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WWE Smackdown 1/6/2012

FROM: Wrestling Recaps

World Wrestling Entertainment presents Smackdown
Date:
1/6/2012
From: Little Rock, Arkansas

A video hyping up what happened last week between Randy Orton and Wade Barrett is aired. For those of you who don’t watch Smackdown, Orton was tossed down stairs last week and is out of action for a few weeks.

Tonight, we will see Daniel Bryan defend the WWE World Heavyweight Championship against Big Show. Also, the Intercontinental Championship will be on the line.. right now! Read the rest of this entry

WWE RAW 1/2/2012

FROM: Wrestling Recaps

World Wrestling Entertainment presents RAW
Date:
1/2/2012
From: Memphis, TN

RAW starts off with a video promoting the segment between Kane and Cena last week. The WWE actually dubbed in boo’s for Cena. What will Cena do tonight? Read the rest of this entry

WWE: TLC 2011

WWE: TLC 2011
December 18, 2011
Baltimore, MD
First Mariner Arena

The current WWE champs were as follows:
WWE Champion: CM Punk (11/20/2011)
WWE U.S. Champion: Dolph Ziggler (6/19/2011)
World Heavyweight Champion: Mark Henry (9/18/2011)
WWE Intercontinental Champion: Cody Rhodes (8/12/2011)

WWE Tag Team Champions: Air Boom (8/22/2011)
WWE Divas Champion: Beth Phoenix (10/2/2011)

Your hosts are Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler. Read the rest of this entry

WWE: Survivor Series 2011

WWE: Survivor Series 2011
November 20, 2011
New York City, NY
Madison Square Garden

The current WWE champs were as follows:
WWE Champion: Alberto Del Rio (10/2/2011)
WWE U.S. Champion: Dolph Ziggler (6/19/2011)
World Heavyweight Champion: Mark Henry (9/18/2011)
WWE Intercontinental Champion: Cody Rhodes (8/12/2011)

WWE Tag Team Champions: Air Boom (8/22/2011)
WWE Divas Champion: Beth Phoenix (10/2/2011)

Your hosts are Michael Cole, Jerry Lawler, and Booker T. Is that Judah Friedlander behind them? Looks JUST like him if it isn’t. Read the rest of this entry

WWE: Vengeance 2011

WWE: Vengeance 2011
October 23, 2011
San Antonio, TX
AT&T Center

The current WWE champs were as follows:
WWE Champion: Alberto Del Rio (10/2/2011)
WWE U.S. Champion: Dolph Ziggler (6/19/2011)
World Heavyweight Champion: Mark Henry (9/18/2011)
WWE Intercontinental Champion: Cody Rhodes (8/12/2011)

WWE Tag Team Champions: Air Boom (8/22/2011)
WWE Divas Champion: Beth Phoenix (10/2/2011)

Glad to see that the Vengeance PPV brand is back! He may have killed himself and his family, but Chris Benoit will not (will not I say!) tarnish the good name of WWE Vengeance forever!

Since we last left you, Triple H’s Raw duties have now become the duties of John Laurinaitis thanks to Mr. McMahon. Also, the Miz and R-Truth have been rehired and scheduled to face the team of Triple H and CM Punk, while the Big Show returns to Smackdown (pimping an AWFUL looking new t-shirt) with a fiery vengeance (!!) that will be laid upon Mark Henry.

Your hosts are Michael Cole, Jerry Lawler, and Booker T. Read the rest of this entry

WWE: Royal Rumble 2011

WWE: Royal Rumble
January 30,2011
Boston, MA
TD Garden

The current WWE champs were as follows:
WWE Champion: The Miz (11/19/2010)
WWE U.S. Champion: Daniel Bryan (9/19/2010)
World Heavyweight Champion: Edge (12/19/2010)
WWE Intercontinental Champion: Kofi Kingston (1/7/2011)

WWE Unified Tag Team Champions: Santino Marella & Vladimir Kozlov (12/6/2010)
WWE Divas Champion: Natalya (11/21/2010)

Since Kyle has reviewed three straight PPVs (WrestleMania-Extreme Rules-Over the Limit) and me being the crazy completist that I am, I’m planning to get us all up to date on the 2011 PPV reviews here at PDRwrestling.

Your hosts are Michael Cole, Jerry Lawler, and Matt Striker. Read the rest of this entry

WWE Unified Tag Team Titles History

Champion Won From Date City/Event
Carlito & Primo Colon Curt Hawkins & Zack Ryder 9/26/2008 Smackdown![1]
Edge & Chris Jericho The Colons 6/28/2009 The Bash[2]
Shawn Michaels & Triple H Jerishow 12/13/2009 TLC
The Miz & Big Show Shawn Michaels & Triple H 2/8/2010 Raw[3]
The Hart Dynasty ShoMiz 4/26/2010 Raw
Cody Rhodes & Drew McIntyre Evan Bourne & Mark Henry 9/19/2010 Night of Champions[4]
John Cena & David Otunga Cody Rhodes & Drew McIntyre 10/24/2010 Bragging Rights
Heath Slater & Justin Gabriel John Cena & David Otunga 10/25/2010 Raw
Santino Marella & Vladimir Kozlov Heath Slater & Justin Gabriel 12/6/2010 Raw[5]
Heath Slater & Justin Gabriel (2) Santino Marella & Vladimir Kozlov 2/20/2011 Elimination Chamber
John Cena & The Miz Heath Slater & Justin Gabriel 2/21/2011 Raw
Heath Slater & Justin Gabriel (3) John Cena & The Miz 2/21/2011 Raw
The Big Show & Kane Heath Slater & Justin Gabriel 4/22/2011 Smackdown!
David Otunga & Michael McGillicutty The Big Show & Kane 5/23/2011 Raw

Footnotes:
[1]: At WrestleMania XXV on April 5, 2009, Carlito & Primo Colon defeated The Miz and John Morrison to unify Smackdown’s WWE tag team championship with Raw’s World tag team championship.
[2]: Edge and Chris Jericho were given a last-minute WWE unified tag team titles shot right before a scheduled title defense between The Colon brothers and Ted DiBiase Jr. & Cody Rhodes, thus creating an impromptu triangle match. Edge brought the match to an end once he pinned Carlito after a Spear to secure the unified tag team titles for himself and Chris Jericho.
[3]: This was a triple-threat elimination match including CM Punk & Luke Gallows. They were eliminated first by Shawn Michaels pinning Punk, but then the Miz pinned Michaels to secure the tag team titles.
[4]: Cody Rhodes & Drew McIntyre won the unified tag team titles in a tag team turmoil match which also included the former tag champs the Hart Dynasty, the Usos, Santino Marella & Vladimir Kozlov, and the team they actually defeated to win the tag titles Evan Bourne and Mark Henry.
[5]: This was a fatal four-way elimination match which also included the former tag champs Heath Slater & Justin Gabriel, the Usos, and Mark Henry & Yoshi Tatsu. However, a timely distraction from John Cena helped Santino pin Gabriel to defeat the Nexus and secure the unified tag team titles.

Credit goes to: PWI Almanac, wrestling-titles.com, and ProWrestlingHistory.com

WrestleMania XXVI Review

WWE WrestleMania XXVI
March 28, 2010
Phoenix, AZ
University of Phoenix Stadium

The current WWE champs were as follows:
WWE Champion: Batista (2/21/2010)
U.S. Champion: The Miz (10/5/2009)
Divas Champion: Maryse (2/22/2010)
World Heavyweight Champion: Chris Jericho (2/21/2010)

Intercontinental Champion: Drew McIntyre (12/13/2009)
Women’s Champion: Michelle McCool (2/26/2010)
Unified Tag Team Champions: Big Show & The Miz (2/8/2010)

Some planes fly low over the stadium (which had to be REALLY loud) right before Fantasia sings the National Anthem. Dang, 2004 called. Then again, you wouldn’t want somebody new like Ke$ha appearing here either. Sorry, Slack. You don’t really want that to happen.

Your hosts are Michael Cole, Jerry Lawler, & Matt Striker. Read the rest of this entry

Royal Rumble 2010

Royal Rumble 2010, January 31, 2010, Phillips Arena, Atlanta, GA

Announcers: Michael Cole, Jerry Lawler, & Matt Striker

So here we go with the first PPV of the new year and new decade, the Royal Rumble.  The undercard build has been pretty underwhelming to me, but I’m really looking forward to the Rumble itself as they’ve done a great job of building several guys into having legit reasons to win so if nothing else I expect it to deliver. Read the rest of this entry

Drama’s Smackdown Report 2/6/09

Drama’s Smackdown Report 2/6/09

Friday Night Smackdown!
February 6, 2009
Indianapolis, Indiana
Jim Ross and Tazz
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