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redfiona99I can see what they're trying to do
I mean, there's the problem where I occasionally find myself thinking that Aces and Eights, or more particularly Tazz, has a point. I've got nothing against Bully Ray, but he didn't win a match last week in the matches where the point was to impress Hogan into giving you a title shot. Hell, he didn't even compete. So yes, it does look a little like nepotism. On the other hand, Tazz, your guys keep trying to mess up the company, no wonder they're not getting title shots. I'm sure their situation will improve if they learn to play well with others.
Daniels n Kaz and Aries n Roode teaming up was only ever going to end in bad things for them, and hilarity for the viewers and it did and it was wonderful and I love them all. I also love James Storm, Guerrero and Hernandez and Joseph Park is a marvel of something that shouldn't work, really working well. I think it's because everyone else around him sells the gimmick as well, like Hernandez and Storm helping him up to the top turnbuckle for the frog splash.
Samoa Joe vs Garrett Bischoff did what it was supposed to do.
Rockstar Spud really is tiny, like even in comparison to Robbie E. And the Robbie E vs Robbie T feud is on and I am excited for it and life is wonderful in that respect too.
Velvet Sky winning the title is less of a good thing. You know those wrestlers who you just don't like, it's not that there's anything majorly wrong with them, their wrestling or their gimmick, but you just don't like them. Velvet is one of those for me. Partly it's not her fault, because the company insist on pushing her as "the sexy one" (where Gail is "the wrestling one", ODB is "the drunk one" and so on) but, if like me, you don't find her at all attractive, there's nothing to fall back on. She's not got the wrestling ability of Tara or Gail Kim, or the girl-next-door-friendly-face thing of Miss Tessmacher or anything. But I suppose this is better than the time they tried to push her as the girl-next-door-friendly-face when I joined in with the tiniest violin that Jackie and ODB were playing.
I have nothing against Kenny King, but he is not Zeema Ion. I want Zeema Ion back in the X-Division title scene. Heck, I want an X-Division again.
The build up to the last match was good. I loved how excited Bully Ray was by teaming with Hulk Hogan, and how adorably nice Sting was. Of course, there had to be shenanigans because Hogan's knees/back/general wear and tear mean he can't wrestle and I was fine with that. I was not fine with Bully, after having checked to make sure his wife and father in law were okay (which again, I totally approve of), he stays there while his partner takes a beating from Aces and Eights. Now I'm cool if they spin this as Bully Ray was confused and concerned and did a stupid thing, but I want to know why Angle and Samoa Joe, who hate and loathe Aces and Eights, didn't come out to rescue Sting. I want joined up storylines or at least joined up thinking.
I mean, there's the problem where I occasionally find myself thinking that Aces and Eights, or more particularly Tazz, has a point. I've got nothing against Bully Ray, but he didn't win a match last week in the matches where the point was to impress Hogan into giving you a title shot. Hell, he didn't even compete. So yes, it does look a little like nepotism. On the other hand, Tazz, your guys keep trying to mess up the company, no wonder they're not getting title shots. I'm sure their situation will improve if they learn to play well with others.
Daniels n Kaz and Aries n Roode teaming up was only ever going to end in bad things for them, and hilarity for the viewers and it did and it was wonderful and I love them all. I also love James Storm, Guerrero and Hernandez and Joseph Park is a marvel of something that shouldn't work, really working well. I think it's because everyone else around him sells the gimmick as well, like Hernandez and Storm helping him up to the top turnbuckle for the frog splash.
Samoa Joe vs Garrett Bischoff did what it was supposed to do.
Rockstar Spud really is tiny, like even in comparison to Robbie E. And the Robbie E vs Robbie T feud is on and I am excited for it and life is wonderful in that respect too.
Velvet Sky winning the title is less of a good thing. You know those wrestlers who you just don't like, it's not that there's anything majorly wrong with them, their wrestling or their gimmick, but you just don't like them. Velvet is one of those for me. Partly it's not her fault, because the company insist on pushing her as "the sexy one" (where Gail is "the wrestling one", ODB is "the drunk one" and so on) but, if like me, you don't find her at all attractive, there's nothing to fall back on. She's not got the wrestling ability of Tara or Gail Kim, or the girl-next-door-friendly-face thing of Miss Tessmacher or anything. But I suppose this is better than the time they tried to push her as the girl-next-door-friendly-face when I joined in with the tiniest violin that Jackie and ODB were playing.
I have nothing against Kenny King, but he is not Zeema Ion. I want Zeema Ion back in the X-Division title scene. Heck, I want an X-Division again.
The build up to the last match was good. I loved how excited Bully Ray was by teaming with Hulk Hogan, and how adorably nice Sting was. Of course, there had to be shenanigans because Hogan's knees/back/general wear and tear mean he can't wrestle and I was fine with that. I was not fine with Bully, after having checked to make sure his wife and father in law were okay (which again, I totally approve of), he stays there while his partner takes a beating from Aces and Eights. Now I'm cool if they spin this as Bully Ray was confused and concerned and did a stupid thing, but I want to know why Angle and Samoa Joe, who hate and loathe Aces and Eights, didn't come out to rescue Sting. I want joined up storylines or at least joined up thinking.
