Z the blogger

I dream about many random things: sports, school, family events, dark desires, and fantasy worlds.  Most of the time, the dreams incorporate strange settings with strange people, and strange plot lines ensue.  Dreams and the subconscious fascinate me, partly because I have never had a firm grasp on how dreams are formed.  Sigmund Freud believes dreams are the manifestations of our deepest desires.  I concur that some of my dreams are rather terrifying, but I have a difficult time agreeing with Freud on a moral level.  Certainly dreams include desires of the flesh, but they are more than that.  Carl Jung believes dreams are the interactions between each side of the brain.  So, in theory, dreams are created by the brain's subconscious conversations with itself.  Even though Jung is a Buddhist, his theories on dreams are the closest to reality that I have ever heard.  I spent time recording a dream journal, and I felt connected to my subconsciou...

Super Meltdown: How the WWE Shit Themselves The Royal Rumble occurred over a month ago, but all the momentum which developed throughout that PPV and in anticipation of Wrestlemania was lost at Super Showdown on Thursday.  With Elimination Chamber looming a week from Sunday, no one expected Super Showdown to alter the landscape or turn heads, but it did in the worst possible way.  With the exception of The New Day and Miz and Morrison putting on an entertaining tag team clinic, each match was under par or overshadowed by nostalgia acts once again.  Many things can be said about Brock Lesnar, Carillo versus Garza, the repeat of Corbin and Regins, and the horrific gauntlet match, but they don't compare to the travesty WWE created when Goldberg defeated The Fiend. Goldberg had been absent from WWE since last year's Super Showdown with the Undertaker (lets not talk about that one), but during his absence, he was inducted (deservedly) into the WWE Hall of Fame.  The...

Yowie Wowie: The Character the WWE Needed Bray Wyatt had been on on an uptick entering WrestleMania 33.  He had just won the title in a grueling Elimination Chamber match, defeating John Cena, AJ Styles, Dean Ambrose, The Miz and Baron Corbin which allowed Wyatt to headline Wrestlemania 33 while defending the title against "The Viper" Randy Orton.  Wyatt would then proceed to lose to the Orton by way of the trademarked RKO; however, this RKO not only marked the end of Wyatt's short and first WWE Championship reign, it also pinned the character of Bray Wyatt and upended the cult following of the Wyatt family.  Bray's character was never the same.  He entered into a forgettable feud with an out-of-shape and washed-up Matt Hardy that resulted in one tag team title reign, but the reign spoke more for the lack of talent in the WWE tag team division than it did for the careers of Hardy and Wyatt.  Eventually, the WWE universe became bored with the Ultimate Deletion...

The Revival of Monday Night Raw by Zac VanderLey This episode of Monday Night Raw carried a story line throughout the entire show.  There were many wrestling matches including a tag team championship match.  The rivalry between the Shield and the Dogs of War continued and Stephanie McMahon also made an appearance on the show. The show began with the arrival of Raw Commissioner Stephanie McMahon.  She proceeded to chastise Constable Corbin and explain that mistakes were tolerated but not excuses.  She made it clear that if Corbin did not step up and control the Shield, that Kurt Angle would return and replace Corbin.  Constable Corbin has been a great story line that has provided comedy and a return to the Authority.  Angle is definitely going to return, but it is hard to say when.  Corbin has made the show more interesting and has changed the pace by allowing a heel to be in charge rather than a face. The Shield then proceeded to march o...

Hell in a Cell by Zac VanderLey The PPV reviews that I do will be match by match ratings and an eventual rating of the entire PPV.  Each match will be graded on the quality of moves, physicality, whether it was back and forth, exciting and if the ending was strong and satisfying.  Each category will get a number grade and all of the numbers will be added up and divided to create the final show rating. Jeff Hardy vs Randy Orton: Moves: 9.3. Randy Orton landed a superplex, powerslam and used many foreign objects.  Hardy landed a whisper in the wind and a swanton bomb on the chair.  They pulled out all of the stops and executed every move.  Every one would have loved to see an RKO when Hardy fell from the top of the cage, but overall the moves were well executed and interesting. Physicality: 10, There are not many matches that are more physical than a Cell match.  Hardy's belt was used, a screwdriver was placed in Hardy's ear and Hardy even ...

Monday Night "Revenge" by Zac VanderLey (Thunder Z) This Monday Night Raw had more matches than last week but was not on the same level as last week's show.  There were less surprises and more PPV rivalry filler.  It was still an entertaining show that showcased revenge at its finest. Braun Stroman, Dolph Ziggler and Drew Mcintyre kicked off Raw yet again by walking down to the ring accompanied by the same heel superstars that had dismantled the Shield last week.  Strowman talked about how last week they beat up the Shield and how Mcintyre's imagery of bloody animal carcasses played itself out when the Shield were decimated.  Ziggler explained how the heel superstars around them made the right choice in their allegiance.  Ziggler also alluded to the fact that all the superstars were fed up with the Shield.  Strowman then finally gave a name to his group, calling them the Dogs of War.  Then came the Shield.  This was not surprising, but the...

Smackdown "Less Than" Lively by Zac Vanderley (Thunder Z) Smackdown live has not lived up to the expectations put in place by its brother Raw.  Although in reality it is not fair to compare the two, it still happens.  This Smackdown live showed more action of R-Truth than many other superstars and was filled with rivalry fillers.  A Smackdown that was way "less than lively," one might put it.   Smackdown kicked off the show with Daniel Bryan and Brie Bella "yessing" their way to the ring, to the delight of all the fans in the building.  It gave the WWE Universe to partake in their favorite pastime, stupid hand motions and even more obnoxious chants.  Bryan even made an embarrassing comment about how, Renee Young showing footage of the Miz beating Bryan up, ruined the chants he was receiving.  The sole interesting part of this bit was the footage of Miz and Maryse arriving before the show began and calling Bryan and Bella out.  Naturally...