Thoughts of WWE June 25th, 2008

on June 25, 2008 at 9:20 pm

Hey, everybody!

Wow… what a draft!  To start off, I thought the whole draft show was awesome, by FAR better than last year’s.  This was the opposite of last year’s unimaginative drafts, with everyone being at least an upper midcarder and has the potential bring lots of change to their new brand.  And besides the drafts, the matches throughout the night were solid as well, with a return of the Hardy boys and another Cena vs. Edge bout.  Even the JBL vs. Kofi Kingston match was really good.

But the only thing I didn’t like… was that stupid, stupid ending!  I know I shouldn’t judge so prematurely, but it just seemed insulting to me with them trying to make it seem legit with Vince calling out for “Paul”, not to mention it coming almost a year to the day after the Benoit tragedy.  And I think worst of all it totally overshadowed what should have been the biggest shocker of the night, Triple H being drafted to Smackdown.

Well, the only thing I think was more surprising for me was JR to Smackdown! While after considering it a little more I think it could wind up being a pretty good move, when I first saw good ol’ JR’s face on the titantron it was a bit of a gut punch.

And while I’m happy to see so much talent headed towards Smackdown to level the playing field, as a diehard Kennedy fan, I was a little disappointed to see him go to a brand where he has to compete with guys like HHH and Jeff Hardy for the top face spot.

As for the bottom of the spot, the supplemental draft held today contained a couple of surprises, but most of them were more like “HE’S still around?!” rather than “wow, DH Smith is totally going to change the face of Smackdown!”

But DH Smith being on Smackdown seems to eliminate the rumor of him being Ted DiBiase Jr.’s partner this Sunday.  But then again with all the titles being mixed around and on different shows (Jericho’s the number one singles champ on RAW, yeah!) who knows what’ll happen.  But the bottom line is that the draft made me eager to watch Smackdown, Night of Champions, and even ECW.

I mean, I still didn’t watch ECW.  But I thought about it.  And that’s a start.

 

Thanks for reading,

-James

 

P.S. And as for my predictions… Super Crazy to ECW?  I got it.  I’ve totally got it aaall figured out.

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Thoughts of WWE June 23rd, 2008

on June 23, 2008 at 6:18 pm

Hey everyone,

Wow, so let me start off by apologizing for the late updates!  I thought that once my summer started I’d have all kinds of time to do art stuff, but it didn’t quite work out that way.  I still got strips up eventually though, and now that I’m living back where I’m going to be for the next couple months, everything is setting into place.

But what ISN’T set in place is the WWE roster!  Tonight’s the draft, and while my gut instinct is that it will resemble last year’s unimpressive debacle, I can’t help but get a little excited for it.

It’s kind of pointless to post my predictions since I’ll be posting this about two hours before it starts, but what the hell, huh?  If nothing else it’ll give me a chance to show how wrong I can be.  I’ll list a few people that I think will be drafted.  Not necessarily who I WANT to be drafted, but who I think has the best chances of jumping to another brand.

 

TO RAW:

-MVP:  His storyline of discontent with Vickie Guerrero only cemented my suspicion that he will be jumping brands.  Looking to past years, he seems to fit the role of promising midcarder on Smackdown that could be the next big thing, like Carlito and Kennedy before him.  Hopefully he’ll fare a little better than those two.  Well, Carlito anyway, Kennedy’s doing alright.

-Rey Mysterio:  I’ve seen a few other rumors about this possibility and I think I’ll go with it.  Rey’s pretty much done all he can with the talent on Smackdown (of course it’ll change in the draft) and his high flying style would fit in well with the shorter matches on RAW.

-CM Punk:  While CM Punk doesn’t have the greatest win/loss record in the business, he’s over with the crowd which would make him a viable contender for RAW.  Whether he’d get pushed or buried there is anyone’s guess, but I can definitely see him going there.

 

TO SMACKDOWN:

-Umaga:  It’s been the most rumored draft of this year, and I want to have at least one safe bet.  I think the change will be good for Umaga since he’s a pretty decent big man wrestler and I can envision a few good feuds he could be in.

-Cryme Tyme:  I’m pretty iffy on this one.  But it’s my pick anyway, because I’m having trouble thinking of anything better.  I think these two would fit in pretty well on the blue brand, they’re always over with the crowd and spending time on the usually more wrestling-based Smackdown could help to improve their in-ring abilities.

-John Morrison and The Miz:  This is kind of a cheat since the ECW brand is switching to be filmed on Mondays before RAW, I can’t imagine Smackdown’s tag champs going along with it.  It could work, but I’d imagine these two staying where their gold is.

 

TO ECW:

-Super Crazy:  I guess?  I could see this ECW original going back to the brand from whence he came to continuing his jobbing out.  To be honest, I really don’t know.  ECW’s ratings have been so low, it seems like it’d be easier to just burn the show off rather than try to build it back up.  Also the fact that the show’s moving to Mondays where RAW stars can jump on there at any point seems to make drafts from RAW to ECW pointless.

 

Anyway, those are my predictions.  An hour from now we’ll see how wrong or right I am.  The only thing I’m really doubting is HUGE drafts like back in 2005 when the World Champions where switching brands.  But anything can happen in the WWE…

 

Thanks for reading,

-James

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Quick Update-

on June 15, 2008 at 11:14 am

Hey everybody,

Just wanted to let everyone know that I’m going to be taking a week long trip across the country, driving back to school. Everything should still run smoothly, and I think I’ll be able to keep up with the updates, but I won’t have internet access the whole time, so should anything go wrong or anything huge happen like McMahon dies and I don’t comment on it, that’s why.

So anyway, thanks for reading and I look forward to some normalcy real soon.

-James

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