NOC: Night of Calamity

As I sit here, during down time at school, I can’t help but think about how horrendous it was of WWE, at Night of Champions, to have HHH go over CM Punk. I should preface the rest of this blog, by mentioning that I did not order the PPV.

I did not order the PPV for a number of reasons, the fact that I was working late, and would not be able to see the first hour, I am somewhat broke at the moment, courteousy of college, but the biggest reason that I did not order the Pay Per View, and the thing that has now gotten me angry enough to rant/vent into a blog about, is the Triple H and CM Punk angle.

I stated some time ago, maybe in my last blog; I don’t remember, that Triple H beating CM Punk, even with some sort of “smog” as Bret Hart would say; would bury CM Punk.  CM Punk should be being built up to be the next Steve Austin right now. Everything was in the works for what could have been Attitude Era 2.

You have the employee, mad at the organization, and not wanting to take it anymore. You have the boss, attempting to hold down the employee, while using his power. The story is supposed to end, with the employee, getting the better of his evil boss.

I realize this is most likely not the end of the story, but it still doesn’t make sense.

Triple H err Paul Levesque can’t drop his own ego, even for once to better the company. I would really like to know, why the WWE feels like Triple H should go over Punk at all. Triple H, who hasn’t wrestled since Wrestlemania, and is now a corporate officer, defeats the company’s top guy.  

“Is this good for the company?”

Taken from the movie Office Space, “you have to ask yourself, is this good for the company.”

It seems from a fans point of view, it is not.

The problem was with the way they built up to the match. Instead of doing the logical thing and having Triple H be the heel, and punk the sort of anti-face face that Austin was. They have both be faces with Triple H, naturally trying to make himself look better than Punk. What ended up happening was, Punk becoming a sort of bully to Triple H, with Triple H needing to defend his “manhood” against him.

Once this happened, there was no choice but to make Triple H go over. He couldn’t loose. However, it should have never gotten to this point.

I will close this post, which is very much more of an angry rant, noting that I did not see the match, I have only read the details, and even with Miz and R Truth, and Nash being involved, it was a finish that should have been different.

Cornette Day is Back!

Remember Cornette Day? Where I put random bits of Jim Cornette being the man? Well here is a hilarious shoot on Vince Russo:

"A shoot from the Hart"

Source; Gerweck.net


"from John Pollock:

Teddy Hart was a recent guest on The LAW with John Pollock and Wai Ting discussing his plans for the Next Generation Stampede Wrestling promotion, which he is starting up along with Harry Smith and Jack Evans. Below are some highlights and the full interview can be heard at http://www.fightnetwork.com/news/wrestling/john-pollock-wai-ting-chat-w-teddy-hart/ or on iTunes by subscribing to ‘Live Audio Wrestling’.

How Next Generation Stampede Wrestling is different:
We have trampolines and we have skateboarders, we have all sorts of things that we want to do. I really like the X-Games, and I’m trying to get guys that are in the X-Games to transfer over into this new sport of wrestling that I’m creating. Certain things to look for in the future – you might end up getting a key instead of winning a fall, because all the falls are 2 out of 3 falls, we’ll be wrestling a Mexican Lucha Libre style on that. Instead of winning a belt or something, you might win a key which will unlock a certain weapon that you can use, which may be like a skateboard, or a trampoline, or a special pair of boots that have magnets on the bottom so you can do some things that have never been possible before. Also, the turnbuckles are robotic for the new ring that we’re designing. This may be six months away, but guys can adjust the height while they’re up there.

Ideas he would like to see in the promotion:
I’d like to see mechanically altered weapons and things like that. Chairs that change sizes, ladders that get longer, so you can be on a ladder and press a button and it gives you another three feet or five feet if you want to go higher. Higher is ratings. If you can have the fans all typing into their phone, and you want to see Ted Hart go an extra five feet in their air, everyone’s got 30 seconds to type a code into their phone. If the code is in, and I get my combination from the referee, I climb up another five feet.

Working with pets to incorporate into wrestling:
I’m training cats to come out to the ring with me, and I’m also trying to train animals to get involved in matches. I’m trying to get safety animals, like a dog, to basically pull the referee’s leg before the count of three, little things like that. Or my dog will be carrying a weapon for me, and I would get it off his neck. Potentially if I had a female manager, and she has a cat, and the cat is maybe a good way of getting couple kids out of the audience, and I lure the kids out of the audience and the kids cause a disqualification to happen so I don’t have to lose the belt, or something like that.

Transcribed by Chris Maffei"

OK, so either Ted Haet has completely lost his mind, he has taken up doing Acid, or he's messing with everyone.

This is probably the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of.

Not going to lie though, I'd probably tune in just to see what the hell it's all about.

I hope for the sake of wrestling that somebody from the Hart family stops him in the name of Stampede, before he tries to calls these X-Games meets Circus meets something that smells like Vince Russo, Stampede anything....

Or maybe he was stabbed in the head with a fork, one too many times by Homicide....

-Mark X

For a bonus....
Here is just a random promo showcasing his craziness:

Finallly The Mark...Has Come Back

Somewhat eerie is the fact that I have not written a blog since the morning of Money In The Bank. For those of you who follow me on Twitter, you know that I have kept an eye on the product, but for those of you who do not; First of all, get on that; and second of all, you should know that yes I have been keeping up with what is going on.

To be honest, I am not sure why I have not written a blog in some time, is it because I have been working Full Time? Is it because as of last week, I am back in College?

The truth is I really don't know, it could be a combination of those things. Or, it just might be, the fact that nothing I have been seeing has compelled me to write.

Where they were going with CM Punk having the Championship, and going around to different media outlets and continuing with his character, had a lot of potential. But the night they crowned a new champion, did not even mention CM Punk, it lost most of its steam.

They made the championship seem completely worthless by not only not mentioning the current champion, but having someone win the Championship; Rey Mysterio, and then having that person lose to John Cenam that very same night, then in that same night having CM Punk return prematurely.

While I marked out like crazy, just like everyone else when I heard "Cult of Personality" hit the speakers, I still knew that this angle would be not as cool as everyone had hoped it would be. However, the image of CM Punk holding the real WWE Championship, just a little bit higher than John Cena's fake WWE Championship, was quite memorable.

The CM Punk angle definitely began to lose steam with his first encounter with new "COO" Triple H. Triple H's character seems like WWE's version of Hulk Hogan's character in TNA, which by the way, does not work...

The character of the old veteran, who is now in power, that lets his cronies run wild, and also whether he be heel, or he be face; attempts to get himself over with every word that he speaks.

To make matters worse they have CM Punk up against John Cena to crown the "rightful" champion. They then speak of how Cena has a rightful claim to the championship, and put him over, and put him over, and over and over. They try to say he has more of a claim then Punk. Punk who won it in a PPV main event, Cena who won it after defeating someone half his size, after that person had already wrestled in the same night....

Then, for absoltuely no reason, Triple H decided to make himself the guest referee, a match that needed no other stipulation than champion vs. champion. Triple H being the ref, cleans to a un-clean finish, which leads to….. Wait for it....TNA's own Kevin "Big Spotlight" Nash.

Nash, straight out of the 1990's delivers, you guessed it, a Jack Knife Power bomb to Punk, and Del Rio cashes in his MITB, by simply pinning CM Punk. Virtually taking all the worth the WWE Championship had left, and shitting all over it..

The following night on Raw, Nash comes to the ring, and explains that he received a text from Triple H telling him to do it, and Triple H denies it, which takes the focus off of Punk, but onto the relationship between Triple H and Nash, two people who were not on TV, before Money In The Bank.

Now the mystery is, who texted Nash? Was it Maggie Simpson? Will we have to wait until the beginning of next season to find out? Where will all the clues lead us? Do we need Scooby and The Gang, to help figure this out?

So, Nash and Punk get into it, and begin a feud, with Triple H always in the middle. CM Punk loses a number one contender's match for the right to face Del Rio, because of Nash, and a match is set for Night Of Champions; CM Punk vs. Kevin Nash, and that match is then un-set...

Now Triple H will take on CM Punk, and honestly I don't care. I love CM Punk, his promos, and whatever else he does is usually the best part of Raw. Triple H, doing the Hogan character just bothers me, to a point where I really don't care. Triple H, should just be made into a straight Heel. If he was, I would care more, because if Triple H wins against CM Punk, even if it has an un-clean finish, it will bury CM Punk to me.

The only good thing that could possibly come out of this, is a reformation of the nWo, one I feel would be somewhat fresh. The corporate nWo against the likes of Punk, Cena, Orton and others, would be somewhat entertaining, a lot more entertaining than Triple H running around trying to be a face....

Maybe even a return of the Nexus, and a Nexus/nWo feud, that would be interesting...

Right now, I am barely being entertained by World Wrestling ENTERTAINMENT; I will continue to watch to see if this angle has a direction, hopefully it does.

-Mark X