WWE Superstars – May 6, 2010

 

Here we go with another episode of WWE Superstars. I honestly can barely remember anything that happened on RAW this week, other than Daniel Bryan doing the job as usual. NXT was a better show, as usual, other than the silly obstacle course. The matches on NXT were solid, and next week we have our first elimination, I predict Michael Tarver goes out first. I think either Justin Gabriel or Wade Barrett will win the competition since everyone expects it to be Daniel Bryan, I think WWE will swerve us. At least next week Wrestlicious finally returns, and I should be starting the SHIMMER recaps sometime next week. Anyways, let’s get to Superstars.

1. Carlito v Primo. It’s a battle of brothers; I thought they were supposed to reunite. Michael Tarver is at ringside for Carlito, and I expect him to screw up Carlito again. Primo starts with a side headlock and Carlito sends him to the ropes and Primo comes back with the shoulderblock. Carlito begs off in the corner as Cole and Lawler mention Carlito’s title reigns, seems like so long ago.

WWE Superstars – April 22, 2010

 

What a week this has been for the WWE. They were trapped overseas and the RAW crew wound up missing this week’s tapings, right before a PPV. Personally I’m impressed Vince didn’t force them to row a boat back to the US, considering his treatment of the wrestlers. Due to this happening we had RAW is Smackdown on Monday night, and what could’ve been an amazing opportunity to showcase some of the younger talent instead became a complete waste of time. We had Undertaker defeat the new champ, Jack Swagger, who has yet to score a win since winning the belt. Triple H and Rey Mysterio defeated CM Punk and Chris Jericho, as Punk continues to be the best jobber in the company. Oh, and of course the usual stupidity as the WWE blew up R-Truth, but he was back the next night on NXT with no mention of the explosion. I don’t understand how anyone could’ve watched RAW and said it was a good show, it was pathetic, and that’s the last mention of RAW in this recap. Then last night we get the announcement of seven releases, Jimmy Yang, Slam Master J, Mickie James, Katie Lea, Mike Knox, Funaki, Shelton Benjamin as the WWE continues to screw up royally. I don’t understand how these seven could be released yet the WWE keeps the Bella Twins, Rosa Mendes (yes I like Rosa, but not as a wrestler), Kelly, Mark Henry, Kane, Cryme Tyme and Rey Mysterio. Yang and Slam are two exceptionally talented young stars that are horribly misused. Same can be said for Mike Knox, this man could’ve been a huge monster ala Kane or Undertaker an instead became the next Giant Gonzales as they could never figure out how to use him. Mike has the size, talent, ability and charisma to be a main event player, but leave it to the WWE to drop the ball. Speaking of dropping the ball, Shelton Benjamin, how the hell is this man not a main eventer? Seriously, he is easily the most talented man in the entire WWE and consistently puts on great matches every week. He came in the WWE with a huge push as he beat Ric Flair and Triple H, then became a member of Team Angle, and after that fell apart, nothing happened to him for the last five years or so. Funaki is one of the elder statesmen on the WWE, having been there since 98, and has always been horribly undervalued by the WWE. He has charisma and talent as well, but never was given a chance to show his skills. Katie Lea is an excellent female wrestler, watch her matches from OVW, but never got an opportunity in the WWE. Once Paul Burchill was released last month the writing was on the wall for Katie, and now she’s gone. Mickie, Mickie, Mickie what the hell is the WWE brass smoking to release her? I don’t know what the hell is wrong with this company, it seems the more talent you have the less they like you. Mickie is one of the last great female wrestlers in the company, and has been treated like shit for the last six month. WWE had a great opportunity to use her music career to push her into the mainstream, but instead they released her weeks before her CD comes out. Sound familiar? They did the same thing to Maria; however Maria was always lacking in her wrestling ability but made up for it with her charisma. Mickie’s release basically finished off the women’s division as the only one left that they use is Beth, but I think her days are numbered. I expect we’ll see more releases in the coming weeks; Jillian, Carlito (after NXT fails), Primo, Gail, Kozlov, Barreta, Croft, and Ziggler are probably going to be next. The only good thing about these releases is I expect we will see some of them in TNA, mainly Mickie, Katie, Knox and Shelton. This will give us some really fantastic matches at least, Abyss versus Knox, Morgan versus Knox, AJ versus Shelton, RVD versus Shelton, Katie versus Angelina, and Mickie versus Daffney. So with a PPV coming up this weekend, which I really have no interest in, there probably won’t be a recap of that show. Basically at this point, Superstars is the only WWE show I plan to watch/recap anymore, while the PPV will basically be fast forwarded through (other than Jericho/Edge). So let’s get to the only WWE show worth watching anymore, Superstars.

WWE Superstars – April 15, 2010

This show’s getting harder to find than TNA Impact lately, not a clue why either. This sure makes the week of recaps easier now, especially with Wrestlicious on hiatus until June. Anyways, we’re coming off a truly forgettable episode of RAW, no really. The only things I remember were the Baywatch match and Bret/ShowMiz/Hart Dynasty. Other than that, the rest of the show seems to have been a blur of boredom, as usual, but don’t worry we always get a long drawn out RAW recap during Superstars, which will feature either HHH, John Cena and/or Batista, boring. Whatever, there’s a reason I’ve stopped recapping both RAW and Smackdown, because they’ve become boring as hell. I might, key word is might, do a recap for the draft, but not sure yet, depends if I have time. Anyway, let’s get to Superstars.

WWE Superstars – April 8, 2010

 

It’s time for Superstars this week, after a surprisingly good episode of RAW and another great episode of NXT. Tonight on Superstars we get diva action, among other things, and it should be a good show. I picked Superstars as the only WWE show I’m recapping regularly because it features RAW and Smackdown superstars, and it’s consistently the best WWE show of the week. So with that out of the way, let’s get started.

WWE Superstars – April 1, 2010

 

I still have Smackdown to watch after this, so let’s not waste any time and let’s get this show on the go.

1. Kofi Kingston & MVP v Zack Ryder & Carlito. Tonight we play make random tag teams and hope for the best, why not. At least Carlito is getting TV time. MVP & Carlito start the match, and MVP goes after Carlito’s rookie. MVP pushes Tarver and Tarver pushes back but MVP then slugs him. MVP slides in as Carlito goes to calm down his rookie who wants in the ring. Carlito finally gets in and they lock up, MVP with the side headlock. Carlito shoots him in, but MVP comes back with a shoulderblock and hiptoss. Carlito backs up as MVP poses, and Tarver giving advice to Carlito? Carlito gets back up and quickly hammers MVP and sends him to the corner, but MVP jumps over and comes back with a clothesline. Zack tagged in and comes in the hard way, as MVP flips him in and hits the shoulderblock. MVP drops the balling elbow on Ryder and waits for him to get up, but Carlito pulls him out. Kofi and MVP hit a double baseball slide as we go to commercial.

WWE NXT – February 23, 2010

 

It’s finally time I get around to doing the NXT shows, since I’m four weeks behind already. This is the one I’ve watched, so it won’t be anything new, but the Bryan/Jericho match was great. We’ll see if it was as good as I remember it being. This was the replacement show for ECW, and for the first two weeks it did great in the ratings, but now it’s about where ECW was anyway. The premise is that they are teaming up 8 rookies (some have lots of experience actually) with 8 pros. The pairings are kind of strange as we have Miz with Bryan Danielson, excuse me Daniel Bryan, and Bryan has more experience than the Miz. We also have the pompous Brit William Regal with the cowboy Skip Sheffield, you have to love Vince’s obsession with the Odd Couple. Each week we have featuring the rookies facing each other, or facing the pros or tag matches with one winning the prize. I don’t think we know what exactly the prize is, maybe a title shot for the winner? Either way we get some great scripted reality and some interesting matches. This should be a fun show to watch and recap, so let’s get to it.

WWE Superstars – March 11, 2010

 

I really don’t have an opening spiel for this recap, so let’s just get to our opening match.

Monday Night RAW – On the Road to Wrestlemania

 

   Tonight begins the true road to Wrestlemania, as we have no more PPVs between now and the big day. Last night at the Elimination Chamber PPV we crowned new champions, as John Cena survived the RAW Chamber and won the title, only to fall to Vince McMahon’s new henchman Batista. Meanwhile on the Smackdown show, Chris Jericho scored a pin on the Undertaker to win the title, but not without controversy. When it got down to the final two, Undertaker was ready to finish off Chris Jericho when Shawn Michaels appeared from under the steel structure. Shawn nailed the Deadman with Sweet Chin Music and stood over him as Chris Jericho scored the victory. It was not a great night for the Undertaker, as earlier in the night on his way to the ring his pyro went off at the ring time and lit him on fire. Also last night Kane fell to the undefeated Scotsman, Drew McIntyre and The Miz defeated long time rival MVP, thanks to the Big Show. The Diva title tournament was once again pushed to the back burner for the sake of a storyline, as Vickie Guerrero came out and postponed the RAW match, even though she’s on Smackdown. Vickie made the match a tag match between Maryse & Gail Kim facing Smackdown’s Michelle McCool & Layla, which was won by Smackdown when Maryse turned on Gail. Great way to get McCool on PPV when she’s not scheduled, must be nice to have that much ‘stroke’. I don’t understand the Vickie part, so if she shows up she gets to make match for RAW too, or just the divas. That’s a loophole big enough to drive a Big Daddy V through. People complained that I was critical of the Batista/Cena match, well it was technically a match, so it should be given a rating. I never said Cena and Batista have been at it too long, they’ve been on top too long. It’s time for some new blood to rise to the top and get a shot. I’d rather have seen Kofi and Morrison win the chamber matches last night, would’ve been new and fresh. Everyone predicted that Jericho was going to win, so they should’ve swerved us and had JoMo get the victory. Then at Wrestlemania we could have JoMo v. Jericho and Edge v. Kofi, I’d love to see that as the main events. I just want to see someone new with the title instead of the same group of guys, but someone who they get behind and push, that is. Not like what they did to Sheamus, did he even win a match via pin while champion? He was pushed to the back in favor of storyline advancement for others, and his title reign became a joke, like Jericho’s when he was the unified champ back in 01. I enjoyed the PPV last night, even though the end was very predictable the matches were great and I’m happy that HHH didn’t leave with the title. Tonight on RAW we have our special guest host Jewel and Ty Murray, and also Edge will pick the champion (Jericho) he will face at Wrestliemania (Jericho). Should be an interesting show.

Week in Review – February 15 – 19 2010

After a great PPV from TNA last week, WWE had to build up their PPV this week. Is it just me or does it seem like there are way to many PPVs? Also this week TNA announced that they would be moving to Monday nights starting next month and finally ECW closed it’s door for the final time. Also this week I’ve started grading the matches out of ten instead of five, as it allows more of a difference between the matches. Well, at least that drops us down to four show a week instead of five.

WWE Superstars – February 18, 2010

 

WWE Superstars – February 18, 2010

   Well, with the death of ECW on Tuesday that leaves Superstars as the place to see good wrestling. Tonight should be a good show with what looks like two matches I’m looking forward to, Gail/Katie Lea and Carlito & Chavo/Primo & Evan. The third match will probably not be as good, as we have the overrated Rey Mysterio v. the underrated Mike Knox. Personally I think Knox should injure Rey, pulling him out of the chamber Sunday and putting Mike in, but that won’t happen. Rey has been such a boring wrestler for the last few years, as most of his matches are the same bland formula. I wish we had the Rey of old, when he was in ECW/WCW, but the knee problems have killed that. Maybe it’s time to hang up the mask and call it a career? Well, let’s get to the matches and see what happens tonight, on WWE Superstars!