Some News and Notes (12-11-13)

[andrew8798]

The John Cena TMZ interview where he said Hulk Hogan was too old to wrestle is said to have been something of significance and not an off the cuff remark. Cena isn’t going to insult Hulk Hogan publicly with a remark like that unless it’s to tease something for business. If Hogan is to be in WrestleMania the scenarios that seemed to make the most sense were a singles match with Cena if there was a way he could get through it, and that is a very big if. People who have been around Hogan tell me there’s no way he should and if that’s the case, I kind of hope he doesn’t, but that doesn’t mean he won’t try. Given Hogan is in a million times worse shape than someone like Edge, who WWE doctors said they would never clear and his career is over (although that was due to a specific neck injury due to fear of paralysis from a bad bump and WWE not wanting to be liable), but I can’t imagine with the shape Hogan’s back is in for that not to be at least a serious concern. The other scenario would be a Hogan & Cena team. Either way, it would have to be made clear it’s Hogan’s retirement match at WrestleMania XXX. Hogan never had a real retirement match and from a storybook standpoint, he should, this is the time because he shouldn’t work again, and WrestleMania is the only place. TNA had built an angle for he and Bully Ray forever to build for a showdown and he never did it, but this is a completely different level and if it’s at all possible, it’s the only way and place to end it if he can. There was a ton of Hogan stuff in various video packages that they were playing to the live crowd at Raw in Seattle.

Henry, 42, is right now saying he’s going to wrestle for two more years, until his contract expires, and then his goal is to work with kids in urban communities in some form. Henry had talked retirement for it seems like a few years, well before he signed his current contract and even before he did the retirement angle, but it is something he’s now setting the table for.

There is a trademark battle over the Fandango name. WWE attempted to trademark the term Fandango for use for a pro wrestler. Comcast has trademarked the term Fandango for its movie ticketing service. That’s one of the reasons WWE at one point dropped the character after introducing him, and at another point spelled it “Fandangoo.” .

-WON

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Mark Henry is the man.

[Some Guy]

Please don't involve Cena and Hogan in any way, shape or form. Please. I beg of you.

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Hope WWE loses and Fandango reverts to Johnny Curtis name.

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Dec 11, 2013 17:38:50 GMT -5 Some Guy said:

Please don't involve Cena and Hogan in any way, shape or form. Please. I beg of you.

Honestly, I would take it in a heartbeat over Cena being involved with anyone on the actual roster. I kind of prefer Cena with the detached, barely part of the actual roster thing he's been doing the past few years.

[CATCH_US IS the Conversation]

Dec 11, 2013 17:39:37 GMT -5 @rackzyder said:

Hope WWE loses and Fandango reverts to Johnny Curtis name.

Soon, it will be time to get weird.

[Kayfabe FAN don't want none]

I don't mind 2 more years of dat sexual chocolate

[BorneAgain]

Sting had a match with Hogan that was almost watchable two years ago, so who knows? It'll be the one case where Cena actually has to overcome the odds and somehow get a dignified match out of him.

[DZ: WF Legacy]

For the love of Jeff, please just do a 30 Years Battle Royal with Hogan and not an actual match where he'd have to take bumps or long rest breaks. You could get Warrior in on that, too.

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Hogan never had a real retirement match and from a storybook standpoint, he should, this is the time because he shouldn’t work again, and WrestleMania is the only place.

Or he could simply retire now, and not risk further damage to his body.

[Urethra Franklin]

Start spelling it "Fandangoo" again tomorrow an never address the change. Problem solved.

[Brother Nero....Wolfe]

The John Cena TMZ interview where he said Hulk Hogan was too old to wrestle is said to have been something of significance and not an off the cuff remark. Cena isn’t going to insult Hulk Hogan publicly with a remark like that unless it’s to tease something for business.

Only in THIS BUSINESS can saying that a 60-year old man shouldn't do stunt acting be taken as an insult to his honor.

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Dec 11, 2013 17:39:37 GMT -5 @rackzyder said:

Hope WWE loses and Fandango reverts to Johnny Curtis name.

His new name will be Stubhub.

[BigWill]

Dec 11, 2013 17:46:16 GMT -5 @nothankyou said:

Hogan never had a real retirement match and from a storybook standpoint, he should, this is the time because he shouldn’t work again, and WrestleMania is the only place.

Or he could simply retire now, and not risk further damage to his body.

Really. The man can barely walk. I don't give a damn about WWE's storybook.

[Bang Bang Bart]

Dec 11, 2013 17:47:22 GMT -5 ________ has left the building said:

Dec 11, 2013 17:39:37 GMT -5 @rackzyder said:

Hope WWE loses and Fandango reverts to Johnny Curtis name.

His new name will be Stubhub.

Or "StubbHubb".

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CM Punk
Del Rio
Mark Henry

All of these guys will be gone in a few years. Then you factor some of the other higher class guys like Rey, Kane potentially, maybe even Taker.

It's going to look drastically different 5 years down the road. They need to build new stars up asap.

[SEAN CARLESS]

Hogan will do it. That's the thing. He can't help himself. And if he's going to "wrestle" (which he will somewhere eventually), its far better he safely work alongside Cena in a tag match, wherein Cena can do the workload. I doubt Hogan's going to bump at all. I'd imagine he'd get the Bret kid-gloves spots, where heels just feed into his punches and he ends up covering someone for the win after Cena hits the AA.

[________ has left the building]

Dec 11, 2013 17:50:52 GMT -5 Bang Bang Bart said:

Dec 11, 2013 17:47:22 GMT -5 ________ has left the building said:

His new name will be Stubhub.

Or "StubbHubb".

Studbub, a Lothario who thinks he's Wolverine. Naturally he would feud with Punk over gimmick infringement.

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

Dec 11, 2013 17:45:54 GMT -5 DZ: WF Legacy said:

For the love of Jeff, please just do a 30 Years Battle Royal with Hogan and not an actual match where he'd have to take bumps or long rest breaks. You could get Warrior in on that, too.

Hogan invokes the Iron Sheik rule of Wrestlemania nostalgia battle royals.

If you can't take an over the top bump, you automatically win the match.

[Bang Bang Bart]

Wait, why didn't they call him "Fandangoo" in the first place anyways?