Whoa-oh
Best: Punk and Rhodes vs. Mysterio and Orton, Sort Of
Two of my favorite wrestlers teaming up against guys they hate. I’ll let you figure out which team you think I’m talking about.
I like all four of these guys in the ring most of the time. Mysterio can get kind of predictable with his headscissors that defy physics by sending you off toward the second rope no matter where he’s spinning, and Orton can go from great to really awfully bad in no time, but like I said, most of the time I enjoy watching them wrestle. I also like Raw having wrestling matches, especially tag team matches, ESPECIALLY tag team matches that go longer than ten minutes. So this was a lay-up for a Best and Worst “Best.”
But because I can’t really seem to commit to anything this week,
Worst: Mild Disappointment
This was mostly annoying for me. Some reasons were valid, some weren’t. Two commercial breaks was a big one. I’ve never understood the production call of filming people walking and talking to each other backstage, but cutting away whenever wrestling happens, a chinlock is applied or someone falls/jumps to the outside. Crash to break is a son of a bitch.
I also didn’t like how CM Punk stayed on the outside for most of the match. They didn’t even really play it up as Punk being injured or scared of anyone, he just didn’t do a lot. It ended up playing out as a handicap match, down to Rhodes getting hit with two finishers and put away like a chump.
And, well… there was the Mysterio/Orton team. I guess it’s good that Mysterio forgave him for all that “Eddie Guerrero is in Hell” stuff from a few years ago. I know history isn’t important to anybody anymore, but a brief little segment beforehand where Mysterio is all “hey, I don’t like or trust you but you’re good in the ring and we have a common enemy so we are tag team partners tonight” thing with Orton snake-facing and being all “YOU SHOULDN’T TRUST ME” tilde-bang would’ve been enough. Instead, they won the match with a tandem finish and exchanged bro handshakes.
Like I said, mild disappointment.
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Don’t know how you can sit through a match with Sheamus, the glare off that pasty bastard is blinding.
Seriously though, he looks creepier than Goldust and Vicera combined. Never thought I’d say this about a pro wrestler, but that guy needs to hit the spray on tan harder.
I’m surprised they were able to find enough Valtrex to scrub the ring with in so short a time.
The best was when Miz called the afroed dude “Buckwheat”
ALSO, one thing to remember is that the WWE couldn’t be trusted to give us a money payoff for the EASIEST angle ever to give us a money payoff (Cole/Lawler). How am I going to trust them to give me a payoff for a 12 month build?
HEY GUYS ITS THE ROCK AND HES MAD
amazing
Oh yeah, did anyone else imagine Vince screaming in Booker’s headset to shut up when he remarked that John Morrison probably didn’t get all of Starship Pain?
@TH ha, yeah, at this point you know the production team sees Morrison setting up for Starship Pain and is all “sighhhhh shoot it from over Vickie’s shoulder.”
*has spikey hair*
*jobs to Great Khali*
Are you gonna tell me your favorite match DOESN’T feature Judah Friedlander as the world’s worst Joel Gertner?
Cena/Rock as a storyline is just the worst. The WM27 main event was DESTROYED to make way for the next year’s. No one is paying $60 to see an advertisement for 2012′s show.
@TH Yup. “Keep those details out of it, damnit!”
I’ve never seen the greatest match of all time before. Thank you for introducing me to it, I can die a happy man now.
The intro for Judah Friedlander was pretty damn funny though.
Now I’m a pretty patient guy,but who the hell is gonna care about the Cena/Rock beef a year from now? Cena should have told him “now or never”,and then punched him in the jaw. Also,Sin Cara’s debut was pretty sweet. It would be refreshing to see some more matches and downplaying all the in-ring trashtalk/backstage beef sessions. That shits gotten real old.
Orton/Mysterio/Punk/Rhodes was more than just mildly disappointing for me. I really Really REALLY wanted Cody to take a punt, just to solidify his imagined disfigurement. Also, not really mentioned, but Tough Enough is a lot better than I expected. Austin FTW.
It looked to me like there was almost a Shockmaster kick-off to Sin Cara – did he just barely clear the top rope, or actually skim it and not make a “smooth” dive?
The intro to this article is kind of the best thing ever.
Am I the only one who got fucking crazy chills when Miz+Cena ALMOST won the tag team belts right before facing off at wrestlemania? i thought that would have been awesome. I still want to see some superstaresque teams show up… Rock+Cena, Edge+Christian, Miz+Rhodes?/Punk?/Orton?
@BRandon: I think you cursed Stone Cold the other day. He dropped at least two beers. It looked like he couldn’t believe it was happening either, at least going by the look on his face toward the end of the segment.
Does nobody in WWE know any Spanish besides those announcers? Cole and Matthews constantly saying Sin Care-uh was annoying as hell. If you’re going to spend weeks marketing this new international superstar, don’t you think you should learn to pronounce his name correctly? Also, just go ahead and set Cole on fire. He doesn’t even do heel commentary well, since he doesn’t do it across the board. He just stays on Miz’s, Punk’s, and his own nuts the whole time. Lawler was the master, Cole doesn’t have a clue how to do this right.