeback, so Snitsky attacked the referee for the disqualification and then beat Cena with a chair. Yes, Snitsky is protected against John Cena. Snitsky/Jericho for the WWE Intercontinental Championship on Sunday, we'll see if Jericho can work a miracle. Curt Hawkins and Chris Jericho was the usual match, with Hawkins getting in way too much offense and Jericho lucking his way into a victory with the Code Breaker. Paul Burchill and Brian Kendrick just didn't click. Kendrick won, as Burchill continues to shift downward on the card. [I]The Ugly[/I] Nothing [I]The Pointless[/I] Natalya and Jillian for the Women's Title showed potential, but lacked heat, with Jillian retaining the title. That leads to Jillian and Kelly Kelly, which I'm sure will be one of the worst Women's Title Matches in WWE history since the heyday of Harvey Whippleman. Also, Carlito beats Santino, both men patch things up and will go after the World Tag Team Titles. Yes, this feud, which has been going on for about six years for the World Tag Team Titles, MUST CONTINUE! [COLOR=blue][B]WWE Smackdown[/COLOR][/B] [I]The Good[/I] Batista and Edge had a great match and Batista wins after the lights flicker, teasing the Undertaker. Spinebuster pins Edge but Edge attacks Batista after the bell, until the lights go out and the Undertaker comes out for real. The World Heavyweight Title on the line this Sunday at Summerslam, betwee the Undertaker and Edge. Kane and Shelton Benjamin for the ECW Championship should have happened at Summerslam, but instead Kane has to defend the title against Lance Cade. Benjamin gets a fair bit of offense but Kane powerslams him, clothesline, and Choke Slam. Cade attacks Kane afterwards. John Morrison and Nunzio had a five minute match that was productive. Miz and Morrison face off against Finlay and CM Punk on Sunday for the World Tag Team Titles, but Morrison wis tonight with the neckbreaker. [I]The Bad[/I] Vladmir Koslov and Matt Hardy. Matt Hardy wins with the Twist of Fate and has to put his title on the line against the Boogeyman on Sunday. Yes, the Boogeyman, which begs the question, who is getting worse challengers for their singles title reign, Jericho or Hardy? This Sunday may shed some light on that issue. Chuck Palumbo pinning Jimmy Wang Yang in a squash. Yang got no offense, literally none at all. [I]The Ugly[/I] None. [I]The Pointless[/I] Zach Ryder over Colin Delaney. I find it fasnicating that all these great wrestlers are on the roster and yet Zach Ryder gets a match every single week. [B]WWE Summerslam 2008 Report[/B] A damn fine night of wrestling action. [I]The Good[/I] The Undertaker and Edge for the World Heavyweight Championship had their great match. Edge threw everything at the Undertaker but Undertaker fought back, ending things with the Tombstone. Perhaps now this feud is finally over and the Undertaker can move onto a new challenger. Jeff Hardy defeating William Regal, JBL, and Triple H in a fatal four way non title match when Hardy pins JBL with the Swanton Bomb. the push of Hardy continues, hopefully he doesn't mess things up. Seriously, this was a fun match and Triple H had JBL down with the Pedigree, but Regal took him out, both men brawled to the floor and Hardy snuck in for the win. The Miz and John Morrison defeated Finlay and CM Punk to retain the WWE Tag Team Titles. Punk is pinned by Morrison, but all four men(yes, even the Miz) busted their asses for a tag team match befitting of a Summerslam. Shoot me but Kane and Lance Cade for the ECW Championship was a fun brawl. Cade could have won, but obviously he didn't and Kane Choke Slammed him for the victory. Hardcore Holly and Shelton Benjamin, another unexpectadely good match. Shelton wins with a springboard inverted bulldog over one half of the World Tag Team Champions. Trevor Murdoch and Jimmy Wang Yang was a fun opening match as well to kick things off. Murdoch wins with the Code Red. [I]The Bad[/I] Mark Henry over Carlito. This was a putrid match, seven minutes, four of which is a Mark Henry bearhug. World's Strongest Slam, Carlito jobs, Henry gets another win. Snitsky and Chris Jericho for the WWE Intercontintental Title, oh boy, Snitsky's bad but if this was 1986, he'd be wrestling Hogan for the title on a Saturday Night's Main Event. Jericho pinballs for Snitsky, but Snitsky misses a corner charge and Jericho rolls him up for the pin. I think that might have been Jericho's only move. Thankfully, Jericho dodges Snitsky before he beats him down. Boogeyman and Matt Hardy wasn't much better, but Hardy got in a few more moves than Jericho and won with the Twist of Fate to retain the WWE United States Title. [I]The Ugly[/I] Both women's matches. Jillian pins Kelly Kelly, with a backslide that was botched to retain the title. Beth Phoenix and Ashley ended in a no contest in three minutes, all of which were bad. [I]The Pointless[/I] Domino over Curt Hawkins. Whatever. [B]More Roster Swaps[/B] In a trade, Smackdown got Kofi Kingston and Curt Hawkins for Chavo Guerrero and Tommy Dreamer this week. Verdict: Smackdown got screwed. [U]TNA[/U] [COLOR=green][B]TNA Impact[/COLOR][/B] [I]The Good[/I] Homicide defeating Black Reign cleanly. That pleased me to no end, and really put over LAX as a bit of a threat. Christian and Rhino over the Rock N Rave Infection, served its purpose really, as getting Christian and Rhino over. Plus, Rhino pins Rave with the Gore, nearly breaking him in half in the process. Awesome Kong and Raisha Saeed over Tracy Brooks and Salinas in a squash match. This got over the heels as real monsters for the Knockout's division, so perhaps Russo's learning, as Tracy was put down by the Awesome Bomb. [I]The Bad[/I] ODB over Jacqueline Moore and Angelina Love for the TNA Knockout's Title. Yep. Jacqueline and ODB get into a scuffle after the match, which I suppose will lead to a fairly decent singles match, but stuffing Angelina Love into this match just reeked over getting more faces on television. [I]The Ugly[/I] Nothing. [I]The Pointless[/I] Nothing. [I]The Russo[/I] [Insert Rant about Kaz and Eric Young receiving yet another TNA Tag Team Title Shot and once again losing against Petey Williams and Scott Steiner here] Booker T and Samoa Joe started off good, until the Russorific Run ins. Joe attacks Petey Williams, Scott Steiner hits Joe with the pipe and Booker barely manages to pin Joe after that. Steiner wants the title, I want Russo to get fired, it's all good. Steiner/Joe for the TNA Title at No Surrender, at least it's a new challenger. [U]The Indies[/U] OVW had their monthly show, with Rob Conway retaining the OVW Championship over Nick Dinsmore in the main event. In other matches, Tommy McNaler defeated Anthony Bravado, Jacob Duncan beat Dewey, Jamin Olivenca defeated Omar Akbar, and Ted "The Trailer" McNailer battled Ali Akbar to a no contest Florida Championship Wrestling had their monthly show last Friday, with Drew McIntyre retaining the FCW Heavyweight Championship over Colt Cabana. Also, Johnny Jeter defeated Mighty Mikey, Nick Nemeth defeated Matt Sydal, Kevin Thorn defeated TJ Wilson, and the Puerto Rican Nightmares defeated Shawn Spears and Jake Hager to retain the Florida Tag Team Titles. CZW had a show on Saturday Night, with Sonjay Dutt defeating Toby Klein to retain the CZW Heavyweight Title in the main event. Also, in other top matches, Salvatore Thomaselli over Ruckus, Vito Thomaselli over Chuck Taylor, Sabian over Danny DeManto to retain the CZW Arena Championship, and the Messiah over Ricochet. [U]Pay Per View Buyrates and Television Ratings:[/U] TNA Hard Justices got a 0.46 buyrate or 1840000 buys. Raw dipped slighty with a 3.5 rating(3948000 viewers), Smackdown remained the same with a 1.6 rating(2428640 viewers). Impact remained the same with a 0.9 rating(1015200 viewers) [/QUOTE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopps4312 Posted May 20, 2008 Share Posted May 20, 2008 Thanks for the updates. Good as always, however i need my Val fix! I waited all week only to find out Vince has decided to keep him off the show two weeks in a row?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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