tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79348173476840858162024-03-14T00:10:09.943-07:00Master Vyle Championship WrestlingMaster Vylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14271308160614058451noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7934817347684085816.post-27392387749066398172011-08-13T19:32:00.000-07:002011-08-13T19:32:40.654-07:00Is C.M. Punk The Man Who Will Save Sports Entertainment?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-R56SFDVvBeo/TkcUGjXMpeI/AAAAAAAAAkg/XiMTY6SOAOE/s1600/PUNK.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" naa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-R56SFDVvBeo/TkcUGjXMpeI/AAAAAAAAAkg/XiMTY6SOAOE/s320/PUNK.png" width="268px" /></a></div><span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">His name is Phillip Jack Brooks. He is perhaps the most visible and most well known practitioners of the straight edge lifestyle. He has feuded with some of the greatest in the business: Samoa Joe, Rey Mysterio, Elijah Burke/Pope DeAngello Deniro, Raven, John Morrison, John Cena, etc. He has held various independent promotion and tag team championships across the country, as well as several of these promotions' secondary titles. He is a former ROH World Heavyweight Champion, ECW World Heavyweight Champion, and WWE World Heavyweight. He is known throughout the world as C.M. Punk, the (or at least for the moment one of) reigning WWE Champion. However it is quite possible that Punk is about to add one more accolade to that list, what will be the highest and most important title of all, that of The Man Who Saved Sports Entertainment.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Okay, so it doesn't take a genius to figure out that the sport and the art of professional wrestling has been on pretty shaky ground, especially within the past year. The storylines of both WWE and TN....er...Impact Wrestling, have left much to be desired. For one shining moment things looked as if they were getting interesting. WWE introduced Nexus, a cranky and violent bunch of indy veterans who went straight from being the contestants of <em><strong>NXT Season One</strong></em> to the most shocking and feared group since the early nWo. TNA (it was still TNA then) countered with Immortal, another nWo clone that was doomed to fail to attract an audience. As for Nexus, though, I was jacked. They had no regard for anyone, and they were pissed off and out to prove their point. Unfortunately, the brass began to snip away at Nexus's balls from the very beginning, deciding that Daniel Bryan's attack on ring announcer Justin Roberts was too violent and graphic (really, because it's fucking professional wrestling?), giving him a release for doing too good of a job. Then, as the months passed, Nexus went from being a bad ass group to a bumbling bunch of fools. C.M. Punk pretty much himself playing a part in the group's demise when he took the group over.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">The latter part of last year the business began a slump that slowly lead downhill. I became so disillusioned by this sport I've been watching since I was in middle school that I even stopped writing and speculating here on this blog, because it had reached the point that it was nearly unbearable to even sit through. WWE gave the same rehash week after week, and it's only smart move was making The Miz WWE Champion. TNA/Impact Wrestling has been nothing but a sad rehash of the declining days of the nWo and WCW near the end of Eric Bischoff's first tenure with that company.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">There was one shining light in the WWE aside from The Miz's championship reign. That was C.M. Punk being sidelined due to an injury. No, it's not that I was happy he was injured. It was the fact that Punk ended up behind the announce table for a couple of months. Not only was he great at color, but he brought to the table a great deal of knowledge about the history of the sport, as well as a disregard for WWE revisionist history. He took the words right out of my mouth during the King Of The Ring tournament when he reminded his fellow broadcasters that Harley Race was actually the first King Of The Ring, due to the fact that he had won the first two WWF King Of The Ring tournaments in the days before it was a PPV. Punk did not seem like the model WWE broadcaster at all, sitting and wearing t-shirts that obviously did not come from WWEShop.Com, such as his Colt Cabana tee.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Well from there anyone following WWE Raw knows the story. Upon John Cena being brought back after being "fired" by Wade Barrett, it was C.M. Punk who would blindside him with an attack. In the weeks that followed Punk would join Nexus, taking over the group after betraying Barrett and causing him to loose in a match that had the stipulation that if he lost he would be traded to Smackdown. Then Punk took over Nexus, weeding through (and pretty much weakening) the group until he had a team loyal to him. What followed were months of feuds with Cena and Randy Orton. Then following the WWE Draft Punk found himself in line for a title shot against John Cena at <em><strong>Money In The Bank</strong></em>. Punk announced that the match would be his last match in WWE as he contract was going to expire that day, and that he had no intention on resigning. He promised he would win that match and leave the company with the WWE Championship belt.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">To the shock of many what was considered the unthinkable happened. C.M. Punk won his match against John Cena, and indeed he left the arena that night with the WWE's coveted championship belt. In the weeks after he taunted WWE Officials at ComiCon. He appeared at a Cubs game and was photographed with several members of the team, proudly posing with the belt. He even put "the holy grail of professional wrestling" in his refrigerator and took a picture of it to post on Twitter with the title, "THE CHAMP IS HERE!", attached to it.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Well this as we know, lead to a chain reaction. Citing no confidence the WWE Board of Directors voted to remove Vince McMahon from power and replace him with his son-in-law, Triple H. The result of a tournament, one of Vince's last acts, to crown a new WWE Champion, saw Rey Mysterio capturing that championship for the first time, only to loose it later that same night in a PPV worthy match to John Cena. And of course, as Cena celebrated, C.M. Punk returned with the championship belt he had taken in hand as the ink dried on his new contract. Triple H made the decision that both men, for the moment, are WWE Champion, the issue to be resolved in an undisputed championship match tomorrow at <em><strong>Summer Slam</strong></em>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Since his return Punk has claimed he returned to be the voice of the voiceless. Triple H and John Cena have been quick to point out that the only reason Punk returned was that without the WWE behind him and as an outlet, that he had no voice, and that basically his return came with perks, including a C.M. Punk ice cream bar.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">It's been edge of your seat drama for the past couple of months. Phillip Jack Brooks, C.M. Punk, walked away from the biggest sports entertainment company in the world with it's championship belt, and thumbed his nose at convention. His actions and antics between walking out of <em><strong>Money In The Bank</strong></em>, and walking back onto <em><strong>Raw</strong></em> are the things of legend. You couldn't write a better storyline.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Or could you?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">The fact of the matter is Vince McMahon, Triple H and C.M. Punk have pulled off perhaps the greatest work in the history of the business. It has been rumored and talked about for nearly a year that Vince was planning on stepping down and retiring from actively involved in the day-to-day operation of WWE, and that his son-in-law, Triple H was going to replace him. Of course I never had any doubt that this would not happen in the most theatrical fashion as possible, and in true Vincent K. McMahon style. Really, Mr. McMahon removed from office due to no confidence because he had made several "bad decisions" recently? Has all the carp, the pulling the plug on ECW, the rise and instant wussification of Nexus, the train wreck that is NXT, Snooki teaming with Trish Stratus and John Morrison at <em><strong>Wrestlemania</strong></em> when Morrison should have been in the main event, Sin Cara, The CORRE, Kane changing sides more often than a villain on <em><strong>24</strong></em>, John Morrison being exiled to FCW, John Cena being drafted to Samckdown and Raw on the same night, sorry match and sorry feud after sorry match and sorry feud... Was it all part of the long con? Has the past year, what's been an especially bad year in WWE, been designed for the sole purpose of providing Vince with his Vincent K. McMahon exit?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">I think that the answer is a resounding yes. But that isn't all....</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">There's that little issue of C.M. Punk. Is he the man who will save sports entertainment?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">I think the answer again, is a resounding yes.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">You see, this has happened before. During the depths of the Monday Night War and when the WWF was on the loosing side, an anti-hero rose who made all eyes turn to the WWF, not only generating higher ratings, but also drawing in new fans. The WWF's Attitude Era began with Stone Cold Steve Austin becoming a proxy face and Bret Hart becoming a heal, switching roles in the course of the same match. In the years that followed the WWF edged past WCW so effectively that their competition was bankrupted, abandoned by the conglomeration that had ended up owning it, mismanaged by those in control, and dropped from its television network. Due to the outcome of a suit filed by the WWF against WCW in the beginning of the Monday Night War, the WWF had the right to bid on WCW's assets should they ever become available. The WWF indeed acquired WCW, and within a year the stagnation of sports entertainment began.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">As the Attitude Era stars began to retire and head on to other things the company was turned over to a bumper crop of new talent. The nature of the company began to change, moving from wild and violent pro wrestling who's stars were foul mouthed and over the top, to a kinder and gentler WWE, that was a responsible member of the community and kid friendly. Over the past five years or so there's been some growing backlash as long time fans and talent have hoped for a change that would make pro wrestling awesome again. There was only one thing missing. There was no Stone Cold Steve Austin within the new crowd. Or was there?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">For the past several years WWE has silently worked to make Randy Orton into the new Stone Cold. His finishing move is a variant of the cutter, also Austin's finisher. Orton would attack heel or face whenever it suited him, just like Austin. He's a loner who has little use for partners, just like Austin. He has the nickname of the Viper, an obvious play on Austin's "Texas Rattlesnake" moniker.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">The only problem has been that as popular as Orton has been in the role of the anti-hero, he's no more the new Stone Cold, as Cena is the new Rock. Orton and Cena are so much on the same level that when they face one another the fans are pretty split down the middle. Whenever Cena and Orton were in the ring with a championship at stake I always had the feeling that most people didn't care who won. Those who did either wanted Cena to prevail, or for Orton to kick Cena's ass and walk away with the belt.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">If you've been watching <em><strong>Raw </strong></em>over the past three weeks then you know that this is not the case when it comes to C.M. Punk. Punk is the only person other than the Rock to get a bigger fan reaction that Cena. Punk is also the first WWE Superstar to come along in a very long time who actually has some mic skills. Like the Rock he can galvanize a crowd in his favor, even to the point that they're still chanting his name, even right after he admits that he sold out for the perks.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">There is one reason that Vince McMahon was known as the first evil genius of wrestling. He has always had an eye for talent. He's always known what direction to go to draw in the fans, even if it takes time for them to get there. Despite the decline that WWE has been in over the course of the past few years I have a feeling that Vince knew that C.M. Punk was the ticket to returning the WWE to it's glory days of the Attitude Era, he just waited until the time was right to really spring him on the world.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Again, is C.M. Punk the man who will save sports entertainment?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">I believe he already has, or at least he's in the process of doing so. For me, for the first time in over a year, I'm actually looking forward to watching <em><strong>WWE Monday Night Raw</strong></em>. Maybe a C.M. Punk in the WWE will also make the old farts dragging their heels on 20 year old story lines in Impact Wrestling wake up and realize that they have to step up their game.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Is Punk going to beat John Cena tomorrow night? Yes. He may not walk out of the arena as the champion, factoring in Alberto Del Rio and Money In The Bank, but he will beat Cena. And even if Del Rio becomes the champion C.M. Punk will still walk away from <em><strong>Summer Slam</strong></em> as the big winner, and perhaps the next PPV main event will feature Punk, Del Rio and Mysterio for the WWE Championship with John Cena nowhere in sight.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Yes, C.M. Punk is definitely the man who will save sports entertainment by making it watchable again. He is the right anti-hero at the right time, and it is also a time when the company is filled with several hot newcomers, and guys who like Punk have been almost at "that level", the main event level, who just like Punk are going to break out and become some of the biggest names in the business. After all, Austin needs a Rock. Punk needs a worthy adversary, and it's more than likely to be Mysterio or Morrison than it is John Cena.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">So, I'm very interested to see how things will play out over the next several months. And for the first time in a long time, at least in WWE, I'm optimistic that the action in the ring and the talk on the mic are going to be things that I want to see and hear.</span><br />
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Master Vylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14271308160614058451noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7934817347684085816.post-54070995835518447362011-02-13T10:59:00.000-08:002011-02-13T16:39:04.464-08:00These Glasses Are Nexus #Nexus #WWE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aGLiMhfF35k/TVgkB43j6nI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/pqiIdAdIgQo/s1600/House+Of+Vyle+004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aGLiMhfF35k/TVgkB43j6nI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/pqiIdAdIgQo/s400/House+Of+Vyle+004.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">About a month ago I went for My yearly eye exam, as always, and has become My habit picked out a new pair of glasses. I wanted a departure from the ones I usually buy, so I began looking for something really different. As fate would have it the first ones I noticed were this God-awful pair that was colored yellow on the inside and black on the outside from Ad-Lib. On a lark I tried them on, and was surprised at how much I liked the way they looked. When worn the way I always wear My glasses you could plainly see the a yellow stripe at the top of the frames. I looked around and tried several other pairs on, but it was this first pair that stuck with me. As I was fitted I initially requested to see if they came in orange (My favorite color), but alas they did not. The specialist doing the fitting pointed out they had the in brown, which in the catalogue looked orange, but I decided to stick with the yellow, because if the brown ones did not look as orange as they did in the picture I knew I would not want them.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">I waited for almost two weeks to get them, and then wore them about four days before the realization sunk in. I was washing My hands at work and when I looked up at My reflection it hit me that My new glasses were Nexus black and yellow.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tVxYUdRkqB8/TVgkFhtRQDI/AAAAAAAAAUU/cUtCQIiGhQA/s1600/House+Of+Vyle+002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tVxYUdRkqB8/TVgkFhtRQDI/AAAAAAAAAUU/cUtCQIiGhQA/s400/House+Of+Vyle+002.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Okay, so now I knew I had the coolest pair of glasses I would ever own. The first thing I did was go to one of My assistant managers, a raging John Cena fan, and say, "Hey, My glasses are Nexus." Oh, yeah, he was pissed, and I have at some point every day we've worked together since then repeated the statement.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">I think that these glasses should now be required eye-wear for any member of Nexus who does not have 20/20 vision. I think they would help CM Punk look even more brilliant than he already is. Husky Harris would be the best looking cousin at any Wyndham family gathering. And I can't imagine a guy with as much fashion sense as David Otunga wanting to wear anything other than Ad-Lib frames in Nexus colors.</span><br />
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</tbody></table>Master Vylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14271308160614058451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7934817347684085816.post-86984318961955068032011-01-23T04:59:00.000-08:002011-01-23T04:59:41.802-08:00TNA: The Hardy Boys Vs. Generation Me, A Match I Want To See!<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Last night, in between editing chapters of <em><strong>The Sound Of her MASTER'S VOICE</strong></em> , I noticed what seemed to be some quipping going on between Matt Hardy (MATTHARDYBRAND) and a Hardy Hater on Twitter. The Master of Mattitude even when as far as to say that, "I guess that's why I am a multi-millionaire because of pro wrestling moron." The line was retweeted by several of Matt's followers, including Max Buck (GenMeMax).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Since then I have been turning the idea over in my head, a match between the Hardy Boys and Generation Me. I had though of it months ago when Taz had made the comment that, "1999 was calling and that the Hardy Boys wanted their look back", or something close to that effect during one of Generation Me's matches as he noted the simularity in their attire to the Hardys attire when they debuted on <em><strong>WWF Sunday Night Heat</strong></em>. But my thoughs on the reality of such a match were that it was not likely as Matt Hardy was still working on <em><strong>WWE Smackdown</strong></em> at the time.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Well, now things have changed, and not only has Matt come to TNA Wrestling but he has also joined Immortal. So the reality of a Hardys Vs. Gen Me match is now a possibility. Although I would say that Matt and Jeff need to train together because despite their showing against Mr. Anderson and Rob Van Dam a couple of weeks ago it was pretty apparent that they had not been training together as a team as they had been before their return as a team on <em><strong>WWE Extreme Championship Wrestling</strong></em> as few years back.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">I remember when I was my youngest son's age I was dying to see a match between The Rock & Roll Express and the Midnight Rockers. It never happened, or so I though, as yeas later I learned that they had had a series of matches on the independent circuit before The Rockers were signed with the World Wrestling Federation. The other match I wanted to see, and did at the <em><strong>NWA Great American Bash,</strong></em> was the Original Midnight Express vs The New Midnight Express (Coundry & Rose with Paul Heyman against Eaton & Lane with Jim Corenette - not Bart Gunn & Bob Holly).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">I am glad to see Matt in TNA which is a slight ray of hope in what has become a dismal promotion playing <em><strong>WCW Monday Nitro</strong></em> rip-off. I even went as far to tweet @ Matt that he and his brother as a team could possibly breathe some life into the turd that is TNA Wrestling as it slowly circles the bowl. With so many combinations of people to put together and set at odds against each other, a match between the Hardy's and Generation Me is the only thing I can think of that I want to see, as the only true teams left in TNA other than them, Beer Money and The Motor City Machine Guns are already at odds over the TNA World Tag Team Championship, and it is painfully obvious that the Guns are on the slow road to breaking up over their miscommunication issues. (Hey TNA Storyline Development, Russo, Sullivan, I though tag team wrestling was relevent in TNA because it was original, so why are you stealing the story of every WWE Tag Team Championship holder who's lost the title for the past couple of years with the exception of Slater & Gabriel?)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Matt and Jeff Vs. Jeremy and Max. Yeah, it is a match that I definately want to see. How about you?</span><br />
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</tbody></table>Master Vylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14271308160614058451noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7934817347684085816.post-72347676442036549862011-01-21T15:58:00.000-08:002011-01-21T15:58:24.913-08:00TNA - 02-03-11 - Who Are "THEY" Now?<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Well for the past two weeks we've witnessed attacks on Abyss and AJ Styles from Amazing Red's "little brother" Crimson. The warning, although not as catchy as it was last year is that on 2-3-11 "THEY" are coming, and "THEY" are going to take out each and every single member of Immortal.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Okay, so who are "THEY" now?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Way prior to <em><strong>TNA Bound For Glory</strong></em> and 10-10-10 I nailed it right off saying that "THEY" (at that time) were already there and that "THEY" were Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff, of course using the usual Hogan and Bischoff MO of doing nothing unique, innovatie or surprising. Now, however, I find myself a little stumped when trying to guess who "THEY" might be this time around.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">I am sure the first people to come to mind are nWo Wolfpac breathern Kevin Nash and Sting. I guess if we were to go with doing nothing unique, innovative or surprising they would be a sure bet to be the new "THEY". However, true to his reputation "silent but violent" Sting has been pretty silent. While not too long ago Kevin Nash was again ranting and complaining because no one was calling him the "icon". So unless TNA has been able to dig into a really big wallet I doubt we will be seeing Nash show up within the next couple of weeks.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">As for the other founding members of nWo Wolfpac, Scott Hall and Shawn "X-pac" Waltman, I am going to say it is a sure bet that neither of them will be part of the new "THEY" either. The last anyone heard from X-pac he was sniffing around, trying to appeal to the McMahons in the vain hope that they will bring back the Attitude Era to the WWE now that Linda McMahon has lost her bid for the U.S. Senate. And old "cowboy" Scott Hall as of late is in Juggalo Championshit Wrestling, and in pursuit of in his words "The only title left in this business that means anything", the JCW Championship. (Really? Scott you seriously need to lay off that shit you're smoking and drinking before Nash has to pull out that suit he says he bought for your funeral a few years back.)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Could "THEY" be the ECW Originals/EV.2? I tend to doubt it. I have the feeling most of those releases the Bischoff was handing out were not there as kafaybe plot devices or story elements. EV.2, even the heavy hitters who helped build TNA in the past such as Rhino and Raven did little to advance that fiasco of a storyline.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Barring those who should be the usual suspects I think perhaps that "THEY" will be a group new to TNA, possibly made up of relative unknowns like Crimson, and perhaps a few more recently released WWE talent such as MVP, and one hopes, Shad Gaspard. It definately would not hurt TNA's terribly shaky credibility to acquire Low-Ki, especially considering the popularity and following he brought with him during his run on <em><strong>WWE NXT</strong></em> Season Two, and the history and controversy surrounding his asking for a release so soon after being moved to the <em><strong>Smackdown</strong></em> main roster.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Is 2-3-11 going to be a mindblowing night, or is it going to be another fart in the car from the creative team at TNA? Based on the company's history over the past year + I am afraid that the fans are in for antother let down.</span><br />
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</tbody></table>Master Vylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14271308160614058451noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7934817347684085816.post-62106350071806391392011-01-14T12:52:00.000-08:002011-01-14T12:52:31.379-08:00Will Wade Truly Be Alone Against Big Show?<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Just a little food for though on tonight's <em><strong>WWE Smackdown</strong></em>. Last week after apparently being kicked out of Nexus Wade Barrett showed up on <em><strong>Smackdown</strong></em> and picked a fight with the world's largest athlete. History has shown us that Barrett never acts alone, or without a plan. In light of Justin Gabriel and Heath Slater walking away from Nexus this Monday I would say it is highly likely that the two will come to Barrett's aid on tonight's <strong><em>Smackdown </em></strong>as he takes on the Big Show?</span><br />
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</tbody></table>Master Vylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14271308160614058451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7934817347684085816.post-89714395544522246482011-01-09T05:13:00.000-08:002011-01-09T05:13:54.538-08:00Welcome Back Tough Enough, R.I.P. NXTurd (One Hopes)<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">I was talking with <span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">El Chupacabra, </span>a wrestler on the independent circuit, about a week ago who informed me that he had applied to be on the next season of <em><strong>Tough Enough</strong></em>. I looked at his tweet for a minute and then asked back if he meant <em><strong>Tough Enough</strong></em> or <em><strong>NXT</strong></em>. He told me that <em><strong>Tough Enough</strong></em> was coming back, that he had seen a posting on a reality TV casting site and had filled out an application to be considered.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">So I have to say I was jacked over the initial news. After all if <em><strong>Tough Enough</strong></em> is coming back and it's going to be broadcast then there's no need for WWE to continue its production of that piece of crap known as <em><strong>NXT</strong></em>. It was only a day later that the information El Chupacabra was giving me was confirmed, as it was announced during <em><strong>WWE Monday Night Raw</strong></em> that <em><strong>WWE Tough Enough</strong></em> was indeed coming back and it would be broadcast on the USA Network.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Since then there has been a spate of rumors as to who will be part of the new <em><strong>Tough Enough</strong></em>. Al Snow, Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock's names have all come in in connection to the revived series, many people speculating what their roles will be if any of them indeed actually appear on the show.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Rejoice, rejoice. <em><strong>WWE NXT</strong></em> is dead! Long live <em><strong>Tough Enough</strong></em>!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Right?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Well so far WWE has been tight lipped as to the fate of what was first hailed as "The Next Evolution In Sports Entertainment", and it somehow is still being called "An Internet Sensation", <em><strong>NXT</strong></em>. I would think that the death of <em><strong>NXT </strong></em>and the rebirth of <em><strong>Tough Enough</strong></em> would go hand in hand. In fact what I would love to see would be the first round of hopefuls for the new <em><strong>Tough Enough</strong></em> decimate the final contestants on <em><strong>NXT</strong></em> on its last broadcast.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">So if <em><strong>NXT</strong></em> is going to be cancelled why now announcement from the company?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">I see <em><strong>Tough Enough</strong></em> as a slightly more legitimate competition to award a WWE contract. I say slightly because all you have to do is look back at the original <em><strong>Tough Enough </strong></em>to realize its track record for producing stars from non-winning talent is only slightly better than <em><strong>NXT</strong></em>'s. My first observation when I began watching <em><strong>NXT Season One</strong></em> was that guys like David Otunga, Justin Gabriel and Heath Slater would end up with contracts whether they won or not due to the fact that the company would be crazy to pass them up, and because so many <em><strong>Tough Enough</strong></em> failures had ended up with WWE contracts in the past: Christopher Nowinski, Josh Matthews, Matt Morgan, Nicholas Mitchell and Michael "The Miz" Mizanin (the reigning WWE Champion).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Of course there will be plenty of time for announcements. The revived series is scheduled to start the night after <em><strong>Wrestlemania XXVII</strong></em>, so <em><strong>NXT</strong></em> has until April at the least. Who will end up as trainers? I doubt it will be a huge and big name star like the Rock or Austin or Shawn Michaels, but I would suspect that they or people on their level might put in an appearence as a special guest pretty much the same way superstars would appear on the original <em><strong>Tough Enough</strong></em>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Until I know for sure I wait with somewhat baited breath to see if that Nexus recruiting ground <em><strong>WWE NXT</strong></em> will be tough enough.</span><br />
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</tbody></table>Master Vylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14271308160614058451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7934817347684085816.post-55857833258948766162011-01-02T08:47:00.000-08:002011-01-02T08:47:15.886-08:00Looking Back & What's Ahead In Wrestling<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Well another year has past and 2010 has been a very different year in the world of professional wrestling. There have been changes and new faces, some good and some bad. It has been a year of off the charts excitement and abysmal disappointment. For the first time in quite a few years I actually find myself hoping that 2011 is a much better year in sports entertainment.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;"><u><span style="color: yellow;">TNA Wrestling</span></u>: It has been a very blah year for TNA. The promotion started on a high note with the arrival of Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff. I myself along with a great many people felt that their association with the company would take it to the next level and place the promotion on the same level of WCW in it's glory days, and a return to the Monday Night Wars which made both WCW and the WWF agressive and innovative in their plans to compete with one another.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Well TNA was certainly taken to the level of WCW. That is WCW in its decline. It now is a combination of endless <em><strong>WCW Monday Nitro</strong></em> nWo style promos for Immortal, and <em><strong>WCW Thunder</strong></em> grade matches.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">For those unaware TNA for the most part rose from the ashes of WCW, built upon both personalities and behind the scenes workers who were not snatched up by the WWF when it acquired WCW's assets in 2000. Put together by the Jarrets it ran its intiail shows from the Asylum in Tennesse and later Universal Studios in Florida. For several years it had attained the level of WCW's intital flagship show <em><strong>WCW Main Event</strong></em>, and even featured entrance tunnels on either side of the ring, one for faces and one for heels in much the same design WCW had used for its program. TNA also incorporated the use of a six-sided Lucha Libre style ring, which most fans and even the promotion saw as an innovation.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Enter Hogan and Bischoff. Gone on week two was the six-sided ring, forever eliminating one of TNA's signature matches, Six-Sides of Steel. For the most part TNA had been pushing young and undiscovered talent, but on the first Impact of 2010 the promotion was instantly besieged by a slew of established stars from WWE and ECW which has continued throughout 2010. From the middle of the year on not only had TNA become predictible, but at many points it became too predictible. From the moment Abyss first mentioned "They" and 10-10-10 I already knew that "They" were Hogan and Bischoff.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">The main saving grace so far has been the fact that Jeff Hardy turned heel and became the TNA World Heavyweight Champion. Although he has now held the title longer than all his WWE Championship and World Heavyweight Championship reigns combined, and the unfortunate other side of the coin, is that nothing really fantastic has been done with this development. Jeff needs a manager, because he can't cut a good promo, especially if he has to do it on the spot as opposed to the edited promos shown on the big screen. Jeff's inability to speak off the cuff makes him an ineffective villian, which makes his feuds with Rob Van Dam, Matt Mogan and Mr. Anderson seem pretty dull, as the apparent faces are the ones doing all the talking. I know Jim Mitchell is pretty much doing nothing at the moment, and since Jeff is now the Anti-Christ of Professional Wrestling then the Sinister Minister would make a great voice for him.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">TNA Wrestling was a hot and innovative, home grown, promotion until the beginning of 2010, and since then it has steadily went downhill. Without the six-sided ring and an overproliferation of established stars, many of the "veterns" of TNA have been left out in the cold to promote storylines in the hopes of gaining ratings that have yet to materialize. TNA's other unique quality, the fact that there was a great deal of actual women's wrestling was quickly undermined by the Hogan-Bischoff regime, and I would rather they not have female competitors if their only goal is to clone the WWE Divas division.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">On top of this Eric Bischoff himself displayed a lack of faith in the promotion in a recent interview saying (And I Quote), "TNA comparatively is a Kool-Aid stand compared to Coca-Cola in terms of its (WWE's) resources and infrastructure." </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Recently on Twitter Bischoff revealed that he and his family had spent a day chasing geese across two states. Unable to resist I asked if those geese had names like Ratings, Talent and Storyline Development.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">In another side note TNA's <em><strong>TNA IMPACT!</strong></em> follow up show, the boring and lame, <em><strong>TNA Reaction</strong></em> was canceled by Spike TV due to poor ratings. The main reason anyone watched that boring crap anyway was to see the results of the <em><strong>IMPACT!</strong></em> main event.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;"><u><span style="color: yellow;">The Death Of ECW and The Rise Of NXT</span></u>: In 2010 Linda McMahon ran for the United States Senate. In preperation with this, over the period of the past few years, the WWE made an effort to clean up its image, because although she no longer worked for the company it was a given (and judging from the ads from her opponets a correct assumption) that her links to WWE would come into question. This in my opinion lead to the final eradication of <em><strong>WWE Extreme Championship Wrestling</strong></em>, because let's face it a hardcore promotion that is not allowed to be hardcore or show more adult content is useless. So now I know what Captain Kirk meant on the old episode of <em><strong>Star Trek</strong></em> when he stated that it had been hard to watch Abraham Lincoln die again. Watching the demise of ECW for a second time (the third if you count the WWF Invasion storyline) was pretty disheartening, especially when the ECW Championship changed hands in the last match. I still can't figure out why WWE storyline development would want to portray Ezekiel Jackson as ECW Champion without it having a relevant purpose, and thus far is has not.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">In place of ECW came <em><strong>WWE NXT</strong></em>, "The next evolution if sports entertainment." (Whatever) I had my doubts, even planned on not watching <em><strong>NXT</strong></em> at all because I thought it was going to be a straight reality show like <em><strong>Tough Enough</strong></em>. However I did start watching it from the first night when I saw that the format had actual wrestling, and learned that all the contestents worked for FCW (Florida Championship Wrestling). I loved the concept and though it was great, although I was at issue with the emimination of Daniel Bryan and Michael Tarver.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">However, then the other shoe dropped. With the arrival of Nexus, all eight NXT Season One contestants, on <em><strong>RAW</strong></em> the week after the finale, and their hiring a few weeks later proved that the NXT competition was nothing but a joke, and a further slap in the fact of WWE's diehard ECW fans. Three competitors from NXT Season Two are now a part of the Raw roster. Kaval, the winner of NXT Season Two requested, and was given, his release from WWE within a matter of months of his first <em><strong>Smackdown</strong></em> appearance. NXT Season Three was an all Diva competition, and I don't even know who won, nor do I think anyone else on earth cares. The show was such a lame duck that it was moved from SyFy to WWE.com to give SyFy the room to begin running <em><strong>Smackdown</strong></em>, from Season Three on. The current Season Four feature Byron Saxton as a contestant. Hey wait, wasn't Byron Saxton a color commentator on <em><strong>WWE ECW</strong></em>?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;"><em><span style="color: yellow;"><strong>WWE Monday Night RAW</strong> & <strong>WWE Smackdown</strong></span></em>: It was a fairly exciting year on WWE's two flagship shows, especially during the first part of they year. However after Wrestemania things began to go a little bit down hill. When Nexus arrived on the scene it harkened back to the arrival of the nWo in WCW, and when they initallly attcked John Cena this summer I came out of my seat I was so excited. Unfortunately the storyline went from exciting to slightly dull. There were dozens on missed opprotunities by storyline development to build Nexus and make them more fierce and fearsome than they have turned out to be. I think Cena should have willinglly remained in Nexus and helped Wade Barrett become WWE Champion. A heel turn for Cena would have given the character some life and rivited the audience to their TVs instead of relying on everyone to watch <em><strong>RAW</strong></em> out of habit. With CM Punk joining Nexus as apparently their new leader last week one can only hope that Nexus has a larger and more sensable role in 2011.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;"><em><strong>RAW</strong></em> itself had some great hits, Sheamus's feuds with Randy Orton, Triple H and John Morrison. The crowining of the Miz as WWE Champion. I had initially thought that the Miz as champion was a terrible idea, but looking at what he has done with it in the little time he has held the title I now agree with this move by WWE. Despite all the heirs apparent like Shawn Michaels, Triple H and AJ Styles it is the Miz who actually has that "Flair Factor". TNA should take note that this is how a true heel and villian champion should speak.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">There have also been some huge misses on <em><strong>RAW</strong></em>. The break up of the Heart Dynasty and Tyson Kidd as a heel. The anonymous general manager is an irritation instead of an innovation, and this story needs to close real soon. Michael Cole as a heel announcer. WHAT? WHY?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Perhaps one of the worst mistakes as of late was putting the WWE Tag Team Championship on Santino Morella and Kozlov. One can only hope that the Unified Tag Team title curse remains, because thus far every team that has held the championship has broken up shortly after loosing it with the exception of Heath Slater and Justin Gabriel.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;"><em><strong>Smackdown</strong></em> brought us Alberto Del Rio, who is probably the greatest Mexican heel since Eddie Gurerro. His whole introduction, driving to the ramp and his own announcer, is total heel gold. The feuds between Kane with Rey Mysterio, the Undertaker and Edge have made the show worth watching. It has also been great to see Edge going back old school in his taunting of Kane with a kidnapped Paul Bearer, and one hopes that his being joined by Christian at the Slammy special is more than just a tease that they will be reuniting as a team.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">However, despite winning <em><strong>Bragging Rights</strong></em> for the second year in a row, <em><strong>Smackdown</strong></em> has had its share of gaffs and misses. Probably the biggest it the overturn of talent on <em><strong>Smackdown</strong></em>: Matt Hardy, MVP, Shad Gaspard and Kaval to name a few. Currently there are only eight real superstars on the roster, and the show is in need of a more permanent Nexus presence. I had held out the hope that <em><strong>Smackdown </strong></em>would eventually pick up Samoa Joe in 2011, but unfortunately Joe decided to resign with TNA.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;"><u><span style="color: yellow;">The Future</span></u>: For TNA the future looks pretty bleak. Without a return to its signature style and a return to promoting the stars who made the company, such as AJ Styles, Jay Lethal and Samoa Joe, I believe it is going to be going even further down hill. It also looks a little shaky for <em><strong>WWE Smackdown</strong></em> with the depletion of it roster. <em><strong>Smackdown</strong></em> needs to increase the size of its talent rather than its broadcast team. For <em><strong>WWE RAW</strong></em> the future looks fairly bright, especially after the final RAW of 2010. CM Punk can hopefully take Nexus to the level which it needs to go to. The feud between Miz and Morrison has been a long time coming, and with the WWE Championship at stake it could be the first real feud of the 21st Century. Only time is going to tell, so keep on watching.</span><br />
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</tbody></table>Master Vylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14271308160614058451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7934817347684085816.post-32782337212793634642010-11-07T07:35:00.000-08:002010-11-18T14:32:49.341-08:00WWE Nexus, The Unusual Suspects<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">As <em><strong>WWE Suvivor Series</strong></em> approaches I once again find myself waiting with baited breath, feeling my prediction of a John Cena heel turn and a shift in the balance of power in WWE. I have had months to think and speculate on who the higher power behind Nexus could be, and now it's about time to tell the why's behind the who's that I have posted on twitter over the past few weeks.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;"><u><span style="color: yellow;"><strong>1. John Cena</strong></span></u>: Perhaps the most unlikely to be considered the higher power behind Nexus he is also the one who makes the most sense. If Cena was the mastermind of Nexus then when he turns heel at Suvivor Series and remains a member of Nexus when he has the opprotunity to leave it would make the situation look better for him to be the guy in charge instead just another member willing to take orders. He's been the top guy so long it would be hard to swallow him as anything other than the alpha dog: face, heel or otherwise.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;"><u><span style="color: yellow;"><strong>2. Triple H</strong></span></u>: The Game has been my prime suspect for the longest amount of time. For Helmsey to be the mastermind behind Nexus would allow him to return as a heel and maintain his feud with Randy Orton. Throw in Stephanie into the mix as the possible Raw GM, and it returns the McMahon-Helmsley Faction to play, this time using Nexus in an attempt to wrest control of the company from Vince.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;"><u><span style="color: yellow;"><strong>3. Michael Cole</strong></span></u>: And I quote.....myself! (As I quote myself.) Although my prime suspicion has been that, the pot who calls the kettle black by calling Daniel Bryan a nerd, is the anonymous Raw GM I actually have also entertained the idea that he is the person in control of Nexus as well. I pointed out a few weeks ago that I felt that Nexus was soon to make itself present on Smackdown, despite Wade Barrett's claim that Nexus has no interest in Smackdown. However, since Smackdown's debut on Syfy Cole has apparently joined the announce team on a permanent basis. Also members of Nexus claimed the WWE Tag Team Championship from a Smackdown tag team, as well as the fact that the Tag Team Champions can appear on any brand. To be an announcer on all of WWE's main broadcast as well as the RAW GM would make Michael Cole a prime suspect to be the leader of Nexus. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;"><u><span style="color: lime;"><strong><em>Update:</em></strong></span></u> Since this blog entry was first posted Nexus has made a physical presence on Smackdown two weeks in a row and the Nexus-Kane collusion continues!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;"><u><span style="color: yellow;"><strong>4. Steve Keirn</strong></span></u>: For those of you unaware of who Steve Kerin is he was a member of a tag team known as The Fabulous Ones in the 1980's, before his tag team partner, Stan Lane, joined the Midnight Express with Bobby Eaton. Keirn has always been heavily into the Florida wrestling scene, and he currently runs Florida Championship Wrestling, and is the onscreen president of the company. FCW is currently WWE's sole developmental territory, and it is also where every single NXT contestant has come from. Since every member of Nexus with the exception of John Cena has come out of FCW so far is it too far of a leap to suspect the man in charge? After all Keirn, for the most part, has the same background as a majority of the individuals who have competed on NXT, he wrestled a majority of his career on the independent circut, very well known in the NWA, AWA, Mid-South and the USWA, but realitively unknown in the WWF/WWE. Perhaps masterminding Nexus would be Kerin's way of making himself known to the WWE Universe in a huge way.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;"><u><span style="color: yellow;"><strong>5. Linda McMahon</strong></span></u>: What, really? "Liberal" Linda McMahon? Well now that she has lost the senate race in Connecticut Mrs. McMahon has nothing else to do, and since she has resigned from WWE and holds no office there it would free her up for a lot of screen time. She could claim that she knew that her rival was going to target her connection to WWE all along, and that she had created Nexus to take down the company she predicted was going to ruin her political career.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;"><u><span style="color: yellow;"><strong>6. Vince McMahon</strong></span></u>: Yes, it's true (hahahahaha), that Vince has been in a coma since getting a 450 splash from Justin Gabriel during a Nexus attack due to the fact that he had made the claim that he created and controled Nexus. However, this is also the kind of typical swerve Vince likes to play. Remember that Vince turned out to be the greater power that the Undertaker obeyed while in the midst of the Ministry of Darkness/Corporation feud. The Corporate Ministry was born as a result and the rest is histroy, but as we know, especially in WWE, "where anything can happen", history tends to repeat itself. And let's not forget that Vince himself invited the nWo to WWE in the past in the hopes of destroying his own company.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;"><u><span style="color: yellow;"><strong>7. Shane McMahon</strong></span></u>: Well, okay, I mentioned the rest of the McMahons so why not throw Shane under the bus too? It has been a while since we saw Shane, and as the build up for the next Wrestlemania begins it would be as good of a time as any for him to come back. Plus Shane and Vince have not majorly been at odds with each other since Shane "bought" WCW out from under Vince and the supsequent WCW/ECW invasion of the WWF. Despite the fact that Shane has never been a major suspect in my book I would say that Shane-O-Mac had all the right tools to be the mastermind behind Nexus.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;"><u><span style="color: yellow;"><strong>8. Chris Jericho</strong></span></u>: Yes, I do hold out hope that Y2J his swerved us all. Perhaps his slight feud with Nexus and recent injury are just a part of the "Greater Plan". After all it was Jericho who acted as Wade Barrett's pro for <em><strong>NXT Season One</strong></em>, and at that time Barrett seemed to have respect for Jericho, despite the deteoriation of their relationship since Nexus appeared on Raw.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;"><u><span style="color: yellow;"><strong>9. The Raw GM</strong></span></u>: Okay, I truly believe that Michael Cole is the anonymous Raw GM, and my second choice for the mysterious General Manager is Stephanie McMahon followed by Zach Ryder as the third choice. However, in the event that the Raw GM is someone entirely off my radar I would have to say that it doesn't matter, because the Raw GM is obviously connected with Nexus. After all the general manager had the opprotunity to get rid of Nexus before it started, but instead put them in a position where they would be awarded Raw contracts. Also the GM continually backs Wade Barrett's decisions, a very unusual move considering that a WWE authority figure's prime allegence should be to the company and not the leader of the group trying to bring it down. In my opinion the Raw General Manger is too shady of a figure not to be a member of Nexus.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;"><span style="color: yellow;"><u><strong>10. Brock Lesnar</strong></u></span>: There is a great deal of speculation that Lesnar is set to return to the WWE, at least for <em><strong>Wrestlemania 27</strong></em>. Could he really be the mastermind behind Nexus though? Well why else would Nexus interfere in the Undertaker's Buried Alive Match at <em><strong>WWE Bragging Rights</strong></em> the night after Lesnar lost the UFC Heavyweight Championship and had a verbal confrontation the Undertaker? Again I point out that it was not the first time that Nexus aided Kane in beating down the Undertaker (both Smackdown superstars) Remember that the WWE Undisputed Championship was split into the WWE Championship and World Heavyweight Championship after Lesnar chose to be exclusive to Smackdown and not appear on Raw to defend the title there.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;"><span style="color: yellow;"><u><strong>11. Dixie Carter</strong></u></span>: Waaaah? Yes, Dixie Carter. What if the TNA President knew that the company was a sinking ship as soon as she took Hogan and Bischoff on board and <em><strong>TNA Impact!</strong></em> failed to ignite a new Monday Night War Era against <em><strong>WWE Monday Night Raw</strong></em>? What if she signed a secret contract with WWE, since as the primary owner of TNA she did not have a TNA contract with a non-compete clause in it, and became the General Manager Raw? Masterminding Nexus would be Carter's way of taking revenge on the WWE for her own personal woes against the McMahons and the wrestling business in general, as well as a way to promote new talent, much the same way she did for TNA.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;"><span style="color: yellow;"><u><strong>12. A Carter/Keirn Alliance</strong></u></span>: Last on the list, maybe the most implausable, former TNA President Dixie Carter and FCW President Steve Keirn working together. With both the Impact Zone and FCW based in Florida it would not be unlikely that at some point that Carter and Keirn have not met. Perhaps it has all been a mutual scheme since Keirn was contacted about the creation of <em><strong> NXT</strong></em>, he calls his friend Carter and tells her he had found on out for her with Hogan and Bischoff running TNA into the ground.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Well that would be my top dozen list of suspects for the mastermind behind Nexus. Some of it is serious, some of it impossible and some of it implausable. But at least I hope that it was more entertaining the anything on <em><strong>TNA Impact!</strong></em> for the past month. Who is the mastermind of Nexus and what is going to happen? Only time will tell, but my truest suspicions are in the top five on the list.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">PS: I just used my acoustica audio mixer to create John Cena's post <strong><em>Survivor Series</em></strong> entrance music, the first few seconds of his current theme, <em>The Time Is Now,</em> fading right into <em>We Are One</em>.</span><br />
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</div>Master Vylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14271308160614058451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7934817347684085816.post-39163737148114290082010-10-26T06:53:00.000-07:002010-10-26T16:41:57.618-07:00WWE Boring Rights? Could Have Been Better!<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Well <em><strong>WWE Bragging Rights</strong></em> came to pass, and along with it the knowledge that although many of My predictions did not pan out that the possibility is still open for most of them to happen. I still eagerly anticipate that John Cena will make a full heel turn, and I think that there are many subtle hints that it is still going to happen. Perhaps story development at WWE is waitng for a bigger pay-per-view, and for the results of the senate race in Connecticut.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Presenting Cena's heel turn will be all about presentation and surprise. I know that he captures that all important 8 to 10 year old demographic the WWE has been after for the past few years, since it became a TV-PG Rated show. If you look at it logically the WWE cleaning up its act (changing the F.U. to an A.A. and the like) was just the first step in cleaning up the company's image prior to Linda deciding she was suddenly going into politics. And just as I knew it when I visited Fairfield this summer and walked into a pizza place where a commercial was running showing "Liberal" Linda McMahon kicking Jim Ross in the balls the senate race itself has been just as entertaining and dramatic as anything in WWE.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">But back to Cena, who I had predicted would "accidentally" hit Randy Orton with a chair while the ref was knocked out at <em><strong>Bragging Rights</strong></em> while trying to hit Wade Barrett, before getting an evil look on his face and proceeding to beat Orton unconscious, and then getting the ref back into the ring to count the pin. If you look at the things that have happened the past few weeks you get the sense that things are being purposefully to show him in a good light. The <em><strong>Raw</strong></em> before <em><strong>Bragging Rights</strong></em> Barrett ordered him to do an A.A. on a beaten down Orton, before changing his mind at the last second and having him hand him over. Then again last night Barrett ordered David Otunga to lay day and be pinned, again so that Cena would not be precieved as doing anything remotely bad, even under Barrett's "orders".</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Now as to the sublte hints of Cena's impending heel turn? Well the first would be the poster for <em><strong>WWE Survivor Series</strong></em> that was posted on Saturday. The poster shows a scowling Wade Barrett on it, and since he is the only superstar on the poster it would seem to be an indication that he more than likely is going to become WWE Champion at the next pay-per-view. Then last night on <em><strong>WWE Monday Night Raw</strong></em> when Cena confronted Barrett in the locker room there was another sublte hint in the background between the two men. Sitting in a locker cubby was a Nexus hat. I don't believe I have to point out the fact that the only person in Nexus who wears a hat is John Cena. If you still have <em><strong>Raw </strong></em>on your DVR you will also note that the locker room was re-dressed for Barrett's confrontation with David Otunga, with other Nexus paraphanelia up but the hat missing.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">The last little sublte hint was that as of last night all currently active on-screen Nexus members have held WWE championship gold with the exception of Wade Barrett himself, so one can only but assume that the plan is to put the WWE Championship on him soon becuase traditionally the leader of any heel faction is going to be the top singles champion (i.e. Ric Flair, Raven, Triple H, Hollywood Hogan).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">As for <em><strong>Bragging Rights</strong></em> it was a mix of the average and beyond all expectations. I find it a little shocking that in the Bragging Rights match itself the defeat of Team Raw was played up as defeat from within. Not that Team Smackdown didn't have all the tools to be victorious, but I was quite certain that Nexus would interject themselves into the match to help Smackdown win for no other reason than to humiliate Raw.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Daniel Bryan vs. Dolph Ziggler I think was another outstanding example of a repeating theme, as last year The Miz won his one on one Bragging Rights match for Raw. It was spectacular, and most would agree the rematch on <em><strong>Raw</strong></em> was just as spectacular.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Then there was Nexus's actual involvement in the PPV. Cena and Otunga winning the WWE Tag Team Championship was totally unexpected. It was also the first subtle hint that Smackdown will eventually, as I predict, have a Nexus prescence on it sometime in the very near future. Why else would the decision be made to have a hot and dominant team like Smackdown's Drew McIntyre and Cody Rhodes drop the titles so quickly to an untested Raw tag team? And then there was the interference in the Buried Alive match (which I was sure the Undertaker was going to win as him being beaten back to back in a Hell In A Cell and a Buried Alive match seemed unlikely under any circumsttances). On <em><strong>Raw</strong></em> Wade Barrett assured that they had their reasons for helping Kane, but remember this is not the first time that Nexus helped Kane destroy the Undertaker. I think the act of Nexus burying the Undertaker (the man viewed as the most dominant figure on Smackdown) is very symbolic, and shows to me that Nexus has plans for a Smackdown take-over.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">In regard to the "Greater Plan" I think that there are a great many players in place. My feeling is that Raw and Smackdown are going to be portrayed as being "taken over" by Nexus as secret members come to light in the wake of a John Cena heel turn. I believe that Alex Riley, Tyler Reks, Caylen Croft, Trent Baretta, Sheamus, Zach Ryder and David Hart Smith are in fact secretly members of Nexus. The supposed former members Darren Young, Skip Sheffield and Michael Tarver are probably just waiting in the wings and biding their time so the fans will forget about them.. And let's not forget "Raw GM" Michael Cole, who is now reading and reacting to the e-mails a lot too fast. And again I still firmly believe that Triple H will be revealed as the mastermind of Nexus, sometime atfer the Connecticut senate race is over.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">As to what is upcoming at the next pay-per-view <em><strong>WWE Survivor Series</strong></em>. Maybe I sound like a broken record, but Wade Barrett will win the WWE Championship when John Cena turns heel and takes out Randy Orton. The catch is that Cena is the guest referee for the match, and if Barrett looses he will be fired, but if he wins he will supposedly be released from his obligations to Nexus. It's all show to make Cena's heel turn that much sweeter. Immediately following the match The Miz will bring in another referee and attempt to cash in Money In The Bank, and Alex Riley will reveal his involvement in Nexus by knocking Miz out with the Money In The Bank briefcase as Barrett feigns an injury from the previous match to hold the ref's attention after the bell rings, until he miraculously revives and covers The Miz. <em><strong>Survivor Series</strong></em> will end with Cena as a heel, Barrett as the WWE Champion, the Money In The Bank "Gurantee" broken, and Michael Cole saying, "If you're not Nexus you're against us," as pandemonium erupts around the ring.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Now, no, ATM Eric did not reply to Me, but I am sure about 10,000 other followers were sending him messages, so the chances he saw My lonely tweet are pretty slim, but it was just the principal of the thing, and it was a valid question.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Before getting into Impact itself let Me give you a quote from Dixie Carter that was replayed on the opening moments of <em><strong>Reaction</strong></em> that MY DVR happened to catch. "I am here to make history, no to repeat history." Again a fitting and timely quote since TNA Wrestling went from being a fairly innovative company to WCW circa 1998 in four days flat.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Yes, Virgina, there was wrestling on <em><strong>TNA Impact!</strong></em> , squeezed between a nice chunk of promos.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Now for those who don't know I was in Lakeland, Florida in 1987, for the first stop of the <em><strong>NWA Great American Bash</strong></em>, On Tour. (Yes, that's right <em><strong>NWA Great American Bash</strong></em>) And I have to say that the action I saw 20 plus years ago and later brodcast on NWA Florida Championship Wrestling (yeah that same FCW that Nexus and the rest of those <em><strong>WWE NXT</strong></em> hopefuls were pulled from) was a lot more exciting and innovative for their time than anything I saw on Thursday night. (The only simularity between the two events was that Ric Flair was at both of them).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">After the opening promo between Mr. Anderson, RVD, Jeff Hardy and Eric Bischoff, to set the tone for the evening we were treated to a squash match between Robbie E. and Amazing Red. Really? One of the most innovative high flyers in TNA is delegated to being a mid card jobber? Well nothing new, crusierweights have always been pushed down low on the card under Bischoff's watch. You never saw Chris Jericho or Rey Mysterio become WCW World Heavyweight Champion, and they were never close in the Bischoff Era in that company.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">What's next? Going to make all the masked wrestlers in TNA unmask?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Oh, wait! I guess that happened in a way since Kazarian passed the Suidice torch on to Kiyoshi.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">The Shore is about the stupidest thing in TNA right now, and believe Me it is at the tail end of a list of very stupid things. At least when Dustin Runnels debued as Sevin everyone knew it was not going to work and it was an abortion right on the spot. I can't say I really want to watch a wannabe Zach Ryder doing an impression of a wannabe <em><strong>Jersey Shore</strong></em> cast member. (On the Zach Ryder note let's call him the Garden State Stink-EE). If Strauss and Treston care anything about the fans or the business they should break their contracts and leave. He can go back to Jersey Pro Wrestling and she can head back to CZW or ROH, where as individuals they still might have some relavence. No feud with Jay Lethal. If the plan is to put the X Division Title on this no-talent you might as well see if Doink the Clown and Kergan the Interrigator want shots at it next.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">The next thing I have to ask is just what the hell crack pipe were you smoking when you decided to do a promo of ex-Katie Lea Burchill, Katarina Waters, as Winter a ghostly woman who apparently only Angelina Love can see? Did somene say, "Here, let me hit on that bitch, cause man I got a good idea. Why don't we have Katarina be a ghostly kind of figure, just like when the Warrior kept appearing as a specter to Hogan in WCW. Man that would be so cool! Ratings will go through the roof!"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">(For all you who may not get that above I am sorry for being one of the five people who actually remember the Warrior's stint in WCW).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">"Gee, what else could we rehash?", Kevin Sullivan ask after a bong hit from his perch in the Tree of Woe. Well of course, feuding color commentators. I mean it worked so well between Mike Tennay and Don West last year, let's do the same thing with Mike and Taz? I might have worked if: One it had any relevance, and Two they didn't go from between suspicious, to working well together, to suspicious, to working well together, to suspicious all in the course of the same match.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Mickie James debued. Snore. Her bouncing the fun bags around as she made her way to the ring when she wrestled in WWE is the only reason anyone cares about Mickie. Her finishing kick to Serita was so telegraphed that Hellen Keller could have seen it coming. Hey, Mickie! You're about nine months too late to come to TNA to start a serious career in women's wrestling. Just as Angelina Love and "Winter".</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">In case you think I have forgotten I am not mentioning the match between The Pope and A.J. Styles that Eric mandated that Fourtune could not interfere in, I haven't. It just isn't worth talking about, other than the fact that as far as action was concerned it was the high point of the night. It was another of those swerves that Hellen Keller could have seen a mile away. I mean I was as convinced that someone else would not interfere in that match as I was that Nick Dinsmore was Eric's real nephew, Eugene, that Jesse Barr was the long-lost Funk brother Jimmy Jack and that any of the Andersons (including Mr. Anderson) are actually related. (Yeah, yeah Olie and Gene are, but Arn, C.W. and Ken are not).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">YW for that wayward plug, Asshole.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Seeing RVD and Sabu work together again was a treat, but altogether short lived. The shoving match after the mis-cue and the defeat by Beer Money may be the only part of intersting story-telling on all of <em><strong>Impact</strong></em>. An attempt to show cracks in the old ECW/EV.2 brotherhood is something no one has ever seen before. However it just comes off as so hard to believe that RVD could have pulled out a 12 gague and blown Sabu away and the fans still wouldn't buy it.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Then a heafty bong hit later Vince Russo says, "Hey, Eric, Eric. I got an idea. Man, I'm so stoned I can feel myself thinking."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">"What is it, man?," Eric questions. "Like the New Blood and the Millionares Club?"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Oh, no of course not. How about a main event where the face is against all odds? Oh, yeah, vintage WWF Attitude Era stuff. A one armed Ken Anderson in an Ultimate X Match. As innovative as putting Hornswoggle and the Great Kali in a ladder match (Any guesses at to who would win? No because even with a ladder Hornswoggle still couldn't reach whatever was suspended above the ring.) The true innovation was that the main event was a squash match of the worst kind. At least when Stone Cold Steve Austin was in a no-win situation he always won.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">I have to skip ahead to the end because I want to save My main point for last. As likely as Eminem and Elton John's duet, Easy E and the Nature Boy are leaving to go to the club together in a limo. There is, for some stange reason a camera filming inside the limo as well as outside. Huh??????? And suddenly Kurt Angle appears, bashing in the windows and basically ruffling Ric Flair's feathers. Could have worked. Maybe. IF JEFF JARRETT HAD BEEN IN THE LIMO TOO!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Finally back to the end of the main event, after clearing Fourtune from the ring Mr. Anderson is attacked from behind by Jeff Hardy. Other than in the opening promo, Jeff has nothing to add. No taunting Anderson while he is down and out, no telling the fans how great his is as the anti-Christ of pro-wrestling, nothing but getting into the faces of the fans at ringside and yelling at them as he is getting ready to make his exit.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">ARE YOU PEOPLE FUCKING STUPID AS WELL AS SMOKING CRACK???!!!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Between Hogan, Bischoff, Taylor, Russo, Sullivan, Flair and whoever else is contributing to story development at TNA there has to be at least 100 years of experience in the business between you. You can't have a heel World Champion without letting him have free run of the mic. I said last week that it was going to be a make or break deal. Jeff Hardy has the company on his shoulders now, he's the champion, THE MAN, as Flair would say. He is the guy everyone wants to hear talk about himself and his evil deeds, not guys who are either retired from the business or non-wrestlers. If this is to be the pattern, of the silent Jeff Hardy adding nothing new as a heel other than just being a "bad guy" then TNA Wrestling has nowhere to go but down.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Although shaky I still feel some of My predictions will eventually pan out. I am still convinced that Michael Cole is both the Raw GM and a member of Nexus. I believe at some future point, perhaps after the senate race is over, that Triple H will be revealed as the mastermind behind Nexus. I am also still pretty sure that Tyler Reks is a part of Nexus and that at some point in the not too distant future that there will be a Nexus presence on <em><strong>Smackdown</strong></em>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">As far as any further Bragging Rights predictions: Well since it is a Buried Alive match the Undertaker will definately be victorious against Kane. I can't see him loosing a Hell In A Cell and a Buried Alive match back to back. Plus since no championships are on the line Daniel Bryan will defeat Dolph Ziggler with ease. As for the Bragging Rights match itself, it goes to Team Smackdown, due to interference by Nexus to keep Team Raw from winning.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Be sure to follow StandUpForWWE on twitter. If TNA Wrestling's Eric Bischoff endorses it then everyone else shoud too.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VkIOdLrfVpI/TL4hYPYu2lI/AAAAAAAAAJo/I0OF_hVO6J4/s1600/Copy+of+House+Of+Vyle+Banner.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VkIOdLrfVpI/TL4hYPYu2lI/AAAAAAAAAJo/I0OF_hVO6J4/s200/Copy+of+House+Of+Vyle+Banner.JPG" width="131" /></a></div>Master Vylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14271308160614058451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7934817347684085816.post-81605620529599948242010-10-18T08:26:00.001-07:002010-10-18T08:28:07.507-07:00TNA: Itchweeed To Stankweeed, Jeff Is A Heel!<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">So <em><strong>TNA Bound For Glory</strong></em> 10-10-10 came to pass. "THEY" appeared to take over. A couple of weeks ago I gave My predictions of who THEY would be, since THEY were already there and had been there since January. The ringleaders and puppetmaster were revealed as Hollywood Hulk Hogan and Eazy-E Eric Bischoff, just as I knew they would be. However a few of My predictions fell short, and there were a couple of suprises. I had fully expected that during the three on two handicap match that Samoa Joe and Kevin Nash would turn on their respective partners. Of course that did not happen, but to My surprise Jeff Jarret turned out to be the one aligned with THEY. Second prediction not to come to pass, Kurt Angle did not win the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. That honor went to Jeff Hardy, who was also aligned with THEY, a group that for the time being at least is calling itself Immortal.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">History, whether a work or not tends to repeat itself. The closing moments of <em><strong>Bound For Glory</strong></em> 2010 no doubt took many long time fans back to 1996 and <em><strong>WCW Bash At The Beach</strong></em>. You could say THEY gave you the biggest hint as to what was going to happen since both pay-per-views took place in the same building and a little over 14 years apart. The image of Jeff Hardy standing in the ring with Hogan and Bischoff as fans threw trash in the ring vividly mirrored Hogan himself standing with Scott Hall and Kevin Nash 14 plus years earlier as fans threw trash into the ring when Hogan revealed himself to be aligned with The Outsiders.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Jeff Hardy. The charismatic enigma. The rainbow-haired warrior. The insane and twisted Itchweeed himself! Oh, no! Jeff Hardy has gone heel. It is the most terrible thing to happen in his career.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Or is it really?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Let's face facts. Sometimes a heel turn can make a wrestler's career. The history of the business is replete with faces turning heel and it working wonders for their career: Chris Jericho, Barry Wyndham, Stan Lane, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Shawn Michaels, Shad Gaspard. (Okay I am still waiting on the last one to pay off, but I still say he is the destined to be the new Shawn Michaels). When you look back to 1996, when Hulk Hogan became Hollywood Hogan, it revitalized his career. He was still popular, and without a doubt the most famous wrestler alive (as he still is), but without joining the nWo and turning heel Hogan really had no where else to go. He made the heel turn, joined the nWo and changed wrestling history forever.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Now, remember again, history has a way of repeating itself. But I will get to that in a minute. First let Me turn My attention to Jeff Hardy.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Turning heel is going to work wonders for Jeff's popularity and career. I realize from what little he had said on <em><strong>TNA Impact!</strong></em> this Thursday that the development of his persona is in a embryonic stage, but I did love the fact that he sounded like a cross between Robert De Niro as Max Cady in <em><strong>Cape Fear</strong></em>, the Hal 9000 Computer from <em><strong>2001</strong></em> and Raven. A good gimmick does not come overnight. Remember Hogan was paraphrasing "Anything else would be uncivilized," from a commercial he had done between working for the WWF and WCW for several weeks before someone finally came up with, "nWo 4 Life".</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Jeff has the histroy to be the guy who was doing everything he could for the fans, putting his body on the line for little reward other than the cheers of the crowd. Anyone who has followed his career knows that he spent a majority of his WWF/WWE career as probably the most popular wrestler who never went anywhere. Jeff was stuck high on the mid-card, either being a tag team champion with his brother Matt, or fighting back and forth battles for the Intercontinental Championship, while in the meantime guys like John Cena, Brock Lesnar, Randy Orton and Edge were being handed world titles left and right, and all but one of those guys came along after Jeff had his career well established.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">I think it is fitting that Taz has talked Jeff up to this point as a former world champion. WWE squandered his talent and missed their mark by not keeping either the WWE or WWE World Heavyweight Championship on him for any length of time. They blew the WWE Championship title reign on a pointless feud with his brother, when they just should have kept their aborted plans to unveil Christian as Jeff's mystery assailant. I know I would have much rather seen a feud between the Hardys and Edge and Christian rekindled that the series of matches that Jeff had against Matt. Jeff's World Heavyweight Championship reigns were wasted to do nothing other than to put C.M. Punk over as a heel (another late comer to the WWE who already had longer world world title reigns than all of Jeff's combined, and you can include his days served thus far as TNA World Heavyweight Champion in on that.)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">So he has the backstory of the world champion who barely ever was and was never given the chance to really speak by his former employer. (And as a reminder, to keep you from forgetting, Scott Hall and Kevin Nash were former disgruntled WWF employees when they first showed up in WCW). But what else does Jeff have to bring to the table as a heel? A heel has to speak, a lot, and in the past Jeff has always been seen as more of a man of action than of words. Jeff's brief heel run in the WWF when he and Matt were the New Brood, he really did not do any speaking. However, although I have not seen much from his early days in OMEGA, I do know that one of the characters he played there, Will-O-The-Wisp, was quite the talker. And if you have ever watched <em><strong>The Hardy Show</strong></em> and seen Jeff play Itchweeed you know he can talk some seriously funny and insane shit. Perhaps he needs to develop a character along those lines for TNA. Let's call him Stankweeed, and he can be a heel who is funny and entertaining on a different level than Hall and Nash.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">So how will Jeff ultimately play out as his heel personal in TNA develops? Only time will tell, however he needs to be allowed to come into it on his own, and not play it as a Hogan or Bischoff directed character. The fate of TNA is now in Jeff's hands, and the role he plays as the bad guy is going to make or break the company. You may think that sounds unlikely, but the fact is he wants to be the make guy and not the make it for a couple of years guy.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Coming off what TNA Wrestling considers its biggest pay-per-view, <em><strong>Bound For Glory</strong></em>, <em><strong>TNA Impact!</strong></em> was an exercise in disappointment, and wrestling fans know that the <em><strong>WWE Monday Night Raw</strong></em> following a <em><strong>Wrestlemania</strong></em> is something special and spectacular. Again I was taken back to any given <em><strong>WCW Monday Nitro</strong></em> in the late 1990s. As soon as the as the shot panned into the arena <em><strong>The nWo Theme</strong></em> hit and Hogan and Bischoff come strutting out through the pyro. Then began what Chris Jericho called in his book <em><strong>A Lion's Tale: Around The World In Spandex</strong></em>, One of the nWo's "endless opening promos." The high point was when Fortune came out, although I expected from those early days of the nWo that TNA'a top heel faction was coming to save the day, it pleasantly turned out to be something different. I did see it coming, knew Hogan and Flair were going to hug and not fight before Flair had his trusty Rolex off. That was innovative and refreshing, however already it meant that Immortal had as many members as it took the nWo to pick up in nine months. Ric Flair hugged Hollywood Hogan, and that My friends was the highpoint of the night.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">The opening promo lasted for 30 minutes. Then for another 20 minutes there was backstage action between Dixie Carter, Kevin Nash and Sting, followed by more of the same between Carter, Hogan and Bischoff. At 50 minutes in there was finally a match. (If you can call it that). The worst TNA Knock-Outs Match in history. I'd rather watch the late Rhonda Sing and Harvey Wippleman in a dress rolling around in a kiddie pool full of gravy. TNA has always provided half-respectable women's wrestling, but I think we can kiss that goodbye as long as Bischoff has any power. Then the only time the show really came alive, Kurt Angle's confrontation with Jeff Jarret, but even that was brief and not as deeply personal as it could have gotten. One hour and 20 minutes in we finally had a real match between Abyss and Samoa Joe, followed by a five on one handicap match between Fortune and the Pope. Unfortunately since I refuse to watch <em><strong>TNA Reaction </strong></em>the DVR cut off after the match between RVD and Mr. Anderson barely began, but I have a sinking feeling of how things went down. And just to say one last thing about <em><strong>Reaction</strong></em>, at least when<em><strong> Nitro</strong></em> went to three hours it was two hours of wrestling and an hour of promos, and not this pseudo doucumentary crap that is so boring the only way to hook anyone into watching it is to run <em><strong>Impact!</strong></em> over into its time-slot. LIKE EVERY FUCKING WEEK! At least WWE had enough respect for the fans to take <em><strong>WWE NXT</strong></em> off brodcast television in the U.S.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Whether it was a work or whether it was a shoot, Kevin Nash and Sting were shown doing the right thing by walking away from TNA. Since it has gone from zero to late 1990's <em><strong>WCW Monday Nitro</strong></em> in less than a week it would be a clear sign to a blind man that the Titanic is sinking. Bischoff (ATM Eric) was once thought of as a wonder in the business, but it is fairly apparent he was a one hit wonder. The only way to prove Me wrong is for something really new and innovative to happen in TNA, which I feel that he and Hogan understand the things that make it work as much as Vince McMahon understood what made ECW work. Despite the fact that Bischoff had perhaps the longest stint as WWE Raw General Manager he really did not do anything too inovative in his tenure. If the idea is to rehash the nWo in the hopes of drawing ratings it will only work for the short term. If the fans do not have a new and spetacular angle within, I would say, six months, then this will end only in one way, with Vince McMahon chuckling to himself as he purchaces the TNA archives to run on <em><strong>WWE Classics On-Demand</strong></em>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">So if Bischoff fails it will be up to Jeff Hardy, the Charasmatic Heel, to carry TNA into the future. Given the mic, the motivation, the chance, and above all the right persona, Jeff can out talk Austin, Cena, JBL, Randy Orton or any other guy off the street that WWE has given a chance to while overlooking Jeff for years. If Jeff does not step up and assert himself backstage and design a character to stand along with the greats TNA Wrestling will either go out of business or be sent packing into relative obsurity like the National Wrestling Alliance.</span><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Jericho gives a revealing, funny and sometimes sad and tear jerking look into his career. He seems to hold nothing back, and unlike many books I can clearly hear Jericho's voice in My head as he tells his tale, as well as the voices of several members of the pro wrestling scene I remember from through the years. I think I was actually surprised, truly realizing that there are only a few years which seperate us in age, and like him I remember the glory days of the independents and territories. I also watched several shows from various promotions over the weekend (oh, the glory days).</span></div><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">It was great to have an inside look at many of his memorable moments. I vividly remember him building his feud with Dean Malenko. Loved his crazy security guy, Ralphus, and could not wait for him to cut promos. I will never forget that first night he came to<em><strong> Raw</strong></em>, which blew me away since I did not know he had left WCW. My ex-wife was pissed, and told her friends that only watched WWF wrestling that they would hate him because all he did what whine and cry whenever he lost a belt.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Jericho is the man, and he is special, as I do not think any other wrestler could spin this tale. No matter where he is now you have to admit he was special, not only booked to win the first undisputed WWF-WCW Championship, but to do it by beating The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin in the same night. Many forget that the man at the very bottom of the pile in that four man tournament was Kurt Angle, who did not advance to the finals but is somehow considered the greatest wrestler alive.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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