2021-02-26 Main Event

 

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening...whenever it is you have found this entry.  I am checking out today's WWE Main Event!  I am not sure what is on the show but we will surely recap the Elimination Chamber and talk about next weeks big Raw so I think we should get to the show!

• Mansoor was pretty good on 205 earlier this year when I watched
• Hearing Matt Striker on Impact makes me not like Tom
• Remember when Drew was getting a push....I miss that 
• So far the match is okay but feels like just moves not a match
• A fine match but it is sad to see Drew in the position he is in
• Remember when Elias was seemingly going to be a big star?  
• Remember when Dave Meltzer said Ryker was going to be let go?  Strange....
• Strangely fun match with the cruiserweight keep the bigger guys on their bikes as it were
• I do love Tozawa's screams
• Two matches and two standing moonsaults, not good agents
• BUBBA SLAM!

I am not watching the review segments here but the two matches were both fine for what they were.  Honestly Drew, Elias and Ryker deserve to be on Raw not on a show no one watches.  Tozawa is great on 205 and in the 24/7 segments.  Monsoor is still learning and on 205.  It is Carillo that is the odd man out and honestly, I just do see it in him.  I do not see what he brings that the fans are going to get behind.  Overall a forgettable show.  

RESULTS

• Mansoor def. Drew Gulak
• Raw Recap:  MizTV
• Raw Recap:  Womens Tag Team Title Match
• Raw Recap:  Ric Flair/Charlotte Flair
• Elias/Jaxson Ryker def. Humberto Carrillo/Akira Tozawa
• Raw Recap:  Braun Strowman/Bobby Lashley

2020-02-07 Smackdown Review

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening...whenever it is you have found this entry!  Today, 2020/02/08, I am checking out last nights Smackdown!  I know there is a fatal four way to find out who is challenging Bayley next and we see Goldberg, the man, the myth, return to find out what is next for Billy Boy.  So lets get to it!

• SLOW-MO!  Gotta love Morrison and the slow-mo
• That is THE FINK!
• Once Upon a Time on the Dirt Sheet?
• I love that this is suppose to be hokey...but I feel like AEW would be serious about this like that weird Darby Allin segment or the Wardlow promos
• Really?  Lance Storm AND Johnny L?
• I mock the New Day but I still LOVE them
• Did that fan just steal popcorn from Big E?
• Really?  The Usos are getting involved?  WHY?
• I like that they thought the fans were going to chant with them but nope
• What is Ziggler wearing?  Did he raid Michael Hayes closet?
• Why do I hate the Usos so much?
• Still calling that the Fameasser huh?  
• Zig-Zag Spinebuster combo nice
• I think it is that the Usos are kind of sloppy in the ring
• 57 days away from Mania, that seems really quick
• ITS THE GODDESS!!
• What was Alexa looking at?
• Is that Daivari or Sonjay Dutt?
• I really hate good guy Elias
• First, the truck shows that Corbin video now they shut off Cory's mic.  It is a damn conspiracy against the King and his court!
• How great it Sami?
• A female ref should never bully/touch a male competitor like that
• Good grief that is strength and a hernia waiting to happen!
• Reign looks like he lost weight but added bulk. he is looking really good tonight physically
• Wait, Goldberg is not there?
• I hope he says Cole is next!
• The Fiend?  Really?  Goldberg against the Fiend?  
• Bray Wyatt is not the champion, the Fiend is.  Why is everyone so confused by this?
• Who in the blue hell is that?  Heath Slater on TV?  Since when?
• Heath is going to get to wrestle tonight too?  
• Two weeks for D-Bry and what two years for Slater?
• This is brutal, those stomps while holding the arms
• That IC title is UGLY
• IT IS MY BOYS THE REVIVAL!
• Run Sami!!
• How great is Otis.  Best character on WWE TV
• Crews does not get an introduction?  BOO!
• Shorty G is a horrible name and I love that Sheamus kicks his head off each week
• WTF is Naomi wearing on her head?  Seriously that is just damn stupid!
• Who is going to win this match?  Probably the star who got the entrance
• Unlike the recent AEW show I watched I like that Cole reminded us that this is no DQ so what happened to Naomi is legal
• Kind of lost in this match but it has been sloppy a lot of the time
• Why did Alexa take her gloves off?
• YES!  CARMELLA WINS!

Lets start with the surprise win in the main event.  I am shocked...but that probably means Naomi will get the shot at Mania.  I did not like the opening segment.  Miz has good timing and Morrison does in the ring but on the mic with the other three, he seemed lost.  Then out comes the Usos.  Overall a fine show but this seemed to drag at times.  The Corbin/Reigns segment was bad and should have been cut as well.  I cannot say to watch this show.  It was there but nothing great.

RESULTS

• Dirt Sheet:  Big E & Kofi Kingston (Smackdown Tag Team Champions)/ Jimmy Uso & Jey Uso
• Jimmy Uso/Jey Uso def. Robert Roode/Dolph Ziggler 
• Segment:  Alexa & Nikki Cross
• Recap:  King Corbin eats Dog Food
• Segment:  King Corbin
• Segment:  Elias/Sami Zayn
• Elias def. Cesaro
• Segment:  King Corbin/Roman Reigns
• Interview:  Goldberg/Bray Wyatt (Universal Champion)
• Segment:  Daniel Bryan & Heath Slater
• Daniel Bryan def. Heath Slater via Submission
• Interview:  Braun Storman/Shinsuke Nakamura & Sami Zayn & Dash Wilder & Scott Dawson
• Segment:  Otis & Tucker
• Sheamus def. Apollo Crews
• Carmella def. Alexa Bliss & Dana Brooke & Naomi

Wrestling Review: 2020-01-24 Smackdown

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening...whenever it is you have found this entry.  We are just two days away from the Royal Rumble and it is time for the go-home show from the Blue Brand.  I know the main event is Kofi Kingston against John Morrison and we get to see a contract signing between The Planets Champion and Bray Wyatt!  Let us get to the ring....and it is the Usos....boo

• Ugg, I hate the Usos!  Seriously how long before one of them gets another DUI and they go away yet again
• Was that too soon?
• I wonder what Bobby Roode failed the wellness test for, they never did announce what
• The Usos do not look healthy, they look like guys who worked out but then stopped
• Fans are all over Roode, weird
• Wow, that was rough looking on one of the Usos...I guess Jimmy per Cole
• Also, the Usos need to change those chia pet hair cuts
• Yes I will just rip on the Usos till they are off my TV
• I like everyone but the Usos in this match.  They have X-Pac heat with me, they need to just go away
• Remember when Corbin had that horrible stringy hair
• That was not a good head to the steps spot guys, you two are better!
• I do not like Reigns but he is good in the ring and since he returned the fans are into him
• Reigns hair is starting to recede a bit it looked like
• This match is way too long for a handicap match
• If these three cannot defeat Reigns how can the King on his own?
• Wait Jimmy can come back out?  SHOCKED!
• The Bloodline....that is a pretty cool name actually
• Good grief Lacey Evans is a goddess
• Why is Cole doing the interview and not Charley or one of the other interviewers?
• Those stupid dots on her vail make it look like Lacey has stuff on her teeth
• I do like the story that Lacey has, and I do not think her voice cracking is acting.  I just wish they would change her "sassy Southern Belle" gimmick
• Who did not see Bayley doing something?  Stand on your head
• I love Dana but she is looking a little too thin or got some work done which I hope is not true
• Did Lacey have pants on earlier?  I went back and she di
• I do not like Good guy Alexa
• I LOVE OTIS!
• Uggg, why is Braun not a monster?  He is doing comedy bits with Elias for the love of god!
• It is weird that they put Cesaro into another team instead of reuniting the Bar
• Strangely I do not care about this match which is sad but there was no chance Sami and his team was winning
• Uggg, I hate the "shocked" face that the female announcers get.  It is so fake
• WTF is Big E doing?
• Oh yeah if he is greasy he cannot be thrown over the top rope!
• This show seems to be going on FOREVER!  I think I had a birthday already
• I love this segment every year when they throw these numbers around
• I love that the slow-mo shot is back!
• Wow that face plant out of the monkey flip looks brutal.  
• I am so happy to see Morrison back on the main stage
• Starship Pain looks amazing, if I was 1/100th that athletic!
• Seriously was this show 3 hours tonight?
• Kofi should not have kicked out of that kick, that should have been the end!
• I hate the Usos hair cut and Kofi's is right there as well
• I hate the Spanish Fly, it is so fake looking
• Kofi was champion for six months?  Really?  Did not seem that long
• Oh Miz, that is just silly!
• Wait....is that a fax machine?
• A sick man?  Bray is not a sick man!
• I hated the new Bray Wyatt at first but I love it now
• WORD OF THE DAY!
• Run Michael Cole, run!
• I cannot imagine the pain of the strap match, it is insane
• I wonder how much the mask messes with Bray
• Did he just stab his own hand to get the "blood"?  WOWEY ZOWEY

The second half of the show was good.  Morrison vs. Kofi and The Fiend was fantastic.  I LOVED the Lacey Evans segment because it felt real and not scripted (even if it was).  The six-man was good but way WAY too long, need to be cut by probably a third and allow Bliss and company to wrestle for a few minutes before the brawl.  As much as I like most of the guys in the tag match the outcome was never in questions and I was bored, bored I tell you.  I hate the babyface Elias more than babyface Alexa.  However, the best part of the night was the by the numbers segment, got me pumped for the Rumble in a few days.  I hope to be "live" blogging it, updating after each match.  Until next time...from the Fat Man himself....Abyssinia!

Results

• Roman Reigns/Jimmy Uso/Jey Uso def. Robert Roode/King Corbin/Dolph Ziggler
• Smackdown Recap
• Match Flo Recap
• Interview:  Lacey Evans
• Segment:  Lacey Evans/Bayley (Smackdown Womens Champion)
• Interview:  Carmella & Dana Brooke
• Segment:  Mandy Rose/Sonya Deville 
• Mandy Rose/Sonya Deville & Alexa Bliss/Nikki Cross went to a No Contest
• Segment:  Elias & Braun Strowman
• Segment:  Elias & Braun Strowman
• Elias/Braun Strowman def. Cesaro/Shinsuke Nakamura (Intercontinental Champion)
• Segment:  Big E & Kofi Kingston (Smackdow Tag Team Champions)
• Interview:  King Corbin
• Segment:  Royal Rumble Numbers
• Segment:  Sheamus
• Segment:  John Morrison & Miz
• John Morrison def. Kofi Kingston (Tag Team Champion)
• Contract Signing:  Daniel Bryan & Bray Wyatt (Universal Champion)