Hello everyone! Before we get to today’s Sailormoon and Wrestling news, I just want to point out something. Due to the amount of news, some sections will be split off, while others will be condensed. Also, due to lazy booking from both WWE and TNA, most of the results have been chucked, so you can get to the NEWS items faster. However, there’s enough news to keep you up to date through Thursday, so let’s get to it!

Firing Squad: WWE has had a massive firing spree over the last 2 and a half weeks, and many wrestlers fear that it’s not over yet. Since August 7^th, a large number of mid to low card talent, rookies and referees have all been fired for NO apparent reason. Here’s a timeline of the firings thus far:

August 7^th: Braden Walker a.k.a Wildcat Chris Harris was fired. WWE officials site poor behavior and a “bad attitude” but wrestlers and fans alike find that hard to swallow, considering the fact that Braden was in the middle of a push.

August 8^th: ECW Superstars Nunzio and James Curtis, SmackDown Superstars Shannon Moore, Domino, and Big Daddy V, and WWE referee Nick Patrick were all fired, for no apparent reason. These groups of firings seemed irresponsible, considering the fact that Domino and Big Daddy V had JUST been traded back in June, and were in line for new storylines. Furthermore, Nunzio was one of the last original ECW alumni left on the roster, and James Curtis had just inked a new deal not that long ago. Making things worse for the WWE, Shannon Moore had a STRONG following amongst female fans, and rest assured this might not be the last we hear of it.

August 9^th: FCW talent Charles “The Hammer” Adams, Brad Attitude, and Matt O’Neal were all let go. The Hammer debuted earlier this year at Wrestlemania 24 as one of Floyd Mayweather’s crew, and was also a former OVW tag champ alongside Bam Neely. Matt O’Neal was a football player, and Brad Attitude made many appearances on Velocity.

August 15^th:  ECW stars Stevie Richards and Colin Delaney, Raw tag team the Highlanders of Robbie and Rory, SmackDown Diva Cherry, and WWE referee Wes Adams were all fired without warning.  This was the most irresponsible firing out of the last few weeks, as two of the fired were in the middle of storylines! Cherry was one of 5 divas in line for the SmackDown Diva Title as well as one of the best liked divas all around, and Colin Delaney was in the middle of a program with Tommy Dreamer and Mark Henry. Robbie and Rory had JUST returned to Raw the week of their firing, and Stevie was one of a handful of original ECW stars left.One theory suggests that the two fired refs were let go because Nick Patrick (son of the Assassin and WCW alumni) was unable to work, and Wes Adams was dropped due to him giving a FAIR call. Wes, who doubles as a wrestler, was last seen one week ago, calling the match between Matt Hardy and Morrison. Vince McMahon reportedly wanted Morrison to win, but Wes made a fair call, and rightfully Matt Hardy was declared champion.16 people all together have been fired as of this writing, with more expected by the end of the week. With several of these people having been used weekly, right to the end, one can only wonder why WWE is slitting their own throats (metaphorically) and in the immortal words of Bill Goldberg, Who’s Next?

Injury Report: Ken Kennedy will be out for an undisclosed amount of time, following a dislocated shoulder. Also Umaga will be out 4-6 months after ripping his PCL during a house show. Both men are under observation and may require surgery.C.M. Punk received several stitches in the back of his head after his victory against JBL at SummerSlam. Punk appears to be okay, but was checking his wound for blood on Raw. JBL was well enough to compete on Raw as well, but may need to be reevaluated pending the same match. JBL had fallen at the PPV, slamming his head against the canvas WAY too hard. Jeff Hardy Had fluid in his elbow last week, and may have suffered one other undisclosed injury during SummerSlam weekend. No word yet on Jeff’s condition.

Sailormoon: 11 years after the final Sailormoon episode aired in
Japan, the pretty soldier of love and justice is still a trend setter, perhaps in a bizarre way. Young ladies in Japan have long since accepted the radical and often foolish surgical practice of giving themselves more “Western” eyes, but now many Japanese adults are having an altered version of the surgery, to make their eyes look more like Usagi’s instead of their own beautiful ovals. You can read up on this story here: http://www.gadling.com/2008/08/18/big-in-japan-cant-win-the-guys-try-anime-eyes/

Once again, I’d like to thank the members of the Gaia online community for participating in this year’s poll, by stating their favorite characters in various postings. Codename Sailor Earth has been collecting the info and sending it along to me, and I would also like to thank all of you who e-mail me directly at rasslinkitty@hellokitty.com as each vote counts! Here are today’s results:

Favorite Inner Senshi:

Sailor Moon 93 votes

Sailor Cosmos 32 votes

Sailor Mercury 16 votes

Sailor Mars 35 votes

Sailor Jupiter 35 votes

Sailor Venus/Codename Sailor V 35 votes

Favorite Outer Senshi:

Sailor Saturn 70 votes

Sailor Uranus 38 votes

Sailor Neptune 27 votes

Sailor Pluto 70 votes

Favorite Chibi Senshi (Pick two)

Chibiusa/Rini 107 votes

Kousagi 88 votes

Chibi Chibi 90 votes

Ami Jr 26 votes

Rei Jr 27 votes

Mako 26 votes

Mina 26 votes

Favorite Male character (Pick two):

Tuxedo Mask/Moonlight Knight 90 votes

Helios/Pegasus 102 votes

Peruru 73 votes

Favorite Cat:

Luna 82 votes

Artemis 46 votes

Diana 46 votes

Luna-P 18 votes

Kousagi’s cat 23 votes

Sailor Tin Nyanko 17 votes

Favorite Main Villain:

Queen Beryl 50 votes

Wiseman 19 votes

Master Pharaoh 90 13 votes

Queen Nepherenia 42 votes

Zirconia 18 votes

Sailor Galaxia 40 votes

Chaos 16 votes

Favorite Amazon Group:

Amazon Trio 36 votes

Amazon Quartet 64 votes

Sailor Amazoness Quartet 59 votes

Favorite Magical Character (You may pick two):

Queen Serenity 115 votes

Phobos & Deimos 59 votes

Cosmos Starseed 45 votes

Favorite Star Senshi (You may pick two):

Sailor Star Fighter 72 votes

Sailor Star Healer 66 votes

Sailor Star Maker 30 votes

Sailor Kakyuu 38 votes

Aluminum Siren 27 votes

Lead Crow 15 votes

Iron Mouse 40 votes

Heavy Metal Papillion 32 votes

Lethe 18 votes

Mnemosyne 25 votes

Phi 11 votes

Chi 11 votes

Remember, if you don’t like the stats, VOTE! Send me your votes by August 31^st!

WWE: In lieu of your usual results, I’m condensing this section to news for today. The only results I will be posting are from SummerSlam. Hopefully by Friday things will have settled down enough for me to return to the usual format.

In several recent interviews, Mick Foley made it VERY clear that he might be leaving soon. Mick’s contract expires September 1^st, and Mick has been absent for two SmackDown tapings. Mick did offer to appear at SummerSlam, but at the last minute, management pulled Mick for undisclosed reasons. Tazz has thus been moved to SmackDown, despite the fact that Tazz is ECW, and Matt Stryker has been moved back to ECW to replace Tazz.

SummerSlam suffered from haphazard booking. MVP beat Jeff Hardy via interference from Shelton Benjamin, Santino Marella and Beth Phoenix beat Mickie James and Kofi Kingston, with Santino winning the Intercontinental belt, and Beth winning the Women’s title. Matt Hardy beat Mark Henry via DQ after Tony Atlas pulled on Hardy during the fight. After the match, Jeff Hardy came out and helped his big brother beat on Mark Henry. HBK came out with his wife Rebecca a.k.a. Whisper, to announce his “retirement”. Y2J had come out to confront Shawn, and Shawn in return made a snide comment, involving Y2J’s family.
Jericho took a swing, and Shawn ducked, letting Rebecca take the blow. As officials came to her aid, she was heard to have been telling Shawn that she’s okay, just swollen. Shawn cried. Like a baby. As noted earlier, C.M. Punk beat JBL, and Batista beat Cena. In the main event, The Undertaker annihilated Edge, and then went back in the ring, and choke slammed Edge off a ladder in the ring, and through the ring itself! When ‘Taker lifted his hands, the hole where Edge’s body was ignited in a pit of flames!

Notes of interest from WWE: Kane revealed that Rey Mysterio’s mask was in the burlap sack he was carrying. In the midst of the firing squad, Colt Cabana and Shawn Spears made their overdue debuts in the ring since my last blog. Colt debuted last Friday as Scotty Goldman, and jobbed Brian “Spanky” Kendrick. Both boys are from ROH. Shawn Spears came out as Gavin Spears and lost a well fought brawl with Ricky Ortiz. Shawn had been in OVW for quite some time, and even worked a storyline not too long ago with Colt, the highlights of which are on youtube.

TNA: Jeff Jarrett is reportedly unhappy with Sting’s current conduct. Sting decided to no-show the impact tapings for this and last week, holding the company ransom for cash AGAIN. This caused a major stir amongst TNA talent, and last week’s taping was emergency re-booked around Sting’s walkout. Sting was supposed to have come out in person and address his “problem” with A.J. Styles and Samoa Joe, but instead, the younger stars were reshuffled. Joe wound up in a winning tag team match with Kevin Nash against Team 3D, but Joe was visibly upset after the match, and beat on the Dudley Boyz after the match was over. Referee Earl Hebner tried screaming at Joe, and was clocked for his effort. Earl then cried to another ref, and reversed the decision, giving Team 3D the win.

Jeff Jarrett has made it clear that he will no longer allow Dixie Carter and TNA to kowtow to Sting’s every whim, and will NOT approve another pay hike for the 49 year old. Sting will have to be content with his current multi figure salary for now, until he can prove himself a necessity.

Impact suffered from scrambled booking, with the main event being a Greco style match between A.J. Styles and Kurt Angle. Kurt received Sting’s bat, but Jeff Jarrett (who went unseen) dropped A.J. his guitar, allowing A.J. to thwap Kurt with said implement, causing Kurt to bleed and A.J. to win Kurt’s gold medal from the 1996 Olympics.

ROH: The reason for my absence was my preparation for an amazing Ring of Honor show in
Chicago! I was in a cozy crowd of 500+ fans who rocked the roof off the Frontier Fieldhouse Saturday night.

The pre show saw Ninja Blue and Ninja Yellow from the ROH School; team with Jaguar Jackson, to square off against beloved star Egotistico Fantastico, Nate Bash and Ben Sailor. The crowd was not too impressed with Sailor, Bash or Jackson, but were thrilled to see Egotistico and welcomed the Ninjas. Finish saw Team Ninja score a pinfall.Pre show main event saw Sugarfoot Alex Payne beat Hunter Matthews, proving once and for all who the king of Minnesota is. Hunter wanted desperately to be taken seriously as a heel, but kept screaming like a girl each time he was hit.

Kevin Steen beat Kenny King in a high energy bout, with the crowd behind Steen all the way.

Pelle Primeau was supposed to team with Delirious in a tag team scramble match, but Delirious had gone missing. Here’s a rundown of events:

Delirious likes Daizee.

Rhett Titus likes them both.

Daizee has no clue that anyone likes her. Period.Rhett made a video and told everyone (including Delirious) that he (Rhett) slept with Daizee.Daizee says Rhett’s a liar.

Delirious asks Daizee out.

She says let’s just be friends.

In Ohio, Delirious has a match with Rhett Titus. The Age of the Fall come out, begging Delirious to decimate Rhett and then join them. Delirious accepts, and bloodies Rhett. Daizee begs Delirious not to go with AOTF, but he goes anyway.

In Chicago, Pelle tells the live crowd that Delirious is missing.

Daizee comes out to the crowd booing her, as she asks Delirious out on a date, effectively changing her mind…. too late. Oy.

Mischif drops Daizee on her head, smiles, then leaves. The crowd applauds this.

Delirious comes out with the AOTF, and bloodies Pelle.

As a result, they were replaced with Mitch Franklin and Trik Davis.

Jigsaw and Ruckus beat Mitch & Trik, The Briscoe Brothers and Chicago’s own Phoenix Twins. This match was fast and furious, with the crowd screaming in delight, even up to the shocking finish of Jigsaw and Ruckus’s win. The Phoenix Twins are two bald boys from
Chicago, who wowed the crowd with speedy athletics. Hopefully, these two will be booked again.

El Generico defeated Tyler Black in a thrilling match. Tyler came out with Allison Wonderland, who flinched during the entire match.

Erick Stevens retained the FIP Championship against Chris Hero. Hero attempted to be serious through the match, but ultimately goofed up and Erick took advantage of it.

Bryan Danielson (Who was very badly sunburned) and Austin Aries defeated Nigel McGuiness and Claudio Castagnoli in tag team competition. Claudio came out wearing a long, cheetah print skirt, and a clean shaved head. Claudio has undergone a complete change, becoming more aggressive in a feud with Bryan Danielson.

In the Sweet n’ Sour Gauntlet, Roderick Strong beat Bobby Dempsey (who gave String a win while Larry Sweeney was distracted), Shane Hagadorn, Adam Pearce and Chris Hero, but due to Hero’s tactics, Roderick was pinned by Larry Sweeney, who was wearing a light blue Richard Simmons style singlet with pink stars.

Brent Albright retained the NWA World Heavyweight title against Go Shiozaki in a long and brutal match. Brent won by kneeing Go in the neck, until Go passed out!

The long awaited match of Jimmy Jacobs vs. Necro Butcher was the main event. Prior to the match, Jacobs made mention that Necro and his wife had just welcomed a baby girl into their family. (Awwww mozeltov!!) Jacobs tried to get out of the match, by sending Necro on a mission to Alaska. Necro asked Jacobs “With WHOSE money??” And “What’ll ya pay me?” and Jacobs reply was that it would be for the mission.

Necro asked for the mic.

Necro told Jacobs that his priorities were with his baby and his wife.

Necro then tried to help Jacobs with his priorities by clubbing him in the head with the microphone. Four times in a row.

The match spilled out onto the floor, fans crowded the area, following the match intently, while Sugarfoot and another man worked security, trying to keep everyone safe. Trash cans (the thick ones, not the flimsy WWE ones) chairs, and a wide variety of other utensils of destruction were used by both men as the match progressed back towards the ring. The crowd was HOT for the match, but eventually Jimmy Jacobs won via help from Tyler Black and a table. However, the fight did not stop there, as Delirious came out to help too, but so did the Briscoe Brothers, Kevin Steen and El Generico! Soon, the four faces had fought back the AOTF, and then fought each other. Once everyone got back in the ring, an irate Necro Butcher fought EVERYONE, then propped a chair, daring Jacobs to come back and face him again. Jacobs instead walked away, crying.

NOAH: Takeshi Morishima was caught by NOAH officials wrestling in two WWE dark matches this week. On Monday, NOAH officials sat in the
Chicago crowd with Harley Race, and watched on as Morishima-sama beat Charlie Haas, and then they watched again Tuesday at the SmackDown/ECW tapings as Morishima-sama beat fellow ROH star Jamie Noble in a short dark match. Hopefully, Morishima-sama will NOT sign with WWE, as they have a habit of stereotyping their oriental stars unfairly.

Well that does it for now. As always stay clean and healthy and read a good book when you can. Until next time!

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