Unlike other wrestling results pages, after all let’s face it there are literally thousands of them. We aren’t going to focus so much on the results but give a rundown on what we feel the product is looking like for the week.
WWE
This week in the WWE, we saw the return of Shane-O-Mac who was somewhat violently thrown into a match with the Undertaker at Wrestlemania 32 I’m not going to spend a ton of time on this or any of the other matches that came out on Raw this week. If you want to read that you can check out the blog we put up earlier this week, also our Youtube Channel has a riveting wrestling rant that goes into detail. I’m just going to say that this match is a very bad decision and does nothing to help the WWE or Wrestlemania look good.
Also this week we had a heel turn by the big guy. We’ll have to see how that plays out in the coming weeks but it seems like a move destined for failure since the last time Ryback turned heel it essentially killed all momentum he had.
We've been saying for weeks that we think WWE should cut down the amount of matches on Raw and let the talent work longer matches to show what they can do. They got it half right, we got less matches but not longer ones as Raw was essentially destroyed by promos taking up more than an hour of air time.
We also wish the WWE would move forward with the League of Nations vs New Day because quite frankly we are getting sick of seeing them against the Lucha Dragons on ever damn show.
Its good also to see the Dudley’s as heels, Bubba Ray was probably the best heel in the business during his Bully Ray run with TNA.
It’s confusing what they are doing with the New Day. It seemed like at Fastlane they had made their official face turn but now twice these week they were back to playing the heels.
It’s really great to see the way AJ Styles is being treated with WWE too. So many times we get people who either get promoted to the main roster or come in from somewhere else and get buried. The WWE is going out of their way to give AJ big wins, Make him look incredibly tough by withstanding and breaking the Walls of Jericho more than once, and having people like Jericho talk him up as a real big deal.
NXT
We are really becoming huge fans of what NXT is doing. Corey Graves may be the best heel color guy in the business right now and the storylines tend to move effortlessly. This week we got to see American Alpha, Apollo Crews, and Bayley put on entertaining matches. We also got to see the final match for Bull Dempsey in NXT as he is moving on to bigger and better things. Which is sad because the Bull-Fit stuff was very entertaining.
The number one contender story also gave us something to look forward two as Samoa Joe and Sami Zayn are going to compete in a 2/3 falls match which very well could be a match of the year contender. Samoa Joe is looking revitalized now that he is allowed to be the vicious guy we saw in TNA and all signs are pointing to him winning this match.
TNA
This week we got TNA’s annual Lockdown show from London. We had a couple of really solid performances by EC3 and Beer Money. Otherwise the only thing notable about this episode is a heel turn by Rockstar Spud as he viciously attacked Carter. The only thing that I don’t like about this is that EC3 should be the heavyweight champion not feuding with Spud. Maybe they can fix this though by having Carter feud with a Heel faction ala Stone Cold against the Hart foundation in the late 90’s.
ROH
This week was packed for ROH as they had their weekly program which was a go home show for Friday night’s PPV. The PPV will have a review up later Saturday or early Sunday since we watch it on a delay.
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Roderick Strong, War Machine, BJ Whitmer and the Briscoes were all victorious on this week’s show leading up to the PPV, while the Addiction came out to put the boots to Alex Shelly as Chris Sabin just watched and wouldn’t participate in the beatdown. ACH drug Alex Shelly out of the ring while Daniels and Kaz argued with Sabin. This is a story line can continue to be entertaining. Alex Shelly has been one of the most underrated wrestlers of the last decade and he has such great chemistry with Daniels, Kazarian, and Sabin. Really hoping for a Motor City Machine Guns reunion.
Lucha Underground
The ongoing story with Vampiro and Pentagon Jr is really intriguing. Vampiro makes a great color guy but I’m really enjoying his dark side as well. And “The Plastic Man” Jack Evans is just a treat to watch. Every week he goes out and gives a 4 plus star performance and his over the top heel moves are just plain fun. Thankfully Johnny Mundo got an assist from Taya Valkyrie in his match with Cage because he was really getting stale. Hopefully this livens up his character a little.
NJPW
The Honor Rising event took place this last week in Tokyo with some amazing matches. Matt Sydal wins with Air Sydal which is frankly a thing of beauty. Kyle O’Rielly is a budding star. He teamed with Bobby Fish, Shibata and Goto to take on Bullet Club in a very entertaining match that is worth it to watch for O’Rielly alone. Michael Elgin mentioned that he wants to chase the IWGP Heavyweight belt after his match. Bullet Club picked up a new title too, when Kenny Omega and the Young Bucks defeated The Briscoes and Toru Yano to become the new NEVER Openweight 6 Man Tag Champions. Omega is also the current Intercontinental Champion too so this should be interesting going forward.
Global Force Wrestling
So week this week had nothing going or for GFW fans as a lot of their roster is tied up in other promotions for the week and weekend. ROH is having their 14thAnniversary PPV Friday night and TNA had their Lockdown event in London. Nick Aldis, Sonjay Dutt Christina Von Eerie and The Bollywood Boyz remained the champs.
That’s all I have for now, be sure to check out my other blogs and follow me on Twitter using the links to the right. Take a look, also, at my articles on The Sportster and my YouTube Channel. My podcast with Shane is always a fun listen too as we discuss anything and everything in the world of pop culture.
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