First off, for those that might be inhterested in watching NWA Wrestling Showcase at a time other than one or two o'clock in the morning, depending on time zones, I have good news. NWAS Wrestling Showcase airs twice this Saturday. I'm not sure if it airs twice every Saturday, since I am newly aware of the show myself, but this Satruday it does. You can catch the first showing at 6 EST, 5 CST, 2 PST, in the afternoon of evening depending again on time zones.

Also, over at www.nwawrestling.com there is a video posted that includes a great old school type promo with "Scrapiron" Adam Pearce. The interview reminded me of the promos of old, back in the 1980s, promos from guys like Harley Race. Adam is apparently set to, or was set to at the time (I'm not sure how old the vid is), to wresle Chicago's own Ace Steel. Ace Steel is best known for his being the trainer of CM Punk. Ace also spent a short time in TNA in its early days, and has at one time been under contract with WWE, for what that's worth. Ace Steel is a huge part of Windy City Wrestling in Chicago.

There is also a promo from Brent Albright, another old school type promo, that is pretty good.

Also, recently NWA has elected four new member to their board of directors, including Bill Behrens. Some people may know Bill Behrens as a former member of TNA management.

Starting off the show was Mat Hardy vs. Mark Henry for the ECW Title. I think there must have been a lot of pressure of these two guys to start a show that would feature a ladder match between Shawn Michaels and Jericho. On a show like that, you really want to start and end with a bang. Let's just say that Hardy/Henry was less than exciting. It was a solid match, but not the kind that I felt they needed to have. In fact, they had a much better match on ECW on a teusday night last month.

After the match there was a pretty cool segment with Jeff hardy and Triple H. I think that Triple H's words in that promo had a lot of weight to them. I think that he says what a lot of Hardy fans have been saying for years now. Just when Hardy seems to be in line for the World Title, he screws it up somehwo, whether it be backstage issues or poor public behavior.

Beth Phoenix and Candice Michelle put on a solid match for the Women's Title. Candice Michelle is so damn impressive since her return. I used to change the channel whenever Candice Michelle would come down to the ring. Don't get me wrong, she's hot, but for a long time, she couldn't wrestle for s***.

A "commincation breakdown" (thank you Zeplin) nearly cost Beth her title in this match. I think that maybe we are seeing the beginning of the end for Glamorella.

Kane gave another fiarly unbelievable promo after the women's match. His promos have been great lately...but it's not that beleivable that Kane (the character, not the man) has the intelligence or the mental stability to come up with the things that he has been saying, but then again, characters do evolve over the years. Either way, I like it.

Rey Mysterio and Kane put on a whale of a match. It amazes me, to this day, that Rey can get in the ring with a guy nearly three times his size and wieght and put on such a damn good match. Also, don't let anybody tell you Rey isn't hardcore. On an attempted plancha from the top rope to toward Kane on the floor, Rey took an enormous chair shot, ending the match in a DQ. After this match, I gotta say that I want more Rey vs. Kane.

Poor MVP seems like he's hit the skids for real lately. His backstage politics and poor conduct has gotten him nowhere lately. I'm seeing a possible jump to RAW. He needs to, or should I say WWE needs to, do something to revitalize MVP's career. I'm not saying the guy's gonna fall off the map, he's too damn good for that. But he's not doing well lately.

MVP made his way down to the ring to whine and moan about his current self-created situation and was interrupted by an unscheduled visit from Randy Orton. Orton seems to be interrupting everbody lately. Obviously it's meant to keep the fans thinkking about Randy Orton. WWE has a lot fo future plans riding on Orton, so they need to keep him in the spotlight. I'm still predicting Orton/Punk in a fued after Randy gets cleared medically, but I am seeing MVP/Orton in the future as well...and I can't wait!

MVP did say something I agree with profusely: Vicki Guerrero is incompetant. I still hate Vicki as GM of Smackdown...if you were unclear about my position. LOL!

After some derrogatory words toward MVP from Randy Orton, Priceless made their way down to the ring. Priceless of course being Ted DiBiasi Jr., Kody Rhodes, and Manu. I am really liking Priceless. Some poeple have said that they need work, and of course they do, they're still young. But they are the sons of legends, and thus they have years of vicarious experience to draw on. I think that all three men are pretty damn good on the mic...although DiBiasi could use a little work. His promos are a little slow and a little labored.

After a few insults from Priceless to MVP, a good segment got even better when CM PUnk and Kofi Kingston made their way out onto the stage. And the result was MVP getting his ass kicked by Priceless after Punk and Kingston convinced him that they wanted to team with him to fight Priceless.

This was a very good segment. One of the best I've seen on a WWE PPV in the last few months.

Next was a match that was completely irrelevant except for the fact that it was for the number one contendership. Batista vs. JBL was a boring match that could have been done earlier in the week on RAW. It was definitely not a PPV quality match. The reality of it is that JBL isn't that good. He doesn't impress me. The other reality is that unless Batista is facing the Undertaker, he's nothing but a tired cliche brought to life. The Undertaker is the only man who has ever been able to push Batista to his full potential. If he's not wrestling Taker, he's not that exciting at all.

Also, I am so damn sick of the crappy Wall Street gimick of JBL's. I am sick of JBL and his blah blah blah about Wall Street and Congres and blah blah blah. When I tun in to WWE WRESTLING...yes, WRESTLING!!!...I want to see wrestling. I want to be able to escape from the sesspool that is the current state of the US economy and watch guys kick the crap out of each other. I don't want to hear about politics on a WWE PPV. I don't want to hear about Sarah Palin or John McCaine or O'Bama or any of that.

Next I just want to say that Cryme Tyme entertains me emmensely. Hilarious.

Next were promos for Show vs. TAker. I still hate Vicki Guerrero as GM...and I'm groing to hate her voice as well, it's like nails on a chalk board to me. The sound of her whiney voice literally pisses me off for no reason. It's kind of like Pavlov's dogs. I associate Vicki's voice with mediocraty and bad WWE programming.

TAker and Show put on a great match. It featured all the cliche maneuvers of both men, but that doesn't mean that it wasn't great. With two of the top three best superheavyweights of all time in the ring with each other, ti has to be good, if not great. The right hands that Show delivered to Taker at the end of the match, the ones that knocked him unconscious, were some of the most viscous punches I've ever seen. Big Show could easily have a multi-million dollar boxing career if he wanted to. There's nobody in the world that can outpunch Big Show.

If I wrote all day, for another twenty pages, I could not say enough about Triple H vs. Jeff Hardy. This match will go down in history! This was a match that was and will be truly timeless. Triple H is just so damn good. he is undoubtedly one of the greatest OF ALL TIME!!! He has the technical perfection of decades past. he has the hard-hitting powerful style of the 1980s. He has the speed, charisma, and flare that defines the modern era of pro wrestling. He is the only man who even has a chance to surpass the legacy of Ric Flair, and when I watch matches like the one he wrestled yesterday, I know that he will surpass Flair someday.

Jeff Hardy is no slouch either. This is the best match I have ever seen Jeff wrestle...EVER!!! I have never seen Jeff step his game up to this level in a match that didn't involved tables, ladders, and chairs. It is one thing to take insane risks, and another thing entirely to be just plain good. On October 5, 2008, at No Mercy, Jeffy Hardy was just plain good.

My prediction that Hardy would not win the belt did come true, but seeing the matcfh that Hardy put on, if he can reign in his id for just a little while, he will be World Champion very very very soon.

Alos, the confrontation between Triple H and Koslov was electric! I cannot wait to see Koslov wrestle Triple H. It will be phenomenal!!!

Michaels vs. Jericho was every damn thing that everyone expected it to be. Jericho was able to pick up a win in the match of his entire career. I felt like a little boy again, rooting for HBK. It was just like WrestleMania X all over again. It amazes me that after all he's done, in complete disregard of his age and of his past injuries, Shawn Michaels went out there and put on yet another timeless classic.

All in all, this was the absolute best WWE PPV I have see all damn year...and possibly in an even longer period of time.

If you didn't see it, look it up online right now...or spend the forty bucks for the replay...it's worth it!!!

The October 4th edition of EliteXC's Saturday Night Fights on CBS was less than great. In my opinion the entire card was built around the Ken Shamrock vs. Kimbo Slice fight.

I tuned in Saturday night and the first thing I hear was that the Shanrock/slic fight wasn't happening. Apparantly--and I usethat word sarcastically--Den Shamrock suffered a cut over his eye in practice that required stitches. I have my doubts as to whether or not that is true. There was a lot of hype and a lot of money riding on the this show. The word floating around was that because EliteXC's last SNF show did bad ratings, that this was their last shot on CBS. It the October 4th show didn't do numbers, EliteXC, and probably MMA in general, would be done of network TV for a long time to come. So, the rumors that were floating around concerning Shamrock/Slice were that the promoter of the EliteXC show wanted Shamrock to go down to Slice. Let's honestly consider this for a moment. Slice has little to no experience of the big business aspect of MMA. He is a street fighter, and that has been painfully evident in his first two fights. He has a minimal, honestly more like nonexistent, Ju Jitsu game. If Kimbo isn't knocking cats out in round one, he isn't going to win fights. I do not know Ken Shamrock personally, but I have watched him both in MMA and pro wrestling for over ten years now. I have heard numerous interviews from Shamrock, and I can see as well as anybody that Ken Shamrock doesn't go halfway on anything. There was no damn way that Shamrock was going to take a dive for Kimbo Slice, even though it would have made EliteXC's show, and made Slice's MMA career pretty damn certain.

Instead Slice took a fight with former UFC fighter Keith Petracelli. This was a bad call for Kimbo, but like I said, he doesn't understand the bug business of fights. He also doesn't understand how to fight in the octagon very well either, but I'll get to that in a minute. Kimbo is through and through a street fighter. He will fight whoever has the money. But that is not a wise way to go about trying to make a career for yourself in MMA, expecially when you are as popular as Kimbo is right now. He is popular, but also inexperienced in professional MMA. He needs to be picking fights that are either huge name fights, fights that will draw just because of the names attached, which is what he did when he signed to fight Shamrock. He either needs big name fights, or fights that he knows he can win. Keith Petracelli was not just a different variable, he changed the equation of that fight completely.

Kimbo came out swing early in round one and got knocked the hell out for his trouble. He needs to lear that the first round KO isn't always going to be the only way to win a fight. He needs to better condition himself for longer fights, expecially if he ever wants to fight for a title. He also needs to understand how to feel out an opponent and how to move in the octagon. Kimbo is a balls-out fighter and that isn't a bad thing. The same could be said for a guy like Chuck Lidell. The difference between the two is experience. Kimbo needs to get in with a very experienced MMA veteran so that he can really learn the ropes, otherwise he might just fall off the map before he has a chance to really do anything special. Kimbo has been training with Bas Rutan, but I don't think that he has absorbed any of Bas' technique or experience.

I think that Kimbo Slice has a chance at being the next MMA superstar, but he's got a lot of work to do before it happens.The rest of the card was firly entertaining, with the exception of Andre Arlovski's fight against some virtual no-name fatty. Did this Roy "Big Country" Nelson really expect to beat Arlovski, a former UFC title holder for the love of god?! The guy had no conditioning. He was out of shape. His punches were sloppy. His form was sloppy. There was no way in hell he was going to beat Andre, and he should have dman well known it coming into that fight. I equate the Arlovski/Nelson fight to a job match in pro wrestling. They found some schmuck to get pounded by a superstar, for the purpose of selling that superstar to the fans.

Jake Shields beat Paul Daley to retain his title, and in my opinion, I don't think Daley knew what he was getting into. This is evidenced by the armbar that made Paul Daley tap, and the dumb look on his face after it happened. He had no ground game, and wasn't doing a dman thing to get out from under Shields' mont. I knew twenty seconds before it happened that Daley was going down by armbar. Shields just kept pounding him form the mounts, wearing him down until he could get the arm, and he did it.

Gina Corono (pardon the bad spelling) picked up another impressive victory, this tim over Kelly Kobalt (again mispelling). There is a reason that they refer to Corono as the face of women's MMA, she is damn good, and nice to look at too. I found myself, and I have in the past as well, enjoying her fight more than any of the other fights on the card.

I don't know what kind of number ElitXC did for this show on CBS, but I swear that when I hear that there would be no Shamrock/Slice fight, I heard the sound of channels changing all over America. I like EliteXC a lot, but they've got to put on better shows if they want to compete with UFC, and if they want to stay on TV.