- Another source has confirmed that WWE decided to remove Kane's mask so he can be more identifiable when WWE Studios' begins promoting See No Evil 2 on TV. Kane will be working without the mask going forward.
Matt Hardy recently spoke with VOC Nation. Here are some highlights:
Being part of the birth of extreme wrestling: You can go back to the first TLC ladder match with Edge and Christian or even before that to the original Omega. Myself and my brother were two of the guys who wrote the dictionary definition of extreme wrestling. Once we got to the WWE and we got the chance to have the ladder matches and the cage matches, we took them to a different level. We opened up a lot of doors for a lot of smaller guys to do more athletic, interesting, and entertaining stuff.
Working for Tommy Dreamer at House of Hardcore: Tommy Dreamer is a genius promoter. He (does) truly what is best for business. He makes smart business decisions and he gives the fans what they want. House of Hardcore will blow away any of the other promotions on November 9.
Meeting and working with his wife, Reby Sky: Reby and I first spoke online after a fan introduced us via Twitter. Were having a blast together. Were newly married, we travel together, and were big on promoting ourselves and branding ourselves as SkyHard. Were enjoying being our own boss. Were very public people. Were both big tweeters, we love social media; we mesh very well. When it comes to oversharing, were both on the same page.
His future in wrestling: For so long, I felt like I was in a wrestling bubble. You (always fight) to move up a level, to be on tv, to be a champ, etc. Ive dropped all that right now, and I truly enjoy what Im doing right now. I dont want to be under contract. I dont deal with politics, I dont deal with stress, and Im having fun again. If it leads me back to Ring of Honor, or TNA, or WWE, then so be it; but thats not my end game.
The state of the wrestling business: Nothings extremely red hot or extremely stable right now. WWE is set; its not going anywhere its always going to be around. People will always complain, but they have so many corporate sponsors and nothing is going to happen with them. There is a lot of speculation about TNA right now, there are a lot of rumors going around; I dont know anything personally. In my opinion, the better TNA does, the better it is for business. Wrestling is a little hokey nowadays compared to what it should be, but thats because TV is so advanced. You cant insult viewers intelligence; you can go online and find out anything.
Guys that can carry the torch: John Cena is the modern day Hulk Hogan in many ways. He takes someones finish, he kicks out, and is almost indestructible. Its always the right guy, in the right place, at the right time. Take Stone Cold Steve Austin: He was an (average guy) in WCW, and he went to the WWE and was the right guy in the right place at the right time to become Stone Cold Steve Austin. Wrestling is still waiting for that next guy to change the direction, to change the business, and make things white hot again.
What will make wrestling boom again: The content needs to be more sophisticated stories that dont insult the viewers intelligence. The stories need to be more consistent. You cant insult the fans intelligence. With the power of the Internet, people know everything. If you insult peoples intelligence, theyll hit the off button on the remote and that will be it.
- Regarding TNA being for sale, Prowrestling.net is now reporting that there is indeed a person who has serious interest in TNA. This person is described as someone fans would know and someone that may surprise us. The party who is interested in buying TNA reportedly has money behind them and was described as intelligent. TNA doesn't necessarily have a "for sale" sign up but they are listening to this potential buyer and others. There are also rumors that a major celebrity may be interested in purchasing TNA.
- With Eric Bischoff out of the picture, TNA creative going forward will be in the hands of writers Matt Conway and Dave Lagana. The guys maneuvering the creative direction will be John Gaburick and Jeff Jarrett, who has had a lot more and more input as of late.
Former TNA knockout Roxxi announced that she will be retiring from professional wrestling. Her last match is scheduled to take place on December 6th, 2013 at the Lucky Promotions Pro Wrestling show in Clinton Massachusetts.
Serious potential candidate to purchase TNA Wrestling?
There are serious sale talks going on behind the scenes. After we reported it over the weekend, a lot of places ran with borderline ridiculous stories. What I can say at this point is that there is a potential buyer that has been looking at the company. Reps for the potential new ownership group have been at the offices. Talk of a potential sale has been going on for months, but has reached a serious enough point where things are at a significant stage. It is not entirely clear who will end up in power and run the company if and when the deal being negotiated goes through, and what percentage of the company, or if the entire company, is what is being negotiated.
One source with significant knowledge of what is going down said the new group is unlikely to get involved without owning a controlling interest. Also, regarding speculation in various media of names involved, all of the speculation is way off, that much I know. It doesn't appear Viacom has any interest in buying the company (even though TNA gets far better ratings than Bellator, it's not as valuable because it can't get the corporate sponsors or ad revenue) and the parties involved come from outside the pro wrestling industry. The people who have at least been negotiating the most seriously are not from Viacom. The people involved have been successful in a number of other businesses. Just my gut says they are buying it more as a television property with the idea that future rights fees as those number escalate for sports will make it valuable.
Title Change & Return at Tonight's WWE HIAC Posted by Steve Carrier on 10/27/2013 at 10:26 PM
- Kane returned to action at tonight's WWE Hell In a Cell pay-per-view, making the save for The Miz while Erick Rowan and Luke Harper of The Wyatt Family beat him down. Kane ended the segment by laying The Miz out with a chokeslam. Here is a photo:
- John Cena became the new World Heavyweight Champion at tonight's Hell In a Cell pay-per-view by defeating Alberto Del Rio.
Eric Bischoff Being Paid to Sit at Home Posted by Steve Carrier on 10/29/2013 at 01:37 PM
Dave Meltzer mentioned on the latest installment of Wrestling Observer Radio that Eric Bischoff was sent home and will get paid for the remainder of his contract, which is expires early next year. Meltzer also noted that Bischoff is out of power and is "gone."
"He wasn't at the PPV, [he] wasn't at the last TV, [he] won't be around," Meltzer said. "A lot of people are really happy on that one, Eric was not very well liked there. Eric got exposed... Eric was very lucky that he had some very smart people propping him up in the WCW days and those people aren't there now, and he got exposed on this run real bad."
Ik ben Boon Kenneth, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Sting.
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Ik ben geboren op 05/06/1989 en ben nu dus 34 jaar jong.
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