King Steventon

Overall, a letdown PPV.

Opener was a lot of fun, though the Scramble stip isn't one that's ever going to produce anything memorable or worth a rewatch. Plus Dreamer is just sooo dead average in the ring these days.

IC title match was REAL good, but I'm sure you're all wel aware of that. Loved the finish.

Ziggler/Khali was actually pretty decent, though I really do not want to see Kane vs Khali in any form. Hopefully Ziggler shoots up the ranks now.

Tag match was interesting. I still think Edge is a worthless sack of shit, and Jericho is getting kinda stale, but the idea of a new Two Man Powertrip atleast has my intention. The booking of Smackdown is really good, even though I dislike a lot of the wrestlers there. I felt kind of bad for Priceless and Colons, they were actually doing some decent work in the ring, but it was just typical Edge nonsense where it's all meaningless filler until the big swerve at the end. Edge coming in an doing tht awful comedy spot was cringeworthy considering they were meant to be serious heels screwing people over. I expect Rey/Morrison vs Edge/Jericho fued now. Could be interesting.

Divas match was standard awful pissbreak shit. Garbage. I really wish they had give that time to Punk and Hardy. Speaking of which, everything up until the finish was PERFECT. If I was fantasy booking that match, that's exactly how I would have wanted them to work it. I even liked the HBK-level chain wrestling because of the PURE TENSION and struggle between them. Hardy is at his best when working from underneath and was really good in it. Punk's ring positioning for the false finish was bad, he obviously wasn't under the rope, but it was a great idea that added so much drama and heat to it. Punk really needs to work stiffer for his faux-MMA crap to look good, but otherwise this could have EASILY been both mens best match in years if they had given it a proper finish and heel turn. The timing was perfect for them to pull the trigger and they didn't and the whole post-match stuff was fun but really not what they needed to do. They should have had Hardy kick out of all of Punk's big moves including the GTS, then had a "what the fuck do I have to do?" moment and have Punk attack the ref for the DQ. They really needed to pull the trigger and they didn't, so I was kinda disspointed in it, though I really hope they have more matches together.

Cena vs Miz... Oh dear. I remember Tom saying "Cena won't squash him". lolhindsight. The sad thing is Miz actually looked like a quality wrestler on offence. What a load of shit that was though, all that build up just for Cena to bury him. And it was a burial, Cena figuratelive flicking his heels over Miz while King and Cole laugh like morons was the equivelant of them tattooing "JOBBER" on Miz's forehead.

They had the chance to create a star and they chose to bury him in favour of more Cena-falatio. Good job WWE.


Trips/Orton was so bad I almost had nightmares about how awful their HIAC will be.

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