This has been a very interesting week in WWE to say the least. I thought I would type up a List and just talk about a little of it.
Let’s start with Survivor Series. I enjoyed the show. I say that especially with how stale the product has been in the last month or so. The big news was obviously the closing of it. The WWE debut of Sting. This was a huge deal! You have to remember that this is THE LAST guy to appear in WWE from a legends standpoint that never had any interest in crossing over. Many jumped from company to company. Sting never did. He went down with the ship in WCW. After that, he went to TNA and stayed loyal to them. Sting has never stepped foot inside a WWE arena so to see him walk out was surreal. It was an iconic moment in wrestling history and the St. Louis crowd popped huge for it. Just seeing him standing there was one of those moments that we’ll remember. Sting has been working under the WWE synergy for a while now with the new WWE video game and also his recent WWE DVD that has been released including sit-down interview material. However, Sting wants to close his career doing the one thing that he has never done and that is compete in WWE. Don’t expect to see him in the ring much. I expect that we see him in the ring at WrestleMania cause that has been the buzz for months along with his opponent. This is going to be his curtain call for his career. This guy has earned it and I’m glad to see him. His face-off with Triple H was awesome and just seeing the stare down was a lot of fun as we all waited to see what he was going to do. Of course, he cost Team Authority laying out Triple H with the scorpion death drop. He then placed Dolph Ziggler on top of Rollins for the pinfall.
Let’s jump over to that main event. I really liked the booking of it. I liked that Cena was put out earlier cause that eliminated him from being the guy to save the day. We’ve been there done that every single PPV for years now. Time to let someone else roll with it. That guy was Dolph Ziggler and he delivered. The crowd was huge behind him as he tried to make that comeback. He got the big win and Cena came out to congratulate him afterwards. Then, we had the meltdown of Triple H and Stephanie afterwards. They were awesome in this where they came to the realization of their power was gone. I thought both were awesome in the main event period and it made sense that Triple H was going to cheat or do whatever he had to keep that job. Their reactions all match were awesome but their meltdown and the crowd right with them on it was awesome. I really expected a Randy Orton appearance but I think it was too obvious to go that way. Sting was the ultimate way and it gave a lot of buzz to the WWE Network with their free Survivor Series broadcast.
As far as the rest of the show, it was solid. The only thing I didn’t like was the AJ booking where she just got squashed. Then, the Bellas being reunited was just kind of odd. That feud has just not worked especially when Brie’s character was over huge back in the summer. Wyatt and Ambrose had an awesome match. It was an odd situation cause it was a ‘ok, how does this get booked’ scenario. You have Ambrose who is getting over huge and needs to keep moving up. Yet, we have Wyatt who has been booked so badly that they need to get him back rolling. You knew there was going to be a rematch. There had to be.
No glitches at all on WWE Network for me over the PPV which was impressive considering that they went free around the world. Well, except for the UK who got messed up minutes before they were about to get the Network a few weeks ago. WWE pulled it at the last minute and there is talk that it might have been cause WWE was afraid of the traffic problem of a free month when they are trying to hook subscribers here in the States and then launching to such a huge market in the UK. Yeah, the UK fans haven’t been happy and this happened right before the UK tour as well. WWE removed all references to the Network on the tour cause it just fueled fan backlash every time.
Speaking of the Network, if you haven’t watched the ECW special from a couple of weeks ago. Watch it! Mostly the part two. Part one was good but I thought part two was way better just with Heyman and Styles answering fan questions. Also, watch the Punk documentary. I finished it a few days ago. There is also a 25 minute preview of the new Randy Savage documentary on there as well. That is going to be a really good documentary just based on the 25 minutes of it.
Last night’s Raw. I was excited to see what would happen coming off the PPV. Daniel Bryan was a great surprise!!! The crowd in Indy went nuts. I thought having him as a GM for the night was a great idea and gets him back on TV while he still sadly deals with his surgery recovery. This may even require another one unfortunately as he just isn’t healing well. I wouldn’t mind keeping him as GM for that reason of getting him back on TV. However, the end of the night made me groan so bad when I heard the computer sound. The anonymous Raw general manager is back. Noooooooo. It almost made me want The Authority back and I’m way past tired of The Authority. Very stale. Remember that WWE revealed in a clip not long ago for silliness that Hornswoggle was behind that. Let’s see if they remember that. LOL.
TNA lives. There has been such a feeling among many that this company was done. The longer that things went along and no TV deal was announced had many feeling bad about the company’s future. This included many of the talent even voicing it on social media. Talent had been let go, contracts not renewed, and no future dates announced. TNA announced last week that Impact will be moving off of Spike TV and moving over to Discovery America to start 2015. No details on the deal but this is big for TNA to just keep going at this point.
Just thought I would type up some thoughts on the week in wrestling. Survivor Series definitely provided us with the biggest debut we have had in many years and for old school fans, it was an iconic moment.
Have a great Thanksgiving!
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