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Gene Snisky (Snitsky), 43, a former WWE wrestler, is currently working as a bodyguard for
baseball star Alex Rodriguez (who was good friends with Konnan at one point growing up in
Florida). This leads to the obvious choke that if somebody gets to Rodriguez, Snitsky can say,
“It’s not my fault.”
Rick & Scott Steiner worked over the weekend as a tag team for Dreamwave Wrestling on
7/13 in LaSalle, IL, winning a four-way match.
Robert Maillet, the former Kurrgan in WWF, will have a regular role as the lead villain in an
FX TV show called “The Master.” Guillermo Del Toro is overseeing the series. He had cast
Maillet in the movie “Pacific Rim.”
Roddy Piper was in another TV show over the weekend, appearing on the show “The
Haunting of,” on the Biography Channel, claiming he had been haunted by visits from Adrian
Adonis, a rival of his who died in a 1988 auto accident. He was visibly upset on TV, talking
about how Adonis was like a brother to him. Piper and Adonis most famously worked at
WrestleMania III in a hair vs. hair match, but they were also together in Oregon in the late
70s and Los Angeles as few years earlier. The first time I can recall them working together
was in Los Angeles doing this unbelievably lame angle when Piper’s gimmick was that he
was doing illegal hypnosis (seriously) and he was going to hypnotize Keith Franks (the name
Adonis was using, his real name was Keith Franke) into quitting smoking. During the show,
Piper was with a psychic who did this meeting with him saying she could feel the presence of
someone with the letter O in his name who fell from a high place, and Piper quickly said
Owen Hart, someone with the letter C (Piper said Curt Hennig) and a friend of his name
Keith (Adonis).
Saboor told Brian Fritz that the talk of a WWE Hall of Fame at the location that is now NBA
City in Orlando at Universal was false. Those at the park have been saying it for weeks, but
those in WWE have denied it.
Regarding talks of Dave Bautista, 44, returning, there was a report and we checked around on
it. Two different sources have indicated there have been talks, although I don’t know how
recent or serious they are, which only makes sense since HHH was pretty much Bautista’s
mentor as a wrestler. But he’s not coming back any time soon. If he does come back, it would
probably be in early 2014 for Mania season, and one person noted he’s not going to do that if
he’s got anything going on for early next year in movies, because that’s his line of work and
priority now. But he has said in the past he’s up for one last run, and those in the company
believe at same point that is likely to happen. Bautista is currently in England filming
Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy,” in the role of Drax the Destroyer, and will be there for
some time. It was described as something that may happen, but it is not something that is in
plans. As far as he himself, on Twitter, he said, “Not that it wouldn’t be nice, just don’t want
anyone to buy into bullshit rumors. I haven’t talked to Hunter. And I’m tied down for a
while.” He has made it clear if he was to come back, it would only be for WWE. TNA made
a play for him when Flair was working there but it never even came close. The thing is, the
comeback for Mania stuff, that before was limited to Dwayne Johnson and Jericho, can get
out of hand. There were actually complaints about Johnson, which was ridiculous since he
moved the needle significantly the last three years, and in the current top three matches, at
this point five slots will be taken by non-full timers not including potential returns of Jericho,
not even factoring Batista. Batista could fit in given Rock and Austin are both far from locks
for next year. But if one, let alone both, are on the show, I wonder if it would the right year
for Batista without making the guys like Punk, Bryan, Orton, and really everyone but Cena
(who is a lock for a top match no matter who is brought back) really seem secondary on the
biggest show. Then again, at Batista’s age, if he wants one last run, I don’t know how many
more years you want to wait.
A story in Forbes estimated Dwayne Johnson’s movie income over the past 12 months at $46
million, making him the fifth highest among all actors in Hollywood. That would not include
the estimated $3 million that is in the neighborhood of what he would have earned for
promotional work and appearing in Royal Rumble and Elimination Chamber, let alone
WrestleMania, where all the details haven’t been broken down and with the big increase in
revenue, it may be impossible to even garner an estimate on.
Rudy Charles, a longtime referee in TNA, was hired as a referee for NXT.
Steve Austin, regarding WrestleMania, in an interview on XM radio’s Busted Open show
said, “Oh, I’m healthy enough. My knees (are) coming around just fine. Its better than it’s
ever been because I’ve been doing my due diligence on my rehab. I’ve got two new
ligaments. Everything else is pain free. I’m still in shape, been working out harder than I’ve
ever worked out. But here’s the deal. When you’re gonna try to commit to do a WrestleMania
30, you’re looking really at, at least a two or three month commitment, if not four. So you
know you’re talking about taking everything else off the table. I can still do my podcast, but
take everything else off the table and focus specifically on that task to do it the way I would
do it, to do it the way Stone Cold Steve Austin would do it, at 120 percent. Because to go out
there and try to perform at 85 to 90 percent because you didn’t prep enough, that would be
bogus, that would be BS, that would be letting the crowd down. And that would be
representing the Stone Cold Steve Austin that I know and love to a degree that is not
acceptable. So, when you throw a legitimate, real deal offer down on the table, and say let’s
talk, then we’ll talk. But until then, conjecture.” He said he likes Punk, the way he handles his
business and how he works in the ring, but wants him to become more of a mainstream star,
and would like to see him lay things in during his matches and work more physically.”Other
than that, I like everything about the cat.” Regarding a match, he said, “I’m not lobbying for a
match. If the stars lined up, then it would happen. But it’s going to take a lot for those stars to
line up. No sense in beating a dead horse. To think about it is one thing. To actually go out,
come to terms and go through the business prep and actually accomplish a match, it’s a whole
different ball game and a major process.” Next year’s Mania would be 11 years since Austin
last did a match. WWE has an interest in him doing the show, if he wants it and can get
cleared (he may feel fine, Edge feels fine but Edge can’t get cleared due to neck problems
and Austin’s neck was in rough enough shape at the end that he retired on his own, as
opposed to Edge where the doctors examined him and made the decision). I don’t want to say
working idea, because that’s too strong a statement, but a working idea for next year’s Mania
main event is Austin vs. HHH, with the control of the company at stake, with Austin
representing Vince. That would indicate HHH ends up as the heel because no way Austin
comes back and is not the babyface. If that’s the idea, we’re talking a double turn since the
simmering stuff so far as been HHH as the face (getting the face jokes in and being the one
who says it doesn’t matter what I think, it’s all about business and what the fans want) and
Vince as the heel (backing Vickie Guerrero, hiring Brad Maddox because he’s mad and
punishing the fans for not seeing Vickie’s talents).
At one point Undertaker & Kane vs. The Shield was a potential SummerSlam match,
stemming from the angle where The Shield put Undertaker through the table with the tripleteam
power bomb. However, Undertaker was either injured in that angle legitimately, or the
angle was done because he was scheduled for shoulder surgery. Either way, he’s recovering
from shoulder surgery now and won’t be at SummerSlam and it’s doubtful he’ll be around
until his usual pre-Mania return. His shoulder issues are pretty bad at this stage of the game.
Mysterio is doing stem cell treatment to regenerate his knee ligaments under Dr. James
Andrews. The treatment will enable him to avoid major surgery and he is now being targeted
to return in about three months.
The reason Tamina Snuka hasn’t been around is because she’s in Hungary working on the
“Hercules” movie as Dwayne Johnson was able to get her a role in it.
_________________ Drop In wrote: I'm picturing a 12 year old Bob Loblaw bitching out a Randy Savage Wrestling Buddy for botching his finisher. Also envisioning Bob Loblaw getting bitched at for lighting the living room table on fire for said finisher.
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