WWE Superstars – December 29, 2011

It’s been a hectic week, but finally going to get somewhat caught up on WWE shows. As for the ROH, I finally got a copy of the PPV, so a recap is forthcoming. Tonight we have the final Superstars of 2011, headlined by Air Boom versus Curt Hawkins and one of my favorites, Tyler Reks. On RAW this week we had CM Punk defeated by Dolph Ziggler, which sets up the match for the first RAW of the new year. I expect Punk will win, and then we get the return of Canada’s greatest wrestler, Chris Jericho. Also on RAW Kane called out John Cena, and once again we got a similar promo like Piper did a few weeks ago, basically telling Cena to embrace the Dark Side. With the friendship between Ryder and Cena, a great way to turn Cena heel is to have him suddenly snap during a tag match and beat down Ryder, ala Paul Orndorff turning on Hulk Hogan in 1986. A heel Cena would reinvigorate the character and the product, plus give Cena some new rivals. We could have a new corporate Cena with John Laurinaitis to feud with the ultra face CM Punk, would be similar to Mick Foley joining with Vince McMahon to feud with Steve Austin. The promos between heel Cena and Punk would be pure gold as well. Finally, according to on-line rumors it looks like our top three matches for Mania will be Cena/Rock, HHH/Undertaker again and Big Show/Shaquille O’Neil. Not a single match I want to see there, so it it’s true Wrestlemania will be a bust for me, unless we get a Punk/Jericho match with plenty of time. Anyways, let’s get to the final Superstars for this year and what should be a great tag team main event.

WWE Superstars – December 22, 2011

Coming off a surprisingly good PPV, it’s time for Superstars. First I have to say, never thought we’d see the day when all the titles are held by guys with talent. Right now we have CM Punk, Daniel Bryan, Zack Ryder, Cody Rhodes, Beth Phoenix and Kofi Kingston and Evan Bourne, what a great group of young talent. Could this be a sign that 2012 is going to be the year of the young up and comers? I can only hope, Orton and Cena have held the title enough times and are better off as a special appearance now, instead of always being in the main event. Maybe this means some of the guys on Superstars, Drew McIntyre especially, will be promoted to the top shows and we can get some new talent on here. In the meantime let’s see if WWE left us goodies or coal for Christmas.

WWE TLC – December 18, 2011

Here we go with the final PPV for the WWE of 2011, TLC. Before we get going on the PPV, I want to mention one thing I found out from this week’s Superstars. The mystery man who accompanied Hunico to the ring on the bicycle was none other then the son of former WWE star Haku, which is cool, as I always liked Haku, As of now there has been no announcement of any John Cena involvement, which makes me happy. The Ziggler/Ryder match should be the match of the night, while Nash/HHH will be the worst of the night. I assume we will get at least one more match added to the PPV tonight, as we have no diva match or tag title match. They wasted the tag title match on the under-appreciated Superstars this week, where Air Boom lost to the new Mexicools. The RAW title match between Miz, ADR and Punk probably won’t be very good, I don’t expect ADR to win as they seem to have lost interest in him. The other title match with Henry and Show is going to be boring as well, we’ve seen this match enough times, it needs to end tonight, and move Henry into another feud leading into the Royal Rumble. Booker and Cody should be a good match, as it looks like Booker is pretty intent on bringing it tonight, however I don’t expect him to win the title. Cody should retain the gold and they can maybe resume the storyline between him and DiBiase, since DiBiase is highly underused right now. I still expect Chris Jericho to return on the first episode of the new year, and hopefully we get a feud between him and Punk, as the promos alone would be fantastic and a main event match between them at Wrestlemania would be awesome. However before we get to Wrestlemania, and even the Rumble, we need to get through TLC.

WWF Rowdy Roddy Piper’s Greatest Hits

We come to one of my favorite wrestlers of the eighties Coliseum Video, Rowdy Roddy Piper. This should be a lot of fun, as no one could fire up a crowd like Piper, and most of the current crop could learn a lot from Piper. Whereas Sheik, Volkoff and Blassie could get heat by playing to the USA hatred of Iran and Russia in the eighties, Piper got heat by just being a major jerk. The front of the box features Piper with a blue background, and features Piper interviewing himself, plus a match with Hulk Hogan, Piper’s pit with Andre the Giant, Mr. T and more matches. Let’s hit play and get to the show.

WWE Superstars – December 15, 2011

This has been a long week of WWE programming, as there is twelve hours of shows this week. I don’t know who decided to have a three hour RAW, Tribute to the Troops and the PPV all in the same week, but this is what you call overexposed. The Slammy Award three hour RAW was horrible, as expected, and once again no Brodus Clay. I have no idea what goes through the heads of the writers of WWE, they hyped him up and then postponed his debut for weeks, and now no mention of him. It seems weird that we have a PPV on Sunday and no John Cena match, I couldn’t be happier about that, although they still have Smackdown and during the show even to add him in. It was nice to see the return of Classic Kane this week, hopefully he gets a nice final push before sliding into retirement, he deserves it for how long he’s been with the company. Anyways, before we get to TLC we have Superstars to enjoy, as long as there is no JTG match, so let’s see what underutilized stars we get this week.

ROH TV – December 10, 2011

With two weeks to go until Final Battle, headlined by Eddie Edwards challenging Davey Richards for the World Title, we should get a couple more matches announced tonight. Last week we had a fantastic tag team main event between the Young Bucks and Future Shock that could’ve gone either way, but the Young Bucks were able to pull of a great victory. Also we had our first confrontation between Jim Cornette and Kevin Steen, leading to the announcement of Kevin Steen facing Steve Corino for the chance to return to ROH, I expect a bloodbath in this match. Final Battle is really shaping up to be a great night of wrestling, and I can’t wait to see it, but first we have another episode of ROH TV.

We open with the recap of the Kevin Steen/Jim Cornette/Steve Corino storyline, one of the best storylines in the business right now. This sends us to the opening video followed by Kevin Kelly and Nigel McGuinness welcome us. Tonight’s main event is The All Night Express face Haas and Benjamin in a proving ground match, but first comments from the previous proving ground competitors Caprice Coleman and Cedric Alexander. They say people will learn their names and tonight they will defeat the Bravado Brothers.

WWF Biggest, Smallest, Strangest, Strongest

It’s time to continue our trip through the eighties with the next WWF Coliseum Home Video release, Biggest, Smallest, Strangest, Strongest. This looks like another compilation tape, much like the first WWF Video, Bloopers, Bleeps and Bodyslams. The box for this one is bright purple and features George Steele, Ivan Putski, Jesse Ventura, a Moondog, Andre the Giant and Big John Studd. If this is only clips, I won’t bother recapping the matches, just a quick rundown of what’s featured. Let’s see what we get.

TNA Final Resolution – December 11, 2011

TNA presents their final PPV of 2011, Final Resolution, headlined by a rematch from last month of AJ Styles facing World Champion Robert Roode. This time it’s an Iron Man Match, which should be good. Also tonight we have more rematches from last month, as Robbie E faces Eric Young for the TV title, at least the title is being used. Jeff Hardy faces Jeff Jarrett again, but this time in the cage with special stipulations. If Hardy wins he gets the title shot next month, if Jarrett wins either he or Karen are fired. Hopefully it’s Karen, as I’m sick of her, she’s worse then Michael Cole and singlehandedly ruining the once promising Knockout Division. Speaking of Knockouts, Knockout Champion Gail Kim faces former champion, Mickie James tonight as well, Daniels meets RVD again tonight, and Crimson teams with Matt Morgan to defend the tag titles against D-Von and The Pope. It looks like a loaded card, although too many rematches, but should give us some moderately good matches. Hopefully this is better then Turning Point, which was a horrible show with a lot of bad matches and booking.

WWE Superstars – December 8, 2011

With ten days until the TLC PPV, we finally have the main event announced this week. Which means that on next week’s RAW they have build up a PPV main event, but of course the entire focus will be on the Slammy Awards. That’s one of the biggest problems with WWE, is there is never any build up to the PPV matches, and they pretty much feel meaningless. Everything just feels rushed as we hurry from one PPV to the next, with no build and really no blow off to anything. This week on RAW we got a John Cena versus Zack Ryder match, which would’ve meant something had it been built properly, and would have been a great start to a more heel like Cena. The whole segment reeked of useless, as the premise was basically if Cena wins he’s in the main event but if Zack wins he gets a US title match with Dolph. Cena of course wins the match, and then argues with JL that Zack deserves a title match. Cena then gave up his title shot to get Zack a second chance, which of course led to Zack facing Mark Henry. Cena then got involved, hit the AA on Henry so Zack could win. Thus making Cena look like a hero by helping Zack, but basically showing that Zack couldn’t win without Cena. If Cena was so hell bent on getting Zack a US title match, why didn’t he just lay down for his friend? He gave up his title shot anyways, so it wouldn’t have made any difference to the end result. We all know Cena can get the title whenever he wants, so he really didn’t need the win, it’s all so confusing. Speaking of confusing that brings us to NXT, aka the show that never ends but never gets anywhere either. This season has gone longer then the first three combined, and no end seems to be in sight. The only advantage is at least Tyler Reks, Curt Hawkins and The Usos get TV time, but as for Curtis and Bateman, who cares. At least we still have Superstars, to make this worth watching. Let’s hope we get some great matches this week.

ROH TV – December 3, 2011

Continuing the road to Final Battle tonight, last week we saw TV Champion Jay Lethal battle El Generico to a time limit draw. Mike Bennett got involved in the end and we had a three way battle as the show closed. Also Michael Elgin destroyed two men at the same time, and a very short tag match involving the Briscoes and Cedric Alexander and Caprice Coleman. Tonight we should get some more matches announced for Final Battle and we have a tag match featuring the Young Bucks, should be a good show.

We open the show with highlights from last week’s TV Title match. and then over to Kevin Kelly and Nigel McGuinness. Kevin says a new match has been signed for Final Battle and we’ll talk about that later. We get comments from Tomasso Ciampa, who says he is the dominant man in ROH.