2021-01-25 Raw

 

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening...whenever it is you have found me.  Today I am going to LIVE blog this week's episode of Raw.  This is one of the first times I have done this as I often watch days or weeks or years (there is a lot of wrestling out there and only so much time).

• This is the worst theme song for Raw ever, I usually skip it when I watch
• Thankfully Drew did not have a major case of COVID
• Was anyone asking for Drew vs. Goldberg?
• They need to turn off the fake crowd noise it is overpowering
• Well that will kill any heat Miz and Morrison had, totally believe they could win Sunday if they cash in
• Was Goldberg blown up walking to the back?
• Is Charlie the best interviewer in the business now?  I think so
• So is no one going to mention that Lacey and Ric are married
• That is one of Ric's robes?
• Charlotte looks nothing like she used to in the face and it is sad
• Do you think Nia hurt someone yet?
• Rose and Brooke are the calvary?  
• I smell a six woman tag!
• I have always loved Dana, wonder if they will bring up the Charlotte Dana history
• This has 5 really good performers and Nia Jax in it
• Well that was pointless with the cartwheels
• They did mention the history!
• That was a stiff kick!
• Could Lacey's trunks get any tighter?
• How is Temptation Island a thing?
• Wait?  They are restarting it?  Good grief because we need more of this match
• Did Shayna screw up and not get in when she was supposed to?
• Remember when Lacey was fighting for her daughter and now she is cheating on her husband, great turn around!
• Ugg that looked bad on Dana and dear lord Nia will hurt you for realz!
• Thank god Dana avoided the Bat Cave by Nia!
• I like that they have gotten away from the sexy Rose and she is more of a wrestler!
• What the fuck was that other than dangerous, how is it guys like Lee and Otis need to go to the Performance Center and Nia somehow keeps a job
• Mustafa has a point about Kofi stealing his spot
• Where is Big E?  He cannot show up and help Woodsy?  
• Those are horrible tights on Slapjack!
• All of Retribution has those horrible tights?
• I love Woodsy!
• Is Woodsy knocked out?
• Modified High Times damn
• We are only an hour into this show?  Really?
• Seriously someone named Bad Bunny is going to be at the Royal Rumble?  That is just bad
• Why is Shelton wearing a mask?  Will that be addressed?
• It is weird for Cedric to be a heel
• Lashley should not be allowed to get on the mic!
• I love Sheltons shoes!
• Damn I love MVP
• And I love R-Truth
• Truth...um....I would NOT get into the ring
• Riddle I do not love though, in fact, I am not a fan at all
• Sheamus has been around a long time without a break from the company
• Sheamus on the mat is interesting
• Why is Miz in his gear?
• I would watch Sheamus and Drew at Mania!
• I miss the mohawk
• Is that a mouse showing up under Sheamus eye?
• WHITE NOISE!
• Oh now we know why Miz is in his gear
• Are they really low on talent at the show?
• This does not really make sense for Sheamus to agree to
• Some really stiff looking shots I like it
• Especially when Sheamus and Morrison are interacting
• Sheamus is going to the top?  I guess he does do the flying shoulder block regularly
• Really good showing for all men
• I do not like this angle at all, nope, feels too real
• Have they ever said that R-Truth is wrestling in gear like his boyhood idol John Cena
• STYLES IS ELIMINATED!  Oh wait not quite the rumble
• A fun match there between two vets!
• Why is there Thunder in the....Thunderdome....nevermind
• That hour was much better than the first
• Some weird verbiage but I like this promo by Orton
• I really like the crazy Bliss
• Uggg, we go from Alexa Bliss to Riddle?  Why?
• Smart by Riddle to go for the quick knee
• Damn, how strong is Shelton?!
• Thought he was going for the Olympic slam there
• Look at the strength by Shelton!
• Cedric was trying to help!
• Cedric has this, he can take out the Original Bro!
• How smooth is Cedric?  
• I love MVP on the outside
• RIDDLES SHOULDERS WERE DOWN BEFORE THE VICTORY ROLL!!!
• Why did Riddle look confused?
• Edge looks old and tired!
• All wrestlers today need to watch this interview.  Edge is real here!
• I really have no idea who is going to win the Rumble this year.  There are so many options
• Remember when Elias was one of the hottest stars in WWE, yeah me too, and I miss it
• I do love Alexa Bliss in any incarnation!
• Can the ring announcer get worse hair?
• Is that ref of legal age to work?  He looks to be 12!
• What a throw by Asaka
• Well, this is creepy!
• I am digging the facial work by these two
• The FUCK?
• This is so strange and odd and I am loving it strangely enough
• Obviously when the fans are back they cannot do this but until then!
• RKO!!!  MY GOD!

If you eliminate that first hour it was a good show.  I really liked this as it picked up.  The Edge promo was exactly what promos should be.  It WAS AMAZING!  I love the Bliss stuff and the end with Orton hitting the RKO on Bliss was perfect and a great ending.  Overall a good show.

RESULTS

• Segment:  Drew McIntyre (WWE Champion)/The Miz & John Morrison/Goldberg
• Interview:  Charlotte Flair (Womens Tag Team Champion)
• Charlotte Flair (Womens Tag Team Champion) def. Shayna Baszler via DQ
• Nia Jax/Lacey Evans/Shayna Baszler def. Charlotte Flair (Womens Tag Team Champion)/Mandy Rose/Dand Brooke
• History:  Xavier Woods and Retribution
• Segment:  Mustafa Ali
• Xavier Woods def. Slapjack
• Segment:  Mustafa Ali
• Segment:  Riddle & R-Truth (24-7 Champion)
• MVP Lounge:  R-Truth (24-7 Champion)
• Segment:  Adam Pearce/R-Truth (24-7 Champion)/AJ Styles
• Sheamus def. John Morrison
• John Morrison/The Miz def. Sheamus
• Segment:  Ric Flair & Lacey Evans/Charlotte Flair (Womens Tag Team Champion)
• AJ Styles def. R-Truth (24-7 Champion) via Submission in a Royal Rumble qualifying match for R-Truth
• Recap:  Randy Orton & Alexa Bliss & The Fiend
• Segment:  Alexa Bliss
• Riddle def. Shelton Benjamin (Raw Tag Team Champion)
• Riddle def. MVP via Submission
• Riddle def. Cedric Alexander (Raw Tag Team Champion)
• History:  Edge & Randy Orton
• Segment:  Edge
• Asaka (Raw Womens Champion/Womens Tag Team Champion) and Alexa Bliss fought to a no contest for the Title

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)