The Square Rassin' Circle 7/25/15

So Battleground happened this week, and overall it was a very predictable Pay-Per-View event, with a (for the most part) uninteresting card. I liked Wyatt vs Roman, it felt like the feud was nicely built. Plus it looks like the Wyatt Family is back together (which they should have never broken up to begin with) so that's cool. It's only a matter of time until we see Rowan in the family again; that is once he returns from his injury. We also got Cena-Owens III. The two put on a great show, but I can't help but feel creative messed up the decision of the match. Kevin Owens should have won this match, when KO dropped the title to Finn Balor in Beast in the East, we all knew this was so WWE could bring him on up from NXT to main roster, and currently Owens looked like the only competitor worthy of taking the belt away from Cena. Rusev can't do it since he's what lost three ppv matches against Cena in a row. Cesaro can't because rumor has it Vince doesn't like him, and Ziggler is kayfabe gone. There's really no one who comes to mind on the main roster other than Owens that could have taken that United States championship from Cena. Watching this past week's Raw, it looks like creative's plan for Cena is to have Rollins and Cena to go at it at SummerSlam in a title vs title match. To finally have Cena become a 16 time champion. No thanks for that.

WWE has really been hyping this "revolution" going on in the main roster for the Divas. At Battleground, we saw Charlotte pick up the win in a triple threat match, and it was actually a solid match. The divas were given plenty of time in that match. Fast forward to Monday, and the divas had two matches on the show. That's right, TWO MATCHES!!! I'm hoping WWE has some good long term plans for the divas, and start having them in quality stuff like the Knockouts and the NXT women. Speaking of the NXT women's division, I wonder how much longer before Sasha drops her title to one of the competitors on NXT. I'm also wondering who will be front and center of the women's division now that three of their big ones (Becky, Sasha, and Charlotte) are on the main roster. I'm thinking the division will now revolve around Bayley, Emma, Dana Brooke, Eva Marie, and hopefully Alexa Bliss or Carmella.

Another big thing to spin out from Battleground was the Undertaker returning! His target? Well you may know him as the one in 22-1 Brock Lesnar. Yeah I was pretty surprised in seeing Taker at Battleground interfering in Brock and Rollin's match. The dirtsheet's were reporting Undertaker and Sting would be at SummerSlam so I thought for sure they'd fight so WWE can further emphasis on SummerSlam being their summer Wrestlemania. So Undertaker came back because he's not happy with all the bragging Paul did for Brock when he defeated Undertaker at WM. It was pretty cool seeing them brawl on Monday and all of the locker room having to stop them. I'm glad WWE is giving these to a rematch.

Moving on to TNA, not much happened this week. We got like three matches on the 2 hour show with a lot of talking and TNA showing a full replay of the King of the Mountain match at this year's Slammiversary (thanks to the whole Hernandez sistuation). TNA finally announced (on tv) Jeff Jarrett going to the TNA HoF. I'm happy for Jeff, when TNA announced they were going to have a Hall of Fame a few years back, I immediately thought Jeff Jarrett should definitely be inducted because he is one of the founders of this organization wrestling fans love. Matt Hardy won a number one contender's match against Bobby Roode. That's cool and all, but I can't help but feel bad about the current TNA roster. They lost a lot of top guys, so I can't help but wonder who will be on the main event scene. Lashley is part time thanks to his Bellator gig, I think Roode will be gone for a little bit for the GFW tapings, Aries/Magnus/Storm/MVP all left, Angle is injured, Jeff...well I'm not sure if he's still injured. So who is there to really fight EC3? I'm thinking some main players in the meantime could consist of Bram, Mr. Anderson, Drew Galloway, and Matt Hardy.

This week was an important week over on ROH. ROH just hit there 200th TV episode and had their Death Before Dishonor iPPV. There send off show was a little cool to see since it was mostly recap of important things to happen on TV. So as someone who hasn't spent a lot of time watching ROH TV it was nice to see some major things that occured. Plus the send off match was a lot of fun to watch. We had the House of Truth vs ODB, The Briscoes, and Roderick Strong. I didn't get to see their iPPV yet but I'm looking forward to Lethal vs Strong and The Addiction defending their belts.

Let's not forgot about the wrestling world going crazy over Hulk Hogan this past Friday. Apparently in an old radio recording, Hogan called one of Brooke's ex the 'n' word. WWE found out about this and terminated Hulk from his contract. So no more guest appearances from the Hulkster on Raw, his merchandise is off wwe.com, Hogan is now removed from WWE 2K16 the video game, off Tough Enough as a judge, Curtis Axel lost his Axelmania gimmick, the WWE are making sure Hulk Hogan never existed. Heck even TNA jumped on the bandwagon of Hogan never existing. I can't say I agree with Hogan for using the word, but I also feel like WWE is blowing this way out of proportions by giving him the Benoit treatment.