Rambles about the wonderful world of wrestling.
The build to ICW’s show at the SECC has been a long one.  The biggest British wrestling event since the 80’s, it all seemed a bit improbable and fans and performers alike seemed to share the feeling that it was a bit of a dream.  This couldn’t actually be happening, could it?  Well, it did and on Sunday the 15th of November ICW took the SECC by storm and showed the world that this is where they deserve to be.
Seth Rollins’ injury is the worst thing that could have happened to WWE.  In the last six months, Rollins has upgraded from the workhorse of the SHIELD to the workhorse of the whole company.  Whether it’s dragging decent matches out of guys whose best days were twenty years ago or putting on entertaining feuds with his former stablemates.  Rollins has consistently strode above the bad booking  With him now likely to miss Wrestlemania, months of preparation have fallen down around him and the company is left in a bit of a mess.
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In ten day’s ICW will put on Fear and Loathing VIII at the SECC. Â It’s the biggest gate for a British wrestling show since Giant Haystacks fought Big Daddy at Wembley Arena and that alone is one hell of an achievement. Â When you consider that there will be no one under the age of eighteen at the show, it is even more impressive. Â ICW have set out to prove that if you offer a genuine alternative to the crap we’ve all been being fed for the last few years, the people will come.
Hell in a Cell.  Once upon a time those four words meant something.  A match retained for only the biggest of moments.  The debut of Kane, the fall of Mick Foley and just a few years ago the end of an era when Undertaker and Triple H took to one at Wrestlemania.  However, recent times has seen the cell devalued.  Matches often flattering to deceive and a yearly PPV, stacked with feuds we don’t really care about.
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A week and a half removed from Bound for Glory and TNA seem to have used the show to hit the reset button. Â It doesn’t hide the fact however that the show, showed up everything that was wrong with TNA. Â From the opening Ultimate X match, which featured someone making their debut, to the closing of the World Title main event, it appeared like TNA had booked this on the fly and in many ways that seemed fitting for a company that seems to have been doing that for a long time.
This weekend WWE will bring us their second Live Network Special, this time airing from Madison Square Gardens.  It’s a packed card of wrestling matches which looks like it will deliver in the ring, but the event as a whole just feels a bit… random.  The last few weeks have been spent building up to it and yet does anyone truly believe that something monumental will happen here?  Surely not even WWE thinks the fans believe that Big Show has a chance of pinning Brock Lesnar?
Night of Champions is a strange PPV this year.  On one hand it feels like a big deal.  Seth Rollins will compete twice and Sting is fighting for the WWE Title, something we never thought we’d see.  However, the rest of the card is same old, same old.  Rusev and Dolph Ziggler are still plodding away in their never-ending feud and Neville will probably beat Stardust again.  As usual, WWE are approaching the end of the year stuck in a bit of  a rut.  Which is probably not the way to entice you into reading this preview.
Sting, despite a WWE record of 0-1, is going into Night of Champions against Seth Rollins for the WWE Title. Â He’s also seemingly slipping back into his Joker character, which made an appearance in TNA. Â The question is, is this the right way to use Sting? Â And is there any world in which him becoming WWE Champion is a good idea?
On Monday night the Raw crowd at the Brooklyn Center turned on the WWE Diva’s segment. Â They begun to perform the usual antics of a bored crowd, Mexican waves and unrelated chants. Â Yet, only 48 hours beforehand a similar crowd had come unhinged when Bayley pinned Sasha Banks to win the NXT Women’s Title. Â So did the crowd change in that 48 hours? Â Or does it point to all the ways that the WWE is failing the Diva’s Revolution? Â It’s hardly a spoiler to claim it’s the latter.
For the first time in a long time, WWE seem to have decided to make Summerslam a big deal. Â Always seen by the fans as one of the bigger events. Â Recent years have failed to live up to those expectations. Â There have been some big moments, Lesnar demolishing Cena for example, but the event has always felt a few notches below Wrestlemania. Â This year it feels different. Â Not only has the show been expanded to four hours, but we have a huge main event and the kind of celebrity participation that is usually reserved for the biggest show of the year. Â Summerslam feels like a big deal and what goes down this Sunday, could well shape the WWE all the way up to Wrestlemania.
