Nodachi kirjoitti:
Ei mitkään dark match -esiintymiset sopimuksen tuloa tarkoita. Jos kerran Shelton Texasin osavaltiossa nykyään asuu, niin tuo oli hänelle helppo palkkapäivä kotikonnuilla ja WWE:n kannalta hyvä mies lämmittämään (koti)yleisöä. Kaikenmaailman kotikaupungin indyjanttareitahan dark matcheissä aina on nähty, eivätkä niissä esiintymiset vaadi käsittääkseni soppareita.
With the debut of WWE Tough Enough just a few weeks away (the night after WrestleMania), we’ve got some new details on the men and women who will be competing on the show.
WWE issued a press release a few weeks ago announcing that there would be 12 contestants, but recent commercials on the USA Network say that there will be 14.
Here are the first 9 confirmed contestants:
Rima Fakih: Current Miss USA and a longtime WWE fan who hosted RAW last year.
Matt Cross: Known on the independents as M-Dogg 20 and has worked for years on the independents for Ring of Honor and others. Debuted in 2001 and worked a tag team match against Vance Archer and Curt Hawkins on a 2010 episode of WWE Superstars.
Christina Crawford: Former FCW Diva and sister of RAW Diva Alicia Fox.
Bobby Robinson: Known on the Maine independent scene as Golden Boy. Word is that he can be seen in the Tough Enough commercial saying he will do whatever it takes to get the contract.
Erik Watts: A California independent wrestler with the nickname Big Nasty.
Juliet The Huntress: 22-year-old independent wrestler based out of Chicago. She’s Puerto Rican and made her pro wrestling debut back in 2005.
Ryan Howe: Known as “The Rock ‘n Rebel” Diamond Steel – He is the guy with long blonde in the Tough Enough promo commercial who Steve Austin says he doesn’t like his hair.
Andy Levine: 23-year-old former lineman for Florida International University and priority agent with the Miami Dolphins. Has wrestled on the independent scene.
Mickael Zaki: 26-year-old from New Jersey (now living in Tampa) with a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and a degree in criminal justice. He has spent the past two years competing on the independent wrestling circuit.
WWE held a ‘media day’ at the Tough Enough house, with reporters from newspapers, magazines and other media outlets present. IGN’s Matt Fowler noted on Twitter that yoga was being used in the Tough Enough warm up sessions, which is likely inspired by trainer Trish Stratus, who has her own yoga studio in Toronto.
Lähde: SeScoops.com
Nickeldeon kirjoitti:
Ryan Howe: Known as “The Rock ‘n Rebel” Diamond Steel
DeadManWalking kirjoitti:
Kiinnostaa tietää mikä on Vincen logiikka tässä taas kerran jos Shelton Benjaminia ollaan tuomassa takaisin? Huhuja on pyörinyt että painijoita potkitaan pian pihalle, ja samaan aikaan ollaan tuomassa takaisin mies joka ei koskaan ollut yhtään mitään erikoista ja josta ei varmasti sitä myöskään tule olemaan. Pari viikkoa voi olla ihan kivaa mutta sitten nauretaan taas sille samalle vitsille.
Ei h****tti. En tajua.
SkullCrushingFinale kirjoitti:Nickeldeon kirjoitti:
Ryan Howe: Known as “The Rock ‘n Rebel” Diamond Steel
On muuten siistein paininimi ikinä! Ja sehän on muutenkin todistettua, että pitkätukat, blondit etenkin, pärjäävät tällä alalla :)
WWE issued the following press release this morning:
DREW CAREY TO ENTER WWE HALL OF FAME
WWE is proud to announce the newest member of the 2011 WWE Hall of Fame — comedian and game show host Drew Carey. The WWE Hall of Fame induction ceremony presented by THQ’s "WWE All Stars" will take place at the Phillips Arena on Saturday, April 2 and the one-hour TV special will air Monday, April 4 at 8/7c on USA Network.
Drew Carey is the latest member of the celebrity wing of the WWE Hall of Fame, joining the likes of Pete Rose, Bob Uecker and William “Refrigerator” Perry. Other members of the 2011 WWE Hall of Fame Class include “The Heartbreak Kid” Shawn Michaels, “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan, “Bullet” Bob Armstrong and the original WWE Diva, Sunny.
Carey established his place in WWE history as a surprise entrant in the 2001 Royal Rumble. However, Carey’s fortunes quickly turned, when the massive WWE Superstar Kane entered the ring, prompting Carey to eliminate himself from the match.
Carey, a former United States Marine Reservist, is the host of “The Price Is Right” and star of “The Drew Carey Show” and “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”. Carey will lead a cast of improvisation all-stars, including Ryan Styles, Colin Mochrie, Greg Proops, Brad Sherwood and Kathy Kinney, in the new series “Drew Carey’s Improv-A-Ganza,” which premieres April 11 at 8 pm ET/PT on GSN. Each episode will showcase a half-hour of improvised sketch comedy complete with audience participation.
Jeff Hardy will not be appearing at the TNA TV tapings tonight or tomorrow night stemming from whatever it was that happened at last night's PPV.
Hardy and Sting's main event lasted 1:28 with Sting pinning Hardy. Hardy, very subtly, acted as if he was surprised by the finish and attempted to kick out but Sting held him down and the ref counted three. Given the people involved in TNA creative, a worked shoot to get attention has to always be considered a possibility, particularly since the last time this situation legitimately occurred, the plan at first was to change the main event. In fact, both Eric Bischoff and Vince Russo have long track records of this type of thing.
Reports from the show were that Hardy was in no condition to wrestle and that they decided to cut the match short.
If that is the case, the onus should be on TNA because it is not like the show a few months back when Hardy was nearly stripped of the title and they had planned to change the main event, only to have the decision changed back, wasn't a warning sign. One has to seriously question management for not calling an audible on the main event, particularly since the show was already in the toilet by that point.
If it is an attempt at an elaborately worked angle, thinking the fan outrage leads to more attention to the promotion, it is what it is, a creative decision. In fact, either way, what happened at the end was a creative decision by management, because there are plenty of alternative things that could have been done what would have made it at least a slightly better show.
Hardy's next court date is Wednesday. Both his lawyer and Moore County prosecutors said a plea bargain deal had been reached months ago, but one side or both pulled out and the case was continued for about the dozenth time until Wednesday.
Merovingi kirjoitti:Jeff Hardy will not be appearing at the TNA TV tapings tonight or tomorrow night stemming from whatever it was that happened at last night's PPV.
Hardy and Sting's main event lasted 1:28 with Sting pinning Hardy. Hardy, very subtly, acted as if he was surprised by the finish and attempted to kick out but Sting held him down and the ref counted three. Given the people involved in TNA creative, a worked shoot to get attention has to always be considered a possibility, particularly since the last time this situation legitimately occurred, the plan at first was to change the main event. In fact, both Eric Bischoff and Vince Russo have long track records of this type of thing.
Reports from the show were that Hardy was in no condition to wrestle and that they decided to cut the match short.
If that is the case, the onus should be on TNA because it is not like the show a few months back when Hardy was nearly stripped of the title and they had planned to change the main event, only to have the decision changed back, wasn't a warning sign. One has to seriously question management for not calling an audible on the main event, particularly since the show was already in the toilet by that point.
If it is an attempt at an elaborately worked angle, thinking the fan outrage leads to more attention to the promotion, it is what it is, a creative decision. In fact, either way, what happened at the end was a creative decision by management, because there are plenty of alternative things that could have been done what would have made it at least a slightly better show.
Hardy's next court date is Wednesday. Both his lawyer and Moore County prosecutors said a plea bargain deal had been reached months ago, but one side or both pulled out and the case was continued for about the dozenth time until Wednesday.
Lähteenä Wrestling Observer.
Jäbä kirjoitti:
Maailmanloppu jos väli-PPV:n Main Event on tynkä ja mahdollisesti osana jotain todella suurta kuviota. Ainakin huomiota tällä on sitten tullut. Ei v***u. :lol:
Tosin en kyllä usko että tuo workkia oli. Tuskin Jeffiä buukattaisiin nousemaan heti selätyksen jälkeen ylös, kuin mitään Scorpion Death Dropia ei olisi ollutkaan. Kyseessä kuitenkin mestarin finisher. Tosin olihan tuossa syksyllä se promo - jaksossa jota en itse nähnyt - missä Hogan oli kuulemma lytännyt showpainia katsovat.
Jäbä kirjoitti:
E: Ja kyllä mä ymmärrän Jeff Hardyn keikkumisen näin isoissa kuvioissa, vaikka riskikin on eikä henkilö ole mikään pulmunen. On se kuitenkin sen verran iso nimi, ja TNA:ta haittaisi enemmän tuollaisen megatähden menettäminen enemmän kuin WWE:tä.
Captain Charisma kirjoitti:
Pari nettinörttiä uhkaa lopettaa TNA:n katsomisen, kamalaa. Katsojaluvuthan ovat koko ajan nousseet samalla kuin tuote on mennyt huonommaksi. Ei olisi mikään yllätys vaikka torstain impact paukuttelisi ennätysratingseja.
Jäbä kirjoitti:
Maailmanloppu jos väli-PPV:n Main Event on tynkä ja mahdollisesti osana jotain todella suurta kuviota. Ei v***u. :lol: Ainakin huomiota tällä on sitten tullut. Kiistanalainen luo käteistä, niinhän se Bischoff on sanonut...
Tosin en kyllä usko että tuo workkia oli. Tuskin Jeffiä buukattaisiin nousemaan heti selätyksen jälkeen ylös, kuin mitään Scorpion Death Dropia ei olisi ollutkaan. Kyseessä kuitenkin mestarin finisher. Tosin olihan tuossa syksyllä se promo - jaksossa jota en itse nähnyt - missä Hogan oli kuulemma lytännyt showpainia katsovat.
E: Ja kyllä mä ymmärrän Jeff Hardyn keikkumisen näin isoissa kuvioissa, vaikka riskikin on eikä henkilö ole mikään pulmunen. On se kuitenkin sen verran iso nimi, ja TNA:ta haittaisi enemmän tuollaisen megatähden menettäminen enemmän kuin WWE:tä.
- TNA officials were meeting about Jeff Hardy this morning and the decision was made to send the former World Heavyweight Champion home from this week’s iMPACT tapings.
Despite the quick finish at Victory Road last night, Sting was still scheduled to retain the TNA World Heavyweight Title but in a normal match.
The incident last night led to Hardy trending on Twitter and to online rumors that he was arrested after the show, which were not true at all.
Source: PWInsider
Merovingi kirjoitti:
Oikeasti toivon enemmän TNA:n kannalta, ettei kyseessä ollut Worked shoot. Jos näin, firma ansaitsee oikeasti tuhoutua.
Jäbä kirjoitti:
Niinhän ne fanit haluavat. Lainataan taas Eric Bischoffin viisauksia, kiistanalainen luo käteistä. Ja tosiaan kuten sanoit Merovingi, TV-jaksot siellä on pääpointtina.
LordsOfPain kirjoitti:
TNA Wrestling issued the following statement regarding Sunday's Victory Road pay-per-view event:
AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT TO TNA WRESTLING FANS REGARDING SUNDAY'S VICTORY ROAD PAY-PER-VIEW
TNA Wrestling strives to give fans who purchase our pay-per-views as close to a full three-hour event as possible. This past Sunday’s "TNA Victory Road" fell short of that standard. Your support of TNA is never taken for granted. To show you how we value that support, we would like to offer six months of free access to the TNAondemand.com library.
To receive your free offer, please send us a copy of your Victory Road pay-per-view purchase receipt to :
TNA OnDemand Offer
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Please be sure and submit your name, address, and email address, as we will be emailing a special code that will unlock over 300 hours of great TNA Wrestling action.
Riveni kirjoitti:
TNAondemand tuskin tuottaa firmalle paria penniä enempää, joten mikään tappio tai uhrautuminen tämä ei heiltä ole. Saadaan vaan mainosta koko ondemand-paskalle. Ja idiootit hurraa.
WWE received what they wanted from Snooki’s RAW appearance and upcoming WrestleMania match – tons of free advertising. Publications and websites that usually don’t – or rarely – cover professional wrestling jumped on the Snooki/WWE bandwagon with Access Hollywood, The Hollywood Reporter, MTV, MSNBC, People Magazine and bunch of other TV news stations picking up the story about “The Jersey Shore” reality TV star getting physical yesterday on RAW, attacking Michelle McCool and then doing a Lou Thesz press on Layla
before accepting the six-person tag team match at Mania.
Phenomenon kirjoitti:
Oletan, että Merovingi tai jokin muu rillipiru joka on hypännyt Muumien Taikurin hatusta ulos on kohta täällä kommentoimassa kuinka huono päätös tuo on. Menettäväthän he siinä rahaa. FREE ACCESS!
PWInsider kirjoitti:
I just got the new issue of WWE Magazine with The Rock on the cover. Inside is an interview with discussing his career and his return. The talk then moved to the possibility of him wrestling again.
Rock was asked about how much of his old ring outfits he still owns and he commented, "I still own it all. It's still with me in my house. It was never going away because I knew I would one day use it again."
He was then asked, "So does that mean you're coming back to fight as well?"
Rock responded,"Making movies is something that I love to do, and I know that it brings a lot of people joy, which in turn brings me and my soul great gratification. Being in the ring and entertaining the audience and kicking ass physically brings me and my soul great gratification as well. I can guarantee that I can always do both."
Big difference from his past comments about being done in the ring!
PWInsider kirjoitti:
The Fatal Four Way PPV this June has been re-titled "Capitol Punishment." It is scheduled to take place in Washington, DC.
Goblet kirjoitti:PWInsider kirjoitti:
The Fatal Four Way PPV this June has been re-titled "Capitol Punishment." It is scheduled to take place in Washington, DC.
Tänä vuonna Fatal Four Way onkin Capitol Punishment! Aika jännä.
Nickeldeon kirjoitti:Goblet kirjoitti:PWInsider kirjoitti:
The Fatal Four Way PPV this June has been re-titled "Capitol Punishment." It is scheduled to take place in Washington, DC.
Tänä vuonna Fatal Four Way onkin Capitol Punishment! Aika jännä.
Onneksi... Fatal Four Way kuullostikin niin mauttomalta.
Rocky kirjoitti:
Seuraavaksi Elimination Chamber muuttunee Gas Chamberiksi.
Goblet kirjoitti:Eli rivien välistä luettuna Rock painii vielä joskus jos Vince lyö tarpeeksi paksun setelipinon Rockin kouraan ja saa painin sovitettua aikatauluihinsa.PWInsider kirjoitti:
I just got the new issue of WWE Magazine with The Rock on the cover. Inside is an interview with discussing his career and his return. The talk then moved to the possibility of him wrestling again.
Rock was asked about how much of his old ring outfits he still owns and he commented, "I still own it all. It's still with me in my house. It was never going away because I knew I would one day use it again."
He was then asked, "So does that mean you're coming back to fight as well?"
Rock responded,"Making movies is something that I love to do, and I know that it brings a lot of people joy, which in turn brings me and my soul great gratification. Being in the ring and entertaining the audience and kicking ass physically brings me and my soul great gratification as well. I can guarantee that I can always do both."
Big difference from his past comments about being done in the ring!
Rock muutti mielipidettään siitä, aikooko joskus vielä palata. Sanoo, että omistaa vieläkin kaikki painiasut ja sanoo että voi joskus vielä painia.
Rocky kirjoitti:Nickeldeon kirjoitti:Goblet kirjoitti:
Tänä vuonna Fatal Four Way onkin Capitol Punishment! Aika jännä.
Onneksi... Fatal Four Way kuullostikin niin mauttomalta.
Seuraavaksi Elimination Chamber muuttunee Gas Chamberiksi.
PWInsider kirjoitti:
Representatives of WGN America confirmed via email this afternoon that WWE Superstars will conclude its run on the network on Thursday 4/7. They declined to cite a reason the series was leaving the network.
I can confirm that the series was on WGN's schedule through August several weeks ago, so it may be that contractually, WWE and WGN have come to the end of their deal and a new one was not signed.
When asking around today, no one within WWE that I spoke with seemed to have any clear indication as to what the series' future entailed. If the show is indeed dropped altogether, that's a move that has a lot of talents worried.
As we reported several weeks back in the Elite section, WWE has discussed dropping a good amount of lower card talent after Wrestlemania as a cost-cutting move after their poor financial quarters. The loss of Superstars would certainly make a lot of those talents much more expendable to management.
The current incarnation of Superstars debuted in 2009 on WGN America. Superstars does have international clearances, so it's entire possible that WWE could continue it for those markets while broadcasting it via WWE.com in the United States as they do with NXT. It's also possible that Tough Enough (which debuts the same week) could just replace Superstars for those international markets. All that. however, is just conjecture.
Saimou kirjoitti:PWInsider kirjoitti:
Representatives of WGN America confirmed via email this afternoon that WWE Superstars will conclude its run on the network on Thursday 4/7. They declined to cite a reason the series was leaving the network.
I can confirm that the series was on WGN's schedule through August several weeks ago, so it may be that contractually, WWE and WGN have come to the end of their deal and a new one was not signed.
When asking around today, no one within WWE that I spoke with seemed to have any clear indication as to what the series' future entailed. If the show is indeed dropped altogether, that's a move that has a lot of talents worried.
As we reported several weeks back in the Elite section, WWE has discussed dropping a good amount of lower card talent after Wrestlemania as a cost-cutting move after their poor financial quarters. The loss of Superstars would certainly make a lot of those talents much more expendable to management.
The current incarnation of Superstars debuted in 2009 on WGN America. Superstars does have international clearances, so it's entire possible that WWE could continue it for those markets while broadcasting it via WWE.com in the United States as they do with NXT. It's also possible that Tough Enough (which debuts the same week) could just replace Superstars for those international markets. All that. however, is just conjecture.
WGN lähettää viimeisen jaksonsa WWE Superstarsia 7.4. Sarjan kohtalo on tällä hetkellä epäselvä: mahdollisuuksia ovat jatkaminen NXT:n kaltaisena nettiohjelmana tai ohjelman lopettaminen kokonaan. Jälkimmäinen vaihtoehto kiihdyttäisi luonnollisesti kevätsiivoushuhuja entisestään, kun suuri osa alakortin talentista jäisi täysin tarpeettomaksi.
PWInsider.com kirjoitti:
Husky Harris is now working as a masked character, Ax Mulligan, in WWE developmental. He's the grandson of Blackjack Mulligan, so that's where the last name comes from. Harris wasn't mentioned on Raw last night when Punk namechecked the other members of Nexus
Show_Stopper kirjoitti:
Videomateriaaliakin Huskyn uudesta hahmosta vuosi julki jokin aika sitten:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_cxTzPtuD0
En osaa vieläkään oikein sanoa asiasta mitään.
Kratos kirjoitti:
Tuohan näytti mahtavalta. Onpahan nyt ainakin sitä persoonaa ja erilaisuutta minkä perään porukka täällä huutelee. Eleet olivat hienoja ja Stunner napsahti hienosti. Taidankin pitääkin häntä silmällä hieman lähemmin. Olkoot köyhänmiehen Mankind, ei haittaa meikäläistä jos saadaan toimimaan.
PWInsider kirjoitti:
Tommy Fierro's www.PoptheCrowd.com website reported that WWE filmed an angle yesterday at Miami Mike's Sports Zone in East Hanover, NJ.
In the angle, Lay-Cool enter a bar searching for Snooki and Trish Stratus, which leads to a bar room brawl involving the four. Lay-Cool end up being put through a table during the brawl. There's also a scene where Snooki punches out a guy trying to hit on her.
According to the Fierro site, Snooki showed up several hours late for the shoot, which was produced by Dave Finlay and Creative team member Ranjin Singh.
The website also noted that Snooki was telling those working at the bar that once Jersey Shore was done, she would be working for WWE full-time as a Diva.
The angle will air this Monday as part of the Wrestlemania go-home Raw.