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SuperCena strikes again... Lame.

Main event {Ladder Match} is next.

Edit: Damn, that is a LOT of ladders!
 
Holy Crap!
Spear off the ladder countered into the Twist of Fate
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HARDY WINS! HARDY WINS!

Edit: PUNK!!!
 
[quote name='lmz00']What'd I miss? CM Punk is WWE champion/a heel now?[/QUOTE]
Here is what you missed:
Kofi retained the US Title
Jericho won the IC Title (And unmasked Rey)
Tommy Dreamer won the ECW Title (Pinned Swagger with a DDT)
Santina won the Miss Wrestlemania crown by pinning Vickie Guerrero
Batista won the WWE Title by pinning Randy Orton (Batista Bomb)
SuperCena submitted Big Show (STF)
Jeff Hardy won the World Title over Edge in the ladder match
Punk cashes in MitB and wins the World title by pinning Jeff (2 GTSs)
 
Ha! Go Punk!

Isn't Hardy going on vacation anyway?

And I'm calling the Triple H return for tomorrow considering the Batitsta situation.
 
That was a crazy PPV. I didn't post during it, because I actually got to watch on TV in HD. My friend who rarely watches wrestling these days wanted to see it, and he paid for it.

The show was pretty enjoyable overall, but what was with all the title changes? 5 title changes, 6 if you count Miss WrestleMania. Kofi's the only champion who kept his title.

The only things that really pissed me off were Batista winning the title, and Edge losing. I'd normally be fine with Hardy or Punk as champ, but Edge never keeps the belt for more than 6 weeks. Plus the world title has changed hands 11 times in the past year. That's WCW 2000 territory. The WWE title hasn't been much better, changing hands 6 times in the past 6 and 1/2 months.

They changed all 3 world titles, 2 months after doing that for the first time at backlash. Orton, Edge, and Christian all deserved long title reigns. They got a month and a half.

But like I said, most matches were good, and I like Punk and Jericho as champions (even if Jericho is above the IC title). Happy I saw it in HD.
 
I'd have much rather seen Punk lay out Batista with a monster GTS, but I'll take him beating Hardy just the same. I'll assume Batista drops the belt tomorrow night if the injury is legit, and I'll also assume Hardy's taking time off and we'll get an Edge/Punk feud for the belt on SD (which I'm actually looking forward to).

Seems like they're teasing Edge and Vickie's split, which will hopefully lead to Edge's face turn (and maybe a Punk heel turn somehow). I miss the goofy fun face Edge, and with Christian back, it'd be nice to see them together again from time to time.
 
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[quote name='JJSP']If there's any justice in the world, Batista will be released on Wednesday for being "injury prone".[/QUOTE]

:rofl:

There's no justice in this world, just Vince McMahon.
 
Couple more Twitter's worth following.

twitter.com/EDGEBRAND - Edge
twitter.com/MATTHARDYBRAND - Matt Hardy
twitter.com/JEFFHARDYBRAND - Jeff Hardy
 
The only problem I had with the PPV was Batista/Orton. I did not want Orton losing the belt and the match just seemed to quick and rushed. Overall though I can live with it cause Punk is champion again. Cant express how happy I am right now. Hope Punk is at Raw next week for the 3 hour event
 
Credit: PWInsider.com

According to sources, Batista is scheduled for surgery on Tuesday morning for a torn biceps muscle that he sustained in a match prior to his bout with Randy Orton at "Extreme Rules" last night. The injury was likely the reason the match only lasted just over seven minutes.

Why the company decided to go through with the title change despite the injury is still a question mark, although one would assume the reason will be revealed in the storyline going forward.

Expect an injury angle or something done on RAW tonight to get the title off of Batista, as he'll be undergoing surgery the next morning and be on the shelf as far as being an active in-ring competitor.
 
CM Punk as champ should be as interesting and worth watching as his last title run. I wonder how he'll lose it this time.
 
Did anyone else notice when Cena hooked up Big Shows leg, it fell down and they cut the camera quick off of it? LOL. Also after 6 different stream sites, I found one in the SciFi section of JTV that stayed up the whole time.
 
[quote name='JJSP']Couple more Twitter's worth following.

twitter.com/EDGEBRAND - Edge
twitter.com/MATTHARDYBRAND - Matt Hardy
twitter.com/JEFFHARDYBRAND - Jeff Hardy[/QUOTE]



That's cool, I wish I would've seen those earlier, Matt Hardy talking about chilling on the beach here in Pensacola. I bet I could've met some of the wrestlers there before the show. The beach is only about 10 minutes from our civic center.
 
Wait. Cm Punk HEEL you say? He gets to finally to play the part which he played best in his entire career, you say?

He better talk about Hardy's drug problems. He's gonna make it to the TOP.
 
[quote name='HovaEscobar']OMG

Everyone in the same room watching a PPV!!!! McMahon was right!!!!![/QUOTE]

Vince McMahon is always right, I'm Vince McMahon dammit!
 
Good to see that Batista is going to be another one in a long string of transitional champs that held a title for a day. The fun part is to see who they give the title to since they had Punk use his MitB shot on Hardy. I just hope it isn't Triple H because he just plain sucks to me now.

Tommy Dreamer won the ECW belt (which to me is the most worthless one) which really isn't a surprise to me but I wish more angles would have months of build up like this did. Part of me actually wanted him to lose so that he could go to TNA and fued with Raven.
 
[quote name='cdeener']Good to see that Batista is going to be another one in a long string of transitional champs that held a title for a day. The fun part is to see who they give the title to since they had Punk use his MitB shot on Hardy. I just hope it isn't Triple H because he just plain sucks to me now.[/quote]

Lemme narrow it down to the three I will guarantee you will win the belt from Batistia on RAW:

1 - Randy Orton. If all else than to furthen this sudden storyline of Batistia wanting to "take out" Legacy by having Legacy beat him down with the ref knocked out cold TNA style. Then Orton pins Batistia after the ref comes around. This will have Batistia out of the storyline until he recovers from injury 1,894,943... or gets released whichever of the two comes sooner.

2 - Triple H. When there's a will there is a way for Triple H to use his booking power to find a way to get the belt back just to bring him closer to passing Flair.

3 - Edge. Edge tells Vickie if he wins the title they won't divorse. Of course she's estatic so she gives him the shot which leads to him (obviously) winning.

Tommy Dreamer won the ECW belt (which to me is the most worthless one) which really isn't a surprise to me but I wish more angles would have months of build up like this did. Part of me actually wanted him to lose so that he could go to TNA and fued with Raven.
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To be honest right now the WWECW title has more meaning than at least the RAW title. The title has been defended on a decent basis on the weekly show along with PPV matches plus as a whole the WWECW brand has been pretty consistant in quality. I will agree with you on angles getting months of build up. Not everything obviously needs months of build up but for something such as the Dreamer storyline it felt more important than if the WWE just threw it out there a week ago prior to the PPV. Even if Dreamer did lose and "retired" I got a feeling he would be doing backstage/behind the scene stuff for the WWE. Dreamer is too much of a company man these days so unless if the WWE suddenly released him I can't see him being outside the WWE.
 
[quote name='Mr. Beef']:rofl::rofl::rofl:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OthWXdqnP6E

I love 1:17 - "Hey yo, turn it into the Twist of Fate!"[/QUOTE]
Sometimes I think it would be fun to go back to not really knowing about any of the inner-workings of the wrestling business. Just being a regular fan who gets wrapped up in it.

Then I see videos like that and I come to my senses.
 
[quote name='KaneRobot']Sometimes I think it would be fun to go back to not really knowing about any of the inner-workings of the wrestling business. Just being a regular fan who gets wrapped up in it.

Then I see videos like that and I come to my senses.[/QUOTE]
Ok....they're going to be able to truly enjoy when he loses the title. Those guys just happen to sound like dumb hicks, but they probably enjoy wrestling more than any smart fan who has seen a million matches from all over the world.

I love non smart fans and I despise smarks. I'm trying to forget all of the useless information I know about " the business" and go back to being able to just enjoy a match. No matter how much information I know about the business, the reality is that it is totally non-applicable and that it does nothing but ruin matches and wrestling in general for you. Wrestling sucks now but it will get better. No matter how good it ever gets smart fans will piss on it. I bet the smart fans of the late 90s were busy complaining about Foley's "workrate" and how the Undertaker " can't sell " or how Stone Cold really didn't have a varied moveset to see great characters and matches. I bet they also hated Triple H because he "can't wresle" and uses "politics" to succeed ( i.e the exact character he played on WWF television ). It's ridiculous when you think about it.

And I know you probably weren't being serious and this isn't personally against you, but I'm just sick of seeing smart fans on the internet talking about " working" and "wrestling psychology" when these were terms created by wreslters for wrestlers to help them better understand what made fans enjoy the match, so they could make money. People who will never be in the ring have no need for this knowledge. I can admit that I am the culprit of such nonsense talking too, but now I'm done.
 
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Demo, your right about Dreamer but since seeing Raven and watching my copy of The Rise and Fall of ECW the thought crossed my mind. I'm real happy Dreamer is in WWE for all the time and effort he put into the original ECW. I just hate that most of the time when he has won the title it has to be an extreme situation.

Now, with the WWE Title as long Trips doesn't get it is fine with me. Edge is my hope because he will at least hold it until the next PPV then lose it more than likely to Orton. The way they keep giving Edge titles he will easily pass Flair & Trips for most titles held.
 
[quote name='HovaEscobar']
And I know you probably weren't being serious and this isn't personally against you, but I'm just sick of seeing smart fans on the internet talking about " working" and "wrestling psychology" when these were terms created by wreslters for wrestlers to help them better understand what made fans enjoy the match, so they could make money. People who will never be in the ring have no need for this knowledge. I can admit that I am the culprit of such nonsense talking too, but now I'm done.[/QUOTE]

I'm pretty much with you, actually. I couldn't care less about wrestling psychology. From what I can tell, most fans that use that term can't even figure out what they think it means, but they know they want it. As long as it's entertaining I don't care what they do.

But there's a line. When people start whining about "aw, come on, you really want to win the title like THAT??!"...yikes. Getting into it is one thing - everyone in the room I was in was yelling at the TV during the final 10 minutes or so of the Undertaker vs. Michaels WM match. Being excited is fine. But registering what appears to be genuine concern over a scripted outcome is just weird.
 
It's still REAL to them, dammit!

I completely marked out when Benoit beat HHH at WM20 but like KaneRobot said, that was about being in the moment. These are the same type of people that made death threats to Matt when he turned on Jeff.
 
I'd call it "suspension of disbelief." When I criticized the HBK/JBL "slave" angle from earlier this year, it's because there was too large of a gap needed to suspend my disbelief. HBK, broke? Pish-posh.

The Triple H/Randy Orton WM runup was decent. It made sense - go after my family, go after my wife, and I'll fucking kill you. Then the WM ruined the angle because (1) it was a boring match, (2) it had the distinct dishonor of going on after HBK/UT, and (3) Triple H restraining himself from killing Orton made really destroyed the plausibility of the angle for me. Yes, yes, the belt is important - but I don't believe that even a chucklehead egomaniac like Triple H would hold off of injuring someone beyond comprehension if they attacked my family and wife.

But there is good room for suspension of disbelief in TNA - at least with regard to Kip James' begging for work, and Shane Douglas' wanting one last shot at fame/glory. I also think that's why The Beautiful People work so well as a tandem - not because they're hot (there's enough of that in pro wrestling as is), but because you fucking know bitches just like that, you fucking hate bitches just like that, and you want to see them killed. Metaphorically, mind you. ;)

And Steiner is amazing in his role - you know he really feels it when he cuts a promo on "Fat ass" Samoa Joe. It's entirely, entirely, entirely plausible. Look at Joe as a person; what would you say to him if you really, genuinely, believably wanted to get under his skin? Steiner does just that (in a TV-14 appropriate manner ;)).

I can't believe I just praised TNA for its plausibility in storylines - but, hey, I just did it.
 
I would love to see Jericho redo his gimmick from WCW of collecting the "ring trophies" from his defeated opponents. With the character he has now, it may even be feasible.
 
[quote name='HovaEscobar']Wait. Cm Punk HEEL you say? He gets to finally to play the part which he played best in his entire career, you say?

He better talk about Hardy's drug problems. He's gonna make it to the TOP.[/QUOTE]

I hope he does something new, because he's balls boring.

What's the point of Orton losing? It seems they're doing everything they can to fuck him up.
 
[quote name='The Truth 34']I would love to see Jericho redo his gimmick from WCW of collecting the "ring trophies" from his defeated opponents. With the character he has now, it may even be feasible.[/QUOTE]
I was just talking about this earlier with a co-worker about how it wasn't the first time Jericho had an angle dealing with taking the mask.

Pitfallharry that would be an excellent idea so we shall see because there are a lot of ways they can go about it.

Myke you know deep down you like TNA ;). Well, at least part of it anyways.
 
ROH is coming to Chicago June 27th. Flair is going to be there doing a meet and greet. I'm super pumped. Only other wrestler I've ever met was D'Lo Brown. The tickets to the event are cheap. What sucks is you gotta pay 30 bucks for the autograph session. Anyone been to any of these at the ROH shows?
 
If Punk used Hardy's drug problems for heat, that'd be great...at first. I'd probably get tired of the promos soon after where he'd (probably) keep saying, "I'm straight-edge."
 
Edge getting the WWE Title makes the most sense to me. It keeps HHH out longer like he wanted. IT allows Orton and Edge to fued and also set up Punk being the top Heel on Smackdown. Plus its gets Batista off my tv, and in the case of next week in Charlotte I wont have to see him live.
 
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