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Early wake up call to pick my brother up. Gonna jet now to get...

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:59 -0500

Early wake up call to pick my brother up. Gonna jet now to get extra sleep.

Cliff's Weekly Superstars Review: March 11, 2010

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:56:34 -0500

Web is off at a grad school open house (good luck!) so I will once again be reviewing SS and SD. Joy of joys. Good news, my brother will be back tomorrow, and already agreed to lend his thoughts to the SmackDown review. Should be fun. He doesn’t religiously follow, but he learned enough from being near me over the years to learn all the important stuff.

* Dolph Ziggler d. Shelton Benjamin by submission
- Ziggler straps on the sleeper hold, and Benjamin passes out in it. The ref stops the match.
Quick take: It is shocking to me that Dolph has a Mania slot, but I guess he has earned it in a way. His unsuccessful attempts for the IC gold were interesting, and yielded some good matches. As for Shelton, it’s a perfect summation of his career. He seems like he’ll ascend all the way up the ladder, but never does. He will forever remain in midcard/lower card hell. Anyway, this match was nothing special, but better than some of the matches we see on Raw on most nights. I mean, finishers were kicked out of, something we never see in meaningless matches like this. Interesting.

* Goldust d. Mike Knox by pinfall
- Goldust wins with the Final Cut.
Quick take: Wow. I don’t know what’s gotten into Goldust lately, but I like it. For whatever reason, he has a fire lit under his ass, and is seriously bringing it. He’s in great shape, and it is showing. Good for him.

* Zack Ryder (with Rosa Mendes) d. Santino Marella by pinfall
- Ryder beats Marella with a Zack Attack.
Quick take: The highlight of this was getting to sing “Oh, Radio.” ‘Nuff said, I think. Lawler spent the whole match telling us how hot he thinks Rosa is. THE WHOLE MATCH. I need to take a cold shower now. One thing I will say for Santino is that his parody of Hulking Out totally invalidates Hulkamania. So that’s nice.

* Batista video package

* Raw Rebound: Cena and Batista be feudin’

* Christian (with Heath Slater) and MVP d. Chavo Guerrero and Carlito (with Michael Tarver)
- Christian pins Guerrero after a Killswitch.
Quick take: A bit sloppy. Good exposure for the rookies to come out with their pros on all the shows like this. I hope Christian is in line for a push, but I won’t hold my breath.

Why do I keep watching a show that has no impact on anything? Why? For you people? Probably.

Bottom line: 5.75

Jeff Hardy almost dies (almost? bah) There are like 30+ pages of...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:05:26 -0500

Jeff Hardy almost dies (almost? bah)

There are like 30+ pages of hits for “Jeff Hardy botch” and “Jeff Hardy sucks” on YouTube. Let’s not start this up again, mmkay?

DanielBryanNXT: Just finished training catch wrestling takedowns with D.H. Smith... Great stuff and different from traditional wrestling.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:48:50 -0500

That tweet is chock full of boss.

Superstars 3/11: Christian/MVP v Guerrero/Carlito Sunset flip....

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:44:19 -0500

Superstars 3/11: Christian/MVP v Guerrero/Carlito

Sunset flip. The pictures on the site for this match are all out of wack, so this concludes the Superstars photos.

Superstars 3/11: Christian/MVP v Guerrero/Carlito Sigh. So...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:43:50 -0500

Superstars 3/11: Christian/MVP v Guerrero/Carlito

Sigh. So severely underutilized. Perhaps that will all change in Phoenix.

Superstars 3/11: Ryder v Marella What did you notice first? The...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:43:06 -0500

Superstars 3/11: Ryder v Marella

What did you notice first? The bulge or Rosa’s lipmarks?

Superstars 3/11: Ryder v Marella Zack Attack, mofo.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:42:49 -0500

Superstars 3/11: Ryder v Marella

Zack Attack, mofo.

Superstars 3/11: Ryder v Marella Santino tries to find a reason...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:42:39 -0500

Superstars 3/11: Ryder v Marella

Santino tries to find a reason we still keep him around.

Superstars 3/11: Goldust v Knox STELLA!

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:41:53 -0500

Superstars 3/11: Goldust v Knox

STELLA!

Superstars 3/11: Goldust v Knox The Final Cut is a pretty badass...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:41:41 -0500

Superstars 3/11: Goldust v Knox

The Final Cut is a pretty badass move.

Superstars 3/11: Ziggler v Benjamin Chioda can’t believe...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:41:00 -0500

Superstars 3/11: Ziggler v Benjamin

Chioda can’t believe we’re pushing Ziggler.

Superstars 3/11: Ziggler v Benjamin Fame Asser.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:40:48 -0500

Superstars 3/11: Ziggler v Benjamin

Fame Asser.

Superstars 3/11: Ziggler v Benjamin Went to a wrestling show,...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:40:40 -0500

Superstars 3/11: Ziggler v Benjamin

Went to a wrestling show, and a dance party broke out.

kayfabe: applebottom: Incubus Green Day Mashup - Jack Conte

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:18:36 -0500

kayfabe:

applebottom:

Incubus Green Day Mashup - Jack Conte

Ain’t No Grave (Gonna Hold this Body Down) - Johnny...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:07:04 -0500

Ain’t No Grave (Gonna Hold this Body Down) - Johnny Cash

Another official WrestleMania 26 theme. This one, however, is strictly for promoting the Shawn Michaels vs Undertaker match. Gives me chills because Cash is the freaking man.

A post show promo from Edge at this week’s SmackDown...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:09:19 -0500

A post show promo from Edge at this week’s SmackDown tapings

It won’t air, so it’s not a spoiler as far as I’m concerned.

Photo

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:03:01 -0500

ROHVideos launches

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:24:18 -0500

Ring of Honor Wrestling is happy to announce the launch of its very own Downloadable DVD Service at www.rohvideos.com. Featuring more than seventy out-of-stock titles from the eight year history of ROH, this service allows fans to finally purchase the events they may have missed their opportunity to buy when the DVD’s were first released.

At ROHVideos.com, fans will pay ONLY $10 each to download any of these otherwise unavailable titles and burn them to DVD’s. You will also receive the cover art to the DVD along with your purchase of the event. Included on this site are “Round Robin Challenge”, “Crowning A Champion”, “Revenge on the Prophecy”, “The Epic Encounter”, “The Battle Lines Are Drawn”, “Joe vs. Punk II”, “Punk The Final Chapter”, “Glory By Honor IV”, “Death Before Dishonor IV”, “Final Battle 2006”, “Glory by Honor VI, Night 2”, “Driven 2008”, and much, much more!

Check out www.rohvideos.com for more information on how you can finally own these out-of-stock titles for yourself!

Full details at http://www.rohwrestling.com/news/article.aspx?id=3284

The website is at www.rohvideos.com

"When people say I’m a legend, I’m comfortable with that. If I’m a legend to you, I..."

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:21:05 -0500

“When people say I’m a legend, I’m comfortable with that. If I’m a legend to you, I get that. You’ve seen me beat the best, you’ve seen me hang in there with the best. Now if I go hang in there with these young guys that really aren’t even proven, I’m not sure you’re going to get that same perspective and the same satisfaction out of RVD that you thought you would. You’ve seen Rob Van Dam beat Big Show, The Rock, Steve Austin, and now you want to see me go over Christopher Daniels and that’s really what you want to see? That’s confusing to me.”

- Rob Van Dam

That’s the spirit!