This blog is a tad late, but anyway...
Alright as many of you know, the pay-per-view Over the Limit took place this past Sunday. Now I didn't get a chance to see much of it (busying watching the Bulls-Heat game) but from what I read on some websites, it wasn't much to call home about. But I did get to watch a majority of the Randy Orton-Christian match. And not only was it the match of the night, but it could be the match of the year so far. Now off the top of my head, there aren't many matches that I can recall that deserve the title of match of the year. Sure the Undertaker-Triple H could be mention as one, but the World Heavyweight Championship was head and shoulders above it. I think that most people figured that Orton would win the match, but maybe not in the way it was won. The match they had on Friday Night Smackdown was ppv quality, but they were able to out do themselves. Even Orton said so himself on his twitter account:
Got to give it to Christian, every match we have against each other is a ppv match.Tonight was just like any other Seattle was a great host!
It's obvious that he had to win the match. He's the face of that show; much like how John Cena is the face of Monday Night Raw. Which leads me to my next topic...the Cena-Miz WWE Championship match.
The WWE Championship, well was, poorly booked. From what I have read and heard about the match, the Miz hit Cena with object possible for most of the match. But in the last moments of it, Cena put Miz in the STF and made him tap out in a matter of seconds. What kind of booking is that. Have a former champion bash Cena with multiple objects for several minutes, and then have him tap out in a matter of seconds. This only did one thing...made the Miz extremely weak. Actually it another thing, made Superman Cena even stronger. I can understand the children who watch the product wanting Cena to win and the writers doing this for them, but seriously. This has to stop WWE.
Another note from the ppv was the Chavo Guerrero-Sin Cara match. This was the first match since Summerslam 2007 that two wrestlers of Hispanic origin wrestled against each other in a ppv. Another intersting fact is that this the first time since Backlash 2008 that Chavo has wrestler in a ppv, which is a shame.
On a sadder note, Randy 'The Macho Man' Savage passed away last weekend. Growing up, he was one of the wrestlers I enjoyed watching. I even had a Macho Man shared pillow that I would do wrestling moves on. He was a true entertainer in and out of the ring. He will be missed.
-Christopher J. Valverde
Follow me on Twitter: @factor7806
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Impact Wrestling
As some of you guys may know, TNA Wrestling has been re-branded as Impact Wrestling. They have changed the layout of their website, which includes the colors and logo on there. In addition, they are displaying a new slogan on their website, 'Wrestling matter here.' Is this supposed to be a shot at the WWE and their stance on wrestling, it might be but that's for us to debate. Check out this photo to see the new setup for Impact Wrestling.
-Christopher J. Valverde
Follow me on Twitter: @xfactor7806
-Christopher J. Valverde
Follow me on Twitter: @xfactor7806
Monday, May 16, 2011
Update Peeps...
Alright, so I know I haven't blogged anything in a week or so. But I have good reason why I have not posted anything in the last 7 days or so...I graduated from college. It's been a couple of crazy days but fear not, there will be new material posted as soon as Monday Night Raw and Friday Night Smackdown are recorded. Stay tuned and thanks for all the reads on this blogs; 2,400+ reads and counting.
-Christopher J. Valverde
Follow me on Twitter: @xfactor7806
-Christopher J. Valverde
Follow me on Twitter: @xfactor7806
Monday, May 9, 2011
Lay off Randy Orton
Alright for the last week or so, the hot topic in the WWE has been the championship reign of Christian. Christian has been wrestling for 17 years, both in the WWE and TNA. He had never won any major title, but all that changed at Extreme Rules on May 1. He defeated Alberto Del Rio to finally accomplish his dream of winning the World Heavyweight Championship. Yes, he did win the ECW Championship, but we all know that was really nothing.
Anyway, he won the title and was challenged by three wrestlers, one of them Randy Orton, on Friday Night Smackdown. Long story short, Randy Orton won the match and the championship, effectively ended Christian's title reign at 5 days. Many people in the IWC, the internet wrestling community, have been calling foul for his title reign being so short and also for Orton being the one who ended it. Some have been blaming Orton for this whole situation, even going as far was sending him hate tweets to his account: @RandyOrton. But the truth is, Orton is not the one to blame.
The one to blame is the head of the WWE, Vince McMahon. It has been noted that McMahon doesn't have faith in Christian to be the face of the company. He doesn't think Christian has the 'it' factor to carry a show like John Cena or Randy Orton. Sure Christian is a better wrestler than the two of them combined, but he doesn't have market ability that Cena and Orton have. He might be over with the IWC, but he is over as much Cena and Orton are. It's always about money when it comes to the WWE, and they didn't think he would sell posters, t-shirts or whatever they sell now-a-days like the latter.
Second, for people to blame Orton is crazy. The man was just doing his job. It's not like he booked himself to win the match. He's not like Kevin Nash back in the WCW days, destroying Goldberg's streak and all. Now some people have said Orton could have said 'no' to winning the title. But seriously, how would that looked to Vince. One of his top talents saying no to the championship. If Orton would have done that, Vince would have probably buried him so deep that the next time he would get a title shot is when his daughter is his age right now. So Orton had really no choice but to win the match that was booked for him to win; he was just doing his job.
But probably the worst thing out of this is how people are treating Orton on the internet. Sure you can voice your opinion how you think it is unfair for him to win the title again, but for people to say they hope he gets injured or other hurtful things about his family is plain horrible. Like Joey Styles said last week, "When sending hate tweets to myself or @WWE because of @Christian4Peeps, @RandyOrton and the World Heavyweight Championship, please be PG ;)"
Really people, it should not have to come this, just be respectful when it comes to this kind of stuff. Lighten up people. Remember we are talking about a scripted sports entertainment show.
Some people are acting as if this is completely real. They are out there putting a show for us. Enjoy the show they risk their bodies each week for us because if this wasn't around, then some people out there would be bored as hell.
-Christopher J. Valverde
Follow me on Twitter: @xfactor7806
Anyway, he won the title and was challenged by three wrestlers, one of them Randy Orton, on Friday Night Smackdown. Long story short, Randy Orton won the match and the championship, effectively ended Christian's title reign at 5 days. Many people in the IWC, the internet wrestling community, have been calling foul for his title reign being so short and also for Orton being the one who ended it. Some have been blaming Orton for this whole situation, even going as far was sending him hate tweets to his account: @RandyOrton. But the truth is, Orton is not the one to blame.
The one to blame is the head of the WWE, Vince McMahon. It has been noted that McMahon doesn't have faith in Christian to be the face of the company. He doesn't think Christian has the 'it' factor to carry a show like John Cena or Randy Orton. Sure Christian is a better wrestler than the two of them combined, but he doesn't have market ability that Cena and Orton have. He might be over with the IWC, but he is over as much Cena and Orton are. It's always about money when it comes to the WWE, and they didn't think he would sell posters, t-shirts or whatever they sell now-a-days like the latter.
Second, for people to blame Orton is crazy. The man was just doing his job. It's not like he booked himself to win the match. He's not like Kevin Nash back in the WCW days, destroying Goldberg's streak and all. Now some people have said Orton could have said 'no' to winning the title. But seriously, how would that looked to Vince. One of his top talents saying no to the championship. If Orton would have done that, Vince would have probably buried him so deep that the next time he would get a title shot is when his daughter is his age right now. So Orton had really no choice but to win the match that was booked for him to win; he was just doing his job.
But probably the worst thing out of this is how people are treating Orton on the internet. Sure you can voice your opinion how you think it is unfair for him to win the title again, but for people to say they hope he gets injured or other hurtful things about his family is plain horrible. Like Joey Styles said last week, "When sending hate tweets to myself or @WWE because of @Christian4Peeps, @RandyOrton and the World Heavyweight Championship, please be PG ;)"
Really people, it should not have to come this, just be respectful when it comes to this kind of stuff. Lighten up people. Remember we are talking about a scripted sports entertainment show.
Some people are acting as if this is completely real. They are out there putting a show for us. Enjoy the show they risk their bodies each week for us because if this wasn't around, then some people out there would be bored as hell.
-Christopher J. Valverde
Follow me on Twitter: @xfactor7806
Sunday, May 8, 2011
New Direction
Alright guys, I haven't posted anything for some time. I've had to deal with school and finals, thank god I will be done in tomorrow, and other things (not really, but it makes me sound important). Anyway, the reason I first started this blog was because of my journalism class, Border Beat. We were required to pick a topic related to the border and post at least one thing each other. I started to do that in the beginning, but as the semester went along, I started to post more than once a week; as many of you have seen. So what the point of this?
Well since my blog as because a success, at least from my point of view-almost 2,000 views since January, I've decided to change the direction of this blog. It is since going to address issues of wrestling related to lucha libre, but I am also going to post at least one thing each week relating to the wrestling world as a whole. That means if something interesting happens, I'm going to give you guys my two cents, whether it's completely stupid or somewhat correct haha.
So guys started tune in the next few days because I'm going to give you guys my opinion about this whole Randy Orton-Christian situation that happened last week. And yes I know I am a few days late with it, but still it's a hot topic issue in the wrestling world today. Til next time...
-Christopher J. Valverde
Follow me on Twitter: @xfactor7806
Well since my blog as because a success, at least from my point of view-almost 2,000 views since January, I've decided to change the direction of this blog. It is since going to address issues of wrestling related to lucha libre, but I am also going to post at least one thing each week relating to the wrestling world as a whole. That means if something interesting happens, I'm going to give you guys my two cents, whether it's completely stupid or somewhat correct haha.
So guys started tune in the next few days because I'm going to give you guys my opinion about this whole Randy Orton-Christian situation that happened last week. And yes I know I am a few days late with it, but still it's a hot topic issue in the wrestling world today. Til next time...
-Christopher J. Valverde
Follow me on Twitter: @xfactor7806
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