— 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.
— Ultimate Warrior is advertised to appear in costume on Saturday, October 29, 2011 at Sound Check Hollywood 8872 West Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood, California. T-Shirts, photos, figurines, posters and other merchandise will be available for purchase. Visit Soundcheckhollywood.com for more information.
— Various cable providers have Gail Kim’s name mistakenly listed as Gayle King in the information page for her appearance on today’s episode of Family BrainSurge on Nickelodeon. The names of John Morrison, Kofi Kingston, The Miz and Eve are correctly listed.
A fan wrote to Kim on Twitter, “How transparent can WWE be?” She responded, “of course it does. Pathetic. Lol. I wish I was oprah’s bff.”
– Fast Five, which features The Rock in a lead role, is currently the top selling DVD in the United States.
— 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.
– Sirius XM Radio announced on Thursday that The Miz will host an exclusive fantasy football show heard nationwide on SiriusXM’s 24/7 fantasy sports channel.
First and Awesome will air Wednesdays (6:00-7:00 pm ET) during the NFL season on SiriusXM Fantasy Sports Radio, channel 87 on XM and channel 210 on Sirius Premier (formerly known as “The Best of XM”).
– The WWE website posted a “worked” statement on Thursday announcing what to expect on Monday’s RAW Supershow:
WWE Chief Operating Officer Triple H vows to “absolutely not step down” from running WWE Raw SuperShow.
Triple H vows that John Cena, CM Punk, Randy Orton, Sheamus and Big Show will headline Monday night’s telecast, emanating from the Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City.
Despite the walkout that took place on RAW, Triple H will continue day-to-day operations.
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 has released referee James Maritato (aka Little Guido/Nunzio). He is taking independent bookings (as a wrestler) through Bill Behrens, who can be reached at ShowBis@aol.com.
– WWE champion John Cena weighed in on the very eventful night of baseball Wednesday night to conclude the MLB regular season and determine which teams are headed to the playoffs. After Cena’s hometown Boston Red Socks and the Atlanta Braves both lost their games in dramatic fashion to end their seasons, Cena tweeted:
“Smoking gun! What a night for baseball! Congrats to cards and rays. Atl and boston radio gonna be interesting tomorrow.”
Cena grew up near Boston and is a big Red Socks fan – and currently lives near Tampa and also supports the local Tampa Bay Rays.
– “Former” WWE star The Miz explained on his 1st and Awesome Sirius satellite radio show this week exactly why he was fired by Triple H:
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 has changed the structure of their creative staff with a “home team” and “road team” initiative. Road teams will travel to each week’s television tapings while home teams will work at company headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut to develop future shows. WWE creative head Stephanie McMahon, a mother of three children, and Brian Gewirtz will reportedly stay at home to avoid going on the road on a weekly basis.
— The official website of the New Orleans Arena is advertising Edge for next month’s Hell in a Cell pay-per-view event taking place October 2: “Witness the Superstars of both Raw and Smackdown live under the same roof for a PPV extravaganza live event featuring: John Cena, Randy Orton, Alberto Del Rio, The Miz, Edge, Rey Mysterio, John Morrison, The Big Show and many more Superstars live!”
WWE paid tribute to the “Rated-R Superstar” following last night’s SmackDown taping in Toronto, Ontario with “Edge Appreciation Night.” He also hosted “The Cutting Edge” with World Heavyweight Champion Randy Orton and Mark Henry during the taped show. He is also advertised for next Tuesday’s SmackDown taping in Dayton, Ohio.
The Miz with Manny Pacquaio and Juan Pablo Marquez
The Miz made a special appearance at this week’s Los Angeles press conference for the upcoming Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez boxing fight on November 12th.
The Miz takes the stage and does one hell of a job selling this event to the media and the public. Miz also has a special gift for both fighters to show that he’s totally impartial and not taking sides.
Check out the video right here, courtesy of Top Rank Boxing:
Posted September 8th, 2011 in News, WWE. Tagged: The Miz.
— John Cena is pictured in WWE’s advertisement for tomorrow night’s SuperSmackDown special on Syfy.
Some cable outlets are advertising a match between Cena and CM Punk for the live broadcast. WWE has not announced the match yet.
The synopsis for the event, which will feature talent from Raw and SmackDown, reads:
“The astonishing Sin Cara challenges WWE Champion Alberto Del Rio and Christian battles Randy Orton for the World Heavyweight Championship inside a steel cage.”
— The Miz announced on Twitter that he will debut a new T-shirt on tonight’s episode of Raw.
“Debuting the new Miz T-shirt tonight,” he wrote. “Buy it if your at the arena or go to wweshop.com. Cheap plug 2 of the night.”
— WWE stock closed at 9.59 today, up 0.53 from Friday.
— Mick Foley posted a blog regarding his experience at the “Gathering of the Juggalos” earlier this month and addressing rumors of a potential return to WWE. Foley wrote:
“As I mentioned, there’s this rumor out there that I might be returning to WWE sometime soon, and if the rumor proves to be true, my chances of returning to this one-of-a-kind atmosphere in 2012 will be dramatically reduced.”
— Based on the graph WWE released for pay-per-view buys in their latest key indicator, Money in the Bank was listed as 265,000 buys. However, another breakdown in the estimates lists July pay-per-view purchases at 185,000. The other buys incorporated into the graph are being credited to WrestleMania XXVII, which came in after the last key indicator was released.
— The Miz appears at Walmart 1105 Wellington Rd S., London, Ontario, Canada on Saturday, Sept. 12 beginning at noon. Call 519-681-7500 for more information.
The Miz and Bill Goldberg appeared together on Tuesday atthea “It’s Symantec, Sucka” event at the Dell Computers facility in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Former WWE & WCW star Bill Goldberg posted a photo of himself and The Miz on Twitter – and told WWE officials not to give Miz any problems for appearing with him at a publicity event.
Goldberg tweeted on Tuesday:
“To be fair, neither one of us had ANY idea the other was going to be there.”
“WWE, if you’re listening, it was not his fault so leave him alone.”
Here are two pictures of Goldberg and Miz together:
– 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.
— The following matches were taped tonight in Edmonton, Alberta for this week’s episode of WWE Superstars:
* Sheamus vs. Heath Slater
* Daniel Bryan vs. Drew McIntyre
— Millennium Wrestling Federation announced Monday that former WWE star The Boogeyman will be returning to the ring for their Saturday, Sept. 17 show in Melrose, Massachusetts. He is replacing Al Snow at the event, which is their tenth anniversary show.
— The Miz stated the following on Twitter regarding tonight’s Raw: “#Raw 9pm est. tonight on @usa_network no more subway I’m done playing with The Game..”
WWE star The Miz was interviewed by the Edmonton Journal to promote Monday’s episode of WWE RAW from the city’s Rexall Palace arena. Miz spoke about a number of topics, including which wrestlers he loved to watch as a child, how much of “Mike Mizanin” there is in “The Miz” and more.Miz also confirmed what we reported here a few weeks ago – that he suffered a broken nose at a house show in a match against Alex Riley.
Here are some highlights of what The Miz said about:
The Concussion He Suffered At WrestleMania:
“Now, watching back, I can remember it in little bits and pieces. It’s one of those things like, ‘I was in the main event of WrestleMania and I really don’t remember too much of it.’ I remember being in it, but I don’t remember everything. It was one of those scary moments, but now I’m back to 100 per cent.” …
What Makes Him So Popular:
“It’s amazing … I don’t know what it is about me that makes people want to watch what I am going to do. Normally people just want to watch a train wreck and I don’t consider myself a train wreck anymore. I guess I’m kind of that person that you never know what he’s going to do or say so you want to watch because you don’t know what the hell is going to happen. I don’t take days off. I’m one of those WWESuperstars that says give me everything and anything. I don’t want anyone else to have more publicity than me. I don’t want anyone else having more media than me.”
WWE Chairman Vince McMahon is said to be very impressed with The Miz in recent weeks, which many insiders are believing will lead to a big push for the former WWE champion.
“Vince really liked Miz’s promo last week on Raw, which sold SummerSlam even though Miz didn’t have an opponent named,” a reliable insider informed us, “and Vince thought Miz came across as a top heel at SummerSlam.”
The source continued, “But what Vince loved the most was Miz’s performance tonight endorsing Subway, because he did it in such an entertaining fashion, and Vince kept telling people that Miz’s performance is exactly what he’s looking for from WWE Superstars. Miz really raised his stock in WWE in the past week.”
With McMahon high on The Miz’s recent work, expect to see Miz elevated back into the main event picture in the coming weeks and months.