Drawn using my finger, which turned out to be a less than stellar experience, but the general idea is there. I do need to find my proper stylus, because I don’t think the finger serves as a precise drawing tool or anything of the sort.
WWE has two taped episodes of their weekly programming and have attempted to answer their recent rating woes by announcing MOAR TALKING SEGMENTS.
In the case of tomorrow’s edition of Monday Nitro, there will be an interview segment with ROMAN REIGNS AND THE MIZ, as well as a double contract signing between Becky Lynch, Baby Flair, and that other girl whose name I don’t remember; the one with the military background who plays dress-up for some reason no one on the television show has bothered to explain to me. Meanwhile, over at Smackdown, Kevin Owens invited pancake-tossing Kofi Kingston (your reigning WWE World Heavyweight Champion if you’ll recall) to his talk show segment because sure, why not?
As for matches… well, how about another Baron Corbin match? A couple four-ways that means nothing? A nothing tag match between the two Joshi with the Brit girl against the other two girls that the one Brit girl used to manage, but stopped for reasons… actually, I wouldn’t mind any match with Kairi Sane or Asuka in it because they’re awesome. They should invent new Women’s Tag-Team championships and let ’em run with it for a good long while.
Wait… what’s that? WWE have tag champs for the ladies? And it’s a geek tag-team?
Oh, yeah. Those are some prestigious and important belts… much like the other tag belts held by MOAR geeks… and also another set held by… The Vintner and Daniel Bryan Danielson?
This company confounds me with its booking sometimes… but hey, Money In The Bank should be a fun show at least. Maybe… kinda… sorta…
When’s Double Or Nothing again?
Next week, I upload a new level… maybe two.
So this is a match where Bret Hart wrestled a strongman named Tom Magee and somewhere along the way, the match was lost until it was found and now everyone wants to know about it because it’s a thing that happened. So, naturally, WWE Network is going to do a special about the match… maybe even show the match.
I expect this to do better numbers than RAW.
A year ago, WWE brought back Extreme Championship Wrestling from the dead for one night only and produced a show worthy of the old Philly-based promotion. And people raved… and then there were rumors of an ECW revival; first as an internet-only show and then eventually a weekly television show on the Sci-Fi Channel… eventually, we’d know what happen, but that’s not for the here and now
ECW One Night Stand 2006 was partly a sequel to the first ONS, but it also served as a prelude to the new weekly ECW television show that would debut the following Tuesday.
In 2002, Hollywood Hulk Hogan has returned to WWF for the first time in 1993. He got a big match with the Rock at Wrestlamnia X-8 that saw the Toronto crowd turn on the People’s Champ to cheer Hogan on like the returning hero – Hogan was a heel at the time. Long story short, the next night, Hogan was officially made into a babyface, slowly returned to his red and yellow colors (but still kept the Hollywood moniker, five-o-clock shadow, feather boas, and Voodoo Child entrance theme – which I’d argue is a better theme for Hogan than Real American), and eventually beat Triple for the Undisputed WWF Title where business tanked… but we don’t talk about that part.
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Source: https://www.wwe.com/article/raw-smackdown-live-wild-card-rule-explained
So… why have a brand split?
I’d go for a Cornette Face, but a bemused Large Sullivan works just as well.
I have some disturbing news for FOX: I DVR WWE programming. More often than not, I don’t watch the stuff, but I do DVR it. So that theory about your new show being DVR-proof… well, actually, that’s been shat out the window ages ago.
I’m not going to say a whole lot about this show… and truth be told, I’ve only seen the opening promo and the main event rematch between Kofi and Bryan. Everything else in between has been skippable for the most part and quite frankly, not all that interesting. I don’t care about the Lacey Evans thing, I don’t care about the Sami Zayn thing, I thought the business he had with Braun and the dumpster was fucking stupid without even watching it because everything Braun does these days is full of stupid, and, well, I guess Baron Corbin is still a thing they’re trying to push because of course he is.
But I do want to bring up this “Wild Card” thing, which apparently means guys from RAW and Smackdown can invade each others shows, thereby negating this whole Superstar Shakedown or whatever they’re calling it and rendering it a complete waste of time. If you have guys jumping between both shows on a regular basis, why even both with a bland sprit? And then they wonder why people are tuning out in droves.
I’ve said this on a board somewhere, but I’ll repost here because it’s worth mentioning: They need new creative, not new talent. Bottom line.
They already have all the talent they need. The problem isn’t with the talent. You can have all the talent in the world and have them appear on fifty shows a week, but if they’re subjected to the same lousy, dilapidated creative that has killed talent in the past, it’s not going to mean a damn thing in the long run. People need a reason to care about what’s going on screen; a reason to get emotionally invested in the storylines you’re presenting.
That’s not happening here and that’s why there’s been a steady decline over the years. Why should I care about brand splits, drafts, superstar shakeups, or whatever if you’re just going to come up with a stupid gimmick that renders all that irrelevant?
An entirely new creative approach with consistent storytelling (not to mention a bit of continuity) is what’s going to make things fresh, not a bunch of random new faces that are going to get lost in the shuffle because nobody can figure out what to do with them.
As for the Kofi/Bryan match… it was alright. Probably not as good as their Mania match, but that’s okay. For a RAW main event, it was perfectly acceptable fare. I enjoyed it for the most part.
Beyond that, however… no buys.
Those WWE folks need not worry about getting some heat because this week, we’re getting a whole bunch of week. We’re already hitting the high-teens to low-twenty degrees (celcius) this week, which gives way to a rather scorching summer in the coming months. Even in a work place that is normally cool, the heat is being felt and the A/C isn’t quite keeping up. So, try to keep cool this week, folks, because it’s a bit of a HEAT wave.
So, in other words, keep that Corbin fellow off my TV and we’ll be fine.
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The story of JUAN CENA and how he planned his revenge was the subject of a series of videos… and is now the subject matter of today’s episode!
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