Snitsky Offered WWE Contract?, Finlay Returning To The Ring

from: SEScoops

Gene Snitsky was backstage at Tuesday’s SmackDown taping in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that there are ‘rumors’ of the former WWE star returning to the organization.

The rumors are apparently based on messages Snitsky posted on his Twitter account following the appearance as he asked his followers if he should go back to WWE.

“Decisions, decisions!” he wrote. “Thinking about it!!!!!!!”

Former WWE talent Dave Finlay is advertised to appear for EVOLVE on July 26 at BB King Blues Club and Grill in Times Square, Manhattan, New York. He will appear in the main event against Sami Callihan. Visit EvolveWrestling.com for event information.

Tough Enough contestant Ryan Howe is advertised to wrestle at Dickenson County Fair in Haysi, Virginia on August 4, 2011.Ricky Morton of the The Rock ‘n’ Roll Express will also appear.

Give ‘em hell in Heaven, Macho Man

from: pwrestlingnews.com

As I may have said before I grew up in a family that loved wrestling. We would go down the Boutwell Auditorium to watch The Armstrong’s take on The Stud’s Stable. Back then it was all about the territories. At a risk of aging myself I would proceed by saying that…..then came the 80′s and WWF. My very first non-Continental Championship Wrestling memories happened on the night of November 22, 1986. Don’t quote me but I think it was an episode of Saturday Nights Main Events. I remember the colors on the show to be so vibrant, nothing like the dull coloring of the rest of the shows on tv. The match that stands out that night just happen to be between two guys I’d never seen before. Those two men just happened to use that moment to create a moment that would last in my mind forever. Not since I watched the Dirty White Boy hang Tom Pritchard by the neck with a rope had I seen something as barbarian as the show these two men created.

Normally the ringside bell is used to remind the grapplers to start and stop their match but on this night “Macho Man” Randy Savage gave the bell a different purpose. I think every fan has a match tucked away into the corners of our minds of our most unforgettable moments and this is one of mine. Throughout the years Randy Savage would continue to be consistent and give us the madness we had come to expect from him. He had a style that was flamboyant yet never left a doubt in our minds that he was all man. He was a glory hound who wouldn’t be outshined even by his very classy, reserved wife. He was the quintessencial villain left you wondering, to this day, where the character ended and the man began. We despised the way he treated Miss Elizabeth but loved him when he came to her defense. And COME ON anyone who loves a good character simply had to love it when he ditched the goody-goody image of the Mega Powers and put a spotlight stealing Hogan in his place. I mean, what kinda man hoists another mans girl onto his shoulders?

Just recently, we heard that the reason Savage never returned to WWE was because he gave Vince 5 across the lip in a bar one night. I love the idea of this as it stands true to who we understood him to be. No matter how it came to be that we haven’t seen him in a ring for several years througout the years one thing remained true; he was who he said he was. If he said ”I’ll kick your ass” he did it. Whether he was the “Macho Man” or the “Macho King” or just sitting at the table being one of the best wrestler color commentators to date he left no doubt that there was someone who was not to be ignored in the room. Pomp and Circumstance will never be remembered as the song I marched to at my 8th grade graduation but the song that meant “Macho Man” was coming.

The news of his death was shocking to all of us. For years he’s remained out of the spotlight as we longed for his return. I find comfort in the thought that he stepped away from the spotlight and into a life where he found a new love with his wife Lynne. Rumor has it that WWE has attempted to induct Savage into the Hall of Fame for quite some time now but he refused the request suggesting that his father, Angelo Poffo, be inducted first. Within the next few years I think it would be very fitting to have them both finally inducted as they have done a great service to the wrestling business. Although, I am saddened by his untimely death I can’t help but want to be a fly on the wall in a room with Savage, Miss. Elizabeth and Sherri Martel.

See you in that main event in the sky Randy Poffo. We still love you down here.

BRUINS are our Heroes !!

After a long fought battle against the Vancouver Canucks, The Boston Bruins have prevailed and managed to bring the much craved STANLEY CUP back home to Boston.
Congratulations to the fearless fighters !!!!

Randy Savage's Cause of Death Announced, Comments from His Brother

from: RingSide News

- BayNews9.com reports that Randy Savage's brother Lanny Poffo told them that The Macho Man died from a condition known as ventricular fibrillation (VF), which is a severely abnormal heart rhythm that can lead to heart attacks or fainting.

Poffo said: "What it means to me is, it was a beautiful way to die. It's quick, painless."

Poffo also praised Savage's widow Lynn: "Randy's foot was still on the accelerator. She reached over and steered the Jeep Wrangler into a tree, saving the life of a motorcyclist and possibly a bus. You know, there's no telling what can happen when you're going the wrong way."

WWE SmackDown Sucks

from BR:

In case you missed it, the ratings for last Friday's much ballyhooed episode of SmackDown were bad. Like, worst ratings of 2011 bad.

The episode received tremendous attention, and indirect hype, prior to its airing as news broke that internet icon Christian would be dropping the World Championship to Randy Orton just five nights after his historic first time title win. The quick title turnaround would extinguish a short-lived feel good moment of the year.

The news, now unofficially known as Spoilergate, led to overwhelming outrage as fans flooded relevant Twitter accounts with hate mail and negative feedback. There hadn't been this much outrage for something that hadn't yet aired since South Park teased that it would be drawing a cartoon of Muhammad.

Following the "any press is good press" theory, all the buzz appeared to have been good news for SmackDown. Orton was drafted to SmackDown to inject some life into the brand, and the big stink in which his World Title win created was the most buzz that surrounded SmackDown in years.

I myself predicted a sizable rating for the show, as A) fans would be curious to see how the whole thing went down, and B) world title matches on SmackDown are relatively rare and should have built-in intrigue.

The result, however, was the antithesis of the Mick Foley channel changing incident in 1999 that would eventually contribute to the downfall of WCW. Amidst all the unprecedented fuss and controversy, the proverbial butts didn't take their seats to watch Christian lose the World Championship as SmackDown's 1.73 overall performance fell below every one of its predecessors in 2011.

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Why Don't You Like TNA?

from Bleacher Report:

This questions is one that has interested me for a very long time.

I’ve talked to other fans via this website and others in an attempt to find a more clear answer on this. I’m a big fan of TNA. I watch Impact every week and all of their PPVs and enjoy almost all of them.

However, when I read what others fans say online, I see mostly negative.

I’ve never understood this.

TNA has some of the biggest legends of the past: Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, and Sting. You get some of the best stars of today such as AJ Styles, Christopher Daniels, Kurt Angle and Ken Anderson. You also have several talented up and comers like Crimson and Gunner.

Unlike the WWE, Impact doesn’t just revolve around one person. You have multiple feuds and story lines to follow each week. You have the X-Division for those who like the fast pace high flying type of wrestling on each PPV. You have a tag team division with actual tag teams. You have a women’s division where the women get real feuds, real story lines and actual character development.

TNA gives you all of this in only 2 hours a week. You got pretty much every thing any reasonable wrestling fan could want.

Yet the organization is consistently disparaged by wrestling fans. I kept finding myself asking. “What more do you want”?

So, I’ve been looking into that answer. I talk to other fans, I listen to wrestling radio shows, and I read the comments here on Bleacher Report.

I’ve come up with a theory on this question and I’d like to get some feedback from the readers here. I think that most of the IWC falls into 2 groups.

The first one is a group that I talked about in one of my previous articles. I’ve noticed a large group of people who want TNA to be, what I’ve referred to as, Ring of Honor with a bigger budget.

They want Ring Of Honor to have the TV deal that TNA has.

For whatever reason, no national network has picked up ROH and no one with a enough money has invested in them. In fact, many of these people also believe that if ROH has TNA’s TV deal, they would be able to compete with WWE to the point that ROH would take viewers from WWE and force them to change their programming.

Ring of Honor doesn’t seem to be growing in the way that these people want it to, so that want TNA to become Ring of Honor.

Many Indy wrestling fans fall into this category. Fans of promotions like ROH, Dragon Gate USA, Evolve. Pretty much, fans of any promotion that has ever involved Gabe Sapolsky fall into this group.

The second group seems to want TNA to be the compliment to WWE. Basically, they want TNA to do all of the things that WWE doesn’t do.

WWE has no cruiserweight division anymore so they want TNA to put more focus on the X-Division. WWE doesn’t do tag team wrestling. So they want TNA to do tag team wrestling.

For different reasons, I think that both of these methods would be unsuccessful for TNA to follow. However, that is for another article.

So what do you think readers? What do you think of my theory? What do you want from TNA?

Personally, I want the show to jump out of the television and have sex with me.  And not just TNA, pretty much any of them.

 from Bleacher Report:

Since the turn of the millennium, WWE has somewhat struggled building and establishing new stars. Whilst there have been some success, namely Cena, Batista and Orton, there have been numerous Superstars who the WWE have dropped the ball on. The likes of Mr. Kennedy and MVP should be prominent figures in the WWE right now. But they are not.

For whatever reason, WWE are seemingly unable to build Superstars the way they did in the late '90s. Instead of committing to a number of performers and pushing them appropriately, WWE have pushed numerous wrestlers only to halt their progress on a whim.

The following talents, although pegged as the future of the company, have been plagued by the dreaded “depush”: CM Punk, Jack Swagger, Drew McIntyre, Wade Barrett, Sheamus, Kofi Kingston, Evan Bourne, Dolph Ziggler and Daniel Bryan. That's a lot of guys to be pushed only to be depushed in the space of a year and this is a dangerous game for the WWE to play.

The audience will end up feeling ambivalent towards newly pushed talent as they will immediately question how relevant they will be four weeks from then.

The WWE needs to establish new stars as the audience demands something new. Unfortunately, recent history suggests this may be a struggle.

But there may be hope.

...

Let’s run through a number of potential shows WWE could experiment with in order to establish new stars.

How about a scripted "reality" show focused on an individual Superstar? One example that would have the potential to be great would be CM Punk. The show would follow Punk as he trains, badmouths his current opponent and preaches the straight-edge lifestyle to the public, subsequently getting in entertaining scenarios.

christ that sounds like the worst thing in the universe, oh my good lord

you couldn't pay me to watch that