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I'm honestly shocked they released Kennedy this quickly. According to the reports the wrist injury wasn't bad and he wouldn't miss any time, so why release him? I think there's something else here going on, possibly a new wellness policy violation or something incoming and they wanted to avoid the media attention or something?

Either way, in 90 days, he'll be in TNA. And there he can roid up all he wants, which will probably be GOOD for him, since he'll be able to avoid injuries a bit more, and obviously heal up much faster lol

Shame though, I was looking forward to his main event push (finally) in WWE. Guess not though.

That really sucks to see Mr Kennedy being released so soon after he came back. to be honest the more I think about it the more I feel that WWE is dying and TNA is on the rise. Let's face it, it's generally the same old crap on WWE for the last year: Randy Orton beating people up to the point that they can't wrestle for some time. Vicky Guerrero being the WWE version of Rita Repulsa in Raw, and of course Edge being champion. It's really the same tune over the past year.

The early word on why Mr. Kennedy received his surprising release from World Wrestling Entertainment yesterday was that in addition to injuring himself yet again, his nearly injuring Randy Orton was the straw that broke the camel's back.

Kennedy returned to RAW this past Monday night after spending ten months on the shelf rehabbing a badly injured shoulder. In his first match back, during a spot in the main event with Randy Orton, Kennedy injured his wrist.

However the more important issue in the eyes of WWE management was that Orton nearly re-injured his bad shoulder as a result of an errant move on the part of Kennedy.

According to sources, Orton and Kennedy had words backstage after the show, although it was said it wasn't heated. Apparently Orton very calmly dressed Kennedy down, explaining he has to be more careful so he doesn't injure anyone else in the ring.

WWE.com confirmed the release of Mr. Kennedy on the website yesterday in their "Industry News" tab.

From Wrestlezone.com

Randy Orton lost his temper during an appearance on the Televisa sports show in Mexico City this past weekend.

The program's host was conducting an interview with Orton in English, with Spanish subtitles, and all was going well until he brought up the WWE Champion's past history of injuries and called him fragile. While the host was simply joking, Orton took great offense to his remark.

He threw off the host's glasses, stared him down and said in a bullying tone: "Listen, you wanna talk s**t to me on your own show here and make you look cool here. You wanna look cool? Say it to my face. Why you turning red? I'm serious. I'm serious. I'm serio... no look at me. Look at me. Look at me. Look at me! (raises voice) LOOK AT ME! Now say it again! Say it again! I dare you to say it again! CALL ME FRAGILE! I will headbutt your teeth through your skull! Do you hear me?"

The host took a few steps back and said, "That's not polite." Orton responded, "Say something funny again, boy. Say something funny." He then said "I'm done" and stormed off the set. (WA)

OMG :rofl:

Goes to show what I've said from day 1 - Orton is an immature little prick, who really isn't ready yet to be the face of WWE. He overreacts and has a violent temperament (wonder why that could be...).

He was known to be full of himself in the locker room, and little has changed.

Goes to show what I've said from day 1 - Orton is an immature little prick, who really isn't ready yet to be the face of WWE. He overreacts and has a violent temperament (wonder why that could be...).

He was known to be full of himself in the locker room, and little has changed.

Yeah this is what I hate about Randy plus he trashed a hotel room when he was in Europe...this guy needs to go away right now!

The WWE have put out a release saying that the whole incident was a work...

Which to me, means it wasn't. They never admit when a work is a work, what would be the point of it?

Again the WWE let's Orton run around like a kid and get away with it...

The WWE have put out a release saying that the whole incident was a work...

Which to me, means it wasn't. They never admit when a work is a work, what would be the point of it?

Again the WWE let's Orton run around like a kid and get away with it...

*sigh* this is another reason why WWE sucks right now.

Orton has a GREAT history of being a good "chasing" heel, he can build heat like NO ONE else... but the second he gets put at the focus of a show, given the title, he loses it. Seriously, who called the "street fight" with Flair? I'm guessing it was Orton's idea, considering it's happened several times before and built heat then so why not try it again when his heat's lagging? *groan* I'm glad HHH isn't the champion right now, but I sure don't want Orton to have it anymore... there are plently of other great heels deserving their try at holding title heat.

Jeff Hardy def. Edge in a Ladder Match (New World Heavyweight Champion) (Afterwards, CM Punk cashed in the MIB Briefcase and won the World Heavyweight Championship against the ladder match winner, Jeff Hardy)

Batista def. Randy Orton in a Steel Cage Match (New WWE Champion)

Tommy Dreamer def. Christian & Jack Swagger in a Triple Threat Hardcore Rules Match (New ECW Champion)

Chris Jericho def. Rey Mysterio in a No Holds Barred Match (New Intercontinental Champion)

John Cena def. Big Show (Submission Match)

CM Punk def. Umaga (Samoan Strap Match)

Santina Marella def. Vickie Guerrero in a Hog Pen Match (New Miss WrestleMania)

United States Champion Kofi Kingston wins a Fatal Four Way Match

Also Edge told Vicky he wanted a divorce earlier tonight.

Edited by Witt3439
I edited my original post and included the matches and winners.

The fans on WWE Universe live chat are highly upset at Punk right now, but I look for Punk to give Jeff a shot as soon as he is ready.

Isn't Jeff leaving soon, the talk amongst the insiders was Jeff was going to take a few months out.

Some breaking news coming out of Extreme Rules:

PWInsider.com has confirmed that Batista has suffered a torn bicep and is scheduled to have surgery this coming Tuesday. Look for him to vacate the title on Raw.

Source: http://www.pwinsider.com/

Poor Batista, he can't catch a break. But like Sylvester Stallone once said, when you are so pumped up, your muscles lose their flexibility and thus you get injured quite easily.

Orton hopefully won't get it back.. there's other ways they can work this that DON'T involve reversal. Hell, Vicky declaring herself champion would be better then them giving Orton the title back...

. as for the CM Punk thing, it sounds like a working angle to get Hardy out of the picture for a while... it'll be relatively easy to move Edge over to a matchup with Punk while bringing Jeff back at main-event level... if they brought jeff back after NOT giving him the strap (even in a token gesture) he'd feel out of place if he's gone for long... now not so much.

Batista had been injured for 3 weeks. I have a feeling that the only reason he fought through it and came out on top at Extreme Rules was to be able to end his career as WWE Champion. Look for him to drop the title tonight at the start of RAW.

In other news, Umaga has been released by WWE.

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