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Post by mysterydriver on Sept 11, 2007 13:12:08 GMT -5
Daggone it Masters!
Why would you skip that meeting? Unless....
Someone didn't tell him about the meeting! I blame Triple H! Why? Because it is so easy to do!
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Post by kswolf on Sept 11, 2007 16:00:23 GMT -5
So WWE's excuse for not suspending Orton is completely bogus.
Orton gets a free pass. Batista gets a free pass. Edge essentially gets a free pass (yeah I know he's losing pay, but it's still not quite the same as getting pulled off the road and tv). That leaves Booker T. as the only main-event caliber guy to really get punished. He gets to be the sacrificial headliner -- so WWE can prove they're serious -- while the guys with better political connections get a free pass. No wonder the guy quit.
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Post by Above Average on Sept 11, 2007 16:50:10 GMT -5
Orton got a free pass? How?
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Post by kswolf on Sept 11, 2007 16:59:54 GMT -5
Orton got a free pass? How? Umm. By not being suspended again -- despite the fact that he continued to purchase steroids, even after his last suspension. The guy should have been handed a sixty day suspension like Masters. Instead he gets to headline the next pay per view, and possibly even get the WWE title. Way to enforce the policy there, Vince.
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Post by CrazySting on Sept 11, 2007 17:02:27 GMT -5
Orton confessed to it a while back though.
Arguably, if they were going to give anyone a free pass it would have been Kennedy. He was actually more important than Orton was to raw with the illigetimate child storyline. They had to rewrite everything getting rid of Kennedy.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Sept 11, 2007 19:12:01 GMT -5
Whotta dick, good god.
Why do they keep him around? Could he draw a dime without a pen and paper?
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Post by Arthur Digby Stamp on Sept 12, 2007 2:06:28 GMT -5
Has there been any speculation about Snitsky being of one of the suspended? He's been off tv for a couple weeks now, which seems suspect given how little talent is left on Raw.
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Post by ScottHall187 on Sept 30, 2007 22:47:43 GMT -5
So with the majority of these guys coming back tomorrow or next week whatcha think they'll all end up doing? Here are a few of my thoughts
Morrison: ECW title chase with Burke and CM Punk ending with a 3-way extreme rules match at the PPV after No Mercy
Kennedy: Back in the McMahon father story and as most have stated feud with HHH for messing with the results to make Hornswoggle the son.
Haas: Hopefully have a tag division with 4 solid teams (Cade/Murdoch, Londrick, WGTT and Highlanders....well 3 solid teams)
Regal: Get his GM job back
And that is all I care about.
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Post by bubbles on Sept 30, 2007 22:53:23 GMT -5
Snitsky is away having a bath. Yes it takes him that long because he has to go to a special factory.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2007 23:52:36 GMT -5
Snitsky is away having a bath. Yes it takes him that long because he has to go to a special factory. ... great now i've got an image of Naked Snitsky... thank you for ruining my life
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Post by mysterydriver on Oct 1, 2007 0:04:04 GMT -5
Snitsky is away having a bath. Yes it takes him that long because he has to go to a special factory. ... great now i've got an image of Naked Snitsky... thank you for ruining my life I imagine him in a bubble bath, playing with a rubber ducky, and humming his theme song. ... I need help.
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Post by SAJ Forth on Oct 1, 2007 0:08:26 GMT -5
So Orton was buying until February, and he wasn't suspended? Could someone explain his exemption from suspension?
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Post by mysterydriver on Oct 1, 2007 0:12:43 GMT -5
So Orton was buying until February, and he wasn't suspended? Could someone explain his exemption from suspension? He apparently confessed about doing it and served a suspension earlier. Probably around the time that Kurt "broke" his ankle, which I think got covered with the marijuana story or something. That's just a guess though.
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Post by SAJ Forth on Oct 1, 2007 0:16:56 GMT -5
But that is the part that confuses me.
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Post by Ace Diamond on Oct 1, 2007 2:03:58 GMT -5
But that is the part that confuses me. Sadly, it's not like they have any other options but to use Orton due to the glut of injuries and other suspensions. Of course, if it were anybody but him they probably would've been fired by now (like Jeff Hardy, fired in '03 for refusing rehab after failing ONE test because he personally didn't think at the time he had a drug problem per-se). Though again the fact they're suspending him (in August? really? I don't remember that...i thought that was around the time he became part of Rated RKO) for something they didn't solve anyway with that suspension is...yeah. Sometimes I wonder how well the locker room holds up if even half of this is true. EDIT: Just found it. If Orton was suspended it was the work without pay type since he was feuding with Hogan in August '06
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Post by I Graduated Warrior University on Oct 1, 2007 2:16:57 GMT -5
But that is the part that confuses me. Sadly, it's not like they have any other options but to use Orton due to the glut of injuries and other suspensions. Of course, if it were anybody but him they probably would've been fired by now (like Jeff Hardy, fired in '03 for refusing rehab after failing ONE test because he personally didn't think at the time he had a drug problem per-se). Though again the fact they're suspending him (in August? really? I don't remember that...i thought that was around the time he became part of Rated RKO) for something they didn't solve anyway with that suspension is...yeah. Sometimes I wonder how well the locker room holds up if even half of this is true. EDIT: Just found it. If Orton was suspended it was the work without pay type since he was feuding with Hogan in August '06 I think Jeff Hardy no-showing and giving half-assed performances when he did show up may have had something to do with his firing as well
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Post by Christianv2 on Oct 1, 2007 8:48:01 GMT -5
So those 30 day suspensions, well it happened on like August 30th, and its October 1st now, so maybe a Kennedy Return tonight?
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Post by Red Impact on Oct 1, 2007 8:58:35 GMT -5
So those 30 day suspensions, well it happened on like August 30th, and its October 1st now, so maybe a Kennedy Return tonight? They said last week that Regal was only going to be "out" for one more week, so it would make sense for several people to make returns, Kennedy included.
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Post by darbus alan on Oct 1, 2007 9:11:56 GMT -5
I think Umaga's supposed to return tonight, too. Everyone but Booker, really, since I believe he was suspended for 60 days.
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Post by Big L on Oct 1, 2007 9:23:35 GMT -5
I think Umaga's supposed to return tonight, too. Everyone but Booker, really, since I believe he was suspended for 60 days. yea Umaga is gonna return tonight, and more than likely he'll interfere in the HHH vs McMahon match tonight
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