Post by andrew8798 on Sept 4, 2013 17:07:10 GMT -5
When Ric Flair was on Steve Austin’s podcast, he mentioned that Nick Bockwinkel, now 78, was suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease. A lot of people have asked if that’s the case, and it is. It’s actually been pretty well known for a couple of years, which is why at Cauliflower Alley, Bockwinkel no longer addresses everyone. A very high number of wrestlers from that generation have had that fate and it’s scary because so many of the guys, particularly from the 90s, took far more head punishment than the guys did in that generation. Flair also said that he once wrestled in 47 straight War Games matches. That’s an exaggeration, as the actual period from June 26, 1988 to August 7, 1988, saw Flair in 14 War Games matches and at least six other cage matches.
We’ve heard nothing new on the Briscoes but the last we had heard, the feeling was that Jay’s tweet about gays screwed them at this point from going to the WWE, which was the goal. TNA did make them an offer, but as noted, a lot of guys are leery about TNA these days. The first is that if you sign with TNA, the belief is it badly hurts your ability to go to WWE, which is everyone’s ultimate goal these days
One of the big questions going around involves Ziggler and his current plight and what happened. He himself made a reference at one point to getting in trouble for something he said on Twitter, although that still sounds to me like his storyline. Still, even internally, people have been asking the question of what led to him doing the clean job for Cesaro on Superstars, because that wasn’t done as part of the storyline. He’s in a storyline that has hurt him as a face, but it’s also clear that Show in the same storyline is being groomed for a face push on the other hand, and Ziggler could be as well. And the Cesaro thing really doesn’t matter in the sense nobody in the U.S. watches the show. I’ve had people ask if Ziggler’s recent interview on Orton was the reason, but that’s for sure not the case. Ziggler being toned down started long before the interview he did on a Washington, DC, radio show this past week talking about Orton, which to me was all storyline related to begin with. He said, “If you’ve been familiar with WWE for the last 10 years or so, you would understand without HHH coming up front and coming out and saying it, is this is our hand-picked guy, he’s the face, no matter what, we’re behind him. If you’ve been watching for the last ten years or so, you’d already know that they made up their mind about him a long time ago. No matter what he does, good or bad, they’re behind him, and they’ll go out of their way to cut people’s legs from underneath them to make sure Randy comes out looking great.” Obviously the last line tells you it’s storyline since that’s the big money program they are currently working.
Kassius Ohno, who was pulled from NXT television because they wanted him to change his physique, has now been pulled from the open of the television show. He’s been putting people over on house shows.
-WON