Category: Wrestling Musings

All posts related to pro rasslin’ that isn’t covering specific shows or events.

More Merch For John Cena… BORING

According to this page, John Cena is looking to change his ring gear and is asking fans for ideas. Oh joy, more CeNation merchandise to sell to the kiddies. Hey, John. Here’s an idea. Why don’t you go for a yellow shirt with big red block letters that says HULK CENA RULZ! LOL!

Seriously, what’s the point of asking fans for ideas on new merch? It’s just going to be the same shit with different colors and slightly different typeface. It’s almost as bad as Mortal Kombat’s ninja color swapping. Even Hulk Hogan had SOME variety in his merchandise back in the day. And there’s only been a couple variations of the iconic Austin 3:16 shirt during his sizable reign on top…

This is getting lazy, gents.

Rock Available As WWE '12 Pre-Orders… But Is Standard Ware In Wii Version

From wrestlenewz.com

As mentioned before, The Rock will be available as a playable character for fans who pre-order WWE ‘12 through any participating retailer and Gamestop pre-orders will come with alternate attires for The Miz. The alternate attires will be The Miz in a suit and his “I’m Awesome” t-shirt. It’s being reported that the Wii version of WWE ‘12 will automatically come with The Rock as a playable character and The Miz’s alternative attire.

That’s cool. Nice to know that when I pick up my Wii copy, I will be able to play the Rock and begin fantasy matches with Fruity Pebbles.

CM PUNK IS COMING…

…to TNA On-Demand

Unfortunately, hardcore TNA fanboys who were hoping the true WWE Champion would show up on TNA tapings (with the belt, no less) are no doubt heartbroken by the news that CM Punk has indeed signed a new contract with WWE.

With that having been said, I think it’s pretty cool that TNA is taking advantage of the recent CM Punk rumblings by unearthing some stuff from his brief stint with the organization (from the early days of TNA when they were running weekly pay-per-views as opposed to weakly television shows). Almost makes me think of the lost opportunity WCW had when Steve Austin hit it big in the WWF ages ago by showing some of his old matches.

CM Punk Retains Title Over Blow Up Doll

Roaming and unemployed WWE World Champion Cee Emm Punk was spotted in an alley in downtown Chicago wrestling against a giant blow-up doll.

Onlookers reported that while Punk was taking a short cut through the alley, he was ambushed by the doll via splash off the top of the building. Miraculously, the doll wasn’t critically injured in the fall, but Punk took the attack as a challenge for his one true WWE championship. The fight lasted a good two minutes, with Punk attempting to lock-up with the doll before giving up and using a pin to pop the balloon, much to the concernation of the crowd.

The crowd soon cheered loudly, as Punk raised his championship title into the air and shouted “I’m the best in the world, pal! Nobody can stop me! BRING ON PEPSIMAN, BITCHES!”

At the moment, Pepsiman has not responded to Punk’s challenge.

CM Punk Successfully Defends WWE Title Against Piston Honda

(The following piece is a work of fiction.)

Unemployed WWE champion CM Punk, who was lasted spotted attending a Chicago Cubs game while tonight’s edition of WWE Monday Night Raw was running a tournament to crown a new WWE champion… which he found ridiculous since he alone has the championship title, has had his first successful title defense when he soundly defeated former 2-time WVBA Minor Circuit Heavyweight Champion Piston Honda in a hotly contested Punch-Out match.

Punk, who had won the WWE Championship by defeating John Cena last night on his final contractual WWE event, immediately went hold and place his title in cold storage while facing off against Honda-san in a fierce match-up that saw Punk take down the legendary veteran in two rounds on a TKO. We anxiously await Punk’s next WWE Title defence, which is rumored to be against Edmund Honda, who has vowed revenge for Piston’s defeat.

We’ll have more news as this becomes available.

VLOG – Picked Up The WCW Nitro DVD

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Kinda sad that they had to condense six years worth of history onto a single 3-disc set, but for the most part, I actually liked this one and thought it was a pretty good compilation. I’ll probably go into further detail in a VLOG or something, but there’s quite a bit of good stuff here. Some stuff I can recall watching back in the day (the Lex Luger World Title win, the Bret Hart/Goldberg encounter in Toronto, the dreaded Fingerpoke Of Doom being a few examples) and then there’s stuff that I missed the first time around that I’m actually surprised they put in, such as the whole “reboot” segment in 2000, the Sting/DDP World title match where Sting would have a one-hour title reign before dropping it back to DDP on the same night, and the other Triple-Decker Cage Match.

If there were any complaints with the content, it’s that three discs isn’t enough to showcase some of the amazing stuff that WCW Nitro had produced during its tenure, and even during its final, limping days, there was just some good stuff hidden in there.

All in all, this is a nice little set. Here’s hoping they do a second set.

About This CM Punk Thing

You know… this whole CM Punk thing feels a bit original. A bit fresh. And I have this nagging feeling that they’re going to fuck this whole thing up. It’s a sad case where you see this hot new thing that WWE has on its lap, ready to be harnessed and pushed to the next stratosphere in an effort to make this whole gimmick cool again… and then you realize there’s no way they’ll give this the proper push it deserves.

Nexus came to mind after all. They had a hot start and then fizzled out because WWE had no clue on what to do with these guys. Green as grass? Maybe, but so long as people are interested and you present these guys as something unique, what does it matter?
But that never went anywhere… and I have a feeling this CM Punk thing won’t either.
But hey, I wouldn’t mind being wrong in this case. It’d be a heck of a show.