Post by andrew8798 on Oct 22, 2014 18:45:19 GMT -5
The rushing the Orton babyface turn may be with the idea that the Orton house shows have drawn poorly with him as a heel and Dean Ambrose as the top face.
As of the weekend, Lesnar was scheduled to start back on 12/8, which would be the show where they start building his title defense at the Royal Rumble, which was originally planned for Cena.
For those who have cut the cord, Raw will be available in its entirety on the new USA NOW app that the USA Network has put out.
Austin said he’s ruled out wrestling at this year’s Mania. He said between deer hunting season, another season of his reality show, and a project scheduled for February that he isn’t allowed to reveal at this time, he doesn’t have time in his schedule to start training the way he needs to. He also said he doesn’t have the desire to do it either.
Stephanie McMahon did an interview with Yahoo! Sports and denied that there is a policy that cast members of Total Divas can’t hold the title. “Absolutely not. I honestly don’t even know how that rumor got started.” Well, of course, I do. It had been something a number of the women had said privately for months but it was also something they all considered off the record because the company didn’t want it out. But Ariane Andrew (Cameron) brought it up on 9/12 on Chris Jericho’s podcast, and once it was public, it was figured that it could be acknowledged since it’s now out there. At that point it was no longer off the record. Nikki Bella was asked during a radio interview if that was true, and she confirmed it was. Natalya was asked if that was true in a web site interview this past week building up the show in Montreal, and while she wouldn’t confirm it, she basically said you know how WWE rules are and if something is a rule, they can change it at any time anyway. When we were told about it, and it was a doctrine from Vince based on the timing of when the show is taped and that they do their stuff live, it was said Vince could change the rule since it’s his own rule, but for now, it is what creative is going under.
Stemming from all the bad publicity the NFL got, and following UFC doing the same thing, WWE has adopted a zero tolerance policy on domestic violence, child abuse and sexual assault. Anyone arrested for any crimes like that will be suspended upon arrest, and terminated on conviction. People think this won’t apply to top guys, but it will if an actual arrest is there. The bottom line is that in this day and age, you can’t afford not to. It’s a different world than even ten years ago and while I’m sure the cover-ups will exist in every form of entertainment and sports that has stars, because that’s the real world, in a sponsor-driven world you can’t have someone who has been arrested for any of those crimes on your active roster.
In something that somewhat confirms what everyone has hinted about or knows, Hugo Savinovich, who works for AAA as a liaison to Puerto Rico and U.S. business, told KGB Wrestling that Mysterio is done in WWE and will come back to AAA when his WWE deal expires. This is a very touchy subject for obvious reasons. Mysterio is under contract to WWE through April. They want him back. He obviously doesn’t want to go back, but if he doesn’t go back, they can extend his contract, like they did, because they also don’t want him walking right into AAA or Lucha Underground. They weren’t happy he was at the Lucha Underground tapings and photos came out, but he also is allowed to visit friends and go to shows as long as he doesn’t appear on camera. It’s a really weird deal because a video of him did play at TripleMania, which took a lot of balls by AAA. AAA also used Del Rio before he had gotten a release from WWE (which he hasn’t gotten yet). I’ve never seen a promotion except WCW do this, and WCW ended up in a lot of trouble when they did. So it will be interesting how this plays out. But it was really telling to me that Mysterio did not appear, even doing just a guest appearance, for the Mexico shows, particularly since Flair ended up being pulled off those shows.
In something that somewhat confirms what everyone has hinted about or knows, Hugo Savinovich, who works for AAA as a liaison to Puerto Rico and U.S. business, told KGB Wrestling that Mysterio is done in WWE and will come back to AAA when his WWE deal expires. This is a very touchy subject for obvious reasons. Mysterio is under contract to WWE through April. They want him back. He obviously doesn’t want to go back, but if he doesn’t go back, they can extend his contract, like they did, because they also don’t want him walking right into AAA or Lucha Underground. They weren’t happy he was at the Lucha Underground tapings and photos came out, but he also is allowed to visit friends and go to shows as long as he doesn’t appear on camera. It’s a really weird deal because a video of him did play at TripleMania, which took a lot of balls by AAA. AAA also used Del Rio before he had gotten a release from WWE (which he hasn’t gotten yet). I’ve never seen a promotion except WCW do this, and WCW ended up in a lot of trouble when they did. So it will be interesting how this plays out. But it was really telling to me that Mysterio did not appear, even doing just a guest appearance, for the Mexico shows, particularly since Flair ended up being pulled off those shows.
Last week on Raw, when they plugged the Austin podcast, and mentioned Lawler had been on it and he doesn’t do many podcasts, it was meant as an inside rib on Jim Ross, since Lawler hasn’t done Ross’ show. At this point WWE won’t allow anyone to do Ross’ show. Pretty much they don’t allow anyone to do anyone’s podcasts aside from set up media things to push specific functions, unless it’s Austin or Jericho’s show.
While not completely immune, Orton is somewhat protected from really stupid storylines. He doesn’t outright voice his displeasure about them, but in a code sort of way he does. The idea is that when he thinks something is stupid or will hurt his character, he tells the people telling him that we should go to Levesque about it, knowing Levesque will protect him because they feel he’s too valuable to be put in stupid scenarios.
One of the things talked about is a Team Nikki vs. Team Brie Total Divas elimination match at Survivor Series.
Adam Pearce was brought in this past week as a trainer.
-WON
