7/18/2011- WWE Money in the Bank results, Analysis of The Rock's recent YouTube post, Yankees, Mets, more

Hello everyone. This will be a very interesting blog post as last night was a groundbreaking moment in the history of not only the WWE, but also professional wrestling. WWE Money in the Bank took place last night at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, IL. The main event of the PPV was John Cena vs CM Punk for the WWE Championship. Here are the results for the PPV:

WWE
Money in the Bank

• Daniel Bryan wins SmackDown Money in the Bank!!! (other participants included Kane, Sin Cara,  Sheamus, Cody Rhodes, Justin Gabriel, Heath Slater, and Wade Barrett)
• Kelly Kelly def. Brie Bella to retain the WWE Divas Championship
• Mark Henry def. The Big Show
• Alberto Del Rio win Raw Money in the Bank (other participants included The Miz, Alex Riley, Rey Mysterio, Kofi Kingston, Jack Swagger, Evan Bourne, and R-Truth)
• Christian def. Randy Orton to become the World Heavyweight Champion*
• CM Punk def. John Cena to become the WWE Champion** (Match of the Night)

*= The stipulation for that match was that if the match became a DQ or bad officiating was involved, Orton would lose the title. Orton hit a low blow on Christian, thus DQing himself to which as mentioned above.
**= CM Punk's contract with WWE would then expire after the end of the PPV. The stipulation was that if CM Punk won, John Cena would be "fired".

The last match of the card was considered by many the Match of the Night as both put a stellar performance. According to PWTorch, that match was considered to be 5 stars.

Shifting gears, earlier last week, The Rock posted a video on YouTube regarding John Cena's comments. I will post this again and give some analysis of the promo.

In this video, The Rock says that "He is back and he is never going away". According to Rock, Cena understood it as he must appear at every single show because he is back, but Rock says "that is not what I meant". The Rock says that he has done it all.

• Reaction: When The Rock says that he came back and is never going away means that The Rock is under a WWE Legends contract. The WWE Legends contract means that the performer under that contract doesn't have to appear as a full time wrestler but will make special appearances. This is what Rock was trying to say. Also, when he says that he has done it all, it meant that he paid his dues to the business and worked a full time schedule in the past.

• Quote (paraphrased) from The Rock: "When you were back in college, studying "douchebag-o-nomics".It was The Rock and all of his boys from the Attitude Era "the greatest era in professional wrestling", we were on the road every single night, city, & state. Every country around the world! We were laying it down! The Rock was earning the nickname of his life "The People's Champion!" ............ We were paving the way for chicks like you!"
• Reaction: What he said was partially true. During his time with then WWF, he was working a full time schedule and touring around the world to pave the way for the next generation. About the part of the Attitude Era being the greatest era, I'm going to have to disagree a little bit on that one. Sure the Era had a lot of stars but there were some bad things about the era. However, your mileage may vary.

• Quote from The Rock: "Here's a fact John Cena. You are an employee of the WWE. The Rock is NOT. You are obligated to go to every single show, every single night. If you don't, guess what, you get FIRED".
• Reaction: The part about John Cena obligated to appear for every single WWE event is true. However, The Rock should've chose better words. The reason why because WWE classifies their personnel as "independent contractors", NOT "employees". When Linda McMahon was running for senator, the media and the Democratic Party of Connecticut used that part about independent contractors against her. It's rumored that Linda may run for senator again in 2012. Don't be surprised if part of this video clip appears on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart during election time in 2012.

• Quote from The Rock: "You know why men boo you around the world John? You know why men don't like you or respect you?....... You wanna know WHY? Because The Rock is a MAN. And the majority of the men see through bullshit. We can smell a phony punk a mile away".
• Reaction: What he said was definitely a work.

• Quote from The Rock: Oh, sure. You've got your fans who are men. Sure you do. Believe me, they are all over The Rock's Twitter. They are all over The Rock's Facebook, defending you........ (to Cena fans): OH! GET YOUR PUNK A** OFF THE ROCK'S TWITTER!!!
• Reaction: I have to agree with The Rock on that one as there are way too many trolls on the internet nowadays.

Pretty much this video is self explanatory. It's hinted that The Rock may appear at SummerSlam or Survivor Series later this year.

Tune in to Raw tonight.

MLB
After the Yankees-Blue Jays traded wins making in 2-2 & Phillies def. Mets 2 out of 3, the Yankees face Tampa for the next 4 days. The Mets will have a make-up game with Florida and will face St. Louis later this week.

This is all I have to say. WWE is no longer in a lull period, so I will be updating on a regular basis.

Salutations,
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