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Last night was TNA's No Surrender PPV. It was literally a show that no one watched. In fact, the subscription service I use to watch events literally had 3 users watching the show. There was no interest for No Surrender, and the show delivered accordingly. The only notes of semi-interest were:
- Winter won the Knocksouts Title from Mickie James
- Austin Aires won the X-Division Title from Brian Kendrick
- Bobby Roode won the Bound for Glory Series to earn a title shot at Bound for Glory
- Kurt Angle retained the title over Sting and Anderson
- Hogan attacked Sting to set up their match at Bound for Glory
Tonight is the go home show for this Sunday's WWE Night of Champions. WWE has had five weeks to build this show and it's been an interesting ride. The original plan of Punk vs Nash had to be thrown out after Nash failed his physical, forcing WWE to rush the Punk vs HHH match. I still think WWE could have done something to hold off Punk and HHH a bit longer, but they felt they needed to do this match now to sell Night of Champions. We've seen what happens when you put a major money match on a B-Show PPV (Punk/Cena @ MITB). The buyrate will increase, but not nearly what it would on one of the Big 4 PPVs. HHH's first match back should have been saved for Survivor Series, but it just continues WWE trend of rushing through everything involving Punk. We'll see the hard sell tonight for their match on Sunday. While both have been good on the mic, I still don't understand the motivation for this match. If HHH hates CM Punk so much, why did he hire him back? Why did he pay for his special music? Why did he give him new merchandise? And as for Punk, he says he wants change. But he's never explained what change he actually wants. He comes out on the mic and says he's a pipe bomb every time he talks. The problem is, he tells us this but really doesn't do anything. I really hope they have a big angle tonight because HHH vs Punk should be built as a really special match.
HHH fired Kevin Nash last week, but Nash was seen leaving with John Laurinaitis. I would suspect Nash won't be on tonight's show, but he will likely be back at Night of Champions. He has not actually been fired by WWE.
Bret Hart will be on tonight's show. Alberto Del Rio has been cutting promos against Hart to the local Canadian media. As long as they don't have Hart beat up Del Rio, I'll be fine with pretty much anything they do. Pairing Del Rio with Hart is a good way to get heat on Del Rio.
We had a major case of Super Cena last week. It's things like last week that really make you cringe and give people reasons to hate Cena.
We'll have the final builds for Air Boom (Kofi/Bourne) vs The Awesome Conspiracy (Miz/Truth).
Dolph Ziggler doesn't yet have a match at Night of Champions to defend his Intercontinental Title. I would suspect he'll face Swagger, but who knows.
We'll see if they do anything else with Lawler and Otunga. I hope not.
Lastly, this is again a SuperShow (it's almost an afterthought at this point since the only guy who even matters based on the way they book them is Orton). All the big Smackdown names will be on tonight's show.
