Summerslam 2008 aftermath

MVP defeated the high flying Jeff Hardy in style.

Two titles changed hands simultaneously when Santino Marella and Beth Phoenix defeated the Intercontinental Champion Kofi Kingston and Women's Champion Mickie James in an intergender tag team match.

Shawn Michaels then appeared on the ring to announce his plan to retire from professional wrestling, with his wife by his side. However, Chris Jericho suddenly appeared out of nowhere to continue tormenting the life of Shawn Michaels, at Summerslam he did that by punching Michaels' wife.

Another title match would be the one between Matt Hardy and ECW Champion Mark Henry. This match is arguably the most disgusting one in this event as Mark Henry lost by disqualification, no thanks to Tony Atlas, who accompanied Mark Henry. This is disgusting as Henry retained the title by disqualifying the match and thus ending it early, in a way he cheated to retain the title, regardless the outcome of the match, which Hardy won.

CM Punk retained his World Heavyweight Championship by defeating JBL, this completely silenced JBL as well as anyone who thinks that CM Punk is not a legitimate champion as he won it by cashing in his Money in the Bank contract against Edge after Edge had been assaulted by Batista earlier.

The last title match in this event would be the match for WWE Championship with The Great Khali challenging The Game, Triple H who is the current champion. Triple H retained his title in a great match after turning the tide in a match dominated largely by the Great Khali. The interesting thing is that, Triple H won this match by using Pedigree, his finishing move against The Great Khali. This is in fact after Jim Ross, the Smackdown commentator had commented in a recent Smackdown episode that it is anatomically impossible to use Pedigree on The Great Khali.

Batista defeated John Cena in a match which does not feature any titles at all but simply pure hatred and rivalry. This is substantiated by their willingness to relinquish their reluctantly earned World Tag Team Championship on RAW last Monday to Ted diBiase & Cody Rhodes, the team that they got the titles from in the first place just to prove that title belts are insignificant compared to their hatred and rivalry for each other.

The main event of the match was none other than the much awaited Hell in a Cell match between Edge and The Undertaker, who was having his first match since he was banished from WWE in One Night Stand 2008 before being re-instated by Vickie Guerrero to punish Edge for cheating on her on the eve of their wedding day. A personal comment on this match, I expected the Undertaker to be in his American Bad-Ass persona but was left disappointed when he was actually still in his Deadman persona.

After a gruelling match in the steel structure infamously known as the devils' playground, The Undertaker defeated Edge after a Tombstone Piledriver.

However, it was not the end, The Undertaker was not satisfied even after defeating Edge in that match. He returned into the ring with a ladder, then he chokeslammed Edge from the top of the ladder, crushing the ring. This is reminiscence to an incident in 1999 when The Big Show chokeslammed the Undertaker all the way down the ring as the ring was damaged due to the chokeslam. However, this time, Edge was not as lucky as The Undertaker in 1999 when he was able to escape Big Show.

After chokeslamming Edge, The Undertaker raised his hand and a terrifying image was seen by everyone in the arena as well as millions who are watching from the comfort of their homes. Huge tongues of fire could be seen shooting out constantly from the hole which Edge was in, implying that Edge was literally chokeslammed all the way to hell.

If the rumors are true, Edge will come back in a new persona as Vampire Edge, a similar persona as Edge's former stable mate, Gangrel.

Even though so far the rumor about The Undertaker returning as American Bad-ass seems to be wrong, I am still not ruling it out if only the Vampire Edge rumor is true. It would be great to see Edge switches from a living man persona into a deadman persona (Vampire) while The Undertaker moves in the opposite direction, from a deadman becoming a living man (American Bad-ass).

We shall see in the near future whether these rumors are true or false.

3 days to Summerslam 2008

I am looking forward to Edge vs The Undertaker match. I wonder how Undertaker would look like in Summerslam. Is he going to use the same gimmick (as the deadman) or is he going to revert back to the American Bad-Ass gimmick -much to my delight-?

For whom?

I haven't been sleeping well these few days. I thought to myself, if I aspire to become, say a successful neurosurgeon who is able to earn at least US$500000 per year, rather than to be an ordinary white collar worker in an office to earn only a wimp of a fraction of that.

However, a thought finally struck me so hard. It will take a massive effort and a very long time to reach the level where I am earning US$ 500000, and when I have reached that level, probably I am already 50 years old, an old fart to boot. This is in contrast to becoming an ordinary white collar worker. I am already able to learn that "wimp" of an income at a tender age of 23-24 and that I will be able to enjoy my life throughout and when I am still young and pretty much alive.

If I choose to earn US$500000, I won't be able to enjoy it, and the one(s) who will enjoy it are my wife and my children. Hell no, I worked so damn hard only for them to enjoy without themselves doing anything? Hell no, we are to enjoy life, might as well enjoy it together, same goes to if we are about to suffer in life with low income, let's grin and bear the suffering together.

A fellow dared to say that I won't be getting married ever if I continue to think this way. However, not even God is able to change my thinking (since He was the one who created me like this at the first place). Sorry folks, so given the choice, at the moment I think I would choose the easy path rather than the hard path and earn US$500000 when I am already old and can't do anything besides doing crossword puzzles and watching TV throughout the remaining years of my life...

2008 Beijing Olympics

The much awaited Olympic games in China has been opened.

For myself, no thanks to an extremely busy schedule and tons of work to be done, I will certainly miss this edition of the Summer Olympics.

I told this to a few people and I received exactly the same response from each of them. "Hey, olympic games is only once in every 4 years you know. If I were you, I will watch even if my life is on the line, blah blah blah"

But I am a confident guy, I am confident that I am still alive in 2012 and that I would be able to follow closely the 2012 London Olympics as my life WILL certainly be much better in 2012 compared to now, which is only SLIGHTLY better than Soviet gulags.

The only event I will follow is football, and I think Argentina will get the gold, although I am not ruling out the possibility of other teams, especially underdogs such as Ivory Coast surprising everyone.

888

Today's date is an auspicious one. It is self explanatory.

Wrestlemania 19, The Undertaker vs A-Train & The Big Show in a handicap match as Undertaker's partner Nathan Jones was injured before the match, although Nathan Jones would come into the match later on to help The Undertaker seal his victory and extends his Wrestlemania unbeaten record at that time to 13-0.

I miss The Undertaker in his American Bad-Ass persona.