Worst: Bullies Don’t Cause Anorexia Angles, They Cause Bulimia Angles
This, in case you’ve forgotten, was Piggy James.
The idea here was that LayCool (may they rest in peace) were mean and jealous, so they started calling Mickie James fat. If you watch the video you will recall that Mickie James had basically the hottest body a human being can have and wore size negative 11 jeans and was not fat. LayCool were going to gang up on her, shove some cake in her mouth and humiliate her. Mickie would get her revenge, beat the bones out of Michelle McCool, and that would be the end of the angle.
The problem is that the Internet got wind of a rumor that WWE was unhappy with Mickie’s weight in real life (because they are psychos), and that gave the stuff on TV a weird stink. Then, when LayCool beat her up and dumped punch on her head, she just knelt there in the ring sobbing , instead of getting up and flipping out and screaming about how she was gonna kick LayCool’s ass, which is what happened in ACW recently when JT Lamotta pulled something similar on Rachel Summerlyn. Rachel stood up for herself, and then at the next show she kicked Lamotta’s ass. Mickie sobbed because she secretly AGREED with LayCool that she was too fat, and nobody on the announce team made a clear enough point that she wasn’t and that LayCool were mean and jealous, and before you knew it LayCool were still on top and Mickie was fired. Because she was fat.
Something similar is starting to go down between Kelly Kelly and the Bella Twins, because the only two things WWE thinks a woman can feel are “I’m better than you” and “I’m prettier than you”. The Bellas (who I need to remind you weigh a combined 80 pounds) ran down Kelly for being too skinny, needing to eat, and for wearing makeup because she has acne. Of course, this angle needs to end at Money in the Bank with Kelly doing her Angry Butthole Rub in Brie’s face, K-Drilling her (or whatever she calls it) into oblivion, then sitting on her chest and eating a yellow bell pepper while “Holla” plays.
That’s what should happen, but I’m not holding my breath. There’s a better chance that Kelly will lose and be fired for being too skinny and sleeping with a bunch of dudes.
Worst: The Way Kelly Kelly Holds a Belt

Seriously, what’s going on with this? It looks too big for her to wear as a belt, and her shoulder isn’t big enough to support it that way, so she’s basically got to hold it out to the side of her body at shoulder height as she walks. Can’t you just wear it like a bandolier? Now we know why Melina was always wearing it like a bra, it was the only place on her body with enough surface area to keep it up.
Best: The Bella Twins are Shoot Hilarious
It’s like watching Paul Rudd stammer through a comedic retort, except in real life. I’m going to pretend like they aren’t just f**king up on the reg and assume they are improv masters, and “Why don’t you get some ProActiv, it worked for Kelly Kelly, I mean Katy Perry, yeah, and except you’re no teenage dream!” is a meta “South Africa, such as” interpretation of WWE micspeak.
Worst: Time to Pack It In, Melina
I think that weird, long intro shot of Melina sitting on the turnbuckles yammering and making faces to apparently nobody is a big neon sign easing us into release. I actually really like Melina, which is weird because I hate John Morrison so much, and personally I think another three or four years of pointless wardrobe changes and show-to-show unpushes is still required for that two years or so when she wore thongs and did splits in a skirt. But the writing is on the Facebook wall, and it doesn’t say “WWE likes this”.
Man, I wish they gave Newberry Medals for excellence in the field of wrestling blogging.
Anyway, I look forward to posing with Melina at Wizard World Austin and hoped she saved up a ton of money, because she seems like a nice person, and I wish her and most of her teeth well on their future endeavors.


I will talk more about Mark Henry racing across the stage like that rhino you can ride in Donkey Kong Country later…
THIS. Forget me volunteering to do a drunk recap of Smackdown Brandon. As long as you write this stuff to make me bust out laughing in the law library, I could never hold a candle.
Watching CM Punk makes me want to listen to Minot Threat.
Also, my brother coached for football at a D3 school against Cena when Cena played at Springfield College.
/cool story bro
*coached football
@UU – Ask him how often Cena gave up, and see if the answer is “never”.
Great stuff. Hell yeah on the Bella Twins and their totally intentional comedy stylings.
“But the writing is on the Facebook wall, and it doesn’t say “WWE likes this”.”
I can’t even believe you made this joke faceticiously, but I laughed anyway.
Goddamn did I love those ice cream bars.
Aside from the poop rug bit, I thought Cena was okay at the end of the show. What I liked best was that Cena and Punk both had valid arguments that did not contradict each other. They’re both “right”, they just have different value systems.
Also of note: Cena can beat someone in less than five moves. So can Kelly Kelly now. If they keep her around (they will totally keep her around), those two could be the 5:95 match to posing-after-match ratio power couple.
As for Serena, she’s busy over in Smash beating wrestlers much better than her, approximately once a month.
@Greene – She’s also busy losing to Five Star Amanda Fox in my state’s awesome American Joshi tournaments.
everything in this review re: punk/cena/mcmahon is dead on. tired gimmicks/promos/wrestlers past their prime are good for a quick, fart-noises ‘HURR, HORNSWAGGLE IS UGLY, SHORT, AND CAN’T TALK’ laugh, but it’s not what consistently puts people in the seats and tunes people into PPVs. punk’s past few weeks on the mic have been arguably the best promo work in the history of the company. to make matters worse (better?), cena is stepping his game up just by association. his facial expressions at the end of RAW last night honestly had me convinced he was thinking ‘holy shit, is punk right? am i really no longer the underdog? have i really sold myself out?’ a part of me wants this to be the beginning of a pseudo-heel turn for Cena, but I think we all know that can/will never happen. I was also pleased to see that Vince took a backseat for most of the final piece, interjecting only when necessary.
also, how the hell can you NOT bring up Cena’s miraculous resurrection of his Boston accent? I don’t think he could have laid it on any thicker.
OWAH HUSTLE/LAWYALTY/RESPECT IS BETTAH THAN YOUAH HUSTLE/LAWYALTY/RESPECT. NO ONE DENIES THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who is the uploader that does not make these videos available in Canada? OUR WINDOW TO THE INTERNET ONLY OPENS UP THREE DAYS A W
I think K2 holds the belt that way because across the waist or over the shoulder would be covering sexy spots
@THAT is a DISGUSTING ACT — I’m pretty sure if Cena turned heel and became Tommee, the Internet would explode.
I need Colt Cabana to run in. I predict a double reverse turn!
Kelly should hold the belt over her head with one arm, but her (sticklike) arm would get tired. It seems like that’s what her turnbuckle pose was meant for, because otherwise why does she have one arm in the air?
It’s as if, when she was in the gorilla position for the first time, somebody told her “When you’re posing on the turnbuckle, either put up your hands or point at the crowd or something”, but then she blanked when she got up there and kinda did both and now she’s stuck with it as her signature pose.
Shots of Mark Henry yelling whilst they put Godzilla noises over him need to be in EVERY VIDEO MONTAGE.
It’s not a contract signing unless there is sweet, sweet table flipping. CHECK.
Man, I got a WWF Ice Cream Bar from a truck about… god, five years ago now and it was fantastic. Should I have been concerned that it had Edge and Christian 5-second posing on it? And that on the back was a sparkle-shirt first appearance Chris Jericho cutout standee? MAYBE.
Anyone else find it funny Punk was getting a bigger pop in Boston than Cena?
When Cena broke out the Boston accent last nigt, all I could do was sit up in my chair and yell “WHERE’D YA PAHK DA FAHKIN’ CAH,BOO-BOO?”
With all the speculation over the Kings of Wrestling going to WWE, I wouldn’t be surprised to see a KRS-ONE in Cena’s future.
@John – I know it won’t happen at Money in the Bank, at least, because Chris Hero is going to be here in Austin wrestling for ACW.
Another entertaining read. Tuesday’s are quickly becoming my favorite day of the week. . . behind Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday.
Hopefully the K2/Bella Twins feud ends at the pay per view. I actually think the Twins have a lot of potential and could be huge in the WWE.
Lesson learned here? That being a part of the New York Yankees is akin to having gay sex with Eric Bischoff.
BOY I SWURR HOW DID JOO KNOW ABOUT THAT
Sunday’s going to be an exciting day, and it’s been a while since I’ve felt that way about a WWE PPV. There’s really no shortage of good ways they could go with this, and the fact that they’ve more or less managed to keep the details about Punk’s future under wraps is pretty impressive. I’m still at about 60% odds that next week at this time we’re pondering how they fucked it up, but the other 40% is a legit 40% (c)Peter King.
Also, HBO should immediately reconvene Seinfeld, Louis, Rock, and Gervais for a new hour special devoted entirely to the depth of that R-Truth bit.
As always, I loved this. Great article, and I’m glad that when Punk (and Vince, and Cena during the first promo and some of the second) are doing stuff this good, there’s an entertaining, funny and intelligent post written about the whole thing, so it’s not just me on Twitter writing AAAARGH AMAZING over and over again.
I really enjoyed the whole thing, but I think my favourite part is probably the list of Cena’s points he likes to make.
Oh and yeah, as much as I am really enjoying Mark Henry these days, and agree that he was awesome here, I really do hope this isn’t the untimely end of Drew Mac. I didn’t actually get that feeling, but I guess stranger things have happened.
I can’t wait for Sunday. I’m going to a bachelor party weekend in Amsterdam for a few days, and over here the PPVs start at 01:00 AM, and I am still determined to stay up late to watch it.
the six man tag was just basic build-up, i think you’re too harsh on it
great write-up, though, this cm punk stuff is making my balls ache in a good way
Got decent tix off craigslist for MITB. Haven’t regularly watched the WWE or been to a live show in a decade but due to the recent buzz regarding Punk thought I’d check it out. Bandwagon fairweather indeed but I’ve tried to watch WWE over the last few years but the matches suck. For nostalgia’s sake I’ll support the hometown main-eventer in our hometown to show approval for recent events.
Sooooooooo…who is the anonymous GM? Seriously. Argh.
I think the anonymous GM is a 4chan hack or someone that worked for News of the World, WWE has no control over it
McIntyre had an outstanding match with Zack Ryder on Superstars this past week.
Is it obvious to anyone else that Cena was impersonating Peter Griffin during the last 10 minutes?
@Cunning Linguist – Yeah, a lot of people pointed that out, and I should’ve written something about it. I think I’m too ashamed of my own weird mish-mashed Virginia/Ohio/Florida/Texas accent to dissect anyone else’s, but yeah, he was doing everything short of hoisting the American flag to get those people behind him.
Ohio and Florida have accents?
If this leads to Punk bringing back the Pepsi Plunge, we’re all winners.
You must have been in some shitty e-feds.
Primetime Championship Wrestling RIP
Oh and seriously 411wrestling is the fucking worst, I’m so thrilled you mentioned that.
Hey… I like 411 Wrestling… and 411mania. *cough*
What I wouldn’t give for an CM Punk ice pop with the two hard gum eyeballs that sends your teeth to Crackton.
I only go to 411 for the MMA news and pics they swipe from egotastic. I stopped reading their wrestling news ages ago. We/someone needs to go to their review of Monday Night Raw and tell them that they get owned here every week. Like a lot of people, I love reading this on Tuesdays.
Thanks, Mike.
I don’t have anything against 411 that I don’t have against any other copypasta site, I just use them as a catch-all for wrestling writers on the Internet who’ve decided things without putting a lot of thought into it. Were you aware Stone Cold Steve Austin is one of the best wrestlers of the last 25 years??? (well yes you did obviously, jesus)
I don’t mean to turn this into a 411/With Leather battle royale that sounds that it could be an awesome Extreme Warfare Revenge scenario. I am a fan of both sites, but more specifically, a big fan of your work, Brandon. You rock, homes.
Did you just make a fucking Dick Trimmins reference?
Cleveland All-Pro Wrestling represent!
@Erik – This is actually my second or third CAPW reference in these things. You can thank WWE NXT’s Derrick Bateman for reminding me about Dick Trimmins. I probably would’ve just made it a Christian Faith reference otherwise.
@Brandon–
Sorry to be late on the uptick, but shameful accents are shameful accents. I unfortunately sympathize. As someone who grew up in eastern OH/northern panhandle of WV, I have an flyover land/yinzer/”y’all” (if I’ve been drinking) combination that is….just awful.
I was always more of a Jericho guy… Not a SCSA guy at all. The antics of Austin were always entertaining and the “E” did a great job of marketing the guy but Give me Jericho. His WCW stuff was golden. Rufus personal security, the man of 1004 holds (ARRRMBAAAAR), the whole conspiracy thing when he lost the cruiserweight belt and his “YEAH BABY!” pin were some of my favourites. Also, speaking of accents, I live in Newfoundland Canada and we are constantly taking shit for our accents but whatever…I love it.
i honestly nearly shat myself reading the second mark henry section. everything you say here is on par. bravo sir.