Randy Orton came out to start the show. He said that he didn’t agree to team with Edge last week because Edge really just wanted to keep him under control. And here I thought you didn’t agree to team with him because he cost you a title match for no discernable reason the week before.
Meat Loaf then came out. Yes, Meat Loaf. Great. He was acting like an idiot. Jerry Lawler explained that all the celebrities want to be on Raw. Yeah, I’d want to be on Raw too if they decided their TV show was best utilized as a vehicle to promote whatever product I felt like hawking. Speaking of which, Meat Loaf proceeded to shamelessly hawk his new album. He started singing different songs while Orton and I looked at him with murderous intentions. After about 18 hours, Orton finally laid him out with a terrible looking RKO.
Edge came out and said he doesn’t like the celebrities either. He said he called the WWE headquarters and argued the guest hosts need to go. Wait, is he turning face again? WWE HQ agreed that the guest hosts would no longer have authority on Raw. Well, that’s not good enough. “That’s not good enough,” Edge said. Yay Edge! So he announced that WWE agreed to a new permanent Raw GM. But wait, what about dumping the guest hosts? Keep your eyes on the prize, Edge!
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The Big News: Raw was again heavily focused on building WrestleMania, and that focus again led to a quality show.
Show Analysis:
Shawn Michaels came to the ring and said that the locker room thinks he’s crazy and doesn’t believe he can beat the Undertaker at WrestleMania. Michaels said that he knows he is Mr. WrestleMania and that he can end the streak. He invited anyone to come out and tell him that he can’t win.
HHH joined Michaels. He said that he doesn’t think Michaels can win, but then quickly added that he knows Michaels can. HHH pointed out he has wrestled all the top stars of the past 15 years (North American, certainly) and that Michaels is the best he has been in the ring with. HHH said that he invoked DX’s tag title rematch clause against Big Show and Miz for Raw. He said they wouldn’t have to defend for 30 days and that they could celebrate together after WrestleMania. He told Michaels that he believes Shawn will win. Michaels agreed to the tag title rematch.
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The Big News: Three of the top four WrestleMania matches were officially announced on Raw.
Show Analysis:
Raw began with the return of new world champion Chris Jericho following his extended departure from Raw. He said basically nothing but just repeatedly gloated about winning the Elimination Chamber match, which was very amusing. Eventually Edge speared him from behind and announced he would take on Jericho for the title at WrestleMania. This was a good angle and it led immediately into another good angle.
John Cena came out next. He said that Vince McMahon screwed him by forcing him to wrestle again in a singles match after the Elimination Chamber. I don’t see how that’s any more unfair than Sheamus being forced to defend his singles title in a six person match in a Chamber and come in as the first man to boot. In fact, I’d argue Sheamus was screwed significantly worse than Cena.
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The Big News: Well, so much for the streak of excellent Raws. Hell, so much for the streak of non-dreadful Raws, too.
Show Analysis:
Sheamus beat Randy Orton via DQ. There were RKO chants early. Sheamus hit a power slam but missed the big boot. Orton went for the RKO but Sheamus escaped. Orton gained control with the Garvin stomp but was distracted when Ted DiBiase and Cody Rhodes came to ringside. Sheamus took over with punches, kicks and knees. Orton responded with punches, kicks and stomps. Orton went for the RKO and Sheamus kind of escaped.
On the outside, DiBiase tried to attack Sheamus behind the referee’s back. Sheamus fought him off immediately so Rhodes attacked Sheamus from behind. The referee saw that and disqualified Orton. Afterwards, Orton gave Rhodes the RKO. Sheamus then dove in with a big boot on DiBiase and Orton gave Sheamus the RKO. This match was quite boring with a redundant crap finish.
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World Wrestling Entertainment released four talents on Friday, February 26.
- Paul Burchill
- Gregory “Hurricane” Helms
- Referee Scott Armstrong
- Maria Kanellis
Helms’ release does not come as a surprise given his recent public intoxication episode.
Armstrong is a bit of a surprise since the WWE really needs referees and he was well respected in the role.
Maria is unquestionably the most shocking since she is arguably the most popular Diva on the roster right now. She was even voted Most Popular Diva by the fans a couple months ago and just turned 28 on …
Richmond, VA (USA): On January 12th, 2010, a vicious earthquake struck the country of Haiti. As of this writing, an estimated 3,000,000 people have been affected by magnitude 7.0 quake. The Haitian Government has reported that between 217,000 and 230,000 people have died, an estimated 300,000 have been injured, and an estimated 1,000,000 are homeless. What’s more, the death toll is expected to rise. The response from within the United States as well as the world has been overwhelming. Tens of millions of dollars have been raised in the U.S. …
New York, N. Y. – February 24, 2010 – ‘The craziest man in boxing” is bringing his unique brand of insanity to MMA.
Some people call him “El Matador.” Others refer to him as “the Madman from Managua.” Sometimes, they use rougher language in referring to Ricardo Antonio Mayorga Perez, but everyone agrees that Ricardo Mayorga has achieved legendary status in boxing.
That would be enough for most athletes, superstar status in their chosen sport. But not for the swashbuckling character from Nicaragua.
Now the former WBA and WBC welterweight champion and ex-WBC …
Tonight we have the Elimination Chamber, our final stop to the Granddaddy of them all: Wrestlemania. The card tonight; like nearly all No Way Out PPV’S, should be reasonably entertaining, despite the card looking somewhat light and predictable at the time of writing.
Divas Title Match
Maryse v Gail Kim
This is only Maryse’s third singles PPV match in her tenure with WWE and she will be hoping for a decent showing against the underused Gail Kim. The omens however are not promising for her and those who will be watching this PPV. …
As previously reported, Antonio Inoki appears set to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame this year along with “The Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase. Inoki will be the first Japanese wrestler inducted and does have history with the company dating back to the 1970’s when Vince McMahon Sr. offered assistance to Inoki, who at the time was getting New Japan Pro Wrestling off the ground.
Though the news hasn’t been officially announced on this side of the Pacific, over in Japan it was confirmed as the official Japanese web …
After the smashing success that was Kurt Russellmania (now available for pre-order on DVD), Pro Wrestling Guerrilla steams ahead into 2010 with As The Worm Turns at American Legion Post #308 in Reseda, CA, on Saturday, February 27! While some fans may criticize the staff of Pro Wrestling Guerrilla for apparent laziness in coming up with a creative show title, please note that the title is more of a reference to Henry VI, Part 3 than it is to the totally awesome Faith No More song. If that explanation makes …
Pro Wrestling Guerrilla presented “Kurt Russellmania” as part of WrestleReunion 4 at the LAX Hilton in Los Angeles, California.
World Wrestling Entertainment could reportedly be inducting Antonio Inoki into the WWE Hall of Fame this year.
– As a reminder, I’ll be here until about 7EST when I’ll put the LIVE WZR Radio posts on the website. I’ll then leave here for the arena and then we’ll go live with WZR Radio at 8EST from inside the arena. I’ll come in after every match with the result. There will be silence (crowd noise) while matches are ongoing and then I’ll come back on for a few minutes at a time. It won’t be your normal WZR Radio broadcast and at times will likely feel flat. It’s …
Joey Mercury with other S.E.S members CM Punk and Luke Gallows + Kofi Kingston all arrived together at the Times Union Center in Albany, NY earlier today. I’m being told that Mercury suffered a possible torn pectoral muscle at or shortly after WWE’s SummerSlam PPV.
It should be noted that Mercury had a sling on his arm when he arrived in Albany today.
No word yet on how WWE will explain the injury or how long he’ll be out of action.
As a reminder, I’ll be here until about 7EST when I’ll put …
RAW last night scored hours of 3.35 and 3.64, thus giving the 900th episode a 3.5 cable rating.
Carl Dantes sent this in:
Shawn Michaels and Rebecca Michaels 2nd show on the Experience with Weston and Jodi Clark airs tomorrow!
Shawn and Rebecca filmed a total of three episodes with the show. The first episode was aired last August 3, 5 and 8. The second next episode will be air tomorrow night August 31 8:00 PM EST, till on September 2 12:00 AM EST and September 5 4:00 PM EST only at Sportsman …
– I hope the coverage of the WWE NXT and SmackDown! tapings yesterday was decent enough for you all. That was a brutal work day to say the least. I hope the NXT and SD! coverage from inside the arena on WZR Radio last night was OK as well. That is VERY hard to do with all the noise so hopefully the show came across as listenable for all of you. I’d really like to hear your thoughts on yesterdays coverage. You can email me (Ryan Clark) at Webmaster@ProWrestlingSCOOPS.com. It …
- As a reminder, I’ll be here until about 7EST when I’ll put the LIVE WZR Radio posts on the website. I’ll then leave here for the arena and then we’ll go live with WZR Radio at 8EST from inside the arena. I’ll come in after every match with the result. There will be silence (crowd noise) while matches are ongoing and then I’ll come back on for a few minutes at a time. It won’t be your normal WZR Radio broadcast. It’s very tough to do a show from …
– Creative plans as of Monday night was for WWE to unify all of its championships within the next year. There would be one World Championship, one Tag Team Championship, the Intercontinental Championship, and one Women’s title. It is said that a WWE/World Title Unification Match will take place at next year’s WrestleMania.
– WWE will tape this week’s episodes of Friday Night SmackDown as well as the season two finale of NXT finale tonight from the Times Union Center in Albany, New York. No matches have been announced for SmackDown! …
– The Miami Herald has an article up, discussing Rey Mysterio’s appearance for Florida Championship Wrestling this weekend. You can read that article MiamiHerald.com.
– The Tampa Tribune discusses the passing of Luna Vachon at http://www2.tbo.com/
– John Cena appears on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Thursday night. He will be promoting the WWE Films project Legendary, which opens in a limited release on September 10th.
– The August 28th edition of WWE AM Raw scored a 0.57 rating with 716,000 viewers.
Wrestling News
– Randy Orton was going to work last night’s dark match after RAW, but was pulled from the match and replaced with the Undertaker. Orton was pulled as a precautionary measure, due to the fact that he got dinged up over the weekend in Wildwood, NJ.
– Carl Dantes sent this one in: Shawn Michaels and his wife Rebecca filmed a total of three episodes of The Experience with Weston and Jodi. The first episode aired August 3, 5 and 8. The second episode will be air to night at 8:00 …
Thanks to ProWrestlingSCOOPS.com visitor Chris Salvari for calling in the following from outside the Times Union Center in Albany, NY today:
1:55EST – Dolph Ziggler arrived with ????
1:57EST – Hornswoggle arrived with Mark Henry. Hornswoggle was driving. Really. Biggest guy and the smallest guy together… with midget driving.
2:00EST – Teddy Long arrived by himself.
2:10EST – Christian arrived by himself.
2:30EST – The Undertaker and Michelle McCool arrived.
Wrestling News
– According to a WWE source, John Cena will be doing a ton of promotional work for the WWE Films project Legendary. The company feels that the film is their strongest effort so far and they are set to have him make the rounds in a major way.
– The DVD and Blu-Ray release of Legendary will be during the last week on September.
– John Cena was on ESPN earlier today promoting Legendary.
– WWE decided to make fun of Jersey Shore last night on RAW, due to the fact that TNA …
Dave “Pee Wee” Herman (16-2) has been replaced by Devin Cole (14-7-1) in a fight against Aaron Rosa at the upcoming Shark Fights 13 event on Sept. 11.
The Shark Fights promotion was left with little choice but to replace Herman due to the fighters pending lawsuit against Bellator Fighting Championships.
Sherdog.com broke the news on Monday.
Herman, 25, is suing Bellator for allegedly breaching a six-fight, 30-month contract he signed into with the promotion on October 28, 2008. Herman is also claiming tortuous interference on the part of Bellator for a handful …
EA Sports revealed the roster for the lightweight and welterweight class of it’s upcoming ‘EA Sports MMA‘ video game, due to be released on Oct. 19 for the XBox 360 and PS3.
Pictured above are the welterweights:
Front Row: Joachim Hansen, Pat Miletich, Shinya Aoki, Robbie Lawler, Nick Diaz, Jake Shields
Middle Row: Matt Lindland, Kazuo Misaki, Joe Riggs, Tatsuya Kawajiri, Jay Hieron
Rear Row: Marius Zaromskis, Lyman Good, Frank Trigg, Nick Thompson, Hayato Sakurai, Tyron Woodley
Check out the lightweights after the jump
The MMA News
Newly declared Strikeforce middleweight champion Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza (13-2) wants to face all comers at 185 pounds. He is hoping to fight soon and is looking forward to meeting the winner of Strikeforce’s upcoming middleweight tournament.
Souza defeated Tim Kennedy this month at “Strikeforce: Houston” in a five round battle that saw the Brazilian quiet his critics by showing he had the cardio to fight for five rounds. “Jacare” earned a unanimous decision (49-46, 48-47, 48-47) over the former Green Beret.
Kennedy has said he’d like a rematch with Souza, but the …
