Oddly enough, I never did an actual rant on this show last year, so with it airing on WWE 24/7 it seems like a good enough time to revisit it.
- Live from Orlando, FL.
- Your hosts are JR, King, Cole, yada yada.
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The SmarK 24/7 Rant for WWE Wrestlemania 24
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009No Way Out
Monday, February 16th, 2009The SmarK Rant for WWE No Way Out 2009
- Live from Seattle, WA
- Your hosts are JR, King, Tazz, Striker, Grisham and Cole.
Jake v. Undertaker
Friday, February 13th, 2009Did Jake Roberts decision to leave after Wrestlemania 8 cause any plans to change, specifically with the Undertaker, or was that always the plan. I just find it strange that they would turn Taker into a face against Roberts after spending all that time helping him torment Savage. It would seem the logical choice would be to have the final Savage/Roberts match at WM 8. Although where that would leave Taker and Flair I have no idea (Taker would probably just squash a jobber).
Warrior's departure did more to screw things up than Jake's did, as they were supposed to do a prolonged Jake v. Warrior feud to play off Jake's heel turn, and they ended up having to turn Savage to be #1 babyface instead. I think the Undertaker turn was just a natural continuation of the reaction he was getting, as there was little point in keeping him a heel by 1992, and squashing Jake at Wrestlemania was as good a way as any to kick off his face run.
The SmarK DVD Rant for Edge: Decade of Decadence
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009The SmarK DVD Rant for Edge: A Decade of Decadence
They totally stole that title from Motley Crue.
- Hosted by Edge (duh). This is another talk-and-show format, although the "documentary" aspect is totally abandoned 10 minutes into the first disc and then never seen again.
Disc One
Edge v. Owen Hart
From the underrated Breakdown '98 PPV. This is in Hamilton, so Owen wears a Toronto Argos jersey to be a real dick. He still gets a pretty sizeable face pop despite that. Owen takes him down with a top wristlock and pounds on the arm, then monkey-flips Edge out of the corner, but Edge lands on his feet and hits a dropkick. Rana and clothesline put Owen on the floor, and Edge fakes a highspot before hitting a baseball slide. Edge dives at him, but Owen catches him with a powerslam on the floor and they head back in, where Owen does some old school flying with a missile dropkick for two. Gut wrench suplex gets two. Backbreaker and neckbreaker get two. Overhead belly to belly gets two. We hit the chinlock and Edge fights up, so Owen uses the Wrestlemania X victory roll for two, which Edge reverses for two. Edge gets a crossbody for two, but Owen gets the enzuigiri gets two. Owen goes up to gloat and Edge brings him down with an inverted powerbomb, then flapjacks him. Neckbreaker gets two for Edge. Edge goes up and Owen moves, but again he plays it up and Edge DDTs him for two. They trade german suplex attempts and Edge gets a northern lights for two. Owen with a german suplex for two. Owen misses a charge and Edge takes him to the top, but Owen blocks it and comes down for the Sharpshooter. Edge reverses that for two. Leg lariat follows, but the mysterious (and long-haired) Christian Cage shows up at ringside and Owen rolls Edge up for the pin at 9:16. Edge was smart and let Owen do the heavy lifting here, as he looked really tentative and nervous with everything. ***
Random wrestling stuff
Thursday, December 4th, 2008How are you buddy?
Long time reader of your colums. Really like the setup you have now.
I was reading through some old posts and I saw you mention that Shawn Michaels was supposed to do the JOB to The Undertaker at Wrestlemania 2000 but HHH had to take his place because Shawn was to messed up to perform. I seemed to have missed this at the time time and was wondering if you could elaborate more on the topic as I thought Shawn had no thoughts of performing between basically Wrestlemania 14 and Summerslam 2002.
It was Wrestlemania X-7, actually, and Shawn wasn't going to wrestle, he was going to interfere and give HHH the win over Undertaker. Then he showed up in no condition to do much of anything and the result was changed to punish HHH, who had basically gone to Vince and vouched for Shawn's sobriety.
If you could pick one guy who could end the streak of The Undertaker at this years Wrestlemania who would it be and why?
I don't think there's any value in ending the streak at this point, but if you HAD to give the win to someone, the only logical choice is John Cena.
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