THIS WEEK IN WRESTLING
By Zach Levine on 10/3/2009 11:45 AM
Aaaand welcome back to the longest running episodic weekly column on PWInsiderXtra history - This Week In Wrestling! My name's Zach Levine, and let's get to all the wrestling goodness this week shall we?
1. Alrighty lets lead off with the Decade of Smackdown celebration. Quite enjoyable show. I like that Eric Escobar's gonna debut after what feels like a year of dark matches. Should give Alex Riley some hope, but I digress. Solid overall show though. The Rock's promo was great, and the Eddie tribute was outstanding. Well done job by all.
2. Real random but have to comment on something that happened in TNA this past week. I think Consequences Creed vomited mid-match, and I'm not sure I can watch another Creed match for a while without thinking bout that. Just a real random ladder match. Between the abruptness of the match, Lethal's random possible heel turn, and Creed blowing chunks after Amazing Red's headscissor slam, strange way to go. Oh, and also want to know whats up with Red not in the Ultimate X match at Bound For Glory, now that he's the #1 contender.
3. Pretty annoyed personally that ECW got left off the pay-per-view this week. For my point of view, I would have liked to seen a bigger build to Christian-Ryder, leading to a match on the show. Least it'd be nice to get them some PPV time. If the Miz can make it on, there's certainly room for Christian.
4. I was thinking this week that DX and Legacy will obviously end their feud after this match on Sunday. Time for 5% chance of happening fantasy booking! Perhaps DX can now move on to a feud with JeriShow for the tag belts. Here's my roundabout thinking. We have DX win the titles at Bragging Rights, face Hart Dynasty at Survivor Series, and Bret Hart makes his return, helping his family win the tag belts while bringing back the long dormant feud between he and HBK.
5. Let's go to an interesting story on RAW this week. So I'm guessing that after 3 months, Chavo realized that he was just having fun with Hornswoggle and now wants to protect him? Real stretch to turn Chavo face, but if that's the way they want to do it, that's fine I guess. Did not see that coming I will say.
6. I'm amazed by the way, after the rant I went on last week, Foley smashed a framed picture over Abyss's head, and the monster didn't bleed? Good lord, way to show restraint Abyss. Glad to see not every week there is plasma being spilled. I can't imagine Monster's Ball being for the weak of heart, I will say that. And I stand by my prior comments, Barbed Wire Massacre 3 by the end of the year.
7. Let's toss in another TNA comment. Weird seeing the World Elite and M.E.M. consistently feuding. Perhaps we're due for a battle royal or elimination match of some point at an upcoming PPV with the two factions. But again, TNA should not be doing a feud with two heel stables. Fans won't be rooting for the World Elite or the Mafia. Might have booked themselves into a corner here.
8. Let's devote a part of this column to ring announcing shall we? I enjoyed Justin Roberts work when he began, but if I'm not mistaken, he's on all three brands now? I know they're on a shortage here, but wow. Least get a backstage announcer, or Santino or Abe Washington to do some introducing. Don't want to overkill the guy here.
9. Going to make some Hell In A Cell predictions right here..... DX over Legacy, Ziggler over Morrison, Jerishow over Reytista, Swagger over Kofi and Miz, Orton over Cena, Alicia over Mickie, and Punk over Taker.
10. And on a personal note, can't tell you how psyched I am as I will actually be in attendance at the Hell In A Cell PPV with a few friends. So 30 minutes on NJ Transit and should be a hell of a night. The only thing that would make it better is if Nigel and Danielson debut during Punk's match, leading to a quasi ROH stable to run Smackdown, but who knows if that'll happen. Hey, a guy can dream can't he?
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