Since People Said I shouldn't Slam WWE If I Don't Watch It? Well.. Here You Go.. :)

Because quite a few people have said in the wrestling groups I post in “You don't even watch WWE so how can you say anything about it”.

WWWEEELLL.. Be careful about you ask for...

I was randomly going thru my guide on my cable when I saw there was one more hour left of RAW. SSOO, I decided to see if everything I've ever been saying about how the WWE product sucks is still true. Guess what.. It is.

Rhonda Rousey is supposed to be suspended and entered the ring and started brawling with Alexa Bliss. RAW GM Kurt Angle adds another week to the suspension and rewards her with a title shot at Summerslam.

AAAHHH YEP, Hell of a way to 'put your foot down' on people being thumbing their nose at being suspended, give em a title shot, sure makes all the sense in the world to me (rolls eyes).

Then they show highlights of how WWE is still force feeding Roman Reigns down people's throats with a triple threat match win so he can face someone next week and the winner of that faces Brock Lesner at Summerslam. Drew Galloway, er.. McIntyre would've been a way better choice just based on talent, skill and ability. But hey, when you're steadily force feeding someone nobody really likes down people's throats, why stop with a bad plan and do something else that actually MIGHT make sense, eh? Raise Drew up alittle bit? Na, just keep the force feeding plan going because God forbid change would be good all the way around.

Seth Rollins looked like he was reading his promo from a sheet of paper left on the floor in front of him the way he was looking at the floor for a lot of it. Dull monotone no emotion about possibly facing Reigns one on one next week? I kept reaching for my remote so I could change the channel but had to keep reminding myself that I need to make it thru this one hour, somehow. Hell, have him raise his voice alittle bit, something like “FRIEND OR NO FRIEND ROMAN, IF WE FACE EACH OTHER, WHO WANTS IT MORE, IF WE HAVE TO FACE EACH OTHER THAN YOU'LL FIND OUT, IT'S ME.. WHO WANTS IT MORE.. SO YOU BETTER HOPE TO GOD YOU DON'T HAVE TO FACE ME NEXT WEEK”! Something like that with something resembling ALITTLE BIT of emotions? Guess that's a lot of ask for in the WWE Universe.

I know it's not gonna happen but to at least GIVE some sort of an impression that it could and have some real emotion behind it from one of the competitors is quite the natural thing to do. And this is why I keep saying WWE Creative is 'creatively challenged' Had you put Arn Anderson in that same spot HE, would've given one hell of an emotional driven promo about it compared to this boring shit I just watched.

The Amber Moon match had the fans pretty quiet thru most of it.. I actually had to turn my 32 inch flat screen tv WAY UP in order to hear fans reactions to a lot of it. One look from the hard camera at the first five rows of fans and saw a lot of lack of interest in it. And don't even get me started on the “no selling' in this and triple threat main event (there was some in the triple threat but a lot of times, not really ). Just about any Impact Wrestling match with Allie in it had more 'selling' than in this match. At about this time I was kinda hoping someone like Awesome Kong or Jessika Havoc (I know I know, they don't work there) would come out and just destroy the both of them and be done with it. Kinda like when 911 would come out and choke slam people in the original ECW, I was really hoping for that so I could get alittle inspired by this VERY LONG hour I was enduring.

The commercials for The Equalizer 2 were more entertaining than anything I watched during this hour, that's pretty fucking sad.

Then we have Elisa in the ring with an acoustic guitar singing before his match.. HHMMM, didn't The Rock already do this act, and do it ten times better? Nothing like rehashing an old gimmick, and having the guy doing it instead of the original not do it worse than the original. Kind of like when Chuck Palumbo was basically doing a lame Undertaker American Badass ripoff riding his motorcycle around the ring. Or watching the movie Roadhouse 2 that doesn't have Patrick Swayze in it. Same thing.

The man event had too many false finishes and while some, of the 'selling' was good, it was 30/70 on the selling, 30% good 70% typical WWE brand of no selling. The Bobby Lashley hard edge or convincing bad ass That was in TNA/Impact Wrestling seems to have been white washed thanks to the creative challenged WWE creative and Lashley is smiling, shaking hands with fans? UGH.. I kept looking at my clock wondering “when is this shit going to be over”, that's how well it was going over with me. At least the right guy won with Lashley and Lashley/Lesnar would be the money match for many reasons.

Oh yeah, another thing. If you're going to show Kurt Angle with Paul Heyman watching the show in the back, wouldn't you think, getting a reaction from Heyman after the match would've been the natural thing to do? You spent enough time to point out he's watching with the GM so why not have some sort of reaction afterwards as you're going off the air?

Wait, what was I thinking? It's the WWE where stuff like logic and common sense doesn't make sense when it comes to their shows. If they were throwing oatmeal against a wall to see what would stuck, I can tell you most of this one hour that I watched? Didn't stick. And one last thing, why give Jeff Hardy his rematch for the US title on free tv? He lost it at a PPV why not have the rematch at the PPV? THAT'S proper booking 101. But yes, I am reminded this is WWE and logic is a challenge for them there on a daily basis.

So there you go, I've WATCHED the product and it re-enforces everything I've been saying about it for years. It still sucks ass so NOW nobody can complain about me making fun of it or whining and saying “you don't watch it, you can't judge it'. Guess what I just did and now you're reading the results from that. Happy now?

Imagine if I DID watch the full three hours what kind of review this would've been.. be glad I only suffered an hour of it.

Indy Wrestling things and more.

• Tully Blanchard is now available for autograph signings and appearances through Bill Behrnes at showbis@aol.com. He is now based in San Antonio. He can also be booked in conjunction with his daughter, Tessa Blanchard, who is based in Orlando. Shannon Moore is also available, being based out of Raleigh, and can be booked alongside Lindsey Snow, also based in Raleigh.
• Vendetta Pro Wrestling announced what is being billed as the last pro wrestling show at the Bakersfield Dome on 7/22 at 5 p.m. It is being billed as Fan Appreciation Night and tickets are free, first come first serve. The building has been sold and will be closing up soon.
• AAW on Saturday night in Merrioniette Park, IL at 115 Bourbon Street has ACH & Mat Fitchett & Davey Vega vs. David Starr & Eddie Kingston & Trevor Lee as the main event. ACH is the AAW champion, Fitchett & Vega are tag champs and Lee is the Heritage champion. Also Kimber Lee vs. Su Yung for the women's title, Dave & Jake Crist vs. Brody King & Jimmy Jacobs, MJF vs. Ace Romero in a street fight, Rey Fenix vs. Dezmond Xavier, DJZ vs. Trey Miguel, Jake Something & Curt Stallion vs. Ricky Starks & Aaron Solow and more.
• The Bryan Alvarez & Tom Lawlor vs. Rock & Roll Express match from Saturday night is on Powerbomb.tv right now. 
• Anarchy Wrestling has announced that its major shows will now be iPPVs through Fite TV. The first one will be 7/28, the Hostile Environment show which goes for $9.99.
• Defy Wrestling on Friday night at the Hawthorne Theatre in Portland, OR with Austin Aries vs. Shane Strickland, plus Randy Myers, Joey Ryan and Rey Fenix vs. Rey Hours in a singles match. You mus be 21 and have a valid ID to attend.
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Upcoming Supreme Pro Wrestling Show in Indiana

CWF - Koloff & Saito Win the Florida Tag Team Titles

Championship Wrestling from Florida - Fall 1977.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5ymX7OXf0M

Mr. Saito & Sheik Adnan Interview [1985-01-19]

From AWA's "Pro Wrestling USA" show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYwI7lfkrgg

Mr. Saito Interview [GCW TV]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH4h48Zc41U

In Honor of Saito's passing I'll be posting different matches, etc. MR. SAITO CROWNS HULK HOGAN 1983

From AWA tv.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VizjwkorxX0

The Story on Mr. Saito Passing Away has been updated.

So you can read more there on Saito. 

MASA SAITO PASSES AWAY (updated)

Japanese wrestling publication Weekly Pro Wrestling broke the sad news this morning that former AWA World Champion Masa Saito, who had an incredible career that spanned the United States and Japan, passed away due to complications from Parkinson's Disease.  Saito was 76 years old.

Saito first broke into professional wrestling after representing Japan in freestyle wrestling, during the 1964 Summer Olympics, where he placed seventh.  He was broken into the business by Hiro Matsuda and was well known for a very physical style that included lots of suplexes, to the point that one variation of the move (popularized in the United States by Shawn Michaels as his original finisher after turning heel in 1992) has been commonly referred to as the Saito Suplex.  He was a brutish wrestler, who brought hard physicality with his clotheslines  Everything he did looked legitimately painful and he was an excellent in ring performer, 

Saito retired in 1999. He was diagnosed with Parkinson's the following year but still made appearance from time to time, including a convention appearance in Los Angeles where he reunited with Fuji for the last time.

Saito had the most successful long-term career of any Japanese native on the American scene, being a championship-level wrestler in multiple territories from 1968 to 1990. While Giant Baba in the 60s, Great Muta, and now Shinsuke Nakamura were as big or bigger stars, Saito spent the majority of his career in the United States as opposed to a brief version, and was always a headliner as a former Olympian who was a top tier in-ring worker, even with limited English speaking ability.

During most of his career he played the stereotypical salt-throwing Japanese heel, a role mostly played by Hawaiians rather than Japanese wrestlers in the 60s.

Saito was a top level in-ring wrestler, one of the most solid workers in North America during the 70s and well into the 80s, and considered top 10 in the world well into his 40s. He was one of Hulk Hogan's biggest rivals in his AWA heyday.

In 1984, he was voted the Best Technical Wrestler in the world even though he was 42 at the time. He came back after missing two years due to being in prison over a brawl where he injured several police officers in Waukesha, Wisconsin, which in wrestling at the time was viewed as him protecting Ken Patera, his traveling partner.

He was a star in Japan, heavily recognized for his American success. He was also the innovator of one of the biggest finishers, the scorpion deathlock/sharpshooter, which he used first and later transferred to tag team partner Riki Choshu. It was Choshu's success with the move that led to both Bret Hart and Sting using it as their finishers, and now is almost considered the classic finishing move among Canadian wrestlers and even emulated by people like The Young Bucks, who grew up as Bret Hart fans, and Cesaro, who uses it as a tribute to T.J. Wilson.

Saito had a major feud with Antonio Inoki, which was blown off by the legendary Jungle Death Match on October 4, 1987 that went 125:14, the longest match in Japanese history. The setting, a bout with no ring in the jungle, made it impossible to have a good match, but the uniqueness of it was viewed as one of the most legendary matches in the country's history and led to many other location no-ring matches that followed.

Saito was extremely well respected in Japan, and it was wrestlers and reporters from that country who were the key in his being voted into the Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame in 2009.

Saito was a former AWA World Champion, although that was well past the peak of the promotion. But he also held World Tag Team titles twice with Kinji Shibuya, in a legendary early 70s team, and twice with Mr. Fuji in the WWF, as well as with both Choshu and Shinya Hashimoto in Japan.

He had been battling Parkinson's Disease since 2000. One of the key reasons for the "Beast in the East" WWE Network special from Tokyo actually taking place is that Brock Lesnar, who thought so highly of Saito, wanted to visit him with Brad Rheingans, and he coincided it with a WWE Japan tour to do business with it, and with Lesnar's return to Japan, WWE made the show a special.

USACW Episode 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znpC46iyGo8&t=32s