Tag Archive: Rey Mysterio

  1. ThinkSoJoE’s Thoughts

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    I’ve been neglecting my duties as host of ThinkSoJoE’s Thoughts as of late, but I’m going to make a quick go at it this week.

    We just launched all new forums here at BoredWrestlingFan (and I will fix any remaining links to the old forums soon), and we kicked them off in grand fashion with a discussion of this past Thursday’s iMPACT!  Big things are brewing in TNA, with Jeff Jarrett being sent home by Dixie Carter and a couple of his buddies being sent to the unemployment line.  This could be the spark that sets off the powder keg that is professional wrestling.  A hot angle from a fresh writing staff can be the catalyst TNA needs to make themselves truly look like a credible threat to the WWE – which, in turn, will cause WWE to fight back.  That’s what started the Attitude Era, competition from WCW.

    Speaking of WCW, Kevin Nash used to work there.  So did Rey Mysterio.  Now they work for TNA and WWE, respectively.  Mysterio mentioned Nash by name last night on SmackDown.  Now, if I were Mr. McMahon, even if I am friends with Nash, I’m not going to let Mysterio mention Nash by name when he works for TNA, no matter how minuscule of a threat I thought they were.  People who aren’t aware of the TNA product could hear Nash’s name, remember him from WCW (or even his last WWE run), think, “I wonder what ever happened to that guy,” look him up on the internet, and see that he’s working in TNA, as part of a group with other well known wrestling names like Booker T, Scott Steiner, and Kurt Angle, and decide to tune in next Thursday night.  Then again, maybe Mr. McMahon wants to help the competition, maybe he thinks what I think – that strong competition will inspire the WWE product to become much better.

    This is the last time these names will be typed by me here on BWF – Jeremy Piven & Dr. Ken.  I wish I had one of those Men In Black style mind wipe devices and could erase this past Monday’s RAW from my memory.  If this week’s show sucks nearly as bad as the last one, I might have to stop watching RAW entirely.

    One of these days I’ll start watching ECW again.  It’s not that it’s a bad show, I just don’t get around to watching it.  This past Tuesday I forgot to set my DVR when I went to see “Funny People” starring Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen.  A lot of dick and fart jokes, but it wasn’t bad.

    WWE MSG Classics used to be a good show, but then they started showing the same 6 episodes over and over and over again.

    I got nothing else, really.  Stay tuned, somebody might do a Random Randomness at some point (maybe), and tharvey1’s WWE Superstars review will be up sometime tomorrow-ish (he’s running a bit late this week, but we forgive him.)

  2. WWE Superstars Review

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    The main event for WWE Superstars is John Morrison vs Kane.  Let the randomness begin.

    Match 1:  Christian (the next ECW champ) vs the man who despises foreigners William Regal

    Continuous lockup to start the match, into a reversal of headlocks.  This match has shown alot of flexibilitly and technical skill.  William Regal pushes Christian off the top rope and to the outside, in a dangerous bump.  You Suck chants aimed towards Regal start in the crowd.  Back in the ring after the commercial break, Regal controls Christian’s head and neck in a series of blows and torque moves.  After being sent back outside the ring, Christian re-enters and connects on two missile dropkicks from the top rope, but misses on the flying headbutt.  Regal gets a near fall after a reverse t-bone suplex.  Christian gets thrown into the corner and hits the springboard sunset flip on Regal for the win.

    Match 2: Evan Bourne vs Jamie Noble

    Jamie Noble has gotten slow.  This match was a pretty good back and forth contest.  Evan Bourne is amazing in the air.  At one point, he came off the ropes and connected on a head scissors take down from a standing position.  Bourne gets the win after the prettiest move in professional wrestling.  His Shooting Star Press is what makes him a superstar.

    Main Event:  Kane vs The Friday Night Delight, The Shaman of Sexy, The Guru of Greatness John Morrison

    Morrison is a future World Champion.  Hopefully sooner rather than later too.  This match was really good.  Any time you have the best athlete in the company going up against one of the greatest big men to ever step foot in the ring, you have a great mix.  John Morrison gets the win after Kane threw a chair in his face.  As Kane looks to do more damage, Khali comes out and Morrison hits Kane in the back with a chair.  Kane then runs off as Khali enters the ring. 

    Night of Champions predictions

    Dolph Ziggler (challenger) vs Rey Mysterio (Intercontinental Champion)

    Winner- Rey Mysterio

    Christian (challenger) vs Tommy Dreamer (ECW Champion)

    Winner- Christian

    6-pack Challenge:  Kofi Kingston (US Champion) vs The Miz vs The Big Show vs Carlito vs MVP vs Jack Swagger

    Winner- Jack Swagger

    Maryse (Diva Champion) vs Mickie James

    Winner- Maryse

    Ted DiBiase and Cody Rhodes (challengers) vs Chris Jericho and mystery partner (Tag Champs)

    Mystery Partner- Brett DiBiase (why not right)

    Winners- Jericho and DiBiase

    Jeff Hardy (challenger) vs CM Punk (World Heavyweight champ)

    Winner-  CM Punk

    HHH vs John Cena vs Randy Orton (WWE Champ)

    Winner- John Cena

  3. WWE Superstars Review

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    Hey everybody…let’s get this thing started.

    Match 1:  Yo yo yo yo yo yo yo…Its your boys, Cryme Time accompanied by Eve Torres against the Hart Dynasty

    Shad and David Hart Smith start the match off.  DH is huge, but Shad is gigantic!  The Hart Dynasty works on Shad’s knee after a chop block by Tyson Kidd.  Once Shad gets the tag, JTG gets the pin on Tyson Kidd after a chaotic sequence that ended in a modified back breaker.

    Rey Rey is out to address the Intercontinental title situation.  Obviously Dolph Ziggler is going to be his opponent at Night of Champions.  Ziggler comes out to remind people what his name is.  Challenge made for NoC…challenge accepted for NoC.  Rey Mysterio vs Dolph Ziggler for the Intercontinental title at Night of Champions.  A fight ensues and Dolph Ziggler runs away from Rey Mysterio.  What???  I forgot that Rey Rey is that scary.

    Match 2:  Diva match between Katie Lea and Brie Bella w/ Nikki Bella

    Diva wrestling = Crap…Anyway, the twins confuse the referee and one of them gets the rollup win on Katie Lea

    Main Event:  United States Champ Kofi Kingston against the Big Show

    Big Show dominates early on.  Shouldn’t Show be in the World Title hunt?  Big Show dominates the middle of the match.  Shouldn’t Show be in the World Title hunt?  Kofi tries to fight back, but Big Show shuts him back down.  After a miss in the corner, Kofi tries to come back again, but Show shuts him down again.  The quickness of Kofi takes Show down.  Trouble in Paradise is blocked and Show Chokeslams the US Champ.  Big Show gets the win.

    Why is Big Show taking out Kofi on every televised show, only to lose to him at NoC?  Shouldn’t he be in the World Title picture?  Why isn’t Ted DiBiase taking on Kofi right now?  Otherwise, the show saw random rivalries resume for no real reason.  Bella Twins vs Katie Lea = random diva rivalry.  Hart Dynasty vs Cryme Time = random tag team rivalry unless it leads to a number one contenders match. 

    Alrighty then folks…join me again for next week’s random mess otherwise known as WWE Superstars.

  4. Creating New Stars: WWE

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    In a recent interview, TNA President Dixie Carter stated that the biggest challenge facing the business was “making new superstars.” The interview in its entirety can be read here: 
    http://www.tnawrestling.com/content/view/1575/84/

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  5. SmackDown results 6/26/09

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    I’ll admit it.  I’m not giving the blue brand the treatment it rightly deserves.  But cut me some slack – I went to a concert last Friday, and yesterday I sat around watching Michael Jackson videos all day while waiting for a package to arrive via UPS and was exhausted by time SmackDown rolled around.  Since I’m probably not going to have a chance later on today to watch it on my DVR, I’m gonna watch it on YouTube and review it here for you.  Plus it’ll help my last few hours of work go by quicker.

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  6. ThinkSoJoE’s Thoughts episode 4

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    A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Wrestling was actually very highly rated and the WWE, then known as the WWF, had real competition.  But that was 1997.  Whatever, lets get started.

    You may have noticed I’m running a little late this week – and have yet to post a SmackDown review as well.  Well, I spent my Friday at an amusement park, followed by catching No Doubt on their reunion tour (which was a lot of fun), and of course forgot to set my DVR for my usual Friday fodder, SmackDown on MyTV, and Don’t Forget The Lyrics on FOX.  Unlike DFTL, however, SmackDown doesn’t have a replay shown the next day on the Fox Reality Channel.  I’ll get around to watching SmackDown one way or another and I’ll make sure to get a review up, but I at least wanted to get this week’s ThinkSoJoE’s Thoughts in, since I didn’t feel like it at all yesterday.

    Japanese wrestling legend Mitsuharu Misawa passed away just after last week’s column went up, and the word was that he’d had a heart attack right there in the ring.  Word is, that’s not the case, and that the botched backdrop he took just before his death caused a spinal injury which led to his death.  Whatever the case, it was nice to see CM Punk pay tribute to him the next night on RAW.

    Speaking of Punk, he’s really coming across great on the mic every time I hear him speak lately.  I think he may also have more clean wins in title defenses in the past week than he had through his entire first run as World Heavyweight Champion.  Hell, I think Rey Mysterio had more clean wins as World Heavyweight Champion than Punk did his first time around.

    Oh, and Rey?  Just because most of your fan base wasn’t around when you lost your mask in WCW doesn’t mean the rest of us haven’t forgotten.  Forget about the damned mask and maybe you’ll actually be able to beat Jericho, who outsmarted you at Extreme Rules and on RAW this past Monday.

    Ah, RAW this past Monday.  WWE and GE (the parent company of the USA Network) are apparently in trouble over it.  I guess the Securities and Exchange Commission doesn’t like it when you put out press releases touting that you’ve sold off a major brand of a publicly traded company when it’s really just a television storyline.  Who knew?

    Also, who knows where Finlay stands at the moment?  Finlay is a tweener, kids.  That means that he’s not a good guy, but he’s not quite a bad guy.  Let  him bash everybody’s skulls in with the shileighleigh for all I care, as long as he’s not dancing around the ring with Hornswoggle.

    I’d hate to say it, but Tommy Dreamer needs to drop the ECW title, and quickly.  The match he had with Christian on RAW revealed to me that Dreamer has lost a few steps since his original ECW days.

    So Zack Ryder’s finisher is now called the Zack Attack?  I’m with tharvey1 on this, his theme needs to be “Friends Forever.”  I hear Zack Morris is still playing gigs.

    “This is Your Life, Rock” it was not.  TNA iMPACT’s opening segment had neither The Rock nor Yurple The Clown.  It did have Samoa Joe punching Kurt Angle in the face though, that was nice.

    So was James Storm’s promo.  An interview segment with Raven and Storm both involved would the be the greatest thing in the history of things.

    Candice Michelle and Sim Snuka were both released from their WWE contracts earlier this week.  I’d actually forgotten that Snuka was still on the roster.  Congrats to Drowgoddess who was in attendance for his final on-camera WWE appearance as the guy who may or may not have screwed up a spot involving The Undertaker and Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania 25.  The Divas can all rejoice that there’s one less accident prone Diva on the roster to accidentally injure them.

    Interesting note, I played 1 vs. 100 on Xbox LIVE earlier tonight, and one of the questions was “Who beat Randy Orton in a steel cage match in June 2009 to win the WWE Championship?”  Surprisingly, neither “the one,” nor any of the 5 people remaining in “the mob” got the question wrong.  In fact, host Chris Cashman pointed out after “the one” got the next question wrong that she knew her WWE Trivia.

    Well folks, that’s it for me, unless I wanted to step on JT’s toes and turn this into a Random Randomness knockoff, which I don’t.  I’ve got no predictions for Slammiversary, other than Daniels beating Douglas, simply because I’ve really stopped watching the show for anything other than Raven, Daffney, and Dr. Stevie.  Goodnight folks!

  7. SmackDown review – 6/5/09

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    Ah, the blue brand.  I haven’t watched an entire episode of SmackDown since I’ve moved in to my new apartment, but I’ve been keeping up and am intrigued by the goings on.  Ready?  Let’s go!

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  8. “Impact” Impressions 5/28/09

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    Greetings, bored wrestling fans!

    Your Empress of “Impact” has had major internet access problems recently, resulting in a lack of columnage. While my connection lasts, here’s a link to a review of this week’s show: http://www.f4wonline.com/content/view/9462/105/

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  9. Wednesday, Wednesday, Happy Days. Wednesday, Wednesday, Happy Days.

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    Wednesday. The only day in the week where there is zero wrestling on your TV. Monday Nights are RAW, Tuesdays have ECW. Thursdays make an iMPACT. Friday nights have SmackDown! Saturday Nights are ROH and Sundays are for Pay-Per-View. Where does that leave Wednesday? Luckily, at BoredWrestlingFan, yours truly has completed your weekly wrestling fix.

    WWE Judgment Day

    Judgment Day is this Sunday according to WWE programming. Didnt they just have a PPV last month? Anyways, it’s time to sort out just who will win. But first, check out the awesome video for the PPV!

    CM Punk vs Umaga

    Remember what I said last month about CM Punk’s match at Backlash and how he only gets matches because the WWE thinks the fans want to see him? This is another one of those matches. This match means absolutely nothing to anyone, except for Umaga, because he’s actually getting used on a PPV. Punk win, just because the event is held in his hometown of Chicago. I have nothing more to say about this, because I dont care.

    Rey Mysterio vs Chris Jericho – Intercontinental Championship

    Promo Video

    Tough one. Submission match. Crossface vs Walls of Jericho. Can Jericho win the IC belt from Benoit, or will Benoit retain? I’m gonna say Benoit, but it’s tough for me to decide either way … wait … it’s not Benoit in the match, it’s Rey Mysterio vs Jericho? The IC title’s on the line. What is this? The year 2000? Jericho wins. Someone boot that little Mexican back over the border where he belongs. Oh, and I hope het gets swine flu.

    Christian vs Jack Swagger – ECW Championship

    Christian wins. I suppose I’d better add something else here. Here we go, the greatest RAW match of all time according to yours truly. Part One.

    John Cena vs the Big Show

    Like I said in last week’s column. John Cena needs to learn to sell injures a lot more. He was thrown into a spotlight by the Show at Backlash and this past week, he was in a match against the Miz. 15 Days after being thrown in a spotlight, John Cena wrestled. That is just ridiculous. However, I’ve seen  this match before. Infact, it happened at a Judgment Day, several years ago …

    Shane McMahon John Cena vs Big Show

    Edge vs Jeff Hardy – World Heavyweight Championship

    Been here. Seen it before. See? StingEdge vs Vampiro

    Randy Orton vs Batista – WWE Championship

    This past week on RAW, Batista refused the chance to join a group including Randy Orton. I dont see why he refused,  I mean, it wouldnt be the first time Batista has joined in the same group as Randy Orton. Maybe Randy should’ve offered 100,000 as well.

    Two former Evolution members go head to head with the gold on the line. Both were World Champion during Evolution. Both beat Triple H for their first title reigns. Batista has a penis for a head and Randy Orton has a penis for a stablemate, as well as Ted DiBiase. Randy wins, but let’s just hope that this match doesnt go the same way as this one …

    and now, here’s Part Two!

    TNA

    They have a PPV coming up too, it’s called Sacrifice and the main event is for the TNA Title. Champion Mick Foley defends against Kurt Angle and Sting, in a match that is sure to push the young talent that TNA say they are doing.

    However, each man must Sacrifice something in order to compete and if they get pinned, then they lose what they sacrifice to the person that pinned them. Sounds simple, doesnt it? I know, a real shocker coming from TNA. So, your question now is, just what exactly is everyone Sacrifing? Well, let me tell you …

    If they lose …

    If Mick Foley gets pinned, he loses the TNA Heavyweight Title
    If Kurt Angle gets pinned, he gives up leadership of The Main Event Mafia
    If Sting gets pinned, he has vowed to never wrestle again

    Also on the card, is as follows:

    I-QUIT MATCH FOR THE TNA LEGENDS CHAMPIONSHIP
    Booker T vs. “The Phenomenal” AJ Styles

    Who cares? I believe AJ became Champ, so he could be the first TNA Grand Slam Champion.
    TNA KNOCKOUT WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP
    Champion Angelina Love vs. Awesome Kong

    I hope Kong eats her. I really do. Cannibalism on PPV will make me want to watch TNA more.

    MAIN EVENT MAFIA VS. TNA FRONTLINE
    Kevin Nash vs. Samoa Joe

    The teacher versus the student. Remember when Nash mentored Joe? Big Kev mustn’t be a good tutor, because Joe has found himself a new tutor. Speaking of this match, Scott Hall won’t be getting involved, let Joe tell you.

    THE FIRST-EVER KNOCKOUTS MONSTER’S BALL
    Check back for the complete lineup

    THE FINALS OF THE TEAM 3D TOURNAMENT
    The winners get a shot at the TNA World Tag Team Title *cough* Beer Money win *cough*

    Well, thats it. Stay tuned next week, when I, will hopefully provide not only my weekly Wednesday column, but also, a special May 19th column, in honour of Kane.