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Post by Head Booker on Jul 2, 2012 7:55:50 GMT -6
- The AT&T Center is advertising Brock Lesnar for the Aug. 6th RAW Supershow in San Antonio, TX, which will also be the "Shawn Michaels Appreciation Night" episode. -The 8/3 SuperShow in Jacksonville, FL WWE is promoting the following matches: Steel Cage Match: John Cena vs. The Big Show WWE Championship Match: CM Punk vs. Daniel Bryan WWE Special Challenge Match: Chris Jericho vs. Kane - You can see a picture of The Miz from his new Marine movie by clicking here. |
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Post by Icon Lord Jon Kellar on Jul 2, 2012 8:03:50 GMT -6
You know... there's something about the Miz's face that just screams "punch me"...
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Post by Head Booker on Jul 2, 2012 8:10:47 GMT -6
a thousand curses upon your scrotum sir...
Tate
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Post by Icon Lord Jon Kellar on Jul 2, 2012 8:13:04 GMT -6
I'm sorry but he just permanently has the look of "cat who got the canary" on his face, always so proud of himself it just.... arrgh!
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Post by Head Booker on Jul 3, 2012 7:23:48 GMT -6
The following statement was issued by former WWE star Armando Estrada, who in a move right out of the sillier days of WCW, had been under WWE contract for over the last year and never used:
"Espérate ... Espérate ... Espérate ...
Everybody, listen to me!
I would like to take this opportunity to let everyone in the wrestling world know that on 6/27/12, I was released from my contract with WWE.
What's that you say??? OH, you didn't know (Road Dogg) I was under contract to WWE? Apparently, a lot of people (including members of creative) were not privy to that information. I have been "working" with World Wrestling Entertainment for almost 18 months. I was only used once during that time period, making a brief cameo as Tyson Kidd's manager in May of last year. I was told I did a great job and to be patient. I have been patient for quite some time now while sitting at home "waiting for the call".
It's not fun, trust me. Numerous creative ideas/scenarios were submitted during my tenure and unfortunately nothing materialized for me. And although my talents were not utilized this time around, should I decide to return to WWE in the future, I firmly believe that door will be open. Timing is everything, not just in showbiz, but in life. Thank you to everyone in WWE!
For those promoters that would like to utilize my talents, believe me when I say, I am the MOST ENTERTAINING individual to step foot into the wrestling industry in the last decade (toot-toot)! If you would like to book me for wrestling shows, autograph signings/appearances, please do so at bookarmando@yahoo.com (serious inquiries only). I will show up on time, in shape, and ready to perform for your audience.
You can also follow me on Twitter @realarmandohaha. Thanks for your time....Oh yeah, 1 last thing. My name es ARMANDO ALEJANDRO ESTRRRADA and I will be making an #Impact soon.........HA-HA! "
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Post by Icon Lord Jon Kellar on Jul 3, 2012 7:53:01 GMT -6
What a waste of a talent, one of my favourite managers of recent years.
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Post by Head Booker on Jul 3, 2012 17:00:16 GMT -6
WWE announced today that due to the Waldo Canyon fire, next Tuesday Smackdown show at the World Arena in Colorado Springs has been canceled and refunds are available at the point of purchase.
On Monday night, WWE will tape both Raw and Smackdown in Denver at the Pepsi Arena.
The company has also donated $10,000 t the Amercan Red Cross to assist in relief efforts.
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Mark Henry and Rey Mysterio are both penciled in to return at Raw 1000. WWE is holding their returns off until 7/23 to add additional impact to the three hour Raw expansion. They want all hands on deck that night and anything that can make the first show more memorable.
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Post by Head Booker on Jul 9, 2012 13:44:39 GMT -6
F4Wonline.com reports that WWE is interested in working with 35 year old UFC fighter "The American Gangster" Chael Sonnen. Sonnen lost to Anderson Silva at Saturday's UFC 148 pay-per-view but word is that WWE is ready to negotiate. No word yet if they want him to wrestle or play another kind of role.
Sonnen has ties to WWE as he is friends with WWE Champion CM Punk. Punk was ready to accompany Sonnen to the Octagon for a fight several months back but that was nixed.
Sonnen is also close to WWE Hall of Famer Steve Austin. Austin has been bringing Sonnen out to his Broken Skull Ranch in Texas to help him with strength and conditioning training.
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Sara Del Rey has reportedly been offered a developmental deal with WWE. Del Rey is reportedly undergoing her pre-signing medical testing.
Del Rey and Courtney Rush lost the SHIMMER Tag Team Titles this weekend at NCW Femmes Fatales IX in Montreal to the Canadian Ninjas.
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- Diamond Dallas Page recently spoke with Busted Open Radio about his Raw return and more. Check out the highlights:
On the reaction he received at Raw: "I'll tell you, more than anything, it sort of made me say, 'Wow.' It set me back a second, you know? I always hear DDP chants when I do these independent things but that building, I don't think I ever wrestled there. If I did, I don't remember because it was just a blur at that point when we were going everywhere, but I don't remember ever coming to Laredo. You'd think I grew up there with the way the people were chanting. I knew they didn't have a big segment for me to come out there and do this, and just to hit someone with the Diamond Cutter again and to hear the explosion - those DDP chants were so loud, I had to look back like seriously? Wow. I must have done something right 10-plus years ago, because I haven't been on TV in over 10 years."
On Heath Slater: "He took an awesome Diamond Cutter. He's a guy who grew up watching me and loving the business. He told me he loves what he's doing right now, and it's a great attention getter for him. People went from really hating him, to now you find people writing some really good comments about him too, and he'll grow with his character. He's got awesome time on primetime TV."
On whether or not he was asked to wrestle at Raw: "No, and you know, people always bust the balls of the booking of WWE. Now, if they just booked me as another one, well then it's just like Sid and Vader. But Johnny Ace called me up and said, 'Hey, you want to hit someone with the Diamond Cutter on Monday night?' I was like, 'Sure, I'd love to.' The whole week I was in Louisville for a horror festival because I do a lot of those because I was Billy Ray Snapper in The Devil's Rejects. Wrestling and horror just sort of go together. So I'd been working all week, I had to use like 3:30 in the morning to catch the flight to get down there, or I would've missed it, but it was worth it. So Johnny asked me about that, and then he told me about the Doink thing and I was like, 'Oh that's awesome,' because no one knew about the Doink thing except for me, so that was an awesome secret. The people popped. There was a little bit of, 'Oh, I thought DDP was going to come out.' That's what fans have told me, and then that's why I think that pop was even better.
On if he thinks he will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame: "No, you know, I never would hope for that because then you never get it. If something like that comes up, that would be awesome. The reaction I would get there would be insane. That's my home area; I really did grow up there. When it happens, it happens. I've said a bunch of times, and some of these jerks on the Internet will take what I say and take what I say out of context so I'm going say this really clearly for anyone who's listening: Until Randy 'Macho Man' Savage is in there, until Jake Roberts is in there, I can wait. Because those two were two of the greatest of all time, and I consider myself to be pretty good within my era, but those are two guys that I was a mark for."
On discussing David Arquette during a legends roundtable with JR: "First of all, I love J.R. He's just like me, he can be very opinionated … J.R. went after the easy target because it pissed him off because he was WCW too. It pissed him off that David Arquette was the world champion like it pissed off a lot of people. But every guy on the Internet that has buried that situation, let me just reverse it: Now it's you. And for some reason, they want to make you the world champion because it's going to get whatever. There's not one person who wouldn't have done what Arquette did, not one. I mean, Vince McMahon made himself the world champion. Everybody wants to be the man, and that's understandable. So getting that out of the way, when I told David, he started laughing. He was like, 'Yeah, right.' And I was like, 'They really want to do it.' He said, 'We can't do that. No, I can't do that.' And then I said, 'They're going to do it no matter what. You're here, they want to do it. Unless you're going to adamantly say no, they want to do it.' So they talked him into it and he did it, and I wanted J.R. to know. But I thought it was the stupidest thing ever too; they didn't have to preach to the choir to me about it because I felt the same way. But I said, 'Did you know that David Arquette made like $10,000 for that spot or something, and he gave it to Melanie Pillman?' When [Jim Ross] heard that, finally his demeanor changed. One of the things that J.R. said was that it's all about what that celebrity brings to the company. Well if that's the case, no one besides maybe Mike Tyson being involved in wrestling brought as much PR. Because at the time, we just got done with the '98 NBA Playoffs. The Bulls against the Jazz. Rodman against [Malone]. They were diving on the floor for balls against each other. Rodman didn't show up on Monday night for practice because he went to Nitro to hit me with a chair. And when Rodman did it the first time, it got a lot of attention, but it's Rodman. He's a wild man. He's a freak show. He'll do anything for PR, that type of thing. But when Karl Malone did it, the world shook its head and went what? It was the biggest pay-per-view ever.
On how he developed as a wrestler: "I'm in Germany [in 1994] and I'm getting done with a match with Jim Duggan. I'm the curtain jerker. I'm the first guy out. I come back through the curtain; it's like our sixth day on the road. Hogan grabs me and pulls me over. He goes, 'How you doing it?' I go, 'Doing it? Doing what?' He said, 'Getting so much better.' I was like, 'Well Hulk, thanks.' He said, 'No seriously, how are you doing it?' Now Hulk had just come in; this was his big first tour he was doing that wasn't TV. He said, 'They got you on the road like this where you're learning your craft right?' I said, 'No, Hulk, no.' He goes, 'What do you mean?' I said, 'The only reason I'm on this tour is because we're in Germany, and my last real name is Falkenberg. And, I got a smoking hot wife who walks me to the ring. That's the only reason I'm here.' He goes, 'Well, how are you getting so much better?' and I tried to explain to him that I went back to the Power Plant and started training guys. Because what I found out was the more I taught guys, the more I learned. It applies to everything, I don't care what it is. If you teach someone your craft, while you're teaching them, you're going to learn because you're going to get better at teaching, which is going to make you better at whatever you're doing. In my case, it made me a better worker. And he didn't understand that because he had territories when he came up, and Hulk is only about two and a half years older than I am, you have to remember that. Hulk had said to me, 'Whatever you're doing, you need to keep doing it. Because it's not today, or next year, or the year after but somewhere down the line, because of your character and how you make people believe, you have the ability to draw huge money with me.' So four years later, I walk out on that stage with Karl Malone, and Rodman and Hogan are there. It was the biggest press conference I'd ever seen that morning. It was crazy."
On The Very Best of WCW Nitro DVD: "The Very Best of Nitro, from what I know right now, is the second-best selling DVD in the last 3 years. So what does that tell you? The new people are getting to see it, the new WWE nation that had never seen that stuff, because it's timeless. When I first got the script for The Very Best of Nitro, I didn't call them back and Michael Calabrese, the producer, what a great guy he is. They sent me that script and he called me up and he goes, 'Hey D, did you get the script? What did you think?' I said, 'I don't think you want me to do this,' and he goes, 'What do you mean?' I go, 'I wouldn't say a lot of the things in here,' and he said, 'Well, what do you mean?' I said, 'Michael, I understand that history is written by the winners and I get that you guys won the war, so you can say what you want to say but we kicked your ass for almost two years. I was there. It was David and Goliath and we killed you in the ratings, so I'm not going to backhand compliment WCW ever. Did we make mistakes? Hell yeah, and I'll talk about that, but I'm not going to act like it never happened. I'm just not going to do that; you should get someone else to do that.' He said, 'Well, what are the things you're talking about?' I went, 'Boom, boom, boom' and he went, 'No problem, change it.' I was like, 'Really?' He said, 'Yeah man, we want this to be good.' I was like, 'OK, cool.'
On his rising popularity in WCW: "I remember wrestling on Monday night in Panama City, and that was the first time those kids were chanting DDP so loud and I had just started my feud with Scott and Kevin. It was just starting to take off and when I walked back through the curtain again, Hulk's there. He goes, 'Do you know how hard that is? It's starting to happen.' Hulk Hogan over periods of time would tell me different things, and that was one of them. He said, 'It's so hard to get them to chant your name like that, but once you got that, you got something big. It was an awesome ride."
On whether he was ever contacted by McMahon about jumping to the WWE during the Monday Night Wars: "No, he would never do that. Anybody who said he did, I would really tend not to believe that because Vince was not going to get in that potential lawsuit. Vince is way too smart for that on so many levels. But Steve Austin had called me once after a match I had with I can't remember who; I want to say it was Hogan. He said, 'How the hell did you bring that match out of him?' Because there's never been any love lost with Hulk and Steve. But they got respect of course, how could they not? But Austin had said, 'If you ever want to come on up here, it'd be a pretty easy trip for you.' It was like that. Maybe they thought because of my affiliation with Bischoff and all that stuff, I never would've left."
On his WWE run: "I always saw myself working a WrestleMania. There was no question. The run that I had, which really was like four months in the WWE; it wasn't great. But my opening day was great. My opening day was humongous. And then WrestleMania was pretty much my closing card. I did one Raw after that, but that WrestleMania 18 match that I had with Christian, that was a hell of a match. And then being able to show up now and getting that reaction; hitting that Cutter and getting that pop, I literally can fade off into the sunset very easily. Bottom line is, it was what it was and it was a great ride."
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Post by Head Booker on Jul 11, 2012 22:30:13 GMT -6
UFC fighter Chael Sonnen says he would attend a WWE show "as a fan," but he has no current plans to join WWE as a wrestler. "I go back to my promoter Dana White at the end of the night," Sonnen said in an interview on Fuel TV this week.
Sonnen fielded the WWE question after rumors started that he may consider retiring from MMA following his loss to Anderson Silva at the UFC 148 PPV on Saturday. Sonnen said in the interview that "athletes should take at least a month after a loss to think about the decision," and he suggested he will do the same.
[ LINK: Report at USAToday.com ]
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Post by Rico on Jul 12, 2012 21:52:26 GMT -6
Amidst rumors that WWE released Kharma after their official Twitter feed moved her profile to its list of Alumni on Thursday, TMZ.com reporter Ryan Satin says she has been let go by the sports entertainment organization.
He wrote on Twitter Thursday evening, “A source close to Kharma tells me the rumors are true and she was indeed released from WWE today. Dumbest WWE release in SOOO LONG!!!”
Wrestling Observer editor Dave Meltzer addressed Satin’s claim on the F4WOnline.com message forum and stated that WWE had planned to finalize her termination on Friday. However, he speculates the organization may switch course due to the news prematurely surfacing online—similarly to how they briefly reinstated Florida Championship Wrestling tapings in March to save face after news leaked prematurely that they were ending and because they weren’t ready to announce the changes to NXT.
“I don’t want to say anything, because it’s WWE and they change their minds if stuff gets out,” he wrote. “But she was to be released tomorrow, and they’re pissed somebody screwed up and it got out a day early.”
Kharma is currently listed as a member of the active roster on WWE.com, but as a former Superstar on the organization’s Twitter account.
source sescoops.com
Now if this is indeed true, this is the DUMBEST MOTHER FUCKING MOVE THAT THE WWE HAS DONE IN. Why the fuck would you release a good, hell boarderline great Woman Wrestler, not Diva, like Kharma/Awsome Kong/Kia Stevens. If they release her, I may have to stop watching, not like I watch much now days anyway, but I will probably stop watching, unless Taker is on there lol
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Post by Head Booker on Jul 13, 2012 6:39:40 GMT -6
maybe it was amicable...maybe she asked for her release in order to start her family....I'm hearin' that she finally got married...
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Post by Head Booker on Jul 13, 2012 6:40:23 GMT -6
Two weeks before Charlie Sheen, star of the new FX sitcom, Anger Management, is scheduled to join WWE as the Celebrity Social Media Ambassador for the historic 1,000th episode of Raw SuperShow, the award-winning actor is giving the heave-ho to social media.
TMZ.com reported Thursday night that Sheen plans to shut down his Twitter account within days, or possibly hours, due to his belief that he's not getting anything out of the social media platform.
During the three-hour milestone event July 23 at 8/7 CT on USA Network, the "winning" actor is scheduled to entertain his 7.7 million Twitter followers and the WWE Universe all night long with his unique 140-character analysis of the action.
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Post by Icon Lord Jon Kellar on Jul 15, 2012 8:43:06 GMT -6
Kia Stevens gets released and Charlie Sheen is due to appear on Raw.
World WRESTLING Entertainment ladies and gentlemen...
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Post by Head Booker on Jul 20, 2012 8:45:51 GMT -6
Source: The Wrestling Observer Newsletter
Although not announced, Undertaker clips are all over the commercials, as are clips of Roddy Piper.We were told months ago that Undertaker’s return was being talked about but haven’t heard anything official of late. Everything is being kept quiet but within the company that is also the assumption. The suspicion is the “big angle” that Vince was wanting, similar to the Nexus and Punk angles of the last two years, would be on that show, at the end. At one point theywere planning on announcing a permanent General Manager to Raw on this show, but that wasn’t even touched upon on the 7/16 television show and they didn’t even bother with the one week General Manager gimmick.
As far as shooting the big angle for the summer, it makes sense, since in theory, the final segment of the show should be the largest audience at any one time watching any WWE telecast in months, if not all year. If you had to pick a time to shoot a major angle, 11 p.m. next week would figure to be it.
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Post by Head Booker on Jul 22, 2012 17:46:38 GMT -6
The Hollywood Reporter is featuring an interview with Vince McMahon. Here are some highlights.
Concerning leaving The USA Network for TNN (now Spike TV) years ago: "We became the No. 1 show on USA. And they wouldn't be No. 1 right now in primetime if not for Raw. We switched one time to what became the Spike network and became the No. 1 show there. We have proved that we can pretty much make TV networks."
About using Social Media: "Back in the early days, our performers elicited a response -- a boo or a cheer. Today, we use all this social media. We are going to do Tout, in which the WWE just invested. With that, you get a 15-second video shout-out that goes straight to our TV programs. Beginning with the 1,000th show, people can participate in terms of the types of matches and what actually happens on air. It will be the most interactive TV programming in the world.
Why WWE stars are ready to be hits in Hollywood: Our talent is taught not to be prima donnas, to be on time and know their lines. And quite frankly, people in Hollywood, once they see what we do, they are amazed. Our talent doesn't demand the biggest trailer or a certain amount of grape juice or whatever the hell it is. Our talent is extremely flexible and knows how to act, so it's a logical extension for them.
On WWE vs. UFC: We're in show business, they are a sport. Their ratings are abysmal. They are in the pay-per-view business, and they do reasonably well there. We just set a record for WrestleMania. We had 1.3 million buys for this year's WrestleMania, and our pay-per-view numbers for our shows have been up 30 percent since then. So, we are looking pretty good.
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