Hey guys and welcome to my review of last nights Smackdown that aired from Philidelphia Pennsylvania, now i enjoyed Raw this week but after watching last nights Smackdown i thought the show was overall a better one and it was a show that i actually enjoyed immensely from start to finish, lets get down to the review.

Batista kicked us off with a match against Matt Hardy, Batista's new heel character is exactly what this man needed, he seems more focused and  dangerous and i am enjoying his new character, last night he got a good victory over Hardy that he needed to give him momentum going into the Survivor Series, it was a decent match and my only downside is that Matt Hardy seems to be going nowhere at the moment, hopefully after Survivor Series Hardy will start a program with John Morrison over the IC Title.

Next up we got my fellow Scot Drew Mcintyre going up against Finlay, i am all for McIntyre i really think he has the potential to go places and these mini feuds he has been having with R-Truth and Finlay i am completely fine with, however it seems that Finlays career may be winding down after he lost last night to McIntyre, but i will have no problem with this feud continuing as if you give this match time it will shine.

What a great segment with CM Punk, this guy just flourishes as a heel, last night he cut a first class promo about his straightedge lifestyle, and when he introduced the cigarettes, the drugs and the alcohol it made for tremendous heat, and with R-Truth coming out and tipping the trashcan with all the subatances in it onto Punk it just made this promo even better, Punk and R-Truth's little feud is working well and once again i have no problem with this.

What an exceptional 2 out of 3 falls match between John Morrison and Dolph Ziggler, it was a quick match but i thought the match was excellent, it was fast paced most of the time and i just thought it flowed perfectly, and these two have great chemistry, even though it was a great match it is now time for these two guys after Survivor Series to move on to fresh feuds.

Mickie James beat Layla in a quick match, but i am enjoying the way Mickie is being put down by Michelle McCool and its only a matter of time before Mickie wins back her Womans title, at least on Smackdown we are seeing a womans feud with matches and segments, whereas on Raw their doesnt appear to be any interactions when it comes to womans matches.

I loved Rey Mysterio last night taking out Batista again, he has basically humiliated Batista for the last 2 weeks, and its making this feud even more entertaining, i am expecting a brutal Rey Mysterio beating by Batista this Sunday, but after this Sunday their is no doubt this feud will continue.

By the way if you give Rey Mysterio and Tyson Kidd more match time i am pretty sure that match would be a showstealer.

And the main event was just excellent, it was hard hitting and fast paced and all 4 men worked extremely hard, what an entrance we saw when Taker and Kane were introduced, i liked the way they mixed their theme music and it reminded me of the time when Taker and Kane walked out together for the first time back in 1998 when we were on the Highway to Hell for Summerslam 98, i loved this match and to end it in a no contest makes sense to me, it doesnt hurt anyones credibility and i  was happy with the sneaky Jericho running away with Takers title, was a really good way to end Smackdown and it gives this Sundays World Title match at Survivor Series a good feeling, their is no doubt The World Title seems more creditible that the WWE Championship.

Overall an excellent and entertaining SHOWSTEALING Smackdown!

As always i would like your thoughts on this blog and i will be back tommorrow with my Survivor Series predictions.

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The Chosen One

Hey guys and welcome to another review of last nights LIVE WWE broadcast Monday Night Raw, that came to us for the world reknowned Madison Square Garden, and i have say i really enjoyed the show, it had a big old school feel to it and most of the segments last night were enjoyable and a big shout out to the Madison Square Garden crowd who were hot all night and helped the show out so much, lets get into my thoughts.

The Miz kicked us off with a very well cut promo bashing the New Yorkers and claiming he is once again AWESOME, The Miz has really improved in the past 2 years and he is without a doubt a top heel in my eyes nowadays who will go places just like his old buddy John Morrison on Smackdown will, the Miz got a solid clean victory over poor MVP (this guy is going downhill big time since his move to Raw) and this victory cements the Miz as a decent US Champion, just a pity their was no interactions with Miz last night when it came to Swagger and Bourne so what is happening here?

Now i am not one for liking comedy skits on a supposed wrestling show but i liked Santino Marella and Chavo last night, Marella is very much over as a comedy face but i hope one day he is given the chance to showcase his wrestling talents better as from reports i have read he is a very good wrestler, the skit with all the New York Jerseys he wore was good also, but i have to once again bash WWE for the way Chavo is used, he is a Guerrero for heavens sake he should be at least re-packaged and moved into the US Title hunt.

Now DX last night, now i dont mind them at times, but the plugging of merchandise is beginning to annoy me, last night when HBK once again plugged the book i sort of cringed as i knew it was not needed after all the previous weeks plugging, at least for a short period of time we had HHH talking about the WWE Title match this Sunday which gave it a little bit of meaning, but this segment was more to do with Hornswogge, i dont like Hornswoggle he should not be associated with DX at all especially when they are in the title picture, so to my surprise Triple H done a mini heel turn and pedigreed the leprechaun and hopefully he is gone for good! ( or am i being a little harsh to Hornswoggle?) - NO I AINT!

Melina defeated Alicia Fox last night in a lumberjill match,good to see all the divas on the same show, which i believe should be the case anyway, the divas who are involved in the S.Series match got into a good brawl to make this match a little for meaningful at the PPV, i am just a tad unhappy that once again Alicia Fox was pushed into the title picture but she then lost the match right away again to the champion, either WWE give her the title or remove her from the title picture, its pretty obvious Maryse will return soon to go after Melina and that has the making of a decent diva's feud.

Always great to see The Hot Rod in a WWE ring, he looked good last night and it was good to hear him bring back a few memories, but why all of a sudden did he want to take McMahon out?, their was no build up or genuine motive for this last night, and for me it was a waste of time as their was no interaction again  on the rest of the show between Piper and McMahon, my guessing is that McMahon wanted to appear live on the show as it was in MSG and i can understand that, but then again for me this was a pointless segment unless McMahon and Piper are going to build on this.

Sheamus continues his roll as a monster heel by taking out Mark Eaton and Jerry Lawler, the kick to Lawlers face looked really good on TV and i am liking this Sheamus character, although i dont want to see a mini Sheamus/Jerry Lawler feud, but i have a feeling we will see these two battle on Raw next week, but their is only going to be one outcome here.

I would also like to touch on the time keeper Mark Eaton being assaulted by Sheamus, Mark Eaton is a long time WWE Employee and he has taking his fair share of beatings over the years, the one i remembered last night was when Kane tombstoned him on Raw before The Undertaker returned to accept his brothers challenge for Wrestlemania 14, and maybe this was done as WWE creative may be thinking of what happened when Taker and Kane feuded the last time as i really do believe that Kane will turn on Undertaker this week on Smackdown and eventually go after Takers title after Survivor Series.

Jack Swagger v Evan Bourne happened again last night, god have mercy!, why let Evan win last week and then in the space of 1 week put him back down again with a defeat, obviously it gives Swagger a little momentum but with Swagger beating and facing the same guys every week it aint helping him.

Randy Orton came out to confront Piper last night, now Orton was not on the show all night and this was the perfect time to introduce him to the show, he took out Piper and before he could kick Piper in the head Kofi Kingston made the save, and man what a excellent brawl Kofi and Orton had, they battled all over the arena, the crowd was so hot for this segment it helped it even more, the spot where Kofi hit Orton with that steel case actually busted Orton open if you go back and see it again, however after Orton got busted the camera did not go back onto to him again (DAMN YOU PG!) however Kofi's spot through the table onto Orton was great and this feud is beginning to heat up nicely and i am looking extremely foward to see these two going at it very shortly., Kofi must get rid of his theme music though!

Jesse Ventura is the guest host next week on a LIVE 3 hour all brand show!, this should be good, Raw seems to be better when the guest host was an actual wrestler.

And i loved the main event last night, it was fast and action packed and it made Raw deliver last night, once again the crowd were into it big time, all 6 guys gave their all in that match last night and it just made Raw feel like a really big deal last night, it was an old school feel no doubt about it, John Cena got the surprising pinfall over HHH which i did not expect as i see Cena still winning on PPV this Sunday, but it was after the match where business picked up and that was when Undertaker tombstoned John Cena and kneeled over him as Raw went off the air, now for me that last night was the beginning to a Wrestlemania match between John Cena and The Undertaker, whats your thoughts on this and should Cena be the man to end Takers Wrestlemania streak if this does take place at Wrestlemania?- I for one will be very peed off if Cena breaks the streak but its interesting to see where this goes.

Overall i did like Raw last night, even though their was some segments thats didnt make sense, and i hope to come back next week and write a glowing report on the 3 hour Raw next week, well done to th MSG fans who made for a good Raw last night.

As always i would like your thoughts on this blog.

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The Chosen One

Hey guys, ive had a few messages recently from people who read my blogs and they want to know why i always diss Raw and why i like Smackdown, well here's my views on the matter.

1.Raw only ever has 3 World Championship contenders, John Cena, Triple H and Randy Orton, HBK doesnt want the title so for me their is no point in him being put into the title picture as he aint going to win it, whereas on Smackdown we have at least 5 guys who could be World Champion, Undertaker, Batista, CM Punk, Chris Jericho and Edge, i would even put Kane and Mysterio into that bracket also, look at the guys on Smackdown compared to who we see on Raw, better feuds on Smackdown, better characters, better wrestling, End of.

2. Raws mid card matches on theirs shows consist of Jack Swagger, The Miz, Evan Bourne, MVP and Henry, Yes their is good talent here, but any of these guys feuding with each other does not entertain me, its so stale and boring from time to time, whereas on Smackdown we have John Morrison, Dolph Ziggler, R-Truth, Matt Hardy, Drew McIntyre, Finlay, once again the blue brand has better characters than Raw, all round longer and better wrestling matches and decent storylines.

3. Moving Beth Phoenix and Mickie James to Smackdown confirms for me now also that Smackdown has the two out of the three best top wrestling divas on their show.

4. RAW has Hornswoggle and Smackdown doesn't

5. Edge will return to Smackdown and not Raw.

6. Smackdown is the wrestling show and Raw is the soap opera who try to put over big stars as guest hosts whilst forgetting to put their wrestlers over.

7. Chris Jericho is still a world tag team champion to help out the Raw brand as it lacks strength in depth, as being tag champion he can appear on every show, thus Raw needs him on their show to help it get by most weeks.

8. RAW for me is more PG than Smackdown is, i know both shows are PG but their is more stuff for kids on Raw and Smackdown is slightly maturer.

Well that is just some of my reasons for not liking Raw and for liking Smackdown.

AS ALWAYS I WOULD LIKE ANY FEEDBACK ON THIS!

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The Chosen One

Hey guys, i am back to review last night's edition of Monday Night Raw, which came to us from Sheffield England, sorry for no blogs last week guys i was on vacation in Germany and didnt get back to Saturday.

Now last night's taped Raw broadcast for me was hugely disappointing and throughout most of it i was falling asleep and that is the honest truth, i dont know if the fans were that quiet or because it was taped they sounded different but for me the crowd seemed sleepy all night and that doesnt make a great show.

Now i have so much respect for Ricky Hatton, but i just could not get into his guest host angle last night, for starters at the beginning he was shaking when talking on the mic and the usual occurence occured when Jeri/Show made an apperance to bash the host, this happens almost every week so i was expecting it, then the other usual cameo from DX making the save as you may call it, and i could have told you before the spoilers were even announced last night that DX would take on Jeri/Show later in the evening, for me the segment didnt take off and it didnt interest me.

Alicia Fox was the number 1 contender to Mickie James divas title a few months back, now she is No1 contender for Melina, now Melina has just come to Raw and she aint losing the title next week to Alicia, so for me Alicia will be put into another pointless feud where she will not claim the gold, the only good thing about last nights Divas match was Kelly Kelly man she was hot last night.

I said a couple of weeks back that Sheamus wasnt doing it for me, but i am beginning to get into his character, i like the way he is destroying the jobbers and it is helping him get over as a good heel, hopefully soon though someone will step up and take out Sheamus to create a good feud.

I dont want to even talk about the wrestler v boxer match, for me it stunk and was pathetic.

Jack Swagger took on Evan Bourne (again) man does Raw's mid card need a shake up it is so stale, thankfully we got a little surprise with Evan winning which was good, for me this was done because they dont want two heels feuding over the US Title in the Miz and Swagger so a face needs to enter the title picture and it will be Bourne, it is just basically the same conception that we had with the US Title recently except Kofi was in the mix, so i am not really enjoying this.

The whole DX/John Cena/Hornswoggle segment was utter nonsense, it made me want to switch over to Nitro (Man did i just say Nitro?)

Randy Orton beat Mark Henry in a snoozefest, the only decent highlight was Kofi and Ortons interaction that i am liking, but the VIP lounge and the match done nothing to entertain the audience.

And the main event, sorry if i have forgot to mention any other segments on Raw that is because i have banished them from my memory, anyway i will be totally honest here guys i thought the tag match main event was boring and slow, i just could not get into this match, was obvious DX would win as they are overseas so no shock factor was a given here and the match done nothing again for me.

Now i want to say that their is a WWE Championship match coming up at Survivor Series, the whole build up with Cena and DX is to comedy orientated, their is no passion, no emotion from any competitors its as if the belt isnt even on the line and its very poor creative work here.

Now last night when i heard Undertakers gong i actually woke up!, it was great to see his small appearance on Raw, for me it actually saved Raw from being a total washout last night, and next week Raw comes live from MSG and their is a huge triple threat tag match announced and Roddy Piper will be guest host, surely this show will be a good one, if not i think am just gonna stick to watching Smackdown.

So basically i did not like Raw and man this PG WWE needs to go it is a disgrace.

As always i would like your thoughts on this blog.

UNTIL NEXT TIME

The Chosen One

Thoughts?