Friday, April 17, 2009

Tna Impact 4/16/09 Results and Review Crossing to Lock Down

Tna Impact 4/16/09 Results

Homicide defeated Chris Sabin and Naito in a triple threat match
Taylor Wilde, Awesome Kong, and Raisha Saeed defeated The Beautiful People
Abyss & Daffney defeated ODB & Cody Deaner
Christopher Daniels defeated Kurt Angle

Tna Impact 4/16/09 Review

Like every good or bad wrestling show, this show started with people talking inside the ring. It was lame. It was just “Do you trust me” crap.

Homicide defeated Chris Sabin and Naito in a triple threat match

This was a triple threat match. It seemed that Sabin and Naito were working together but that ended fast when Sabin hopped up out of delivering a Chin Lock to hit a nice lariat. This was fast paced and good to look at. It was high spot after high spots, but a lot of interesting fluid wrestling. This match was like watching someone play the N64 Wrestling games, because it seemed that this was choreographed by some gamer with a bit of nostalgia. Naito had some very picture perfect wrestling moves, including flyinig lariats and a beautiful bridge suplex. Sabin’s tornado ddt with a Insaguri combination was a highlight of this match up. The 187 off the middle rope ended this one, and it was picture perfect!

There was an interview with double J…lame. ODB had a backstage segment, lame. The Main Event mafia were interviewed.

Taylor Wilde, Awesome Kong, and Raisha Saeed defeated The Beautiful People

This match didn’t even get started. I mean, it did start, but it was too short to make a good match up. The knockout division usually is good, but the last few impact shows it’s been really a slow build. This was a terrible match up, and it ended with Kong’s Implant Buster.

Post match they wanted to cut more hair, and took out Taylor Wilde and Raisha Saeed by sending them face first into the woman’s title. The Beautiful People also sprayed something into Kong’s eye and then knocked her out with the Title Belt and they went ahead and cut her hair! This had to be the ultimate humiliation.

Abyss & Daffney defeated ODB & Cody Deaner

I haven’t seen Daffney in a while, and I like her. She is pretty cool. I mean, she looks cool, I like her better than ODB that’s for sure. They kept playing up that Cody Deaner isn’t a wrestler, but he got in there with Abyss at one point and was basically getting trashed. Abyss gets the win in another short match.

Post match Matt Morgan ran down and beat Abyss up.

Mick Foley tried to give himself, Cactus Jack an Interview. Then Sting came out. It was stupid. This whole thing is dumb. Foley then beat up sting. This feud sucks.

Balls Mahoney showed up! Spike Dudley was there too1 The two former ECW standby’s were getting worked over by Beer Money with chairs and were just getting messed up. They definitely took a page out of ECW’s old playbook. It was pretty cool.

Jeff Jarrett introduced the Fallen Angle Christopher Daniels! That’s right, Christopher Daniels is back! That’s going to be awesome! Christopher Daniels! I marked out huge because he’s one of my favorite wrestlers in recent years.

Christopher Daniels defeated Kurt Angle

This was good match up. Christopher Daniels didn’t really show a whole lot of ring rust in this match up. Kurt Angle was keeping up with a much faster and lighter Christopher Daniels and it was cool over all. The missed Asahi Moonsault from Daniels was impressive, as he landed on his feet! However that was short lived because Angle hit the rolling German suplexes and this match was heating up at this point.

And that was your Impact. This was weird. It kind of just ended with the return of Christopher Daniels and that’s about it. I don’t know what to say about this one, if you like TNA this was like half a good show. There wasn’t a whole lot to it, considering that they are having a ppv this week, I would think that they would’ve been more productive, but nope. It’s nice to see some TNA returns but overall this wasn’t that great of a show. The four disc Jeff Jarrett dvd looks interesting though.

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

ECW on Sci Fi 4/14/09 Results and Review Flying Solo

ECW on Sci Fi 4/14/09 Results

John Morrison defeated Evan Bourne
Vladimir Kozlov defeated David Something (Jobber)
Finlay defeated Christian and Tommy Dreamer

ECW on Sci Fi 4/14/09 Review

John Morrison defeated Evan Bourne

The night opened up interestingly with Morrison fighting Evan Bourne. Evan is ok, but he’s starting to just be a one trick pony. An exciting one at that, but you need something more than just that. In this match you saw how small Evan Bourne really is, as he was dwarved by Morrison in this match up. Overall this match up wasn’t half bad, and things really got interesting when Morrison hit Evan in the face with a knee so hard that it nearly knocked out Bourne. It was the main replay in this match up, it seriously looked like it hurt. Morrison is surprisingly fast at times, countering Evan Bourne in various stages of this match, including running back and forth into the ring. I was actually surprised how much time this match was given. It really showed that either ECW didn’t have much planned, or there wasn’t too many people left on the roster to fill the hour. This match was back and forth, with a lot of different moves and counters, but I couldn’t help but notice that there was no clear cut psychology to the steps, it was just counter to move to power move to rest hold. While this is fine in many cases, it just seems a little odd to give a match so much time but not have that storytelling that someone like Bret Hart would give to this length of time. A highlight was definitely seeing Evan Bourne get hit with the Moonlight Drive from the corner ring post, as Evan Bourne was setting up for his Shooting Star Press. Evan couldn’t get up from that, and this match was said to be a match of the year candidate by Matt Stryker. It was definitely the best Non-PPV match I’ve seen in a long time, that’s for sure.

Vladimir Kozlov defeated David Something (Jobber)

I hate jobber matches. This was a jobber match. The other guy didn’t even look like he could wrestle at all. It looks like they found a random idiot in the crowd and let him in the ring. It was messed up, but I guess that’s just a throwback to the 80’s.

Finlay defeated Christian and Tommy Dreamer

Finlay won. I had an emergency and missed this match.

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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

WWE Monday Night Raw 4/13/09 The 3 Hour Draft Special

WWE Monday Night Raw 3/13/09 Results

Rey Mysterio defeated Evan Bourne
Kane defeated The Brian Kendrick
Michelle McCool, Maryse, and Natalya defeated Kelly Kelly, Mickie James, and Melina
John Cena defeated Jack Swagger
The Great Khali defeated Santino
Kofi Kingston defeated The Miz
Edge won an inter-brand Battle Royal
Christian defeated Shelton Benjamin
Matt Hardy defeated CM Punk via Disqualification
Chris Jericho defeated Tommy Dreamer
Triple H, Shane McMahon, and Batista defeated Cody Rhodes & Ted Dibiase Jr.

WWE 3/13/09 Draft Results

MVP was drafted to Raw (No word yet as to the U.S Championship)
The Big Show was drafted to Raw
Melina was drafted to Smackdown (No word yet as to the Women’s Championship)
Matt Hardy was drafted to Raw
Triple H was drafted to Raw (No word yet about the WWE Championship)
CM Punk was drafted to Smackdown
The Miz was drafted to Raw
Kane was drafted to Smackdown
Chris Jericho was drafted to Smackdown
Vladimir Kozlov was drafted to Ecw
Maryse was drafted to Raw (no word on the Divas champion, but that solves the conflict)
Rey Mysterio was drafted to Smackdown

WWE Monday Night Raw 3/13/09 Review

The show opened up with Batista, talking about how he wants revenge for the punt that caused Batista to be out for a while, 4 months ago. Batista called out Randy Orton and was ready to come out and chase down Randy Orton. However, Shane McMahon showed up to ringside to talk a little strategy with Batista. Triple H showed up and said that Randy Orton was his. Vickie Guerrero showed up, in a wheelchair, and she said that at Backlash the team will have their revenge match. Guerrero made a match for later, where the winner will either get a shot at Orton or no one will face Orton. That was that. Not exactly the most stellar of beginnings to Raw, but I had not choice but to enjoy it.

Rey Mysterio defeated Evan Bourne

They keep giving away this match for free. I believe that this is the second time We’ve seen this match up. This time around it seemed like Evan Bourne was grounding Mysterio for a good portion of the match, with rest holds and quick combat, that seemed to have the veteran a little distracted. Right when I thought that Evan Bourne would get the rub, he lost to Rey Mysterio with some quick moves and the splash. Rey Mysterio wins an easy one here.

Kane defeated The Brian Kendrick

Kane hasn’t had a good push in a long time. Kendrick has been on a losing streak lately, so I wasn’t sure which side to go for in this match up. Kane squashed The Brian Kendrick and that was that.

Michelle McCool, Maryse, and Natalya defeated Kelly Kelly, Mickie James, and Melina

This match started with a huge melee. This match technically didn’t even start until the bell run and Mickie James got tore up initially. That was an interesting power move from Michelle McCool, dropping Mickie James to her knees with what seemed to be a very stiff shot. Mickie James was doing well in there, and I finally gave her some credit, cause she was making things interesting for the first time in WWE Divas history. Mickie James knocked herself out with a top rope miss, and Michelle McCool capitalized, winning this match up without anyone else joining the match! What a load of crap. The best start to a divas match ends with a terrible copout of an ending.

John Cena defeated Jack Swagger

Did you really think that Jack Swagger would defeat Cena? I sure didn’t, so the illusion was taken away for me in this match up. I remember in the 80’s when people in the undercard and other champions had legitimate chances at defeating the champion. While the illusion was attempted here, you just knew that the bastard ECW champion wouldn’t defeat John Cena. Cena hit his chorus of finishing moves, much to the approval of the audience and of course, the inevitable. WRONG! Swagger got out of Cena’s finisher and shoved Cena into the ring post, shoulder first. For a few moments, I thought it was over, but nope…The Attitude Adjustment hit and then the STFU! Swagger tapped immediately, and another champion squashed. John Cena wins via submission.

At this point in the night, the drafts have favored Raw completely. Are they going to end Smackdown? It sure seems this way, because Raw is getting all the main eventers. As soon as Triple H was announced to be drafted, Edge came and attacked John Cena from behind. I still think that Smackdown is getting the weaker show at this point.

The Great Khali defeated Santino

This one was odd. If Santino lost this match he would have to kiss Khali on the Khali kiss cam. Santino was squashed easily, he got worked and it wasn’t even close. I personally am tired of Santino not getting a fair shake at wrestling, but he’s still funny, so we’ll let it pass.

Kofi Kingston defeated The Miz

I recall saying that Kofi Kingston was going to be the next big thing. It turns out that he’s not getting the fair shake that I thought he would. Kofi and The Miz went back and forth in this match up, with Kofi looking like he might be defeated at several times in this match up, however he connected with some great shots, to make this one interesting. The Miz had a few counters in this match up and I’m completely surprised at how far he’s come along since first coming into the WWE as a Reality Show reject. The match ended fast with a few counters and near falls and it was all over. Kofi got the win.

Edge won a inter-brand Battle Royal

This match was your standard Battle Royal. Nothing too crazy to report here. Edge won with a clever move of dropping the top rope while Big Show ran to him and was thrown out. Like I said, nothing too crazy here.

Christian defeated Shelton Benjamin

The Killswitch was heard round the world as Christian defeated Shelton Benjamin. I thought for sure Christian was going to win the belt when he returned but alas, he’s still in midcard hell for the most part. This match was a quick one, mostly burying Benjamin yet again. Christian though, deserves so much more upon his return, but oh well.

Matt Hardy defeated CM Punk via Disqualification

Hardy and CM Punk have faced each other before, and the two work well together. I like the way these two put good matches together, if they are given enough time. However, this match wasn’t given time as Jeff Hardy ran down and fought off Matt Hardy. Jeff was ready to pounce on Matt from the top rope but Matt ran away. CM Punk was left in the ring. Matt Hardy won this one, but only by DQ.

Chris Jericho defeated Tommy Dreamer

Tommy Dreamer has been a hard worker for WWE for a long time. However, he hasn’t gotten a fair shake in a long time. Maybe it is because he’s an ECW original, and the only original left on that brand that was really a main factor in the original incarnation from the East Coast. Now with Taz gone, it’s no wonder that the ECW brand looks to be on the chopping block yet again. Jericho was putting on a nice show here, allowing Dreamer very little opportunities to get in good action. Dreamer did put on a good fight, but as he came off the top rope, Jericho hit the Codebreaker in mid air! It was curtains for Tommy Dreamer.

Triple H, Shane McMahon, and Batista defeated Cody Rhodes & Ted Dibiase Jr.

You got your standard six man tag team match here. Nothing too crazy until Triple H tagged himself into the match by slapping Batista. Shane McMahon speared Batista out of the blue! Triple H hit the Pedigree, and this match was odd. He will face Randy Orton next week solo, but Batista was taken out as collateral or intentional damage! Batista was not happy at this, and maybe this will turn Batista Heel or maybe Triple H will turn Heel, I don't know. This was a weird way to end Raw.

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Friday, April 10, 2009

WWE Friday Night Smackdown 4/10/09 Results and Review Right After Wrestlemania

WWE Friday Night Smackdown 3/10/09 Results

The Big Show defeated Kofi Kingston
The Great Khali defeated Santino
Gail Kim defeated Michelle McCool
Priceless defeated The Colons Non Title Match
Matt Hardy defeated Jeff Hardy in a Stretcher Match


WWE Friday Night Smackdown 3/10/09 Review

The first Smackdown opened up with Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy into a scuffle, ending with Matt Running away like a punk. Teddy Long came out and said that tonight there would be a stretcher match between the brothers Hardy.

The Big Show defeated Kofi Kingston

Once again, proof that the WWE doesn’t need a draft or roster shake up. Kofi is on Smackdown fighting Big Show, and Show was hurting Kofi with huge right hands, and really showing off his size. Kofi got some great shots in, but overall it wasn’t enough to get the Big show down and it was Big Show who came on top. Show hit kofi with that hard right hand and it was all over.

Proving yet again that the WWE does not need a roster split, Santino was introduced.

The Great Khali defeated Santino

Santino got dismantled in 20 seconds. Santino is funny, but man, I wish they would let him wrestle. Khali wanted to kiss Santino’s “sister” and it didn’t happen, so he beat up Santino and won the match. Lame squash match up.

Gail Kim defeated Michelle McCool

This match was not half bad. McCool is not that great of a wrestler at all, and it showed here. Gail Kim could carry this match if McCool were way better, but instead Kim was taking some major shots and doing a lot of bumping. She ended up winning with a quick counter, and she’s on the way to getting a title shot, I’m sure.

The Cutting Edge returned and the guest was John Cena. It was sad, and it sucked. Edge, from what I read online, is nursing an injury right now so he probably won’t win the title. Cena needs to turn heel like the world depends on it.

Priceless defeated The Colons

Once again, NO NEED FOR A DRAFT! The two teams in this match up were on different brands, and they fought each other quite well. This match seemed evenly matched, considering that these teams haven’t wrestled each other on television before. The Legacy team was fighting hard and ended up winning this match, somewhat easier than I thought they would. The teams did put on a good overall lengthy tag team match and I liked it for the most part. I didn’t like the post match, and I didn’t like that Randy Orton was there to raise the hands of his team mates. It’s stupid to think that there is a draft coming up and yet no one abides by the separations.

Matt Hardy defeated Jeff Hardy in a Stretcher Match

The Hardy Brothers fought in a nice Stretcher match. Matt hardy had all new tights, which were lame. They were skin tight and lame. The match was quite brutal and Jeff was getting worked most of the match up, even though he did throwdown some interesting hits before it was all said and done. The overall match up ended with Matt Hardy getting the hard fought win, and this match failed to impress me. It had some good moments, but it was just your average Hardy match up. Nothing too great here.

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Tna Impact 4/9/09 Results and Review Another Bad Tna

Tna Impact 3/10/09 Results

Suicide defeated Sheik Abdul Bashir
Samoa Joe defeated Booker T
James Storm defeated Scott Steiner via Disqualification
Awesome Kong defeated Angelina Love
The Motor City Machine Guns defeated Mick Foley in a First Blood Match

Tna Impact 3/10/09 Review

I’m back, all the family has gone home and I’m back in action, writing crap.

The opening had the main event mafia out and they get Jeff Jarrett out there. For a guy that didn’t want to get into the fray, he sure is in the middle of all these storylines. The Motor City Machine guns came out and said they are for hire and have a vendetta against Foley. They get a match against Foley. It’s going to be lame. I can feel it.

Suicide defeated Sheik Abdul Bashir

Suicide did his thing here. I’m still not impressed by this random wrestling character. He has a few good moves, but overall, I don’t really think he’s worth the TNA’s time. No Limit was at ringside, fighting off Suicide whenever he was outside of the ring. Bashir was definitely a bit more proactive in this match as an x-division member, and really had some good fast paced moves, but Suicide seemed to not compliment the style very well. Kiyoshi hit Suicide with a huge kick, and Bashir hit a ddt on Suicide with the Belt underneath him! Suicide wins against Suicide.

We’re nearly over an hour into this program and barely have any wrestling. A lot of backstage stuff, Foley in ring rambling, stupid crap, no one likes this, I’m sure.

Samoa Joe defeated Booker T

What a terrible match. This was such a convoluted match, with little to no charisma between the two wrestlers involved. The highlight of this match was when Kurt Angle tried to interfere in the match and had AJ Styles come down and beat him up, allowing Samoa Joe to hit a powerslam and win! Yeah, that’s right, Booker T, loses to a simple Power Slam! This had to be the biggest powerslam in history, huh? It was lame.

James Storm defeated Scott Steiner via Disqualification

Scott Steiner fought James Storm in this match up. Usually confined to Beer Money as a member, Storm had his hands full with Scott Steiner in this match up. Steiner was in full control of this match up and it was apparent that Storm wasn’t meant to win this one, at least that’s how the match was going. Storm did mount a comeback, but it didn’t seem to rock the big man, the way he wanted to. Kevin Nash threw in a lead pipe and this match was thrown out.

Awesome Kong defeated Angelina Love

I usually rave about these matches but this Knockouts match wasn’t very good at all. This match was really short and Awesome Kong won with a reversal pin! This was a dumb match and afterwards, the Beautiful People tried to cut Awesome Kong’s hair.

The Motor City Machine Guns defeated Mick Foley in a First Blood Match

This was a dismantling of the young tag team. This was supposed to be an easy win for the Motor City Machine guns, and Foley made it a first blood match, creating an interesting little match up, but overall it wasn’t that good at all. Foley gave the Mandible Claw and afterwards his sock had a little blood on it, so the Ref was going to call the match up, but Foley intimidated him and continued to wrestle. Foley brought in a barbed wire bat into this match up, and was ready to strike but Foley was hit in the head with a Chair by Sting and was busted wide open, losing the match.

This TNA was terrible, and almost made me not want to watch TNA any more.

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