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The Miz received a dressing down from Triple H after WWE Raw
In an update to my story about how The Miz had backstage heat for failing to protect R-Truth on a flip dive on Monday's Raw, it seems that the anger directed toward him was not solely from his fellow wrestlers, but also WWE management too. According to Dave Meltzer in his latest Wrestling Observer...
Cageside Video: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Here, Cagesiders, I bring you a video of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's recent appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to promote his latest movie Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. Charming as ever, he had the crowd eating from the palm of his hand while crooning on a ukelele and cracking...
The Miz has backstage heat for failing to protect R-Truth on WWE Raw
In an update to Geno Mrosko's post about R-Truth being lucky to avoid a serious injury like a concussion after The Miz was out of position to catch him on a somersault plancha in the Six Pack Challenge Raw main event, Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez of f4wonline.com have confirmed that Miz has...
New Japan Pro Wrestling's new owner says he wants to surpass WWE in popularity
Last week was a major game changer for the Japanese wrestling industry. The owners of Japan's largest wrestling company New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), Yuke's, the developers of THQ's WWE videogames for over a decade, shockingly sold the promotion for just over $6.5 million to Bushiroad Group...
WWE's TLC PPV draws a relatively solid number of buys
Dave Meltzer has reported in this week's Wrestling Observer Newsletter that WWE's last pay-per-view of 2011, TLC or Tables, Ladders and Chairs, drew 182,000 worldwide buys, 100,000 of which came from North America. The numbers were ever so slightly down from last year's ones of 191,000 worldwide...
Sheamus won the WWE Royal Rumble just to swerve the Internet
Our friend Mike Johnson of the pro wrestling site with spyware has confirmed that the main reason Sheamus won the Royal Rumble last night was "in order to throw a curve ball at fans" who expected Chris Jericho to win, their previously pencilled in victor. They had Michael Cole attempt to create...
[Potential spoilers] - Will we see a bad surprise ending to the Royal Rumble tonight?
As Geno Mrosko covered a few days ago, everyone has figured out that Randy Orton and Chris Jericho are the two men who are most likely to win the Royal Rumble tonight. No-one else would make sense as a victor, which is really an indictment on the WWE creative team who should have crafted...
WWE pay-per-view schedule losing Money in the Bank this year?
It would seem as though the WWE 2012 pay-per-view schedule is getting yet another makeover. This time, word comes down from Dave Meltzer at the Wrestling Observer that Money in the Bank is being dropped from the line--up as a stand alone show and two shows are being moved around to make up for...
WWE Hall Of Fame 2012: Yokozuna expected in, Randy Savage out
Our friend Mike Johnson at the pro wrestling site with spyware has recently reported that the next big name likely to be announced for WWE's Hall Of Fame class in 2012 will be the late Yokozuna, joining the already announced names of Mil Mascaras, Edge and The Four Horsemen of Ric Flair, Barry...
WWE signs celebrity son Jody Kristofferson to a developmental contract
WWE is enamoured with celebrity. Just ask the otherwise pointless David Otunga whose big push as a part of Nexus and continued employment is mainly due to the fact that he's engaged to be married to talented singer and actress Jennifer Hudson. Often getting your foot in the door with WWE is much...
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