WWE NXT 09/05/12 Richie Steamboat defeats Kassius Ohno by DQ when Ohno rakes Steamboat’s eyes. Ohno attacks Steamboat after the match. Paige defeats Audrey Marie using a modified ddt. Ricky Steamboat has an altercation with Kassius Ohno. Leo Kruger defeats Percy Watson using a modified neckbreaker(looked more like a diamond cutter). Brodus Clay squashes Ryan Collins. The Ascension defeat the Usos when Cameron pins Jey Uso after a modified jawbreaker. Jim Ross interviews new NXT Champion Seth Rollins to close the show. Rollins talks… [Continue Reading]

The 2012 WWE SummerSlam pre-show kicks off with Matt Striker and Scott Stanford at ringside. They plug tonight’s pre-show match as fans continue to pile into the Staples Center in Los Angeles. More hype for tonight’s matches. We go to a video for the WWE Title match. – Josh Mathews is backstage with Big Show. Show cuts him off and says tonight isn’t a Triple Threat. The only threat in the match is him. Show says he’s a living, breathing, angry giant – not… [Continue Reading]

It’s time for Summerslam! The Smarks are all here this month to share their take on WWE’s annual August spectacular! Let’s get to it! Pre Show US Title Match: Antonio Cesaro vs Santino Marella(c) Ace: I’m predicting Cesaro will steamroll Marella and become the new United States Champion. Yes, it’s a little soon for a guy who just got bumped up onto the main roster, but it’s Claudio Castagnoli. He’s one of the Kings of Wrestling. You can’t ignore talent like that. He plays… [Continue Reading]

Daniel Bryan interferes and causes a DQ finish to CM Punk and Big Show’s match. Show and Bryan attack Punk until Cena makes the save. AJ Lee comes out and books Cena and Punk against Show and Daniel Bryan. ^I love how WWE books a good match to open Raw and nine times out of ten you know it’s just going to be messed with and end up turning into a tag team match later in the night. It’s a booking tactic that should… [Continue Reading]

Tonight’s WWE RAW opens up with the new intro video. We’re live from the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas as Michael Cole welcomes us to RAW. He’s joined by Jerry Lawler. CM Punk vs. Big Show We go right to the ring and out comes WWE Champion CM Punk for a non-title match. Out next comes Big Show as the announcers hype SummerSlam. They lock up and Show overpowers him. Punk fights back and takes Show to the corner with lefts and rights…. [Continue Reading]

Welcome to the final part of my top Summerslam matches! I’ve listed the matches from parts one through four before listing off the official top ten. Enjoy! 50. 1994 – Undertaker vs Undertaker 49. 2008 – CM Punk vs JBL for the World Heavyweight Championship 48. 2003 – Elimination Chamber for the World Heavyweight Championship 47. 1991 – Virgil vs Ted Dibiase for the Million Dollar Championship 46. 2010 – The Nexus vs Team WWE 45. 1993 – Lex Luger vs Yokozuna for the… [Continue Reading]

Welcome to the rundown! There was no FCW posted for this week, so hopefully next week I’ll have a double dose once again! Raw 1001 Final Thoughts: We were treated to seven matches over the course of three hours, and the show in my opinion was solid. I really feel like Summerslam has some good rivalries building up and the push that Daniel Bryan’s character has received is very impressive.  Bryan has turned into one of the most valuable assets WWE has on the… [Continue Reading]

Welcome to part two! I hope you’re all getting excited for the upcoming event! The card for the show is slowly taking shape, and I’m looking forward to finding out how the World Title scene specifically is going to play out this year. Dolph Ziggler has been primed to jump in and become champion, but Sheamus’ reign as champ has been solid and has realistically been threatened by no one. I like the possibilities of the upcoming changes! Now it’s time for another blast… [Continue Reading]

Raw 1000! What more is there to say? I was excited for it, and I’m excited with what’s to come in the future now that it’s over! Let’s get down to business! Vince McMahon comes out and thanks the fans. He introduces DX. Shawn and Hunter come out, and they introduce the rest of DX: X-Pac, Road Dogg, and Billy Gunn. DX cuts their old school promos. Damien Sandow interrupts. Sandow ends up on the receiving end of sweet chin music and a pedigree…. [Continue Reading]

The 1,000th episode of WWE’s Monday Night RAW kicks off with a new intro video. We get another video that looks back at some of the many moments from 1,000 episodes. They also show some of the sadder moments like Eddie Guerrero’s tribute. The video goes on for about 4 minutes and shows a ton of clips. – We’re live from the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri as Michael Cole welcomes us to RAW 1000. He’s joined by Jerry Lawler. – We go… [Continue Reading]

Money in the Bank has passed, and now it’s time to look ahead at Summerslam! This event has largely been considered WWE’s second biggest behind WrestleMania, and the show has produced some of the best and most interesting matches in all of WWE history. Every week from now until Summerslam, I’ll be counting down what I believe are the top fifty matches in the history of WWE’s annual summer spectacular. Enjoy! 50. 1994 – Undertaker vs Undertaker: What better storyline existed in pro wrestling… [Continue Reading]

Sorry about the absence, I’ve been working a lot lately and have only recently found some time off. In our last edition we took a look at things like the 2004 Draft among other things which summed up Raw had taken a huge lead over Smackdown. We’ll now look through the rest of 2004 and into 2005, which in my opinion was the best year during the Brand Extension. WWE Magazine Split and WWE: Smackdown! vs. Raw In 1984 the WWE brought out the… [Continue Reading]

We left our last edition talking about the foundation and early years of the WWE’s Brand Extension in 2002. We’ll continue our look at the Brand Extension by looking at how they improved and evolved the concept through 2003 and into 2004. Roster Changes As I alluded to in Part I, between the original draft in 2002 and the next one in 2004 there were many departures, debuts and returns. Within a year of the draft the WWE lost The Rock, Steve Austin, Scott… [Continue Reading]

We’re live from the Sun Life Stadium in Miami, Florida as Josh Mathews and Matt Striker welcome us to the WrestleMania 28 pre-show. WWE Tag Team Title Match: The Usos vs. Justin Gabriel & Tyson Kidd vs. Primo & Epico We go to the ring and out first comes The Usos with their Samoan entrance. The new team of Justin Gabriel and Tyson Kidd are out next followed by the WWE Tag Team Champions Primo and Epico with Rosa Mendes. One of the Usos,… [Continue Reading]

Ryan: I feel like pulling a Dwayne and hitting a “Finally…” but I’ll refrain. WrestleMania weekend is always a big time, so why not bring back my tag partner, Scheduled For One Fall cohort and, above all, great friend Justin back to help me with these predictions? Justin: It’s been awhile since I retired from the good ol wrestling column game (thanks in large part to the Air Force gobbling up all my free time) but since this is probably going down as the… [Continue Reading]

Original post found at www.illegalforeignobject.com Earlier in the week, a rumor began to circulate that WWE had notified its developmental territory, Florida Championship Wrestling, that it would be severing ties with the promotion. The rumor spread quickly, eventually growing to a level where WWE actually felt compelled to release a statement disputing the report. Triple H called the rumors, “absolutely not true”, and stated the system was going to be revamped, not shut down. If Triple H holds true to his word, an announcement… [Continue Reading]

Tonight’s WWE RAW Supershow kicks off from the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, PA as Michael Cole welcomes us. Jerry Lawler hypes the in-ring confrontation between The Undertaker, Triple H and Shawn Michaels. Cole talks about John Cena vs. Mark Henry as well as The Rock appearing. – We go to the ring and out comes WWE Champion CM Punk. Punk tells everyone that Chris Jericho isn’t here tonight. Punk says Jericho pissed him off last week. Punk starts to bring up his father… [Continue Reading]

Oops… Wrestling’s insider reports are many times accurate, but sometimes can go awry. The dirt sheets get a bad name, and rightfully so sometimes- they’re flat out wrong. This was the case this week when it was reported that ROH stopped wrestlers Adam Cole and The Briscoe Brothers from taking WWE deals. This contradicted the lasting stance ROH officials have had in terms of not getting in the way of letting talent go north. Last night Jay Briscoe, one-half of the Briscoe Brothers responded… [Continue Reading]