Author: dtm666

I initially stated that I hadn’t caught the TLC PPV live… well, that’s a bit of a fib, isn’t it?

You can check out my quick TLC thoughts if you’d like, but after seeing John Cena’s attempt to murder Wade Barrett and subsequently bury him both figuratively and literally, it was nice to see CM Punk return the favor tonight on RAW. If someone had to do it, it may as well be Punk because that guy is awesome.

Yeah, that’s right, Mizzles. Punk is awesome and you’re not. What Punk did to Cena was awesome. Meanwhile, on the other side of the coin, we have not awesome in the form of the Miz – your reigning WWE World Heavyweight Champion, by the way – getting pinned by a 60-year-old man and then I’m supposed to take this guy seriously as a top draw? Isn’t the World Champion supposed to be someone with some level of credibility? The guy is a total tool. He makes JBL seem like Hulk Hogan in comparison… never thought I’d see the day where I’d be complimentary towards either JBL or Hogan.

(Though to be fair, JBL is a better talker and color commentator than he was an active wrestler, so I’ll give him that much.)

Oh, and Michael Coleslaw?  Jerry Lawler earning a victory with an assist from Randy Orton is less cringe-inducing than the Miz retaining his WWE title in a later match with an assist from a scrawny little commentator, you fucking moron. No matter how hard you try, you will never be as good as The Coach.

So, I guess with the apparent killing of Wade Barrett, does that mean Nexus is over and done with? If that’s the case, then it’s probably for the best that this failed experiment was buried in a dozen folding chairs with very little fanfare and circumstance. I guess I have to update that funeral video, don’t I?

Dug the William Regal/Daniel Bryan match – great stuff.  I also dug the match Bryan had with Dolph Ziggler on RAW a couple months back. Can’t say the same for the match Dolph had with John Cena. In fact, the only good thing was the aforementioned returning of the favor by CM Punk.

That’s all I got. The show wasn’t really anything special save for the Punk attack. I’d expect things to pick up steam now that Cena is done burying rookies for a change.

So… um, yeah. A rare night off means I got to watch RAW live… and I wasn’t too particularly impressed. In fact, the show didn’t really hold my interest for the interim and I ended up playing Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game for Playstation. I did catch most of it, so I guess I’ll drop a couple quick thoughts;

– In what was probably the smart thing that was done, the tension between Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler was quickly resolved with an RKO on Cole, thus preventing things from going back to the way they were as if nothing ever happened. Of course, I fully expect that to happen next week, but at least they didn’t jump the gun THIS WEEK.

– Speaking of gun jumping, John Cena is rehired next week. Of course, you wouldn’t know that he was fired because they still play his music during . Also, nobody arrested him for assault and property damage… because ticket-holders are allowed to do that sort of thing. Gee, I did not know that.

– Santino Marella and Vladimir Koslov are YOUR new WWE Tag-Team Champions after John Cena (who’s fired, remember) interfered in a bleh match… although to be honesty, I only saw the tail end of this match. (My game was done, anyway).

– Not enough Daniel Bryan… and why do the Bella Twins still have jobs?

Maybe I’ll watch the replay later on, see if I missed anything… but man, this show was bad. Really bad.

In a rare occurrence, I did catch the three-hour RAW replay and the King of the Ring tournament. And it was alright. Just a couple quick thoughts:

– Sheamus is king. Good for him, he deserved it. In fact, I didn’t think anyone was more qualified to win this tournament than the Celtic Warrior… or do we call him the Celtic King now?

– The main event between Miz and Lawler… good stuff. Props to the King who looked great and was able to keep up with the younger Miz. However, I didn’t like that Miz needed Michael Cole’s help in retaining his title. That wasn’t awesome, man. Other than that, a solid main event with an end result you saw coming, but at least it was entertaining.

– On a related note, nice work on the Lawler video montage. WWE production crews do some nice work with these things.

– Remember when Shawn Michaels retired and gave that heartfelt speech early in 2010? Remember not seeing him ever again on WWE TV (for the foreseeable future) outside of montages? Yeah, somebody better send that tape to John Cena, because being FIRED means YOU DON’T SHOW UP. ASSHOLE. (Sorry, Ken.)

That’s about it, really.