Capital Punishment

This was an odd PPV, held in Washington with all of the President skits, but all the lame PG jokes aside there were a few decent matches.

First, Dolph Ziggler (my fav wrestler) defeated Kofi Kingston to become the new United States Champion. This was a decent match, but even I thought the ending was lame. Winning a match with a sleeper hold is the oldest and lamest finish in the books as far as I'm concerned. Dolph has so many high impact moves such as the Zig Zag and the Famasser, both would make for a much more exciting finish than the sleeper hold. Oh well, Dolph is now the United States Champion. Add that to his resume so far, which includes, United States Championship, Intercontinental Championship, and very briefly, World Heavyweight Championship. It would see that his next goal should be the WWE Championship!

Next was the showdown between Alex Riley and The Miz. Personally I hate The Miz and I think Alex Riley has been carrying him this whole time. Its nice that Riley is finally getting his own push. Defeating The Miz should help launch his own career.

The next match was The Big Show vs Alberto Del Rio. This had a strange build up since Alberto's personal ring announce ran over Big Show's leg with one of his expensive cars, and then Big Show knocked out Mark Henry on Smackdown. The high point of this whole match, which was pretty sad, was when Mark Henry came out and picked up the 500 pound Big Show, carried him over to the announce table and delivered the Worlds Strongest Slam threw the announce table. After that the Big Show just wasn't the same. They really played up the injured leg angle and that was ultimately the downfall of the Big Show. Honestly, the Big Show is a joke. He hasn't had a decent match since Brock Lesner left the company. He is just a big dump monster that is always easily outsmarted and defeated by much smaller weaker wrestlers. I can't really respect or cheer for the Big Show since its always a sure thing he will loose and it will be a lame finish. Oh well, that's his problem for letting himself get used like that, he could just stand up and knock out anyone he wants. I guess he gets paid more to look like a fool.

Next Ezekiel Jackson finally defeated Wade Barrett to win the Intercontinental Championship. This guy, Ezekiel, made a name for himself by body-slamming the Big Show. Since then he has won matches but repeatedly body-slamming his opponents. Finally they came up with a real finish for him, now he uses Lex Lugar's old Torture Rack. Honestly, I'm not that impressed with Ezekiel. He is big, obviously strong, but doesn't seem to have a clue what to do in a wrestling ring, and its horrible on the mic. He seems to have trouble just saying his catch phrase "I am the personification of domination." Its a clever line, but I think with his speaking skills they should use smaller words lol. How long will me be able to make a career off of a body slam?

CM Punk then defeated Rey Mysterio. This was a decent match, but then again it is every month when they fight. This seems to be a standard match for every major show. With no title or storyline either. They just fight every time the company needs a real match to save the show. The only point of interest in this whole match was that after he won CM Punk announced that he will be leaving WWE as soon as his contract expires at the end of the month. Right after the Money In The Back PPV in which CM Punk is fighting WWE Champion John Cena for the title. Punk swears he will win the title and then leave the company with the championship belt. I am suddenly getting Bret Hart flashbacks lol.

The real story of the PPV, and the match that should have been the main event was Christian vs Randy Orton for the World Championship. Randy Orton is the best wrestler in the company today and you can't help but hope for Christian to regain the World Title. So this was the match I wanted to see the most.

The match was great. Lots of great moves and great reversals. When Randy went for the RKO and Christian countered it with that backwards DDT he does I thought that was great. Still, that was not enough to get the win. I thought that would happen when Christian hit Randy with the spear, but again that wasn't enough for the win. Then out of nowhere like always, Randy hit Christian with the RKO. However, it was clear the moment Christian landed that his foot was under the rope which means the pin doesn't count. Somehow the ref of course missed this and counted 3 making Randy the winner.

The next edition of Smackdown GM Teddy Long stated that the ref's decision is final (he would know he used to be the ref lol). So again Christian was screwed. This would be working great if Christian was still the good guy and his "Peeps" were feeling sorry for him and demanding he gets another rematch. However, WWE decided to make him the bad guy and have him turn on his fans. So now when he gets screwed and ripped off everyone laughs at him and no one is on his side and no one wants to see him get another chance or even win the title. I think that's a shame. Christian had a huge fan following. Everyone was happy when he won the title. Why would they take away the title and make him turn on his fan-base? Now they got a lame heel that no one really cares about that is wining about getting screwed and no one cares. How long can they drag this out without giving Christian the title and making him a real champion?

In between the title matches Even Bourne fought Jack Swagger. Evan Bourne won!

Finally the main event. R-Truth, who apparently lost his mind after he lost his title show to John Morrison. He turned on his fans, refused to rap, refused to dance. He beat up his best friend John Morrison so badly he needed neck surgery afterwards. He smoked in the arena at ringside and blew smoke in Morrison's face. He then started talking to himself and acting crazy. He dressed up as a civil war solider on Memorial day. He has been attack and assaulting Cena's fans in the crowd. He refers to them all as "Jimmy."

Honestly, despite the fact that they are making R-Truth act like he lost his mind he is making a lot of senses lol. I'm sure most of the wrestlers in the back are sick of Cena's fan-base which consists of little kids probably ages 10 and under. This is the new PG WWE. They only try to appeal to young children again now. Reminds me of the Hulkamania days. "Say your prayers and take your vitamins" have been replaced with "Never give up!" same lame attitude. Now there is R-Truth, smoking around the ring, throwing drinks in the face of Cena's little fans (obviously plants lol), he is the anti-role-model. Its a perfect counter balance for Cena. I just don't think he should have to be insane, he could just be a more grown up adult character.

Regardless, in true WWE fashion, this match had a hilarious comic ending. R-Truth beat Cena so badly he left him dead in the ring and went to take a water break (a joke referencing when he first won his title shot in the gauntlet match but needed water breaks in between his matches lol). Only this time, as R-Truth stole a drink from one of Cena's fans, the kid threw the watch into R-Truth's face. R-Truth was in shock, Cena rolled him back into the ring, and while clearly blind and half unconscious after being hit in the face by that deadly water, Cena was able to hit his only move, the Attitude Adjustment (formerly known as the FU before the PG change in the WWE). So once again Cena wins a silly match and retains his WWE title. 

Cartoon PG Lame PPV Concept

Final Thoughts: This was a lame concept for a PPV, I hated the President jokes. Any PPV that ends with Cena winning I give 2 thumbs down. I can't help but feel sorry for Christian in all of this. I think the only match I was happy about was Dolph Ziggler becoming the United States Champion!