Being from the south, I grew up watching professional wrestling and gravitating towards Stone Cold Steve Austin from an early age. From there, I learned to love the craft of wrestling, and from there I learned to hate the WWE. This summer, however, WWE and wrestling as a whole has won me over again. I'm in desperate need to blog about something, and now we are here. Here's my 100% serious wrestling blog.

Undertaker + Katy Perry = Hilarious

If you happened to be watching the NBC re-run of Wrestlemania over Pre-Season football, you probably saw that the WWE edited Wrestlemania quite a bit. The first match aired was the one match that mattered at this years show, Taker vs. HHH. Now, I understand editing down the match for TV time, granted it was a match that lasted for over 20 minutes. I also understand editing the entrances because it takes The Undertaker and HHH a damn half-hour just to get to the ring. But what was incredible about the edited entrances was that they switched the songs out... maybe WWE thought it would earn a bit more main-stream appeal, but it took away from the bad-ass entrance Undertaker had to Johnny Cash. Who did they replace Johnny Cash with, you ask? Katy Perry. No, I'm serious. The dead-man/mysterious/evil/bad-ass character of The Undertaker was dubbed with Katy Perry.

Here's the full original match (It's a goodie).

ROH TV

I got the privilege this summer to go to an Ring Of Honor show. If you don't know, ROH is an indy wrestling company that usually has the best wrestlers before they move up into the "big leagues". Look it up, there are tons of incredible matches. Anyways, now they will be on TV! Fantastic! Here's a clip of their Heavyweight Champion:

SummerSlam predictions

There's four matches on the card tonight. FOUR! Unless Kelly Kelly and Beth Phoenix decides to wrestle a 60 minute five star iron match, I'm guessing there's going to be a handful of filler material. Which is why I highly recommend bootlegging the stream for the PPV tonight and not paying for it. Cee-Lo is scheduled to perform and I'm already predicting that he's going to be booed out of the arena. We have CM Punk/John Cena II and Randy Ortan/Christian V(good Lord...), so these are all matches that we've seen before. I'm sure that Punk/Cena will extend the feud a bit longer, but Christian/Ortan will (finally) wrap up their feud tonight. We also have a Diva's match that nobody cares too much about (It's dumb to have the title on Kelly Kelly, a character who's name is a joke in the first place), and we have Shamus/Mark Henry which shouldn't last too long since Henry gets exhausted just by walking these days.

Kelly Kelly(c) vs. Beth Phoenix

Should Win: Beth Phoenix

Will Win: Beth Phoenix

Why: C'mon... No really... C'mon...

Sheamus vs. Mark Henry

Should Win: Seamus

Will Win: Sheamus

Why: WWE sent Sheamus to do Conan O'Brian before SS, so I guess it would be smart money to have the guy promoting the show be the guy winning the match. Henry's been on a mean streak as of late, and I'm sure that Sheamus will be the wrestler to capitalize on it and be over on Henry. Sheamus actually kind of works as a face wrestler, and I'm sure he will move on to fued against Christian for the World Championship after SumerSlam. Bonus Prediction: The whole "trying to break people's legs" angle to come into play during the match.

Christian (c) vs. Randy Ortan - No Holds Barred

Should Win: Christian

Why: Smackdown, if you haven't noticed, is a wasteland when it comes to heel wrestlers, but it's still hard for me to swallow Christian as a "main event" wrestler, since he was in his prime years ago. I'm guessing that Christian will remain champ for now, and continue on and fued with someone else in the future. Also, this has been Smackdown's main event for the past few months... time to get some new guys in on the mix.

CM Punk (c) vs. John Cena (c) - Guest Ref: HHH

Should Win: CM Punk

Why: CM Punk has got a new contract. CM Punk was given a new licensed song (The same song he used when he wrestled for ROH). CM Punk has given us one of the most legendary promo's of all time this summer. John Cena gains nothing if he becomes WWE Champion again, CM Punk gains everything from it.

CM Punk's entrance at Money In The Bank was one of the most emotional (emotional?) moments I have ever seen on any television show, and the match that followed it delivered as much as it possibly could. It caused Vince McMahon to lose his on-screen job, and it caused an entire shift in the (awful) mind set that the WWE has had over the past six years. It's the hottest thing going on and I'm sure WWE won't screw it up.

Before people give me shit:

Edit 1: You have no idea how much I resisted naming this thing "Wanna Wrastle?"

The thing on NBC last night was a joke. It was awful. They hardly showed anything. I thought they were going to have some behind the scene stories. I was hoping to hear about how the Miz doesn't remember a single thing because he slammed his head on concrete so hard I felt it.

I was thinking the summerslam card was a little light. They mentioned on Smackdown that Daniel Bryan and Wade Barret were going to have a match.

They should have gone with "Hot N Cold".

They actually added a fifth match to the card, Daniel Bryan vs. Wade Barrett.

LOL AT THAT UNDERTAKER ENTRANCE

LIKE SERIOUSLY WHAT THE FUCK

@Milkman said:

They actually added a fifth match to the card, Daniel Bryan vs. Wade Barrett.

news to me!

My boy D. Bryan will end up winning... I hope they stretch this match out though, I haven't seen too much Wade Barrett in singles matches.

but still, five matches is SLIM. Especially when R-Truth vs. Morrison was a given, and there was a hint at a Alex Riley vs. Ziggler match. Both of those matches played out on Raw and there was no signs of continuing it. Also, does the IC title mean anything? Cody Rhodes should have to defend that thing at PPV's. Tag Team Titles has disappeared completely also... :-/

lets go cena

@TurboMan: Five matches does seem slim but I have a feeling they are REALLY going to play up the Punk-Cena match. I wouldn't be surprised if they gave that match like 45 minutes or something crazy like that.

@TurboMan said:

Also, does the IC title mean anything? Cody Rhodes should have to defend that thing at PPV's. Tag Team Titles has disappeared completely also... :-/

You and I both know that neither of those titles have meant anything for years.

@Milkman: True, and I'm sure Ortan/Christian will get around 30+ minutes

Oh fuck, forgot this was on tonight. Hope Beth Phoenix destroys Kelly Kelly, the womens division is a joke now.

If, say, a link to a stream were to appear in my PM inbox, that would be awesome. One can wish.

I wanted The Undertake to wrestle Katy Perry....Shame.

Beth Phoenix is, like, the only Diva I like. I haven't been following it too closely recently, but if Beth Phoenix loses I will be upset.

I grew up watching wrestling too, and I'm from the pacific northwest, so I don't get what you being from the south has to do with anything :P unless you were making a NASCAR blog

I hope punk wins. Also ROH is awesome

I wouldn't be surprised if they added two more matches to the card. I would imagine the Cody Rhodes/Ezekiel Jackson Intercontinental Title rematch would happen at the PPV. I could also see a US Title match between Dolph Ziggler and Alex Riley or a singles match between The Miz and Rey Mysterio (maybe make that last one a tag match, if you want R-Truth and John Morrison involved, but a tag match is probably unlikely).

i haven't watched wrestling in a long time. good times back in the day when wrestling use to be good. all of the wrestlers aren't great like back in the day with stone cold steve austin, the rock, undertaker, kane, the big show, and others.

@Laketown said:

I grew up watching wrestling too, and I'm from the pacific northwest, so I don't get what you being from the south has to do with anything :P unless you were making a NASCAR blog

Because I grew up in Flair Country! WOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

MY TOWN! MY TOWN! MY TOWN!

Pretty good so far. Lets see how these two title matches turn out. Then I'll judge fully.

Edit: Good match with christian orton, but fuck that every one in two orton ppv matches end in an airko.

@agentboolen said:

@TurboMan: I kind of understand the lyrics being somewhat in common with the Undertaker... But yea Katy Perry is squeeky clean teenage pop singer, Undertaker Super Zombie Bad Ass Biker. Just shows that old Vince is getting to old to know what works now a days. For the Summerslam card that does look like a really shitty card. That PPV should be only 2 hours (instead of normal 3) and priced at $19.99 instead of there over $30 price tag. For WWE, its been sucking big time IMO. What they did with CM Punk seems to be there best moments lately, what they did with the Miz... Well that was a cruel Joke that felt like it would never end, huge low in WWE history. I mean really all the guys that deserved to wear that belt (Jake the Snake, Junk Yard Dog, Roddy Piper, Mr. Perfect) just to name a few and never did get it, this was a huge smack in there faces. The only thing that guy has is he can talk, nothing else. I don't know what other wrestling fans think but past couple years I have found TNA to be more fun IMO.

I like the Miz, I want to see more of him. That is all.

I wanted The Undertake to wrestle Katy Perry....Shame.

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The fuck? That ending was retarded. Cenas foot on the rope, Triple H doesn't see it punk wins. Kevin Nash randomly appears and jackknives Punk, ADR cashes in MITB and wins.

that ending was dumb especially with nash coming out of nowhere

@TurboMan said:

It's the hottest thing going on and I'm sure WWE won't screw it up.

Oops.

I liked Nash coming out not sure how i feel about Del Rio winning. They didn't show a replay so I think that will play a factor moving on with the story.

Glad to see Del Rio finally becoming world champ! Love him. Great PPV , IMO.
 
CM Punk will get it back. After all, he's the BEST IN THE WORLD !!!!!!!!!
 
There isn't enough love for Orton in this thread. The guy has amazing in ring abilities!. It seems so natural for him. He should be World Champion !

Del Rio deserved to be champ back at WrestleMania, so this is long overdue for him. 
 
Obviously, in a perfect world, I would rather that Christian still be a champ & that Punk would be a champ too...but at least both Cena & Orton aren't both champs. 1 out of 2 ain't bad.

That ending was some of the craziest shit I've ever seen. There's still something great about watching wrestling and being totally shocked by something. It doesn't happen enough anymore.

Punk is anti-establishment and hates cliques.

Nash and HHH were a part of a backstage power group called 'the Cliq' (or Kliq, depending).

Not really rocket science as to how that ending makes sense, and what it will mean going forward.

I wonder if X-Pac will show up soon?

I thought a lot of the matches were very good but I felt the wrong person (or at least not the person I would have picked) won in a lot of them. The six-man tag match was a total throwaway, filler match but after that, the action was pretty solid. Sheamus and Mark Henry was pretty great, even if the ending was kind of cheap. But I guess this should lead into a bigger feud, which I'm perfectly fine with. Kelly Kelly beating Beth Phoenix however was a fucking travesty. I don't know where they are going with this storyline but her retaining made absolutely no sense at all.

But it was the last three matches where shit really got good. Wade Barrett and Daniel Bryan put on a great show as always, though I definitely was not expecting Barrett to win there. But again, as with Henry and Sheamus, seems like it's just going to lead into a bigger feud and these two should be great working together. Orton and Christian might have been my favorite match of the night. Some awesome spots but also not too spot heavy. Orton winning though is kind of baffling to me. They're just setting up for Christian vs. Orton AGAIN at the next PPV. I think that will be the fourth straight PPV where they've faced each other. It was cool to see Edge anyway. Cena and Punk was a little underwhelming when you put it alongside their match at Money in the Bank but it was still very good. I'm glad the whole thing wasn't just an excuse for Triple H to point at his dick and say "HEY EVERYONE LOOK AT ME". As for that ending...fuck...I don't know what to think.

Look at me. Writing about wrestling on the internet. I should stop.

I fucking hated that Punk beat Cena in the bullshit "ref didn't see the foot on the ropes" ending. I feel that that's ok to do at Backlash, but not in one of your top PPV's (SS, WM, Survivor Series, etc.). Rio is facing Rey Mysterio tomorrow night for the WWE title, so I'm guessing something will happen there and Cena will complain that he never should have lost and we'll have a 4-way at the next PPV.

I like Nash's involvement. We'll have to bare through the inevitable Nash/Punk match, but Kevin Nash is still one of the best on the mic, and he could really be good for Punk's tweener character... and it might side-track Punk for a little while till it's a fued between Punk/HHH.

I hated the Del Rio cash-in at the end at first, but you have to respect the briefcase no matter who uses it.

Punk/Cena II was a great match again, but wasn't better than their perfect first match

Ortan fucking squashed Christian at the end, and Ortan winning made Christian's second title run completely pointless. But very good match between the two, and probably the best match of the night.

Daniel Bryan vs. Wade Barrett was a fantastic match. Made both guys look really good.

Fuck the divas match

Sheamus losing that easily to Henry was a bit of a chin-scratcher... I guess Henry is going to go after Ortan for the Championship? That fued is going to be awful since Ortan isn't talented enough to carry Henry in any kind of main event match.

First match was filler.

overall, really good show.

@TurboMan said:

Before people give me shit:

Edit 1: You have no idea how much I resisted naming this thing "Wanna Wrastle?"

That's gotta be the single saddest video I've ever seen in my life.

I hate that CM Punk isn't the champion anymore because now he will continue to talk way to fucking much. Maybe he'll do some pandering while he's at it. He's good at that.

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Since when does triple H where a suit?

All that for Kevin Nash? Weird.

Christ, that Punk entrance really is incredible. Still gives me chills.

Always nice to see another wrestling fan on the forum, definitely following you.
 
I personally find Summerslam to be completely dull this year with the exception of CM Punk vs Superman Cena.
Also, Christian needs to go back to being face and actually entertaining the crowd instead of being the old creepy guy who wants his young years back.

On an unrelated note.. a mouse was seen on RAW tonight. 
 
  

All that for Kevin Nash? Weird.

Always nice to see another wrestling fan on the forum, definitely following you.  I personally find Summerslam to be completely dull this year with the exception of CM Punk vs Superman Cena. Also, Christian needs to go back to being face and actually entertaining the crowd instead of being the old creepy guy who wants his young years back.

I hate that CM Punk isn't the champion anymore because now he will continue to talk way to fucking much. Maybe he'll do some pandering while he's at it. He's good at that.

On an unrelated note.. a mouse was seen on RAW tonight. 
 
  

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@CL60 said:

On an unrelated note.. a mouse was seen on RAW tonight.

Can't blame the mouse leaving, Cena is annoying when he is given a mic.

Prooven by his crap promo to end this weeks RAW.