Snapshots: WWE Finally Gets The Icon!

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Earlier this week, the WWE announced that they’re teaming up with CharityBuzz to hold special auctions for a Hurricane Sandy relief fund. Fans get the opportunity to bid on many auctions including, but not limited to, A Personal Tout from X-Pac, Attending San Diego Comic Con with AJ Lee, or letting friendly WWE Superstars like KaneRandy Orton or The Shield be your personal backstage tour guide at a WWE Live Event! If your bank account looks more like The Million Dollar Man’s than El Locale’s, then the auctions are definitely worth it. However, one auction stood out from the rest.

No, it’s not the NASCAR Race with John Cena. WWE is finally working THE ICON! STING!

….Wait a minute. I think that’s the wrong Sting. Can I get a second opinion on this?

Okay. That is DEFINITELY the wrong Sting.

Yes. We know. Sting is with TNA and won’t be having that Wrestlemania Dream Match with The Undertaker anytime soon, but what a tease for wrestling fans! WWE finally announces Sting and it’s the singer! C’mon man. How awesome would this have looked?

Seriously! Look at it again.
And for “smarter fans” who don’t think that the wrestler Sting would be caught dead holding a bass guitar? You thought wrong!
 But unfortunately due to contractual obligations, WWE can only get Sting the singer. Oh, well. Maybe next year, we’ll finally get the Sting that wrestling fans know in a WWE Ring. Until then, you can check out Sting trading his bass guitar for a baseball bat, every Thursday Night on TNA’s iMPACT Wrestling on SpikeTV!
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Highlight Reel: Miz Is Retro

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Every wrestling fan has dreams of growing up and becoming a pro wrestler. Some follow their dreams all the way to appearing on Monday Nights or Thursday Nights or your Local Independent Show. Others try to pursue their dream, take one chop to the chest, give up and start a blog. It’s nice to see dreams come true, especially when they publicly announce their dreams 13 years ago on a little show known as The Real World.

Tonight, The Real World returns for its 28th Season with 7 Brand New Strangers (and a dog!) picked to live in a house (with a dog!), have their lives taped and…you know the rest. To celebrate, MTV showed vintage episodes of Real World: Las Vegas, Real World: New York, and Real World: San Diego as part of their Retro MTV Lineup to get fans excited for the upcoming season. In addition to those seasons, they spotlighted Real World Moments and characters from the series infamous, giving updates the former roommates’ whereabouts. When the question, “Who Was The Most Successful Star To Come From The Real World?” came up, your answers were a little limited. But at the top of the list was this guy!

Sorry Senator and Samurai Girl. You’ve been bumped.

Several MTV Personalities, including former Wrestlemania Alum Snooki, spoke highly of the self-proclaimed “Most Must-See WWE Superstar” and we at Three Man Booth have the video!

Without The Real World, there would be no Miz. And without The Miz….well a lot of you would be leading much happy lives. But for someone who gets a lot of guff from the more vocal members of the WWE Universe, it’s nice to see The Miz getting some positive feedback. Maybe he’ll continue this momentum on the Road To Wrestlemania when he faces Wade Barrett for the Intercontinental Championship at Wrestlemania 29. Metlife Stadium may will boo you, Miz. But at least MTV’s got your back!

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So That Happened: 03/25/13

RAW begins with CM Punk and Paul Heyman walking out with the urn. CM Punk talks about The Undertaker’s undefeated streak and how people say Taker is unstoppable and unbeatable at Wrestlemania. Punk talks about the urn feeding The Undertaker power and calls all these myths stupid. Punk asks Paul Heyman and Paul Bearer who “they” are then says “they” doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Punk says everybody has opinions but the only opinion that matters is his because he turns his opinions into fact.

CM Punk says the streak should’ve ended with The Undertaker, Shawn Michaels and Triple H skipping off into the sunset, but Taker ruined it when he walked out a few weeks ago and pointed to Punk’s “Wrestlemania” signs. Punk says now The Undertaker’s streak is going to be re-written by a man that’s not afraid of the dark but by The Best In The World.


CM Punk blames The Undertaker for all of this and says he didn’t take the urn to disrespect Paul Bearer, he took the it because it matters to The Undertaker. Punk says the urn doesn’t matter to him and drops it.

CM Punk says for the first time in The Undertaker’s life, he’s at a psychological disadvantage because he’s scared. Punk says Taker could’ve gone 30-0 and 50-0 against any other Superstar, but he is CM Punk and there is nobody in the world better or smarter than him and nobody in the world that will beat him at Wrestlemania. Punk says he is the 1 in 20-1.

CM Punk calls out The Undertaker and mocks his “Rest In Peace” catchphrase. Punk says Rest is something he’s never been afforded and Peace is something he has never lived with. Punk claims at Wrestlemania, The Undertaker and his perfect record will Rest…In…Peac- GONG! The lights go out.

The lights turn back on with The Undertaker beating the shit out of CM Punk! The Undertaker beats CM Punk down while Paul Heyman runs for his life.

CM Punk eventually escapes and stands at the top of the ramp staring down The Undertaker.

Match 01: Fandango vs. ??

Fandango gets attacked by Chris Jericho then runs away.

Match 01: Dolph Ziggler vs. Chris Jericho

Winner: Chris Jericho

Post-match, Big E Langston attacks Chris Jericho. Fandango and #FandangoGirl come in the ring. Fandango dances over Chris Jericho. Fandango dances over Chris Jericho.

Fandango kicks Chris Jericho then attacks him. A “You Can’t Wrestle” Chant breaks out.

Fandango hits a Flying Leg Drop on Chris Jericho then leaves.

Backstage: Matt Striker asks Sheamus if he and Randy Orton trust The Big Show, but Sheamus gets attacked by The Shield. Randy Orton saves Sheamus but gets attacked until The Big Show makes the save.

Match 02: Mark Henry vs. The Usos


Winner: Mark Henry

Post-Match, Mark Henry continues his attack on The Usos.

Match 03: Alberto Del Rio vs. Antonio Cesaro

Jack Swagger attacks RicRod’s ankle.

Alberto Del Rio attacks Jack Swagger!

Winner: Antonio Cesaro (via Countout)

Post-match, Alberto Del Rio attacks Antonio Cesaro then puts him in the Cross Armbreaker.

Alberto Del Rio’s music plays:

Match 04: Team Hell No vs. The Prime Time Players

Dolph Ziggler, Big E. Langston and AJ Lee come out to watch the match.

Winners: Team Hell No

Post-Match, Team Hell No have a staredown with Dolph Ziggler, Big E. Langston and AJ Lee.

Triple H Speaks:

Triple H says for the first time ever, he goes into a situation for if he loses, he’s never allowed to compete in this ring again and that his career is over. Triple H says if you go to the ring facing Brock Lesnar thinking your career is not over, then you already lost. Triple H says Brock Lesnar can end your career at any moment and that is a fact. Triple H says he’s had a 20 year career and fought in this ring like his life and his career depended on it.

Triple H tells Brock Lesnar to fight like his career and life depends on it. Triple H says he’s not coming to Wrestlemania to win or to fight, he’s coming to kick Brock Lesnar’s ass.

Triple H is interrupted by Wade Barrett.

Wade Barrett comes out to wrestle, but Triple H kicks him in the balls then walks off.

Match 05: The Miz vs. Wade Barrett

Wade Barrett lands on the ropes balls first.

Winner: The Miz

Backstage: Daniel Bryan tells Kane that he needs to be focused and have his mental faculties. Kane tells Bryan to drop the “I Needs” because he knows what he’s doing. Bryan says Kane knows what he’s doing against the Prime Time Players, but Dolph Ziggler and Big E. Langston are different because they have “She Who Shall Not Be Named” with them. Bryan tells Kane he goes nuts everytime AJ’s around and the two argue until Kaitlyn interrupts them.

Kaitlyn tells Team Hell No that AJ screwed all of them over, but her advice is to move on. Bryan says it’s easy for Kaitlyn to say this since AJ hasn’t targeted Kaitlyn’s title at Wrestlemania. Kaitlyn goes over her history of dealing with AJ and her relationships while AJ lurkes and watches them. Kaitlyn tells Daniel Bryan and Kane that if they want to keep their titles at Wrestlemania, they have to accept the new AJ. Kaitlyn runs down AJ until AJ attacks her, throws Kaitlyn into a water fountain until Daniel Bryan and Kane break them up.

Match 06: The Shield vs. Zack Ryder, Justin Gabriel, The Great Khali

Winners: The Shield

Post-Match, The Shield jumps Khali then hits the Triple Power Bomb on him.

Sheamus, Randy Orton and Big Show interrupt then brawl with The Shield.


Backstage: Chris Jericho walks out of Vickie Guerrero’s office and Josh Mathews asks him what it was about. Jericho says when you’re in the WWE as long as he is, you become a target. Fandango has attacked him not once but twice and it means nothing. But Jericho says thanks to Vickie Guerrero, it is going to be Chris Jericho vs. Fandango at Wrestlemania! But now that the bullseye is on Fandango’s forehead, he will never, EVER be the same again.

Match 07: Team Rhodes Scholars vs. Brodus Clay and Tensai

Damien Sandow says he’s in the city of brotherly love. A city that is famous for greasy sandwiches and a stadium that has an actual prison in it. Sandow says fear not, Team Rhodes Scholars has a gift for Philadelphia. Cody Rhodes introduces The Bella Twins!

Naomi and Cameron attack The Bellas.

Cody Rhodes takes advantage and hits the Beautiful Disaster on Brodus Clay.


Winners: Team Rhodes Scholars

Match 08: Ryback vs. 3MB

Winner: Ryback

 Post-Match, it’s announced Ryback and Mark Henry will compete in a Weight Lifting Competition.

Match 09: AJ Lee vs. Kaitlyn

Kaitlyn tries to spear AJ but AJ Lee moves out of the way and she hits the barricade.

Winner: AJ Lee via countout

For the Spider-Man Meme Fans

John Cena and The Rock Debate:

Jerry Lawler says that John Cena and The Rock will answer questions from WWE Hall Of Famers and Superstars. Jerry Lawler introduces Booker T, Mick Foley, Dusty Rhodes then Bret Hart.

Jerry Lawler introduces The Rock then John Cena.

Jerry Lawler says that each legend will have a chance to ask a question to either The Rock or John Cena. Once that person responds, the other person can respond when they’re finished. Mick Foley is up first.

Mick Foley talks about letting The Rock down at Wrestlemania 20 and feeling regret for losing the match. Foley says he felt a weight lifted off his shoulders when The Rock beat John Cena at Wrestlemania. Foley asks Cena if he is prepared to live with the regret of losing twice to The Rock.

John Cena says April 7th will be historic because whether he wins or loses, it will change the face of the WWE forever. If he wins, he gets the WWE Championship and Redemption. Cena says last year, losing was not an option, but this year it is an option. Cena compares losing to Donovan McNabb not winning the big one and if he loses again, he will carry Cena claims he’ll carry the legacy of Donovan McNabb with him because he will never be able to win the big one.

John Cena says that he can handle failure, unlike The Rock, who has never experienced failure. The Rock responds to this by telling the sad story of Rocky Maivia and the triumphant story of The Rock

The Rock vows to whoop John Cena’s ass at Wrestlemania.

Bret Hart’s up next. Bret mentions last year’s bad blood between The Rock and John Cena and how it reminds him of himself and Shawn Michaels in Montreal. Bret says there doesn’t seem to be anymore bad blood and wants to know what happened.

The Rock says what changed was John Cena took his loss like a man and he respects that. John Cena responds by saying he respects The Rock after Rock called Cena’s bluff. Cena says in 13 days, we’ll see how The Rock handles his loss.

Booker T’s up next. Booker T says he’s the only person who fought The Rock and John Cena in the ring and wants to know why John Cena thinks he can beat The Rock. Cena says “Because I have to” and tears up.

The Rock gets mad at the answer and tells John Cena to “Wipe a monkey’s ass” with “I have to” and tells John Cena to tell the truth.

John Cena shifts gears completely and says that The Rock didn’t beat him and that he can’t beat him. John Cena beat John Cena. Cena says he made one bad decision. Cena says for 10 years he’s been coming out with half the crowd liking him while the other half hates him, but The Rock is the only person to cloud his judgment enough to make a stupid decision. Cena says he had The Rock beat and handled the best Rock delivered, but Cena screwed himself by using The People’s Elbow. Cena claims that will never happen again and this year at Wrestlemania, he’s going to do things his way on his terms because he knows he is better than The Rock and that The Rock knows he’s better than The Rock.

The Rock tells John Cena that if Cena had Rock beat, he would’ve beaten won. Rock tells his version of the story then quotes Ric Flair’s “To be the man….Wooooo! You’ve got to beat the man.” The Rock says John Cena Can’t Be The Man because he Can’t Beat The Man and he will never, and The Rock means ever, Be The Man.

Dusty Rhodes says Wrestlemania isn’t about respect or redemption, it’s about winning or losing and that there are no guarantees in this business. Rhodes says sometimes you don’t always get what you want and sometimes what you want is not always what you get. Dusty asks The Rock and John Cena what do they REALLY want at Wrestlemania.

John Cena says he wants to win The Big One and Dominate The Rock. Cena wants The Rock to be looking up at the open air sky at Metlife Stadium realizing that John Cena belongs in the WWE and that John Cena is better than The Rock. Cena wants to hand The Rock a loss so devastating that it will haunt him for the rest of his life.

The Rock says the day after Wrestlemania, he will wake up still the WWE Champion while John Cena stuffs himself with Fruity Pebbles asking himself why he couldn’t get the job done again. The Rock tells John Cena to prove The Rock and the World wrong at Wrestlemania or he could prove The Rock wrong right now.

The Rock and John Cena get face to face. John Cena does the “You Can’t See Me” taunt to The Rock but The Rock shoves him. Cena goes for the AA but The Rock counters with The Rock Bottom.

The Rock takes his title and leaves the ring, leving John Cena on the floor.

So That Happened:

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Cheap Pop: How I Met Your Monday

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The Simpsons showed us with Gorgeous Grampa that it’s possible to have an entire show with a professional wrestling theme. However, it’s not the only television show to throw out nods to wrestling fans. CBS’s How I Met Your Mother, has, on several occasions included references to the amusement of wrestling fans and, more likely, for themselves. The premise of HIMYM (that’s what we call it) revolves around a Dad – in the near future – telling his kids about his adventures from his days spent in New York City with his friends and how all of his life experiences led to meeting their mother and, thus, their present future. If all this past/present/future speak just made your brain hurt, don’t worry about it. It’s a narrative device, not Looper.


What is important to know is that the HIMYM writers love wrestling. Each of the 5 main characters has had a wrestling moment over the course of HIMYM‘s 8 Seasons: Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor), aka Future Dad, involuntary competed for the Winged Eagle Belt in “Third Wheel,” where he may or may not have won a “tricycle race” (We’re trying to keep this PG).



The gang played a guessing game in “Old King Clancy” when Robin Scherbatsky (Cobie Smulders) revealed that she had an interesting “tryst” with a famous celebrity only to reveal that it was Canadian Pro Wrestler The Frozen Snowshoe (Seriously, really trying to maintain PG for this). Hey, he’s no Y2J but it still counts!

A flashback in “The Front Porch” showed that Marshall Eriksen (Jason Segel) and Lily Aldrin (Alyson Hannigan) fully committed to attending Wrestlemania when Ted’s college girlfriend brought it up. They dressed as The Ultimate Warrior and a Macho King Randy Savage / King Hacksaw Jim Duggan combination in anticipation of the action.

And Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris), in addition to having the Winged Eagle Belt from “Third Wheel,” also purchased a suit called the “The Dibiase” in “False Positive.” It was decked out in diamond pinstripes and clearly a nod to the Million Dollar Man’s wardrobe.

All these references would have been enough wrestling cred for any show. But not HIMYM. They even incorporated their squared circle enthusiasm into one of its recurring themes: doppelgangers.

In “Robots versus Wrestlers,” Ted is conflicted between two events: crashing a party with attendees like New York Times Crossword Editor Will Shortz, Huffington Post Editor-In-Chief Arianna Huffington and Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich, OR going to see Masked Wrestlers take on Robots. We don’t share Ted’s dilemma; when presented with the option of seeing a Wrestler face a Robot, we went. But we don’t know share Ted’s knowledge of wine puns and Dante’s Inferno (apparently, it’s not just a videogame) in the original Italian, something Ted recited at the gathering instead of going to the show. Which is a shame because Ted missed out on the gang’s discovery. During an epic brawl between man and machine, a luchador’s mask came off, only to reveal that he is Ted’s doppelganger.  Undeterred, Mexican Wrestler Ted turned those machines to scrap by, fittingly, delivering bionic elbows!

With that, the Fourth Doppleganger was found, adding to the pantheon alongside Mustached Marshall, Alternative Lifestyle Robin, and Exotic Dancer Lily (Barney’s Doppelganger has yet to be found but there’s still a season left before the series ends for him to be discovered). Upon the reveal, Ted fled his highbrow gathering and vowed to never miss Robots versus Wrestlers again.

Once again, this would have been enough for any show to prove that they are fans of wrestling but this Monday at 8pm, “The Time Travelers” reminds Ted of his ‘Robots Versus Wrestlers’ promise.



Okay, so the show’s a little like Looper. But still: Robots versus Wrestlers!

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Snapshots: You Can’t Tee Me

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John Cena appeared on RAW this week with a new t-shirt, a yellow one.  The last person to wear a yellow shirt on RAW – CM Punk – wasn’t well received. While Punk’s shirt seemed to bring out anger from the WWE Universe, Cena’s shirt was simultaneously new and oddly familiar. Cena’s shirts invoke the other famous color schemas: the Green Bay Packers, a John Deere tractor, the Miami Dolphins, the Los Angeles Lakers, the AWA. His shirts are like a Rorschach test: they tell you more about yourself than they do about Cena. His yellow shirt reminds me of UMich and … The Steiner Brothers.

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But the most shocking John Cena shirt I saw all week was stupefying for exactly the OPPOSITE reason: its absence of everything.

I barely recognized that it was John Cena on the cover of Men’s Fitness! First of all, I didn’t even know John Cena owned another black t-shirt. Secondly, I didn’t think John owned any plain t-shirts. Where’s the tiny replica of himself? Or one of his catchphrases? Then I thought, “Maybe that was being saved for the inside pictorial?”

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NOPE!! Plain Gray Shirt?!? Who is this man?!? For once, his catchphrase came true: I CAN’T SEE Him! Is this the Wrestlemania John Cena? No color, no jokes, just weights? John Cena always seemed like the kind of wrestler that wore his merchandise even when he wasn’t wrestling. You know, like the time he wore his t-shirt, jorts and knee pads on RAW the day AFTER being “fired” from the WWE? If this is truly the Wrestlemania John Cena, then it’s a John Cena we’ve not seen before. I’m not sure I’m ready.

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