Right, as I have now completed X-Men Origins: Wolverine, I was planning on reviewing it. But after what I witnessed last night on Monday Night Raw, I felt someone had to say SOMETHING. I know my last post was on wrestling, and I promise this will not continue to be the way it goes, I plan on adding more variety to it but this needs to be said.
Over the last several weeks, Raw has been taken over by the Nexus, led by Wade Barrett. They strike fear into the hearts of everyone on the roster, and take what they want when they want it. They sound pretty badass right? Like a newer version of the nWo or like when ECW 'invaded' the WWE back in the noughties? Sounds pretty extreme right? WRONG.
There are so many things wrong with the Nexus, I think I may actually like John Cena more than them. Basically, the Nexus is made up of seven 'superstars' (I use the term loosely...very loosely) from the first series of WWE NXT; Justin Gabriel, Michael Tarver, David Otunga, Skip Sheffield, Heath Slater, Darren Young and their leader (and winner of the first series of NXT) Wade Barrett. After the first series ended, the Nexus showed up on Raw and took out Bret Hart and started randomly attacking whoever they felt. All of a sudden, they were a force to be reckoned with...BEFORE they had even stepped into the ring on Raw. Yes, they took out some top wrestlers, but when it's SEVEN AGAINST ONE, even a pack of nerds would win for Christ's sake!
I gave them a chance for a while, I thought I'd wait for them to get into the ring before I judged them...so I waited...and waited...and waited...and then, all of a sudden...a SEVEN VERSUS ONE handicap match against John Cena! Oh yes, what a great way for them to display their talents, by beating the crap out of one guy and try injure him...wait a minute...this sounds familiar...I know! IT'S THE SAME FUCKING THING THEY'VE BEEN DOING EVERY FREAKING WEEK. Needless to say, Cena lost after the Nexus performed a couple of basic moves and their respective finishers. So, no talent demonstrated so far.
As the weeks go on, Cena reveals he's got a team together to face the Nexus at Summerslam, comprised of Edge, Chris Jericho, Great Khali, R-Truth, John Morrison and Bret Hart. That was how last weeks Raw ended. I was left thinking "Okay, next week we could see a few singles matches, and see which of the Nexus can perform." I was terribly wrong.
Last night on Raw, I witnessed a match so poor, I would rather have scratched my eyes out than watch that crap. It was announced that the Nexus would face 7 of Raw's superstars NOT in Cena's team in a 7 on 7 elimination tag-team match. Team Raw consisted of Mark Henry, Tyson Kidd, David Hart-Smith, Evan Bourne, Goldust, Yoshi Tatsu and (wait for it) Jerry "The King" Lawler. Why King was in the match I will never know, he never provides anything when he gets into the ring these days, he needs to stick to announcing.
With people such as Henry, Kidd, Hart-Smith and Bourne in the match, I thought they would make it a half-decent battle. But oh no, instead of making it an interesting match, they had Nexus win without really doing much. The legal men would wrestle for about 10 seconds before whichever Nexus representative who was in the ring at the time would hit his finisher and pin the Raw representative without breaking a sweat. Now, at a time when they have been really pushing the Hart Dynasty and Evan Bourne, this is a really fucking stupid idea. With Evan bourne being beaten so easily (after his beat Jericho in a fantastic match at Fatal 4-Way) renders all of his progress pretty much useless.
It was a nothing match. It was clearly there to give the Nexus air time, as if they don't get far too much of it already. But then, after the match, they started talking. I would like to be able to tell you what about exactly, but I can't, I physically can't. As soon as Wade Barrett grabs a microphone, something in me switches off. NONE of the Nexus have any mic skills and they certainly don't know how to work one. The Nexus just need to leave...now.
The one who annoys me the most has to be Skip Sheffield (which is the dumbest fucking name I've ever heard). He annoys me because he is built like a tank, possibly a tank built of steroids, but seems to have very limited wrestling ability. His finisher is a clothesline...surely that says enough. At least when Bradshaw did his Clothesline from Hell, it looked pretty badass, but Skip Sheffield looks like he botches his clotheline every single time...HOW HARD IS TO HIT SOMEONE WITH A CLOTHESLINE?!
I just hope the WWE end the Nexus at Summerslam, but I have a horrible feeling they will continue the storyline all the way to Survivor Series. Please WWE, I beg of you, rid the wrestling world of this cancer, I'm not sure if I could live with Wade Barrett et al being WWE Headliners.
See, the problem is, some of Nexus can actually wrestle... And by some, I mean Wade Barrett, Justin Gabriel and Heath Slater to a slightly lesser extent. But yeah, I'm kinda getting sick of Nexus too... I hope they don't do the same with the season 2ers.
ReplyDeleteMrCraiggy from Three Guys.