WWE Vintage Collection Report: May 27th 2012 By Shaun Best-Rajah.com Reporter Hosted by: Mean Gene Okerlund Welcome aboard. This week, we conclude our two week look at WCW Slamboree. May 21st 1995: “Chief” Wahoo McDaniel vs “Dirty” Dick Murdoch Slamboree was originally billed as a “legends reunion” event, with inductees into the short-lived WCW Hall…
– Tyler Reks and Curt Hawkins tweeted the following on Monday night after their match against Kofi Kingston and R-Truth on RAW: Reks: “Hey, #Change takes time people. Non-title match tonight so we didn’t want to pull out all our tricks. More Reks & @TheCurtHawkins to come.” Hawkins: “Well… I had a match on Raw….
– Sting was announced as the first inductee into TNA’s Hall of Fame at Sunday’s TNA Slammiversary pay-per-view. The official induction ceremony will take place at the Bound For Glory pay-per-view in October. The belief in TNA is that more than one person will be inducted at Bound For Glory – and Sting will be…
NJPW has announced the lineup for Friday’s Road to Lion’s Break Contender edition of NJPW Strong. In the main event, JR Kratos and Danny Limelight of Team Filthy will team with a mystery partner against Brody King, Sterling Riegel, and Logan Riegel. This will be the second consecutive NJPW Strong main event for King, who…
Rory McAllister, who appeared for WWE from 2006 to 2008 as a member of The Highlanders, feels today’s crop of Divas don’t compare to the extraordinary bombshells of days gone by. Though attractive in their own right, he categorizes today’s female talent as ‘girls,’ rather than ‘Divas,’ and lacking special, indefinable attributes. “WWE has some…
The WWE’s website has an interview up with ring announcer Justin Roberts, who celebrated 10 years with WWE this past Monday. Here are some highlights of what he said about: Celebrating 10 Years With WWE: “It’s really cool have accomplished 10 years of ring announcing with WWE. I was a wrestling fan who lived for…
During a recent interview with the Trentonian, Dolph Ziggler said he would still like to wrestle Zack Ryder at WrestleMania 29 from the Metlife Stadium in NY/NJ. Ziggler, who currently holds a Money in the Bank briefcase with an opportunity to wrestle the World Heavyweight champion at any time, says he’d still want to wrestle…
It was announced on Friday’s Smackdown that the Interim General Manager next week’s RAW Supershow & Tuesday’s live “Great American Bash” Super SmackDown will be none other than Teddy Long. WWE is bringing back former General Managers each week to run RAW and SmackDown on a temporary basis until a new permanent General Manager will…
– Two-time WWE Champion Bob Backlund is the latest addition to WWE.com’s Alumni section: “As American as apple pie, Bob Backlund was a beloved WWE Champion in the ’70s and ’80s, but in the ’90s, he snapped and became a crazed, bowtie-wearing madman. Relive his shocking transformation on his new WWE.com Alumni profile with classic…
– Randy Orton, who is currently serving a 60-day suspension for his second violation of WWE’s Talent Wellness Program, is scheduled to compete in a future World Heavyweight Championship Match. On September 18 at the SmackDown taping at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he will face Sheamus and Alberto Del Rio in a…