Interesting timing regarding Air Boom's title loss

Last week we passed on the news that Evan Bourne was in the doghouse with Triple H for his outspoken reaction to his recent thirty day WWE suspension for smoking Spice. Apparently, Bourne was blamed for the rumours leaking that he had been partaking in that substance with a higher ranking friend of his on the WWE roster who was initially punished differently than he was. It made WWE look bad when they suspended R-Truth almost immediately after the Survivor Series pay-per-view, suggesting that they had sat on a failed test for three weeks before taking the proper action.

However, in this week's Wrestling Observer Newsletter, we were told that Bourne's friends disputed this version of events:

Those close to Bourne say that the story here regarding anything he did in talking about R-Truth to anyone isn't true, that his drug test failure and R-Truth's were unrelated, not at the same place, and he never spoke to anyone about R-Truth. The claim is also that it was Bourne who went to HHH at TV when he returned to apologize for failing the drug test and not HHH going to him, that the conversation was positive except his saying that the stories going around weren't true. They also said Bourne never said anything resembling being frustrated with the company on twitter. His remark about wondering if the next WWE video game would come with constant references in commentary to twitter was meant completely as a joke. The claim was he wrote that as a way to promote the video game.

Of course, this should be taken with a huge grain of salt given the source. It also doesn't explain why Bourne retweeted to all his followers a damaging article by Irv Muchnick about the ImPACT neurocognitive testing system that WWE uses and was developed by their medical consultants Dr. Joseph Maroon and Dr. Mark Lovell. Clearly, bad science is also a laughing matter in Bourne's eyes.

Just four days after this news item was published, Air Boom suffered the indignity of losing their WWE tag titles to Epico and Primo at an ordinary house show, which is probably more than just coincidental timing. WWE management hates their performers blabbing to the dirt sheets and how that story was worded would lead one to believe that Kofi Kingston was its source. That might not have been the case, but it also wouldn't be the first time that Vince McMahon has jumped to conclusions and abused someone on a misinformed whim. Whomever spoke to Dave Meltzer likely made things much worse for Evan Bourne and in future they should hold their tongues and stop helping him dig a massive hole for himself, which at this point he would be lucky to escape from without being buried for months on end before being handed his pink slip.