The Latin from Staten appeared at the Warriors of Wrestling Full Throttle event this past weekend. AC recently recorded a new theme for Sonjay Dutt. Sonjay is the good homie and invited AC to perform the song live. Little did AC know that he would part of the mayhem. New Swag City was on hand to capture the madness

AC and I talk wrestling and have been to many a wrestling show, so to see this is super cool. How coked out does Marty Jannetty? Lets start working the indys AC HAHAHA

Kassius Ohno talks about FCW 15 Championship, FCW Superstars, the endurance of the FCW 15 matches, and why he is the best in Knocking out his opponents and having them scream: OHNO! while he says OYES!!!!

I have a tattoo its awesome. Its a whole bunch of cool shit thrown together, looking back I can say this part is meant for my mom and this is meant for my dad but in reality thats just bullshit. I liked it cause it was cool. I know not so ground breaking but it looks good on the skin.

Culture, family and struggle are represented in The Rock’s tattoo, as he describes in a “Once in a Lifetime: The Rock vs. John Cena” exclusive video. Tweet me your thoughts on WrestleMania? Did you like the Main Event?

Joe So Delicious and I told Ric Flair when we interviewed him, we still consider you retired since 2004. Flair chuckled and talked about the retirement match saying Vince told him “its your time kid.”

Flair blew it by coming out of retirement by signing with TNA (Flair taking a backstage role mentoring the new crop of WWE superstars would have been fitting), but financial troubles make you have to go out an earn. Flair’s work in TNA isnt bad it just wont be remembered in Flair’s body of work.

So lets keep it ignorant and all pretend that this was Flair’s final match. Honestly wrestling Shawn Michaels for your final match gets no better. It was young lion vs old lion, Flair is that old dog how still can hang with the youngs shit, I remember watching this match thinking damn Natch is holding his own with HBK.

What really tugged at the old heart strings was when HBK said I love and Im sorry….SWEET CHIN MUSIC!!!

YOU REALLY SHOULD LISTEN TO THE RIC FLAIR INTERVIEW IM TYPING IN CAPS TO CONVEY THE IMPORTANCE.

Why is this match in its entirety impossible to find on youtube? Fuck it highlights are gonna have to do. The match was amazing…From start to finish. Warrior did two things I thought were impressive he walked to the ring and actually wrestled.

The success of the match was due to Macho. Savage wasn’t Hulk Hogan (a mark for himself) Macho realized what worked for business. That was Warrior Kicking out of 5 Elbows added to the epicness of this match.

I cry as an adult during the Savage Liz reunion. What can I say I’m a romantic.

As we continue on with WrestleMania week, lets look at one of the slept on matches on the card. This Mania had Hogan vs Rock so all the attention was on that, but I believe this was the first match where people were like”wait Undertaker never lost? Ok, lets build that.”

Plus this was Flair’s first “OK THAT IS RIC FUCKEN FLAIR” match since like 97 and second mania match ever. The first being 10 years prior vs Randy Savage.

As we continue WrestleMania week, here is a match from WrestleMania X-Seven, arguably known as the best WrestleMania ever. This event was the second time that the WrestleMania main event featured The Rock and Steve Austin for the WWF Championship, WrestleMania X-7 is often noted as the end of The Attitude Era.

For me it would be the last Mania/WWF related program I would watch for 3 years. Seeing the show end with McMahon and Austin shaking hands and sharing beers, was over kill for me. I know its all part of the plan but it was a let down. I thought Austin going heel was great but it didnt last he’s an enigma, plus I had no interest in the whole invasion angle.

But WrestleMania X- Seven was a great send off for me. Once Vince McMahon then came to ringside to you knew there was some sort of shenanigans taking place. Like when The Rock tried to pin Austin after the People’s Elbow, McMahon pulled The Rock away.

Rock chased McMahon around the ring. After a stunner and a kick out by Rocky, McMahon handed Austin a steel chair you knew it was an Austin turned heel and the end of something special, wrestling at this time was larger than life. It didn’t get bigger than Rock Vs Austin.

Its Wrestlemania Week, Im posting some of my favorite matches all week. Since Benoit’s career is pretty much a forgotten memory this match will never be talked about ever again, that sucks because this match was amazing. I not gonna sit here and explain the how…All participants worked an amazing triple threat match because all are at their best here.

I remember the finish being one of those you didnt expect. Never did I think Benoit would make Hunter submit. Triple H attempted the Pedigree on Benoit, but countered and locked in the Crippler Crossface Triple H submits. Triple H put over Benoit and he won the World Heavyweight Championship.

After the match, Eddie Guerrero came to the ring and the two hug it out while confetti dropped for the emotional ending of WrestleMania XX.

Random encounter of the awesome kind, Im in a Jersey gas station with my brother Vinnie and Mike Izzo. Izzo gets out of his truck to pump his gas and Scott Armstrong and Izzo struck up a conversation. We all went to WWE’s Road To Wrestlemania SuperShow. It was a awesome time go see a WWE house show.

Izzo was wear a John Cena t-shirt and Scott said hey did you guys just come from the MSG show? Izzo said yeah we had decent seats, he then asked “where did you sit?” (Izzo didnt know Scott refs, for WWE) To which Scott replied I had the best seat in the house I refereed 4 matches.

After some more small talk, Arn Anderson (legend in Pro Wrestling. Was Ric Flair right hand for years and a member of, The Four Horsemen, in the NWA/WCW.) comes walking out of the convent mart with Billy Kidman, they shook our hand and posed for a photo an kept it moving. Real nice guys super down to earth.

The Austin 316 speech, pioneered the attitude era the McMahon feud, the Bret Hart feud, breaking into Brian Pillmans house, all made Austin the man.

One of my favorite angles was when Austin attacked Brian Pillman when Pillman was home with an injury. In fact Pillman house angle cemented my Austin fandom. This was suspenseful I was glued to RAW the whole night.

Everyone watching thought a few things. Pillman is going to shoot Austin on live TV, Pillman dropped the “f bomb” on live TV and Pillman’s wife has great boobs.

I believe this whole angle was more Pillman, than Austin and wished Pillam didn’t pass shortly after. Had Pillman been alive I think he and Austin would have had an amazing program maybe a Hollywood Blonds reunion.

Today is March 16th, this means nothing but since the date is 3/16, lets create our own hallmark holiday Austin 3:16 Day. Its only fitting that I post the speech where Austin 3:16 started when Stone Cold won the King of the Ring in 1996.

Recently Chris Hero signed a developmental deal with the WWE, working in its developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) under the ring name Kassius Ohno. A title wave of joy rushed me as I clicked this youtube link to see one of my closest friends do what he does best, I know the struggle that was to get to this very point and I know whats to come. Ive traveled miles to watched Chris in gyms and will do the same to watch him in arena’s family supports family. Im proud of you bro PMA ALL DAY!!!!!

Not to be out done by a wrestler Breezy fired back with:

The WWE Champion posted the following response to Brown’s crass remarks which he questioned Punk’s manliness and suggested that the wrestler, uses steroids. Brown deleted said tweet later on.

Brown tweeted several responses to Punks video

Brown ended by tweeting, “Note:today will be the last day I bring @cmpunk existence up! The confrontations that people continuously bring my way are very amusing.” He added, “Cuz honestly, that shit is too time consuming to argue wit every person who has their own issues to deal with!”

As entertaining as this is, its kinda sad. Both have no place taking shots at the other. Both are celebrities who are in two different realms. CM Punk is overly opinionated and Chris Brown is super sensitive. The combination of both personalities are going to clash.

With out this becoming a detailed discussion about Domestic violence I have to agree with Punks comments in the video. One has to wonder if Chris Brown truly feels sorry for what he did? Only he can live with that shame. Its easy for us to cast stones but does a millionaire celebrity who has a massive fan base give two flying fucks about our stones?

According to MTV News Chris Brown is also tweef’n with country singer Miranda Lambert.

This particular CM Punk tweet me really LOL’n, LMAO in real life. Its just a simple dry remark but I chuckled for 2 minutes. I follow CM Punk on twitter, yes I am a stan, mark whatever you call a fan. Whatever save it Punk is a funny fuck on twitter. If your not following Punk on twitter its really your loss. I find the shit he tweets funny. Sometimes he does come off as an asshole but thats just his personality from that I do know or have read about him. By his responses to his fans alone he is real sarcastic.

Allow me to reminisce for a moment and tell you about my first Clash of the Champions experience. The Summer of 95 was lackluster in many areas for your buddy Sparks, but cable TV was a new discovery for me. Classic Sports Network wasn’t bought by ESPN yet, MTV actually played videos…shit even The Real World didn’t suck. The year I got cable was like the biggest deal ever for me. I was twelve and recently recovering from surgery. Since my summer was pretty much fucked my parents bought me cable. Even though I was stuck in a cast for 3 months, I was pretty jazzed that I can now watch Monday Night Raw and WCW.

Prior to getting cable the only time I watched WCW was when I was at my aunts house. Even thought I didn’t know shit about WCW and whatever I did know was from Pro Wrestling Illustrated, I still wanted to see how the other half lived.

My parents thought shelling out a cool $35.00 for pay-per-views was a waste of money. So instead of watching the second ladder match between Shawn Michael and Razor Ramon at SummerSlam that year, I got stuck watching The Renegade vs Paul Orndorff for the WCW World Television Championship. That was my very first Clash of the Champions. Epic fail I know.

That year Clash of the Champions XXXI aired in August on TBS since I dont remember a single detail of any match, we can call my first Clash of the Champions a disappointment. But WCW would make up for that disaster that September when they debuted Monday Nitro, we all know what happened after that.

Since I never watched a Clash of the Champions prior to 95, I asked two OG NWA/WCW fans Joe So Delicious and Bald Steve, what were their favorite Clash of the Champions matches. Both agreed that Arn Anderson/Tully Blanchard vs Barry Windham/Lex Luger for the NWA World Tag Team Championship and Ric Flair vs Sting for NWA World Heavyweight Championship are must watches. Many consider this match with Flair as the match that made Sting a star.

WWE plans to release the Clash of Champions DVD sometime in May with WWE Hall of Fame legend Dusty Rhodes as the host.

When CM Punk wrestled Daniel Bryan, 2 weeks ago on WWE Monday Night RAW, I got a shit load of tweets saying FINALLY “pure wrestling”. The idea of “pure wrestling” is more of an opinionated statement. Locks, holds, escapes and an explosive back and fourth with a lengthy time limit give short but matches that have impact a bad rap. I think idea of “pure wrestling” is telling a story in the ring. To quill pure wrestling enthusiast next week I will blog a match that could be the definition of “pure wrestling”.

Its not rare to see a great technical wrestling on RAW. I think most just like to bitch and moan because they aren’t paying attention to Dolph, Cody and Kofi who are ALL technical wrestlers. What was rare was this match between Bryan and Punk. It came out of nowhere, which was cool. Wrestling fans nowadays take the Internet for granted with results and spoilers, so the surprise factor to me was great.

The last time these two faced each other was at ROH back April 2004. Matches like this really highlight how amazing the talent in the WWE really is. Anyone else notice the ROH handshake at the beginning of the match? The code of honor in a WWE ring…AMAZING. After the match I was asked why wasn’t there a clean finish?

Two reasons. The obvious…Being you cannot have one champion superior over the other, it shows weakness. The champion always has to be the “best” of the company. Jericho lost the rumble the night before so doing a run in on Punk during Raw did a great job of setting Punk vs. Jericho.

We all are going to have a markgasim for Punk vs Jericho at WrestleMania, but lets chat for a moment about Bryan vs Sheamus. Bryan and Sheamus will put on a great match. Sheamus and Bryan had some fantastic matches last year on RAW, contrary to all his squash matches Sheamus is very good. He is second most over babyface on SmackDown. If and when Bryan is victorious at Elimination Chamber this month, Bryan will be walking into WrestleMania as champion. Remember last year when Bryan and Sheamus were suppose to be on the card for WrestleMania but got dropped from the broadcast and made into a dark match before the show? What a difference a year makes.

Maybe I was just expecting more. You know what stellar work Money in the Back, SummerSlam and Survivor Series where. Royal Rumble should have been more of the same…Instead it was total shit. Some build up in certain areas, but for most of the PPV it had an Inception type sleep.

World Heavyweight Championship Triple Threat Steel Cage Match Daniel Bryan vs Big Show & Mark Henry: First match of the night is the Triple Threat Steel Cage Match for the World Heavyweight Championship. Daniel Bryan tried to escape the cage over the top, but Big Show gets a hold of Bryan, holding the entire weight of Bryan with one arm. Big Show finally looses his grip and D-Bryan drops to the floor to retain the World Heavyweight Championship.

Bryan is shaping up to be a great heel. I hope his title reign carries into well WrestleMania, so far the way he has been booked and they way he reacts after his “victories” is great. Plus Daniel’s heel beard is boss.

8-Diva Tag Match Beth Phoenix, Natalya, & The Bella Twins vs Kelly Kelly, Eve, Alicia Fox, & Tamina: Diva’s match yeah we know how that goes it ends with Beth Phoenix hitting Kelly Kelly with the Glam Slam for the three. My HDTV had Beth Phoenix, Natalya and The Bella Twins boobies on my screen 8 sets of boobies #AWESOME.

John Cena vs Kane: I have been telling all who read this that WWE is toying with us about Cena going heel which isn’t going to happen. We all know he is going to be booo’d like a son bitch at WrestleMania but isn’t that expected? So what feels like years has only been a few weeks of Kane, trying to get John Cena to “embrace the hate”. The only thing John Cena embraced was a nice safe match.

Kane and John Cena fought outside the ring, it was the typical good guy makes a comeback against the “stronger villain” the match ended in a double count-out. After the match, Kane and Cena brawl to the backstage area where Cena throws Kane into a group of trash cans. Kane is then able to find a steel chair and hits Cena on the back. Kane then notices Zack Ryder personal dressing room, Kane kicks in the door and starts to attack a defenseless Zack Ryder. Kane uses his gloved hand and in seconds Ryder is unconscious.

Kane then wheels Ryder to ringside and delivers Tombstone Piledriver to Ryder. Hot Eve Torres watches in horror, she’s real hot when she cries. Super Cena makes his way to the ring, but is greeted with a chokeslam.

Brodus Clay vs Drew McIntyre: Drew McIntyre had a match….I laughed too. McIntyre was given another chance at the Royal Rumble. If McIntyre defeated The Funkasaurus Brodus Clay. He was Rumble bound. We all knew how this was going to end…SQUASH MATCH!!!! Anyone else catch The Funkasaurus having a difficult time snapping off his Kidd Rock looking outfit?

WWE Championship CM Punk vs Dolph Ziggler (Special Referee – John Laurinaitis): One major flaw I saw in last Sunday, was the ending of Dolph Ziggler /CM Punk feud. I like that WWE is not passing the championship around like a cheap whore. But the era of long reigns mean nothing. The multiple times a wrestler holds the title means more. CM Punk won the WWE Title in November at Survivor Series. So his reign as been over 80 days. Punk’s popularity is red hot so Punk winning is business as usual.

Now it seems like its on to the next one… I still believe Punk/Ziggler could be huge feud. Both are tremendous talents and have never had a dull match. The match it self was great 4 GTS’ with Ziggler countering one. Punk playing the hero who has to be 12 steps ahead of a boss who is out to get him, while Laurinaitis played mind games and had a referee officiate the entire match.

I wish the obvious had happened with Laurinaitis screwing Punk out of the WWE title. WWE is trying to slowly build Ace/Punk to be this era’s Austin /McMahon. It doesn’t have the same impact but it does work. Since the Elimination Chamber is later this month. We could have saw some bitch-assness by Johnny Ace making Punk angry.

30-Man Royal Rumble Match: The Royal Rumble match should not have had Michael Cole, Jinder Mahal, Jey Uso, Epico, Hunico, Old ass Hacksaw and Mick Foley. Santino and Foley had a face-off with Socko and the Cobra sock, that might have gotten the biggest pop of the night. The Miz and Cody Rhodes looked like stars. Ricardo Rodriquez might have had entrance of the night.

When Miz tried to eliminate Kofi Kingston, and Kofi does a handstand, walking on his hands to avoid elimination I marked out, one of the most impressive things I have ever seen. Kofi might have took twenty or thirty steps before making it to the steel steeps.

Kharma returns, she held her own with Dolph Ziggler before getting eliminated. Road Dogg Jesse James does like six moves and the crowd chats “YOU STILL GOT IT”, I’m not sold on that but it was fun to watch. The there are some elimination we dont care about, blah blah Orton comes out home town hero pop. The Big Show enters the rumble blah blah.

Fast forward to the final four which is Sheamus, Big Show, Randy Orton, and Chris Jericho. Orton eliminates Big Show, Jericho gets rid Orton. Finally it comes down to Jericho and Sheamus. We get a great back and fourth from Jericho who looks like he hasn’t lost a step. Finally Seamus Brogue Kick’s Jericho off of the ring apron with the to win the 2012 Royal Rumble.

The Rumble match it self was lackluster only to be saved by Chris Jericho and Sheamus both really made the ending a great watch. I’m not mad that Sheamus won the match, Jericho was my pick. What can I say I’m predictable.

As I was eating my Wheaties, the thought of hey whats Diamond Dallas Page doing lately. With spoonfuls of the breakfast of champions being chewed I googled DDP. Apparently the former pro wrestler has become a fitness guru.

While pro wrestling is not considered a sport, what pro wrestlers do is athletic and many aches and pains are REAL. What started out as Diamond Dallas Page’s reluctant use of yoga to help him recover from debilitating injuries has evolved into a hybrid yoga developed by Page, that “Ain’t Your Mama’s Yoga!!”. DDPYoga was created while Dallas was recovering from ruptures to his L4/L5 discs.

While watching his wife’s yoga routine the former 3 time WCW World Heavy Weight Champion realized, the benefits of yoga when he regained his flexibility and strength that were hindered by his ruptured disks. DDP developed a book which later turned into a series of workout videos entitled DDPYoga.

DDPYoga targets people who wouldn’t otherwise do yoga. DDPYoga is a combination of intense zero impact workout that combines yoga, rehabilitation moves, dynamic resistance, and breathing technique. DDP says “The workout jacks up your heart rate, helps you lose weight, gain flexibility, get your body back and own your life”

I think why DDPYoga is so successful is Dallas’ personality, he genuinely wants to see people succeed. Working out is a labor of love it takes determination and some sacrifice. Six-time WWE champion, Chris Jericho swears by DDPYoga. Here is a great 15 minute clip of DDP and Y2J doing some DDPYoga, eating gluten free waffles and telling Eddie Guerrero stories.

There are hundreds of testimonials via DDPYoga‘s twitter page here are two that caught my attention.

Contrary to what has been previously reported, it appears that and are the two big matches currently being discussed. , fans have been expecting the tentative plan and while those plans have not been scrapped by any means, officials have discussed a creative shake-up.

Because of the IWC (Internet Wrestling Community) and its conspiracies and assumptions, rumors are circulating that we might see Triple H vs. CM Punk instead Chris Jericho vs. CM Punk at Mania. While is isn’t confirmed or denied the possible match might be scrapped. WWE is hip to the Internet game and as we know the WWE likes to shake shit up. So Chris Jericho vs The Undertaker might be a go.

If this does happen The Undertaker vs. Chris Jericho wouldn’t be a bad watch. Having Taker do a fresh WrestleMania match is way better than seeing the repeats like the last 3 WrestleMania’s.

Ok lets get in to The Good, The Bad and the Ugly of Monday Night RAW.

THE GOOD:

Chris Jerich Speaks

Jerry Lawler says that Chris Jericho has officially been entered into the Royal Rumble. Michael Cole says it’s been four years since the WWE Universe has seen the Highlight Reel. Ok at first I wasn’t into this Jericho return but now I’m all in. The fact that Y2J brings out a Tshirt gun is pure brilliance, the dude never fires a single shirt.

Chris Jericho continues to pander the crowd. After several false attempt to speak Jericho tells the crowd shhhhhh then he speaks. HUGE CROWD POP. “This Sunday at the Royal Rumble, it’s going to be the end of the world as you know it.”

Jericho is most likely the odds on favorite to win the Rumble. If Jericho comes in at #30 its a wrap. I would like Y2J win the Royal Rumble by doing nothing. I hope this trend of nothing continues its building heat.

CM Punk GTS’ John Laurinaitis

Anyone else shocked Otunga has a job? Otunga takes the mic to read a fax from the WWE board of directors. The board is angry that Laurinaitis shows favoritism towards Ziggler. The other Mr. Hudson when on to say that next week Laurinaitis will have a job evaluation by Triple H. HMMM sounds all too familiar.

Laurinaitis says the fax is a wake-up call and would like to apologize to Punk. He says that Mick Foley is now in the Royal Rumble…Do you care? I don’t. Laurinaitis has Otunga attack Punk, Punk fights back locks in the Anaconda Vice.

Laurinaitis wants to shake Punks hand. Punk shakes his hand, picks Laurinaitis up, and hits the GTS! Not as impactful as when Stone Cold stunned Vince but Huge pop from the crowd. Johnny Ace’s face when he gets lifted for the GTS is freakin Hilarious. Dolph Ziggler jumps Punk from behind and lays him out. He stands over him smiling as Raw goes off the air. I like that Ziggs goes over before a pay-per-view.

Next week’s Raw officially starts the road to Wrestlemania, AKA RAW’s most compelling TV of the year. Could this be final return of The Undertaker? Chris Jericho and CM Punk would have an amazing match. Plus there’s The Rock vs. John Cena.

Brodus Clay’s Funk

I’m not gonna lie, I’m a total mark for “The Funkasaurus” this gimmick is so shitty but the theme song is so goddamn addicting to listen too. I really think Naomi and Cameron aka The Funkettes are super hot. Vince don’t hire uggo’s. Anyone else notice Brodus had a difficult time snapping off his pants? O Yeah Heath Slater was in this as well ZZZZzzzzzzzzz

THE BAD:

Jinder Mahal

Can we stop seeing Sheamus vs Jinder Mahal. This has been 4 or 5 weeks of the same match? Mahal is becoming the new John Morrison the jobber of jobbers, least J Mo could take a bump.

R-Truth vs. The Miz – Loser enters Royal Rumble Match at No. 1

I think this feud has been great, but don’t Nitro us WWE. I would have liked to see Truth vs Miz at the Rumble. I want to see if these two can really build heat, throwing fist at each other during promos was fine. The pay build up for their match at Rumble would have held a lot of interest.

Zack Ryder vs. Kane Falls Count Anywhere

Call this match ALL KANE EVERYTHING!!!! Before I even review this match Michael COle and King use their best somber voices. Kane slams, punches and puts Ryder through the stage. Kane turns his sights on Eve but when he sees John Cena at the entrance and leaves through the crowd. Then Eve watches WOO WOO WOO placed onto a gurney. Cena tells him to hang in there but Eve tells him that he has done enough as the ambulance leaves.

THE IDK WHAT TO THINK:

The acting of Hot Eve Torres and John Cena during this sequences of events makes Russell brand look like an Oscar winner

Its reported that Ryder will be getting his own TV on WWE’s network so expect him to be out for a few weeks.

Did Monday Night RAW foreshadow the two main events at Mania? It sure seems like Triple H might fuck shit up for Punk and his WWE title. I think WWE has done enough Rumble return victories, I say Jericho wins the Rumble. Tweet me your prediction.

Could we be seeing Cena embracing his thuganomics like years prior? I bet Cena beasts on Kane during the Rumble eliminating himself and Kane. This will carry Cena all the way to Elimination Chamber. This has been a nice safe program so he’s injury free for Dwayne.

Finally #CENAANGRYFACE should be trending….

The cap features a Grey crown with Navy bill. The main logo is a retro-style King of the Ring from the early 90s. This is available now at WWESHOP.COM

Fact..The King of the Ring tournament had its first pay-per-view event in 1993, but the original King of the Ring tournament was held in 1985. Don Muraco was the first King of the Ring in 1985.

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This is going to be what I liked and disliked about the program. Raw and Smackdown air for several hours on Universal HD for time warner cable on Saturday nights, I get to view both programs twice and it really cement what I like or didn’t. I have the flu so bare with me if my enthusiasm is non existent. My brain feels like its trapped under Rick Ross’s underboob. Insane pressure.

THE GOOD:

WWE Tag Team Champion Kofi Kingston vs. World Champion Daniel Bryan

Bryan came out, very confident pointing at the Championship and going “I’m the Champion!!!!”. Bryan caught Kofi with the LeBell Lock in a very nice spot where Kofi came off the top rope with a reverse cross body.

Bryan did an over the top celebration after the match, standing on the barrier and on the announce table kept going “YES!!!!”. Bryan winning clean against Kofi this week and Cody last week establishes the heel “IM THE CHAMP AND IM GREAT” character. Bryan is doing a great job of being the cocky. The fact the announce team is treating Danielson like he got lucky really builds the to the heat.

R-Truth/ Ricardo Rodriguez

Im a huge fan of Ricardo Rodriguez he works hard, takes some crazy bumps and isn’t on the active roster. Back stage Miz approaches Ricardo and tells him that he better call out R-Truth or he will have him join Alberto Del Rio on the injured list.

In the ring Rodriguez makes tries to man up but Truth made a little cockroach reference and asked if Ricardo would sing him and Little Jimmy “La Cuca Rocha”. This is so bad, that it was amazing. A jerk reaction of knocking the microphone out of Truths hand causes Ricardo to receive Truth finisher. The Miz jumps from the crowd and attacks Truth. Truth fought back and chased Miz through the crowd.

CM Punk vs. Jack Swagger

Before the start of the match, Laurinaitis came out and reminded the crowd that he’s the special referee for Punk’s match with Dolph Ziggler at the Royal Rumble. Why this is amazing? two reasons. The first if Ziggler wins with the help of Johnny Ace it builds more heat to an already bad ass heel. Two seeing CM Punk go ape shit on Johnny Ace and winning back the title at the next PPV is a compelling watch.

Laurinaitis went on to say to show he’s fair, Ziggler will face John Cena tonight and if Punk beats Swagger, then Swagger and Vickie Guerrero will be banned from ringside at the Rumble. Punk won the match anyway, so Ziggler and Vickie are banned from ringside at the Rumble.

By far the best match I have ever seen Jack Swagger have. The back and fourth was great
we got a Randy Savage top rope elbow life is pretty sweet at this moment.

Chris Jericho

Last week I wrote my thoughts on the return of Y2J. This week Jericho continues to say nothing. Jericho grabs the microphone like he is going to speak but puts the microphone down and walks out of the ring crying.

Could Y2J be creating the greatest heel character of all time? Tweet me @EmilioSparks I want to hear your thoughts.

THE BAD:

Kane stalking Zack Ryder

I get it Ryder is now John Cena’s on screen Brutus Beefcake. But do we need several segments of Ryder on RAW?

Part of the appeal of Ryder was that he got over in other avenues outside of a WWE Push. Winning the U.S. Title…Great, his pursuit of Eve Torres love it. I think we would all enjoy to see jaded romantic miss adventures. Let his comedic side show, but too involved him with this Kane/Cena program is where I say enough Zack Ryder. Too much of anything is a bad thing.

Sheamus & Santino vs. Wade Barrett & Jinder Mahal

Ive seen enough of Jinder Mahal to last a life time. In my fluish state is crawled to the bathroom for this entire match. The nothing match went 3 minutes, and ended with Sheamus planting Mahal with the Brogue Kick, and then let Santino take the pinfall. I like to think of this match as hey lets talk about the Royal Rumble.

Edge being inducted to WWE’s Hall Of Fame

The headliner this year, being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame on March 31 2012…is Edge. Wow how bad does this suck? Edge is 37 years old and wrestled active last year. Edge never did anything so amazing that warrants HOF status. Ok he held a shit load of world championships and brought the concept of Table, Ladders and Chairs to where it is now, but name me a 5 star match edge had? There are far more deserving to be inducted into the Hall of Famers. Couch Couch Macho Man Randy Savage.

Brodus Clay Re-debutes

What the fuck is this cowboy bullshit. After weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks of hype promo packages for Brodus Clay, we get The “Funkasaurus”. Yes all I could do was laugh when I heard them say he was build from “the planet funk”. He has dancing girls. Clay dressed up like a fat Kid Rock. Who decided hey lets dust off the Flash Funk character again, that failed rather nicely lets have it fail again.

What really sucks is Curt Hawkins had to be apart of this. Hawkins is a great talent who is going no where. Let Hawnkins cook. Clay squashed Hawkins in a minute and danced with the Funkettes.

THE IDK WHAT TO THINK:

The ending of RAW

While the match it self between John Cena and Dolph Ziggler was great the events after the match make this my IDK. Ziggler does sit ups on top of Cena. FUCKEN GENIUS SPOT!!!! As Super Cena goes for the 5 Knuckle Shuffle we see video of Kane attacking Ryder, Kane choke slams Ryder off of a ledge to the ground.

Cena runs to the parking lot but is attacked by Kane. We see Ryder laying on the ground Kane a face claw to put Cena to sleep knock. This whole storyline has the feeling of a b-horrior movie vibe, like House Of Wax starring Paris Hilton.

The whole ending killed what I thought was a great RAW. This embrace the hate storyline needs to be secondary. No hate will be embraced as Post Fruity Pebbles and John Cena are teaming up for a new partnership, which includes a collectable cereal box in support of the ‘be a STAR’ anti-bullying message.

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Rick Ross was at Sunday night’s TNA Genesis pay-per-view. The Bawse was shown on camera before the start of the 4-Way Elimination match for the X-Division Title Kid Kash vs. Zema Ion vs. Jesse Sorrensen vs. Austin Aries.

Ricky Rozay taunted X-Division wrestler Zema Ion. I can see Ross playing a Jimmy Hart type heel. The Mouth of the South of Miami he can do his trademarked Rick Ross Grunt before he starts his promos.

When asked by a fan why Warrior doesn’t dye his hair and have another run in WWE like Kevin Nash, Warrior replied “I’m not a dickhead who thrives on stealing the limelight from young guys.”

Kevin Nash continued his 140 character belittlement. Nash challenged Warrior to a MMA style fight the day before WrestleMania.

Not to be out done by Kevin Nash, Warrior responded via his Youtube page.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw2_JC1Hu5M&feature=player_embedded

Whether or not or both Nash and Warrior have buried, destroyed or held down other wrestlers is up for debate. I do remember Warrior no-selling the pedigree at WrestleMania 12 but the Warrior didnt have feuds with the Champion when he returned in 1996.

I think rumors of that are over blown by the few people effected by Nash. I do think Kevin Nash was used wrong when he came back and cost CM Punk his first WWE championship. Punk and Nash’s cadences are vastly different. Nash is too big and is used to WWF style promos and WWF bodies. Somebody should have knew it would fail like it did. from jump make Nash feud with Cena…make Nash punks bodyguard or something but don’t put somebody too big and too old school with someone like punk who’s smaller and new school. It would have made a lot more sense than Nash coming back to make sure the company keeps the belt in house because his pal is in office.

If you wanna talk the name test like who would recognize the name more its Warrior. But it was a flash 3 years and gone. If Warrior came back, the TV would be white hot for a month, until you ask him to wrestle or the comeback shock wears off.

Nash would give you more over a longer stretch like he can be in more programs, help backstage stuff like that, Warrior you get a week buildup, the hot comeback, 2 weeks to see what he actually does and the last week of the late bloomers and people to jump off the wagon.

At the end of the day this is about one guy who doesn’t know when to retire and the other who never really liked the wrestling business even when he was in wrestling. Warrior is money hungry and Nash can blow out his quads sitting on a toilet squeezing out a turd.

If you thought Anyone but Chris Jericho would return yesterday ex this tab out now. Jericho saying the mystery man was Brock was a red herring. With all these cryptic videos the IWC (Internet Wrestling Community) knew these promos were Jericho related.

I can not tell a lie, I’m kinda bored with Jericho’s come backs. Reinvention is always a good thing. Jericho’s character’s have never stale thats for sure, I think thats why were all a bit like what the fuck was that on Monday Night Raw.

We’re all use to Jericho’s grand return which leads to the massive crowd pop, wordie promo and crowd change. Yet this time it was a bit different. Jericho was slapping fives and pandering the crowd. He went into the ring grabbed the mic said nothing and left. At first I quite upset I thought the celebration was going on to long, then I re watch his return upon second viewing, I realized the sarcasm of all.

Jericho was building heat. Clearly Jericho will be a heel and this particular return was mocking the WWE “universe” for its embrace of CM Punk. Jericho’s new character seems like a self centered, Hollywood diva. He’s playing a different heel maybe the egomaniac cant have someone else calling them selves “best in the world”.

Many fans on Twitter had a mix reaction for Jericho’s return. Some thought It was brilliant and others thought total let-down. It was neither. By saying nothing he did what he had to do create heat.

The crowd pop’d when he first came out and boo’d when he exited the arena. There’s going to be a steady build to this in weeks to come. All roads to Punk/Jericho at WrestleMania. I predict Jericho will win the rumble and then choose to face CM Punk at WrestleMania for the WWE Championship.

The one issue I had with his return was the promos had nothing in common with the actual return. What did the girl in the promos have to do with his return? I need to know the “she that holds the mystery of your rebirth” bullshit. Maybe the mysterious girl is a metaphor for CM Punk? Hopefully this isn’t a work and were lead down the Positively Page route.

The Briscoe’s might be right about the WWE but the WWE from 2 years ago is different from how it is now. I really want WWE to have a serious tag division. Some say tags are dead and probably done for the forseeable future. I like to believe the landscape might be changing, with Punk and Daniel Bryan are world champions.

I still want to know what the true meaning of the “cosmetically pleasing” means WWE hired Brodus Clay..Think about that one.

The Briscoe Brothers keep it hood. This might be the first time I have ever seen a wrestler with mouth full of chew not look country. BTW The Briscoe’s won their 7th ROH World Tag Team Championship last night.

This replica WWE Slammy Award is actual size and molded directly from the actual Slammy. It measures over 14 inches tall and weights an unbelievable 6 1/2 pounds. Comes in a WWE logo black box. If you think $300.000 is a bit much, think again. WWE replica belts start at this price.

Props to Khal

I have a question if you join the Army as a parachutist what do you do for your entire time in the service? Do you go to competitions and show off America’s parachuting skills?

John Cena comes out to start this week’s RAW a split reaction with half boos and half cheers. Cena talks about Roddy Piper and thanks him for what he said last week. He says again that everyone has the right to say whatever they want about him. Blah, Blah, Blah.

Cena switches gears and talks about CM Punk. He wants a title shot. I’m not mad that idea. Cena/Punk 4 or 5 would be a good watch maybe after WM its too soon to repeat angels.

Alberto Del Rio comes out and says the match is his. Cena says “you lost and everyone saw it.” Del Rio says “that didn’t count.” Del Rio shows the clip of his head being bounced off the exposed turnbuckle last week, and says that Punk cheated. Here comes Vickie Guerrero…with Dolph Ziggler.

Dolph deserves a title proper World Title Push. Ziggler asks Cena and Del Rio if they know who has the longest title reign in the company. It’s Ziggler. That is a good point. Ziggler has been United States Champion for a long time. Segment still not over here comes The Miz.

If Ziggler/Punk dont happen I can see Miz/Punk working extremely well. Miz plugs the 3 hour Slammy Award show next week. Miz looks at Del Rio and says his title reign wasn’t one month long. He looks at Ziggler and says he doesn’t need Vickie Guerrero to get him over. If you caught on by now they all want shots at Punk’s WWE title.

Johnny Ace makes his way to the ring and says each guy in the ring will face a Smackdown guy and if they win they are entered into a championship match at the TLC Pay-Per-View

So its Alberto, Miz and Dolph get matches vs Smackdown superstars. If they win they’re in the TLC title match with Punk. Later that night a contract singing will take place. Cena isn’t getting the same treatment and instead will be part of a “social experiment” whatever that is. Miz is in action first against Randy Orton.

This could be the main event for tonights program but its the opening match…Great first match to have on a show. Miz wins by count out when Orton chooses to chase Wade Barrett as oppose to win.. BUT Orton turns to come back and ends up eating a forearm to the back from Barrett.come back and ends up eating a forearm to the back from Barrett.

WWE hypes the Network that will debut next year. You know Im super stoked I already watch hours of Sportscenter so its only fitting I watch hours of WWE programing.

A show called Legend’s House will be the crown jewel. The premises will be WWE legends living under one roof. This has Iron Sheik written all over it.

Laurinaitis tells Ryder that Ziggler has filed a complaint against Ryder’s petition for a US Championship match. Laurinaitis says he agrees with Ziggler. John Cena comes up wearing Zack Ryder sunglasses and wig. Buy the Ryder wig on WWE.COM

I can see myself wear the Ryder Wig. WOO WOO WOO. Laurinaitis says that the social experiment will be Cena vs. Ryder. If Cena wins, he is in the WWE Championship match at TLC. If Ryder wins, he gets a US Title shot at Ziggler.

David Otunga still has a career sorta. He tells Kevin Nash that he will face Triple H at TLC in a ladder match. Nash says he doesn’t do ladder matches. So its a sledgehammer ladder match. Otunga says there will be a sledgehammer hanging above the ring and the winner gets to beat the other guy with it.

Mr Jennifer Hudson tells Nash that he is in action tonight. Michael Cole says it will be the first time in 8 years that Nash has a match on Raw.

Alberto Del Rio vs. Daniel Bryan. This feud could have amazing potential. D-Bryan has the MITB briefcase and ADR wants another shot. See where I am going with this. The match was ridiculously short. Del Rio counters a guillotine choke by tossing him rib first across the top rope.. cross arm breaker.

Theres a Diva’s match but more importantly we get the newest cryptic “It begins” video. The way WWE were pushing these videos with social media was innovative and brilliant. This weeks video has all sorts of confusing shit like a field a ball is rolling across the floor.
a creepy little girl in the middle of a room. The words “look within” appear on the screen. Maybe Jericho? Maybe The Undertaker?

Zack Ryder vs. John Cena. the crowd was very pro Cena. Fun match to watch. Rough Ryder countered to the AA and Cena wins.. Ryder popularity only works in major cities. Zack is pissed because “this was his only shot” Cena is all “give me one second” and leaves. So yeah Cena gives up his spot so that Zack gets another oppertunity so now Ryder has one more match up next if he wins he gets the US title match.

Hopefully it’s Brodius for weeks we seen videos hyping his return. Nope its Mark Henry no Brodius yet again. Henry is still playing the injury. Cena’s out to cheer him. I forgot to mention its a no DQ. So Cena hits the AA and Ryder wins. Ryder is official the number 1 contender to the US title. Ryder just beat the WORLD champion to get a US TITLE SHOT.

Segment of the night goes to Ziggs. In the back Ziggler is angry with Vickie Guerrero. They find out he is facing Sheamus. Jack Swagger says he will be in Dolph’s corner if needed. Ziggler tells him no because he will screw him over. Swagger gets angry and the two argue. Ziggler laughs and says “I’m just playing.” Swagger says “ok so I’ll see you out there then?” with a straight face Ziggler says “no” and walks away. See why Dolph is the truth.

The last time Nash wrestled on RAW was August 18th, 2003. If im not mistaken that was the night Nash tore his quadriceps after being out for months and months. Nash didnt tear anything tonight. nWo music hits and here is Nash with the sledge… Cuzo Drew texted me saying “I freaking love that he uses the nWo theme not gonna lie.” His opposition, you wonder? Santino. Side slam, big boot and the Jackknife. Nash didn’t do much but still looked like shitty. He’s got the sledge now no attack.

Ryder’s out to ruin the only fucking match I wanted to fucking see… distraction leads to the brouge kick. Ziggler loses… fuck this show…. fuck Zack Ryder…

Dolph Ziggler vs. Sheamus- Ziggler show boating is getting funnier and funnier every time he is on TV. Sheamus does what he does best beat opponents up. He sets up for the Celtic Cross but Ziggler rolls down his back. Zack Ryder’s music hits and he runs down the ramp. Ziggler is distracted as Sheamus hits the Brogue Kick for the win.

Zack Ryder sure is being used a lot tonight. He was involved in 3 different matches tonight and had a backstage promo. I’ll never complain about that. Ryder gets in the ring and hits the Rough Ryder on Ziggler. The terrible crowd kinda cheers as loud as they have all night.

It looks like the main event at TLC in Baltimore will be CM Punk vs. The Miz vs. Alberto Del Rio. Can we all agree contract signing segments are terrible?

I really loth them. I have for years. At least Punk is in it, The Miz and Alberto Del Rio are in suits. Thats another thing I never understood why get all fancy to sign a contract?

Anyway John Laurinaitis is in the ring he talks about Brodus Clay debuting soon, he plugs next week’s 3 hour Slammy Awards show, and next week’s main event John Cena vs. Mark Henry. Then he introduces CM Punk. Punk comes down to the ring, he gets rid of the chair and table in the ring and says this is a big cliche.

He says these things always end in a pier 6 brawl and wants that term to trend on Twitter. He says Laurinaitis is neither creative nor exciting and that there hasn’t been a peaceful contract signing since Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant at Wrestlemania 3. He tells Laurinaitis to play the part of Jack Tunney so that they can all sign and then fight.

Laurinaitis says the match at TLC will be a TLC match (tables, Ladders & Chairs). Miz says that he took out R-Truth and John Morrison. Punk says “You took them out? Like on a date?” He asks if he took them out to see the new Twilight flick.

Miz said he injured Morrison so bad that Laurinaitis had to release him. Laurinaitis says “I’d like to take this time to wish John Morrison the best in his future endeavors.” when Ace just wished Morrison the best of luck in his future endeavors with a point and wink that was pretty darn funny.

Del Rio says they are little girls and that he is the best in the world. He say’s in 2011 he won the Royal Rumble, Money in the Bank, and the WWE Championship. Punk cuts him off and says “if you say it’s because of your destiny I swear to Jebus I’m gonna start drinking.”

Get it Punk is Straight Edge and doesn’t drink or do drugs of any kind. All three sign the contract Punk wants to fight after he signs but Laurinaitis says no. Ace wants a photo op so Punk hits Miz the with mic and we get a pier six brawl. Punk puts Del Rio through a table and the GTS Miz.

Hall of Famer and OG Roddy Piper makes his way to the ring for a special Piper’s Pit. Last few times I saw Piper on WWE TV he looked like complete shit. On Monday’s RAW Rowdy Roddy didn’t look like he was half dead, thats always good.

Piper said something that made me nod in agreement. “How a guy who never won the WWE Title, one who wasn’t ever the biggest or strongest, has became a Hall of Famer and one of the biggest icons. The answer energy”.

Piper talks about how when the crowd cheered him, he did good things, and when they boo’d him, he did rotten things. Piper goes on and brings out John Cena. Piper says Cena is the face of WWE, but the booing is getting louder. Piper starts poking Cena to tell the fans what’s on his mind.

Cena says he has no idea as to what Piper is talking about when piper says energy isn’t important to Cena. Piper talks about how the fans wanted The Rock to Rock Bottom Cena at Survivor Series and when he did, they came cheered. A “Boots To Asses” chant starts up.

Cena says response’s with the political answer, its the fans right to cheer and boo who they want blah blah. Cena went one to say you can’t please everyone and says the fans can do what they want. Piper slapped him in the face to try to get him to wake up, Cena just walked out the ring. So now the story line headed into the next few months “are boos getting to Cena?”

This Cena segment was suppose to be about the fans that boo Cena, so of course the crowd is sorta pro Cena tonight. The one time WWE tires to acknowledge the boo’s it sorta blows up their face. They were hoping for an anti cena crowd, so Piper is pretending it’s anti cena… Cuzo Drew texted me “totally weird stuff with this Cena segment.”

First match on RAW is a falls Count Anywhere Match. The Miz vs. John Morrison. JoMo makes his entrance The Miz attacks from behind, the bell rings and Miz goes for the leg.

Miz continues to attack Morrison’s leg we even see a kendo stick out makes a cameo appearance in this match. Morrison grabs the stick and channels his inner Sandman. Miz crawls up the ramp, Morrison and the kendo stick follow suit. Skull Crushing Finale on the stage Miz official wins.

Miz just destroyed JoMo…Tonight was Morrison’s last night with the company. Im curious as to what is Morrison’s next move. TNA Perhaps? Cuzo Drew agrees that JoMo vs AJ or JoMo vs Austin Aries would be a ton of fun to watch.

After celebrating, Miz takes a mic and heads to the ring Miz says last week it was R-Truth, this week it’s John Morrison. Next week, we’ll see. He says he can do it because he’s awesome.

The Bella Twins vs. Alicia Fox and Kelly Kelly. Its a Diva’s match 8 sets of boob four sets of cheeks, I enjoyed Beth and Natalya jogging around the ring then up the ramp. This match ends with Alicia hits her leg drop finisher for the win.

John Laurinaitis and David Otunga are backstage talking about Brodus Clay. Laurinaitis says the longer he holds off on his debut, the more impact it will have. Ummm I dont know about all that but this makes the 6th week in a row WWE has pushed back.. Clays “debut”.

Del Rio walks in and says Survivor Series was a setback and he will walk out tonight as WWE Champion. CM Punk walks in and mocks Otunga, Laurinaitis and Del Rio. Punk says the WWE Title isn’t going anywhere. Otunga says that sounded like a threat and implies Punk will get himself intentionally DQ’d tonight to retain the title. Laurinaitis says if Punk gets himself DQ’d, he will lose the title. “Sir I have a law degree from Havard, I know what people are thinking without saying it” ahhh Otunga…

Dolph Ziggler vs Randy Orton. Ziggs actually had a non squash match with Randy Orton. Are you seeing what I have been telling you for weeks? Ziggler is the truth. Wade Barrett comes out for commentary, so I watched this match on mute. Great back and forth action. Orton hits the second rope draping DDT. Orton goes for the RKO but Ziggler rolls out of the ring and goes to leave. Barrett gets on the apron and Orton dropkicks him. Ziggler runs in from behind and lays Orton out for the win. Easily the best match of the night. Dolph Ziggler most improved all around performer in 2011.

Michael Cole is in the ring with Daniel Bryan. Bryan wonders if maybe he has just some of Cole’s respect now and mentions winning the four-way. Cole keeps calling Bryan a hypocrite for trying to cash in on Mark Henry when he couldn’t compete.

Last week on Cole SmackDown with Big Show snuffed Henry..like KO’D Henry, Bryan cashed in, his Money In The Bank. Got the 3 count. We all think he is the new Heavy Weight Champion, I jump up and down and make a ton of racket only to see the match overturned by Teddy Long.

So now Cole breaks Bryan’s balls about this situation. Cole says Bryan disgusts him and he’s nothing but a hypocrite. Bryan defends his actions saying the briefcase doesn’t guarantee him anything. He saw an opportunity and took it.

Henry comes to the stage and says Bryan should be ashamed of himself for trying to take advantage of him. Henry is still playing up his injury. Henry says it’s ok because he’s the World’s Strongest Man and he will defend his World Title in the steel cage. Bryan leaves the ring and starts walking up the ramp. Henry says Bryan can’t beat him.

Bryan walks up the ramp and kicks Henry’s foot that’s in a boot. Bryan says we will see tomorrow night and walks to the back. How much swag did this segment have? Tons. Daniel Bryan has a great heel beard going. Hopefully the Bryan push continues.

Zack Ryder vs. Jack Swagger. Yes another week Ryder is on RAW, WOO WOO WOO!!!! Swagger attempts the Swagger Bomb twice but Ryder puts his feet up. Ryder hits the Ruff Ryder for the win.

Mick Foley comes out dressed as Santa Claus to promote tomorrow night’s SmackDown special. Not much to it at all. Foley really never made me go WOW this guy is great. The Hell in the Cell with the Undertaker is Foley’s greatest achievement in my opinion.

Backstage CM Punk is stopped by Josh Matthews. Matthews asks about the stipulation that Laurinaitis added to the match. Punk says Laurinaitis can kiss his ass. Crowd Pops.

WWE Title Match: Alberto Del Rio vs. CM Punk. Ricardo Rodriguez introduces Alberto Del Rio. I still mark too Del Rio’s intro. Throughout the whole match Del Rio goes to worked on Punk’s arm. Punk did a great job of selling the arm. Later in the match Punk suicide dives through the ropes and takes Del Rio out on the floor both are back in the ring. Del Rio with more focus on Punk’s arm.

Del Rio unties the turnbuckle pad. The referee turns his back to fix it. Del Rio throws Punk a chair, trying to get him disqualified. Punk doing his best Eddie Guerrero impression throws it back to Del Rio and drops to the mat.

The ref goes to DQ Del Rio. Ricardo gets on the apron and argues with the referee. Del Rio goes to throw Punk into the exposed turnbuckle. Punk counters and drops him onto the turnbuckle with a GTS for the win. After the match, Punk celebrates and hits Ricardo with a GTS.

Closing Thoughts: RAW has been much better the last three weeks. Alberto Del Rio vs. CM Punk? No heat for the up coming TLC PPV. We have seen them wrestle for free on RAW for the title interest gone.

I got a tweet asking me if I feel The Miz ripping off Chris Jericho’s promo style? Nope. Miz is really getting into a groove if Miz keeps this up hes going to be an a great heel.

Dolph Ziggler continues to impress the hell out of me. We all need to see a Punk/Ziggler run. The match they had on RAW 2 weeks ago held my attention from bell to bell. The crowd popped for every two count. Both worked well with each other.

Daniel Bryan finally gets the TV he needs to develop this bad ass character. I seen him be super bad ass in ROH. If your new to D-Bryan be prepared to enjoy the beard.

The build for the PPV was a bit sketchy at first but WWE hit a stride and it showed in the quality of the product. From open to close, I was looking forward to seeing what. I believe Survivor Series is the Kick off to Wrestlemania. Tweet me if you think otherwise.

United States Championship Match Dolph Ziggler vs John Morrison: GREAT show opener. AMAZING RING WORK by both performers. Ziggler has been one of the best superstars in the WWE for months. Vickie saving the nearfall and being ejected was clutch she really played up the ejection. Anyone else noticed Ziggs used the Fame Asser? The finish went like this Ziggler got his knees up when Morrison attempted Starship Pain and then hit the Zig Zag.

After the match, Ziggler cut a promo, Dolph is really getting into the groove of this cocky character the “How good am I?” speech at the end of this match made me yell “let that boy cook” at my TV. Zack Ryder come running out to a huge pop from the crowd and hit the Rough Ryder on Ziggler. MSG was Woo Woo Woo-ing the entire time.

I hope Ziggler and Ryder mix it up at TLC. The WE WANT RYDER chant through out Ziggler/Morrison’s match really adds to the build up between Ziggler and Zack Ryder. I wished the match happened at Survivor Series but the match Ziggler had with Morrison was a great watch

Lumberjill Divas Championship Match Beth Phoenix vs Eve: Do I really need to give you a review All the Diva’s looked hot many sets of boobs. Hot Eve Torres takes the bump of the night Glam Slam off the top rope. I hope we get Beth vs Natalya feud soon.

Survivor Series Traditional Match Team Orton vs. Team Barrett: I was disappointment with this match. The teams where stacked with talent, but the match felt flat. Ziggler was eliminated to early, Sin Cara botching yet another move on PPV. The heels are sent from the ring and Kofi and Sin Cara go over the top at the same time. Sin Cara’s dive looked nasty, not connecting with Hunico at all. You knew it was a real injury when the match stalled and everyone seems confused as to what to do.

I forgot Mason Ryan was in the match, did anyone else forget he was even in the ring? Kofi, Swagger and Hunico made everyone else look great.

As always Sheamus looked strong I liked the way he was eliminated, Sheamus only got eliminated because he was disqualified after refusing to stop dropping knees. Sheamus is rather pissed and hits Swagger with a bicycle kick on his way out. Orton pins Swagger. Orton not being Super Orton I thought was a good look for both Barrett and Cody. With Barrett hitting Wasteland on Randy Orton this victory makes Rhodes and Barrett huge heels on Smackdown.

I dont know If Im completely sold on Barrett. His nexus run could have really owned but I felt he was bland in certain area’s. I would like to see how WWE Creative would book Barrett against Henry.

World Heavyweight Championship Match Mark Henry vs The Big Show: This match had a slow start the crowd is chanting boring. After an exchange of big guy moves the crowd is now chanting for Daniel Bryan. Big Show hits Henry with something that resembled a superkick, and now the crowd’s chanting HBK. The crowd really amused them selves during this match. I liked it. Props to the Big Show who pretty much had the best match of his career at Survivor Series. Big Show going to the top rope for the Savage elbow drop had MSG chanting Randy Savage…I marked.

Im not mad that Mark Henry hits The Big Show with a low blow Big Show wins the match via DQ, you cant have your two power houses who are book to be monsters lose cleanly it takes away from the heat.

I hope Big Show/Henry 3 will finally end this feud at TLC. At the end of the match Big Show hit Henry with the WMD, the crowd starts chanting for Daniel Bryan had that happened the roof of MSG would have blew off. But Big Show “broke” Henry’s ankle much like Henry did to Big Show back during the summer. I have been saying for months that WWE Creative has been doing a great job at booking Henry. I hope an “injury” angle dosnt come in to play it can hurt Henry’s momentum.

WWE Championship Title match Alberto Del Rio vs CM Punk: Going into this match, Punk had lost the last four Pay-per-views so I was a bit skeptical that he would be victorious. Im a huge Punk stan this is evident but his PPV track record is sketchy.

Yet, the only way we really expected that trend to continue was if Del Rio won dirty. That didn’t happen, though, as Punk made ADR tap out to the Anaconda Vise to win the WWE Championship.

The crowd is chanting for Punk before Del Rio is even introduced. Ricardo Rodriguez who was money as usual introduces the WWE Champion. Punk decides to have his own personal ring announcer for the evening its Howard Finkel. The Fink is greeted with a big pop from the crowd. The Fink waits a few seconds to soak in the cheers and finally he announces Punk. Punk gives him a look like I was waiting. I think what made this moment super cool was Lawler, Cole and Booker T’s reaction for The Finks pop. My twitter time line exploded for The Fink.

Before the bell rings the crowd chants that they want ice cream and Colt Cabana. Both wrestlers worked the others arms, as you knew this was going to end by submission. Punk climbs to the top turnbuckle for a Macho Man elbow. We get another Randy Savage chant from the crowd.

I really enjoyed the final moments before the finish, Punk almost connects with the GTS, but Del Rio fights out and pushes Punk away. Punk kicks Ricardo off the apron the anaconda vice is locked in. Del Rio and submits.

You know you made it in the WWE when The Fink says “AND NEEEWWW WORLD WRESTLING ENTERTAINMENT CHAMPION” Punk takes a dive into the crowd to celebrate.

Punk and Del Rio most likely meet again at TLC next month, I dont see Del Rio going over, Del Rio’s run as a WWE title contender is donzo. Who will be Punk’s next challenger maybe Ziggler? I think that would be a great feud. I think this title run for Punk will be a long one. I see him going to all the way to Wrestlemania 28.

The Rock & John Cena vs. The Miz & R-Truth: Let me start off and say I enjoy Cena’s entrance, Cena stops to talk to the camera, saying the fans love him here in New York City. You cant say Cena sucks the dude plays the role WWE needs. We all want Cena to go heel but the dude sells way too many t-shirts for them to do such a thing.

I was surprised that the match wasn’t a total squash, the outcome predictable. The Rock and Cena winning with a cleaning finish. I would have liked to see The Miz and Truth win because Rock and Cena wouldn’t be able to work with each other. The WWE could have really made the build up to Wrestlemania 28 that much more if Cena turned heel and Awesome Truth got the W.

The Rock and Cena’s hatred for each other would have reached a crescendo and fan’s brains oozing due to awesomeness. The crowd boo’d Cena the entire time he was out there at one point the crowd started to cheer for The Miz. Instead, we got an ending that my mom who never watches wrestling called at sunday dinner.

Here is how the finish goes The Rock puts Miz in a sharpshooter. Even in The Rocks prime his sharpshooter was a complete mess, Miz screams and tries to reach for the ropes, but Rock pulls him to the middle of the ring. Truth breaks up the hold, but he’s speared by Cena take the fight to the outside. The Rock hits Miz with a spinebuster, Rock delivers the People’s elbow, and gets the 1,2,3.

After the match, Rock celebrates in the ring, posing in the corners. Cena applauds Rock as he makes his way toward the back. Rock calls for the crowd to quiet down, and his music to stop. He doesn’t look too happy with Cena clapping for him. Cena makes his way back into the ring. Cena poses on the turnbuckle, but gets nothing but heat for it. Cena comes back into the ring, and he and Rock have a few words.

Cena and Rock stand face to face in the ring and have words. Cena goes to leave, but Rock hits him with the Rock Bottom. The PPV ends with Rock staring down Cena as Cena makes his way to the back. Rock climbs the turnbuckle point up to the sky and thanks his grandfather and we fade to black.

Closing thoughts: Outstanding Job by COle, King and Booker T. I really thought their back and fourth was engaging. Booker T is a real good fit calling matches, Coles twitter references weren’t that annoying this go around.

CM Punk takes his rightful place as the face of Monday Night RAW, hopefully Punk keeps the title for more than one PPV. His on going feud with Johnny Laurinaitis can really go in direction. (Think McMahon/Austin)

If WWE goes with Mark Henry’s ankle being broken, expect the World HeavyWeight Title to be vacated and than around the waist of Wade Barrett.

Dolph Ziggler will get the push to the main event more sooner than later. Punk/Ziggler would be crazy. The Rock still has it, don’t expect a Cena heel turn, he will have heat no matter what but an official turn will NOT HAPPEN.

Finally where’s Daniel Bryan? This would have been a great way for him to cash in and win the strap with out making Henry look weak. Setting up Barrett vs Bryan, if you remember they had a great match a few months back.

Survivor Series is the second best PPV the WWE had this year. MITB at one and SummerSlam at number three. I think the WWE is finally paying attention to what the fans want (Old I.C. belt, Zach Ryder, CM Punk’s rockstar rise). If they can really kick it up to where we all expect it to go WrestleMania will be the show of the year.