Former WWE Diva Michelle McCool recently did an interview at the impartial MichelleMcCool.net where she talked about all of her accomplishments and her plans for the future. In case you’re wondering “did she come across like an egotistical bitch while ending the majority of her sentences with an overabundant use of exclamation points?” I’ll go ahead and answer both of those questions for you; yes and absolutely yes.
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A Love/Hate Relationship
Written by Cody Dodson
Writer’s Note: I’m currently on vacation and wrote this before I left, which was a week ago. I have no knowledge of anything that’s happened in the past week wrestling-wise, but hopefully that won’t impact the column.
Before we get started, I’d like to address something that many of you may not have noticed. In last week’s column comments, I was chastised by a reader for being too harsh in my comments about Michelle McCool. I believe I said something along the lines of her voice sounding like she gargled ground-up squirrels. I was informed that this reader would no longer read anything I wrote for The John Report. I would like to take this time to apologize to the reader, and anyone else I may have offended. Since said reader is presumably not reading this column, I have also rented out advertising space on Michelle McCool’s billboard-forehead to air my apology. Read more…
Hey, did you know Michelle McCool and Layla were having a match this weekend at Extreme Rules? Yeah, me neither. Regardless, I guess it’s been billed as a “Loser Leaves Smackdown” match. While I personally welcome any opportunity to get that harpy McCool off my television set, there is apparently more to this story than what was originally believed. She’s not leaving just Smackdown, but WWE completely.
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NXT 3.3 Review
By Lonestar
Welcome again, dear readers, to the Lonestar coverage of NXT. Before I begin, I’d like to mention that Aloisia has confirmed her release from the WWE. Other than that I don’t really have anything extraneous to say, so let’s get right into the show!
Opening
Josh Matthews seriously describes this season of NXT as monumental and groundbreaking before reminding us that NXT has its first elimination in two weeks. What he doesn’t say is that all signs point to the show itself being eliminated from television at about the same time! Matthews turns to his left and shows us the empty chair that used to be the home of Michael Cole. Suddenly the heavens open up and the first notes of a very recognizable Killswitch Engage song blast through the arena. Could it be? Yes it is! C M Punk saunters down the ramp wearing a brown jacket over his ring gear and takes a seat at the announce desk. I believe his historic first words as an announcer are well chosen: “Shut up, Josh.” Matthews hands Punk a picture of himself which the Straight Edge Savior promptly shreds in two and tosses into the audience behind him. Punk explains why he’s announcing, basically that he’s there to see the car crash. Hey, what a coincidence, that’s why I’m here! Punk pitches to Matt “Jefferson Darcy” Striker and the show is underway.
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Welcome to the final edition of the Vintage WWE NXT Review, I am of course Doctor Money. Tonight is the Season 2 NXT Finale. I just got home from the Yankee game and coincidently, I went to a Yankee game the night of the Season 1 Finale. Odd, no? Anyway, it’s down to Kaval, Alex Riley and Michael McGillicutty. Who is going to be WWE’s next breakout star? Read on to find out.
The show kicks off with Ashley Valence-Money introducing the WWE Pros. If you want to know where she’s been the past couple of weeks I’ve been asking her to call out sick because I didn’t want Zack Ryder to steal her from me, but then I realized I’m from Jersey and he’s not so automatically that makes me cooler. Woo, woo, woo, you know it. The Pros whose Rookies have been eliminated sit at the top of the ramp and the rest come to the ring with their Rookies. The Rookies that were eliminated are sitting in the front row. Matt “The Walking Tampon” Striker says there will be a double elimination tonight. No shit genius. There’s only supposed to be one winner so any way you slice it two guys are going to be eliminated. Then as if it’s some bombshell, Striker says the three remaining Rookies will face each other in a triple threat match. Um, I knew that already, it’s the same way you booked the Season 1 Finale. Although, I should be shocked WWE actually showed consistency in booking this show. Striker says the match is next and The Miz gets in Kaval’s face and Kaval shoves him and then Kofi Kingston clotheslines Miz out of the ring.
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Alright TJR Faithful, I’m David K., and you know me from my sparingly thin work here at TJR, and from my Twitter antics over @DaveTheAwesome. Usually here for the PPV Previews with John, today I’ve taken some time out of my busy summer to address this nagging anger building up inside of me over the recent departure of Serena. I guess I’m the wrong kind of person to be writing this article, but it’s something that’s been bugging me way too much over the past few months now. They’ve sent out the message to women that if you’re not blonde, a dancer, or willing to show more skin than others, you’re really not that important. I guess this bugs me because I’ve got a sister in high school who doesn’t fall into any of those categories, and I worry about her self-esteem when she’s watching these shows on Monday and Friday nights and seeing women she looked up to like Mickie James and Serena disappear, and girls like Kelly Kelly pushed, when she got her break as an 18 year old stripper on the ECW program. If you want to fault Linda McMahon’s campaign for her WWE Corporate days, ask her what she did for women during that time. What positive role models for girls were there within the company and what did the company do to give them opportunities to succeed? Let’s look at the current stable of Divas and see what they’re doing to promote a positive image towards females.
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This is the second of a series of polls I’ll be running all week for the five matches at the Royal Rumble. The poll is at the bottom of this post. Two on Sunday. Three on Monday.
The three month feud between Smackdown’s Women’s Champion Michelle McCool and number one contender Mickie James comes to a head at the Royal Rumble next Sunday, January 31st. I have really liked this feud. It’s the best and most memorable women’s feud probably since Trish/Mickie, which was four years ago now. They usually don’t devote this much time or tell this much of a story involving the women. I’ve been pleasantly surprised. The question is: Who’s going to win?
If Michelle wins: The feud continues likely into WrestleMania where Beth Phoenix could be inserted to make it a triple threat match, which would be the culmination of a long feud that has seen Phoenix toe the line between heel and face a few times.
If Mickie wins: The torment she’s suffered from Michelle and Layla calling her “Piggy James” has led to plenty of confrontations that have usually led to Mickie getting beat up. If she wins the belt the fans are happy that the tortured babyface has overcome the obstacles to win the Women’s title for the 5th time. Question is, would the win be better here or at WrestleMania?
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