Friday, May 02, 2003

Updates on Miss Elizabeth's death (From OnlineOnslaught.com)


I heard this in an e-mail newsletter this morning, but didn't make the connection from her full name.


The Lovely Miss Elizabeth was not a great mic presence - but a lot of wrestling's history stems through her. She was a major part of the Megapowers storyline in the WWF, and a major part of Randy Savage's career. She was also only 42 years old.


This is real sad.

Tuesday, April 29, 2003

So, Chris Jericho debuted his own interview segment on RAW yesterday, effectively being the curtain-jerker again.


While it was laughable to see the wrestlers against Goldberg (since Steven Richards was the only one of them in the ring when Bill started), I think the segment failed in one key area: it didn't ultimately have a point; no resolution or valid story set-up.

Monday, April 28, 2003

Rick Scaia had a point about Backlash on Online Onslaught: that this show was more focused on the newer talents.


I think the experiment was 50-50.


Team Angle and Los Guerreros had a great opener. In many ways it was an improvement over the match at Wrestlemania: long, more psychology and storytelling. It was an interesting bout.


Sean O'Haire also was impressive in his re-debut. The match was shorter, but his moves looked very crisp and impressive. This match also broke from the expected pattern: that he came out on top on the Smackdown! before the PPV would have led us to believe he'd lose there. Not so.


John Cena and Brock Lesner put on a great match too. It wasn't a total squash, the outcome wasn't sure until the end. Cena proved to be a valuable contributor to the title picture.


Goldberg - Rock... well here we got a real letdown, in my view. Because this was the match they built the card on, and what ended the show, I count it as a 50%-er itself. Yes, the face won, to send fans home happy, and yes it was longer than Goldberg's older matches... but we didn't see anything original from it. We saw the same old moveset of spears, spinebusters, and jackhammer finish. Nothing original there.