Scott’s Blog of Doom

So yeah, watching the hour-long preview of the MSG show on the 24/7 preview channel (with uncut Dragon-Roma, Harts-Nasties and Roberts-Quake matches) convinced me to take the plunge, so while setting up the service change to the new apartment, I subscribed and put $10 a month in Vince’s pocket.  However, from what fellow Saskachewanite James Kalyn tells me, it’s not currently macrovision protected so at least I can record the crap out of it if nothing else.  From what I can see, however, it looks fabulous and it’s pretty much exactly what I”m looking for in a wrestling channel — a mix of old and new school and not confining me to specific timeslots, like having to catch Ring of Honor at odd hours of the day on The Fight Network. 

I’m sure Wrestlemania month will be pretty damn awesome, too.

http://www.wrestlingobserver.com/wo/news/headlines/default.asp?aID=18328

Really, you had to know that he’d tear another quad sooner or later.  Although maybe Vince can hook him up with whatever superhuman healing powers he used in 2005.  Still, this pretty much hoops the obvious DX v. Cena triple threat match at Wrestlemania, leaving them to actually be creative or something.  I think Cena v. Michaels could still work.

Onto other topics, I was watching the free preview bits of WWE 24/7 last night, which I still haven’t gotten around to ordering yet because of the impending move, and the Monday Night Wars preview in particular is a pretty good chunk of awesome for no money.  This month you get the 11/28/96 shows, cut down to about 30 minutes each on the preview show.  RAW is featuring Mankind v. Austin in a match hovering around ***1/2 and Sid’s lame attempt at a babyface interview following his win over Shawn Michaels at Survivor Series.  Then the Nitro portion gives you Juvy v. La Parka (in his debut) where they get like 15 minutes and also hit ***1/2, with the crowd going crazy for La Parka at the end but nothing coming of it.  Then you get Jeff Jarrett v. Bobby Eaton in a nothing match, but it’s where Flair brings him into the Four Horsemen and the universe nearly collapses in on itself, followed by the closing angle with Eric Bischoff joining the nWo and screwing over Roddy Piper. That’s an hour of stuff, all really good, for zero dollars, and I haven’t even checked out the MSG preview show yet.