The Bash Has Few Surprises, TNA Growing Stale.
Well, it was another normal week in wrestling, headlined by a Pay-Per-View event to close the week in WWE.
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The Bash left many heads shaking a little, and gave us some ideas where the company is going to go with some characters. It also left us wondering how much more Triple H. vs. Randy Orton we are going to have to see.
Smackdown's creative team is clearly happy with the CM Punk vs. Jeff Hardy feud, and I must say, this feud is the best in the business right now.
The way CM Punk is "uncontrollably" doing heel things is perfect. His four-star match with John Morrison on Friday Night (probably the best TV match so far this year) was brilliantly written.
To have him attack Morrison after the loss and then act like he can't help himself is setting up a classic SLOW heel turn.
The World Heavyweight Championship match at The Bash was fairly good, but not as spectacular a match as I think the Charismatic Enigma and Punk can give us, but again a perfect ending.
Punk is doing everything he can to keep his title AND show he deserves it (that is why the loss to Morrison upset him so much), and in the process is doing things "out of character."
I am very interested to see where this feud goes this weekend.
The rest of SD! also had a stellar week.
Chris Jericho and Rey Mysterio absolutely stole the show Sunday night. This match was MAGNIFICENT, and Rey Rey did it all with TWO masks on! You might not see a better one-on-one match the rest of this year.
With Rey winning and taking the Intercontinental Championship, they moved Y2J into another program by giving him the Tag Team titles with Edge.
This is a good move. While Punk and Hardy are tearing up the main event, Edge and Y2J (two of the top guys in the world) will help make the tag titles relevant again.
It was time for Jericho to move on from Mysterio, though they will likely go at it a little more. Jericho also showed he is the consummate performer by putting on a stellar match with Rey Rey, and then turning around and winning the tag titles with Edge.
ECW continued to be solid as The Hart Dynasty is probably the best faction in wrestling right now.
The Scramble match for the ECW title was solid at The Bash, and I like that Tommy Dreamer will hold it until at least SummerSlam. I really like those Scramble Matches for some reason.
While the other two shows continue to be superb, RAW continues to disappoint.
The commercial-free episode provided solid ratings and some entertainment, but all in all, Randy Orton vs. Triple H. (which once was GREAT) has become boring and stale, and they need to elevate someone like MVP as soon as possible.
The match between John Cena and The Miz really should not have been a squash match. It makes little sense to me why they would do that, as The Miz is getting such good heat, and could really take this as a rub to the top of the card.
I hope it is, because they are going to continue the feud a little longer with The Miz really taking to heart that he needs to bring his A-game to face Cena.
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