Ask Ardeth

Time to dig into the fang mail for another batch of emails from beyond the grave.
Welcome to an overdue issue of "Ask Ardeth" Where anything that can be thought of to ask will be answered by my horror film Heavy Metal Goddess alter ego Ardeth Blood.


Dear Ardeth:

I read your wrestling blog Blind Tag and like the layout you have going on. But why is it that you only show pics from TNA and not from WWE? And why is it you never have any pics of the Divas/Knock outs?

Signed WWE fan in TEXAS


Dear WWE fan in TEXAS

Very simple. I download TNA weekly from iTunes Canada. I take screen shots of things from the shows. WWE is not available on iTunes Canada thus no screen shots.
I will start taking a few more of the women if enough people ask. So far no one has.
If any wrestlers in the Indie companies want to grant us photos to use I will gladly use them. If any one reading this has photos they have taken themselves at live shows and want to send them in, I will use them.



That's all the time we have for this one, come back around and see what other gobs of wisdom Ardeth Blood will dish out and serve to her fiends.

You can email Ask Ardeth at hardcorevampsprods@yahoo.ca

Originally posted on Andrew and the Aluminumsidings on Oct 8th 2009

From Ring Side : Sept 24 2009

Our latest poll was asking about your thoughts on the recent decision to give TNA Knock Outs a set of Tag Team belts.
The results are in at a whopping 60% for NO.

And most, if not all of us here at Blind Tag Blog agree.
The addition of tag team belts would have been much better used in the X-Division.

I understand you are trying to make your women's division stand out from the other companies at the moment, trying to give it some heat, but are tag team belts the way to go?

Now granted you have set the plate high with two women who are fairly talented in their workings, and Canadian too I might add, but unless you really import some more female wrestlers like you have in the last few weeks who have been trained in Mexico/Japan well anywhere outside of the Untied States actually, unless you bring in a lot of outside talent you will be tarnishing an already questionable set of belts.

That's the view from ours seats and I've said it.


Resistance is futile

Raw Results for Sept 14 2009

Since we got a few comments asking where the review this week was.....

Show was in Toronto Canada.

Batista came out in an armbrace, He was always a crap wrestler anyway, so he quit.

Moving on to something of interest.... wait this is Raw there is nothing of interest....

Randy Orton was sexy as always, he needs to just stand there and look good, stop giving him the mic.

Damn, Batista was faking it, he's just jumping shows to Smackdown.

Trish Stratus hosted as a brunette none the less. A woman only changes her hair back to it's normal colour for two reasons, 1) Career change, 2)Pregnant.

She was way too skinny, so must be a new career.

Match 1 * Kofi Kingston/Primo vs Jack Swagger/Miz. I couldn't watch this. Miz looks like my ex boyfriend and I just wanted to punch the tv.

Swagger won.

Match 2* Divas match. Gail Kim vs Alicia Fox.

Fox won.

Just when did Gail Kim become a jobber anyway?

Match 3* Ted Debiasi vs HBK.

DQ because of Rhodes

Match 4* Hornswaggle/Evan Bourne vs Chavo/Carlito.

Hornswaggle got the win

Match 5* Trish Stratus/MVP vs Jericho/Beth Pheniox.

DQ because of Big Show.

Mark Henry came out and turned it into a 6 man tag.

Trish got the pin for the win.

Match6* Orton vs Batista.

Batista won as it is his last match on Raw.

The best part of the show was the commercial for the new movie ZombieLand.

Women's Division September 2009

With the fan sites buzzing over the rumours about Angelina Love, I thought it was time for some attention again for the women's divisions.

There has been a lot of fresh talent coming into TNA's Knock Out division as of late. This has lead to the forming of a tag team division in the Knock Outs.

Many of us find this not a good use of new belts.

But the increase of Lucha Libre trained and Japanese style wrestlers in the women's division has added some much needed fresh blood to an otherwise dead division.

I don't know why they brought Roxxi back? Don't get me wrong she's a strong wrestler, but if they are going in a new direction with the high flyer style, she's very out of place with her hardcore ways.

I know another of the staff here (Ardeth Blood) mentioned in the weekly TNA reviews that having Cody Deaner in the Knock Outs is retarded, and I agree. It's just mocking the women's division. I have no idea what they are trying to do with him in there.

Resistance is futile

Raw Results for July 27 2009

Because the staff are having some scheduling issues, and we did not want to miss a week if it could be helped and running with the idea Raw is having "guest hosts", my Mom called this one in, I will translate it for you. Hold on to your hats cause Mom's a hoot.

The big bald guy who plays basketball hosted. (Shaq) and he started it all off by booking a 5 man Beat the Clock match to see who is in line for Randy Orton's belt. Then the guy with the short hair came out to complain as always (Chris Jericho), where upon Shaq kissed him on the forehead. The crowd then went wild calling Jericho "Christina". Big Show came out then claimed to be the new tag team partner of Jericho. Shaq then challenged Big Show to a match. Which was a set up for Cryme Tyme to jump over from Smackdown. Thought it was lame the way Shaq kept calling Jericho "Christina"

They had the first beat the clock match. The really big guy who looks like a mountain ( Mark Henry )went up against the guy with the perm (Carleto) Carleto just ran around the ring for a few minutes before Mark Henry grabbed him by the hair pulling him into the ring. Mark Henry won with a 6:49 minute clock count. Carleto must have really pissed someone off to be put in that match.

Next was Women's match. 3 members on each team. The short girl in the white (Gail Kim) started it off against the large girl who looks like a a man (Beth Phenox) Then the chick with the crazy hair (Alicia Fox) started to punch Gail Kim. Then the chunky one in silver (Mickie James) got in there and started to punch Fox. Then Gail Kim came back in and won.

Then the midget played basketball backstage with Shaq.

Another beat the clock match.

MVP vs the guy who thinks he's a bodybuilder (I scratched my head on this one for a few minutes before realizing it was the return of Chris Masters) There were a few near falls for MVP with Chris Masters trying to put on his Masterlock but failing. Then went outside the ring pulling MVP to the floor slamming on the Masterlock causing MVP to be counted out.

The guy with the long hair wearing a Micheal Jackson jacket was in the ring yelling at Lawler (Brian Kendrick) he got kicked in the head and knocked out by the guy with the dreadlocks (Kofi Kingston) and was pinned in like 30 seconds.

Triple H got hit on the leg in the hallway. His beat the clock match was against Rhodes. He had him on the mat for most of it, using arm drags and submission holds. Then slammed his knee into Rhodes' face. Rhodes countered by crushing Triple H's knee into the post a few times before spending the next 2 minutes working the knee. He even used a figure four leg lock. Dibiase came down to interfere causing Triple H to loose to the clock. Stupid he wasted time trying to get his Petegree on Rhodes and the clock ran out. (Mom likes Triple H)

Shaq then played scrabble in the office with Santino.

The midget wrestled Chavo (again) with Chavo blindfolded. This was stupid.

Some blonde guy with a last name that began with "s" (Jack Swagger) was next for the beat the clock match. He went against the look alike (Evan Bourne) Bourne used a double low drop kick to get Swagger off his feet. But Swagger got a very powerful suplex on him. Both got a few near falls, and Bourne pushed Swagger into the turnbuckle. Evan Bourne won the match. This means that the clock to beat is still Mark Henry's time as it was not Bourne who was in the challenge.

John Cena vs the loud mouth (Miz) in another beat the clock. They just ran around the ring for the first few minutes avoiding each other then Miz went outside the ring then used a few submission holds before knocking Cena out of the ring. Cena made Miz tap beating the clock.

Cena goes now to Summer Slam to face Orton for the belt.

And the main event of the night was a tag team match with Big Show/Jericho vs Cryme Tyme with Shaq as the special ref. This was nothing but a way to get Shaq vs Big Show in the ring together. The match was a double dq, leading to Shaq jumping into the ring facing Show. Shaq then chased him out of the studio.

The Women's Division

Taking a few tricks from Ardeth, I got her to agree to screen capture a few shots. I will give you this weeks high light of the Women's Division.

This week's TNA Impact saw two matches in a row for the Knock Outs. The first match being Velvet Sky vs. Tara with Tara getting the pin after landing the Widow's Peak on Velvet Sky.

This then lead to Tara challenging Angelina Love to a title match for the Knock Out's belt. Once again Tara pulled it off by using her Window's Peak. She is now the new Knock Out's Champ.

In what appeared to be a shoot interview, she thanked the fans for their support, TNA for the chance to be in the company, and even Angelina Love for what can only be assumed at letting her have the match. Then she thanked her spider Poison.

It has been roughly 5 years since Tara held a belt on television.