Hello everyone, I hope everyone had a great week. Something did happen that was out of the ordinary on Monday night, but I will get into that information during the blog. First, here's a review of this week's Tough Enough.
Tough Enough started with a recap of what happened last week with Christina taking a fall that injured her and was sent to the emergency room. The show started off with an exterior shot of the Tough Enough house. Trish Stratus was waiting outside for Christina to return from the hospital. When Christina arrived back, Trish helped her out to get inside the house. It was "just a sprain". Thank god it wasn't anything too serious. While Christina and Trish were in the house heading upstairs, AJ overheard them talking. AJ felt guilty of what happened since he accidentally caused Christina's top rope move to be botched. AJ would approach Christina and apologize for what happened. Christina said that it was nothing to worry about. After the opening credits aired, the training session was in progress with Andy, Luke, Jeremiah, and AJ in the ring. Christina was excused from physical activity in this episode, but wasn't exempt from the non-physical work. Steve Austin entered the ring and told that this week's theme was charisma. DeMott got the men to do training exercises in which AJ and Jeremiah were scolded by DeMott. Luke and Andy were looking good in the ring and impressed DeMott. DeMott then called for a "group hug". The life lesson was going to Hollywood and giving a tour of Los Angeles via a sight seeing tour bus. DeMott and USA Network's Psych star James Roday were the judges for this contest. AJ was the first person to go. He was okay on that one. Luke didn't connect with the tourists, despite his humor. Christina was okay at first, but lost the tourists attention after awhile. Andy went afterwards and felt a little shy speaking in front of tourists. He also turned his back while searching for the landmarks. I took public speaking and drama classes respectively in the past and the one thing I learned was "Never turn your back to the audience". Jeremiah stole the show, according to DeMott on the sight seeing tour. Once the tour ended, Roday declared Jeremiah for winning the life lesson of the day.
Later, The Rock makes an appearance at the Tough Enough training session. Everyone was overwhelmed with his presence around. The Rock then called everyone to stand in line for a sparring session. Christina "wanted to play" but because of her injury she wasn't able to spar with The Rock. After the sparring session, The Rock told everyone that they were too stiff and should "loosen up" in the ring. The skills challenge was about to occur. Rock decided to stick around for this segment. Stone Cold told everyone to leave the room, and will be called one by one. During this session, some one will get in the ring and cut a promo to Bill DeMott. The Rock, Trish, and Stone Cold were judges on this contest. Jeremiah went first. It sounded like a heel promo, but it was just average. Luke cut a promo next. Rock was confused when Luke said that the wolf will hunt down the big bad lion. Christina started strong, but fell extremely flat. AJ was also average as well, but DeMott wasn't impressed at all. AJ was the last person to go, and my god AJ did a really good job. DeMott smiled as did everyone else. After the skills challenge, The Rock then cut a promo on everyone in character and pretty much scolded everyone. However when Rock approached AJ, he broke character and said that he did great. After Rock exited, it was time for evaluation between Austin and the trainers. Once evaluation ended, Austin called the following to the bottom 3. AJ, Christina, and Andy were in the bottom three. Luke and Jeremiah went back to the house to celebrate, while the rest packed their bags to meet Stone Cold in the "room of doom". Austin scolded everyone, especially Andy. At first I thought that Andy was going home, but he managed to defend himself by showing aggression. Austin would eliminate Christina for "being too shy", and AJ since his performance overall was lacking (despite winning the skills challenge). The top 3 was now Andy, Luke, and Jeremiah.
This week's Raw was basically a hangover from Over The Limit PPV. Bret Hart made an appearance as a special guest referee for the match between John Cena & Rey Mysterio vs CM Punk and R-Truth as the main event. The tag titles changed hands as now David Otunga and Michael McGillicuddy are now the tag champions. Backstage, Big Show was run over by Alberto Del Rio's car. This prompted a storyline injury to write him off the storylines for the time being. Near the second half of Raw, Michael Cole was walking backstage heading to the ring. The backstage crew and the Divas were silently laughing at him. Cole attempted to offer a truce handshake to Eve, but Eve lifted her foot to Cole's face (interpreted as "kiss my foot"). Cole then headed to the ring to make a speech. Cole apologized to everyone in the WWE, especially Jerry Lawler. Cole asked Lawler if he can be forgiven, Lawler said yes. Cole would then join Matthews and Lawler for the second half of Raw. I'm assuming that Cole has turned face again, but we will see. The team of Miz and Alex Riley officially ended as Miz fired Riley from his "personal services". Riley would then beat down the Miz afterwards, showing signs of a face turn. The one moment that made me say WTF was the segment between Kharma and the Raw Divas. During an 8-divas tag team match, Kharma would interrupt, and head to the ring. All of the divas surrounded her in "Nexus formation". Kharma would then breakdown and start crying. WTF!!!!!!!!! After weeks of scaring the crap out of the divas, Kharma would start crying?!! It's reported on WWE.com that next week Kharma will explain her actions on Raw. I sure want a good explanation for that. At the end, it was all good as Cena and Mysterio won and celebrated with Bret Hart.
Shifting gears, UFC 130 will be occuring this weekend as the main event on the card is between Quinton "Rampage" Jackson and Matt Hamill. The main card will air on PPV, while the preliminaries will air on Facebook.com/UFC and Spike TV respectively. The Facebook edition of the preliminaries will air around 6PM, while the portion on Spike will air around 8PM. That way, everyone has a fight televised.
Now getting to the unusual thing that occured on Monday night. On Monday night, during the airings of Tough Enough, USA Network had a Tough Enough chatter where fans can chat with other fans about the show. Trish Stratus was the guest of the live chat and had a Q&A session with the fans. I joined at 11PM EST, since Tough Enough was airing on the West Coast (I did join for the East Coast portion of it, but the show was about to end and Trish was going to take a break from 9-11 PM. However, she did return to talk to the fans on the West Coast and those on the East Coast who didn't get a chance earlier). I asked a question, but it wasn't about wrestling since too many people asked the question about it earlier. I didn't expect a response from Trish, but here it is:
Basically, I asked a question about the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team, and whether she was a fan or not. I added a comment saying that she must've been happy that the won. The game between Toronto and New York has concluded by the time I asked the question with Toronto winning 6-2. I will give a paraphrased version of Trish's answer if anyone was confused with the original response.
(Trish: "I am. Blue Jays are doing well. At least one of my Toronto teams is doing well unlike the Maple Leafs".)
Even though it was a baseball question, at least it's better than nothing. Keep in mind that it was the real Trish Stratus who answered my question on USA Network's website. Here's the link of the live chat which is now archived: http://www.usanetwork.com/series/toughenough/chatter/
When you go on, go to "Ask Trish", then click on "Answers". Scroll down to look for my name (The hint is on the picture I posted)
If you want to follow Trish Stratus, you can like her on Facebook or follow her on Twitter.
Facebook.com/trishstratuscom
Twitter.com/trishstratuscom
Both of these social network sites are confirmed as official by WWE and TrishStratus.com
Getting to baseball, despite the Yankees losing to Toronto on Monday night, Yankees managed to win the following night, and Wednesday. Mets, however had a rough week as the lost to the Cubs on Tuesday and Thursday. This weekend, the Yankees make their first stop on their West Coast Tour as they face the Seattle Mariners. The Mets will return to Queens to face their division rival, the Philadelphia Phillies in what I call a "must-see game" this weekend.
Have a great Memorial Day weekend everyone! I will take a break from blogging to enjoy this weekend, and will resume on Tuesday. Here's a song to end the week:
Tough Enough started with a recap of what happened last week with Christina taking a fall that injured her and was sent to the emergency room. The show started off with an exterior shot of the Tough Enough house. Trish Stratus was waiting outside for Christina to return from the hospital. When Christina arrived back, Trish helped her out to get inside the house. It was "just a sprain". Thank god it wasn't anything too serious. While Christina and Trish were in the house heading upstairs, AJ overheard them talking. AJ felt guilty of what happened since he accidentally caused Christina's top rope move to be botched. AJ would approach Christina and apologize for what happened. Christina said that it was nothing to worry about. After the opening credits aired, the training session was in progress with Andy, Luke, Jeremiah, and AJ in the ring. Christina was excused from physical activity in this episode, but wasn't exempt from the non-physical work. Steve Austin entered the ring and told that this week's theme was charisma. DeMott got the men to do training exercises in which AJ and Jeremiah were scolded by DeMott. Luke and Andy were looking good in the ring and impressed DeMott. DeMott then called for a "group hug". The life lesson was going to Hollywood and giving a tour of Los Angeles via a sight seeing tour bus. DeMott and USA Network's Psych star James Roday were the judges for this contest. AJ was the first person to go. He was okay on that one. Luke didn't connect with the tourists, despite his humor. Christina was okay at first, but lost the tourists attention after awhile. Andy went afterwards and felt a little shy speaking in front of tourists. He also turned his back while searching for the landmarks. I took public speaking and drama classes respectively in the past and the one thing I learned was "Never turn your back to the audience". Jeremiah stole the show, according to DeMott on the sight seeing tour. Once the tour ended, Roday declared Jeremiah for winning the life lesson of the day.
Later, The Rock makes an appearance at the Tough Enough training session. Everyone was overwhelmed with his presence around. The Rock then called everyone to stand in line for a sparring session. Christina "wanted to play" but because of her injury she wasn't able to spar with The Rock. After the sparring session, The Rock told everyone that they were too stiff and should "loosen up" in the ring. The skills challenge was about to occur. Rock decided to stick around for this segment. Stone Cold told everyone to leave the room, and will be called one by one. During this session, some one will get in the ring and cut a promo to Bill DeMott. The Rock, Trish, and Stone Cold were judges on this contest. Jeremiah went first. It sounded like a heel promo, but it was just average. Luke cut a promo next. Rock was confused when Luke said that the wolf will hunt down the big bad lion. Christina started strong, but fell extremely flat. AJ was also average as well, but DeMott wasn't impressed at all. AJ was the last person to go, and my god AJ did a really good job. DeMott smiled as did everyone else. After the skills challenge, The Rock then cut a promo on everyone in character and pretty much scolded everyone. However when Rock approached AJ, he broke character and said that he did great. After Rock exited, it was time for evaluation between Austin and the trainers. Once evaluation ended, Austin called the following to the bottom 3. AJ, Christina, and Andy were in the bottom three. Luke and Jeremiah went back to the house to celebrate, while the rest packed their bags to meet Stone Cold in the "room of doom". Austin scolded everyone, especially Andy. At first I thought that Andy was going home, but he managed to defend himself by showing aggression. Austin would eliminate Christina for "being too shy", and AJ since his performance overall was lacking (despite winning the skills challenge). The top 3 was now Andy, Luke, and Jeremiah.
This week's Raw was basically a hangover from Over The Limit PPV. Bret Hart made an appearance as a special guest referee for the match between John Cena & Rey Mysterio vs CM Punk and R-Truth as the main event. The tag titles changed hands as now David Otunga and Michael McGillicuddy are now the tag champions. Backstage, Big Show was run over by Alberto Del Rio's car. This prompted a storyline injury to write him off the storylines for the time being. Near the second half of Raw, Michael Cole was walking backstage heading to the ring. The backstage crew and the Divas were silently laughing at him. Cole attempted to offer a truce handshake to Eve, but Eve lifted her foot to Cole's face (interpreted as "kiss my foot"). Cole then headed to the ring to make a speech. Cole apologized to everyone in the WWE, especially Jerry Lawler. Cole asked Lawler if he can be forgiven, Lawler said yes. Cole would then join Matthews and Lawler for the second half of Raw. I'm assuming that Cole has turned face again, but we will see. The team of Miz and Alex Riley officially ended as Miz fired Riley from his "personal services". Riley would then beat down the Miz afterwards, showing signs of a face turn. The one moment that made me say WTF was the segment between Kharma and the Raw Divas. During an 8-divas tag team match, Kharma would interrupt, and head to the ring. All of the divas surrounded her in "Nexus formation". Kharma would then breakdown and start crying. WTF!!!!!!!!! After weeks of scaring the crap out of the divas, Kharma would start crying?!! It's reported on WWE.com that next week Kharma will explain her actions on Raw. I sure want a good explanation for that. At the end, it was all good as Cena and Mysterio won and celebrated with Bret Hart.
Shifting gears, UFC 130 will be occuring this weekend as the main event on the card is between Quinton "Rampage" Jackson and Matt Hamill. The main card will air on PPV, while the preliminaries will air on Facebook.com/UFC and Spike TV respectively. The Facebook edition of the preliminaries will air around 6PM, while the portion on Spike will air around 8PM. That way, everyone has a fight televised.
Now getting to the unusual thing that occured on Monday night. On Monday night, during the airings of Tough Enough, USA Network had a Tough Enough chatter where fans can chat with other fans about the show. Trish Stratus was the guest of the live chat and had a Q&A session with the fans. I joined at 11PM EST, since Tough Enough was airing on the West Coast (I did join for the East Coast portion of it, but the show was about to end and Trish was going to take a break from 9-11 PM. However, she did return to talk to the fans on the West Coast and those on the East Coast who didn't get a chance earlier). I asked a question, but it wasn't about wrestling since too many people asked the question about it earlier. I didn't expect a response from Trish, but here it is:
(Trish: "I am. Blue Jays are doing well. At least one of my Toronto teams is doing well unlike the Maple Leafs".)
Even though it was a baseball question, at least it's better than nothing. Keep in mind that it was the real Trish Stratus who answered my question on USA Network's website. Here's the link of the live chat which is now archived: http://www.usanetwork.com/series/toughenough/chatter/
When you go on, go to "Ask Trish", then click on "Answers". Scroll down to look for my name (The hint is on the picture I posted)
If you want to follow Trish Stratus, you can like her on Facebook or follow her on Twitter.
Facebook.com/trishstratuscom
Twitter.com/trishstratuscom
Both of these social network sites are confirmed as official by WWE and TrishStratus.com
Getting to baseball, despite the Yankees losing to Toronto on Monday night, Yankees managed to win the following night, and Wednesday. Mets, however had a rough week as the lost to the Cubs on Tuesday and Thursday. This weekend, the Yankees make their first stop on their West Coast Tour as they face the Seattle Mariners. The Mets will return to Queens to face their division rival, the Philadelphia Phillies in what I call a "must-see game" this weekend.
Have a great Memorial Day weekend everyone! I will take a break from blogging to enjoy this weekend, and will resume on Tuesday. Here's a song to end the week:
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