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My Thoughts on SmackDown (1/10/17): Queen of Black Harts

We kick off the show with the Ambrose Asylum. Ambrose announces he's entering the Royal Rumble before saying he wanted a live alligator on the show, but they don't have the permits, so he got a fake alligator head from the gas station he named Maryse. He is interrupted by the Miz & Maryse, and the Miz says Ambrose is destroying the Intercontinental Championship by holding it before announcing he's entering the Royal Rumble. He says Ambrose stole the title by influencing the referee not to throw out the match after Maryse slapped him and gives him an opportunity to give him the title back or face lawsuits. Ambrose says he does have something that belongs to him...the Miz Participation Award that he gave him. He gives it to Miz, who throws it back at him before attacking him. Maryse tries to slap Ambrose while Miz holds him up, but Ambrose ducks, causing Maryse to slip Miz before Ambrose hits Dirty Deeds on Miz. Ambrose then gives Maryse the Miz Participation Award b...

My Thoughts on RAW (1/9/17): We're Big in Japan

Before the show, Stephanie McMahon gives Mick Foley a performance review for 2016. Before she starts, she raises concerns over whether or not the Undertaker will actually show up tonight. Foley says he's confident he will before Seth Rollins comes into Stephanie's office to tell them he's entering the Royal Rumble. Braun Strowman comes in next and demands a match with Roman Reigns or Goldberg. Foley says Goldberg isn't here tonight and Reigns already has a match tonight before Rollins slaps Strowman. The two brawl before security breaks them up. Roman Reigns (c) vs Kevin Owens & Chris Jericho in a 2-on-1 Handicap match-United States Championship  EXCEPT NOPE! Braun Strowman comes out, so Reigns goes after him. However, the numbers become too much, so Owens, Jericho, and Strowman beat him down. Seth Rollins runs down to the ring with a chair and beats down all three men before Reigns gets a chair. Reigns & Rollins double team Strowman with the chairs before...

RAW vs Nitro #23 (2/26/96)

Welcome back to another edition of RAW vs Nitro. Click here to read the last edition if you missed it. So let's get into it, this is RAW vs Nitro #23. RAW Isaac Yankem D.D.S vs Jake Roberts- We kick off the show with the RAW return of Jake "The Snake" Roberts, taking on the evil dentist. How is this gimmick still around? The two trade blows to start before Roberts hits a hip toss and a knee lift. Roberts goes for the short-arm clothesline, but Yankem avoids it and hits a clothesline of his own. Yankem beats down on Roberts and calls for the DDS. However, Roberts blocks it by holding the ropes and hits the DDT for the win. Pretty poor match, nothing really worth talking about. We get another vignette for the return of the Ultimate Warrior, showing fans asking for Roddy Piper to bring back the Warrior. Diesel vs Bob Holly- Diesel starts off in control, shoving Holly off when he tries to do the 10 punches in the corner. Diesel looks around the ring to make sure th...

WWE United Kingdom Championship Tournament Predictions

With the bracket for the WWE United Kingdom Championship Tournament being revealed today, I thought I'd give my predictions for the tournament. Let's get into this. 1st Round Tyler Bate def. Tucker Jordan Devlin def. Danny Burch Trent Seven def. HC Dyer Wolfgang def. Tyson T-Bone Mark Andrews def. Dan Moloney Joseph Connors def. James Drake Pete Dunne def. Roy Johnson Saxon Huxley def. Sam Gradwell 2nd Round Tyler Bate def. Jordan Devlin Wolfgang def. Trent Seven Mark Andrews def. Joseph Connors Pete Dunne def. Saxon Huxley Semi Finals Wolfgang def. Tyler Bate Pete Dunne def. Mark Andrews Finals Pete Dunne def. Wolfgang

RAW vs Nitro #22 (2/19/96)

Welcome back to another edition of RAW vs Nitro. Click here to read the last edition if you missed it. Now, there was no new episode of RAW on February 12th, 1996, so we're skipping forward one week. Don't worry, nothing important happened on Nitro. So let's get into it, this is RAW vs Nitro #22. But first, a quick recap of In Your House, which happened the night before this episode of RAW  Razor Ramon defeated the 1-2-3 Kid in the Crybaby match after giving the Kid two Razor's Edges. As per the stipulation, Razor diapers the Kid Hunter Hearst Helmsley defeated Duke Droese. Droese had Helmsley beat after hitting the Trash Compactor, a tilt-a-whirl slam, but decided to grab his garbage can from outside the ring. He threw the lid in first, but the referee stopped him from using the can. This allowed Helmsley to use the lid as a weapon and get the win. Yokozuna defeated the British Bulldog by disqualification after Jim Cornette hit him with his tennis racket. Y...

My Thoughts on SmackDown (1/3/16): Carmellsworth

We kick off the show with the Miz & Maryse. Miz demands that Renee Young come out and apologize for slapping him two weeks ago and he won't leave until he gets it. Miz says that Dean Ambrose got his Intercontinental Championship match tonight because Renee is buddy buddy with Daniel Bryan and says she sacrificed her journalistic integrity for "dirty deeds with Dean Ambrose." This brings out Ambrose, and Miz leaves the ring while Maryse stands between them. Maryse slaps Ambrose before leaving the ring with Miz. Ambrose takes the mic and says Maryse hits harder than Miz. Baron Corbin vs Dolph Ziggler- Ziggler takes the fight to Corbin to start, but Corbin blocks all of Ziggler's big moves early on and takes control after dodging a dropkick. Corbin beats down & manhandles Ziggler, eventually knocking him to the outside. Corbin follows him out, ramming him into the ring apron before rolling him back in. Ziggler starts to mount a comeback by sending Corbin sl...

My Thoughts on RAW (1/2/17): National Treasure: List of Jericho

We kick off the show with Mick Foley, who got a haircut. He jokes about forgetting the city RAW was two weeks ago before Kevin Owens & Chris Jericho come out. Owens blasts Foley for forcing Jericho to be locked in a shark cage above the ring at the Royal Rumble before saying that Foley is abusing his power by giving Roman Reigns another title shot. Jericho adds that Foley is abusing his power by rewarding Seth Rollins for attacking Jericho in the parking lot, but punishing him for strategically helping Owens retain the Universal Championship at Roadblock by putting him in the cage of Jericho...and he's gonna LOCK HIM IN, MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN! Owens says this the Kevin Owens Show, so Foley decides to give him an actual talk show, with his guest Goldberg. Owens decides to practice for it by grilling by asking Foley why he thinks he can abuse his power before Stephanie McMahon comes out. She says he's not abusing his power but wishes Foley would've consulted her...

RAW vs Nitro #21 (2/5/96)

Welcome back to another edition of RAW vs Nitro. Click here to read the last edition if you missed it. So let's get into it, this is RAW vs Nitro #21. RAW Yokozuna & British Bulldog with Jim Cornette vs Two Dudes with Attitude- Michaels & Bulldog start by posing before Bulldog sends Michaels flying out of the ring with a shoulder tackle. Michaels gets back in the ring and pokes Bulldog in the eye. Bulldog gets Michaels up for a gorilla press slam, but Michaels rakes his eyes and clotheslines him out of the ring. Yokozuna gets in the ring and throws Michaels at Diesel, but Diesel catches him & throws Michaels backs at Yokozuna before punching Yokozuna out of the ring, where he & Bulldog collect themselves. Yokozuna & Diesel tag in and Yokozuna hits a Samoan Drop, but Diesel dodges an elbow drop and tags in Michaels. Michaels gets thrown into the ropes, but Bulldog pulls them down, sending him to the outside. Bulldog throws Michaels into the ring steps be...