Can't believe Geriatric Flair is back on my TV. Suppose he needs a few additional paypackets to pay for his son's bail and rehab.



Am I the only one who whinces whenever Umaga throws one of his opponents? They always look loose and sloppy, the wraparound sidewalk slam is a case in point.



Jericho-Mysterio is long, long overdue and, probably, won't be a long feud, considering they look for all the world to be pushing the 'Clash of the egos' feud between the Smackdown Blondes.

Disappointing ECW show last night, and it's very rare that that is the case these days.



Davey Hart Smith v Finlay went 19 minutes, that's too long for a TV match and the crowd burned out.



I stick by my opinion that it's the hidden gem in WWE's locker these days, it's still well worth a watch.

Yep I agree. I have said before that ECW is the one show I would watch a week if I had to. It is consistently good which can not be said for Raw and Smackdown.



I agree this weeks show was not up to it's usual standards though. Either Bourne or Christian have had the 15 minute match for the past month and they can have a great match with anyone, so Smith vs Finlay was always going to let down.

ONS (Extreme Rules) PPV is looking gash already. Orton v Batista in a cage looks alright but those 2 definately don't work against each other. Cena v Big Show in a submission match will probably be the worst of the year with everyone just waiting for Cena to hit the STFU which he couldn't do at JD.

could be a good ppv

This may please Victoria (Lisa Marie Varon) fans - she has signed for TNA so will back on your screens starting this week.



TNA Sacrifice was on last night I'm going to watch it shortly.

I need Bravo fast!

Maybe a little off topic but RWA are running a show in Runcorn on Saturday 30th May.



It's a local promotion in Runcorn that has been running for coming close to 5 years. They run monthly shows and also a weekly training academy. Head trainer for the school is Andy Baker who has trained in pro wrestling for 7 years. 2 of which was spent at Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) which was seen as a main development school for WWE.



Andy's only apperance on WWE TV was as a contestant in Chris Master's "Masterlock Challenge" in 2005 when the WWE recorded Raw in Birmingham.



Andy prides himself on allowing the local community the chance to be given good training and the ability to show off there skills in local shows designed to offer a good level of entertainment at a price that is both affordable and good value.



The Website for the RWA is [urlhttp://www.rwa-wrestling.com[/url



The trailer for the show can be found here [urlhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opr0jj_SHuw[/url



If anyone would be interested in attending please get in touch.



Thanks

Not sure how accurate this is as I don't watch TNA, but I read the other day that last weeks 1hr ECW show had 24 mins of in-ring wrestling while 2hrs of TNA had 17 minutes





Also what is going on with Flair? Is he out of retirement and wrestling again?

I'm being informed by some friends in America (who also happen to be employed by a large sports entertainment company

) that the 2010 HOF is shaping up along with Wrestlemania.



WWE are trying to twist The Rock's arm into one last match at Wrestlemania. He'll be inducted into the HOF quicker if he agrees to a match with John Cena. Cena presented the idea to Vince who agreed in allowing Cena to offer the challenge publicly to The Rock - which is why a lot of news articles are coming out in terms of Cena offering this challenge.



However, part of the suggestion by Cena was that The Rock lost - which would be a bit of a sticky point in getting him to agree. However, it's understood that Cena was overruled on this point.



Now, you'll probably say 'yeh right, talk about crap rumours etc', but the same people were correct when The Rock returned for the Eugene and Coach segment, and the Diva contest which The Rock had a pie segment in.

The Rock V Cena=WOW!

Typos, etc...

Cena is sh*t. Why would the Rock lower himself to that? Stay retired Rock, the WWE has gone downhill rapidly since you left. The only reason this match would be worth it to the Rock, is if he was offered loads of wonga.

Anyone see last night's Raw? OMG Vince's ego took a bruising so he's out to air it on the show.



Raw was ment to come from Denver (I think). However the Denver NBA team (the nuggets

) are in the NBA play offs so they told WWE they couldn't use the arena as they needed it. So Vince got a strop on and spent the first 15 minutes of the show, coming from LA, slating the nuggets and their owner with the usual guys in stupid wigs pretending to be them. Lucky for me I sky+ it because after the first 2minutes of this (which included a video package explaining why vince has his pants all bunched over this) i just had to spin on thru which is how I know the segment lasted 15 minutes.



And they wonder why people call wrestling lowbrow

Just stumbled across the Off The Record shoot-style interviews on that popular video sharing site, worth checking out.

God they're creatively screwed if they gotta fill time with this!

No, they don't have to fill time with nonsense like that, it's Vince's ego that means they do. There are loads of undercard wrestlers that they could have put in that 15 minute slot, but trying to score pathetic points over a perceived slight is far more important than actual wrestling in today's WWE.

So what was McMahon's Million Dollar Mania all aboot?!

Tax dodge and an attempt at grabbing ratings and other media attention

They'd done a bit on this on NASN America, PTI & ATH. Basically Vince and the WWE made a firm booking with the arena in Denver many months ago. The arena and the basketball team are both owned by the same bloke and they were fully aware that the date was in the middle of the NBA play-offs and could possibly be needed if the Nuggets were still involved.



It does appear as though the teams owner thought so little of his teams chances that he was willing to take the booking. Once they did qualify TV then told them that game 4 would clash with Raw. Vince originally told them to do one, he'd made the booking in good faith, they could go play elsewhere. In that regard, he's got a point.



Obviously the rant on Monday night was Vince and his ego getting in the way, and as has been said the time could, and should, have been filled with actual wrestling, but the basic premis of the argument was sound.

Does anyone tune into RAW these days expecting to see any actual wrestling past the promos, backstage stuff, in ring rants and three on one beatdowns?



Still, when you got a roster full of folk who can't actually wrestle and TV time to fill you've got to do something I suppose...

They've got people who can wrestle, they just don't have the right "image" so Vince prefers to push his pet projects, which is basically lumbering non-wrestlers who he thinks look the part.



Oh, and you forgot the obligatory T&A segment in your rundown

Smackdown and ECW are really good for decent in ring action.

Yeah, cos Smackdown is the B show and they've learned from the Paul Heyman run that you don't try and be TOO good and show up the poor writing by certain head creative writers (ie steph) cos if you do you'll just take all the flak for a ppv that was changing without your consent or knowledge and ends up tanking.



And ECW is only there so Vince can prove anything anyone else can do he can do better. Or just ridicule the original product and hope that no-one checks your story