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‘Survivor Series’ Review: a Good Show with Some Odd Surprises
November 19th, 2012 at 12:43 PM
***PHOTO1***'Survivor Series' was one of the most solid nights of content that WWE has produced in some time. Every match basically delivered on expectations, there was a twist that will interest Internet fans (although the casual fan has no way of understanding it), and even the filler "bonus" match was...

‘Survivor Series’ Preview: Can CM Punk Hold the Title for a Year?
November 18th, 2012 at 12:39 PM
***PHOTO1***'Survivor Series' from Indianapolis, IN promises a little bit of everything: a traditional elimination match, a fairly intriguing title match, and a potential for some big surprises. It's enough to almost make one forget that only five matches have been announced for the main card. Hey, when ten people from...

‘Hell in a Cell’ Review: a Lot of Filler, but the Show Mostly Satisfied
October 29th, 2012 at 11:50 AM
***PHOTO1***It would be a bit of a stretch to suggest that 'Hell in a Cell' was a great show, but considering how weak the card was, it's equally difficult to say that it disappointed. There was some decent wrestling and a few genuine surprises. It just seems fair to say...

‘Hell in a Cell’ Preview: Can CM Punk Overcome Ryback?
October 27th, 2012 at 7:13 PM
***PHOTO1***"Hell in a Cell" emanates from Atlanta, GA, this year and only features one match that lives up to the name of the show. But it's a doozy. With only six announced matches, the card definitely looks thin, but the intrigue comes in the form of the fact that the...

World Heavyweight Championship Reigns That Shouldn’t Have Happened Part Three of Three
September 21st, 2012 at 11:54 AM
***PHOTO1***Jeff Hardy (July 26, 2009 vs. CM Punk) This one holds special importance, as this writer attended this perplexing title change first hand. Punk had been slowly turning heel against The Charismatic Enigma (stupid moniker, by the way), becoming more cowardly, but definitely more compelling, along the way. And as much...

Can John Cena Overcome the Odds Against an Elbow Injury?
September 19th, 2012 at 12:36 AM
***PHOTO1***Anyone who saw John Cena vs. CM Punk at ‘Night of Champions’ can attest to just how thoroughly they tore the house down. Apparently, though, that came with a bit of a price. Aside from giving him a very bloated ankle, the poster boy of the WWE, who hasn’t had...

‘Night of Champions’ Review: Show is a Home Run; CM Punk and John Cena Steal It
September 17th, 2012 at 3:00 PM
***PHOTO1***On paper, ‘Night of Champions’ had a lot of matches that WWE has shown before, but they generally had a lot of build-up behind them, so expecting much of anything was something of a crapshoot. Luckily, most matches delivered and what the fans got was a grade-A pay per view...

‘Night of Champions’ Preview: Every Title is on the Line!
September 15th, 2012 at 11:55 PM
***PHOTO1***'Night of Champions' is here, with, amongst other things, John Cena wrestling as the hometown hero in Boston against the ninth longest-reigning WWE Champion of all time. A show of that magnitude requires no less than the Sports Media 101 PPV Panel: Mark Eddinger, from Motor Sports 101. @WorldRacing101, leading the...

‘Raw’ Reaction: CM Punk in Chicago; Paul Heyman; Champions Interact
September 5th, 2012 at 2:54 PM
***PHOTO1***After reading the results of ‘Raw’ without actually seeing the show, it sounds like WWE put together a fairly compelling three-hour broadcast on Monday. The fact that it was in CM Punk’s hometown of Chicago right as they are trying to make him into their top heel meant that something...

CM Punk’s Heel Turn: It’s Entertaining, but was It a Good Move?
August 31st, 2012 at 9:19 PM
***PHOTO1***While any half-way intelligent wrestling fan could tell that CM Punk was slowly transitioning into a full-fledged heel, said transition allowed his fans to maintain the illusion that he was still a baby face and continue to root for him. In fact, his “tweener” status was extremely interesting, simply because...

‘Raw’ and ‘Smackdown’ Rarely Feel Like Must-see TV
August 29th, 2012 at 1:17 PM
***PHOTO1***There's something intangibly... off about 'Raw' since it's been three hours. Objectively speaking, there has been more good than bad on each episode - with only one or two exceptions, Wrestling 101 has declared all of them as at least "decent", if not good. Sure, the constant recap videos and...

‘Raw’ Review: Triple H, CM Punk, Jerry Lawler Highlight a Solid Show
August 27th, 2012 at 11:17 PM
***PHOTO1***Apparently, 'Summerslam' drew a very large live gate. Given that it was headlined by Brock Lesnar vs. Triple H, WWE will look to get as much as possible out of the angle. With that in mind, it was announced that Triple H would explain his future on 'Raw', and rumor...

The World Heavyweight Championship: Clearly WWE’s “B” World Title
August 22nd, 2012 at 7:30 PM
***PHOTO1***AJ mentioned on 'Raw', this week that she has no power over the World Heavyweight Title because it's Booker T's responsibility on 'Smackdown', which everybody knows is the "B" show. While this has been understood as an unwritten rule for a while, it may have been the first time that...

Potential Opponents for Brock Lesnar: How Do the WWE’s Elite Stack Up?
August 21st, 2012 at 5:40 PM
***PHOTO1***Brock Lesnar's dominant victory over Triple H at 'Summerslam' made it fairly clear that WWE isn't looking to just job him out to anyone with whom they can get him in the ring, and that's a good thing. It also seemed to be a safe assumption that he wouldn't be...

‘Raw’ Review: Post-’Summerslam’ Show is Mostly Solid
August 20th, 2012 at 11:34 PM
***PHOTO1***Love it, hate it, or anything in-between, 'Summerslam' gave a fairly strong indication of where the major story lines are going. So it was likely that tonight's 'Raw' from Fresno, California wasn't going to contain many surprises. Still, as any wrestling fan knows, predictability isn't always a bad thing. What...

‘Summerslam’ Review: WWE Gives a Lot of ‘Good’, but No ‘Great’
August 20th, 2012 at 1:24 AM
***PHOTO1***'Summerslam' 2012 from Los Angeles can be summed up as follows: everything was at least decent, but nothing was special. There was not a single "great" match, nor was there a single "lousy" one. And, though, in a lot of ways, it felt like WWE played it safe, the winners...

‘Summerslam’ Predictions: the Sports Media 101 PPV Panel Returns
August 18th, 2012 at 8:08 PM
***PHOTO1***It’s just about time for the 25th anniversary of WWE’s biggest party of the summer, ‘Summerslam', from Los Angeles! For years, it seems to be a running trend to build up and impressive-sounding card and then deliver a disappointing show, but this year, well… the card doesn’t sound too impressive....

Five Big Flaws in WWE’s ‘Summerslam’ Card
August 14th, 2012 at 4:08 PM
***PHOTO1***This Sunday's 'Summerslam' event has a few matches that matter: despite all the flaws in the build-up, Triple H vs. Brock Lesnar feels like a big match, CM Punk vs. John Cena vs. Big Show is driven by Punk's unpredictable character development, and Dolph Ziggler vs. Chris Jericho is likely...

‘Raw’ Review: Awkwardly Paced Show Does Little to Sell ‘Summerslam’
August 13th, 2012 at 11:13 PM
***PHOTO1***The 25th Anniversary of the "Biggest Party of the Summer" is six days away, which means that tonight is 'Raw'! Going into the show, the things on which the WWE Universe could count included Brock Lesnar coming after Shawn Michaels in some capacity and "CM Punk vs. Big Show" to...

Kevin Nash Bashes Smaller Wrestlers; Chris Jericho and Jim Ross Respond
August 8th, 2012 at 11:44 PM
***PHOTO1***The Internet wrestling world lobbed reporters a softball in the form of a Kevin Nash interview where the former World Champion had some controversial comments on the state of the business: "When Benoit and Guerrero hugged [at the end of WrestleMania XX], that was the end of the business," Nash says....