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Old 08-18-2016, 10:37 PM   #225
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Originally Posted by Cagesideseats
WWE Champion Dean Ambrose picked up some backstage heat from his recent "Stone Cold Podcast" with Steve Austin on the WWE Network, according to The Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

The heat didn't come from any of Ambrose's answers, avoiding questions or for any of the awkward moments during the interview, but because he was being negative on creative and being negative on creative means being negative on Triple H and Vince McMahon.

Officials also were not happy about Ambrose publicly talking about how Brock Lesnar didn't want to do anything for their match at WrestleMania 32.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Eva Marie was suspended by WWE for violating the company’s Wellness Policy. WWE has confirmed the story but did not release the specifics of the violation. No word on which woman will replace her in the 6 woman tag team match.
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Nikki Bella was cleared today to return to the ring, although not in a full-time capacity, after her neck surgery, according to Pro Wrestling Sheet.
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Ad Age did a story on SummerSlam sponsorships which include Cricket Wireless, KFC, Jolly Rancher, DiGiiorno and Mountain Dew. The story claimed a lot of stats, one of which was that WWE broadcasts to nearly 13 million U.S. wrestling fans a week. I don't know where 2.9 (Raw viewership) + 2.5 (Smackdown viewership) and perhaps another 1.1 (Network subscribers), most of who are the same, ads up to 13.
Link to the story: http://www.adweek.com/news/advertisi...bonanza-173024

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Originally Posted by PWI
PWInsider.com has confirmed with several sources that WWE released Radomir Petkovic, 29, who performed in NXT as King Konstantine, today. He had been signed since April 2015 and was a former amateur wrestler from Serbia who had won a number of medals in The European championship and The Mediterranean Games.
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Renee Young noted on social media she's getting her ankle evaluated as she may have sprained or broken it.
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And regarding the double standard, Lesnar’s line on the 8/15 Raw when confronting Slater and saying, “I don’t give a shit about your kids,” which was bleeped out wasn’t scripted. If it was Joey Styles who said it, or anyone underneath (Brad Maddox was fired for less for using the word prick in a dark match), they’d be gone yesterday.

As of press time, Lesnar appeared to be in no trouble nor has anything been said about it. Lesnar’s contract is unique as there are provisions regarding what he can and can’t be disciplined for, plus there is always the double standard for what a Cena or a Lesnar can get away with compared to everyone else
Even Orton got away with going off script from his interview on the last RAW. https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc...hat_interview/

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There is talk of doing a WWE Network Takeover special when they tour Australia/New Zealand in 2017
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What’s notable is that on this NXT show, there is not one wrestler on the show who actually got their start in NXT. A few, Scott Dawson, Dash Wilder and No Way Jose, were all Carolinas independent guys for several years who came into NXT with no national name, and the same goes for Bayley, who started on California indies years before coming to NXT, but came in without a name. Ember Moon didn’t have a huge name on the indie scene but also had years of experience and was well known by woman wrestling fans before she ever signed. The rest of the wrestlers were genuine stars on the indie scene, the international scene or with major promotions. Next year, when WWE tells investors how NXT turned out eight new wrestlers, or whatever the number will be, and it’s due to NXT, when those people are Samoa Joe, Bobby Roode or Shinsuke Nakamura, it’s kind of a funny thing
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Bill Goldberg appeared at Gamescom 2016 in Cologne, Germany and had some interesting things to say about a possible WWE return and Brock Lesnar. Here are a couple of highlights:

Goldberg said that he should be on the cover because he “killed the guy (Brock Lesnar) that’s on the cover.”

When fans started changing, “please come back,” Goldberg said that he’ll see what he can do.

Goldberg mentioned that he’s headed to New York City, and that’s all he can say about that. He said that you can never say never, and even at his age he has no issue putting his gear on and “ripping people’s faces off again.”

Goldberg was asked point blank when he’ll be back in WWE. Goldberg said that he honestly has no idea and doesn’t know if it will ever happen.

When asked about Brock Lesnar, Goldberg said that Brock knows how he feels about him. He said that they’ve been in the ring and while they didn’t have the best match, Brock knows his power. He said that’s what is missing is someone giving Brock the fight like he gives to everyone else. Goldberg says that Brock knows what would happen, he knows where he lives, and the same thing will happen to Brock that happened at WrestleMania XX.
Link to the event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc6EIcrKBoU

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Originally Posted by Observer
During a Matt Hardy in character interview on Chris Jericho’s podcast, he said he got a lot of his ideas from “Game of Thrones,” saying Jeff Hardy being called an “Obsolete Mule” is based on Theon, who was renamed “Reek” upon becoming a tortured slave and his talking about the “7 Golds” is also from that show
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Right now there is a good chance, but not a definite, that Alberto Del Rio will be leaving when he’s legally able. He is believed to have significant offers from Combate Americas and from TNA on the table, but there’s no word on anything from Lucha Underground (and he wouldn’t be able to do TNA and Lucha Underground as far as television goes) or AAA (which he could do with TNA, or at least could have before). He could make good money and have more control of his schedule, and would be pushed as a main guy outside of WWE, but he’s not going to be able to make anywhere close to what his current WWE deal was on the outside.
Update to recent Del Rio status news.

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Regarding Joey Styles, it absolutely was his interview that got him fired. The reaction was that he made it clear he didn’t care what the higher ups thought, and that’s not exactly encouraged there. There was an implied message sent to everyone by the move about what not to say in a public forum, that he “flaunted” using terms that aren’t supposed to be used, that he had talked about it being nonsense that certain wrestlers don’t get pushed because of their size, that he knocked talent for doing too many dives (the office probably wouldn’t care but WWE wrestlers don’t like to be told that from non-wrestlers), has said the web staff is underappreciated by management, knocked the name of the Universal title as well as the Reigns comments (which to me were very political and nice about everything) but just giving credence to the idea the Reigns push is a discussion subject I guess isn’t viewed well.
Update to recent Joey Styles firing news.

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WWE has attempted to trademark various terms this past week, one of which was Colin Cassady, which is a surprise since they never call Big Cass by that name anymore. WWE also attempted to trademark “Lady Balls,” which is the idea of building a merchandise brand around Stephanie McMahon, but they were turned down with the idea that you simply can’t trademark “Lady.





Some other sheet news includes:
  • Recent updates to the Hogan-Gawker lawsuit includes Gawker being sold to Univision and Gawker itself shutting down while the rest of its associated sites will remain online.
  • CBS Sports had a recent interview with Enzo and Big Cass: http://www.cbssports.com/general/new...test-tag-team/
  • James Storm recently teased he's coming back to NXT after his current TNA contract expired and not wanting to extend it due to backstage issues there.
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