You may not be aware, but a year ago last Tuesday (May 15, 2012), Shannon Moore began a losing streak that is still intact to this day. Yowzers. There's jobbing, there's putting people over, and then there are embarrassing and insulting streaks.

I am shocked at all those World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) superstars with huge losing streaks, especially the upper-card guys like Cody Rhodes and Wade Barrett. I never realized the doghouse is such a cruel place to be.

The TNA roster has fewer names on the list, yet they get fewer public matches considering Impact is the only weekly show they have. But I was surprised by Bully Ray's streak.

16 losses in a row and he's supposed to be the "best heel in professional wrestling?"

Natalya is the only Diva in short term history to have a serious losing streak. Five Knockouts have lost six straight matches or more while four of them haven't won a match since November of last year, but Natalya's losing streak has garnered more attention due to the fact that WWE books talent far more often.

Rules of qualifying for the list:

• Only WWE and TNA talents are eligible.
• Must lose five consecutive "public" matches (matches distributed for free viewing on national TV, pay-per-view, and Internet) or more. So NXT, Superstars and Xplosion count, but FCW, OVW do not.
• Streaks can still be ongoing.
• Losing streaks had to begin during the second half of last year (starting July 1, 2011), unless they are still ongoing.
• Dark matches, events from Indie and developmental leagues, and house shows do not count.
• Wrestlers can appear on the list more than once if they have more than one different losing streak.
• Released wrestlers count, but only if their last match happened this year.
• Results courtesy of www.profightdb.com.

Check out the complete list after the jump.

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This is Dannie Ray, Head of Creative for Revival Pro Wrestling and Chief operating officer.

You might ask, what is Revival Pro Wrestling (RPW)?

RPW is a group of Cagesiders who have joined forces to create their own brand of wrestling entertainment, everyone has made and developed unique characters that face each other weekly for RPW supremacy.

RPW is drama, RPW is comedy, RPW is passion and RPW is wrestling but most importantly RPW is fun.

If you want to join either as a character or as a fan, be sure to join our mailing list.

If you are a part of our mailing list you already got the show, and hopefully read it aswell, but leave your kind (or not so kind) comments.

More information and the show after the jump.

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World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) will hold yet another pay-per-view (PPV) this coming Sunday night (May 20, 2012) when they invade the PNC Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina, with Over the Limit.

And all signs point to the show being an unmitigated disaster.

Monday Night Raw's go-home show recorded the second lowest rating of the year, though many would argue that has nothing to do with anything and is not indicative of how well a show will sell on PPV. I'll never understand the dismissal of key business indicators, especially when those in power with WWE use them to make decisions on the product delivered to us each week. Remember Alberto Del Rio's short lived title reign that ended prematurely when he jobbed the title to John Cena at Hell in a Cell last year? There's a reason they did that and it's not because it made sense for the storyline.

Poor ratings aren't even the biggest reason Over the Limit looks poised to fail miserably once the buyrate comes in. Though that does show a general disinterest in the promotion, consensus opinion from reading reports and stalking social media sites shows downright rebellion. Fans aren't just disinterested in the product, they're literally pissed off at how bad it's been lately.

Take the closing segment from Raw this week for example. John Cena turned in the most laughable (at you, not with you) performance of his career, spending nearly 15 minutes calling John Laurinaitis a loser in the silliest Ace Ventura-esque voices he could muster. Laurinaitis, in turn, called Cena a loser and the fans losers for liking him.

Essentially, WWE wants us all to know we're losers for liking their product. And, sadly, that's how everyone felt after watching that segment. And that entire show for that matter.

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Bobby Roode still has a stranglehold on the TNA World Heavyweight Championship.

This week on Impact, a series of four matches will help determine who will challenge him on next week's (May 24) installment.

And seeing as how it's an Open Fight Night, we'll also get plenty of other surprises.

Austin Aries takes on Pro Wrestling Guerrilla and NWA Hollywood stalwart Joey Ryan while the Knockouts Tag Team and TV titles are defended. ODB and Eric Young takes on former champs Gail Kim and Madison Rayne while Devon goes one on one with Garett Bischoff.

All this and much more!

Full credit goes ProWrestling.net for the spoilers.

Check them out after the jump.

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This Monday's Raw was a big waste of time but maybe Smackdown might lead us into Sunday's (May 20) Over the Limit show on the right foot?

They already announced Sheamus taking on Randy Orton so that's a good sign. Plus Damien Sandow makes another appearance which is also a plus.

What else can you expect?

CM Punk opens his big mouth to John Laurinaitis and has to take on Kane as a result. The tag team champs see action as do Santino and Cody Rhodes, who end up taking on each other.

Aside from Layla, every single champion appears in action on Friday's (May 18) installment of Smackdown.
Normally, I wouldn't care if we didn't see the Divas champ but good gravy, is Layla easy on the eyes.

Full spoilers -- courtesy of ProWrestling.net -- after the jump.

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Back in 1992, The Great Muta took on Hiroshi Hase at a New Japan Pro Wrestling show and after getting cracked across the dome with a metal tool, gave birth to the Muta Scale.

The Muta Scale measures amount of blood loss. Say, a wrestler eats a chair shot to the skull and gets a nice amount of color. That might be a .5 on the Muta Scale.

Even in all my days of watching Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) and all manner of deathmatches from Japan, I had never seen a match where someone replicated -- hitting a 1.0 -- Muta's blood loss.

That is, not until WWE Judgment Day 2004.

Eddie Guerrero took a direct chairshot -- ugh -- from John Bradshaw Layfield not only hits the fabled score but downright sets it on fire and rebuilds it in his own image.

To this day, I now use Eddie Scale rather than Muta.

Check out the bloody good time after the jump.

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UFC on FUEL TV 3: "Korean Zombie vs. Poirier" went down last night (Tues., May 15, 2012) at the Patriot Center in Fairfax, VA. In the main event, Dustin Poirier battled featherweight veteran Chan Sung Jung. Former The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) winner and UFC mainstay Amir Sadollah took on Jorge Lopez in the co-main. Without a doubt the event lacked in star power but, for the most part, delivered in action.

Dustin Poirier vs. Chan Sung Jung

Watch this fight. I don't care what you're doing right now, find a way to watch it. Heading into this fight, it seemed ridiculous that this match would have any immediate impact on either fighter's career, but both of them proved me wrong. Despite having two of the most impressive victories of 2011, "The Korean Zombie" looked to have slipped past most people's radar going in to this fight. He exceeded all expectations by dominating Dustin "Diamond" from bell to bell. Poirier found some success throughout the fight by landing hard straight punches, but Sung Jung blasted through that with knees and takedowns. He capped it off by rocking Poirier in the fourth round with a flying knee and finishing the fight with a slick Brabo choke. Chan Sung Jung by submission in round four.

Jorge Lopez vs. Amir Sadollah

This fight was the worst co-main event in UFC history. Go ahead, bring up Stefan Struve vs. Sean McCorkle. At leat that fight had an impressive first round win by the former. This fight had no such redeeming qualities. Sadollah is a middling talent at best and he somehow keeps getting placed on the main card. Lopez tried to make it ugly from the start by pressuring Amir against the fence. If you saw that in the first round, go ahead and skip the rest of the fight. Amir defended well, but inevitably that's the weak point of any Muay Thai based fighter with little power. Many saw the fight going for Lopez, but the result was Sadollah by split decision.

Donald Cerrone vs. Jeremy Stephens

Depite the loss to Nate Diaz, Cerrone had one of the best years in fighting MMA has every seen. He went on a four-fight win streak capped off by a decision loss to one of the best fighters in the lightweight division. He didn't leave that fight without a lesson, though. Throughout the fight, Cerrone controlled the distance against Stephens and punished him with kicks and straight punches. Donald Cerrone by unanimous decision.

Jeff Hougland vs. Yves Jabouin

You ever feel bad for Sisyphus? Nope, this is the Internet and we don't have empathy. But that's what this fight felt like to me. Jabouin tried to Hougland that he should stop when he dropped him in the first round with a spinning back kick to the body. Hougland went to the fetal position and the fight should have been stopped. To his credit, Hougland found the heart to scramble to a defensive position and eventually find his feet. In the long run, that hear isn't going to mean much. Jaboin spent the rest of the fight clowning on Hougland. Yves Jabouin by unanimous decision.

Igor Pokrajac vs. Fabio Maldanado

Facing off in a battle of mid-tier talent, Pokrajac and Maldanado engaged in a grueling fight. Maldonado kept busy with punishing body shots while Pokrajac focused on working the Muay Thai clinch and delivering punches and knees to the head. Pokrajac pulled off an ugly decision as he pushed Maldanado against the fence and beat him as badly as he could. Fabio has nothing to be ashamed of in this match, however, as the decision could have gone either way. Igor Pokrajac by unanimous decision.

Tom Lawlor vs. Jason MacDonald

Both Lawlor and MacDonald are well known as gritty grapplers. So, as I expected, the match turned into a technical chess match of positional control vs sweeps and submission attempts ... wait, what's that? Lawlor said, "Eff that!" with a beautiful display of takedown defense and a powerful right hand that ended the fight in 50 seconds? Well, I never liked you anyway, Lawlor. Oh yeah, and happy birthday! Lawlor wins by first round knockout.

Ratings for World Wrestling Entertainment's (WWE) flagship program, Monday Night Raw, may not be nearly as important as they once were but it's never a good sign when the lead-in show to a pay-per-view event registers the second lowest number of the year.

Such was the case with his past Monday night's (May 14, 2012) episode of Raw, which pulled a 2.9 rating and an average of 4.21 million viewers for the two hour broadcast on USA.

The first hour of the show, which featured Triple H's big opening segment with Paul Heyman and a tag match between CM Punk and Santino Marella vs. Cody Rhodes and Daniel Bryan, averaged 4.09 million viewers while the second hour, which saw John Laurinaitis heavily featured in firing Big Show and getting run down by John Cena, averaged 4.32 million viewers.

We could bring up the stiff competition from the NBA Playoffs, and that would be fair seeing as the Los Angeles Lakers played the Oklahoma City Thunder, but we know the reality of the situation. Raw is generally a mediocre to poor show that is so firmly entrenched in its timeslot with its fanbase that, barring a catastrophic change, will continue to pull around four million viewers on average every week, no matter what.

For complete results and the running live blog from Raw click here, for complete reactions to the show click here, and to listen to Sergio and myself gab about the show on the Cageside Live podcast click here.