Hey, we’ve got game 7 between Carolina and Washington tonight, plus baseball and NBA playoffs.
Vlad Jr gets called up to the majors on Friday!
Back tomorrow with more 97 RAW as the weekend will be the epic double Summerslam redo! 92 and then 97.
NXT and that good stuff tonight. Have a great night!
The SmarK Rant for WWF Superstars – 08.22.92
Summerslam is rapidly approaching! And yeah, I’m definitely redoing it this week.
Taped from Worcester, MA
WWE.com NXT Preview
https://www.wwe.com/shows/wwenxt/2019-04-24
RAW Viewership Numbers
https://www.f4wonline.com/wwe-news/wwe-raw-posts-lowest-ratings-january-big-drop-second-hour-282246
Impact Wrestling Free Match
You can watch The Wolves vs. The Hardys vs. Team 3D Full Metal Mayhem Match from 10/8/14
Taped from Dallas, TX
Airdate: April 16, 1983 (taped 04/01)
Attendance: unknown
Hosted by Bill Mercer
Who will win the battle of handcuffs? How does Flair react after his narrow victory last week? There’s a newcomer to Devastation, Inc. And who will be my special guest for this week’s reflection?
Back again with some more ECW action, as we continue the build to Hardcore Heaven on the 16th of May 1999. Last week we saw Justin Credible lose to Shane Douglas in the main event, only for he and partner Lance Storm to leave “The Franchise” lying when all was said and done.
However, despite laying the faces out more than once, Storm and Credible are yet to actually win a particularly big match yet, as they always seem to fail when the chips are down only to then do a beat down to “get their head back”.
Of course, it’s kind of hard to get your heat back if you never had any real heat to begin with, and that’s certainly the issue with Storm and Credible so far in this run. Despite getting plenty of TV time, they’ve yet to really gain any traction because they keep losing matches.
It could be that we’re building for the big win for them, but that’s a totally arse backwards way of booking. Usually you’d give the heel some wins at the START of a feud to heat them up and then maybe have the face win the blow off when the heel was all good and hot. However, we seem to be getting the opposite here, with the faces winning a lot, thus cooling the heels off with the intention of them winning the blow off to heat them up again, which is just….weird.
Anyway, let’s see what ECW has in store for us as we once again take things to The Extreme!!!
Smackdown
Date: April 23, 2019
Location: Pinnacle Bank Arena, Lincoln, Nebraska
Commentators: Tom Phillips, Corey Graves, Byron Saxton
We’re officially into the new era of Smackdown after last week’s brand split and believe it or not, Roman Reigns is the focal point of the show again. Last week saw Reigns attack Vince McMahon, which has started off rumors that he might be fired. In other words, it’s McMahon time again and that’s likely to be the case for the time being. Let’s get to it.
Tonight, it’s Smackdown plus a pair of game 7s in the NHL. And the Raptors try to finish off the Magic.
Tomorrow, back to Superstars as we build to a redo of Summerslam 92.
Have a great night and good luck to my favourite team, Anyone But The Leafs!
–Tony Schiavone and Bobby Heenan are doing commentary and they are taped from Orlando, Florida.
Read moreWhat the World Was Watching: WCW Worldwide – May 27, 1995
I grew up in the early 90s and the Dangerous Alliance storyline will always be a favorite of mine. Few heel stables or year long stories can quite compare to the clash and heels and faces in professional wrestling.
Do you think the stable will ever be inducted into the hall of fame, or are they too low on the totem pole to even be considered (particularly since it was purely WCW)?
The SmarK Rant for WWF Monday Night RAW – 07.21.97
OK, back to these again because I was pretty over this period of time, but Nitro is SO FRIGGIN’ LONG now that I’d rather bounce back to RAW and catch up again for a bit.
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WWE.com Smackdown Live Preview
https://www.wwe.com/shows/smackdown/2019-04-23
NJPW Best of the Super Juniors 26 Participants Announced
https://www.f4wonline.com/japan/njpw-best-super-juniors-26-participants-announced-282191
NJPW Free Match of the Week
You can watch Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Mascara Dorada from 5/3/11
Being the Elite Episode #148
Taped from Dallas, TX
Airdate: April 9, 1983 (taped 04/01)
Attendance: unknown
Hosted by Bill Mercer
Can Kevin win the World title by defeating Flair? Will Kabuki get revenge against Yatsu for injuring him? Will Parsons make it 2-for-2 against the Freebirds with a victory over Hayes? Who will join me to celebrate this show?
Monday Night Raw
Date: April 22, 2019
Location: Wells Fargo Arena, Des Moines, Iowa
Commentators: Michael Cole, Corey Graves, Renee Young
It’s kind of a new world around here as we have the first show with all the new talent brought over in the Superstar Shakeup. That could be a good or a bad thing, but given how many changes they’ve managed to make since the Shakeup took place, your guess is as good as mine about what they’re doing here. Let’s get to it.
Howdy Blog O’Doomers!
Oh well we’ll always have last week Viking Experience
The Viking Experience lasted about as long as a @VikingCruises #RAWTonight
— WWE Creative Humor (@WWECreative_ish) April 22, 2019
Anyhoo. The post shake-up RAW is tonight as the shaking continues long past it’s shake expiration. I don’t even remember who’s on the new show so I’ll just find out if/when I look at it tonight.
Milwaukee and Houston go for sweeps tonight in the NBA playoffs while Washington and Dallas look to advance in the NHL Playoffs, which are stupid and suck completely. NHL is the worst.
And if you don’t want to watch sports or sports entertainment than I don’t know what to tell you. “A Few Good Men” is on Sundance.
Keep it clean!
Shot at the NFL?? TUNE INTO NITRO TO FIND OUT!!!
Adventures In Wrestling
Date: April 5, 2019
Location: White Eagle Hall, Jersey City, New Jersey
Commentator: Sarah Shockey, Drew Cordero
This is from Black Label Pro, which I’ve heard of in name only. We’re still in Wrestlemania weekend and that means that, as usual, I have no idea what to expect here. This is one of the rare shows where I’ve heard very few good things about the event. For the show to be considered that bad, I’m almost scared of what is going to happen here. Let’s get to it.
As noted earlier today on PWInsider.com, Aleister Black, Andrade and Zelina Vega were moved from Raw to Smackdown today. PWInsider.com has been told that the move to bring Andrade and Vega back to Smackdown was made, in part, at the request of FOX as the brand lacked any major Latino stars following the Superstar Shakeup last week and that once the series moves to FOX this October, there are plans to spotlight WWE's Latino stars on their Spanish language station, Fox Deportes.
Black was moved, at least in part, due to the fact he is married to Zelina Vega, as WWE has made an effort to keep married couples on the same brand, but we are also told there were some idea pitched for him for the blue brand.
There is no word when talents were informed of the move.
Not sure if this is interesting to you, and I already put it in the comments of your archives post, but in case you were curious, here are the guys you’ve given the most ***** matches to in one easy list:
Do you have any further details on how Tenryu’s SWS promotion and the WWE came to have a working relationship during SWS’ short (1990-1992) lifespan?
There were big Tokyo dome events with seemingly the most random assortment of undercard matches as there were the obvious inter-promotional match ups with Davey Boy, Duggan, Sherri, Savage and Haku involved, then Tenryu & Hogan on top but
so much of the cards are made up of straight up WWE matches. For example; Sgt Slaughter v Ultimate Warrior, Hart Foundation v The Rockers, Mr Perfect v Texas Tornado, LOD v Natural Disasters, Texas Tornado v Ted Dibiase and even more.
I’m aware SWS drew healthy crowds trying to do its own form of sports entertainment and Tenryu’s name though it wasn’t a promotion that could sustain it for long so it must have been so expensive to get so much of the western talent flown
over. Would SWS have approached the WWE with the idea of working together? Just how much money was Vince offered that he couldn’t refuse, was it just an easy payday for his wrestlers? Did Vince have his own agenda, like trying to have a greater Japanese presence
to start running their himself more often on the back of the SWS exposure? So much intrigue.
Vince's main goal was to establish the WWF presence in Japan so that he could run his own promotion in opposition to the Big Two over there. Didn't work out for him, although with hot main events like Ted Dibiase v. Ultimate Warrior in a 5 minute title match, I can't imagine why not.