One week removed from what has been considered the best WWE
PPV since last year’s Money in the Bank.
Chicago seems to bring out the best in the WWE. Every PPV should be in Chicago at this rate. Last Sunday’s Extreme Rules was one eventful
night that saw both CM Punk and Sheamus defend their titles in two highly
praised matches and Cena nearly beat Brock Lesnar in a bloody confrontation. While I was a little disappointed that Cena
went over Lesnar, I am going to make sure to pick up Extreme Rules on DVD when
it comes out to see this great PPV for myself.
The fallout from Extreme Rules dominated WWE programming this week as we
move closer to Over the Limit, which is just two weeks away.
Johnny Cracks
Raw opened with one heated segment involving John
Laurinaitus, Triple H and Brock Lesnar.
Triple H was at Raw to address Brock’s unreasonable terms that Laurinaitus
agreed to the week before. The COO of
the WWE put his foot down and that did not satisfy Brock. Brock and Triple H came to blows which ended when
Lesnar hooked in the Kimura and broke Triple H’s arm. Just like that after all of Laurinaitus’ hard
work in building Lesnar to be the face of the WWE, Brock blew a gasket and
seemingly got himself fired. Left in a
state of shock and panic, Laurinaitus turned his attention to John Cena as he
would announce Cena’s opponent at Over the Limit at the end of the show. John Cena came out to the ring in a sling as
his arm was hurt during his match with Brock Lesnar at Extreme Rules. Immediately following that Laurinaitus came
to the ring to announce Cena’s opponent.
At first everybody thought Lord Tensai would be Cena’s opponent because
the wrestler formerly known as A-Train made his way to ring after Laurinaitus
came to the ring. WWE tricked us all as
Laurinaitus hit Cena over the head with the microphone before announcing that
he would face John Cena at Over the Limit.
While I know that this match will be far from a technical masterpiece, I
have been waiting for somebody to finally get their hands on Laurinaitus since
Cena hit Mr. People Power one of the stiffest clotheslines during his match
with Punk at last years’ Money in the Bank PPV.
It will most likely be an overbooked mess, but I personally believe it
will be a very entertaining overbooked mess.
CM Punk, Daniel
Bryan, WWE Championship, Over the Limit, the Internet Has Exploded
If the title does not make the Internet Wrestling Community collectively
mark out, I don’t know what will. Many
hardcore wrestling fans have been waiting to see CM Punk and Daniel Bryan
face-off on WWE PPV ever since the WWE signed Bryan back in 2009. While I personally would really love to see
this match main event WrestleMania someday, WWE did the smart thing of putting
this match on what is mostly considered a throwaway PPV in the minds of many
wrestling fans including yours truly. It
gets wrestling fans that would usually skip Over the Limit to keep watching Raw
to see the build and possibly order the PPV to see this one match. We will have to see how WWE builds this match
in the next two weeks, but CM Punk and Daniel Bryan have a long history from
their time in ROH to their matches from earlier this year that WWE can pull
material from to perfectly build this match as the main event of Over the Limit
even in such a short time.
A War Is Coming
Across the Border
It has been a long time since I have mentioned anything
about Ring of Honor on the Silver Report.
With how busy I was these last six months, I stopped watching ROH
because I never really had much time to watch ROH on my computer. About a month ago, I found out that Fox 29
(channel 28 on my TV) had ROH on Sunday nights at 11. So I have gotten back into the swing of
things with this great wrestling promotion just in time for their biggest iPPV
of the year, Border Wars. Next Saturday
at the Ben Reeves Arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, ROH will bring one of
their biggest cards of 2012. Roderick
Strong vs. Fit Finlay, The Briscoes vs. Wrestling’s Greatest Tag Team in a
Fight Without Honor for the ROH Tag Titles, Lance Storm vs. Mike Bennett, Eddie
Edwards vs. Rhino, Michael Elgin vs. Adam Cole and Jay Lethal vs. Tommaso
Ciampa fill out the incredible undercard.
The main event goes to possibly the most anticipated ROH World
Championship Match of 2012 in Davey Richards vs. “Wrestling’s Worst Nightmare”
Kevin Steen. Being that this match is
Kevin Steen’s only chance at the ROH Title, this match should be off the charts
and see the Canadian Kevin Steen walking away with the ROH Title around his
waist. I am personally cheering for
Kevin Steen because I can see ROH becoming a lot more interesting with Steen as
World Champion.
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