Category: Wrestling Musings

Recently acquired the Best Of WWE at MSG Blu-Ray… slightly jiffed that they didn’t include Bret/Austin from Survivor Series ’96 (it’s not the Mania match, but it’s still a fine watch indeed), but then again, it’s been on a handful of other sets already, so no biggie. Other than that, it’s a nice little time capsule showing off the various eras of WWE. The funny part about the set is that it’s hosted by Matt Striker, who had been future endeavored by WWE some time ago… Oops.

Seriously, though, not a bad set of matches.

Source: http://www.wrestlenewz.com/wrestling/tna-news/tna-fires-brooke-hogan/

Granted, she was part of a major storyline on Impact… or at least, that’s what I hear since I rarely (if ever) watch TNA these days… but seriously, who honestly gives a shit about Brooke Hogan these days?

Interesting tidbit regarding a potential “main event” at the upcoming Wrestlemania XXX. For those who desire not teh spoilers, do not click the break. All I can say is that… thank fuck this idea is scrapped.

For those who are curious and do not mind teh spoilers, read onwards.

From the Blog Of Doom (and the dirtsheets)

Originally Planned Main Event for WrestleMania 30 Has Been Scrapped

The planned match, which would feature HHH vs. Steve Austin (who would be representing Vince) for control of the company will not take place. No word on what caused the match to be scrapped or if they are planning to replace Austin with another wrestler.

Credit Dave Meltzer, Wrestling Observer Newsletter

Haven’t heard this bounce around all that much, but I do recall it being an idea or two tossed around. Whatever might have caused this match to not take place is probably a Godsend. The last thing we need is another “Wrestlemania Moment” featuring a sleep-inducing HHH match – although make no mistake; we’ll still get that one, just with someone other than Austin.

On top of that… of all the ideas that have been shot together that were considered for a possible Steve Austin return to the ring, THAT’S the best they could come up with?

Sad that a video game does a better job of hyping up a non-existent dream match than the WWE script monkeys could.

Original source: http://www.wrestlenewz.com/wrestling/wwe-news/vince-congratulates-cena-xpw-returning-divas-dressed-up-last-night/

The newsbit of particular note and facepalm worthiness is as follows;

The infamous Rob Black will be bringing back his XPW promotion on October 31st in Los Angeles. The event will feature a 12-man tournament for the XPW Title with names being announced soon.

For those who don’t know, here’s a very brief and very truncated primer; X-treme Pro Wrestling was a wrestling promotion that was first started in 1999 by porn producer Rob Zicari a.k.a. Rob Black. Apparently, Black presented XPW the same way he allegedly presented his porn: it was garbage, bullshit wrestling with plenty of nonsensical violence and plenty of trash in both the literal and figurative sense of the word. You know how some people liked to refer to the old ECW as Extremely Crappy Wrestling? XPW lived up to its moniker as X-tremely Putrid Waste. The company “supposedly” got better in its later years when it moved to the East Coast and Shane Douglas was champion, but from I saw of one of the XPW compilation discs released in recent years when the footage was under the control of one of those DVD companies, I saw nothing of the sort to confirm that conception. It was still pretty crap.

Somewhere along the way, Black got busted for obscenity charges and XPW was subsequently shut down in 2003. Black served his time and is now back to restart the company and run regular shows and stuff…

So… yeah. XPW is coming back, huh? Um… yeah, color me uninterested. Oh, I’m sure there are some mutants that’ll be happy to see this crap come back. But… bleh. No thanks.