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Archive for May 2008

May 26th, 2008

Has Vickie Guerrero Gone Too Far? A Petition Says Yes

Every week SmackDown GM Vickie Guerrero amps up her crooked double crossing game and not everyone is happy about it. Last week she even sold out her brother-in-law Chavo Guerrero by throwing him into the ring against The Undertaker.
Diana from Connecticut is doing something about it. She sent me an email explaining that she […]

By Michael Sedor -- 11 comments

May 26th, 2008

Memorial Day Monday Night Raw: The Epic Announcement

Live Blogging Memorial Day Monday Night Raw
Here we go. The epic, historic, amazing Vince McMahon announcement. The entire WWE lineup has emerged from the locker room to hear what the Chairman has to say. How will the announcement “affect ever RAW viewer?”
Vince starts by telling us that there’s going to be another WWE Draft in […]

By Michael Sedor -- 1 comment

May 26th, 2008

Memorial Day Monday Night Raw: Main Event First, Then The Announcement

Memorial Day Monday Night Raw
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Match Four
Mr. Kennedy def. Carlito
Kennedy’s predictable defeat Carlito comes quickly with a well-executed Mic Check. Then the fun starts. Paul Burchill and his lovely “sister” Katie Lea sneak attack Kennedy and beat him senseless for ejecting their countryman William Regal from the […]

By Michael Sedor -- 0 comments

May 26th, 2008

Memorial Day Monday Night Raw: Still No Announcement

Live Blogging Memorial Day Monday Night Raw
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Match Three Prelims
Before we get to Match Three we get a repulsively bad Jimmy Kimmel - Cousin Sal - Roddy Piper skit. One wrestling site (I’m forgetting which one) called this Cousin Sal - Santino Marella bout the worst […]

By Michael Sedor -- 0 comments

May 26th, 2008

Memorial Day Monday Night Raw: We Want An Announcement!

Live Blogging Memorial Day Monday Night Raw

Match One
Melina def. Jillian Hall
Melina enters the ring doing her signature full split under the bottom rope and makes Hall submit with a indescribably flexible reverse camel clutch-type thing. Oh. My. Heavens. Beth Phoenix, who was interviewed in character today in the Miami Herald sits at ringside with JR […]

By Michael Sedor -- 0 comments

May 26th, 2008

Special Announcement Memorial Day Monday Night RAW

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Live Blogging Monday Night Raw
The Setup
PWInsider.com has reported that there will be a special announcement tonight on WWE’s Monday Night RAW from none other than the chairman Vince McMahon himself. And here it is!
Vince says he’s giving back to the fans and it’s […]

By Michael Sedor -- 0 comments

May 26th, 2008

Malignaggi’s Hair: Before and After

Didn’t catch the Paulie Malignaggi fight on Saturday and catch a glimpse of his ridiculous hair extensions? Our Komondor dog shot wasn’t descriptive enough? The photo to the right is a “before shot” taken three days prior to Saturday’s fight. After the jump is the post-match interview Paulie did for British television. Check out the […]

By Michael Sedor -- 0 comments

May 25th, 2008

WWE SmackDown: The Night of the Irish Mist

WWE SmackDown Results 5/24/08
Deuce, Domino and Maryse def. Jesse, Festus and Cherry
Finlay def. Chuck Palumbo
Batista def. M.V.P.
Vladimir Kozlov def. Nunzio
Matt Hardy and Kofi Kingston def. Shelton Benjamin and Elijah Burke
The Undertaker def. Chavo Guerrero

Friday night’s SmackDown concluded what has been an entertaining week of wrestling matches.
The hard-fought epic M.V.P.-Batista battle which saw terrific give-and-take, lots […]

By Michael Sedor -- 0 comments

May 24th, 2008

Magic Man’s Fake Hair Nearly Makes His IBF Title Disappear

In Saturday’s Ricky Hatton-Juan Lazcano undercard match Brooklyn junior welterweight proved that you can’t hit what you can’t see. The problem wasn’t the head speed of his opponent South African Lovemore N’Dou; N’Dou was relatively stationary. No, the problem was Malignaggi’s recently implanted 18-inch-long hair extensions.
In the first round of the IBF junior welterweight title […]

By Michael Sedor -- 1 comment

May 24th, 2008

Ricky Hatton Gets Back on the Winning Track

In the main event of an entertaining mid-day Saturday pair of junior welterweight bouts Ricky Hatton outlasted Juan Lazcano by a wide margin.
55,000 screaming Mancunians poured into Eastlands, the home stadium of Manchester City FC, to see their favorite son outperform and out-brawl Lazcano. Hatton was hurt twice by Lazcano — in the 8th and […]

By Michael Sedor -- 0 comments