Today's news starts with PWInsider.com's questions. The first question is about the fiasco at Victory Road, which for now doesn't really have a name like Montreal Screwjob or Bash at the Beach incident, so I'm just calling it that. Who "screwed" who, here? I put most of the blame on Jeff Hardy for showing up in no condition to work. If he showed up in an acceptable condition, there wouldn't have been any fiasco to write about. Some blame also goes on to the people who let him go out there and compete in that condition, instead of sending him home or otherwise preventing him to embarrass the company any more than he already had.
As for Sting, I don't blame him a bit. He did the right thing by ending that match before any more damage could be done. Hardy was clearly in no shape to work a match, so they had to put the kibosh on it ASAP. He could probably have gotten away with giving him some "receipts" in the form of a legitimate butt-kicking in that no-DQ match, so he handled it pretty maturely. And of course Hardy tried to kick out. He thought he was able to work. The short version of this is "Sting and TNA didn't screw Jeff. Jeff screwed Jeff."
As far as Drew Carey being in the WWE Hall of Fame, I'm not happy about it either. But letting the wrestling fans pick who goes in isn't a good idea in practice. If you let the die-hard fans vote on it, you'll end up with John Cena or Randy Orton in sooner than they're ready. If you let the "smarks" pick but not the regular fans (which seems like it'd be pretty hard to accomplish), you could also end up with a pretty skewed list. Leave it up to some experts like the Baseball Hall of Fame or something.
All that for two answers? Wow. More answers and news after the break!
I won't go with the "go out and get a girlfriend" route that Dave Scherer took to answer this question. Instead, I'll explain the character's motivation: Dolph stays with Vickie because it still benefits him. Many fictional and real-world relationships, people will stay together despite outsiders thinking they should have broken up a long time ago. Oh, and WWE wanted to keep them together as heels. Perhaps the easiest answer.
Here's the difference between Cena and Orton taking out Nexus: The Nexus of 2010 was a force to be reckoned with by most of the roster. by 2011, they had been beaten up and some members were gone. So there's a noticeable difference.
As far as Daniel Bryan goes, let's wait to see how he does post-U.S. Title on Raw before moving him to Smackdown. It's been a week! Give it some time to play out.
WWE has officially announced that Abdullah The Butcher as the latest inductee into their Hall of Fame. His inductor will be longtime rival Terry Funk.
The Urban Wrestling Federation is now looking for commentators for their future PPV events. The company continues to come together nicely. It's going to take time for them to grow, but they're getting most of the bases covered to start up.
Friday's Smackdown did a 2.06 rating. Still pretty solid. I hope it keeps up in the weeks and months to come.
The Bella Twins and Alicia Fox were in attendance at Dancing With The Stars to cheer on Chris Jericho. They weren't brought in for the Raw/Superstars tapings and were able to go. I wonder how long in advance they knew that they wouldn't be booked for those shows?
That's all of tonight's news. I'll post more after midnight tomorrow.
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