SUMMERSLAM: SHUT THAT KID UP!!

Ladies and gentlemen...my name is Daniel Richerson, and Summerslam just went off the air. What a night it was. Starting off with the IC title match. Miz vs Ziggler. I honestly had to rewatch this match because during the match my cpu froze and I had to restart my cpu. Mr. Ziggles won.

So then you had Paige vs AJ Lee. These two wrestlers that happen to be in the divas division tore the house down. Paige definitely got some men's attention during this match. AJ put up a heck of a fight and had her submission move on and Paige countered it with a crazy version of a DDT and got the 3 count. New champion. Also Michelle Beadle was at ringside. If you know the story between AJ, CM Punk, and Michelle Beadle, then you know why I say that Beadle had a hand in AJ losing. WWE book it!

Now the flag match. This match was a match I feel that Swagger should win because of all the mess that's happening in this country, USA needed something to cheer about. First let's talk about the how it began. Russev waved his flag, and Swagger was waving his flag and Russev attacked Swagger which caused the flag to fall to the mat. JBL was pissed when that happened. JBL loves America. So in my mind I thought it would be a mistake if Russev won. Sure enough Russev won. I understand heat, but this may be a bit much. The match itself, it was solid, but nothing to brag about.

Dean Ambrose vs Seth Rollins was a match when I saw it on the card I thought it was going to be a show stealer, and for most of the match it was. It wSent in to the crowd. It was a great match back in forth. Then the waste of time Kane had to make an appearance. Kane ruined what was a classic match. Ambrose hit Rollins finisher and had the pin and Kane interfered and caused an fight among the lumberjacks the ring. And the finish was Rollins hitting Ambrose with the MITB briefcase. I hated it. Kane ruined the match. I hated that spot.

Bray Wyatt vs Jericho I thought on paper had a lot of potential. Turns out the match was boring. A few high spots here and there, but over all it was a bore. The only good thing that happened is Bray got the win.

Stephanie vs Brie was a fun watch. Stephanie ring attire was...sexy. I'll say it. Stephanie looked sexy. Brie looked anorexic. Brie looked hungry being in the ring with Stephanie.  Nikki turned on Brie and Stephanie got the W. I saw that coming. Jim Ross saw that coming too. It was a good match for what it was. Stephanie was actually getting more cheers than Brie until Triple H came out and Nikki made the turn.

Roman Reigns vs Randy Orton. During the pre show Ric Flair said Randy Orton was the best in the business today. I thought Flair was drunk. Orton showed out in this match. I still won't call him the best, but he's definitely in the top 5. Who do I say is the best? AJ Styles. Just my opinion. Anyway back to the match. The crowd went Cena on Reigns for some reason. They started to boo him. I actually like Roman. Yes, he has a lot of work to do, but he has the look. Roman won and he should've won. Like it or not, Roman is the next it guy.

And now...Brock Lesnar vs John Cena...total domination by Brock. John Cena went out like a jobber or "enhancement guy." I have to give my respect to John Cena. He's a top guy. He didn't have to go out like that, but Cena was like screw it, I'll take the loss. Brock Lesnar handed Cena 16 German suplexes. 16. My Goodness. Not to mention there was this little kid chanting, "Let's go Cena!" Everybody on Twitter wanted this kid to shut up. And thank God Brock made that happen. Also that poor mark of a sign guy. He tried to start one of those slow claps for Cena, and needless to say it didn't work. Justin Credible wasn't a fan of how Cena lost, but like I said, I like the way Cena lost. It was different, and Cena needed something different in his career. 15 time champ, he's had his time. He's a hall of famer, no doubt. Is Cena done? I don't think so. But with Nikki going heel, we just might see--just might see--Cena go heel? Just saying...

~Daniel Richerson

ARE POLITCS AND FOOTBALL TO BLAME FOR BAD RATINGS FOR WRESTLNG?

Cue Hero by Chad Kroeger feat Josey Scott. It’s been a while since I posted a blog on this blog spot and it’s because I can’t watch wrestling like I used to. With the job and other stuff I have to do, I don’t have the time. And the fact that I don’t have DVR. Either way, I do the best I can with YouTube and the dirt sheets, mainly NoDQ.com and WrestlingNewsSource.com. Either way, this came to me tonight while watching the CM Punk DVD produced by WWE, and may I say, it’s a great DVD. One of the best ones I’ve seen. I put it up there with The Rise and Fall of ECW and the Bret Hart DVD. On to what I really want to say…

I’m reading that the ratings this time of the year are supposed to be down for the WWE because of Monday Night Football and the Presidential Debates. To me that’s just an excuse to produce bad TV. If football and politics are the source to blame of the bad ratings then why even put a show on TV during this part of the year? Why even put money into all the lighting and booking? I mean according to the way things are, the ratings are going to be bad anyway, right? So if no one is going to watch, why waste the time putting the show on? Here’s my thing. Maybe it’s not the politics or football that’s the cause of the ratings. Ever think that show has not been made important enough? Maybe if you put the mindset in that you’re going to produce the best product to the audience that will make them want to come back and watch every week no matter what else is going on. Have the mindset in that you’re going to produce a product so riveting that people would rather DVR the debates and football to watch your product. People would rather watch your product as it’s happening, and then go on YouTube to catch up on football or presidential debates.

Never underestimate the power of the tongue which is now turned into the power of social media. In a sense, it’s the same thing. If you’re producing the best product you can on TV, no matter if it’s live or taped, people will talk about it. People will tweet about it, and eventually it will become what is now called “trending worldwide” or like what it was called back before social media “the talk of the town.” WWE is pushing social media hard. Having like a Twitter celeb tweet about it every week to make it more relevant. It’s an idea that could work better if the product was more relevant as a whole. Here’s the problem with wrestling in general. Not just WWE, but wrestling in general. For some reason or another, wrestling promoters decide to wait for one or two times a year to do something that everyone will talk about. Like when CM Punk cut that historic promo in Las Vegas, which by the way was the best promo in wrestling for a long time, the media went crazy. As Colt Cabana said, “The internet blew up.” It was going good after that for a while, and the night I think it all messed up was when Triple H was going to run the show with just him, Punk, Cena, and Sheamas. Then for some reason, Vince McMahon decided to go bring everyone back under Johnny Ace and have the show run like usual. To this day I don’t know what was the idea behind that. It was stupid. I still feel that they could’ve gone longer with that storyline. The wrestlers would be still working house shows and all that but the TV show, they would be striking. To me, that would have been money.

 Sometime later, Brock Lesnar returned later and all of the sudden the buzz is back. It was the night after Wrestlemania, and what I still feel was the best Raw produced. The crowd was a wrestling crowd. That crowd in Miami is the reason I love professional wrestling. The passion not only from the wrestlers in the ring but from the crowd. Daniel Bryan was made that night. And that lasted for a little bit. Now, from what I’m reading, it’s become stale again. Why not keep the momentum going? Why not say ok, let’s build on the momentum that we have and keep the fire burning? I never do understand in wrestling where a major story line dies, the whole product dies. It doesn’t make any logical sense to me what so ever. You have the people talking. You have the people tweeting, posting on Facebook, and making YouTube videos about your product. Instead of building, you’re giving people that YouTube video that’s went viral and then a few months later it’s back to square one. If you have solid foundation, the building will be solid. Maybe that’s the issue with TNA and WWE with the lack of ratings. They’re destroying the foundation.

I don’t know if this is going to change anything that I’m saying. I don’t know if anybody big in the business is going to read this, but I feel that if you have buzz, keep it going. If you see it dying, it’s because you stop building and became content.

Daniel Richerson
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