My First Blog

Happy New Year readers! 2008 has past us by and now we start down the road of 2009. This will be my first, full length blog here on the site so I will be discussing many topics in the wrestling world as the new year begins.

To start with, my favorite pay-per-view of the year is just around the corner, the Royal Rumble. By now, we should all have a pretty good idea about what the match card will be like. Two matches have already been announced to take place. I will predict that we will see two more matches added to the card besides the rumble itself. Edge will most likely challenge Jeff Hardy for the WWE Championship. The question is, what will Matt Hardy be doing this January 25? As you may recall, the ECW Champion Chavo Guerrero competed in last year's rumble (which I still don't quite understand why a world champion would be eligable) so Matt could do the same. What I believe will happen will be Matt Hardy defending the ECW title against the "All-American American" Jack Swagger. Even though he isn't gold on cutting promos (first few months all he could do was point at his face) he is pretty solid in the ring. He earned a title shot when defeating Ricky Ortiz a few weeks ago and has yet to use his chance at the gold (or in this case, silver).

So what about the Royal Rumble match? Which of the 30 will win this year? With Batista out with a torn hamstring, Raw's best bet of winning the match is Randy Orton. Over on SmackDown, Triple H will be the choice to win. I'll be extremely (no pun intended) suprised if someone from ECW wins. So it really just depends who gets eliminated from the match between those two first.

More big news in WWE right now is two TNA superstars plans to jump ship. Tyson Tomko has already fought a dark match against Paul Burchill. The other is Christain Cage. Since leaving WWE in 2005, Christian has become a former NWA World Champion. I personally hope to see Christian returning to WWE since I feel he has been misused latelty by TNA. I heard a rumor that they planned to have Christian be the one who attacked Jeff Hardy before Survivor Series and place him in a fued with Hardy leading into WrestleMania 25. This would probably have to mean that Christian would have to return at the Rumble to cost Hardy the title.

THQ disappointed me a bit by not including legends in SmackDown vs. Raw 2009. This year, they are giving back by creating Legends of WrestleMania. From what I've seen, the game looks very impressive thus far. Sadly, several legends will reportedly not be featured in the game. No suprise should be the abscence of Mick Foley after his jump to TNA over the summer. Then there is the rumored loss of Randy Savage and the tag team Demolition. If this is true, I think it is a real shame since Mach was one of the guys I was most excited about seeing when the game was announced.

I think I have covered most of what I was hoping to in this blog. Until next time...