WWE Screws Up .. Again

Still, absolutely nothing. Anyway, WWE had a major screw up today. They released the cover for December 2007's WWE Magazine and, let's just say this, they made the Jericho return painfully obvious. Jericho is on the cover and it says they'll reveal the real reasons behind his "shocking" return. It's supposed to hit news stands next week (later in the week) but as is custom subscribers get it a week early and they always release the cover a week early. So, way to go WWE. I applaud you.

Jericho Returns Next Monday ... Ms. Brooks Faints

Really slow day today. The biggest news to come out today is that Jericho is indeed returning next Monday as shown by the new viral video done on Raw tonight (or last night). This is taken from eWrestlingnews.com:

Here are some of the phrases that flashed :

X+1=Y
J=9+1

BREAK_THE_CODE
BREAK_THE_WALLS

6_DAYS
23_hours
33_MINUTES

The Answer is the Code
19_LAUNCH
NEXT_MONDAY

Good stuff. I'm excited now.

And Ms. Brooks had a legitimate faint yesterday at Genesis. That was not an act at all. They believe it was the heat that got to her. She was out and about later in the show so she's alright.

Stipulation Added to Survivor Series .. Speaking of SS Current Card .. Lesnar's First Opponent Announced .. Genesis Card .. Snow Gets Engaged

First off, let's get some PPV cards out of the way. Let's do a quick run down of the Survivor Series card currently.

• Randy Orton (c) vs. Shawn Michaels (WWE Championship) - There is a special stipulation added that I'll go over later.
• Batista (c) vs. Undertaker (World Heavyweight Championship) - Hell in a Cell (Woohoo!)
• Triple H, the Hardy Boyz (going old skool on that one =]), Rey-Rey and Kane vs. Umaga, Mr. Kennedy, MVP, Finley, and BDV.
• Hornswoggle vs. The Great Khali

For some reason I think this PPV is going to shape up to be a decent one. And with word of Jericho's return after it I'm really looking forward to it because it means we're one day closer to a revisit of the Attitude Era.

Speaking of Attitude Era, that has to be one of the funniest Raws I have ever seen. I even got to see Duggan and Super Crazy! First 20 minutes was just DX. Memorable quote:

Triple H: Everything's cool right?
Shawn Michaels: You know I don't know cool! I'm a father of two, all I know is Higglytown Heros and the Wiggles!

Sorry, I found that amazingly hilarious. And THANK YOU Stone Cold Steve Austin for shutting Santino up. Although I'll miss "can of ass whip", "stomping a mud pie", and "that's the bottom lines". Oh well. Also, did anyone else catch the little kid in the front row who got the full on frontal of beer? That ain't cool. And it's great to see Snitsky back! Not really ...

Ahh yes, the Survivor Series stipulation I was speaking of earlier. Randy Orton requested to have the Sweet Chin Music banned from the match, and indeed it was. But, if Orton gets disqualified the title goes to Shawn Michaels. Look out for a good match.

The wedding bells will eventually be ringing in the future of Al Snow and his new fiance Cynthia "Bobcat" Lynch, who was a WWE Hardcore Champion while she was there. Al Snow is still training down in OVW. Congrats!

Nowww, the Genesis line-up. Genesis is this Sunday so buy it! It promises to be a good one. Raven will always weasel his way in, as usual.

• Kurt Angle (c) & Kevin Nash vs. Sting & His Mystery Partner (we'll delve into potentials later) (TNA Championship): Who ever pins whoever in this match will leave the TNA Champion.
• Samoan Joseph vs. Robert "It Pays To Be" Roode
• Team 3D vs. MCMG - Battle for the pride of the X-Division
• Gail Kim (c) vs. Roxxi Laveaux vs. ODB vs. Angel Williams (Women's Championship)
• Black Reign vs. Abyss - Shop of Horrors match.

We have a few questions going into this PPV. The first is, who is Sting's mystery partner? TNA is trying to get us to believe it's Scott Hall but it can't be, Hall was never a World Champion in WWE, he was only Intercontinental Champion. The only other free agents that fit this description would be Rob Van Dam and Booker T, and RVD seems to be having fun doing what he's doing so I'm leaning towards Booker T. Good luck with TNA. Hopefully he doesn't Test/Junior Fatu you.

The other question, for myself anyway, is what the hell is a Shop of Horrors match? I'm sure this Thursday there will be a Black Reign job-out match where they tell us what it is. I look forward to finding it. Hopefully it's not a creation from the mind of Russo, I won't like it as much. Raven could have possibly thought it up? I mean, he did do Hangman's Horror and House of Fun so I could see him using his Mensa sized intelligence to do it again.

Remember, you can also catch me at The Daily Suplex. Beginning at Genesis I will also be posting my PPV Predictions and results there.

Until tomorrow.

Cyber Sunday Predictions

I'm posting everyday from now on. Even when no real news is there, just whatever.

These predictions could get hairy so bare with me people.

• Randy Orton vs. Jeff Hardy, Shawn Michaels or Mr. Kennedy (WWE Title): Kennedy has no shot in hell after his steroids issue. Shawn Michaels is a definate shoe in for it, but if he does get voted in he won't win because of his knees. Jeff Hardy has a huge shoe in for it too buttttt, he won't win it because of his current title reign. PROBABLE WINNER: RANDY ORTON
• Batista vs. Undertaker (World Heavyweight Title) (With Referee of JBL, Stone Cold or Mick Foley): This really doesn't matter. Batista is keeping the title fair and square. We shouldn't drop it to Taker so hastily. Keep this going and you'll have a good feud on your hands. As far as referees go, it's either going to be Foley or Austin. Nobody likes JBL and as Randy Orton so nicely put it, "If they don't like you, they won't vote for you." PROBABLE WINNER: BATISTA
• CM Punk vs. BDV, John Morrison, or The Miz - Definately not BDV, people like CM Punk and that's like throwing him to the wolves. The most likely person chosen is Morrison and Morrison will get the title if he does go in. If Miz is voted in, we'll probably see some Balls Mahoney in there but I predict Morrison going in and winning. PROBABLE WINNER: MORRISON
• MVP vs. Matt Hardy (US Title) (MMA, Wrestling, or Boxing Match): I'm sure everyone is going to vote MMA or Wrestling because they all want Hardy to win and Boxing doesn't go so great for him. Butttt, Hardy might be dropped tonight after the injury he sustained at Smackdown (which was legit, that huge cut on his head is legit and on accident). His head got caught on Rey Rey's leg brace and he got cut open. Anyway, I think MVP is keeping the title. If they do drop this, this would the second consecutive last minute PPV roster switch because of injury creative would have made. PROBABLE WINNER: MVP
• Triple H vs. Umaga (Street Fight, No DQ, or First Blood match): It's definately going to Triple H and it's going to be a First Blood or Street Fight. PROBABLE WINNER: TRIPLE H
• Rey Mysterio vs. Finley (Shilleglah on a Pole, Stretcher, or No DQ): You've got to be joking me, what a stupid match. Seriously. All of the concept matches for this suck. This match sucks so much I won't even make a prediction on it.
• Halloween Costume Contest (Mickie James, Melina, Maria, Victoria, Torrie Wilson, Michelle McCool, Kelly Kelly, Layla, Brooke): It's going to break down and there will be no winner. We're going to have a huge cat fight. It'll be pretty funny to watch. PROBABLE WINNER: ALL NON-GAY MEN OF THE WORLD

I hate this PPV.

Oh, and who's ready for Chris Jericho?

New Video (And More Stupid Theories)

Yes, tonight we got a new Y2J video, which makes me believe that we'll be getting a new one every week until something goes down. The new video now says 8.2.11/SAVIOR_SELF.

So, all together we have:
Save_us.222
8.2.11/SAVIOR_SELF

Am I the only one who noticed a play on words here?
Savior Self = Save Yourself

Maybe he's not coming back at No Mercy? Hmmm. Interesting.

I just heard a pretty outrageous theory, to me anyway, somebody is trying to pass it off as HBK, here is what was said since I couldn't put it in better terms (I got this from ewrestlingnews.com):

The video tonight seemed to be more about HBK than Jericho. It said 8-2-11 alot. H being the 8th letter of the alphabet, B being second, and K being 11th. It also said grand slam, HBK being the first ever grand slam champ. The Savior thing could also have something to do with the ultra religious HBK. It also said big show and no one turns it up for a big PPV like the Showstopper. Last week I'd say was about Jericho, this week seemed to be about HBK.

I just think that's over thinking. So now the possiblities are Chris Jericho, The New Hart Foundation (highly doubted), and HBK (even more highly doubted since HBK wants to stay home with his family longer).

That's about all for now.

Crazy Week in Wrestling

Here is the week basically in a summary with bullets because if I wrote paragraphs they'd be long and tedious.

Raw:

• All of the suspended WWE superstars are going to be off suspension.
• Mr. Kennedy is set to be wrestling tonight.
• Of course the Triple H vs. Mr. McMahon match.
• We'll also be seeing the furthering of the Mr. Kennedy is a McMahon storyline.
• More information on the SAVE_US.222.
• Return of Stone Cold Steve Austin was a program with Santino

ECW:

• Since the ECW roster only has 13 active wrestlers beginning this week they'll be calling up all kinds of people from OVW according to sources to supplement. So, seeing new people will be great.

iMPACT!:

• Of course the fact it's going to 2 hours!
• We'll be seeing all of our favorite jobbers (which is just a guess since I haven't read the spoilers).

Smackdown:

• Suspended wrestlers returning.
• New Hart Foundation expected to come up to Smackdown (just not this week but eventually).
• What the plans on with Vickie Guerrero. How is she going to handle being interim GM?
• What's going to happen to Kristal? Is she moving to Raw?
• How is Teddy fairing?

This is a huge week. Look out for some good stuff.

TNA & ECW have same rating .. Jericho or New Hard Foundation? .. BDV is angry

Since all this Jericho stuff has slowed down news has next to stopped. I've only got one Jericho update. Supposedly they were pitching this SAVE_US.222 for either Jericho or the New Hart Foundation. Something to get people thinking, but by the evidence I've seen it has to be Jericho.

The rating for ECW this week is a 1.1, which is next to the same as iMPACT!'s 1.08 last week. Hmm, could we have a Tuesday/Thursday War on our hand here? That's pretty pathetic.

After the ECW show when BDV was leaving the ring he was being heckled by fans, and he was heckling right back. Yelling at people and pegging people off, Striker is the one who has to basically push him backstage. He almost went after somebody in the audience but luckily Striker and security stopped him. Where does he think he is? Mexico?

Chris Jericho! (My Opinions) .. Kidman Return..In TNA?? .. Orton is Married .. Hardcore Holly Returns? Amazing

Not really much news today considering everyone's tied up on the Chris Jericho story. I mean, this is truly awesome, amazing. I'm impressed, WWE has done a great job of getting us intrigued again. Firstly, here's the video:




I think everyone is over interpreting this but I am going to bring up some good points.

• They mention a ton of Jericho's title matches, they mention his matches for hardcore titles, when he won the heavyweight title, and when he won the IC title. Not to mention the year he won KOR (King of the Ring).
• A "Save Us Y2J" poster was seen in the crowd the other night. (SaveUs.222)
• Chris Jericho doesn't have a myspace, so don't believe that malarkey. Plus, why would he kill his own storyline? Only rookies like The Naturals do that.
• Catman has been seen. Hmm, Lion Heart anyone?
• Jericho hasn't slated any book signings for any Mondays in October.
• Bookshelf is also mentioned in there somewhere.
• Jericho debuted in 1999 interrupting The Rock and according to sources that's mentioned in there.
• There is a part that does a very well hidden Jericho-style countdown.
• Billy Gun isn't involved in the least. Neither is Gail Kim OR Mr. Kennedy.
• There is a voice that says "I'm Back".
• 7OCT = The date for No Mercy. This is also shown in the video.
• Anymore details can be founds here.

Complete insanity. On to other debut news, TNA is going to be debuting a woman wrestler soon, so look out for that on the road to BFG. Billy Kidman has been backstage at the last 2 TNA tapings and could have been backstage at No Surrender and quite possibly tonight. I'll keep you updated on that one. How cool would it be to have Kidman and Raven back together again? They can take Havok under their wing and start a new Flock. Sort of.

The reason Randy Orton hasn't been seen on TV nor at house shows is because he got married over the weekend. Congrats to him :)

Who else was surprised when Hardcore Holly returned? I thought the guy was a goner after him still having discomfort in his elbow. Oh, and wasn't Cody Rhodes supposed to be getting a push? Whatever. Also, did you hear tons of people shout "Kennedy!"?

I'll keep you updated on more Jericho stuff.

EDIT: Steve Austin will be returning on next Monday's Raw. He'll be promoting The Condemned and starting fights like he always does.

Test Released .. Flair Hands in Notice .. Benoit Had Brain Damage

TNA released Andrew Martin today. Supposedly he didn't mesh with anyone backstage that much, which means he was a major ass. Isn't he known for that though? Supposedly they asked him to shrink up a little bit muscle wise. Never thought you'd hear a wrestling company say that.

It's become public that Ric Flair handed in his 2-week notice a few weeks ago. WWE hasn't granted his release yet and are doing everything they can to keep him though. Speaking of signing people, there is a HIGH chance that Chris Jericho will return to WWE after the amount of money they supposedly offered him.

It turns out Chris Benoit had severe brain damage when he killed his wife & son and then himself. According to the doctor who did the examination his brain resembled that of a "85-year-old Alzheimer's patient". I feel that it could have been a huge contributing factor.

Henry Not Leaving .. JR Up In The Air .. WWE Return News .. McMahons To Become Regulars .. Names Mentioned As Suspended on Wikipedia

Alright, now we've got some decently normal, non-release/suspension related news.

Mark Henry inked a new deal that extends his contract so that he's not leaving after Unforgiven which would give Taker and himself a better storyline. I would think that they'd make this storyline longer just so they can build Taker up some speed after his return at Unforgiven. Then he'll move on to other stuff.

Speaking of contracts, JR's one year contract is about to expire and according to sources there have been no talks with him, but they also haven't been working on someone to take his place. Nothing much else is known at this point but when word comes around I'll let you know.

Now some WWE return news, opposite direction than what we've heard. WWE might be trying to rush Shawn Michael's return which is something that HBK isn't too keen on. They're still working on trying to bring him back though so we'll see where this goes. Chris Jericho is also in talks to return to WWE, and he's probably going to be getting a deal that's more to his liking than anybody else's. His agent, Barry Bloom, says that Jericho has a lot of leverage. I'm sure that he'll use it to his advantage. Unfortunately, it's not going to be a "right away" return, just like HBK's. I'll keep you updated.

After tonight Stephanie, Linda, and Shane are going to become regulars to WWE television again. They're also thinking about bringing the fact that Steph & HHH are married back to TV because everyone already knows as is.

Wikipedia mentioned a few suspended names. They've got King Booker, Umaga, William Regal, Chavo Guerrero, Chris Masters, and John Morrison. Sharmell isn't going to be around either until KB comes back.