King of the Ring

We all know that there we will be a 3-hour Raw next week, and not any other Raw but the "Comeback" of King of the Ring. The response of the internet community regarding the show is every good so far and many people have high expectations for what will happen. Of course as fans we all want to see a lot of good wrestling and a worthy winner of the tournament.

After Smackdown the final eight participants are out now and since I won't be there next week to review the show due to what you can call an involuntary vacation, I'm going to do a preview/forecast today. There will be four matches in the Quaterfinals, two in the Semifinals and one final match. Since I think it will be one Smackdown wrestler against one guy from Raw a time, that's how I did the Quaterfinals.

The participants for the first four matches were chosen randomly by random.org (great site) so I didn't have a say in these. After that the winner of match 1 is up against the winner of match 2 and the winners of 3 and 4 will also face each other.

Participants: Sheamus, John Morrison, Ezekiel Jackson, Daniel Bryan & Cody Rhodes, Kofi Kingston, Alberto Del Rio, Drew McIntyre

Quaterfinals

Cody Rhodes vs. Sheamus
This is a close call. Cody Rhodes got A new gimmick as "The Dashing One" and someone in Creative/Management/wherever is obviously high on him, but Sheamus got pushed down our throats quite a lot in the beginning of the year. They hype about him obviously settled down now that 2010 draws to a close, but he is still one of the mayor players on Raw. I say he wins simply because I think the Irishman his better champion material than Rhodes - even if we're only talking about King of the Ring.

Kofi Kingston vs. John Morrison
That's one interesting match I'd say. These guys have similiar styles what could make this match either very good or very bad, also depending on the time they get to tell some nice story. Oh, and they are both faces, so the reality of this match happening is pretty slim - it would more likely be Rhodes vs. Morrison and Kingston vs. the resident ghost ...but hey, the match-up wasn't my decision to make. I'm going with Morrison as the winner by the way. He needs the push he needs the push more than Kofi Kingston, not least because he is on Raw where the percentage of main eventers is denser than on Smackdown. On the blue brand there are simply a lot more mid-carders and it's easier to not get burried.

Ezekiel Jackson vs. Alberto Del Rio
Err... squash? I think that pretty much sums this one up. Ezekiel has gotten something that can be called a push in WWE standarts, but Alberto Del Rio got the push, so Jacksons chance of winning is about zero. Bad luck on Big Zeke's side, but Del Rio definitely has this match in the bag.

Drew McIntyre vs. Daniel Bryan
Let's be honest here: Daniel Bryan doesn't need to be King of the Ring. That probably sounds hard, but he is as over with the WWE audience as someone like him can be. People will cheer for him no matter if he wins the tournament or not. McIntyre on the other hand isn't that over (I dare say no midcarder is as over as Bryan) and the closest the got to a title in a while was the Tag Team Championship with Rhodes - and we all know that those titles mean shit these days. But whoever wins against Danielson automatically looks like a better wrestler, so he wins this one to lose in the later rounds.


Semifinals

Sheamus vs. John Morrison
At least now we have standart heal vs. face matches again. It's the human jar of Mayonnaise against JoMo and it's not like we haven't seen this match-up before - doesn't mean it can't be interesting. Their other match was pretty good and there is no reason this can't be too. Morrison needs to be one of the top guys in this tournament way more than Sheamus and that's the only reason the wins this thing.

Alberto Del Rio vs. Daniel Bryan
Like I said before, Bryan in my opinion is only in this tournament to make other wrestlers look good (and we all know that he can definitely do that). So if there is someone WWE wants to look good at any rate it's Alberto Del Rio. That will probably be the longest match of the night, even longer than the final one. It'll probably be the best match, too. Del Rio obviously wins.


Finals

John Morrison vs. Alberto Del Rio
Last match of the night is Morrison vs. Alberto Del Rio and I honestly didn't think it would end like this, but whatever... I don't like Del Rio, his character is like long dead fish to me: tastes like crap and stinks to high heaven. The only thing I want to do when I see this guy is lock him an Michael Cole up in a room together and hope that they kill each other simultaneously. But this is about wrestling (or at least it should be) and even if I hate Alberto Del Rio I can't deny that many love him. So yeah, he wins because he is high with the higher ups. Sorry Morrison, but former Dos Caras Jr. is our new King of the Ring 2010.

11/22/10 Raw

Kate is back on Raw after several weeks of absence and I bring good news with me. The Miz is our new WWE Champion and at least I can say that I'm very pleased with this outcome. The guy earned his win ... anyway, on to this weeks Raw with a nice wallpaper (created by Modified Cravate from Chikara Fans).

Did someone beside me notice the irony of Nexus leader Wade Barrett telling the world that Cena being the ref in his match "wasn't fair"? You beat Cena*cough* seven on one *cough* and talk about unfair now? But hey, the audience was really into it, so his speach probably gained more heat than this guys got ever before. And it was hilarious watching how Barrett was booed whenever he started with "last night".

Two weeks no Wrestling and what I didn't miss was the laptop ordering guys around 6:24 in the show. There are things that never change...

CM Punk on commentary. Yeeees.

There was some shameless pandering of WM XXVII by the WWE after one commercial. But hey, they need to do it. The pre-sale of Wrestlemania tickets hasn't been that bad in years (I don't remember the actual number), so they obviously have to do something about it. WWE of course could just as well do something about their product, but we all know that that's the last they think about. 

Sheamus vs. R-Truth was an okay match. For some reason I didn't really enjoy it, but there were some good spots in there and it took a while actually. At least they gave the guys some time to tell a little story.
After that we got a LayCool segment. I don't like them. Most people watching wrestling don't like them for various reasons, but at least I stilll laughed. If I were Nataly I'd said that I didn't know them too. 

...and can someone please tell me what the reason was for this Santino-segment? 

Ezekiel Jackson vs. the Miz aka Riley was next (Random info: Ezekiel was a prophet in the Old Testament, there is even a Book of Eezekiel). And yeah, I typed that sentence before Riley walked out to Miz music. How did I know? Foreshadowing? Riley is a punshing bag by the way ... but hey, now he is the Champ's punshing bag. There are worse positions to be in on RAW. Plus he got arrested for DUI (that's how you call it, right?) so the guy can be lucky that he still has a job. Wrestlers have been fired for less. 

Ezekiel punched A-Ry (how do you write this stupid nickname?) right into oblivion - see you again the next time Miz doesn't want to get his ass handed to him, Riley.

Cena came in. The audience went nuts. My dad screamed "Quiet this noise down!". I loled.  

Joke aside - I could actually like this angle if Cena is really off for a few months now. But since we all know WWE, he'll be back in about three weeks and that just makes it crappy booking. But yeah, his promo was still good, there was a lot of emotion behind it (a wrestler crying on TV is still pretty rare). And the chant-war was brilliant, by the way. You saw that Cenat totally enjoyed doing this. The guy actually can be funny after all. I even would've chanted "Let's go Cena" along for this one time. So we just have to see what's gonna happen with him in future, I pressume. 

Like I said, the whole thing was done pretty well ... until Cena walked out of the building in his ring gear, for
God's sake ... but yeah, what did I expect from WWE? 

CM Punk on commentary is so gold. "Bree Bella is a 4.", tell the world how it really is, Punk. The match between Bryan and DiBiase was on the good side but way too short. I didn't watch Suvrivor Series so I can't compare it to that match, but you saw that they're both good workers. I mean Ted DiBiase can wrestle. The shitty storyline isn't his fault ...and does Bryan win every match with the Le Belle Lock?

Now we got the mandatory Divas match what led me to the question "How many Divas are left in the WWE?" Natalya, because she is third generation (first 3rd generation women's wrestler to be exact), Beth Phoenix because she too can wrestle, the Bella twins because they apparently look hot on the arm of some guest host and LayCool because Michelle's surename is McTaker. Any else? Okay, Eve and Maryse who belong to R-Truth and DiBiase respectively ...and Alicia Fox who can do nothing. Jillian got fired apparently. 

Damn, I needed like 10 minutes to name them all - and I think I'm still missing some of them ... doesn't matter anyway. Natalya won obviously. Follow-up: Jep, I forgot Melina. Happens. 

Alicia Fox is a 9.8 when the Bella is a 4. Seriously Punk? Give Maryse the 9.8 or Michelle for all I care but Alicia... urghh. The guy is lucky that none of his (ex-)girlfriends was in that ring. I wonder what Beth Phoenix would've done to him if he'd given her a 6 or something like that.

Tyson Kidd has is own opening intro titantron now. He is the heel of the team... right? Useless breackup of a good Tag Team - that's what I call this. HIs opponent for tonight was John Morrison by the way (with a beard which at least makes him look like a man.) The grey shirt and brown coat didn't fit but that's a woman's opinion so you can just ignore this piece of information. Kidd did some good old Jericho-screaming here. No "Ask him!" or "Stupid man!" of course, because no one who isn't Jericho is allowed to say that. Morrison won with a Starship Pain that didn't really connect - nothing new here. 

Randy Orton came out next followed by the lot of the Nexus who beat him up a bit and injured his left knee (why do I even write that it was the left knee? It's not like we're in Mexico...). After that he wasn't in the condition to walk, aka stuck in a kind of handicap match. Barrett squarrled a little with the ref before the actual match and the ref just told him something along the line of "It's my decision ,bastard. No fuck off."

Orton shouted at said ref to "Ring the bell" after he fussed around a little and he did as the still-Champ told him. Barrett got beaten by a Viper with only one leg (get it?) for a short time here, what in itself was hilarious, but then got some momentum behind him when he started to further work on Ortons injured knee. Then we had one bad announcer plus one announcer turned bad plus CM Punk all talking at the same time while Barrett and the Viper exchanged blows back and forth. It was a little confusing to watch, I have to admit.

Finally we get to the point where Orton was down and Barrett went for the pin. He won? Duh, wrong. John Cena appeared from out of nowhere, grabbed the ref from behind, dragged him outside the ring and then delivered an Attitute Adjustment (AA in whatever language Cole speaks) to the englishman which in turn allowed Randy Orton to give the Nexus leader an RKO. 

Now, why was John Cena back after said his goodbye to the fans not even what, an hour ago? If you seriously ask yourself that question, you're using logic on a WWE product - let me tell you to never do this, because the WWE product alsways wins. If you want to see logic, go do some math ... and that dear readers, is what I called "crappy booking" some lines further up in this article. 

Oh, and ... Karma is a bitch, Barrett. Cena told you.

If you think it was over now... you're dead wrong, because suddenly "I Came To Play" played and there came the Miz (witch Alex Riley) to cash in his Money in the Bank briefcase. There was a short brawl, Randy went for the RKO which Miz counterd into the Skull Crushing Finale. 1, 2, 3. Yeeeees. The Miz is your new WWE Champion.

Punk said "I have been there" and I remeber reading somewhere that The Miz is to Randy Orton what CM Punk was to Jeff Hardy... only that I do not begrudge the Miz for cashing in and winning like I did with Punk.

They showed Miz and Riley celebrating and the sad/angry faces of some kids and a handful women. Would I've been there you would've seen a blondie with a big fat grin on her face by the way ;) Congratulations to The Miz for winning his first big title. It most likely won't be his last.

End of show, end of article. Kate over and out.

Sign T-Shirt of the day

Because this girl obviously put a lot of efford into that shirt.