Total Pageviews

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

More on Gail Kim and Melina, WWE doing KotR DVD, new X-Divisioner signed in TNA, Questions on Gunner vs. Fortune, Miz, PPV songs, Yokozuna in the Hall, and Smackdown going live, Austin interviews, long Edge interview, Miz lip-synchs, Christian promotes Smackdown, Ziggler talks hockey, Miz talks Summerslam, FCW updates, Raw rating, TNA return, Punk podcast, and WWE.com catches up with Michelle McCool

Gail Kim has given more updates on her WWE status on Twitter.

Melina commented on the "splits" reference Beth Phoenix made on Raw, which she perceived to be a jab at her. She also says that she wasn't allowed into the arena to watch her boyfriend John Morrison compete. It doesn't sound like she and WWE are on very good terms right now.

Booker T. will be hosting an upcoming King of the Ring DVD in his King Booker persona. That should be pretty entertaining in its own ridiculous way.

TNA has signed Tony Nese, who was one of the X-Division competitors who competed in the tournament heading into Destination X. I honestly don't remember which one he was. He was apparently trained by the same people who trained Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder, though, so maybe he'll be worth watching in longer matches.

After the break, I go into PWInsider.com's questions. First up, why did Fortune beat up Gunner 4 on 1 if they're faces?

1. Neither. They were hired to jump him. Four faces getting their licks in on a heel doesn't mean we're supposed to feel sympathy for the heel. It means Immortal got a taste of their own medicine.

2. He's above the people like Kofi, Evan, and Dolph who've never been WWE Champion (though Dolph gets some credit for his brief World Title run), but isn't as high up as the more established Cena or HHH. I think some people combine the meanings of "young" and "hasn't been in as many big main events". Orton's 31, but he's been a headliner for a good while, so people don't put him in the same category as the up-and-comers.

3. I do miss some of the old songs like "The End is Near" they made for special shows. I'm not as crazy about some of the other song choices they've made, but I see why they went with them.

4. I think he'll go in at some point barring some big fallout with his family or something. WWE skips around with who it decides to put in each year.

5. I don't see it happening. The current schedule works out pretty well: taping a whole week's worth of shows in 2 days saves a lot of money. If they did Smackdown live, they'd either have to tape all of NXT and Superstars before Raw (which would be time- and work-consuming), or do an NXT/Superstars taping without Smackdown, which wouldn't sell all that well.

Stone Cold talked to WWE.com about his new movie, and with G4's Attack of the Show about the movie and the possibility of wrestling C.M. Punk. If they could build that one up for WM29 (since the next Mania already has Cena-Rock), that'd be a hell of a 3-peat for Mania business. But I certainly wouldn't mind them doing it next April, either. That'd be an absolute natural face-off.

Edge was interviewed on a number of things while promoting Haven. Very good read.

The Miz was part of a video with a popular YouTube lip-syncher. John Morrison was also involved. What... the.... #$@&*. Both performers did a good job on the clip.

Christian was interviewed to promote a Smackdown taping.

Update: another Christian interview promoting the same show.

Dolph Ziggler did a guest piece on a hockey blog. I loved the cheap plugs.

The Miz talked to WWE.com about not being on Summerslam. He's got to be part of the show, right? WWE could certainly have done a better job adding other matches to the event on Raw.

Talk about your "on again, off again" relationships: Leroy Parks and Colin Cassady are back on the FCW roster page. Cameron Lynn, however, is not despite working at least one FCW house show in the recent past.

Raw did a 3.1 on Monday night. They had to have hoped for better than that with who all was featured there.

The following is a spoiler for a return to TNA on an upcoming addition of Impact Wrestling:
Ric Flair was used at one of the recent tapings of the show. He'll appear on the show either this week or next week.

C.M. Punk was on the radio with former WCW commentator Mark Madden recently. His streak of solid interviews continues. I can see the criticisms of Rock's promos. He's in that tough position of needing to change things up, but not abandoning the sure-fire crowd pleasing lines.

Finally, WWE.com has an article about what Michelle McCool's been up to since leaving WWE. Nothing really groundbreaking.

That's it for Tuesday's news. More to come tomorrow. Thanks for reading!

No comments:

Post a Comment