http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/blog.php?13708-Marqus-Stewart Wrestling News and Discussion - eWrestlingNews.com Community en Sat, 25 May 2013 03:12:40 GMT vBulletin 10 http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/blog.php?13708-Marqus-Stewart http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/entry.php?45182-Ramblings-of-a-Horseman-3-23-13 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:39:29 GMT WOOO!!! Welcome to my new blog. Sorry, I've been off the grid for a while . Making moves and other fun stuff. There's not going to be missing points I can talk about every week so I decided to have another blog where I can just speak my mind on any number of topics I chose. So let's begin.

We are officially on the road to Wrestlemania and WHOA!! It is not a good start. I could begin with the split between fans on whether The Rock should be WWE Champion, but I'll touch on that in a bit. I wanna start with this past week's episode of Raw which is a prime example of what's wrong with everything. Now let me set the record straight. I'm not like one of these other guys who look for every opportunity to bash the WWE. I LOVE THE WWE! I'm a life long fan. Always have and always will. I more often than others look for ways to praise the company instead of bashing it for not being what it used to be. But this is Wrestlemania season. This is easily my favorite time of the year besides the beginning of Summer. More than Christmas, and more than football season. It's 3 months of top notch sports entertainment on a weekly basis building to the mega event of the year. Well this year it feels nothing like that. This week on Raw they opened up with John Cena. The guy who will be headlining this year's show and is your franchise player. What do you do with him 2 weeks before the PPV? You give him a weak promo with a tag team that's been jobbing for months. Then put him in a match which the majority of it happens during the commercial. And that's it! For as many agentss and writers who work for this company, this was all you can come up with? I don't believe they deserve the title of "creative" any more. I know what people are going to say. "Well it would be a lot better if the Rock would show up." And I agree. I believe the Rock being champion and being off TV for 2 weeks does hurt the build up for this match. But you can't tell me as much as we know now, the creative team or head honchos couldn't have better prepared for his departure and gave us something better to sink our teeth into so that we can get excited for this match. Hell, The Rock's schedule was leaked online way back in December and you couldn't have had something prepared back then. This match is a sequel for all intents and purposes. It's supposed to be bigger and better than before and so far it's just disappointing.

Speaking of disappointing, besides the 2 championships, this time of year is all about one thing..The Streak. And as much as I am a HUGE C.M. Punk fan, I'm not that into this match. For starters, the whole 4 way match to determine an opponent for Taker wasn't bad, but highly unnecessary. Especially when your guy lyour building the match towards is C.M. Punk. Two weeks before hand he talked John Cena into putting his title shot he earned at the Royal Rumble on the line. You're telling me he couldn't talk Taker into having a match with him at WM29? Then you have the unfortunate passing of Paul Bearer. Somehow they were able to take this tragedy and work it into the story where it gave Punk some heat, and Taker a reason to want to not only face him, but hurt him really bad.It was actually starting to get interesting. But then they continued to ride Paul's death the following week into a promo that left me more dissatisfied than excited. Punk does some juggling of Paul Bearer's urn that upset a few folks but not me. He's been disrespecting folks for weeks and crossing lines that you wouldn't expect. Punk cemented his spot as the top heel weeks ago so I'm not surprised about anything he does anymore. My shock came from The Undertaker. After 2 weeks of CM Punk disrespecting the memory of Paul Bearer, he just stands there and does nothing. Because of his history and who he is, I would have expected some lightning, fireball, or anything supernatural. Nothing. Because of the 2 feuds with HBK and Triple H, I would have expected for Taker to verbally cut Punk apart. I mean he pulled both those guys "punk cards". But when it came to a legit Punk, he gave us nothing. It just faded to black and we went to commercial. I was shocked to say the least.

Now with Wrestlemania being two weeks away, it was due time that we started seeing the rest of the card start to take shape on Raw, which it did. But for the most part...still not excited. I know we've got some decent matches set up like Ryback vs. Mark Henry. Most fans are hating this but I'm super excited. Ryback to me hasn't had any real competition as far as his size and character goes, and Mark Henry is out to prove he's still the dominate force he once was. It would be a perfect storm if Ryback hadn't lost his last 3 PPV matches. But nonetheless, It's the one match I'm really looking forward to. Triple H vs. Brock has me a little excited but that's because when he wants to, no one can sell a story better than Triple H. Despite the disappointment of the stipulation announcement, I love the promo he pulled to get Brock to fight him. It was classic stuff about 2 men who just wanted and needed to beat the hell out of each other. It's what this business used to be about. It was "Hey! You disrespected my legacy, my friends, and my family. I have no choice but to hurt you and leave you a bloody mess." Remember when that was the basis of all good feuds? I know things need to be PG, but does everything have to start with a joke? That's why I was happy to see Jack Swagger break Ricardo's ankle. Not because I dislike Ricardo, but because I needed more to get me behind this match. The rants of a racist old man and his lapdog blindly following his lead just isn't doing it for me. And when did Big E. Langston and Dolph Ziggler become a tag team? The best worker in the company, who also holds the MITB briefcase and he's in a tag match? And why is no one paying attention to the fact that Chris Jericho gets a louder pop than anyone on the roster. I know he's all about putting the young guys over, but we couldn't do anything better with him than a match with an unproven superstar like Fandango? By the way I don't care if this gimmick works out or not, they need to keep his dancer. GORGEOUS!!! Basically what I'm getting at is the mid card isn't looking good. My concern level for the quality of this year's Wrestlemania is at an all time high. And they're actually going to charge people $70 in some markets. It better be worth it.

Ok I've rambled on long enough. Check back soon for my Wrestlemania edition of The Missing Points. Follow me on Twitter @MTStewart4. And as always, Keep Stylin & Profilin. ]]> Marqus Stewart http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/entry.php?45182-Ramblings-of-a-Horseman-3-23-13 http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/entry.php?44056-The-Missing-Points-1st-Edition Sun, 11 Nov 2012 03:04:42 GMT Welcome to the first edition of my new blog The Missing Points. My name is Marqus and for those that don't know I am a life long huge wrestling fan. I've bounced around this country searching for a dream and a career that I love. I recently came to the realization that wrestling is the only thing I've consistently loved my whole life and I needed to incorporate into my life more. My passion is just as strong as it was when I was a kid and I needed to make this a active part of my future. I hope to one day have my own radio show or even make it to the big leagues as an on air personality. For now I'll let this blog be my stepping stone to bigger things.

I read a lot of other sites blog's and articles. Everyone always points out the obvious topics to talk about but I feel some points are missed that help you see the bigger picture. I choose this forum to talk about such things. So here we go with our first point.

#1: The Survivor Series Switcheroo: Last week on Raw it was announced that at the Survivor Series PPV, there would be a Traditional Survivor series match pitting a team of Superstars captained by Mick Foley vs. a team of superstars captained by the WWE Champion CM Punk. This was because of recent promos and cheap shots that have been delivered over the past few weeks by the respective captains. Well for whatever reason those plans were quickly changed. This past Monday WWE Chairman Vince McMahon came out and announced a new main event. It will be a Triple Threat match for The WWE Championship. CM Punk will defend his title against Ryback who he defeated at HIAC under controversial circumstances, and John Cena who was pulled from the match due to an elbow injury that required surgery. Many fans where highly upset over this decision and I don't understand why. I'm excited for this match! The match may not be great but usually when you put Punk and Cena in the ring together something good comes out of it. I'm more excited about the significance of this match. The Monday after Survivor Series, if Punk is still the champion then he would have held the WWE Title for one full year. A FULL YEAR PEOPLE?! No one does that anymore. Punk doesn't have the size and look that most champions have had in the past. Before Punk the only smaller superstar to hold the belt longer than 4 months was Shawn Michaels. That was about 15 years ago. Times are changing from the big bulky guys holding all the gold. Punk is proving that with charisma, drive, and hard work, anyone can be the back bone of the company no matter your look or size. There are a lot of smaller wrestlers not just on the roster but coming up through development as well that need to believe they have a real shot at making it. Plus you have to look at where this is leading to and I'm not talking about WM29. Before that, the WWE Champion has to face The Rock at The Royal Rumble. Punk has been building a tremendous legacy with this title run. He'll be facing an even bigger one if he's still champ by the Rumble. As big as all the other matches and victories have been, none will be bigger than that. Another successful title defense before then would only help. Especially one over 2 superstars in one night with the reputations of the franchise John Cena and wrecking ball Ryback. Some folks are worried that another loss for Ryback will hurt his rise to stardom. I disagree. Ryback has plenty of time to be a seasoned main eventer and not a flash in the pan. One thing we've seen over the last year or so is that superstars who are rocketed to the top too soon fizzle out real fast. Ask Sheamus and Del Rio. John Cena will be fine because well...he's John Cena. Punk needs the victory. With a win at the Survivor Series and a potential successful title defense at the TLC PPV, (possibly against Foley) Punk will roll into the Rumble with huge momentum. This could turn into a classic match and be the start of a great Road to Wrestlemania. Punk is having a year that won't be match for quite some time in the future. Years down the road who knows. We may talk about this more than the infamous shoot promo. Pipe Bomb!


#2-Zig then Zag: Since CM Punk was taken out as one of the captains for the traditional Survivor Series match, a replacement had to be named. That replacement would be Smackdown's MITB winner Dolph Ziggler. This was sort of a big swerve since it seems they were building a match pitting John Cena vs. Dolph at the PPV. I was excited for this match because Ziggler has been putting on stellar matches since winning the contract. His short feud with Jericho put out some quality matches and although he lost several times to Sheamus, that matches were good. A show stealing match versus Cena would have proven how ready he is for the main event and a victory would have cemented the fact. But the match is off and I'm even more excited about that simply because I hated the story this match was getting built off of. The Cena/AJ Lee affair is not that entertaining especially if you watched this story play out over the summer in TNA. Ironically with their AJ(Styles). Anytime it looks like WWE is stealing ideas from TNA you should be worried. But I'm glad Ziggler is in this match not just because he's the captain but because of one of the opposing team members he will have to face: Randy Orton. The buzz on the web is that the road to Wrestlemania will feature a feud between Orton and Ziggler that will lead to a World Title match at WM29. For those that don't know the traditional survivor series match is Orton's signature match much like the HIAC match is for Triple H , and the I Quit match is for Cena. If memory serves me right, Orton has only lost once in this match and that was last year. I can see it coming down to Ziggler and Orton in the end and Dolph getting the win. This will definitely be something to hold over Orton's head and brag about over the next few months. This could even be the final act that compels Ziggler to cash in the MITB contract and win the world title. I hope once he does he can finally break away from Vickie. Though the pair worked well in the past and her crowd heat has definitely helped him get over as a heel, it's time for a change. Either way it's Dolph's time to shine. He has been a great worker in the ring and he is funny as hell. If you've never seen his web show WWE Download or watched him on ZTLIS you need to check him out. With Vickie gone, he won't have to share the mic as much and hopefully he can showcase more of his personality. Putting Ziggler in this match could be a surprising springboard into the main event and the beginning of a great world title run. ]]> Marqus Stewart http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/community/entry.php?44056-The-Missing-Points-1st-Edition