The Katz Files – Arnie Katz

My Weekly RAW Notebook!

The Kingfish Arnie Katz presents his analysis and insights inspired by the 1/5 episode of RAW

RAW from New Orleans opened with a reprise of the controversial tournament to pick a challenger for John Cena at Royal Rumble.

When the show went “live,” Randy Orton and Chris Jericho stood in the ring to protest the outcome. After they made their case, John Leyfield and his minion Shawn Michaels arrived in the long white limousine and joined Orton and Jericho.

Leyfield pretty much laughed off the protest. Jericho’s taunts had a visible effect on Shawn Michaels, though he did manage to say that he felt a little better about himself because he’d kept Jericho and Orton from fighting for the title at the pay per view.

Randy and Chris got a little carried away and decreed a match between themselves with the winner advancing to fight Cena.

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IWS Season’s Beatings: Beef vs. Steen  

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HeadLocker — Jay Shannon

The ECW (1/6) Extreme Examination!

Our resident philosopher, Jay Shannon, runs down all the action and adventure of the Tuesday Night Delight, ECW.

ECW emanated from the Big Easy, New Orleans. The Main Event was Matt Hardy v Mark Henry.

Jack Swagger d Finlay

Jack took out Hornswoggle during the match by tossing the dwarf into the retaining wall. Finlay tripped out at the assault on his “son”. The distraction allowed Jack to grab a serious advantage. They fought inside and outside the ring. Jack tried for the Gut Wrench Powerbomb but Finlay countered it. Finlay went for a Jackknife pin for a two. Jack tried to launch Finlay with an Over-head Belly to Belly. Finlay countered with a Headbutt. Finlay clubbed away at Jack. Jack got knees up to stun Finlay. Jack Swagger surprised the Nawlins crowd by catching Finlay with the Gut Wrench Powerbomb.

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Part 12 of an in depth look at the growth of women’s wrestling, from noted ring historian The Phantom of the Ring.

The Phantom of the Ring

Lipstick, Dynamite and Glowworms Part 12

How The Gaijin Gave Joshi a Shot in the Arm

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Kevin Sullivan “YouShoot” Soliciting Questions

The popular and unpredictable shoot interview series, “YouShoot”, has announced their next subject will be Kevin Sullivan. Sullivan has long been a wrestling hot topic, considering his controversial time as WCW booker, his brazen and outspoken nature, his fiendish, devil-like gimmick, and his real life marriage and divorce with Nancy Sullivan.

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Sports Illustrated magazine recently reviewed the new Mickey Rourke movie, The Wrestler, and in doing so, also made some undeserved derogatory observations about wrestling icon Mick Foley, who has made multiple appearances on the New York Times best seller list himself.

Mick posted the following replies on his MySpace blog:

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3KWRESTLING & B4W Pro-Wrestling newsreal for 12/30/2008

Unification Near? Year-End Awards, Internet TV Previews & New Champions!!!

 There are strong rumors that Pro-Wrestling 3000 (aka 3KWrestling) of Pennsylvania and B4W Pro-Wrestling of New Jersey will unify into one company brand in 2009. For a year now both 3KWrestling and B4W have been using many of the same young talent but have kept separate company names and champions. Having one unified company would eliminate the problem of too many champions and creating a stronger brand.

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