Oct. 03, 2011

* Mark Henry is the best thing in all of U.S. wrestling in 2011. I hated him running away from Orton & his chair after the match though. Nice to know that a Hell in a Cell match can not end a feud!

I'm not sure why no one here seems to use the blog feature anymore, but I wanted to jot some of my random wrestling thoughts lately down. This will be pretty unorganized and focus a lot on current WWE or TNA. Although I'll occasionally hit a nostalgia trip and mention something from years ago. Granted I know full well that I am not as learned as a lot of people here about the history of wrestling. I claim to be nothing but a normal fan with his own random thoughts. Feel free to comment, I just didn't wanna spam up a thread:

* I don't understand why Alberto Del Rio lost the WWE title two weeks ago if he was just going to win it back last night at Hell in a Cell anyway. Same with Beth Phoenix: why not let her win the title in her hometown of Buffalo if you're just going to give her the belt two weeks later anyway?

* Speaking of Beth Phoenix, I'm really glad that the Divas title is off of Kelly² & she held it for way too long. She can't even run the ropes properly & it's completely ridiculous that she's even wrestling, let alone a multi-month champion. At least Trish improved! I'm not sure if women can draw in the States, probably not, but what can draw in wrestling anymore? WWE offering a bunch of different aspects during their show is not a bad thing. They're slowly seemingly bringing the tag division back to relevance. Cody brought back the old IC belt. Why not try to improve the women too? Let Tamina get some work in. Beth/Tamina or Natalia/Tamina. Maybe try to groom AJ Lee as the female Ricky Morton. She's still really green but I think she has a lot of potential and it seems like it would be pretty easy to put sympathy heat on a pretty, small girl. Give little girls a role model too.

* It was noted by someone on, I think DVDVR that John Cena is "the Jason Voorhees of WWE." Now I can't stop picturing him in a hockey mask & it's hilarious. No matter who has the belt, he's going to keep coming. You can't stop him. He'll get you eventually.

* I wish everything in WWE didn't feel like a second-rate rehash of the most popular characters/angles in WWE history. I wish WWE, when trying to recreate things, would at least look farther back in history than like six or seven years ago. Randy Orton is a poor man's Steve Austin with his tweener gimmick. John Cena is the Hulk Hogan style 80's babyface. Punk/HHH is pretty much Austin/McMahon all over again. Although now it's morphing into some sort of weird conspiracy angle featuring like six other people (Miz, Truth, Ace, McMahon(s), Nash). At least it's kinda different that way though.

* I think Kofi/Bourne is a good tag team. Whoever chose the name "Air Boom" should be fired though. Also, they should do more double-team moves, have an actual tag team entrance not just a spliced singles entrance together. Give them matching outfits, not just matching colors and a damn tag team finisher! The Dudleys were super over in large part because The Dudley Death Drop was booked as, well, death. I think they have potential but if WWE treats it half-assed, it'll be viewed as half-assed.

* I really like Booker T. on commentary. He's still learning and makes mistakes, which sometimes make moments a lot more awkward, but he's funny and feels fresh. He had the lines of the night at the PPV last night and on RAW last week. "I had that steak at Denny's this morning!" in reference to Ross saying Sheamus was tougher than a $2 steak.

* Impact Wrestling is doing some good things lately. I think Eric Young and Robbie E. are legitimately funny. The Robert Roode road to the title is fun. I like joker Sting.

* Watching older stuff, I sometimes wish I would have been born about five years earlier. I just turned 30, but I missed a lot of great stuff the first time around in the 80's. I'm a big fan of Nikita Koloff, but I completely missed Magnum TA. I got to see some WCW Muta, but had no access to his Japan stuff. Now as an adult, I can seek it out but it's not the same as seeing it happen at a current state with the eyes of a child. I took for granted how many greats I was watching growing up: DiBiase, Rude, Roberts, Santana, Valentine, Duggan, Steamboat, Perfect, Adonis, Piper, Bad News, Eaton, Morton, Savage, etc.