“On the Marc” 05/23/2013 WWE NXT Review

From Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida

Commentators: Tony Dawson & William Regal

Championship’s roll call: WWE Champion: John Cena… World Champion: Dolph Ziggler… Intercontinental Champion: Wade Barrett… United States Champion: Dean Ambrose… Tag Team Champions: The Shield… NXT Champion: Big E Langston… NXT Tag Team Champions: The Wyatt Family… Diva’s Champion: Kaitlyn

Sami Zayn vs. Curt Hawkins:   Olé! I haven’t seen Hawkins since his teak with Tyler Reks. Wow, did I ever misspell Zayn’s name last week. Hawkins cut his hair too. The fans are already singing “olé” at Zayn. Hawkins tries to pound in the corner but Zayn recovers sending Curt to the floor. Zayn applies a chinlock but Hawkins hits a shoulderblock; Sami comes back with some release armdrags. He chops in the corner and mount punches ten times in the corner. Sadly the fans don’t count in Spanish. Hawkins comes back with a wicked enziguri right to Zayn’s face. Hawkins takes back over and stomps Zayn down; he goes to a chinlock. Sami flings himself free and avoids a corner charge. Zayn comes back with clotheslines and a back suplex. Continue reading

“On the Marc” 05/20/2013 Monday Night Raw Review

Live the Sprint Center in Kansas City, MO

Commentators: Michael Cole, JBL & Jerry Lawler

Championship’s roll call: WWE Champion: John Cena… World Champion: Dolph Ziggler… Intercontinental Champion: Wade Barrett… United States Champion: Dean Ambrose… Tag Team Champions: The Shield… NXT Champion: Big E Langston NXT Tag Team Champions: The Wyatt Family… Diva’s Champion: Kaitlyn

An ambulance speeds into the arena to open the show… and Ryback pops out of it. He says that there was no winner in his Extreme Rules match with John Cena. John was stretchered out but refused medical attention; he promises that John will not refuse the next time they face off. He proposes an Ambulance Match at the Payback PPV. He calls the people of society fat and weak. He goes on and on saying people are lost souls of society… and John Cena is their hero. Pathetic. He promises to take Cena and the entire crowd to the morgue with him. Apparently there is nothing in the world except that Ryback rules. Continue reading

“On the Marc” 05/18/2013 WWE Superstars Review

Commentators: Matt Striker & Tony Dawson

Championship’s roll call: WWE Champion: John Cena… World Champion: Dolph Ziggler… Intercontinental Champion: Wade Barrett… United States Champion: Kofi Kingston… Tag Team Champions: Team Hell No… NXT Champion: Big E Langston… NXT Tag Team Champions: The Wyatt Family… Diva’s Champion: Kaitlyn

Sin Cara vs. Michael McGillicutty:   He’s back… on Superstars; the moment Cara came through the curtain, I knew McGillicutty was his opponent. They lock up and McGillicutty slaps him around in the corner. Ref breaks it and they go again and McGillicutty roughs him up again until Cara starts forcing off hurracanranas and a springboard crossbody. McGillicutty counters the handspring elbow with a back suplex. McGillicutty takes over clubbering in the ropes and nailing a standing dropkick, for two. He lays in some elbows to the top of the head and clamps on a chinlock. Cara battles back and hits a springboard back elbow and the Sky Twister Armdrag into a crucifix for two. Michael sends Cara onto the apron but ne nails a pendulum kick and senton bomb for the pinfall. Continue reading

“On the Marc” 05/17/2013 Friday Night SmackDown Review

Commentator: Josh Matthews, Michael Cole & JBL

Championship’s roll call: WWE Champion: John Cena… World Champion: Dolph Ziggler… Intercontinental Champion: Wade Barrett… United States Champion: Kofi Kingston… Tag Team Champions: Team Hell No… NXT Champion: Big E Langston… NXT Tag Team Champions: The Wyatt Family… Diva’s Champion: Kaitlyn

Happy first birthday to my son Gabriel!

The Miz is already in the ring for MizTV; his guests are Randy Orton and Big Show. Miz pimps the Extreme Rules match at the Extreme Rules PPV; he calls it one of the most anticipated matches on the card. Clips of the RKO from Orton last week are shown. Miz asks his former tag partner if that is a preview for the PPV. Show calls him a snake who attacks from behind but at the PPV he can do whatever he wants. Show does not need a weapon since he has on the end of his wrist. He says it will be a TKO not an RKO at the PPV. Orton calls it a good story but a different ending; since the PPV is in St. Louis, his hometown, he is not losing in his hometown and the real ending is hoe the Viper struck down the Giant… and here comes Jack Swagger with Zeb Colter. Colter says Sunday will be memorable but not because of anything they do, because Swagger will make Alberto Del Rio say “I quit.” He goes onto one of his Southern conservative rants about “sneaking across the border,” “real Americans” and “Jack Swagger’s America.” ADR follows him out to the ring and tells Colter to shut up. I see we’re going full ass into promoting the big matches on the PPV. Del Rio says the only thing people will remember at the PPV is Ricardo Rodriguez saying “Alberto Del Rio” because Swagger will say “I quit.” Mark Henry comes out next to a big reaction from the fans. Continue reading

“On the Marc” 05/16/2013 WWE NXT Review

From Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida

Commentators: Tom Phillips & Brad Maddox

Championship’s roll call: WWE Champion: John Cena… World Champion: Dolph Ziggler… Intercontinental Champion: Wade Barrett… United States Champion: Kofi Kingston… Tag Team Champions: Team Hell No… NXT Champion: Big E Langston… NXT Tag Team Champions: The Wyatt Family… Diva’s Champion: Kaitlyn

Natalya Neidhart vs. Summer Rae:   This was brought about by Summer mugging in on Nattie’s mic time in the back. Neidhart applies a side headlock but Rae reverses with a head scissors. Natalya nips up to counter; she goes into a front facelock but Summer reverses into a hammerlock. They exchange holds and reversals until Rae boots her in the gut. The battle over a wristlock but Nattie athletically counters so Summer uses the hair to take over. She comes back with a reverse elbow and tries the Sharpshooter but Summer makes the ropes. Nattie charges and runs right into an elbow but she recovers quickly and counters a backdrop with a discus lariat for two. Summer retreats to the ropes to break momentum and then suckers Nattie in and tosses her through the ropes; she charges right back in… right into a Rae kick to the face. Back from break, Summer is dropping forearms and gets two. She tosses her in the corner and wears her out with the Diesel Choke. Nattie gets a desperation schoolgirl in the corner but Summer counters and plants her with a Ziggler-like DDT. She takes over with elbows to the face and a pulling armbar. Continue reading

“On the Marc” 05/15/2013 WWE Main Event Review

Commentators: Michael Cole & The Miz

Championship’s roll call: WWE Champion: John Cena… World Champion: Dolph Ziggler… Intercontinental Champion: Wade Barrett… United States Champion: Kofi Kingston… Tag Team Champions: Team Hell No… NXT Champion: Big E Langston NXT Tag Team Champions Adrian Neville & Oliver Grey… Diva’s Champion: Kaitlyn

Kane vs. Seth Rollins (w/The Shield):   Not sure where Daniel Bryan is but it’s rather unwise coming out alone. The commentators say he has a “prior commitment to another television show.” They lock up and Rollins sticks and moves. He manages to pepper him with punches in the corner; Kane comes back but misses a charge. Rollins tries to knock Kane down but eats a big boot. Kane mauls him in the corner with shoulderblocks and a hammer toss cross-corner. He hits the backbreaker stretch submission; Rollins escapes but keeps getting attacked. Kane nails a Manhattan drop but gets two. Seth tries a float-over counter in the corner and almost gets planted with a Tombstone; he slips free and heads to the floor. Kane smartly does not give chase considering Reigns and Ambrose are out there. Speaking of Reigns he pops up on the apron drawing Kane over; Rollins tries to attack from behind but gets backdropped over the top right onto Reigns. Back from commercial, Kane is still in control but misses an elbow drop. Rollins takes over but gets quickly goozled; he avoids a chokeslam and hits an enziguri. Rollins now takes over pounding away on the mat. Stomps in the corner follow. He pounds on Kane in the corner and then pounds some more. Continue reading

“On the Marc” 05/13/2013 Monday Night Raw Review

Live from Tulsa, Oklahoma

Commentators: Michael Cole, JBL & Jerry Lawler

Championship’s roll call: WWE Champion: John Cena… World Champion: Dolph Ziggler… Intercontinental Champion: Wade Barrett… United States Champion: Kofi Kingston… Tag Team Champions: Team Hell No… NXT Champion: Big E Langston NXT Tag Team Champions: The Wyatt Family… Diva’s Champion: Kaitlyn

Chris Jericho (w/Edyta Śliwińska) vs. Fandango (w/Summer Rae) dance off:   Jerry Lawler emcees it. Fandango notes that he did not lose to Great Khali, it was the idiot fans. He also knows that he will defeat Jericho tonight. Y2J retorts with “Raw is Jericho” and says he is the first musical chairs champion in the WWE. He also says at Extreme Rules that he will create a new dance craze called the: “I just kicked your jackass all over the ring.” Fandango goes first off a coin flip. He cuts the music off and stalls to be a good heel; he also shushes the crowd. They dance and Summer turns her ankle so Fandango yells at her. He leaves and Jericho checks on Rae and gets blindsided. Fandango hammers away and kicks him in the gut; he tumbles to the floor where Fandango tosses him into the steps. The beating continues as Jericho gets thrown into the barricade. He disengages one of the parquet squares that were set up in the ring for the dance off and waffles Jericho with it. He reenters the ring and walks over to Summer Continue reading

“On the Marc” 05/11/2013 WWE Superstars Review

Ted Dibiase shows up to face Michael McGillicutty and Justin Gabriel tangled with Cody Rhodes on a surprisingly good show this week. [...]

“On the Marc” 05/10/2013 Friday Night SmackDown Review

Chris Jericho hosts Ryback in the Highlight Reel but gets stuck in the main event with the big guy. [...]

“On the Marc” 05/09/2013 WWE NXT Review

Adrian Neville picks Bo Dallas to defend his titles against the Wyatt Family this week on NXT; other features include a Kassius Ohno babyface turn and the return of Conor O’Brian, plus the brother of the Showoff in action as well. DAmien Sandow showed up to challenge the Champ Big E Langston, too. [...]