After the televised portion of WWE RAW ended on Monday night in Seattle, Washington, World Heavyweight Champion John Cena gave props to the 12th man and asked if the fans wanted one final match.
John Cena def. Randy Orton via Disqualification. The DQ came when Orton hit Cena with a steel chair during the match. Orton tried for an RKO, but ended up getting hit with an Attitude Adjustment instead.
After the match, Cena brought out Daniel Bryan to another enormous ovation. Booker T came out and led the crowd in cheering on Daniel Bryan to do a Spinarooni. Bryan obliged and did one of the most awkward Spinarooni’s ever. Booker then brought out John Laurinaitis for a “People Power Spinarooni.” Titus O’Neil was also brought out to do a Spinarooni. Next, he challenged Stephanie McMahon to come out and do one. She tried backing out of it claiming her head hurts, but eventually did one herself. Finally, Booker had CM Punk come out and do one in his underwear.
The following are the official nominees for the “LOL Moment of the Year” Slammy Award, which will be presented by The New Age Outlaws (Road Dogg and Billy Gunn) on Monday night.
– The Rock concert during the RAW 20th Anniversary show
– Vickie Guerrero getting fired as RAW General Manager
– Titus O’Neil throwing up on JBL, Michael Cole and Zeb Colter on SmackDown
– The Great Khali and Jinder Mahal attempting to charm Santino Marella’s “Cobra”
– WWE officials are once again interested in having Rey Mysterio face Sin Cara at WrestleMania XXX, with hopes of breaking the world record for the most people wearing a mask in one area.
Though Sin Cara has not appeared on WWE programming since August, his merchandise is reporting selling very well.
– This week on “Backstage Fallout” for SmackDown, WWE cameras catch up with Zeb Colter following his unpleasant incident on the show. Plus, find out how Titus O’Neil is feeling.
Here’s the latest installment of “The YES! & The NO! of WWE RAW.” I may have a different perspective than you since I was live at Raw this week at The Nassau Colosseum! Comment below and tell us how you like the column and if you agree with this week’s picks.
Daniel Bryan & CM Punk cut a promo before facing The Wyatts
The obligatory rematch between The Wyatts and Daniel Bryan & CM Punk, took place on Raw. First a promo from “The Beard & The Best” CM Punk discussing team names, and asking questions allowing Daniel Bryan to answer them with a “Yes!”. Daniel Bryan got a chance to say more than just the three letter word that will follow him for the rest of his career.
I love Daniel Bryan, and so does the crowd. In fact you could hear Daniel Bryan chants during the opening segment, proving once again that this demotion was not “Best For Business” But more on that in the “NO!” section.
Any match can be enhanced with the crowd behind you. When you have top stars like CM Punk and Daniel Bryan, the two most over Superstars at Raw, it can add just that little more energy to the match.
CM Punk made a comment about Triple H and the authority in the opening promo, and wouldn’t know it after Daniel Bryan was “Kidnapped” by the Wyatts. CM Punk was laid out by The Shield. I wonder if that marks the end of Daniel Bryan and CM Punk together, because I was enjoying that. Time will tell.
Who would have thought Goldust would be having great matches alongside his brother in 2013!
The Shield vs The Rhodes and Rey Mysterio
I have never been a fan of Tag Teams growing up watching the WWE. I must say however, though all the missteps, and bad booking since SummerSlam, The WWE has a great tag team division. This, of course includes The Shield and The Wyatt factions. Day in and day out these teams from The Veteran Golddust, to newer WWE talent in The Shield and The USO’s, are having great matches. I am thoroughly enjoying watching these teams work.
The Kosher Butcher!
The Kosher Butcher Superstars for Sandy Relief Auction winner, ” Charlie Tebele was interviewed by Jerry “The King” Lawler. When asked if he were to be a WWE Superstar, what would his name be. Charlie was prepared, with a blue T-shirt and a great gimmick “The Kosher Butcher” He even went as far to come up with his finisher, The Circumcision! At first the crowd didn’t know what to make of this. Not sure if this was shown on TV, but The Kosher Butcher had at least a dozen of his friends and family at Raw, all wearing their Blue shirts! Great stuff. Half way during the Xavier Woods match, and some further thought, the crowd broke out into chants of both “Kosher Butcher” and “Circumcision”, add that to the list of most bizarre Raw chants.
Great Stuff.
Hit up Page 2 below for the “NO!” of this week’s WWE RAW:
For whatever reason, WWE decided to cut the tag-team match between The Prime Time Players and 3MB that was taped on Tuesday in Atlanta, Georgia for this week’s edition of WWE SmackDown.
3MB came out as “The Fabulous 3Birds,” a parody of “The Fabulous Freebirds” gimmick from the 1980s and 1990s. Heath Slater played the role of Michael “P.S.” Hayes, Drew McIntyre played Terry “Bam Bam” Gordy and Jinder Mahal played Buddy Roberts.
You can check out the complete match online at WWE.com.
– Tonight on SmackDown, R-Truth teamed up with The Prime Time Players to defeat The Union Jacks – the wrestlers usually known as 3MB – while The Great Khali beat Hunico and Camacho in a 2-on-1 Handicap Match. This week’s “Backstage Fallout” features The Prime Time Players, R-Truth and Khali discussing their victories.
– WWE’s stock price continues to increase as it reached a 52-week high of 13.37 on Friday before closing at 13.32. The stock price improved 12 cents from Thursday.
– A Six-Man Tag Team Match highlights this week’s episode of WWE Superstars as The Usos and The Great Khali square off against The Prime Time Players and The Miz. Plus, The Funkadactyls go up against Alicia Fox and Aksana. Highlights from both matches are available here.
– The official WWE website has issued a poll asking fans which personality showcased the most infamous gimmick in [wrestling] history. The options are The Gobbledy Gooker, Doink the Clown, The Boogeyman, The Dynamic Dudes, The Red Rooster, The Mountie, Akeem, Disco Inferno, Glacier and Giant Gonzales.
-As a bit of an update on the Bray Wyatt injury situation, he did appear at the WWE live event in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as scheduled. However, Wyatt did not actually wrestle in a match. Instead, he sat at ringside in his rocking chair as Luke Harper and Erick Rowan went on to defeat The Prime Time Players in a traditional tag-team match.
-Also at the WWE live event in Philadelphia on Sunday night, WWE Hall Of Famer Bob Backlund was in attendance. Backlund was spotted signing autographs and taking pictures with fans, all-the-while staying in character, during the intermission portion of the show.
For a complete report from the WWE live event in Philly from Sunday night, check out the main page.
– Cody Rhodes and Goldust continued their winning ways on SmackDown as the brother duo defeated Erick Rowan and Luke Harper, which marks as the first-ever loss for The Wyatt Family in WWE. On this week’s “Backstage Fallout” for SmackDown, Rhodes and Goldust react to their victory. Plus, The Prime Time Players and The Great Khali celebrate their victory over 3MB.
– WWE ring announcer Tony Chimel celebrates his birthday on Friday as he turns 52-years-old. Also celebrating a birthday today is former WWE wrestler Rikishi, who turns 48-years-old. Jey and Jimmy Uso wished their father a happy birthday via Twitter, writing, “Happy birthday to our pops @TheREALRIKISHI!! Out here in the middle east!! Don’t kno what time it is anymore!! Have a bless day dad!!”
-Apparently the last-minute addition of a tag-team match featuring Great Khali and Santino Marella against The Real Americans, Jack Swagger and Antonio Cesaro, being added to tonight’s WWE Battleground pay-per-view was due to timing issues. Once WWE laid out the show with the planned match lengths, they realized they still had too much time left, so the call was made to add an extra match.
-The “expert panel” for tonight’s WWE Battleground “Kickoff Show” is scheduled to feature Tensai, Titus O’Neil and The Miz.
-WWE Hall Of Famer Bob Backlund was in attendance at the WWE live event in Syracuse, New York on Friday night. Fans interested in reading a full report from the WWE live event in Syracuse on Friday can do so on the main page.
-Several WWE Superstars, including Daniel Bryan, CM Punk, Booker T, The Miz, Damien Sandow, Wade Barrett, Cody Rhodes, Titus O’Neil and Brodus Clay, fielded questions about life in WWE during a recent interview with The National publication in the Middle East to promote next week’s WWE tour in Abu Dhabi. You can check that article out online at TheNational.ae.
-WWE Superstar and member of The Shield, Roman Reigns, recently took a shot at Dustin “Goldust” Rhodes” in a WWE Battleground promotional tweet posted on his official Twitter account on Saturday afternoon. Reigns wrote:
@DUSTIN_RHODES1: the poor fool isn’t familiar with how we do things. #WWEBattleground = #TheRhodesRetirementParty Believe That!
– The official website of WWE announced Monday afternoon that Divas Champion AJ Lee will defend her title against Brie Bella at this Sunday’s Battleground pay-per-view event.
Previewing the match, WWE writes, “With the full attention of Brie Bella — who is no doubt eager to prove that she’s more than a “cheap, interchangeable, expendable, useless woman,” to quote the champion — focused solely on her, will the mercurial AJ Lee be able to back up her brazen words? Or will WWE’s black widow find herself trapped in a web of defeat as Brie begins her second reign as queen of the mountain?”
– What are the most extreme moments in Rob Van Dam’s career? Find out in the latest edition of WWE Top 10.
– Natalya, Darren Young and Titus O’Neil participated in a WWE Community Health event today in Biloxi, Mississippi, as they met an inspirational family. Click here to view a group photo the WWE Diva posted on Twitter.
Take this for what it’s worth, the Prime Time Players worked against Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns on both WWE live events this weekend.
Generally, WWE likes guys who are wrestling on big shows, such as pay-per-views, to work out their matches on the non-televised live events leading up to the pay-per-view show. Whether or not this is any indication as to who will win the Tag-Team Turmoil match during the Night Of Champions Kickoff show, which the Prime Time Players are a part of, remains to be seen.
Make sure to check back here at the website tonight for the best WWE Night Of Champions live pay-per-view results coverage on the internet.
Appearing on 4th & Pain, Titus O’Neil talks openly and in-depth about the reaction of the WWE locker room to Darren Young’s decision to reveal he was gay. He says the reaction has been “very positive.”
On Darren Young: “Darren is a great friend of mine away from the ring. I consider him a part of my family. My kids call him ‘Uncle Darren.’ They run, they play, they joke with him. For him to exhibit the courage that he did to go and discuss his sexual orientation to the world was a brave move to some, but to me is just an act of what type of man he is. You can only live behind certain people’s stereotypes or certain barriers in life for so long. At some point you have to say ‘man, to hell with it. I am who I am. I do what I do and I’m going to be who I want to be.’ ”
O’Neil says he’s know about Young’s sexual orientation for “a while,” but that it was irrelevant.
On how the reaction would be different in NFL locker room: “The football locker room and the WWE locker room are two completely different things.”
He says that unlike an NFL locker room where 53 players comprise a single unit, the wrestling locker room is constructed of more individuals which lends itself to “more shots” for backstabbing.
“If you play a position, you play a position. if you don’t play a position, you’re really not a threat. In WWE, everybody really plays the same position. Everybody is trying to be a WWE Superstar. So, whatever shot you can take, whether it be if a person is gay or not, they’re going to try to make something of it. Whereas in football, whether a person is gay or not it doesn’t matter. If they go out and make plays, they make plays. Period. I can assure you there are guys, whether they came out openly gay or not, there gay guys in NFL and college locker rooms.”
– Famous R&B singer Monica, attended Friday’s WWE live event in Atlanta, Georgia, with her children. Darren Young tweeted this image of himself and Titus O’Neil with the singer and her family.
Monica acknowledged the post with the following, “u guys were beyond kind to us!!! Made the boys experience better than great !! U guys did an awesome job!! Funny too.”
– Former WWE Superstar “The Genius” Lanny Poffo delivers one of his trademark poems in this video interview with 1495 Sports.
– U-Gene Nick Dinsmore, formerly known as Eugene in WWE, announced on Twitter that he will be conducting a professional wrestling seminar in Harrison, Arkansas, on Saturday, August 24. Click here for additional details.
Vickie Guerrero announced a champion vs. champion match between WWE Champion John Cena and World Heavyweight Champion Alberto Del Rio for WWE RAW tonight.
Guerrero wrote on Twitter:
“I’ve made a historic #WWE Champ@JohnCena vs. World Heavyweight Champ@VivaDelRio match tonight on #RAW@VinceMcMahon, what do you think?”
Also confirmed for tonight’s RAW is a tag-team match with CM Punk & Curtis Axel vs. The Prime Time Players.
-WWE Superstars Vickie Guerrero and Titus O’Neil will host the Academy Prep’s A Night Of Fashion on Thursday at 7PM from Revealing Truth Ministries in Tampa, Florida. Proceeds from the event will go to benefit the student scholarship fund and Embracing Legacy’s youth program. Other WWE Superstars scheduled to appear include: Darren Young, AJ Lee, Aksana, Antonio Cesaro, Wade Barrett, Justin Gabriel, Alicia Fox, Drew McIntyre, Naomi, Natalya, Sheamus, Jimmy Uso, Summer Rae and Paige.
-Former WWE Superstar MVP will be wrestling at a live taping of Booker T’s new “Reality of Wrestling” promotion at the Clear Lake City Recreation Center in Houston, Texas on July 13th.
Batista tweeted the following on Wednesday, talking about a possible return to pro wrestling:
“Sup Tweeple?!! Longer day than expected. Guardians is going to be insane! I’m about to pass out but fuck it! Q n A 4 5! GO!! And I apologize in advance for not being able to answer everyone.. And I’ll use my E.S.P. and go and answer the question I’m asked everyday all GD day… I don’t know when or if I will ever go back to wrestle!! I would love to but there’s a ton of other factors that I would have to weigh in. Shit like..how much will I be fined if I bleed? And who would I work with? And will I have the freedom to other things that I want to accomplish in life? Ya Know?!! ..but I do mss it. And I miss the fans alot. Even the dipshits who boo me and make up BS about me and smear it all over the iternet. Anyway..5 , GO!!!!”
Batista then replied to a fan about why he won’t consider going to TNA:
“BS my friend! Said it before and I’ll say it again, I bleed WWE! Wouldn’t want 2 be anywhere else. And I’ve had plenty offers”
Batista also commented on WWE Superstar Titus O’Neil, who stated in a recent interview that Batista is the reason he became a pro wrestler:
“I did’t make him…I just encouraged him. I love that dude and he deserves huge success! #hardworker”
WWE wrestler Titus O’Neil spoke with Adam Silverstein of OnlyGators.com about his transition from college football to WWE, Batista mentoring him and more. Here are some highlights of what he said about:
Getting Into Wrestling: “I never really thought about it as an option. One of my really good friends [Dave Batista], who was one of the top guys at the time and is still a big guy in the history of the business, had been talking to me about it for a while. He said once I got done playing Arena Football I should give it a try. I said that I was not really into it. I watched it a lot as a fan growing up but always said that stuff is fake and not something I would do. He stopped me right away and said, first of all, it’s not fake though it is predetermined. He then did a few moves on me and I found out pretty early on that it’s very real.”
How He Got Signed With WWE: “It was one of those chance things where I was driving one day, I live in Tampa, and there is a WWE developmental facility for Florida Championship Wrestling there. I drove out one day, walked in the back door and said, ‘Hey, I want to be a wrestler.’ The next day, they brought me in for a tryout. They saw something in me right out of the gate. The process of actually getting signed with WWE is actually a very long process, but I got hired within two weeks, which was unheard of. At that point then, I was kind of very glad that I actually went on faith, walked in and basically ended up walking out with a contract after they signed me two weeks later.”
– Promoting this Sunday’s Elimination Chamber pay-per-view event, WWE has released a video counting down the top 10 most destructive moments in the history of the cage match.
– The official WWE website has released highlights from this week’s episode of WWE Superstars, featuring Divas Champion Kaitlyn vs. Natalya, and Justin Gabriel vs. Titus O’Neil.
– SmackDown ring announcer Lilian Garcia is featured in today’s “Diva Spotlight” on WWE.com.
WWE taped this week’s SmackDown on Tuesday night from Jacksonville, Florida. Here are the results:
* Big Show is shown arriving on his bus. He comes to the ring and talks about how Alberto Del Rio and Ricardo Rodriguez are suspended. Big Show says the recent events between he and Del Rio are Booker T’s fault, which brings out the SmackDown GM. Booker announcers Big Show vs. Kane for tonight.
* Cody Rhodes defeated Kofi Kingston.
* The Great Khali defeated Titus O’Neil.
* Mark Henry came out and destroys Khali, which the crowd loved. Henry announces the Hall of Pain is back and he wants a spot in the SmackDown brand’s Elimination Chamber match. Booker came out and announced Henry vs. Randy Orton.
* Big Show defeated Kane in a quick match.
* Alberto Del Rio is shown outside in the parking lot, where he’s taken the wheels off Show’s tour bus. Show ran out to the parking lot but gets a bunch of paint dropped on top of him from the roof. Del Rio laughed and drove off.
* Jack Swagger squashed Justin Gabriel.
* Tensai beat Drew McIntyre by DQ when 3MB attacked him. Brodus Clay made the save for Tensai.
* Antonio Cesaro beat Sin Cara.
* Mark Henry defeated Randy Orton to earn a spot in the Elimination Chamber match.
– The official website of the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan, are now advertising The New Age Outlaws, “Road Dogg” Jesse James and “Bad Ass” Billy Gunn, for next Wednesday’s Raw live event. As reported earlier, the five-time WWE Tag Team Champions will also appear at Thursday’s Raw live event at Madison Square Garden and Friday’s show in Uniondale, New York.
– This week’s The JBL and Cole Show features John “Bradshaw” Layfield and Micheal Cole outside of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, before Sunday WWE TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs pay-per-view event. The synopsis reads, “Outside Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, “The Wrestling God” and one of WWE’s most outspoken announcers visit with Alex Levine from The Gaslight Anthem to join The Prime Time Players, Alicia Fox and WWE fans in a “Millions of Dollars” chant. Watch the latest episode of the hilarious “JBL & Cole Show”!”
– WWE officials are high on developmental wrestler Corey Graves, formerly known as Sterling James Keenan on the independent circuit. He is expected to gain the NXT Championship following the promotion of current belt holder Seth Rollins to the main roster.
– A backstage segment featuring Darren Young and Titus O’Neil was cut from Friday’s SmackDown episode.
– Colt Cabana has released his latest Creative Has Nothing For You webisode, entitled “REJECTED SCRIPTS ILLUSTRATED.”
– Mick Foley is featured in today’s “Superstar Spotlight” on WWE.com.
– “Backstage Fallout” for Monday’s Raw is now online. Here is the synopsis: “Aksana tells the WWE Universe why she went after Kaitlyn at Night of Champions and later at Survivor Series. Plus, see how The Prime Time Players are recovering after being double-teamed. Check out these interviews only in the Raw edition of “Backstage Fallout.”
— WWE NXT wrestler Corey Graves (formerly known as Sterling James Keenan on the independent wrestling circuit) issued the following warning on Twitter following Survivor Series: “My turn.”
– WWE Hall of Famer Howard Finkel lent his vocal talents to the Strike 3 Foundation’s First Pitch Gala, serving as emcee at the fundraiser for pediatric cancer research. The official WWE website has posted photos from the event.