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!
— “Awesome Truth” was split on last night’s Raw SuperShow in part to WWE creative’s plan to insert The Miz into the title picture over the next few months.
— Booker T handled broadcast duties during last night’s Raw SuperShow due to Jerry Lawler losing his voice.
— Sin Cara is believed to have undergone surgery today after suffering a patella tendon rupture when he jumped out of the ring during the Traditional Survivor Series Elimination Tag Team Match at Survivor Series.
— Santino Marella, who generally tweets in character, wrote the following this afternoon: “Stuck in DC airport since 730am and my flight leaves now at 5pm, so pissed.”
— The official website of the Norfolk Scope Arena, which will hold the Raw SuperShow on December 12, 2011, is advertising the 2011 Slammy Awards for the three-hour television event.
The event will also feature a post-broadcast Triple Threat Match for the WWE Championship between CM Punk, Alberto Del Rio and John Cena.
— Following WWE’s announcement this morning that R-Truth had been suspended for thirty days as a result of his first violation of the Talent Wellness Program, he began trending worldwide on Twitter.
— Shawn Michaels has reached an agreement with Total Gym for a workout DVD featuring the WWE Hall of Famer to be released. (Thanks to Carl Dantes)
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.
Posted November 22nd, 2011 in News, WWE. Tagged: R-Truth.
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.
– 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.
Evan Bourne’s suspension for his first violation of WWE’s Talent Wellness Program has generated a great deal of controversy amongst talent as some feel a double standard is in place.
Bourne, who’s real name is Matthew Korklan, was suspended for thirty days on November 1, 2011 after testing positive for Spice, a synthetic marijuana brand. Wrestling Observer editor Dave Meltzer reports Bourne and another wrestler higher up the card smoked the marijuana substitute drug at a party, yet he was the only one of the two to be suspended. The other wrestler was told he had failed for marijuana, which results in a $2,500 fine, as opposed to a thirty-day suspension for synthetic marijuana.
According to the Wrestling Globe Newsletter, the wrestler in question is a participant in tonight’s Survivor Series match featuring John Cena and The Rock against R-Truth and The Miz.
This has led to questions about whether WWE’s drug testing procedure is flawed or whether talent are treated differently depending on their status in the organization.
This would not be the first time in which WWE reprieved a top-level talent who had violated their Talent Wellness Program. On August 30, 2007, Sports Illustrated named Randy Orton as one of fourteen contracted and former WWE performers to have purchased pharmaceuticals from an online pharmacy (Signature Pharamacy), a violation of the Talent Wellness Program. Specifically, Orton received somatropin, nandrolone, stanozolol between September 2004 and February 2007, which occurred after the “no drugs from online sources” rule was instituted. However, Orton was the lone contracted performer not to be suspended by WWE. Wrestling Observer editor Dave Meltzer reported that WWE did not suspend Orton because he had already been suspended for a drug policy violation in August 2006, resulting in double jeopardy. The ruling, however, appeared nonsensical since Orton continued to receive pharmaceuticals following the suspension. WWE attorney Jerry McDevitt claimed last year in a letter to Irv Muchnick that “no action was taken against Randy Orton because he was not on any customer list for Signature Pharmacy ever provided to us by District Attorney Soares.”
On Monday’s RAW, it was announced that John Cena and The Rock will be teaming up at Survivor Series against the team of The Miz and R-Truth. With The Rock currently in New Orleans while filming the new GI Joe movie, Miz and R-Truth will be traveling to the city today to train with The Rock in preparation for their upcoming match.
Aside from the big Rock-Cena tag team main event – we have news on several other matches discussed for the big event.
WWE Champion Alberto Del Rio vs. CM Punk and World Heavyweight champion Mark Henry vs. the Big Show are among the matches we’re likely to see.
Despite the fact that WWE is reporting that Triple H suffered a back neck injury at the hands of Kevin Nash and RAW and will miss up to 6 weeks, expect The Game back in time for some sort of gimmick singles match with Nash at Survivor Series.
Also discussed is a traditional 5-on-5 elimination matches with the following competitors:
– Randy Orton, Sheamus, Daniel Bryan, Kane and Blue Sin Cara vs. Christian, Cody Rhodes, Wade Barrett, Brodus Clay and Black Sin Cara.
At one point, WWE had been discussing David Otunga, Christian, Cody Rhodes, Jack Swagger and Dolph Ziggler vs. Kofi Kingston, Evan Bourne, Mason Ryan, Zack Ryder and one more partner, but last we heard, this match is not going to happen.
— The official website of Florida Championship Wrestling has added Jake Carter to their roster page. He is Jesse White, son of former WWE star Vader. He signed a developmental contract with WWE in April following a tryout at the organization’s developmental facility in Tampa, Florida.
White, 25, originally committed to the University of Oklahoma and was touted for the National Football League, but retired following a hip injury. He then followed his dad’s footsteps to the world of professional wrestling.
— Theodore Long kicked off Friday’s SmackDown by announcing that the first match of the night would feature 41 Superstars in the largest Battle Royal in WWE history. Interim Raw General Manager John Laurinaitis then revealed the winner would earn a title match against the champion of his choosing.
Randy Orton won the 41-Man No. 1 Contender’s Battle Royal, last eliminating The Miz. Battle Royal elimination order is as follows: 1. Cody Rhodes, 2. Johnny Curtis, 3. JTG, 4. Michael McGillicutty, 5. Derrick Bateman, 6. Yoshi Tatsu, 7. Titus O’Neil, 8. Matt Striker, 9. William Regal, 10. Percy Watson, 11. John Morrison, 12. Dolph Ziggler, 13. Trent Barreta, 14. Jey Uso, 15. Ted DiBiase, 16. Tyson Kidd, 17. Daniel Bryan, 18. Tyler Reks, 19. Curt Hawkins, 20. Drew McIntrye, 21. Justin Gabriel, 22. Mason Ryan, 23. Primo, 24. Santino Marella, 25. Alex Riley, 26. Kofi Kingston, 27. Zack Ryder, 28. David Otunga, 29. Jimmy Uso, 30. Ezekiel Jackson, 31. Heath Slater, 32. Sin Cara (Negro), 33. Christian, 34. R-Truth , 35. CM Punk, 36. Sheamus, 37. Wade Barrett, 38. Jack Swagger, 39. Jinder Mahal, 40. The Miz.
— The official Twitter feed of the WWE Insider issued the following statement this afternoon: CONFIRMED: The Board has approved @WWERawGM’s request to have @CMPunk and Triple H face @MiketheMiz and @RonKillings at #Vengeance.”
The match has yet to be announced by WWE.com.
— Eve, Gail Kim, John Morrison, Kofi Kingston, The Miz and kids from the Boys & Girls Club of America appear on Nickelodeon’s “Family BrainSurge” Thursday at 6 ET/5 CT. WWE.com has published photos of their appearance.
— Former WWE Diva Ashley Massaro is advertised to appear at the Boston Super Megafest at the Sheraton Framingham Hotel 1657 Worcester Rd. Framingham, Massachusetts. The event takes place November 19-20. Visit www.supermegafest.com for more information.
— WWE’s next three-hour Raw event takes place November 14 at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts and The Rock is advertised to appear. The venue’s official website is billing the event as “The Rock Reunion Party.”
The website’s advertising reads: “What will happen when the seven-time WWE Champion, “the most electrifying man in all of entertainment” The Rock and ten-time WWE Champion John Cena meet in Cena’s hometown?”
Also advertised for the event is a Six-Man Tag Team Match pitting John Cena, Triple H and CM Punk against The Miz, R-Truth and Alberto Del Rio.
— Former WWE Divas Lilian Garcia and Maria Kanellis hosted the second edition of their post-Raw show for AfterBuzzTV.com Monday night.
– WWE Chairman Vince McMahon made a surprise return on Monday’s RAW. In an ironic twist of fate, Vince McMahon informed Triple H that the Board of Directors had relieved Triple H of his duties as COO. This is the same explanation Vince McMahon was given back in July when Triple H informed him he was forced out of his job.
– Vince McMahon named John Laurinaitis is the new interim RAW General Manager.
– It was announced during RAW that Laurinaitis can now be followed on Twitter @WWERAWGM.
– Jim Ross was fired by John Laurinaitis on RAW, which took place from JR’s home state of Oklahoma.
– The Miz and R-Truth have been reinstated. CM Punk was wrestling WWE champion Alberto Del Rio during the main event of RAW, when Laurinaitis came out and told them the match was being changed to a tag team match. Punk and Del Rio would be teaming up against the reinstated Miz and R-Truth.
— Brock Lesnar will be announced as a “Legend” for THQ’s WWE ’12 video game later this week.
UFC approved of Lesnar’s inclusion in the game on the condition that he was presented as a wrestler and not a mixed martial artist.
There are no plans for Lesnar to be further involved with WWE.
— The Miz celebrated his 31st birthday Saturday by invading WWE’s Raw brand house show in Loveland, Colorado. He and R-Truth ran through the crowd in street clothes to interfere in the WWE Championship Match between Alberto Del Rio and John Cena, causing a disqualification. They knelt down with their hands behind their heads in surrender, but Evan Bourne and Kofi Kingston dove onto them from the top rope.
— Alberto Del Rio is featured on the cover of the latest issue of Inside Wrestling.
The official Twitter feed of the WWE Insider announced tonight that The Miz and R-Truth will be pressing charges against Triple H and WWE.
The Insider wrote, “Just heard news that @mikethemiz and @RonKillings are pressing charges against Triple H and @WWE. More details as they unfold.”
Moments after Alberto Del Rio regained the WWE Championship inside Hell in a Cell, everyone in the cell was brutalized by The Miz and R-Truth, who were arrested then pummeled by Chief Operating Officer Triple H.
The fired Superstars have issued a video apology to WWE fans for their actions at Hell in a Cell. The Miz reveals they have filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against WWE and pressed assault charges against Triple H for his unprovoked attack.
– WWE recently filed for several new trademarks. The first is for the phrase, “Suntan Super Man” – which was R-Truth’s nickname back in TNA. With R-Truth’s “Little Jimmy” gimmick (a Vince McMahon creation) getting over this year and his recent alignment with former WWE champion The Miz, it appears Truth will remain one of the top featured performers on WWE television in the coming months.
The other trademarks filed are for Sin Cara- namely, his masks. WWE just secured trademarks for black, white and gold Sin Cara masks, so either the original Sin Cara is getting new masks or we could see even more Sin Caras in WWE.
– The Rock is training hard for his WWE return match at Survivor Series – his first match since WrestleMania 20 (which also took place from MSG). Rock posted the following photo of himself delivering a Rock Bottom to some unknown jabronie with the caption:
“Training for Survivor Series. Boots To Motherf*****n Asses. #TeamBringIt”
WWE COO Triple H “fired” The Miz and R-Truth last week after the duo attacked a referee during the main event of WWE’s Night of Champions pay-per-view. Since then, Miz and R-Truth have been coming up with ways to keep themselves on television and get back on the WWE roster.
The Miz wrote the following on Twitter last night after RAW – calling Triple H a hypocrite for firing he and R-Truth ..
“Triple H fires us for “savagely attacking a WWE official” I wonder if Triple H ever put his hands on a WWE Official. Let’s see.. #Hypocrite
Triple H vs Stone Cold No Mercy 1999 Triple H pushes ref. #hypocrite Triple H vs Y2J April 2000 Triple H beats up n pedigrees ref #hypocrite
And my favorite Triple H vs Kevin Nash Judgement Day 2003 Triple H “Savagely” hits ref with a SLEDGEHAMMER. Just to name a few. #hypocrite”
Sounds like The Miz has a point – what do you guys think? Hit up the comments section below.
Update: Maryse and John Morrison have responded on Twitter to the comments made by The Miz regarding the #hypocrisy of Triple H. Maryse wrote:
“@mikethemiz #phenomenal”
John Morrison, former tag team partner of The Miz, tweeted the following:
“@mikethemiz complaining about not getting enough attention- #hypocrite”
“@mikethemiz, you think you’re mad at Triple H now? Watch Inside Out… THEN let us knpw how you feel”
— John Cena appeared in studio on The Johnny Dare Morning Show today to promote tonight’s Raw SuperShow at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri.
Cena teased during the interview that a cage would hang above the ring at the venue. He also discussed films, cars and the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Cena stated that he does not want to turn bad because seeing the Make-A-Wish kids with his merchandise makes his day.
Meanwhile, the female sidekick auditioning for the morning show said she was former WWE announcer Jonathan Coachman’s roommate in college. She also claimed to have one night stands with former WWE talent John “Bradshaw” Layfield and Al Snow.
— The Miz and R-Truth “invaded” this past weekend’s Raw live events. The same scenario took place at all three shows; the heel duo would jump WWE Tag Team Champions Kofi Kingston and Evan Bourne immediately following their victory over David Otunga and Michael McGillicutty. Company personnel would then escort the “fired” wrestlers away.
Ring announcer Justin Roberts announced at the start of all three shows that The Miz and R-Truth wouldn’t be on hand due to Triple H’s ruling last Monday on Raw.
— Matches scheduled to air on tonight’s episode of SmackDown are as follows:
* Sheamus vs. Heath Slater
* Justin Gabriel vs. Wade Barrett
* A.J. and Kaitlyn vs. Beth Phoenix and Natalya
* Randy Orton vs. Cody Rhodes
* The Great Khali vs. Jinder Mahal
* Daniel Bryan vs. Sin Cara
* Evan Bourne and Kofi Kingston vs. Jey Uso and Jimmy Uso
* Mark Henry defends the World Heavyweight Championship against Christian in a Lumberjack Match
— The Miz announced this afternoon on Twitter that he has launched a YouTube Channel. He posted a video of his first words about being fired by WWE, which was filmed Wednesday during his new Sirius XM Radio show, First and Awesome.
— After R-Truth and The Miz were fired on this week’s episode of WWE Raw SuperShow, WWE.com transferred their respective profiles to the Alumni section.
– UFC held a press conference this afternoon to promote Saturday’s UFC 135 pay-per-view. During the media event, Triple H’s recent comments were brought up, where Triple H said that UFC needs to adapt to keep pace with WWE. After UFC’s Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones called HHH’s comments, “ridiculous,” UFC president Dana White then chimed in. While said that Vince McMahon is finally letting Triple H talk, and once he gets some more experience in his new role , Triple H “will learn soon not to say stupid things.”
– On Monday’s RAW, we saw WWE COO Triple H fire both The Miz and R-Truth, whose [storyline] releases were later announced on the WWE website. The Miz wrote on Twitter this afternoon that he and R-Truth will address WWE firing them on Miz’s Sirius radio show “1st and Awesome.” The show airs tonight on Sirius 210, XM 87 from 5-6pm CT.
As we saw on Monday’s RAW, Triple H fired The Miz and R-Truth .. The WWE website releases a statement wishing them the best in their future endeavors:
“WWE has come to terms on the release of The Miz and R-Truth as of today, Sept. 19, 2011. WWE wishes Miz and R-Truth the best in all of their future endeavors.”
Clearly, this is a storyline .. What do you guys think about these “releases” ?
Later in the show, Triple H was attacked by The Miz and R-Truth backstage, only to be thrown out of the building by the WWE locker room.
UPDATE: R-Truth tweeted the following on Tuesday morning:
“Just wanted to say thank you to all my fans for their support,I don’t tweet much,but would have thanked you sooner, They threw us out,wouldn’t let us in,.. the security for the arena let us in thismorning to get our bags,phone,etc..”
Here’s video footage of the incident, courtesy of WWE’s Youtube channel:
— WWE referee Scott Armstrong underwent X-rays this morning for what he believed could be a broken, cracked or bruised rib after taking an errant kick from R-Truth during the CM Punk vs. Triple H match at Night of Champions. He later indicated on Twitter that he would be sidelined for a few weeks.
“No RAW OR SMACKDOWN for me for a couple of weeks anyway. Thanks To Miz and Truth!#a$$hol%s,” Armstrong wrote.
— The September 16 episode of WWE SmackDown featuring the return of “The Cutting Edge” garnered a 1.78 cable rating, down from 1.9 rating the week before.
SmackDown averaged 2.61 million viewers, down ten percent from the previous week’s score of 2.91 million viewers.
On cable television Friday night, SmackDown ranked twelfth in overall viewers
— WWE has had discussions of turning either Kelly Kelly or Eve Torres heel and having them feud with against each other.
— On this week’s episode of WWE Superstars, John Morrison takes on his rival, R-Truth. The program takes place at a new time – Thursday at 4 ET/1 PT – on WWE.com.
— Four of Lance Storm’s wrestling academy students received tryouts at last week’s WWE television tapings in Edmonton and/or Calgary, Alberta.
— The Aug. 8 episode of Monday Night Raw was watched by 363,000 homes on DVR or tape delay, meaning 10.5% of the total viewers didn’t watch the episode live that week.
– The WWE crew member that Kevin Nash shook hands with backstage on RAW last night as he was walking down the hallway was Cal Cole, son of WWE announcer Michael Cole.
– The Miz and R-Truth will be working together as a tag team in the coming weeks. According to a WWE source, their team name is going to be “Awesome Truth.”
Following Evan Bourne & Kofi Kingston’s tag title win on RAW, Awesome Truth looks to be one of the new contenders in WWE’s revamped tag team division.
– “Jack Tunney” was trending worldwide on Twitter last night during RAW after the mention from CM Punk. Longtime WWE fans will remember Jack Tunney as the storyline “WWF President” in late 1980s-early 1990’s.
– Aaron sent word that Vendetta Pro Wrestling wrestlers from California that got WWE tryouts last week were Jody Kristofferson, AJ Kirsch and Dylan Drake. Referee “Goggles” Goldstein also got a tryout.
– WWE has released commemorative tickets for the John Cena vs. CM Punk and Randy Orton vs. Christian matches at Summerslam.