Break out your tuxedos, it’s time for the 2014 BoredWrestlingFan Awards! This year, Joe, Jorge, G, JT, and Mark are joined by Afonso from Heelbook to discuss the best and worst in wrestling this year. Find out who won such awards as Tag Team of the Year, Animal Character of the Year, Match of the Year, Best and Worst Wrestler of the Year, and much, much more!
Not familiar with Heelbook? Check out Heelbook.com!
Monday night after RAW, the WWE Network aired a special “Stone Cold Podcast,” where Steve Austin’s guest was WWE Chairman Vince McMahon. At the end of the show, Austin asked Mr. McMahon where people could go to offer suggestions for WWE. Vince claims he listens to his audience, referring to the live audience, but Austin insisted that they could send their thoughts to the WWE and Vince McMahon’s Twitter accounts. I saw a great post from @KellettFilm on Twitter with a list of things he would like to see, and I agreed with a lot of his list, and some of his things, in my own words, may show up here. That said, here is my idea of what I’d personally like to see from World Wrestling Entertainment.
April 2, 1995! Are you ready for WrestleMania XI? Tonight we witness the showdown between Shawn Michaels and Diesel for the WWF Championship, and NFL great Lawrence Taylor steps into the squared circle with The Beast From The East, Bam Bam Bigelow! Let’s get to it!
Last year, I did reviews of the first six WrestleMania events as part of WrestleMania week. I complained a lot after that week about how bad WrestleMania V was. This year, I’m picking up where I left off, with WrestleMania VII – and the best part about it is, I don’t have to buy the individual events, I can just pull them up on the WWE Network! So, without further adieu, I review WrestleMania VII – Superstars and Stripes Forever!
If you haven’t heard by now, the main event for tonight’s Monday Night RAW was announced last week. I refuse to watch it. Which means I’m not reviewing it either. In fact, there will be no mention of this match in this review. The participants may be referred to if they do something outside of the match, but that’s it. If you give a shit about said main event, it’s probably on WWE.com and you can go watch it there. It’s not even the fact that I don’t care too much for the two guys actually wrestling in the match (though that’s part of it), it’s moreso the fact that this is the match that we were supposed to PAY for in both December and January. It’s been done. I’m done with it. Fuck it. Let’s go.
I watch this show, and I often find myself questioning why, now moreso than ever. What really is best for business? Not listening to the fans? I hope half the viewers changed the channel during the main event. Read on.
On this Super Sunday edition of BWF Radio, Joe, G, JT, and Mark are joined by former NFL Guard Quinn “Moose” Ojinnaka, who talks about his NFL career, the transition to professional wrestling, and jumps into pro wrestling’s current events, discussing the much publicized walkout of CM Punk. Punk’s situation is further discussed in the news, as is Matt Hardy and Reby Sky’s recent troubles. Mick Foley’s reaction to the Royal Rumble was featured, as was Dolph Ziggler’s post match reaction from SmackDown. All this, and much, much more on this week’s episode of BWF Radio!
This week’s break song was “22” by Taylor Swift featuring Sid Vicious (the wrestler, not the Sex Pistols guy). Since that’s not an actually released version of the song, you can buy the original here.
To make an attempt to be less lazy I will be live updating this post with any and all thoughts of the Royal Rumble and pre-show.
My picks:
Rhodes vs. New Age Outlaws: Rhodes
Bray Wyatt vs. Daniel Bryan: Daniel Bryan
Brock Lesnar vs. Big Show: Brock Lesnar
Randy Orton vs. John Cena: Randy Orton
Royal Rumble Match: Batista, I really want Punk or D Bryan to win though
Pre-Show thoughts:
They’re rushing this match already and they’ve only done intros. New Age Outlaws still have it. WWE commercials during a pre-show so I don’t get to watch the whole tag match annoys me. I love watching Cody, he just gets better and better and always adds new moves to his arsenal. I love watching four superstars tell a great story, even if they only had about ten minutes to do so. I’m so happy I’m wrong with my prediction and the New Age Outlaws won. One of my favorite tag teams and they deserve this screen time. B-
Bray Wyatt vs. Daniel Bryan
I hope Bryan wins, gets beat down but makes a surprise entrance and wins the rumble, just my thoughts. 10 minutes in and we finally get a lock up. So the heel doesn’t need help to win? Thank god the referee can’t count to 10. Wyatt is a great foil for Bryan. The commentary team seems to have no idea what to say in this match? Apparently, Vince isn’t in their ears. Tornado DDT from the apron was sloppy but very awesome. Inside outside closeline heard round the world. That was a well fought match and helped both competitors. Nobody truly lost in this match. Some great spots and great story telling. B+
Paul Heyman is a great wrestling mind and an amazing mouthpiece. Just him alone, could push the Lesnar/Big Show to Wrestlemania if he wanted to.
Big Show vs. Brock Lesnar
I guess a steel chair is a good way to start this? It’s nice to see an actual match is gonna take place with all the hype they’ve created. Wow, this was not worth it all all. This was the worst match these two have ever had with each other! D+
Why is the aftermath longer than the match?
When I watch wrestling I always think “I wonder where I should do my taxes”?
A cool Shield interview and now it’s time for the…..longest……..interview……..ever…….with R….a…..n….d…..y……….O…..r…..t…..o…..n
John Cena vs. Randy Orton
After 5 minutes, Randy Orton, the champion, comes out first. Who cares about tradition? Now lets wait 90 seconds for the Cena pop. I feel like I’ve seen this match a hundred times before..oh wait, duh. And this commentary is terrible. Is this their version of a sit in because of JR being fired? “This is awe-full chants”, people keep cheering at pinfalls just because they hope the match is over. So I had to watch a 30 minute crap match just to start a feud with the Wyatts. I’m just happy the #rematch is over. C
Lets recap the Tag Team Championship win by the New Age Outlaws. Awesome match, awesome team.
Royal Rumble Match:
Rollins and Punk starting out was a good choice to start things. Sandow was eliminated first. I’m okay with it because I can tell WWE sees a bright future with him. Well, the Bulgarian Fruit…er, I mean Bruit was a surprise. Time for Kofi spot time and I’m not disappointed. Surprised with Kofi’s second spot and then even more with Kevin Nash’s entrance. I love seeing Nash in Royal Rumbles. The months of rumors are true, Sheamus is back. At this moment after Miz comes out I ask where CM Punk went. I had to be told that he caught a triple powerbomb during Sheamus’s entrance; poor camera work WWE. JBL completely pulling a Jerry Lawler from ’97. Funny moments but I still wish Jake Roberts had a number. The fans showing how much Daniel Bryan is over by booing the remaining entrants, agreed. Roman Reigns now holds the record for most eliminations in a Royal Rumble and I’m completely okay. Strong outing for him. Batista won as we all new it. C+
Funny enough, my computer died at the end of the last sentence but all in all this was an okay PPV. A sub par Rumble but an okay PPV. C-
Joe, JT, G, Jorge, and Mark are all joined by occasional guest host Brian Lee Muller to talk all things Royal Rumble. Aside from the usual predictions, the crew answer some interesting questions for speculation, and speculate on who you may see in the Rumble tonight that isn’t currently advertised. In the news, Hulk Hogan, Sting, and Ultimate Warrior’s WWE statuses are discussed. MVP and Shelton Benjamin say they’re not going to be anywhere near Pittsburgh tonight. The Million Dollar Man’s other son has a showdown with police. All this, and much, much more! Tune in!
Smackdown will set the stage for this Sunday’s Royal Rumble PPV, a show that most people tune in for to watch the start of the “Road to WrestleMania”. Needless to say, being the last episode before this goes down, very little is expected to happen. This should be a fairly short review.
