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This is one interesting rumor. It seems that the heartbreak kid, Shawn Michaels, is trying to convince people to have an Undertaker vs Shawn Michaels match at Wrestlemania. In this case Shawn will surely lose but the pay day would be huge for both wrestlers. It seems that many wrestling fans are eager to see something like this. We are talking about Mr Wrestlemania going against the one man that has never been defeated at this incredible event. Although such a match would be simply incredible and surely both men would do a great job, it is a feud that should be built in time. If this one is too fast then it will not be special at all. I do hope that (if the match happens) the Shawn vs Undertaker match would be planned properly.
This here is a very interesting video that shows some wrestlers training. All are from the WWE but you will enjoy looking at the clip. You can see a lot of Triple H working out in the gym, Randy Orton in the gym, John Cena training, Shawn Michaels working on his abs and doing some unique exercises. Most of the video shows Triple H working out but hey, we have a lot to see in Hunter, or Paul, or however you want to call this man. Triple H's workout is always intense and that is reality. In fact, all good professional wrestlers have very hard workouts and we should all respect that.
I just started playing Smackdown vs Raw 2009 and spent the entire day doing just that. I must say that I am quite disappointed. The game does look very good but the camera is simply awful if you go out of the ring. As far as I played it, one essential fact that was very nice in the past was taken out. In Career mode there are no storylines. You just go on a pat to win all the titles possible and that is about it. You build your wrestler and he grows based on how you wrestle. This feature was pretty cool. Even the special abilities are intersting as you also get them on how you perform. There is also no manager mode. Although the one from last year was not as different than in the year before, it was still fun and entertaining.
Smackdown Vs Raw 2009 does have one extra feature that was very very cool. I am talking about the Create a Finisher mode. I was basically able to create a lot of nice looking finishers, even the ones I use in The Wrestling Game. This is where THQ really nailed it nicely. I can also give a thumbs up to the Road to Wrestlemania mode. It was also very entertaining. Too bad there are only a few wrestlers to choose from.
On the whole Smackdown vs Raw 2009 is not bad but there are things that were taken out that should have been let in. This fact does draw away from the new features put in.
Lately we had a lot of reports that are anti the WWE chairman. It seems that a lot of people are currently fed up and think that he is crazy. First on the list stands the WWE creative team. People that work there are being humiliated and inside sources have said that people are afraid when they have ideas because Vince starts yelling and humiliates them in front of co-workers. The general feeling backstage is that Vince McMahon has completely lost the touch with the WWE fans and this basically means that he does not know what he is doing. People started saying that he has to step down and let Triple H take care of the wrestling side of the business as he is much more in touch with the fans and properly understands what they want.
In the past we have been told that Vince McMahon keeps yelling in the headsets of the commentators and they end up cracking. Mick Foley did declare that this was one of the reasons why he left and other commentators also had problems with what was labeled by wrestling fans as "Vince's Headphones of Death".
The latest interesting fact about Vince McMahon is the fact that he held Chris Jericho responsible for RAW's rating drops. It seems that the chairman thinks that the wrestler did not play the character right because he insulted fans too much. According to Vince, Jericho had to be a complainer and whiner but not someone that would eventually take it out on the fans. It seems that this is exactly why Jericho lost the title in front of Batista. We heard that the original WWE plans were to see Chris as the champ till the end of December. In fact, that was the one wrestling match at Cyber Sunday that people did not expect to see end like that.
I would personally love to see Vince McMahon step down!
Now this is funny. It seems that M.O.P. is suing the WWE over John Cena's entrance theme. This is because their song, "Ante Up" features the same "BRRR Abado!" line as the wrestler's theme. It looks like the law suit asks for 150 thousand dollars and the destruction of the entrance theme. In the original song that part only appears once at the beginning and in Cena's song 3 times. As far as some people are saying, the official WWE music CDs do mention the featuring sample from M.O.P. but according to the band they did not sign the rights to the sample and the WWE actually found somebody else to sign, somebody that has no authority. It is funny to see the Cena haters and Cena lovers going at it. Well, you should know that you can suit over 2 seconds because it is the voice of the rappers. Now the law suit is on and they will surely settle it behind the scenes. Simple! Why the big fuss? In any case, let us listen to some music. Here is M.O.P.'s Ante Up:
OK, so this was a huge surprise and you have to wonder why this match happened. We already saw Triple H vs Jeff Hardy at No Mercy. That wrestling match was pretty good and this one was sure to be special as well although a triple threat match could have been more spectacular. We could have had the same entertainment with a plus of more moves seeing Kozlov. But, whether or not the votes were rigged will never be found out. Now we were in front of a match that saw too very popular wrestlers. The match before was great and this one needed to be better in order to be justified. In many aspects it was! The start was a little boring although fans that love technical wrestling will surely have loved it. What I loved was the fact that Jeff Hardy hit Triple H with two consecutive Whisper in the Winds. The same went for two attempts of the Swanton Bomb but only one connected and the second one met The Game's knees. Then Jeff went for the third one and it was reversed into a pedigree. Triple H retains the title and on the whole it was a really interesting match. I almost thought that the title was going to change hands but my pick for the match, Triple H, did win it.
Don't know if you noticed it or if you even care but MVP has been on a huge losing streak in the past few months. Even Funaki defeated him so we have to wonder what the creative team is doing with this wrestler. He is not really the most popular but he has been a US champion for quite a long time. There are also many boasts talking about that he is the most valuable wrestler here and stuff like that. This is in the shows but not in reality. Every time there is a need for a team to lose MVP gets pinned. I am seriously thinking about this guy's morale. He is not that bad of a wrestler and he is kind of technical but why is he the one that always get pinned? There is no wrestler alive that would like to be treated like that. Everyone needs to win once in a while and MVP is basically a jobber now. Turning from a very important member of the WWE roster into a complete jobber. He is surely not happy with this. I am also not buying into the whole highest paid performer on the SmackDown roster and I think that nobody believes this is reality. We might get to see an MVP without a wrestling job soon.
OK! There is no secret that I like the Undertaker and that I found it pretty stupid to see the Dead Man lose a match against Big Show via Knock Out. I was hoping for a last man standing match and this is exactly what we got to see. Besides the fact that Vickie made a huge mistake in introducing the wrestling match, it was great to see the Undertaker back in the ring and I can not help wondering how his knee is holding out. He did seem to be limping a little and it would be a shame to see another Undertaker absence. In any case, the match was as big as we had hoped. Good old Dead Man got counted a lot of times, a lot more than you would expect. The highlight of the wrestling match was probably the choke slam delivered by Big Show that destroyed a commentator's table. This had one moment that was a little controversial. Undertaker did not get up till the 10 count but he was only merely getting up and it was only a 9 count. The end of the match was excessively boring. We basically saw Big Show hitting and Undertaker getting up every time after long counts. The real end to the match was kind of unexpected. We saw Undertaker using that previously banned submission move and Big Show was out. Unfortunately, I am quite curios to see what happens next as Undertaker does not really look 100%. In any case, this match was not even half as entertaining as the Edge vs Undertaker we saw at Summerslam.
Now this was one match that I really did expect and I can say that it has been a long time since I had such a wish to see an ECW match. We have the champ, Matt Hardy taking on a wrestler that I really hoped would have been put into the match. In this case, the wise choice was Evan Bourne and I already mentioned that I would love to see this wrestling match HERE. Now what can I say, this match was exactly what was needed. After a rather disappointing Kane vs Rey Mysterio earlier in the night we did want to see some real high-flying and we all knew Evan Bourne would deliver. I can not help wondering how a match between Rey Mysterio and Evan Bourne would turn out. In any case, let us get back to this ECW championship match at Cyber Sunday 2008. I think the two highlights of the wrestling match was the Standing Moonsault by Bourne and the missed Shooting Star Press, another move by Bourne. The one part of this match that was a little bad was the fact that Matt Hardy did not really do much. We all know that he is capable of a lot more but I think the WWE wanted to give Bourne even more boost. If things continue like this it should be a matter of time since Evan becomes the ECW champ. Matt Hardy won after a missed Shooting Star Press by Bourne and a strong Twist of Fate. I am looking forward to looking at Bourne more.
Here is the continuation of one of the worst built feuds in the WWE in the last months. Let us think about it, we have 2 WWE wrestlers that are very popular and the creative team did not know what to do with their popularity. So let us put them together and choose the mask stuff, which has already been done. Now we had 3 options for this match, a No Holds Barred match, 2 out of 3 falls or a Falls Count Anywhere match. The result was No Holds Barred and this is what I was looking for. So, we had the classical wrestling match between the strong tall guy and the small high flyer. It was clear from the start that Rey Mysterio was going to win but it was interesting to see how that will happen. We saw chairs, steps, a stop sign a kendo stick and some weapons, basically everything we expected from a No Holds Barred Match. The end was a 619 combined with a nice looking springboard splash. The end was the only part that was exciting and the match was really short. We are talking about the opening wrestling match in the pay per view and then the commentators kept saying everything was an upset. Well it was not, everyone knew Rey was going to win.
As I expected, the sales for the TNA Impact Video Game are worse than Midway and TNA expected. It has been reported that Midway lost double the amount that they expected to during the 3rd quarter of sales. The company really hoped that this game will help them out and they actually canceled 2 licenses, although leaving this game on the market. The general feeling on the market is that the holiday shopping season will be crucial. If the sales will continue to be disappointing then the company might never do another TNA Impact game in the future. To make everything even worse, the game maker is struggling financially at the moment and they might be taken out of business soon. It looks so foolish of them to bet on a game like TNA Impact since it is clearly a lot worse than the THQ series launched on WWE. I am really dissapointed to be among those that have bought the TNA video game because it is such a dissapointment. Make sure that you look at all the reviews out there so that you will understand what I am saying. DO NOT BUY THE TNA IMPACT VIDEO GAME!
It seems like I am not the only one that would love to see a Matt Hardy versus Evan Bourne battle at WWE Cyber Sunday 2008. Even Matt would want to wrestle him. Out of the three choices we have (Evan Bourne, Finley and Mark Henry) we would definitely have the best match betwen Hardy and Bourne for sure. It was the current ECW Champ himself that wrote about the title defense at Cyber Sunday 2008 that Evan Bourne was the only one that he never wrestled. Out of the possible choices Hardy also said that this would be the best match and he also referred to it as a possible "show stealer".
In my personal view, Evan Bourne would be the right pick, even if I trully believe that Matt Hardy will retain the title no matter who he will wrestle. Finlay would be second and Henry only third. This is because both Bourne and Finlay can wrestle but it is Bourne's high flying style that is really entertaining. If you can, I suggest that you vote for Bourne as this would be a match that would be very interesting. It will probably not be that show stealer that the champ was talking about but it would really be spectacular for sure. I am also very happy with the push that Evan Bourne is receiving.
Big John Studd is one professional wrestler that was forgotten and younger wrestling fans do not know much about him. His real name was John William Minton and was trained by well known legend of wrestling Killer Kowalski. Both of them started working together and Big John's first ever major title was the WWWF Tag Team title won in tag team with Kowalski. Both were then masked and members of a team called the Masked Executioners.
Big John Studd left the WWWF and eventually wrestled under different names like The Masked Superstar II, Captain USA and Chuck O'Connor. As time passed he had interesting feuds with Barry Windham, Sweet Brown Sugar and Dusty Rhodes. Some older wrestling fans will definitely remember his heel gimmick and the stretcher he brought to the ring. In 1982 Studd started a feud with NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ric Flair and would eventually turn towards the WWF. That was when he started a huge feud with the WWF World Champion of the time, Hulk Hogan. In the WWF of the time we saw the wrestler managed by Bobby Heenan and we noticed one of the most memorable feuds of John Studd's career against Andre the Giant. There was a huge tag team match that showed Andre the Giant's hair being shaved after the match and the end of the feud was huge. Big John Studd offered $15,000 to anyone that could body slam him and this eventually led to a match between John Studd and Andre the Giant at the first ever Wrestlemania. The highlight was Andre body slamming Studd and claiming the money while also winning the match. The feud with Andre the Giant was probably the best feud that Big John Studd had in his wrestling career.
Big John Studd also participated in the well known Wrestlemania 2 Over the top Battle royal match. Studd set his focus on eliminating William Perry but eventually was eliminated by the professional football player, after the wrestler eliminated him. The winner of that Battle Royal was Andre the Giant. After this match and a tag team run with King Kong Bundy, Studd did not appear in the WWF for around 3 years. Big John returned to feud against members of the Heenan family and he eventually won the Royal Rumble of 1989. Unfortunately this was the most important moment of the wrestler's career. After serving as a special referee for the match between Andre the Giant and Jake "The Snake" Roberts at Wrestlemania V he started to take time off and eventually had to retire because of problems caused by taking growth hormones. Big John Studd eventually died because of Hodgkin's disease and liver cancer in 1995.
In conclusion, I would like to point out the ending of the famous Body Slam match against Andre the Giant at the first ever Wrestlemania! Enjoy!
Now this match for the World Heavyweight Championship promised to be a great one and it sure was. In my view it was not the best match of the night as I did like Triple H vs Jeff Hardy more. On the other hand, the match was very good and it was a nice ending to the feud between these two highly entertaining wrestlers. The match at No Mercy will forever remain in history but not as the best ladder match of all time. It will stay in history as the match in which Chris Jericho lost one tooth. On one hit he did lose a tooth and got several others chipped. Yes, the blood at the end was not tricked and it was really coming out of Jericho's mouth. This match should show that wrestling is a tough business. A lot of professional wrestlers have wrestled while injured and have lost their teeth in the process. Now this match here at No Mercy was interesting and it did see the interference of Lance Cade. Shawn Michaels did deliver the Sweet Chin Music on him but after a head butt on the ladder Jericho took the title and remained the World Heavyweight Champion. Now it seems that the next high profile match for Jericho will be against Batista at Cyber Sunday and it will be interesting to see whether or not Shawn will take time off or will start a feud with Lance Cade.
This was a match that should have been good. Triple H vs Jeff Hardy is something rare as both are loved by fans. Now the match was not good but it was very good. It has been a long time since I saw a wrestling match that saw Triple H in it that was that good. Both of the wrestlers put in an incredible showing and this match was definitely entertaining. We saw a lot of good moves, reversals and more. The problem is that Jeff Hardy did go through some problems and it was clear from the start that the WWE would not give him the title. Combine this with the fact that Triple H has a lot of influence backstage and it is clear that he would have won the match and remain the WWE title holder. The problem was not this but how the match would go. The result was very good and the ending was very thrilling. You basically got the Twist of Fate and then the Swanton Bomb delivered by Jeff Hardy. Triple H reversed the pin in another pin and got the win. It was quite a great end to a very good wrestling match that had technique, high flying and strength in it. Very good match and congratulations to both wrestlers! We also got to see Arn Anderson after the match backstage with Hunter. In case you did not know that spinebuster that Triple H uses was made famous by Arn Anderson and that is why you hear the commentators saying "that double A spinebuster". Then we had a show off between Triple H and Vladimir Kozlov. We will probably have a match between them at Cyber Sunday.
This was a wrestling match that was sad for me. Ever since it started I knew that the Undertaker is going to lose. This was because he is injured and his knee is not working well. The entire feud Undertaker had with Edge was destroying for the Dead Man but he still gets back to the ring. Now the entrance of the Undertaker is always tremendous and we all know that. He did get a huge pop from the crowd and this is one wrestler that will leave an incredible legacy behind. The Undertaker started pretty well and that leg drop on the apron is always impressive to see. What was nice was to see Big Show on the ropes doing an interesting high risk move. The problem was that most of the match looked like a brawl and not a wrestling match. Both guys are pretty big but they can both wrestle and have good moves in their arsenal. The Undertaker hit an incredible DDT, one that looked so good when delivered against the Big Show. Now the ending of the match was stupid. Big Show won thanks to a KO thanks to three right hooks. How can you have a boxing ending in a wrestling match? In any case, Undertaker lost and will probably take a rest now to completely heal his knee.
Kane vs Rey Mysterio was a match that I was not really looking to see although both Kane and Rey Mysterio are highly entertaining. The problem was the entire stipulation with the mask. I already said that Rey lost the mask against the NWO. You can see the match HERE. The problem was that there was not a good build up for such a thing. There are a lot of fans of the WWE that do not even know how important that mask is for a wrestler like Rey. That is why I saw Rey Mysterio as the winnner of this wrestling match. This was a classic high flyer versus strong brawler wrestler. The match did start in an entertaining manner. Kane with some strong moves and Rey Mysterio with some fast and high flying moves. Now the problem was not the wrestling match as it was really entertaining. The problem was the end. Why in the world would you get disqualified if you want Rey's mask that bad? Rey Mysterio won the match thanks to a disqualification and he keeps his mask. Isn't that a stupid ending? This is in case it is the ending or not! It might not be! Who knows? The match was pretty interesting but too bad of the ending!
This was the opening match of No Mery 2008. We saw the underdog in the current champion, Matt Hardy, taking on The World's Strongest Man, Mark Henry. Before the match started my pick was Matt Hardy and we did see Henry's popularity dropping since he lost the title. Also, he might be strong but he is not such a great wrestler. Matt Hardy would have a lot better potential to help in rising the popularity of ECW. The wrestling match started with a complete domination by Mark Henry, pure size and strength. Matt Hardy then got the upper hand with a strong attack towards the legs. One huge highlight in the match was the Side Effect Matt gave Henry. It was pretty nice to see that move. Then the match continued and Henry tried to go for a special move, Hardy reversed it into a Twist of Fate and he won the match. I must say that the match was better then I expected and Henry did perform quite well. It was not a bad way to kick off No Mercy 2008.
A lot of people are hinting on the Internet that Flair will end up having a feud with Sting in TNA next year. As far as real information goes, Sting has a verbal agreement with TNA and nobody knows if he had signed a contract or if he will. Sting will surely not go to the WWE and this is safe enough for TNA management. Now Ric Flair does have a no compete contract with the WWE. This means he will not be able to compete until August 2009. Now you do realize that the chances of Ric Flair going to TNA are small, right? First off, we are talking about a WWE Hall of Famer. If he would compete in TNA it would be a major blow against WWE and this is well known. That would be exactly why they would try to bring in the wrestler with the biggest offer they could probably afford. Now I do not know if Flair has any interest in wrestling again. There is a big chance that he will not want this to happen. On the other hand we all remember the big matches against Sting and few people know that this one of the last matches in WCW was Flair vs Sting, a huge way to finish it all. We would all love to see such a feud in TNA but it will probably never happen and we need to be aware of this!
I am trying to figure out what I think is the best entrance in wrestling. The truth is that there are a lot that I like and a lot are really special. I think the two entrances that I enjoyed the most along the years were the following ones. Motorhead playing Triple H's theme as an entrance:
And the Undertaker's entrance for his Wrestlemania match against Kane:
This is one interesting rumor. It seems that the heartbreak kid, Shawn Michaels, is trying to convince people to have an Undertaker vs Shawn Michaels match at Wrestlemania. In this case Shawn will surely lose but the pay day would be huge for both wrestlers. It seems that many wrestling fans are eager to see something like this. We are talking about Mr Wrestlemania going against the one man that has never been defeated at this incredible event. Although such a match would be simply incredible and surely both men would do a great job, it is a feud that should be built in time. If this one is too fast then it will not be special at all. I do hope that (if the match happens) the Shawn vs Undertaker match would be planned properly.
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