What the Funk? Brodus Clay Missing Part II

Brodus Clay is apparently missing in action again. Clay debuted on Raw after several stalled and delayed returns that lasted well into the New Year with an unbelievable Funkasaurus gimmick. I predicted that he would return as a monster heel and destroy everyone in sight, however, I quickly hopped on team Funkasaurus when I saw Clay’s personality shine through. And the added plus of having Naomi back on TV.

Clay has been off TV for some weeks now and it might appear that the Funkasaurus has quickly become extinct. There have been varying rumors that Vince McMahon felt that Brodus Clay was “too green” in the ring and pulled him from TV, even having one of his matches edited out of Smackdown.  I don’t personally buy this one as Clay had plenty of time to be evaluated in FCW, NXT, and as Alberto Del Rio’s lackey on Raw. Another rumor was that he was too unsafe in the ring to work with. Clay vaguely addressed the rumors on twitter.  

Chris Brown responds to CM Punk

CM Punk takes to Twitter to try to gain some measure of mainstream publicity by attacking Chris Brown’s and his 8 MILLION plus followers, over something that’s happened years ago (Chris Brown’s pre-Grammy attack on Rihanna). Chris Brown took the bait however, and entertained Punk by engaging in the Twitter beef. It’s interesting that Punk would “claim” to be standing up for women when he’s rumored to be quite the womanizer himself.

NBA's dunk contest a Slam in the Toilet

If you were watching TNT last night to see an exciting Slam Dunk contest, I hope you were watching on video tape. This year’s Sprite Slam Dunk contest featured four virtual unknowns, doing 3 repetitive dunks (dunking over Kevin Hart, dunking over P. Diddy, dunking over a teammate, i.e.).  I was pulling for Paul George of the Indiana Pacers, who dunked with the lights off in a glow-in-the-dark jersey.

The Sprite Slam Dunk contest is usually the main event of all star Saturday. This year was a snooze fest. For the first the fans got to vote for the winner by twitter, texts, and by phone. Over 3 million votes were cast.

The winner: “the Human Pogo Stick” Jeremy Evans; however, we all lost. Perhaps Sir Charles Barkley said it best, “I’m saying it here, I’m saying it now. All the superstars need to get up off their butts and get back into the Slam Dunk contest. When I was young, I wanted to see Dominique versus Jordan…”

Undertaker and Kane go shopping

High Times w/ Evan Bourne: Part II

Evan Bourne is "blowing" the opportunity of a lifetime with his most recent suspension for Wellness violation, coming only weeks after his first suspension. WWE storylines basically ignored the fact that Bourne was gone for a month, and the tag titles were barely mentioned.

Royal Rumble preview

There are only 4 announced matches for tonight’s Royal Rumble. So one can expect plenty of surprises and last minute addition. I’m expecting a 2 minutes Diva’s match. Perhaps another Tamina vs. Natalya squash match. Here are my predictions.

·         CM Punk vs. Dolph Ziggler (John Laurinaitis guest referee)

Should be plenty of shenanigans with this one. I’m sure David Otunga is going to get involved somehow. Triple H returning tomorrow to possibly “fire” Laurinaitis based on his performance tonight adds a little intrigue to the match. CM Punk should win this one to end the Ziggler feud, and either continue with Laurinaitis and Triple H storyline or move on to a possible WrestleMania challenger.

Smackdown Review

• It seems as if Smackdown creative have hit the snooze button and is focusing on the Big Show/Daniel Bryan/Mark Henry storyline and all other wrestlers and angles are taking a backseat.  There’s the Drew McIntyre losing streak storyline and by Kayfabe, McIntyre should have been fired weeks ago, but Teddy Long keeps going back on his word. The Sheamus and Jinder Mahal fued is at an impasse that basically consists of Sheamus squashing Mahal every chance. Brodus Clay made his Smackdown debut versus Tyson Kidd. Don’t blink, it was only two moves. David Otunga picked up a win versus Santino, which has to be a big win for him. 

• But the show centered around Daniel Bryan and The Big Show. Bryan was getting more boos than cheers this episode. This is a good development for his character because he had zero personality as a face. It brings to mind Kurt Angle during his first hell turn. The championship match between the two ended as Big Show accidentally bulldozed AJ who was at ringside. Surprising that WWE allowed her to take a bump by a male competitor. It will be interesting to see if this will play into Bryan’s heel turn in anyway.