WWE til SummerFest

Hope Kidd is alright. Not a good start for Joe if Kidd is legit hurt.

Not a good start for Joe.






– According to the WON, Tyson Kidd’s injury that he suffered during his dark match with Samoa Joe was a spinal cord injury. The site reports that Kidd received medical attention after the match was over.

WWE has a new policy trying to keep injuries secretive, and Kidd’s injury appears to be one of those WWE didn’t want getting out. Kidd expects to make a full recovery and hopes to be able to avoid surgery, though there’s no timetable for a return.

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Tokyo Sports reporting that Chris Jericho will take on Neville at the July 4th Network Special

Is the thread talking about SummerFest down by the lake front?

Oh.....who cares then.

That reminds me.  I need to go into Wisconsin sports radio threads.  

In an interview with PWF Empire Live, former Tough Enough contestant Luke Robinson (who lost in the finals to Andy Leavine) spoke about the rumors that he did gay porn and his belief that some in WWE are homophobic. Here are highlights:

On the rumors that he did gay porn: “About two weeks before we were flown to Florida for the FCW taping, I get a call from the executive producer. He goes ‘Who’s Donnie Drake? What’s this Donnie Drake stuff?’ After college, I worked for two companies that market what they call ‘custom videos to a homosexual audience.’ I’m fully-clothed in normal wrestling gear, there’s no sex acts, no nudity, (just suggestive holds, nothing that you couldn’t see on Monday Night RAW). They wanted attractive guys with muscles and they market it to a homosexual audience. I put it on my background check … it wasn’t a secret. I never compromised my morals or values. You know when you’re a babyface selling? You’re crawling up the heel, using his kneepads and tights to pull yourself up. Someone made a crude photoshop picture that got passed around… (on the internet it got distorted to ‘Luke did gay porn’).”

On homophobia in WWE: “(A buddy of Luke’s) was trying out in FCW, he was down there when John Laurinaitis was down there. (A couple of weeks after the Tough Enough finale, people were asking) ‘What happened to that Luke Robinson kid from Tough Enough?’ My buddy called me and said the direct quote from John Laurinaitis was ‘We don’t need any of that homo sh*t here…’ That was four years ago, and obviously you have Darren Young now. Now they use some of this PR stuff in a positive light to paint the picture that they’re a very philanthropic company. Stephanie McMahon’s admitted in an interview with Forbes that ‘the future of marketing is philanthropy’. I’m not saying it’s not wonderful that they promote the anti-bullying and Make A Wish, but the fact is there’s a lot of bullying and bad things that go on behind the stage.”

On Ariane/Cameron getting hired out of all the season five contestants: “For the most part (WWE) does not want people who like wrestling. They don’t want you to be too much of a mark, too starstruck. They love it if you don’t want to be there. I almost feel like they get off on it… if you don’t want or care about wrestling. I think it’s because they know that they can either mold you, or you’ll be a sheep. You don’t really care, it’s like ‘Whatever. I’ll do whatever you want me to do. I just want to be on TV.'”

On not winning Tough Enough: “I wouldn’t change a thing. Not winning Tough Enough, in the end, ended up being one of the biggest blessing in disguise in my life. I don’t believe that things happen for a reason; I believe the happiest people make a reason for that to have happened. I don’t believe that I was meant to lose Tough Enough. I think my life would have been great if I had won it, but instead I had to find a reason for myself to have lost. What I ended up creating is the business that I have now (Wolfpack Fitness).”

Carmella and Bayley did a live periscope of their drive from Orlando to an NXT show. What a fucking riot. Carmella without the accent is so much better than with the accent. She is so hot.

A good dude got a second chance and paid it forward by helping someone else out.


According to The Wrestling Observer, WWE World Champion Seth Rollins did a Q&A at the Wizard World convention in St. Louis, Missouri last week and during his talk he revealed Joey Mercury (one half of J&J security) saved his WWE career.

Rollins admitted he had developed a reputation for having a big ego during his time in WWE NXT, and he had a tremendous amount of heat on him as he believed he was the best performer in developmental and he became very frustrated with how much time he had to spend in NXT.

Rollins claimed he was almost fired by the company at one point until Mercury helped lay out everything for him and put him on the right path, which he says ended up saving his career in WWE.

I think a break is needed on occasion.  I would probably spend about fifteen minutes per week right now if it weren't for the board.  What don't you like about the Rollins booking?  I think he's a perfect chicken shit heel, which was desperately needed.  

I'm fine with with chicken shit heel, but its so over the top from the first 10 seconds of his matches. Its making him look weak at times. Triple H had his posse of goons, so did Orton, so did Hogan with the nWo, so did Heenan family members....but its just something about the way they are positioning him that I think it makes him look over the top weak. Those guys would still work most the match without constantly relying on outside help. Triple H would have a match with the Rock and have interference here or there, and maybe get a cheap win, but he wouldn't get non-stop attacking from 3-4 other allies during MOST of the match. Its just too much to the point where I feel like we barely even watch Rollins perform anymore. Rollins isn't a believeable champ, but he absolutely should be.
Other than that, the writing has given me no reason to tune in each week. I could come back a couple months from now and feel like I've basically missed nothing. Back in the day, you hated to miss a segment for fear you missed something amazing. Sure, it may have been an Al Snow vs Steve Blackman match I might have ended up missing, but I didn't want to take any chanced missing any part of the show. I think Roberts is being a bitch publicly but man, its hard to argue with his thoughts on what he saw when he was there.

Josh Matthews has always been a little cuntstain.

F him.