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I know. In a way doesn't that just make Cena look more like a chump than ever? Rey had a long and tiring match first thing. Then getting a rematch on it on the same night is no different than cashing in a MitB contract. And I can see why Rey was so tired, you saw how much he moved around AWAY from the center of the ring? What few things I recall Cena doing was standing in the center and waiting for Rey to run to him, get hit or catch, get hit then catch, finisher, then win.

All fear John Cena WWE champ with his 4 moves of doom. You know this makes me want to check on my RvsSD game and see how many moves they gave him in the move set.

You know what, I want to see someone do this one genius move challenge him in a match for the belt but make it a ladder match. It will put him completely out of his element and really reveal how much he sucks.

Last night's show started off so well and rather strong only to flicker out in the end.

Jillian Hall had the shortest, I think she had it for about 50 seconds before having to face off against Melina instantly afters and losing.

Damn that's just wrong, what happened to guys fighting their way to number one contender? Just giving him the shot. The more favoritism they show him the more people hate him except for the kids.

Is TNA trying to work a sort of CM Punk 'making waves' angle? Still way too much talk with TNA.

At least with the push Christian is getting as WHC, makes it seem more like his earlier losses were more and more just a series of setbacks. It was a pretty good match too. Christian played Morrison like a cheap fiddle.

There was actually a divas match this week. Great thing: No Kelly² or Bellas. Bad thing: it was another ******** tag match with little to showcase. AJ made the most of what little time she had, but had to be victim to another shitty scissor kick from Alicia Fox. One so far out of control that it completely missed the mark. It looked like Fox' leg came down on AJ's a** instead of her neck. You have to TRY to miss that horribly.

The tag match was okay I suppose. It seemed a little low key for an Uso match.

Think they're going to put Cody Rhodes in the running for an intercontinental title match? Aside from the steel post bump, Cody pretty soundly toppled Ezekiel. Almost made Ted Dibiase's presence unnecessary.

It's kinda hard to view Orton as bat-s**t insane when the crowd is clearly egging him on in his "anger management issues." It seemed like the Smackdown crowd loathed R-Truth more so than usual. It wasn't standard heel heat, they just seemed to absolutely hate him.

Well what was there was pretty good for Smackdown. It seemed to carry too many talky events though. They were probably out of ideas with the deficit of the giants, and Sin Cara. I really get a bad feeling about Sheamus's future and likely Face turn.

Especially since Smackdown seems to be at a deficit for popular faces now. What do they have right now, Randy Orton, Daniel Brian, and Ezekiel Jackson? The latter two aren't even all that popular. I guess they wanna get Sheamus into the lime light, which is too bad since Fit Findlay's face turn was pretty catastrophic. Sheamus' isn't going to be any better.

The belt cutting probably hasn't helped either. No cruiser-weight title, the Tag titles were unified, and the diva's title was unified. Combined with this roster of paper women and their anti-inter-gender competition stance, they have been telling us for years that physicality isn't important for women.

It's not bad at all. Seeing Christian pick apart Morrison mentally and physically was actually very interesting. I hate Christian's heel turn, but only because it was so text-book and cliche. Turn and berate the fans then consult another heel figure for support. . . .or of course, THE heel figure, because if Michael Cole supports you, you MUST be a jerk.

It seems like he gets to do more now as a heel. Actually this sort of bugs me about the face/heel mess. It's like the faces have to walk on egg shells in the ring, have to go by the book at all times even if taking advantage of a particular situation that isn't doing a roll-up might not get them any heat anyway. Heels can and will jump at any opportunity for success, and seem to be more efficient in their ruthlessness over all.

It's kinda depressing how they bottleneck their talent like this too. Very capable divas and superstars get NO air time for no real reason, yet there are significant holes left open from current talent being out due to injury/suspension/whatever.

The Usos are certainly the most interesting dedicated Tag Team still there on WWE. Probably because after the Hart Dynasty split up all we had were random current and former nexus members. The Usos certainly deserve a push. I don't see it happening with how little they care about the tag circuit though.

I see what you mean about Morrison. He has that look. He has the popularity level. The only thing standing between him and Cena-stand-in is Rey. It is really messed up how they set this up too. I thought every wrestler was supposed to dream of holding up that championship title belt. . . well, that spinner belt looks ******** stupid. It always has. So I can imagine anybody feeling silly holding it up. The point is that it's supposed to be the top of the mountain on Raw. Everybody should want to reach the top except now it's either you pretend never to care about the championship, or you turn heel in order to get it. There's just no such thing as friendly competition anymore, or competition in general.

I miss the dirtiest player in the game, Ric Flair. Eddie Gurrerro was a cheap b*****d too. You're right though. It is black and white, so black and white that it sums up to this: Faces aren't there for competition, they just want to please and entertain the audience. Heels are out for themselves and themselves alone. Their personalities don't even vary anymore. Faces are faces, and heels are either cocky or deranged (or both).

Sounds like the GM in your guild was closely watching Raw when he came up with that decision. Since there are few women wrestlers I think it might make sense to just put them in contention for the same titles as the men. I imagine they don't want to just be valets and with only 4, there isn't even enough to make a suitable title tourney.

The messed up thing is that even when it wasn't a belt of a new era, the #1 contender or ex-champ didn't get a freebie if the current champ vacated. I'm sick of them throwing around the word "Cheated" in John Cena's case. The stipulations were VERY CLEAR. IF John Cena lost, HE would be fired, which means NO rematch clause. If Cena wanted no part, he could have just forfeited the match. He agreed to the terms, he entered the ring, HE LOST! If they were going to get into a fuss over "cheating" then they'd have to take a very critical look at Orton v Christian at MitB too. Clearly they didn't care about the rule adjustments for the WHC, so why give a crap about rule adjustments for the WWE title? Of course, it's because Smackdown is the second rate show.

The funny thing is, Cena's job wouldn't have even been on the line if he didn't come out during the negotiations. Before Punk was chased out of the ring, Vince had folded. He was going to sign Punk's contract. Vince put Cena on the chopping block because of that interference. I'm sure the Cena kids would whine and disagree, but Cena was just wrong. There's no two ways about it there. Then they call Vince's competency into question, when compared to some of the s**t he's done, this was entirely on the level. The only person who was wrong in all of that, was John Cena.

Anyhow, sounds like it's high time for a tourney for the IC in your guild. The chick who went against the IC never actually beat him for the title right? last I checked, rematch clauses only apply to the ex-champ. If the #1 contender loses, they don't get a second chance, meaning she wouldn't have gotten the rematch even if the IC didn't vacate.

Well then that's more than fair. If she's too green give her a clean loss in the tourney.

Before Rey went to Raw he may as well have been Cena on Smackdown. It might have been for his bio DVD, but I think it's also because of his massive amount of kid fans and the merch his masks move.

That poor girl. She's gonna have to flee from the WWE as quickly as possible. Maybe they have a good training program, but either way Vickie is probably going to have to bust some balls to give her daughter an actual push after that.

If this was before Eddie's passing, I haven't the foggiest.

It is indeed an old routine, but is it wrong to enjoy the sight of Beth grabbing that little twit by the head and throwing her into a wall?

For all that talk of change, not much really has changed in the WWE. In fact it's shown itself to be exceedingly resistant to change.

Truth brought up some good points pre-match. Maybe he got Miz to thinking. They could be an interesting tag team. They'd likely have to find some way to play up the nexus as faces first though. Great tag team action with Miz and Truth though. Truth really needs a theme again. This is just messed up.

They could certainly bring up bullying with Cena threatening Lauranitis so casually like that too. The Bellas must look like total hypocrites after that. Of course the WWE would expect we completely forgot about those ads. Vickie must be made of steel. I remember even Mickie James crumpled after being bullied about her weight.