What is Total Divas you ask?
It's WWE's new reality series focused around The Bella Twins, Natalya Neidhart and The Funkadactyls (Cameron & Naomi). It airs Sunday nights at 10pm EST on E!. It's an interesting look at the backstage lives of these divas. So far we've seen new divas introduced, boyfriends and drama.....boy have we seen drama.
How do Daniel Bryan (real name Bryan Danielson) and John Cena (real name John Cena) fit into this? They're currently dating the Bella Twins (Cena & Nikki, Bryan & Brie). They also happen to be in the main event for this little show called Summerslam.
But wait....we have a "reality tv" show about the real lives of fake characters? Yep. It's weird really. It's a worked television show of people who play other characters on other worked TV shows. Oh and these new divas? JoJo and Eva Marie? They appear on the show apparently after just being hired by the company....they have not been on Raw, Smackdown or NXT save for a couple of appearances. They are not regulars and it's possible they are reality show ringers. Yep. These new divas are working characters on a reality show of people who play other characters on other worked TV shows, but don't actually appear in the other worked TV show they're characters are supposed to be a part of. It's Divaceptiontastic....I just made up a word.
But wait.....there's wrasslin!!!
It's Summerfest time!
There are only three official matches announced for Summerslam at this time:
WWE Championship Match
John Cena (C) vs Bryan Danielson
Brock Lesnar w/ Paul Heyman vs CM Punk
World Heavyweight Championship
Alberto Del Rio (C) vs Christian
Other programs building include Damien Sandow vs Cody Rhodes, Bray Wyatt vs Kane, The Shield vs Mark Henry & Dolph Ziggler vs Big E. Langston. Tune into Raw and Smackdown to find out where these matches fit (if they fit) on the Summerslam card.
What's going on elsewhere in wrestling?
Impact Wrestling is building to several things right now.....
Chris Sabin has become the new Impact Wrestling Champion after using Option C to cash in his X-Division title shot at the Destination X Impact show. Manik (the former Suicide) has become the new X-Division champion and will face Sabin in a champion vs champion match this week on Impact....
The Bound For Glory series is also in full swing leading to Impact Wrestling's next PPV Bound For Glory on October 20th. The current standings have Magnus in a comfortable lead with Samoa Joe, AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels closely behind.
Someone is coming to Impact Wrestling....they aren't signed and have some kind of beef with the company. Who is it? Is it Batista? Is it Bob Holly? Is it Low Ki? Is it Adam Pierce? We find out August 1st (or will we?)
Impact Wrestling is also building to it's next free PPV HardCore Justice which will feature Bully Ray using his rematch clause to face Chris Sabin in a steel cage match.
Finally....
New Japan Pro Wrestling is offering the entire G1 Climax tournament for streaming. The whole shebang. The catch? It's all or nothing. That's right, 9 wrasslin shows from August 1st - August 11th for $150 big ones.
Who is in the tournament?
Block A
Lance Archer
Prince Devitt
Hirooki Goto
Tomohiro Ishii
Satoshi Kojima
Togi Makabe
Kazuchika Okada
Katsuyori Shibata
Davey Boy Smith, Jr
Hiroshi Tanahashi
Block B
Karl Anderson
Shelton Benjamin
Kota Ibushi
Yuji Nagata
Tetsuya Naitō
Shinsuke Nakamura
Minoru Suzuki
Yujiro Takahashi
Hiroyoshi Tenzan
Toru Yano
This is a round robin tournament, with winners from each block wrestling in the final to decide that year's winner. The winner of each block is determined by a points system; two points for a victory, one point for a draw, and zero points for a loss.
Purchase the iPPV Package here: http://www.ustream.tv/njpw#allp
Our very own Bootaaay (real name SenorLARIATO) has done an in depth write-up on the G1 Climax tournament this year for those interested parties:
http://senorlariato.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/new-japan-23rd-g1-climax-tournament.html
July's Wall of Shame!!!!!!!
