WWE 'Til Royal Rumble

I feel sorry for whomever put that list together.

Apparently Kofi, Big E & Woods re-debut this Friday on Smackdown instead of RAW next week like it said on the promo Monday.

I almost wish they were heels, but I know the tag division has more heel teams than faces. See them come out & act like they're saving the Usos or someone & then beat them down claiming it truly is a new day. Unfortunately that won't happen. Kinda be interesting to see how Kofi would act as a heel, but I think he's a face forever.

Or go completely Teddy Long 2002 when he did the racial stuff & have them be pissed they were overlooked for so long. It being ridiculous they had to return on Black Friday & had to dance in front of a choir and preach when all they wanted was an opportunity & never got it. Have them be super bitter & say it's a new day alright, because the Kofi, Big E & Woods you knew and loved is gone. They're not about the fans anymore, they're about making their own opportunities. That would never ever happen seeing as all the shit going down in the riots recently & race being a major issue.

I saw the Smackdown results though & nothing like that happens and they just have a normal match, lol.

Just fantasy heel booking before they get lost in the shuffle again.

So far WWE has announced Dean Ambrose vs Bray Wyatt in a TLC match and Kane vs. Ryback in a chairs match. Big Show vs. Erick Rowan is another match that is scheduled but has not been announced yet. That match will likely be a gimmick match too. WWE is also teasing Luke Harper vs. Dolph Ziggler for the Intercontinental title.

The main event that was talked about last week was John Cena vs. Seth Rollins vs. Randy Orton. That would likely be a TLC match too. Orton is scheduled to return any week now. They could hold off Randy Orton’s return for that show. Also, it looks like they’ll do another Nikki Bella vs. AJ Lee Divas title match for the TLC pay-per-view.

Roman Reigns, Brock Lesnar, and Rey Mysterio are all set to be regular names on WWE TV very soon.

News from WrestlingObserver.com was used in this post.

According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, the original plan for last Monday’s Raw was not the Daniel Bryan return. The site reports that the original plan was to do a segment with Vince McMahon and John Cena, which would have led to a period with no authority figure on the show for the night.

The current plan is to have weekly rotating General Managers, some of which may end up being celebrities.

I, for one, am eagerly looking forward to this.

Quick question I just had, with Steen debuting soon. Do you think he'll be able to still use the Package Piledriver?

I could be wrong, but I had thought WWE put a stop to the Piledriver a long time ago. Only times I've seen it used are by Cena a few times and of course the Tombstones.

Ryback doing anything in the ring is still more of a risk than a piledriver.

No chance.

This show dropped Wed night or Thursday morning so how is everyone pissed backstage when everyone is home for the holidays?

Found this elsewhere.


I love the story of the Big Show/Khali fight in Jericho's latest book.

Basically the Big Show was pissed at Khali because he kept stealing Show's "Hush the crowd and slap the chest" spot. After enough times, Show snapped and told him he was the shits and Khali's response was "You're the shits too, Bro" which Jericho thought was the funniest comeback ever. So they started slugging it out and Big Show tripped over some bags, Khali landed on top of him and it was broken up.

For anyone doubting CM Punk’s story about being cleared to get back in the ring over the phone by WWE’s doctor, well this isn’t the first time this has come up. Charlie Haas said similar things back in 2010 about Dr. Joseph Maroon. He is the WWE doctor from Pittsburgh that WWE uses for their talent. Here’s an excerpt from the story that was originally written at concussioninc.net.

In January of this year, Charlie Haas himself suffered a serious neck injury in WWE during a match with Drew McIntyre. As a lifelong amateur and pro, Haas knew all about neck injuries, but this one was different. He got an MRI, which showed “mild to moderate” herniation of two disks, the C-6 and the T-1. He was told to undergo physical therapy and, if that didn’t work, to consider major spinal fusion surgery.

Haas shipped the MRI images from his Dallas home to the Pittsburgh clinic of Dr. Joseph Maroon, WWE’s resident neurologist and medical director (who also works for the Pittsburgh Steelers and serves on the National Football League’s now-discredited concussion policy committee).

In his only remark to me that could be termed directly critical of WWE, Haas said, “Maroon told me, ‘You had a stinger . You’re good to go.’ And I’m thinking, ‘How can he make that diagnosis from Pittsburgh?’”

Haas had physical therapy but it didn’t take. On February 26, 2010, WWE cut him. He is a realist: he knows that he was always typecast as a “utility wrestler,’”technically skilled and able to make the top guys look good and to teach the younger guys how to work. As a non-main eventer, he was prone to release.

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Yesterday I noted that Charlie Haas was critical of Dr. Joseph Maroon with how he treated his injury. You can read more about that by clicking here.

Bob Holly is another wrestler that has been critical of WWE’s system and the way they handle injuries. In his book, The Hardcore Truth, Holly talks about what happened to him on the day Eddie Guerrero died. Holly said that he had a bump on his underarm that would not go away. Holly noted that when he got to Minneapolis he felt like he had the flu. He was checked out by WWE’s doctor Rios backstage and was told that he had a staph infection that spread to his forearm. Dr. Rios told John Laurinaitis that Holly needed to go to the hospital to get it taken care of because he was really sick. Laurinaitis, according to Holly’s book, said that he was needed on the overseas tour so he’d have to wait before going to the hospital. Holly said that Laurinaitis insisted that he go on the overseas tour even though Holly told him that he was “sick as hell.” Holly said, ” If I’d refused to go, they would have probably fired me. Maybe that’s how Eddie had felt.”

So Holly worked the tour and by the time they got to Germany his forearm got swollen up to twice its normal size. Dr. Rios tried to drain the infection but that didn’t help because the infection had already spread to the bone. Holly was hospitalized and learned that he had MRSA, which is what Punk had. Holly noted that surgery didn’t work and he was put on Vancoycin, which is a last resort antibiotic. Luckily it worked but doctors told him that his arm would have been amputated if the Vancoycin didn’t work. Holly says he was told, “That man [Laurinaitis] is the reason you ended up in the hospital and nearly lost your arm.” Holly also said that “Because they’d gone against Dr. Rios’s orders, the company was very liable and they knew that they had set themselves up for a huge lawsuit. I could tell because they were kissing my ass the whole time I was off, telling me not to worry about anything and that they’d get me anything I needed.”

I believe Punk 100% in regards to this medical stuff. The fact WWE didn't even defend the doctor he went after in their press release only made the matter worse. As a shareholder, I will be asking specific questions around this in the Q4 review call.

I really think Stephanie McMahon is the savior this company needs, but not the one we will get for a long time. Correct me if I'm wrong, but has anyone ever publicly blasted Stephanie? If anything, I hear former workers say nothing but good things it mention she's the only one with half a brain left.

Now I see the tracks this train is taking...........