Fight Game Blog

I was alerted yesterday by our own Big D that in addition to the Raw Heavyweight Championship Scramble match, according to the Smackdown spoilers (don’t worry, I won’t spoil the actual matches), we will have another scramble for the other championship belt. What?

You don’t have to look very far back to when WWE did something similarly. Let’s go back to February of this year. They had a great idea for a yearly stipulation that made sense. John Cena won the Royal Rumble and because of that win was scheduled for the Wrestlemania title shot. The question always becomes, “What happens with the other title?” They had an awesome solution. Put six of your top guys in the Elimination Chamber match, and the winner would get the other title shot. You could do that every year at No Way Out and you have two special pay per views back to back with the first being the Royal Rumble.

Of course, they screwed it up. Cena decided to take his title shot at No Way Out even though he said the only reason he came back to win the Royal Rumble was because he wanted to main event Wrestlemania. And thus, instead of only doing one Elimination Chamber match at No Way Out, they did two. Imagine if at last week’s pay per view, in addition to the Undertaker and Edge Hell In A Cell match, they decided that John Cena and Dave Batista would be decided in similar fashion. Stupid right?

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We had coverage of last night’s WWE SummerSlam show. A few of our writers gave their thoughts about the show.

SummerSlam

GG

Show overall rating: Thumbs up

Best Match: John Cena vs. Batista
Worst Match: Matt Hardy vs. Mark Henry

I know, I know. I’m supposed to say that the Hell In A Cell match between the Undertaker and Edge was the best match of the night. I thought it was well done and very good. But I’d be lying if I didn’t say I had more fun watching the slobber knocker that was Cena/Batista I. It was hard hitting and fast paced and I loved the huge power spots. If not for the terrible submissions, I would’ve loved it even more. I think what ruined Edge/Undertaker for me were the chair shots to the face and head. I know they are doing them a lot safer now, but I still get an odd feeling when I see someone getting a chair shot to anywhere above the back.

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If it weren’t for the fact that SummerSlam, by name, means the biggest summer wrestling PPV of the year, I’m not sure I would consider this weekend’s show all that big of a deal. JBL and the Great Khali are in title matches, neither Chris Jericho or Shawn Michaels are wrestling, and John Cena vs. Batista, a match that should be huge, isn’t all that interesting.

There is one big match and thankfully, Edge has been carrying his feud with the Undertaker. It’s not like the Undertaker has been around recently to help. And while it’s the match that will likely sell the most PPVs, I still feel as if I’ve seen them wrestle enough matches already to last a life time. I understand that this is the big one, a Hell In A Cell match, but I can’t wait for them to move on to other opponents.

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Every week I will try look at Raw, ECW, TNA, and Smackdown and give my thoughts. These are just my thoughts ladies and gentlemen, just my thoughts.

Random wrestling thoughts for the week of July 21, 2008:

Raw

• After all the great work that Chris Jericho and Shawn Michaels did last night, the Raw show opens with Kane and his bag. Great, just great.

• It appalls me how much JBL is pushed considering that with his back injury, he’s one of the worst wrestlers in the company. I know he can talk, but if when he gets in the ring, I want to fast forward, what good is that?
• What a shitty opening segment.
• Paul London is out to face Lance Cade. Where’s London’s big, huge bodyguard? Wait, that’s Brian Kendrick.

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It’s the RAW after the Bash as WWE prepares to head towards SummerSlam, their supposed 2nd biggest PPV of the year (I always thought Survivor Series was #2 and SummerSlam was #3, but oh well).

Loved: Unique Open. Batista in the truck with Kevin Dunn watching the tape just screams “WCW Nitro”, and that’s been a lot of the focus with RAW lately. WWE is trying to shoot things from different perspectives and add new “sets” to things rather than stick with the boring formula of match-angle-match-interview-interview-match-angle-match. Thankfully, RAW is bouncing things around.

Hated: Clusterfuck Intro. How many times does WWE have to start a program after a PPV with every top guy coming out and laying claim to the World Title. Granted, it does make the World Title seem important because everybody is chasing it and trying to get it, but it’s been so overdone and played out that it is ridiculous. Guys coming out and talking all the time is boring. Figure out something else WWE!

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1. Miz and Morrison vs. Hawkins and Ryder vs. Jesse and Festus vs. Finlay and Hornswoggle

Fit Finlay rules. He carried most of the match until he made the hot tag to Hornswoggle and then Jesse tagged into the match after Hornswoggle went wild for about 5 seconds. Festus then went um, dumb? and Hawkins (or Ryder?) pinned Jesse after tripping him off the top rope. Hawkins and Ryder are the new Smackdown tag champs. Good opener, even if it was fairly quick.

Winners: Hawkins and Ryder by pin fall.

2. Matt Hardy vs. Shelton Benjamin

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This week’s edition of “Hate it Or Love It, Big D’s on Top” looks at this past Monday Night’s WWE RAW, an eventful, fun, and bizarre show, as it’s been for the past few weeks. It’s tough to get used to this “new direction” WWE is in, but I’m having a good time thus far.

Loved: Crash TV Done Right. Yeah it’s Crash TV, but it’s exactly how it is supposed to be! Unpredictable things happen and unlike TNA or any of the other companies that do this, the logical reasoning behind is that nobody is in charge whereas Smackdown is more like an old Saturday Night pro wrestling show. I don’t think this was a premeditated idea, but a good one that fell into their lap and they’re making good use of it. Everything from the constant interruptions of angles to the properly placed run-ins, to the opening brawl on the floor - this is making RAW fun again. There have been some great RAW shows in the past few years, but none that feel this thrilling and fun to watch - something live wrestling has needed for a while.

Hated: Michael Cole. Cole is definitely a lot better than I expected since moving to RAW (he may have stepped his game up after Vince flipped on him in the back), but with that said, I don’t think he’s good enough to be calling RAW, specially since it’s been awesome for the past four weeks now. Still, he’s still incompetent and I phase him out most of the time.

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Hated: 20 Minute Opening Segments. A lot of times when WWE hits a creative slump, they produce what I call the “clusterfuck”, where they have a handful of mid-card to main-event talent come out and complain about wanting title shots and it always winds up with some kind of over-booked multi-man gimmick match. Thankfully, last night’s cluster actually built to something, although it could’ve easily been condensed to 10 minutes as opposed to 20.

Loved: Vickie Guerrero. I don’t think any heel “authority” figure has gotten as much heat as Vickie since Mr. McMahon in the Attitude Era (although Regal came dangerously close earlier in the year). I loved the surprise of having on the show appear just to irk people. I also loved how they FINALLY had CM Punk tell Vickie that what happened to Edge was a “what goes around, comes around” deal, something I’ve said since Punk won the title, that WWE HAD to acknowledge. Still, Vickie brings heat, deserved or not.

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