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Count Anywhere
01-17-06
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NEWS
At the same time as SmackDown!, Stacey Kiebler was the first
one to be made safe on Dancing with the Stars. She
was really good, not to mention hot, and I think she’ll
win it all unless Jerry Rice or that hot news girl takes it.
In related
news, Latin Lover was on the Mexican version of Dancing
with the Stars (which I believe also shows on some
of the Spanish language stations in the US) and has been
a big cross-over star. I don’t know if he won the
thing, but he was the top guy coming out of the biggest
year in Mexican wrestling since the early days of AAA, Latin
Lover did briefly work a few shows with the WWE.
The
Observer Awards came out and there weren’t many surprises.
Kenta Kobashi won The Wrestler for the third year in a row.
Samoa Joe won Best Brawler. Eddy won Most Charismatic and
Best on Interviews. TNA had a lot more wins and seconds
with the only real major award going to the WWE was Feud
of the Year for Batista vs. HHH. Ring of Honor won Best
Match with Kenta Kobashi vs. Samoa Joe. Fanboy Planet’s
Match of the Year, Michaels vs. Angle, took second. No real
surprises.
The
Plan for Mania, according to the Observer, was originally
for HHH to face John Cena and lose in a grueling match.
Edge was going to come and collect his Money in the Bank
shot and win fast. They just pushed that up a bit. They
were also going to have Batista vs. Randy Orton, but the
injury forced them to go to Angle and he’s probably
going to work with Benoit, and still possibly do the Orton
vs. Angle Mania thing. They are also planning on going through
with some Mark Henry matches. There is hope that Angle will
stick around for a while, but no one’s quite sure
if he will. They are playing things very close to the vest,
especially with Angle still being on RAW this week. It’ll
be a fun one and the Rumble should tell us the direction
they’re going.
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TNA
Impact (the portion that I saw)
Impact has been on a roll of late, hitting another 0.9 rating
last week, which SpikeTV is ecstatic over. I didn’t
see the beginning (I was coming back from San Francisco)
and I tuned out when SNL hit (My Ghod, Scarlett Johannsen
is all sorts of hot!) but I did rewatch last week’s
tape and saw the Samoa Joe interview where he wouldn’t
talk to Shane Douglas until he started to walk away and
then he said the Shane should talk to Christopher Daniels
about not being able to hold his new baby boy because he
was in the hospital. That’s a copy of the Freebirds
blinding Junkyard Dog angle from New Orleans in 1980 or
so. Good stuff.
This
week, I got in just as Jacky Gayda (which might be Bostonian
for Gaydar) was talking with Shane Douglas. She’s
hot, but she’s a terrible promo girl. She was better
when she was just flipping out on Shane and Gail and not
when she’s trying to pull off this mystery of the
enveloped letter deal. Scott D’Amore came and made
the segment better, but not much.
Samoa Joe basically
destroyed Raven’s biggest fan and it was a fun little
squash. Chris Daniels was on commentary. They had Shannon
Moore run in with AJ Styles Mr. TNA award, and Joe just
kicked the hell out of Styles. Sick! Then Joe got the MuscleBuster
and then the Kokina Clutch for the win. He brawled with
Christopher Daniels after.
And
that was all I got to see. Still, there was a Team Canada
Six Man with Matt Bentley, Sonjay Dutt and someone else
that looked good as it started, but then I was gone. TNA
is so good they need to move it into a Prime-Time slot,
perhaps Mondays 8 to 9. Think about that!
TNA
PPV - RAW
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