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Last week, we all witnessed some of the worst wrestling television of the year.  With the WWE in Mexico for Raw and Smackdown, it was possible that we would see a huge improvement over last week’s abysmal episodes. 

Also last Sunday, Total Nonsensical Action had their big wrestling extravaganza in Bound for Glory.  TNA did nothing to show that they are willing to improve and read on to see how Dixie Carter’s wrestling organization put last week’s episodes of Raw and Smackdown to shame (and not in a good way). 

So with that let us rundown the biggest news in the wonderful yet slightly insane World of Wrestling.

 

Last Man Standing

Last week, the WWE announced that Super Cena would get his rematch for the WWE Championship against Mexico’s Favourite Son, Alberto Del Rio.  This week, John Cena (who sadly did not bring his Mexican cousin, Jaun Cena) teamed with Good Ol’ Jim Ross to face the Mexican Aristocrat and the Epitome of Fail known as Michael Cole to determine what stipulation Cena and Del Rio’s Championship Match will be. 

Surprisingly, it was an entertaining main event that saw Cena and Del Rio do all the heavy lifting.  The WWE left the fans happy as Jim Ross made Michael Cole tap out to the Ankle Lock.  After we all learned that John Cena can actually count to 10 (yes, it was a big surprise), the Poster Boy of the Big E revealed that his match with Del Rio will be a Last Man Standing Match. 

Like we did not figure that out from Cena’s long-winded counting.  If the WWE hopes to repair Del Rio’s main event status, he HAS to win this Sunday against Cena. 

Secondly, the WWE has to stop using Del Rio to enhance Smackdown feuds.  Just watch the ending of last Friday’s Smackdown, Del Rio looked really weak getting knocked out so easily by the Big Show.  This Sunday’s main event will definitely show if the WWE really trusts Alberto Del Rio holding the WWE Championship.  If they do not, we are in for another reign of the Almighty John Cena and that would be a bummer.

 

Like this writer mentioned last week, the WWE dropped the ball with the return of the Miz and R-Truth.  If they really wanted a match between those two and CM Punk and Triple H for Vengeance, there were much better ways of getting to the same end result.  Enough of the complaining, this week’s edition of Raw saw CM Punk battle it out against the Miz. 

The match between Punk and Miz was really good as side from Laurinaitus getting Triple H deported, which took away a bit from the match.  It would have been so much easier to just have Otunga come out and attack the Cerebral Assassin than take the focus off the match for a rather ridiculous angle. 

After all the silliness, Punk got the win over the Awesome One, but before the Best in the World could celebrate Miz and Truth administered one brutal beatdown. 

The WWE tried to make Miz and Truth look like a considerable threat to Punk and Triple H, but they would have looked like a bigger threat if they took out both Triple H and CM Punk.  With the ways things are going, this writer does not see Awesome Truth leaving Vengeance without getting buried by Triple H and CM Punk unless we get some outside interference. 

This match will be worth it only if whoever is pulling the strings in the WWE is revealed either at Vengeance or the following Raw.  If this match does not lead into that reveal, what would be the point of having it?

 

Bound for Glory came and went.  Expectations were maybe a little too high as TNA came out their old bag of bad wrestling tricks.  At least, TNA ended the book on the majority of their storylines except one.  Going into Bound for Glory, all eyes were on the main event between Bobby Roode and Kurt Angle.  Roode won the Bound for Glory Series and had been built up to be the next TNA World Heavyweight Champion.  So what did TNA decide to do? 

At the very last minute, they booked an injured Kurt Angle to go over with a controversial yet incredibly stupid finish.  Just because Hulkamania, the “supposed” Greatest Wrestler of All-Time and washed up has-been Hulk Hogan said that he thought Roode was not ready to hold the TNA World Title. 

TO steal one from the Miz, really?!  Roode has been with TNA since 2004 and in that time has put on some the best matches TNA has seen in both singles and tag team competition. 

Pound for pound, Bobby Roode is one of the best talkers and wrestlers TNA has and he has been deemed not ready by one of the men who brought down WCW with their egos.  Personally, I believe TNA does not know much damage they have caused. 

In one swoop, they have made the Bound of Glory Series, which this writer believes will become an annual thing, worthless and showed the world that they care more about the WWE rejects than their own homegrown talent. 

Wait, it gets better.  Let us look at Impact Wrestling show this last Thursday.  In order to supposedly make things right, TNA books Kurt Angle to defend the title.  Would this match be Roode’s rematch after being screwed? 

No because the amazing minds of the TNA creative team thought of an amazing cop out that Angle had Hogan and Bischoff put a clause in the contract that stated after Bound for Glory, Roode would never get a shot at the title as long as Angle remains champion. 

So James Storm steps in to face Angle and the Tennessee Cowboy does what Bobby Roode could not do in 15 minutes in about a minute’s time.  Awesome TNA!  You would not have Angle do the job to Bobby Roode at your biggest PPV of the year, but handing the title to James Storm on Impact Wrestling is perfectly fine. 

Just one question, then why didn’t Storm win the Bound for Glory Series?  And the kicker, this match was the main event of a show that had about 7 minutes of actual wrestling!  

Guess TNA really wants to occupy the spot of worst wrestling on television because Impact Wrestling this week put almost all of the bad shows WWE has put on to shame and not in a good way. 

It is sad to say because of all the people that will lose their jobs, but TNA is burying their own grave.  If Dixie Carter, Jeff Jarrett and everybody behind the scenes don’t all smarten up, there will be no way to save this sinking ship.

The Sliver Wrestling Report By: AJ Silver

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