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I have to eat my own words regarding my last post.
After seeing Impact! I must admit, TNA did something good, something that hasn't happend in a long time.
Instead of the usual bringin in old stars, they stayed with the originals and gave them the spotlight. The fact that Fortune is "They", was I must admit a letdown but it looks promising. I'll stick with this for a while :yes:.
rumor has it black snow is to return
am adding drew vs dolph as a possible wm match
They being 4Chan is cool but yeah it's nothing amazing.
AJ Styles is far from a young star though.
Dude was in WCW, remember Air Paris? LOL.
But yeah.. they did the right thing.
Now they need to get rid of Flair and Hogan, Bischoff is great as an on-air Commish or whatever his deal is.
^ air paris!! nice!!!
it'd b great to see flair not on tv anymore.
2 bad he pays cream in alamony to 3 ex-wives
id expect to see him back in the "e" when batista comes back sometime next year
wm is gna b a good one this year
Haha, everytime an athlete uses a Wrestling world title it's ALWAYS "The Big Gold Belt"
what happen to sting
Wrestlemaina 28=Miami
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Miami-Dade County has won the bid to host World Wrestling Entertainment’s super bowl WrestleMania 28 in the spring of 2012 at Sun Life Stadium, a week-long event which attracts fans from around the world.
In the three-year process, the area won the bid over other cities under consideration, such as Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York and Toronto.
At a Wednesday press conference in South Florida, officials will detail the weeklong list of activities planned culminating with the WWE WrestleMania 28 pay-per-view at Sun Life Stadium, home to the Miami Dolphins and five NFL Super Bowls. The stadium can seat more than 75,000.
Grammy Award Winner Emilio Estefan and other dignitaries are expected to be present during the press conference, as well as several poiiticians.
It will be the second WrestleMania in Florida and the third outdoors. In 2008, WrestleMania 24 was held at the outdoors Citrus Bowl in Orlando. That event set an attendance record for the stadium with 74,635 fans.
Last year, WrestleMania 26 set a University of Phoenix Stadium indoor attendance record, beating a U2 concert from 2009 by more than 20,000. Mania’s attendance was 72,219 with fans from 50 states and 26 countries - a common occurrence. The show grossed $5.8 million as well, becoming the highest grossing entertainment event ever at the stadium.
WrestleMania 26 also generated $45.1 million in economic impact for the greater Glendale/Phoenix area, according to a study conducted by the Enigma Research Corporation. The study said the show also garnered almost $5 million in local, state and county taxes. The economic impact derived from WrestleMania Week equated to the creation of 510 full-time jobs.
Those kinds of numbers are consistent to the host venue and area as WrestleMania Week is a financial gold mine, which is why many cities in North America bid annually for the extravaganza.
Miami had failed to lure the 2011 spectacular to South Florida, losing out to Atlanta. But WWE officials said the city was still on their radar when selecting the 2012 site because of its international ties, facilities, airports and experience hosting hundreds of other mega events.
Sun Life Stadium, home to the Miami Dolphins and five NFL Super Bowls, can seat more than 75,000; attendance records have been broken for venues servicing WrestleMania, a major international event televised to more than 100 countries.
WWE/TNA News: Vince's perception, Sting, Layla, Mystico, etc.
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A crazy week saw the main bouts on the WrestleMania card for 4/3 in Atlanta largely put together, and saw TNA’s big angle it was planning to unleash the next day fall apart.
WWE brought in Kevin Nash and Booker T, which TNA was hoping to debut as part of the babyface Main Event Mafia that would be the latest “They” faction to feud with Immortal. The two cases were very different. Booker T, who turns 46 in a few weeks, was in talks a few months ago to return to WWE, and then the talks broke off. But he came to the Tables, Ladders and Chairs PPV show in Houston on 12/19 and once again expressed interest in returning and while no contract had been signed, a deal was in place for him to debut as a surprise at the Royal Rumble.
Nash, 51, who had insisted he was retiring, was expected by those in TNA to be returning to the promotion as a babyface as part of Eric Bischoff’s 2001 idea to get rid of the name stars, and then build to their coming back. Like in 2001, when he pulled several main stars, the comeback never took place because the deal to buy WCW, and then bring all the stars back after going dark and building up a new beginning, never happened.
Booker was contacted by TNA and told the promotion he was expecting to return to WWE. Nash, on the other hand, those in TNA claim he had committed to coming in and then went to WWE, where he showed up with jet black hair, as Diesel. For years, Nash had talked about wanting one last run as the gray-haired version of Big Daddy Cool (not necessarily Diesel, since he had become far more famous under his real name than he was under the name he first gained stardom in the mid-90s as). Aside from being told he had to color his hair to not look so old, he got his wish in what at the time was viewed as being a one-time thing. Nash is expected to sign a Legends contract, which is not a big money deal, and may become someone like a Roddy Piper or Ron Simmons type who shows up on TV for some angles or special occasions. With HHH ascending to power, it is possible he could fill any one of a number of roles. Nash being a sometimes coach in developmental was discussed, or he could be a part-time TV performer.
The two got gigantic reactions when they came out, probably the two biggest on the Rumble show (John Cena’s reaction was said to be at a similar level). Both were in and out quickly, and in both cases, the live audience was really upset about them having so little ring time. Because of the big reaction to Nash, an audible was called as referee Charles Robinson whispered something to him after he was eliminated, which may have been the instructions to walk past Big Show and at least tease something with a stare session that would kind of make fans forget he was dumped so quickly.
Booker was brought in to be a television announcer for Smackdown. He may also do an occasional angle and get in the ring, similar to Jerry Lawler. It was also discussed the possibility of him being a manager, as well as the idea of him being a coach on the next season of Tough Enough.
While TNA would have liked to have gotten Nash, Sting and Booker back together with Scott Steiner and Kurt Angle as the Main Event Mafia, it was also said in TNA that Booker was someone talked to but probably wasn’t going to happen. The name Bobby Lashley was thrown out, but those close to him said he had no interest. Sting also didn’t sign a new contract with TNA, which killed the idea dead and led to rumors flying like crazy at press time.
There was a huge lesson that should have been learned by anyone battling WWE on any kind of a level, and that is that before you run weeks worth of angles to build to a group of people coming in, you should already have them under contract before you start the angle. It led to an embarrassing situation, although in the long-run, it’s one that is better for the promotion.
TNA’s promise to debut “They” on the 2/3 television show (taped 1/31 in Orlando) ended up with “They” being Fortune, who turned babyface to feud with Eric Bischoff and Immortal. Yes, this makes absolutely no sense considering it was Fortune who was among those being warned and freaking out over “They.” Worse, on television, Crimson used a wire to choke A.J. Styles and threaten him with “They” coming and Styles acted scared and freaked out, and he ended up being the leader of “They,” with Ric Flair not being at the tapings this week. The whole “special show” that they had tried to peak ratings for fell apart. Not only did nobody new debut as “They,” but Flair, who had really been the point guy in the angle, wasn’t even booked for the 1/31 TV show because they didn’t want to tip their hand on his direction on the show. He was supposed to appear on 2/1, but due to a torn rotator cuff suffered on 1/29 in London when he wrestled Douglas Williams in his first match in three months, he wasn’t able to appear. Hulk Hogan was also scheduled to return and he wasn’t ready either. It’s better that TNA was forced to build the top around younger guys for the long haul, but it sure made them look Mickey Mouse this week.
Regarding Sting, he didn’t sign with TNA. Despite it being reported otherwise, several WWE sources say he has not signed with WWE. WWE produced videos to build to the return of The Undertaker on 2/21, which aired on both Raw and Smackdown and garnered an incredible amount of talk, particularly because people convinced themselves the videos weren’t for Undertaker. It has been confirmed that was the person the videos were for, and the Save Mart Center in Fresno was told to promote the show locally as “The return of The Undertaker.”
I guess because it was on Raw, and built to a date for a live Raw in Fresno (which people thought was only a few hours from where Sting lives, but Sting actually moved from Santa Clarita, CA to Dallas last year) and people saw Nash and Booker, they came up with the idea the videos were to introduce Sting. It may make for an interesting deal because if the company now doesn’t sign Sting, are there enough people who have jumped to the conclusion that if Undertaker is the only big return on that show, that people in the building won’t react? My gut says no, and Fresno is not a hardcore wrestling town, but a Hispanic wrestling town, so it makes a bad reaction even more unlikely.
Sting is available and it does make sense to use him for a one or two month run. Several in TNA over the past few days were openly talking that they thought he was going to be in WWE as well. And introducing Undertaker as the surprise and delivering Sting as the second surprise could be that great memorable moment in the Mania build-up. But the video was for Undertaker’s return.
He’s never been in WWE. Undertaker vs. Sting is the one thing that could be the special attraction type of non-regular match that makes Mania special. There are problems, notably that Undertaker couldn’t do much on his last run due to injuries, and his shoulder is in bad shape. Sting wasn’t able to do much on his last TNA run either, due to his own shoulder problem. Sting had been telling people last year that, at 51 (he turns 52 next month), this was going to be his last year. But he had said that every year since 2006, and every year Dixie Carter offering him a big contract for limited dates for another year caused him to return. And if he is going to call it a day, there is something to be said about doing it in front of 60,000 people in Atlanta as opposed to whenever this past year ended up being his last match than in a weird convoluted handicap match in a storyline that never played out where he was a heel all year, even though it was supposed to end with us finding out he and Nash, who played heel beating up faces, were at the end, actually the faces.
Mania is in Atlanta, and Sting was, along with Ric Flair, one of the two enduring faces of WCW, based in Atlanta, from the purchase of the company in 1988 until its demise in 2001. Of course, Bill Goldberg also made sense, as he was a bigger star than Sting ever was, and that didn’t materialize even though some key people in the company were pushing for it, perhaps because HHH has never liked Goldberg and he’s moved into a position of power.
As of right now, the WrestleMania card is scheduled as Undertaker vs. Wade Barrett for the streak as one of the main events. As of this past week, it is the match planned but we were told that if Undertaker isn’t ready to do a match, they would do Undertaker & Kane in 2-on-4 handicap match against Wade Barrett & Ezekiel Jackson & Heath Slater & Justin Gabriel where they’d hide Undertaker and have him do very limited duty tagging in for a few key spots.
The other main matches are scheduled as The Miz vs. John Cena for the WWE title, which would mean Cena would win the Raw Elimination Chamber on 2/20 in Oakland, Edge (who would have to win the Smackdown chamber the same night) defending the World title against Alberto Del Rio, HHH vs. King Sheamus, Randy Orton vs. C.M. Punk, a trios match with The Corre’s Gabriel & Slater & Jackson vs. Nexus members Michael McGillicutty & David Otunga & Mason Ryan and Rey Mysterio vs. Cody Rhodes (Mysterio personally asked for this one as he likes Rhodes and wanted to try and help elevate him).
As is pretty obvious since they are teasing it so strongly, Jerry Lawler will be wrestling at his first Mania this year, barring an injury between now and then. You can see the slow build of Lawler and Michael Cole. We can’t confirm what form it’ll be other than Lawler will wrestle. It could be Lawler wrestling with Cole as a referee, but that doesn’t make sense as a blow-off. They could put Lawler against Alex Riley with the idea that if Lawler wins, he gets five minutes with Cole or they could take it a different way. The other match we’ve heard talked about was a Money in the Bank bout. The debate is if they are doing a Money in the Bank PPV in July with likely two MITB matches, doing it three months earlier is overkill. If they do it anyway, Dolph Ziggler, Kofi Kingston and John Morrison would be in the match.
The key matches have already had angles built to get to. But WWE hates people guessing the direction, particularly since these matches in theory would give away the 2/20 PPV results. I don’t know that they’d change the matches, but they may do sleight-of-hand as far as the PPV just because of not wanting to be predictable.
Announced so far for the WWE’s final PPV before Mania, the 2/20 Elimination Chamber show from Oakland, is a Raw Chamber match–winner goes to Mania to face the WWE champion, with Cena vs. Sheamus vs. Orton vs. R-Truth vs. Punk vs. Morrison, The Smackdown chamber with the World title at stake with Edge vs. Ziggler vs. Kane vs. Drew McIntyre vs. Mysterio vs. Barrett, and Miz vs. Lawler for the WWE title. I wouldn’t consider it an issue, but WWE may regarding the predictability on a show that has become the company’s fourth biggest event of the year. You would think Cole would play a part in the Lawler vs. Miz match, and probably in the finish. Other programs being teased right now include Del Rio vs. Kofi Kingston (makes sense to give Del Rio a solid win going into a major Mania match), Santino Marella & Vladimir Kozlov vs. Slater & Gabriel, Jackson vs. Big Show and perhaps a multiple person women’s match, or Eve Torres vs. Michelle McCool if they are doing a singles match. It makes sense to do the multiple person match at Mania so many women can get on the biggest show of the year.
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Scott Hall, 52, is trying to train Rich Young (Ricky Ortiz when he was in WWE), who is now living in Hall’s guest room. Hall noted that they stayed up all night earlier in the week watching tapes of Terry Gordy. Hall is returning to the Menninger Clinic in Houston for another round of rehab next week. Hall noted this will be his ninth trip to rehab and that WWE has paid for the last several since he was under contract with them. He said he’s looking forward to this one because the Menninger Clinic not only treats alcoholism and drug addiction, but treats mental illness, which Hall believes he has, either from all the concussions or bad choices he made lifestyle wise.
TNA
Regarding Fortune now feuding with Immortal, that was always the plan, just they rushed it happening because the feud was going to be Fortune and Immortal against The Main Event Mafia. When that ran its course, Fortune was going to turn face.
Ric Flair ended up suffering a torn rotator cuff in his 1/29 match with Douglas Williams in London. I believe Flair had suffered a similar injury in the 90s. The match was going well until he pushed off Williams in his trademark slam off the top rope spot and it went out. When the match was originally booked by management weeks ago, it was for Williams to get a huge win in London, and obviously Flair isn’t going to complain at this stage about putting Williams over in his home country. But on the night of the show when Williams found out, he refused the win and would not do any compromise finish other than Flair winning clean based on his respect for Flair. The finish ended up coming out of nowhere and felt flat, to the point people wrote and asked if it was a mistake finish. It was the planned finish but they may have gone home quickly after Flair got hurt. Flair wasn’t booked on the 1/31 show because of changing the “They” angle but was booked to appear on the 2/1 show, but didn’t due to the injury. TNA was aware he was injured in the match and wanted him to go to the hospital that night in England. He decided against it and decided to wait until he returned home.
Flair had returned on the tour on 1/27 in Glasgow, and apologized to everyone backstage before the show. The company felt pressure to get him back on the tour because the shows were built around his name, and some of the promoters who had purchased shows were wanting him on the show since Kurt Angle wasn’t there either because of his wife being hospitalized, and A.J. Styles had also been pulled due to his injury. Most of the talent believed the office was in the right in the argument with Flair, and it’s not the easiest thing for wrestlers to back the office against a wrestler who is usually popular. Of course this is wrestling and Flair also had people on the tour who texted him while he was gone saying they fully supported him. Let’s just say I’ve heard from people with both viewpoints this past week. There were people blaming the road agent, but with Dixie Carter on the tour and a dispute over Ric Flair making a town, somehow I don’t think any decisions on something like this were made without her knowledge and approval. Flair had paid to fly his wife over and his credit card was apparently maxed out and asked for a draw, which was regular wrestling business through most of his career.
James Storm reportedly pulled a groin muscle in Dublin but didn’t miss any dates, and most nights Beer Money against Magnus & Williams were reported to have had the best match on the show. There were people joking about how Storm would do the match, then when it was over be hurt, and then seemingly be fine at the bar after the show. It was noted the injury was legit but eyebrows were still raised.
Madison Rayne got sick enough on tour that she didn’t work in Manchester, so instead of the usual Rayne & Tara vs. Mickie James & Angelina Love match, they did Love vs. James with Tara as ref.
Christopher Daniels returned in a match not taped for Impact on the 1/31 tapings, under a mask as Suicide. Daniels is under contract to ROH and both sides have worked out a deal. Daniels will be allowed to work both TVs and house shows for TNA, as long as he wears a mask, until his TNA contract expires. He will be working for both promotions until that time. TNA wanted him back as part of the new doctrine to put more emphasis on the X Division and try and get it hot by the summer. Daniels was the original Suicide in TNA, and they even did an angle where heels would hint it was Daniels, but then Kazarian, the original choice to play Suicide, who got injured, so Daniels took the role, had returned so they did Daniels & Suicide as a team. There had been plans to continue the Suicide character with either Akira Raijin (Kiyoshi) or Kazuchika Okada playing it, but when the video game deal evaporated (Suicide was a character in their video game), it never went anywhere. This kind of a deal may open up the possibility of El Generico also working in the X Division here, as he did well in his tryout match but was under an ROH contract. The fact ROH wanted Daniels not to use his identity may mean Generico would have to use another name, and there is also the chance TNA, which wants to own the names of its wrestlers and changes their names unless they had a big name known in the U.S., would want him to use a different identity anyway. I should point out that at this point TNA has not done anything in the direction of making any plans to use Generico.
Of the European wrestlers who got tryouts, most did well. Mark Hawkins blew away the field and if anyone will get a gig out of it, he will. Heard nothing really special on Johnny Moss or Lion Heart, and that Murat Bosporous, the German wrestler, didn’t look good.
The Destination X show and Victory Road shows being flip-flopped is because the plan is to bolster the X Division and they want it to be a big deal, and it wouldn’t be in the next month or two, but they hope it will be by July when the show is now scheduled.
Matt Hardy’s deal is for three years and he got the same perks as a superstar level talent would get.
Abyss is expected back at the 2/24 tapings in Fayetteville. He’s being kept off selling injuries from having Janice stabbed in his back by Crimson.
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WWE released that Steve Austin would be the host of this season’s Tough Enough series, which is a big coup for the show. Talks for Austin in this role had been going on for some time. The deal was made by Shed Media Inc., the production company, with Austin, which is an interesting note because it wasn’t WWE that made the deal, although WWE did attempt it and did want Austin for the spot. It makes sense because as noted before, Tough Enough has to do good ratings, nearly double that of Ultimate Fighter, to be a success because of the higher standards of ratings by the USA Network in prime time. A 1.2 for Spike is great when they average an 0.6, but a 1.2 on USA, which averages a 2.3, is a disaster. The NCIS reruns in that time slot have topped 3.0 at times, and while nobody probably expects that, Tough Enough in a sense is in a similar position as NXT, and NXT ratings would be a major failure for the show and hurt their chances of landing anything non-in-ring wrestling going forward. Austin I believe will help in week one, which airs after Raw and will do a solid number. But the first episode has to be good, because 8 p.m. on Monday has its drawbacks, including whether people want to watch three hours of wrestling on Mondays. Just Austin as host isn’t going to mean much for ratings by week three or four unless the show itself works.
Regarding Randy Savage in the WWE All-Stars video game, while it was a THQ call, WWE has to approve of any character THQ wants in the game. Obviously with Savage, Hogan and Ultimate Warrior, WWE wasn’t turning people down. But to get Savage, they did have to get Vince to sign off on it, as they had to for wanting Hogan and Warrior. All three were people that THQ made the deals with on their own, and then had to get Vince to sign off on. There are a lot more names not announced in the game and it will be pushed as the greatest roster of names ever in a WWE video game. Among the promotional lines that will be used are “2 Generations, 1 Ring” and “The greatest matchups haven’t happened...until now.” It will be marketed with the idea you can put Cena vs. Hogan, Savage vs. Orton, etc. The idea is this game is meant to be NBA Jam is Smackdown vs. Raw is equivalent to NBA 2K or NBA Live.
Don’t know details on this other than it came from someone who would know that there is something to the obvious speculation regarding the last week of the Hart Foundation. This included David Hart Smith being pulled from the Rumble a few days earlier (which may have just been opening up spots for either the decision to put Orton and Ziggler in or when the Nash deal was finalized–Booker in the Rumble was decided upon some time back); Natalya being called fat in an angle and then losing her title out of the blue and the Hornswoggle Attitude Adjustment being done on Tyson Kidd.
WWE taped some Legends Roundtable shows this past week for WWE Classics on Demand. The crew was Bret Hart, Jim Ross, Michael Hayes and Pat Patterson, with Gene Okerlund directing traffic. The shows will air in March. One show was on greatest rivalries with them discussing Austin vs. Rock, Freebirds vs. Von Erichs, Andre vs. Hogan and Bret Hart vs. Michaels. The second show was taped for a June airing and talked about the history of Canadian territorial wrestling. Ross also noted being interviewed for a Gorgeous George DVD, a Ted DiBiase DVD, and a wwe.com piece on wrestlers who came from West Texas State University (off the top of my head: Bruiser Brody, Stan Hansen, Dusty Rhodes, Terry Funk, Dory Funk Jr., Bobby Duncum, Kelly Kiniski, Ted DiBiase Sr., Manny Fernandez, Tito Santana, Scott Casey and Tully Blanchard). The reason is that wrestling was a big part of Amarillo culture in the 60s and 70s, and most of the football players had interest. Plus, The Funks went to school there. A lot of the guys were good football players. Duncum played in the NFL and Hansen was drafted by an NFL team and he and Brody both played in the WFL. Brody was on the Redskins practice squad and played for Vince Lombardi in 1968 but never suited up for a game. Rhodes was actually a better baseball player, playing varsity in two sports (yes, Dusty was a legit athlete despite his physique) and tried baseball and football before wrestling, playing semi-pro in both sports. Santana played in Canada. Blanchard was starting quarterback and Santana was a wide receiver on the same team, while DiBiase was a lineman. Although he was always billed as having played at West Texas State, **** Murdoch never went to the college and never played college football. But he was said to have played so often that he actually played in a Varsity vs. Alumni game because everyone assumed he had played.
“The Chaperone” will get a similar very limited (as in almost non-existent) theatrical release on the weekend of 2/18 and then be released on video a few weeks later.
McCool has been working with a bulging disc in her neck between her C-5 and C-6 vertebrae.
This is a complete WWE DVD release listing for the rest of the year: Big Show (2/22), Royal Rumble (3/1), The Chaperone--HHH movie (3/8), True Story of WrestleMania (3/15), Elimination Chamber (3/22), WrestleMania (5/10), That’s What I Am–Orton movie (5/10), Best of Nitro (5/24), Extreme Rules (5/31), Over the Limit (6/21), Ted DiBiase Sr. (6/28); Best Cage Matches (7/12), Fatal Four Way (7/19); Bending the Rules–Edge movie (8/9), Money in the Bank (8/16), Best of Raw seasons three and four(8/23); SummerSlam (9/13); Randy Orton (9/20); Inside Out–second HHH movie (9/27); Smackdown The Best of 2010 and 2011 (10/11); Night of Champions (10/18); Hell in a Cell (11/1); HHH (11/8); Bragging Rights (11/22), 50 Biggest Matches in WWE History (11/29); Blood Brothers–Cena movie (sometime in November); Austin vs. Rock: The Rivalry (12/13); Survivor Series (12/20); Best PPV matches of 2011 (12/27).
After another disappointing PPV number, the Survivor Series is once again in jeopardy. In the WWE listings for the November PPV, while Survivor Series is still listed, internally there is something listed with it that says “New Name/Concept TBD” and that is also listed with the planned Survivor Series 2011 DVD.
They had to do reshooting of some stuff in “Bending the Rules” this past week in Los Angeles. That’s why Edge was in Los Angeles and he ended up staying at the same hotel as the WrestleReunion. Edge was around the convention and he was socializing with a lot of the wrestlers from the current era like Helms, and watched the ROH show to see the Kings of Wrestling vs. Charlie Haas & Shelton Benjamin match. He said when he’s in Los Angeles he stays at the Hilton and didn’t know about the convention until he got there.
It appears Lawler is going to get to wrestle at Mania this year. He’s never done a Mania and it has been a goal. Twice he was considered. Once there was a promise that he’d get a match but didn’t. Another time there was talk (2009 Jericho vs. legends match) of him being in the match but Vince nixed it because in Vince’s mind, he wanted Jericho at Mania 25 facing three Hall of Famers (Lawler qualified) who were on Mania 1 (a qualification Lawler didn’t have). Vince ended up going with Piper, Snuka and Valentine. There were times when there were going to be more. And finally, when the decision was made to be three-on-one, Jericho pleaded his case to save the match by asking for Steamboat. Since Steamboat was in the first Mania, it was approved. Sounds so silly in hindsight.
The city of Gwynedd, a small town in Wales, is mad because WWE is billing Mason Ryan from Cardiff, Wales, which is a completely different part of the country and several hundred miles away. Malcolm Griffiths, his father, was quoted in the Daily Post as saying “It is disappointing because I am sure he would have liked to have been promoting his home village.” He said his son would still promote where he’s from in interviews (well, not on their time he won’t). WWE’s response was: “Mason Ryan is a character from Wales and that character is from Cardiff. We appreciate this is not his local town but Cardiff is used as WWE is a global brand. For ease of recognition, we have chosen a city that is best known.” Jack Swagger is very lucky that Danny Hodge came from Perry, OK, because there is no way a city of that size would cut the mustard otherwise. And luckily Cena has enough clout he can be from West Newbury, MA instead of Boston, which at least is in the same metro area. Then again, pro wrestling has a long history with fake home towns.
Ross will be the special ring announcer at the 3/13 Smackdown brand house show in Oklahoma City.
A correction regarding Vince McMahon selling $41 million worth of WWE stock in December. He did, but that was misleading. He actually has his stock in WWE broken down into three different accounts, stock in the name of Vince McMahon (28,739,845 shares worth $344 million); Stock in a 2010 trust fund (4,500,000 shares worth $53.9 million) and Stock in a 2008 trust (10,181,582 shares worth $121.9 million).
There have been a number of theories regarding this, but of late, as in the last several weeks, WWE’s live events and especially TV tapings have been doing exceptionally strong walk-up business. Now this also coincides with poor advances, as the overall business is at what I’d consider average for a normal time period, and slightly below average since this is the good season (WWE traditionally draws its best January through March). The theory seems to be that it’s economy related, that people who want to go may not have the money when tickets go on sale and get them right away as in the past, but find the money at show time. But the economy has been made for a long time and this has not been the case until the past few weeks.
Goldust is targeting June for his return after surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff.
Rhodes is going old-school with his worked injuries, as he’s been on the road in public always wearing a bad aid on his nose.
Jennifer Hudson, the fiancé of Otunga, was backstage at the Rumble.
The Mark Henry cologne skit on Raw a few weeks ago with Derrick Bateman was an internal joke because Henry has the reputation of smelling worse while sweating than anyone in the company. Many talent bring it up when working with him for that reason
Does anybody have a feeling that Jerry Lawler might win the heavyweight belt at the next PPV, and probably have it for just a real short time?
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HOLY FUCKING SHIT
WM COMING TO SOUTH BEACH!?!?!?!
YOU ALREADY KNOW!!!!
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