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As you all know, I normally don’t write this blog to kill guys. I don’t want to make it seem like I can do everything they do. I have no delusions on grander. I know that these guys are very special athletes. There are only a few people who can do what they do, and I by no means, believe that I can go on the road 300 nights a year, and become a superstar. But with that being said, I know that everyone who reads my blog is looking for my honest opinion about something I see happening in the business. So with that said, in tonight’s blog I am going to take TNA to task for promoting the referee turned wrestler, Garrett Bischoff. Now some of you are probably wondering, is he related to Eric….well guess what, he is Eric’s son.

Back in late 2010, Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff formed the heel faction, Immortal. During the run of Immortal they had their own ref, Garrett Bischoff. Everything was going smoothly for Immortal back then, they had the World Champion, The Tag Team champions, and The X division Champions. They also had Dixie Carter, TNA President, sign over control of the company to Hogan (this of course was before he became a bad guy). So with them all being on top, there was only one place for them to go….and that was down.

Their final straw was a match between Hogan and Sting. This match would be for total control of TNA, if Hogan won, he would keep control, if Sting won, he would give control back to Carter. To stack the deck in Hogan’s favor, they assigned Garrett to be the ref. Even with the deck stacked against him, Sting pulled off a victory. But how did he do it? Garrett actually turned his back on his father, and his father’s best friend, by calling the match down the middle, and calling for the bell, after Hogan tapped out.

After costing his team, Eric wanted to punish his son. So he put him in the ring in a few matches. Now here is where I start to have a problem. Garrett Bischoff has not lost a match yet. He is not a professional wrestler, but he has beaten one in every single one of his matches. Now don’t get me wrong, he continues to beat the same wrestler, but he is not beating some jobber, he keeps beating a pretty good wrestler in TNA. Gunner, a guy who is super huge and was once their TV Champion. So why on earth would they have their former TV champ, an actual wrestler, loses to a former ref? I just don’t get it. Again, I am not doing this blog to kill Garrett, or TNA, but I just do not understand.

I know everyone has to start somewhere but I don’t get where this is coming from. I am hoping that it is not (or at least not entirely) because he is the son of Eric. Didn’t we see this before? Does anyone remember when David Flair, Ric’s son, tried to wrestle in WCW? He was terrible. And I am sorry to say this, but so is Garrett. It would be different if he was any good what so ever, but he is not. He is a below average athlete, terrible on the mic, he is just not a wrestler. I hope that this is not in TNA’s long term goals, because if it is, I will not be watching. I will stream every episode of Ring of Honor, so I can watch some competitive wrestling.

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Here comes the pain........Again!!!!

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As I was watching wrestling this past week, I saw that WWE is gearing up for their next Pay per View, “Extreme Rules”. One of the main events for that PPV is John Cena vs. Brock Lesnar. I was watching Brock do this interview, and I was telling my wife who Brock Lesnar was. Then I realized that people may not know exactly who Brock Lesnar is. So here we go, this will be a blog about “The Next Big Thing”, “Mr. Here Comes the Pain” Himself, Brock Lesnar.

Lesnar started wrestling early in his life. He wrestled in high school. During his senior year he went undefeated, 33-0. He later attended Bismarck State College, in South Dakota. In 1998 he became the National Junior Collegiate Athletics Association (NJCAA) Heavyweight Champion. He later transferred to the University of Minnesota. In 2000 he won the NCAA Heavyweight Championship. He was a 2-time NJCAA All-American, a 2-time NCAA All-American, and a 2-time Big Ten Conference Champion. After such an illustrious college career, Lesnar signed up with WWE.
In 2000, he started in Ohio Valley Wrestling. There he developed as a wrestler. He was in OVW with all of the stars of today, like John Cena, Randy Orton, Shelton Benjamin, and Batista. Over the next 2 years, he and Benjamin would win the OVW Tag Team Titles. After years of dominance in the OVW, it was time for Lesnar to make the jump up to the big time. WWE.

Lesnar started in 2002 in WWE right after WrestleMania. This was a very interesting time for the company, a time of transition. Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock were no longer the major players in the company that they once were. Shawn Michaels had not come back to the company yet, and the company was getting ready to do their brand extension, where they would have an exclusive roster for each show, meaning the people on Raw, were only wrestlers on Raw, and the people on SmackDown would only wrestle on SmackDown. Lesnar came along and shook up the whole roster. He came to Raw and basically destroyed everyone in his path. From the Hardys, to Rikishi, to Al Snow, even to the immortal Hulk Hogan, he destroyed them all.
In 2002, WWE was trying something new. At the (then annual) King of the Ring PPV, WWE announced that the winner of the tournament would be the #1 contender for the Undisputed WWE Title. Lesnar beat Bubba Ray Dudley and Booker T on Raw. Then at the PPV he defeated Test, and Rob Van Dam. Brock was set to face the WWE Undisputed Champion at Summer Slam. The Rock went on to win the title, and he and Brock were set to fight for the title at Summer Slam.

At Summer Slam “the Next Big Thing” became the Undisputed Champion. He also became the youngest person ever to win the WWE championship. As the Undisputed Champion Lesnar could go on both shows, to defend the title. But Stephanie McMahon signed him to an exclusive contract on SmackDown, making the title no longer Undisputed, and just the WWE Championship.

On SmackDown, Lesnar entered into an instant feud with the Undertaker. They fought for months over the WWE title. They fought at the PPV “Unforgiving”. This match ended in a double disqualification. The next time these two met there would have to be a winner, because this match would be contested in Hell in a Cell. At the “No Mercy” PPV, they had one of the greatest matches I have ever seen. This Hell in a Cell match is the stuff legends are made of. Brock beat Undertaker, and left him in a bloody heap. I don’t think any has ever done that to Taker, so this was the coming out moment for Lesnar.
Next up for Lesnar was the Big Show. They met at Survivor Series where Lesnar would lose the title, by being double crossed by his manager, Paul Heyman. Lesnar was trying to make his way back up to the top of the roster, so he had to win the Royal Rumble. At the Rumble Lesnar won, and was on his way to Mania to wrestle for the WWE title. Lesnar Wrestled Kurt Angle at Mania. They had a great match. Angle was very courageous, because he wrestled with a broken neck, and was going to have surgery after Mania. During their match Lesnar almost killed himself, by trying to do a backflip off of the top rope, but he jammed his neck, and gave himself a concussion. But somehow Lesnar was able to finish the match, and win the title.

For the next year Lesnar would feud with Angle over the WWE Title. Angle would come back from surgery and win the title at the “Vengeance” PPV. Lesnar and Angle would fight for the title again at Summer slam, with Angle winning again. Finally Lesnar regained the title in an Iron Man match on SmackDown. After winning back the title, Lesnar was very dominating beating everyone that came across his path.

Then in 2004 Lesnar started a feud with Goldberg, from Raw. Lesnar went so far as to cost Goldberg the Royal Rumble match, when he gave him an F5 (his signature move), which led to him being thrown out of the ring. This upset Goldberg so much, that he was going to do whatever he could to cost Lesnar his title. At the “No Way Out” PPV, Lesnar had a title against Eddie Guerrero. That night Goldberg speared Lesnar, which aided in Guerrero winning the WWE Title. This led to a match between Goldberg and Lesnar at WrestleMania 20. Lesnar lost this match, and was done with WWE.
His life after WWE has had a lot to do with wrestling and fighting. Lesnar wrestled in Japan, becoming the IWGP champion. He then went out and joined the Ultimate Fighting Champion (UFC) Company. It would not take him long to conquer there also. He joined UFC in 2008, later that year he won the UFC World Heavyweight title. Lesnar was the new champion, but he was not fighting a lot. On November 4th 2009, Lesnar confirmed he was suffering from mononucleosis, and had to take some time off from fighting. When he came back he defeated the interim champion Shane Carwin. In October 2010 Lesnar was defeated for the UFC World Title by Cain Velasquez, and though he had another fight or 2 after that, he never returned to the main spotlight in UFC.
Now Lesnar is back in WWE. He says he came back because wrestling needs him. I am waiting to see. I have not seen Lesnar in the ring for almost 8 years. A lot of his matches in UFC were very short. He was a big guy with a lot of agility, and that helped him in the cage. But in the ring we are looking for guys who can tell stories. We are going to have to have him in 20 or 30 minute matches, like the old Brock Lesnar. I am not saying he can’t do it, I am just saying I hope so. If he can be the guy he was 8 years ago, the next few years in wrestling will be AWESOME!

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Let the fun and games begin!!!!!!

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Well well well……WrestleMania. Need I say more? There were a lot of things that have happened in the last week. Today I will be doing a Mania review and some predictions about the aftermath. I must say I will not be doing a review of every match (because I don’t think you really care about who won the Kelly Kelly tag team match), but I will review the important ones.

The Nontitle Matches: Kane def. Randy Orton. I picked wrong on this match. I figured since Orton was the #1 face on SmackDown, they would have Orton win the match. But for some reason they had Kane win at Mania, but they had Orton win on SmackDown. Doesn’t make any sense to me, but hey, I am not making the decisions in Connecticut. In the other nontitle match, Team Johnny defeated Team Teddy. This was the match to determine the GM of both Raw and SmackDown. Like I thought going in, they had to have the bad guy win the match. We need a GM that seems like he has an agenda, so we can have someone to root against.

The Title Matches: The Big Show defeated Cody Rhodes. I knew this would be the outcome of this match. Rhodes has been pushing Show for about a month now. Always bringing up the fact that Show has not had many Mania moments. He even made a few videos with Show’s Mania failures. So I could tell that this would not be another failure. Show was going to come out on top, and that is exactly what happened. In World Heavyweight Championship Match: Sheamus def. Daniel Bryan. I knew Sheamus would win, I did not know it would take all of 18 seconds. I thought this would be a match where we got to see 2 men who could wrestle. But no, we saw a big guy pretty much have a squash match with the world heavyweight champion. Shouldn’t the champ get more respect than that? Was he injured? Is there something we don’t know about Bryan? I guess we have to stay tuned to find out. In the WWE Championship Match: CM Punk def. Chris Jericho. Now this was a match between 2 of the best wrestlers in the world. This match was everything a Mania title match should be. And although Punk won, I could see this feud continuing for at least another 2 months, so mission accomplished.

Grudge Matches: The Undertaker def. Triple H: 20-0. That is pretty much all that needs to be said. They called this match an end of an era. I guess when they say that, they mean that it is ushering out the last 2 active members of the old WWE. Guys who were there pre attitude era. Guys who have seen them all come and go. And guys who have never left the company (Taker more so than Triple H, since Taker has been there since the 80s). When they say “They don’t make them like this anymore”, these 2 are exactly what they are talking about. This was a little more than just a Mania match; this was a tribute to 2 guys who deserve all of the respect that they have. The Rock def. John Cena: I must say, I do not understand this outcome. Like I said in my blog last week, Rock is going back to Hollywood to do more movies, and Cena is still in WWE. Why would you have one of your main guys for the past almost decade lose to a man that for the past decade has shown up on WWE broadcast in person, what 20 times? I just don’t get it. But with that said, The Rock is the man, and he defeated Cena fair and square in the middle of the ring.

The aftermath: The next night on Raw the Rock came out, and seemed to be (for the 1st time, I might add) genuine. It seemed like he was very excited about the opportunity to perform at Mania again. And in his speech he seemed to appreciate the WWE, the WWE fans, and even John Cena, for allowing him to step back in the ring, and electrify the crowd, like only he can do. Cena on the other hand, wanted to congratulate the Rock face to face on his victory. But instead of the Rock, another former WWE champion made a comeback. Brock Lesner made his long awaited return to the WWE. He said nothing, all he did was come out to the ring, and give an F5 to Cena, and that was it.

It seems that there are a lot of new things happening in WWE lately. This is why I love Mania. There is always something new and exciting for us to talk about. I cannot wait till next Raw to see what happens next.


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It's the most wonderful time of the year!!!!!

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I am sure at this point we all know that this is WrestleMania time. Tonight is the greatest night in pro wrestling. This is the biggest show of the year. And now it is time for me to make predictions for the show tonight. Last year of the real important matches I picked, I went 2-4. Not good at all. So hopefully this year, I will get it together.

Kelly Kelly & Maria Menounos vs. Divas Champion Beth Phoenix & Eve: I really am not excited about this match at all. But I guess they had to do something in the entertainment portion of the night. I believe Kelly Kelly’s team will win. Normally when a nice person from the world of entertainment steps in to the ring, they win; I don’t see tonight being any different. Besides this is not a Diva’s Championship match, so I believe the Maria Menounos, Kelly Kelly team will win.

Randy Orton vs. Kane: This is an interesting match. I have to believe that if Wade Barrett did not hurt himself on Raw a few weeks ago, this would be Barrett and Orton, and not Kane. But injuries are a part of the business. If this were a no holds barred match, I think this could be very entertaining. Even without that I think it will be a good match. Orton is very hot right now, he is the #1 guy on Smackdown, and so I think he will pull it out.

Team Teddy vs. Team Johnny: I am a big fan of Teddy Long. I remember him way back when he was the manager for the NWA World Tag Team champions, Doom. I remember him as a referee, and as a manager in WWE, where he managed Mark Henry. So with that said, it hurts me to say this, but I think team Johnny wins. 1st they have the better all-around team. Henry, Miz, Christian, these are 3 guys who have been champion within the last 12 months. The only person on team Teddy that has been champion was Booker T, and he is semi-retired, and was champ almost 6 years ago. 2nd I think we have to have someone running both shows who people hate. That way we always watch to see if that GM is going to lose his job. And Johnny is hated way more than Teddy.

Intercontinental Champion Cody Rhodes vs. Big Show: This may be an interesting match. As you all know, I have been ringing the bell for Cody Rhodes for a long time. But I have to admit, I am getting sick of him and his gimmick. I enjoyed it when he was “dashing”, and I think he is a good I-C champ, but since he changed the belt design back to the old school design, he has not done anything to bring any prestige to the belt like he said he would. Beside a lot has been made about the Big Show not having a Mania moment. I think tonight will be that moment. Show wins the I-C title tonight.

World Heavyweight Champion Daniel Bryan vs. Sheamus: Rumble winner Sheamus, is challenging the World Heavyweight Champion Daniel Bryan. I think this is a pretty open and shut match. This might be the most open and shut title match since John Cena won his 1st title in 2005. Bryan has been a slimy champ, he hasn’t moved the meter as the champ, and Sheamus has the crowd behind him. So I pick Sheamus in a pretty short match.

WWE Champion CM Punk vs. Chris Jericho: As I was telling one of the followers not too long ago, Punk is still pretty hot right now. I don’t see him losing his title at Mania. Even to Chris Jericho. Again I think this will be a short match with Punk retaining the title.

The Undertaker vs. Triple H (Hell in a Cell Match with special referee Shawn Michaels): Now for everyone who was there or saw the match, you all know that this was the match of Mania (if not the year). So as the time for this year’s Taker match was coming around, and we were all wondering if they have a rematch, how are they going to top last years? Hell in a Cell. With 2 titans of Hell in a Cell. These men have practically popularized this match. They say it will be the end of an era. All of this to me sounds like they are going to end the streak. I just don’t know why they would end it now. Taker’s record at Mania is 19-0, why wouldn’t they make it a nice round number like 20-0 before they end it? And there has been a lot made about the fact that Shawn Michaels will be the special referee. To me all of this is being set up to have Shawn turn on Triple H, and help Taker win and continue the streak. 20-0. Maybe next year it ends.

John Cena vs. The Rock: Even though at this point we will have had 2 world title matches, an IC title match, and Hell in a Cell, this is the Main Event. This is the match we have talked about for an entire year. This is a very important match. For the Rock this will be his chance to come back and show that he is the very best to ever perform at Mania. And for Cena this is the chance for him to get revenge on the Rock for costing him a win at last year’s Mania. Who wins? To me Cena has to win. I know everybody loves the Rock. We all remember him from 10 years ago when he was on Raw and Smackdown every week. But something has changed in a decade. The Rock left WWE, and Cena became the man. Cena has wrestled everyone, and has been the bell cow for the company almost since the beginning. I remember and love the Rock like everyone else, but Cena is right. After Mania, Rock will go on back to Hollywood, and Cena will be on Raw. As a wrestling fan, I want the wrestler to win, not the actor. Let’s Go Cena!!!!!



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