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Monday, March 12, 2012

3/12/2012- WWE Road to WrestleMania, MLB Spring Training, Bellator 60 results, The Ultimate Fighter: Live Season Premiere, more

Hello everyone! I hope all of you had a great weekend! There was a lot that happened this Monday regarding the Road to WrestleMania, as well as some newsworthy stuff during the NFL offseason. Here we go!
WWE
Last Monday on Raw kicked off with Shawn Michaels confronting Triple H regarding his WrestleMania rematch against The Undertaker, and told Triple H that he's the special guest referee in the match.

After the promo, the first match of the night was Santino Marella vs Jack Swagger for the United States Championship, in which Santino captured the title. John Laurinaitis almost reversed the decision, but since SmackDown GM Theodore Long was in charge of Raw that night, Long ejected Laurinaitis and David Otunga from the building.  Overall it was a good Raw, and the best part was the SAP audio option was back on my television. Which meant that I watched the matches in Spanish audio and kept the English audio for the promos, since Carlos Cabrera & Marcelo Rodriguez>> Michael Cole & Jerry Lawler. Here are the rest of the highlights from Raw:


Later in the week on SmackDown, Interim Raw GM John Laurinaitis took over SmackDown for the night and kicked it off with a rematch of Santino Marella vs Jack Swagger for the US Championship in a Steel Cage match.

Also, during SmackDown, the 2 GMs went at it in a match, and things weren't exactly the way it was planned.

Overall, SmackDown wasn't too special, but it did serve a purpose. Hopefully, it will pick up some steam going into WrestleMania time. Also, this Monday on Raw is a special episode where The Rock and John Cena will battle it out by singing. It's called "Rock Concert vs John Cena Rap". Here's a preview of tonight's Raw.

MLB
Here's the schedule for this week's Spring Training in New York baseball:

Yankees
  • 3/12: vs. Astros
  • 3/13: vs. Red Sox
  • 3/14: @ Blue Jays
  • 3/15: @ Nationals
  • 3/16: vs. Nationals
  • 3/17: vs. Astros
  • 3/18: @ Orioles
Mets
  • 3/12: @ Tigers
  • 3/13: vs. Cardinals
  • 3/14: @ Tigers
  • 3/15: @ Marlins
  • 3/16: vs. Tigers
  • 3/17: vs. Braves
  • 3/18: @ Astros
Bellator
Bellator Fighting Championships returned for Season 6, and the difference is that all of the fights for this season have been moved to Friday nights. Bellator 60 kicked off with the Featherweight Tournament as well as a Featherweight title fight between Joe Warren and Pat Curran. Here are the results of the main card:
  • Alexandre Bezerra def. Kenny Foster via submission at Round 2
  • Marlon Sandro def. Roberto Vargas via submission at Round 1
  • Mike Corey def. Ronnie Mann via unanimous decision
  • Daniel Straus def. Jeremy Spoon via unanimous decision
  • Pat Curran def. Joe Warren via KO at Round 3 to become the NEW Bellator Featherweight Champion
Here are the highlights from Bellator 60:


UFC
UFC's reality show The Ultimate Fighter made its debut on FX, and the major things to point out are that all fights will be live every Friday night on TUF, no commentary will be present (rather the ambient sound of the TUF warehouse), and all the fights in the season premiere were only 1 round. Here are the results of who will enter the TUF house:
  • Joe Proctor def Joe Rinaldi via submission
  • Cristiano Marcello def Jared Carlsten via submission
  • Sam Sicilia def Erin Beach via KO
  • Chris Tickle def Austin Lyons via KO
  • Andy Ogle def Brendan Weafer via unanimous decision
  • Vinc Pichel def Cody Pfister via submission
  • John Cofer def Mark Glover via unanimous decision
  • Chris Saunders def Chase Hackett via unanimous decision
  • James Vick def Dakota Cochrane via split decision
  • Michael Chiesa def Johnavan Visante via submission
  • Mike Rio def Ali Maclean via submission
  • Justin Lawrence def James Krause via TKO
  • Daron Cruickshank def Drew Dober by unanimous decision
  • Jeremy Larsen def Jeff Smith via unanimous decision
  • Al Iaquinta def Jon Tuck via unanimous decision
  • Myles Jury def Akbarh Arreloa via unanimous decision
Ring Ka King
This weekend on the episodes of RKK featured the coronation of Brutus Magnus as the Ring Ka King Heavyweight Championship, as well as the power struggle between Ring Ka King Commissioner Jazzy Lahoria and TNA founder Jeff Jarrett. It also featured the RKK debut of Angelina Love. Overall, those episodes were okay, but nothing too special.

NFL
As many people found out in this offseason, there were a lot of newsworthy events:
  • Peyton Manning officially released from the Colts after spending a majority of his career as a quarterback.
  • Mark Sanchez signing a 3-year extension with the New York Jets, officially taking them out of the Manning free agency saga, and clearing up some cap space
  • Brandon Jacobs released from the New York Giants
  • Redskins trading up for the 2nd draft pick from the Rams
  • Sione Pouha signing a 3 year deal with the Jets
Out of all the events, the Mark Sanchez deal has been the 2nd newsworthy story behind the Peyton Manning free agency saga. Overall, there were mixed reactions to Sanchez signing a new deal, but this tells me that Jets are developing a franchise quarterback and will work from the ground up to create a better 2012 season. Only time shall tell.


Outside of Sports
Earlier today, I met with guest speaker Joshua Garay, founder of TalentSplash.com at a Marketing Club meeting at Kean University. His website is about social networking with people who want to share their talents such as music, acting, art, etc. This website lets talents get noticed by others agencies as well. If you have any talent you want to share with the world, feel free to visit http://www.talentsplash.com/ to find out more information. Signing up is free.

That's all I have to say for now. Have a good week!

-NYCKNP 

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