When The Blot
announced last week I was going to schedule a trial run of my live blogging through
Twitter this weekend at the biggest sports entertainment event of the year, the speculation ran rampant. It seems like I unintentionally threw everyone off with my
March Madness post. My buddy Sam (who lives in Detroit) even called and asked why I hadn’t told him I was coming up to Michigan for the Final Four. You see, while the Final Four is definitely the biggest sporting event this weekend, it’s not the biggest “sports entertainment” (a phrase popularly coined by the
WWE) event of the year. That title goes to
WrestleMania, the be all and end all event of professional wrestling.
Now as you may all
remember The Blot doesn’t really follow professional wrestling anymore, but when I heard WrestleMania XXV was taking place in my own backyard I knew I had to go. As a kid I would have killed to go to WrestleMania and the 10 year old lil’ Blot inside me would have never forgiven the adult I’ve become if I didn’t go. Plus, I had the opportunity to go in college during professional wrestling’s resurgence in the late ‘90s and turned it down. Worried that passing up the WWE’s signature event a second time might mean I never end up going to a WrestleMania, I called my buddy Threefron and made plans to attend the 25th anniversary event.
So here I am, on the verge of attending my first WrestleMania and I have no idea what to expect. With this being the 25th anniversary of WrestleMania the WWE should be pulling out all the stops, including bring back more than a few surprises (rumors continue to circulate about the return of Hulk Hogan to the squared circle). Regardless, Houston is abuzz with talk of WrestleMania. Some analysts even predict the week of WrestleMania should bring a significant economic boost to the city in the upwards of $50 million dollars. (
link)
As of now I am only planning on attending WrestleMania XXV Sunday night, but I might be convinced to attend a session of the WWE’s four day fanfest
WrestleMania Axxess or Saturday night’s marquee event the WWE
Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. If so, you can be sure I’ll be blogging live courtesy of
Twitter. Anyone interested in knowing what’s going on at the event without having to pay your hard earned money to purchase the show on PPV should stop by
The Blot Says… or
Twitter.com/TheBlotSays to follow the action in real time.
WrestleMania XXV takes place this Sunday, April 5, 2009 at 7/6c only on Pay-Per-View (or here at The Blot Says… if you don't mind your news in 140 characters or less)
The Matches Set For WrestleMania XXV
WWE Championship Triple H (c) vs. Randy Orton
World Heavyweight Championship Triple Threat MatchEdge (c) vs. John Cena vs. Big Show
Intercontinental Championship JBL (c) vs. Rey Mysterio
Extreme Rules Match Jeff Hardy vs. Matt Hardy
Unified Tag Team Championship Lumberjack Match WWE Tag Team Champions Carlito & Primo vs.
World Tag Team Champions The Miz & John Morrison
Shawn Michaels vs. Undertaker
Money in the Bank Ladder MatchChristian vs. CM Punk vs. Kane vs. Mark Henry vs.
Shelton Benjamin vs. Kofi Kingston vs. US Champion MVP
25-Diva Battle Royal Legends MatchChris Jericho vs. WWE Legends
(Rowdy Roddy Piper, Ricky The Dragon Steamboat &
Jimmy Superfly Snuka with Ric Flair)
When The Blot announced last week I was going to schedule a trial run of my live blogging through Twitter this weekend at the biggest sports entertainment event of the year, the speculation ran rampant. It seems like I unintentionally threw everyone off with my March Madness post. My buddy Sam (who lives in Detroit) even called and asked why I hadn’t told him I was coming up to Michigan for the Final Four. You see, while the Final Four is definitely the biggest sporting event this weekend, it’s not the biggest “sports entertainment” (a phrase popularly coined by the WWE) event of the year. That title goes to WrestleMania, the be all and end all event of professional wrestling.
Now as you may all remember The Blot doesn’t really follow professional wrestling anymore, but when I heard WrestleMania XXV was taking place in my own backyard I knew I had to go. As a kid I would have killed to go to WrestleMania and the 10 year old lil’ Blot inside me would have never forgiven the adult I’ve become if I didn’t go. Plus, I had the opportunity to go in college during professional wrestling’s resurgence in the late ‘90s and turned it down. Worried that passing up the WWE’s signature event a second time might mean I never end up going to a WrestleMania, I called my buddy Threefron and made plans to attend the 25th anniversary event.
So here I am, on the verge of attending my first WrestleMania and I have no idea what to expect. With this being the 25th anniversary of WrestleMania the WWE should be pulling out all the stops, including bring back more than a few surprises (rumors continue to circulate about the return of Hulk Hogan to the squared circle). Regardless, Houston is abuzz with talk of WrestleMania. Some analysts even predict the week of WrestleMania should bring a significant economic boost to the city in the upwards of $50 million dollars. (link)
It’s finally here, ER’s 15th and final season finale. The Blot has been equally looking forward to and dreading watching one of my favorite shows come to an end. You just never know what you’re going to get with a planned series finale, but I have a feeling it’s going to be a good one with lots of returning cast members from the show’s rich history scheduled to appear.
I’m just hoping there are no more deaths of beloved characters, something ER has come to be known for over the years. For some reason the writers off ER just can’t let exiting characters ride off into the sunset, they always have to kill them off in some cockamamie way. It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if a bomb went off in Chicago’s County General while all of the show’s past and present characters were in the building. That way the tradition of killing off the character of an actor exiting the show would still hold true.
I think at this point in the show it is safe to say that Lost episodes, like last week’s “He’s Our You,” which focus squarely on Sayid are some of The Blot’s favorite episodes. This season’s Sayid-centric episodes have been even better because they also prominently feature Benjamin Linus. Ever since it was revealed how intertwined Sayid and Ben’s off island exploits were, the rich interplay between these two stoic yet complicated characters has been mind blowing. Who knew way back in Season 2 when Sayid was torturing Ben in the hatch how far their relationship would come? In many ways Ben is now finally getting his revenge for their first encounter by torturing Sayid, albeit psychologically instead of physically. I can honestly say I never know where their storyline is going to go next.
It’s weird, for all Sayid has been through he never stops punishing himself for the crimes of his past. I almost feel like Sayid didn’t want Sawyer to help him escape because he felt like he deserved whatever punishment was coming his way for the death’s he caused off the island. Then again, it could have all been a smokescreen for Sayid’s true mission…to kill Ben Linus. From the moment the young Benjamin Linus introduced himself to a captive Sayid one scene kept playing over and over again in my head. It was the scene where Sun was holding Ben at gun point and Linus asked Sayid for help. Sayid just turned to him and said if I ever see you again I’ll shoot you myself.
As we learned last week, Sayid is truly a man of his word and the first opportunity he had to shoot Ben he took it. Now I don’t think there’s any chance Ben is actually dead (as in gone and buried), but it does tie in nicely to Ben’s pronouncement earlier this season that he had been “born on the island.” Now we all know he was actually born off the island and brought there by his father, but maybe he was killed by Sayid and the island resurrected him like it has done for so many other characters. This could be one explanation for his claim of being born on the island. Or, maybe his near death experienced opened his eyes to his and the island’s true potential. What I do know is that like a phoenix rising out of its own ashes, Benjamin Linus cannot be stopped.
I feel like this theory actually builds upon my theory from last week in that the actions the time lost Losties are taking now in the past are the reason many of the things we’ve witnessed in the future have taken place. If this is true, Sayid’s shooting of Ben may be the catalyst for the many horrible things Ben does in the future. It’s almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy, where the actions Sayid takes in the past to prevent his future from occurring actually causes it. I’ve always wondered how Ben knew to recruit Sayid in his plans for revenge. Maybe it was because Ben always knew Sayid was a killer at heart because he witnessed Sayid’s handiwork firsthand as a child.
