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Well I thought that there would be no more additions to this weekend Wrestlemania 27 event but it appears I was wrong because on Monday Night RAW this week, a 8 man tag match was announced.

This new match will consist of: Big Show, Kane, Santino and Kozlov vs The Core.  I don’t know if this match is going to be any good, don’t get me wrong, I’m sure Santino will make everyone laugh but I wonder if this match is going to be more of a filler match lasting only a short time or if we will actually get at least 30 minutes worth of great wrestling.

As for which team I think will win, it will probably be The Core because I wouldn’t be surprised if they end up having some new member show up out of the crowd.

I just watched 3 different WWE DVD releases, “True Story of Wrestlemania”, “Bobby The Brain Heenan” and “Big Show: A Giants World”.  Here is my short opinion on each of them.

True Story of Wrestlemania

I found this to be a good documentary on Wrestlemania.  It has a lot of great information regarding this spectacular yearly event including comments from both retired and current wrestlers.  It is a 2 hour long documentary and would be great for both current wrestling fans and may even be of interest to non-wrestling fans.  The other DVD’s in the package is a collection of past Wrestlemania matches which may or may not be of interest.  Myself, I am never interested in watching old matches, I only care about the documentary itself and therefore wish WWE would release two versions of their DVD’s, one just having the documentary and a higher cost one that includes past matches on extra DVD’s.

Bobby The Brain Heenan

Heenan has always been my most favourite manager and commentator because he is brilliant when using the microphone so to watch this documentary was absolutely wonderful even if the DVD did not include any recent interviews with Heenan.  Interviews that did exist were with some WWE Legends as well as Heenan wife and daughter.  The documentary talks about Heenan from childhood to WWF to WCW.  There is even a short clip from when he was inducted in to the Hall of Fame as well a slight touch on his battle with throat cancer.  An all around great documentary.  The second DVD includes about 5 or 6 matches, both before and during WWF including the 1992 Royal Rumble where Heenan is constantly cheering on Rick Flair from the commentator desk.

Big Show: A Giants World

I have enjoyed watching Big Show for some time now, even if WWE doesn’t give the big guys like Show too much of push with regards to hold title belts.  DVD1 is a 1 hour documentary on Big Show describing his life from childhood to being a car salesman to WCW to WWE.  Interviews include Big Show, his wife, cousin as well as current WWE superstars.  It also touches on various story lines including the death of Big Show father where Big Boss Man drives away with Big Show father casket in tow.  DVD2 is 30 minutes in length which includes more interviews and clips from WCW and WWE.  DVD3+4 are just matches.

Overall for all three DVD sets, I would recommend purchasing if you have the money to do so.

With Wrestlemania 27 only 7 days away, I felt it was time to now post my predictions of who will win each match since it is unlikely any new matches will be added.

Match: John Cena vs The Miz

Predicted Winner: The Miz

Reason: The Rock will be at Wrestlemania and with the insults flying back and forth between Cena and The Rock, I suspect that either A) The Rock will cause a distraction to Cena thus causing Miz to win or B) The Rock makes the match Triple Threat in which case Mix will probably step aside and let Rock and Cena beat each other up then when the time is right, come back in and pin one of them.

Match: Undertaker vs Triple H

Predicted Winner: Triple H

Reason: I am hoping for Triple H to win and the Undertaker finally retiring.  No it’s not that I hate the Undertaker but that it is now time for that wrestler is retire.  Mark Calaway who plays the Undertaker has just turned 46 (March 24) and over the past few years I have noticed that Calaway tends to look as if he is out of breath with in the first 5 minutes of a match starting.  Lets also not forget how many injuries he has suffered in recent years.  In 2010 alone he suffered 4 injuries putting him on medical leave twice for several months each time.  I just hope that when Undertaker Does do his last match, that he goes back to his original scary look with the red hair and grey boot covers and gloves.

Match: Edge vs Alberto Del Rio

Predicted Winner: Alberto Del Rio

Reason: Alberto Del Rio will most likely win because of his personal ring announcer Ricardo and his NXT rookie Big Brodus Clay.  You know at least one of them is going to get involved causing major distractions.

 

Match: Rey Mysterio vs Cody Rhodes

Predicted Winner: Rey Mysterio

Reason: Mysterio has been attacked from behind a lot lately by Rhodes and usually when you see that prior to a big match, the one doing the attacking is usually the one who gets pinned so that is why I have chosen Mysterio to be the winner.

Match: Jerry “The King” Lawler vs Michael Cole

Predicted Winner: Jerry “The King” Lawler

Reason: I am really praying for Lawler to win and beat the living shit out of Cole.  I have always found it hard to listen to Cole, the guy just irritates me.  When he took over as the Smackdown ring side commentator, I stopped watching the program for almost an entire year, that’s how much I hate this guy.  Now that he has become a heal, the hate towards him has only grown so Lawler, do me proud and kick his ass to a pulp.

Match: Randy Orton vs CM Punk

Predicted Winner: CM Punk

Reason: Although I like Orton over Punk, I feel Punk will probably win because Orton has been on a somewhat winning streak lately.  He has taken out all the New Nexus guys except for Punk and I would not be surprised if they have someone show up at ringside in support of Punk, either coming down the ramp or out of the fans seating area.

Match: Sheamus vs Daniel Bryan

Predicted Winner: Sheamus

Reason: I would rather Daniel be the winner but for some time now I have been getting the feeling that the WWE might be trying to get rid of Daniel because for some months now, WWE really hasn’t done much with Daniel.  We didn’t see him defend the U.S. title as much as other wrestlers, in fact I think the diva title has been defended more over the past 6 months than the U.S. title.  The WWE could have really went with the Daniel vs Cole storyline a lot more but I guess Cole was too much of a coward.

Match: John Morrison, Trish Stratus & Snooki vs. Dolph Ziggler & Lay-Cool

Predicted Winner: Dolph Ziggler & Lay-Cool

Reason: Vickie Guerrero.  Need I say more?

Firefox v4 was released yesterday which I went ahead and installed on my system which is using Ubuntu Linux 10.10.

I have been using this for a bit now, even tried one of the beta releases a week or two ago and so far I only see two things I would change, those two things are the refresh and home buttons moved back to the left hand side of the browser.  I do not like them being over to the far right, most likely because I am use to them being on the left so I’m sure I will get use to it but making changes like that can turn people off the product.  An example would be the difference between Vista/Win7, still today many people who come to buy a system want XP because people are afraid to learn the new layout.  Even I get frustrated when repairing a Vista/Win7 system because trying to find stuff is much harder.

Other changes is each tab having their own address bar, not sure yet if this is a good/bad change, I’ll need to use this browser more in order for me to say if this change was a good or bad change.

There is no more bottom bar giving you a bit bigger viewing area.  For those who depended on the bottom bar to make sure links you hover over are going to a legit site and not some fake site, a small pop-up at the bottom left will appear when hovering over a link and while a website is loading.  If you are using an add-on like Measure-it then you will need to go to View -> Toolbars and turn on the “Add-On Bar” (or <Ctrl>/) to get access to those particular add-ons.