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Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Welcome to a very special Superstars via Supergiantninja. First off, I am going to stay completely sober. No really. Secondly, I switched from Notepad++ to OpenOffice, so the spelling might be a little better. Might be. Thirdly, I am cooking dinner at the same time as I write this, so there is a chance that I will stop writing to stir the macaroni and cheese. So, um, yeah.

MVP starts the show, which is a good thing. Being partnered with Chris Masters is a better thing. I know the vaunted IWC has little regard for MVP, but he still entertains and does not blow too many spots. Masters is perhaps the most fun midcard face on the roster. The third man on the outside of the ring is the fantabulous Percy Watson. Percy is the Cho Aniki and Dan Hibari mash up of my dreams. The opponents are the Dudebusters. Three out of five ain’t bad.

MVP starts it fast and tags in Masters to bring the power offense. My toenails are painted hot pink. Masters has an amazing Flair chop. Croft chop blocks Masters, speaking of Flair, and the Dudebusters take control. It’s leg grapevine time! Dragon screw leg whip and the Dudebusters look good. Time for a big time comeback. Masters wins with the MasterLock. And I win with some mac and cheese!

It is JTG time. He manages to look less and less like the kind of hustler that sells drugs and more and more like the kind of hustler who sucks cocks. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Chavo is the opponent, which is a good thing. I do love me some Chavo. JTG gets the early advantage and Todd Grisham says ‘flava’. What was that I said about not drinking? Chavo wins AGAIN with the Frog Splash! Yes! No joke, I think JTG is getting jobbed out. Best part is, Chavo gets the deuce.

In another match I am excited to see, Yoshi takes on Primo! Did I die and go to midcard heaven? A n ad for the Elimination Chamber comp reminds me that I have never seen an Elimination Chamber match. Ever.

Yoshi brings the excitement to the ring. As much as I loved TAKA’s run with the Fed, I think Yoshi has already eclipsed him. Speaking of eclipsing, Primo is definitely the better Colon brother, though I miss Carlito. Lock up to start and Yoshi wins it. Primo rocks the sweep kick and this match is way to fast to write up. Let’s just say it’s good and slick and fast and you should watch it. Jerry Lawler is bitching about Kane’s title win, further watering down his character. Primo hits a new finisher, the top rope Backstabber to win.

The main is the Hart Dynasty vs. the Usos, who I have yet to see. Not to cop out, but damn the Hart Dynasty are good. Really, really good. Tyson Kidd is young Chris Benoit good. Yeah, I said that positively. The Usos are pretty athletic for Samoans, though they are pretty green. The mirror image aspect of both teams makes this interesting. Two teams with roots deep into the dark heart of the WWE with female managers with equally strong ties to Fed history. I take that back about the Usos being green, they just need to be squashing the holy Hell out of jobbers on Superstars every week. That would be entertaining. Amazing finish, with Kidd hitting the off the shoulders Hart Attack and a dropkick simultaneously. That is talent. I could seriously watch these two teams go at it every other week. Good match, great show!

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Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

So I am a member of Nexus. I am standing in the ring watching the WWE superstars that are coming out to stand in opposition to us. There are some pretty big names, but we have the numbers on them. Also, one is the Great Khali, who moves like one of those walking tress from the Lord of the Rings, but less graceful. Still, I know that we have the numbers on them, and that is always the big decider. With six guys out there, Cena indicates there is one more, and my heart sinks.

Who could it be? Orton? It’s probably Orton. He hates us. Maybe a returning HHH. That would be fucking disastrous for us. Perhaps a returning Undertaker? I mean, we might have been the ones to put him into his vegetative state. Maybe those suck ups from NTX v2.0 joined the crusade against us? that would mean we are way out manned. This could be real trouble.

Now, imagine the wave of euphoric relief when Bret Hart’s music plays.

The final guy to oppose our Jingoistic consolidation of power is a 50 year old lesbian that had a stroke. To give you an idea of how little of a threat he is, when they all charge to the ring, Khali gets there before him. We all retreat, knowing the battle will be ours, just on another day.

Also, Edge will probably betray them and come over to our side.

In all honesty, it wasn’t a bad spot. Revealing the opposition is one of those times when I think you can burn some TV minutes to sell teh story. The biggest issue was how slow the reveal itself was. Everyone got a few seconds of intro music and pose time. Were this a posse looking for revenge, it would have seemed that they would have charged the ring en masse, angry and looking for blood. Instead they all slowly coalesced into a well blocked stage shot before the big moment.

Also, Bret Hart can be hidden in a match like this… but that doesn’t mean you use him in ring. He is over… but this angle is as well. It doesn’t need Brett. Give the rub to a guy who need sit and let Bret manage the Hart Dynasty.

Barrett had a solo match. The worlds strongest man put him over, and Barrett got Henry up for that back-killing slam he does. I hope he had some Aleve backstage. It wasn’t a good match, but it got the Nexus some in ring time, which i think is necessary to establish them as actual threats. Show that they can work in the ring.. and what they do outside of it seems even more heel and heinous. Also, I can’t hate Mark Henry because he is what he is: a big slow mound of big man spots. He isn’t trying topes (unless Noah has him on Raw v. Smackdown. Then he flies like an enormous black angel.)

The evening was kind of imbalanced. It would go from a pretty good TV match to something that bored be from the get go almost without rhyme or reason. I really liked the Edge/Jericho/Orton match and the mic work with it. I really liked Sheamus and Evan Borne. I liked the Miz’s promo and attack. I didn’t get why there are stips like “he has to be awake” when no one has ever cared about that before, but that is fine as long as those rules are obeyed later. I thought these were all bright spots within the show. This was even more surprising to me as I don’t normally like the work of at least 2 of the participants.

But all of these bangers were encased in the Yorkshire pudding of matches like Eve vs Maryse and Santino/Koslov v. Regal/Ryder. Man, just let Regal have a match with Santino. Give them 10 minutes. Let everyone know what they are capable of, then the comedy matches have a little more prospect of hope and reason to tune in.

So yeah, this was a RAW of no gray. It was all black or white. Some really good stuff sandwiched in between what clearly looked like filler.

-Ryan