Showing posts with label AJ Styles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AJ Styles. Show all posts
Thursday, June 25, 2020
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Getting Suspended for Failing Drug Tests
Text from 'The Kevin Owens Show' with Randy Orton and AJ Styles:
Ahead of a showdown at WrestleMania 35, AJ Styles and Randy Orton joined "The Kevin Owens Show" to kick off this week's edition.
A short-lived back-and-forth gave way to physicality...but not before Owens bailed on his own show.
Styles attempted a Phenomenal Forearm, but Orton caught him in midair with an RKO that left him lying in the center of the ring.
The Viper stood tall to close out the segment.
Grade: A
Analysis
This was short, sweet and to the point.
There wasn't an abundance of talk; there wasn't any sort of overbooking or ridiculousness. Orton once more brought up Styles' indy background, and The Phenomenal One brought up The Viper's failed drug tests, adding more heat to the program.
The physicality was a nice tease for Sunday's match, which may well steal the show if the Superstars get the time to tell their story.
Monday, December 31, 2018
Monday, November 6, 2017
Monday, October 23, 2017
Finn Balor and AJ Styles
So, yes, there was a WWE PPV last night. Here are the results: WWE TLC 2017 Results: Winners, Grades, Reaction and Highlights.
The 'main' match I was curious about on the card was the AJ Styles v. Finn Balor match. It was going to be Finn Balor v. Bray Wyatt, but Wyatt was replaced by AJ Styles. Earlier today, I read this article about how to go about Booking Finn Balor's Path to [the] Universal Title After Win vs. AJ Styles at WWE TLC. From that article, here are the 3 embedded youtube.com videos:
As for AJ Styles, I've liked his in-ring performance since back when he was wrestling for TNA so I'm glad his performance in the first video above, looks crisp. I was unhappy that he arrived in WWE as a heel, feuding first with John Cena and now, honestly, since he's over on SmackDown, I don't watch him often.
By the way, I was curious about the 4 dates AJ Styles has tattooed on his chest:
Google took me to this article WWE Superstar AJ Styles’ Tattoos: What Do the Dates Mean?, where I learned they represent his kids' birthdays. He is also 32 years old.
The 'main' match I was curious about on the card was the AJ Styles v. Finn Balor match. It was going to be Finn Balor v. Bray Wyatt, but Wyatt was replaced by AJ Styles. Earlier today, I read this article about how to go about Booking Finn Balor's Path to [the] Universal Title After Win vs. AJ Styles at WWE TLC. From that article, here are the 3 embedded youtube.com videos:
As for AJ Styles, I've liked his in-ring performance since back when he was wrestling for TNA so I'm glad his performance in the first video above, looks crisp. I was unhappy that he arrived in WWE as a heel, feuding first with John Cena and now, honestly, since he's over on SmackDown, I don't watch him often.
By the way, I was curious about the 4 dates AJ Styles has tattooed on his chest:
Google took me to this article WWE Superstar AJ Styles’ Tattoos: What Do the Dates Mean?, where I learned they represent his kids' birthdays. He is also 32 years old.
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Royal Rumble Results
The 2016 of the WWE PPV Royal Rumble was Sunday night. As usual, the Monday night after a PPV is typically a good Raw episode. Last night's will be remembered for the following:
- Spoiler alert, Triple H won the Royal Rumble so he is now the WWE Champion. He goes on to Wrestlemania to face someone. Vince McMahon, his daughter Stephanie, and Triple H came out to start the episode and announced that the they (the stable known as "The Authority") would evaluate all of the wrestlers and then decide who will be in the next PPV (Fastlane) main event and that that winner would go on to Wrestlemania to face Triple H.
- AJ Styles, who I enjoyed watching in TNA and Ring of Honor, fought Chris Jericho. It was Styles' first ever Raw match. Styles won, which is good. Jericho is a part-time wrestler and probably only going to be on Raw as long as it takes for Fozzy, his heavy metal band, to be ready to record another album. I will say, though, Styles looked a bit rusty in the ring. I don't think there was good chemistry between the two. The camera showed Jericho calling out the next move during the match, which is bad. That said, there were a couple of moves that impressed me based upon the decades I have watched hundreds of pro wrestling matches. The best was when Styles was in the Walls of Jericho submission move (which must really hurt as Styles' body was bent in a way that I could never be bent) and crawled across the ring to break the hold instead of tapping out. A jaded viewer like me never sincerely thought Jericho was going to get the victory against Styles, especially since Styles probably required a good sum of money. What would have been interesting would be to have Bubba Ray Dudley, who Styles fought in TNA, come out and either congratulate or beat down Styles after the match. Instead, Styles offered Jericho a handshake - which is what the wrestlers in Ring of Honor do before a match - which Jericho reluctantly accepted. It would be interesting to see Styles / Jericho become tag team partners with an eventual betrayal by Styles to make Jericho the face and Styles the heel.
- The Rock showed up and wow, he's entertaining. As he was doing his promo, he noticed some fans dressed up as other professional wrestlers - The Undertaker, Hulk Hogan, The Rock, and Macho Man Randy Savage - and said, into the microphone, "This is where we leave the script." It was an impromptu move and the Rock, charismatic as ever, pulled off the segment. When the New Day (Big E, Kofi Kingston, and Xavier Woods) came out to interrupt him, he asked why they were the tag team champions when they had llama penises on their forehead. The crowd ate it up and started chanting, "llama penis!" It was genuinely funny. The Rock stated that he would be at Wrestlemania and, when he said that, the thought flashed in my mind that Triple H and The Rock had an uneasy promo a while back about who won more matches between them. I thought it was going to be a setup for The Rock v. Triple H at Wrestlemania.
- For the main event, it was Roman Reigns / Dean Ambrose v. Sheamus / Rusev in a tag team match. Reigns / Ambrose were referred to as "brothers in arms" by the WWE announcers a couple of times during the match. After Reigns got the win, I sincerely thought that The Authority would put Reigns v. Ambrose in the Fastlane main event as a way to screw with Reigns even more. Instead, The Authority announced that the Fastlane main event would be a triple threat match, announcing that it would be Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose, and -- here's where I thought they would name Sheamus -- Brock Lesnar. After the announcement, the camera focused on the reaction from Reigns & Ambrose because, now, they have to fight each other for the chance to face Triple H at Wrestlemania 32. Even though we've seen the "friends fighting friends" angle before, I'm predicting the WWE announcers will follow the storyline that in order to fight Triple H, Reigns not only has to fight Lesnar, an enemy, but also his friend, Ambrose. I must say, the way WWE pulls this angle off will be very interesting.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
A Breath of Fresh Air
So, now, with 8 minutes until I need to go upstairs and get ready for our meeting, I can celebrate because I found the tax information and life is good. The den is still a pit - papers strewn everywhere and the two black boxes are full but there are more piles to be sorted and evaluated. I will probably tackle putting that stuff all away after the new "Desperate Housewives" episode tonight.
That fits into my grand plan for tonight. The TNA PPV is tonight and while I never buy pro wrestling PPVs, I know from watching Thursday's edition of TNA that Sting, Kevin Nash, Christian, Rhyno, and Matt Morgan are fighting Team 3-D, AJ Styles, Tomko, and someone else (I don't remember their 5th.)
Editor's Note: Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockdown_(2008), the "someone else" is James Storm.
Also, in the other main event, Kurt Angle fights Somoa Joe with the stipulation that if Joe loses, he gives up wrestling, not just TNA wrestling, but the sport of pro wrestling. I don't see how they would allow that to happen so I'm predicting Joe wins. Otherwise, the bookers will have to come up with a slick way around to allow Joe to continue to wrestle without losing all basis in reality.
I'm spinning one of my Top 200-175 CDs now before going upstairs - Black Sabbath's "Paranoid." It's perfect timing, in a way, because I'm up to the instrumental "Rat Salad" and when this song is over, it'll be time to go upstairs. The funny thing about this release is that it was a fluke I ever bought the cassette years ago. I think it was in the bargain bin for $1.99. The original cassette I bought has no liner notes and no indication that it is a guy named Ozzy Osbourne singing, Bill Ward on drums, etc. It took many years before I actually understood that Ozzy was in Black Sabbath before he sang "Bark at the Moon." My exploration of Ozzy's BS days has never led me in very deep. I've dabbled with their other songs but Paranoid does every thing I need. The instrumental interlude before beginning "Fairies Wear Boots" features my favorite structure where the guitars play and then drop out allowing the drummer to do a fill. The riff of "Fairies" is cool too.
It's 3:01 and I am leaving.
Watch the PPV
Editor's Note: Here are the results for the TNA PPV on Sunday, April 13, 2008: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockdown_(2008)#Results
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