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Dave Meltzer publicly clears up what he meant by the Brock Lesnar that's looking for an "exit...

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Dave Meltzer publicly clears up what he meant by the Brock Lesnar that's looking for an "exit strategy" to the confused Steve Cofield of Yahoo! Sports. He meant that Brock was looking to prepare for his retirement within the next few years. He says he hasn't been told that Brock only has one fight left and thus doesn't know whether this is a bargaining chip (or a negotiating ploy to raise his asking price as Kid Nate speculated yesterday). He says the last thing he would expect Brock to do is to go back to pro wrestling (i.e. WWE) full time, because Brock hated the travel and the toll it took on his body (just making that clear to the MMA fans who might naively think that's a serious possibility). He says friends of Lesnar have talked about the "give and give" situation where Brock would coach on the next season of The Ultimate Fighter in return for doing WrestleMania, but Brock hasn't as best he can tell, brought this idea up with Dana White, nor does he expect him to. He says that doing both would be perfectly timed with when his book is set to be released. Egged on by Cofield, he said he was mad at people for misquoting him off his radio show (to be fair, Dave deserves a lot of the blame for this one, given that he didn't make clear that Brock wasn't looking for an immediate exit strategy, just one down the line in a few years time).

Keep in mind that this could be a negotiating ploy to get more from Dana White. It's been widely...

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Keep in mind that this could be a negotiating ploy to get more from Dana White. It's been widely speculated that Lesnar would like to headline WrestleMania in 2011 and Dana won't let him. White has openly discussed his desire to book Lesnar against Frank Mir as a coach on The Ultimate Fighter. Rumors of a Brendan Schaub vs Frank Mir match in spring 2011 seemed to have scotched that possibility, but yesterday's announcement that Schaub would be facing Stefan Struve Mirko Filipovic aka Cro Cop, re-opens Mir-Lesnar 3 as a possible capper to an epic season of TUF. My bet (hope) is that Meltzer's source is someone in the Lesnar camp (ie Paul Heyman) who is trying to talk up Lesnar's disinterest in returning to the UFC in order to raise the asking price.

Kid Nate speculates that the recent leaked information about Brock Lesnar's current negative mindset is a negotiating ploy by his camp to raise his asking price." As an update to Kid Nate's story, Dave Meltzer on today's Wrestling Observer radio show was speculating (some would say pushing the idea) again that Brock Lesnar being a coach on The Ultimate Fighter reality TV show with Frank Mir would be a mutually favourable ratings quid pro quo for Dana White allowing Brock to pick up an easy WrestleMania pay check. According to Meltzer, Lesnar's goal for this year is to make as much money as possible. What better way to maximise his autobiography sales, that Paul Heyman ghost wrote, than to appear both on WWE Raw and The Ultimate Fighter almost simultaneously in the run up to the book’s release?

According to Jason Powell of ProWrestling.net, Spike TV has cancelled TNA Reaction, effective from...

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According to Jason Powell of ProWrestling.net, Spike TV has cancelled TNA Reaction, effective from the end of this month. This is clearly bad news for TNA, given that they rely on their revenue from Spike TV to keep them afloat. However, it may be even worse news for Eric Bischoff, as Bischoff-Hervey Productions produced Reaction and getting Spike TV to pay for an extra hour of television from TNA was the only major positive from a management perspective that he has brought to the table since joining the company as an executive consultant.

Hulk Hogan spends Christmas recovering from back fusion surgery

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The last time Hulk Hogan claimed to have been hospitalised with his back, it actually turned out to be a work to swerve hardcore fans into believing that he wouldn't turn up at the Bound For Glory PPV a few days later to make his heel turn on the show all the more shocking. However, ultimately his last back surgery to insert a spinal cord stimulator must have indeed failed, as he's been forced to take the last resort of back fusion surgery. Clearly Hogan shouldn't wrestle ever again, but I sadly doubt that we've seen his last match.

Flock Flashback, Week 3. Raven recollects as best he can an anecdote of a 3 day bender with Perry...

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Flock Flashback, Week 3. Raven recollects as best he can an anecdote of a 3 day bender with Perry Saturn, Lodi and Scotty Riggs culminating in a night club in Baltimore the night before a WCW PPV before telling us not to do drugs and sharing some of his psychiatrist's insight. Have to agree, Raven was like the Keith Richards of Pro Wrestling considering all the other guys he's outlived.

Kaval Endeavored

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I really hate this company sometimes

Smackdown Superstar Kaval has been released by WWE, according to their website. Anyone care to...

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Smackdown Superstar Kaval has been released by WWE, according to their website. Anyone care to speculate on why?

Koscheck between rounds during the fight vs. GSP!

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Koscheck between rounds during the fight vs. GSP!