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Sunday, December 29, 2013

Wrestler of The Week #15 AJ Styles

Before I begin this is something I begin on a site called XWA Universe. You might remember that XWA was the forum I advertised on the side panel to your right. Well I had a falling out with them. But don't worry their lose is this blogs gain. I'm going to continue Wrestler of The Week right here on The Rants of Wrestling.

It's going to be different of course. I used to have a generator randomly pick from a group of 50 wrestlers and tag teams. Well that's out the window. Instead I'm going to pick the wrestler myself. It's going to be someone that's done something newsworthy in the week like it should be. Maybe sometimes it'll be someone that I just want to highlight because he or she is not a house hold name. So here's the continuation of Wrestler of The Week here on The Rants of Wrestling!


Our wrestler of the week is former ROH Pure, TNA X-Division, NWA World Tag Team, TNA Tag Team, NWA World Heavyweight and TNA World Heavyweight Champion AJ Styles!

Most of you will know AJ Styles as Mr. TNA, or Mr. Impact Wrestling. Whatever. His their first X-Division Champion. A lot of people will say that he build that division. He along with Low Ki and Jerry Lynn made TNA worth watching in their early days. By TNA's First Anniversary AJ Styles defeated Jeff Jarrett for The NWA World Heavyweight Championship.

You should all know how his run goes. He keeps going from being a main event star to being misused and back and forward. He goes between highs and lows. The reason he's wrestler of the week though is that there's been rumors of him not resigning with TNA. We keep hearing conflicting reports. He has been accepting independent bookings outside TNA. He's even going to do a CZW live internet pay per view.



But the reason he's the wrestler of the week is because he's making a return to Ring of Honor. I think this really shows that Styles and TNA had a falling out in contract negotiations. Styles was in and out of Ring of Honor between 2002 and 2005. He was their first Pure Wrestling Champion, beating CM Punk for the belt. He made a memorable feud with Jimmy Rave over The Styles Clash. In my opinion Styles is the biggest free agent in pro wrestling right now. And ROH was very smart to grab him up.



Styles returns to ROH's Nashville TV Tapping along with Chris Hero, making this a very exciting beginning for 2014. Plus you add in the fact that it's going to be at the old TNA Asylum and you know we're going to get a very special night.
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

IPPV Report: Final Battle 2013

ROH doesn't do live internet pay per view anymore so this is really a report of Final Battle on video on demand. So when you purchase it you’ll be able to watch it as many times as you want whenever you want for a full year.

So anyway I was excited for this show. I think ROH did a great job of building the World title match. Some of the matches don’t have much build or heat but I still think it worth checking out. I’m a huge ROH fans as most of you would know so I was going to anyway so here’s your report of Final Battle 2013!

Adam Page vs. Matt Hardy

We get some fun spots from Page and some good entertaining moments. I don’t know if there was an audio issue but you can barely hear the crowd. Hardy gets a lot of heat before the match and even gets the John Cena treatment from The Hammerstein Ballroom but it’s not there when he’s doing his goofy WWE stuff. It’s alright. Wish they would have used a fast pace match to open the show. Hardy was able to win after a twist of fate.

**

Strap Match
Silas Young vs. Mark Briscoe

This is one of the best strap matches I ever seen, though admittedly I haven’t seen too many. A lot of things a never seen in a strap match and unlike WWE’s strap match from Extreme Rules this one wasn’t built around comedy. A very solid match and this proved ROH was right to sign Young. Young won after he was able to touch all 4 corners of the ring.

***

Adrenaline Rush vs. The Young Bucks

This was a real stellar spot fest. Not only was it a super kick party but we even saw The Bucks work a body part and TD sold it throughout the match! This was fast paced and fun to watch. The Young Bucks won after More Bang For Your Buck.

****

Stretcher Match
Mike Bennett vs. Kevin Steen

What a fun brawl this was. The fan totally reacted the right way when Mike was going to give Steen a piledriver onto the apron. Steen destroyed the stretcher when Maria blocked Bennett from being stretched out. This was really fun to watch. Steen won after knocking out Bennett after giving him a Package Piledriver onto steel chairs. Post-match Kevin Steen gave Maria a Package Piledriver.

****

ROH World Tag Team Championship
reDRagon vs. Outlaw Inc.

This whole thing was WTF. It was cool to see Prince Nana but the set up to this match was really weird. Bobby Fish ran away and was gone for the first few minutes of the match. Homicide looked lost at some points of the match and he botched several moves. These two teams didn’t mesh at all and the crowd was demanding the match end. Highlight was Kyle O’Reilly doing gang signs. Match ended when a referee bump happened and reDRagon did Chasing The Dragon on Homicide, but instead of kicking him Fish used a steel chair. Post-match Outlaw Inc. attempted to start a riot.

*

ROH World Television Championship
Tommaso Ciampa vs. Matt Taven

I seen people complain that this match was too short but I think it was nearly perfect. The House of Turth only had a little offense on Ciampa but the majority of the match was Ciampa beating up The HoT. ROH did a good job of making him look like a badass. Taven splashed Ciampa but he counted with The Rings of Saturn and Taven submitted giving us a new World Television Champion!

***

Roderick Strong & Jay Lethal vs. Eddie Edwards & BJ Whitmer

Well I didn’t see Hillbilly Jesus coming out retirement to be in this match at all. Eddie Edwards did a great job of carrying his team. BJ got to have a lot of offence outside the ring as well. It was a good match. Too bad Davey had to blow it so we don’t get to have The American Wolfs at Final Battle. Eddie won the match when he rolled up Rodrick Strong.

***

Post-match Lethal leaves so that Edwards can make a goodbye speech. After he’s done BJ and Strong attack him and Jacobs comes out. They’re a stable now I guess and it’s a heel turn. Jacobs is pissed off since Edwards is leaving but the fans are giving him respect while they have been there for 10 years and are getting nothing. Jacobs ends up by giving Edwards a spike.

I don’t like how Jacobs and Strong are heel again after turning babyface this year. But I do like the fact that ROH is going to do something with them now. Strong has been doing nothing as a babyface. So perhaps it’s best that they do this. Plus I laughed when Corino called BJ a scum.

ROH World Championship
Michael Elgin vs. Jay Briscoe vs. Adam Cole

This was a great main event. Matt Hardy was revealed as Cole’s mentor and Mark Briscoe made the save for his brother. People were complaining on the ROH forum that Elgin is no longer a contender for The ROH World Championship. I disagree. He was made to look super strong as always. Anyway this match was really fun to watch plays a heel greatly. He won the match after Briscoe gave him two Jay Drillers and Cole superkicked Elgin in the back of the head before rolling him up.

****

After Cole and Hardy began laying out everyone. Music began playing and Chris Hero made a surprise return to attack Hardy and Cole. Hero is chasing after the ROH World Championship in 2014!

Other than The World Tag Team match there wasn’t a bad match on the show. We got three great matches and this show really makes excited about The World Title picture in 2014. Just so that we don’t get Elgin or Briscoe getting another World Title shot right away ROH has brought back Chris Hero, who I think shouldn’t have been let go from WWE in the first place.

We got a new stable. We’ll see hot that goes. At least now Rodrick Strong isn’t stuck in limbo. Tommaso Ciampa has finally won The World Television Title and that puts a big question mark of The HoT. Silas Young is gaining momentum. This was a good show to build 2014.


I can definitely recommend buying this show. There are worse things you can do with 15 dollars. Plus you can watch it whenever you want. That’s the best deal I seen for IPPVs.
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

1. Mr. Kennedy


Mr. Kennedy
Nineteen Days
One Defense

2. Mr. Kennedy defeated Jeff Hardy at WWE Friday Night SmackDown! April 6, 2007.

Mr. Kennedy makes the first ever defense of The Unofficial World Championship at Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Indiana. No video is available for this match and can not be rated.

3. The Undertaker defeated Mr. Kennedy at WWE SmackDown! April 10th, 2007.

Mr. Kennedy actually lost in a tag team match the week before but the old rules did not allow the title to change hands in tag team matches. I had to look up why Batista wasn't crowned champion.

This first as Mr. Kennedy defends the championship overseas at The DatchForum di Assago in Milan, Italy. And it's another first in that this is the first time The Unofficial World Championship is defended against a true world champion, WWE World Heavyweight Champion The Undertaker.

Sorry I couldn't find any footage of this match. The Undertaker defeated Mr. Kennedy by disqualification.
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Monday, October 21, 2013

Super Fun Time With Heath Slater/Raw Rant October 21st, 2013



Only a few complaints about this RAW, or as I like to call it Super Fun Time With Heath Slater. Just a few.

It's still too long! I know we all love the man but Super Fun Time With Heath Slater should not be three hours long.

And the commentary in the main event was real distracting.

I think other then the attempt at goofy fun WWE is actually doing a good job of moving story lines forward and hyping their pay per views.

Daniel Bryan vs. Orton with HBK as a guest referee is interesting.

The tag team division is really improving and starting to reflect JCP's division.

The things with Big Show is interesting.

Dutch Mantel continues to be on my television while Antonio Cesaro spins people in circles.

Big E and CM Punk are very fun to watch as a team.

Miz is getting his rear end handed to him by The Wyatt Family.

And Heath Slater lost. Everything is right with WWE right now.
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Sunday, October 20, 2013

PPV Report: Bound For Glory 2013

TNA World Tag Team Title Shot
Gauntlet Match
Chavo Guerrero & Hernandez vs. Bad Influence vs. Eric Young & Joseph Park vs. The BroMans
This was good. I didn't expect TNA to allow Young and Park to get the title shot. Good beginning to the show I thought. BroMans win.

***

TNA X-Division Championship
Ultimate X
Jeff Hardy vs. Austin Aries vs. Chris Sabin vs. Samoa Joe vs. Manik

This must have been the most unexciting Ultimate X match ever. With all the talent in the ring this should have been far better plus it could have been a great open for the actual pay per view. Sabin won after using a ladder to win.

***

TNA World Tag Team Championship
The BroMans vs. James Storm & Gunner

While people on XWA shit over them I feel The BroMans actually did a good job here. Storm got a nasty cut on his leg. BroMans won the titles.

***

TNA Knockout Championship
Gail Kim vs. Brooke vs. ODB

Kim did some funny bumps but beyond that there was really nothing to this match. Le'D Tapa interfered so that Kim can win the title.

**

Bobby Roode vs. Kurt Angle

It had a real weird start but it became a good match. It would been better but we got a fuck finish with Kurt knocking himself out with his own Angle Slam. You just shouldn't do this on your biggest pay per view of the year.

***

Ethan Carter III vs. Norv Fernum

Highlight of this was Taz's commentary, which is a bad sign. It wasn't even a fun squash match.

DUD

Magnus vs. Sting

This would have been far better if we had a better crowd reaction. No one really expected Sting to tap out. Otherwise Sting actually did a good job here.

**

TNA World Heavyweight Championship
AJ Styles vs. Bully Ray

This was a very underwhelming main event. They just killed the match trying to sell a story. Styles took crazy bumps like doing a 450 from the ring through a table.

**

For the biggest TNA show of the year this was a very underwhelming pay per view. Just a huge disappointment overall. This is not worth paying 40 dollars for when Ring of Honor and New Japan Pro Wrestling are offering far better for 15.
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