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--- Vince McMahon Furious Over the Lana/Rusev TMZ Story
So it turns out that, despite getting some of the mainstream press he so desperately covets thanks to the Lana/Rusev engagement breaking on TMZ, WWE CEO Vince McMahon is actually quite furious that one of his main storylines has essentially been ruined.
A quick recap: Lana (Catherine Joy Perry) and Rusev (Miroslav Barnyashev) have been dating virtually since they were put together on WWE TV, as Rusev was billed as the “Bulgarian Brute”, and Lana was front-and-center as his manager and valet. However, the duo broke up in storylines following Rusev’s repeated defeats at the hands of John Cena over the course of this spring. Rusev would go on to replace Lana with Summer Rae, while Lana would shack up with Dolph Ziggler in response. And, all the while, Perry and Barnyashev continued to see one another behind the scenes. Granted, the relationship wasn’t exactly a secret, since the couple actually bought a house together, after all. But there was the hope that mainstream audiences would mostly be able to ignore the relationship and buy into the story that these were two people that hated each other. Although Lana is out with a wrist injury sustained during training for the inevitable match with Summer Rae, the story has been progressing regardless. The story culminated last week in Summer Rae proposing to Rusev on Raw, just seven days before the TMZ story broke announcing their engagement.
Fast-forward to now: Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer is reporting that Vince McMahon is absolutely furious about the TMZ news breaking, since it completely undermined the story they were telling. Worse, his own stars ended up being the cause of the leak, as Lana posted her engagement ring photo to social media. Being a bit of an old school promoter, from a time in which good guys and bad guys couldn’t even hang out together in the same bar for fear that fans would discover the truth about pro wrestling, this makes sense. Hell, he had Lana and Rusev playing up their feud on social media, and this is an era in which no one actually buys that the two people feuding onscreen actually hate each other. The genie is out of the bottle on pro wrestling, in a lot of ways. Which isn’t to say that you can’t still make money with a heated rivalry. But it feels as though the days of shielding the audience from the truth are over.
Of course, Meltzer states that the Lana/Rusev/Summer/Dolph angle isn’t over yet, so Vince just might be taking the story in a different direction. Still, this entire story is a hot mess, and there are far better things each of these performers could be doing than beating around the horn on a story that was aimless when it started five months ago, much less now
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Billy Gunn has been fired as trainer for the WWE after testing positive for elevated levels of testosterone during a powerlifting competition back in July, according to a report from Dave Meltzer of Figure Four Online.
Gunn's drug test at the meet came up with a 37-1 testosterone/epitestosterone ratio, well over the 4-1 limit, and he was suspended from powerlifting for four years.Gunn, whose real name is Monty Kip Sopp, was training wrestlers by day and moonlighting as a disgraced powerlifter. That’s a life well-lived.
Billy Gunn, 52, had returned to WWE as a trainer in 2012 after several years away from the organization. He worked as an agent and a trainer, and had a New Age Outlaws nostalgia run in recent years, winning the tag team titles with Road Dogg in early 2013. ...
WWE officials were not aware of him competing as a powerlifter until a few weeks ago or his suspension from that sport.
There's been a sensitivity in professional wrestling surrounding the use of performance enhancing drugs (at least when it's been proven), so those in charge obviously didn't feel it was appropriate to have a trainer on the payroll who recently got popped for using them.
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- TNA Impact Wrestling to move to Pop TV channel(formerly the TV Guide channel)
https://www.yahoo.com/tv/s/pop-gets-...160052129.html
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20 wrestlers you might not know are still actively wrestling
http://buzztache.com/top-20-wrestler...ill-wrestling/
--- 10 Wrestling Matches You Won’t Believe Happened In 2015
http://buzztache.com/10-wrestling-ma...ed-in-2015/10/
Female Greg the Hammer breaks Act Yasukawas face and gets banned from wrestling