Welcome to the “Rocky, it’s your birthday” edition of The Wrestling List. Ok, I have to admit that my attention was all over the place during this edition of Raw. Watching the weather and the crazy flood news. Also, watching a frustrating Bulls game. So, I had my attention everywhere trying to watch everything.
Let’s get into Extreme Rules. This sounds like it was a really good show based on all reports. Top to bottom people are saying that it was better than WrestleMania from an in ring standpoint. John Cena wins the WWE title back against The Miz. Yeah, I didn’t care for this. When we need something new on WWE programming, having Cena as champion again just doesn’t scream new to me. Christian wins the World title. On the other hand, I loved that. Christian finally gets his dream of being a world champion and gets to celebrate with Edge. The Layla/Michelle McCool match ended up being loser leaves WWE and saw the debut of Awesome Kong or who is now known as Kharma. Put over Kharma big in the debut by having her lay out Michelle on her way out.
Other notes from Raw. I laughed at the Rock’s line of picking at himself with his old picture saying he looked like the lead singer of Menudo. Surely, Kharma isn’t going to be a face, is she?? Alex Riley’s excuse to Miz for not being at the PPV was that he isn’t a Raw talent anymore. Umm, aren’t both brands supposed to be the PPV’s?
Michelle McCool is indeed done with WWE. That was a surprise last week. Michelle has decided not to continue with WWE and has moved on. She thanked her fans on Twitter and that is it. Really surprised by this as she was someone that I expected to be around for a long time especially with who she is married to. I’m interested to see what they do with Layla from here. She made a face turn at the PPV with the divas locker room basically saying we don’t like either one of you but we dislike Michelle more. I really like Layla as a heel so I’m going to wait and see what her face turn is like. I am bummed that the LayCool gimmick is over cause I really enjoyed it.
WWE held their stockholders meeting last week. It was announced that WrestleMania did over a million buys so the return of The Rock did help with buys. Highlights of the meeting was Vince being asked about the PG product. He said that sometimes you have to go backwards to go forward saying that they went back to their roots of being PG. He didn’t talk like they would ever go back to an adult type product. I think there is that balance and they have been doing it lately with the build to WrestleMania. Plus, Vince said that being PG is going to help them get bigger name sponsors that they wouldn’t be able to get with a higher rating. Absolutely true there. Vince did also say that they were going to focus on bringing in more international stars. Funny moment when Vince was asked if they were going to buy that company in Nashville, TN and if he was going to save the world from Dixie Carter. That of course is TNA. Vince said that “Stephanie has more brains that Dixie Carter has” which got a lot of laughs including from Stephanie and Triple H. Vince answered saying that he didn’t know that they were for sale. They aren’t of course but it was kind of a funny little moment.
The theme for WWE Classics On Demand is May is The 90’s. The programming will center around 90’s happenings and events. The Hall Of Fame will be on Stone Cold Steve Austin which will include a profile and matches from his career. The Greatest Superstars of the 90’s DVD will be airing. The In Your House Ground Zero PPV will air this month which is one of my favorite PPV’s of 1997. It took place from Louisville and that crowd was hot.
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