Phantom Lord

A leg match. Welp, that might be a new one.

He's even saying them in the same accent/lisp of Dusty which is so great. Yeah this night of firsts was pretty good. Would have been better if last week they announced they were doing this night of firsts so maybe over the course of the week it would build interest for it. I know I'm asking too much there though. Stephanie and her white suburban mom letting loose at the club dance will never get old. Dean Ambrose is going to win an Oscar someday. I loved his whole refusing to die bit and Big Show getting more and more annoyed because the match wouldn't end. Rusev was too damn much tonight. We need a spinoff with him and Summer and Lana. Make your own jokes that Lana's box smells like fish. The women's matches were all right. I want to believe there is some conspiracy theory that Nikki is using her clout as Cena's girlfriend to keep the NXT Women's championship belt off Sasha when she walks to the ring. I mean she has it in promos and stuff backstage, but its very odd she doesn't wear it to the ring especially when they announce her as champion. I mean it's not like its WCW where everything was taped 6 weeks in advance so they only announced champions in dubbed in voice overs. Can't wait for either Charlotte or Becky to turn on Paige. That's going to be so fun when that happens. Wish Charlotte would learn how to do a chop though. Cena/Rollins was fun. I figured Rollins would win someway or another...but I guess I should know better by now. I hope they don't blame Rollins for the broken nose though. This wouldn't be the first time Cena injured himself because of his placement. I think he tore that pec muscle a few years back because of the way he himself took a move and not so much the guy doing it to him. Rolins should have won though. Do it in some chickenshit heel way (count out or something) to build to a no excuses type deal at Summerslam.

So is there any chance Bethe Correia can some how make it past the first round or is Ronda just too unstoppable at this point. Ronda's personally pissed at her so I figure that mental slip might be enough for Bethe to at least survive Ronda's initial flury.

You know the grab a guy by the foot and fling him over you facebuster would be a pretty awesome strong man finisher.

Virgil doing karate kicks would be amazing. Looks like it's a pretty good show. Hopefully they have some sort of tv lined up and these don't sit too long in the proverbial can.

How can anyone have given Pixels a fresh review? I mean just from a career standpoint, Sandler hasn't made a decent original film in years. I can't imagine anyone walked into this even if they are a total mark for early 80's video games thinking "this is gonna be amazing".

Well of course it sold very well when all the seats got bought and put up on Stubhub.

I always figured even for the money, Hogan didn't want to lower himself to essentially wrestling on the Indies. From what I remember, the first Bound For Glory which would have had the Jarrett/Hogan match was going to be at some military base (or near one) in Kentucky. Hogan might have been living the life of Randy The Ram...but he wasn't about to be Randy The Ram.

The WWE i think figures if they can make Eva Marie passable in the ring (meaning she doesn't kill anyone doing a simple move), she will become eventually huge for them in an outside project. Basically they are hoping she become's their Stacy Kiebler. If she dumps the douche she's with now for someone on George Clooney's level that's all the better. All I know is, if Brian Kendrick can make her a credible wrestler in the ring just induct him now into the WWE HOF. The man's a miracle worker.

Rusev banging the rest of the diva's locker room and making them all dress in power suit's would be pretty damn amazing.

I didn't even notice Rusev looking at Lana like that while kissing Summer. That is such a nice touch. The Taker/Brock fight was the best old man retirement home fight ever. Taker also reminded me of Burt Lancaster in Tough Guys. He's the type to start a fight cause he's not getting his steak. Taker still has all his teeth. He wants some real meat. The reason why they are fighting makes no sense though. Taker's been this pissed about Brock for that long...except for that brief period earlier this year during Wrestlemania. We're just gonna ignore that. Stephanie being all YEAH WOMEN is so amusing. This is probably going to end with her facing one of the Bella's again. And of course we're gonna get Cena/Rollins. Cena needs to beat Rollins for the title so Sheamus can beat Cena for the title. They weren't about to do Sheamus/Brock (which would have been fun), So Vince goes to his failsafe of Cena.

WORST BACKDROP EVER!!! So yeah, I fell asleep during Cena/Owens. I mean it was good but it was also like every other match they had. I woke up and heard Cena's music so I went back to sleep for a few more minutes so I was rested for Brock/Seth. The one thing I hate about Owens/Cena is they crammed what could have been a six month feud into two months. These three matches should have been spread out. I could have lived with tonight being the rematch from the first one and Summerslam being the big rubber match. Cena wins. He always wins because Vince is afraid that kids will stop nagging their parents to buy all his shitty merchandise. I don't mind Oldman Inc. coming back and dishing soup bones. They missed a golden oppurtunity to have him align with The Authority. Who else is better to be the new COO than the damned conscience of the company. Tomorrow they better do that because if it's just Taker trying to get his loss back it's gonna suck. I assume he did it in part for Kane, but Triple H calling Taker in to run the ship seems so much better than the other thing.

Bojack Horseman season 2 is up on Netflix. I watched the first 3 episodes and it's been great so far.

If anything, it would be to get a bigger foothold in Japan. NJPW at Wrestlemania wouldn't really mean that many more ticket sales. It's not like those ROH NJPW shows drew that significant amount of people. BUT...BUT...WORKRATE!!! Seriously if this leads to another network special where they do a joint WWE/New Japan show at the Tokyo Dome like those old ones the WWF did with All Japan it could be amazing. Oooh just think about the possibility of WWE guys working the January 4th show.

I really want to say The Undertaker did Tombstone him or Kane did back in 99/2000 before he really started bulking up. Maybe I'm just thinking of when I did it to him in the Smackdown video games. But yeah I would say a Piledriver is the one real thing never done to him. I don't think he's ever been put in the Sharpshooter (not when Bret was in WCW). Sting's Scorpion Death Lock doesn't count since Sting can barely do it himself. Personally I find it crazy the guy has been superplexed.

I really hope Dalton Castle ends up winning the World Television title at some point. Dalton vs. Moose might be the damndest thing ROH has done in a while when they go one on one.

I would have liked if Cena wasn't so gung ho to fight Rusev after the match. Maybe show some of that John Cena sympathy and be like "we can do this on Smackdown" and Rusev could have been all "I DONT NEED YOUR AMERICAN CHARITY...WE DO THIS NOW". Rusev still is one of the best faces they have, especially after last night. And yes I laughed like mad when Rusev called Owens a stupid French American. Technically true if he considers all of North America to be whole. Would be hilarious the next time they're in Mexico and he rips on the crowd for being a bunch of stupid Americans.

It amuses me greatly that the daughter of Ric Flair does not know how to do a knife edged chop. That said I loved the whole segment and brawl, but for everyone asking why they got called up like this...just listen to Stephanie's bit about how women are running everything. The Women's soccer team, UFC...she threw tennis in there but I guess that was a reference Vince might get. The Women's soccer team is at the top of the world right now and in about two weeks Ronda Rousey will probably have the highest drawing non-boxing ppv event in ages. So they had to jump on this bandwagon. They've gotten a ton of mainstreamish press on the NXT women over the last few months (stuff in Rolling Stone, ect). If they didn't bring any of them up they would continue to look stupid and people would be like "see they don't care about the divas". Now that all said, it will be very amusing over the next few months as Nikki Bella beats them all so she get that record and solidify that a Diva is the best.

I was gonna ask if Alberto lives in the United States or Mexico. But after seeing that post above about him wrestling on a AAA show on Friday night. Now I am a bit concerned. I mean I am certainly hoping it is nothing like this, but lets be honest. Mexico is not a safe place especially if you are known to have money. Be safe El Patron.

Well booking Dixie as a face and Jarrett eventually as a heel would suggest that.

I can believe it. But it said she was also vp of creative or something along those lines. Ratings just aren't on fire so I'd be it's more that than the NWA thing.

I was there live. My friend and I got free tickets. It was....a thing that happened. I don't want to talk about it anymore. Actually, one more thing. I remember Sid did a pre-show promo where he gave us a classic line. I don't know if it ever made it onto tv but he said, "Jeff Jarrett thinks that he's the master but I'm the master and ruler of the world and Jeff Jarrett, you think you're the master but you can't be the master of the master!" I know that's a terrible run-on sentence but that's how he said it. My friend and I still quote the "master of the master" line. Just more reasons why Global Force needs Sid.

Between that, the divorce, and general bad investments he got wiped out in the year or two after Hogan Knows Best ended.

I saw one article saying it's aiming for a $100 million dollar opening weekend. If that's the case, I'm glad I have it in my top 3.