But I'm sure you already knew that!!!!!

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This week’s blog will be a short one, about a specific wrestler. This wrestler is someone I have been watching since a little bit after he came up to the big leagues and joined the WWE. At 1st I didn’t think much of him, as a wrestler, though I love his gimmick.

Then at Wrestlemania, I saw someone dressed as him, and I thought, that is pretty clever. I think he is breaking through, and become a star. So I started to pay more attention to him. He is excellent on the microphone and in the ring; he is pretty good.

Even though he has only been in the company for a little under a calendar year, he has accomplished quite a bit. He has hurt a few WWE superstars, he has won the Royal Rumble, and he was in the Smackdown main event at mania. He is the Mexican aristocrat, Alberto Del Rio.

Del Rio was born in Mexico, intp a wrestling family. His father was a famous luchador wrestler in Mexico. Del Rio also wrestled on the Mexican national team. In 1997 he won 3rd place in the Junior World Championships in the Czech Republic. He won the Central American and Caribbean Games 3 times. He also won a medal at the Pan American Games. He would have competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics, but Mexico team did not have enough money to send the wrestling team.

So from 2000 to 2009, Del Rio competed on the Lucha Libre circuit. He wrestled all throughout Mexico. In 2005 he joined the Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre Company. In CMLL, Del Rio competed for the Light Heavyweight, and the World Heavyweight Championships, within the 1st year. He wrestled Mexican heavyweights like Apolo Dantes, Hector Garza, and Ultimo Guerrero. Finally in 2007 he won the CMLL World title. He would defend that title more in the next year and a half until getting the call from WWE.

In June of 2009 Del Rio signed a contract with WWE. He went down to Florida and wrestled in the FCW (Florida Champion Wrestling), the WWE’s minor leagues. After a year in the FCW, Del Rio was “called up” to one of the main shows. He joined Smackdown. Right after joining Smackdown, he engaged in a feud with another Luchador, Rey Mysterio. He would beat Mysterio on Smackdown, and was off and running. He also put Christian on the shelf for the later part of 2010.

2011 started off with a bang for Del Rio, who won the Rumble. With that win he was thrust in to the main event at Wrestlemania. He chose to fight Edge for the World Heavyweight Championship. The weeks leading up to that match, he and Edge were involved in a very exciting feud. Even though Del Rio was relatively a rookie, having been in the company less than a year, he was holding his own against Edge, a guy who was very much used to being in the main event.

Del Rio came up short at Mania, but that has not stopped his star from shooting to the top of the wrestling world. He is now on Raw which will make him a star. Look what it has done for other guys like him. Remember how the Miz became a star by being placed on Raw. Think about how Sheamus became a two time WWE champion by moving to Raw. I think now that Del Rio is on Raw, he is on schedule to become a huge star.


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Why do we love bad guys?

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So I was watching wrestling this week, and I came across something that I absolutely loved to see. Someone who could not get totally over as a face, turn heel. If you watched Smackdown two weeks ago, then you saw Christian smash Randy Orton in the face with the World Heavyweight title. And if you watched Smackdown this week, then you saw Christian totally turn heel. You saw him say that the fans are the reason he does not have the title anymore, and that he would not perform for them anymore, he would only perform for himself. He even went as far as having Michael Cole speak to the fans because he is not going to talk to them anymore.

Personally I loved this! I think that Christian got a lot of love and respect from the WWE universe (the fans) when he came back to the company. And that’s why they cheered for him. But I think that he is good on the microhpone, and can really make people hate him. So he was born to be a heel. This got me wondering why some guys are just better being heels.

As I thought about this, I wondered why some guys could pull off heel so well, but as soon as they get a chance to be a face, they don’t perform as well. As a face, they have more opportunities to make money selling merchandise, doing public appearances, getting into other forms of media. But as far as their in ring work, and their work on the microphone, it tends to fall short.

Randy Orton was at the hottest point of his career back in 2009. He was enjoying his 3rd and 4th WWE championship reigns, he was in the middle of the biggest feuds the business has seen, and he was having some 5 star matches, if you ask me. Orton was at the top of his game. Then toward the end of that year he lost his title to John Cena, and all of a sudden the fans started to respond to him, even though he was a bad guy. He was kicking people in the head, breaking all the rules, doing whatever it took to win, and/or keep that title. But as soon as the fans starting cheering for him, the WWE changed his whole image, and to me, he has not been the same since. He has not had a great match since 2009.

And now we are on Christian. Back when Edge and Christian were a tag team, they were heels. And when they stopped tag teaming, he was somewhat forgotten, because Edge had all of the potential, but Christian was a heel. Shortly after that he went to TNA. He was a face there, even jumped in to the audience in 2006 after winning the TNA World Title, his 1st ever championship. When he came back to WWE, the fans were so excited to see him back, they have cheered him ever since.

But as a face Christian was very boring. Since returning to the WWE, Christian hasn’t done much. He was on ECW, and even went on to win the ECW title, but that was right before ECW was discontinued. And he has been on Smackdown since then. On Smackdown, Christian has done much to nothing. He did not win any titles. I don’t think he had a championship match. He always fell just short.

That was until he finally won the World Heavyweight Championship at the “Extreme Rules” Pay per view. But even after that he was not very compelling as the champion, and he lost it 5 days later. He tried to regain it, but fell short again. And the whole time he was not worth watching. I was just about ready to give up on him. That was until this week’s Smackdown where he told the fans, that he will not talk to them anymore. And to end the show he bashed Randy Orton in the head again, and coast him his match this week.

One other person whose career totally changed with his heel turn was CM Punk. Punk was a middle of the road superstar. He did win the World Heavyweight title, but he was not someone who we turned on the TV or bought the pay per views to see him perform, even as the champion. But when he turned heel, he got a chance to have a great feud with Jeff Hardy. Then he got a lot more work on the microphone, and we got to see how good he was with a microphone in his hand. It is just something about a guy with a chance to say whatever he wants without having to worry about hurting the fans feelings.

It’s not that I am a bad guy, and like bad guys, but I think that heels have freer reign over their careers than the faces do. They have a chance to get on the microphone, and say whatever they want, whereas the faces have a lot of rules. I don’t know if it is a company thing, or if guys are just not that creative. The best example of a guy who was a face, but acted like a heel, was Stone Cold Steve Austin, and everyone loved him.

I just wish they would give the faces as much freelance ability as they do the heels.

Let them entertain you!!!!!!

Hope everyone had a great Memorial Day, and thought about the many, many men and women who defend our rights here in the USA

Today I want to do something different for me. Normally when I write my blog I write about 1 guy. The only time I have ever written about 2 guys in the same blog, they were in the same company, but today I am going to write about 2 guys in rival organizations, that are very similar, and serve a great purpose, if you ask me. The 2 guys I am talking about today will be Eric Young, and Santino Marella.

I watch wrestling a lot (obviously), and as much as I enjoy the athletic side of it, I also believe that you need to be entertained. And these 2 men are the best at it right now. But they are not just some side show. They are actually very accomplished in their respective organizations.

Santino Marella started in the WWE back in 2006, in the Ohio Valley Wrestling, developmental organization. He quickly worked his way up to the “show”, and was put on Monday Night Raw. On his 1st night on Raw, in Milan Italy, which he is supposedly from, he won the Intercontinental Championship. As most of you know, the IC title is one of the biggest titles in the WWE. Of course, it’s not the World Championship, but for the longest time (and it is finally getting back to this era in my eyes), the IC champ has been the best wrestler in the company. He was the guy who could put on a main event style match, even if he was not in the main event.

Marella lost the title 3 months after winning it, but he did not fall back into the shadows. At Summer Slam, ’08 he regained the IC title. He also started a “relationship” with Beth Phoenix. After this title reign, he lost the belt again, but a few years later in 2010 he and Vladimir Kozlov won the WWE Tag Team Championships. So he is a very notable wrestler.

But more so than that, he is wildly entertaining. When he and Beth Phoenix was an item, he would come out to the ring with her, he would come up with names for them as a group. He has even dressed in an inappropriate bikini. At Wrestlemania 25 he dressed up as a woman, and called himself his own twin sister, and won the 1st ever Ms. Wrestlemania title. When Raw had guest hosts every week he was always doing something very funny with them. He has been a delight to watch.

Eric Young is a TNA Wrestler. He started back in 2004. He quickly won gold when him and Bobby Roode, won the TNA Tag Team Championship. They went on to hold those belts twice, but Young also held the tag titles with Kazarian, Scott Hall and Kevin Nash (don’t ask me how that is possible).

He is not only a tag team wrestler. In 2008 he won the TNA X Division championship (a secondary title in TNA), and he also won the TNA Legends Championship (another secondary title), and renamed it the global title, and this same title was renamed yet again. It is now the TNA TV title, and Young holds that belt.

In 2010, Young was wrestling and took a shot to the head. Ever since then, he has become the guy you just cannot stop watching. He has done things like, teaming with a guy, who I guess is a cross dresser (I don’t know why the guy cross dresses, but, he does), and calling himself his “partner”. He has brought a mannequin out, and thrown it in the ring, while 2 guys were wrestling. He picked the old TNA World Championship Belt (which has not been used since the Jeff Hardy won the title, and redesigned the belt), and has been wearing it around, and calling himself the champ. And he has been getting beat up by bigger guys, just to make us laugh.

These 2 guys are a big reason I watch wrestling. Like I said in the beginning, I love this sport. I have been a fan since I was a little kid. But it is not all about what goes on in the ring. It is about what you can do to keep the fans watching. If you haven’t been watching these guys, next time you see them, please pay attention.

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