Tuesday, 2 September 2008

The Cheap Shot [Issue 2]



- I have to say I was saddened somewhat at hearing the news of John Cena's latest injury. Not only because now he will surely (AGAIN) be out of November's Raw house show in Belfast, but because we all know how hard the guy battles to be the best in the business, only to be met with injury and obstacle. The surgery is said to have gone well. WWE.com says, "Cena's surgery was successful and Dr. Joseph Maroon, renowned neurosurgeon, Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and team neurosurgeon for the Pittsburgh Steelers, was very positive regarding Cena's condition." Get well soon, you annoying legend.

- Shawn Michaels is also said to have been injured on Raw last night, but is still expected to go ahead with his match with monotone-Y2J (has someone been taking promo lessons from Randy Orton?). It will no doubt suffer a little in quality...but will probably still crap all over the 'championship scrambles.' Is anyone else completely sick of looking at his weird wife's puffy face though?

- Candice Michelle made a...welcome...return on Raw this week. It's been far too long since a diva has stumbled around the ring botching the most simple of moves. Oh wait...scratch that.



- On the subject of Michelle "second time's a charm" McCool...I wonder if her recent Diva's title win over the 100X more talented Natalya is anything to do with the fact that she's currently boinking The Undertaker (renowned backstage politician)???? Pah...speculation.

-It was actually good to see Randy Orton on Raw last night. And yes...his music is still the dog's danglies.

- WWEShop.com has released a line of official superstar New-Era baseball caps. They seem to be the first aesthetically pleasing item that the WWE has released in well over ten years (since the Cactus Jack t-shirt of course!). Check their sweetness out here.




- You've gotta feel sorry for Charlie Haas at the moment. Cheap gimmick infringement gags and acting jobber to the stars, sounds like something a late attitude era, somewhat irrelevant Big Show would do (Showkishi, anyone?). It could be worse though, your former tag team partner could be getting the push of his life, could have won the U.S. title, could be in the main event at Unforgiven and could be getting favoured over MVP by management at present. What? Oh...sorry Charlito.

-RIP Killer Kowalski.