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
Thank God we finally got a couple of matches that have me excited about Wrestlemania, AJ Styles and Chris Jericho can put on a 5 star match and Zayn vs Owens should be fun too. I hope the WWE resists the urge to have Zayn win, Kevin Owens is a rocket ship they need to get on and ride to the top of the WWE and a lengthy strong IC title run could go a long way.
The Owens vs Neville match was magical. If the WWE can’t realize that Neville needs to be more involved after this match then they should just let him go so he can catch on somewhere else and have a great career.
The Y2AJ vs New Day was a fantastic match with a great heel turn by Jericho. This is going to make a fantastic Wrestlemania match and could very well, when mixed with the story, be the match of the year.
Ambrose again shone under the spotlight and proves time and time again that he is deserving of the spot as the top face in the company. His fan support, and connection with the fans, is off the charts and he has really good chemistry with Triple H. Chemistry was something that was seriously lacking with Triple H and Reigns.
On Smackdown it was really nice to see a heel Jericho again. I wish they would've explained why he aligned with AJ to begin with. That really made no sense for them to be partners for a couple weeks when he admitted Jericho admitted he didn't like AJ to begin with. Thankfully though it is over and we can move on with AJ in a singles match where he's going to shine a lot better.
NXT
The number one contenders match was fantastic and was able to hold our excitement the full hour which was good. But WWE ruined the ending by having Sami Zayn fight Kevin Owens on Raw. We knew all along that Joe was going to win. The Announcement of Austin Aries having his first match against baron Corbin at Takeover was nice move and something to really start looking forward to Wrestlemania weekend.
TNA
I go back and forth a lot with TNA. Beer Money and the Wolves had an amazing match with Beer Money winning and becoming the new tag team champs so there was the good. Now the bad is a confusing heel turn by Lashley. It’s confusing for a couple of reasons, number 1 didn’t he turn heel two weeks ago at Lockdown when he interrupted and cut a heel promo on Angle and number 2 didn’t he cut a heel promo on Drew Galloway earlier in the night. Hey TNA how about you hold the secrets in a little. Maybe Lashley building up Angle at Lockdown and building up Galloway in the backstage segment would have made this heel turn actual mean something and feel like a surprise
Also it was announced earlier this week that Ken Anderson is officially done with TNA having failed a drug test after a taped match with Eric Young. It'll be interesting to see if this is it for him or if he'll be popping up in the independents soon.
ROH
A fairly weak episode this week. Daniels vs Castle was really the only thing to take away from this show with Castle and Silas Young continuing their feud.
Lucha Underground
Entertaining show this week Marty the Moth may be a waste of air time and we didn’t get enough Jack Evans with only a back stage segment for him. That doesn’t mean that the rest of it was bad though. Cage showed a vicious side in his no DQ battle against Taya and even more so after Johnny Mundo interfered. The Main event was a master piece where Mil Muertes retained his LU Title against Puma and Pentagon Jr. in what is the first 5 star match I’ve ever seen in Lucha Underground.
NJPW
Big week for NJPW with events in three straight days. On Tuesday Tanahashi, Goto and Elgin defeated Okada Ishii and Yoshi-Hashi with Got and Okada continuing their weird little handshake bit. On Wednesday The New Japan Cup rolled on with tag team matches Tanahashi and Goto getting the win over Okada and Ishii while Michael Elgin found himself on the losing side. Then on Thursday Elgin got back in the Win Coloum and we had our third straight night of pitting Tanashi and Goto against Okada and Ishii in 6 man tag matches. Okada at the end of the night stated he wants the winner of the New Japan Cup to come and challenge him.
There were also rumors swirling that the WWE is looking to take a run at signing Okada. It's rumored that "The Rainmaker" signed an exclusive 5 year deal with NJPW but that hasn't been confirmed. We'll have to watch that and see where it goes
Global Force Wrestling
Nothing to note in GFW either. Seems like they haven’t done much since the announcement of the TV deal last week. Hopefully that announcement will start to pay off because GFW has some talent that really needs to be on TV.
That’s all I have for now, be sure to check out my other blogs for movie and TV reviews, sports commentary, and wrestling commentary and event reviews. Follow me on Twitter using the links to the right. Take a look, also, at my articles on The Sportster.
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