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49 minutes ago, LOC said:

That pic isn't loading for me for some reason, but I'm going to imagine its Finn Balor posting about the Bullet Club coming to WWE? Specifically AJ Styles and Nakamura?

Pretty much; it's Balor outside of the WWE Performance Center, in a Bullet Club shirt, looking at his watch with the caption "They should have been here by now..." :p

 

He also tweeted this old Bullet Club pic last night...

 

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Looks like WWE is scrambling because of Cena. Maybe the Bullet Club signings were all done because they knew Cena would be out until after Wrestlemania now and they had to do something big that fans could get behind. With Cena, Orton and Rollins all out with injuries (and none able to come back anytime soon) along with Sting still injured (?) who knows what WWE will do.

 

Obviously RR is going to lose the title at the RR match now, but who is going to win it? Lesnar is a probable I suppose, but he will still be part time only, and Heyman would have to do the work again (which is fine since he's amazing on the mic). Taker? It was going to be Cena vs. Taker at WM. They can't do Taker vs. Lesnar AGAIN. HHH could be involved somehow I suppose.

 

Why not pull the trigger on Ambrose or Owens? Vince is probably in panic mode, so those are way less likely (or more likely?).

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Professional wrestler John Cena, already renowned for his tireless charitable work, went above-and-beyond this afternoon by granting a Make-A-Wish hospital visit to his injured self.

 

“Hang in there, champ,” Cena told Cena, who was hospitalized after injuring his shoulder during a recent Smackdown taping.

 

“You’ll be feeling better in no time, slugger.”

 

Cena then posed for photos with himself, and gave himself an autographed t-shirt bearing the slogan “Never Give Up,” which brought a much-needed smile to his face.

 

Cena then promised himself that he’ll “win back the US Championship soon,” and said he would dedicate the victory to himself.

 

Doctors believe Cena will be out of action for six to eight weeks due to a torn rotator cuff — an injury witnesses say happened when Cena fell to the mat during a “botched heel turn.”

 

Although Cena enjoyed the visit from his hero, he later filed a complaint to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, reiterating that he specifically requested a visit from Dean Ambrose.

http://www.kayfabenews.com/injured-cena-grants-self-make-wish-visit/ - Yeah, it's a year old, but it's pretty relevant right now. :p 

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Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter

 

Sasha Banks is reportedly sidelined with an undisclosed injury. 

 

Additionally, it was said that Natalya had been working with a broken ankle that initially went undiagnosed. Natalya reportedly broke her ankle in November, but was unaware and thought it was a sprain. After it didn’t get any better she had it looked at, where it was diagnosed as a break. It’s believed she might have broken the ankle while on the recent WWE UK tour.

http://www.wrestlezone.com/news/659739-top-wwe-diva-reportedly-injured-another-returns-from-unknown-injury-talk-of-dusty-rhodes-tag-team-classic-being-annual-event

 

...well ######.

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Fans of professional wrestling are abuzz today after new names were added to the roster of Superstars® on WWE.com, including AJ “Fashion Sense” Stylish and Shiny McNamara.

 

Though details are scant, it is believed these are the wrestlers formerly known as AJ Styles and Shinsuke Nakamura, whose rumored signing from New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) been the subject of much giddy online chatter and questionable journalism.

 

Also added to the WWE roster page today was a wrestler named “Festus 2.0,” believed to be the man formerly known as The Big LG, Big XLG, Deacon Deville, Director of Chaos, Doc Galllows, Dorian Deville, Freakin’ Deacon, Imposter Kane, Johnny 99, Justice Dalton, Keith Hanson, Luke Gallows, The Masked Assassin, and 37 other names.

 

Although it was initially believed that Machine Gun Karl Anderson had also been signed to WWE, it turned out to be rapper Machine Gun Kelly, who will square off against Kevin Owens at WrestleMania in a dance-off.

 

According to leaked documents, the newcomers will form a faction called The Projectile Club.

http://www.kayfabenews.com/aj-sylish-shiny-mcnamara-wwe/

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16 hours ago, LOC said:

Looks like WWE is scrambling because of Cena. Maybe the Bullet Club signings were all done because they knew Cena would be out until after Wrestlemania now and they had to do something big that fans could get behind. With Cena, Orton and Rollins all out with injuries (and none able to come back anytime soon) along with Sting still injured (?) who knows what WWE will do.

 

Obviously RR is going to lose the title at the RR match now, but who is going to win it? Lesnar is a probable I suppose, but he will still be part time only, and Heyman would have to do the work again (which is fine since he's amazing on the mic). Taker? It was going to be Cena vs. Taker at WM. They can't do Taker vs. Lesnar AGAIN. HHH could be involved somehow I suppose.

 

Why not pull the trigger on Ambrose or Owens? Vince is probably in panic mode, so those are way less likely (or more likely?).

I believe it will be RR vs. HHH at WM, but RR won't loose. They need another Cena, that's why they're pushing RR so hard up our asses each and every week. I really don't like the guy, don't know why, but I would rather have Cena any day instead of RR. There's just something about him that I hate, maybe that "believe that" crap line, I don't know.

 

Sting can still show up at WM, even for just a promo or something, that would really mean a lot. Lesnar? It's been done over and over, people won't like it, so I doubt he'll be  in the championship match. As for Taker, they'll start building something after Royal Rumble, he will be at WM, no doubt about it.

 

I don't like Ambrose at all, he looks like a cheap DDP rip-off and they try to hard to push him. Owens, that's another story, this guy is good and he deserves more.

 

Like I said on another post, WWE really needs a "bomb" at WM this year, and they're really running out of surprise appearances. Hogan is out, so no nWo like in the previous WM, DX was already done a few times, Rock is no longer a surprise...so who's coming? Austin? That would be good, but it's not enough. Maybe 2016 is Goldberg's year, THAT would be a huge draw. You can say whatever you want about his wrestling skills, but everyone loved him and that's what matters. We'll see :)

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Following his unexpected appearance on WWE Raw this week, professional wrestler and Fozzy frontman Chris Jericho has added another nickname to his long list of monikers: “The Man of 1,004 Surprise Returns.”

 

“I’m back, bay-bay,” hollered Jericho for the 1,004th time, in front of a mildly surprised live audience, this past Monday. “And after tomorrow, you will never, eeevvvver see me agaiiin — until mid-February!”

 

Jericho then spent two full segments on Raw, including commercial breaks, reading from a scroll listing his previous 1,003 returns, including:

  • Arm Surprise Return Bar (Jan. 2007)
  • Save Us Return (Jan. 2012)
  • Beast in the East Return (July 2015)
  • Moss-covered Three-handled Family Gradunza Return (Jan. 2016)

Jericho is expected to vanish from WWE programming next week, then return and vanish several more times before WrestleMania.

 

During WrestleMania, he is expected to depart and return at least four times in the process of “putting over” a rookie wrestler, who will then skyrocket to permanent main-event status, just like Fandango did.

http://www.kayfabenews.com/jericho-declares-man-1004-returns/

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Anyone watch SmackDown this week? I gave it a go since it was Mauro Ranallo's debut on commentary; whoever in WWE signed him deserves a raise. I'll probably start watching SmackDown regularly again just because of him.

 

 

 

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