Tag: recap

Butch Rosser has a detailed recap.

I can read Hunter’s lips, and he is not praying.

Scott checked out the War Games show in Valpo.

This was a great show. I really have no idea how it’ll come off on tape, but it was a big show atmosphere and it ended like it all meant something to everyone, which was a hugely refreshing feeling. This was probably the best time at an IWA show I’ve had since last year’s TPI. And seriously, Punk/Delirious was ridiculous.

Scott went to last night’s IWA-MS show, featuring an Ian Rotten/Sabu main event.

Scott’s got a recap here.

Lance Storm held three belts at once in WCW! THREE BELTS.

It’d be almost neat if his match here was part of a master plan by Eddie to turn heel with the smart fans: lay waste to a cruiserweight match, have a eh match with Benoit, don’t sell the cross face, get into an arguement with Benoit…

Velocity: How many PPV buys do you think they added by having the Bashams lay out Nunzio and Spike? 1? 1/2? -15?

I guess the OJ/Charlie Haas title match is next week?

The plan is to write about the ECW show as it’s on, but I can’t promise I won’t get distracted by the Cubs game.

I’m just going to watch the show, okay? Okay.

NOTE: If EXTREME!!!!!! Heat does not include a segment with Misirlou playing, I’m disowning everyone.

Heat: I actually did it live but never posted it till way after the show was over, so what was the point of that? What was the point of this show? Was the security bit supposed to pay off but they ran out of time?

Everyone’s disowned, by the by. Show was still good.

Arm is feeling a little bit better. Maybe I’ll be able to get some decent sleep tonight.

Velocity:

The list of SmackDown! Brand pay per views:

2003
Vengeance (Vince vs Zach, Brock vs Angle vs Lesnar)
No Mercy (Show vs Eddie, Undertaker vs Lesnar)

2004
No Way Out (Angle vs Show vs Cena, Lesnar vs Eddie)
Judgment Day (Cena vs Rene, JBL vs Eddie)
Great American Bash (Bradshaw vs Eddie, Undertaker vs Dudleys)
No Mercy (Cena vs Booker, JBL vs Undertaker)
Armageddon (JBL vs Undertaker vs Booker vs Eddie, Cena vs Jesus)

2005
No Way OutCena vs Angle, JBL vs Big Show
Judgment Day: Eddie vs Rey, JBL vs Cena

I’ve seen zero of these. My snap judgment is Judgment Day could be the best, but only because there’s a lot of less than appealing cards in the mix.

Heat:

Robert Conway is the only guy to work over a body part and actually have it play directly into the finish.

How come they haven’t thought of a alter ego name for Stacy? There’s gotta be a lame pun in there somewhere.

Look, STO properly called! That’s 1 for 1000.

Edit: Justin beats me with the Tale of the Tape, knowing the secondary characters from long forgetton ABC sitcoms.

Jersey came to Massachusetts, so Joe went to see JAPW’s show on Saturday.

Heat and Velocity.

Deep deep into the now horribly miscast WWE Info page are the (2001 on) WCW Tag Team Title Championship history and the complete CW Tag Team championship history. By which I mean, “both title matches.”

title matches which only exist in my mind

Matt & Shannon b Rey & Kidman (02/20/03 – SD!!) [title change]
Matt & Shannon b Rey & Brian Kendrick (03/27/03 – SD!)
Rey & Kidman b Matt & Shannon (07/24/03 – SD!) [title change]
Tajiri & Nunzio b Rey & Kidman (09/11/03 – SD!) [title change]
Jamie Noble & Ultimo Dragon b Tajiri & Nunzio (11/06/03 – SD!) [title change]

As one might guess, Jamie and Ultimo never teamed up again.

Looking deep into the archives today, stumbling into hilarious things like Sean O’Haire saying he’s not interested in going into kickboxing (because it’s not violent enough for him) and Mike Tenay boring Scott Hudson with how he got his job.

(note to UPW: STOP SENDING ME YOUR ADS. Thanks.)

I was going someplace with this, but now it’s an hour later and I’ve completely forgot. Whatever. 2001 index is up. Need to do CW TAG championship history at some point.

Velocity – hey, you know what would be great for Orlando Jordan? A challenger for his title. The problem is this is the list of faces on SmackDown!

Big Show – otherwise busy
Booker T – otherwise busy
Charlie Haas – otherwise busy (did you notice the Hardcore Holly style trunks?)
Hardcore Holly – otherwise busy
Heidenreich – awful awful match
John Cena – otherwise busy
Mark Jindrak – awful awful match
Paul London – otherwise busy
Rey Mysterio – otherwise busy
the Undertaker – out of his league
(who am I forgetting?)

If cruiserweights besides Rey weren’t strictly prohibited from challenging for singles titles, you could throw in Funaki, Nunzio, Scotty 2 Hotty, Shannon Moore plus heels like Akio, Kidman, who’d all be better than nothing. OJ feuding with a cruiserweight would be the best possible solution for him – he’d have a solid worker as an opponent, and it wouldn’t be implausible for him to get the win. It wouldn’t be particularly heated, but there’s no option where that’s going to happen.

(He’ll do a six man tag with the Bashams against Jindrak, Nunzio and Funaki, at Judgment Day, I’m sure.)

The larger problem is the SmackDown! writers are handicapping themselves by dq-ing all the cruiserweights from feuds with a heavyweight (with the previous noted exception of Rey.) WCW could afford to do that because they had a billion people signed. The split brand rosters are much smaller, and things getting mighty repetitive if you’re cutting out a third of the roster on size issues. It’s going to get worse if they’re bringing in the lucha guys to using them the same way.

Heat – the CM Punk stuff was definitely odd. The Heart Throbs doing a serious promo (or half of one) was definitely odd. Either Maria would already be with Romeo and Antonio on a permanent basis if they weren’t doing the same exact bit with MNM, or she’ll be with them anyway in the next few weeks.

Hey, if you can stand good dramatic cartoons, Cartoon Network is reairing the first 20-whatever episodes of Full Metal Alchemist, Monday thru Wednesday overnight at 1am E/P, starting with the first episode tomorrow. (This is one of those ‘anyone who might care already knows’ bit, I’m sure.) Skip Stand Alone Complex – anything you saw gets reversed the next week, and is really annoying on the way.