Yay blogging! Have you guys missed me? I’m going to bet not…but whatever. I’ve got a lot to get to, and this is probably going to be a monster of a post when all is said and done. Because of that, I’ll try to keep my babbling to a minimum. That being said…

So uh…WWE…could you have made that main event any more predictable?

I believe the answer to this, is no. But I’ll get to that here soon enough.

As it is, the WWE held Over The Limit yesterday (or today, depending on your time zone), and while it was yet another solid overall outing for WWE, it still had some…questionable endings. Well, really, just one.

But before I get to that and hit on some of the important matches, I’ll go over some of the lesser ones. Kofi Kingston and R-Truth managed to beat Dolph Ziggler and Jack Swagger to retain their title belts. Now, I know the tag division has been much maligned (to say the least) over the last few years, but it slowly feels like the WWE is working towards having a respectable and solid tag team division again. And this match really showcased that. I’m not going to ramble too much about it, but it had plenty of great spots and good, frantic ending that was capped off by a wicked Trouble In Paradise from Kofi to Ziggler. Overall though, it was a fantastic match, and gives me hope that the tag team division might not be a complete lost cause like it was about a year ago.

On to other stuff. Layla retained her title in what was one of the longest Diva’s matches I can recall seeing. It was also a shocker to see her win, too. Good for her though. She’s worked her butt off to get back after being gone for the last year. Overall, the match wasn’t bad for a Diva’s match. That really doesn’t say much, but given that the match wasn’t total crap is a step in the right direction.

Christian won a battle royal to open the show, eliminating The Miz to do so. As the winner, he got to choose which champion he would face tonight – the United States Champion, Santino Marella, or the Intercontinental Champion, Cody Rhodes. While it initially looked like he was going to go for Santino, that changed just before the match when he overheard Cody talking in the backstage about how he would have regretted facing him and blah, blah, blah. Well, because of this, Christian reneged on his initial choice and opted to choose Cody instead. In what was an entertaining albeit short match, Christian ended up winning and taking the title from Cody.

It makes me wonder though, what are they going to do with Cody now? For the last year or so, he’s been firmly entrenched in the Intercontinental title picture, but it feels like they’re pushing him out of it, having him drop the title twice in less than two months. Maybe a main event push to come for him? Who knows.

Speaking of The Miz. He was fed to Brodus. Who is still ridiculously over. Oh yea, and The Miz can’t dance. His attempt to mock Brodus made him look like a total asshat.

Speaking of squash matches, Ryback had yet another, squashing Camacho tonight. I think they need to have a Squash Match Challenge between Ryback and Brodus to see who can squash their competition quicker. You know, like a Beat The Clock Challenge…only with a guaranteed squash. No? Ok…yea, probably not that great of an idea.

But seriously, will these two every really have a match or a feud of any type? I guess Brodus had one earlier in the month at Extreme Rules against Ziggler and looked pretty decent in it, but Ryback hasn’t had anything but squashes in his month or so back. At some point, these two will have to do something other than squash people. At least one would think.

And lastly, of the lesser important things, Sheamus retained his title in a Fatal Four Way tonight. The match was okay, but wasn’t really anything to write home about. If it wasn’t for the fact that I know Jericho is going away here soon, I’d have almost thought he might win the title, especially given how dominant of a flurry he had at the end. He nailed Sheamus and Orton with the Codebreaker, and also had Sheamus in the Walls for a good chunk of time too. But, inevitably, Sheamus won. Because really, he has to. They’ve built him up far too much this year to take the title from him any time soon. And when he does lose it, it’s likely to be to Del Rio anyways. Because it’s always hard to imagine the WWE booking a good face vs. face feud without managing to turn one of them heel.

Oh yea, we also had some other little match between a couple people you might have heard of, Daniel Bryan and CM Punk. And boy, what a match it was. In fact, I’ll go out there right now and say this was the best match the WWE has put on this year. Better than Rock vs. Cena. Better than Triple H vs. Undertaker. Better than both Jericho vs. Punk matches. This match was pure, technical brilliance. It was exactly what everyone was expecting, and it took the show and ran with it.

The crowd was in it from the get-go on this match. With “Yes!” chants galore, as well as a lot of “Daniel Bryan, CM Punk” chants, they were completely into this match. And for good reason. It delivered on every level.

With near-falls scattered all over the place, it was almost difficult at time to dissect who the winner could be, because it both of them looked like they were on the brink of winning on multiple occasions. The ending, while bizarre, was also pretty damn cool, too.

Bryan looked to be on the cusp of winning, as he had Punk locked in the Yes-Lock in the middle of the ring. As he went back to apply even more pressure on it though, he ended up rolling on his back and getting counted for the three, just a split second before Punk tapped.

While it was certainly a strange, and seemingly abrupt ending to an incredible match, it also worked on some levels, at least for me. Punk got the clean win, which is always good, and they made Bryan look like a legitimate title threat in the process, since Punk didn’t really pin him, it was moreso just an accident. Hopefully this means will get another Punk vs. Bryan match in the near-future, because if this match is any sign, it would also be incredible.

Now, onto the bizarre…and…well, to me, pointless main event. We all know the stipulations going into this. It’s a straight up singles match with no disqualification. However, if anyone interferes, they’d be fired, effective immediately. Advantage Cena, right?

That’s what some people would think, but not me. Me and my friend Brian were actually talking about this match and how it would end the moment that stipulation was announced. Remember that guy the Big Show that Johnny fired recently? Well, being logical people that we are, we figured that since he was “fired”, he’s not technically a WWE superstar right now, and that he’d have free reign over what he could do in this match without worrying about his job.

And guess what? We were right.

Now before all this happened, Johnny was taking a beatdown. There was a section of the match where he got his face planted on the announce table, probably a dozen times. It was a bit ridiculous, but also hilarious.

There were actually a couple humorous spots in this match worth pointing out. At one point in time, Cena put a headset on himself and Johnny and called the match briefly, making fun of Cole and Booker T in the process. The best part though was when he grabbed the mic and told Johnny he was going to put him in the STF. He added the stipulation though that he’d let Johnny out of it if he could last 10 seconds. And of course, Johnny did…twice.

But enough babble about this awful, garbage, comedy match. Onto the important part – the ending. Johnny decided he wanted to try and run out of the arena, and it looked like he was going to be successful. He’d gotten a few solid chair shots in on Cena, so he was down and out in the middle of the ring, leaving Johnny a free pass to get the hell out.

Well, not so fast. While trying to escape, he ran right into the Big Show. The same guy he recently fired on Monday Night Raw. And Big Show decided to be his personal escort back to the ring.

In the ring, Johnny begged for mercy of the Big Show and Cena, as he seemingly found himself in between a rock and a hard place (aka – between Cena and Show). Show then grabbed him by the throat as if he was going to deliver a chokeslam. Instead, he threw him to Cena, who had him set up for an AA, and then…well…in the most predictable move of the night, Show hit Cena with the Knockout Punch. And that was all she wrote, as Johnny covered him up for the 1-2-3, retaining his job in the process.

Seriously, WWE? How much more predictable could you have been? When Johnny fired Show on Raw, everyone in their right mind knew this was going to happen. Why? Because he was “fired” and wasn’t on the current roster. Bleh. It’s endings like this that make me want to vomit sometimes. Seriously? I realize Johnny has tons of heat on him, and it’s probably not a bad idea to have a heel GM when your roster is littered with a lot of great faces, but I’m sick of him. The dude has no charisma and is terrible on the mic. Those two things are kind of important when you’re the GM of two shows. And they’re especially important when you force-feed said awful GM down our throats constantly on the show.

The WWE better damn well have a good place for this to go, because I hate the fact that Johnny won. Maybe they’ll make a new Corporation or something, who knows. They’ve got a start with the heel turn of Show, so who knows. But this better have a good payoff if you’re going to be making me tolerate Johnny on TV more. It’s bad enough having to listen to Cole and his nonsensical, psychobabble bullcrap on a weekly basis. Adding Johnny to the mix just makes it umpteen times crappier.

Anyways, as a whole, this was another solid outing for WWE PPVs. Bryan vs. Punk was fantastic, the Fatal Four Way was solid if not slightly underwhelming, the tag title match was fantastic, and the rest of the matches were a mixed bag of solid and bleh.

Monday Night Raw should be interesting tomorrow night. They’re advertising on WWE.com that Johnny suffered a whole bunch of injuries in his match with Cena, so it’ll be interesting to see how that gets played off on TV. And of course, I’m highly interested to see where the Johnny/Big Show alliance goes, and if more people are added into that forray. And of course, we have the Triple H and Brock Lesnar storyline that will likely continue. Based on this alone, Raw looks like it’ll have plenty of potential. Only time will tell though.

Until next time.

P.S. I was right about the massiveness of this post. 1974 words later, and I’m finally done.