Nash's comments are so funny considering that his WWF career started on the back of a guy who was... kind of small... Sean Michaels... 
THE WRESTLING THREAD: HHH KEEPS DOING HHH THINGS.....
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WWE star Chris Jericho responded via Twitter to Kevin Nash's statement in a Grantland.com interview that the business died when Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benoit hugged at the end of WrestleMania 20
WWE legend Kevin Nash responded to Chris Jericho pointing out that WWE business was at its worst when Nash wore the WWE Championship in 1995.
Chris Jericho kept his Twitter exchange with Kevin Nash going via his latest Tweet:
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WWE Title Plans
Posted by Steve Carrier on 08/08/2012 at 04:18 PM
WWE's booking committee are contemplating a scenario where CM Punk would drop the WWE Championship to John Cena at SummerSlam to set up a rematch between Cena and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson at Royal Rumble-Johnson announced at Raw 1,000 that he would face whomever the WWE Champion is at the January pay-per-view event. Johnson would defeat Cena at the Rumble and then defend the title against Punk at WrestleMania XXIX.
Posted by Steve Carrier on 08/08/2012 at 04:18 PM
WWE's booking committee are contemplating a scenario where CM Punk would drop the WWE Championship to John Cena at SummerSlam to set up a rematch between Cena and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson at Royal Rumble-Johnson announced at Raw 1,000 that he would face whomever the WWE Champion is at the January pay-per-view event. Johnson would defeat Cena at the Rumble and then defend the title against Punk at WrestleMania XXIX.
Nash's comments are so funny considering that his WWF career started on the back of a guy who was... kind of small... Sean Michaels...
The end...Shawn made all those guys relevent
They haven't had a decent hell in a cell since the gamecube games, on the cube the cell had a lot more room on the outside which was great for tag/fatal four ways.
Awesome. I'm genuinely offended when I devastate my opponents with my patented BLACK TIGER BOMB and the crowd is like nothing just happened.
If Xbox Live & PSN were smart they would put an updated No Mercy out for a downloadable purchase. An updated No Mercy would sell like crack.
I've been treating the WWE games like Madden by only buying them every few years as opposed to every year. I was tired of buying the game every year only for it to be a roster update and minimal changes.
I think they fuck up the potential quality of the game by trying to produce a title every year.
So I give them a year or two to polish up their graphics, mechanics and shit, maybe an extra year if they added some new technology, and that makes me feel like when I buy the new game that I'm truly getting an upgraded game.
I think the last one I bought was 2010, so I might cop '13.
I think they fuck up the potential quality of the game by trying to produce a title every year.
So I give them a year or two to polish up their graphics, mechanics and shit, maybe an extra year if they added some new technology, and that makes me feel like when I buy the new game that I'm truly getting an upgraded game.
I think the last one I bought was 2010, so I might cop '13.
Wow. I noticed she wasn't there but I hadn't seen why.
If Punk beats Rock, that's perfect but seeing how far away that is, we'll see. I'm glad to see them doing some long term booking like they used to do but a lot of shit can happen in 8 months.
More on Nash
KEVIN NASH RESPONDS TO HIS CRITICISM, EXPLAINS WHY HE WAS PULLED FROM THE RING DURING THE CM PUNK FEUD AND MOREby Mike Ryker @ 3:26 PM on 8/9/2012
"Big Sexy" Kevin Nash was on Busted Open with Dave Lagreca and Doug Mortman.. You can hear Busted Open from 2-4 ET on Sirius 94, XM 208, and Sportszone 860 on the internet.
On his recent comments about the size of today’s top guys: "I’m talking about them as wrestlers, I’m talking about them as their wrestling persona as far as visual. I’m not talking about anything [else]. I’ve stated before, these guys are incredibly great technical wrestlers. All of them. But there’s a reason why Chrisitan Bale in Batman has armor on and is bigger than life. There’s a reason why in all these Marvel movies if [the guys] don’t have gigantic muscles and aren’t oversized, they’re CGIs. I don’t remember Stan Lee when he started Marvel Comics making a 5-foot-7 guy."
Note from Mike Johnson: Peter Parker was a puny teenager when he became Spider-Man and Wolverine is 5'3"!
On Shawn Michaels succeeding despite not being a ‘big guy’: "Shawn Michaels was 6-foot-1 and a half and weighed 225 pounds in his prime. That’s a big difference between 5-foot-7. That’s a difference between a 6-foot-8 power forward and a 7-foot-1 center. CM Punk doesn’t have Shawn Michaels’ physical ability. I mean, Vince Carter and [Michael] Jordan are the same size."
On the PG Era and CM Punk: "I think the number one thing that hurts still is the fact that they’re PG. I’m a huge fan of Punk’s [but] I’m sorry, it’s hard for me to watch two grown men say they’re going to beat the crap out of each other. That’s my personal opinion. I’m also saying that it doesn’t look to me like he spends a lot of time in the weight room. I just think it would enhance his look and everything. We were all drug free and drug tested for years at the WWE, and there were a lot of guys that had great physiques. I think that comes with it."
On the widespread reaction his comments received: "You guys aren’t backstage, you guys aren’t around when the brass makes decisions. You guys aren’t around when they all say, ‘God, I wish he was bigger,’ [or] ‘God yeah, but the guy just doesn’t have enough size.’ It’s their opinion. I’m just stating my opinion. I’m not saying I’m right. But am I not allowed my opinion? I pay taxes, I’m allowed my opinion. In my opinion, that’s how I feel. That doesn’t mean anybody else has to jump aboard and say I have to agree with him because he says so. Number one, I’ve always been an Internet darling and always will be and if I were to say something and was just somebody that didn’t have an opinion, you wouldn’t be calling me. It’s just because Kevin Nash said it. Oh my God, Kevin Nash said it. Oh my God, Jericho rebutted. For Eddie [Guerrero] and Chris [Benoit], Eddie was a friend [and] Chris was a friend. When the tragedy went down with Benoit I think I was one of the few guys that went on TV and tried to make some sense of it. These people that think I’m desecrating deceased wrestlers; I’m talking about them as [wrestlers] and not the person. Sometimes I look at it and I just go you know what, don’t even have an opinion, be a sheep like everybody else."
On Chris Jericho’s tweet that the worst year of WWE business was when he was champion: " Absolutley disagree. When I walked in the door in 1993, we did a $100,000 gate at Madison Square Garden. My last show at the Garden we did $309,000 before I jumped to WCW and I was in the main event with Shawn Michaels. I absolutely disagree. The business was better when I left than when I got there."
On if the company’s future is in good hands with Triple H: "Absolutely. I think he’ll change the product in the way that he feels is good to change the product. I don’t think the product will stay the same. I think that he has a different vision than other people do. I’m just saying other people; I mean, Vince isn’t the only one that is in the meetings and has a voice. There’s other people. Kevin Dunn . . . There’s a lot of people that have a voice in that company."
On John Cena: "I think he’s fantastic. I think he’s stayed true, I think he’s playing the hardest part in wrestling which is the white-meat babyface. He never looks anything but fantasitc. Even though he’s not a giant, tall man, he has a bigger than life personality."
On a problem WWE has that many people don’t realize: "The biggest problem that the WWE probably has right now, and which people don’t think about, is they’ve got guys down there that have been on handheld cameras for 25 years. It’s not easy to shoot pro wrestling. Somebody sooner or later has to take Kerwin [Silfies’] spot, has to take Dunn’s spot in those trucks [and] has to make those incredible last-second calls that makes a near-miss look like the person gets their head taken off. Their prodcution alone is impeccable. When you look at the company and the scope of its international ability and everything that it does, it’s beyond first-rate."
On if the WWE went in a different direction because of MMA: "No. I think what happened is MMA got hot, and just like anything else, you buy a $60 fight, it goes a minute and 12 seconds, [and] you’re not that apt to buy another $60 fight the next month. This is where I’ll always say pro wrestling will always have a great advantage. If it’s The Rock vs. Cena at WrestleMania, you know it’s not going a minute and a half. You know it’s going to go 20-25 minutes. You go to a movie and you know the action on the movie is not real [and] yet you’re enthralled, you have complete escapism. I think that’s what pro wrestling gives you, it gives you that escapism. It gives you that ability to watch a main event for 30 minutes and feel like you’ve got your money’s worth."
On the essence of his comments: "Number one, one of the classic stories of all-time is always going to be David and Goliath. Now I doubt it would be a biblical story if it was David vs. David. I think that you always need that bigger than life [wrestler], especially in a heel role. I always want the heel to be bigger than the babyface . . . That’s my preference. I hated playing the babyface. I never liked the role because it just doesn’t make sense; they end up working your leg for 20 minutes because they’re not gong to be able to pick you up and throw you around. It just doesn’t work."
On if he has an issue with CM Punk: "Yeah, I have such an issue with him that we fell asleep next to each other in the locker room in London and I knew he had a bad back and I made sure that he got up so he wouldn't have to be in too much pain. I hung around with him most of the time that I was on the Europeran trip. I talked to him on a daily basis. We were handed edits to our live intereviews 30 seconds before we went on live to Raw and basically had the ability to look at each other like we’re going out into a fox hole together. I have nothing but respect for Phil, I’ve said that a million times."
On his feud with CM Punk last year: "I think I was so rusty; I basically spent five years doing taped interviews. I was so out of my element and plus, it’s very controlled. It’s not like it used to be where you just kind of went out there and were able to wing it. I never felt comfortable in my element one time. I was told by Vince not to yell. ‘Don’t yell,’ ‘Don’t do this,’ ‘Your cadence is too slow.’ I was like, ‘Dude, I’ve been doing this for 25 years I talk like this.’ So it was difficult for me, I’m not going to say it wasn’t. It never felt comfortable, and you walk in the door and you don’t know anybody. I’m not saying that it was a bad experience, I wish I could have done the favor for Phil. I wish we could have had the match and I wish I could have put him over."
On why he was pulled from the feud: "What happened was I was on Plavix. And the WWE wellness doctor said that there was a chance that if I was to get an internal injury or something like that during the match that I could bleed out and die. So they had to pull me and get me off Plavix whatever the amount of time was and by that time, Triple H had to fight Punk."
On the ‘What’ chants: "The ‘What’ chants go away if you can combat them, but if you can’t say anything that’s beyond PG then you can’t . . . it’s horrible. It’s just one of those things where it takes away so much from the show, it just makes you feel like you’re watching a circus sometime. It’s horrible. It sold T-shirts but you know what? It’s the only thing Steve did wrong."
If he just stuck to the idea of wrestlers being "bigger than life" he has a great point but he's mixing in actual size and that makes his point dead wrong. Benoit was never a great personality but people bought his bad ass attitude and he was an awesome worker. Guerrero had the talent and had the personality to go with it so Nash is dead wrong on his specifically. In fact, once Benoit lost the title he never looked like he was getting it back but Guerrero was all set to get another run before he died.
No Punk doesn't have Michaels' physical ability but he shits all over him as a personality and promo. You can go further back and it's undeniable that Rick Steamboat had more physical ability than Ric Flair, Flair even says it, but Flair had the personality that made him a multi time world champion in two different national companies. Not one of the four guys I mentioned was a huge guy with Flair often being much smaller than most of his opponents.
I never thought of that but it makes perfect sense, i've played that new wrestlefest and personally it's not touching the classic version.
WWE RELEASES TALENT, HE RESPONDS COMPANY TURNED 'IT'S BACK ON ME' by Mike Johnson @ 7:08 PM on 8/10/2012
WWE informed Abraham Washington (real name, Brian Jossie) today that he was being released, just a few weeks after a comparison to his team and Kobe Bryant's rape allegations in Colorado were made on Raw.
In response, Washington wrote on his Twitter, "AWPromotions is no more ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for your support and hate, it's been a great run. Now I get to do me which isn't PG! @TitusONeilWWE & @DarrenYoungWWE thank you for allowing me to speak on your behalf. You guys are the best and I'm glad to call u my friends! I've offended the wrong people that taught me how to have ATTITUDE It was the #WWE that made me bold and now it has turned it's back on me Let this be a lesson to up and coming talent in the WWE don't try and be great like the Rock or Stone Cold. WWE isn't the same. Just be normal shut up and be a yes man so you can collect your check and feel like your special. #SELLOUTS!! I remember a time when the WWE didn't care about breaking the mold but now everyone is so afraid of their own shadow. #RemeberTheFans Thanks to the fans who showed me support over the whole Kobe thing and to those I upset I apologize again. Remember It's entertainment folks I really do hope Linda wins that election because If not then all of this BS has been for nothing. #GoLinda!! Thank you WWE for creating me and then killing me because I only portrayed what I grew up watching... The #WWE!!"
Prior to his recent run, Washington became a fixture towards the latter days of ECW on SyFy with the Abraham Washington show. He had signed a WWE developmental deal in 2009 and had been working regularly in developmental in Florida his entire run with the company.
Washington noted on Twitter he would doing stand up comedy going forward and cracked, "If you think that Kobe joke was bad wait till you hear my Vince jokes."
WHAT THE FUCK????!!!!!!
WWE informed Abraham Washington (real name, Brian Jossie) today that he was being released, just a few weeks after a comparison to his team and Kobe Bryant's rape allegations in Colorado were made on Raw.
In response, Washington wrote on his Twitter, "AWPromotions is no more ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for your support and hate, it's been a great run. Now I get to do me which isn't PG! @TitusONeilWWE & @DarrenYoungWWE thank you for allowing me to speak on your behalf. You guys are the best and I'm glad to call u my friends! I've offended the wrong people that taught me how to have ATTITUDE It was the #WWE that made me bold and now it has turned it's back on me Let this be a lesson to up and coming talent in the WWE don't try and be great like the Rock or Stone Cold. WWE isn't the same. Just be normal shut up and be a yes man so you can collect your check and feel like your special. #SELLOUTS!! I remember a time when the WWE didn't care about breaking the mold but now everyone is so afraid of their own shadow. #RemeberTheFans Thanks to the fans who showed me support over the whole Kobe thing and to those I upset I apologize again. Remember It's entertainment folks I really do hope Linda wins that election because If not then all of this BS has been for nothing. #GoLinda!! Thank you WWE for creating me and then killing me because I only portrayed what I grew up watching... The #WWE!!"
Prior to his recent run, Washington became a fixture towards the latter days of ECW on SyFy with the Abraham Washington show. He had signed a WWE developmental deal in 2009 and had been working regularly in developmental in Florida his entire run with the company.
Washington noted on Twitter he would doing stand up comedy going forward and cracked, "If you think that Kobe joke was bad wait till you hear my Vince jokes."
WHAT THE FUCK????!!!!!!
Wow fuck them for that man.
I hate PG wrestling. Good luck to AW in the future. Jericho shits on a country's flag and he still working. AW cracks a joke and he gets a pink slip
. What Jericho did was worse IMO. TNA should pick him up and pair him with The Pope.I miss the days of old when we had Ernie Ladd making fun of rednecks and native americans, Mr. Fuji calling Bob Backlund a honky, Booker T calling Hogan a nigga, Russian and Arab wrestlers shitting on America, and Tully Blanchard slapping Baby Doll. I miss the old days
I figured they would cut him loose. Damn shame.
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This explains why Divas sleep around with the male talent. Give up the pussy and share a room. Also wrestlers need to unionize.
Vince is running a global company like an indy fed
If Vince was younger, black, and a record mogul he would = PDiddy and Baby.
AW still going in..
VINCE MCMAHON CAN SAY THE N WORD ON NATIONAL T.V. BUT @AWPromotions CAN'T TELL A JOKE.............whats wrong with this picture???
McMahon is a hypocrite! It's cool for him to mock JR's Bells Palsy, & you aren't cut any slack for one joke? #BeAStarVince.
I hope Vince hasn't forgot How he mocked @JRsBBQ on #RAW live, and @AWPromotions gets released for one joke?
@if only you had strangled someone with your tie, you'd be back within 6 months lol.
so Dx can tell everyone to suck it but u can't make a joke?
@CMPunk told one of his twitter followers to kill themselves. biggest double standard in the world.
@kane has sex with a dead girl but @AWPromotions makes a kobe joke and gets fired.
Vince can kick the leg out from under a one legged kid, wrestle women, mock The mentally retarded and he fired you!!!
@Didn't Big Show make a Kobe Bryant reference in a battle rap with Cena in 2003 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V6gr8CB-Eg ... but AW gets let go?
VINCE MCMAHON CAN SAY THE N WORD ON NATIONAL T.V. BUT @AWPromotions CAN'T TELL A JOKE.............whats wrong with this picture???
McMahon is a hypocrite! It's cool for him to mock JR's Bells Palsy, & you aren't cut any slack for one joke? #BeAStarVince.
I hope Vince hasn't forgot How he mocked @JRsBBQ on #RAW live, and @AWPromotions gets released for one joke?
@if only you had strangled someone with your tie, you'd be back within 6 months lol.
so Dx can tell everyone to suck it but u can't make a joke?
@CMPunk told one of his twitter followers to kill themselves. biggest double standard in the world.
@kane has sex with a dead girl but @AWPromotions makes a kobe joke and gets fired.
Vince can kick the leg out from under a one legged kid, wrestle women, mock The mentally retarded and he fired you!!!
@Didn't Big Show make a Kobe Bryant reference in a battle rap with Cena in 2003 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V6gr8CB-Eg ... but AW gets let go?
I already mentioned on how Y2J shitted on Brazil. Wrestlers still need a union though. That is the only way the abuse will stop. Time off, travel expenses, insurance, and medical benefits should be standard. As well as protection against corporate tightwads who push a few and bury others needlessly.
John Cena and Matt Striker can make jokes about people dying days after it happens tho
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WWE COMMENTS ON WHY THEY DROPPED ABRAHAM WASHINGTON
by Mike Johnson @ 10:25 AM on 8/11/2012
TMZ.com updated their story on the firing of Brian "Abraham Washington" Jossie overnight as a WWE rep explained why he was released:
"Unfortunately, Brian Jossie, playing the character of A.W. was terminated because he continued to exhibit poor judgment by making offensive and inappropriate comments on live television and on social media."
ABRAHAM WASHINGTON UPDATE
by Mike Johnson @ 5:36 PM on 8/11/2012
The former Abraham Washington is still ripping into WWE following his release yesterday via Twitter, writing, "If I smoked crack or did steroids I'd get suspended but I made a joke and tweeted support Linda and I get fired. #Doesn'tAddUp #Hmmmmm"
He also re-tweeted a number of fan comments pointing out that Tensai wasn't fired after making a remark that could be seen as racist via Tout, that Randy Orton had once publicly knocked Kelly Kelly for her behavior on the road with male wrestlers and that Vickie Guerrero was regularly mocked for her weight on the air, but none of those personalities were fired or reprimanded.
Washington, real name Brian Jossie, also noted that he expected WWE to deactivate his Twitter account, so he opened a new one at www.twitter.com/BJRatedR where he has stated he wasn't destroying his chances to return to WWE.
"I'm not burning bridges I'm just telling the truth," Jossie wrote. "If that burns bridges than those weren't the best bridges! #Rebuild"
Now how does this fall on the Prime Time Players?
by Mike Johnson @ 10:25 AM on 8/11/2012
TMZ.com updated their story on the firing of Brian "Abraham Washington" Jossie overnight as a WWE rep explained why he was released:
"Unfortunately, Brian Jossie, playing the character of A.W. was terminated because he continued to exhibit poor judgment by making offensive and inappropriate comments on live television and on social media."
ABRAHAM WASHINGTON UPDATE
by Mike Johnson @ 5:36 PM on 8/11/2012
The former Abraham Washington is still ripping into WWE following his release yesterday via Twitter, writing, "If I smoked crack or did steroids I'd get suspended but I made a joke and tweeted support Linda and I get fired. #Doesn'tAddUp #Hmmmmm"
He also re-tweeted a number of fan comments pointing out that Tensai wasn't fired after making a remark that could be seen as racist via Tout, that Randy Orton had once publicly knocked Kelly Kelly for her behavior on the road with male wrestlers and that Vickie Guerrero was regularly mocked for her weight on the air, but none of those personalities were fired or reprimanded.
Washington, real name Brian Jossie, also noted that he expected WWE to deactivate his Twitter account, so he opened a new one at www.twitter.com/BJRatedR where he has stated he wasn't destroying his chances to return to WWE.
"I'm not burning bridges I'm just telling the truth," Jossie wrote. "If that burns bridges than those weren't the best bridges! #Rebuild"
Now how does this fall on the Prime Time Players?
I had a feeling he would get the axe for that comment.
It was inappropriate, but not worthy of being fired IMO.
At worst, he should have gotten suspended.
I swear I'm done watching WWE anyway.
I already don't watch Smackdown anymore and these 3-hour Raws are becoming painful to sit through.
It was inappropriate, but not worthy of being fired IMO.
At worst, he should have gotten suspended.
I swear I'm done watching WWE anyway.
I already don't watch Smackdown anymore and these 3-hour Raws are becoming painful to sit through.
That is insane.... Everyone should not watch it one week and see if it gets noticed
They'd just blame it on something else, like CM Punk being the champ or some shit.
