NXT tonight. Not much else going on.
Two Matches Set For Money In The Bank
https://wrestlingrumors.net/tommyhall/wwe-title-match-set-money-bank/
https://wrestlingrumors.net/tommyhall/title-rematch-set-money-bank/
Several Money In The Bank Ladder Match Spots Filled
https://wrestlingrumors.net/tommyhall/several-money-bank-ladder-match-spots-filled/
Kevin Owens Taking Time Off
https://wrestlingrumors.net/tommyhall/smackdown-star-taking-time-away-wwe/
The SmarK Rant for WWF Superstars – 11.20.93
Well now I’m really getting behind on this show, as the Network added up to May 1994 today. Well, better get cracking again, because although the show has been dull lately, at least there’s nothing so outright offensive that it will make my head explode with annoyance like in the movie Scanners.
Monday Night Raw
Date: June 21, 2021
Location: Yuengling Center, Tampa, Florida
Commentators: Byron Saxton, Corey Graves, Jimmy Smith
We’re done with the Cell and that means it is time to start getting ready for Money in the Bank. That means a lot of qualifying matches before we have a series of matches with the people building momentum, whatever that means going into a ladder match. Other than that, Bobby Lashley needs a new challenger after beating Drew McIntyre again. Let’s get to it.
I just watched the Chyna documentary on VICE. I was not expecting what we got. Have you seen it, and any chance you’d be interested in a review?
I have not watched it yet. However I did watch the Dynamite Kid episode of Dark Side tonight and HOLY SHIT what an awesomely gut wrenching episode that was. And what happened to Danny Spivey?!? I think that one was up there with the Von Erich and Herb Abrams episodes as my favourites.
The PG Era Rant for AEW Elevation Episode 15 (“This Space Available for Money”), June 21, 2021.
TONIGHT! Sea Stars’ Delmi Exo hopes to last longer than two minutes against the Native Beast, Nyla Rose! After last week’s post-match attack, it’s Matt Sydal looking to get even by facing TH2’s Jack Evans! And the future challenger for the AEW Title Jungle Boy Perry steps into the ring against Cezar Bononi!
PLUS – The Acclaimed, Jade Cargill, Spears and Wardlow, Penta and Kingston, Varsity Blonds, Will Hobbs, Kris Statlander, Matt Hardy, and FTR!
But first, Rampage debuts August 13.
Tony Schiavone is with Matt Sydal, talking about how last week Mike Sydal was attacked by TH2, and now he gets revenge tonight by taking on Jack Evans. He stands up for his brother. The brothers may be calm and cool, but they have claws and will fight back. Sydal sees through Evans and Hardy, and that’s our main event!
From the AEW Arena.
Howdy Blog O’Doomers!
I hope everyone had a great weekend. I loved spending Father’s Day with my husband, son and my father-in-law. It’s always nice to celebrate the men in my life.
Both Scott and Thomas have their reviews of Hell in the Cell up. I generally agree although I think Scott shortchanged the Bailey-Bianca match a bit. Overall I’m ready for the Hell in the Cell to take a hiatus. It’s had a nice run. But it was a show where everyone worked hard despite the throwaway nature of the card.
RAW has Money in the Bank qualifiers tonight. Damn we’re still doing that PPV. AEW has Elevators in the Dark streaming now.
NHL Playoff game tonight features the mighty Tampa Bay Lightning against the Long Islanders. No NBA playoffs tonight.
Here’s the first true hoss fight
Keep it Clean!
Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan are in the studio for tonight’s broadcast. Heenan tries to open the broadcast and makes it all about him.
This is, bar none, the greatest gear in wrestling history. She looks like a goddamn SUPER-VILLAIN.
JOSHI SPOTLIGHT- MARIKO YOSHIDA:
Real Name: Mariko Morita
Billed Height & Weight: 5’4″ 139 lbs. (varies in body type considerably; translation: gets swole)
Career Length: 1988-2017
-One of the unsung heroes of Joshi would be Mariko Yoshida, probably most notable to Western fans for having almost the exact same name as Wolverine’s lady-love for about a decade, one Mariko Yashida. This is most likely a coincidence, though Yoshida’s real family name is apparently Morita. Her biggest contribution to Western wrestling might be the creation of the Air Raid Crash, an over-the-shoulder move where she drapes the opponent across her back, cradles a leg and their neck, and drops down in an Inverted DDT hold. It was swiped by Mike Modest, appearing prominently in Beyond the Mat (Jim Cornette marks out upon seeing it). This devastating-looking move is STILL a big maneuver, and is currently used by AEW’s Britt Baker, among others.
Yoshida was surprisingly one of the most interesting workers in 1992 AJW (with only four years in the biz at that point), using Lucha Libre-influenced stuff to great success- her sunset flips, quick runs up to the top rope, and more led to a very good “come from behind” rookie style that made flukes seem like a constant threat. Hilariously, she uses a friggin’ Super DDT as a mere “prelude to the big stuff” move, as it had zero credibility as a finisher. – Rookie Yoshida in 1992 was one of AJW’s top eight best wrestlers easily (possibly behind only Bull, Aja, Akira, Yamada, Manami & Kyoko). Her future seemed bright, before a horrible neck injury put her out for nearly two years.
Just going through all the Nitros and noticed toward end of 97 your reviews just stop apart from very sporadic ones until the final one. Did you ever do these? Up until then you were doing both Raw and Nitro and doing a ‘winner’ each week and it was great to read the reviews as I watched them
Yeah that was when they weren’t doing three hours of Nitro every week. Either way I was not going past January 98 with Nitro. Plus RAW in late 97 was a pretty rough watch.
Roman is obviously far above any other members of the WWE roster when it comes to star power and believability as a tough guy, so right now there is no one who can realistically beat him for the belt. Is there anyone on any other roster, assuming their popularity there would instantly translate to the WWE, who might have a shot in your opinion?
So let’s assume the AEW Saturday specials pop a nice rating for Turner and everyone is happy.
What if the next steps were for Turner to offer to buy the rights to AEW PPV’s to air them on HBO Max? Perhaps $25-50 million a year for all 4 PPV’s in all markets HBO Max is in. That is a pretty small number in comparison to all live sports contracts, but a pretty sizable chunk of revenue for AEW.
If you are Tony Khan, would you take the guaranteed cash, or bet on yourself and think AEW’s PPV are going to grow and be worth more?
I’d take the guaranteed money. WWE has taught us that you ALWAYS take the guaranteed money.
Two days until full vaccination!
Kevin Owens Possibly Injured At Hell In A Cell
https://wrestlingrumors.net/tommyhall/video-possible-injury-takes-place-wwe-hell-cell/
Roman Reigns Issues Open Challenge For Smackdown
https://wrestlingrumors.net/tommyhall/roman-reigns-issues-open-challenge-smackdown/
The SmarK Rant for WWE Hell in a Cell 2021 – 06.20.21
Man, once the inevitable Disney buyout goes through, they’re gonna have to quit with the salty language in their PPV names. My suggestion would be “H-E-double hockey sticks in a cell” instead.
Hell In A Cell 2021
Date: June 20, 2021
Location: Yuengling Center, Tampa, Florida
Commentators: Michael Cole, Pat McAfee, Jimmy Smith, Byron Saxton, Corey Grave
It’s time for another big theme show with the event focusing on the match we saw two days ago. This time we have a pair of matches inside the Cell, as Bianca Belair defends the Smackdown Women’s Title against Bayley and Drew McIntyre challenges Bobby Lashley for the WWE Title. Let’s get to it.
We begin at 7PMET with the pre-show on YouTube. Main show starts at 8 on Peacock.
Other options: Saint Louis at Atlanta in MLB’s ESPN Game of the Week, and Hawks at Sixers in the two best words in American pro sports: Game Seven.
Happy Father’s Day to Scott and all other dads out there, including mine.
Enjoy the show!
