Cold Ronda – dtm666

WWE Evolution 2025

Yes, we’re doing the PPV musings early this week. Also, this is the last one for a while, as next Wednesday will begin my weekly visit to the first year of WCW Monday Nitro, which turns 30 next week. Hopefully, this run lasts longer than the NWA-TNA run did.

In any event, the people have wanted it and after almost a decade, WWE has delivered another all-women PPV event because we have an AEW megashow to counterprogram and we’re going to do that by swamping the weekend with all sorts of mediocre programming. Starting off with a run of the mill NXT show that featured a Slammiversary contract signing and nothing else of note unless you’re a regular NXT viewer – and I’m not – and then following that up with the latest Saturday Night’s Main Event, which featured GOLDBERG coming out of retirement to lose in his retirement match against GUNTHER and then getting cut off in the middle of his retirement speech.

And then there’s this show… which I’m only watching because I am genuinely curious to find out if there was any match that could match or surpass the superb All In match between Timeless Toni and Mercedes. This show that WWE pulled out of their ass purely for the sake of counter-programming AEW. I mean, let’s call a spade a spade. The only reason there was an Evolution PPV in the first place was to give the women something to do because they couldn’t wrestle in Saudi Arabia. Once that started to lighten up, there was no need for another Evolution… that and there was no Cold Ronda to build this show around.

So was there anything on this show that surpassed the All In match that I mentioned? The short answer is “maybe.” The long answer is the rest of this post.

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Lots Of Choices, Only Time For One…

This weekend looks to be a pretty packed weekend of wrestling action for those who care for such things.

The big event that seems to be taking place is the AEW All In show from Texas; a show that happens to be in Texas because ol’ TK couldn’t book Wembley for a third year in a row, so he had to take it elsewhere. Probably a good thing when you claim to draw 80,000+ at your first show and then come back to diminishing returns year after year.

Obviously, you have the main event of Hangman Page vs. Jon Moxley for the AEW World title and hopefully, there will be a title change. There’s also another Kenny vs. Okada match that will have absurdly high expectations with no chance of those ever being met (Kenny due to his recent diverticulitus episode and Okada due to phoning it in for easy money… can’t say that I blame him), a Toni Storm/Mercedes match for the women’s title, and some other stuff as well.

But then there’s also Saturday Night’s Main Event, where they claim to feature Goldberg’s last match ever, but then they make it a World title match against GUNTHER and there’s already concern from some folks that they might actually pull the trigger on a Goldberg World title run. There’s also Drew vs. Randy and a couple othe matches.

But then there’s also that all-women’s Evolution show that they finally got around to booking another one because they realized that they didn’t need Cold Ronda to headline this thing and they could do another one of these with the women they have on the roster. I don’t know any of the matches booked, but I’m sure people will appreciate its return.

So, yes, lots of wrestling action this weekend, but I’ve only got time for one show this weekend and I think we all know which show that’s going to be…

…

It’s the one with the dog.

Oh yeah, Krypto The Super-Dog Also Featuring Superman opens in theaters this weekend… nothing else really matters.

Cold Ronda’s Writing A Comic… No Thanks.

Source: https://www.wrestleview.com/wwe-news/319519-ronda-rousey-announces-new-graphic-novel-project-expecting-the-unexpected/

Former UFC and WWE Diva Ronda Rousey announced that she’s doing a graphic novel about a hired gun who pretends to be knocked up, only to eventually be knocked up and pregnant. And of course, said hired gun is modeled after Ronda herself, because of course it is.

While I’m sure that this is going to be on par with the Kevin Nash comic book from ages ago, I have no interest in giving this comic a look. Anything that actually involved giving Cold Ronda any of my money so she can start talking shit about people who thinks she sucks and use the “if it were a guy, you wouldn’t say it sucked” argument… which doesn’t work here because I compared her would-be project to the Nash comic, which was also wildly imaginative and shit… and that’s being generous.

Best of luck to her on the project, hope it works out for her, but… no buys for me. Sorry.

Ramblemania Rewind 34 – WWE Wrestlemania 34 (2018)

Date: April 8, 2018
Venue: Mercedes-Benz Superdome – New Orleans, Louisiana
Attendance: 78,133

So you remember when I started the Ramblemania 32 post a couple days ago with “This show. This Fucking Show?”

I meant for that to open this show… let’s try that again… once more with feeling….

This show.

THIS. FUCKING. SHOW.

Not bothering with an intro to this pile of shit. Let’s go.

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Ramblemania Rewind 31 – WWE Wrestlemania Play Button (2015)

Date: March 29th, 2015
Venue: Levi’s Stadium – Santa Clara, California
Attendance: 67,000

Wrestlemania 30 was supposed to be headlined by a one-on-one match featuring reigning WWE World Heavyweight Champion Randy Orton defending his title against the returning Dave Batista… and then the fans revolted and the show ended with fan favorite Daniel Bryan Danielson inserted into the match and winning the title to send the crowd home happy… which they needed to do because they just ended the Undertaker streak that people were invested in… and the guy who ended up breaking the streak was the guy who probably needed it the least.

Wrestlemania 31, on the other hand, was headlined by a one-on-one match featuring reigning and defending WWE World Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar defending his title against WWE’s next chosen one, Roman Reigns. And this match was supposed to be the coronation of Reigns as the top star in the company, much in the same vein as Hulk Hogan, Steve Austin, The Rock, and more recently, John Cena… except fans didn’t care for Reigns and actually resented WWE for pushing this guy down people’s throats. The show ended in a direction that wasn’t entirely expected… but was a pleasant surprise nonetheless.

So here we are… another outdoor setting and smack in the middle of daylight, which makes for an awesome visual in general, but not necessarily the best entrances.

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Smackdown (Feb. 10th, 2023) – Paving The Road Forward

Last time on Smackdown, Sami tried to attack Roman and got his ass kicked. But Roman decides to give Sami a title shot for the next PPV, which coincidentally takes place in Montreal, Sami’s home turf. Meanwhile, no one knows where Jey is and that’s worrying because weezu haz title match.

Well, Jey managed to make to the show and the Usos were able to successfully retain the Tag titles over the team of Braun Strowman and Ricochet. However, Jey is still feeling a bit not-Ucey with the whole Bloodline thing. So elder statesmen Paul Heyman tells Jimmy the Usos should watch the PPV at home and get a “television perspective” on the action. Kinda of a clever way to explain the Usos’ non-presence at the show, since Jimmy’s DOA charges prevents him from crossing the board. As for Jey? Well, he gets a fist bump from Sami. Yes, I’m sure they’re very Ucey with each other.

Meanwhile, Nattie taunts Shayna Bayzler for being a Ronda Rousey rip-off, which isn’t fair because I’d much rather watch Shayna Bayzler be a monster ass-kicker than Cold Ronda any day of the week. Regardless, out comes Ronda, who helps Shayna beat up Nattie. And then Shotzi runs out for the failed saved and gets her ass kicked too. Well, that’s a thing that’s going to happen.

Baron Corbin loses another match and JBL, who was his manager for some reason, ditches him. Corbin tries to say that he’ll do better, but JBL mentions something about not being able to polish a turd. I know the idea is for us to feel sorry for Corbin, but I don’t. This is JBL cutting his losses and not wanting to have his name tied to a loser like Corbin and I can’t blame the guy.

Some guy named Madcap Moss gets an title shot against GUNTHER by winning the four-way main event match. I suggest Mr. Moss get his affairs in order.

Oh, and LA Knight is still around, apparently not having been completely killed off in the recent Bray Wyatt brain fart. Good for him, I suppose.

You know what? I’m not going to complain about this show. There was a bunch of good stuff on the show, a lot of stuff being set up for the future… hey, you know what? I’m actually looking forward to this coming weekend. Hopefully, the weather doesn’t suck.

WWE Summerslam 2021

Yeah, I’ve got nothing for this one, kids… so GOOMBA!

Summerslam 2021 took place on a Saturday; the rare instance of the annual PPV taking place on another day outside of its usual Sunday night airing. Summerslam 2021 took place the night after former former wrestler Cookie Monster Punk made his return to wrestling on the second episode of AEW Rampage.

I didn’t watch Summerslam last year; I had better things to do. And reading the results from the show as well as news that it went beyond the promised three-hour runtime meant that it was going to be the first major WWE PPV that I would miss out on. But since this year’s Summerslam is looking to go international, I’d figure that I’ve got nothing to lose and give this show a shot.

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WWE Money In The Bank 2022

Yes, your eyes do not deceive you. I am doing a PPV musings on yet another WWE PPV in 2022.

Don’t get too excited. I had a stomach ache last night, I couldn’t sleep, and this popped up so I figured why not? At the very least, if the show sucked and made me fall asleep, it’d be worth it. I’m also not going to say a whole lot here since I haven’t been following WWE as of late.

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AEW Dynamite (June 8th, 2022): Interim All-Atlantic Western Stages Heritage Clustermuck

Some questionable stuff from All Elite Wrestling, which should shock some folks, I’m sure, but like I said a couple times, the honeymoon period is long gone and now I’ve got things to complain as it relates to this recent of Dynamite.

Before we get to that, let me just say that wrestling-wise, this episode delivered the goods. There was a really good main event in Jon Moxley vs. Kyle O’Reilly. I might not think of Cool Kyle as a top-tier name, but he’s getting there. PAC vs. Buddy Matthews was pretty fun as well… yes, I’m forgoing the usual PAC gimmick; that’s how dour I am. Hangman Page getting a big win over New Japan’s David Finlay resulted in another good match. Thunder Rosa, your reigning AEW Women’s World Champion, was stuck having to carry one of Cold Ronda’s buddies to a borefest of a match, but at least she was on TV.

Okay, so we’ve highlighted the highlights, which remains the wrestling. Now click the break to start an effigy on the booking, which BAFFLED me to no end.

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