Hello everyone! 2012 is coming to an end within a few hours, and tomorrow will be 2013. My thoughts on 2012 was that it was an eventful year.
In NY sports, only one team made it to the postseason in the 2012 calendar year, and that was the New York Yankees. However, Yankee fans such as myself want to forget that postseason since the ALCS was the worst thing to see after Jeter was injured and the rest of the roster didn't respond back. In professional wrestling, it was a decent year since TNA expanded into India and had their own spinoff promotion called Ring Ka King, which was moderately successful. The wrestlers such as Chavo Guerrero Jr, Joey Ryan, and the former Luke Gallows became successful in RKK that they even went to TNA's flagship show, Impact Wrestling. ROH, I don't follow as much as I used to since they don't have a television presence in the NYC media market, and have somewhat became a shell of it's former self. Nonetheless, I wish everyone in ROH good luck. WWE, on the other hand had made history since WrestleMania 28 made a lot of profit promoting The Rock vs John Cena match, which The Rock emerged victorious. Also, Raw expanded to 3 hours which began in late July from their 1000th episode (TNA also responded back by having Impact Live on Thursdays from 8-10 PM on Spike). Early on, the 3 hours was an initial success, but it soon became over saturation since WWE produced too many programming in one week. It starts off with a 3 hour Raw, then WWE Main Event on Wednesday, followed by Friday Night SmackDown, and to close the week WWE Saturday Morning Slam.
Shifting towards MMA, UFC made it's full transition to Fox Sports as UFC now has events on FOX, FX, and Fuel TV along with their revenue earned from PPV. UFC attempted to make Ultimate Fighter Live on Fridays, which failed miserably, but it wasn't all bad since they had the return of Georges St Pierre who came off a year long injury and defeated Carlos Condit to become the Undisputed UFC Welterweight Champion. Other notable UFC moments were Cain Velasquez regaining the UFC Heavyweight Title from Junior Dos Santos and Ronda Rousey becoming the first UFC Women's Champion, ending the debate on whether the UFC would have a female division. Also, outside of UFC, Bellator improved on their product going into 2013, which is potentially their big year debuting on Spike TV.
Outside of sports, it was also very eventful since we had a Presidential Election where Incumbent Barack Obama defeated the Challenger Mitt Romney in a very close election. And a week before the election was Hurricane Sandy, which caused a lot of damage. Fortunate for me, I was lucky to only lose power for a day and a half. Also, Toonami returned to television after a four year absence.
Here's hoping for a better 2013. Bigger things are coming, and remember... Stay Tuned! Happy New Year!
-NYCKNP
In NY sports, only one team made it to the postseason in the 2012 calendar year, and that was the New York Yankees. However, Yankee fans such as myself want to forget that postseason since the ALCS was the worst thing to see after Jeter was injured and the rest of the roster didn't respond back. In professional wrestling, it was a decent year since TNA expanded into India and had their own spinoff promotion called Ring Ka King, which was moderately successful. The wrestlers such as Chavo Guerrero Jr, Joey Ryan, and the former Luke Gallows became successful in RKK that they even went to TNA's flagship show, Impact Wrestling. ROH, I don't follow as much as I used to since they don't have a television presence in the NYC media market, and have somewhat became a shell of it's former self. Nonetheless, I wish everyone in ROH good luck. WWE, on the other hand had made history since WrestleMania 28 made a lot of profit promoting The Rock vs John Cena match, which The Rock emerged victorious. Also, Raw expanded to 3 hours which began in late July from their 1000th episode (TNA also responded back by having Impact Live on Thursdays from 8-10 PM on Spike). Early on, the 3 hours was an initial success, but it soon became over saturation since WWE produced too many programming in one week. It starts off with a 3 hour Raw, then WWE Main Event on Wednesday, followed by Friday Night SmackDown, and to close the week WWE Saturday Morning Slam.
Shifting towards MMA, UFC made it's full transition to Fox Sports as UFC now has events on FOX, FX, and Fuel TV along with their revenue earned from PPV. UFC attempted to make Ultimate Fighter Live on Fridays, which failed miserably, but it wasn't all bad since they had the return of Georges St Pierre who came off a year long injury and defeated Carlos Condit to become the Undisputed UFC Welterweight Champion. Other notable UFC moments were Cain Velasquez regaining the UFC Heavyweight Title from Junior Dos Santos and Ronda Rousey becoming the first UFC Women's Champion, ending the debate on whether the UFC would have a female division. Also, outside of UFC, Bellator improved on their product going into 2013, which is potentially their big year debuting on Spike TV.
Outside of sports, it was also very eventful since we had a Presidential Election where Incumbent Barack Obama defeated the Challenger Mitt Romney in a very close election. And a week before the election was Hurricane Sandy, which caused a lot of damage. Fortunate for me, I was lucky to only lose power for a day and a half. Also, Toonami returned to television after a four year absence.
Here's hoping for a better 2013. Bigger things are coming, and remember... Stay Tuned! Happy New Year!
-NYCKNP
