J_Stewart

Finally got round to seeing all of Raw after work the day, Cena was really upping the Boston accent for the hometown crowd during his segments. Felt like I was watching the Departed.

Can you see him being anything other than a face in the immediate time when/if he does come back? The reactions he's getting at the minute are incredible, so I'd envisage something similar to Jericho's return, although with a quicker turn back to heel than Jericho's was.

Was the title shot that ADR won on Raw definitely for SummerSlam or was it just in general? If so, you can ignore this, but if not I think the following would be good and make sense - Have the Smackdown MITB match as the opener, then Christian beats Orton by either inteference or cheating later on, keeping Orton strong and finally giving the Christian angle the pay-off it requires. Have the smackdown winner cash it in straight away and win to continue Christians heel turn which is essentially built around him being treated unfairly with the WHC. Have the Raw MITB ater Henry - Big Show and before the smackdown title match, then have Punk beat Cena clean for the title, get the Raw MITB winner to attempt to cash in on Punk, but have Punk win that clean as well, cementing him as the best in the world. As he celebrates on his way up the ramp ADR - at the behest of Vinnie Mac - hits him with a chair or hts him with the car (preferably) knocking Punk out, drags him to the ring, match starts and ADR gets the easy pin to keep the title in WWE, keep Cena in a job and most importantly to take Punk out of WWE for a good while but leave him a great reason for a return... Never going to happen, but a man can dream

I absolutely love stuff like that. Has anyone seen the facebook page for DundeeBarrys Leigh griffiths blog? The number of mongs on there that actually thought it was Leigh Griffiths was incredible. Some of the comments made me genuinely surprised that the person posting had the ability to breathe and type at the same time.

"lol" really is the (not so) secret handshake of the morons.

The very first time I can remember watching TNA was on Bravo 3 or 4 years ago (I think) and it was Storm - Harris in a PPV match after they'd split and Storm had smashed him in the face with a beer bottle. He was a heel at that point and I remember him being pretty good at it, can only see him being excellent in the role now he's developed so much. Roode could also be a top class face I think and a World title run is definitely a possibility.

Rock isn't going to be there on a full-time schedule, so there'd be almost no point in having it for the title, as there's only really going to be one winner. From a storyline point of view, you could either have it as an inadvertant DQ with Rock attacking Punk either as retribution for the 'ass kissing' comments or to try and help Cena win the belt and getting caught, or merely as a way to increase the levels of dislike between Rock and Cena prior to 'Mania as the whole feud is built around personal feelings. From a marketing point of view it'd make far more sense to have two world title matches and Rock - Cena for 3 bona-fide main events (plus hopefully 'Taker) than just to have two ( or 3 depending on 'Taker) I'd have thought.

Sounds familiar Exactly what I'd like to see, although with the Punk - Cena feud picking up a little later than Summerslam and going all the way until Elimination chamber with Rocky costing Cena the title for the build to their 'Mania main event, Cena - Rock, WWE title, World Heavyweight title and possibly 'Taker streak match, 'Mania books itself. As you say though, never going to happen - wouldn't be surprised to see Superman winning clean at MITB and that being the end of it - but it'd be absolute class if it did.

Yeah, pretty bittersweet from that perspective, although I'm pretty sure Tommy Dreamer sold WWE the rights to his name and he's been using it ever since he left, so there's still a possibility. The more CM Punk in WWE the better WWE will be though, so if he has signed a new multi-year deal I'll be absolutely delighted.

That is absolutely sensational. The only way that story could be more Daily Mail is - as you say - they had a black man trying to steal her purse and if they mused on what she'd thought on falling house prices with a not so subtle dig at immigrants. Another fine piece of work from everyone's favourite liberal daily.

After that review it still gets 10/10? Do you do footballer performance reviews for a tabloid paper by any chane?

It was definitely a work, there's no doubting that, but apparently (what I read this morning anyway) he was essentially told to go out and talk about the reasons he was leaving and was given free reign to discuss what he wanted and if and when the producers or Vince felt he was going too far they'd cut him off, which would probably explain why it was cut off just before a story about Vince and the WWE's current stance on bullying was made to look terrible. MVP said on twitter that he thought this could be Punks "Austin 3:16" moment...I very much hope he's right and WWE don't f**k this up, haven't been as excited about something in wrestling since the Nexus debut and Punks promo was much better than that. Quite fancy the Northern Hotel on the 20th, any idea how many it'll hold Dee?

Oh no, I didn't mean the actual concept for the promo itself, the Undertaker one I mentioned before is just one of the examples, was more the content I was referring to, mentioning ROH and Colt Cabana seeing as how the Steen promo is a fairly large talking point on the 'net at the minute. Finally got a chance to see Punks promo there (can't get videos on the server in the office), one of the best I've seen in a long long time. CM Punk is the best thing in mainstream wrestling a present by a mile. Edited to add, that's the 'Taker interview there, wasn't American Badass as I thought, was just before the Taker Vince feud and the Ministry,etc, not exactly the same as it obviously mentions Kane, Paul Bearer, etc, but similar theme until Vince gets involved. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlVHJ8srJ0Q&feature=related

I'm also guessing this'll lead to the disbanding of Nexus and is why Mason Ryan has been made to look like a bit of a monster recently for a singles push perhaps. Wonder if Punks promo (if it was indeed a work) has been planned for a while or whether creative were influenced at all by Kevin Steen's promo from BITW the other night?

I watched it last night, would give it a 7/10 for John Malkovich's performance alone, but the whole main cast were also very good, well written comedy with a light -hearted touch as you say. 8/10 for me.

Haven't seen Punks promo yet (it's supposed to be amazing) but I think it's very probably a work in the same way the Undertaker did a shoot-work promo during the heel part of his American-Badass days. Really hope Punk sticks around, he's by far and away the best thing in wrestling at the moment and deserves to be on the biggest stage.

I think that Christian could very easily be one of the top guys in WWE, he has the in-ring ability, he's been over for years and he's certainly got the mic skills, but the way this turn has been booked has been terrible in my opinion. I'm all for a whiny heel, but not at the very start of a turn (especially when he had so much momentum as a face for the last 6 months). If they'd turned Orton and booked it the exact way it has with Christian being treated unfairly and being cheated - even having a Teddy Long heelish turn (injecting some much needed interest to his character) with a "he's a bigger star than you, I want him as Smackdown Champion angle" perhaps to explain the original title switch - it would have worked perfectly, you'd have a heel authority figure and a heel champion cheating to victories with the chasing face being screwed over time and again, however, having a newly turned heel losing unfairly and being treated unfairly by the GM in the way Christian has been just makes him look sympathetic and makes it near impossible to get over as a full fledged heel. While it doesn't make Orton look strong as a face either. Can't help but think it's been handled poorly. Totally agree with the commentary, I'd have Matthews, King and Cole on Raw and Grisham, Booker and cole on Smackdown, they really need to get some continuity so they can build a rapport together, as all the swapping that's been going on has been horrendous.

It's no wonder CM Punk is unhappy, it's been happening for years, but yet more evidence in the 'From the Vault' on Smackdown where even as World Heavyweight Champion he loses clean to John Morrison...can you imagine Cena or Orton doing that job?

Just watching Smackdown, I think Christian, CM Punk and Cody Rhodes might actually be the only 3 guys I give a rats ass about that are on televised wrestling at the moment.

Just finished Meltdown by Ben Elton. Yet another fantastic piece of satire by (in my opinion) the master of the art form, haven't found another author with the ability to write about the topics of the times with as much humour and poignancy as he does. Great piece of fiction about the repercussions of the recession. Strongly recommend it.

Get Linda back in to her wheelchair and I'm on board. YAAAAASSSS, go on Vinnie Mac.

It would be a massively missed opportunity for a further main event and card builder if Cena still has the title at Wrestlemania, although sadly, unless it's Triple H (or a returning face Jericho) or they move Randy Orton back over to Raw, I can't see which face could carry it at present... Massive Zak Ryder push anyone?

Poor wee Billy Dodds is going to be fucking devestated. OOOOOHHHHH YEEEEAAAAAHHHHHH