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  • WWE Releases Drew McIntyre, Jinder Mahal, Brodus Clay, Evan Bourne & More

    Backstage News On Many Of Today’s WWE Talent Releases

    WWE.com has announced the release of 10 talents today:

    • Aksana
    • Jinder Mahal
    • Drew McIntyre
    • Brodus Clay
    • Evan Bourne
    • JTG
    • Yoshi Tatsu
    • Curt Hawkins
    • Teddy Long
    • Camacho
    • Marc Harris (referee)

    – Aksana, a former bodybuilder, fitness model and personal trainer signed with WWE developmental back in 2009. She was part of the third season of WWE NXT and has been on the main roster since August 2011.

    – Jinder Mahal signed with WWE developmental back in 2010 and made his main roster debut in April 2011. He was part of the 3MB stable.

    – Drew McIntyre was signed to WWE developmental and trained with Ohio Valley Wrestling and Florida Championship Wrestling. He made his main roster debut in 2009 and was hand picked by Vince McMahon as his “Chosen One.” A former Intercontinental Champion, McIntyre would later join the now-disbanded 3MB stable.

    – Brodus Clay originally signed with WWE back in 2006 and trained at the Deep South Wrestling and Florida Championship Wrestling developmental territories before being released in February 2008. He was re-signed in January 2010 and trained at Florida Championship Wrestling before becoming a contestant on NXT Season 4. He made his debut as the “Funkasaurus” back in 2012 and later teamed with Tensai (later known as Sweet T) as part of the Tons of Funk tag team.

    – Evan Bourne was signed to a developmental deal back in 2007 and competed at Ohio Valley Wrestling through 2008, when he was brought up to the main roster. He would later capture the WWE Tag Team Titles with Kofi Kingston as part of the Air Boom tag team. In March 2012, he was involved in a car accident which broke his foot in four places and dislocated it in five. He never returned to WWE television, despite telling fans on Twitter that he’s been healthy and ready to return, as soon as WWE had something for him.

    – Curt Hawkins was signed to WWE developmental back in 2006 and is a former WWE Tag Team Champion along with Zack Ryder.

    – Yoshi Tatsu signed with WWE developmental back in 2007 and wrestled for Florida Championship Wrestling through 2009. In 2009, he was part of the revived ECW promotion and wrestled on the main roster through 2013, when he was brought down to NXT.

    – Teddy Long was a longtime authority figure in WWE and had been with the company since 1998.

    – Camacho had been with WWE since 2009. His final feud in NXT was with Adam Rose.

    These cuts are part of WWE’s ongoing effort to reduce costs. According to sources in WWE, don’t be surprised to see more cuts in the coming months.

  • Early WM29 Buyrate Not Looking Good, Tyson Kidd Update, Booker T’s Heel Turn

    – While the official buyrate is still months away from being released, early estimates for the WrestleMania 29 pay-per-view are coming in and they do not look good. Even though WWE stated publicly that they were confident that WM29 show would sell similarly to last year’s record-breaking show, the company substantially lowered their internal projections in days leading up to WrestleMania. According to one source, the WrestleMania 29 buyrate is “downright shocking.”

    – Tyson Kidd tweeted the following on Tuesday regarding his road to recovery:

    – As we reported a few weeks ago, there had been plans for Booker T to turn heel. Those plans have reportedly been dropped and there is now talk of Teddy Long becoming the new heel General Manager of SmackDown.

    (Partial Source: f4wonline.com)

  • Lesnar’s Status For Tonight, Long in Charge Of @WWEGM

    – To update the news of Brock Lesnar responding to Triple H’s SummerSlam challenge tonight on RAW, WWE is now advertising that Lesnar’s “camp” will respond on his behalf.

    As noted earlier in our RAW preview, neither Lesnar or Triple H are advertised/expected to appear live tonight.

    – As the Interim General Manager of this week’s RAW and SmackDown shows, Teddy Long wrote on Twitter that he’s been granted access to the @WWERawGM Twitter account this week. The account has been inactive since John Laurinaitis was fired last month.

    – The final part of “Cut That Promo” featuring former WWE superstar John Morrison and TNA Gutcheck reject Joey Ryan is now online. The footage was originally Filmed on June 7th during the 10th Annual Los Angeles Improv Comedy Festival at IO West. The earlier parts can be viewed at host Christian Rosenberg’s Youtube channel. Here’s the 6th and final part:

    * Big News On The Surprises Planned For The 1,000th Episode of RAW

  • Next Week’s Interim General Manager Revealed

    It was announced on Smackdown that the Interim General Manager next week’s RAW Supershow & Tuesday’s live “Great American Bash” Super SmackDown will be none other than Teddy Long.

    WWE is bringing back former General Managers each week to run RAW and SmackDown on a temporary basis until a new permanent General Manager will be named on the 1,000th RAW Celebration on July 23rd.

    So far, we’ve seen Mick Foley, Vickie Guerrero and now Teddy Long running RAW and SmackDown.

    We’ve heard that WWE is even considering bringing back the mystery “Anonymous General Manager” for one week as a way to finally tie up that loose end and reveal who was behind forgotten angle – but we’ll see if that actually happens.

  • Rey Mysterio’s WWE Return, Long Staying On TV, WWE ’13

    – Rey Mysterio says he’s trying to return to the ring within the next few weeks. He wrote on Twitter Sunday night:

    “I really miss performing for all of u & thank u 4 all the LUV,i am pushing myself to come back from my injury by May! Almost their!1 LUV!”

    – Despite losing his job as the General Manager of SmackDown, Teddy Long will remain on WWE television as the new lackey to RAW & SmackDown GM John Laurinaitis.

    – With development of the upcoming WWE ’13 video game well underway, THQ is reportedly revamping the Create a Superstar mode. WWE ’13 will allow players to create 64 wrestlers, up from 32 in last year’s game.

    Speaking of THQ, video game blog JoyStiq.com has an article up looking at the recent financial troubles the company has been dealing with. Strauss Zelnick, the CEO of video game publisher Take Two, predicts THQ might not be in business by the end of the year:

    “THQ has had some good games, but their quality levels aren’t even remotely … the quality hasn’t measured up. THQ won’t be around in six months.”

  • Eve Tweets Zack Ryder, Kassius Ohno Update, Long-RAW

    – Teddy Long says he’ll be appearing on Mondy’s RAW to continue his ongoing battle for power with John Laurinaitis. Long tweeted:

    “Since @WWERawGM did MY dance on MY show, next week, I’m gonna be on #Raw making declarations in a husky monotone. Eye for an eye, playa.”

    – As previously reported, former ROH star Chris Hero is now wrestling as Kassius Ohno at WWE developmental. The initials, KO, are inspired by Hero’s nickname in Ring of Honor – “That Young Knockout Kid.”

    – Eve Torres wrote a “get well message” to Zack Ryder via Twitter. Ryder responded with the following:

    “@EveMarieTorres ’cause in time you will find what goes around goes around goes around comes all the way back around #hoeski”

    Torres also shot back at the “haters” calling her all sorts of bad names for her recent actions:

    “All of you calling me names and degrading women are no better than I. How dare you judge me!”