Friday night suffering time folks!! Plenty of animated gifs, and a couple videos for y’all too? Here we go:
We kick things off with Kane in the ring, and he is cutting another one of these highly produced, live promos. These are fantastically edited, considering they are done live-to-tape. Undertaker woke up briefly and said two words to his brother…. the name of his assailant. Kane tells us it was…
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The alternate title for this article is “why independent wrestling is better than WWE and TNA.” I just got back from Empire State Wrestling’s “Reckoning Day” event. This is my fifth ESW event, and I’ve never been to a bad show. This one featured a World Tag Team Championship match with the team of Famous – Will “Mastiff” Calrissian and Chris Cooper – defending against Brandon Thurston and Mike Radski, and a Casket Match for the ESW Championship as Kevin Grace defended against Ryot.
Photos, thoughts, and a half-assed results list, after the jump! (more…)
I should’ve done this when I re-watched the show, but since I didn’t, here’s the quick results of WWE Survivor Series 2008.
Team HBK defeated Team JBL. Your sole survivors: HBK, Rey Mysterio, & The Great Khali. I’ve always hated when there’s more than one person left on the winning team, and they call them “Sole Suvivors.” That’s like naming a band “The Lone Rangers.” Isn’t that right, cast of Airheads?
Team RAW Divas defeated Team SmackDown Divas. Your sole survivor: Beth Phoenix. Maryse put on a pretty strong showing in this one.
The Undertaker defeated The Big Show in a casket match. In a unique finish, Show destroyed the first casket, but when a second casket was brought out, he stood it up on it’s side. The Undertaker whipped Show into it, sending it crashing to the ground with Show inside, the lid closing behind him.
Team Orton defeated Team Batista. Your sole survivors: Randy Orton and Cody Rhodes. Orton blind tagged Rhodes when Batista had him up for a Batista Bomb. The Legend Killer dropped the unsuspecting Batista with an RKO for the victory.
Edge defeated Triple H and Vladimir Kozlov in a triple threat match to win the WWE Championship. Yes, you read that right, Edge won the WWE Championship. Storyline wise, Jeff Hardy was assaulted in his hotel and rendered unable to compete in the match. The match started off as a singles match between Triple H and Vladimir Kozlov. After a hard fought fight, Triple H dropped Kozlov with a Pedigree, though he was too out of it to make the cover. Vickie Guerrero game out on the stage and announced that it’s going to be a triple threat after all, because “he’s here!” “He” turned out to be Edge, who came out and speared Triple H. Before he could make the cover though, Jeff Hardy came out and attacked him. Hardy swung with a chair, missing Edge and connecting with The Game, followed by a shot for the Moscow Mauler. When he went to swing for Edge, he ate a spear instead. Edge covered Triple H for the three and won the WWE Championship!
John Cena def. Chris Jericho to win the World Heavyweight Championship. After the match, Cena celebrated with his family in the crowd before walking up the ramp triumphant as the new World Heavyweight Championship.
Looks like we’ve got a good week of WWE programming in store for us this week!
By JT
Hello again everyone, I’m back to give you my thoughts on this week’s edition of Smackdown. Yeah, I know it’s Sunday, but going out Friday and Saturday nights causes me watch it on Sunday mornings. So you wanna know I what thought? You don’t, too bad I’m gonna tell you any way:
Undertaker vs. Chavo Guerrero in a Casket Match. Really?????? For some reason I thought it was supposed to be Big Show, so when I heard Chavo’s name I said WTF????
Jim Ross dresssed as a sailor- LOL funny
Tazz dressed as a soldier- Cool
Miz & Morrison- put them on either ECW, RAW or Smackdown and keep them there. I’m sick of seeing them every time I turn on WWE programming.
Some lame magic segment featuring Jessis and Festus. Like I said, it was lame.
Jimmy Wang Yang won a match. Yay! So what if it was by DQ, a win is a win!
Kung Fu Naki is lame, nuff said.
Khali Kiss cam is even lamer.
Matt Hardy, Jeff Hardy & Rey Mysterio vs. Kane, Mark Henry & MVP- Good to see some Smackdown guys involved. This match should be on the big 3 hour RAW tomorrow, not the Smackdown before, because god forbid you have a 6-man tag featuring all Smackdown guys.
Vladimir Kozlov wants double double e title shot (which he does deserve). Triple H comes out and makes this a US vs. Russia thing and than I stopped listening because I can’t stand Triple H. (pointless JT fact- Triple H kinda looks like my younger brother, except my younger brother is fat and lazy)
Some John Cena is coming back segment came on, I push the fast forward button on my remote.
Divas match, fast forward button.
Undertaker wins the Casket match- Shocker (Undertaker is awesome, nuff said)
Then we find out as the DVR cuts it off (damn DVR) that next week, it’ll be Vladimir Kozlov vs The Undertaker and if Kozlov wins, he gets a title shot. Sounds good to me.
I know is may sound like I thought the show was horrible, but it wasn’t. The wrestling part of the show was good.
Well that’s all for now, see you all soon and those in the United States, go out and vote on Tuesday!