Michael's RAW Review
August 30, 2010
Boston, Massachusetts - TD GARDEN ARENA
- Show begins with a video showing the history and highlights of Raw from the past 17 years.
Posts Tagged ‘Edge’
WWE Raw – Episode 900
Monday, August 30th, 2010WWE Summerslam 2010
Monday, August 16th, 2010Adam King Tryout #2
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010The King's Recap: WWF Smackdown 1.06.2000
written by Adam King
WWF SMACKDOWN
Thursday, January 6th, 2000
Taped (1/4) from the Arena in Orlando, FL
List of WWF Champions at the time:
WWF World Heavyweight Champion: Triple H (1/03/2000)
WWF Intercontinental Co-Champions: Chris Jericho & Chyna (12/30/1999)
WWF World Tag Team Champions: The New Age Outlaws (11/08/1999)
WWF European Champion: Val Venis (12/12/1999)
WWF Hardcore Champion: The Big Bossman (10/14/1999)
WWF Women’s Champion: The Kat (12/12/1999)
Michael’s RAW Recap
Monday, May 17th, 2010MICHAEL'S RAW REVIEW - EPISODE 2
MAY 17, 2010
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA
- Tonight's RAW is commercial free. Should be a little more entertaining to watch with matches going a little longer. I know I will appreciate that. As for Sacrifice, looks like a bunch of unanswered questions for Thursday night. Why advertise Sting vs. Jarrett, build it up, waste time on TV, and then can't deliver when you know Sting has been injured for a month??!?!? Blackhawks 1, Sharks 0. I love it. Cue the opening video.
Tryout Rant: Adam King
Sunday, May 16th, 2010The King's Recap: WWF Raw Is War 1.03.2000
written by Adam King
WWF RAW IS WAR
Monday, January 3rd, 2000
Live from the American Airlines Arena in Miami, FL
Fast Count v. Fingerpoke
Sunday, May 16th, 2010Scott, just got done watching WCW Starrcade 97, and here is my question that I thought might make for good blog discussion. I have read several times from several people who pinpoint the "fingerpoke of doom" Nitro as the start of the downfall of WCW. What about Starrcade 97? I know it did a huge buyrate and made tons of money for the company, but it was also a chance for tons of people to see a truly disasterous PPV. All the wrong people went over in terrible matches and then came the main event. How do more people not talk about, or acknowledge how badly Hulk Hogan (or whoever was behind the "fast count" against Sting) screwed over Sting, and therefore WCW???? I mean in one night after a terrible ppv, WCW or Hogan or whoever made Sting, and Bret Hart look like complete and total failures. Do you think that this PPV should be given more credit for starting a downfall of WCW that it gets???
I certainly give Starrcade its fair share of blame for WCW’s downfall!
New UT DVD
Sunday, May 16th, 2010Figured I’d post this before I get a bunch of people e-mailing me. New Undertaker DVD! And holy cow does this look shitty! Multiple matches against Big Show, TWO matches against King Daddy Viscera, the abomination with the Dudley Boyz, HEIDENREICH, Great Khali…I guess I have to review this one to satisfy you sadistic fuckers.
Here is the synopsis for WWE's upcoming DVD set on Undertaker, Undertaker's Deadliest. This title is scheduled for release on Tuesday, Jun. 8.
He’s the most ominous presence in the history of Sports Entertainment, known for his remarkable WrestleMania streak and taking the souls of scores of superstars. Now the Undertaker’s most dangerous conflicts are collected in one 3-disc DVD set, Undertaker’s Deadliest Matches. This set includes Casket Matches, Buried Alive Matches, Hell in a Cell, Last Ride Matches, Body Bag Matches, Boiler Room Brawls, Concrete Crypt Matches and numerous other brutal bouts.
Disc 1
“Two Decades of Destruction”
Body Bag Match
Undertaker vs Ultimate Warrior
Madison Square Garden – July 1, 1991
“Custom Made Coffin”
Coffin Match
Undertaker vs Kamala
Survivor Series – November 25, 1992
“Grim Reaper”
Casket Match
Undertaker vs Kama
SummerSlam – August 27, 1995
“Shadow of Death”
Casket Match
Undertaker vs King Mabel
In Your House – December 17, 1995
“Deranged and Sadistic”
Undertaker vs Mankind
King of the Ring – June 23, 1996
“No Boundaries”
Boiler Room Brawl
Undertaker vs Mankind
SummerSlam – August 18, 1996
“Chilling Numbers”
Buried Alive Match
Undertaker vs Stone Cold Steve Austin
Rock Bottom – December 13, 1998
“Internal Fires”
Inferno Match
Undertaker vs Kane
Raw – February 22, 1999
Disc 2
“An Imposing Force”
Undertaker vs Big Show
Raw – May 3, 1999
“What Lies Beneath”
WWE Championship Match
Undertaker vs Big Show
Raw – June 4, 1999
“A Long and Complex History”
Concrete Crypt Match
Undertaker vs The Dudley Boys
The Great American Bash – June 27, 2004
“Devils and Wicked Men”
Casket Match
Undertaker vs Heidenreich
Royal Rumble – January 30, 2005
“Like Father, like Son”
1st Ever Handicap Casket Match
Undertaker vs Randy Orton & Cowboy Bob Orton
No Mercy – October 9, 2005
“The Devil’s Playground”
Hell in a Cell
Undertaker vs Randy Orton
Armageddon – December 18, 2005
“Last Judgment”
Last Man Standing Match
Undertaker vs Great Khali
Smackdown – August 18, 2006
Disc 3
“First Blood”
First Blood Match
Undertaker vs Mr Kennedy
Survivor Series – November 26, 2006
“Last Ride”
Last Ride Match
Undertaker vs Mr Kennedy
Armageddon – December 17, 2006
“Powers Lie Within”
Last Man Standing Match for the World Heavyweight Championship
Undertaker vs Batista
Backlash – April 29, 2007
“Revenge”
Undertaker vs Big Daddy V
Smackdown – January 25, 2008
“Ring of Fire”
Hell in a Cell
Undertaker vs Edge
SummerSlam – August 17, 2008
“State of Mind”
Steel Cage Match
Undertaker vs Big Show
Smackdown – December 5, 2008
Legacy of the Phenom
How NXT Works
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010Hey Scott,
I've got a question for you and for the blog:
How the hell does NXT actually work? When people get "eliminated," do they just go back to FCW? Were all of them even from there? If they're all getting called up eventually, how are they going to explain it? I liked what Danielson did in his "farewell" promo this evening, but they can't use that for everyone. I give him a pass for it since his internet presence and history were very largely acknowledged and very much a part of his angle, but for anyone else it would be like when Sean Morely wasn't allowed to be in the IC Title battle royal since he wasn't a former IC champ, but Val Venis was allowed, or when they kept coming up with goofy ways for fired Alliance members to stick around after the InVasion angle ended (Lance Storm the janitor!).
And about the challenges: does WWE have wrestlers who they want to win the challenges, and therefore everyone else has to throw them? Did Wade Barrett reallyslip off the monkey bars twice, or did they tell him to? This approach couldn't work for all the challenges (Talk the Talk and selling programs, both of which were determined by the audience), so even as someone who's been a smark for years now, I admittedly can't get my head around how this particular show works. It's like it's this weird mix of shoot and kayfabe.
Having never watched an episode (it doesn’t air in Canada) I couldn’t get into any kind of in-depth discussion on the subject, but I’d say from everything I’ve read that it can best be summed up by “an interesting experiment that went totally and completely wrong”. The Danielson losing streak was set up from day one to build to a US title win over the Miz, and that went out the window at some point, and really left the rest of the show totally pointless from the sounds of it.
Artists are touchy
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010So a few weeks back I bumped into a fringe recording artist I had
bought a CD from in the past on Twitter. I tweeted that I was a big
fan, she reciprocated thanks. Then I innocently asked "Hey, I have
your album A and really enjoyed it, just wondering what you would
recommend I pick up next?" She proceeded to go off on me with a 5
tweet rant, saying that if I was a real fan I wouldn't ask such a
stupid question and I should just buy all of the albums and find out
for herself. Not sure if this was what drove her over the edge, but
she proceeded to delete her Twitter account the other day.
In my mind, I got chewed out for showing interest in her work, and
asking her to comment on it. Did I really say something that
offensive? Would you be offended if I asked you something like "Hey,
I really liked 'Wrestling's Made Men', what would you suggest I pick
up next?"
Sounds like she needs money. I tend to be very flattered if anyone actually does buy my book in the bookstore, so I doubt I’d be offended. But then I’ve had people argue that I’m not an artist because I write non-fiction, so who knows.
Michael’s RAW Recap
Monday, May 10th, 2010MICHAEL'S RAW REVIEW
MAY 10, 2010
PITTSBURGH, PA - THE MELON ARENA
- Well, since there is no Impact tonight, I figured I would do a RAW for fun. Real quick though, how could I not predict what would happen to Chicago last night any better. It was almost like 2009 all over again. I still stand by my prediction: Blackhawks in 6 games. Sorry, Scott, don't take it personal.
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