Saturday, January 28
ROH
A little love to the 2011 ECWA Super 8 champion Tommaso Ciampa, who continued his unbeaten streak on ROH this past Saturday night. Ciampa’s string of victories is easily winning him favor with the fans, primarily because of his work ethic and his demeanor. He comes off as crazy and combines that charisma with sound technical wrestling. We love seeing the guy get the type of publicity he deserves. He has a great personality and ROH is very lucky to have him in the promotion. Here’s to hoping he continues the success.

Monday, January 30
Raw
Wait, what just happened to The Undertaker's long heralded return? Hold up … is ’Taker really challenging an equally rusty Triple-H to a rematch that could only pale in comparison to last year’s? Listen, we dug last year and are perfectly happy with it, but we also figured Triple-H’s installation as one of a long line of lost souls in ’Taker’s ‘Mania streak was sufficient. To have a rematch at this point really doesn't make much sense. At all. Perhaps it's the thought that ‘Taker can finally go 20-0 against another future hall of famer. Maybe, just maybe, this is the year he loses. Or maybe he actually has trouble finding an opponent, and that’s the angle. Whatever way it goes, we're really not psyched for this year's version.

Wednesday, February 1
NXT
It appears that Titus O’Neil has officially completed his transition to rulebreaker after taking Percy to the woodshed the other night on NXT. Fortunately for Percy, Alex Riley was just insignificant enough to be not needed by the other brands and, thus, available that evening to go make the save. Actually, having O’Neil man-up and embrace the dark side (are they just taking the Cena angle for a spin, here?) makes him a more valuable piece of the NXT roster. But most importantly, surpassing all other discussions, who else wanted to take the air guitar Heath Slater was playing and just lay him out with it? We’re talking old-school, Honky-Tonk-Man-style.

Thursday, February 2
Impact Wrestling
A massive shout-out to all of the folks in attendance who made Impact Wrestling pure a joy to watch at home. Last night, we were treated to a couple of very solid matches, including two by bona fide main eventer James Storm. His non-title match with Bobby Roode early in the broadcast was a showcase of two of the top organic (apologies to the indies) guys in TNA, which is precisely what we’ve been calling for since the dawn of time (or, 2005). The latter match between Storm and Bully Ray was pure eye candy and a straight-up brawl, with “Cowboy” getting the win. The fans were nuts last night and that made for a very enjoyable loafing around experience on our couch. Well done, TNA.

Weekly Top 10
For the second time in four years, the New York Giants and New England Patriots will meet to crown the champion of the National Football League this Sunday. And, while we truly don't care much for either team and wish that there was a way the game could end in the first-ever scoreless tie in the history of the spectacle, it does give us a chance to list our Top 10 favorite all-time wrestling giants and patriots:

10. El Gigante (giant)

9. The Great Khali (giant)

8. The Patriot (if we have to categorize this for you, immediately seek medical attention)

7. Jim Duggan (patriot)

6. Big John Studd (giant)

5. Hulk Hogan (patriot)

4. John Cena (patriot)

3. The Big Show (giant)

2. Sgt. Slaughter (patriot)

1. Andre The Giant (giant)

Trending: AARP Edition
Buy: For all his faults, John Laurinaitis called the Punk-Ziggler match at Royal Rumble somewhat fair. Can’t fault him for that.

Hold: Having Hulk Hogan thrill the crowds in England was fun. Maybe he loses his passport for the return flight home?

Sell: The potential Undertaker-Triple-H-’Mania rematch isn’t really happening, right? Right?

Angle Of The Week
How can the angle of the week not be Hulk Hogan’s overseas appearance for TNA in England, last night? Sure, we're still not sold on the Bischoff-vs.-Bischoff feud. Actually, we genuinely don’t like it one bit. But, throwing Hogan in there as Garrett’s trainer, as clichéd as it is, finds us actually intrigued, if only for a minute. Of course, if this occurred in the friendly confines of Orlando, the moment may not have been as big. The overseas fans truly sold it and their palpable excitement—on television, no less—definitely made the moment better.

What You Should Be Doing … But Probably Aren’t
What you should be doing this week is sending us your predictions for what 2012 Royal Rumble winner Sheamus will to do with his mandatory title match. Word is that he’s going to announce a decision soon, and let the world know who he intends to challenge for the gold the big event in Miami. But, before he breaks the actual news, we want to know what you think he should do and will do. Shoot us an e-mail at PWI_Turn@yahoo.com. Compel us with your thoughts and we’ll post your response in the middle of this very column next week.

Owen Hart Memorial Nugget of Information
Happy trails to one of our favorite wrestlers in recent years, John Morrison. We regret that we didn’t give the story much coverage a few weeks back, and that we didn't wish the man a proper farewell. When both Morrison and WWE acknowledged that the former tag team specialist’s contract expired without renewal we wanted to give it some time to breathe. Hell, this is wrestling. We could be getting worked, here. Turns out, the guy is stepping away from WWE for a while to hopefully recover from a laundry list of nagging injuries. Hopefully it’s time well spent and we, for one, will welcome him back one day should he choose to resume his career.

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