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Last night’s RAW: Triple H vs. Brock Lesnar

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Last night’s RAW opened up with a Vince McMahon vs. Paul Heyman fight. Vince stood out in the ring with crutches and Paul Heyman came out with his fight gear on. Paul Heyman, talked on the mic for a while as he made his way to the ring, and when he got in, immediately, he started beating McMahon with one of his crutches. Of course, Brock Lesnar comes out to the ring to save the day for Paul Heyman. As Lesnar entered the ring and started to go after McMahon, Triple H’s music hits with Lemmy Kilmister’s voice blaring over the speakers, “Tiiiimmme to play the gggaammmeee…”. Of course, the crowd goes nuts as soon as Triple H’s music hits. Triple H comes walking out slowly to the music with his usual water bottle, and he is sporting a new buzz cut hair do. Suddenly Triple H starts running after Lesnar to the ring, and it was an all out brawl between the two. Triple H left Lesnar in a bloody mess. Yes, Lesnar was covered with blood.

Sometimes people want to believe the blood in wrestling is fake, but it’s not. Blood in wrestling is real. How do the performers get away with it? How do they fake it? Well, they usually hide a small blade, and they’re usually good at cutting themselves on purpose so people won’t notice.

After that segment got over with, the internet blew up with the entire wrestling community of fans giving that segment positive feedback. I agree. I thought that was the best thing RAW did in years. That’s wrestling right there, folks. That’s the kind of wrestling everyone wants to see. If WWE brings that stuff back, get rid of the PG era, WWE would get good again. RAW has been nothing but shit for the past several years or more, and finally, they did something that was actually wrestling. It was an incredible segment. I LOVED it too.

I used to never want to see Triple H vs. Brock Lesnar at Wrestlemania again, but after seeing what they did on RAW last night, now I’m officially sold to Triple H vs. Lesnar II. This is the stuff wrestling fans want to see, not the kiddie stuff. We want to see hardcore violence and blood. We don’t get much of that anymore. Since that segment got a lot of great feedback from the fans, hopefully, the WWE will listen to us and we may soon see the PG era gone. Hopefully. Cross our fingers.

That segment felt like a Wrestlemania moment to me.

As for the rest of last night’s RAW in Dallas, TX. goes, it was a mediocre show like usual, but the opening segment Triple H vs. Lesnar, was phenomenal.

This is part of the reason why WWE needs Brock Lesnar, ’cause it seems that Lesnar is the only superstar who has what it takes to make WWE interesting again. Hopefully Triple H vs. Lesnar at ‘Mania this year, will be just as bloody and gruesome, would be awesome. It can’t be PG when Brock Lesnar is around, think about it!

Kev

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Why Mr. McMahon being the babyface superhero doesn’t work…

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So Vince McMahon returned to WWE RAW last night to give a WWE “State of Address”. Nobody knew what McMahon’s plans were storywise. There’s been a lot of speculation that he is going to fire AJ Lee of the RAW GM position. While McMahon was out in the ring, about to give his “WWE address” speech, of course, he was interrupted by CM Punk. CM Punk and Paul Heyman, came out to the ring. Punk like usual cries about how he is being disrespected in the WWE and how no one cares for him anymore, when everyone should since he is WWE Champion. Punk has a huge ego thinking he’s the best in the world. Punk wants McMahon to think so too.

I was expecting McMahon to do something mean like a heel kind of thing and agree with Punk that he’s the Best in the World, but sure enough, Vince is against Punk like most people. So Vince challenged Punk a wrestling match for the main event. Last night during the Punk vs. McMahon match, they were beating each other up for a good ten minutes. Punk was beating McMahon in the beginning, then McMahon came out on top in the middle of the match beating Punk like crazy. When Punk finally found a way to come back at McMahon, Ryback’s music hits, and he comes out to save McMahon. Of course, John Cena had to come out and help too, *yawn*. CM Punk runs away from the ring and stands out in the audience while watching McMahon speak of what he is about to say. McMahon forces Punk to be in a Hell in a Cell match against either Ryback or Cena of Punk’s choice. If Punk refuses, then he would FIIIIIrreeeedddd…

Well, that’s how RAW went last night with McMahon’s return. McMahon doesn’t perform full time as much as he used to. I think he’s getting too burned out about performing so much, which is why he has a RAW General Manager, give someone else the spot light. McMahon has been a babyface superhero for a while now, and I don’t think it works for him. McMahon is much more interesting being a menacing heel. Someone you really want to hate. I think the only reason McMahon turned into a babyface is well, it’s part of Linda McMahon’s Senate campaign. If McMahon was a heel during her campaign, then Linda will get attacked by the media for it. A good guy Vinnie-Mac, is just weird. I’m used to seeing him as the badguy. McMahon was pretty weak in his promos last night. He can give really amazing promos when he’s heel.

McMahon has been a heel for 90% of his entire career performing on TV. I understand he wants to do something different, but there’s something about him being good guy that doesn’t work. Maybe it’s his acting. Maybe he doesn’t know how to control the crowd when he’s babyface. He’s better being the badguy! Will McMahon ever get a heel turn again? I think he will. Just wait until Linda loses her election, and then maybe he’ll turn heel then. If McMahon turns heel, he’ll have to bring back all the offensive stuff like the Kiss My Ass club for example. The PG era today is just unreal. Can’t stand it.

Kev

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Brock calls Jerry “The King” Lawler heart attack scare on RAW, a work, aka storyline…

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I don’t mean to be an ass, but I’m gonna be the first one to call on it. I truly believe that Jerry Lawler’s fatal heart attack scare on RAW was definitely a work. It’s part of a storyline. You can’t believe what’s seen in WWE anymore, it’s just sad. It was just really good acting and writing, trying to make the whole thing seem realistic, and they did a good job in getting people to believe this one.

Jerry Lawler himself just did a Tout video at Montreal Hospital, see it, here.

The man is looking perfectly healthy, already. Talking like a normal person and looking good. When you have a fatal heart attack, I assure you, you’re not going to be looking good like that, right away. You would be getting multiple heart surgeries and all that stuff. I’ve known people who had fatal heart attacks, and there is no way in hell they would be up walking and talking right away.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Jerry would be back on RAW this coming Monday. If this was real, he would be forced to retire and there are already reports saying he may return to the announcer table and yes, wrestle again. Please.

I already called it that it could be a possible work as soon as it happened, anyway.
Kev

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Brock sends out thoughts and prayers, to Jerry “The King Lawler”…

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I didn’t watch all of RAW last night, just the final half of it, but when I switched the TV to RAW, I was seeing Michael Cole announcing that Jerry “The King” Lawler collapsed from the announcer chair to the floor while commentating during a wrestling match. Michael Cole claimed it wasn’t part of a storyline that it’s a real life situation, ’cause it’s hard to believe what you see on WWE TV these days. Turns out that Jerry Lawler suffering heart attack on the RAW show last night in Montreal was real.

I hope Jerry pulls through and survives. If he dies, this would be a tragic loss in the wrestling community. He has always been important to us. He’s a true wrestling legend, indeed. While most wrestling legends retired and moved on, Jerry, never did, he kept working. He may have to retire now after this though, if he survives.

Lawler was in the middle of an on TV feud with CM Punk too.

Get well soon, Jerry. I’m praying for him and you should too.

While it is upsetting about Jerry, I was even more disappointed with the terrible RAW crowd last night. There was NOT one chant for Jerry Lawler last night. Instead, those fuckin’ Canadians chanted for Bret Hart all night. If last night’s RAW was in the United States, I’m pretty sure we’ll all be chanting for Jerry, but what do you expect in Canada?

Kev

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I hope tonight’s RAW 1,000th episode is gonna be good, probably will be…

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Well tonight’s episode of Monday Night RAW officially marks 1,000 episodes. I’ve been watching WWE for years and have been watching Monday Night RAW pretty religiously ever since the beginning. No matter what you think of WWE, you can’t deny that they’ve been around longer than any other show in the history of TV. They’ve been around longer than, the Simpsons. Even though I don’t like the way today’s wrestling is going now, I still respect them for what they do. They work hard for staying alive this long. Other wrestling companies like WCW, ECW, etc. have came and gone. WWE is still here. They’re good at what they do, and I wish people would respect these guys more, ’cause these performers put a lot of sacrifice in their lives just to entertain us. They work harder more than anybody in the entertainment business.

I will watch “RAW 1,000” tonight ’cause it will be exciting. A lot of older guys are coming back. There will be a possible D-Generation X reunion with X-Pac, Billy Gunn, Road Dogg, and possibly Chyna. A lot of other legends and icons from the past are making their one time returns too, so tonight should be an exciting show.

Wrestling news websites, are hinting that RAW 1,000 will plan a huge angle but nobody knows what it is yet. I’m hoping a Cena heel turn, but I doubt that.

RAW will be 3 hrs long from now on, every night and they’ll have a new logo and everything. A new era for WWE. Check out the new logo, here.

I’ll review RAW 1,000 tomorrow.

Everyone needs to respect Vince McMahon, love him or hate him. He worked hard to get where he is today. He’s no fake. He really did all the work. Vince loves wrestling just as much as we all do and he tries to make us happy, the best he can. Thanks Vince!

Kev

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Heath Slater vs. the legendary wrestler segments on RAW is a good idea, but this is a bad time doing it…

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The best thing going on RAW lately are the Heath Slater segments wrestling a match against a legendary wrestler from the past. Heath Slater is a young wrestler from the NXT wrestling show and he was a former member of the Nexus. Every week on RAW, he has been going against a different legendary wrestler from the past leading up to the 1000th episode of RAW. The whole point of this is to celebrate 1,000 episodes of RAW so they bring in a legendary wrestler from the past who used to be a RAW superstar. So far the legends Heath has been going against are: Vader, Sycho Sid, Cyndi Lauper, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Doink the Clown, Diamond Dallas Page, and Bob Backlund (which was the latest from last night).

This is a good idea that RAW is doing this. I like it a lot. Bringing the old guys back from the past for a one off appearance, however, this is bad timing doing it. Why? Because wrestling is no longer the same anymore, today. In today’s wrestling with it being the “PG” rating, there’s a new generation of young fans who are pretty new to wrestling. Most of the new fans don’t know who the older wrestlers are anymore. Yes, the older wrestlers that’s been performing with Heath Slater has been getting cheers from the crowd, but not much. Pretty sad to see too. I’m willing to bet the cheers are coming from the longtime wrestling fans who know a lot about wrestling. The legends don’t get much of a reaction from the younger crowd at all.

This is a good opportunity for Heath Slater though, I’m sure he’s thrilled to be performing with all these legends.

What legends from the past should go against Heath Slater in the future? Here’s my top ten list in no particular order:

  • The Ultimate Warrior
  • Scott Hall
  • Val Venis
  • Rikishi
  • Ken Shamrock
  • X-Pac
  • Chyna
  • Terry Funk
  • Jake the Snake Roberts

That’s it. Enjoy.

Kev

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Will Vince McMahon fire John Laurinaitis storywise??? I think no, and here is my prediction…

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I didn’t watch last night’s 3 hour RAW, but I caught the last half hour of it when I got back home from the movies. I DVR’d last night’s RAW, and will watch the rest of it tonight. The current storyline is John Laurinaitis, who is a longtime WWE employee, he serves as the Executive Vice President of Talent Relations, in real life behind the scenes of the company. Well, he has now been performing on WWE TV for the past couple of months. He’s the General Manager for both RAW & Smackdown for WWE TV. His on TV character is described as a power hungry boss much like Vince McMahon, but a little different. The babyface fans and the superstars both want Laurinaitis to be off of WWE TV because people think he’s a boring character. He’s supposed to be a “heel”, which is what he is. John L., used to be a professional wrestler himself in his younger years, he used to go under the name of, “Johnny Ace“.

Cena has been trying to do whatever it takes to get Johnny L. off of WWE TV. This is all just a storyline, I know. I’m just explaining what’s going on. Vince McMahon returns to WWE TV last night, and there was a lot of speculation that McMahon was going to fire Johnny L. off of TV “storywise”. At the end of RAW last night, McMahon made the announcement that if Big Show loses the steel cage match against Cena at this Sunday’s, “No Way Out” PPV, he will fire Johnny L. then. So does that mean if Cena wins the match (which he probably will), Johnny L. keeps the job? Sounds like it.

My prediction on how this is going to go down, I don’t think Johnny L. will get fired. This will be McMahon’s attempt to get after John Cena. I think there’s another major Cena vs. McMahon feud on the way. I know Vince McMahon’s on TV character quite well. He has always been sick and twisted, mean, and evil. I don’t think he’ll fire Johnny L. to make the fans happy. Vince has never been that type of character. He’s always been unpredictable. I think Vince is about to do something big to get heel heat again.

I agree it will be cool to see McMahon get in someone’s face and growl, “You’re FIIIIRREEDDDDddd….” like he’s most famous for, but I don’t think it’s going to happen.

On top of all this, I find Johnny L., a great performer. I think he’s one of the best heel General Manager’s in a long while. He’s great on the mic, just my opinion. As I said, I like the heels more (badguys) ’cause they’re more interesting than the good guys. I think part of this feud is building up for another Brock Lesnar return, he’s been off of WWE TV for the past couple of weeks. In real life, Brock’s deal with WWE isn’t that long, so he’s not going to be on WWE TV a lot. Just occasional appearances, like the Rock.

Kev

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Brock defends wrestler, Chris Jericho……again….

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WWE Star, Chris Jericho, is in the news again. Of course, every time this guy returns to the business and if he does something controversial, he becomes a big target in media news. Remember, a while back, I think a few years ago, that Jericho was in the news, for getting into a fight with a female fan after a house show? (He punched her in the face…) Well, here is something new this year. Jericho and CM Punk were performing a match at a House show in Brazil.

CM Punk was waving the Brazil flag for the fans, but Jericho took the flag away, and kicked it out of the ring. See the video here, at TMZ.

Brazilian police came close to arresting Jericho for it ’cause it’s against the law to desecrate flags in their country, but Jericho apologized for it and they let him go, but WWE suspended him for 30 days instead.

You guys, Jericho is a bad guy wrestler, a heel. That’s what heel wrestlers do, they’re supposed to do offensive things to get, “heat”. They’ll do whatever it takes to get the crowd booing ’cause that’s what a heel’s job is supposed to do. It’s all part of a wrestling show. I’m sure Jericho doesn’t hate Brazil, this is just part of his act.

On top of all this, heel wrestlers do this stuff all the time in the business over the years, but the way the industry is today, since wrestling is so mainstream, everyone wants to think of “wrestling” as real. Chris Jericho is a great performer. One of the best heel wrestlers around. If he can get himself in the news, get himself in the media being a bad guy “wrestler”, he’s doing all the right things. Whether it gets himself in trouble in real life or not. I mean, how many heel wrestlers out there do something offensive and they don’t make media news? Not too many. You have to do something drastic, in order to get everyone’s attention in a wider scale and Chris Jericho can do that.

That’s what make him a talented performer. Now, it wouldn’t surprise me if this gets turned into a wrestling angle next week on RAW. It’s hard to take things seriously in wrestling. Hard to tell whether these things are real or not. I still support Jericho. He really didn’t mean what he did. He was just being a performer, and that’s his job.

Kev

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What I’m noticing with WWE…they’re trying to bring back the past, bring back old memories…

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What I’m noticing with WWE recently, is that I believe they’re trying to bring back all the guys from the Attitude era from 90’s – early 2000’s. Evidence of that, they brought back the Undertaker. Kane put the mask back on. Chris Jericho came back. Brock Lesnar came back. The Rock as well.

Even with the PG rating these days, I think it’s a good idea to bring these guys back ’cause there’s a new generation of wrestling fans who don’t even know who these guys are. They deserve to get re-introduced to the new fans who never watched WWE in the past.

Who else should they bring back? Well, Dave Batista for starters, I think he is planning a comeback soon. I would like Stone Cold Steve Austin to make another run, but he has no plans for it though. Stone Cold wants to focus on a full time movie career now. I would like it if Kurt Angle returned, but he has no plans either. Angle wants to stick with TNA and he’s trying to make a comeback to the Olympics. I would like the Dudley Boys to return but those guys are in TNA, and the Hardy Boys are gone as well. Jeff Hardy is in TNA, Matt has no wrestling job now, but there are rumors Matt could make a comeback to WWE.

I think what WWE is doing is good. Now that all the old guys from the Attitude Era are coming back, it would make me want to start watching RAW again.

Kev

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BREAKING NEWS: Brock Lesnar officially returns to WWE…

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I just watched RAW tonight and Brock Lesnar just made his official return. Lesnar showed up at the very end of RAW tonight. See his photo, here.

No matter what you think of Lesnar, WWE is his home. He belongs in professional wrestling. I think he finally realized it if he agreed to return. It was WWE that helped make Brock a big name star, and icon. Without WWE, he wouldn’t have made it in UFC at all. I’m sure of it.

Look like Lesnar is going to feud with John Cena. Hopefully Lesnar will finish the feud with the Undertaker, so it can be Brock Lesnar vs. Undertaker for “Wrestlemania 29”.

Lesnar came back with his own theme and he used his signature move, the F5, on Cena. He didn’t use the the F5 move in UFC at all ’cause it’s a trademarked finisher owned by WWE.

Who knows how long Brock will stay around WWE for. I’m just glad he’s finally back for another run.

Kev