Cubed Circle Newsletter Issue

Cubed Circle Newsletter Following the huge Mania issue last week, this week we cover the first two rounds of the New Japan Cup, the Raw Rating, Raw and more! This issue may not be as big as last week, but it is still bigger than average and with that I hope you enjoy the newsletter this week. Monday Night RAW April 9 th 2012 Overall Show Thoughts This was a good show, the Lesnar stuff worked, although I can’t help but think that it should have been split over two weeks. The Jericho/ Punk stuff was also good, but it didn’t get over to a large extent. I didn’t like the way that the Extreme Rules match was just nonchalantly announced, I wouldn’t say it did direct damage to Extreme Rules, but it definitely made it feel less important. All in all a good show, but it certainly had its flaws Out came Laurinaitis with David Otunga to awesome new theme music. He introduced what he said was the new face of the WWE, this man was not there to entertain and he will carry the banner for years to come. At this point I thought it was going to be a swerve, but no. Out came Lesnar as clear as day in the opening of the show. Having Laurinaitis bring him out made no sense whatsoever. As Lesnar made his way to the ring Cole mentioned that he was a former UFC champion, which was surprising. Lesnar thanked Laurinaitis for bringing legitimacy back to the WWE, out came Cena. He smiled and slapped Lesnar, who took Cena down with a double leg takedown. He landed one potato and missed all of the other punches, out came a million men, the locker room emptied. Lesnar broke through again, but was pulled back at this point the mouth of Cena was bleeding which was a great visual. Cena dove at Lesnar, the reaction was 1 good, but nothing even remotely close to that of Miami. Lesnar was dragged out of the ring as they showed a replay of the punch. Laurinaitis was backstage, he shouted at Long who apparently was supposed to keep Cena away. He said that he wanted an explanation from Cena and that Long go get the explanation from Cena. 1. Dolf Ziggler & Jack Swagger vs. Brodus Clay & Santino Marella The heel team got the heat on Marella for a while, before Ziggler took the splash from Clay for the win, suffice to say he shouldn’t have been the man that was pinned. Laurinaitis confronted Long, he wanted to know where Cena was, Long brought Cena in. Cena said that Laurinaitis wanted legitimacy and that Laurinaitis wanted to put Cena out of business. But, Cena wanted and opponent, he said that he could give him an opponent any day any time. So Laurinaitis gave him a match with Otunga for later that night. Marella plugged the Three Stooges movie with a bunch of geeks looking on. He asked everyone backstage if they were going to watch the movie, until he got to Kane who forced him to retreat. 2. R-Truth vs. Cody Rhodes Big Show came out and showed the exact same clip from last week, only with footage added in from last week. Rhodes was distracted and predictably walked into a finisher from Truth. Marella sniffed a fragile container, with the “e” facing the wrong direction, using his analytical prowess to assess this clue on the crate; Marella made the deduction that it was from Italy. The Three Stooges were in the container and they did some slapstick comedy, until they realized that they needed material for the show and they needed to think outside of the box, stepping out of the crate, which was a funny line. 3. Lord Tensai vs. Yoshi Tatsu The story was that Tatsu was offended that Tensai was calling himself Japanese, despite this it was just a squash, a squash that didn’t really work all that well. The crowd chanted “Albert” at Tensai as he landed some chops, he hit the big back senton as the crowd continued to chant “Albert”, Tensai landed a splash in the corner and some elbow strikes. He finished Tatsu with a slam followed by a referee stoppage, he then applied a claw after the match. From this match, the crowd reaction and the uninspired direction of the Tensai character it is clear that this is not going to work. Punk came out and said that he wanted to break the silence. He said that many people don’t understand straight edge and that he didn’t do it to be trendy or cool, it is way of life for him. The reason for him being straight edge is something that he has always kept close to himself he said. He didn’t want people to feel sorry for him and that he wanted to make it to the top because he is the best in the world. He said that Jericho tried to destroy his privacy, but he couldn’t get to him. When Jericho’s plans didn’t 2 work and when he made him tap out Jericho went one step to far he said. And when he lay there last week drenched in alcohol, the one thought that stuck in his mind was that he smelt just like his father. That smell would punch him in the face when he got back from school, he continued, but Jericho interrupted. He said that something is wrong with Punk, he asked if he was hung over. He said that Punk will get used to the taste, because it was easy to trigger his father’s gene. He said that Punk is in denial and he needs to follow the twelve steps to recovery. He finished by saying that the people don’t see the best in the world, they see a looser, he didn’t just force his first taste of alcohol he taught Punk what it was like to be CM Drunk. Punk said that the only thing that Jericho did was break a bottle over his head and he is going to use his emotions from a dark place on Jericho, it won’t be about being the best in the world it will be about kicking Jericho’s ass he said. Both Jericho and Punk performed well in this segment, but this angle doesn’t seem to be working very well. 4. WWE Championship Match CM Punk vs. Mark Henry Punk took out his frustrations on Henry hitting Henry on the leg and using the monitor on Henry for the DQ. He went on the apron and almost delivered a monitor shot to Henry, but Jericho came out with cases of alcohol and Punk was attacked from behind by Henry. Punk then took a World’s Strongest Slam in the ring Jericho opened up a can of beer and poured it on Punk, Punk landed some kicks and unloaded on Jericho, but Jericho landed a code breaker on Punk. Jericho poured beer all over Punk, he screamed “drink it in you son of a bitch!” as the referees came out to stop him. He hit another code breaker on Punk, lifted the world title over his head and left. 5. Alberto Del Rio vs. Zach Ryder Del Rio finished Ryder with an armbar in a very short match. I found this finish interesting given the fact that Lesnar was on the show and people within the WWE were very interested in the Rousey/Tate fight from a month or two ago. The idea is to give that sort of finish to Del Rio which could be what we were seeing here. Two of the Three Stooges came out, they were wondering were the third was, out he came dressed as Hogan, doing a perfect Hogan voice. He plugged there movie, there were light boos out came Kane who delivered a chokeslam in a nothing segment. There was an interview with Henry, he said that he has beaten Punk two weeks in a row and he has a no DQ no count-out match next week with Punk. He said he would be the new World Heavyweight Champion, instead of WWE champion and walked off. We had another interview segment this time with Lesnar, Matthews asked him if he was proud to be back in the WWE. He said that he left the WWE, a company that he had taken to heights it had never achieved before and went to the UFC and did the 3 same there. He said that Cena couldn’t even hold his jock strap and he was a war machine and an ass kicker and walked off. This was a great mean man, big monster promo. There was a promo with different wrestlers talking about Undertaker vs. Triple H, Big Show called it the greatest match of all time! Everything may not have been true, but it was a great segment putting over the match well. 6. John Cena vs. David Otunga The crowd was surprisingly into the match with duelling “let’s go Cena” “Cena sucks” chants. Otunga posed in the ring, but Cena hit the shoulder blocks into the spinout powerbomb, the five knuckle shuffle and finally locked in the STF which Otunga tapped to. Lesnar came out and landed a low blow on Cena from behind, with a very convincing kick. Lesnar got this awesome heelish smirk on his face and landed an F5 on Cena, taunting him with the you can’t see me hand movement to close off the show.

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