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  • Original Plans For Awesome Truth, Punk vs. Miz Feud

    The Miz

    Prior to R-Truth’s failure of a recent WWE drug test, there were plans for Awesome Truth to capture the tag team titles from Air Boom (Evan Bourne and Kofi Kingston) after Survivor Series.

    Evan Bourne’s suspension put those plans on hold. After R-Truth also failed a Wellness test, those plans were scrapped entirely.

    As previously reported, it’s believed that both Evan Bourne and R-Truth violated the Wellness policy by smoking synthetic marijuana together at a party several weeks ago. WWE suspended Bourne almost immediately while allowing R-Truth to remain active until after his main event match at Survivor Series – which rubbed many superstars the wrong way.

    The real winner in the whole situation will be the Miz. According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, the former WWE champion and WrestleMania 27 headliner is headed back into the WWE title picture – with a possible title shot at the Royal Rumble.

    A Miz vs. CM Punk feud over the WWE title? Yes, please!

  • John Morrison Done With WWE Next Week, TNA Interested

    John Morrison

    After almost a decade with WWE, RAW superstar John Morrison’s days as a WWE superstar are almost over. His final scheduled appearance with WWE will be next Monday’s RAW Supershow.

    According a source, Morrison’s WWE contract actually expired over the summer – and he signed a short-term extension that is now up.

    Morrison has been unhappy with his role in WWE for quite some time – and the feeling is apparently mutual, with WWE not making much of an effort to keep the Prince of Parkour.

    Word going around is that TNA is very interested in bringing in Morrison and Melina as a couple. With his star power coming off a lengthy run in WWE,  TNA would make Morrison the centerpiece of the company’s X-Division. No word yet if Morrison has spoke with TNA yet, directly or in-directly.

    At to whether Morrison would be interested in TNA, we’ve heard conflicting stories. Morrison has been dealing with nagging back and neck injuries and will likely take time off to heal.

    One reliable source said Morrison is interested in leaving the wrestling business entirely and getting into acting.

    We Want To Know: What do you think about Morrison leaving WWE? Did he reach his full potential – or could WWE have gotten much more out of him? Would he be a good fit in TNA?

  • Ratings Are In For Monday’s RAW Supershow

    Monday’s post-Survivor Series WWE RAW Supershow drew a 3.20 cable rating with 4,723,000 viewers.

    This week’s show did hours of 3.24 and 3.17. As you can see, the trend continued this week of viewers tuning out from one hour to the other.

    Hour one averaged 4.76 million viewers while hour two averaged 4.68 million viewers.

    This is the 15th straight week that RAW’s final hour has dropped from the first.

  • *SPOILERS* WWE SmackDown Tapings Results

    Not so fast … Click to enlarge

    WWE taped Tuesday’s WWE SmackDown tapings from Wilkes Barre, PA. Credit to pwinsider.com for this report:

    WWE SmackDown Spoilers (Airing This Friday)

    – Mark Henry comes out on a crutch and cuts promo saying he will fight through his leg injury. Big Show comes out. H tells Henry that what he just did to him, Henry did to Show. Henry called Show the world’s largest loser. Show laid out Henry with KO punch. Daniel Bryan came out and cashed in MITB. We have a new champion.

    Not so fast. Teddy Long comes out and says Henry was not cleared to compete. He takes Title off of Bryan and gives it back to Henry. This set up a Fatal 4 Way for the Number one contendership. The winner faces Henry for Title next week, then winner of that match faces Big Show.

    – Hunico beat Justin Gabriel.

    – Alicia Fox joins commentary. Divas tag match. Beth & Natty vs. AJ and Kaitlyn. Very quick. Natalya wins with The Sharpshooter on AJ.

    – Zack Ryder was backstage playing the WWE ’12 video game. Sheamus comes in. Comedy ensues. They are tagging tonight vs. Dolph Ziggler and Jack Swagger. Now Long is on the screen and getting heavy boos. Henry comes in and is pissed about defending next week. Funny stuff from both. Long makes it a steel cage match for title next week.

    – Ted DiBiase vs. Heath Slater. At the bell, Jinder Mahal pops up on screen speaking a foreign language. He is talking to DiBiase. He self translates saying that Ted turned his back on his wealthy family. The match begins while he’s talking.  The crowd is not into this match at all. It’s almost as if we haven’t been given a reason to care about either of these two in years. It’s a shame, they are working their asses off. Decent match. Ted DiBiase goes over clean.

    – Cody Rhodes cuts promo backstage. He talks about throwing water at an announcer. Then says he’s gonna win the 4-way.

    – The Fatal 4-way is up next. Randy Orton vs. Daniel Bryan vs. Wade Barrett vs. Cody Rhodes.

    – Daniel Bryan wins when Cody taps. Cody did a post match beatdown on Bryan until Orton made the save. That was the end of smackdown.

  • Video: Melina Talks About Her WWE Release

    Former WWE diva Melina talks to Diva Dirt about her WWE release backstage at WSU Breaking Barriers 2.

  • Breaking News: R-Truth SUSPENDED By WWE

    WWE has announced that RAW superstar R-Truth has been suspended due to a violation of the company’s Wellness Policy. The official statement from the WWE website reads:

    “In accordance with the Talent Wellness Program, WWE has suspended Ron Killings (R-Truth) for 30 days effective immediately for his first violation of the company’s policy.”

    This corroborates a weekend report here about one of the participants in the Survivor Series main event recently failing a drug test.

    At the end of RAW, The Miz turned on R-Truth and delivered a vicious beat-down on his former tag team partner. Now, we know why.

  • Booker T & Cody, Layla Returning, JR On Young Talent

    – After undergoing knee surgery back in May for a torn ACL and MCL, WWE Diva Layla is almost ready to return to action. Layla took part in a live chat on the WWE website on Monday night and recently won a poll on the site about who should be the next challenger to Beth Phoenix’s Divas title.

    – After Cody Rhodes threw a cup of water in Booker T’s face on RAW, Booker wrote the following on Twitter regarding the incident:

    “What’s up universe hope all is well, just wanted to speak on that little drama that went down tonight, I’m really not what’s the problem is. Maybe Cody and I can sit down on FRIDAY NIGHT SMACKDOWN and talk about it we’ll see stay tuned…”

    As we’ve been reporting recently, Booker T has been training for a final run as an active superstar – and will be feuding with Cody.

    – Jim Ross feels that the younger WWE talents need to be more aggressive. He tweeted:

    “Punk-Ziggler 1 of better matches on Raw in good while. Young, WWE talent needs 2 get HUNGRY/AGGRESSIVE. 2 many young guys on cusp of elevating in WWE aren’t aggressive enuf in their total approach 2 game WWE. Need squeaky wheels.”

  • Trish Wants Kharma, Zack Ryder Video, Trending Terms

    – Former WWE Diva Trish Stratus spoke to WWE.com this week to promote the new WWE ’12 video game – and talked about a dream feud with [pregnant Diva] Kharma.  Trish said:

    “Oh, completely. When she debuted, I think it was one of the first times since I retired where I would have dropped it all to go back and step into the ring with her. That would have been an epic rivalry. I would have loved to have wrestled her. Hopefully, she’ll come back so the WWE Universe can see more of her.”

    – WWE’s push with Twitter is paying off – because WWE had almost 30 wrestling-related phrases trending worldwide during the show. WWE’s influence over Twitter is so strong that even phrases like Brodus Clay and Little Jimmy which weren’t mentioned on RAW were still trending.  WWE’s trending terms included:

    CM Punk, Booker T, Punk vs. Ziggler, Zack Ryder, Alberto Del Rio, Kevin Nash, Jack Swagger, The Great White, Sheamus, Santino Marella, Cody Rhodes, Dolph Ziggler, Vickie Guerrero, GTS, Alicia Fox, Masked Kane, Big Show, Wade Barrett, Randy Orton, Barrett Barrage, Kofi Kingston, Brodus Clay, Fruity Pebbles, John Cena, The Miz, Awesome Truth and Little Jimmy.

    – WWE has released a new video of Zack Ryder from after RAW. Ryder says he’s bummed about his submission loss to Alberto Del Rio on RAW, but is excited that he now has more Twitter followers than Kelly Kelly. Here’s the video:

  • The Miz & R-Truth Comment On Their Breakup On RAW

    At the end of Monday’s RAW, we saw The Miz unleash a brutal attack on his former tag team partner, R-Truth.

    The former members of Awesome Truth wrote the following on Twitter last night regarding their team’s dissolution:

    The Miz: “So in order to trend all I had to do is SCF Truth? #ThatsWhatsUp”

    R-Truth: “Getting up to go get checked out,,but having balancing problem…can’t think straight…”

    The WWE website has a new video of The Miz up after attacking R-Truth on last night’s RAW Supershow. Miz says he did what he did because he’s tired of people getting in his way and slowing him down.

    As we wrote here on the site late on Monday night – Awesome Truth’s breakup comes right after a report that one of the participants in the Survivor Series main event recently failed a drug test. For more on that story, click here.

  • Video: Ultimate Warrior Launching New Reality Show

    WWE legend the Ultimate Warrior is launching a new reality TV show that will feature the Warrior motivating training the mind, body and spirit of everybody people. The show synopsis reads:

    “Sports Entertainment Living Legend THE ULTIMATE WARRIOR leads an extreme motivational mind/body/soul work-out combining intensity, passion, comedy and inspiration. The first two special guests are influential, cutting edge bands from today’s hard rock scene.”

    Below is the official trailer for the new show, which contains some colorful language:

  • Miz &R-Truth’s Breakup, Title Match Next Week, WWE 12

    – It was announced on Monday’s RAW that former WWE champion Alberto Del Rio will get his rematch against new champion CM Punk next week on RAW.

    – At the end of Monday’s RAW, we saw the breakup of the Awesome Truth duo – as The Miz viciously attacked R-Truth and left him laid out. According to a WWE source, there’s a “big reason” behind the beatdown on R-Truth.

    This comes on the heels of this report yesterday about one of the participants in Sunday’s Survivor Series main event recently failing a WWE Wellness test.

    — WWE ’12 has broken the record for the most pre-ordered WWE video game ever. The previous record holder was SmackDown vs. RAW 2008, which was released on six platforms. WWE ’12 is only available on three platforms.

  • What Happened After RAW, No Jonah Hill Or Brodus Clay

    — Despite being advertised as the special guest star of Monday’s WWE RAW, actor Jonah Hill did not appear. No word yet on why he was not there.

    — Also advertised for RAW but not there was Brodus Clay. This is the third straight week where he’s been advertised and hasn’t returned.

    Recently, the “Michael Cole Challenge” was scheduled for RAW and was delayed three weeks as well.

    — After Monday’s WWE RAW Supershow from Hershey, PA went off the air, there was a six-man tag-team match featuring Dolph Ziggler, Jack Swagger and The Miz vs. Randy Orton, John Cena and The Big Show.

    Cena took Miz out early in the match with a punch. Swagger came to the ring and was immediately hit with a WMD from The Big Show and then an Attitude Adjustment from John Cena. Orton then hit Ziggler with a RKO to send the crowd home happy. All the faces celebrated to their own music.

  • New Promo Video For Brock Lesnar In WWE ’12

    Record-Breaking Sales For THQ’s Newest WWE Video Game as The Baddest Man on the Planet Returns To Sports Entertainment … at least in the gaming world!

    The news for WWE ’12 is huge. THQ’s brand new video game can already boast having the largest pre-sales of any WWE video game in history.

    The game, which features Randy Orton on the box cover, also features Macho Man Randy Savage as a special guest character and the return of Brock Lesnar to WWE video games.

    As part of the hype, Lesnar’s longtime friend Paul Heyman interviewed him and now comes the newest video, which is the promotional video for the game going on sale. Check out this new promo video hyping Brock Lesnar in WWE ’12, courtesy of Paul Heyman’s Looking 4 Larry agency:

  • Video: Kane Returning With His Mask?

    WWE aired a promo on RAW hyping the return of Kane ..

    From the looks of it – it appears we might see the return of Kane’s mask.

  • Video: Cryptic “It Begins” Promo From RAW

    On Monday’s RAW, when WWE was showing one of the Twitter on-screen graphics, the image got fuzzy and briefly showed a URL to a Youtube channel – “It Begins 2012.”

    The URL revealed a cryptic video of a young student talking about something big occurring on Monday, January 2nd, 2012 – when RAW is live from Memphis, TN.

    The boy who was narrating the video said:

    “Come my people and shut thy doors about thee. For a power should come to punish the meek for their inequity. For on the second day of 2012, a familiar force shall arrive to claim what is his. And it will be the end of the world as you know it.”

    The text “It Begins.” then appeared.

    Here’s the video – what do you think it could be for?

    COMMENT BELOW and tell us what “It Begins” signifies.

  • CM Punk Shoots On The Rock For Being A Diva

    During a recent interview with the New York Daily News to hype the new WWE ’12 video game, CM Punk made some controversial comments about The Rock – and his “Hollywood megastar” ego.

    “You know, the thing about that is, he’s not around. It doesn’t help morale when the guy goes right from his limo to the dressing room to the dressing room to the ring. He’s very bourgeois Hollywood.”

    Punk thinks The Rock is back to help his own career and make sure WrestleMania is a success – without allowing any of WWE’s younger stars to benefit from his return.

    “He came back, he did WWE Raw after that. He said he was never gonna leave. And the next time we saw him is a month later. Yeah, it does bother me. A little hello would have been nice. He could have run by with his own entourage.”

    According to Punk, The Rock has made little effort to interact with the rest of WWE – and it’s caused a lot of resentment in the WWE locker room.

    When asked if Rock was a diva, Punk said that would be an insult to WWE’s Divas.

    “I can’t say that. At least the WWE Divas say hi to me in the halls.”

  • WWE Criticised For CM Punk Angle, WWE Stock Snubbed

    – Chicago Tribune writer Luis Gomez is not happy with how WWE has handled the CM Punk angle, including his win at Survivor Series last night. In his weekly column, Gomez noted that Punk’s title win didn’t have a big buzz like it did when he won earlier in the summer. He also noted that the angle was hurt by WWE bringing him back so soon. Gomez said:

    “WWE’s best storyline in years has already been botched, and many of the casual fans who came back because of Punk have gone back to watching football on Mondays.”

    – Financial website SeekingAlpha.com is reccomending that investors avoid WWE stock because the product is “dated.” SeekingAlpha wrote:

    “WWE’s product is dated when compared to the various mixed martial arts formats available to the public. Overall weakness in the economy has not been helping matters, either.” Jim Cramer recently described WWE as a ‘wasting asset.’ I agree with that, and with Cramer’s opinion that there is no reason to own WWE. Avoid it.”

  • Triple H Talks About WWE’s Twitter Obsession, Vince & More

    Triple H was interviewed by The Morning Buzz over the weekend and spoke about WWE’s recent obsession with Twitter, working closely with Vince McMahon at WWE headquarters and his appearance this summer on Shawn Michaels’ hunting show.

    Regarding WWE’s working relationship with Twitter, Triple H said,  “You have to be at the cutting edge of that technology at all time. Kids today, they don’t watch TV like they did before. TV is almost a background device now. They’re on their phone, on their laptop, on their ipod… so that social media stuff becomes so important… Twitter and YouTube and Facebook are all just avenues to keep people involved in your product.”

    HHH went on to say that while the company is embracing Twitter as a positive, equally it can also be a negative. He revealed that just the other day during a talent meeting he told everyone to be careful with their Tweets. “I said, ‘Guys, it’s not like your texting somebody. You’re putting it out to the entire world. If you wouldn’t say it on TV, don’t say it on Twitter.’”

    He cited NFL football players making stupid comments every other week, and said the catch twenty-two is controlling it.

    When asked about his new office role and working closely with Vince, he said he’s learned over time that when Vince is going nuts and yelling at people then it’s OK, but when you come up to him and he’s silent, then that’s very bad. Hunter also talked about his relationship with The Rock describing it as “unique” with “professional tension and weirdness.” He says they get along great today but aren’t buddies and never hung out back in the day. “We had such a professional rivalry, no matter what we did, it’s like screw him, I can do better than that.”

    He closed the interview by talking about Shawn Michaels and appearing on his hunting show earlier this year. He joked:

    “Shawn has gone from The Heartbreak Kid to being like Ted Nugent. He’s out there with high powered weapons, with the one googley eye, just shooting every furry thing that wanders by. He’s been dying for me to go on [his show]… I just don’t get sitting in a tree saying nothing waiting for a deer to wander by so I can cap it in the head… We used crossbows [to catch Alligator’s] and much to Shawn’s chagrin I caught the biggest Alligator, but yeah it was an awesome experience and I had a lot of fun.”

  • Video Of Big Show’s Top Rope Elbow Drop From MSG

    Check out this exclusive video we shot at Sunday’s Survivor Series pay-per-view from New York City ..The Big Show channels Macho Man Randy Savage at Survivor Series 2011 – delivering a devastating top rope elbow smash to World Heavyweight champion Mark Henry. Who says big men can’t fly?

  • RAW Preview For Tonight: Jonah Hill, Nash-Triple H

    Tonight’s WWE RAW Supershow will take place from Hershey, Pennsylvania at the GIANT Center with the fallout from Survivor Series. Actor Jonah Hill will be the special guest host tonight.

    WWE is teasing a confrontation between Triple H and Kevin Nash. Triple H has been off television for several weeks following a brutal beatdown at the hands of Kevin Nash on RAW last month. The two are scheduled to settle their issues in the ring at WWE’s upcoming TLC pay-per-view.

    Last week on RAW, interim General Manager John Laurinaitis was shown telling Brodus Clay that he’d be making his return to action on tonight’s show. Clay’s return has been bumped several times already, so we’ll see if he actually wrestles tonight.

    Smackdown stars advertised for Raw include World Hvt. champion Mark Henry, Randy Orton, Sheamus, IC champion Cody Rhodes, Daniel Bryan and Hunico. Sin Cara had also been advertised as well before sustaining a bad leg injury at Survivor Series.

    Advertised locally is six-man action with Big Show, Randy Orton and John Cena vs. The Miz, R-Truth and Mark Henry.

  • Video: Piper’s Pit Returns On “Funny Or Die”

    WWE Hall of Famer “Rowdy” Roddy Piper conducts a special edition of Piper’s Pit for comedy website Funny or Die:

  • Backstage Video Of Zack Ryder From Survivor Series

    WWE’s website posted the following backstage video of Zack Ryder after he attacked Dolph Ziggler at last night’s Survivor Series pay-per-view:

  • CM Punk’s “GTS Pizza” Returns To Chicago Pizzeria

    The G.T.S. Pizza Makes a Comeback for Survivor Series!

    CM Pnk made history at WWE Survivor Series by capturing the WWE Championship  and pizza and wrestling fans alike are pumped because it means the return of Ian’s Pizza Wrigleyville’s CM Punk-inspired Go to Sleep (G.T.S.) pizza!

    “The G.T.S. pizza is the best in the world. Would you expect anything less from a pizza inspired by me?” stated CM Punk.

    This meaty slice, which originally debuted for a limited time in July, is named for WWE superstar and Chicago native CM Punk’s finishing move Go To Sleep. Featuring smoked turkey leg, sliced potatoes, Swiss cheese and French fried onions on a creme fraiche base, it’s perfect for a pre-Thanksgiving feast.

    Ian’s Pizza Wrigleyville is bringing it back for the week of Thanksgiving (11/21 – 11/27,) or, as we like to think of it, the week CM Punk reclaims the heavyweight championship belt from Alberto Del Rio.

    “Its incredible, people would not stop asking for the G.T.S.  Punk’s fans just started pouring out of the woodwork to show their support by eating his namesake,” says Ian’s managing partner Dimitri Syrkin-Nikolau.

    CM Punk Prize Pack Giveaway

    We’re not just cheering for Punk at Survivor Series, we want our fans to win, too! We’re inviting fans to come into our Wrigleyville location (3463 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL 60657) during the week of 11/21 – 11/27 for a slice of the G.T.S. and to be entered* to win an Ian’s t-shirt, autographed by CM Punk and a prize package of official CM Punk merchandise.

    Check out these pictures of CM Punk making the G.T.S. pizza:

  • Superstars & Divas Comment On Survivor Series

    Several WWE Superstars commented on the Survivor Series pay-per-view last night:

    The Rock: “Last night at Survivor Series, TEAM BRING IT rocked the Garden and electrified the world. Proud of U. #BootsToAsses”

    Beth Phoenix: “@EveMarieTorres Ill give her credit…i had to obliterate her cuz she just wont quit..but tmrws a new day..and Eve.u will cry. #pinupstrong”

    Eve Torres: “It was an honor to compete at The Garden tonight. Thank you NYC. & thank u @TheBethPhoenix for reminding me how badly I want what you have.”

    Jim Ross: “No shock @TheRock was on his game after 7+ years away. He’s gifted. If Rock/Cena left u ‘wanting more’ then what occurred worked. #SauceIt”

    Zack Ryder: “Thank you NYC…Thank you Broskis…… #RyderRevolution”

    Wade Barrett: “Once again, I illustrated supreme leadership and in-ring skills tonight. The #BarrettBarrage is legit. No prisoners. No arguments.”

    Kofi Kingston: “As always, MSG was epic. The feeling never gets old. Thanks for all the compliments on the gear too by the way! Tomorrow we do it again!”

  • VIDEO: CM Punk Wins The WWE Title At Survivor Series

    Check out this exclusive video we shot from CM Punk’s WWE title win at Survivor Series. CM Punk gets his title win announced by WWE Hall of Famer Howard Finkel and celebrates in the crowd.