On this episode of The Breakdown, Steve just can’t get enough Fan-dan-go! He covers the hottest Raw of the modern era before playing Devil’s Advocate, this time in defense of WWE Champion John Cena. All of this, and a bit more Fandango!
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– Baltimore Orioles player Adam Jones was in attendance at last night’s SmackDown tapings from Boston.
– There was an off-camera segment at Tuessday’s SmackDown tapings with Triple H, Team Hell No, Heath Slater – and a Katie Vick reference. After Slater took a chokeslam and a Pedigree, Triple H and Team Hell No some comedy and even hugged it out. They even brought up Katie Vick – which led to Vince McMahon coming out. Triple H said Vince needs a hug, but it never happened. The segment ended with Triple H, Kane and Daniel Bryan hugging.
– The dark main event after Tuesday’s SmackDown tapings from Boston saw John Cena, Kane and Daniel Bryan defeat The Shield by DQ when Rollins hit Cena with a chair.
After the match, the babyfaces hit The Shield with their finishers. Cena began cutting a promo and had Fandango’s music played. Fandango came out – and Cena unsuccessfully tried to pronounce his name. Cena pushed Fandango – which led to him getting a chokeslam from Kane, an attitude adjustment from Cena and another chokeslam from Bryan to end the show.
* Is RYBACK A Heel Now? Plus – Rumored Matches For EXTREME RULES
– The rating for Mondays WWE RAW was a 3.45. The show did 4.61 million viewers.
– WWE is advertising John Cena & Team Hell No vs. CM Punk, Dolph Ziggler & Big E Langston as the dark match main event for the upcoming RAW taping from London, England.
– Jimmy Hart noted on Twitter that WWE officials are negotiating with Turner on ways they can release WCW theme songs.
– Jim Ross gave props to Michael Cole on Twitter this week, noting how valuable Cole is to the WWE product:
“Most don’t realize how valuable @MichaelCole is to #wwe. Helps produce @JerryLawler & keeps Texan @JCLayfield in line. Full time #Raw trio?”
– WWE will hold its annual shareholders meeting at WWE headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut on Friday, April 26th.
– During a recent interview with CBS0-19 in Cleveland, WWE Superstar Alex Riley was asked why he stopped appearing on television:
“I don’t know, it’s a very competitive company. There’s a lot of people here and a lot of talent. So you have to constantly re-invent yourself and constantly be entertaining on a daily basis and find new ways to entertain and I’m trying to do that” …
“I was shoved into a main event spot very early in my career, which I don’t think a lot of people quite get that opportunity, so I was very lucky to get that opportunity. I wanna earn it, a lot of that had to do with Miz, so when I come back this time it’s going to be all me and I want to earn it.”
– WWEShop.com is selling new WWE Championship belt rings for $50, including John Cena’s new WWE Championship.
– WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley says the elbow drop he gave to Chris Jericho at the Hall of Fame ceremony was not scripted. Foley told Raj Giri of WrestlingINC:
“It came as a complete surprise to me, as did CM Punk coming out doing the very un-bad-guy thing with doing the three count and hugging me on stage. For that one night, there are no good guys and bad guys.”
– Several video game websites have picked up the story of The Rock appearing on the cover of the upcoming WWE 2K14 video game, due out this fall.
– The WWE In Your House DVD and Blu-Ray will be released on 4/30.
The following is a spoiler-free preview for Friday’s WWE SmackDown:
* World Heavyweight champion Dolph Ziggler vs. Chris Jericho.
* Triple H addresses his Wrestlemania win.
* Randy Orton & Sheamus vs. Big Show.
* United States champ Antonio Cesaro vs. Kofi Kingston.
* Tag Team champs Team Hell No vs. Primetime Players.
* Intercontinental champ Wade Barrett vs. Santino Marella.
* The Bellas & Tamina vs. WWE Divas champion Kaitlyn & Naomi & Cameron.
Plus, there will be appearances from Vince McMahon, Fandango, The Shield, 3MB, Jack Swagger and Alberto Del Rio.
* MAJOR Update On THE ROCK’s Injury & His Uncertain Future With WWE
– Justin Gabriel defeated Curt Hawkins in the dark match that took place before Tuesday night’s WWE TV tapings from Boston, Massachusetts.
– WWE taped the following matches on Tuesday night for an upcoming episode of WWE Saturday Morning Slam:
– The following matches were taped for Wednesday’s Main Event:
https://twitter.com/TripleH/statuses/321767376171446274
WWE taped this week’s WWE Smackdown Tuesday night from the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. Below are full results including live news and notes:
The crowd seems to be slightly different from Monday night’s Raw. A Fandango theme song chant was a fail early on.
Lots of Ric Flair “Wooos” are warming up the crowd.
A recap of WrestleMania is shown, and there are a lot of boos for Cena.
* Justin Gabriel defeated Curt Hawkins with the 450 splash.
A highlight video of Triple H getting medical attention after WrestleMania was shown right before SmackDown started. They showed a graphic that he will be here tonight, making the crowd go nuts.
The show starts with Big E Langston doing his best Ricardo Rodriguez impersonation. He introduces the new World Heavyweight Champion, Dolph Ziggler, who makes his way to the ring with AJ Lee and to a huge pop. Ziggler cuts a promo and is doing his best to be a heel.
Jack Swagger and Zeb Colter interrupt Ziggler. Zeb says that Swagger wants a title shot. They leave and Ziggler continues acting cocky when Alberto Del Rio comes out limping wanting a title shot too.
Chris Jericho then comes out. The crowd is starting to turn on Ziggler. Jericho tells Ziggler that his first opponent World Heavyweight Champion is Chris Jericho and that match is tonight.
* Team Hell No defeated The Prime Time Players pretty easily in a short match. Daniel Bryan won the match for his team with the No Lock. After the match, The Shield come on the screen and cut a promo saying that they won’t back down again and that they can strike at any time.
* WWE Intercontinental Champion Wade Barrett defeated Santino Marella. Santino got a little offense in this match and countered the Bullhammer to hit his Santino splash. Barrett quickly capitalized to hit the Bullhammer for the victory.
Backstage segment with Sheamus, Booker T, Teddy Long and Randy Orton. Booker T announced a handicap match with Sheamus and Randy Orton facing The Big Show tonight.
* The Bella Twins and Tamina Snuka defeated The Funkadactyls and WWE Divas Champion Kaitlyn.
There have been lots of failed attempts for chants of Fandango’s theme song from the crowd. Seems like the crowd isn’t like the crowd from Monday’s Raw.
Triple H comes out and makes his way to the ring. He talks about his war at WrestleMania with Brock Lesnar. 3MB then come out and interrupt him trying to steal The Game’s thunder. The Shield’s music hits and 3MB try to go after Triple H. The Shield takes out 3MB and they circle around Triple H. Kane’s music hits and Team Hell No make their way out and the Shield retreats. Triple H then hit a pedigree on Heath Slater and clears 3MB from the ring with Kane and Daniel Bryan.
Team Hell No go to hug Triple H. The Game doesn’t want to hug Bryan but would hug Kane. Triple H tells Bryan to eat a piece of meat instead of vegetables because he is edgy. He says he has no problem hugging Kane and that he gets along with Kane. He brings up their weird history and Katie Vick and says they were young and needed money.
Vince McMahon then comes out and HHH says if anyone needs a hug, it’s Vince. Vince then leaves after teasing going through with it.
Bryan quickly apologizes and tells him to hug Kane. Triple H jokes that he wished the Shield come back out and finish him off. Triple H then hugged Kane and Bryan joined in. Triple H said that he felt violated. Crowd loved this segment, lots of laughs during it.
* Randy Orton makes his way to the ring and has his ribs tapped up to sell the Big Show’s attack on RAW. Sheamus came out next, followed by The Big Show. Orton starts the match with some punches, before Big Show hit a side walk slam. Show works on Orton’s ribs. Small “RVD” chants started through the crowd. Show fails to splash Orton off the top rope and Orton tags Sheamus in, who begins to unload his offense until Show countered with a spear. Show went after Orton, who hit an RKO out of nowhere. Sheamus followed up with a Brogue kick on Show, which knocked him out of the ring. Show then simply walked to the back and got counted out.
* US Champion Antonio Cesaro vs. Kofi Kingston in a non-title match. Back and forth match. Kofi hits Trouble in Paradise to beat Cesaro.
Fandango comes out with half of the crowd singing his theme music.
* World champion Dolph Ziggler defeated Chris Jericho after Fandango & Big E. Langston got involved.
Thanks to Will Mac for sending in the following results from Boston, Massachusetts:
1. The Shield defeated Kofi Kingston and Tons of Funk. The Shield picked up the victory, pinning Kofi Kingston. After the match, The Shield Triple Powerbomb Brodus and Sweet T. The heels stand tall.
-Backstage, Big E Langston is interviewed. He cuts a promo and has a match next against Zack Ryder.
2. Big E Langston defeated Zack Ryder in a quick match. Langston worked over a quick offensive attack from Ryder and finished him off with his finisher.
3. Jack Swagger defeated Yoshi Tatsu. Before the match, Zeb Colter came out and bashed Boston. The match was extremely basic with Swagger dominating Tatsu and making him tap to the Patriot Act.
Thanks to Will Mac for the following results from Boston, Massachuttes:
1. The Great Khali, Hornswoggle, and Natalya defeated Primo, Epico, and Rosa Mendez. Khali hit the chop, Hornswoggle hit his Tadpole Splash, and the faces pick up the victory with a dance afterwards.
2. The Uso’s defeated Rhodes Scholars in an entertaining match. Uso’s picked up the victory when they surprised Sandow with a rollup. Sandow was shocked and flipped out afterwards.
TNA Knockouts Champion Velvet Sky provided an update on Tuesday regarding her recent knee injury. She tweeted:
TNA Knockouts Champion Velvet Sky provided an update on Tuesday regarding her recent knee injury. She tweeted:
“Dr.’s diagnosis: my kneecap popped out & popped back in. Significant swelling & fluid in the joint. MRI shows no tears or serious damage.”
“Thanks to all my #PigeonArmy peeps for ur well wishes. I’m a toughie and am healing well. Love u guys.”
Sky noted last week that she does not expect to miss ring time.
The injury took place at the March 28th Impact Wrestling taping from Jonesboro, Arkansas, which aired last Thursday night. Sky was teaming with Taryn Terrell against Gail Kim and Tara. Sky grabbed her left knee during the match and was checked out by doctors after the match.
– Monday’s WWE RAW scored a Trendrr.tv social media score of 518,787, up a sharp 70 percent from last week. Raw ranked #1 on cable TV Monday night, but was crushed by the NCAA college basketball championship game on CBS, which had a social media score of over 2 million.
– TVByTheNumbers reports that Monday’s post-WrestleMania 29 edition of WWE RAW drew only 4.61 million viewers. This was up around 300,000 from last week, but probably not the strong showing WWE was hoping for. Here are the hourly numbers:
John Cena, AJ Lee, Edge, X-Pac and Dolph Ziggler’s ex-girlfriend, comedienne Amy Schumer are among the many people congratulating new World Heavyweight champion for his big win on RAW. Here are some of their tweets:
John Cena: “No problem Champ! Congrats RT @HEELZiggler: “@JohnCena: Read all about it… The Champ returns to Boston’s @tdgarden tonight for SmackDown!” – @BostonGlobe”
-thanks for the plug, bro”
AJ Lee: “Congratulations to my baby Ziggy @HEELZiggler . No one works harder or deserves it more. No one. I’m so happy right now.”
Big E Langston: “Congratulations to the new World Heavyweight Champion @HEELZiggler. Best tag team partner/double dutcher/lasagna chef I’ve ever known.”
Amy Schumer: “Um, @HEELZiggler i feel like we should get back together”
Edge: “Proud of my boy @HEELZiggler finally where he belongs. So deserving. Hard work pays off”
X-Pac: “@HEELZiggler I couldn’t be happier for you. You deserve last night & much more. I’m not ashamed to say I marked out for that.”
Curt Hawkins: “I hope all the guys on the @WWE roster see @HEELZiggler as a true inspiration. Because I certainly do.”
Beth Phoenix: “Congrats to @HEELZiggler on his well deserved championship win! Looong overdue!”
Michael McGuillicutty “If seeing @HEELZiggler win the World Heavyweight Championship didnt give u goosebumps, something is wrong with u… What its all about! #WWE”
Carlito: “After carrying around the MITB briefcase for 8 years, he finally cashed it in to become WHC! Congrats Dolph Ziggler!”
As noted earlier, Scott Hall underwent hip surgery this morning. Diamond Dallas Page tweeted the following update:
RT @inspiredmovie: @SCOTTHALLNWO just got out of surgery & all went well! Surgeon said hip looked bad & now he should feel much better
— DDPY (@DDPYoga) April 9, 2013
Scott then followed up with the following:
https://twitter.com/scotthallnwo/status/321693528587636736
https://twitter.com/scotthallnwo/status/321714934054539264
– Vince McMahon enjoyed the rowdy crowd at RAW, even though they buried several matches and did their own thing for most of the night. It was understood at RAW that the post-WrestleMania show is comprised of die hard fans, many of whom travel from around the world to be in town that weekend.
– As you can imagine, the majority of the WWE locker room was very happy for Dolph Ziggler after his big World Heavyweight title win on RAW. Ziggler is seen as one of the real workhorses on the roster and has been working very hard to reach the main event level.
– WWE.com has an article up looking at the rowdy crowd from Monday’s WWE RAW, questioning if it was the best crowd in WWE history. The article said that the reaction to Ziggler’s World Heavyweight title win was deafening and that it “was a true star-making moment for WWE’s newest champion.”
(Partial source: Pwinsider.com)
– The pre-game and post-game show that we saw at WrestleMania featuring Jim Ross, Dusty Rhodes, Scott Sanford and Kofi Kingston will be a part of all WWE pay-per-views moving forward, according to f4wonline.com. No word on whether the hosts will stay the same, but expect to see the “analysts desk” format again.
– Following his World Heavyweight title win on RAW, Dolph Ziggler was interviewed by Matt Striker for the WWE App. App. Ziggler entered the backstage area to a round of applause, which he soaked in. Ziggler said his title win was a long time coming and proves that he can back up every word he says.
– Here’s the latest Backstage Fallout video from Monday’s RAW:
In the Raw edition of “Backstage Fallout,” Chris Jericho challenges Fandango to follow up on his WrestleMania win. Plus, Intercontinental Champion Wade Barrett sets things right.
WWE Champion John Cena spoke to HollywoodLife.com on Mondayand revealed that he worked WrestleMania 29 with a broken thumb and food poisoning.
Cena also appeared on The Crossover yesterday and said his favorite WrestleMania match other that his own was The Undertaker vs. CM Punk. “I thought it was great,” he said. “I just didn’t want it to end.” When asked if that could have been The Undertaker’s final match, Cena said, “I think he is going to show up for Wrestlemania next year.”
– On Monday’s RAW, Big E Langston accidentally knocked into AJ Lee while stretching before his match against Daniel Bryan. AJ Lee tweeted about the incident:
If I wasn't forced to wear a padded bra, that E backhand would've hurt pretty bad. #WonderBrasSaveLives #MilesBeneathTheSurface
— AJ Mendez (@TheAJMendez) April 9, 2013
– Brock Lesnar was knocked out at WrestleMania after a knee from Triple H about five minutes into their 29 match. Lesnar was “out on his feet” and there is speculation that Lesnar suffered a concussion.
– CM Punk underwent x-rays on Sunday night on his leg, which he may have injured in the top rope elbow table spot during his match with The Undertaker at WrestleMania. Punk reportedly will be undergoing an MRI this week, but will be at RAW next week.
(Partial Source: f4wonline.com)
– John Cena has been inviting many famous Boston natives to tonight’s SmackDown tapings, including players from the Boston Red Sox and actors Mark Wahlberg and Ben Affleck may be there.
– Speaking of Cena, it’s expected that he will defend the WWE Championship against Ryback at Extreme Rules on May 19th. We first heard about this over the weekend and based on what we saw on RAW, it’s clear that’s the direction WWE is heading in.
– At point, there was talk of Alberto Del Rio wrestling Jack Swagger at Extreme Rules in a submission match. Word from RAW is that the feud is over.
(Partial Source: f4wonline.com)
On Monday’s RAW, Dolph Ziggler finally cashed in his Money in the Bank briefcase and defeated Alberto Del Rio to become the new World Heavyweight champion. Here are some reactions from various WWE personalities, including the champ himself:
https://twitter.com/heelziggler/status/321490975455334400
SQUEALS pic.twitter.com/w22xOZj6Ch
— AJ Mendez (@TheAJMendez) April 9, 2013
https://twitter.com/WWEZeb/status/321436006895198208
Del Rio knew that Ziggler had the MONEY IN THE BANK shot. He lost to an American…fairly. Ziggler beware. Now it gets interesting.
— ??. ????? (@DirtyDMantell) April 9, 2013
Congrats Ziggler, just like you, we've used the MitB too. Just remember the target is on YOUR back now, I'd be weary of Big Urkle and Psycho
— ??Rodriguez ?????? (@RRWWE) April 9, 2013
– Rey Mysterio was not in attendance for last night’s RAW from East Rutherford, New Jersey. He tweeted that he flew back home to San Diego on Monday afternoon.
– Sin Cara is scheduled for tonight’s SmackDown tapings from Boston.
– The Shorty Awards took place on Monday night, which recognize excellence in social media. WWE was nominated in six categories but surprisingly did not win any awards.
– CM Punk was kept off of Monday’s RAW to sell the effects of his match against The Undertaker. Paul Heyman announced on the show that Punk will be back next week.
– After losing the WWE Championship to John Cena at WrestleMania 29, it was stated on RAW that The Rock is the #1 contender by way of his rematch clause.
– On Monday’s RAW, Kane and Daniel Bryan saved The Undertaker from almost receiving a 3-on-1 beatdown at the hands of The Shield. The babyfaces chased the heels off and got a big reaction from the rowdy New Jersey crowd. When RAW went to commercial break, the 3 men exited up the ramp together, stopped on the stage, and all did Undertaker’s signature fist raise together.
This week on Because Wrestling, Steph and Ant are away, so we welcome back Ali to the show as we talk – at great length – about WrestleMania 29 and how well our predictions fared!
If you’re giving us another shot after last week, thank you! We think you’ll like this episode a bit more.
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