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My Weekly TNA Catch-up, Impact 13th Nov 08

Mick Foley calls out various people for a chat - AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, The Motor City Machineguns, Eric Young, Petey Williams, Jay Lethal & Consequences Creed. Foley says he'll deal with Alex Shelley next week, he also gives Eric Young his X Division Title shot tonight and arranges a match for the tag titles between Beer Money & AJ Styles and Samoa Joe (why are they even deemed contenders?) and Jay Lethal is also given a shot at the Heavyweight title.

Knockout Tag Match - Awesome Kong & Rhaka Khan (with Raisha Saeed) vs Roxxi & Taylor Wilde. Basically this is the rubber match from the PPV and it's the only title not on the line tonight. Kong jumped Wilde on the ramp and everyone was duking it up outside the ring before finally making it into the ring where Kong & Khan were on top. Roxxi & Wilde doubleteamed Kong & Khan pretty well until Khan flubbed being thrown over the top rope and made a bad landing hurting herself making the flub even worse. Wilde took it to Khan on the floor but Kong hit Roxxi with the Implant Buster to take the win.

X Division Championship - Eric Young vs Sheik Abdul Bashir. Taking one look at who was referee for this indicated where the win was going before the opening bell even rang. Clearly putting Shane Sewell in to run things was a Russo inspired idea to allow Bashir to get s**t cheap heat because he can't get any other kind due to not being over in any way, shape or form. Bashir had his usual slow mat based match. Bashir's "unseen" low blow was pretty much the end of the match and having the ref get involved effectively ended a very shit match with an even worse finish. Despite Young getting the pin this decision will be reversed very quickly as Sewell ceased to be a referee the moment he removed the striped shirt. Eric Young is the new X Division Champion, we'll see how long it takes before he's stripped of the title. If no-one questions the title change then it's clear Russo has complete creative control in TNA.

Scott Steiner vs Rhino. I'm not even sure why this match was happening, its not as though theres any heat between these 2 but who I am to question the TNA match bookers. This was short and c**p, Steiner took the win after Rhino was distracted from the gore by Kurt Angle who'd come out to the ring with Steiner.

World Heavyweight Championship - Jay Lethal vs Sting. Lethal took charge of this from the get go and owned the match, directing Sting all over the ring. All credit to Sting, he ran with all the moves Lethal pulled and sold them all very well too. After a very badly timed break we came back to discover Sting had turned things around in his favour, it was hard to understand exactly why Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin were sent out to cheer from the apron as their intereference in the match was no only pointless but it also cost Lethal the match as Sting hit The Scorpion Death Drop to retain the title. They've been pushing this c***py heel turn for The Guns for a long time now and I wish they'd just get to the point with it.

Pointless backstage segment with Petey Williams getting beaten down by The Main Event Mafia, so we can expect a rebranding of Williams fairly soon. It's been pretty clear tonight by the amount of video packages about the various wrestlers and the complete playing of the TNA theme video that TNA clearly doesn't have the money to pay enough wrestlers to actually work and fill a full show. It's also fairly clear that going to HD was a mistake as it was money that could have been better spent on paying the wrestlers to wrestle. Likewise the money spent on remodelling the Impact Zone was a waste as well (unless someone can actually prove they can get more people in the audience with 1 less ramp and they are actually selling tickets to that many people every week).

Tag Team Championship - Samoa Joe & AJ Styles vs Beer Money. Joe didn't have any facial scar so his bladejob at the PPV clearly wasn't a very deep one as there are no visible after effects. Storm came down to the ring wearing his Beer Helmet so I was guessing that's where the win was going to come from before the bell even rang. Team 3D came down to the colour position during the match and this left me thinking if they were going to run a revenge angle and have 3D cost Beer Money the title. Brother Ray was doing a good job running colour but after Joe's snap slam on Roode was painful to see how badly out of position the ref was to make his count. Joe had Roode set for The Muscle Buster but Storm spat the beer in his face, by this time 3D had seen enough and Brother Ray grabbed the beer and spat it into Storm's face which Earl Hebner deemed as outside interference and called for the bell awarding the match to Beer Money who retain the titles (I assume he did, no announcement was made about the decision). Did Joe's Muscle Buster break Roode's nose? His face was covered with blood when he walked back up the ramp. Another crap finish, blame Russo - I do.

The Main Event Mafia come out to induct Christian Cage as their newest member. The induction turns into a going away party (a storyline specifically written to allow Cage to leave to go to WWE).

My TNA Catch-up, Turning Point PPV Nov 08

Well, its the 1st PPV using the recently revamped Impact Zone.

X Division Ranking Match - Consequences Creed vs Sonjay Dutt vs Petey Williams vs Jimmy Rave vs Volador vs Eric Young vs Doug Williams vs Tanahashi vs Homicide vs Jay Lethal. It's nice to see Doug Williams finally getting another match at long last, I was worried he'd left TNA as it'd been a while since we've last seen him. Volador & Tanahashi again getting lucky in just their 3rd match in TNA and getting their 2nd possible shot at a title. It looks like the rumours are true with Homicide appearing alone here, is this the start of the break-up of LAX? I'm not exactly sure WHY TNA felt they needed to rank the X Division guys because really this is a match to become #1 contender so it's a very badly named match indeed. West & Tenay said this was being done under Lucha Libre tag rules so anyone leaving the ring can be replaced by anyone else on the apron with them having to get tagged in.

Creed & Rave kicked things off here and had a nice if somewhat short run with Creed eventually rolling out to the floor. Dutt came in and made a stunning series of headscissors on Rave who left the ring pretty sharpish. Lethal came in and Dutt bailed so Lethal followed him to the floor with a suicide dive. Tanahashi & Homicide replaced them and also had a nice but again very short run.

Doug & Petey Williams were in next (just to make things confusing for the commentary I guess), the highlight of their equally short run was Petey's Hurricanrana on Doug from the ring to the floor. Volador & Eric Young were in next but Young was out just as quickly as he entered. When Lethal came in next things got much better and they were seriously working each other well, lots of fluid moves, they were looking really good together. Dutt came in after a cheapshot on Lethal and also had a good run against Volador doing another of his spinning headscissors on him.

Voladors Superhurricanrana on Dutt was awesome leading to Volador pinning & eliminating Dutt who is now ranked 10th in the X Division rankings. Rave came in next and after they both left the ring but returned Rave got the pin off the Rock The World eliminating Volador who gets ranked in 9th position. Doug Williams came in next and got a pretty fast face full of very stiff looking clothesline from Rave (unless it was a REALLY good sell from Williams). Williams eventually got back on top turning a roll-up into a suplex to pin & eliminate Rave who earns himself 8th postion. Eric Young was in next and straight out to the floor over the top rope with help from Doug Williams which brought Creed in and straight out through the ropes.

Petey Williams dived in then mayhem ensued eventually leading to Homicide hitting Doug with the Gringo Cutter, he dived into Young & Creed but missed it badly and bounced off the guardrail hitting his back but was also grabbing his head (obviously a very real and serious enough injury for 2 referees to go into the crowd to check on him). Ref Andrew Thomas deemed him too injured to continue so Homicide was eliminated (earning himself 7th position) as Hernandez came out to check on his tag partner.

Doug Williams kicked out from Creed's pin attempt after Young hit him with a scrappily landed Swanton. After lots more swaps Creed & Petey Williamns duked it out for a bit before Petey hit The Canadian Destroyer to eliminate Creed which earned him 6th position. Doug Williams & Tanahashi worked Petey together for a bit before Tanahashi eliminated Petey with a very unusual turning frogsplash (giving Petey Williams 5th in the rankings). Doug Williams & Tanahashi then worked Jay Lethal with Tanahashi hitting a lovely spinning legdrop on Lethal. Lethal managed to eliminate Tanahashi with a fast small package (earning Tanahashi 4th place in the current rankings, not bad for his 3rd match). Williams then turned Lethal over with a real stiff clothesline.

Eric Young elminated Doug Williams (I don't even want to guess what that move was but it looked good!) earning Doug a highly respectable 3rd in the X Division rankings. It came down to Eric Young & Jay Lethal as the final 2. Both guys are quick and fast, both guys can counter and reverse. Young may have the edge on power but Lethal probably has the edge on speed. Young eventually turned a suplex into a bridging pin to get the win and earn the #1 contender spot and the future match for the X Division title, Lethal eanred himself the #2 ranking. This was a really good match, everyone worked hard and it was a shame Homicide was eliminated due to injury. Was Young shooting on WWE with that entertainers comment during his promo?

Knockout Tag Match - Awesome Kong & Raisha Saeed (with Rhaka Khan) vs Roxxi & Taylor Wilde. Has anyone told the people who create the intro graphics for each wrestler that Taylor Wilde IS actually Canadian because since day 1 her name graphic on the big screen has always had American Stars & Stripes on it. Wilde & Roxxi were working well making fast tags to keep the upper hand as they worked Saeed. Saeed sold most of what she was given apart from a fairly blatent no-sell on Wilde's Hurricanrana (either that or she didn't feel able to sell it well enough as it looked very scrappy indeed from Saeed).

After some interference from Rhaka Khan, Kong soon managed to take the upper hand with Roxxi. Roxxi sold a seriously long beatdown from Kong & Saeed with Saeed seriously f**king up an assisted launch moonsault so Kong had to cover for her as the colour guys tried to make like it didnt happen and was accidental. Wilde did get tagged in and took control but it took Roxxi putting Kong over the top rope and hitting her with a cross body block from the top turnbuckle to the floor to allow Wilde to hit Saeed with the roll-up into the bridging suplex (that we're seeing used so much recently by lots of TNA wrestlers) to get the win for her team.

Non-title Grudge Match - Sheik Abdul Bashir vs Rhino. Whats the point of a meaningless grudge match when we could be seeing the X Division title get contested? It's more proof that Bashir is as s**t as I say he is because he's not up to defending his belt on a PPV. This was a pretty dull match, even TNA knew that hence them sending guests The Insane Clown Posse (with Scott Hall of all people) to go and stand by the guard rail to work some heat with Bashir. It's pretty silly when a match is so c**p they have to involve arena guests on the fly to try and improve things. West & Tenay totally failed to mention ICP or Hall, was that Corey Feldman that Bashir pushed with ICP?

Clearly the directors & producers were telling West & Tenay to not name check ICP or Hall when they made the comment of "familiar faces" as if they'd been free to mention them they surely would have. Rhino took the eventual win off the gore, AWFUL match and stupid of TNA to not take advantage of having ICP & Hall in plain view.

Tag Team Championship - Beer Money (with Jaqueline) vs The Motor City Machineguns. I think they are trying push Jackie in a more managerial role now The Main Event Mafia storyline is going and Obama got the White House. ICP & Scott Hall were still in the front row behind the guard rail for this match as well. Storm & Sabin started this match and it was more about The Guns, even so Beer Money had a decent enough match.

Move of the match for me had to be Shelleys double DDT on Beer Money (with Roode selling it like crazy) although Sabins springboard DDT on Roode was equally impresive. The 4 man tower suplex looked impressive but Shelley was grabbing at his knee like he'd seriously twisted it up whilst he was upside down. Beer Money took the eventual win after Jaqueline distracted the ref, Storm spat beer into Sabin's face to allow Roode to make the pin and retain the titles. The Guns were a much better team here though and made for an excellent match.

Legends Championship (aka Belt I Bought) - Booker T vs Christian Cage. If Cage loses he must join the Main Event Mafia. Well Booker was always going to win this once the rumours of Cage's imminent departure from TNA was announced. The ICP & Scott Hall had either moved themselves or been moved by the time this match started. Awful match, Booker won after reversing a roll-up thanks to a handfull of tights. West and Tenay erroneously say he "retained" the belt which would be difficult as you can't retain a belt that you've never won.

Falls Count Anywhere Match - Kurt Angle vs Abyss. Angle didn't want any part of Abyss from the bell unless it was on his terms so ended up doing a lot of bailing out of the ring getting cheap heat and lots of boos. The "big shots to the head" of Angle from Abyss looked rubbish and Angle wasn't selling them very well either. Abyss hit the Shock Treatment early but Angle kicked out then fled into the crowd. Angle was gettng the holy c**p beaten out of him as they went across the bleachers and back over the guard rail before finally hitting Abyss with a nice chair shot.

Angle's forward somersault onto Abyss off the stage is something he's done before (in his match with AJ Styles at Hard Justice this year), Angle spearing Abyss through the wall of the stage looked pretty good too though. It was pretty unforgivable to cut to several repeats of that move to allow them time to get off camera only for Angle to be smashed out of a different segment of the stage from the inside by Abyss. Angle managed to kick out of a chokeslam after being smashed head first into a chair in the ropes only to miss a splash off the top rope onto Angle. Angle made a great moonsault onto Abyss with the chair across him.

It was a bit silly of Abyss to not Black Hole Slam Angle ino the chair that was only inches away so it was pretty obvious by this point Angle was going to get the eventual win. I did enjoy the scaffold segment behind the Spanish Announce table although Abyss's bump onto the table wasn't as bad as most people made it out to be. Angle pinned Abyss by the Spanish Announce position to take the win, very good match by both guys but you have to mark for Abyss taking the bumps off Angle to get him over.

Special Grudge Match - Kevin Nash vs Samoa Joe. The ICP & Scott Hall were very noticable in their abscence in the crowd during this match. I assume Hall had come backstage before the match to catch-up. Joe started off with lots of fists flying, dominating Nash pretty early. All it took was Nash to give Joe a couple of runs into the ring posts to allow him to get back on top. Nash removed the top turnbuckle cover but missed his chair shot on Joe. Joe got hit into the exposed metal but due to the cameras being on him non-stop he didn't have the time to blade himself. Nash carried on with elbowdrops only for Joe to come back up to a nice backsplash.

Joe went for a suicide dive only to run into a face full of chair from Nash but managed to kick out of the resulting pin. Nash hit the big boot and signalled for the finish only for Joe to kick out of the Jack Knife Powerbomb. Joe got another facefull of exposed turnbuckle but this time Nash and the ref had the sense to move the cameras to allow Joe time to do the blade job this time. Joe sold a few more shots into the steel & kicked out of a 2nd Jack Knife Powerbomb. Joe had Nash in a submission armbar but the ref took a c**ppy bump and Nash hit Joe with the low blow. Nash rolled Joe up and used the ropes for leverage to take the win in a match where Joe was the much better worker and Nash should think himself lucky how much Joe put him over here.

TNA World Heavyweight Championship - AJ Styles vs Sting. After the bell rang there was only 19 minutes of show (including end titles) so we were going to be getting a fairly short match here. This thing started off slow and just kept getting slower with all the technical holds and reversals. Not a great way to run a main event and clearly Sting wasn't all that bothered. Styles had clearly been told to hold back on his speed & aerial abilities and he looked understandably pissed off. Styles was having to take all the heavy & hard bumps as well as selling everything for Sting.

Styles was getting the heck beaten out of him until he just kicked Sting in the side of the head right out of nowhere, Sting managed to sell the back suplex pretty well (you have to be REALLY bad if you can't sell an AJ Styles move) but the Styles comeback continued with a nice springboard flying forearm on Sting. Styles kicked out of the Scorpion Death Drop (well they did have at least another 3 minutes of air time to fill) and nailed AJ with 3 consecutive Stinger Splashes. Styles fought out of the Superplex with a powerbomb of his own then nailed Sting with The Spiral Tap.

Ref Hebner really should have DQ'ed Sting the second Booker T & Kurt Angle ran down the ramp to stop AJ's 2nd Spiral Tap all of which allowed Sting the time to recover. AJ missed the Pele and Sting made a side roll to take the pin and retain the title. Really he should have been DQ'ed for outside interference and would have still retained the title. Styles was the much better worker here and that was clearly a desperation move from Russo to send Booker & Angle out to interfer so close to the end.

This was a pretty decent PPV, it's a shame Cage is leaving (if in fact he does turn out to leave). TNA totally wasted the chance to use The ICP and if I'm honest The Main Event Mafia aren't any more over after this PPV than they were before it. Hopefully Homicide isn't too badly hurt and we'll see him on tv tapings soon. If LAX split it'll benefit TNA as Homicide can be a great X Division guy and Hernandez can finally get a Heavyweight title shot as he'd make an excellent champion with his power and aerial abilities.

Hulk Hogans Celebrity championship Wrestling mini review show 4

Apologies on the late review, this wasn't uploaded to the newsgroups as per usual so I had to spend 4 hours grabbing the individual parts off rapidshare.

Todays 1st challenge is for the celebs to learn how to cut a promo. Dustin Diamond slaps Donny Bonneduche for taking it too far. This weeks 3 new moves are the Hiptoss, Taking The Turnbuckle & the Elbow Smash. Nikki Zeiring bottles it and walks out on the practice session when asked to give someone a hiptoss claiming her back hurt from having just done a hiptoss. Of course they wouldn't be having these issues if they'd all been taught how to bump safely in the very 1st week like I said they should have.

Trishelle has issues with the hiptoss as well, basically being frightened to go head over heels, basically she's also scared to bump. Danny Bonneduche also has his own completely different issues with the hiptoss and insists on doing it his own way. He ends up taking a very hard bump & hurts himself saying "something went pop" before he goes to see the medic. Nikki says she doesn't want to be there and Hogan comes to speak to her, Hogan says he'll work with her. Bonneduche comes back to training despite being told to go get an X-ray. Hogan works with Nikki & Dustin sells like crazy to make her feel better.

The matches.

For Team Beefcake. The Redhot Redneck & The Mean Bean vs Dangerous Danny Bonneduche & Mr Not So Perfect

The Redhot Redneck & The Mean Bean cut their promo. Dangerous Danny & Mr Not So Perfect cut their promo. Bean & Danny kick this off. Danny hits Bean with a couple of kicks to the midsection, an armbar then another armbar with Perfect helping him. They then doubleteam Bean working towards a fairly nice double clothesline, Bean kicks out of Danny's cover. Redneck has to bring Bean back to the ring and tags in with Danny and ends up getting seriously smooched. Danny hits her with a nice schoolboy but she kicks out after 2. Danny totally flubs the hiptoss and looks awful in his execution and landing.

Danny gets thrown around the ring then sells a kick to the midsection real well as Redneck tags Bean back in, Danny doesn't manage to sell Bean's elbow smash very well though. Danny kicks out of a heavy looking elbowdrop from Bean & tags Redneck back in. There's a nice double clothesline as they take each other out and Perfect is finally tagged in to work Bean. Perfect makes a nice flip across the ring to deliver an axehandle to Beans head but Bean kicks out. Perfect is splashed into the corner, he bounces Danny off the apron into the guard rail and pins Perfect to take the win. Good match but Bonneduche flubbed twice and looked scrappy, Bridges didn't get enough ring time. Butterbean & Trishelle worked well.

For Team Nasty its a 2 on 1 handicap match. Candy Girl & The Winner vs Rodzilla.

Candy Girl & The Winner cut their promo. Rodzilla cuts his promo. The Winner & Rodzilla start this one off, Rodzilla making a well sold armbar but Winner rakes the eyes to break it. Candy & Winner doubleteam Rodzilla with the armbars and kicks to his midsection but he powers out of it. Winner flubs a very low kick on Rodzilla almost in the family jewels. Rodzilla gets back on top taking Winner around the turnbuckles and Winners sell of the hiptoss isn't very good at all. Candy sells being kicked in her midsection ok and takes a better looking hiptoss off Rodzilla. Her kick to his midsection is way more accurate and on target than Winners was and Winner hits Rodzilla with an elbow smash from the apron as Candy works Rodzilla on the ropes.

Rodzilla is sent out of the ring after a double axehandle to the back from Candy, Winner hits him with another axehandle from the apron. Candy makes a nice schoolboy when Rodzilla comes back in the ring and Winner tags back in to beat Rodzilla down. Candy drops 2 elbows on Rodzilla and Winner comes back in again to work Rodzilla into the turnbuckles again. Rodzilla kicks out of an elbow drop from Winner & Candy misses a double axehandle off the top rope and hit Winner instead. Rodzilla hits Winner with another scrappy hiptoss. Rodzilla makes the pin off his flying middlerope clothesline. Rodman had a decent match, Zeiring was ok but Diamond was very scrappy in places.

Hogan picks no winning team tonight. It comes down to Nikki & Trishelle being the last 2 left to be critiqued and Nikki is voted off this week but its not like she didn't deserve it after her diva tantrums.

My Weekly TNA Catch-up, Impact 6th Nov 08

The show kicks off with The Main Event Mafia coming down to the ring to formally introduce Scott Steiner as their 5th member. Did someone not think to tell Steiner NOT to shoot on video games as the TNA game really needs support at the moment? Samoa Joe introduces Christian Cage as their latest member to the cause. Cage continues to sit on the fence.

6 Man Tag Match, Beer Money (with Jaqueline - is she pregnant with all these loose tops? Or are they just looking to move her into a Michelle Obama style role?) & Booker T vs The Motor City Machine Guns & Christian Cage. The Guns & Cage had a good match, Beer Money & Booker were just plain awful. Booker took the win after "hitting" Cage with the legends belt when Jaqueline distracted the ref. Awful finish.

4 Team Ladder Match (Winners get a shot at the tag title) - Tanahashi & Volador (who made their very good debuts last week and impressed me a lot but their doing really well considering their involved in a title shot match in only their 2nd match in TNA) vs Matt Morgan & Abyss vs Team 3D vs LAX. Not a bad match, LAX & Tanahashi were the best workers here. Abyss climbed the ladder to get the contract and the win for his team after Beer Money jumped Team 3D.

Mick Foley comes out to give his message to AJ Styles.

Knockouts Tag Match - Awesome Kong & Raisha Saeed vs Taylor Wilde & Rhaka Khan. This was supposed to be Roxxi partnering with Wilde but Kong & Saeed jumped her backstage. Wilde & Kong started this off with Wilde getting a very quick roll-up. Saeed came in and dominated but Wilde flubbed a backward leap off the middle rope into an armdrag, I'm guessing it was a move done on the fly that Saeed wasn't expecting so she didn't sell it. Saeed managed to flub a very basic elbowdrop (it looked seriously scrappy). The swerve of Khan chokeslamming Wilde was pretty unexpected, Kong took the win off Wilde with The Implant Buster.

6 Man Tag Match - Kurt Angle, Kevin Nash & Sting vs Eric Young, Consequences Creed & Jay Lethal. This is a bit silly because you've got 3 heavyweights versus 3 lightweights. Lethal & Angle kicked things off with Lethal showing his speed and agility. Lethal sold for Angle & was selling like crazy for Nash too. Young came in and had a nice offensive against everyone. Creed had a good run too until Angle hit the Olympic Slam to take the win.

Scott Steiner vs Samoa Joe. Steiner tried to jump Joe as he entered the ring but Joe owned Steiner from the get go. It took a low blow from Steiner to get back on top. Steiner totally didn't want any part of Joe's backsplash (you could see Steiner trying to push Joe away on the landing, totally no selling it for all he was worth) but this went to a really shitty finish with Nash distracting Joe (setting up for a nice suicide dive by Joe though) allowing Steiner to hit Joe with some brass knuckles (which Steiner totally flubbed the concealment of) letting Steiner take the win. Styles made the save on Joe when Nash gave him a post match beatdown.

WWE Monday Night Raw 3rd Nov 08 (800th Episode) reviewed

Tonights "800th" show kicks off with infamous gym bag shitter Randy Orton looking more like a gay pornstar than ever coming out to yack on the mic. He gets booed to f**k.

The Hardys vs MVP & The Brian Kendrick. Is it me or has Matt Hardy become Fat Hardy because he looks really chunky & out of shape. Although I must admit to enjoying his bulldog & clothesline combo on the opposing team, Jeff made a lovely Swanton to allow Matt to make the cover. Not a bad match to kick things off.

Was WWE struggling to fill their "3 hour Raw" (that actually only lasted 2 hours 16 minutes and 6 seconds so thats more than 43 minutes of adverts) with actual matches and having to resort to being a clip show however it was weird to see Sean Mooney again, whatever happened to him? Mind you they did prove how much of an old fart HBK is as he was on the 1st Raw in 1993 and their still pushing him now proving you CAN flog a dead horse. More clips this time from show#17 showing Scott Hall vs Sean Waltman.

8 Man Battle Royal (winner gets a shot at the IC Title) - As WWE were far too busy showing clips of their glory days no-one got introduced on screen. Jamie Noble, JTG & Shad Gaspard of Cryme Tyme, William Regal, Cody Rhodes, Snitsky, Ted DiBiase Jr & Manu (whoever the fuck he is). Santino Marella came out to the colour desk to watch who his challenger would be. Snitsky was 1st to go very closely followed by Cody Rhodes & Manu. Jamie Noble went moments later fairly closely followed by JTG. Gaspard went not long after and Regal took the win by throwing out DiBiase Jr.

Shots of Shane & Steph arriving and yet more clips, this time from show#401 where Shane announces he owns WCW. Randy Orton continues to bleat in the ring, WWE fans show how stupid they are by consistently shouting "What" (which wasn't even over when SCSA used to do it) during Mike Adamle's announcement of his resignation. Yet another clip (show#778) with the Presidential candidates.

Vladimir Koslov vs Charlie Haas schilling himself in some cheapass imitation of Brett Hart. As per usual this was a F**KING AWFUL match with Haas jobbing to Kozlov in under a minute. It's about time Kozlov quit as he's not over and never will be, WWE have no clue about this guy and making more talented people job to him is just sad and pathetic.

Yet even more clips (show#257) with DX invading a WCW show.

HHH & HBK (trying and failing to revive DX but frankly Trips just looked ashamed to be there but fair play to him for shooting on Charlie Haas) vs The Miz & John Morrison. After a very badly timed -break we're into the action (so they spend almost 10 minutes hyping the match as we don't even get to see the f**king start of it?). Highlights of this were HBK making a nice sell of a clothesline from Miz (who appeared on this weeks Ghost Hunters Live halloween show) & the ref fucking up by tapping Miz on the shoulder to tell him to kick out after HBK's back slide. Despite HBK pretty much owning this match they still put Trips in to take the win off the pedigree on Miz.

Yet more clips (show#243) with Mike Tyson.

16 Diva Tag Match - Yet again they were too f**king busy schilling old clips to bother introducing half of the competitors. Mickie James, Candice Michelle, Michelle McCool, Eve Torres, Brie Bella, Tiffany, Kelly Kelly & Mae Young vs Beth Phoenix, Leila, Katy Lee, Gillian Hall, Marise, Natalya, Lena & Victoria. Beth Phoenix took the win with a schoolboy on Mae Young.

Again due to a lack of matches WWE show us something from last week with Undertaker vs Chavo. More clips (show#456) NWO Hogan. Yawn.

CM Punk vs Randy Orton in a match made by Shane O'Mac earlier. Is it me or does Punk look like Colin Farrel? Well this match was utter s**t and going nowhere fast then had an awful ending with the run-in from DiBiase Jr. I assume it was thrown out as a DQ on Orton for outside interference giving Punk the win.

More clips (show#772) Big Show throws Floyd Mayweather over the top rope. Even MORE clips (show#475) Taker becomes undisputed champion.

JBL vs The Undertaker. Undertaker wins from a count-out. What a shit match with an even worse finish.

Yet more clips (show#304) Stone Colds beer truck.

Kung Fu Naki, Hornswoggle & The Boogeyman "dance". They are joined by Goldust, Jesse & Festus, Sgt Slaughter, Dusty Rhodes & Hacksaw Jim Duggan. As if we didn't need any more proof there isn't enough talent to fill "3 hours" after all the clips they did this as well. No wonder Vince insists you don't use the word Wrestling any more, there's practically none going on.

More clips (show#775) Flair retires. Yet more clips (show#630) Kane ruins Edge & Lita's "wedding".

Kane & Mark Henry vs Rey Mysterio & Kofi Kingston. It's nice to see Kingston has some gold at last. When did that happen then? On paper this looked to be a complete mismatch and it pretty much was. Kingston was the best worker by far but Henry took the eventual win. The post match stuff from Khali was pretty pointless too.

Another clip (show#761) Tribute to the troops.

World Heavyweight Championship Steel Cage Match - Chris Jericho vs Batista. Once the introductions were over and done the show only had 13 minutes left to run so this wasn't going to be much of a match. Not a great start and a really badly taken break brought us back to the action with Batista in The Walls Of Jericho. Jericho manages to f**k up the finish by not falling straight through the ropes as though the match hadn't been bad enough already. The match is dragged back into the centre of the ring (mainly due to them still having 8 minutes of airtime to fill). Batista could have won the match with 4 minutes to spare by just stepping out of the cage but instead chose to climb back in. Stupidly Batista managed to crotch himself but Jericho took the win and the title after climbing out of the cage for the umpteenth time.

Over the course of this "3 hour" show we got 9 matches in total which probably would have only just filled a 1 hour show on a good day.

Hulk Hogans Celebrity championship Wrestling mini review show 3

This weeks challenge is for the celebs to create an in-ring persona. This weeks 3 new moves are the Basic Tie-up, working the arm (an armbar) and working the ropes (the criss cross). Hogan comes to the Team Nasty training session. Rodman proves he doesn't know how or when to sell but Diamond looks good working with Hogan. Hogan also attends the Team Beefcake training session and works Bonneduche in a 2 minute match although Bonneduche didn't sell the final clothesline very well. The celebrities work 1 to 1 on their characters.

The Matches.

For Team Nasty - Nicki Zeiring as Candy Girl & Dustin Diamond as The Winner vs Erin Murphy as Mistress Of Mayhem (Mom) & Dennis Rodman as Rodzilla. Rodman & Diamond started off precedings with a nice tie-up into a side headlock on Diamond who sold it well. Rodman tries the 1st armbar on Diamond who sells like crazy, Diamond escapes with an eye rake. Murphy comes in and makes a nice armbar of her own. Diamond missed a corner splash that Murphy turned into a schoolboy. Murphy wasn't selling being choked by Diamond very well & sold it even worse when Zeiring did the same outside the ring. Zeiring came in for a few cheapshots on Rodman before tagging herself back out. Diamond threw Murphy back into the ring & Zeiring hit her with a schoolboy. Zeiring tagged Diamond back in who bounced Rodman off the apron and into the guard rail in a pretty hard looking fall, Diamond went for a clothesline on Murphy who ducked and he hit Zeiring but it looked awful and very unpracticed. Rodman was finally tagged in hitting Diamond with a stiff looking clothesline, Murphy was tagged in for a nice top rope flying cross body block to take the win from Diamond. Good twist ending!

For Team Beefcake - Todd Bridges as Mr Not So Perfect (which got a laugh from Eric Bischoff) & Butterbean as Mean Bean vs Trishelle as The Red Hot Redneck & Danny Bonneduche as Dangerous Danny Bonneduche. Wow, he must have struggled to come up with that character & name for all of 10 seconds? Bonneduche & Butterbean started this match off with a tie-up & Butterbean throwing Bonneduche to the ground. He was suckered into a missed corner splash then Trishelle came in to help Bonneduche with the schoolboy on Butterbean. Bonneduche put Butterbean into a nice & well sold armbear then Trishelle came in making her own nice armbars. Trishelle hit a clothesline that Butterbean no-sold then he hit Trishelle with a clothesline of his own. Bridges tagged in and missed lots of moves on Trishelle, Bonneduche was tagged in and took charge pretty quickly. Bridges was selling ok and talking to Bridges a lot to co-ordinate their moves. Butterbean came in to doubleteam Bonneduche only to hit Bridges with his clothesline. Trishelle pantsed Butterbean and Bonnduche took the win off a nice cross bodyblock off the top rope onto Bridges which impressed Hogan.

Hogan picks Team Beefcake as the winners this week. Team Nasty are left to the elimination and Erin Murphy is eliminated from this weeks show despite having a good match this week.