December 2009
64 posts
ringsidereview:
As Jan. 4 approaches, a source told WrestleZone.com that TNA has reached an agreement with Scott Hall and Sean Waltman to work on a “pay as you play” basis. No long-term contracts will be signed; Hall and Waltman will be employed as long as their performance and off-screen behavior warrants. TNA reportedly sees Hall and Waltman as short-term hires even in the best of scenarios. ...
I just wrote the outline for the book
It’s going to be 17 chapters, covering the highlights of my life and career, culminating at Wrestlemania 26. Here’s the basic outline:
1: The Gorillia Position, the best place to reflect
2: Growing up with Wrestling
3: My Son, Shane, quitting the company
4: Taking over the WWWF from my father
5: The Rock’s return at Smackdown’s 10th Anniversary
6: Hulkamania and the...
Oh Eric
This Monday Night…win, lose, or draw I have to give credit to the folks at TNA and Spike. They could have taken the easy path and put their best foot forward un-opposed. That would make the most sense to many people. But by at least getting into the fight, TNA is most likely going to gain the awareness and respect of a completely different audience. -Eric Bischoff
Eric would think this is a good...
So Bretsy Brets calls me...
And he says “Hey Vince, happy to do the show, but I have to wonder if you’ve got something up your sleeve.”
“Now, why would you think a thing like that, Bret?” I ask.
“Well, because you’re you, Vince. You hold a grudge more than anyone. And I left the company on the sourest of notes. You buried me pretty bad. I was in Lex Luger/Macho Man territory in...
Did I mention that Bret Hart is on Raw and Linda...
Hey, WWE fans! Bret Hart will return to Raw! Isn’t this awesome? Doesn’t this totally make you not pay attention to the fact that there’s an investigation into Linda’s poll numbers, since they might have been faked to make her look strong? Faked? By a McMahon?
Let’s absolutely not pay attention to this story right here:
The McMahon camp sent around an email this...
How do you solve a problem like John Cena?
So we booked ourselves into a corner by making Cena say he wouldn’t lose until he got the title back. We used up our one DQ bullshit ending this week on RAW, and now we don’t know what to do. Have him win by Count Out? We’ll probably break that out too, but people are already smelling the turd that is this angle.
So, help us. How do we get Cena to Wrestlemania without him...
We already did a Chris Benoit DVD
I get a few messages on Twitter from folks, and for the most part they are illegible. This one, however, was particularly rich:
I hope 1 day u will do a Chris benoit DVD set
I told him that we would not be doing that. He responded in kind.
Why not!! U can’t judge the guy on 3 days,for 1 u or any1 can’t judge him,only god can!has any1 thought it cld’ve been Kevin Sullivan?
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Who wants a Chris Jericho DVD set?
Seriously, I’m curious. We’ve put together DVD sets for just about every superstar on the current roster who means a damn, and certainly all the old codgers who betrayed me (you’re welcome, all nine of you who bought the Randy Savage set). But there is one glaring omission to the catalogue, and that’s a best of Chris Jericho set.
Now, the reason we’ve never given...
Refreshing the WWE roster
Merry Christmas, Marks! Ho ho, I hope Santa got you lots of stuff from the WWE Shopzone.
I did a quick check just to make sure, but the only people on our active roster that were there ten years ago are Paul, Show, Jericho, Taker, Edge, Kane (Kane still works here? Frig), Henry (No shit, we still pay Henry’s salary?) and Matt Hardy. While you’d think longevity would mean you were an...
I'm taking the next week off
Between the Tribute to the Troops, dealing with Linda and Shane over Christmas, and working out the fine print with Bretsy Brets, I won’t have any time for blogging. I’ll return December 27th. Have a merry Christmas and happy holidays. Hopefully someone got you something from WWE ShopZone.
Hopefully somebody got me that DX Snuggie.
UFC 111 VS Wrestlemania 26
So Dana wants to go to war, huh? It isn’t bad enough my wife and son left, that TNA is biting our ankles, and that a guy with absolutely no pigment is the WWE champion, now we’ve got to pay attention to the human cockfighting league. Terrific.
And Dana is stacking the card too, bringing in George St Pierre to headline the Saturday night before Wrestlemania. Yeah, it must be nice for...
Notes from a recent board meeting
We’re reducing the number of PPVs next year, because 16 was ludicrous. We’re going to do one a month, and every single PPV will have something unique going for it. This is very much how WWE does things, as you can guarantee a great show when you order a WWE PPV regardless of who is actually competing. We made this decision last spring when half our roster caught the broken limb bug. If...
My predictions were 100% correct again
Just thought I should point that out. Even if I said certain people were going to go over and didn’t, well, that doesn’t mean they didn’t win.
Cena won by being the best company man we’ve got.
Batista won by not losing a spec of his heat.
Morrisson won by…well, being John.
Titles and victories don’t matter. It’s what people think of you after the match...
Tender Loving Care
Can we put on a show, or what?
Seriously, even I didn’t see Sheamus winning the WWE title. I mean, we go over everything right before, but I still figured we weren’t actually going to pull the trigger on the kid. We rehearsed three endings to that match. The first was John actually hitting the super attitude adjustment. The second was a run in by half the locker room, all of whom were...
Rasslin' Roundtable TLC 2009 →
I participated in Pulse Wrestling’s Rasslin Roundtable with my “predictions” for the “PPV” “this sunday.”
So we didn't mention Umaga's passing
Everybody thinks we’re the bad guys. Everybody thinks we’re the company that eats wrestlers up and ruins their lives.
But last time I checked, we’re the only wrestling company who will put our superstars up for rehabilitation. We’re the only company who will keep a guy on the payroll for years while they recuperate. We’re the only wrestling company with a real...
Okay, so I had nothing
Sometimes I like a good swerve. what can I say?
Oh man, today is not going to be easy
News later.
Talk amongst yourselves.
Let's talk about Charlie Haas, shall we?
So some website is stating that we’ve effectively benched Charlie Haas by extending his contract but keeping him off TV, and the sole reason we’re doing so is that Kurt Angle wants to do things to him with him in TNA.
You really think we’re that petty? Or that we’d waste money like that? Who do you think we are, WCW?
We like Charlie. He’s a great talent. Solid...
Just because Jericho is losing on Sunday doesn't...
Or maybe he will. We haven’t decided yet.
Also, aren’t you all a little concerned that he’s working both shows? I mean, I thought fans cared about the wellbeing of their superstars.
Oh, wait, that’s nobody I’m talking about.
One of the reasons we made the brand split was so that instead of working two nights of TV and two house shows a week, superstars would do one...
Shawn Michaels is not retiring at Wrestlemania
Just wanted to clear that rumor up. Shawn is the healthiest guy on our roster and has a great deal many years left in him.
Also, the Undertaker isn’t losing at Wrestlemania. Ever. And when you say, what’s the fun in that? realize that the Undertaker isn’t doing this for you, idiot.
I do not at all understand Tumblarity
I’m writing this blog on the super-easy Tumblr platform, because I’m a busy man and don’t have time to build a whole site and slap fancy animations on it or what have you. It seems that Tumblr, as opposed to telling me how many people have come to the site, gives me a number that seems to represent how popular I am. I think it’s derived by the number of people who reblog me...
Spoiling TLC
Now, I’ve explained to you that I don’t book the shows. We have writers and bookers and a whole army of retired wrestlers who do that for me. But I still have final say and, although they don’t always listen to me, I generally help lay down the finishes for the big shows. Here’s what I’ve got in my head for Sunday (card subject to change).
Batista beats Taker,...
It's the Rock's fault we're still doing the Raw...
I was informed back in the spring that we’d do the Raw Guest Host thing for a few months and then can it because nobody will actually enjoy it. Basically, the whole reason we did it was to garner a little bit of good-willed public exposure. You rub our back, we’ll rub yours. But along the way, our guest hosts began to realize that shilling their bad movies or books or what have you...
We pay Jericho a lot of money to "suck"
I love it when the smarks get ansy. Some WWE fans will actually chide other WWE fans for booing or name-calling a wrestler who is currently playing a bad guy. These fans, the “smart” ones who know that Chris Jericho is actually a very nice person and basically our unofficial ambassador to the world of intelligent free-thinkers, will often criticize other fans for booing him, even...
A deal's a deal
We gave Mark Cuban a shot at Guest Host on Raw, and now the NBA is never to double book a venue with us and some stupid “basket-ball” team ever again.
So they want to play, huh?
January 4th. That’s the date when shit gets real. Monday Night Raw. TNA whatever-the-hell-they-do. One on one. Same time slot. One ring to rule them all. Will you choose four sided, or six? Fireworks, or stupid lasers? Sports Entertainment, or Sports Entertainment with cruiserweights?
Look, there’s no denying that the Monday Night Wars were a lot of fun for the fans. It took the...
I'm still trying to figure out why we're promoting...
I know that we make these posters months in advance, but Edge was injured in June, and we knew for a fact he wouldn’t be back in time for something like this. Nobody in our marketing department found a picture of two active wrestlers who work for us fighting in a TLC match? I find that difficult to believe.
This is almost as bad as Vengeance 2001 when we revolved the entire PPV around the...