Squared Circle Log Blog 7-19-08

Its been a few days and I’m still dealing with a few personal issues but after last nights lame Smackdown show, I thought I needed to make a statement. If their goal is to prop up the show for the network change , then they really have rework the whole EDGE Vicki storyline. The wedding taking up the entire show didn’t really further that cause at all. I known that as GM , Vicki generates a lot of heat, and putting her with the best heel going right now just makes it that much hotter, but this whole making things up as they go along without any resistance is getting real stale. They need to have some alliances form and some deals with people struck.

Number 2, cloning Brian Kendrick into a younger attitude area HBK is a risky idea at best. Number one , I don’t think he can pull it off. Number two, he doesn’t really have a partner to turn on at the moment . Number three , while he has proven in ring performer, he has yet to prove that he is that good on the Mike.

Last nights Hardy Boy match against each other just reinforces the fact that they shouldn’t have been split up in the first place. Two of the hottest names going right now and one of them has to split time between ECW and

Smack down which brings me to another point. The merger of RAW and ECW has been pushed back again tell sometime next year. I don’t know if this means that ECW is dead in the water or it means that or does it mean Smackdown needs the extra crossover wrestlers.

There has been a lot of grumbling over the net about Michel Cole and his performance on RAW. You know what WWE, when your paying a stiff like Mike Adam lie a coulple of hundred thousand dollars a year to stick up the ECW’s announcing team , then don’t bitch about a loyal employee’s need to get adjusted to new surroundings.

Sunday is a day away so I’ll close with a few prediction. Starting off with HBK vs. Y2j. They both have been in overdrive selling this feud and since I don’t think its over yet , I pick Jericho . Next on the list is Cena vs. JBL in a “NYC Parking Lot Match. With JBL’s back issues im surprised they made this match , but with the absence of any real good heels on Raw , they didn’t really have that much time to develop any good storyline. The new “Diva’s” belt is up for grabs when little Miss Anvil Natalya Niedhart goes up against every ones favorite teacher Michelle McCool. I hope McCool wins but I cant help but think that Natalya will when as a part of the ongoing guilt over Owens death and the way Brett was treated in Montreal. There may be some real heat between these two over McCool correcting Niedhart on how to take a bump so this one might be pretty good.

Mark Henry for what ever reason , has a shot at being every thing they thought he could be when they signed him so long ago. Having Tony Atlas showing him how to get over is a good idea and Dreamer will give him a good match but they need some long term people that are credible foes and soon.

Next up the fatal four way is next. While I doubt that Morrison and the Miz will lose, the way edge is going , a good dark horse in this one is the edge heads . The way things are starting to turn , anything is possible.

Now to the main events. While there have been backstage questions about CM Punks work ethic, they cannot deny the fact that he has been good for the ratings and good for Raw. I don’t think that Punk will lose, but I see some sort of Batista DQ especially if their going to turn him heel.

EDGE and HHH go at it in the other Main Event. Most of the conventional wisdom says that HHHwont lose before Summer Slamm . I don’t necessarily agree with that thought. If the plan is to create a buzz, they will need to screw over HHH big time. And if they do it the wrong way, they could do more harm then good.

That’s all for now, Ill be back some time next week.