OOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWW YYYYYEEEEEAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

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I was looking very forward to doing a blog about the great things I have been watching this week in pro wrestling, but on Friday I heard the new, as I’m sure most of you did, that the “Macho Man” Randy Savage was involved in a fatal car accident. So today’s blog will be about him.

Savage, who was born Randall Mario Poffo, was a second generation superstar born into a wrestling family. His father, the late Angelo Poffo, was a wrestler in the NWA back in the 40s. His brother Lanny was also a wrestler. He wrestled in WWE for Angelo but never made it huge like Randy. He wrestled as the Genius and was wrestling with Mr. Perfect. But of course neither of them was as big as the Macho Man.

Macho Man wrestled in Memphis with the AWA in the beginning of his career, until he signed with the WWE. After joining WWE, Savage brought his real wife, Ms. Elizabeth, into the business to be his valet (that is what they called the female managers back then). He began to feud with Tito Santana for the Intercontinental Championship, which Savage went on to win and hold straight through for over a year. He then went to Wrestlemania 3, to wrestle what many call the greatest wrestling match of all time, Macho Man vs. The Dragon. Ricky Steamboat and Randy Savage tore down the house in Detroit over the Intercontinental title, and though Savage didn’t win that night, being a part of this match made him a viable candidate for the biggest prize in pro wrestling, the WWE Championship.

After losing the IC title, Savage began to get a main event push after he and Hulk Hogan became a tag team and called them the “Mega Powers”. As Wrestlemania 4 came around, a lot of things were up in the air, including the WWE title. There was going to be a 14 man tournament and the winner would win the championship. With the likes of Hogan, Andre the Giant, Don “The Rock” (not that Rock) Muraco, and Ricky Steamboat, you could see how Savage would be an afterthought. But after beating 3 guys, and getting help in the final, Savage reached the panicle of his career, and won the WWE title.

After winning the title, he and Hogan continued to work well together as the Mega Powers, for almost a whole year. Then Ms. Elizabeth came in between the 2 men, and at Wrestlemania 5, the men fought for the WWE title. Savage lost, and afterwards dropped Elizabeth as his valet. Later in his WWE career he and Elizabeth reunited, and Savage had one more reign as the Champ, before he left WWE.

After leaving WWE, Savage signed with WCW. When he started in WCW he was just an announcer, but as time went on he was back in the ring. In fact it was almost like a déjà vu for him. He started feuding with Hulk Hogan (who signed a huge deal with WCW), and Ric Flair, who he had a big feud with in WWE leading up to Wrestlemania 8. Later on in his WCW career he joined the NOW, a faction that was formed by Hogan, Scott Hall and Kevin Nash. During his run in WCW he held the WCW world title 4 times, and he helped form a different faction the NOW Wolf pack, which consisted of former NOW members who did not want to follow Hogan.

After leaving WCW, Savage tried his hand in TNA in 2004, but they could not work out an agreement to keep Savage. And beyond wrestling Savage, released a rap (oh yes, I said rap) CD entitled “Be a Man”, including a diss song about Hulk Hogan. Savage has also done a few films, with his most recent main stream film being Spider-Man.

Savage lived a very full life. It was sad to see this life come to an end the way it did on Friday. But as all of us fans know, Macho Man will live forever in our hearts, and in the world of DVDs we can always watch the great moments of his storied career.

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Can someone please speak(for) the Truth?

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As I was watching wrestling this week, I noticed something. A lot of us, who are fans of the business, became fans either in the early to mid 80s, or in the late 90s. For the most part we have been fans before the 2000s, which by most people’s account was not a great decade in the sport of pro wrestling.

But this week I noticed there were a lot of great things going on in wrestling today. A few things in both WWE and TNA. I will do a blog on TNA next week, but there was something I really needed to get off my chest. Again, after watching all of the great things happening in pro wrestling this week, I had to write a blog about what I have seen, that was not so good, and from the title, you have probably figured it out. Today’s blog will be about R-Truth.

I like R-Truth, I think he is a pretty good wrestler, but I would love for someone, anyone, to please talk for him. Truth’s mic skills are just horrible.

Now I have not been following Truth’s career that much. I know he was in WWE back in late 1999, and was gone from the company in 2001. In his 1st stint with the WWE, he really didn’t do anything. I remember watching him and the Road Dogg, form some sort of tag team, where they both came down to the ring rapping, which wasn’t any good at all. Truth was in the 2001 Royal Rumble, and was even the Hardcore Champion, before let go from WWE. So I really didn’t know what he was back then. Didn’t know if he was good enough on the mic to be a superstar.

After leaving WWE he signed with TNA. In TNA he showed a lot of the wrestling world that he could hold his own. He was a two time TNA world champion, and a three time world tag team champion. He was a main event guy in TNA for the 6 years until he re-signed with WWE in 2008.

After coming back to WWE, Truth has been mired in a lower status. We didn’t get a chance to hear him on the mic much. The only time was when he was rapping his theme song. It has taken him almost three years to get into the title picture. He had a reign as the United States champion, but that was for less than a month. And he has not been anywhere near the title, until this past month.

On a recent episode of Monday Night RAW, Truth was named co-number one contender for the WWE championship. This was a good thing. As you all know, I like to see new guys in the title picture. Even if they don’t win, it is a big boost to the business to not have the same guys wearing the title. So the next week Truth comes on, and I realize why it has taken him so long to be in the main event. He is still no good on the mic. He had a monologue which none of the fans got into. Then he was interrupted by his friend John Morrison, and put his title shot on the line, and lost. But even better for his career, he turned on his friend, and became a heel (bad guy). But again, when he was on the mic, he really was bad.

I think this next year could be great for Truth. He could be a main player in the WWE for this next year. There is some much he can do in the ring, and with him being a heel, he can push the envelope as much as he wants. But I think he will not make it in the business (especially in WWE) if he does not have anyone to speak for him. Vickie Guerrero, Michael Cole, hell bring Bobby The Brain Heenan back, please just get someone to talk for him, and let him do what he does best…….wrestle.


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Just as I was about to write all about Christian

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If you did not know from the title, this week’s blog is about Christian losing the World Heavyweight Championship, The New World Champ, Randy Orton, and how that shapes out for the WWE going into the summer.


1st let’s start with Christian. My mind was set on writing a blog all about Christian and his finally winning a World Championship in WWE. But after watching Smackdown on Friday, that has all changed. Though he was only Champion for 2 days (I know Smackdown airs on Friday’s, but its taped on Tuesdays), I want to congratulate him on winning the big one in WWE. This was not his first world title. Back in February of 2006, when he worked for TNA he won his first World title. And that reign was longer than his most recent one (even though back when he won it, he beat Jeff Jarrett, who at the time was the owner of TNA, and never let anyone hold the belt for too long). So Christian is no stranger to being a champion, but him winning in WWE after being in the company, leaving then coming back, it was like vindication for him, I’m sure.


Now moving on to Randy Orton. We all know Randy’s story. He was with the group Evolution. And at 24 years old, he won his 1st world title. Later in his career, he became a super heel (bad guy), and would kick people in the head, and hit the RKO (that is his finishing move) on anyone at any time. He had an outstanding feud with John Cena back in 2009. He was my favorite wrestler at the time. Then all of a sudden, even as a heel, the fans started to like Orton, and started cheer for him, whenever he did anything. But instead of keeping him as a bad guy, WWE turned him in to a good guy, and I don’t think that is working for him. I think this character is very limiting to Randy. He is not Cena, he can carry being a heel, where as a guy like Cena, just cannot.


What does this mean for the world title, and the WWE going in to the summer? I’m not quite sure. Now that the WWE draft has taken place, and the rosters are set, it looks like we have new guys who are going to get a chance to be stars. Just this past week, on the same smackdown where we had a world title match, we also had Mark Henry come out and make his intentions of being a challenger for the title, known. Henry has never been a champion, and it was good to some new blood in the mix. Even Christian being champion was great because he was a guy who has never been to the top of the mountain in WWE. With a proven champion like Orton on smackdown with the world title, I think he can elevate these guys to take the place of the most recently retired Shawn Michaels, and Edge.



With a new World Champion, Smackdown may be turning the corner and become a big time brand for WWE.


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Is their biggest stength becoming their biggest weakness?

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I was paying very close attention to TNA for the last few weeks. I have been doing this for a few reasons. One reason is because leading up to Wrestlemania, I did a lot of writing about WWE. Even after Mania, I did a Mania wrap up blog. So I wanted to do a lot more writing about things happening outside of WWE. Two, is because I want to bring light to the other companies. I can watch TNA every week, so it is easy for me to keep up with them, but I try to read as much about Ring of Honor and the NWA as I can. So for these reasons I have been paying attention to TNA.

That being said, as I have been watching TNA, something came to my mind. I have been watching great matches between Beer Money, and Gunner and Murphy. There was also a 4 corners match between tag team partners. Then I watched Bully Ray, Matt Hardy, and Abyss vs. Fortune. I even watched a little (and I do mean a little) bit of the Knockout (Women) matches. As I finished watching all of these matches I wondered to myself, is TNA doing themselves a disservice by showcasing all of their great wrestlers throughout the show, only to slow down the show with the World Championship.

I think by now, you all know me well, and know how I feel about the World Title of any company in pro wrestling. But if you don’t, here goes. I think the World Heavyweight Championship (in all companies, and the WWE Championship) is the most important part of a company. The champ is the driver of the bus, the captain of the ship, and to steal a line from, maybe the greatest world champ of all time, Ric Flair, the champ is the dealer. So as you can see, I think the champ is the one.

But in TNA for as long as I have been paying attention (which admittedly is only for about the last 4-5 years), I think that there has only been two people to hold their world title, who you would consider to be the best most exciting guys on their roster. Two people whom you would say are on top of their game. Two people who made you care about that title, and they are Kurt Angel, and AJ Styles. Other than those two, the world championship has been worn by guys, who though they may be good guys and respected back stage or even by fans, they are not guys I would say are driving the bus.

I think TNA could do themselves a lot of good by breaking up some of their tag teams, and making those guys the new superstars. I know they have the best tag team wrestlers in the business, but as we all know, some of the best world champions in this business have started out as tag team champions. I have no problem with Sting as a person (I haven’t heard anything bad about him business wise) or as a wrestler. And I loved him 20 years ago when he was starting, but how many times do I need to see him with the championship.

I think if they broke up the British Invasion (Doug Williams/Brutus Magnus), Inc. Inc. (Jesse Neal/Shannon Moore), the Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley/Chris Saban), and Beer Money (Robert Rude/James Storm), you would have 8 guys who will be able to carry this company into their next 10 years, as far as being single competitors, and even being the World Heavyweight Champion.
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Thank You Edge!!!!!!!

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I am sorry I did not do a blog last week. After Wrestlemania, and all that comes with it, I needed to take a weekend off. And I know I am late, but I will have my Mania pictures up this week, I promise (and if you missed me on the radio, you can drop me an e-mail, and I will send you a copy).


Now that that is all out of the way let’s get into wrestling. I know I have been very WWE focused lately with Mania coming around, and I have not mentioned a lot about TNA. I planned to make this blog all about TNA, but I would be remised to not talk about Edge and his abrupt retirement.


On Monday Night Raw, this past week, Edge came out in front of the fans, and retired, sighting injures over the past almost 20 years in the business. He was feeling pain and numbness in his arms and a loss of feeling in them. This is being called Cervical Spinal Stenosis.


Edge started his career back in 1992, on the independent circuit. He was traveling around Canada doing the Indys for years, until he made it to the WWE in 1998. From his WWE debut, he was a small time wrestler, who would always run through the crowd, and excite the fans. Later he and his best friend (WWE wrestler) Christian, and another wrestler, Gangrel,came together to form a wrestling faction named the Brood.


Edge would find singles success in 1999, winning his 1st Intercontinental Championship. This would not be the last title Edge would win. Though they dropped Gangrel, Edge and Christian went on to become a very accomplished tag team, winning the WWE World Tag Team Championships 7 times. The team stayed together until 2001, when both decided to focus on being singles competitors.


Edge became an up and coming superstar, winning back the Intercontinental title, the WCW US title, when they invaded the WWE, and even the King of the Ring Tournament, before he went down in 2003 with a neck injury. He was kept off of TV for a whole year.


Coming back in 2004, Edge won another IC title, World Tag Team Title; he even won the 1st Money in the Bank ladder match, guaranteeing him a World Title match. They even put his business on TV, when they brought up the fact that Lita, who was dating Matt Hardy at the time, and Edge were having an affair. Edge also started to change as a performer. The Entire time he was in WWE he was a baby face (good guy), until he came back from the injury. Then he turned heel (bad guy). He did everything in the WWE except win a World Championship till 2006.


Edge became the WWE champion after the New Year’s Revolution pay per view, after John Cena competed in the Elimination Chamber match. Though this was not a very long title reign, it would prove not to be his last. Edge would go on to win 10 more Championship, and the World Tag Team Titles, again. But on July 3rd 2009, Edge suffered an Achilles tendon injury.


And now, because of all of the injuries over an almost 20 year career, it is hard to see him go. But he said on Monday, he would not trade it for anything, and as a fan, I would still watch Edge entertain me. Good Luck Edge!


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In my opinion

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I know I normally do just one blog a week, but since last night was Wrestlemania, I think I should do a blog about what I saw.

And you guys know I do not like to kill anyone writing this blog. That is not the reason why I started writing, but I think I should tell you what I saw that was good, and what I did not understand. Maybe you can tell me what you think, and even if you have heard something that I didn’t, you can let me know.

I will start off with the things I did not like very much, and end up with the things I liked. So as I walk in to the Georgia Dome and head to my seat, I am listening to what sounds like the announcer, and he is calling wrestlers names out. I think to myself, “that’s no big deal, I didn’t want to watch any of the dark matches anyway”. But when I look to see who is wrestling I see Sheamus, and Daniel Bryan. It was 6:15; I thought the show did not start till 6:30. And furthermore I thought this was going to be a title match, between two guys who are getting some good heat from the fans, why would you put this on the pre-show. Why advertise the match, if you were going to make hit happen before people were in the building.

The first match of the night……..The World Heavyweight Championship. Yes you are reading this correctly. The World title match was the first match. Alberto Del Rio won the Royal Rumble. Edge is an 11 time world champion. You think these two would have a great match later on in the card, but no, this was the 1st match. I have no idea why on earth this happened. I am still puzzled about this.

Next I am going to talk about 2 matches that I was looking very forward to, going in. They turned out to be kind of boring, and took too long to get to what we all knew would happen, we all wanted to happen, and what really had to happen. 1st Randy Orton vs. CM Punk. I was looking so forward to this match. They did a great job building it up. I thought, going in to this match with these young guys, we would have a fast paced match. Much to my chagrin, the match was very slow and plotting. It was almost like two old men were wrestling. And although the finish was good, it was very predictable. The other match I was referring to was Jerry “The King” Lawler vs. Michael Cole. This match did almost nothing for, not only me, but nothing for the Miz. This match should have been a 5 minute match. Lawler should have gotten his hands on Cole, and beat the crap out of him. But he struggled. So let me get this straight, this 61 year old man, who gave the WWE champion all he could handle, twice, can’t kick the crap out of this out of shape announcer? Neither match made sense.

I won’t even waste my time talking about the Snooki match.

And ultimately the “Main Event”. It was Wrestlemania, so I did not have a problem with both the Miz, and John Cena having new entrances. If you have seen Cena at any other Mania where he was in the main event, then you know he puts on a show. Last night was no exception. So, the match goes on and the two fight to the outside, and Cena clotheslines the Miz outside, and both men are counted out. Then the Rock comes down and restarts the match, only to then rock-bottom Cena, and cost him the match. I did not understand this at all. Why would the Rock restart to the match, just to hit his move on Cena? Could he not wait till the match was over? Could he have just let the match end like that, and go down, and kick butt on both men, as he did anyway? What was the point of him restarting the match?

I did not understand the lineup for this night. Again you had the World title match 1st. You had the Snooki match next to last. And you had the Undertaker match that had a great build up, not the main event. Also for the 1st time since going to the brand extension, and having 2 main event World title matches for each brand, you did not have a title change. I don’t understand that at all.

So now we move on to the things I loved about the night.

The 8-man tag team match surprised me very much. Although, if you heard me on 790am the zone (in Atlanta) you know I did not have much interest in the match. But it was pretty good. It was just long enough for you to see all of the guys do some of their moves, but not long enough for you to get bored.

Rey Mysterio vs. Cody Rhodes was a pretty good match. We had a young guy (who was from here and got some people to actually cheer for him) get a good win over the vet at Mania. Rhodes is starting to become a big heel. He won this match pretty much on his own (with a little help from a knee brace). He beat one of the men who held the World title last year. I think we are moving Rhodes up the ladder as a singles competitor.

Even though I spoke of things I did not like about either title match, I thought both of the matches themselves were pretty solid. I thought they had enough action to keep the crowd on the edge of their seats.

And last but certainly not least the match of the night, Undertaker vs. Triple H. The streak was extended. This was a back and forth matches between two of the best in the business today. I read somewhere that this Wrestlemania would not have a guy who would be “Mr. Wrestlemania”. I believe we have him. And his name is the Undertaker.

Overall I think it was a great event. I give it a solid B+. The match order and the whole Snooki thing really made me pull down the grade. If they would have changed those, this show would have been an A.

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PS: My personal pictures from Mania will be up soon.

IT'S WRESTLEMANIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello All

This will be a quick blog. In case you have been living under a rock, then you wouldn’t know, but tomorrow is the Show Case of the Immortals, Wrestlemania.

Because I normally do a blog every Sunday night, and since tomorrow I will be at Wrestlemania, I will be doing a prediction blog today (Saturday).

The Core vs. Kane, the Big Show, Santino Marello, and a mystery partner: I am going to go with The Core. The Core has been together for a long time now (all but one of their members are from the original Nexus), and they have been pretty dominate on Smackdown, since they joined that roster.

Sheamus vs. Daniel Bryan

for the United States Championship: Bryan was US champion for a while, until he lost his title to Sheamus on an episode of Raw a few weeks ago. I am picking Sheamus. He is a 2 time WWE Champion, and last year he was in a big match with Triple H. So I think he is a bigger star than Bryan.

Snooki, Trish Stratus, and John Morrison vs. Dolph Ziggler, Laycool, and Vicki Guerreo: I so couldn’t care less about this match. I hope it is not long. I will go with the team of Snooki Trish and Morrison, because I think the WWE brought Snooki in to look good, not to get beat up.

Rey Mysterio vs. Cody Rhodes: In this match if Rey loses, he will have to lose his mask. I really doubt that the WWE will disrespect Rey the way the WCW did, and make him unmask, so I am going to pick Rey to win this match.

Randy Orton vs. CM Punk: This could be the match of the night. These two have built up a great rapport. They have been going back and forth with each other, since the end of last year. I really don’t know who is going to pull this one off. I am going to go with Orton, but only because he is one of my favorite wrestlers, and has been for about 5 years, but I could see it going either way.

Jerry Lawler vs. Michael Cole: I have the opposite feeling about this match than I do about the Snooki one. This is a match between a retired wrestler, and a never been wrestler. But the build for this match has been excellent. They have been building on this one since late last year also. And Cole has been hitting Lawler below the belt; costing him championships, bringing his family into it. I am picking Lawler, because we have all gotten tired of Cole.

Triple H vs. Undertaker: This is going to be a barn burner (as good ole JR would say). These guys have both been out for at least 6-months, and even though they have been back for about a month promoting their match, they have not wrestled. This is going to be a good match. I think WWE spoiled my prediction, because I was going to say that Shawn Michaels would come back, and cost Triple H the match, saying “If I can’t beat Taker, I am not going to let my best friend do it”. So with that said Taker runs his streak to 19-0.

John Cena vs. the Miz for the WWE Championship: I am looking forward to this. Not because of the match, which I believe will be a 3.5-4 star match, but because the Rock, and Cena have been entertaining me since the Rock came back at the beginning of March. I really believe that, even though the Rock and Cena have been feuding, and Cena gave an attitude adjustment to the Rock, I think the Rock will help Cena win the title.

Edge vs. Alberto Del Rio for the World Heavyweight Championship: I don’t really have a good feeling about this match. On one hand the WWE doesn’t like to give a heel the championship at Wrestlemania (i.e. Randy Orton at Mania 25). But I don’t see the company letting the Royal Rumble winner lose the main event at Mania for the 4th year in a row. I believe they will let Edge win, just to have him lose the title on Smackdown on Friday. But I could also see Christian costing Edge the title. But if I had to give my opinion, I think we will have a new World Heavyweight Champion.


I hope you all have enjoyed this blog. Next week, I will do a regular one. And I will be uploading my pictures from Mania.


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