Hey everyone. I hope you all had a great weekend, and for those who were in the heat wave, I hope you guys were safe because it was a sauna. All right then, lets get down to business as there's a lot to talk about.
NFL
Yes, you have heard it. The NFL Lockout is officially over as the owners and the NFLPA have come to agreements on a new CBA that made it work for both parties. Now, all the teams are resuming work and very soon preseason & regular season will start. The kickoff game is scheduled to be on September 8, 2011 with the Packers and Saints will play against each other, while the regular season starts on September 11, 2011. Pertaining to the teams that I talk about in the blog, the NY Giants will head to FedEx Field to face the Washington Redskins while the NY Jets will host the Dallas Cowboys in a prime time game.
More details can be found on this article: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d820f4c7f/article/vote-now-in-hands-of-brady-plaintiffs-after-player-reps-approve-deal?module=HP11_breaking_news
Bellator
Bellator Summer Series continued this past Saturday with the featherweight tournament semi finals. The bout took place at Casino Rama in Ontario, Canada. Commentator Sean Wheelock mentioned that this was Bellator's first time hosting an event in Canada (and outside of the USA in general). Overall, there were 7 fights on the card, but only 5 were televised. Here are the results:
1. Neil Grove def. Zak Jensen via TKO at Round 1
2. Chris Horodecki def. Chris Saunders via unanimous decision
3. Alexandre Bezerra def. Jesse Gross via technical submission
4. Marlon Sandro def. Nazareno Malegarie via unanimous decision to advance to the Bellator Summer Series Featherweight Finals
5. Pat Curran def. Ronnie Mann via unanimous decision to advance to the Bellator Summer Series Featherweight Finals
Overall, it was a so-so event. The under card wasn't as good as I thought it would be but the main focus was the Featherweight Tournament and those fights on the tournament were much better.
Bellator will conclude their Summer Series on August 20th 2011.
WWE
What a week it was for the WWE last week. Last week on Raw, the WWE Championship was vacated and a tournament was done to crown the new WWE Champion. However, the finals of the WWE Championship tournament was postponed to this week as there was a shocking moment that occurred. Vince McMahon has been relieved of his duties as the Chairman of the Board and has been succeeded by Triple H. WWE has officially called this the "Post-McMahon Era". Here's a preview of tonight's WWE Raw:
Also, later that week CM Punk "invaded" Comic-Con and had a confrontation with Triple H:
At the end of the week on Friday Night SmackDown, SmackDown's MiTB winner Daniel Bryan announced that he will be cashing in his contract at WrestleMania 28. I'm not sure whether that claim will be true so stay tuned to find out.
MLB
Over the weekend, the Yankees faced the Oakland Athletics and defeated them 2 out of 3 in what was considered to be the heat wave game. Friday's win was the tremendous won as they scored in the double digits. Meanwhile, the Mets went to Miami, Florida to face the Marlins and although they won on Friday, the next two days weren't good for them at all.
The Yankees will host the Mariners this week from today til Wednesday, while the Mets will head to Cincinnati to face the Reds in a four game series.
This is all I have to say for now, so have a great week and I will attempt to write on Friday to preview this upcoming events. The good news is that NFL is back and it will be football heavy on this blog starting this fall.
Salutations,
NYCKNP
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