Armageddon Preview/misc

Vacations are fun, but it is long past time for seannie B and the kidd to lace up our boots and roll back into the ring. The sports entertainment world, ofcourse has maintained a regular rotation if not sped up as of late. I for one, am very pleased at how much i am looking foward to sundays Armagedon ppv. With a very promising card lined up, some new, freshly developing storylines and fueds, not to mention the cleverly thought up finishes i for one have grown custom to viewing each month on wwe ppv for the better part of this year, i predict a tasty treat. That was a terribly ran-on sentence(s), i apologise. More pressing issues:

+Mondays 3 hour raw was kick ass. Overall a very entertaining show, although i had kept myself in the dark about most of what was unveiled.
+RVD totally shocked and pleased me. i know he would agree that the idea for another marella squash could've used a little more time on the fire. Great to see him, nontheless.
+Maybe too much triple h. McMahon family portrait in particular, followed closely by dx reunion #27.
+I was also surprised to see Hogan. I guess promotion comes before pride, though i would never directly insult the best wrestler ever.
+Wasn't Rock advertised?
+Sick battle royal. Nice little finish and great(not just saying that) to see debiase
+Good to see gangrel.
+Bischoff is sick.
+RandyDandy's sounding less like a robot and more like a real boy. Lets see about those hips.
+Y2J is Y2J and it's all about sunday, 'C'mon baby yeah!!'
+Austin is sick at catching beers!!

Armageddon lines up as follows:

Mvp(c) v. Rey Mysterio for the US title (they had a match on sd! a few ago and it was kick ass) This match will be sick.

Beth Pheonix(c) v. Mickie James(no promises here except that mickie james will look cute as hell and Beth Pheonix will not..)

Finlay v. the Great Khali (hard as nails and the first big one since finlays face turn last month, will be enjoyable)

HBK v. Mr.K (i like the fued, i like the exchanges they've had on raw, i even like the shameless incorporation/promotion of the new hbk dv'er throughout it all. This will be good wrestling and great heat)

Cmpunk +Kane v. BDV and Mark Henry(Butt?)

Triple H v. Jeff Hardy(Triple H can love jeff hardy publicly and pubicly til his hearts content but at the end of the day he will win dirty before he loses clean. *Spoiler* alert, heel turn.

Batista(c) v Edge v Taker(sick one)

RKO(c) v Y2J. (Sick one. New champ)

Miscellaneous

+CM Punk told some newpaper(s) that the CM stands forCookie Master dating back to a nickname given by his mother during childhood. All this time i thought it was Chick Magnet.

+Vince McMahon sat down w Carlito before raw and convinced him to stay. It apperently finally dawned onvincethat a continual outflow of good talent to tna is well, what it is

+RVD's huge pop on monday got management thinking they should want him back. You couldn't write this stuff. Check out rvd.com and rvdtv trailer. Very interesting.


I'm out. Do what you do.

Y2j!!Y2j!!Y2j!!Y2j!!

Finally!! I had to wait longer than most for less Jericho, which i'll explain in a minute, but coll darnit was it worth it. I honestly haven't felt so alive since august of 99( look it up). Jericho is back, he looks great, and he promos* like a rock star now!! I actually think his voice has moved up a step or two in pitch, or sounds it because of his lead singer style delivery. Jerichos great. Phenomenal entrance, with visual reminders of his original debut in the wwe, stupendous. I loved it. Super excited himself to be back. Seemed very confident in the things he said and the message. More confident than a man acting like a wrestler who is confident, or, the norm. His words were carefully chosen and overall i give the rebut(new word) of Y2j Chris Jericho an 8. Don't be alarmed fellow Jerichoholics, thats on a scale from 2 to 8:)

Scott Hudson says Jericho is all hype with no payoff. Scott Hudson says to wait and see. Ok Scott Hudson. Scott Hudson is a communist.


(one minute later)... I had to work tonight so I couldnt watch the return of the best wrestler ever live with my equally excited friends. Why i couldn't get out of work where others would have been able to, well, that can be the subject of a different blog at a different time. I did get to watch at 3am on dvr, alone, and cold, but ofcourse i hadnt planned on main event jericho so my dvr cut out half-way(i can only assume) through. Sean and i don't usually use this blog for direct contact with one another but i know you're reading this before your seeing me so please save your tivoed raw and save me buddy, by crossing your fingers that your recording contraption picked up the slack of my recording contraption and saved us up some steamy Y2j.
Thanks, Sean, and possibly tivo but definately not dvr,
-Liam




*I will be verbing the word promo from now on. The same is true with the word verb, which will intern have to verb up to it's name

Post Smackdown Notes 11/16/07

I really liked the MVP/Matt Hardy Tag Team Champions storyline. I knew that it was going to end eventually but I thought it could have gone on for awhile longer. I think MVP can be a top star with the WWE. His names is almost as bad as Kaz and his entrance is lame and I'm sick of overblown elbow drops, but he is a pretty funny guy with the microphone and he can work a good match.

I think that if the story continued for awhile longer it would have picked up more steam and would have been beneficial for both MVP and Hardy. Maybe something more interesting will come of it. For example, Jeff Hardy skipped out before Matt Hardy's match. Maybe Matt will get angry at Jeff. Who knows? I hope MVP and Matt Hardy put on a good match for the US Title. Matt Hardy deserves a belt. He's a hard worker with allot of respect for the business. MVP is sure to gain some heat out of his turn on Matt. It'll be nice to hear some sort of reaction when he enters the arena as opposed to the uncomfortable silence that usually accompanies his lame, overblown entrance.

I'm looking forward to the Hell in a Cell.

Smackdown is more entertaining than Raw and has been for the last month.

Rey Mysterio doesn't seem like he is interested in wrestling anymore. He looks like he's half-assing it.

Finlay is a good heel. I hate him and I don't normally hate talent because of the character they portray.

I like that The Miz and John Morrison have the belts. It'll add some heat to ECW and those characters. I just hate that it is at the expense of MVP and Matt Hardy. Honestly, MVP turning on Matt is predictable, but if they built up a friendship more and some better successful title defenses, the whole story would have been a helluva lot better.

I think it was hilarious that there were close-ups of fans on the verge of tears in the audience while MVP worked Matt's knee.

Sick of Jericho promos. I just want Jericho.

The Kidd had to call some girl to work his shift at McDonalds in New Jersey the first time Chris Jericho showed up on Raw. He has to do the same this time although he has a different place of employment. I told him he should call the same girl for nostalgic reasons.

Edge on Sunday, Jericho on Monday... We just need RVD at ECW on Tuesday and it will be the best week for the WWE in the last three years.

I really hope Shawn Michaels turns heel on Sunday by repeating the Montreal Screwjob.

Random Notes and Opinions 11/16/07

Junior Fatu was very unpopular with the TNA talent. He showed no respect to the unknown guys - according to the unknown guys who he apparently didn't show respect to. He called Robert Roode Rick Rude. Overall, it seemed as if he was just there to collect a paycheck. I only go to my job to collect a paycheck. I think that probably 80% of Americans only go to work because they get paid. But, it's different with a wrestling promotion and especially a promotion attempting to grow the way Total Nonstop Action is attempting to grow. All of the talent has to be working together and be committed and truly care about the show. So, if all of this is true, and it all seems to be true, it's good that Junior Fatu is gone; it's good for TNA and it's good for me - the guy that watches TNA and isn't really interested in leftover WWE talent from 1999.

Edge is going to return at Sunday's Survivor Series. I'm a big fan of Edge although I think he tries to hard at being a heel. It's overkill but he's still probably my favorite wrestler. I'm sure he'll bounce right back into the world title picture. I'm thinking that Taker will win the title because of Edge's interference setting up a Batista-Edge feud. I can't see the Undertaker not winning the belt. It was the plan at Wrestlemania 23 for him to have a long title run. Neither The Undertaker or Batista really need the belt to get over.

It was cool to see Scott Hall and Kevin Nash together in the ring beating up Kurt Angle and Tomko and AJ Styles... sort of. I'm a little sketchy about TNA right now. I think they're pushing WWE leftovers where they should be pushing the home grown talent. If WCW had pushed Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit instead of Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage, I think they would still be around today. So if TNA is going to push Hall and Nash instead of AJ Styles and Samoa Joe they're not going to be around in a couple of years.

Speaking of Samoa Joe, he has yet to agree to a new contract with TNA. It's interesting because he and AJ Styles are the only true TNA talent that I think would be successful in the WWE. It'd be cool to see what kind of crowd reaction they would receive if they showed up on Raw. Ah... knowing Vince they'd probably be put on the ECW roster... which is really thin. They don't even have enough guys to fill a one hour show.

I'm a little more excited about Survivor Series now than I was when I posted my preview. I'm most excited about Monday... Y2J... I can't wait for the countdown. You know you can't either.

Peace Out

- Seannie Wan

Y2J on O and A

I guess at this point it's pretty obvious Chris Jericho is appearing on Raw on November 19th... I mean, I've been blogging about it all month. In case you're not sick of it yet, here's a pretty cool video of Jericho with pseudo-shock jocks Opie and Anthony. He discusses the 'save_us' promos as much as Stephanie McMahon is allowing him to discuss it.
It is, after all, a big secret... a big code that we, the fan, must decipher.

'Was That a Joke?' - Post-Raw Notes 11/13/07

Was that a joke? I mean, what was that? Was that a wrestling program? I have no idea what that was... I think it was a wrestling program because I thought I saw a wrestling match... or was it? I know I saw a bunch of women wrestling... I thought I saw some men wrestling... I guess it was a wrestling program.

I don't know how else to sum up the 11/12/07 edition of Monday Night Raw.

The 'debate' between 'The Legend Killer' and 'The Heartbreak Kid' was a piece of art that should be locked in a time capsule and blasted off into space so that if aggressive intelligent alien life finds it in their search for planets to conquer and enslave and watches the footage they will decide that our planet isn't even worth the effort it would take to conquer and enslave us. You know what? If the 'debate' is thought of in that way... Hell, Michaels and Orton may have just saved the planet Earth. They are heroes!

Besides saving our planet, what else did Raw accomplish last night?

The new 'save_us' promo all but guarantees us Chris Jericho live on Raw next Monday. It's no surprise, but it's nice to know that there is no way in hell that Jericho can't show up... and at this point, he will truly be saving_us. Hell... I think at this point I miss John Cena. At this point, I think Smackdown is by far... by far... a better brand.

I'm angry at the WWE right now. They aren't entertaining and what's worse is that they aren't trying to entertain. I hate to knock professionals. I'm sure the talent wasn't sitting around in the locker room planning a horrible show. It's just that I watch TNA and I wonder how the creative team with WWE can't give a little more effort or show a greater sense of urgency. The best they've been able to do over the last month was drag out Steve Austin to push his box office dud that should have been straight to DVD in the first place and to reunite a stable that is better off unreunited (and yes, I have trademarked the term 'unreunited' and yes, you must pay me royalties if you wish to use it and yes, that includes The Kidd).

I fear for World Wrestling Entertainment. It's not entertaining and it doesn't seem to be headed in the direction of entertainment. It's easy to knock WWE right now and anybody can do it... especially fair weather fans who haven't watched a WWE program in a few years. I hate hearing people say things like 'It used to be awesome when The Rock was around. Remember the New Age Outlaws? What happened to Val Venis?' Those people aren't ever going to be impressed by a WWE product again. I'm not asking for Vince McMahon to bring back the late '90s. I'm just asking Vince and his creative team to make an effort. Tell me an interesting story and book some interesting matches. Ahhh... maybe it's more difficult than I think it is.

At this point, I don't think Chris Jericho is going to make much of a difference. And to be honest, I don't think he's going to be returning on a full-time basis. I think he's going to make a few appearances and work a couple of matches to push the crap out of his book and then he's going to go on the Fozzy 2008 reunion tour.

High point of the night: As much as I'm bashing last night's Raw, there were a few high points. The highest point of all of these high points was Santino Marella. This guy makes me laugh everytime he takes the microphone which is saying allot. Honestly, I have fun everytime he shows up. I don't care much for his in-ring ability, but I'm not sure the WWE is even interested in that sort of thing anymore. Also, the new 'save_us' video pretty much guaranteed Chris Jericho on Raw next Monday. As far as in-ring action, the Rey Mysterio double 619 into a Jeff Hardy Swanton Bomb on M.V.P. (who is, by the way, the winner of the 2nd Worst Name in Pro-Wrestling Award) for the victory was pretty sweet.

I have nothing else to say.

Peace out...

- Seannie Wan

November 19th?

I'm really hoping that I see Chris Jericho on Raw on November 19th. I feel as though I'd be happy if I see him on November 19th. I really don't see how I cannot see him. I'm willing to wager allot of money that he'll be there.