Once a Cerebral Assassin, always a Cerebral Assassin!
Wasn’t it awesome seeing Triple H wrestle again at Night Of Champions? I still find it hard to believe that The Game decided to stick to backstage-work instead of active in-ring competition. I always envisioned Triple H being a primetime superstar in the WWE for another 3-4 years at least. Yeah, he’s a couple of years past 40, but his age isn’t showing as much as it does on Shawn Michaels or The Undertaker, and if Night Of Champions was any indication of his in-ring abilities, I’d say he’s got another 5 years of ass-kickin’ left in him!

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Welcome to this week’s The 10 Count!. I feel strange saying this but I believe Smackdown! was an overall better show than Monday’s Raw. Raw’s SuperShow saw John Cena once again getting the best of Alberto Del Rio with some help from WWE Hall of Famer Bret Hart. Meanwhile, CM Punk used his “pipe bomb” as a weapon against the Cerebral Assassin. Later in the week on Smackdown!, we saw the return of The Cutting Edge with the guests being the combatants in the World Heavyweight Championship match, Randy Orton and Mark Henry. Let’s start the count! More

Most of you know by now that The Rock will be at Survivor Series this year which emanates from Madison Square Garden in New York City. I’ve been hyped about his comeback at Survivor Series for months now, but things seem to have taken a very interesting turn lately, some of which suggest that The Rock may actually be wrestling alongside John Cena on the show. Plus, is this the official poster for the big event? Check it out after the jump.  More

Welcome to this week’s The 10 Count!. This wrestling week was a little different than usual as we got Raw’s Super Show on Monday night followed by Smackdown!’s Super Show on Tuesday. This could very well be a test run for what will be a permanent schedule change for WWE by the fall. Time will only tell if that will hurt or benefit them overall. On Monday’s revamped Raw, Triple H announced that he will return to in-ring action at Night of Champions against Punk! On Smackdown’s Supershow, the rivalry known as Randy Orton vs Christian finally came to an end. Let’s start the count! More

This week, the guys ponder the reformation of the New World Order as they cover Raw, enjoy Sting’s epic gay voice on Impact Wrestling (emphasis on ‘enjoying’. Please don’t hunt us down, GLAAD!) , and talk to “The Masterpiece” Chris Masters about why WWE let him go and if he did or didn’t expect it coming. All this and much, much more on this week’s edition of Running The Ropes!

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Ahh SummerSlam, the annual pay-per view that has more hits than misses than any other pay-per view. Wrestlemania is always a good time to show off new gear and an enormous titantron and at least one amazing match, but almost every Summerslam is jam packed to the teeth with timeless matches……except for Triple H vsEugenefrom 2004, which was such a bad match-up that I actually remember that. Trust me, no Summerslam match-up could be booked worse unless they had Andre the Giant vs. Santino Marella. At the end of the day this Summerslam in my eyes was a big win for the WWE, and a big loss to the Spanish Announce Table, which had its remarkable 1,000th break tonight, congrats guys. More

OK, so I hope you all got acquainted with me and my style from the SmackDown review on Friday and you had a good read. Thanks for the comments posted, it’s encouraging to know that people are reading my stuff. As always, I welcome any of you to leave comments either on the blog or on the UnchainedWWE Facebook fan page as to what else you’d like to see either in the reviews of the weekly shows or for articles/columns etc.

Let’s get on to Monday Night’s hottest show. More