HeadLocker — Jay Shannon
The Monday Night War Analysis for April 5, 2010

Our resident philosopher, Jay Shannon, compares the two forces on Monday nights, grades them on several categories and picks a weekly winner.

The next skirmish in the Monday Night Wars seemed like a minor disagreement, as composed to a full-out war. Let’s take a look.

Diva/Knockout Match

Raw offered a “Diva, Red-Carpet, Dressed to Impress Battle Royal”. The Divas came out in Evening Gowns and tossed eavh other around for about five minutes. The Winner, Eve, gets a title shot, next week, against Maryse. Over on TNA, there was an 8-Knockout, Elimination Tag Team battle. The four winners got a key to a lockbox. Inside the lockbox were: The Knockout Title, Poison, the Spider, a open contract and a forced striptease.

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The NXT Report for Week Seven

Our resident philosopher, Jay Shannon, runs down all the action and twists and turns in the WWE’s latest experiment, NXT.

WWE pushed NXT closer to the old Tough Enough program by throwing in a boring physical challenge. The Pros got the night off, for the most part, as the Rookie pushed to get more air time and to climb higher in the rankings. Michael Cole continued his irritating habit of constantly dissing Daniel Bryan. Danny needs to slap the Cattle Mutilation on Mr. JR-Wanna-Be.

Matt Striker brought out all eight of the Rookies, by their rankins, 8 to 1. Striker mentioned that whoever came in first would get the title shot of his choice against the champion of his choice at a live Pay-per-view. Striker talked with David Otunga about walking away from the tag team titles, on Monday. Otunga said he was the Guest Host and he could do what he wanted. Otunga said he could have taken the tag but Otunga doesn’t share the spotlight with anyone. Otunga said he did Miz a favor by handing the win to an NXT Pro. Striker then asked Daniel Bryan if he felt he should be number one. Daniel got shots in on Miz, Otunga and Michael Cole. Cole started again with his little shots on Daniel Bryan. Striker asked Michael Tarver if he felt Daniel deserved to be number one.

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The Monday Night Wars Analysis for March 28, 2010

Our resident philosopher unveils his newest weekly column. In this new column, Jay will compare the two shows and pick a winner for the week.

Welcome to my newest column, The Monday Night Wars Analysis. I planned on launching this from week one, but my move from Reno to Fallon took a little longer than expected. In this weekly column, I will look at several key points in the two shows and predict winners for each catagory. At the end, I will pick a winner for the week. Let’s get started.

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What Happened NXT — Week Five

The newest show is a week away from its first round of voting. It was another chance to impress the Pros (and maybe the fans). Sadly, the WWE Universe won’t get a vote in all this. Otherwise, Syfy might be looking for something new to fill the Tuesday night spot.

Josh Mathews, Michael Cole and Matt Striker welcomed the home audience to the show. Striker talked about next week’s Pro Poll.

Heath Slater and Justin Gabriel came out for the opening contest. They were tagging together, instead of fighting each other. Their opponents were Skip Sheffield and Wade Barrett.

Heath Slater and Justin Gabriel d Skip Sheffield and Wade Barrett

The Finish:

Skip took the tag and did a Stall Suplex. Justin landed face-first.Skip with a Scoop SLam and Big Splash. Skip Shouldered Justin. Wade tagged himself back in and pounded on Justin’s ribs. Skip tagged back in and punched and Shouldered Justin. Power Whip by SKip but missed the Charge. Heath took the tag and hit Flying Fore-arms and a a nice Neckbreaker. Flying Fore-arm in the corner. Skip reversed an Irish Whip but took a boot to the face.Haeth with a Flying Crossbody but SKip held him. Heath slipped free and Wade came in to “help” his partner. What happened was Wade accidentally Booted his own partner to cost his team the win.

Grade: B+

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My Wrestlemania 26 Predictions

Our resident philosopher breaks out his crystal ball, tea leaves, lucky coin and even his charmed dice to try and predict the “Big Daddy of Pay-Per-Views”.

Well, it’s that time of year again. Wrestlemania XXVI is ready to bring the best matches of the year to the fans. This is the one PPV that I look forward to , all year. THe matches are top notch and the stars shine their brightest. I really look forward to this prediction column moe than any other I do all year. It is the toughest predictions to do because there are so many twists and turns during this mega-show. Let’s see if we agree on what will happen.

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My Destination X Predictions

Our resident philosopher breaks out his crystal ball, tea leaves and lucky coin to try and predict the outcomes of TNA’s off-set PPV to Wrestlemania.

Wrestlemania is about a week away. TNA wants to get to the fans first and take their PPV budget for this show. That’s not going to happen but this show will be (more…)

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What Happened NXT? — Week Four

Our resident philosopher returns after a brief vacation to take a look at the fourth edition of the WWE’s newest project, NXT.

The first hints that people are going to start dropping from NXT came out. No, they weren’t talking about the dismal ratings.

Roll the opening montage.

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The (3/15) iMPACT Insight

After a brief vacation to move into his new home, our resident philosopher, Jay Shannon, returns to recap the new and somewhat improved Monday Night Impact.

TNA opened with Sting’s attack on Hulk Hogan, last week. Hogan and Abyss were facing Ric Flair and A.J. Styles. Sting was forced to face the debuting Rob Van Dam. RVD took out Sting in seconds but got the daylights beaten out of him with a baseball bat.Desmond Wolfe, Jeff Hardy and The Pope got involved.

This Week’s Episode: Hogan’s Heroes

Hogan, Abyss, RVD and Jeff Hardy all arrived in a great Humvee.

Roll the new opening montage.

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The TNA Impact Insight

Our resident philosopher looks at Abyss’ transformation into the Monster of the Ring and other strange storylines on this week’s TNA Impact.

Abyss continued to be empowered by the faux-mystical energy of Hulk Hogan’s Hall of Fame ring. Mr. Anderson went after his first TNA title. All this and more on this week’s TNA Impact.

Abyss showed off the ring to several guys in the locker room. Abyss talked about the power of the Hulkamaniacs that flowed through the ring. That led to a recap of how Abyss was taken in by Hogan to reclaim the monster that he once was. Eric Bischoff was ready to unmask Abyss. He used several wrestlers to take out Abyss. Just as he was about to remove the mask, Hogan made the save. Hogan then gave his ring to Abyss.

This Week’s Episode: “Rage Over The RIng”

Mike Tenay and Taz quickly ran down the night’s card. A.J. Styles and Ric Flair came down to the ring. It was announced that D’Angelo Dinero had partially torn ligaments in his ankle. Styles went off on Dinero for trying to take over “The House that A.J. Styles built”. Flair “Whoo”‘d as Styles rambled about how great he was. Styles said that Dinero wouldn’t be walking for some time.

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What Happened NXT

Our resident philosopher debuts his new weekly recap of the WWE’s latest program/brand, NXT

Welcome to the premier episode of NXT. All eight “kids” got their first chance to shine on the new show. One of the eight wasn’t happy with who his mentor is and got vocal about it.
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