WWE And TNA: 7 Worst Moments Of The Week (July 5)

That's gonna leave a mark.

In this current year of 1999, Mark Henry and Big Show wrestled during the first match on Raw, and it wasn€™t very good. Wait, it€™s 2015? Well that€™s just awful! That opening match didn€™t have anything to do with the 2.51 rating did it? Or maybe it was the 20 minute gift giving segment. At least Smackdown delivered a hotly anticipated follow-up to open their show...which featured The Authority bragging about the gifts they received. Did the entire writing staff just take their summer vacation? WWE also gave us a gift with Seth Rollins vs. Roman Reigns on SmackDown, with not a single day of hype. Why bother protecting a potential future WrestleMania main event when we can just do it RIGHT NOW? Maybe next week we can get Brock Lesnar vs. The Undertaker on Superstars, just because. Elsewhere, The Beast in the East special was perhaps the best WWE event in months. No evil authority figures, no JBL, only two hours long, and a focus on engaging wrestling with fresh match-ups. Did Vince McMahon approve this idea? Or did half the company decide to sneak out of the country to put on a show? Over in TNA, Ethan Carter captured heavyweight gold by defeating Kurt Angle. From Derrick Bateman to the unemployment line, to the top of his current company. No jokes here, good for him! But enough celebrating, we€™ve got some work to do. It€™s time to take a play out of Jericho€™s 1,004 moves and Three Handle Moss Covered Family Gredenza our way through WWE and TNA€™s worst of the week!

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As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at." Sadly, I can't solve a murder like Rust...or change a tire, or even tie a tie. But I do know all the lyrics to Hulk Hogan's "Real American" theme song and can easily name every Natural Born Thriller from the dying days of WCW. I was once ranked 21st in the United States in Tetris...on the Playstation 3 version...for about a week. Follow along @AndrewSoucek and check out my podcast at wrestlingwithfriends.com