01. How stiff did Matt Hardy look walking down to the ring? He looked like a had a stick shoved up his ass or something. Hell if I didn’t know any better, I’d think he was a sack of potatoes with legs and a ponytail.
It’s obvious Matt Hardy’s time has passed by and short of the pops he gets in the ring, all those TLC matches have caught up to him. Morrison on the other hand sold like a god and totally carried Hardy to greatness. With wrestling this good on free TV, why pay for ROH?
02. The referee during the Hardy/Morrison match looked like he was 15. In fact, I heard he totally goes around backstage asking wrestlers to sign all his action figures. I wish I had that kind of access…
03. I hope the The Miz burns in a fire alongside Uwe Boll, Britney Spears, and your mom.
Yes.
YOUR mom.
04. Matt Striker is already the second best announcer on WWE programming and easily kills all the other commentators in TNA and Ring of Honor. Striker for the longest time has had problems finding a niche for himself in the company, looking forever expendable, but finally it seems that he has found a long-term fit for himself in WWE. In fact, he totally offset Todd Grisham (who after watching RAW, seemed like a huge step up from Michael Cole ) in the best of ways.
05. I didn’t see it in Ring of Honor.
I didn’t see it in OVW.
But now, on ECW, I finally see it.
Matt Sydal/Evan Bourne is total, total awesomeness.
06. Tommy Dreamer totally pulled off the weakest looking dropkick to the corner that I’ve ever seen in my life. I don’t know if I should be happy that he managed to somewhat connect with the move or insulted that he even bothered to try.
Honest to god, I totally expected him to break his hip upon landing on the mat.
07. Did you guys catch that promo piece informing viewers of Smackdown’s channel change? What a horrid piece of hype machine. Don’t you think that the WWE can do much better than this?
08. Mike Knox has come back from the woods ladies and gents to hunt for leprechauns!
“Where Is My Pot of God, Bitch?!”
09. As with Morrison, Bourne, and Chavo before, Finlay completely carried his own respective match. It’s apparent that ECW is comprised of one half work horses and one half… well just regular horses. This was Knox’s best match since his match for the ECW world title against Punk many, many months ago, but truthfully it was all Finlay’s doing.
10. And again, wow, the crowd was completely hot for an ECW show. I think that slowly but surely, they deflated over the course of the show, but even then I think this ECW thing might just get over with the general audience just yet.
Saturday, March 20
Live Events
!Bang!
Television Taping
Ocala, FL – 7:00 pm
CHIKARA
“Wit, Verve, and a Bit o’ Nerve”
Palmer Community Center
Easton, PA – 6:30 pm
Matches include Eddie Kingston vs. Pink Ant and Los Ice Creams vs. Daisee Haze/Sara Del Rey
Florida Championship Wrestling
Orlando Armory
Orlando, FL – 7:30 pm
Jersey All Pro Wrestling
“Wild Card”
Rahway Rec Center
Rahway, NJ – 8:00 pm
Matches include Samoa Joe vs. Kazuchika Okada, Teddy Hart/Jack Evans vs. Generation Me, and Dan Maff, the Heavy Hitters, Sara del Rey, Devon Moore, and Bandido Jr. will all defend their titles against Wild Card opponents
NWA Anarchy
Television Taping
NWA TV Arena
Cornelia, GA
Ohio Valley Wrestling
Davis Arena
Louisville, KY – 7:30
This event is a fundraiser for the Sertoma Foundation.
Ring of Honor
International Centre
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada – 7:30 pm
Matches include Kenny Omega vs. Davey Richards, Chris Hero vs. El Generico, and Colt Cabana vs. Steve Corino
World League Wrestling
North County Middle School
Deslodge, MO – 7:00 pm
WWE Raw
Tucson Convention Center
Tucson, AZ – 7:30 pm
WWE Smackdown
Visalia Convention Center
Visalia, CA – 7:30 pm
Television Broadcasts
AAA Lucha Libre
Television Broadcast on Galavision – 4:30 pm eastern
NWA Anarchy
Television Broadcast on AMG-TV Network – 7:30 pm eastern
Ohio Valley Wrestling
Television Broadcast – WOBZ-TV9 – 9:00 pm
Television Broadcast – WKYT-TV – 11:00 pm
Sunday, March 21
Live Events
CHIKARA
“Testimony of Evil”
Knights of Columbus Hall
Fairfield, CT – 3:30 pm
Matches include Team Frightening vs. Bruderschaft and Eddie Kingston vs. Lince Dorado
CMLL Lucha Libre
Television Taping
Arena Coliseo
Mexico City, Mexico – 5:00 pm
Matches include Mistico/ Hector Garza/ Blue Panther vs. Taichi/ Mr. Niebla/ Negro Casas and Toscano/ Hijo del Fantasma/ Valiente vs. Euforia/ Vangellys/ Okumura
TNA
Destination X
Impact Zone
Orlando, FL
Matches include Beer Money vs. Morgan/Hernandez and an Ultimate X match
Television Broadcasts
Florida Championship Wrestling
Television Broadcast on Bright House Sports Network – 6:00 pm
TNA Destination X
Live Pay-Per-View broadcast at 8:00 pm
Matches include Beer Money vs. Morgan/Hernandez and an Ultimate X match
WWE AM Raw
Television Broadcast on USA Network – 2:00 AM
If you would like your promotion to be included on the weekly calendar, please send an email to davidb@insidepulse.com with either your upcoming schedule or a link to your upcoming events on your website.
Monday Night Wars - what are you watching this week?
- RAW (44%, 136 Votes)
- TNA (33%, 102 Votes)
- Recording and watching all (9%, 28 Votes)
- Flipping around (8%, 26 Votes)
- None (3%, 9 Votes)
- ROH (2%, 7 Votes)
Total Voters: 308
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1. To answer your question, because Danielson is God and all the other good wrestlers get a lot more time. WWE could make ROH irrelevant on free TV pretty easily, but it isn’t their M.O.
5. Bourne really is showing what all the hype was about. I’ll keep saying that until it’s acknowledged. He has been amazing on WWE TV and I’d love to see him dethrone Henry. Besides my own markdom for Punk, he’s actually been better than him when he first arrived in the ‘E!
I thought the qualifying matches for the Scrmable were pretty good, as were the SD qualifiers. Made me wonder why RAW didn’t have them.
“With wrestling this good on free TV, why pay for ROH?”
Bones – because ONE good match a week isn’t enough to sustain my habit! Plus, you have to sift through hours of wrestlecrap to MAYBE find the one little gem of the week on free TV. To me, it’s not worth the time.
When I pop in an ROH dvd, 9 times out of 10 I can be assured of decent quality throughout, and at least one very good match. Those are better odds than my PERSONAL PERCEPTION of the odds of finding quality in-ring action in WWE or TNA, so I’m not taking as many chances with my hobby.
I’d rather experience the guaranteed enjoyment than the crossed-fingers of hope…
Finlay the Fighting Irish Bastard- you know, for kids.
I think many on the internet have a heavy anti-WWE bias, just as many feel that WWE can do no wrong.
The bottom line is that since late 2007, the WWE has been putting on consistently good television, especially since this past Wrestlemania.
Vinny, when was the last time you genuinely took the time to watch any FREE WWE programming? Punk/JBL was a good match for free TV this past week on RAW. The Jericho/HBK program is better than ANYTHING Ring of Honor is currently offering (yes, even Jacobs/Aries – and hey it’s FREE!), with Jericho becoming the premier heel in the professional wrestling industry. Santino is the best comedy act in the business as well and the program with Beth Phoenix is easily better than anything Sarah Del Ray is doing in Sweet & Sour Inc. these days.
There is plenty to like in the WWE these days, but if you never watch, how are you to know? There are plenty of people who write off ROH because the logo doesn’t read WWE. Don’t write off the WWE because the logo doesn’t read ROH.
I call bullshit on Jericho vs. Shawn being free. To catch the actual matches and the biggest part of the angle, you have to shell out 40-60$ for a PPV or two to four new ROH DVDs.
A WWE DVD with each PPV would cost similarly to a ROH PPV but you would get all the angle developments for FREE.
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