This Week in DVR: The Bravado Bandwagon Now Boarding

Gettin' DZP
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I watched what I couldn't watch live on my DVR this week. Here's what stood out:

Matches

Zack Ryder and Primo Colon vs. Yoshi Tatsu and David Hart Smith on Superstars - This was a pretty nice tag match. On the heel side, Ryder and Colon are two former tag wrestlers and Champions, and on the face side, there's Tatsu and a guy in Smith who is rough around the edges but has lots of promise. There was a lot of good ring-cut-in-half/FIP action, Yoshi's comeback was great, and the finish was very well done. Good match.

Drew McIntyre vs. JTG on Smackdown - Pretty good brawl. McIntyre controlled the action and JTG did a good job selling. The finish with the backslide counter into the Future Shock DDT was pretty neat.

Shows

ROH on HDNet - A lot of angle work and set-up on this show, but that's not a bad thing. It's a shame that the HDNet show is in its last few weeks, because they're doing a lot of that lately, getting people to know their wrestlers, whether its the big guys like Eddie Edwards or the lesser-known like the Bravado Brothers. Speaking of them, yeah, that segment with them was pretty awesome. They're so soft-spoken and awkward, but I think it works with their "grandma's boy" type characters. I also love that ROh focuses on its tag team division, and as a result, their teams are over, rather than in WWE, where... well, we know how the WWE treats its tag teams.

Superstars - The wrestling was good if not great this week outside of the honor roll tag match, so yeah, it was a decent episode. My thing though, aside from how impressed I continue to be with Scott Stanford, is R-Truth. The guy should be a decent enough wrestler given his athletic ability, ring savviness and experience, but it's just flippy nonsense with terrible spots. I mean, his finisher looks like it's the victim giving him the Rock Bottom. Terrible execution. Ugh.

Impact - Someone asked me on Twitter (@BitterOldJoe) why I watch TNA if I just savage it. I do like a good number of the performers, and even some of them I hate for other reasons, like Jeff Hardy, do admirably in the ring or on the mic. Hardy had a great promo, maybe the best form he's ever shown on the mic even if I didn't like the content of it at points, and the wrestling action that I WAS able to see (my DVR cut out most of the X-Division three way and the finish of the Knockouts tag match) was good. It's just so much of the show is dedicated to Eric Bischoff and his BS legalese storylines. Ugh. This is the lot of following TNA. You have to sift through so much crap to get to the good stuff.

Smackdown - This was as good a go-home show for the Rumble as they could have, way better than they did for RAW. That being said, I thought that the end angle with Vickie Guerrero banning the spear was lame. I'm so over the evil authority figure character it's not even funny. Maybe it's just overload since I watch Impact before Smackdown and they have the evil administration PLASTERED over their program, but really, enough of faces needing to overcome additional adversity from heel NPC authorities. Ugh.

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