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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
ESPN power rankings
ESPN has updated their WWE power rankings, heres the list
10.Fandango
9.Sheamus and Randy Orton
8.Jack Swagger
7.Kofi Kingston
6.Team Hell NO
5.John Cena
4.Dolph Ziggler
3.CM Punk
2.The Shield
1.Brock Lesnar
UNDERTAKER HAD KNEE SURGERY BEFORE WRESTLEMANIA
The Undertaker reportedly underwent minor knee surgery a few weeks prior to his WrestleMania 29 match against CM Punk. The operation was described as a “simple cleanup,” according to prowrestling.net. Undertaker has undergone shoulder, hip and knee surgeries in recent years, but was said to be in good shape following WrestleMania.
THE ROCK PREVIEWS FAST & FURIOUS 6, NEWS ON HIS ‘FAST 7′ FILMING CONFLICT
The Rock tweeted the following on Tuesday night about his upcoming movie, “Fast & Furious 6″ as well as a sneak peek of his character in the movie, Hobbs:
Dwayne Johnson
@TheRock
"Just watched private screening - FAST & FURIOUS 6. Proud of my director Justin Lin. #EpicAction #HobbsTheBeast pic.twitter.com/Bi93R6ajlS"
9:37 AM - 17 Apr 2013
Producers have already signed on for a seventh installment for the Fast and Furious franchise, which is tentatively scheduled for a Summer 2014 release. There are several entertainment websites that are reporting that The Rock’s filming schedule for Hercules could conflict with the production of Fast & Furious 7.
Reason For CM Punk’s Promo On This Week’s WWE Raw
CM Punk’s promo on this week’s episode of WWE Raw was done to write him off television as he won’t be traveling with the company on their upcoming overseas tour.
Punk has been working banged up for months and came out of his match against Undertaker at Wrestlemania 29 in rough shape. Punk is reportedly less than 50% healthy and while it’s not believed he needs surgery, he needs time away from the ring to heal up.
Justin Roberts
@JustinRoberts
"It's @CMPunk & @HeymanHustle live now on @WWE #RAW...very curious to hear what they have to say.. pic.twitter.com/QL70DMXdCe"
8:18 AM - 16 Apr 2013
CODY RHODES TALKS ABOUT WHEN HIS TIME WILL COME, WORKING WITH ORTON IN LEGACY
Cody Rhodes recently appeared on Busted Open with Dave Lagreca and Doug Mortman, which you can hear on Sirius 92 and XM 208. Below are some highlights from his interview:
When his time will come:
“When Dolph is a world champ. This year after Money in the Bank, and Dolph is the guy who won MITB, there was this real drop off of all this momentum and moving forward and I don’t blame anyone but myself; not that something bad happened or anything like that. I hate when people say stuff like ‘the push’, it’s just a matter of sometimes, I’m never going to be patient and fans of mine I hope they know I’m not sitting there waiting, but as a company there are several superstars that whether you want them now, it’s a slow thing. It’s a slow building process and I think it’ll be all the more satisfying. I grew up a fan of Shawn Michaels. I watched the whole time. He makes it to the WM match and he doesn’t win the title. Then the next title match he goes an hour and he doesn’t win the title in the hour but they’re going to go sudden death and then he finally got the title and I was just fully satisfied as him being the greatest WM performer of all time. That’s the goal. That’s the guy I’d like to pattern myself as. I hate the fact the people said ‘you’re the future’ and we’re not there yet, but we’ll get there.”
His time working with Randy Orton in Legacy:
“We forget that Randy was 21 when he debuted on television. He had a chance to grow up with the audience. Randy was an extreme influence, still is, and we’re both now able to do our own things and initially he took me and Ted Dibiase under his wing and it wasn’t like ‘Randy is a friend of ours, he’s going to be easy on us,’ I think Randy was harder on us than even Triple H was in that whole grooming process; Legacy versus DX, then him versus Triple H and them going into Wrestlemania 25; so I will always owe him a good chunk of my career.”
MARIA KANELLIS ADDRESSES WWE RETURN RUMORS, DRAMA WITH OTHER WWE DIVAS
Former WWE Diva recently spoke to Slam.Canoe.Ca about recent reports that she was in talks with WWE about appearing at WrestleMania – and rumors that there are people in WWE who don’t want to work with her. Here are some highlights of what he said about:
Recent Talks With WWE Before WrestleMania:
“I did get contacted by WWE at the end of January, beginning of February, something like that, and for about a month, I was in talks with WWE,” Kanellis said. “We talked about contracts, I had no problem with anything that was in the contract; but about a month after, they called back and said they weren’t moving forward with the storyline.”
Reports of WWE Divas Not Wanting to Work With Her:
“I’m friends most of the girls, I talk with a lot of them at least once a week if not a couple times a week, so I don’t know where that comes from,” she said. “I’m completely happy with WWE and I believe they’re completely happy with me as well, so if that opportunity ever were to arise again and I wasn’t locked up on something else, I would love to go back.”
“I can’t imagine them being that immature to say something like that. This is a business world and I treat wrestling as a business as well as my passion. I just can’t imagine anybody doing that and being that silly. As far as I know it was just a storyline thing."
Past Issues With People In WWE:
"I get along with pretty much everyone; I don’t have those issues. I had disagreements with people in the past, but I really worked hard to get rid of those disagreements. I really want to live my life with positivity. I don’t want any kind of animosity out there about me. When I first got out of WWE, I was fiery and all that kind of stuff, but now, looking back, WWE was a great experience for me and I’m so glad I got to do everything I did there.”
BRET HART TALKS WRESTLEMANIA 29, HIS FAVORITE WWE SUPERSTARS & MORE
WWE Hall of Famer Bret Hart recently spoke with WrestleNewz.com and answered several fan questions. Here are some highlights:
His Experience at WrestleMania 29:
“I really enjoyed it. The most fun for me was seeing a lot of the legends and the old names and faces that I’ve known for so many years — Jimmy Snuka, Roddy Piper and those kinds of guys. I was really quite impressed with seeing the great Bruno Sammartino and hearing his induction speech. To hear his struggle through his childhood with the Nazis — I never knew a lot of that stuff about Bruno. So I was quite touched by him. I got to run into him two or three times over that week, and he was really impressive to me.”
The WrestleMania 29 Pay-Per-view:
“I thought parts of it were really good. But parts of it I thought were, for me, very predictable. I kind of predicted things in my head and certain matches went exactly as I thought they would. But the one match I thought was outstanding was the Punk-Undertaker match. That was truly exceptional. They really had a great match — they couldn’t have done a better job with taking two different guys from two different eras and fusing them together to create the match that they got.”
His Favorite Current WWE Superstars:
“Right now I’m very impressed with Punk. And I’m very impressed with the one guy in The Shield — what’s his name O’Connell, O’Donnell? — Ambrose, that’s it. He’s really good. He’s got it down. He’s such a first-rate thinker on his feet when it comes to his timing, his expressions, his quickness, his deviousness. I love his deviousness! I saw him this past weekend and told him I thought he was great.”
Thoughts on a meme showing him giving The Rock’s Rock Bottom to John Cena on the go-home RAW a 4/10:
“I haven’t seen it, but it might be closer to the truth than people think. I don’t know if my look was on purpose. Sometimes I make funny expressions on my own that make me laugh. When there are people snapping pictures from every angle, it’s hard to know how you’ll look.
But personally, I thought when he did the big move on (Cena), he kind of flubbed it up. He didn’t do it very well. It was like a four out of 10! They seemed to trip with their toes. They didn’t really get positioned right at all. They kind of tripped over each other. It’s hard to say who tripped over who, but I thought somebody flubbed it. Maybe Rock flubbed it. Yeah, I would say four out of 10. Four may be generous!”
What it will take for WWE’s tag team division to be revived:
“I think what it needs is for Vince McMahon to give it half a chance. The reason there’s no tag team wrestling is that Vince McMahon just woke up one day and realized he doesn’t like tag team wrestling. So they’re just slowly but surely eliminating it. I always loved it. It’s been part of wrestling since the beginning. It’s got a different kind of psychology. Different kind of teams can tell different kinds of stories. I think there’s a lot to be said for great tag team wrestling. I just think that Vince McMahon, or someone in the corporate side of the company, has made this decision to slowly phase it out.”
WWE EXTREME RULES RUMORED MATCHES
After Monday’s RAW, the card for next month’s WWE Extreme Rules pay-per-view is starting to take shape:
HHH vs Brock Lesnar III
Triple H vs. Brock Lesnar III will take place inside a steel cage. Paul Heyman issued the challenge on his client’s behalf, stating that Triple H’s win at WrestleMania was merely evening the score between the two men after Lesnar dismantled The Game last summer at SummerSlam.WWE Championship - John Cena vs RYback
WWE Champion John Cena will defend against Ryback. The match has not been officially confirmed by WWE, but Ryback tweeted before RAW, “Stay tuned tonight I speak the truth. Sunday May 19th #ExtremeRules @johncena vs @Ryback22 for the WWE Title. #FeedingTime #RybackRules.” The promo Ryback cut on Cena and the beatdown by The Shield that Ryback stood around for all but guarantee these two will be squaring off soon.Triple threat match for the World Heavyweight championship - Dolph Ziggler vs Alberto Del Rio vs Jack Swagger
SmackDown General Manager Booker T announced on RAW that World Heavyweight champion Dolph Ziggler will defend in a three-way match against Alberto Del Rio and Jack Swagger. It was not confirmed that the match will take place at Extreme Rules, but we should get more information at tonight’s SmackDown tapings.Also rumored for the show is The Shield challenging Team Hell No for the WWE tag titles.
RYBACK SAYS HE’S THE VILLAIN AGAINST CENA, MENTIONS CENA’S EX-WIFE
Ever since Ryback attacked John Cena on last week’s post-WrestleMania edition of WWE RAW, there’s been a lot of speculation as to whether he’s now a heel or simply gunning for the WWE Champion. Ryback’s promo from RAW and his failure to aid John Cena when he was getting beat down by The Shield indicated that Ryback does in fact have a dark side.
With the following tweet he made after RAW, it appears Ryback is in fact embracing the role of villain against WWE hero John Cena:
Every story needs a hero and a villain. Looks like I picked the right one. Doomsday has risen and is very hungry.#RybackRules
— Ryback (@Ryback22) April 16, 2013
Ryback also tweeted this on Tuesday afternoon, referencing Cena’s ex-wife Elizabeth:
Watching the pain on Cena’s face was worth standing back for. Funny the 2 things he says I lack his ex wife seems to love. #RybackRules
— Ryback (@Ryback22) April 16, 2013
TRIPLE H UNDERGOES MRI
Triple H underwent an MRI on his wrist this week because there is some concern that he might have suffered a scaphoid fracture. The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons describes the injury as typically being “caused by a fall on an outstretched hand, with the weight landing on the palm.”
WWE
@WWE
"Possible reason @TripleH was late for #Raw. Ruling out scaphoid fracture via MRI. pic.twitter.com/OgG7oBxxFG"
2:21 AM - 17 Apr 2013
KOFI KINGSTON INTERVIEW
New WWE United States Champion Kofi Kingston was recently interviewed by the UK’s Evening Times to promote this week’s overseas live events tour. Here are highlights of what he said about:
Returning Overseas With WWE:
“This is one of the tours we look forward to the most as the environment and culture are both very different to the USA. We often hear some pretty unique football chants at the Scottish shows.”
Part-Time Wrestlers In Top WrestleMania Matches:
“The Rock and Brock Lesnar have really paved the way for guys like me. Maybe somewhere down the line we can be the ones coming back for the big appearances and there is certainly a desire for young talent to come through to high profile matches. I’m sure you’ll see that in the coming years.”
Turning Heel:
“Everybody on Twitter seems to want me to turn bad… I would try my hand at anything and I think I could do it well.”
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