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**The Show Off** · 10-22-2010, 02:00 PM

Hard Knocks Wrestling: Week One Review
by The Show Off

• Matt Striker as the owner seems pretty right, I’d imagine he’d make a good authority figure.

• Sean Morley, just taking a wild guess that perhaps this is Noid’s promotion. If not one of the other promoters are trying to pull a fast one. Either way a like Morley so having Striker and Morley as your announce team is great.

• Graduation is a fitting name for your promotion’s PPV.

• Swagger was made to look like a complete bitch, not too sure why that was done. Surely having Swagger lose after a ten minute match could have accomplished the same thing as Angle destroying him. Hopefully Swagger gets retribution, otherwise that was a band move.

• Jericho calling out Angle is fairly standard stuff, good but standard.

• CM Punk comes with a scathing promo against Ric Flair. It’s obvious suff but it works well with both characters. Invoking “The Nature Boy” moniker and expressing how it’s a falsehood is something I could definitely see Punk doing.

• I don’t like that the CM Punk has a abrupt end and transitions right into a match. It would have worked better if you had a commercial break there or at least a promo in between the two segments.

• The R-Truth/Burchill match didn’t have much substance but I’m intrigued by “Lights Out” and what they might have to offer.

• The Batista segment with stand up comedy was absolutely awful. Batista as an aspiring stand up comedian is quite possibly the dumbest direction it could have been taken. I hope that Jericho watching in the wings is some sort of foreshadowing that he’s gotten into Batista’s ear and this silly business is part of a bigger plan. If not… good lord is that bad.

• I like the idea of Team Awesome. Being dressed as letterman jocks is a little out of character for Miz but I’ll bite. I like Christy Hemme as a cheerleader it works with her bouncy personality. Miz being the leader of men is a good idea but I’m not convinced at how formidable Masters and Reily are.

• Show/Miz/Jericho in the main event is a good main event for the first ever show. Hopefully it’s better than Angle/Swagger.

• Motor City Machine Guns next week sounds great, I’d like to have seen them tonight but there is only so much time I suppose.

• Kofi/Reily match doesn’t really accomplish anything but showing that Team Awesome is a unit. You should have just had Team Awesome face MCMG this week and gotten a good match in which Miz helps Team Awesome beat Motor City. That would have accomplished the same thing and you would have gotten a better match. Instead Kofi is made to look like filler.

• The tease for Motor City/Priceless for next week is done well give good reasoning behind MCMG not being on the first show. Though I would have preferred them being on the first show if they’re supposed to be hyped so much.

• The Punk/Bourne match up does a great job in making Punk look like a determined athlete bent on victory and it does well to make Bourne look like a tough kid. I don’t like the DQ finish I think you could have accomplished the same thing with CM Punk winning and beating Bourne after the match.

• Flair coming to fight CM Punk is good but coming to aide of Bourn is strange unless of course Flair is going to take Bourne under his wing which I think would be a poor choice.

• The main event was a huge clusterfuck. The Team Awesome heel shannigans were pretty entertaining but still the match was run ins and ref bumps and distractions. The stoping of the match and the restarting of the match and Kurt Angle as referee more than halfway through was all just too much clutter. And the end result is Angle/Big Show at graduation? That’s one main event I’m not looking forward to.

10-22-2010, 02:00 PM	#38
The Show Off Total Non-Stop Apologist Posts: 4,430	Hard Knocks Wrestling: Week One Review by The Show Off • Matt Striker as the owner seems pretty right, I’d imagine he’d make a good authority figure. • Sean Morley, just taking a wild guess that perhaps this is Noid’s promotion. If not one of the other promoters are trying to pull a fast one. Either way a like Morley so having Striker and Morley as your announce team is great. • Graduation is a fitting name for your promotion’s PPV. • Swagger was made to look like a complete bitch, not too sure why that was done. Surely having Swagger lose after a ten minute match could have accomplished the same thing as Angle destroying him. Hopefully Swagger gets retribution, otherwise that was a band move. • Jericho calling out Angle is fairly standard stuff, good but standard. • CM Punk comes with a scathing promo against Ric Flair. It’s obvious suff but it works well with both characters. Invoking “The Nature Boy” moniker and expressing how it’s a falsehood is something I could definitely see Punk doing. • I don’t like that the CM Punk has a abrupt end and transitions right into a match. It would have worked better if you had a commercial break there or at least a promo in between the two segments. • The R-Truth/Burchill match didn’t have much substance but I’m intrigued by “Lights Out” and what they might have to offer. • The Batista segment with stand up comedy was absolutely awful. Batista as an aspiring stand up comedian is quite possibly the dumbest direction it could have been taken. I hope that Jericho watching in the wings is some sort of foreshadowing that he’s gotten into Batista’s ear and this silly business is part of a bigger plan. If not… good lord is that bad. • I like the idea of Team Awesome. Being dressed as letterman jocks is a little out of character for Miz but I’ll bite. I like Christy Hemme as a cheerleader it works with her bouncy personality. Miz being the leader of men is a good idea but I’m not convinced at how formidable Masters and Reily are. • Show/Miz/Jericho in the main event is a good main event for the first ever show. Hopefully it’s better than Angle/Swagger. • Motor City Machine Guns next week sounds great, I’d like to have seen them tonight but there is only so much time I suppose. • Kofi/Reily match doesn’t really accomplish anything but showing that Team Awesome is a unit. You should have just had Team Awesome face MCMG this week and gotten a good match in which Miz helps Team Awesome beat Motor City. That would have accomplished the same thing and you would have gotten a better match. Instead Kofi is made to look like filler. • The tease for Motor City/Priceless for next week is done well give good reasoning behind MCMG not being on the first show. Though I would have preferred them being on the first show if they’re supposed to be hyped so much. • The Punk/Bourne match up does a great job in making Punk look like a determined athlete bent on victory and it does well to make Bourne look like a tough kid. I don’t like the DQ finish I think you could have accomplished the same thing with CM Punk winning and beating Bourne after the match. • Flair coming to fight CM Punk is good but coming to aide of Bourn is strange unless of course Flair is going to take Bourne under his wing which I think would be a poor choice. • The main event was a huge clusterfuck. The Team Awesome heel shannigans were pretty entertaining but still the match was run ins and ref bumps and distractions. The stoping of the match and the restarting of the match and Kurt Angle as referee more than halfway through was all just too much clutter. And the end result is Angle/Big Show at graduation? That’s one main event I’m not looking forward to.