Lots of shenanigans, with some of the contenders slipping pretty badly and some underdogs making a push to get in the running, but the real surprise is War showing up to ace the whole show. Some pretty tricky matches..Carlito understandably tripped up lots of people, and there were a couple other pretty coinflippy matches, including the ME. Nobody came close on the bonus, and there were a variety of responses to the "1 debut, one not" hint. >_>
Tag Titles: Air Boom v. Slater/Drew Ryan/Riley v. Punk Trish v. Serena Primo v. Masters Santino/Hurricane v. Nash/X-Pac Gabriel v. AAE Kane/Dreamer v. Ziggler/Swagger Cena/Morrison v. Awesome Truth BONUS: Who's running the show? Remember, HHH was taken out by the nWo last week. (1 pt.)
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Tag Titles: Air Boom Punk Serena Primo Nash/X-Pac Gabriel Ziggler/Swagger Cena/Morrison BONUS: Who's running the show? Remember, HHH was taken out by the nWo last week. (1 pt.) John Laurinitis
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Tag Titles: Slater/Drew Punk Trish Masters Nash/X-Pac AAE Kane/Dreamer Cena/Morrison BONUS: Who's running the show? Remember, HHH was taken out by the nWo last week. (1 pt.) The Rock
I thought "Orton/Sheamus" would've guaranteed me 1/2 the bonus oops
how much did it cost to book rock to a SD show >_>;
Tag Titles: Air Boom Punk Serena Masters Nash/X-Pac AAE Ziggler/Swagger Cena/Morrison BONUS: Who's running the show? Remember, HHH was taken out by the nWo last week. (1 pt.) Punk
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Air Boom Punk Serena Masters Nash/X-Pac AAE Ziggler/Swagger Cena/Morrison (Hustle, Loyalty, and Wisdom?) BONUS: Laurinaitis makes the most sense, but lolTombooking
Tag Titles: Air Boom Punk Trish Masters Nash/X-Pac AAE Kane/Dreamer v. Ziggler/Swagger Cena/Morrison BONUS: Who's running the show? Remember, HHH was taken out by the nWo last week. (1 pt.) Vince
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-Match: Sin Cara v. Sin Cara II Sin Cara's out first...and gets dropkicked out of his boots by II, who was hiding behind the WWE logo on the stage! Cara II hits some flippy moves on the stage and ramp, securing a decisive advantage before the match starts (68). Mistico is able to turn the tables for a while, but ultimately comes up short after the cheap shot. Rating: 59
What are you trying to tell me? Who won?!
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Actually change the bonus to Punk. Ace makes more sense but Punk makes more Tom.
No wait, nix that. I just remembered why I didn't pick Punk because that card doesn't really make sense for him to book. So yeah keep it as Ace and ignore this post <_<
No wait, nix that. When has Tombooking ever made sense?
... Vince McMahon, final answer.
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Pre-show: Sheffield d. Curtis (51); Kelly/Melissa d. Bellas (52)
-JOHN LAURINITS opens the show! HHH was unable to be here after the vicious attack on him last week, so Laurinitis has assumed command of Raw for the time being! Speaking of the attack, he'd like to speak with the nWo right now. Punk and the gang oblige, as Punk measures Laurinitis up. Punk says he's not going to apologize for what he did, and that the nWo will continue removing problem elements until they have achieved change. Laurinitis did not call them out to berate them. They did what they had to do, and he respects that. He wants to see if they're strong enough to change the system, and has thusly booked all of them in matches tonight! Punk seems okay with that, and leaves. Laurinitis also wants to introduce some special friends! Welcome back AWESOME TRUTH! He brought them over from SD because they were treated poorly when fired from Raw. This brings out Cena, who strongly objects to such a poison being brought back on the show, but Laurinitis tells him that if he has a problem, he and Morrison can fight Awesome Truth tonight! Rating: 88
-Tag Title Match: Air Boom (c) v. Slater and Drew Not the squash one might expect, but Air Boom get the win anyway. Rating: 68
-Reks and Hawkins come out to challenge Air Boom to defend the belts against a REAL team! Air Boom thinks that's a good idea. Rating: 66
-Match: Ryan and Riley v. Punk Punk is just that much better, and barely has any issues here. Rating: 73
-Match: Trish v. Serena Trish struggles against the nWo's token female, but eventually manages a close win. Rating: 78
-Match: Primo v. Masters It's hard to tell which is more painful- the Masterlock, or this match in general. We're not sure which, but Primo submits to at least one of them. Rating: 43 Poor chemistry
-HURRITINO are out to the ring. Santino runs down the nWo on the mic, with Hurricane interjecting randum WASSUPWITDATs. Rating: 66
-Match: Santino/Hurricane v. Nash/X-Pac Santino's one hope spot ends with a blocked Cobra, and the nWo get another win. Rating: 73
-Laurinitis and Punk are shown watching a monitor backstage. Punk seems pleased at his stable's performance tonight, and a thoughtful Laurinitis invites him to his office to discuss something. Rating: 79
-Match: Gabriel v. AAE Gabriel wins the filler match of the night. Rating: 62
-Vickie, Ziggler, and Swagger are out to talk some trash. Vickie hypes up her boys, touting them as the future of the industry while Tommy Dreamer is the past. Rating: 81
-Match: Kane/Dreamer v. ZigSwag ADR joins for commentary, and predictably runs in at a crucial time. He gets the jump on Kane, but technically gives him a DQ win. Rating: 71
-Kane starts fighting back, and he and Del Rio brawl all over ringside and into the crowd! Rating: 83
-Match: Cena/Morrison v. Awesome Truth Awesome Truth get a surprising clean victory in an otherwise ho-hum main event. Rating: 83 Poor psychology you would think my ME talent would have the hang of this whole "wrestling" idea
-Awesome Truth celebrate the big win, but the nWo are out! A silent agreement seems to be reached when Cena takes a GTS, and the united heel front wipes the floor with Cena and Morrison! Rating: 84
Post-show: Kane interrupts Punk (87); Kane/Air Boom d. Punk/Awesome Truth by a botched ADR interference (68)
Overall: 76 FAILURE lol angles
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-I feel like Laurinitis is getting more carry-able than he has been. This is a Good Thing.
-Even I feel like that was a bit too much nWo, but it's mostly needed to further the story. That said, maybe it shouldn't be eclipsing the title feud so badly...but eh, Punk/Cena is a bigger deal than ADR/Kane, dopey nWo revival or no.
-I feel like that was a decent show, so I don't know if I'm gonna be able to stop failing. >_>
-Raw needs a couple more faces I think. It got hard to make matches.
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NOBODY got Awesome Truth winning in the ME, and not as many people as I expected got Laurinitis in charge. Trish tripped up a few people, and so did the sub-ME, but the rest of it wasn't toooo hard. Gr8 makes a move to get in the hunt, but the real news is Nee not getting in a prediction despite posting! numbers is able to claim the sole 1st place spot, but remains unable to distance himself from the rest of the pack. Still a pretty intense race.
Tajiri v. Chavo Yoshi v. Drew La Parka v. X-Pac Sin Cara/Air Boom v. Sin Cara II/Reks/Hawkins Gabriel v. (open challenge) BONUS: Who's fighting Gabriel (4 pts.) (HINT: It's 4 points because nobody's going to get it >_>)
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Chavo Yoshi X-Pac Sin Cara/Air Boom OPEN CHALLENGE BONUS: Who's fighting Gabriel (4 pts.) (HINT: It's 4 points because nobody's going to get it >_>) BOB SAPP
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After this long ass explanation of the next PPV's gimmick I'm still not sure it makes sense but whatever... Impact week 1 December!
SHOWTIME:
Sting announces a competition for this month's PPV, Final Resolution. RVD, Sting, D-Von, and Jeff Hardy will form teams over the month. The catch is that team members can only be added by defeating them in single's matches. Each team leader gets one challenge a week of their choice, and if they win, the wrestler they defeat has to join their team. However, if they lose, the member still joins the team, but they're the new captain. The teams will then face off in elimination style matches until all but one team has been eliminated-- and if a wrestler is eliminated in any match, they're out for the night. The survivors of the winning team will get a title shot, as will the team captain, regardless of whether he's still in. D-Von comes out and chooses to face Pope, sting chooses Anderson, and Jeff Hardy doesn't care and issues an open challenge. RVD no shows, apparently not around. (76)
After the break Robbie E is looking excited and chattering to Big Robbie T at a distance... then they both hide. RVD arrives by jeep, and as he steps out he is whacked by the homeless TV title, wielded by Robbie E who retreats to the ring, taunting RVD! RVD pursues! (42) RVD d. Robbie E. Robbie E starts fist pumping after the match despite losing as the ref explains that Robbie E is on RVD's team now for the PPV while RVD looks incredibly confused. (68)
Glacier is out with Gail Kim, who is still sad, and a stack of boards, calling out Matt Morgan. Matt Morgan appears VIA SATELLITE, wearing a gi and headband in a dojo, and shouts "blueprint... runs... COLDER!" He hits a young Japanese karate student with the Carbon Footprint while Glacier asks Gail Kim what the hell that was. (54)
Anderson is wishing Sting good luck for the match later tonight, but then kicks him in the yambags! (alas, Taz is not there to call it as such) (85) MCMG d. Old Age Outlaws (63)
Mr. Anderson d. a weakened Sting, cheating a lot and drawing a lot of cheap heat during the match, just to drive home that he's the bad kind of ******* now. (82) (Anderson's heel turn went over "pretty well") The Way of the Samurai d. Mark Haskins and Kid Kash (70)
Orlando Jordan is seen walking backstage. Hernandez approaches him and calls him on doing something obscene to Ric Flair last week. Orlando doesn't know what the hell he's talking about-- he just got here! (56) James Storm... uh... storms... into Sting's office as he's talking to AJ Styles. He wants his owed match from last month's "Social Experiment" tonight. Sting says that the tired AJ Styles could really use a week off, but AJ cuts him off and says he's a fighting champion and can easily do this. (80) D'Angelo Dinero d. D-Von. Bully gives D-Von a verbal beating after losing. (67) Jeff Hardy d. Brian Kendrick who is out to exorcise "the undead blaspheme Jeff Hardy upsetting the feng shui of TNA" in his open challenge (77)
Sting is holding his head backstage in his office, while Jeff Jarrett barges in wearing a suit. As the founder, he took it upon itself to look into some business related issues, and found that there were a lot of holes in the budget. He introduces VC "Cliff" Compton, who drones into a wall of business jargon for a bit before Sting waves them off while clutching his head and says he's hired and that he can do whatever's necessary to balance the budget or whatever. (64)
AJ Styles d. James Storm. He's clearly not 100%, but perseveres despite interference from Robert Roode. (80) During the match, Taz is seen opening a door backstage, waving Kurt and Samoa Joe in. Styles is beaten down again after the match, this time feeling the wrath of a guillotine choke and an ankle lock at the same time! (72)
72 - Success!
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Taz's Traitor gimmick gets 89 Jeff Jarrett's Business Executive gimmick gets 90 VC "Cliff" Compton's (Domino's) Business Executive gimmick gets 83 Big Robbie T's Bodyguard gimmick gets 85 (technically not a "change" but I realized it was still Foreign Star "whoops")
Jeff Jarrett and Cliff Compton have great tag chemistry-- no cheat sheet this time just luck. Awesome. THRIVING TAG DIVISION (gave them a match in the pre-show) D-Von and Pope have poor chemistry. Time to cap that feud with a tag/multiman match then.
As expected, Colt Cabana refused me with his 4 PPAs. Oh well. Maybe when I hit national.
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-Husky Harris is gonna be big! Er, not like that. Rating: 58
-Match: Yoshi v. Drew Back and forth match, but the IC Title #1 Contender comes out on top. Rating: 59
-Match: La Parka v. X-Pac The announcers inform us that LA PARKA is back in the WWE to help train the next generation of stars on NXT, starting next week! :O He gives X-Pac a run for his money...but MORDECAI runs in and takes out La Parka, causing the DQ! Rating: 61
-Mordecai says that he too has finally come back to this lair of sin and iniquity! He is going to train the next generation of superstars to renounce the evil ways of their surroundings, and his army of righteousness will overthrow the dark forces. Rating: 43
-Sin Cara II comes out to point at a replay of his match with I on SD. After pointing at the whole video package, he points to the ground! Rating: 57
-Match: Sin Cara/Air Boom v. Sin Cara II/Reks/Hawkins The good guys win a hard-fought battle. Rating: 64
-Gabriel thinks Slater's not around tonight, and is kinda bored. Anybody wanna match? ...It appears that CHARLIE HAAS does! Rating: 56
-Match: Gabriel v. Haas Try as he might, Gabriel can't quite answer Haas' technical abilities. Rating: 67
Post-show: Harts d. Usos, Riley/Curtis, Otungacutty (43)
Overall: 62 lol angles Curtis overused
FROM THE BOOKERMAN
-...man, Chavo/Tajiri should've done better than that :\
-Lopen, you are kinda a jerk. >_> It'll be FUN booking these guys, but they are going to go absolutely nowhere.
-Of course, I tried to get WGTT, but I think owner goals blocked Shelton after I'd already offered to Haas. I hate breaking off a negotiation I started, and he's pretty decent and pretty over, so I decided to keep him anyway. Worked for Bubba Ray in FWA:R! That said, I have no immediate plans for him yet.
-Truth is on his second strike now. I think I'm gonna have a four-strike system. >_> Kneel before me, peasants!
NEWSWIRE
-Impact scored a solid 77, in no small part due to a phenomenal Angle/Anderson sub-main.
-There's already heat backstage on Helms after he screwed around and pulled a prank on Teddy Long.
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Fairly easy, I suppose, although lots of people whiffed on the Yoshi match and some missed the 6-man as well. I felt compelled to give Bidoof a pity half-point for coming so close on the bonus. >_> That might actually come in handy, too! I WANTED WGTT but I think there were signing complications with Benjamin. I can never actually sign tag teams. >_> numbers loses a point on everybody, and we're neck and neck coming into the home stretch.
Sheamus v. Carlito Zeke/AJ v. Henry/Natalya Orton v. Dibiase Yoshi/Cara v. Cody/Cara II Ryder v. Husky Kidd v. Haas Taker v. Miz Rock v. Truth BONUS (2pts.): What's the overall rating? Half credit for +/-5.
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-Lopen, you are kinda a jerk. >_> It'll be FUN booking these guys, but they are going to go absolutely nowhere.
Hey now Mordecai is perfectly serviceable and isn't that old. You can totally build him into something with some effort! La Parka isn't that bad either skillwise just the whole 45 years old thing. Also my rookie had pretty good stats.
FUN is 9/10 the law anyway. I intentionally inflict guys that are worse than these guys on myself regularly! Including someone that will debut next week...! (not to mention eddv's new hire/push guy!)
Sheamus Henry/Natalya Orton Cody/Cara II Ryder Haas Taker Rock BONUS (2pts.): 78
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I felt compelled to give Bidoof a pity half-point for coming so close on the bonus. >_> That might actually come in handy, too! I WANTED WGTT but I think there were signing complications with Benjamin. I can never actually sign tag teams. >_> numbers loses a point on everybody, and we're neck and neck coming into the home stretch.
Fun fact: I was very close to choosing Haas but I thought of the two you would be more likely to sign Shelton. At least it paid off somewhat!
Sheamus Henry/Natalya Orton Cody/Cara II Ryder Haas Taker Rock BONUS (2pts.): I'll go with 82.
UNAVAILABLE: Tommy Dreamer (working elsewhere tonight)
...I am a bit confused since he has no contracts with anybody else and I am #1 in the world and should outrank everybody anyway and he was perfectly available for Raw the same night and there were no conflicts in his schedule
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