Month: July 2011

 

I haven’t been THIS excited about a PPV since… well I just don’t know. I always look forward to the Royal Rumble and WrestleMania every year regardless of the card, but that’s because they are RR and WM. Looking forward to a “B” PPV is something I haven’t done in a very, VERY long time. Certainly not to the extent I am for this one. Every match on the card bar the divas match interests me. Haven’t even been able to say that for a WM or RR in a long time (maybe even ever tbh).

 

Divas Title Match

Kelly Kelly Vs Brie Bella

Yeah, this is ummm… on the card and stuff. Don’t care. At all.

Winner: Kelly Kelly

The Big Show Vs Mark Henry

On paper this can either look really terrible or pretty good, depending on your thoughts on both men. Personally, I’m a big fan of Show, and while Henry isn’t that great, he CAN be a good Monster Heel when he wants to be. They’ve had a nicely built feud with lots of HATE~! and if they go under 10 minutes and bust out plenty of big moves and try not to slow down too much, it could be an extremely fun brawl.

Winner: The Big Show. Both guys have a chance, but I’m gonna go with iog Show just because Vince is pretty protective of him and while Henry could use the big win I just don’t see them giving it to him.

Smackdown Money in the Bank Ladder Match

Kane Vs Sin Cara Vs Daniel Bryan Vs Wade Barrett Vs Cody Rhodes Vs Sheamus Vs Heath Slater Vs Justin Gabriel

Definitely looking forward to this one. Don’t care for Slater, or Gabriel, Barrett or Cara, and I’m not the biggest fan of Kane (but I kinda like him), but tbh these kinda of matches are usually ALWAYS at least fun. Cara will do his best not to botch some big spots, I’m sure we’ll see a 450 splash from a ladder, and everyone else will probably have some sort of spot that will get a big reaction. Sheamus and Kane will be good power guys (maybe Barrett too…), Daniels and Cody will bump like champions, and everyone else will hopefully not screw up too badly lol. We also have the whole Daniel/Cody feud and the former Corre members involved that can be played off of, and I’m sure DiBiase will show up to help Cody and possibly take a bump too.

Winner: Sheamus. Can’t really see anyone else winning, even if I would personally love to see Bryan or Cody coming out on top.

Raw Money in the Bank Ladder Match

Rey Mysterio Vs Alberto Del Rio Vs Alex Riley Vs Evan Bourne Vs Kofi Kingston Vs The Miz Vs R-Truth Vs Jack Swagger

Again, not fond of a bunch of guys in this (Riley, Kingston, Miz, Truth), but the rest should be able to make up for them sucking. Mysterio can take bumps and do crazy moves, as can Bourne. Kingston will try and hopefully not botch (he’s Raw’s equivalent of Sin cara). Del Rio showed us in his match with Christian that he can have a good ladder match and take bumps too, so having to do less here should mean that he will be fine. Swagger has experience in these matches and even won one (anyone remember that? No? LOL) so he won’t screw up too badly. The other 3? Well, fuck them tbh. Again, like the SD match I’m expecting something fun at least.

Winner: Alberto Del Rio. He won the RR match but didn’t win the title, maybe this time he will. Mysterio doesn’t need the win, and nobody else in the match is remotely credible imo.

World Heavyweight Title Match, If Randy is DQ’d Christian wins the title

Randy Orton Vs Christian

They’ve yet to have a bad match, and its great to see Christian in yet another “main event” at a PPV. Just one thing though… what happened to the whole “if the referee makes a stupid decision Christian gets an immediate rematch”? I get that the original contract was torn up by Sheamus… but like, they just make another. Why remove that rule and JUST add in the DQ stip? Seems retarded to me. Anyways, Christian is going pretty good as a heel (prefer him as a babyface tbh, but he wasn’t getting much mic time when he was), and Orton seems to finally be getting into a grove as a babyface (only taken him about a YEAR), so another good match is near enough a certainty.

Winner: Christian. Yeah, I said it. Christian is winning the title. But that’s not all. I’m also predicting that the SD MITB winner will come down, cash in and win the belt from Christian, causing him to snap even more and continue his crazy “loser heel” gimmick thing he has going lol.

WWE Title Match, If CM Punk leaves with the title, Cena is fired

John Cena Vs CM Punk

Fuck yeah. I’m actually looking forward to a JOHN CENA MATCH. First time since… well there was that one… ummm… I don’t remember. The atmosphere is going to be awesome. Punk is going to be over like a motherfucker, Cena will be booed straight to hell, and its just going to be FUN. These two have proven in Raw matches this year that they have chemistry, and with Punk being as awesome as he is, I can’t see this match being bad by any means unless Cena manages to completely fuck it up, and I don’t see that happening either. Sure, Cena has been extraordinarily average for at least a year now, but against the right guy in the right situation I’m sure he can bust out one of his great performances that we saw on pretty much a weekly basis in 2007 when he had a rather great year despite all the “Cena Hate” going around at the time.

Winner: CM Punk. Yep. Punk is beating Cena for the title. BUT, the whole “If Punk leaves with the title, Cena is fired” is going to come into play. Notice how its not “If Cena loses he is fired”? That’s because Cena doesn’t need to win to keep his job, the title simply needs to remain with a Raw contracted superstar. I know I already used this finish, but I can see the Raw MITB winner showing up and taking the belt from Punk, setting up a nice pre-made angle for SummerSlam between John Cena and (based on my predictions) Albertio Del Rio. I’ve read some rather awesome (and crazy) ideas for the finish of this match, and while some of them are WAY fucking better than my “idea” I just don’t see them happening. Regardless of my prediction coming true or not, WWE had better not screw this up. The Punk angle is white hot atm, and a shitty payoff is the very last thing they need. Give us something special Vince.

Well, I was hoping to write this AFTER posted WWR from last week (a week late lol) and this week (on time), but it seems my internet is taking the piss out of me. Earlier my download speed was non existent basically, while my upload speed was fine. Now my download speed is back up to full and my upload speed is non existent, so I can’t get my videos uploaded just yet. So there ARE done, just sitting here now waiting until I can actually get them online.

 

But that isn’t the big video update I wanted to make. Once the two new videos go online, I will be taking a break from Weekly Wrestling Roundup videos for a little while. Basically, the first 25 episodes (a few “lost” episodes that haven’t been recorded yet included… though they will be seeing the light of day soon…) can be considered Season 1, and when I get back to doing them again, it’ll be Season 2. So I’ll probably stick to doing 25 episodes in a season and then taking a little break every time.

 

The reason I have decided to take a break from them for now is because of 2 things. The first is that I’m waiting on getting a new computer, which will make things go so much more smoothly both on the recording and editing side of things. Sometimes when I do these videos I’m having to record the entire thing 2 or 3 times (never know if the recorded footage is useless until its finished recording), and the editing process can take over 5 hours in total (when things went right for me, it would take me no longer than an hour usually). So I figured I’d save myself the hassle of doing a video every single week now until I get my new PC.

 

The second reason is simply the fact that I have a couple of other projects on the go that I would like to finally get done without always having to concentrate on WWR as well. I still have a Wrestling View video that I originally planned on posting in APRIL that needs to be scripted (again… scripted it once already but its horrible so I’m re-doing it), never mind recorded and edited lol. I also have some written projects that I would really like to get into and maybe finish too, and I’m also working on some big things for my 1 year anniversary in… September I think it is (maybe October… my memory kinda sucks lol). So yeah, I just wanna take a break from WWR so I can get other things organised and scripted and set up, and in a couple of months I’ll be back with WWR. In the mean time I will be posting a ton of written reviews, and I’ll try and get some other videos up as well (PPV predictions, Wrestling View etc).  I will also actually still be scripting WWR every week (I’m already watching the weekly shows, might as well write the script at the same time lol), just not recording and editing footage for them. When I finally return to doing the videos, I will do a special before the new season starts with all the “best” bits from the scripts I write, in a sort of “catch up” style video :).

 

And that’s about it. Hoping to get WWR Episodes 24 and 25 uploaded ASAP once my internet allows it, and then I’ll be spamming the hell out of my site with written reviews and the occasional video!